Yang Mo hurried back to the mansion. Mother Yang was lying on the couch, no longer breathing.
Yang Mo took his mother's hand and said, "I'm a mother-in-law!"
Suddenly, he found that his mother's hands were still warm. He asked the doctor next to him: "Why are my mother's hands still warm?"
The doctor said: "The old lady of your house has just passed away, and her warmth has not dissipated."
Yang Mo then asked Mother Yang's personal maid: "What's going on? How can a good person just disappear after saying nothing?"
The little maid actually knew that the old lady's death was related to the pill given by the unscrupulous Taoist priest.
However, the little maid was afraid that if she told the truth, she would be implicated and be punished by Yang Mo.
She simply said: "Sir, I don't know. The old lady was fine after lunch and went out for a walk as usual. When she came back, she was out of breath."
At this time, Taoist Zhang led several Taoist priests and monks into the Yang Mansion.
The Yang family's housekeeper asked, "What do you do?"
Zhang Taoist said: "Uncle Shouning heard that the old lady of your mansion passed away and asked us to do Taoist rituals and water and land dojo."
Yang's mother had just died, and the Yang family was in chaos. No one doubted the group of monks and Taoists who came to visit.
Yang Mo guarded his mother and cried loudly. Then he ordered people to buy shrouds, coffins, paper figures, horses, cranes, and a complete set of funeral utensils.
After working on it until evening, the mourning hall was finally decorated.
Yang Mo was busy ordering people to send funeral notes. My mother's death cannot be in vain, so I must take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.
By early tomorrow morning, countless local officials working in Beijing should come to deliver funeral money.
Taoist Zhang led the group of monks and Taoists to start a dojo and sing funeral songs.
"On the first day I came to the gate of the ghost gate. The soul of the dead one couldn't stop crying. My Buddha, Tathagata, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my."
"The next day I came to the Wangxiang Terrace. The souls of those who died will never come back. I am Buddha, Tathagata, Mami, Mami."
It's time to light the lamp.
Taoist Zhang counted the time. The effect of the breath-holding pill is almost gone, and it's almost time for Yang's mother to come back to life.
The Yang family servants and maids all went to have dinner. Yang Mo had no appetite and guarded his mother's coffin in the mourning hall.
There are still a dozen monks and Taoists brought by Taoist Zhang in the mourning hall. Those who ring the Sanqing bell ring the Sanqing bell, and those who knock the wooden fish knock the wooden fish.
Taoist Zhang was still mumbling: "Ding-dang-dang-dong-dong-dang-dang, Taoist method, jingle-dang-dang-dong-dong-dang, great skill."
Mother Yang believed everything. It is a pity that Nestorianism was strictly prohibited in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, we would have to find a Nestorian God, the father of God, and make the sign of the cross and shout: "Gade does not shit oil."
Suddenly, there was a sound in the coffin.
Yang Mo was stunned.
After a while, Mother Yang sat up in the coffin: "Oh, I have a terrible headache!"
Yang Mo was dumbfounded: "You're cheating? Are you cheating?"
Yang's mother asked, "What's the fake corpse? What's going on? Son, why did I sleep in the coffin?"
Yang Mo was shocked: "Mom, aren't you dead?"
At this moment, a monk took out a solid wooden stick from the bag of treasures that he carried with him, walked up behind Yang Mo, and gave him a slap on the head.
Sap hunting is a technical job. If the force is too weak, a person will not be able to faint. If the force is too strong, it will kill someone.
Jinyiwei has always specialized in the arts. That monk is Wei Li's chief responsible for fighting sap and kidnapping.
Yang Mo felt his eyes go dark and fainted.
Taoist priests and monks rushed forward and put Yang Mo into a sack.
Mother Yang was stunned: "What, what's going on?"
Taoist Zhang smiled and said, "Old madam, do you still recognize me? The kid in you ran away and ran into your son."
"Let's take your son away and keep him alive by exorcising ghosts."
Yang's mother is old and confused. She said: "Why don't you ask the Immortal Ji Bochang under Sanqing to save my son?"
Taoist Zhang nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, please. Ji Bochang."
A group of monks and Taoist priests carried the sacks directly to the outside of the mourning hall. I happened to meet the servants and maids of Yang Mansion returning from dinner.
The steward pointed to the sack and asked, "What is this? Did you steal something from the mourning hall?"
Taoist Zhang shouted: "You're dead! Your old lady has faked her corpse!"
The housekeeper looked into the mourning hall.
Mother Yang was unconscious for three hours, feeling hungry and thirsty. He was just eating the sacrificial cakes with the peach sacrifices!
The housekeeper was horrified: "That's bad! The old lady has really faked the corpse!"
There was chaos in the Yang Mansion.
Taoist Zhang and others took advantage of the chaos to carry the sack containing Yang Mo out of Yang's house.
An hour later, in front of the gate of Fusi Zhao Prison in Beizhen.
Chang Feng said to Taoist Zhang: "Zhang Shenxian, I have troubled you today."
Taoist Zhang said: "It doesn't matter. According to my official position, I am your subordinate. It is my duty to help you with your errands."
"Okay, it's done. I'm going to go home and take a nap!"
After saying this, Taoist Zhang left in a calm mood.
Chang Feng and Fatty Xu entered the interrogation room of the imperial prison.
Yang Mo had been splashed awake.
Yang Mo was furious: "Chang Feng, why did you arrest me again? Don't you even want to give me the respect of the father-in-law?"
"Let the old man find out and peel off your skin carefully!"
Chang Feng smiled slightly: "How could the old state leader know? We kidnapped you here as a sap. If you died in prison in a daze, no one would know."
"At most, there is an unknown corpse with a scratched face in the mass grave in the west of the city!"
Yang Mo was shocked: "You Jin Yiwei actually used the dirty tricks of bandits and ruffians?"
Chang Feng said: "You are right. The most despicable and shameless yamen in the entire Ming Dynasty is our Jinyiwei."
"Come on, let's be punished!"
Originally Yang Mo planned: I have to bite the bullet. The old shopkeeper must not be confessed. As long as his old man is safe, he can save me.
If I betray the old shopkeeper, I will definitely die.
Most of the officials and criminals who were imprisoned thought so.
However, is Jin Yiwei's great memory recovery technique just in vain?
Going to prison is not something you can just grit your teeth if you want.
The punishment given to Yang Mo by Qi Zongqi was "playing the pipa".
The four warriors pushed Yang Mo to the ground, grabbed his hands and feet, and lifted his robe to expose his ribs.
Qi Zongqi used a sharp knife to "flick" Yang Mo's ribs back and forth.
Playing the pipa is one of the specialties in the prison.
Yang Mo felt that his ribs were aching and itchy, and he was in excruciating pain. He could neither die nor live.
Within a moment, he started shouting hysterically: "I'll do it, I'll do it all! You're judging me!"
Chang Feng fiddled with his fingernails: "Don't worry. Let's play the pipa for a while!"
After another moment, Yang Mo's ribs on both sides were already bloody.
In fact, General Qi has been holding back his strength. Master Chang still wanted to ask questions, but he didn't dare to kill Yang Mo.
Chang Feng waved his hand: "Stop!"
General Qi stopped.
Chang Feng said: "Yang Mo, you are toasting instead of having to drink as a penalty. Okay, I'm going to ask you a question now. You have to answer truthfully."
Yang Mo nodded his head vigorously.
Chang Feng asked: "Who is the real boss of Runde Grain Company? Besides Shouning Bo, who are the other shareholders?"
Yang Mo avoided the important and took the easy: "The shareholders also include the acting king Zhu Junzhang, Cheng Guo Gong Zhu Yi, Prince Consort Xu Tingji, Ding Guo Gong Xu Yongning..."
Yang Mo did not admit the identity of the "old shopkeeper", but he quickly confessed to more than a dozen royal family members, hereditary princes, and relatives.
Among them was even the Zhu Junzhang that had just attacked the prince!
After hearing this, Fatty Xu jumped up from his chair like a fat toad.
Fatty Xu said angrily: "Yang Mo, you are slanderous. My father is also a shareholder of Runde Grain Co., Ltd.
? I do not know how? "
Yang Mo said with a dying breath: "After all this, how can I dare to lie? My father bought a share of one thousand taels of silver last September."
"The profit in October is one thousand three hundred taels, the profit in November is one thousand five hundred taels, the profit in the twelfth lunar month is one thousand two hundred taels..."
"As of May this year, your father has earned a total of nine thousand one hundred taels."
Yang Mo eats abacus and memorizes numbers very clearly.
Fatty Xu slumped on the chair.
Chang Feng said: "Fat man, since my father-in-law is involved, you should avoid it. Otherwise, if you participate in the investigation, your confession will not count."
Fatty Xu stood up and said, "I'll go home and ask my dad."
Chang Feng said: "You stay in the guard. Don't go looking for your father, so as not to alert others."
After Fatty Xu left, Chang Feng sneered: "Yang Mo. You still haven't said who the boss of the grain store is."
"Don't tell me it's you! I don't believe it!"
After speaking, Chang Feng winked at Qi Zongqi.
General Qi picked up the sharp knife again and made signs on Yang Mo's ribs.
Yang Mo closed his eyes: "The real controller of the grain store is our old shopkeeper. The old shopkeeper is... the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Zhang Wei!"
Chang Feng's expression changed: "Zhang Wei? Zhang Wei who is in charge of the warehouse?"
Yang Mo poured beans into a bamboo tube and confessed one by one.
Zhang Wei is a very business-minded ***.
In August last year, Emperor Hongzhi ordered all prefectures and counties to stockpile grain. Zhang Wei immediately sensed the business opportunity.
He knew that with the urinary nature of the local officials, they would definitely use this excuse to exploit the people's grain and rice.
When grain and rice are exploited, they must be exchanged for silver. By then, there will be a massive amount of dirty food on the market.
Officials are eager to cash in, so the price will naturally be very low.
There is an opportunity to make a fortune by buying low and selling high.
So Zhang Wei asked Yang Mo to be his substitute and opened Runde Grain Store in Tongzhou.
Zhang Wei understands the principle of making money together, and only when something goes wrong can we all take care of it together.
He took the initiative to contact a bunch of clan members, nobles, and relatives. Encourage them to take shares. The share capital is very low, only a thousand taels per company. .
More than a dozen shareholders could only put together a capital of more than 10,000 taels. It is far from enough to feed the dirty food of more than a thousand counties.
This is easy to handle. Zhang Wei is in charge of Baoquan Bureau.
Commercial tax banks in various places collect money in the style of market banks. It needs to be handed over to Baoquan Bureau to be melted into official ingots.
Zhang Wei decisively misappropriated Baoquan Bureau's unminted market silver to make capital.
Anyway, this business is bound to make a lot of money, and I don't have to worry about plugging the hole.
And granaries for storing food are readily available. Zhang Wei was originally the "Servant of Cangchang", and Tongzhou Cangchang was like his own vegetable garden.
In this business, Zhang Wei used the imperial court's money to collect the dirty goods and the imperial court's warehouses to store the dirty goods.
Only Runde Grain Store can eat the huge amount of grain. Word spread, and local officials came to Runde Liang to sell stolen goods.
The food that should be eaten by the people has turned into money in the pockets of corrupt officials through transactions between local officials and Runde Grain Company.
From August last year to May this year, in just nine months, Runde Grain Store made a net profit of 380,000 taels.
Fifty thousand taels of them were given to the gentlemen at the counter.
Ten thousand taels were distributed to a group of officials and warehouse soldiers in Baoquan Bureau; to a group of officials and grain workers in Tongzhou Cangchang.
One hundred and fifty thousand taels were distributed to a dozen shareholders.
Zhang Wei made a profit of 170,000 taels!
Today, Tongzhou Warehouse still stocks 450,000 shi of dirty grain.
Chang Feng got Yang Mo's confession and entered the palace directly.
After reading the case file, Emperor Hongzhi said three words: "Good method!"
Chang Feng agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty. To use a folk saying to describe Zhang Wei's method of selling stolen goods, it is called 'making money out of white water.'"
Emperor Hongzhi said angrily: "The Ming Dynasty has a strict mining ban. From the minister in the capital to the local county magistrate,
Prime Minister, all regard the common people as an inexhaustible silver mine! "
"I have done it too. If I hadn't been so hot-headed and issued an edict to hoard food, how could I have given corrupt officials the opportunity to exploit the people?"
"What Huang Boren said - an emperor who doesn't bother is a good emperor. I now believe it."
Chang Feng asked: "May I ask your Majesty, how should those involved in the case be dealt with?"
Emperor Hongzhi threw the question back to Chang Feng and asked, "What do you think?"
Chang Feng thought to himself: If those involved in the case were punished in a big way. The right hall of the household department, the clan, nobles, and relatives were involved in the case. Is it okay to spread the word?
The group of people standing at the top of the court were scrambling to poach the Ming Dynasty. If you go out in public, where will the court's face be saved?
Therefore, we cannot punish you openly, we can only punish you secretly!
Chang Feng held up his hands and said, "Your Majesty, a group of bandits have sneaked into the capital recently. This group of bandits was so daring that they broke into the residence of Zhang Wei, the minister of household affairs, killed Zhang Wei, and plundered all the Zhang family's wealth."
"Over at Tongzhou Warehouse, due to the effective prevention of rats and insects, an extra 450,000 shi of grain has been accumulated. This batch of grain should be included in the grain register of the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"In addition, there is a grain store in Tongzhou called Runde Grain Store. Due to poor management, it owes a lot of debt. The boss also ran away. The Ministry of Accounts should be allowed to take over the grain store."
Chang Feng put forward three suggestions tactfully. The first suggestion was to secretly execute the chief culprit Zhang Wei and confiscate his property.
The second suggestion was to confiscate the stolen grain stored in Tongzhou warehouse by Runde Grain Company.
The third suggestion is to confiscate all the live mercury in Runde Grain Store.
As for those shareholders... they are all relatives of the emperor, princes and nobles. There will be no punishment.
Sometimes, eliminating evil is not enough. Otherwise, it will become a law that does not hold everyone accountable.
Emperor Hongzhi stared at Chang Feng and thought to himself: Chang Feng is worthy of a great responsibility. Be able to look at the overall situation when doing things! It’s time for me to officially hand over Beizhen Fusi to him.
Emperor Hongzhi said nothing. Sometimes silence equals acquiescence. He acquiesced to Chang Feng's suggestion.
After drinking some tea, Emperor Hongzhi said, "Just do what you said."
Chang Feng cupped his hands and said, "Yes, I will retire."
Chang Feng left the palace and immediately summoned 300 experts in Jinyiwei who were responsible for handling secret errands, and 100 robes who were responsible for inspecting the Qianhu Office and copying family affairs.
Everyone put on night clothes and took advantage of the cover of midnight to rush into Zhang Wei's palace!
Zhang Wei is a civil servant. Civilian residences are not protected by soldiers unless there is a special order.
The crowd arrested more than 120 members of the Zhang family.
Chang Feng entered the Zhang family's study. In the study, Zhang Wei has been tied up.
Chang Feng was wearing a face covering, but Zhang Wei did not recognize him.
Zhang Wei thought that Chang Feng was a bad guy who came to seek wealth, so he said, "Hero, so many of you entered my mansion to seek wealth, right?"
"It's easy to say, I can still get 10,000 to 20,000."
Chang Feng sneered: "What I want is all your property. Ten thousand and twenty thousand? Send it to the beggars, right?"
After saying that, Chang Feng took off the face towel.
Zhang Wei was stunned: "Jinyiwei Changfeng? What are you going to do?"
Chang Feng said: "Zhang Butang, oh no, I should call you 'Old Shopkeeper. The story of Runde Food Co., Ltd. has been exposed."
Zhang Wei didn't have the panic look just now: "You are here for this matter. Then you should know that Runde Food Store does not belong to me!"
"If you arrest me, will you arrest those shareholders?"
"Will you arrest all the state and county officials in the world?"
Chang Feng said: "Taking advantage of others to protect yourself? This trick of yours is not new. I have seen this trick before in Hangzhou."
"I tell you, I won't arrest anyone else today, and I won't arrest you either!"
Zhang Wei said: "You won't arrest me? Then why don't you untie me quickly?"
Chang Feng smiled and said, "I said I wouldn't arrest you, but I didn't say I wouldn't kill you! Do you know what a secret agent is?"
Zhang Wei was stunned
: "You dare to assassinate the current Tobe Right Hall? Are you not afraid of those people behind me..."
"Pa!" Chang Fan slapped Zhang Wei in the mouth: "I will kill you like a dog. Since you are a secret agent, how can you let the people behind you know?"
"But before I kill you, I want to ask clearly where your property is hidden. This will make it easier to ransack your home."
Zhang Wei scratched his head: "If you want to kill, then kill, why bother to say more?"
Chang Feng walked to the window and looked up at the bright moon: "It's three o'clock in the morning. I have to finish this errand before dawn. I don't have time to punish you."
After speaking, Chang Feng clapped his hands.
Qian Ning strode into the study. He was holding a rag in his hand. There were dots of blood on the rag, and there were bulging bags inside, as if something was wrapped inside.
Qian Ning opened the rag - it was a woman's hand, and it was still warm! There is a jade ring on the finger of the tender hand.
Zhang Wei recognized that it was the hand of his sixth concubine. The concubine's words to him a few days ago greatly benefited him. When he was happy, he rewarded her with the jade ring.
Chang Feng said: "It doesn't matter if you don't tell me where all the property is hidden. We'll just put in a lot of effort to find it! Searching houses is my specialty at the Qianhu Office."
"However, if you don't tell me, your whole family of 123 people will be buried with you!"
Zhang Wei gritted his teeth and said, "Chang Feng, the people in the capital are right, you are just a butcher!"
Chang Feng smiled calmly: "You are right. I enjoy the process of killing corrupt officials and their families."
What Chang Feng said was actually from his heart.
There is an evil ghost living in everyone's heart. He had killed the first person on the school field since that fall four years ago. From then on, he experienced the pleasure of killing.
Zhang Wei closed his eyes: "If I tell you where all the wealth is hidden, can you let my family go?"
Chang Feng replied: "Of course. Bandits entered your house tonight, killed you, and robbed your property." ap.
"On the surface, you have not committed a crime, and your family is not the family of a criminal. Men will not be implicated or exiled. Women will not be punished and sent to the Jiaofang Department."
"Perhaps the emperor will even issue a decree to comfort your family."
Zhang Wei gritted his teeth: "Okay! I'll tell you!"
It was the 18th day of the fifth month of the third year of Hongzhi. There is a riot in the capital. The gangster broke into the residence of Zhang Wei, the right servant of the Household Department, at night. Zhang Wei was killed and his family property was looted.
The strange thing is that no one from the Shuntian Prefecture and the Wucheng Military and Horse Division, who were responsible for public security in the capital, was punished for this.
