All the officials have completely given up on Yan Pan'er, and Chang Feng's matter will be easier to handle.
It is easier for Chang Tu, the Jin Yiwei, to deal with a widow of a maritime merchant than to shake an egg into pieces.
That night, the Tiqi of Jin Yiwei surrounded the Fujian Chamber of Commerce.
Chang Feng and Fatty Xu rushed in with people.
Yan Pan'er was lifted out of the bedroom like a chicken by a strong man.
Yan Paner shouted hysterically: "Why do you arrest me? How dare you arrest me?"
Chang Feng walked up to Yan Pan'er and said, "It's a joke. The dignified Jin Yiwei can't catch a woman who is treason with the Japanese?"
Yan Pan'er said angrily: "Jinyiwei is under the jurisdiction of Dongchang! Mr. Qian of Dongchang"
"Pa", Chang Feng rounded it up and gave Yan Pan'er's pretty face a big blow.
The force was so strong that it caused blood to flow from the corner of Yan Pan'er's mouth.
Yan Pan'er shouted: "Eunuch Qian, Mr. Xie Ge, they can't spare me."
"Bang!" The second Da Bi Dou came one after another.
Yan Paner finally shut up.
Chang Feng sneered: "Yan Pan'er, if Eunuch Qian, Mr. Xie Ge and those big guys don't acquiesce, will I arrest you? Can I arrest you?"
"Don't take yourself too seriously. At best, you are just a pawn for them. At worst, you are just a dog they keep!"
"Bring him back to prison."
Basha asked: "Where are the other people in the Fujian Chamber of Commerce?"
Chang Feng replied: "All Lin's family will be taken away."
The crowd escorted Yan Pan'er and others back to the prison.
Chang Feng specially sent someone back to the mansion and asked You Tianjue's son You Jingwu to come to jail.
Yan Paner is a smart woman. She knew that what Chang Feng said should be true. If it weren't for the acquiescence of Xie Qian, Qian Neng, Wang Zhi and others, Chang Feng would never dare to arrest her.
Prison interrogation room.
Yan Pan'er was tied to the torture chair.
Chang Feng said: "Ordinary prisoners who enter the imperial prison are tortured first and then questioned."
"I thought you were a woman, so I asked you questions first. If you confess truthfully, I will spare you the pain of your skin and flesh."
Yan Paner is no longer as arrogant as when she was first arrested. She said: "Master Chang, everything in the world is for profit. How much do you want? Just give me a price."
Chang Feng said seriously: "Not everything in this world can be bought with money."
"Let me ask you, did you hire Japanese pirates to attack Yongning Acropolis and kill You Tianjue?"
Yan Paner remained silent.
Chang Feng said: "Okay. Then I will torture you."
After speaking, Chang Feng pointed at You Jingwu: "This man is responsible for your execution. Do you know him?"
Yan Pan'er glanced at You Jingwu: "I don't know him."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "This man is You Tianjue's only son, You Jingwu who escaped from Yongning Acropolis!"
"Jingwu, give her punishment!"
You Jingwu was extremely jealous when he saw the enemy who killed his father.
His eyes were red, he walked up to Yan Pan'er and squatted down. He directly picked up a steel nail and smashed it into the sole of Yan Pan'er's foot with a small hammer.
Yan Pan'er jumped over the wall in a panic. She gritted her teeth in pain and shouted, "I want to report this! Chang Feng, Xu Guangzuo, the heir apparent to you, the Duke of Dingguo, raped a righteous woman!"
"If this gets out, your friend's future will be ruined."
Fatty Xu said angrily: "Are you a martyrdom woman? I'll blanch you."
Chang Feng raised his hand and interrupted Fatty Xu. He walked straight to Yan Pan'er and said, "Yan Pan'er, who do you think rapes a righteous woman?"
Yan Pan'er replied: "Xu Guangzuo."
"Pa", as soon as he finished speaking, Chang Feng gave Yan Pan'er another big showdown.
Yan Pan'er was so furious that she was slapped, and there was a bone-crushing pain on the soles of her feet.
Chang Feng asked again: "Who?"
Yan Pan'er replied: "Xu Guangzuo."
"Pah!" Chang Feng continued to slap her hard.
"who?"
"Xu Guangzuo."
"Snapped!"
Ten questions in a row, accompanied by ten big bids. Yan Pan'er relented and replied: "No, no one rapes a virtuous woman."
Chang Feng stepped on the steel nail on the sole of Yan Paner's foot.
Yan Pan'er's veins popped out in pain, and she let out a heartbreaking scream: "Ah!"
Chang Feng said: "Tell me, did you kill You Tianjue?"
Yan Paner remained silent.
Chang Feng picked up a small saw and handed it to You Jingwu: "This woman's three-inch golden lotus is not bad. Cut off her left foot first. Take your time with the saw, slow work will produce fine work."
You Jingwu first joined Jinyiwei, but he didn't know that Jinyiwei's torture methods were so cruel.
However, facing the enemy who killed his father, he decisively took the saw and said, "Okay."
Just cut off the saw as you speak.
Yan Pan'er has always been a prostitute. She turned pale with fright: "Stop torturing me. I said! I killed You Tianjue!"
"I offered a reward and hired Japanese pirates to attack Yongning Guards!"
Chang Feng asked: "Why did you want to kill You Tianjue?"
Yan Pan'er said: "You Tianjue has caused the Lin family to lose millions of taels of silver in the past ten years! If I don't kill him, the Lin family's business will never be peaceful!"
Chang Feng said: "Just admit it. You betrayed the country by collaborating with the Japanese and killed Zhongliang. I can put you to death on the spot!"
Yan Pan'er glared at Chang Feng: "Don't you want to know how the Lin family lost millions of taels of silver?"
Chang Feng asked: "How did you lose it?"
Yan Pan'er said: "You Tianjue seized the smuggled goods and handed them all over to the Fuzhou Shipping Department."
"I want to use the money to deal with the father-in-laws of the shipping company and a group of officials in Fujian. I want to redeem the smuggled goods."
"You arrested me. Do you want to arrest those father-in-law and officials?"
Chang Feng sat on the chair: "I won't catch anyone."
Yan Pan'er used the provocation method: "I thought Master Chang of Jinyiwei was such a selfless person!"
"I've been doing this for a long time, but I'm just a timid person. How dare you do something to me, a lonely woman! Damn you!"
Chang Feng said calmly: "The court situation is not a child's play. Even the emperor can't do whatever he wants. What's more, I am the head of a domestic slave?"
"You're right. I'm only going to kill you this time! Just to avenge my life and death brother You Tianjue."
"The rest of the people waiting will not be affected at all!"
Yan Paner fell into despair. She provoked Chang Feng because she wanted Chang Feng to pursue the huge network of relationships she had weaved.
Once that network goes to war with Chang Feng, she can use the power of the powerful to escape the disaster.
But Chang Feng was not fooled at all. If he goes to war with Xie Qian, Xiao Jing, Qian Neng, Zhang Heling and others, let alone killing Yan Paner to avenge You Tianjue, he himself will not be able to protect himself.
Chang Feng said: "Let me ask you the second question now. How much is the total property of the Lin family?"
Yan Pan'er replied: "I'm afraid you won't believe it. It's only 650,000 taels."
Chang Feng's expression changed: "Are you lying to me? The Lin family does business worth tens of millions of taels. You told me that the family wealth is only 650,000 taels?"
Yan Paner burst into laughter suddenly.
Chang Feng asked: "Why are you laughing?"
Yan Pan'er said: "I laugh at you for not understanding the difficulties of being a businessman!"
"The Lin family's business is indeed big. But if you think about it, every time a business is done, everyone from the small government officials along the coast to the senior government officials above them will get a share of the pie."
"Civil officials, guards and generals are all greedy."
"The bosses of the shipping company need to be managed, they are also greedy."
"Hiring Japanese pirates and pirates to escort goods out to sea costs a lot of money."
"The sea was rough, the weather was rough, and the ship sank. The shareholders of Shuangmuhui will not pay for it, so the Lin family must make up for the shortfall."
"You're right, I'm just a dog for the powerful! How many things can fall into a dog's mouth?"
Chang Feng was speechless for a moment.
Yan Pan'er said: "Of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, one was killed on sight and one was unjustly punished, while the other was killed and one slipped through the net!"
"I was just pushed to the stage by them. If there were no Lin family, there would be Zhao family, Qian family, Sun family, and Li family."
"I am by no means a heinous person. What is heinous are those officials who talk about being loyal to the country but are greedy behind the scenes!"
Chang Feng knew that Yan Paner was telling the truth.
Chang Feng said: "Let's do this. I'll ask you to do two things. If you do it, I'll ask You Jingwu to give you a good time."
"Otherwise, he will be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts and executed by Ling Chi!"
Yan Pan'er was silent for a long time: "You are the swordsman and I am the fish. Just tell me."
Chang Feng said: "The first thing is to write signed notes to each bank so that I can cash out the banknotes."
"The second thing is, tell me honestly where the silver is hidden in your hometown in Quanzhou, so that I can send someone to check it."
Yan Pan'er said: "I can help you with these two things. But you have to promise me one condition - don't embarrass my son Lin Sheng."
"Although he is not my biological child, he is better than my biological child. He has never participated in the smuggling trade."
Chang Feng said: "Okay. I promise you."
Yan Paner has written notes signed by fourteen banks. Three million taels of silver can be cashed with banknotes and notes.
Among them, 1.5 million will become the anti-Japanese military expenditure for Fujian Governor Liu Chengan.
Another one and a half million taels. Chang Feng had to watch helplessly as these things flowed into the pockets of the powerful.
Yan Pan'er also confessed where the family's wealth was hidden. Check the records of thousands of households one by one.
After the matter was done, Chang Feng gave You Jingwu a knife.
Chang Feng said: "Jing Wu. You, Uncle Chang, and I always keep our word. Give her a happy life, don't torture her."
Then Chang Feng ordered: "Everyone else, follow me and exit the interrogation room."
Chang Feng and Fatty Xu returned to the check-in room.
Fatty Xu said: "Master Chang, you killed Yan Pan'er so casually?"
Chang Feng said: "Kill her quickly to prevent long nights and nightmares."
Fatty Xu scolded: "So many officials are like wolves that cannot be fed enough. They are greedy in the smuggling business, poaching the corners of the Ming Dynasty, and fattening the Japanese pirates along the coast."
"You really don't care?"
Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, I want to take care of it, but I can't."
"I don't have the ability to make an enemy of the entire court!"
"Even the current emperor does not have the ability to punish all important officials, favored eunuchs, and relatives."
Fatty Xu said: "After handling cases with you for so many years, this is the most frustrating one."
Chang Feng sighed: "How can things in this world fulfill people's wishes?"
"Others say that I am the most favored minister of the Hongzhi Dynasty. Sometimes, I feel very small."
"There are many things that I want to change, but I can't."
Fatty Xu in turn comforted Chang Feng: "At least this time you have avenged You Tianjue. Zhongliang is alive in heaven and can rest in peace."
Chang Feng said: "This is the only way to comfort me."
Not long after, You Jingwu entered Chang Feng's check-in room with a bloody knife.
Chang Feng asked: "Sent away?"
You Jingwu replied: "Send him away. Kill him with one knife."
After saying that, You Jingwu threw the knife aside and knelt down to Chang Feng with a "pop" sound: "Uncle, you helped me avenge my father. Thank you Jingwu. From now on, Jingwu's life is yours." Got it!"
Chang Feng hurriedly helped him up: "Revenge for those who have sacrificed their country and loyalty is what any conscientious person should do. There is no need to say thank you."
"I am only one son. Your father is gone, and you will be my second son from now on!"
Fatty Xu quickly said: "Jing Wu, why don't you call me godfather?"
You Jingwu knelt down again and kowtowed three times to Chang Feng respectfully: "Godfather!"
Chang Feng said: "Good boy, get up quickly."
When Chang Feng reached middle age, he got an adopted son. This may be his biggest gain from the maritime case.
A few days later, Chang Feng sent Fatty Xu and You Tianjue out of Beijing to Fujian. A secret military expenditure of 1.5 million taels was handed over to Liu Cheng'an, the governor of Fujian. By the way, the Lin family's wealth of more than 600,000 yuan was searched.
The dignitaries in the court received the signed notes written by Yan Pan'er and successfully cashed out their dividends from the bank.
They no longer inquired about Yan Paner's death.
If the Lin family falls, Shuangmu Society will cease to exist. But Chang Feng knew that the powerful people would create another three-water society, four-metal society, and five-land society.
As long as the ancestral system of sealing off the sea remains unchanged, coastal smuggling trade will never be banned.
Ma Sheng said it well, businessmen dare to commit any crime and even risk hanging their heads for 300% profit.
The system of the Ming Dynasty has decided that officials will treat businessmen as pawns and stand in front of them to collect money from smuggling trade.
The Japanese plague along the southeastern coast will grow bigger and bigger like a snowball and become unstoppable. Until a man named Hu Zongxian and a man named Qi Jiguang stepped onto the stage of history.
The maritime case in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi's reign was settled in a confused way.
The days passed. Emperor Hongzhi's health deteriorated, and the power of the civil servants increased.
The imperial power was suppressed by the ministerial power.
Two years later. In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, outside the gate of Gongyuan.
Provincial provincial examinations are held in the academic office. The rural examination in Beizhili was held in Gongyuan.
Thirty-nine-year-old Chang Feng stood at the gate of the Gongyuan, anxiously waiting for his son Chang Ponu to pass the exam and leave the Gongyuan.
Not long after, the soldiers of Xuezheng Yamen sounded the final gong.
The scholars who had finished the exam filed out of the Gongyuan. Chang Feng saw his son Chang Ponu in the crowd.
Chang Ponu is eighteen years old and looks very much like Chang Feng when he was young, tall and handsome.
What's even more rare is that he can be both literary and martial. He ranked sixth in the Shuntianfu Academy Examination and was awarded the title of scholar.
If he can pass the provincial examination this time, he will be able to join his father in the examination room next spring.
As for swords, guns and clubs, he also used them with style. Prince Zhu Hou set up an arena in the regiment camp as usual, and Chang Ponu won the first prize many times.
The son has grown up and the father has grown old. Seeing Chang Feng entering his forties, wrinkles appeared on his forehead.
However, Chang Ponu is not yet married. For such a young talent from a wealthy family, the matchmaker has almost crossed the threshold.
But Chang Ponu has a very high vision. The important matter of marriage was delayed in this way.
Empress Zhang was worried for him and told Liu Xiaoyan: Next year, if she is named on the Zhuangzhuang Gold List, she will become a Jinshi. I will give him a marriage.
Chang Ponu came to his father: "Dad."
Chang Feng asked eagerly: "How did you do in the exam?"
Chang Ponu replied: "I passed the test normally."
Hearing the word "normal", Chang Feng's heart dropped into his stomach.
His son is more talented in making arts than he is, so as long as he is "normal", passing the exam will not be a problem.
Chang Feng smiled and said: "Okay. You have suffered a lot after squatting in the Gongyuan for nine days. Your aunt is hosting a banquet at the princess's mansion to reward you. Let's go."
("The End of the Maritime Business Case", a new volume "The Afterglow of Hongzhi" will be opened tomorrow)
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