"So those four Miaozhu want to take this opportunity to pull you down from your position as Miaozhu. Am I right?"
"Mr. Lang is indeed extraordinary!" Cao Yena quickly flattered and said with a smile, "That's what I'm worried about!"
"Then what do you want me to do?" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "I'm going to say something ugly in front of you. If you want me to help you kill all the four temple ministers, don't even think about it! This is Chang'an, and there is king's law. This place is not a bandit den somewhere!"
"That's natural, that's natural!" Cao Yena quickly laughed and said: "Although the villain is a barbarian, he has moved to the middle-earth country since his great ancestors and has admired the customs of the country for nearly a hundred years. How could he do such a thing? Something! Haha, haha!"
Wang Wenzuo looked at Cao Ye's trembling fat cheeks. How could he think of accompanying him in circles? He said directly: "If you have anything to do, just tell me. I'm already a little tired!"
"Yes, yes!" Cao Yena nodded repeatedly: "The villain is wondering if Lang Jun can temporarily invite the villain and the other disciples to live in a place with beautiful scenery for a few days!"
"How many days do you want to stay? What do you mean?"
"Lang Jun, if they are in the temple, it will be inconvenient for the villain to do some things. But when they come back in a few days, the overall situation will be decided, and the villain will not be afraid of them anymore!" At this point, Cao Ye was even afraid of Wang Wenzuo. He refused: "No need to be more, five days, no, three days is enough!"
Hearing this, Wang Wenzuo also guessed a lot about Cao Yena's plan. It was probably that he would make some big move after the riot. It would be inconvenient for him if the other four temple ministers were there. And if Wang Wenzuo temporarily detains these four people, he can do whatever he wants, and later when the four people come back, if he blames Cao Yena for making his own decisions, Cao Yena can just say that so many people came to run on him before, and the situation is urgent, no matter what. Maybe we should wait until the four of them come back before making a decision, and put all the responsibility on the government and the crowd of believers.
"You four temple ministers have not committed any crimes, so why should I put them under house arrest?" Wang Wenzuo sneered.
"Mr. Sir, please read!" Cao Yena was obviously well prepared and immediately took out a book from his sleeve. Wang Wenzuo took it and took a look. It contained various daily sins of his four colleagues, starting from beatings. He killed his own slaves, bribed officials, and even evaded taxes. He copied seven or eight pieces of paper. If all were true, not to mention three or four days of house arrest, even a death sentence would be enough.
"Dongzhu Cao, have you made some mistakes?" Wang Wenzuo turned over two pages and threw them on the ground: "I am the marching commander of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion, not the master of Jing Zhaoyin. These sesame seeds of yours are rotten Millet matters are not my business!"
Cao Yena picked up the pamphlet, patted the dust on it, and put it back in his sleeve: "Mr. Sir, don't forget, this is about your half of the gold and silver!"
"Half a hoard of gold and silver?" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "It seems that in the eyes of Cao Dongzhu, Mr. Wang is a person who regards wealth as his life!"
"That's not true!" Cao Ye said with a smile: "Everyone has seen what happened in front of the temple just now. Not only do you not love money as much as life, you are also a hero who loves money lightly. But how can you do things in the world? Do you want money? And the bigger the event, the more money it will cost. Sir, you have great ambitions, so naturally you are very short of money!"
Cao Yena's answer made Wang Wenzuo fall into silence. After a few minutes, he stretched out his right hand: "Give me that booklet!"
"Here!" Cao Ye was overjoyed and hurriedly presented the booklet with both hands. Wang Wenzuo took the booklet, called the sergeant waiting outside, and read out the four names on it: "Take two people and invite these four people. Just say that I have something important to discuss with them!"
About half a cup of tea later, four Hu merchants walked in under the escort of sergeants. Although they tried to keep calm, it was not difficult to see the panic in their hearts from their evasive eyes and trembling fingertips, especially when they After seeing Cao Ye's figure, hatred and fear immediately burst out in his eyes.
"I pay my respects to Wang Sima!" the four of them said in unison.
"Everyone, get up!" Wang Wenzuo stretched out his hand and said, "You four are the temple's blessings to this Zoroastrian temple, right?"
"Yes, the villains are all temple blessings!"
"Very good, I heard that Dongzhu Cao is also the temple's priest, so the affairs in the temple will be handled by the five of you, right?"
The four people exchanged glances, and the leader carefully replied: "It is true that the five of us are all temple worshipers, but this Zoroastrian Temple is owned by believers in Chang'an and even Guanzhong, and the five of us are also entrusted by the believers to handle the temple's chores! "
"Just chores?" Wang Wenzuo showed a sarcastic smile: "What kind of chores are there? Can you tell a certain family?"
"This -" Hu Shang didn't dare to look at Wang Wenzuo, but his eyes turned to Cao Ye who was aside, but Cao Ye turned his head and ignored him.
"You guys should take a look at this booklet first!" Wang Wenzuo smiled and threw the booklet away. Hu Shang reached out to catch it. After reading two pages, his expression changed drastically. He turned his head suddenly, his eyes looking towards Cao Ye's light shot out hatred.
"Are the things in this book true or false?" Wang Wenzuo asked.
"This is a completely false accusation!" Hu Shang said quickly: "This villain has always been law-abiding, how has he ever committed the above crime?"
"You said these are all fake? Well, where are the other three?"
The other three people also flipped through two pages at this time. When they heard Wang Wenzuo's question, they quickly said: "We are also law-abiding people, and all these are false accusations!"
"Well, since the four of you said it was a lie, I can't wrongly accuse a good person, so let's do it! I'll keep you under guard for a few days until the investigation is complete. What do you think?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.
Those four people were not fools. After hearing this, they didn’t know that this was a trap set by the other party. Hu Shang, who was the first to speak, said first: "This gentleman, we are all residents of Chang'an City. Even if he made a mistake, he is still Jing Zhaoyin’s messenger, so I don’t need to trouble you anymore!”
Several people around him also understood and hurriedly said in unison: "Yes, yes, who this book belongs to, let's go to Jingzhao Yin Yamen tomorrow morning to find out clearly!"
"There's no need for tomorrow morning!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "The person who gave me the booklet is right in front of you. Anyway, you have nothing to do. You five can just argue clearly in front of me!"
Cao Ye was shocked when he heard this. A moment ago, he was in a state of ecstasy, feeling that he was only one step away from mastering Chang'an Zoroastrian Temple alone. However, in the blink of an eye, the situation was reversed. Wang Wenzuo, who had been relying on his help, turned him around like this. Pushing it out, when he realized what he was doing, four colleagues had gathered around him, their eyes burning like fire, looking at him fiercely.
"It's really you!"
"You are so poisonous that you actually want to take this opportunity to get rid of the four of us and eat alone!"
"If you do such evil things, Mingzun will not let you go!"
"You bitch, I will kill you today!"
"No, no!" Cao Ye instinctively took a step back and begged Wang Wenzuo: "Mr. Lang, save me, Mang Jun, save me!"
"Stop it!" Wang Wenzuo shouted sharply. The guard on duty pulled out a steel knife and separated Cao Yena from the other four people. Under the cold blade, the four Hu merchants' fanatical minds calmed down. After coming down, the leading man said to Wang Wenzuo: "Mr. Lang, I don't know what this guy promised you? But this is Chang'an, a place where the king's law exists!"
"Of course I know that Chang'an is a place with royal laws, otherwise I would kill you all and blame it all on the mob afterwards. Why bother now?" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "You are an official who likes to mix things up. Are you going to get involved in all your sloppiness?"
Hu Shang, the leader, heard the implication of Wang Wenzuo's words and was overjoyed. He hurriedly said: "What Lang Jun taught me is that it is not right for the trivial matters of the little people to involve the Lang Jun! After Lang Jun's teaching, the little people will definitely change their minds." Come on, act with caution and run this Zoroastrian Temple well, and you will never cause any more trouble to Mr. Lang!"
"Yeah!" Wang Wenzuo nodded and turned to the other three people: "What about you?"
The three people quickly responded: "We are the same!"
"That's good!" Wang Wenzuo showed a smile: "Well, then, the four of you will each write a defense first!"
"Plea? What plea?"
"You still want to pretend to be confused?" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "Are the things in this book true or false? Do you want me to send you to Jing Zhaoyin?
Let's take a closer look? "
Wang Wenzuo's actions confused the four of them. The leader, Hu Shang, asked cautiously: "Mr. Lang, I am stupid, please give me some advice!"
"Isn't this simple? The four of you have two ways to go now. One is to plead guilty. Then I will send this booklet and you four to the Yamen at dawn. How to deal with it in the end depends on Jingzhao. Yin, if you write down the things related to you in this book and give them to me as a defense, then I will forget the blame. As long as you are dedicated to good deeds as I said before, then this matter will not happen. Otherwise, Just settle the old and new accounts together, do you understand?"
Hearing this, the four Hu merchants finally understood what Wang Wenzuo meant. Obviously, the other party wanted to use him as a handle to manipulate him. But if he didn't write it, he would send himself and the pamphlet to the Yamen. , not to mention the outcome of the final lawsuit, the Zoroastrian Temple will be ruled by Cao Ye for at least ten days and a half. With that guy's skill, at this juncture, even if the four of him can get away with it, then They will also be kicked out of the Zoroastrian Temple and lose the right to manage this huge financial source. For these Hu businessmen who regard wealth as their lives, this result is almost the same as beheading.
"Should Mr. Fengbian keep it himself or give it to that guy?" Hu Shang pointed at Cao Ye and asked.
"Don't worry about this, you will naturally stay with me!" Wang Wenzuo said: "As long as the four of you are dedicated to kindness, your plea will never be seen by others!"
"Well, I choose to plead guilty!" Hu Shang, the leader, answered firmly.
"Gong An, you can't write!" Hu Shang next to him quickly tried to dissuade him.
"There's nothing we can't write!" Hu Shang, the leader, said: "As long as the defense is in the hands of that gentleman, we have nothing to fear. This pamphlet must belong to Cao Ye, and he wants to borrow it from this gentleman He wanted to get rid of a few of us with his own hands, but the reason why the gentleman didn’t do this was obviously because he wanted to keep the four of us to contain Cao Yena, don’t you want to take revenge on Cao Yena?”
The three people exchanged glances and said in unison: "Yes, we will write too!"
"Okay, come on, get some pen and paper!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.
After a while, the soldiers took out paper and pen. The four Hu merchants quickly finished writing their defense, and signed and stamped their fingerprints on the end. Wang Wenzuo took it and looked at it. Sure enough, they all frankly admitted that most of the small businessmen He smiled at the things in the booklet and said, "Cao Yena, come here!"
Cao Ye was standing aside, feeling as if he was being pricked by needles and felt so uncomfortable. Hearing Wang Wenzuo's voice, he hurried over and said, "What are your orders, Mr. Lang?"
"Look at these four pleas. Are there any problems?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Don't worry, the four of them will definitely not dare to go against you in the future. Otherwise, once these four pleas are taken out, all four of them will It's a disaster! Isn't it?" His last words were to those four people.
"Mr. Sir, please rest assured. We will definitely work together with Cao Yena from now on, and there will never be any hesitation!" The leader, Hu Shang, said in a deep voice. Cao Yena trembled when he heard this and felt like a light on his back. He knew in his heart that these four people had formed a deadly feud with him, and he would never have a good life in the Zoroastrian Temple. However, even so, he read the four confessions very carefully, and finally asked Wang Wenzuo A few more additions were made, and it was unknown how many more curses those four people had in their hearts.
"Have everything been revised?" Wang Wenzuo took the revised defense from the four Hu merchants. After confirming that it was correct, he carefully folded it and wrapped it in oilcloth, then carefully put it in his arms: "You four first Go back! If anything happens, I will send someone to invite you!"
"Yes!" The four of them bowed to Wang Wenzuo before walking backwards out of the door. Only Cao Yena and Wang Wenzuo were left in the room. Wang Wenzuo smiled and said, "Dr. Cao, do you have anything else to say?"
"The villain has nothing to say!" Cao Ye said with a dejected look on his face: "The gentleman's methods are superb, the villain can only admire him!"
"I dare not take it for granted. Your methods are also very good. It's a pity that you have misjudged the wrong person!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "You say that I am not a person who loves money, but in your heart you still think of me as someone who is blind to money like you. , you thought you could make me stupid with the promise of huge profits, but unfortunately you don’t understand the truth. What I hate the most is when others play dirty tricks to take advantage of me. I will teach you a lesson today,
If something like this happens next time, it won’t be so easy! "
"I understand, I understand!" Cao Ye Na kowtowed more than ten times, his face covered with blood, before he walked backwards on his knees and walked out of the door. When he got up outside, he found that he was sweating profusely and his whole body was as wet as just now. As if crawling out of the pond, he sighed: "I once read in a book that dragons have reverse scales, and if they touch them, they will be killed. Today I finally understand!"
