East Factory Governor

Chapter 276 Tianjin Salt Transport Nest Case ([-])

Cheng Huaishan's face was paler than paper, and he almost passed out on the spot.

He hurriedly begged for mercy, "My lord, put these away, I'll give you whatever you want!"

Cheng Huaishan thought that Jin Yiwei came to the house just to extort some money, so he should spend money to keep himself safe.

Li Jingting kicked Cheng Huaishan again, and said angrily, "Damn, don't you understand people's words? This is a case supervised by the emperor, you want to kill me? Stop talking, brothers, get moving first. "

The few strong men below all rushed up like wolves, grabbed Cheng Huaishan's hands and feet, and then another person began to pick out torture tools inside.

Most of Cheng Huaishan's old life was frightened away, and he finally believed that these Jinyiwei didn't come for money, but really came for the matter of the Yanyun nest case.

Immediately gave up all illusions, and cried out crying, "My lords, if I recruit, can you let me go?"

Li Jingting said, "It's not up to us whether to let you go or not, it's up to the emperor to decide. But today's sage is kind, if you can make meritorious deeds, you will probably be punished lightly, but the premise is that you have to confess honestly, If there is half a sentence that is false, it is deceiving the emperor! According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, deceiving the emperor should be copied and executed, and cut into pieces!"

"I, I must confess truthfully, I must confess truthfully!"

Chongzhen and Qin Shuhuai shook their heads while watching, and they had to say that Li Jingting's method was really simple and rude.But they must admit that this method is very effective.If you talk to Cheng Huaishan in a nice voice, I don't know how long it will take to interrogate him.

Trembling, Cheng Huaishan revealed the incident one by one. Under Li Jingting's repeated threats and temptations, he even revealed the case that they had never thought of.

After summarizing, there are four more important cases.First, Chenghuai Mountain paid eight taels of salt to the director of salt transport and ten taels to Tianjin Road for every salt introduced.Second, Chen Tianbao, the son of Tianjin Road, was going to study in the capital. Cheng Huaishan gave 1 taels of silver as a "coin bag". Cheng Huaishan also gave gifts for various other festivals, ranging from a few thousand taels to tens of thousands of taels.Third, a nephew of Cheng Huaishan beat and killed a villager the year before last, Chen Qisheng of Tianjin Road helped suppress it, and in the end he only compensated the villager five taels of silver.Afterwards, Cheng Huaishan gave Chen Qisheng 5000 taels of silver.Fourth, the Department of Salt Transportation took the method of underreporting salt imports to help Cheng Huaishan evade taxes.Cheng Huaishan produces about [-] mints of salt a year, but only [-] mints were reported, which is less than one-tenth of the actual amount.

When Chongzhen heard the last one, his fists were already clenched!

But Qin Shuhuai was not too surprised.Calculated based on the population of 300 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at least 2.4 million catties of salt would be consumed a year, and the price of salt at the end of the Ming Dynasty reached 100 Wen per catty, which means that the output value reached [-] million taels of silver. But they can only receive less than [-] million taels. It is strange that there is no tax evasion here!
Chongzhen couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, stepped forward and said to Cheng Huaishan, "Is everything you said true? If you slander the court officials, it will be a capital offense!"

Cheng Huaishan hurriedly said, "No, no, these are all supported by ledgers! In our business, we usually have two ledgers, one for outsiders and one for ourselves. What you see is the truth, this account book is under my bed!"

Upon hearing this, Li Jingting immediately said to his subordinates, "Search!"

So all the Jin Yiwei rushed up, turned the bottom of the bed upside down, and found five or six thick ledgers.Opening the account book, I saw that it recorded in detail the daily entry and exit of the Chengjia Salt Company. I randomly picked a month and calculated, and there were [-] to [-] yuan. thing.

There was also a small account book that actually listed the amount of gifts he gave Chen Liren and Chen Qisheng densely, which surprised and delighted everyone.

"You boy, if you pay bribes and set up an account book, that's fine." Li Jingting said involuntarily.

"Returning to your lord, this, this filial piety money is the cost of our business, and it is a big cost. Why don't we register it, or we won't be able to account for it!"

After finding these account books, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Now that there are all the witnesses and material evidence, as long as the bank notes or the bribery items recorded on them can be copied, the iron case can be settled.

Chongzhen said angrily, "Li Jingting, leave a few people for me to look after them, and the rest will follow me to Chen Qisheng!"

Everyone immediately knelt down and shouted, "Observe the order!"

Cheng Huaishan collapsed to the ground with a thud, his eyes staring like bull's eyes.

He, he is the emperor?The emperor actually came to Jinmen to investigate the case in person? !

The river in my heart was churning, and the cold sweat was pouring down my back.It's really a big case supervised by the emperor. Fortunately, I just recruited it, otherwise the whole family of hundreds of people would not be able to live...

Li Jingting left ten Jinyiwei in Chengfu, and then took the rest of Jinyiwei and followed Chongzhen to Chen Qisheng's house.

Chongzhen's face was dark all the way, he didn't say a word, his eyes were full of murderous intent.This young man was completely irritated by this shocking den case!

You are desperately asking me to reduce my taxes and teaching me to be diligent and thrifty to build a country.I listen to you, since I took the throne, I have always used this as a lesson to live frugally, and the expenses in the palace have been reduced one after another, and I dare not even change the dragon robes when they are old.I didn't expect that all of you were amassing money in private, lying in the mountains of gold and silver, enjoying the glory and wealth that I can't even imagine!You know that there are frequent civil upheavals all over the world because the peasants cannot bear heavy taxes, but you still want to cut taxes for these rich businessmen, and then impose taxes on the peasants!
Don't you want me to die?Since you want me to die, why should I let you live!

Brother Qin, brother Qin, you gave me a blow in the head!Everyone in this world hopes that my eyes will be blind, my ears will be deaf, and I will fall into a coma forever, and only you are willing to give me a hard blow to wake me up!

A group of people planned to gallop, and soon arrived at Chen Qisheng's mansion.As a military officer in Tianjin, Chen Qisheng's house was heavily guarded inside and outside, and the number reached 200 people.

Seeing these men approaching menacingly, a group of soldiers guarding the gate immediately raised their guard and shouted, "Who is it, get off your horse immediately!"

Li Jingting did not get off his horse, but took out his token and said, "Li Jingting, Deputy Qianhu of Tongzhou Jinyiwei, is ordered by the emperor to see Mr. Chen urgently."

The soldier looked at the order and said immediately, "Deputy Li Qianhu, you can go in. But it's inconvenient for these brothers. After all, this is Tianjin Daofu, please forgive me!"

Li Jingting sneered, "Presumptuous! Who dares to stop Jin Yiwei from handling the case?"

The soldiers were really stunned.How could they have never heard of the vicious name of the factory guard?Who dares to offend Jin Yiwei's people these days?
Several Jin Yiwei came up and pushed the soldiers away, and when they reached the door, seeing that no one opened the door, they jumped over the courtyard wall and opened the door.

Chongzhen and others immediately filed in.And those guards didn't dare to stop them, but felt that it would be wrong to do nothing, so they had to follow in.

(End of this chapter)