Morbid pet

Chapter 20 I Came to Find You

A storm was hovering over the prefect of the south of the Yangtze River. A silver-white solitary bird flew across the gray-white skyline, setting off a long cry.

Xie Zhao sat at the head of the Jiangnan magistrate's mansion, and his next head was the plump Jiangnan magistrate Ye Zhizhou.

Ye Zhizhou smiled and blew a sip of tea foam, and took a sip slowly, "Congratulations, congratulations, my lord, a good harvest in both official and love affairs!"

Xie Zhao couldn't understand what Ye Zhizhou said, so he just responded lightly: "The king's enthronement ceremony hasn't been done yet, so I hurried down to you Jiangnan, or else, wait for the dust to settle here. Come with me to the lively capital?"

"Hahahaha, the lord's kind invitation, how could Zhizhou refuse?" Ye Zhizhou knew that the eunuch who was famous for his ruthless methods was actually just an idiot. He was coaxing the princess to make his title bigger and bigger, and now the kings with different surnames are all in it!It's maddeningly jealous.

Xie Zhao chuckled lightly: "Okay, that's the deal." He suddenly changed his expression, and looked coldly at the Clivia outside the window, an orchid as green as a pine, which can grow in such a dirty atmosphere. Live so gracefully.
"Tell me, the Chen family is down, what to do with the weaving workshop in their hands." Xie Zhao leaned on the high seat, supported his head with one hand, and looked out the window lazily, as if wanting to get off work early , "The property of the Chen family, copied?"

Ye Zhizhou's face suddenly turned pale and pale, and he felt dizzy for a while.

He recited the speeches he had memorized in the past few days: "Hey—my lord, you don't know that after the death of the Chen family, all the three thousand looms under them stopped working.

I went to check and found out that there are only more than 1 pieces of raw silk left in Jiangnan, which is not enough for the [-] pieces of silk to be delivered at the end of the year. This year is a disaster year, and everyone is unwilling to take risks to grow silk. Go and see Jiangnan The fields are all rice!But the land is owned by farmers, so we can’t force others to grow silk.”

Xie Zhao was silent for a while, "It's true that you can't force it, but the Weaving Bureau has signed a contract with the Westerners, and the deposit at the beginning of the year was 100 million taels. Now that you can't do it, who dares to risk your head?" The risk made the court spit it out?!"

Ye Zhizhou whispered: "Don't dare, dare not."

Xie Zhao got up with a flick of his sleeves: "Take me to the Chen family's weaving workshop."

"The Chen family are all good people. Their weaving workshops are all built in small villages and counties next to them. Jiangnan is the base camp of their other shops. I will take you to the nearest one."

Ye Zhizhou shouted loudly to the guard at the door: "Prepare the car! Wuzhen."

A triumphant smile flashed across Xie Zhao's face.

An hour later.

Wuzhen.

It was supposed to be a two-hour journey, but Xie Zhao insisted on riding a horse by himself.

Ye Zhizhou had no choice but to give up his life to accompany the gentleman, and rode with him. He was already fat, and he looked extremely uncoordinated on a thin horse. Fortunately, he was able to ride a horse, at least he didn't suffer too much from Xie Zhao. .

Ye Zhizhou pointed to a small alley that had just entered the city and said, "My lord! This is here. The shops on this street and the second floor are all the weaving workshops of the Chen family, but now there is no owner to operate them, and they are all closed."

Xie Zhao saw two leaves pointing in one direction on the road, and he understood that this was the guidepost left by Jin Yiwei. While no one was paying attention, he stepped on the guide leaf and let it move aside Location.

Xie Zhao said to the guard behind him, "Break open the door."

In the middle of the night and in the middle of the night, he said: "Yes."

They were so strong in martial arts that they kicked the door lock open with a bang.

There was no air in the weaving workshop for a long time, and there were still some ash-absorbing things in the corner. The door was opened suddenly, and heavy dust rushed straight towards the crowd, causing several people to turn their backs and cough.

Xie Zhao covered his mouth and nose, and walked slowly inside.

A series of hundreds of looms are placed here, some of which still have raw silk left, and emit a silvery white light in the dark. It is not difficult to imagine how shocking it will be if they are all in operation. people's hearts.

Xie Zhao raised his foot and was about to go upstairs, "Is there anything else up there?"

Ye Zhizhou pulled him back, "Yes, but the dust is heavier and there is no one there, so don't go up there."

Xie Zhao flung off his sleeves and strode upstairs. The upstairs is actually the same as the downstairs. There are four large terraces upstairs, which can be used for workers to rest occasionally, and the rest is nothing special.

But when Xie Zhao turned the corner, he suddenly stared at the two big boxes in the corner from the corner of his eye.

He walked over and opened the wooden box.

There is actually a ledger in it? !

He casually flipped through two or three books, which were the details of the output and donations of this weaving base in the past ten years, and his eyes suddenly fell on Hong'an's gift of [-] bolts of silk to Junsizhe in ten years.
To put it bluntly, this weaving base is specially used for weaving silk and then paying bribes. It is hard to imagine that in the past ten years, nearly [-] looms have been weaving silk in reverse shifts day and night.

There are only three hundred machines here, what about other places?Is that also the case?

The answer is self-evident.

Daming's corruption and miasma are deeply rooted in his bones.

Xie Zhao's gaze sank. He wanted these ledgers, but he couldn't ask for them in front of Ye Zhizhou. The only way was to go to Jin Yiwei and ask them to steal the ledgers overnight and send them back to Beijing.

"My lord? My lord?" Ye Zhizhou ran up. He didn't know that the Chen family hid the ledger here. After all, he was also the most corrupt official in the south of the Yangtze River.

Xie Zhao was leaning on the window sill, looking at the majestic Ten Mile Tea Mountain in front of him.

Ye Zhizhou understood in seconds, the tea mountain girl, it’s okay to take him to play, it’s nothing more than two taels of meat missing, almost felt that’s all, "My lord, the front is the Baishan tea mountain in Wuzhen, let’s go over there and have a look, there is just next to it. There are terraced fields in the countryside, let’s take a look together!”

Xie Zhao looked at the terraced fields in the distance, "Let's go."

Ye Zhizhou hurriedly ran down and asked the boy to go to the guest house on the tea mountain to say hello. He made arrangements in advance, and then led Xie Zhao's thunder horse over with a smile. He made a gesture of invitation with one hand: "Please."

Xie Zhao took the reins, nodded and said, "Let's go, Mr. Zhifu."

Here, Chang Le was sitting in the gazebo in a daze, with what Uncle Xia said just now echoing in his ears.

"In the tenth year of Hong'an, the prince suddenly fell off a cliff and died on the way to pray for blessings. The next month, Zhou Lingcong, who was the prince's Taifu, wrote a letter pointing out that the death of the prince was strange, and pointed the finger at the whole family. At that time, I remember that the Taifu took out some key Evidence, but in the end Emperor Hong'an was nothing.

Hey, the background, the old slave can't tell clearly, the old slave has been with Zhou Taifu for 50 years, hey, the Zhou family has been clean for generations, and it ended up like this in the end, hahahahaha - good fortune tricks people. "

Uncle Xia handed Changle a burnt letter, on which was written: Run, there is a ghost!

Chang Le asked: "What ghost?"

Uncle Xia shook his head and did not explain: "I don't know, it was given to me by Taifu Zhou in prison, and asked me to bring it to someone"

"Bring it to whom?"

Old Uncle Xia shook his head: "I can't say it, even if I die, I can't say it, I promised the Taifu."

Chang Le didn't force him, just gave him some jewelry, and then sat in the gazebo by herself, thinking sullenly, she had been frantically looking for clues to prove the Zhou family's innocence in the past few years, but in the end even the Zhou family was innocent. None of the corners of the case were touched.

The death of the prince indirectly led to the demise of the Zhou family, so who is going to do everything possible to murder the future emperor of a country?
Who dares?
A terrible answer suddenly appeared in Chang Le's mind.

There is more than one murderer, she knew it from the beginning, but now, maybe it is the whole family, how many people are there in the whole family?A family of 300 or even [-] people, in Daming's aristocratic family is not considered a declining generation, there are at least ten families!

That's more than 1000 people, all coveting and coveting
Changle didn't know how long he was in a daze.

Suddenly there was a roar of war horses in her ear before she woke up. She stared blankly at the man in black in front of her. He had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and his thin lips were tightly pursed into a line. He half-bent down and said warmly to her: " Changle, I'm here to find you."

Changle's heart suddenly started beating wildly.

She must have been scared silly by Xie Zhao, right?
(End of this chapter)