Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 313 Made a fortune

   The one who knows you best, apart from your enemies and friends, is your subordinates.

   For example, Liang Hongzhi was the magistrate of Hu County.

   They confiscated a large amount of gold, silver and copper coins, cloth, colored silk, silk thread and grain from the Hu family, as well as a box of five stone powder.

   There are some things that even Mrs. Hu doesn't know, but Liang Hong can dig it out from the backyard of the county government office.

   Mrs. Hu was stunned for a while, and the crying child was snuggled beside her. She slowly regained her senses, and her tears fell drop by drop. Until now, she feels like she is in a dream.

   A coffin is parked not far away. Inside is the Huxian magistrate whose head was separated. The coffin was provided by Qiuwu as a friend.

   Zhao Hanzhang said that she didn't want to humiliate the Hu County Magistrate after her death, so Qiu Wu went to the coffin shop to pull a coffin and stuffed the body of the person in it, which was considered to be enough for the other party.

  The items that were counted were placed in the center of the yard. Just before sunset, Zhao Hanzhang finally came over.

Mrs. Hu raised her head and looked at Zhao Hanzhang. She looked blankly at her walking towards the light. Her face was blurred. She couldn't see what she looked like. The two children snuggled up beside her.

  Zhao Hanzhang stopped in front of a box, picked up a colored robe to look at, and sighed after a while: "This is made by the people of Biyang County?"

Liang Hong bowed and replied: "Yes, the county magistrate said the year before last that there was an order to pay the tribute of two colored silk ribbons in Biyang County. It took the Zhiniang in the county a year to weave the two colorful silk ribbons. It was only the previous emperor at that time. After his death, the new emperor ascended the throne but went outside, so..."

   "So this colored silk became the private property of Hu County Magistrate?"

   Liang Hong lowered his eyes and said, "The county magistrate said that Cai Ling had already been sent to the county governor's office."

Zhao Hanzhang sneered, put down the colored robe, and looked at other things. After a while, she pointed to the grain and said, "All the grain is filled in the warehouse, and the gold, silver and copper coins are placed separately. I will use it later, and the rest will be kept in a book. into the county government warehouse."

  Liang Hong should go down.

   Zhao Hanzhang then saw Mrs. Hu, who was kneeling on the ground, her hair was disheveled, and she was embarrassed.

   She frowned, glanced at her without much expression, and said to Liang Hong, "Let the yamen retire from the backyard of the county government, and come and help the Hu family with the funeral."

  Liang Hong was stunned for a moment and then responded.

   Zhao Hanzhang turned to leave, but Mrs. Hu was also startled by her decision, so she couldn't help calling out to her.

   Seeing her looking back at her, Mrs. Hu was a little timid again. She shrank her head and asked in a low voice, "Is Zhao Juncheng going to kill us?"

   Zhao Hanzhang shook his head, "I don't want to implicate the family in the crime of magistrate Hu. You can leave after the accounts are settled and all the stolen goods are in the warehouse."

   Mrs. Hu asked with a pale face: "What if you can't find enough stolen goods?"

   Zhao Hanzhang took a deep look at her and said, "It depends on the wife's choice."

   Zhao Hanzhang turned around and was about to leave. Mrs. Hu's face changed and changed, and finally said: "Junior, there is another place where he may have hidden belongings."

  The corners of Zhao Hanzhang's mouth were slightly raised, and when he turned around, he put away his smile and looked at her solemnly.

Mrs. Hu could feel the softening of her momentum, she breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the child in her arms and said, "In the other courtyard of the Ma family, he often sends things there, and the other courtyard is the horse's house. The house lent it to him for a banquet, and he has been using it for the past few years."

   Zhao Hanzhang looked at Liang Hong, and Liang Hong immediately said: "Yes, Magistrate Hu does often send people to other courtyards."

   Zhao Hanzhang looked at the sky and said, "It's still early, so it's hard work for Liang Xiancheng to go again."

  Liang Hong: ...it's getting dark, where is it early?

However, Liang Hong still took people to another courtyard and checked the inside. The person who was running into the Ma family was about to go in and move things. The two sides collided and almost got into a fight. In the end, Qiu Wu took the soldiers. come here.

  The soldiers were holding torches in their hands. In the light of the fire, Qiu Wu stared at those people with piercing eyes, "The governor said, the soldiers and horses of our county governor are now lacking an excuse!"

   As soon as these words came out, the steward of the Ma family hurriedly restrained the servants named Mu, and stepped back very aware of the current affairs, letting Liang Hong and the yamen go in.

   The lights of the county government were on for half the night, and in this half night alone, Biyang County's revenue was more than double its annual revenue.

  Zhao Hanzhang sat on the box and looked at the confiscated items, and sighed: "No wonder it is said that robbing and raiding a house is the fastest to become rich, sure enough."

Fu Tinghan has been looking at the account books since the afternoon, but now his head is not dizzy, but his eyes hurt. He walked out and found a suitcase and sat on it, closing his eyes and resting, "The most profitable methods are all written in the criminal law. Obviously, This Hu County magistrate can be so rich, and he has broken the law a lot."

"It's a pity that the law treats the gentry favorably. Even if he is greedy and perverts the law and is sentenced according to the law, he will not die." Along the way, Zhao Hanzhang hated this kind of people the most. The people are self-destructing, and they have to pour boiling water into the already dire pits, making the people who are already suffering even more miserable.

   Zhao Hanzhang gritted his teeth, "It's still too straightforward to kill, and it should be killed after the trial."

  Fu Tinghan shook his head and said, "After the trial, I'm afraid you won't be easy to kill."

   In his spare time, Fu Tinghan also turned over the law books of this era and knew the preferential treatment of nobles and gentry in the law.

   It is not easy for a person like Magistrate Hu to be sentenced to death.

   Unless, they change the law.

At this moment, Zhao Hanzhang lowered his eyes and pondered, Fu Tinghan had already opened his eyes and looked at her, the two of them had boxes facing each other, so they were sitting face to face at the moment, "You can't do it now, to change the law, you have to be right. Runan County has absolute control."

   Zhao Hanzhang nodded, thinking about it.

   She beckoned to call Qiu Wu, and whispered: "Send someone back to Xiping, and ask Zhao Ju to send me two teams of men and horses, and ask for elite troops."

   A team of 100 people, the second team is 200 people, and they are elite soldiers, and they can sweep almost every county in Runan County.

   Qiuwu did not hesitate, replied in a low voice and stepped back.

   Zhao Hanzhang already had an idea in her mind, she got up and said, "Let's go, go to rest, it's too late, I'll do it tomorrow."

   Fu Tinghan glanced at the pile of property in the yard and nodded in response.

   Also, there are so many materials on households that are not so easy to read, anyway, the money has been copied out, and now they only have more, not less, and this is enough.

He copied one of the magistrates of Hu County and fattened the Biyang County Government Office. Of course, there may be people who were accidentally injured. After all, there are too many things copied from other courtyards, and the Ma family has been complaining outside, saying that Everything in the other courtyard belonged to their family, not the magistrate Hu.

Maybe, Zhao Hanzhang didn't deny it completely, but it's impossible for her to give things out like this. Her reply to the Ma family was, "After Mr. Fu has completed the accounting of the household's account book, he will know whether it is the magistrate of Hu County or not. Corruption is gone."

But who knows when Fu Tinghan will be able to complete the accounting. Before that, the county government had to stop working, so Zhao Hanzhang skipped this and talked with them about buying grain. It has caused a smog, and the people are struggling to live. To appease the people, we must first provide relief, and now the county government is short of food, I wonder if the Ma family is willing to do a business with the county government?"

   Zhao Hanzhang said: "I am willing to buy food from the Ma family at a high price to help the people."

See you tomorrow

   (end of this chapter)