The Only Favorite Ugly Husband

Zheng Yi asked the old man surnamed Jiang in Hexi Village to sue the Jiang family, but in fact he was not sure, and he was even prepared for Zhou Maohe to find out that these people were coerced by him.

In the end... among these people, there was actually a talent!

The old man's performance was far beyond Zheng Yi's expectations, he couldn't help but praise the old man over and over again in his heart, and despised the Jiang family by the way.

He didn't pay much attention to the Jiang family, and he didn't know that the other two children of the Jiang family were like this.

This Jiang's father and Jiang's mother are also really strange. They don't like their eldest son who works hard, but prefer their second son and third son who want everything they want.

After the old man was pulled to the ground by Mrs. Jiang, Zhou Maohe immediately asked someone to move a chair for him, asked him to sit down, and then said: "Find a servant girl, come and search for Jiang Wang, and come again The two of you stripped off Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang's clothes!"

The Jiang family naturally didn't want to be treated like this, but before Jiang Zhen didn't want to kneel down to get an imperial edict, but they didn't have anything.

The clothes of Jiang Chengxiang and Jiang Chengcai were quickly stripped off.

These two people, since they were young, have never experienced any hardships. It's just that the Jiang family's life has been difficult for more than a year. In fact, they have not suffered any hardships.

In Hexi Village, the grain produced by an acre of paddy fields can still support a grown man after collecting and paying taxes, and the amount of land owned by the Jiang family at this moment is definitely more than that of an adult in their family. With no one working, the output is greatly reduced, and they will not be unable to eat.

The two of them refused to work, so the consumption would be less, so after taking off their clothes, everyone found that the two were white and fat, with delicate skin and tender flesh.

Although Jiang Zhen ate meat every day, he exercised a lot and consumed a lot of energy, and he was so lean that when compared, Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang were even fatter than him.

This is not a big deal, the servant woman found seven or eighty taels of silver from Mrs. Jiang.

Zhou Maohe's face was already as dark as the bottom of a pot.

When he came to Jiangnan this time, he didn't bring that much money with him. The Jiang family clearly had more money than him!

"Hey, that youngest son of the Jiang family is an old acquaintance of mine. He always comes to my house to buy roast chicken." The owner of a merchant selling roast chicken in Hecheng County said that when Jiang Chengxiang lived in the county, he would even buy roast chicken. He didn't buy much chicken, and almost every other day he came to buy some dried tofu skin boiled in the brine of the roast chicken. In the past few days, he came to buy roast chicken almost every day.

Song Lizheng was standing next to the merchant, and his whole body was stiff at the moment.

He wholeheartedly thought that Jiang Chengxiang's life was so hard, but in the end, he was completely wrong!

His life is much more comfortable than his!It's rare for him to eat roast chicken!

Song Lizheng was in a daze, his stomach hurt, and he was punched.

Zheng Baoning withdrew his fist, grabbed Song Li, and slapped Song Li again.

At first, he thought that Song Li had no bad intentions, so he just kept avoiding him, but before, when he saw this person talking ill of Jiang Zhen in the crowd, he was really angry.

Song Li should be taught a lesson!

"My lord, do you still want to try the case?" Asked a scholar who followed Zhou Maohe from Fucheng.He felt that the trial of this case could not go on now...

Even if they really caught Jiang Zhen's fault and punished him, the common people would only think that they were doing something wrong.

Scholars like them care about their reputation the most. If they lose their reputation because of interrogating Jiang Zhen, the loss outweighs the gain.

"My lord, my nephew's family used to only buy land, not sell it. After Jiang Zhen joined the Zhao family, the remaining two sons were lazy and spent all kinds of money, so they sold land again and again, but even so , their family can live on." The old man who had previously clamored to sue Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang said again.

Zhou Maohe was already furious at the Jiang family, and immediately pointed to Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang and said, "It will be tried, and the case will naturally be tried, but this time, it is these two people who will be tried!" Jiang Zhen said that He will pursue the matter of Qingfenglou later. At this moment, the two sons of the Jiang family should be interrogated first!

Zhou Maohe looked at the two people who lied to him coldly, and was about to say something when Mrs. Jiang suddenly screamed and rushed over to hug his leg: "My lord, my Chengcai Chengxiang is the most Filial piety, you can't wrong people!"

"My success! You are so miserable! Your brother doesn't care about you, and there are still people who want to wrong you!"

"If something happens to my son, I'll crash my head in this yamen!"

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When Mrs. Jiang had a good life in Jiang's family, she still had a lot of face, but recently when her life is not good, she doesn't care about face less and less, and she is especially open-minded.

"Let go!" Zhou Maohe felt very helpless when Mrs. Jiang hugged his leg. The people he brought saw this and went to tease Mrs. Jiang again.

It was a good court, but now it is completely chaotic.

The common people around outside watched the bustle but watched with gusto.

The imperial envoy made a private visit and found out that the wicked brought the wicked to justice. They had seen too much on the stage, but in fact it was nothing to watch.

"Leave!" Zhou Maohe shouted.

The old lady Jiang refused to let him interrogate Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang, so he had no choice but to give up.

It is impossible to interrogate the unfilial son, but in the end, the old parents of the unfilial son are forced to death.

However, in this way, even Jiang Zhen will be released...

As soon as he heard that Jiang Zhen was fine, Brother Zhao Jin, who had been waiting outside, rushed in immediately.

"Brother Jin." Jiang Zhen subconsciously wanted to hug someone, but Brother Zhao Jin suddenly bent down, just to avoid his hug, and at the same time picked up the clothes Jiang Zhen dropped on the ground, and put them on Jiang Zhen: "Get dressed!"

Seeing Jiang Zhen standing there shirtless, he was always feeling cold for Jiang Zhen, and his heart ached.

Jiang Zhen was indeed a little cold, so he took the clothes and put them on.

There was no expression on his face, but he teased Brother Zhao Jin in a low voice: "Brother Jin, you are so anxious, do you mean that you don't want others to see my body? Don't worry, I will only let you see it from now on."

Brother Zhao Jin: "..." Jiang Zhen thought too much!He used to do farm work shirtless, no one in the village has ever seen him!

However, he really doesn't want others to see Jiang Zhen's body...

"Don't freeze, if you freeze, you won't be allowed to hold the Pearl." Zhao Jinge said with red eyes, now that Jiang Zhen is fine, he felt relieved and couldn't control his emotions .

Jiang Zhen quickly put on his clothes: "Brother Jin, I'm fine."

Zhou Maohe finally got rid of Mrs. Jiang at this moment, but his official uniform was all messed up. He ran to Jiang Zhen, gave Jiang Zhen a cold look, then called someone to run out, and went straight to Qingfeng Tower.

Not to mention the filth and evil in the Qingfeng Building, it is said that there are many things in it that are only found in the palace. Just this can make Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi drink a pot!

Even though he had changed his mind about Jiang Zhen, Zhou Maohe still felt that Zheng Yihe was not a good person.

Zhou Maohe left quickly, and Jiang Zhen was surrounded by people... Pulling Brother Zhao Jing outside, Jiang Zhen walked towards Zheng Yi: "Young Master Zheng, this imperial envoy is probably going to Qingfeng Tower."

Someone made trouble in Qingfeng Building before, and Jiang Zhen didn't care when he heard about it, but now, after thinking about it, he came to the conclusion that the person who went to "make trouble" was probably Zhou Maohe.

Now, he might be going there again.

"Qingfenglou?" Zheng Yi was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Let the people here disperse, let's go to Qingfenglou to have a look."

Jiang Zhen nodded, followed Zheng Yi into a carriage that Zheng Yi had prepared a long time ago, and the two went to Qingfeng Building together.

Brother Zhao Jin also wanted to follow, but the people in Hexi Village still needed his comfort, so he could only stay.

"Jiang Zhen, I'm afraid I've caused you trouble this time. I'm really sorry." Zheng Yi said as he got into the carriage.

"Young Master Zheng, no one would have thought of such a sudden disaster, and it may not be that Young Master Zheng got me involved, maybe someone thought I was not pleasing to the eye, and bought those people from the Jiang family to do it." Jiang Zhen said.Many people thought that the old lady Jiang Chengxiang had the silver on her body, but he knew it was not.

The Jiang family definitely can't afford so much money anymore, so the money should be given to them by others.

But this matter, you can let it go and check it later.

"Tell me, could it be Feng Jingyuan?" Zheng Yi said, Feng Jingyuan was the one who persuaded him to sever his wrist.

"He is now attached to you, Young Master Zheng, so he should not destroy the Great Wall himself," Jiang Zhen said.When Feng Jingyuan was slapped in the face by him, he could still come to the door again and again, giving gifts to make amends... Such a person would never do such a thing at this time.

"Then who could it be?" Zheng Yi frowned. He has always made money with kindness, and he always left a front line for others when doing business. He didn't offend anyone, let alone Jiang Zhen. He still did things properly.

"After this matter is over, we will investigate slowly." Jiang Zhen said.

"That's right... I don't know how long Master Zhou will continue to make trouble." Zheng Yi couldn't help frowning when he thought of Zhou Maohe.

This Zhou Maohe is not really a bad person, but he is like this, no one likes him no matter what.

"Young Master Zheng, if he wants to make a fuss, why don't we push him?" Jiang Zhen said suddenly.

"What?" Zheng Yi was taken aback.

Jiang Zhen didn't speak this time, but wrote the word "private salt" on Zheng Yi's hand.

He once had the idea of ​​selling private salt. When he went to buy seafood, he also saw how the Hongjiang Salt Farm took the entire coastline into his pocket, and then sold private salt and official salt together.

There are maritime merchants here in Hexing Mansion, but those maritime merchants do business a little further south, because the sphere of influence of the Hongjiang Salt Field in Hexing Mansion is too large.

The Hongjiang Salt Farm, relying on salt, has already established a huge interest group in Hexing Mansion and Wuzhong Mansion to the north of Hexing Mansion.

In Hexing Mansion and Wuzhong Mansion, there are countless rich salt merchants. Among them, the big salt merchants are richer than the sea merchants, and there are also rich and noble families from the south of the Yangtze River.

Everyone needs to eat salt, and selling salt without permission is not allowed. Normally, the annual salt tax should be very, very high, but the fact is just the opposite.

Although the salt tax is still a lot, in recent years, it has been getting lower and lower. The money was obviously used to fatten up the salt merchants in the end.

It has been more than [-] years since the founding of Daqi, and many disadvantages are becoming more and more obvious. The government has been short of money. If it weren't for this, the Queen Mother would not have come up with the idea of ​​sealing some imperial merchants to save money.

Under such circumstances, the Empress Dowager had wanted to rectify the salt affairs a long time ago, but she hadn't done anything about it. It was because no one dared to do anything about it, for fear of being killed by those salt merchants in the end.

But now... isn't this an upright imperial envoy?

"Jiang Zhen!" Zheng Yi was taken aback when he saw Jiang Zhen draw these two words, Jiang Zhen really dared to think!

Is this part accessible to ordinary people?

Even his uncle, when someone mentioned this in the court, they only dared to say haha ​​and said they didn't know...

However, asking Zhou Maohe to rectify the salt affairs is not necessarily a bad idea. I am afraid that only people like Zhou Maohe dare to do such a thing.

"I can improve... the method, so that... the output will be greatly increased in the future." Jiang Zhen said.At this time, people boiled salt, but in fact, salt can be dried.

Zheng Yi's heart skipped a beat.

When Jiang Zhen mentioned this, he still didn't understand why Jiang Zhen said this, but now...

Although the meaning of what Jiang Zhen said was unclear, he had already understood it.

Jiang Zhen, this is to let Zhou Maohe break up the interest groups that are now monolithic because of the salt, and then they get a share of it.

"This... is too risky."

"Young Master Zheng, the Zheng family relies on the Empress Dowager now, but what if His Majesty ascends the throne in the future?" Jiang Zhen asked in a low voice.

"Your Majesty is born to the Empress Dowager..."

"When will there be fewer fights for power and profit between mother and son?" Jiang Zhen said.

Jiang Zhen has always felt that the Zheng family is not safe now.

The Zheng family only has the second master Zheng as an official in the court, not to mention, they still follow the path of the queen mother... One day the queen mother falls, what will happen to the Zheng family?

"But if you intervene in that matter..."

"As long as the vain money continues to be sent to Beijing and the salt tax is getting higher and higher, will Your Majesty still despise the Zheng family?" Jiang Zhen said.

"I'll think about it." Zheng Yi took a deep breath, feeling a little confused.

He had always known that Jiang Zhen was very bold, but he never thought that Jiang Zhen could be so bold. What the hell, he was moved.

If the Zheng family manages the salt affairs well, His Majesty has money in his private treasury, and the household department also has money... Whether it is the Queen Mother or His Majesty, they will definitely be reluctant to touch the Zheng family.

Of course, they have to be cautious, and they must not be like the group of people in the Hongjiang Salt Field who are so dazzled by the benefits that they only know how to pull the money into their arms.

Zheng Yi only felt that he had only thought for a while before the carriage stopped—the Qingfeng Tower had arrived.

Qingfeng Building has been surrounded by people sent by Zhou Maohe, and he is about to enter.

Seeing Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi, Zhou Maohe immediately said: "You two came very quickly! Are you afraid that I will find out the things only in the palace?"

Zhou Maohe looked sure that there must be something tricky inside, but Zheng Yi was speechless for a while.

He doesn't have the guts to make something that only exists in the palace in Qingfeng Building, it's just rumors.

This Qingfeng building is popular mainly because there are many novelties in it, many things that people have never seen before.

However, if Zhou Maohe wanted to search, he did so.

Zheng Yi said with a calm face: "Master Zhou, how dare the next businessman touch the things in the palace? Master Zhou just go and check."

Zhou Maohe snorted coldly, and walked in, Zheng Yi said again: "Master Zhou, why don't you let me follow, so that I can introduce the situation inside to Master Zhou."

Zheng Yi and Jiang Zhen were just two people, and Zhou Maohe didn't stop him, so he led them in together.

At this point in time, Qingfeng Building was very lively in the past, but today is different.

The imperial envoy came to Hecheng County, and many businessmen ran to see the imperial envoy, so they didn't come to Qingfenglou, and there were not many guests in Qingfenglou. Already terrified.

These days, even going out for a stroll, having a meal, or taking a small gamble is not enough?It even attracted the imperial envoy!