The reborn worthy minister is difficult to do

The next day, Xu Ci got up early in the morning, pushed open the door, stretched his waist and yawned, and saw Yan Si coming out of the room.

It turned out that last night Yan Si didn't wait until the next day, and returned with stars.

Because it was getting late, he quietly went back to his room to rest without disturbing anyone.

Yan Si nodded slightly to Xu Ci, and followed Xu Ci's gesture into Xu Ci's room.

Inside the room, Xu Ci rubbed his brows and said, "A Niu came back crying yesterday."

"Hehe, it's time to teach him a lesson." Yan Si shrugged, and said with a pouted mouth, "If you only want to watch the fun, sooner or later something bad will happen. It's not harmful to scare him."

Xu Ci smiled helplessly: "Tell me, what did you find in Luo's house?"

"It's true that I found something. I could have left on the spot yesterday, but I stopped when I heard other people's words."

"The Luo family made a fortune so quickly," Yan Siying frowned slightly, "The Luo family originally made a living by reselling cloth, so it was just an ordinary family. But since the young lady of the Luo family gave birth to a daughter, The Luo family is very powerful in the way of wealth. Seven years ago, the Luo family obtained the official salt ticket from the Yamen, and became a salt merchant in Yangzhou from a cloth merchant."

"Dong dong dong", there was a knock on the door outside, Xu Ci stopped Yan Si's voice, and asked through the door, "Who is it?"

"Hey, lord, I've brought you face wash."

It turned out to be the waiter in the inn, Xu Ci asked Yan Si to hide beside the bed before half opening the door.Not letting Xiaoer in, Xu Ci stretched his waist, took the copper basin, and waved him away: "You have nothing to do here, go down."

Seeing the guest officer pushing people away, Xiao Er didn't wait too long and walked away.

Xu Ci put the copper basin on the shelf, and a handsome sleeping face was reflected in the water.

He lifted up his white cuffs, casually glanced back at Yan Sidao who came out, "But collusion between government and businessmen?"

"More than that." Yan Si shook his head, paused, and asked Chi, "Master, have you ever heard of 'Yangzhou Skinny Horse'?"

He has been hesitant to talk about this word with Xu Ci. After all, Xu Ci is only 15 years old and has no experience in the world. He always feels that this word is a bit dirty to Xu Ci's ears.

"Yangzhou skinny horse?" Xu Ci raised his sleeves and gave a pause, heh, Yangzhou skinny horse, how could he not know, but he didn't expect that "Yangzhou skinny horse" had appeared at this time.

In his previous life, he was a high-ranking prime minister, and many officials had sent him women to bribe him.

He didn't like female sex, so he threw all these beauties who had been trained into the kitchen, and beat his cook.

Most of these women are from Yangzhou, collectively referred to as "Yangzhou thin horse".Yangzhou skinny horses are actually high-class prostitutes. Most of them are children of poor families. They are bought by human traffickers and trained by special mothers.

When she reached the right age, she was sold to a wealthy merchant family as a concubine.

"Yangzhou thin horse" is not a good name, and their status is only a little better than that of slaves.

The characteristics of these women are generally weak in stature, slender waist and full grip, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and female red cooking skills.

Although she later became a concubine of a wealthy family, she was also full of literature and art.But because of its low status, it is also used as a venting tool after being bought, and it is pressed under people all day long to vent their desires.

Many people in the old world look down on this kind of Israelite woman who serves others, and regard them as animals that are ridden under them.

Because of their slender and boneless stature, they were called "Yangzhou skinny horses" without any dignity at all.

Twenty years later, Yangzhou Shouma has become famous all over the world, and it is the object of the rich people's vying for collection.

In the next few years, high-ranking officials and dignitaries saw too many plump and charming women, and gradually began to get bored, and began to like thinner, delicate, weak and boneless women with slender waists.

Yangzhou Shouma became famous and was looted by businessmen.

People in the officialdom are also greedy, but because of the poor reputation of Yangzhou's thin horses, officials dare not buy people blatantly.

But this does not prevent them from enjoying it. After all, there are still many merchants who will try their best to please officials.

During the few years when he was the prime minister, the government and the public were full of chaos and corruption.

The four princes focused on unifying the eight countries and ignored the government.

Dayao Kingdom has fought in all directions year after year, with few defeats by relying on vicious gunpowder, but the supply in the rear is already a little weak.

The Dayao Dynasty, which seemed to have reached its peak of prosperity, had actually long since fallen apart.

I'm afraid that in a few years, the fourth prince will become the king of subjugation.

Thinking that Xu Ci didn't know what a "Yangzhou skinny horse" was, Yan Si slowly explained: "Yangzhou has many beauties, and the world knows it. Yangzhou is prosperous and restless, with singing and dancing. It has created many rich people with strange hobbies, such as Lin Baifu. .Some wealthy officials don’t like big breasts and wide buttocks, they only like those with thin waists.”

"So some traffickers bought girls everywhere, starved them, taught them skills, and gave them gifts. After they were trained to be weak and noble girls, they were sold to these people at a high price, and they made a lot of money."

"These women suffered a lot from it. They looked like noble ladies, but they were not regarded as human beings. They were just restraints bought by rich families to vent their anger." After thinking about it, Yan Si still said, " The origin of "Yangzhou Skinny Horse". Although Xu Ci is young, he is already in the officialdom, and he should learn to accept the dirty world. "This eldest lady of the Luo family is a 'Yangzhou Skinny Horse'."

"Luo Yuanwai was a human trafficker at the beginning. He used to travel in the countryside and mostly made a living selling slaves. By chance, he heard about the product 'Yangzhou skinny horse', so he started looking for beautiful girls everywhere. Imprisoned in a small attic in the countryside, please go to the mother to train her day and night."

"Luo Yuanwai wandered around the salt merchants and salt officials in small towns in the county all day long, and sold them the trained women at high prices. He earned a lot of money from this, and then left the countryside to open a cloth shop in Yangzhou."

"Yangzhou skinny horses are also divided into three, six, and nine grades. Miss Luo, the Yangzhou skinny horse, is only a third-class skinny horse. Not only is she a bit old, but her appearance is not beautiful. But fortunately, her face is pure and flawless. She's already twenty but she looks like a little girl of sixteen or seventeen, and she's also very good at both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

"Miss Luo has not been sold several times, so Yuanwai Luo simply put her in the shop to help, planning to sell her to a brothel in the future. Unfortunately, during the time of helping, Lin Baifu fell in love with her."

"Yuan Luo is shrewd. He sees this matter in his eyes and keeps it in his heart. His skinny horses are hidden in the pavilion, and no one else sees them much. And he has just turned from a secret tooth revolution to a bright businessman not long ago, and Forged his identity, few people know him."

"Mr. Luo is playing tricks, and simply lied that this skinny horse is his eldest daughter—Miss Luo's family. He said that his fiancé died early, which delayed the marriage."

"Secretly, Luo Yuanwai ordered Miss Luo to do her best to let Lin Baifu know what she was doing. Miss Luo was afraid of Luo Yuanwai's methods, so she dared not refuse."

"Sure enough, within a few days, Miss Luo was raped by Lin Baifu in the house, and Luo Yuanwai "just happened" to catch her in bed. Luo Yuanwai's chain of events was counted, and Lin Baifu was completely toyed with by the applause. Not to mention Miss Luo, who wanted to take her as a concubine several times, but was rejected by Luo Yuanwai every time. Lin Baifu was helpless, so he often ran to Luo's mansion."

"In less than a year, Luo Yuanwai obtained the right to buy and sell official salt, got the salt introduction, and became a salt merchant."

"From then on, the Lin family and the Luo family colluded with officials and businessmen to raise the price of salt and make profits from it."

"In just seven years, the Luo family has grown from a small ordinary family to a rich man in Yangzhou."

Yan Si talked for a full quarter of an hour, during which time he drank a pot of tea.

Xu Ci was dumbfounded and dumbfounded when he heard that, and stood there with his sleeves half rolled up, his face was still shocked, and he forgot to wash his face.

It took a long time before Xu Ci recovered his voice, "Where did you know all this?"

"Oh, it was Miss Luo who told me," Yan Si sneered, "Mr. Luo has done all the tricks and calculations, but he didn't think that the skinny horse he raised would have a backlash."

"Since Miss Luo gave birth to the child, her mind has been wandering around the child."

"Lin Baifu was restrained because of Mrs. Huang's daughter. He couldn't go out, so he sent his servants to bring Miss Luo to Lin's mansion for his own happiness. Lin Zhifu knew that Luo's family had given birth to a daughter for his son, so he was very concerned about this matter. Open one eye and close one eye."

"However, Lin Baifu's regular wife refused. She beat Miss Luo violently behind her back, and even snatched away Miss Luo's precious daughter."

"The main wife only planned to shut Miss Luo's daughter for a few days to frighten Miss Luo, but she didn't know that the daughter fell into the lake and drowned."

"Lin Baifu's main wife is the third daughter of the second-rank governor of Yangzhou, no one dares to offend her."

"In order to avoid his sharpness and deceive others, Luo Yuanwai planned to find a foolish man to be his son-in-law to satisfy Lin Baifu's wife's jealousy. That's why yesterday's hydrangea-throwing to recruit a son-in-law happened."

"Miss Luo has already been physically and mentally exhausted because of the death of her beloved daughter, and she has a heart of rebellion. She intends to fight with the Lin and Luo families to avenge her daughter. But she is imprisoned at home all day long, serving her servants They are also Luo Yuanwai's confidantes, there is no way to escape, and they are already jumping over the wall in a hurry."

"Yesterday, when she saw me, she tried to get rid of all the servants, and she told me all these words. She didn't intend to ask me to save her, she just wanted to resist the arrangement of Luo Mansion and forced me to leave. But How could Luo Yuanwai let me leave afterward, so I lied that I had the willow disease." Speaking of this, Yan Si blushed, and smiled awkwardly, "Of course boss, I don't have any problems."

"Hearing what you said, the Lin family really has a lot of thoughts," Xu Ci chuckled, recovering from the shock.

He simply put down his sleeves and stopped washing his face, he raised his feet and sat down across from Yan Si.

He poured the teapot and found that the teapot was empty, so he frowned and licked his dry lips and said, "I'll count for you, a little fifth-rank magistrate, his son's wife is the third concubine daughter of the second-rank governor; and he The youngest concubine is now Prince Gong's concubine."

"Hehe, it's really a strong background, so it shouldn't be underestimated." Xu Ci said again, "The official marriage of the prefect Lin's family consolidated the power, collusion between officials and businessmen to obtain money, bending the law for personal gain, corruption, rape and humiliation of women, and protection of criminals. Listed down, there are many bad deeds, extremely dirty, unforgivable crimes, and have reached the death penalty."

"It's no wonder that the prefect Lin has been domineering in Yangzhou for many years but no officials have impeached him."

"I'm afraid that after so many years, the Lin family has already taken root here, with a deep foundation and a solid network of relationships. In Yangzhou, even the officials and merchants of Jiangnan Road have gathered together in a vein, and the officials and officials protect each other. Password."

Yan Si felt a sharp pain in his forehead: "Master, it seems that we have picked up a hot potato. If we become the magistrate of Yangzhou, it will affect the whole body."

"It's okay," Xu Ci pinched the broken hair in front of his forehead and rubbed it between his fingertips, and smiled, "Things will always turn around. If we really can't solve it, we can also cut the mess quickly and report it directly to the emperor. Let him Come open this knife."

Xu Ci thought for a while and said: "Later, you will report all the things you said this morning to His Royal Highness in detail, and see how he makes a decision."

"Okay, then Yan Si will take my leave first." Yan Si heard Xu Ci's meaning of pushing people away, so he stood up and bowed to Xu Ci, and left the room.

After Yan Si walked out of the room, Xu Cicai stood up again, rolled up his sleeves and continued to rinse his mouth and face.

The handsome face in the copper basin was scattered by the light-white jade hand stretched in, and spread away with the ripples.He soaked his face in the copper basin, and his heart turned a thousand times.

In his previous life, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not notice so many twists and turns. After he came to Yangzhou, he only imprisoned Lin Baifu who raped the women of the people. Because he did not kill anyone, he only sentenced Lin Baifu to prison for ten years for adultery.

Although it was very gratifying, it never shook the foundation of the Lin family.

When he was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou, the prince once mentioned to him that there was something wrong with the salt merchants in Yangzhou and asked him to be careful.

At the beginning, the prince wanted to continue to investigate the salt merchants thoroughly, but it coincided with the grand ceremony of the allies coming to court, so he was called back to the palace urgently.Later, he planned to return to investigate after the grand ceremony was over, but was injured on the way.

Emperor Taikang was extremely furious because of the assassination of the prince on his way home, and ordered the prince to rest in the East Palace to recuperate from his wounds and no longer serve as the governor of Jiangnan Road.

The matter was anticlimactic, and it was left behind, and was never brought up again.

In his previous life, he was muddle-headed. In order to protect himself, he mingled with the Yangzhou magistrate. He never knew that they were so dirty and low-spirited. It can be said that they have lost humanity.

Along the way, he kept denying his past life and abandoning the past; at the same time, he examined himself and strived to be a good minister and son worthy of His Royal Highness.

But this matter was so serious that he hesitated a little.

One hair will affect the whole body, since it is necessary to do it, Lin Baifu, Lin Zhifu, Luo family, Yangzhou governor are all involved, maybe even Prince Gong may be involved.

The prince's situation has improved slightly now, if such an investigation continues, it is not a joke.Maybe we should mention it to the prince and let Emperor Taikang take the lead.