The Princess of Fortune in Qing Dynasty

Guanyin Baodan stood in front of Yinreng with a sword in his hand and looked vigilantly at the guards running this way. He could tell that these guards were all Lianjiazi, and the number of them was not what a five-rank weaving mansion should have.But before coming here, Tamarfa also said that Cao's family cannot be judged by official position, and his family is different in many ways.

Now it seems that this is different, it is simply too different.

The son didn't know whether he was really confused or fake, but the old lady was really majestic.

"Stop, stop quickly." Cao Yin yelled frantically in fright without wiping the blood stains from his mouth.That's the current crown prince, not to mention that the crown prince has a lot of misunderstandings about him, if someone really hurts the crown prince, even his mother will be unable to bear it and walk around.No matter how deep the emperor's affection for his mother is, can it be deeper than the crown prince?

Fortunately, most of the guards in the mansion followed Cao Yin's father through life and death, and they agreed with his words, so they stopped in their tracks.

It should be said that Mrs. Sun knew her son well, seeing his frightened look, she hurriedly glanced at the person over there. She was old, her eyesight was dim, and Guanyinbao blocked Yinfeng, so she couldn't see who he was for a while.

Cao Yin crawled to Yinreng's feet, "His Royal Highness, please appease your highness, there must be some misunderstanding in the process, my minister, if the matter is really caused by me, I am willing to risk my life for my life."

Walking out from behind Avalokitesvara, Yinreng looked at Mrs. Sun, and then looked down at Cao Yin, "If you really did the thing, according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, do you think you can live?"

Favoritism and fraud is not a light crime, coupled with the life lawsuit he bears.Yinfeng felt that Cao Yin's words were extremely ridiculous.

Cao Yin was silent,

He deliberately said that he really didn't know, but that seal...

"His Royal Highness, this was found in Mrs. Cao's wife's room."

"His Royal Highness, this was found in Mrs. Cao's room."

Two groups of people came together, each holding a box with a lot of paper in their hands.Seeing these papers, Mrs. Cao, that is, Mrs. Sun, collapsed on the ground. Like her, there was Cao Yin's wife, Mrs. Li.

"You, you..." Looking at the expressions on the two of them, there is still something that I don't understand. If there are really people who use his name to misbehave outside, who else can it be except his mother and his wife?Cao Yin trembled his hands, what he said just now was so swearing, and now his face was ashamed.

Yinfeng sat in the main hall of Cao's house, and he looked at the things in the box page by page.Standing behind him was Guanyin Baohe and the commander of the imperial guards who followed him, and kneeling in front of him were all the masters of the Cao family except Mrs. Cao.

Mrs. Cao was getting old, Yinreng kindly let her sit on a chair, and asked someone to invite Jiang Ning's doctor and Jiang Ning's imperial physician who followed them in the coming year.

There were a lot of papers, and what was found in Mrs. Cao's room were her correspondence with the Sun family. In her heart, she rebuked the descendants of the Sun family for not working hard, and she also had ideas for the Sun family.

Tong Ansong is not the first student killed because of his outstanding talents.When Cao Yin's father, Cao Xi, was weaving in Jiangning, the Sun family stole his official seal and used his power to suppress and murder others.

Today's Hangzhou Weaving Sun Wencheng is the first beneficiary under her plan.According to what he said in his heart, Sun Wencheng's mother complained to her that her son was not promising, so Sun used Cao Xi's official seal to exchange test papers with a student of the year.So Sun Wencheng passed the government examination, and the student failed.

When it came to the township examination, she was afraid that Sun Wencheng would fall off, so she did the same thing and sent Sun Wencheng all the way to the capital for the examination.

Before coming here, Yinfeng went to Suo'etu's house. Suo'etu had presided over several sessions of the examination, and he knew the way inside it best.Students with a 'background' like Sun Wencheng, as long as their knowledge is not too bad, will basically pass the test.Not to mention the imperial examination, Khan Ama's affection for the Sun family at that time was just a Jinshi, not the throne, so naturally he would not be stingy.

The Sun family may not understand this, so Sun Wencheng has been promoted all the way, and now he is the emperor's confidant and weaving in Hangzhou.

With a sneer, Yinreng put the letter in front of Cao Yin, "Let's have a look."

A total of four or five boxes were found from Mrs. Cao's hands, two of which were correspondence between her and other people, and the most were with the Sun family.One box is silver bills, the lowest denomination is 1000 taels, and he also found two 1 taels, this box is probably no less than 10 taels of silver.The last few boxes are her 'business dealings' with those chief examiners and students using the official seals of Cao Xi and Cao Yin.

That's right, compared to Cao Yin's wife Li, Sun is bolder, and she uses official seals.

As for Mrs. Li, according to the evidence found in her room, she started this business after Cao Yin became Jiangning Weaving, including this year, a total of nine years.That middle-aged man was the one she sent.

Cao Yin should be on guard against Li Shi. She could not get the official seal or the official seal has been under the control of Sun Shi, and she used private seals for transactions with others.

Don't think that private printing is cheap. In fact, whether it is an official seal or a private seal, the lowest price for buying and selling a quota is 5000 taels.Forty percent of the 5000 taels will be taken by the Cao family, and the remaining [-] will be shared equally among the three examiners.Of course, the Cao family has many divisions, and the risk of taking the position is also high, because the Cao family is responsible for finding the person, and the three examiners will only come forward if they are sure that there is no problem.

As for the prefect of Hangzhou, he only appears as a middleman when there is a big deal, such as transactions of more than 1000 taels.At that time, someone from the Cao family will give him five hundred or [-] taels of silver.

Although there is not much money, for the prefect of Jiangning, this is a way to gain a relationship with the Cao family, and sometimes he even helps the Cao family to put pressure on the students.If someone sues the Cao family, he will also tip the news and get benefits from it.

Three years ago, Tong Ansong's test papers were exchanged, and Tong Ansong sued the Cao family to the magistrate's yamen. Unfortunately, he didn't know that the Jiangning prefect and the Cao family were in the same group.When the prefect of Jiangning invited him to go there with him, he believed him naively, and ended up being killed by Cao's mansion.

Cao Yin may not know these things, but Li and Sun do.No, it should be said that Mrs. Sun tacitly allowed Mrs. Li to lead this matter.

I don't know if Mrs. Li was afraid of Jiangning magistrate's betrayal, so he wrote all this clearly and put it in the box.

Now it's cheaper Yinfeng.

After reading the box, Yinfeng threw it to Cao Yin.

More boxes were recovered from Li's than from Sun's.This Mrs. Li didn't know whether it was a bad memory or something else, but everything was recorded very clearly.In it, he naturally saw about Chen Xiujie and Tong Anbo.

Cao Yin didn't know Chen Xiujie and Tong Anbo, but Li Shi did.It was also Li's attention that they let people look after the two families and did not see a doctor for the old people of Tong's family.

"Mr. Li, Gu Gua, after you received a letter from the county magistrate, Chen Xiujie and the two escaped from the county government, so you decided to make this idea? The two have a grudge against you, and you represent the weaving government office, the invigilator Naturally, I will give you this face. Using people from Sun and Cao's family to replace the two candidates who have enemies with you will win many things in one fell swoop. You are really smart."

Li lowered her head and said nothing, and Yinfeng didn't expect her to speak.He raised his hand to look at another box, even though he was mentally prepared, when he saw the contents of this box, he smashed the table with his furious palm. "Mr. Li, what a Mr. Li. Yes, very good."

Several good words in a row, it can be seen that he was extremely angry.

Guanyinbao craned his neck to look over, and he almost scolded at just one glance, no wonder the prince is so angry, this Li family actually put usury.

What is loan shark?

It is a form of lending, but not the same as private lending that is officially allowed.The laws of the Qing Dynasty stipulated that no more than a certain amount of interest was allowed on loans, and loans within this interest range were allowed.And usury is not only because of high interest, but also because it settles interest on a daily basis.

If you do not repay the interest today, tomorrow it will be counted as the principal together with the interest.It is a recurring interest that just snowballs in the end.

People who know how to borrow money are mostly people who are not well-off. How many people can repay this kind of loan, and in the end, without exception, they sell their children and daughters, and their families are ruined.

The most hateful thing is that Li's loan can be transferred.

For example, if a father borrows a debt, if his son dies and the son pays it back, if the whole family dies, then the nephew or nephew will pay it back.You said you didn't borrow money and didn't pay it back?hehe.

Mrs. Li specially hired a group of people to collect debts, and if they don't pay back, they will take away your family's belongings and children.

They came to Jiangning for a month, leaving early and returning late every day. They heard about this harsh loan, and the prince even said that he would investigate this matter after solving the student's problem.How did they know that it was Cao Yin's wife, Li Shi, who gave us usury money.

"Li Shi, you are not afraid of retribution." Guanyinbao couldn't hold back his curse.

"What did she do again?" Cao Yin was already numb at this moment, first his wife, then his wife, what the two did completely overturned his cognition.Even if Guanyinbao said that she conspired with the Li family and did something, he would not be surprised.

Guanyinbao looked at him strangely, "Your wife is very capable, do you know about loan sharks? Everyone in the world knows loan sharks are a shameful thing, but your wife is smart enough to think of the idea of ​​debt transfer. The borrower is dead It doesn't matter, he still has nephews, nephews, and clan members. Anyone who borrows money from her, the whole family will not want to live in peace."

People didn't jump out of the cracks in the rocks, how could they have no relatives, she really squeezed everything that could be squeezed.

"Pfft," Cao Yin spat out a mouthful of blood, and Mrs. Sun, who had woken up, fainted again after hearing these words.

The rest of the Cao family were also terrified by Li's madness. Cao Yin was the eldest son of Cao Xi. After Cao Xi passed away, the Cao family did not separate, and the whole family lived together.Not to mention buying and selling students' rankings, but to say that lending loan sharks is a capital offense. How shameless I was in Zhizao Mansion back then, I regret it now.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, this matter has nothing to do with us. I beg Your Highness to forgive me, we have separated a long time ago, and it has nothing to do with us." Cao Yin's fourth brother-in-law said.

Yinfeng didn't want to listen to their nonsense, "It's irrelevant, Guzi will interrogate himself. Take it away." He was not idle outside when he was looking at things. He looked at the boxes of things copied from Cao's house, as long as he thought of them Most of the money was covered with blood, and Yinfeng's face was so gloomy that water dripped out.

Walking out of the gate of Cao's mansion, Yinreng took a deep breath. It seemed that the air in Cao's house was filthy just now, and his heart hurt even when he breathed. "Avalokitesvara, you personally took people to Hangzhou to copy Sun's family. Remember to be quick, lest they destroy the evidence. I am sending someone to send a letter to the elder brother. The Li family has nothing to do with it. Better check it out."

He doesn't want to let go of any of the Li family, the Sun family, or the Cao family.

"Take someone tomorrow morning and take the list of Li's loan sharks from house to house to check, take back all their IOUs, and return ten times the money. Well, it will be paid from the property of the Cao family. In addition, post a notice, It is said that the emperor sent imperial envoys to Jiangning, and if anyone seeks justice, let them come to the magistrate's office. If there are others who also borrow loan sharks, let them come to collect the money with the IOU, and Gu will return ten times the same."

There were quite a few names in the box, and he didn't know if it was all of them. If he hadn't opened Li Shi's mouth to ask for clarification, he would have wanted to cut people alive now.

Cao's family had a lot of things, plus the three invigilators and the four families of the prefect of Jiangning, he thought it would be enough for compensation.

Giving more money as compensation is the best way Yinfeng can think of at the moment.Pomegranate pays attention to the cycle of cause and effect in doing things, and often tells him some things.

Although the loan sharks were done by the Li family, it was the luck of the Qing Dynasty that was damaged.If the luck of the Qing Dynasty declines, not to mention those countries in the West, even those who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty can easily solve them.At that time, the Qing Dynasty will no longer exist.

He didn't know how long the Qing Dynasty could exist, but he didn't want it to be destroyed by his hands.

"After investigation, there are problems such as favoritism, fraud, and quota trading in the Jiangning government exam. The results of this government exam are invalidated, and the exam will be re-opened in three days. The students who were found out, Cao Zhengde, Sun Youcai, etc., were disqualified from the exam, and they were not allowed to participate within three generations. Scientific examination. I hope all candidates take this as a warning."

It has only been four days since the results of the government examination were released, and the students rushing to take the examination have not all left, because of this announcement, the excitement has started again.

"What do you mean? Why is the exam void?"

"I just said that the surname Li didn't have such a great ability. It turned out that he bribed the examiner to buy the quota. Now it has been found out that three generations cannot take the imperial examination. He deserves it."

"Look at the names of these people. How many children were born in Jiangning? We found 30 people in just four days. Do you think there are still others?"

"Could it be that I'm just curious about who brought this up? Didn't I hear that there were imperial envoys?" But if it wasn't for the imperial envoys, who would dare to masturbate all three examiners?

Another student said: "It's better if you don't know. You forget that the year before last, what's the use of the imperial envoy coming here carelessly? If you want me to say that this imperial envoy is a sensible person, he knows the depth of the water in the south of the Yangtze River and secretly investigated it. Look, Didn't this get people out?"

There was a lot of discussion before the announcement. Most of the students were in favor of retaking the exam. Only a small number of students barely passed the exam, fearing that they would fall off.

Of course, they didn't dare to blatantly oppose it. What if they were misunderstood as the accomplices of those people?These people suddenly turned around, there were three days before the exam, and they could still review it again.

The re-opening of the exam, the happiest thing is someone like Chen Xiujie who has been replaced inexplicably.Except for Chen Xiujie and Tong Anbai because of their feud with the Cao family, the rest of them are from poor families. They have no background and connections. They have studied hard for ten years. In the drum for a lifetime.Year after year, the same fate repeats itself.

Not to mention how the prince arranged for the re-examination, but to say that the elder brother was so scared that he almost sat on the ground when he heard the news sent by the prince.He stretched out his hand to pick his ear, "What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly, can you say it again?" The Cao family and the Li family are both related to the Jiangnan fraud case. Who are you bluffing?

The elder brother's first reaction was not to believe it, but the prince deliberately teased him again.

It's just that he also knows the prince's temperament, and harmless jokes may often occur, and such things are unlikely.

Besides, Li Xu doesn't seem like a person who can do such a heartless thing.

The elder brother was different from the prince's unannounced visit. He went to Suzhou and went to Li Xu directly. Anyway, Khan Ama also said that Li Xu is his own and reliable.He thought that his brain is not good enough, but if he knows how to employ people, Li Xu's brain is not enough.

Fortunately, the second brother actually told him that Li Xu was actually a participant in this matter, thanks to him trusting Li Xu so much.If this matter is true, Li Xu might be laughing at him behind his back.

As long as he thinks of this possibility, Big Brother will feel bad all over.

"The ransacking of the house must be done immediately." The shame Li Xu brought to him must be repaid by the Li family.

It happened to be midnight when the prince's people came to Suzhou day and night, and the elder brother didn't want to leave Li Xu an hour, so he ordered people to surround Li's house and ransack the house.

Li Xu was dragged down by the elder brother on the concubine's bed, he was still a little confused when he saw the elder brother, "Your Highness, who is this?"

"Li Xu, are you fucking laughing at me from behind my back? You are clearly the mastermind of this fraud case, yet you lied to me that you are innocent. Huh, you didn't expect that, my father expressed his belief in you, but in fact I have already sent people to investigate secretly, and now the evidence is convincing, and you cannot deny it."

"Come here, dig three feet of ground for me, not a single coin is allowed to fall. My father wants to see how many people Li Xu has plundered by relying on the emperor's favor."

Li Xu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Unlike Cao Yin's complete ignorance, Li Xu knew it in his heart. He shot to sweep the tail.

When the Jiangnan fraud case came out, he originally wanted to use his power to suppress it, but he didn't expect to escape a few fish that slipped through the net.What was even more unexpected was that the emperor would send the elder brother out to investigate this matter.

While flattering the elder brother, Li Xu was also thankful in his heart, fortunately it was the elder brother who came, if it was someone else, this matter might not be covered.

In the past two years, he has clearly warned his family to restrain himself and clean up the evidence in his hands, but who knows that he was still caught by the elder brother?

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