Eighth Master cuts leeks in Qing Chuanwen

Lao Laizi was blocked in his way, it can be said that there were wolves in front and tigers in back, and he couldn't escape at all, so he stood still and said: "What... what is the report of illegality, I don't know!"

Lao Jiu said strangely: "Lao Laizi, didn't you report the corruption of Baoquan Bureau? How could you not know?"

The old Laizi's eyeballs obviously rolled several times, and then he said: "I thought it was someone who came to seek revenge on me, but you are not, you scared me..."

Yunyu squinted his eyes, and Lao Laizi turned around and ran away when he saw them, probably because he was afraid of being retaliated against. After all, the burner who made the accusation was a relative of Suo'etu, and his back was extensively implicated.

Of course...

Lao Laizi knew Lao Jiu clearly, but he said that he thought he was a revenge person, isn't this outrageous?

Besides, Lao Laizi would never have imagined that now the top of his head is shining brightly——I'm lying!

Yunyu didn't try to expose him, saying: "Lao Laizi, you don't have to be afraid, we are all good people, because I heard that you reported the corruption of Baoquan Bureau, so I want to find out more about you."

"So... so..." Lao Laizi hesitated.

Fourth Master also seemed to have noticed that Lao Laizi's attitude was very strange, not because he was afraid of being retaliated, but rather strange, but the specific strangeness could not be seen for a while.

Yunxi and the others showed their identities, and Lao Laizi hurriedly lowered his hem: "Greetings, masters! Greetings, masters!"

Yunyu said: "Since you know our identities, you don't have to be afraid. If you have anything to say, just say it straight. Let me ask you, how did you know about the corruption in Baoquan Bureau?"

"This……"

The old Laizi was still hesitating, with a troubled look on his face, and said: "Baye, you just... don't make things difficult for me. At that time, I was writing the blood book in a moment of urgency, so I threw the blood book in the yamen of the household department. It's just... ...It was only after thinking about it that I was afraid of being retaliated, and I really couldn't sleep at night. Look at me, I have lost weight for several times, so I sold the shop and prepared to go back to my hometown to hide."

Lao Jiu said: "You man, my starling has already said it, we don't have to be afraid if you have us, just say it straight, why do you still have to cover it up?"

Yes, it's a cover-up.

When Lao Laizi heard these four words, he was terrified, opened his eyes wide, shook his head vigorously and said: "No, no, the villain dare not hide it!"

Yunxu felt that if he continued like this, Lao Jiu might surprise Lao Laizi, so he deliberately said: "Lao Jiu, don't be so impatient."

Yunyu said again: "You don't have to be afraid."

The old Laizi said: "Ba Ye, you are also considerate of the villain. Although the villain has reported it, but the fear in my heart cannot be expressed. You...you don't know that there is... someone behind this stove!"

It is true that there is someone behind the stove, but this person is hiding very deeply, and it is impossible to find out for a while.

The old laizi said again: "Now that this person is still at large, how can I reassure the villain? The villain will never dare to say more, so you can spare the villain!"

What Lao Laizi said was reasonable, but his eyeballs were rolling wildly, and the top of his head was still on the top of his head--excuses, excuses!

Yunhu felt that if Lao Laizi was pressed so hard, he would definitely not answer, but there must be something behind Lao Laizi, so Yunhu turned to look at fourth master Yinzhen, who also gave him a look and nodded slightly.

The two exchanged glances, and Yunxuan sighed, and said, "If you insist on refusing to tell, we won't make things difficult for you. After all, you are the one who reported it, and we don't want to see you being retaliated against."

"That's right!" Lao Laizi responded immediately: "Yes, you are right, Ba Ye, you are right!"

Yunxu said: "Since that's the case, we won't prevent you from going back to your hometown, so you can go back to your hometown."

Lao Laizi seemed to be pardoned, and said: "Thank you, Ba Ye! Thank you, everyone!"

Yunxu said, "Okay, you can go."

Holding the silver in his arms, Lao Laizi didn't dare to stay, and disappeared in front of the store in a flash.

Yunyu waited for him to leave, looked at Lao Laizi's back and said, "There really is something wrong with this whistleblower."

Lao Jiu said: "I knew something was wrong when I saw him faltering, mynah, do you want me to bring him back?"

"No need," Yunxu said, "Just send someone to follow him, quietly."

Lao Jiu said: "I see. This is called fishing for big fish with a long line. Don't worry, starling. I'll send someone to follow him."

It was late today, and Lao Jiu sent people to watch Lao Laizi, and Yunxi and others went back. Early the next morning, when Yunxu was sleeping soundly, he heard the banging on the door, which made him almost Get into the quilt and roll up.

"Master! Ninth Master is here!"

"Mynah! Are you up, mynah?"

"I have something urgent!"

Yunxu was under the quilt, and could hear Lao Jiu's loud voice, so she had to lift the quilt, get up from the couch with her eyes closed, fully dressed, and then opened the door and walked out.

Lao Jiu said: "Brother, guess what? That old rascal!"

Lao Jiu didn't intend to ask Yunxu to answer, and continued: "Lao Laizi really left last night and went back to his hometown. My people watched him go out of Beijing on the road, but!"

Lao Jiu changed the topic and said: "This man is a thief! My people followed him and found that Lao Laizi was going all the way, but he turned back halfway. Now he went back, but he didn't enter the city, but entered the suburbs."

Yunxu smiled and said, "Sure enough, there are ghosts."

Lao Jiu said: "Brother, shall we catch him?"

Yun Hu nodded and said, "Of course I want to catch him."

Yunxi called the fourth master Yinzhen, and everyone left together, going to the place Laojiu said.

Lao Laizi obviously left Beijing, but turned back again, went to a remote place, and came to a very remote suburb.

Lao Laizi was walking alone in the wilderness. Gradually, people's voices were heard in the wilderness, and the voices were full of voices.

Lao Laizi continued to walk towards the place where the voices came from, and there was a gate in front of him. A house was built in the wilderness, which looked like a haunted house.

Lao Laizi went to the door and knocked on it.

Then someone yelled, "Who is that!"

Lao Laizi said: "It's me, Lao Laizi!"

After waiting for a while, the door opened with a "squeak" sound, and there were thick and thick men inside, and thick black smoke came out.

The brawny man said: "Lao Laizi, are you back? Have the people in the government noticed you?"

"No!" Lao Laizi said with a smile: "I'm so alert, how could they pay attention? I've been fooled by me a long time ago, after all... I'm a person who reported crime! How could they suspect me?"

The strong man said: "That's right."

Lao Laizi asked again: "Is Lao Liu back?"

"Not yet. The Ministry of Household Affairs has been very strict recently, and it is not easy to collect copper coins on the market. Lao Liu should still be collecting copper coins."

Talking, the two walked into the smoky courtyard, closed the courtyard door, and shouted faintly from inside.

"Move swiftly!"

"Today's batch of goods must be melted today!"

"Be quick! Otherwise there will be no food!"

knock knock --

The strong man's shout was interrupted by a knock on the door, and the strong man stretched his neck and shouted: "Who is it!"

A voice came from outside, muffled by the door: "It's me, Old Liu!"

"Lao Liu is back." The strong man and Lao Laizi were very happy, and said: "Go and open the door."

The two came to the gate, "Squeak—" and opened the door, the old Laizi was still saying: "Old Liu, you came just in time, these copper coins have almost been melted..."

Before he could finish his words, "Ho!!" He gasped, what old Liu?In front of them was not the old Liu they were familiar with at all.

It was a young man with a gentle face and a smile.

Clouds!

The one who knocked on the door just now was not Lao Liu, but Yunxi, who followed the tone of Lao Laizi and shouted through the door: "It's me, Lao Liu!"

Unexpectedly, someone actually came to open the door.

The old Laizi reacted and turned pale with shock: "Close the door quickly!! Don't let them in... Whoops!"

bang——

Before Lao Laizi could finish his last words, fourth master Yinzhen's face was quite ugly, he raised his foot, and kicked Lao Laizi's chest directly. Lao Jiu brought someone with him, and the guards rushed in, "Boom—" knocked open the door, the door panel smashed against the wall, bounced twice, and made a hard crashing sound.

Only then did Yunxu walk in leisurely, and said: "Squat down on the spot, put your head in your hands, and if anyone moves, give him a shuttle."

That's right, among the people Yunxu brought was the firearms battalion of Orondai.

The strong man was tall and wanted to struggle, but just as he was about to burst out while no one was paying attention, his temple was stabbed hard. When he looked sideways, it turned out to be a musketeer!

Yunxu laughed and said, "This stubbornness doesn't have eyes."

When Lao Laizi saw that it was Yunxuan and the others, he was shocked. He didn't know if he was kicked by the fourth master, or what. Anyway, his legs were weak, and he couldn't get up when he sat on the ground in a daze.

Yunxu looked at him condescendingly, and said with a smile: "Lao Laizi, aren't you afraid of being retaliated, so you went back to your hometown? Do you think your hometown is in this suburb? Then we are still fellow villagers?"

The old Laizi wanted to quibble, saying: "I...I...I..."

He said three me in a row, but there was no result, then he heard the voice of the old nine: "Mynah! You look at it! This is a melting pot!"

The courtyard was filled with smog and black smoke. Those who didn't know it thought they were cultivating immortality, but in fact it was not some black bear spirit cultivating immortality, but large melting pots with flames burning and melting something.

Bang!

Jiu Ye threw a box of things on the ground, and those things rolled out of the box and spilled all over the ground, so frightened that Lao Laizi rolled his eyes and almost fainted.

Copper coins!

It was clearly a box of copper coins.

Fourth Master said with a cold face, "Why don't you tell me now? What a whistleblower."

The old Laizi was terrified, and repeatedly begged for mercy: "Small...Small...spare me! Spare me!"

Fourth master said coldly: "Say."

Although he only said one word, Lao Laizi was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying: "The villain is just following orders, the villain is just a laborer! The villain can say everything, please spare my life!" ! Spare my life!"

Yunhu said: "That depends on whether you are sincere or not."

"The villain must be sincere!" Lao Laizi immediately said: "Actually, the villain didn't want to pretend to leave the capital because he was afraid of being retaliated. He was afraid... that the Ministry of Household Affairs would find out that we were in..."

Fourth master said coldly: "Destroy copper coins privately."

That's right, Lao Laizi and others are indeed destroying copper coins privately.

Before seeing the accounts of the Ministry of Households, the prince also had some doubts. Why the coins issued by Baoquan Bureau are so different from the circulation on the market? so little.

Among them, some unscrupulous traders privately destroy copper coins, melt them down and replace them with copper for profit.

Lao Laizi and the others obviously used this method to seek benefits.

Yunxu smiled and said: "I see, the reason why you reported the Baoquan Bureau is not because of any justice, but because when you destroyed the copper coins privately, you found that the output of copper was wrong, and you lost money?"

The faces of the old Laizi and the brawny man were quite ugly, and it was indeed as Yunxi said, that's what happened.

They have been seeking benefits in this way, but they don't know that the copper they got after melting and casting copper coins in the past two years is not as much as buying copper by themselves, not more but less. On the contrary, there are fewer and fewer, how can they continue to do such a loss-making business?

So Lao Laizi simply kept doing nothing and reported Baoquan Bureau.

Yunhu was thinking about a problem before. The matter of the furnace head being cast has lasted for four years. If it has not been discovered for such a long time, there must be someone behind it, and this person is Suoetu, the relative of the furnace head.

Suo'etu's power spread all over the government and the public, and even the court didn't know about the casting. Who is so powerful and knows the inside story of casting?

Now that I think about it, I understand, because Lao Laizi and others destroyed the copper coins privately, so of course they know the copper content in the copper coins, and it is easy to see at a glance!

Yun Hu said: "Very good, privately destroying copper coins is a felony, take them all away."

"Baye! Baye, please spare me! Baye!"

Lao Laizi and others were escorted, and Lao Laizi struggled hard: "Please forgive me! Ba Ye, Ba Ye, I know other things, please forgive me!"

Yunxu raised her hand, stopped the guards from dragging him away, and said, "Oh? What other things do you know?"

The old Laizi hesitated: "I... If I say it, can I be punished lightly?"

Yun Hu said: "That depends on whether what you say is worthwhile."

"It's worth it! It's worth it!" Lao Laizi yelled, "It's definitely worth it! I say what I say! In fact...in fact, we didn't instruct you to melt money. We also obey orders. Behind...there are people behind!"

"Oh?" Yunxu smiled and said, "Continue talking, drag this person into the water."

The old Laizi hesitated again, not knowing whether to say it or not, the strong man next to him shouted: "Old Laizi! You can't say it! You can't! You can still come and get us if you don't say it! You must not say it! !"

When Lao Laizi was told by the strong man, he hesitated even more, vacillating.

The fourth master frowned and said, "My lord? It seems that he is still a court official."

That's right, Yinzhen's mission is "the world is as black as crows", so this will implicate a major court case, which is likely to be a major case of corruption and lawlessness, forming a party for personal gain.

Lao Laizi was trembling all over, struggling for the last time, should he say it or not?

But he didn't know that when he was struggling, a few large and concise words appeared above his head - Mingzhu!

Yunxu smiled knowingly, and said, "Oh—so the person behind your scenes is Master Mingzhu."

"How do you know?!" The old Laizi and the strong man said in unison, almost self-confident.

How did Yunxi know?Of course it is mind reading, which is very useful.

After the strong man finished speaking, he was eager to deny: "No! No one ordered us! No one! No!"

Yunyu said: "It's too late to deny it now, no wonder you are so arrogant, you opened a money-melting furnace in the suburbs of Beijing, it turns out that there are people behind your back... arrest them all."

The matter was far more complicated than imagined. It turned out that the center of this matter was not at all the robbery of the Baoquan Bureau's burner, but a wider matter was involved.

Mingzhu's subordinates secretly shared the rent with merchants. Mingzhu provided convenient means for them to purchase copper coins for a long time.

This kind of thing lasted for a long time until Suo'etu's relatives took over the stove head of Baoquan Bureau. , In this way, after the merchants melted money, the amount of copper they got was less and less, even less than the amount of copper bought directly. How could these profit-seeking merchants bear it?

then……

The merchant came up with a way to hide it, wrote a blood book, and threw it at the door of Lu Bohe, the right servant of Qian Fa, who was in charge of the household department, and asked Ru Bohe to investigate the matter.

Furnace corruption is real, and Ruberhe found out as soon as he checked it out. The merchants thought that this borrowed knife was very good for killing people, but they didn't know that it happened today!

Ordinary people may not doubt the whistleblowers, after all, they are the victims and the party of justice, but unfortunately, the fourth master received a task of "the world is as black as a crow", and told the fourth master that there is an inside story about this matter .

Furnaces were corrupted, merchants melted money, and neither side was a good person. This matter was reported to Kangxi, and Kangxi was furious.

Because this matter not only involves the corruption case of Baoquan Bureau, but also the matter of private money melting. Melting money will also cause the currency circulation to be far below the budget, and the shortage of coins will also cause panic among the people. These are major events that shake the country.

The key to these two things that made Kangxi angry also involved two court officials.

Naturally, it was Suo'etu and Mingzhu.

Lutou, Lao Laizi and others entered the cell, and because they were afraid, they began to bite each other, biting everyone who could bite into the water, and they were already "killing" like crazy. In this way, Suo'etu and Mingzhu were also implicated in the water.

Kangxi was furious and convened a court meeting to prepare for the court to investigate the case.

Because it was a court meeting, Yunhu originally wanted to participate, but Yunhu felt that such an occasion was not suitable for him, and he didn't want to fight for power. Both Suo'etu and Mingzhu were dragged into the water, and it must be a scene of biting each other. This time The court meeting, otherwise there will be a bloodbath.

then……

Yunhu asked for leave wittily, saying that she was sick.

Ding!

【One of your private messages has not been read】

[Yinzhen]: The eighth younger brother didn't come to court today. I heard from Mr. Chen that you were sick?

Yunxu was lying on the bed at this time, holding Kong Shangren's handwritten drawing book in his hand, eating orchid beans, reading with relish, hearing the voice of private message, throwing away the drawing book, dusting off the dregs on the bed, Only then did he call back to fourth master.

[Yunhu]: Well, I'm sick.

[Yinzhen]: You were fine the day before yesterday, why did you suddenly get sick?What is the disease, serious or not?

【Yunhu】: Severe, terminally ill.

News from Yinzhen came back very quickly.

[Yinzhen]: Could it be that the hemorrhoids have recurred?Didn't you say you used the recovery card?

【Yunxu】: It's not hemorrhoids.

[Yinzhen]: What kind of disease is that? I'll call the imperial doctor over there.

[Yunhu]: Don't bother fourth brother, the disease has penetrated deep into the skin, and there is no cure.

[Yunhu]: It's a terminal illness called...not wanting to go to work.

【Yinzhen】:……