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  Chapter 535 532【Exploration】

   "Master, master, uncle has been arrested!"

  The butler rushed into the room, and before Zheng Hongyi could speak, his wife came in crying.

  Seeing that, Zheng Hongyi had a headache.

  He is indeed extremely defensive and often shields his relatives. But this doesn't mean that he likes his relatives to make troubles every day, and his brother-in-law has already made Zheng Hongyi extremely bored.

   "What happened again?" Zheng Hongyi said angrily.

  His wife Feng panicked: "It's the case of Shu Da, and Ming Ju was arrested again!"

   Zheng Hongyi was immediately unhappy: "This case was closed last year, how could it be found out again? Could it be that the person surnamed Fu is about to leave his post and wants to make some money before he leaves?"

   "It has nothing to do with Mr. Fu," Feng said, "it belongs to Mr. Shu, go to the government to complain. Mr. Fu entrusted someone to report the letter, let our family spend some more money, don't go to the magistrate's office."

   "How unreasonable!"

Zheng Hongyi said angrily: "Shu Da's case has already been paid to the Shu family. It has only been a year, and they have to complain about their grievances. Is it possible that they complain about their grievances every year, and our family pays money every year? This money can't be given. Once it is given It's over, it's over!"

  Feng said worriedly: "What if the trouble really comes to the magistrate's yamen? Master Li (fu Tongzhi) said that the magistrate has already suspected Hedi. If Shu Da's case is also targeted by the magistrate, I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's..."

"Don't be afraid," Zheng Hongyi raised his hand and said, "This magistrate Huang is from His Majesty's maidservant. Our daughter-in-law is the grandniece of Mr. Li Ge. Huang Zhifu and Mr. Li Ge are both ministers of the dragon. Will you still have trouble with your own family? Even if Huang Zhifu doesn't give me face for Zheng's family, he still has to give some face to Mr. Li Ge."

  Zheng Hongyi said to the housekeeper again: "Go to the court and watch to see what's going on. Also, ask the Shu family why they want to appeal their grievances and overturn the case. Do they not want to live anymore?"

  Two hours later, the butler came back and reported: "Master, the Shu family said they did not overturn the case, and it was the Fan family who filed the complaint."

   Zheng Hongyi frowned, and muttered to himself: "A woman has remarried, why would she risk offending the Zheng family and suddenly come out to complain to her ex-husband?"

  The housekeeper hesitated to speak.

   "Say it!" Zheng Hongyi scolded.

The housekeeper said: "Master, I heard people say that the money we gave was swallowed up by the Shu family, and none of the money was left to the Fan family. Not only that, the Shu family also forced the Fan family to remarry to Long You. A widower. The widower is fifty years old, and in order to marry Fan, he gave the Shu family five taels of silver as a betrothal gift."

  Zheng Hongyi was startled when he heard that, and then he couldn't laugh or cry: "The Shu family eats at both ends!"

  Shu Da, who was beaten to death by mistake, was a drunk and prodigal son, and his family had had enough of him. Family affection has been indifferent, it would be better to be beaten to death, not to mention getting compensation money.

  The members of the Shu family swallowed up the silver and almost sold Shu Da's widow to a widower in the name of remarriage.

   Inside and out, making money twice, of course they will not overturn the case.

Zheng Hongyi said: "Send a servant to contact Fan's secretly. She must have not received any money and was forced to marry an old widower. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she went to report to the government again. Give her two Twelve, tell her not to make trouble anymore, otherwise...what is her husband doing now?"

  The butler said: "I run an iron shop in Zhupeng Town."

   Zheng Hongyi said: "If she makes trouble again, her family's blacksmith shop will not be able to continue!"

  …

  There are two levels of courts in the capital city of Quzhou.

  One is the Xi'an County Court, and the other is the Quzhou Prefecture Court.

  Fu Tui Guan in charge of prisons, this official position was abolished, and changed to Fu Justice and Fu Ti Criminal Officer (prosecutor).

  The arrest of Zheng Hongyi's brother-in-law was approved by the criminal officer, and the police arrested him and locked him up pending trial.

  In the prison, Feng Risheng lived in a single room, and was drinking with the chief jailer.

   "Master Feng, this room has been cleaned several times, and the musty smell is really hard to get rid of. You are old, and you have been wronged for a few days." The chief jailer said with a smile.

  Feng Risheng tasted the wine, nodded in approval: "It's a good job, and I can't do without your benefits."

  The head jailer hurriedly toasted: "Thank you, Mr. Feng, for your cultivation!"

  Feng Risheng said: "Have you found out the matter clearly?"

The head of the jailer explained: "The Shu family took the money, but did not distribute it to Fan. They also forced Fan to remarry an old widower, and took the opportunity to collect a sum of money as a gift. Fan must have been upset, so he came out and handed in a complaint. Sentence Master sent someone to tell Master Feng to stay here for a few days, and the case will be resolved when Fan is calmed down."

   "What's the trouble?" Feng Risheng felt wronged.

  The head jailer sighed: "Master Feng, today is different from the past. After the prefect Huang was transferred to Quzhou, many things are not as easy as before."

  Feng Risheng sneered: "A woman from a family who doesn't care for her husband and raise her children well even came to be an official. What are you afraid of her doing?"

"This prefect Huang, after all, is the hero who followed His Majesty in the Wuxing Town," said the chief jailer. "If she were a man, she would probably be a minister of the central government. If you really annoy her, you can directly bring the matter to the emperor." There."

  Feng Risheng was also very helpless about this, shaking his head and smiling bitterly: "Forget it, just treat me as unlucky to meet such a magistrate."

  …

   Government Office.

  Huang Fei, also known as Xiao Hong, is chatting with a "merchant".

   "How bad is Quzhou officialdom?" Huang Fei asked.

Dai Wenmeng said: "The judges, judges, and justices at the prefecture and county levels are basically rotten. This time I encouraged Fan to appeal and overturn the case, just to test the situation. The result was very bad. Although Feng Risheng was arrested, but in the Food and drinks are served inside. The reason why we know how he is in the prison is that he went in under the name of visiting the prison, and the jailer can be bribed for a tael of silver. .”

Huang Fei suppressed her anger in her heart and said: "It has been half a year since I was transferred to Quzhou. No matter what kind of affairs, officials at all levels are very cooperative. The Longyou merchant gang is growing day by day, with frequent business trips, and some factories have been built. Taxes have risen year after year. Alas, I thought Quzhou was already in great order, but I didn't expect that I was just a muddled official."

"You don't have to blame yourself," Dai Wenmeng said. "The corruption of Quzhou's officialdom did not happen overnight. It is not easy for the governor to take the initiative to open the pustules. In the cases we have investigated, many local officials did not dare to open the windows. The paper tore."

  Huang Fei asked: "How many corrupt officials can the Metropolitan Procuratorate detect every year?"

Dai Wenmeng said: "It's hard to say, sometimes it's more and sometimes less. Last year, the Henan Transshipment deputy envoy's corruption case involved two or three hundred officials in one case, which was much bigger than the Quzhou case. Of course, officials are generally involved in favoritism, malpractice, corruption and bribery. It’s done very secretly. It’s known to the whole city that Quzhou is so noisy, but I haven’t encountered it in the past two years.”

   "Your responsibilities are more interesting than governing the local area," Huang Fei laughed suddenly, "When the Quzhou case is settled, I will ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Maybe we will be colleagues in the future."

  Dai Wenmeng froze for a moment, and then remembered that Huang Fei's background is very strong. As long as she makes a request, she might really be transferred directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Dai Wenmeng persuaded: "Master Huang, the censor of the Datong New Dynasty is not the censor of the Ming Dynasty. He is often sent to various provinces to run around, and sometimes even sleeps in the open. I don't despise women, but... women are really inconvenient. What's more, where is your husband..."

  Huang Fei said calmly, "I'm divorced."

   "Uh..." Devon Meng was speechless.

  …

  Longyou County, Zhupeng Town.

  The blacksmith is forging farm tools, and the clanging is so lively.

  A few idlers walked into the iron shop, and the apprentices hurriedly greeted them: "What do you want to do? Iron pots, iron ladles, hoes, sickles... My master can make, and his craftsmanship is very good."

  The leading idler said: "You, get out!"

   "Huh?" The apprentice didn't understand.

  The idle man said: "We are here to collect debts today. Your master owes us ten taels of silver."

  A fifty-year-old blacksmith turned around slowly when he heard the words, and said with a hammer in his hand, "I don't even know you, when did I owe you ten taels of silver?"

  The idle man took out an IOU: "I have made a written proof, and you still want to deny it?"

  The blacksmith said angrily: "Nonsense, you are scammers! Shuanzi, report to the authorities!"

  The idle man sneered: "Report to the official? This Quzhou Prefecture, which official dares to take care of the Zheng family's affairs?"

  The apprentices had already gone out, they stopped again when they heard this, and turned to look at the blacksmith at a loss.

  There are several counties in Quzhou Prefecture, and the real power of the Zheng family lies in Xi'an County and the adjacent Longyou County.

  Fan came out of the back room suddenly, and said with a cold face: "What is coming at me, don't make things difficult for my husband!"

"close the door!"

   The idlers kicked the apprentice twice, and quickly installed the door panel of the iron shop.

  The idle man in the lead looked at Fan, and suddenly coveted him. This woman was born delicate and beautiful, remarried to a fifty-year-old widower blacksmith, it really is a flower stuck in cow dung.

"Little lady, how about going to live in the city with me?" The idler said with a chuckle, "You are so delicate, you spend all day in an iron shop in a small town in the countryside, and you will be smoked by the fire in a few years." She has become a yellow-faced woman."

  Fan glanced at the idler's crotch, blurted out the words of tiger and wolf, and said contemptuously: "Just the two taels of meat in your crotch? Do you want to take off your pants and compare the weight with my husband?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

  When the other idlers heard this, they were immediately amused and laughed.

  The idler in the lead was furious, feeling that he had lost face, and immediately shouted: "You hold down that blacksmith, and I want this woman to know what is going on!"

  An idler reminded: "Fifth brother, we are here to handle errands, so don't ruin the master's errand."

The leader of the idle man said: "Don't worry, the silver will be given to me. Put this woman to sleep, and she will not dare to say anything, and the matter will be handled more properly." As he said, he threatened the blacksmith and his wife again, "If they dare to report to the officials afterwards , killed the man, and set fire to the shop!"

  The blacksmith is not a vegetarian either. He wrapped the handle of the sickle with a rag, and held the rag with both hands to gesture: "Whoever dares to come over, I will kill him!"

  The sickle had just been taken out of the stove, and the blade was burnt red.

  The blacksmith stepped forward and waved it, scaring the idlers back.

  The head of the idle man retreated and shouted: "If you have something to say, you have something to say. As long as the wife withdraws the petition, I will give your family ten taels of silver... wait a minute, don't do anything else, how about fifteen taels of silver?"

   "Get out, don't want Zheng's dirty money!" the blacksmith roared.

  A few idlers got off the door and quickly fled.

  After escaping from the door, the leader of the idle man yelled again: "You don't have to drink fine wine for toasting, be careful that your iron shop catches fire in the middle of the night!"

  The blacksmith and his wife looked worried, and went to the back room and said: "You two officials, I am afraid that someone set the fire at night."

  There are two integrity officials sitting in the room, they are dedicated to protecting the safety.

  Liang Tingxin slowly put the sword back into the cloth bag, and said with a smile: "Arson is a serious crime, at least you can be sentenced to exile. If you burn property or hurt people, you can be sentenced to death as appropriate!"

  Many officials with a clean government came from sword-backing warriors of the Datong Society!

  After Zhao Han occupied Jiangsu and Anhui, hundreds of swordsmen were recruited into the central and local anti-corruption departments.

  They are not afraid of fights, murderers and arsonists, if they meet them, they will not even try to escape.

  (end of this chapter)