amaotonovel Chapter 878 Chat 12
Chapter 878 Chat 12
Fang Tong howled and dodged while laughing.
Fang Yin, Qin Yan, and Fang Nanzhi each took a chair and sat in the yard watching the couple quarreling.
"Second uncle, you should get married in the village. The whole village will definitely come. It will be very lively."
Their family lives in Beijing, and they have too few good friends.
This is the first happy event held by the Fang family in the capital, and they have to entertain guests.
"It's okay. Wait until your brother gets married and then go back to the village to get married." Fang Yin said without hesitation.
Qin Yan: ...
"It's a pity that Uncle Dacheng and his family didn't make it in time for the wedding banquet. Each table had twenty-two dishes: fifteen meat dishes, five vegetarian dishes, and two soups."
Fang Nanzhi felt really sorry.
When they hold a party in their village, a table with about ten dishes is considered the best meal, and three or four meat dishes are considered the best meal.
The capital city is prosperous, and banquets are more expensive.
Fang Yin thought about it and felt that it was a bit unfair: "Then I'll go back and treat them to two tables."
Unlike the excitement and joy of the Fang family's upcoming wedding, Zhu Guanfeng couldn't stand the bloody smell in the Ministry of Justice prison and came out to get some fresh air.
He looked up at the darkness. The moonlight was blocked out and there seemed to be no light at all.
After the Ministry of Justice checked these days, it was found that the account books submitted by Zhu Guanfeng were very interesting.
After checking Chen's account books, they all matched.
He secretly found the person who used to be in charge of accounting for the Chen family. The Chen family was wealthy and powerful in the past, so of course this kind of thing was left to the clan members.
Master Chen Er, who was in charge of this matter, was beheaded that year.
But he has an assistant, Master Chen Jiu from the side branch, who is very good at mathematics. Unfortunately, he is old and his memory is not very good. But he has a grandson - Chen Qiong.
Chen Qiongke learned a lot from him.
These account books were hidden by Master Chen Jiu back then.
Master Chen Jiu was a man who trusted Chen Zijun very much. The changes happened too quickly back then and nothing could be done in time.
But he always felt that Zijun would not do such a thing, so he used his last connections to secretly hide the account book and buried it in a villa of the Chen family.
Because Chen Yong filed a complaint, Master Chen Jiu seemed to see some hope and told him about the account book.
Chen Yong revealed it in the Ministry of Justice, and it was someone from the Ministry of Justice who dug it out.
Speaking of this, one thing must be mentioned.
Although the emperor ordered that it would be extremely difficult to bring Chen Yong back to Beijing, in fact, the case was so serious that it was impossible to bring back only Chen Yong.
The Ministry of Justice initially allocated personnel and brought in many members of the Chen family in a low-key manner.
Long before Chen Yong arrived in the capital, they had already been waiting in the Ministry of Justice prison.
Chen Zijun was a powerful prime minister, and his account books were incredibly clean.
However, there were cases of personal connections and bribes. A separate account book showed the purpose of the transactions, and it turned out that most of the money was used to buy land, which was then registered under the name of the Ministry of Revenue. The remaining money was directly used to fill the national treasury.
This is far from the treacherous Chen that everyone knows.
Zhu Guanfeng even went to the Ministry of Revenue to check in person. He found that the land that Chen Zijun had acquired was half-sold and half-given to the Ministry of Revenue, and now it had become the official land of many officials.
But there are also a few that have been lost due to some "natural disasters" in recent years.
Anyway, judging from the account books alone, Chen Zijun is definitely a good official.
As for the account book about the salt mine, it was also very interesting. The amount of silver and money was the same as the one presented by Princess Mingzhu that year.
The only difference is the flow of money.
The money that year was openly given to the Su family, the Bai family, and the He family.
These three families are all merchants, and they are wealthy businessmen who are dependent on the Chen family.
The daughter of the Su family married the illegitimate son of Master Chen Er as a concubine. Master Bai was once grateful to Chen for saving his life. The He family was once a slave of the Chen family. They were granted grace and released from slavery. Since they started doing business, they relied on Chen's promotion. In other words, the He family originally worked for Chen.
After the incident, the head of the He family committed suicide out of fear of punishment, while Mr. Su and Mr. Bai stood up and accused Chen Zijun of working for the salt mine.
These two naturally died after the Chen family fell.
The families of the three families were all on the exile list, but the exile was difficult. Two of the He family's descendants died, and the only one left also died shortly after the exile.
Now there is only an old woman and an eighteen-year-old unmarried girl left in the He family.
However, there are still male members in the Su and Bai families.
Chen Yong's evidence showed that the money flowed to the Su, Wei and Feng families.
According to Chen Yong, the salt mine is in Liuyun County of Chengdu Prefecture. The Wei and Feng families are both small local noble families with no big backing.
But they can survive locally. They can find salt mines and hide for a short period of time without any problem.
The difficulty is how to mine it later without being discovered.
So they set their sights on the Su family, a merchant family.
The Su family is different. They are merchants, but they have the Chen family as their strong backing.
They can take advantage of the power of others and use the Chen family's name, plus some gold and silver, to bribe officials from top to bottom in Liuyun County.
Even the officials of Chengdu Prefecture, who had received benefits, would turn a blind eye, thinking that they had Lord Chen Zijun's protection.
But in fact, the Su family was really bluffing. Perhaps for the huge profits from the salt mine, he did not report it to the Chen family.
However, the term of office of an official is limited. The county magistrate of Liuyun County was replaced, and the new county magistrate was not so easy to deal with. The Wei and Feng families forced the Su family to ask the Chen family for help, and they easily removed the county magistrate.
The Su family felt guilty and worried secretly.
So he colluded with Chen's mistress, Princess Mingzhu.
Princess Mingzhu naturally has no shortage of money. She secretly became the Su family's backer, but she just wanted to put the blame on Chen and avenge her fiancé.
When a woman is trapped by love, she can do anything cruel.
Of course, these are what Chen Yong thinks.
Miraculously, the Ministry of Justice found the Su family these days, and Su Xingwen, the head of the Su family, pleaded guilty.
He was fifteen years old at the time and often followed his father in doing business, so he knew these things.
Su Xingwen confessed that he had been feeling guilty towards the Chen family all these years.
After being imprisoned, he attempted suicide tonight.
Fortunately, the jailer discovered it in time.
At this point in the investigation, there seemed to be no problem.
The reality does not stand up to scrutiny. If it was Princess Mingzhu who planned it and the Su family was an accomplice, why didn't they get themselves out of it back then?
Let the Wei and Feng families stay clean and not be involved in the turmoil, but your family becomes exile?
It's really not very clever.
He had already done it, and so many years had passed, yet he readily confessed his guilt. Could it be that he was really tortured by guilt?
Not quite.
Although the place where the Su family was exiled was hard, they lived a good life these days. The Su family's son married the local county magistrate. Thanks to their son's accumulation of family property, the Su family was already considered a small landlord in the local area.
I really have to feel guilty, how can I live so well?
Of course, Su Xingwen said that this was compensation given to them by Princess Mingzhu.
Zhu Guanfeng rubbed his brows, feeling that this case was a tangled mess, like a tangled ball of thread with no clue at all.
"drive!"
The sound of hurried horse hooves came from afar. It was already curfew, and the only people who could still ride horses in the capital were those on official business.