Chapter 265: Kidnapped Liang Zongwu
Zhu Mingqing took two steps forward and said, "Take a closer look. Do you recognize it?"
Liang Zongwu squinted his eyes and looked at the other person. The confusion in his eyes gradually disappeared, and he opened his mouth in astonishment: "You are Luo... wuwu."
Zhu Mingqing tapped the other person's mute acupoint, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "It's good that you recognized him! You are lucky to have fallen into my hands tonight."
Liang Zongwu wanted to ask the other party why he was here, but he heard the sound of well-trained footsteps not far away, and the leading officer was directing others to look around!
Liang Zongwu's pupils shrank, and he turned around again, running in the opposite direction regardless of everything.
Zhu Mingqing originally wanted to hand the other party over to the police. After all, he had harmed so many people, and it would be a waste of air for him to be alive.
But considering the future confrontation with the Liang family, Liang Zongwu is actually a good chess piece.
She took advantage of the night and quickly carried the man into the dark forest. When she came out, she was alone and quickly returned to Wu Xing.
"Send two people to lead the officers to a place one kilometer away. There are many thieves there!"
As for the Liang family, we’ll catch as many as we can.
Wu Xing was curious and quickly changed his words: "Where are the Liang bandits?"
Zhu Mingqing smiled and said, "I don't know!"
Wu Xing shrugged, "Can we go back to the city now? Master Wen must have been waiting for a long time."
Still outside the restaurant, Zhu Mingqing quietly boarded the carriage. Seeing Wen Baolulu, who looked anxious, he comforted her, "Don't worry. I never do anything I'm not sure of."
Of course Wen Baolu knew it, but he couldn't help but feel anxious. After all, the two of them came out together. If something happened to his wife, how could he face the Luo family?
"Has the thief been caught?"
Zhu Mingqing nodded, not wanting to say more about the matter: "Did the Shan family agree?"
Wen Baolu looked unhappy.
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Two days later, at noon, Liang Zongwu's prison van passed through the street on its way to the execution ground. The people already knew about his heinous crimes, and they kept throwing rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at him.
There was no reaction from the people in the prison van.
At the execution ground, Kuang Qiu looked at the motionless people below, and then thought about what the Liang family had done in recent days, and clicked his tongue twice.
When the time comes, there is no obstruction.
When heads fell to the ground, the people cheered and celebrated.
"Madam, fortunately you were sharp-eyed and quick-handed. I heard that this crooked official almost escaped!" Wen Baolu said thankfully.
Zhu Mingqing smiles and hides his merits and fame!
People thought that Liang Zongwu was dead, and the Liang family must be extremely anxious at this time!
Kuang Qiu sighed in his heart: He is worthy of being Liang Zhongling, who is second only to the emperor and above everyone else. His methods are decisive and he cannot help but admire himself!
By the time he returned to the capital with Liang Zongwu's large amount of private property, the first carriage had already entered the palace gate, and the last carriage had not yet entered the north gate. It is conceivable how much money Liang Zongwu had plundered from the people during his years in Jizhou.
Liang Huanyu's heart was bleeding as he watched all these things that originally belonged to him being confiscated!
Liang Mansion.
"Didn't you pick him up?" Liang Zhongling said harshly, "Then you don't have to stay!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of guards tied the man up and took him away. As for the result, it goes without saying.
Liang Zongwen felt sympathetic: "The person who died wasn't my second brother. Did he run away?"
Liang Zhongling shot him a cold look: "Why are you still standing there? Send someone to look for him."
Liang Zongwu just turned around to leave when Liang Zhongling called out to him, "Wait, since Huan Yu cares so much about the Luo family and has sent people to keep a close eye on them, let's take this opportunity to get rid of them!"
Liang Zongwen nodded quickly: "Yes."
Liang Zongwu added, "As for the Third Prince, have Huan Yu personally go and explain things clearly! This must not affect the Liang family's affairs!"
Liang Huanyu did visit the third prince as he was told, but the atmosphere was not good. The third prince believed that the Liang family was incompetent, which caused him to be caught by the eldest prince and was scolded by his father.
This meeting indeed affected the trust between the two people. Liang Huanyu, who left the Third Prince's Mansion, went to a restaurant alone to drink, and was "accidentally" met by the First Prince who had been waiting for him.
Liang Huanyu certainly didn't know that this was done by the other party, but the eldest prince's faction had taken advantage of the situation many times. Now the Liang family was busy arranging the affairs of Jizhou, and paid less attention to the prefect of Guancheng.
The two of them drank one glass after another in the restaurant, as if they were talking to each other heart to heart, but in fact they had their own thoughts. When the eldest prince heard that he was scolded by the third prince, his mind became active again!
Liang Huanyu always thought that the eldest prince was reckless and had no scheming, and had no idea that it was him who had been tricked. When he realized it later, he wanted to slap his arrogant self twice.
Of course, this is a later story, so let’s not talk about it for now.
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The next day, the North State Chamber of Commerce.
Zhending Prefecture became bustling early in the morning, especially the Zhending Restaurant, where the Feng family was openly selling over a hundred spices today.
Everyone went in with their invitations. Zhu Mingqing and Wen Baolu each only brought two guards, and no extra people were allowed to enter.
They looked at each other, unable to recognize each other's true appearance, and then they sat down one after another.
"Madam, look southeast. That's the Cheng family, the largest salt merchants in Jizhou. In the middle is Mr. Cheng, Old Master Cheng's most trusted son... That's the Lu family, the largest cloth merchants in Youzhou. Even they're here... There are also jewelers, Hu merchants, and the Wan family, the richest family in Youzhou..." Wen Baolu introduced everyone present one by one, his thoughts clear. "It's going to be difficult to take over their shops!"
Zhu Mingqing nodded slightly, "It doesn't matter, this lady has money!"
Wen Baolu was helpless: "Madam, the way of doing business is to make a small profit with a big investment. If there is no profit, it is better to abandon it!"
Zhu Mingqing: "I understand, but I don't care!"
What she wants is always influence and favorability.
Wen Baolu felt that Mrs. Zhu was a ready-made fat sheep, with three big words written on her face - Kill me now!
Zhu Mingqing glanced at him and said, "Don't worry, I'm not a fool. I won't spend money carelessly even if I have it!"
Wen Baolu didn't believe it.
Then, President Han of the North State Chamber of Commerce appeared. Although his legs were not in good condition, he still stood on the platform with the help of a cane.
First, according to the Feng family's requirements, a total of 108 shops, due to their different sizes and geographical locations, as well as the cost of the spices in the shops, were sold at a price of 500,000 taels of silver!
For the Feng family, the amount was already as low as it could be, but for the merchants present, they had to pay 500,000 taels of silver at one time, plus the related arrangements for subsequent business operations, which totaled 700,000 to 800,000 taels.
No one could take it out, except Zhu Mingqing.
But of course she couldn't raise her hand to express her opinion in front of everyone, so she continued to sell the goods separately according to the Chamber of Commerce's method.
"There's a problem with the Shan family. The situation is too urgent. Buy as many families as you can." Zhu Mingqing whispered.
Wen Baolu also whispered back, "Dan Youwei did agree, but there must be a lot of people who want to grab it, so I guess not many people will agree. However, we can buy it back from them later, but the price is..."
Zhu Mingqing gave him a look that said "you know", and Wen Baolu nodded slightly.
The shop sale is a secret auction, everyone bids, and the highest bidder wins.
Wen Baolu knew that his wife was rich, but he still controlled the number of winning bids, otherwise if they were all photographed, he would probably not be able to leave Zhending alive.
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