After Chen Pan was imprisoned in Dali Temple, he initially cried out that he was innocent.
"I am a meritorious official of the Great Yuan Dynasty!"
"I gave all my herbs to the people of the Yuan Dynasty for free!"
"Even if I have made a mistake, the Emperor will pardon me!"
Ye Xiaonian looked at him with a cold expression.
"The evidence against you could buy five years' worth of the herbs you've contributed!"
Chen Pan was taken aback.
"What do you mean by that?"
"What? Have you forgotten the 300,000 taels of gold you evaded taxes over the past ten years?"
"this--"
Chen Pan was stunned.
Then he started making excuses again.
"Impossible! I've never done such a thing! I've always been a conscientious taxpayer!"
"Someone must have deliberately framed me! Please investigate thoroughly, Vice Minister!"
Ye Xiaonian felt disgusted by this person's face.
Do you think I would falsely accuse you without evidence?
Ye Xiaonian threw the ledger in front of Chen Pan.
"This is the tax you haven't paid for the past ten years!"
"Chen Pan, how many heads do you have to chop off?!"
Do you think you can escape?
Without saying a word, Chen Pan tore the ledger to shreds and swallowed it.
Eat slowly, eat slowly! Don't choke!
"I forgot to tell you, this is a fake ledger. The real ledger isn't with me."
"When the trial actually begins, the real ledgers will be available."
"You, you—how did you get the ledger?!" Chen Pan asked incredulously.
"Don't forget, my surname is Ye!" Ye Xiaochuan deliberately gave him a mysterious look.
"But, but I've always kept it very well hidden."
"If you've done something wrong, no matter how well you hide it, there's always a way to dig it out!"
"By the way, you should know how your daughter died, right?"
"He died without a complete corpse; he was eaten by wild wolves until not even bone fragments were left!"
"Tell me, as her father, and having committed such a grave mistake, do you think you can escape punishment?"
"I--"
Chen Pan immediately knelt down.
"Please have mercy, Your Honor! Even if I really did evade taxes, I still presented this year's harvest! My good deeds can offset my bad deeds!"
Ye Xiaochuan frowned.
"Your merits and demerits cancel each other out? How could you say that! Yes, you've given up this year's harvest, but what about next year? Are you going to raise prices to a point where ordinary people can't afford them!"
"Is this a way to benefit the people? It's a disguised form of exploitation!"
"When it comes to sincerity, you can't compare to Takasugi at all!"
Chen Pan: "Well—at worst, I'll hand over all my property to the Emperor and never do herbal medicine business again! Can that save my life?"
"Do you think you can go out and continue your herbal medicine business after you've been arrested? All your pharmacies have been shut down, and you don't need to hand them over. They no longer belong to you anyway, so what can you offer in exchange for your life!"
"This, this—"
Chen Pan finally burst into tears.
"That's too ruthless!"
"Ruthless? Back when the Emperor ascended the throne, the situation was unstable and the national treasury was empty. It was precisely when money was needed to get things done, yet you secretly evaded taxes! You dare say you were sharing the Emperor's burdens?!"
"The Emperor has already shown you great respect by sparing your life until today!"
"Now is the time for you to return this life!"
Chen Pan trembled with fear at Ye Xiaonian's words.
"I am a commoner, I am a commoner—"
"Just wait here to die. As for how you die, that depends on the Emperor's decree!"
...
The trial for Chen Pan's tax evasion went to trial soon.
Upon learning this, the people flocked to Dali Temple to watch.
After Wu Ying listed all of Chen Pan's crimes.
The people couldn't believe it.
"Really? I never imagined Chen Pan was this kind of person!"
"I thought he was a great philanthropist, but I never imagined he was a parasite on our Great Yuan Dynasty!"
"Three hundred thousand taels of gold! How much money is that! And he actually managed to swallow it all!"
"Looking at it this way, his good deed this time was probably just for show; he wasn't genuinely concerned about us ordinary people at all!"
Chen Pan was confronted with the charges against him.
There is no way to refute it.
What should he say?
Does he claim he has never evaded taxes?
final.
Chen Pan had no choice but to admit his crimes.
He also frankly admitted that he plans to significantly increase the price of medicinal herbs next year in order to make a profit!
The common people looked down on them even more.
Wu Ying said sternly.
"Chen Pan, the amount of tax you evaded is, according to the laws of the Great Yuan Dynasty, a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of your family!"
"I hereby pronounce the verdict!"
"Chen Pan, your entire family will be exterminated!"
Chen Pan fainted on the spot!
When they were being escorted to the execution ground in a prison van.
Chen Pan stared blankly at the sky.
So, what have you been busy with all these years?
She went to great lengths to marry her daughter to a decrepit old man, and by leveraging the power and status of the Duke's mansion, she expanded her herbal medicine business and became a major pharmaceutical merchant.
Furthermore, he evaded taxes amounting to 300,000 taels of gold.
This amount of silver could have allowed him to live a life of luxury!
However.
In the end, it was all for nothing.
My home is gone.
All the money was gone.
Business has also dried up.
Now, I'm about to lose my life too.
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