Chapter 91 Jiang Yunzheng begins investigating Xu Shibin
On the other side, Jiang Yunzheng finally made a bottle of medicine. She had been working non-stop for the past two days and felt like all the bones in her body were about to break.
Sitting in the yard, he leisurely ate the green grass cake made by Nanny Qin.
At this moment, Wu Lu returned to Nian Yunzhu.
On the day Jiang Yunzheng brought Nanny Qin back, she asked Wu Lu to do something. Except for the day when Jiang Yunzheng disappeared, Wu Lu had never returned to the mansion.
Wu Lu was excited, "Young Madam, there's news about what you asked me to find out!"
Jiang Yunzheng paused.
During this period, Wu Lu followed Jiang Yunzheng's instructions and bought a teahouse outside You'anmen.
The teahouse was close to the canal, and most of the people who came and went were traveling merchants from the north and the south of the Yangtze River. Wu Lu quickly found out about Xu Shibing's control of the Yellow River floods a few months ago.
At the beginning of this year, heavy rains lasted for two months in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, breaking the dikes. Many villages and towns along the way were flooded, and countless people were displaced. Among them, Chengzhou in the northern part of Jiangnan suffered the most serious flooding.
Xu Shibing went there in April, stayed in several prefectures and counties for a while, and finally stayed in Chengzhou for nearly three months. He was accompanied by the Minister of Works.
Chengzhou is as rich and prosperous as Suzhou and Hangzhou.
In the second month after Xu Shibing arrived in Chengzhou, Mr. Yu, the owner of Yu's Money House and the richest man in Jiangnan, was mysteriously murdered, and all the property of Yu's Money House fell into the hands of the second branch of the Yu family.
Yu's Bank...
Jiang Yunzheng frowned slightly, "Is it the Yu Bank that mortgaged the Qin family's shop?"
Wu Lu nodded: "That's right."
Jiang Yunzheng thought of the news Hou Yuetan brought back last night, that Yu Zheng had made friends with the Xu family. Could it be that Yu Zheng was from the Yu family bank?
Yu Zheng also suspects that Xu Shibing is related to Boss Yu’s death... ?
Wu Yu frowned and whispered, "Young Madam, when Wu Lu and I were still at the Northwest Escort Agency, our master once pawned the Yu family's goods. The Yu family's business is enormous. Besides money houses, they also deal in tea, cloth, and most of the grain in the south is controlled by the Yu family."
Wu Lu continued, "Also, the Chengzhou prefect drowned in his own garden three days ago. The coroner said he accidentally fell into the water after drinking too much."
Wu Lu was sitting in a teahouse drinking tea this morning. She heard this from the merchants who came from Jiangnan.
Jiang Yunzheng lowered her eyes, thought for a moment, then glanced at Hou Yue who was eating pastries.
Hou Yue coughed suddenly: "What are you looking at me for?"
Jiang Yunzheng smiled, "No rush, take your time eating, I just need you to go to Chengzhou."
Jiang Yunzheng's intuition told him that the death of the Chengzhou prefect was no ordinary drowning.
Floods in the south of the Yangtze River displaced many people, leaving them with little food and water...
Xu Shibing went to control the flood, and a month later, the boss of the Yu family died. The Yu family had money, land and grain. Jiangnan was originally the base camp of the Yu family. Not long after Xu Shibing went there, the boss Yu died... Now the prefect of Chengzhou also died mysteriously.
Jiang Yunzheng frowned and thought for a moment. After a moment, she continued to say to Hou Yue, "In ten days, I want to know what is missing from the Chengzhou prefectural government?"
Hou Yue swallowed the green grass cake and stretched out her hand to Jiang Yunzheng: "I want money."
Jiang Yunzheng glanced at Hongyu, and Hongyu took out five silver notes of one hundred taels from the house.
Hou Yue's eyes lit up, "I guarantee it will be completed."
Jiang Yunzheng called her, turned around and went to the pharmacy to get a few bottles of medicine, and told Hou Yue their uses.
"We must be careful on this journey."
Hou Yue: "Yeah, yeah, I understand."
She watched Hou Yue's figure disappear at the gate of Nianyunyuan.
On the other side, Dali Temple Prison.
Xu Qingsong and others confiscated all the items they found in the Chen family's villa, and all the servants they found in the villa were imprisoned in the Dali Temple.
The person sitting on the tiger bench was the housekeeper of the villa.
Xu Qingsong's face was full of dignity. "Where did you get the silver, money and treasures in the treasury of the other courtyard?"
The butler initially kept his mouth shut, but Xu Qingsong had him whipped again and again. Once he was sent to the Dali Temple prison, even the toughest man would open his mouth, not to mention these spineless traitors.
After leaving the palace, Qi Yunshen came to the Dali Temple Prison. In the dim light, the man's figure was particularly tall and straight.
Xu Suyuan stared at the person in front of him with a dark look and clenched his fists.
The housekeeper was completely relieved: "The recent boxes of silver were gifts from Ishida, the Minister of Revenue."
Xu Qingsong and Qi Yunshen looked at each other, neither of them was shocked. Xu Qingsong ordered Xu Suyuan to go and capture him together with the people from the Ministry of Justice.
Xu Suyuan gritted his teeth: "Yes."
Xu Qingsong wanted to continue interrogating people, so Qi Yunshen found a place to sit down inside. When Xu Qingsong got tired of interrogating people, Qi Yunshen took over.
Ishida had packed up his things last night and was about to run away when the soldiers surrounded the Shi residence.
There was chaos in the Shi Mansion, and the servants ran away, fearing that they would be implicated by Shi Tian.
Ishida was dragged out of a dog hole near Qihuaju. He was holding a box of banknotes and his face was covered in sweat.
Xu Suyuan came to Shi Tian and said, "Master Shi, I'm sorry."
Qin arrived one step ahead of Ishida. She was not greedy and ran away with only 500 taels of silver. Fortunately, she was blind and Ishida was busy last night, so there was no one guarding Qin's yard.
So, Qin went to the Taoist temple early this morning with some silver in her pocket. She was blind, so she paid someone to bring her here.
The white-faced Taoist priest inside was chanting non-standard rituals to deceive the common people. Qin ran in, and her terrifying eyes scared away many people in the Taoist temple.
Qin was blind, so she listened to the voice of the white-faced Taoist priest to determine the direction.
"Li Lang, let's leave the capital."
A believer looked over here curiously, and the white-faced Taoist priest pulled Qin behind the statue of the Three Pure Ones.
Qin's face was covered in scars, which made the white-faced Taoist priest feel sick: "What are you doing here?!"
Qin: "Li Lang, that old immortal is about to be caught. Can you take me away from here? I have money."
The white-faced Taoist priest heard about what had happened in the past two days and had just seen soldiers heading towards the Shi Mansion.
The white-faced Taoist priest smiled inexplicably, "Follow me to the back."
When Qin heard this, she was overjoyed.
She knew that Li Lang would not abandon her.
The white-faced Taoist priest asked Qin to sit on a stone chair. He picked up a stone and hit Qin directly on the head.
Qin felt a sharp pain in her head, and before she could react, she was hit again and again. She could not see anything, but only heard the man's heavy breathing.
The man tore open her clothes and took out the silver bills.
Qin's blood flowed out little by little, and she slowly died in the direction the Taoist priest left, like a ghost seeking revenge.
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