Daming One Piece

Chapter 133 Jin Yiwei handles the case (first update, ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Zhangjiawan, after moving north from Yongle, this place has become the water and land wharf of the capital, and its prosperity is even worse than that of Tongzhou City.From the emperor and the officials down to the soldiers and the common people in the capital, the daily expenses are all dependent on the donkeys and camels carried from the Zhangjiawan Wharf to the capital. Most of the tourists who travel to and from the capital also transfer by waterway here. , so the flow of people is chaotic and continuous all day long, which promotes the prosperity of commercial activities in the small town and service industries such as inns and catering.

Even the royal family fell in love with this treasure land, and built the imperial store here. During the Wanli period, Shenzong gave the Chongwenmen and Zhangjiawan stores to his brother Lu Wang and the emperor's third son, Fu Wang, where they It not only collects shop rents, but also collects commercial taxes. It not only attracts merchants, but also sells commercial goods.

Shi Yiwen also went ashore from Zhangjiawan, but he passed by in a hurry, unlike now, in the bustling Zhangjiawan market, listening to the boatman's soft words of Wu songs, and seeing the goods on the shore Pile up.The river is full of boats from all over the place.

But this time, Shi Yiwen came here not to feel the prosperity of this place, but to find out. If you want to find the Fanjia business store here, it doesn't take much trouble at all, and you don't even need to inquire. Found the Fan family's business name.

"The biggest store in the warehouse belongs to the Fan family!"

Why does Fan's business name have so many pockmarked faces?
Shi Yiwen didn't know, but some people definitely knew.

As usual, after leaving the warehouse, Zhao Mazi had a drink in a nearby tavern as usual, and then got drunk until the middle of the night before leaving the restaurant.On the way out of the tavern to a nearby brothel, when passing through a quiet and dark street, a carriage followed, and the big man on it greeted him:

"Hey, brother, are there any restaurants around here?"

The big man in the carriage was tall and burly, speaking Liaodong dialect, sitting on the carriage, so that Zhao Mazi could only look up at him.

"The restaurant? What restaurant? The bitch restaurant? Come on, I'll take you there, I'll get in your car..."

That's what happened to men, Zhao Mazi thought in his heart, just a burst of drunkenness came to his head, before he had time to get up, there was the wind whistling in his ears, and the man directly hit the back of his head.

……

In the middle of the night, on the edge of a remote river beach near Zhangjiawan, the night wind whimpered and passed a large boat on the water by the river, with an oil lamp in the cabin.

Waking up in a daze, Zhao Mazi yelled even though he was still unconscious.

"Hero, it was that hero who did it. We have no grievances in the past, and we have no grievances in recent days. Have we admitted to the wrong person?"

Zhao Mazi, who was throbbing with pain in the back of his head, finally opened his eyes and looked at the surrounding environment. This was on a boat.

Trying to recall what happened before, someone asked for directions, and then he was beaten unconscious...

Who is doing this?

It must have been the wrong person.

"Can't be wrong!"

Following the sound, he saw three people standing in front of him. By the light of the oil lamp, Zhao Mazi recognized that one of them was the big man who tied him up, the other was also tall and tall like an iron tower, and the third... It should be their master, who is extremely tall, dressed in silk and satin clothes, and looks like a rich man.

"it's him?"

Shi Yiwen stepped forward and said.

"My lord, that's him. He's the steward of the Fan family's warehouse, and he often goes out with the boat."

Fan family!

Someone is following the Fan family!
Open your eyes wide, Zhao Mazi said.

"Are you following the Fan family?"

"What do you say?"

"Who are you?"

"What do you say?"

The unclear question and answer made Zhao Mazi murmur in his heart. As a member of the Fan family, he certainly knew what kind of business the Fan family was in, but he still didn't know what to do.

"Then you are, are you from the government?"

government?

No, the Fan family has already taken care of the government, but nothing happened!What happened now?

Is it?

Is the higher-ups eyeing the government?

"What do you say?"

Once again, an unclear sentence made Zhao Mazi's heart pound, he really couldn't figure out the identity of the other party.

Suddenly, another name popped up in his heart... Then he murmured in horror.

"You, you are Jin Yiwei!"

Jin Yiwei?
Shi Yiwen's heart was filled with joy, he smiled lightly and said,
"Forget that you have some knowledge, kid, what's the matter, recruit it, or you will be punished, and you will still have to recruit it in the end."

The seemingly inadvertent remark made Zhao Mazi's heart tremble. He had heard of Jin Yiwei's reputation a lot in Zhangjiawan, and they were all ruthless masters. There was really no trap for him.

But, why did Jin Yiwei focus on the Fan family?
Could it be because of the business of the Fan family?
That business really can't be done, why did you start a business with the Jurchens?
Thinking so in his heart, Zhao Mazi said.

"Then, if I recruit, sir, will you let me survive?"

"You earn your own living."

Order someone to pull over a chair, Shi Yiwen said.

"Tell me, what kind of business is this Fan family doing?"

"Returning to the official, the Fan family is in the business of grain, cloth, ironware and gunpowder. Since last year, they have hooked up with the Jurchen Tartars in Liaodong. They sold cloth, ironware, and gunpowder to the Jurchen Tartars. Over there for silver, fur, copper..."

When Zhao Mazi made a confession, he didn't hide anything at all. What he was asking for now was just a way to survive. Now that the incident has already happened and the government knows, there is no need to send the Fan family to death. Listen! Zhao Mazi was talking about how they did business with the Jurchens, while Li Guiqi and the others were all annoyed. They never thought that there would be profiteers in the relevant business colluding with the Tartars. They didn't know that the Jurchen Tartars had created How many sins have you committed?

"...In the past two years, I have personally traveled to Liaodong with the ship more than a dozen times, and each time I have transported goods worth at least several 10 taels. Even now, there are goods worth no less than 30 taels in the warehouse of the Fan family. It is mainly cloth. I heard that it is because they didn’t grab much in Ningyuan this time, and they also let people steal the way, so they are sweating profusely. Peace of mind, the goods will be loaded on the ship within two days."

Hearing Zhao Mazi's confession, Shi Yiwen's heart was also filled with anger. He didn't expect that the Fan family and other Shanxi merchant groups would collude to build slaves so early.Do they still have a country in their eyes?
Apparently there is no country!

If there is a country, how can they collude with the Tartars for 20 years?

After thinking about it, Shi Yiwen asked again.

"Then tell me, why is it possible to get in the Fan family's warehouse?"

(End of this chapter)