Soon, Zheng Tianyou reported the entire incident to Xingyang Mansion.

In the official documents reported, Zheng Tianyou defined the entire incident as Hu Yongqing hiring Taoist Skeletons to pay for murders and prevent Zheng Tianyou from coming to Wanling to serve as the inspector.

The assassination was unsuccessful. Hu Yongqing and his son were afraid of the incident and committed suicide in fear.

Although things are a bit unexpected and dramatic, they still make sense!

As for the time details, some of them are not correct, and they have been blurred.

After he finished writing the report, he showed it to Wang Xiang and other captains, asked them to sign it together, and then sent someone to send it to Wanling overnight.

As for the skin-picking demon case in official circles, compared to the death of Hu Sizheng and his son, it can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

Zheng Tianyou ordered Jingyesi to send someone to inform Lu Yang that they should withdraw to the city. As for the scene, the caravan goods and other matters, they were also left to Jingyesi's people to handle.

Next, before Jingyesi sent someone to take charge of the overall situation, the entire Wanling Jingyesi was led by the inspector Zheng Tianyou.

Zheng Tianyou was only temporarily in charge of the Wanling County Jingyesi Division, but he didn't expect that on this night, someone would sneak up and pay his respects.

As soon as they met, the man knelt down, presented a large pile of account books, and shouted: "The little man Xu Zhaoyang is the accountant of the predecessor Hu Sizheng. Meet the inspector!

I have the account book from Jingyesi to give you."

Since Xu Zhaoyang was appointed as accountant by Hu Yongqing, he is naturally his confidant.

He had mastered too many shady accounts. With the death of Hu Yongqing, he immediately lost his backer and was so panicked that he actually came to seek refuge with Zheng Tianyou!

Although Zheng Tianyou is not Si Zheng, as an inspector, his status is not much lower than Si Zheng.

In addition, Zheng Tianyou had a backer, so he was regarded as a new target of refuge by Xu Zhaoyang.

Zheng Tianyou curiously took it and took a look at it, and saw that this was a huge industry under Jingyesi in Wanling County.

Not only does it have more than a thousand acres of farmland outside the city, but it also has more than a dozen various shops, including grain shops, pawn shops, oil shops, restaurants, etc.

These industries alone can earn Yasuyashi three to five thousand taels of silver a year.

And these all belong to the small treasury and private property of Jingyesi in Wanling County.

However, the money is not too much, and it belongs to the unit's small treasury, which is regarded as Yamen money.

These accounts alone would never scare Xu Zhaoyang, the accountant, into seeking refuge with him in the middle of the night!

Sure enough, just as he was thinking this, Xu Zhaoyang took out another account book from his arms and said: "My lord, the inspector, what I just talked about are all the money income on the surface.

In fact, the predecessor Hu Sizheng also had some private income..."

Zheng Tianyou was not surprised at all by this. Zheng Tianyou had heard a long time ago that Hu Sizheng himself had many private properties.

For example, the famous Red Sleeve Move is said to have Hu Sizheng’s shares.

But this kind of thing is normal. Not only Hu Sizheng, but also Jingyesi and even officials from various places have private businesses!

However, when Xu Zhaoyang reported the accounts, Zheng Tianyou was immediately shocked!

He had already expected that Hu Yongqing must have other income in private, but he didn't expect it to be so much!

"More than one hundred thousand taels a year?"

Zheng Tianyou was a little in disbelief.

Jing Yesi's industrial income is only three to five thousand taels a year, but Hu Yongqing's personal income is more than fifty thousand taels! Are you kidding?

That’s more than 10,000 taels. In terms of merits, it’s more than 10,000 or 20,000 taels!

Well, although silver taels cannot be exchanged for meritorious deeds, cultivation items cannot only be obtained from the Jingyesi Merit Hall.

There are many other channels where you can also use silver to purchase cultivation materials.

For example, the medicinal pheasant from Wanling.

Another example is the evil spirit from the five directions, which can also be purchased with money, but the price will be higher.

If a sum as large as fifty thousand taels of silver a year were given to Zheng Tianyou, he would immediately not have to worry about any cultivation resources!

Zheng Tianyou calmed down and said calmly: "Tell me in detail, where did all this money come from?"

As expected, Xu Zhaoyang was shrewd and revealed every income account.

It turns out that Hu Yongqing not only owns more than 500 acres of land outside the city, but also has a stake in the largest brothel in Wanling County, Hong Xiu Zhao.

And he also mixed in with the medicinal materials business in Wanling County!

Wanling County is located in the mountains, and mountain products are quite developed. The output of various medicinal herbs in the mountains is also very large, so Hu Yongqing opened a medicine shop to purchase and sell medicinal herbs, and naturally made a lot of money.

However, these are not the bulk of his income!

However, Hu Yongqing’s single largest source of income actually comes from his filial piety from Poshan Martial Arts School!

That’s thirty thousand taels of silver a year!

Hu Yongqing has been serving as Jingye Sizheng in Wanling County for more than 20 years and has collected more than sixty taels of silver!

It’s delivered on time every year, never in arrears!

When Zheng Tianyou saw this, he understood: "Sure enough, there is collusion between Hu Yongqing and Poshan Martial Arts School, and the collusion is very deep!

What is the business of this Poshan Martial Arts School, and how much money can it make in a year?

How can you effortlessly give Hu Yongqing 30,000 taels of silver a year?

No wonder Hu Yongqing and Poshan Martial Arts School are good at wearing a pair of pants!"

After Xu Zhaoyang finished reporting, he stood still. Seeing Zheng Tianyou not speaking, he felt uneasy in his heart.

He worked as an accountant for Hu Yongqing, and his annual salary was five hundred taels of silver.

Coupled with other rewards and the like, there is an income of seven to eight hundred taels of silver a year.

If Zheng Tianyou fires him, he will never find such a well-paying job again!

Fortunately, Zheng Tianyou was not in a daze for too long, and he came back to his senses and said: "You stay here first and continue to be responsible for these things in the accounting room! If you need anything in the future, just come to me!"

Xu Zhaoyang was overjoyed when he heard this. Zheng Tianyou had accepted his surrender!

He hurriedly bowed and thanked him, but Zheng Tianyou asked: "How much do you know about Poshan Martial Arts School?

Why does Poshan Martial Arts School give Hu Yongqing so much money every year?"

Xu Zhaoyang hesitated for a moment and then said: "Hu Sizheng didn't tell me about this kind of thing.

However, according to my own guess, Poshan Martial Arts School seems to have a monopoly on the medicinal materials business in Wanling Mountain.

For example, the famous Yaoshan Chicken in Wanling County is monopolized by Poshan Martial Arts School.

In addition, I heard that Poshan Martial Arts School also has connections with some Green Forest Villages, helping those bandits to sell their stolen goods."

Zheng Tianyou nodded slightly, these are all very profitable avenues. With these monopolies, it’s no wonder that Poshan Martial Arts School can make so much money.

"And!" Xu Zhaoyang continued hesitantly: "I heard people say that people from Poshan Martial Arts School seem to rob tombs. But whether it is true or not, I don't know..."

Zheng Tianyou was slightly startled: "Tomb robbery?"

I have never heard of this before.
Chapter completed!