"Slander?" Fang Zheng played with the fan and raised his eyes slightly.

"Do you have evidence?"

"Make something out of nothing! Have you let the officials prove their innocence?" Anger had broken Feng Heng's fear, and he roared at Fang Zheng.

"Yes." Fang Zhengyi replied calmly.

"Avenge private revenge! This is avenge private revenge! Even if the official offended you before, I will now write to Your Majesty for yourselves!" Feng Heng continued to roar.

"What are you yelling? It's just guilty." Fang Zhengyi put away his fan and smiled inexplicably on his face: "You said you have no contact with the King of Wu, I don't believe it."

"I talked to King Wu. The huge investment he invested in the ship industry is not something you can imagine. How much money will flow into the Zhou family and how much will it appear in the world, would you not know at all?"

"The boat that King Wu was riding on was extraordinary, so the movements were bound to be small. If no one helped him hide it, how could he hide it?"

Thinking of this, Feng Heng suddenly calmed down and his lips kept trembling.

Then he forced himself to explain: "It's... the lower officials were incompetent and failed to monitor for a while."

"If you missed the inspection, you missed the inspection. I think you have managed Yuding City well! If you take this confession to His Majesty, do you think Your Majesty believes in you or me?" Fang Zheng said.

"Master Fang...What do you want me? Isn't this a difficult situation for the officials?" Feng Heng looked in pain.

"Xie Xian, bring the four people in the Zhou family to me."

Xie Xian nodded and stood up and left.

After a while, the four people from the Zhou family who were panicked and fell to the front of the case of Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng was straight to the point: "How did your Zhou family contact the King of Wu? Why are you in the Chu family again? I came from the capital and came to uphold justice. You don't have to be afraid of anything, just say it boldly!"

The young master looked harmless and honest, with rough skin, and not like a young master, but rather like a technical job.

At this moment, his eyes were already filled with despair.

After finally escaping from death, he hid in the Chu family and was stolen by someone. After a while, he was finally taken back to the government office and had already had a dying intention.

Zhou Tuesday robbed the land with his head and cried: "Sir... the people are wronged, and the Zhou family is wronged!"

"The Zhou family has been engaged in shipbuilding for generations, but a few years ago, someone came to him to buy it with a lot of money to build ships for him."

"I didn't know what happened later. I was buying with the shipworker at home that day. When I got home, the fire was already spreading. Fortunately, there was still a silver vault at home, and my deceased father still carried a key on him. There were many secret letters left in the silver vault. Only then did I realize that the family was building ships for the King of Wu."

"When Caomin went out of the bank, he found that the agent who had previously contacted the family was searching for a group of martial artists and hiding in the bank, only to survive."

"Later, Caomin was so hungry that he couldn't stand it and came out. He was about to go to the government to report to the official, but unexpectedly he had become a wanted criminal."

"I went to the Chu family after that. Caomin used the bank deposit and shipbuilding technology as a conscription, begging Mr. Chu to save my life... You should know everything about it later."

Zhou Ershou suddenly became excited: "Sir! My family must have been killed by the King of Wu!! They are trying to kill my family for money! They also joined forces with this dog official!"

"Feng Heng! Our clan gives you 100,000 taels every year, are you not enough?!"

Feng Heng was shocked: "There is no evidence, don't talk nonsense! I will punish you for being a murderer!"

The young master of Zhou Tuesday said angrily: "Although I am only responsible for building ships, there are still books in the bank treasury... The pieces in it can be recorded clearly! Sir, if you don't believe it, I can take you to see it now!"

"Okay, okay, I know, I'm sorry for your guilt. Xie Xian, I'll send a few people to take them to the inn to take care of them well, so there must be no problems." Fang Zheng waved his hand.

The people should not know the news of King Wu’s rebellion. These survivors of the Zhou family were just shipbuilders, so it was normal not to know the inside story.

But it doesn't matter whether they know the inside story now. What's important is that they can build ships, which is enough.

"Is there anything else to say, Lord Feng?"

"Slander! This is a naked slander! The confessions are all fake. Have you ever seen any false account books?" Feng Heng blushed and his neck was thick, and he tried to struggle.

"It's almost done, are you interesting? Just this evidence, killing you ten lives is not too much." Fang Zheng leaned forward, leaning on the table, looking at him mockingly.

"Tell me, how much money I have greedy over the years, I promised to spare your life." Fang Zheng smiled.

Seeing his relaxed attitude, Feng Heng was instantly relieved and smiled bitterly on the ground. After a while, he lost his mind and murmured: "Twenty-seven thousand taels."

"No, I'm giving you 100,000 taels a year, but you only have 270,000 taels in your hand?" Fang Zhengyi asked.

"The officials like to do some things, and they also like antique calligraphy and paintings, which cost a lot." Feng Heng gave up his jar and said expressionlessly.

"Then... do you want to live?" Fang Zhengyi whispered.

Feng Heng suddenly raised his head and his eyes lit up! His heart was filled with ecstasy!

Buy your life? This guy is greedy for money?

"Sir, you want to..."

Fang Zhengyi sat upright and smiled slightly: "If you don't take it, I won't take it. How can we make progress together?"

Feng Heng nodded repeatedly: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Lord Fang is talking very much! Please ask Lord Fang to deal with this 270,000 taels. There are some antiques in Xiaguan's house..."

"If you don't say anything, you can sign and write first." Fang Zhengyi added.

Feng Heng immediately became a little desperate again.

Play with me? These confessions are all framed and slander. Wouldn’t you be dead if you sign it?

"Don't feel wronged. I said you did those things, but you did them. If you sign them, keep the handle. I will give you a way out. If you don't sign a dead end, you can do it yourself."

"Sign! I'll sign!" Feng Heng thought of the teleportation and felt that there was nothing to think about, so he made a decision and signed.

When Fang Zhengyi put away his confession, he said, "Sit down, everyone will be their own people from now on. Starting today, you can do whatever I ask you to do. Do you understand?"

Feng Heng sat back on his original position, still in shock: "What do you want me to do?"

"I will save your life because of your contribution to governance. You will leave the 270,000 taels to the Chu family. The Chu family has kindness to me, which is my thanks."

"Of course, they didn't take this money for nothing. The King of Wu fled, and the court would definitely send people to recover it, so naturally they also needed a good ship."

"So you need to leave here for me and supervise it with peace of mind."

Feng Heng was shocked, and he was just giving it to someone at will?

"Sir, do you not take any of those silver?"

"I don't take any money, and 270,000 taels of shipbuilding may not be enough, but you spend it first, and I will report to the Emperor to give you silver."

"That's the matter of the official..."

"Don't worry, since you have no contact with the King of Wu, I will naturally clear your innocence." Fang Zheng waved his hand and said, "You go down and rest first. There is nothing you have to do with you here. I'll send the money to the Chu family in a few days."

After Feng Heng left, Xie Xian walked to Fang Zhengyi and worriedly said, "Master, he is considered an accomplice. Is it appropriate not to report it to His Majesty if the Jinyiwei was just established?"

Fang Zhengyi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "There is no way. If you want to do practical things, you will inevitably get dirty. I will convince Your Majesty when I go back, but time cannot be delayed. Some things are as soon as possible, the better."

"Let your brothers split up a group of people back to Haiyuan City to escort the silver and return to Beijing. We will clean up here as well. After the arrangement is made, we will go home."
Chapter completed!