"It's Jin Yiwei!"

"Jinyiwei is here!"

Hearing the screams of servants from the front yard, all the grain merchants in the living room of the main house suddenly panicked.

"Why are we being targeted by Jin Yiwei?"

"I was actually found here by Jin Yiwei. It's over."

"Run quickly, I don't want to sit in Jinyiwei's prison..."

In panic, more than two dozen grain merchants rushed outside. Some of them were smarter and climbed through the windows. The unlucky one was squeezed to the ground as soon as he reached the door of the main house and was trampled to the point of death.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Dagui shouted anxiously, "Don't panic, don't run, we're not breaking the law, and the Jin Yiwei can't arrest people randomly."

Ma Qiwen passed by him and sneered when he heard this, "Jin Yiwei won't arrest people randomly? You are naive!"

After saying that, he climbed out of a window.

Only Xu Chongru sat motionless in the main seat.

Because he knew very well that since the Jinyiwei found this place, they must have learned the news about their gathering here, and they had made complete arrangements to arrest them. How could they let them escape?

Knowing that he was doomed, Xu Chongru didn't bother to run.

Soon, the other grain merchants ran out of the living room, leaving only two people.

Xu Chongru squinted his eyes and looked at the fat young man sitting second on the right, with an ugly expression on his face: "Zheng Wenxia, ​​was it you who leaked this information to the court?"

"Mr. Jiewen (characterized by Xu Chongru), I have no choice." Zheng Wenxia said with a look of shame on his face.

Hearing Zheng Wenxia's admission, Xu Chongru was so angry that his hands trembled, "Thankfully, I helped you several times because of the relationship between the Xu and Zheng families and made you one of the twenty-four major grain merchants in Nanjing. I didn't expect you to be like this."

Pay ‘me back!”

At this time, screams and exclamations came from outside one after another——

"There are also guards at the back door!"

"The Praetorian Guards, the Praetorian Guards!"

"ah!"

"Don't hit people, I just won't run away, wuwu..."

Hearing these voices and thinking of the result of being captured by the Jin Yiwei, Xu Chongru was angry, scared and unwilling.

He glared at Zheng Wenxia and asked: "Why did you betray us? What benefits do you have? Aren't you afraid that it will implicate your Zheng family and make the Zheng family no longer have a foothold in Huizhou?!"

Zheng Wenxia explained: "Mr. Jie Xiu, I really have no choice - the people from Jinyiwei found me and captured my soul with a magic weapon. They said that if I don't cooperate with the imperial court, I will die in seven days."

, the soul will be sent to the eighteenth level of hell and will never be reincarnated. I'm afraid."

"That's all?"

Zheng Wenxia hesitated for a moment and said: "Jin Yiwei also promised that if this matter is handled well, he can support me to sit at the head of the Nanjing rice and grain business."

"you!"

Xu Chongru was so angry that he picked up the teacup and headed towards Zheng Wenchun.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he started to take action, he saw two Jin Yi guards rushing in, one of them was Qian Hu.

"Wei Long, Deputy Qianhu of a certain Jin Yiwei." The leading man stared at Xu Chongru sharply, "You two, please come with us."

Zheng Wenxia said in surprise: "Wei Qianhu, do I want to go too?"

Wei Long ignored him, and the Jinyiwei Xiaoqi next to him said: "Nonsense, how can you record a confession if you don't go?"

Zheng Wenxia didn't dare to say anything anymore and walked out with a low eyebrow.

The same is true for Xu Chongru.

He couldn't resist either.

He now only hopes that the court will not do things too badly and that courtiers who are related to businessmen like them can help.

After being taken to Fusi Yamen in Jinyiweinan Town, Xu Chongru found that they were all being held in solitary confinement. He had no way of knowing what would happen to the others and whether they would confess anything.

At this time, Xu Chongru was completely panicked.

He knew that not many of them were strong-willed, and they would probably be recruited as soon as the Jin Yiwei leader took care of them.

After thinking about it carefully, Xu Chongru felt that he could not recruit him, otherwise, as the leader of the line, he would definitely be labeled as the mastermind of this "case", and he might even be raped by the Yi clan.

However, what surprised Xu Chongru was that there were no torture instruments in the room where he was detained.

At first, he thought that there were not enough cells, so he was locked up here. However, when Wei Long and Xiao Qi, a member of the Imperial Guard, came in to interrogate him, they still did not bring any torture instruments.

Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi sat behind the table with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, ready to write a confession.

Wei Long was holding a strange gadget. After playing with it for a while, he pointed it at him and pressed a certain mechanism on it, and a bright light flashed across the room.

Xu Chongru was suddenly filled with panic.

Although he didn't know what Wei Long did to him, this was the most terrifying thing.

"You...what did you do to me?" he asked with a trembling voice.

"Charming souls." Wei Long said calmly.

"What?" Xu Chongru asked again, not knowing whether he didn't hear clearly or didn't want to believe it.

"Absorb your soul." Wei Long said, and a piece of paper came out of the magic weapon in his hand.

He brought the paper over, and when Xu Chongru looked at it, he felt his head was empty.

On this palm-sized piece of cardboard, he was sitting in a chair in fear, exactly like his real person!

‘Jin Yiwei actually has a soul-obsessing magic weapon!’ Thinking of what Zheng Wenxia said before about being threatened by Jin Yiwei, Xu Chongru finally believed it.

Then he became even more frightened.

If he could make some mental preparations to face death, then he was really afraid of his soul being ingested and being thrown into the eighteenth level of hell for eternity!

So he trembled and said: "You can do whatever you want, just to free my soul..."

When Wei Long heard this, he laughed.

···

The next morning.

Wei Long went to the Jinshen Hall in the Forbidden City and handed the camera back to Zhu Aona.

Letting Jin Yiwei keep an eye on the big grain merchants in Nanjing City in advance, and using a camera as a "magic weapon" to coerce a big grain merchant into being an undercover agent, was one of Hao Guangming's strange tricks.

This can be regarded as taking advantage of the technological products of later generations and the Ming Dynasty people's fear of unknown things. Therefore, in Hao Guangming's view, it is not really a good method, it can only be a strange trick that can be used once or twice.

It was also Hao Guangming's suggestion to let Jin Yiwei exchange cameras.

Although the camera is not a real soul-capturing magic weapon, if Jin Yiwei is allowed to abuse it and loses supervision, it is likely to cause bad things.

After Wei Long reported the course of last night's actions and the results of the subsequent interrogation, he left.

Immediately, Zhu Aelao also returned to his old house in Zhulin.

When Hao Guangming saw her, he smiled and said: "This operation can basically control all the big grain merchants in Nanjing. As long as they cooperate, Nanjing City should not have the same grain shortage as it did in the past few days in the short term.

And Nanjing City is the city that consumes the most food under your rule. If there is no problem in stabilizing it, even if there is a food shortage in other places, the impact will not be much."

Zhu Yasuo frowned slightly and said: "I still hope that there will be no food shortages in all places in the Ming Dynasty."

"That's impossible, at least within ten years." Hao Guangming said. Seeing Zhu Yuyao's low mood, he comforted him: "However, if Lu Jiude can do what you told him, then

The food shortage may be greatly alleviated in two to three months."
Chapter completed!