Chapter 193 Touching the Bottom Line
Huang Yunfa said, "You have no choice, magistrate. This is what happened under your rule. If you don't settle it yourself, the court will definitely punish you. As long as someone says a few more words, isn't this a question of the crime? This may be a question of the whole family."
Yan Sihai's face changed, and he said, "How can you threaten me like this? This is not what I did."
Huang Yunfa said, "It's not what you did, but it's what happened to you. You have no choice but to do this. You have so much business dealings with Brother Fan. If we say these things, it's probably impossible for the Liaodong Revenge Army to spare you. So you must do this for both public and private purposes, which is to avenge Fan Yongdou's family."
Yan Sihai said the same thing, and he said: "It is not difficult to do this by the officials, but there is one thing that is that the pension is provided by several people. Only when the officials pass this level can they do the next step.
Wang Dengku said, "This is impossible. It is not something we asked you to send troops there. It has no connection with us at all. Any expenditures that have been incurred from now on can be paid by us, but the mess we used to do is not possible by us."
Yan Sihai said, "But one thing you must know is that if the official does not provide enough pensions, these victims will be blocked at the door, unable to do anything at all, and unable to escape."
Wang Dengku said, "Our bottom line is to lend you money, no interest will be charged at most."
After Wang Dengku made this statement, the other people also made the statement. They were all profiteers who were greedy and profiteering. How could they bury the previous orders for Yan Sihai? It would be a big concession to lend him interest-free. If they were not to catch the murderer, they would not even pay the money, and they could use the money to do usury, and they didn't know how much money they could make.
Yan Sihai knew that this should be the other party's bottom line. Although these people were all very rich and worth more than one million yuan, it was impossible for them to stand up for themselves and fill in the pit for him, so they had to reluctantly agree. He said: "We must state in black and white that this is interest-free. Don't ask the official to collect interest after borrowing money."
The other party is a master of usury and money. If he doesn't say hello to them, he will understand it in black and white, and fall into the trap of the other party and remembers it is usury, then he will be finished.
Wang Dengku said, "This is inevitable, you can rest assured that we are all on the same boat, how can we not harm you?"
In this way, Yan Sihai was convinced by them and was ready to use the power of the government to chase and kill the Liaodong Revenge Army.
Fan Yongdou was destroyed, which caused a sensation to Shanyou and also a sensation to the court, so the court ordered the Ministry of Justice to send a special envoy to investigate.
However, the focus of the Ministry of Justice is still the same thing, that is, how could it happen under the rule of the Ming Dynasty? Such a horrific and extremely cruel murder? Regarding Fan Yongdou, why was he destroyed by a family, it was not what they care about. They didn't know what Fan Yongdou did, let alone investigate.
The court listed this matter as a criminal murder case, but he did not expect it to be a national military secret. The court did not know about it, and Emperor Chongzhen even more did not know about it. He even knew through local memorials that there was a wealthy businessman in the local area and was wiped out by robbers, and he didn't know much about the others.
This kind of case was also shocking and very bad for the Ming Dynasty. However, compared with the bandits who made a big fuss in the Central Plains, the Jiannu who robbed them all of Liao Town outside the pass, and many places in the country that needed disaster relief, this is a small matter.
But Huang Taiji, the leader of Jianru, who was far away in Liaoyang, was very angry when he heard this.
Fan Yongdou was his right-hand man, but he got a lot of supplies for them. He was also the one who spyed into the Guanguan. As a result, he was killed. It was equivalent to someone digging his eyes and cutting off his hand that reached into the Guanguan. So in anger, he ordered a confidant to take dozens of his most powerful white-armored soldiers to investigate this matter, and be sure to avenge his lackeys.
Of course, Huang Taiji did this to give other people a warning, because after the Liaodong Revenge Army came out, they refused to ship goods outside the pass. He had to give these people some warnings, that is his business, and these people had to do it, and they had to do it even if they didn't do it, not because they didn't want to do it.
Since the other party was using the banner of the Liaodong Revenge Army, it was to revenge them. He was dissatisfied with the occupation of hostile elements in Liao Town by Jianzhou. Since these people dared to go against them, even if they fled to the pass, they could not escape the military commanders of Jianzhou. So he sent his confidant general and secretly led an investigation team to enter Shanyou. He cooperated with the seven major merchants to find out who did it and who did these things against them.
Liu Bu and the others didn't know about these things. After they destroyed Fan Yongdou's family, seized his property, and ambushed the officers and soldiers who were chasing them, they quickly evacuated Shanyou, trying not to leave any clues.
In order to prevent them from being chased by the other party, they were walking around in detours, and there were also these tracking experts who wiped out the traces along the way for them.
For example, their carriages transport gold and silver, which is particularly heavy. They will leave deep marks on the mud road, which will easily be found. If you are aware of your carriage, you will basically know whether the carriage is transported by gold and silver or other things?
So when they retreated, they repaired and covered the road along the way.
This is the reason why they returned very slowly. After they withdrew from Shanyou and entered Shandong, they entered their own territory. They divided their property on dozens of large trucks and pulled them. This left the traces of the car on the ground. I guess the other party had the ability to check again, and there was nothing he could do when he got here.
Moreover, Shandong is not a place where these Shanyou merchants can reach their hands.
They got back a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry. Although these gold, silver and jewelry were stamped, they melted it through their own money shop and recast it into silver ingots and then used it.
What is more difficult to take action are the batch of antique calligraphy and paintings, rare antiques. If these things are in a hurry to sell, they will not be sold at a good price. And they may easily reveal their identities.
But these exposures are not just exposed, because they have one thing now, that is, the Fan Yongdou family has been destroyed, the Fan Yongdou family has basically been killed, and his Fan family compound has also been burned to a white ground.
It can be said that Fan Yongdou's family has been destroyed and is considered a family extinction. This means that no one will pursue it. Even if the other party pursues it, they are not sure that this is Fan Yongdou's lost property, because they don't have the property list of Fan Wendou's family at all, so it is impossible to say that it is theirs.
These antique calligraphy and paintings and rare antiques are not contemporary products, nor are they from his Fanjia Factory. So even though they sell dirty things, they can exchange them for money after they have eliminated them.
Why can they get so much gold, silver and jewelry from Fan Yongdou this time? That's because Fan Yongyi was disposing of the dirty things for Jiannu.
Jiannu and his friends occupied Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and they entered the pass twice and carried out large-scale robberies. For example, the gold and silver robberies were paid directly, but like those gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, rare antiques, they could only eliminate the dirty things through Fan Yongdou and others.
As a result, they fell into the hands of the Liu family army without handing over these things for a while. It can be said that these things are all unowned objects and are already difficult to track, so they can sell these things through their commercial networks.
At first, Liu Fuqi initially estimated that at most, he only got about 800,000 taels of things, but after repricing these rare antiques and selling them reasonably, they may eventually get as much as one million, which greatly relieves their pressure.
It was only after Liu Fuqi saw these situations that he quickly became rosy and began to gain weight again.
As for this batch of huge treasures, the gold and silver were basically taken to his hometown in Fushan, and Liu Fuqi arranged to buy money, grain and cloth. As for gold, silver and treasures, antique calligraphy and paintings, Liu Bu first kept some of them privately, and asked Zheng Zining to choose a batch as gifts for his father-in-law, and then took a batch to his father Liu Yuanqiao. He was also a scholar and liked to collect antique calligraphy and paintings. If he liked, he would take it away, and only the rest would be sold.
In this case, they all got a huge amount of millions, which shows how huge the business between Fan Yongdou and Jiannu is. It is no wonder that Huang Taiji was crazy and sent his confidant generals to the pass with the most elite white-armored soldiers. They must find out who did this and who was targeting them in Jianzhou.
The gold, silver and treasures lost in this matter are secondarily. If the gold, silver and treasures are gone, they can organize the army to grab them again. But if these merchants are afraid of this and no longer transport the materials that Jianzhou needs to be urgently needed, this is their biggest loss, and this is what he is most afraid of. So in anger, he sent someone to find out about this matter and must figure out who is targeting them, and these things are not known to Liu Bu and the others.
Chapter completed!