Qin Rushuang's guess was correct. This man did not change his mind for no reason, but encountered something else.
Qin Rushuang looked at the man in front of her who had black eyes and seemed to have lost his soul, and didn't know how to comfort him.
Just last night, after he and his wife went to bed, he was urged to get up before midnight the next day to rush to work, but his wife who was sleeping next to him would never wake up. She became a cold corpse.
's corpse.
Qin Rushuang said: "If you have anything, you can tell me slowly."
The man wiped his face and said: "I don't have much time. I told the manager during lunch today that I have to come back to collect the body for my wife and I don't have much time..."
"Your wife's body..."
When the man heard this, his eyes darkened for a moment, and he gritted his teeth and said: "My wife was so exhausted that she never woke up after falling asleep. This morning, I want to ask them to give me half a day to collect my wife's body.
I was taken to Xiao's Bufang by the steward. Today at noon, I had to beg for a long time to get half an hour."
"I will tell you everything I know, but it's up to you whether you can save people."
Qin Rushuang nodded, "Let's not talk about rescuing people for now. You will transport your wife's body to the river in the eastern suburbs later. I will send people to guard it there. After receiving your wife's body, we will take care of him."
Buried.”
The man was silent for a long time, and then gave a smile that was uglier than crying, "I didn't expect that my wife lived in poverty every day when she was alive. Only after she dies can she be buried properly and have a good rest. Why are you..."
A man in his forties who was in his prime, tried his best to hold back the sobs in his mouth, clenched his hands into fists until the veins burst, and then he cried out in pain: "Why didn't you come earlier..."
…
In the following time, the man told them about the Xiao Chamber of Commerce.
The Xiao family did do business all over the territory of Daqi. Everywhere they went, they would recruit workers.
In the beginning, Xiao was very kind to the workers. When the work was almost done, Boss Xiao would select some honest, honest, illiterate workers and sign long-term labor agreements with them.
The so-called long-term labor agreement is not an agreement about work at all, but a contract of sale, and it is the kind of sale of a family of three to Boss Xiao for free.
Once signed, they will become Boss Xiao's domestic slaves.
As long as the contract of betrayal is in Boss Xiao's hands, Boss Xiao has 10,000 ways to torture them.
Boss Xiao follows the same pattern. Everywhere he goes, he will defraud a large number of local kind-hearted and honest couples with relatively simple family relationships. If there are children in the family, that would be even better. As long as they hold the children in their hands, the couple will not be able to do anything at all.
Dare not say anything.
It's not that no one thought about resisting, but their identities have been determined. If domestic slaves cause trouble, even if they sue to the government, they won't be able to sue Boss Xiao.
Moreover, as powerful as Boss Xiao, as long as he gives some money to smoothen the relationship, who will care about the life and death of a domestic slave!
And the number of workers who were deceived was far more than what Qin Rushuang and Xie Xun saw.
The Xiao family also has properties in other places. He doesn't know the specific situation, but in Jiangnan alone, thousands of people have been deceived by Boss Xiao in this way.
If there are children in the family, the husband and wife will be put together and the children separated to threaten each other. If there are only two people in the family, the husband and wife will be separated in different professions to threaten each other.
After the man finished speaking, he wiped his face again, trying to make himself look the same as usual, and said to Qin Rushuang: "You two, I will leave first. I don't ask for anything else. I just ask that you can settle my wife well for me."
's corpse."
Qin Rushuang nodded and comforted, "Don't worry, I will bury your wife properly. Don't be discouraged or act rashly. I believe we can rescue everyone."
"I hope so."
After the man left, Qin Rushuang and Xie Xun were both silent. After a while, Xie Xun asked, "Are you still going to the private school?"
Qin Rushuang nodded, "Go and see how the children are doing first."
Qin Rushuang was now feeling heavier and was still waiting on the carriage like last night, while Xie Xun climbed over the wall alone to inquire. This time they saw a new situation.
There was no teacher teaching in the private school. Instead, there were many large dyeing vats, plain-colored cloth, and pairs of scissors.
The older children struggled to carry the cloth and threw it into the dye vat. They couldn't reach to stir the dye vat, so they used a few stones to cushion it, then stepped on the stones and tried to stir it.
The younger children have already learned to measure with a ruler, cut the dyed and dried cloth into certain specifications and put them together.
These little children, ranging from seven to eight years old, to more than ten years old, are actually working day and night for Boss Xiao just like their parents.
From last night to today, she had heard two pieces of bad news in a row, but when she heard things related to the children, Qin Rushuang still felt extremely angry.
Why not Xie Xun?
Even if he couldn't understand Qin Rushuang's anger before, now he is about to become a father. Just imagine, if his child encounters this kind of thing in the future, he will not only be angry, he may want to execute Boss Xiao Lingchi.
Only then can you relieve the hatred in your heart.
For the first time, Xie Xun had an impulse, and regardless of anything else, he used his identity to suppress the local magistrate, ransacked the Xiao family's residence, and finished everything!
Xie Xun told Qin Rushuang his idea, but did not get Qin Rushuang's consent.
"No, these people have signed a contract of sale with the Xiao family. Whether they are adults or children, they are all Xiao's domestic slaves. The prince knows that the laws of our court are biased towards the master's family, and domestic slaves are the lowest existence.
, although it is a bad habit left over from the previous dynasty, the laws of the previous dynasty are still followed."
"If the prince insists on embarrassing a small businessman, of course there is no problem. But now that the prince has arrived in Jiangnan, I am afraid that many people in the court will know about it. There are millions of pairs of eyes in the court looking at you."
"Now, the confiscation of the Xiao family's home will indeed relieve our anger, but when we return to Kyoto, we may be tricked by the officials, and I'm afraid that the princes will also take advantage of it."
Xie Xun calmed down, Qin Rushuang was right.
In this matter, the workers were unable to stand up. In addition, Daqi had always used the laws of the previous dynasty in this regard. According to the laws of the previous dynasty, let alone letting the domestic slaves work as workers for a few days, it was arbitrary.
Looking for an excuse, saying that if a slave commits a crime below, it will cost their lives, the master will at most pay the living person a few taels of silver, and will not even be sentenced to jail.
Regarding this aspect of the law, some people have long proposed that it should be abolished. However, because it involved partisan disputes, several princes held their own opinions and it was not settled for a long time, so it is still in use today.
Qin Rushuang suddenly said: "I think the prince should investigate to the end this time and pursue it with great fanfare. If this incident is made into a major case, it will be much easier for the prince to touch the relevant laws in the future."
"You know, we can save thousands of people in Jiangnan, but we can't save thousands of slaves in Daqi..."
