There is a large building near the North City Gate of Chengdu. The sign is called Yonghe Trading Company. It covers an area of about three acres. There are usually caravans, fleets, shops and warehouses underneath the trading house. The trading house is equivalent to the business headquarters.
A few days ago, the internal security guard focused on this Yonghe trading company. The clue was discovered by investigators from the Supervision Department. When they investigated Li Xuemin, a general judge in Chengdu, they discovered that Li Xuemin's youngest son, Li Feng, had 20% of Wanchun Tea in his name.
Li Feng is a member of the village. Li Feng is only eight years old this year. Obviously, these two members are owned by Li Xuemin. Wanchun Tea House is one of the three major tea houses on Sichuan Road, with a tea garden of 5,000 hectares. The Tuancha tea produced every year occupies the Chengdu market.
As we all know, Wanchun Tea House was founded by Meng Wanchun, a famous businessman in Jianzhou.
However, officials from the Supervision Department discovered that two months after Li Xuemin came to Sichuan to serve as general magistrate, Wanchun Tea House became the proprietor. The proprietor became Wei Jinguang, and Li Xuemin also acquired two shares, and was named after his son Li Feng.
Down.
The Supervision Department had enough information and quickly found out that this Wei Jinguang was none other than the uncle Wei Tong, and Jinguang was his given name.
The officials of the Supervision Department immediately discovered that the stewards and accountants who ran Wanchun Tea House were from Yonghe Trading Company. All the tea from Wanchun Tea House was sold to Yonghe Trading Company, and Yonghe Trading Company had a large store in the market outside the city.
The warehouse wholesales tea cakes in the market, and also transports goods from the warehouse to various tea shops and teahouses.
The Supervision Department's investigation has ended here. Li Xuemin has been dismissed from office. The remaining matters will be taken over by the internal security guards to continue the investigation. The internal security guards are not investigating Li Xuemin, but Wei Tong.
The internal guards soon discovered a surprising situation. The original owners of the tea house, Meng Wanchun, and his family suddenly disappeared three years ago and disappeared without a trace. The ancestral house in Jianzhou said that they had moved to a mansion in Chengdu. The gatekeeper of the mansion in Chengdu said that since
After the transfer of the tea house, the Meng Wanchun family returned to their hometown in Jianzhou and never came back, but they may have moved somewhere other than Sichuan.
However, when leaving Sichuan, you need to apply for a certificate from the government. If you leave by water and use a large ship of more than 500 stone, you will not only need a certificate from the government to leave Sichuan, but also need military approval before the ship can leave through the Yangtze River waterway. Otherwise, it will be detained in Xiazhou.
Interception is already common sense and most people know it.
The Meng Wanchun family did not apply for any certificates, which means they did not leave Sichuan.
Zhong Huan, the new commander of the Tenth Department of the Internal Guard, decided to use the disappearance of Meng Wanchun's family as a breakthrough to find out the expansion of Wei Tong's power in Sichuan.
At noon, a short and fat middle-aged man walked out of Yonghe Trading Company. He looked for a moment and waved to the distance. A bullock cart slowly stopped in front of the man.
"Go to the market!" the middle-aged man ordered as he got on the bullock cart.
"Okay, I'll take these two guests to the dock, and then take you to the market."
Of course, the bullock cart cannot be a taxi. It is more like a minibus. It is impossible to transport only one customer. There are usually several people who have to take turns to different places. However, the directions are similar. The pier is not far from the market. The middle-aged man
The man agreed with a 'hmm' and closed his eyes.
The middle-aged man's surname is Qiao. He is the deputy manager of Yonghe Trading Company and a native of Chengdu. This is a characteristic of Yonghe Tea House. Their chief managers are all from Lin'an, and the deputy managers are hired from the local area. The two have different statuses and different treatment.
Deputy Steward Qiao didn't have a special carriage to pick him up, so he had to go to the streets to hunt the cattle himself.
The other two people on the oxcart made Steward Qiao a little uneasy. They were too tall and strong, and stared at him with sinister eyes, which made him feel terrified.
The bullock cart left the city and turned to a small road. At this time, the man sitting opposite suddenly stood up and sat on the left side of Manager Qiao. He was pinched to the left and right. Manager Qiao felt bored and was about to get up and sit on the opposite side.
Two sharp daggers pressed against his waist at the same time.
"If you dare to move, I will kill you!"
Manager Qiao was so frightened that he encountered a robber today.
"You...what are you going to do?" Manager Qiao's voice was trembling.
"Please go somewhere!"
The two of them worked together, tied up both sides of Manager Qiao's back, gagged his mouth, and put a black bag on his head. After walking for a while, the bullock cart finally stopped, and they pulled Manager Qiao out of the cart and pushed him into the back of a house.
Inside the gate.
After a moment, Manager Qiao's eyes lit up, and the hood was taken off. He found himself in a dark room, surrounded by naked, burly men, and various torture instruments hung on the wall. He was immediately frightened.
He was shaking all over.
At this time, a tall young man stepped forward and pulled off the rag from his mouth.
"Are you Qiao Yannian from Yonghe Trading Company?"
"That's right, the villain. May I ask who you are?"
"We are the internal guards of the Western Army!" the young man replied coldly.
There was a buzz in Qiao Yannian's mind. He knew that the internal guards were ruthless people who specialized in dealing with enemy spies hidden in Sichuan and Shaanxi.
"I'm not a spy, I'm just an ordinary citizen who earns a little money to support my family. You must be mistaken."
The young man was Zhong Huan, and he planned the entire plan. Today was his first interrogation, but he had seen many interrogations by Han Zhengfu and learned a few tricks.
"As the deputy manager, you don't know whose property Yonghe Trading Company belongs to!"
"I know this is Uncle Wei Guo's property, but it has nothing to do with me! I'm just the steward they hired. There are thirteen deputy stewards like me!"
Zhong Huan said calmly: "I came to you just to ask you something, and I hope you will answer everything. But if you dare to conceal or deceive, even if you escape to Anyue County, your two sons who are studying at Chengdu Gengshan Academy will also
You can’t run away, do you understand?”
Qiao Yannian nodded repeatedly, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. The other party actually found out his details. He even knew his wife's hometown in Anyue County, Puzhou, not to mention his two sons.
"You are responsible for connecting with Wanchun Tea House, right?"
“I am not responsible for the teahouse itself, I am only responsible for selling the tea cakes from Wanchun Teahouse.”
"But you were involved in the deal with Meng Wanchun to sell the tea house, right?"
"Yes! I participated, but I am not the main person." Qiao Yannian's voice lowered, and he was obviously feeling guilty.
"Tell us the truth and don't turn yourself into Wei Tong's accomplice. What happened to the deal back then? I promise to keep it a secret for you."
Qiao Yannian hesitated for a long time and said, "I can tell you, but you must keep it a secret for me."
"If you tell the truth and cooperate with us, we will definitely protect you."
Qiao Yannian sighed and said: "I know that sooner or later there will be a day when the heinous crimes Wei Tong committed back then will be liquidated, I say!"
He mustered up the courage to say: "Meng Wanchun was unwilling to sell Wanchun Tea House at all, so they chopped off his youngest son Meng Huan's head with a knife in front of him. Meng Wanchun was so frightened that he had to sell it for 10,000 yuan.
They bought Wanchun Tea House and all the tea gardens, but after signing the contract, they erased the word "Guan" in the contract and sold Wanchun Tea House for 10,000 yuan, which was equivalent to forcibly taking away Wanchun Tea House.
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"and after?"
"Later, Meng Wanchun couldn't swallow this breath and the hatred of his son's murder. He complained to the Chengdu government, but Li Xuemin refused to take the case because there was insufficient evidence. Later, I heard that he wanted to go to Lin'an to file a complaint, and then suddenly disappeared.
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"What happened to the sudden disappearance?"
Qiao Yannian trembled all over and cried uncontrollably: "They killed all eighteen members of Meng Wanchun's family. Their bodies were burnt to ashes and thrown into the Minjiang River."
Even though Zhonghuan was mentally prepared, he was shocked by such a cruel thing. After a while, he asked: "How do you know so clearly?"
"The driver was my wife's brother. He transported the bones to the river and watched them being thrown into the river. He told me later."
"Is your brother-in-law still in Yonghe Trading Company?"
"No more. He broke his left leg last year and returned to his hometown in Anyue County. But he is innocent. He was just a driver and did not participate in the murder."
"I know. Finally, I need you to provide us with another piece of information."
"what's the situation?"
"I need a list of all the properties under Yong'an Trading Company. In other words, I need a list of Wei Tong's properties on Sichuan Road. You should be able to get it!"
Qiao Yannian nodded, "It should be okay. I have a complete list on hand. I'll go back and make a copy and bring it to you at noon tomorrow."
Zhong Huan let the bullock cart continue to take Qiao Yannian to the market, pretending that nothing had happened, and Qiao Yannian left with a lot of thanks.
Zhong Huan then ordered Liu Qin, the head of the army, to say: "You take a dozen brothers and rush to Anyue County immediately. You must find Qiao Yannian's brother-in-law. I want a list of the murderers who participated in the murder of Meng Wanchun's family. He must still remember it."
Liu Qin clasped his fists and said, "I'll leave now!"
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[Yesterday I went to the bank with my mother to do errands. I wasted most of the day and only wrote two chapters. There was no chapter at noon. I’m sorry! 】
