"No, no, okay! 20% off is 20% off, but this is the Quanzhen Taoist Temple, so it's inconvenient. Why don't you go to the humble abode and give me three days..." Zhao Heguang gritted his teeth.
"It's been two days here with only one old Taoist priest and seven children. It's not a big deal. Besides, it's convenient for those people from the mountain to come down and exchange money." He Qizhou said.
"Is there really no discussion?" Zhao Heguang still held out his last hope.
He Qizhou slowly shook his head.
"How much do you have in total? Can you let me take a look first?"
"Almost twenty-five thousand taels. Show it to him." After He Qizhou said that, Jiang Damin took out a thick stack of unpaid deeds from the house and waved it in front of the magistrate and master.
"Well, the money will be delivered the day after tomorrow!" said the county magistrate.
"Pay the money with one hand and the deed with the other. Leave slowly without sending it away." He Qizhou said.
When the county magistrate left, someone still sent them off. Tian Heng, the old Taoist, said that the county magistrate was long and the county magistrate was short and sent them half a mile away. Zhao Heguang also took the opportunity to ask about the situation of the three people in the inner courtyard. The old Taoist priest only said that they were introduced by the villagers to stay here.
Those who are Japanese can be given one tael of silver every day. Of course, these words were all told by He Qizhou.
"Do you think he will bring the money?" Xu Mu asked after seeing Zhao Heguang leave.
"Won't."
"I think so too," Xu Mu said.
"Why? Does he dare?" Jiang Damin asked.
"Just comparing the inventory and carefully checking the deeds would take half a day. Do you think, how could he just exchange them with money? What if there is a fake in the deeds?" He Qizhou said.
"Then what does he mean?" Jiang Damin asked.
"What do you mean? We're injured, so it's up to you!" He Qizhou said.
…
"Sir, do you really want to give them money?" In the carriage, the master asked in a low voice.
"Twenty-five thousand taels, 20% off! It costs 20,000 taels all of a sudden! How can we afford it? The chief envoy has been notified of the newly arrived eleven thousand taels, and I only get 20%.
How do you move?" Zhao Heguang said with a gloomy face.
"This boy has such a big mouth! What a big appetite! Sir, who do you think he belongs to?" asked the Master.
Zhao Heguang said: "That guard is from the Shaanxi frontier army. They should have come from Shaanxi. If they can hire a sixth-grade general as a guard, it's either because the case is serious or the master has a high position. I guess his master may be at the rank of minister."
, Don’t look at this young man, he doesn’t take me as a dignified county magistrate in his eyes, and he arbitrarily instructs the general of the sixth rank, it is very likely that he is the deputy chief or even the chief of the sixth rank!”
"Such a young chief? You can ask Mr. Bu Zhengshi to go to Beijing and ask if there are any chiefs of the Criminal Department in their twenties who are working in Shanxi and Shaanxi at this time. I asked people to carefully check the carriages that came in and out in the past few days. There are guards
The city yamen official remembered that the guy's identity seemed to be a tea merchant."
"It's very common for the Ministry of Punishment to use false identities when handling cases to cover up people's eyes. It's definitely too late to go to Beijing to ask questions now. The little beast is looking for death, so don't blame us for being cruel!" Zhao Heguang said with a cruel smile.
"Then I'll line up the people. The two sick men won't be a big worry, but the guard..." Master asked.
Zhao Heguang said: "I took a closer look and found that the guard's arm was also injured. The last time they entered the city, there were five of them. This time they came back with four. Now one more person has been taken away. Apparently they wanted to divide the three of them, thinking that
If you hide in a Taoist temple, you won't dare to touch them, haha, I want to be beautiful!"
"Your Excellency is wise, but if the Taoist priests see you when you do it..." Master asked.
"That's the Quanzhen branch. You can't mess with it. Try to find a way to clean up the matter and let Tang Baotou go too!" Zhao Heguang said.
The master asked: "What if someone from the Criminal Department comes to investigate?"
"The mountains there are undulating. If the three of them drove into the valley...by the time the people from the Punishment Department arrive, the three corpses would have been turned into a pile of bones. What can be found? Besides, they returned secretly.
We should not have been in the jurisdiction of this county long ago, and we might not even find out here. Moreover, we only saw tea merchants, and we never saw anyone from the Ministry of Punishment. What's more, they themselves will try their best to conceal their identities.
"." Zhao Heguang has already thought of a countermeasure.
"Your Majesty, what should I do if those untouchables start a quarrel because they have no deeds and no money?"
"With so many people, we can't let them make the matter bigger. Let them go to the county office to register. We will file a case for fraud. As for the replacement of the unpaid deeds, we must obtain the approval of the Ministry of Works. We will slowly apply to the Ministry of Works and wait.
The Ministry of Works will make up for the outstanding deed, and it will take at least half a year to go back and forth." Zhao Heguang said.
The master suggested: "Sir, the county can write an IOU to the farmer who pays back the deed, and then ask someone to collect it at a 30% discount..."
Zhao Heguang suddenly felt that his eyes were bright: "What a good idea. I guess there are people selling it at both discounts. Who made them greedy? Hahaha. Remember to have someone put the notice of ICBC's distribution on the back alley list tomorrow.
The rule is to let the wild boar drink at the entrance of the alley."
"clear!"
…
At dusk, Mr. Tang of Wenshui County crouched on the roof of the main hall, watching four black figures climb over the low wall and enter the backyard of Sanyuan Palace. Two of them blew smoke into two guest rooms at the same time, and after a stick of incense
, used a knife to open the door latch and walked in...!
It's so simple! I've made this trip in the middle of the night in vain... Tang Captou thought to himself, suddenly he felt like a figure was passing by him, no good! But by the time he realized someone was approaching, it was already too late, and he was hit hard on the side of his neck.
He held the knife in his hand, and when he woke up again, he saw that he was already lying in a cold, dry mountain stream.
"Awake? Tell me who you are and who sent you?"
The speaker had his back to him and was standing on a large rock not far away, as if there was another person standing behind him.
"I don't know." Mr. Tang never thought that his martial arts skills, which were usually the best in the county, could be restrained by the opponent with just one move.
"Just a reminder, there will be consequences if you don't say anything." The man on the stone said calmly.
"I don't know, who are you? Ah!" Mr. Tang couldn't help shouting in pain, feeling that his Yin dimension veins were broken by a punch from the person behind him.
"Say?"
"Bah! Don't tell me! Ah——" This punch cracked the Yang Wei Vein.
"It's not easy to practice the four pulses. If you give me one last chance, I'll count to three..."
"My name is Tang Liang, and I am the chief arrester of Wenshui County. Yes, the county magistrate asked me to come as backup. If those ruffians can't kill you, I will take action. Please spare my life!" Thinking of his life hanging by a thread, Mr. Tang
The capture suddenly collapsed.
"How did Zhao Heguang defraud the Ministry of Industry? Who else can get a share of the benefits? How many people have you killed on his behalf? What other violations of the law did he do? Tell them all and let you go!"
"Really, really?"
"I counted to three, one—"
"I said, I said, after receiving the money from the Ministry of Industry, he would only post it in the back alley of the county government office for one day at a time, and he would ask the gangsters to borrow wine to stay at the alley, so no one would know that the money had arrived. He, he would give the money.
I give the chief envoy 20% of the total amount each time, and some will be used to punish the provincial government for punishment. I usually take about 20% of the total..."
"How much for you?"
"I, I, most of them are one or two hundred taels, there are really only so many."
"What about the rare times? If you beat someone for him, can you get more by killing someone?"
"I didn't kill..."
"two!"
"Kill, kill, I killed two deed collectors from the neighboring county who had extorted him, and I was rewarded with three hundred taels. I didn't fight much. As long as those civilians didn't make too much noise, I usually don't let anyone do it. All I know is
That’s a lot, sir, please forgive me!”
"Do you dare to testify?"
"Dare! Dare! It's all Zhao, Zhao and Guang's instigation. The villain can't help himself."
"Open your mouth wider!"
"Ah? Oh, oh, ah - Sir, what is this?" Tang Liang suddenly felt something fly into his mouth.
"Swallow it!"
"It's already gone!" Tang Liang cried.
He Qizhou, standing on the boulder, said: "Your face will be swollen in a quarter of an hour, but it will disappear immediately. If you don't take the antidote within a month, your head will burst next time. If you testify truthfully, I will let someone
I’ll give you the antidote, now you can go.”
"Wait a minute, when you go back, don't tell me that you've confessed. Just say that you couldn't defeat my guards and escaped. Then tell Magistrate Zhao again and say that 80% can't be taken away. You want 100%. In addition, there are four people who came to visit the hospital today.
Each person is worth one thousand taels, and the total is twenty-nine thousand taels. Forget it, let’s make up the whole number, thirty thousand taels, and the time will not change.”
"Sir, I'm going to send a message right away and promise to testify. Can you give me the antidote first?" Tang Liang cried.
"Are you forcing me to count again?"
"Let's go, let's go, I'll leave right away." Tang Liang's two veins were seriously injured and he was poisoned, so he staggered away from the mountain.
"He Qizhou, this guy is not a good person, why don't you count to three? It would be better to destroy his lineage!" Jiang Damin said.
"I'm afraid his body and bones can't bear it and his words won't reach him. Xu Mu, have you written down everything Tang Liang said?" He Qizhou asked.
"Don't worry, I made a note of it. Mr. Tang knows a lot more than those four guys." Xu Mu walked out of the shadows, and it was she who inserted the pill.
…
At dawn, the master came, and this time he didn't come empty-handed. After entering the backyard, he respectfully presented four thousand taels of silver notes to Jiang Damin, saying that he wanted to redeem the four assassins first.
In the hands of the other party, it is a hidden danger after all. As for the 100% that He Qizhou said, the master said innocently: It was Tang Liang's bad idea last night, saying that he wanted to steal the unpaid deed after being knocked unconscious, and there was no harm to anyone.
I am satisfied, and then I am still willing to trade at a 20% discount.
Jiang Damin followed He Qizhou's instructions and only said that there were still twenty-six thousand taels. If they couldn't deliver it before dark tomorrow, they would return to the capital as long as they were short of one tael of silver. The master had no choice but to return. Unexpectedly, he came again in the afternoon.
This time, He Qizhou was asked to speak out.
He Qizhou then showed up to listen to what the master had to say.
The master pleaded: "Sir, my master is ready to spend all his money to buy the deed. It's just that so much money almost fills a cart. It's really inconvenient to trade in this Sanyuan Palace. Just weighing and counting will cost a lot of money."
It will take a long time. What I want to ask is whether you can go to the post house ten miles outside the mountain tomorrow evening to do business. While you are weighing the money, I will also take someone to check the outstanding deeds on the inventory list one by one."