Originally, Qin Dewei wanted to sit at Xu's house for a while. After all, he hadn't seen Xu Shi'an for a long time and he still had a lot to say.
But when he heard that someone had filed a lawsuit against him, Qin Dewei was puzzled. In this bright world, who could be so boring or courageous?
Is it because his reputation is not loud enough, or because his uncle's power can no longer control the street?
Besides, I have good conduct and a clean life, so what can I say to you?
Qin Dewei was so curious that he couldn't sit still at Xu's house, got up and said goodbye to Commander Xu.
Commander Xu saw that something was really going on, so he left no one behind.
Xu Shian sent Qin Dewei outside the gate. Qin Dewei asked: "What else do you want from me?"
Xu Shi'an said in surprise: "How do you know I want something from you?"
Qin Dewei smiled and said: "You and I are so familiar. When I come to your house, you always shout that you are familiar and informal. Why do you keep sending me to the door?
Today is unusual. As the saying goes, if you treat others with courtesy, you must ask for something."
Xu Laosan said coyly: "Can you help me find a house in the county?"
Qin Dewei left in a hurry and didn't ask much about the reason. He just said: "This is a simple matter. Wait for my news, but I will go back to the county government first to check the situation."
Then Qin Dewei left Xu's house in the north of the city and hurried back to the Jiangning County Yamen. After asking at the gate of the county Yamen, he found out that his uncle was working outside, so he went to find his uncle again.
After meeting, Chief Qin talked about the situation: "Today, the gentleman in the execution room said that someone came to the governor's office and accused you of colluding with women and taking other people's property."
What the hell? He still has such explosive deeds? Qin Dewei immediately asked: "Who is the person who complained to Dazhong Cheng? What is the specific reason?"
Dazhongcheng is the elegant title of the governor, and it is also official slang.
Qin Captou replied: "It is not clear who complained. After all, the governor's office is in Jurong, not in Nanjing, but I have sent people to Jurong to inquire.
But when Dazhong Cheng sent a letter to the county government, what he asked for was the file of the lawsuit between the Gu family and the Yang family in the ninth year of Jiajing. So the reason for the lawsuit is 90% this."
Damn it! Qin Dewei was also surprised. How could this happen? Isn't it the same thing that happened when Gu Qiongzhi and her ex-husband's clan were fighting over the family property when they first traveled through time?
No wonder his uncle called him back so urgently. If Madam Gu was involved, wouldn't this hinder the Qin family's second-bedroom incense inheritance?
Looking back, this case is already a long time ago in my memory, and it has already been settled. Why would anyone still want to uncover it?
Moreover, the horse-riding person still wants to reverse the case, which is simply an insult to everyone's intelligence. Can anyone be so mentally retarded?
If everyone works like this and wants to overturn any final decision, then the Ming Dynasty will never have peace.
Although it sounds incredible, it is not a lie that the governor came to check the files. If something happens, you have to face it.
Qin Dewei thought for a moment and concluded: "Only the victim can file a lawsuit, and others are not qualified to file a lawsuit. So I conclude that the person who files the lawsuit against Dazhong Cheng must still be the Yang family!"
When Qin Captou heard this, he was furious and said: "This family is really a bastard, they are so cowardly!"
After scolding, he walked outside again and arranged for his subordinates to go find the Yang family to investigate.
The specific situation still had to wait for feedback. Qin Dewei was not in a hurry to leave. He just sat in his uncle's class room and thought about it for a while. He felt that everything about this matter seemed strange.
Let's just say that Governor Yingtian is just an abbreviation. The full name is usually Governor Yingtian, who also oversees the ten prefectures and is in charge of grain reserves. It is also commonly known as the Governor of Jiangnan. His jurisdiction covers the prefectures south of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili.
Within this jurisdiction, other places are fine. Only Nanjing City, as the capital, has the most complicated situation. There are already higher-level Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the city.
According to traditional unwritten political practices, although Nanjing City is nominally within the jurisdiction of Governor Yingtian, Governor Yingtian basically has no regard for the affairs of Nanjing City.
Therefore, although the governor's name is Yingtian, his actual focus has always been on other prefectures, especially Su Song.
Even the governor's headquarters is not in Nanjing City, the capital of Southern Zhili. It is in Jurong County like the Grand Master. From this perspective, Jurong County can be regarded as half of the capital of Southern Zhili.
Therefore, in the city of Nanjing, Governor Yingtian has always had little sense of presence. Including cases, the local government directly interfaces with the Nanjing Criminal Department, and does not have any business relationship with Governor Yingtian.
This is where things got weird. A Nanjing native actually went to the governor of Yingtian to file a complaint. It seemed unusual.
Qin Dewei can only say that if something goes wrong, it must be a monster!
Moreover, he had just returned to Nanjing, and someone wanted to trip him up. It couldn't be such a coincidence, it must have been planned!
Seeing Capt. Qin finish arranging the manpower and then entering the house, Qin Dewei asked again: "Uncle, do you know who the governor of Yingtian is now?"
This Qin captain had already inquired about him and replied: "It is Sheng Duanming, the former minister of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing.
Last year, Lord Yin Yan was transferred to the Nanjing Ministry of Rites as a minister, and then the minister Sheng was appointed as the right deputy censor of the capital and governor of Yingtian."
Qin Dewei only vaguely knew this name, but this person was not really a historical celebrity and did not have much deeds.
So Qin Dewei didn't know much about him, let alone the factionalism behind him.
But nowadays, it is not difficult to know the general background of a high-ranking official. "Uncle, does he know where this Dazhong Cheng is from?"
This Chief Qin really doesn't know much about it. People of his level generally don't pay attention to this.
But it doesn't matter, Qin Dewei can just ask people in official circles or scholars. It's a very simple matter.
"Maybe it's not as serious as you think." Qin Captou said with relief: "Maybe Dazhong Cheng just checked it as a routine matter and did not decide to do anything against you."
Qin Dewei shook his head, "I'm sure that the Yang family's complaint was definitely not accidental, but must have been deliberate for a long time.
Since it was planned, then Dazhong Cheng who happened to meet him must not have met by chance, and most likely he did it on purpose!"
Qin Dewei waited until evening. The police officer who went out to inquire about the Yang family came back with news and reported that a member of the Yang family named Yang Qi had been missing for several days!
Yang Qi Qin Dewei still had an impression of this name. He seemed to be the uncle of Gu Qiongzhi's ex-husband and the main figure in robbing the family property.
Qin Dewei asked again: "Since Yang Qi has been missing for several days, has anything unusual happened to the Yang family?"
The officer replied: "Everything is normal for the rest of the Yang family, there is nothing abnormal."
Qin Dewei slapped the case and said: "It must be Yang Qi who went to the Jurong County governor's office to file a complaint! And he didn't dare to come back and stayed in Jurong!"
But this alone is not enough, Qin Dewei needs more information.
Back to Mrs. Gu, after Qin Dewei told the matter, Gu Qiongzhi was extremely angry.
“When I married my ex-husband, he was just a small businessman. Later, he met a big salt businessman in Yangzhou and was able to open four salt shops in Nanjing within a few years.
So this family fortune actually has nothing to do with the Yang family, but Yang Qi is the most greedy and hateful one!
I originally thought that after half of the separation, the matter was over, but I didn’t expect that Yang Qi would still have the nerve to bring up the old matter a few years later, so why is his ghost still lingering?"
Qin Dewei was afraid that Mrs. Gu would be depressed and unable to think about things, which would affect the biggest task of the year, so he persuaded her: "You don't have to worry too much, he is suing me this time, not you.
I don’t know who instigated it to come against me, so no matter what I use to say something, it’s just a pretext.”
Then he added: "We have to postpone the wine presentation for a while, and let's see what happens next."
Mrs. Gu was very depressed, so she dragged Qin Dewei to the bedroom. In recent years, she had to hold back the depressing things she encountered. Now she finally has a channel to vent her emotions.
After waiting for another two days, the person who went to Jurong County to inquire about the news came back.
It was confirmed that the person who went to the governor's office to complain was indeed Yang Qi, and the request was to return the two salt shops to the Yang family, which surprised Qin Dewei again.
There were originally four salt shops in the inheritance. After the lawsuit, Mrs. Gu and the Yang family each got two.
Now that he and Madam Gu control such a large bank, two salt shops are really not that important.
But Yang Qi spent so much effort and took such a huge risk to sue the Little Overlord, just for two salt shops?
Qin Dewei was originally wondering if someone wanted to take advantage of the bank, but was he overthinking it?
To be honest, Qin Dewei really didn't understand what Yang Qi was thinking. If someone was instructing Yang Qi, why not just take a bigger step?
If the purpose is just two salt shops, even if you win the lawsuit, apart from losing face, what real harm will it cause?
At the same time, people who inquired about the governor's background also received feedback, saying that the governor was from Guangdong and had been a Jinshi in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi's reign.
It turned out that he was from Guangdong, and Qin Dewei immediately understood a lot.
Fang Xianfu, the second assistant, is from Cantonese, Huo Tao, who has the deepest feud with him, is also from Cantonese, and even that confused old hermaphrodite, Eunuch Qin, is also from Cantonese!
At this point, it can be guessed that no matter whether Governor Sheng is passive or active, he definitely has no good intentions towards himself.
But at this time, there was no official response from the governor's office, and Qin Dewei couldn't do anything, so he simply did nothing.
On this day, Qin Dewei escaped from Gu's house on Sanshan Street and returned to Qingxi House to recuperate.
He sat idle and talked to his servant Hao Danian and his wife, "Have you really used the old Xiyuan next door as a vegetable garden? I see that the vegetable garden area inside is getting bigger and bigger, and I heard many comrades say that I am wasting natural resources."
Hao Danian said carefully: "Idle time is idle. Could it be that you plan to use it, young master?"
Qin Dewei thought about it and said, "Let's take a look at this year's provincial examination first. If you don't pass, then start building the garden!"
If the rural examination fails in August this year, it means that I will have to stay in Nanjing for a long time. It will also be useful to start renovating the new garden at that time.
But if I pass the provincial examination this year and then go to the capital, I won’t be in a hurry to repair it, so we’ll talk about it then.
At this time, Gao Changjiang, a classmate from the county school, suddenly came to visit.
Qin Dewei asked: "Have you finished the examination for recording heritage? Did the Grand Master give you a quota for the provincial examination?"
"Thanks to you, I passed the imperial examination and allowed me to apply for the provincial examination!" Gao Changjiang casually said a few words about his situation.
Qin Dewei said: "Congratulations, you and I can compete together in the provincial examination this year."
Gao Changjiang said anxiously: "Don't talk about me yet! Brother Qin, how can you still sit still?"
Qin Dewei asked: "What? What did you hear?"
Gao Changjiang replied: "When I was in Jurong, I heard that someone came to the governor's office to sue you. It was just a joke at first, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
But after I returned to Nanjing, I heard many guests at my Taibai Building talking about you taking things by force!"
This was an aspect that Qin Dewei had not paid attention to, so he asked again: "There are many discussions?"
Gao Changjiang nodded and said, "There is a lot of talk about you, and it seems that it has spread."
Qin Dewei thought, this is a strange place again.
There are many cases in Nanjing every day, but only a few are circulated. Why can such a matter of a complaint from Jurong, a hundred miles away, spread? Is it just because he is a celebrity?
Gao Changjiang seemed more anxious than Qin Dewei: "Why don't you think of a solution quickly?"
Qin Dewei thought for a while and said, "Let's wait a little longer."
"What are you waiting for?" Gao Changjiang said doubtfully.
You, Qin Dewei, are not a powerless scholar. You should quickly find connections and use your power, both black and white, to settle things as soon as possible!
Qin Dewei replied: "Wait and see what some people want to do."
Gao Changjiang still couldn't understand: "Your inaction seems too weak and incompetent in the eyes of outsiders.
Most of the Yang family are just small traders, and one scholar is not as good as our Gao family.
Just move your little finger and you can make them want to die. How long will it take if you don't kill chickens and scare monkeys?"
Qin Dewei said disapprovingly: "What's the point of doing what you say?"
Gao Changjiang explained: "Force the Yang family to withdraw the lawsuit. As long as they withdraw the lawsuit, everything will be quiet."
Qin Dewei scolded: "We are educated and sensible scholars, not street thugs. We must pay attention to royal laws and principles when doing things! Gao Gao, you still need to raise your consciousness!"
At this moment, he suddenly heard a knock on the door, and Hao Danian reported: "There are county officials outside, and they have brought an officer from the governor's Biaoying camp, saying they are here to deliver a summons!"
Qin Dewei frowned and said, "Let the people in!"
Not long after, I saw two people coming. One was the county government officer who was responsible for leading the way, and the other was an officer I had never seen before.
It is estimated that the officers and soldiers did not know where they lived, so they first found the county government and asked people from the county government to bring them over.
The officer took out a document stamped with customs protection, handed it over and said: "Young man is under the banner of Fuyuan, and I have been ordered to come here to deliver the summons!"
After Qin Dewei took it, he looked at it for a few times and found that it was indeed a ticket summoned by the governor to go to Futai, Jurong County to attend court!
Is this guy's face still showing?
The officer asked again: "I wonder when Mr. Qin will leave?"
Qin Dewei couldn't help but laugh and said: "Dazhong Cheng's hand stretched far enough to reach the city of Nanjing!"
"Since someone has come to complain, we can't ignore it." The officer responded, and then urged, "Mr. Qin, please leave as soon as possible."
Qin Dewei suddenly used his hands hard and tore the summons into pieces in three strokes while others on the left and right looked at him in astonishment.
Then he threw scraps of paper at the officer's face and said only one word: "Get out!"
The officers and soldiers caught a few scraps of paper, their faces flushed, and they looked at Qin Dewei angrily.
Qin Dewei sneered: "If Dazhong Cheng is capable, he will send troops into Nanjing to catch me!"
Gao Changjiang was stunned, is this how you, Qin Dewei, talk about the king's laws?
We are here to advise you to be arrogant towards the Yang family, but we are not advising you to be so arrogant towards the governor!