Ma Xiaoquan's "home visit" was actually made up by him deliberately on the pretext of "catching Jurchen spies". Anyway, as long as he entered someone's house, he would hold a booklet and interrogate them one by one from top to bottom, inside and out, like interrogating thieves.
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Most of the members of the Beiming Family were ordinary people. Against an official like Ma Xiaoquan who came from a royal family, they were defeated in just a few rounds.
However, Ma Xiaoquan did not make things too difficult for the Beiming people, but there were always some who were not firm-willed. Before Ma Xiaoquan even asked, these people tremblingly revealed the things they had committed before.
It was just a preliminary sampling survey, and Ma Xiaoquan made a general summary: the Beiming people did not have a direct relationship with the Jurchens, but were instead people with other surnames living around the Beiming family, and some of them had really close contacts with the Jurchens.
Ma Xiaoquan did not immediately exercise his powers as a deacon. After all, the emperor was far away and he did not have any capable assistants. Therefore, Ma Xiaoquan only gave up after a short interrogation. Of course, he did not give up in vain, leaving some
Money to buy life is still necessary.
It's just that Ma Xiaoquan's behavior made the entire Beiming family panic.
The Beiming Family is not far from the border, and has naturally dealt with all parties in the border. The characteristic of a wealthy family in the hidden world is that they do not participate in worldly disputes, but they also want to preserve their own family.
Due to its special location, the Beiming family had some overt and covert dealings with the Ming army and the Jurchen tribe. Ma Xiaoquan had noticed some clues about this when he came here, but it was just because of the conflict between his Ma family and the Beiming family.
Ma Xiaoquan did not pay too much attention to the relationship between the aristocratic families. Anyway, the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not caused by a small reclusive wealthy family.
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That night, someone reported the news of Ma Xiao's investigation to the head of the family, Bei Mingzheng.
Bei Mingzheng felt a cold sweat in his heart. He was worried about this. Unexpectedly, Ma Xiaoquan found this out.
Urgently summoning a group of elders, the Beiming family began an overnight brainstorming meeting.
...
At the same time, Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng, under Ma Xiaoquan's arrangement, successfully "threatened" Bei Mingtian.
Bei Mingtian, who owed twenty thousand taels, stood in front of Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng, wanting to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. He thought the money he owed belonged to the bank, but somehow the IOU ended up at Ma's house.
In the hands of brothers.
Bei Mingtian really wanted to get the IOU back, but in front of Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng, his skills were not good enough and he was even weaker.
Ma Yuan didn't bother to take action at all, and Ma Cheng just moved and subdued Beiming Tianzhi.
"Master Ma Second, Master Ma Third, please do your best and give me the IOU. I can do whatever you ask me to do."
Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng looked at each other, and the latter said: "Give it to you? How is it possible? It's 20,000 taels of silver. I'll give it to you if you say it. Let me tell you, although the IOU is in our hands, the money
You have to pay back not a penny less, do you hear me?"
Bei Mingtian felt suffocated and regretful at the same time. Logically speaking, he was still the elder of Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng, and now he was being lectured by two juniors. It was really embarrassing.
"Then what do you want?" Bei Mingtian said sadly.
"Whatever you don't want to do, repaying debts is a matter of course. Second uncle, you won't just sit back and not want to repay. If you want to do this, then we will tell your second uncle."
"No, no, no, no~" Bei Mingtian rolled his eyes and said, "The day of grace hasn't come yet. I'm waiting for the day of grace to come. I will definitely pay it back, I will definitely pay it back~"
Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng smiled slightly: "Oh, second uncle, we have to leave, but we don't have enough money. As you know, my fourth brother is still going to Hua's house, and the betrothal gift hasn't been collected yet. Otherwise, the second uncle will leave."
I will go back and talk to my second uncle and urge the head of the Beiming family to help us collect some betrothal gifts. In this way, my second uncle’s debt can be paid off. Can I use the betrothal gift to pay it off?"
Bei Mingtian smiled bitterly and said: "My father has withdrawn from the elders group. I'm afraid I can't do what you said."
"We have nothing to do with this. Second uncle, if you don't do it, we won't be polite."
"Okay, okay...I know, I know~" Bei Mingtian cursed in his heart, but on the surface he nodded with a sincere look.
After Bei Mingtian turned around and left, Ma Yuan and Ma Cheng looked at each other and smiled. Ma Yuan said: "Bei Mingtian will definitely not do anything. He expected that we were leaving soon and wanted to deny it after we left, so I thought
Look, the arrangements made by the fourth son are a little inappropriate. The two of us got the twenty thousand taels of silver from the gambling shop owner through coercion and inducement, so if we don’t make some profit, we would be sorry for ourselves."
Ma Chengdao: "Second brother is right. In this case, let's just secretly spread the news that Bei Mingtian owes money, and then go directly to Bei Mingzheng to ask for it. I don't believe it. Bei Mingzheng can look at me."
My nephew is in disgrace."
"Okay~~"
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In the main hall of the Beiming Family, Beiming was leading a group of elders to hold a clan meeting. A servant outside the door suddenly came to report that it was Ma Yuan, the second son of the Ma family, who wanted to see him.
"No!" Bei Mingzheng simply refused.
"No? Haha..." The main hall door was kicked open by Ma Yuan from the outside with a clang. The Beiming servants guarding the door were all knocked to the ground by Ma Yuan one by one, in pain*.
An elder pulled out a short sword from his waist, glared at Ma Yuan and said, "You, Ma Yuan, what do you want to do? Are you committing any crime? Don't think that because your Ma family is from the imperial court, we will be afraid of you!"
Ma Yuan ignored the elder, walked straight to Bei Mingzheng, stretched out his hand and threw an IOU, saying: "Master Beiming, this is the twenty thousand taels owed by Bei Mingtian, when will you pay it back?"
"What? Twenty thousand taels?" Bei Mingzheng was reading the IOU under the candlelight and looked at Ma Yuan suspiciously, "Ma Yuan, I'm afraid it's a fake made by your Ma family?"
"Huh? Fake? It's interesting. This IOU can be faked. Could it be that the head of the Beiming Family still wants to destroy the IOU immediately and default on the debt? If so, then I will send people to get the medicinal materials from the various pharmacies of your Beiming Family!
"
"Wait a minute! Do you mean that Bei Mingtian is really in debt?"
Ma Yuan nodded: "The head of the Beiming family can go to Changle Gambling House to find out whether Beiming Tian owes more than 20,000 taels. The shopkeeper gave me a favor and removed the odd change. My Ma family has helped me with this IOU.
I paid in advance, but the money owed to my Ma family cannot be less. Yes, there is no favor at all. If the head of the Beiming family wants to play the favor card, I'm sorry, I won't buy it! Pay back the money!"
Bei Mingzheng's face turned dark and he snorted coldly: "Could it be that you are plotting against Tian'er? Can Tian'er owe so much money?"
