Xie Yuan changed Shi Ji's clothes and heard that he was over fifteen years old. After some consideration, Xie Yuan sent him to Governor Huo.
Governor Huo knew that the boy was a commoner, so he moved him to a military household and asked him to start as an unknown soldier.
Shi Ji was grateful to the Huo family and his son, and to Xie Yuan for his introduction. He began to study hard and vowed to repay Xie Yuan.
Later, the reward he promised was fulfilled, but it really shocked Xie Yuan and others.
Of course, these are all things for later.
After Cui Xunzhi arrived, Xie Yuan did not stop letting her take medicine.
He read the Huangdi Neijing and other ancient medical books and found a milder prescription that was more suitable for Cui Xunzhi to help her eliminate the remaining poison.
In addition, Xie Yuan and Cui Heng also carefully taught Cui Xunzhi how to speak.
With the help of the two of them, Cui Xunzhi gradually stopped talking and stumbling, and became just like ordinary people.
Xie Yuan saw that his little apprentice's smile was getting more and more beautiful day by day, so he handed her over to Huo Qubing and let them go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
Comrade Xiao Xie began to deal with various civil disputes.
After learning that someone dared to report the gentry for selling illegal salt, the common people also realized that Xie Yuan was not just joking, but that he was serious about his business, so they wrote anonymous letters one after another expressing their sufferings and asking for Xie Yuan's help.
Without exception, these civil disputes were ordinary trivial matters, and some involved disputes between noble families.
Xie Yuan left the ordinary trivial matters to Cui Heng to handle, while he went to see the conflicts between the common people and the nobles.
In the final analysis, these conflicts arise out of interests.
Like one of these.
A son of a noble family lacked maids at home and did not want to go to the slave market to buy one. Because he felt dirty, he went to a place where common people lived to select young and beautiful women and forcibly brought them to the mansion to serve as slaves.
The families of those women were not happy and filed a complaint with the local county government.
It is a coincidence that these county magistrates were recommended by the gentry where the sons of this gentry belong. When they heard that they were going to sue the young master of the boss, how could they bear it?
Then he ordered someone to discount the complainant twenty bucks.
That man was born with a weak body, so he could not bear such a punishment. He was beaten to death in the court while he was still alive.
Zhuo Jing, who came with him, saw the tragic death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter. She cried so miserably that she went back and hanged herself from a beam.
Someone knew about this and felt that the family was too miserable, so he wrote an anonymous letter asking Xie Yuan to rescue the woman who had been robbed.
Xie Yuan found a retainer and handed him this letter: "Go and find out which noble family member this is."
"Here." The retainer took the letter and left.
Xie Yuan looked at other reporting letters.
Either the sons of the gentry occupied the fields and forced their families to die, or they acted tyrannically and insulted the women of the people - these behaviors were a complete disregard of his edict.
When Huo Qubing and Cui Xunzhi returned, Xie Yuanzheng was talking alone, seemingly thinking about something.
"master."
"Lord."
They both saluted together.
"You're back. Did you have fun today?" Xie Yuan put down the chess pieces and looked up.
"I'm really enjoying myself. It's just that when I was buying candies on the road, the copper coins given by the vendor seemed to be a little different. The disciple looked strange, but couldn't tell what was strange, so he brought it back and asked the master to take a look." Cui Xunzhi whispered.
"See with me."
After hearing Xie Yuan's words, Cui Xunzhi immediately took out a coin from his wallet and walked over and placed it on the table.
Xie Yuan looked at the front and back of the coin.
It was cast during the Tianwu period and looks pretty decent.
He took out another coin from his sleeve and put them together to compare them.
In the candlelight, the two coins looked exactly the same, and there was nothing unusual about them.
Xie Yuan squinted his eyes, picked up two coins and weighed them at the same time. He found that the coins Cui Xunzhi gave him were a little light, so he asked, "Do all the coins he gave you in change look like this?"
"It's all like this."
Cui Xunzhi took out the remaining copper coins and gave them to Xie Yuan to compare.
After careful identification, Xie Yuan's eyes became darker.
"The money is counterfeit."
Everyone was stunned.
counterfeit?!
Cui Heng also arrived at this time. After hearing the word "counterfeit coins", he put on his kuei and began to identify them carefully.
After a moment, he nodded and said——
"It is indeed a counterfeit coin. The real Jin Five Baht coins are made on a strict scale and are uniformly forged and issued by the central government. These counterfeit coins look the same at first glance, but upon closer inspection you can see that they are rough in production and the sizes of the five baht coins are not the same."
Everyone looked at each other.
In the past, the Xu family was selling private salt, but now there are people who are secretly minting counterfeit coins. They are so brave.
Whether it is the previous dynasty or the current Jin Dynasty, forging counterfeit coins is tantamount to treason, and the three tribes will be annihilated.
Xie Yuan vaguely felt something was different, so he asked Huo Qubing and Cui Xunzhi to visit and investigate.
In the next three months, the two of them took a rough trip around Yangzhou in the name of fun.
Then they discovered that these counterfeit coins were only circulated in Yangzhou and had not spread to other state capitals.
Moreover, the circulation time only started after the mining incident.
Cui Xunzhi and Huo Qubing felt something was wrong and immediately reported it to Xie Yuan.
Did it start after the mining incident?
Somehow, Xie Yuan thought of Lu Zhong.
"Counterfeit coins began to circulate after the mining incident, and the lord gave two mine veins to Lu Zhong. Lu Zhong married Wang's daughter, which was regarded as taking refuge in Wang Dazai. And Wang Dazai also formed a big relationship with the lord -"
Cui Heng fell silent when he said this.
In fact, everyone knew what he had left unsaid.
It is very likely that Lu Zhong was secretly instructed by Wang Dazai to use the money earned from mining to secretly forge counterfeit coins and circulate them in Yangzhou. After this year's inspector comes down, he can frame Xie Yuan for minting counterfeit coins.
You must know that casting counterfeit coins is tantamount to conspiracy. If this is not handled properly, not only Xie Yuan, but also they will be annihilated.
Huo Qubing shook his head with red eyes: "Impossible. Shaohan has a fatal friendship with us, how could he help Wang Dazai to harm the lord."
"People will change if they are unjust. He is now the son-in-law of his maternal relative Wang, and he relies on Wang Dazai to reach the position of Crown Prince and Tutor - he and his maternal relative Wang have long become a grasshopper on a rope.
." Cui Heng sighed.
It's not that he doesn't know what's going on in the court, he just doesn't want to talk about it.
In such a place of intrigue, how could Lu Zhong be able to become the Crown Prince and Tutor in such a short period of time? He must have found someone to help him secretly.
"But when the entire Lu family was beheaded, the lord tried his best to save him despite everyone's opinions. Why did he want to harm the lord?" Huo Qubing gritted his teeth.
"Do you still remember who was the leader of the Lu family because of which three clans were wiped out?" Cui Heng asked quietly.
Huo Qubing's face turned pale.
It's them.
It was the Huo family, the Cui family, the lord and brother Wangshu, who together exposed the Lu family's ambition.
So Shaohan has always hated them?
He shook his body. This chapter has been completed!