Chapter 034 No One Benefits
Master Shi thought again and decided that Mr. Wang should actually be called Eunuch Wang. He was from the palace and must be a eunuch.
The deceased was also a eunuch, with a pure gold waist badge on his body. His identity had been confirmed, and it must be Mr. Wang.
It’s Mag’s fault. This game has become a big deal.
There is actually a powerful man hiding in this shabby place of Yibin. Even a master from the imperial palace like Old Wangtou is no match for him.
Mr. Shi's scalp felt tight and tight. Oh my god, this is getting out of hand.
He secretly left the palace with the eunuchs and lost his life outside, but it was a serious crime of deceiving the emperor, and it would cause the historians to suffer.
When Master Shi thought about it, his descendants also panicked. He immediately left home and rushed to the county government office. He went straight to the back hall to see the county magistrate Chen Yun and asked him to hand over the deceased's belongings found by the coroner.
The county magistrate asked him what his relationship was with the deceased, who was a thief who robbed the office.
Mr. Shi said he was his man.
The county magistrate asked, if he was the young master's man, how could he sneak into the office in the middle of the night to steal and injure people?
Master Shi was afraid that the longer he dragged on, the more people would know about it, so he stopped arguing with the county magistrate and said that Chen Yun could not handle the matter and that it would not benefit anyone if a fuss was made. He asked Chen Yun to hand over the gold medal immediately and let him take the body away.
The county magistrate said that the gold medal could be given to him, and that he was the only one who could steal the body. The county could withdraw the guards and let his people move the body. Otherwise, how would his Yibin County Office explain to the people?
Master Shi went mad after seeing that Master Wang was dead, and all he was thinking about was how to give an explanation to Lin'an.
He left the county government office without looking back and returned to Xu's house. Xu Yanei told him that everyone was there and it was time to meet the merchants at the dock.
Master Shi was in a state of confusion, and there was no point in discussing anything. He followed Xu Yanei in a daze and said directly that his family's affairs were Xu's family's affairs, and everything was decided by Xu Yanei.
Xu Yanei was very happy now, thinking that since he had become the brother-in-law of the Shi family, his power would increase greatly and the benefits would come as expected.
He said bluntly, "What else is there to discuss? It is still the Xu family that has the final say in Yibin. Each family should settle the matter according to the price they paid when they bought the land. If the land cost ten taels of silver , he would also give ten taels of silver for the house on the land. Just accept it."
Finally, he also specifically stated that Wu Gufeng of Chengyi Distillery had to stay with his recipe master, the wine-making master had to stay, and Chen Xiaomin also had to work in the distillery. Would the Shi family treat their servants unfairly?
Then, Xu Yanei waved his hand and ordered them to disperse.
The merchants were all stunned and immediately went into an uproar, asking what this was all about. It was clearly a case of poaching. When did Yibin become so unbearable?
Does Magistrate Xu still want people to live?
Xu Yanei simply ignored all this and went directly to the county government office to discuss the land money with the county magistrate Chen Yun.
Chen Yun said this was no small matter, and he hadn't considered it yet. One was how to settle the original land purchase agreements of the merchants? Another was how to calculate the investment of the dock labor union?
Xu Yanei knew that the Labor Society was Zhao Yulin's territory, and he wanted to show off in front of Master Shi, saying that what was there to be counted for? They were all beggars' livelihoods, they begged for food at the dock, and they should pay, so they were exempted from all charges.
Chen Yun was unhappy. Those built docks and road facilities cost a lot of money. Zhao Yulin had said that they belonged to the county government. Now he wanted to sell them for cash. How could he just give them up?
The county magistrate said that it was all piled up with silver, so how could it be avoided? Wouldn't that be robbing beggars? Such a thing has never been heard of in the past and future dynasties.
When Xu Yanei heard what he said, he blushed. Knowing that he was in the wrong, he turned to look at Master Shi, but unexpectedly, Master Shi had already left.
Xu Yanei hurriedly said goodbye and left.
The common people in the city all knew that the Shi family of Lin'an and the prefect Xu family were going to buy the Yibin wharf, and they were going to force it to buy it at a low price and rob the merchants on the wharf, causing chaos.
Mr. Wang from Lizhiqing was furious. He had the largest storage area at the dock, the most land, and was the first to open it. If he were to return it at double the purchase price, he would be losing a lot. The land price was almost zero at the time, but it cost a lot to build the house.
Besides, without the pier, should we let him go to Sanjiangkou in Cuiping Mountain?
I heard that the porcelain shop was the first to buy land, and each acre was ten taels of silver. He had to sell the house to rebuild the wharf and warehouse. Several salt merchants, grain merchants, and cloth merchants had tea with him and discussed going to Jiazhou to file a complaint.
The Wang family also has another trick up their sleeve, which is that when in danger, they can report their affairs directly to the Lin'an court.
In Cuiping Mountain in Jiangnan, Zhao Yulin was taking a nap in the study after lunch. Chen Xiaomin came in and he asked Xiaomin to move the chair over and hold his head for a nap.
The little girl knew that he had internal injuries, so she moved the chair obediently. Zhao Yulin put his head on Chen Xiaomin and closed his eyes.
The little girl muttered, why not ask Sister Ma Ling to serve her?
At this moment I remembered her.
Zhao Yulin said that he was already taking her with him. Ma Ling was alone and helpless, but everyone loved her, so why should he care?
Chen Xiaomin said that he falls in love with every girl he meets and he is a complete lecher. Looking at Sister Yuqi, it seems that her heart has been stolen by him again.
Xiaomin pinched his cheek and said that he was a romantic man and would be in trouble in the future, so she must keep a close eye on him.
After hearing her say this, Zhao Yulin thought that she had passed this test, so he reached out, touched her face and told her to take a nap.
Zhao Yulin was indeed tired. He had a fierce fight last night and couldn't let go of Wu Yuqi. He also suffered internal injuries. Thinking about the mess behind him made him really tired. He soon fell into snoring with his head resting on Xiaomin.
He had just taken a nap, and woke up when he heard voices, just in time to see his mother coming in. Chen Xiaomin reported to her mother like a young wife that Brother Yulin was too tired and had just fallen asleep for a while.
His mother smiled kindly and said that the county magistrate, Mr. Chen, had arrived.
Zhao Yulin hurried out and saw Chen Yun standing in the yard. He and his mother immediately invited her to sit in the living room. After drinking tea, his mother walked away with a smile on her face.
Chen Yun asked him directly how he beat Eunuch Wang to death?
Zhao Yulin had no idea that the man in black was the eunuch Wang in the Lin'an Palace. He looked at Chen Yun in confusion.
The county magistrate said that the thief who was brought to the county government office this morning was Eunuch Wang. To be honest, I am also a member of the Lin'an Imperial City Department. Eunuch Wang was an important steward in the Lin'an Imperial Palace. He died in Yibin, and I must give an explanation.
After hearing this, Zhao Yulin sighed and said that the emperor's love for historians was a shame to the emperor.
He told the county magistrate everything that had happened in the office at the dock. He asked the county magistrate, didn't he see that the young master of the Shi family intended to get Ma Ling'er and the Chen family's grain harvest, so he resorted to the lavish move of buying the dock?
How could the county magistrate not see this? He was just pretending to be stupid.
He asked Zhao Yulin what to do?
Zhao Yulin said what else could he do? He must protect his women. He wanted to keep them in a golden house and would not let them leave Cuiping Mountain. He would withdraw all his activities and wait and see what would happen.
The county magistrate was shocked and asked him where the dock was.
Just don't care about that?
Zhao Yulin said that the Shi family had great power in the government and that if they wanted to buy a place, they would buy it. No one would dare to say no. However, if the emperor wanted to visit Yibin in the future, he would have to pass through the Shi family's yard.
The county magistrate suddenly woke up and said that he had important business to attend to and had to go back quickly, and asked the young man to rest well.
Zhao Yulin was already tired of sleepiness after seeing the county magistrate off, so he asked Xiaomin to accompany him to visit his father Chen Zhongshun.
Cuiping Mountain is now accessible by oxcarts. Zhao Yulin wanted to carry Xiaomin on the cart, but she refused. Instead, she helped him get on, and the two of them took the cart to the winery.
Chen Zhongshun and Qu Zhengyang were having tea. When they saw them coming, they said they could have a meal together. Qu Zhengyang immediately stood up and made arrangements.
Chen Zhongshun sighed and said that what he said was very good. It was not enough to have a bumper harvest, and there must be a way to protect it. Shi Jiahao's purchase of the wharf was a wake-up call for him.
Zhao Yulin laughed and said that it was only a small amount of money, it couldn't be considered a lavish purchase, but it was not an exaggeration to say that he had robbed someone of his money.
However, with the commotion caused by the Shi family, Prime Minister Shi's reputation in Lin'an and in front of the emperor would definitely be greatly damaged, and it might even shake the emperor's trust in him.
After the wine and food were served, the family sat down, and Chen Zhongshun ordered a jar of three-month-old Wu Gu Feng tea, which tasted even better.
Zhao Yulin told Aunt Wu that the lees after brewing wine could be used to raise chickens. He explained on the table the methods of fermenting lees and raising chickens in an ecological way in later generations. He said that the mountain behind was so spacious and the lees were readily available. If Aunt Wu was bored, she could find some servants to try raising chickens.
Zhao Yulin planned to modify the later method of hatching chickens with kerosene lamps. He would use vegetable oil lamps for heating and iron plates for heat transfer to hatch the chicks. He would also use the large amount of distiller's grains in Cuiping Mountain to build a large chicken farm to meet the demand for Zhulin Beggar Chickens.
Chen Xiaomin was very happy and said that if they surrounded a large mountain, how many chickens would they have to raise? Those chickens ate distiller's grains every day and would definitely learn how to do drunken boxing without any instruction.
The little girl shook her head and gestured as she spoke, which made everyone laugh.
After dinner, he went back early to have tea with Mr. Zhang Xiangyang.
The old gentleman's academy is becoming more and more famous, and the wealthy families in Jiangbei are sending their children to study here. Zhao Yulin talked to him about the strange things that happened in the city in the past two days. The old gentleman was very angry about the corruption of the court, but he was very impressed by Zhao Yulin's method of beating the perpetrator to death. He said that this method was brilliant, which not only solved the problem, but also made those people with ulterior motives speechless.
Zhao Yulin said that it is easy to find a pretext to accuse someone of a crime. If those high-ranking people want to have fun, are they afraid that they will not find a reason to kill someone?
The old gentleman was speechless. He said that Yue Wumu was an example. If one let those people do whatever they wanted, his family would surely be ruined.
Zhao Yulin said that he had an idea. He would write an article in Mr. Zhao's Cuiping Morning News to let the people know that when the momentum gets too big, those prominent people will have to be more restrained.
The old man understood immediately and said that he would not use a knife or a gun anymore, and it would be a good opportunity to use the pen in his hand to help. He immediately drove Zhao Yulin and Chen Xiaomin away, and he was going to start working.
