Chapter 492

After Fang Xing caught Su Bawei, he did not interrogate him, but was detained in the backyard.

"Let me out..."

"My Lord, I'm wronged!"

“……”

He closed the script in his hand, frowned and said, "why did Uncle lock them up?"

While monitoring the row of houses where the Su family were detained, Fang Wu replied, "they sell private salt."

"That's the worst crime," he said stupidly

"Of course."

Most people know that selling illicit salt is a felony.

"Then why don't you put them in jail?"

If he was interrogated continuously like this, Fang Wu would be impatient, but his stupidity was different. He said softly, "they haven't found evidence of selling private salt."

Because it is rumored that Jubao mountain guard will close the street, most of the people who are worried about being arrested close their doors and sneak out of the wall.

So Fang woke up and asked people to advertise it. He came to catch illegal salt traders, which alleviated the panic in the hearts of the people.

"But they are really noisy!"

Stupidly tilted his head and thought, "Fang Wu, I remember a big yard in the west of the city. It is said that it is haunted. No one dares to take that road at night."

Fang Wu was stunned and said, "really? It has nothing to do with private salt?"

Staring at the sky gloomily at a 45 degree angle, he said faintly, "but I think there should be some... Shady things in there!"

"Fang Wu, the master calls you."

Fang Wu answered and hurried inside.

Blankly murmured, "why doesn't anyone believe me?"

When Fang Wu arrived at the back, Fang woke up and said to him, "someone is coming right away. Please bring someone to pay attention to the people's entourage."

When Fang Wu was ordered to leave, Huang Zhong said with a smile, "this Liu Bixian is a leading figure in Yangzhou Prefecture. Every magistrate has to visit Liu's house at the beginning of his term of office, otherwise this official must be unstable."

Fang woke up and prepared to go to the front hall. When he heard the speech, he said, "this is the power of the gentry. When this power becomes greater and greater in the future, it will really last forever."

Later, the emperor sent people to collect taxes, but the local gentry encouraged the people to make trouble. What royal guards and eunuchs became jokes.

Fight for profits with the people!

The emperor wanted to collect business tax, but the ministers criticized it as "competing for profits with the people" and "good goods".

And those rich businessmen who rely on opening the sea are the masters behind all this.

Later, Shanxi Merchants rose up suddenly by smuggling grasslands, echoing the South and north of the southern merchants. The whole Daming Dynasty can be said to have become a merchant empire.

The cabinet is the spokesman of businessmen. All officials have long been bribed by various names of "filial piety", leaving only the emperor, who is really alone.

Even when the city gate was opened, the emperor was the last to know!

In the front hall, seeing Fang Xing striding forward, Liu Bixian was trembling and helped up by Liu Shanren. He arched his hands and said, "Uncle Xinghe, please forgive me. I'm old and impolite."

Fang Xing smiled and said, "Mr. Bixian is very polite. Please sit down."

Liu Bixian and Yang Shiqi wrote words in general. After sitting down, he stared at Fang awake with turbid eyes and said slowly, "Xinghe is young and promising. I'm not feeling well recently. I'm late!"

"Bi Xiangong was praised. Fang was lucky and couldn't compare with Bi Xiangong's high reputation."

After a few greetings, Liu Shanren asked Fang Xing when he saw that Fang Xing had not taken the initiative to mention the blood spatter on the street yesterday.

"Uncle, how was yesterday?"

"What happened yesterday? What happened yesterday?" Fang Xing said with a stunned look on his face

Liu Bixian scolded a little fox in his heart, and then coughed, "Xinghe Bo, Yangzhou has been in Chengping for a long time, and the sword soldiers can't move!"

Fang Xing listened with a smile and did not refute.

Liu Bixian glanced at him, and then said slowly: "since I returned to my hometown, I'm really relieved to see the harmony between government and people. Since then, I just want to travel under the forest and survive here. However, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. Many people begged me to come forward one after another and begged uncle Xinghe to look at my thin face and put out the sword, so that the people can live in peace, and everyone is happy..."

After saying that, Liu Bixian took a sip of tea and looked at Fang Xing faintly.

Fang woke up in a daze. He said with a smile: "Mr. PI Xiangong, the crime of yesterday was not in our department. It was written by Su Bawei. Later, Fang was so angry that he copied the Su family and found something..."

Seeing Fang Xing's smiling face, Liu Bixian interrupted: "Xinghe Bo, I've been traveling in official circles for many years and have been kind to others. I've made a lot of friends. There are many friends and many roads. What do you say about Xinghe Bo?"

Fang woke up and said, "Fang doesn't have many friends, but they treat each other wholeheartedly. I don't know who PI Xiangong's friends are?"

Since returning home, this is the first time someone has ridiculed Liu Bixian, but his city is not shallow, so he just smiled and said: "I have been impeached before. I'm really scared when I think of those days!"

This is a threat!

Fang woke up with a smile and said coldly, "Mr. Bixian is old. Isn't it good to rest at home? You have to go out and wade in the muddy water, but the fish in the muddy water is hard to touch!"

These words stirred up the previous "harmonious atmosphere". Liu Shanren woke up and glared at each other, saying in a deep voice, "uncle, my father's old days are all over Daming..."

This is still a threat!

At this time, ignoring the existence of Liu Bixian and his son, Huang Zhong walked to Fang Xing from the outside and whispered a few words in his ear.

Fang Xing's expression remained unchanged. After Huang Zhong finished, he got up and said, "Ben has business to deal with, so he won't accompany Bi Xiangong and see off the guests."

This is rude and tantamount to driving people away.

Generally, when people treat guests, it is basically the guests who decide to stop by observing their words and feelings. But they can wake up to this hard way of chasing guests. To tell the truth, Liu Bixian has only met him when he first entered the officialdom in his life.

However, the Shangguan who humiliated Liu Bixian at that time was hit hard by Liu Bixian who had accumulated strength more than ten years later. As a result, when he was about to retire safely, the whole family was exiled.

Liu Bixian stretched out his hand to stop his son. There was no anger in his turbid old eyes. Instead, he smiled and said, "Xinghe has a high position and weight, and there are many affairs. I shouldn't have bothered more. I'm leaving."

Huang Zhong sent the father and son to the door, watched them get on the carriage, and hurried to find Fang Xing.

Liu Bixian in the carriage tore off his kind face, which surprised Liu Shanren.

"Vertical son Ann dares to humiliate me!"

With phlegm in the low roar, a pair of white veterans grabbed a book and tore it in half.

After Liu Bixian vented his anger, he sneered and said, "at the moment, those memorials must have been sent to his Majesty's case. Fang woke up. Doing so is a suicide!"

Liu Shanren said proudly, "father, you still have foresight. You sent a fast horse early. If those officials who get benefits dare not come forward, everyone will burn jade and stone!"

Liu Bixian hid his pride and said in a deep voice, "if something big happened in Yangzhou when the canal was opened, it must be something your majesty doesn't want to see. Moreover, Fang Xingzong's soldiers made a riot. If he was in the Taizu Dynasty, he would have died without a burial place!"

Liu Shanren said with a smile: "my father has no choice. When his Majesty's decree comes, it must be repentance. At that time, our house will close the door and let him plead!"

Liu Bixian snorted coldly, "it's the first time I've been driven away for many years as a father. If I don't avenge this, I'll die in peace!"