Zhao Gongren forced himself to hold his hair calmly, and only felt that Wei Yuanchen's deep eyes seemed to see through her.

Zhao Gongren cleared his throat and said, "I have insomnia, and taking medicine for this disease is useless. It is better to have a good rest for two days, so he did not hire a doctor."

Wei Yuanchen continued: "How can people come and go in the inn to rest?"

"That's not easy," Zhao Gongren said, "I used the money to prevent the store from picking up other customers. We were the only one in the inn for those two days."

Wei Yuanchen said: "So Zhao Gongren has been resting all the time?"

Zhao Gongren said: "That's natural."

Wei Yuanchen then asked: "Where are the two young men? Have you ever gone out or met anyone?"

When Gu Mingzhu heard this, she raised her head. Zhao Gongren lied to Wei Yuanchen and concealed his whereabouts when he was in the Gu family. Now she found the key clue to point to Master Zhao Er. Wei Yuanchen therefore guessed that Zhao Gongren and Master Zhao Er had met.

This person has a very keen mind.

She and Cui Zhen both knew about this, but because the Zhao family's manager's mother reported to her.

Gu Mingzhu glanced at Cui Zhen, wondering what Cui Zhen would do.

"No," Zhao Gongren said immediately, "Neither of my two children has been to Taiyuan Mansion very much. I am very unfamiliar with this, so I am naturally accompanying me in the inn."

Wei Yuanchen asked again in a deep voice: "Have you never been out of Zhao Gongren and the two young masters?"

"No."

Wei Yuanchen looked at the civil servant: "Do you remember it clearly?"

The clerk nodded.

Zhao Gongren's heart trembled, and suddenly he thought that when he was in the Gu family, Lord Wei threatened her, saying that if she lies again, she would do her business.

"Zhao Gongren can wait aside," said Wei Yuanchen. "I will continue to ask questions after the Yamashi and the relevant person arrive."

Zhao Gongren stared at the top of his eyes. Did he treat her as a suspect?

Zhao Gongren said: "Mr. Wei always has to follow the rules when asking for cases. How can you convince people if you arrest people without any evidence?"

Wei Yuanchen stood up, brushed his sleeves, and his expression became even colder: "I just arrested Han Yu, broke the Kuyin case seven years ago and the current iron ore case. There is still a credit in the capital waiting for me to receive it. As for whether I believe it or not, I will only listen to the emperor."

Zhao Gong's hands kept trembling, such an arrogant relative.

"Master Wei," Cui Wei took two steps forward. "If you want to ask about the case, we must cooperate with all our strength. But now we don't know what the Zhao family is guilty of or what the Zhao Gongren is guilty of. Please make clear."

Wei Yuanchen stood there, as if he hadn't seen Cui Wei at all.

Cui Wei bowed for a long time but received no response. He had to raise his head. Wei Yuanchen's side face was a little more murderous intent under the reflection of the wind lamp.

Cui Wei remembered that when Zhang Xiao was killed, the guards who saw the situation came back to report to him: "Zhang Xiao is not drinking and causing trouble. Wei Yuanchen just wanted to kill him, humiliate him first and then kill others. Zhang Xiao died frustrated."

At this moment, Cui Wei seemed to understand why the guards said this. At that moment, he could feel that Wei Yuanchen was going to kill him too.

The hairs on the back of his neck were even erected, as if his life was held in Wei Yuanchen's hand. Now Wei Yuanchen is not coming to take it, but the time is not coming. Cui Wei lowered his head and a light flashed through his eyes. Why can't he see through Wei Yuanchen?

"Not even a piece of paper in the room can be left, and they are all carried to the yamen," Feng Anping immediately ordered after stepping into the Zhao family, "All servants in charge of affairs, first-class maids, and kitchen servants are detained separately."

Feng Anping gave the order and came directly to Wei Yuanchen: "Sir, the accounts of several shops in the Zhao family are gone."

The shopkeeper was killed and the accounts on the shop disappeared.

Wei Yuanchen smiled slightly and looked at the account in his hand. This was a general account of the Zhao family. It said that the total number of goods purchased by the Zhao family should be put into several stores for sale. Now that the accounts on the shop are gone, it is impossible to verify how much goods the Zhao family has sold.

He probably knew why the shopkeepers were killed, because the number of items purchased by the Zhao family was too large. Even if the shops in the entire Taiyuan Prefecture belonged to the Zhao family, they would probably not be sold out for a while.

What is the purpose of Mr. Zhao Er buying these things from Jiangnan and other places?

Wei Yuanchen turned to look at Cui Zhen: "Dingning Hou knows that the Zhao family is still in the tea business?" The Zhao family only has one tea shop in Taiyuan Prefecture.

Cui Zhen said: "I don't know the inside story."

Wei Yuanchen continued: "Maybe Taiyuan Prefecture sell thousands of kilograms of high-quality tea cakes within half a year?"

Cui Zhen frowned, a thousand kilograms of high-quality tea cakes? Not to mention the entire Taiyuan Prefecture, even the entire Shanxi might not be able to sell so many.

Not only that, high-quality tea cakes are not easy to buy and the price is also high. With the help of the Zhao family, how can you buy so many tea cakes?

The only place where Cui Zhen knew that it was the only place where he could sell so many tea cakes was the Ma Market on the border.

The account of the Zhao family held by Wei Yuanchen can connect the Zhao family with Ma Shi.

Cui Zhen turned to see Zhao Gongren. Zhao Gongren's face was pale, his eyes were full of nervousness and a panic look.

Seeing Cui Zhen’s questioning gaze, Zhao Gongren’s lips trembled: “I…I don’t know if the account is fake. Why did our Zhao family buy so many tea cakes? This is impossible.”

Now, Cui Zhen has also understood why Wei Yuanchen came to ask him that the court opened a horse market in Datong and other places, and he and his men were guarding the border in Datong.

The imperial court opened a horse market and exchanged horses with foreigners for tea, ironware, cloth, rice, salt and other things, but the situation in the horse market has not been very good in recent years.

The court spent a lot of effort on the horse market, but they bought all middle- and lower-class horses, and they could not exchange for high-quality good horses. This means that good horses from the Great Zhou Dynasty are hard to find.

Whether it is a border guard camp or a garrison, if you want an elite cavalry, you need to be equipped with high-quality war horses. The horses distributed by the court every year can only be used for low-quality soldiers to ride. If your cavalry has enough combat power, it is not possible to have no war horses. So the nobles and generals began to spend a lot of money to buy high-quality horses privately.

He also asked the court several times for horses, but in the end he failed to get what he wanted, so he had to take the risk to let Cui Wei buy horses from the black market. He did not have enough money, so he set his sights on the tombs of the nobles of the previous dynasty.

If you can't buy a good horse, the court blames the foreigners for being cunning, but the foreigners say that the imperial court uses inferior goods to deceive their good horses. What the foreigners really need is high-quality tea cakes and iron tools.

Is there anyone using these things to control the Ma Market for the Zhao family’s top tea cakes and those iron mountain mines?

Wei Yuanchen raised the key in his hand: "These accounts are hidden in the Zhao family's dark room, and the key to opening the dark room was found from the shop where the Zhao family had a murder case.

Such an important key cannot fall into the hands of the subordinates. Now that Mr. Zhao is not in Taiyuan Prefecture, the only person in the Zhao family who can manage affairs is Zhao Gongren."

Wei Yuanchen turned his head and looked at Zhao Gongren with a pair of awesome phoenix eyes.

Zhao Gongren's voice trembled: "What does Lord Wei mean?"

Wei Yuanchen said: "Zhao Gongren arrived at Taiyuan Prefecture but did not enter the city. Are you covering up something? For example, if someone asked someone to remove a few shopkeepers and friends, the court investigated, Zhao Gongren used the excuse of not being in Taiyuan Prefecture as an excuse to avoid the investigation."
Chapter completed!