Wang Bingdong had an affair with a private salt collector, but it was not easy for Jia Yun to obtain witness evidence in this regard.
In order to save time and reduce trouble, act resolutely and achieve quick results.
This time Jia Yun took a different approach and took down Wang Bingdong on the grounds that Wang Bingdong occupied a shop and sent people to beat businessman Fang Qi to death.
Wang Bingdong's current injustice is false, but his grievance is real.
He didn't expect that Jia Yun would be so bold and dare to directly lead the Jinyi army to his house to capture him.
The Wang family has been the chief salt merchant for three generations. This kind of thing has never happened before.
You know, Wang Bingdong is one of the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, and the Wang family has many backers, including noble princes and ministers.
Isn't Jia Yun afraid of causing the eight major salt merchants to attack him? Isn't he afraid that the Wang family's backstage will retaliate against him?
Moreover, Jia Yun's reason for taking advantage of him this time was actually the case of occupying a shop and sending people to beat businessman Fang Qi to death!
In Wang Bingdong's view, this is just a "little thing". He has several similar evil deeds!
It's ridiculous to mobilize so much force to arrest him for such a "little thing"!
Therefore, Wang Bingdong feels aggrieved now.
In addition to grievance, there is more anger.
Wang Bingdong was already arrogant and domineering, and now he was very angry. As Jia Yun gave an order, the Jinyi people gathered around him one after another. Wang Bingdong retreated and ordered to dozens of guards: "Stop them!"
Suddenly, dozens of guards stepped forward with swords and guns in hand, all looking tense.
Many Jinyi were a little stunned. What happened? The Jinyi Mansion was handling the case and taking people, and there were so many Jinyi at the scene, equipped with muskets, bows and arrows, but they encountered resistance?
In this situation, even Cao Wu did not dare to act rashly and turned to look at Jia Yun.
Wang Bingdong took the opportunity to yell at Jia Yun: "Master Jia, don't bully others too much!"
"I am one of the eight chief salt merchants in Yangzhou. My Wang family has inherited three generations of chief salt merchants. I have made friends with many court officials. There are several officials with higher rank than you!"
"If you use your power to bully others and take me by force today, I, Wang Bingdong, will never give in!"
"If you take me by force today, you will also incur a group of Yangzhou salt merchants to attack me. I'm afraid you can't afford the consequences!"
Jia Yun sneered and said "hum".
When he led the Jinyi Army to arrest Ding Chi at Wuqinhou Mansion, Ding Chi did not dare to order his soldiers to resist. But now, as a merchant, Wang Bingdong dared to order his guards to resist, and he dared to be arrogant and domineering.
To threaten him, the second-rank commander of the Jinyi Mansion!
Looking for death!
Immediately, Jia Yun got off her horse, pulled out her Xiuchun knife, and walked towards Wang Bingdong.
"Stop him!" Wang Bingdong ordered.
Suddenly, a tall and strong guard came forward with a knife and stopped in front of Jia Yun.
The Xiuchun knife in Jia Yun's hand slashed hard!
Although this guard was tall, strong, and very skilled, his neck was still cut off when faced with Jia Yun's powerful and fast sword.
Wang Bingdong turned a little pale with fright.
Dozens of guards were also frightened.
Jia Yun raised the blood-stained Xiuchun knife, pointed it upward, and shouted loudly: "Today, our Jinyi Mansion is arresting the prisoner Wang Bingdong. If there is any resistance, we will kill him without mercy!"
As soon as the sound fell, Cao Wu immediately led all the people in brocade clothes to fight forward...
A moment later, more than a dozen corpses were left outside the Wang Mansion, and a dozen more people were seriously injured and fell to the ground.
The sun was setting in the west, and the corpses and injured on the ground were illuminated by the afterglow of the setting sun, and coupled with the blood color on the ground, they looked shocking.
In shock, Wang Bingdong was tied up and taken to the Qianhu Branch of Jinyi Mansion in despair.
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Although the Qianhu Office in Jinyi Prefecture in Yangzhou was only established a few days ago, it has already arranged a prison, similar to the imperial edict prison in Jinyi Prefecture in the sacred city of Jing.
Wang Bingdong was taken to Qianhu Station in Jinyi Prefecture and immediately put in jail.
Zhao Xiuyuan immediately interrogated Wang Bingdong, while Jia Yun sat aside to supervise.
The focus of this interrogation is not the case of Wang Bingdong occupying a shop and sending people to beat businessman Fang Qi to death, but the case of Wang Bingdong having an affair with a private salt dealer!
For the first quarter of an hour, Wang Bingdong remained silent.
At the second quarter of an hour, Zhao Xiuyuan used torture, but Wang Bingdong still resisted.
At the third quarter of an hour, when the more severe punishment was used, Wang Bingdong couldn't stand it anymore: "I...I did it, I had an affair with a gangster...It's just that you used such cruel methods to force me, and I don't accept it!"
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Jia Yun then asked in a deep voice: "Apart from you, are all the other seven general salt merchants in Yangzhou involved in illegal salt trading?"
Wang Bingdong: "..."
At this moment, he looked at Jia Yun as if he were looking at a devil.
What's going on? Does Jia Yun not only want to punish Wang Bingdong, but also the other seven general salt merchants?
How dare he! How could he!
In panic, Wang Bingdong became silent again.
He knew that this time he was captured by the Jinyi Mansion, and other chief salt merchants and officials in Yangzhou would definitely come to rescue him, because there is a saying that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold!
And if he confessed in the Qianhu Office of Jinyi Prefecture that the other seven chief salt merchants were also involved in illegal salt, he would offend the other seven chief salt merchants, and he could not afford the consequences.
Jia Yun said to Zhao Xiuyuan in a deep voice: "Continue to torture, use heavier punishment, until he confesses. If he would rather die miserably than confess, then let him die miserably!"
Zhao Xiuyuan: "Yes, sir!"
Wang Bingdong: "..."
After being stunned for a moment, Wang Bingdong begged for mercy: "Master, Master Jia, please let me go. I am willing to give you fifty thousand taels of silver. If you want a beauty, I can also give it to you..."
Before Wang Bingdong finished speaking, Zhao Xiuyuan continued to use torture on Wang Bingdong.
Because the torture used this time was cruel and terrible, Wang Bingdong couldn't bear it for a while. In fact, if it had been a while longer, he would have died miserably under this torture.
Wang Bingdong: "I hired him. Other general salt merchants... are also involved in private salt..."
Immediately, Zhao Xiuyuan wrote Wang Bingdong's confession and asked Wang Bingdong to sign it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, a gilded officer walked into the prison, came to Jia Yun, and said respectfully: "My lord, the salt merchants Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang, together Get up and go to Qianhu House to see the Lord."
Wang Bingdong: "..."
I complained about these two people in my heart, thinking that they came too late. If they had come earlier, he would not have confessed just now!
In Jia Yun's opinion, these two people arrived very quickly.
You know, it was only half an hour after he arrested Wang Bingdong and took him to the Qianhu Office of Jinyi Mansion.
However, he came just in time to save him from having to come to find Shen Yuanwen again, and to save him from leading his army to seize Dong Shengyang, the chief salt merchant.
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Dong Shengyang is also one of the eight general salt merchants in Yangzhou, and he is the second general manager. In other words, among the eight general salt merchants in Yangzhou, his status ranks second, second only to the chief executive Shen Yuanwen.
Dong Shengyang and Wang Bingdong have a close relationship. They are both Shanxi businessmen and they are family friends.
Moreover, the two mansions are very close to each other.
Therefore, Jia Yun led the Jinyi Army to the Wang Mansion to capture Wang Bingdong. The news soon reached Dong Shengyang's ears.
After Dong Shengyang learned the news, he was angry and nervous, and hurriedly went to Shen Mansion to find Shen Yuanwen.
After the two discussed for a while, they sent someone to inform Zou Jin, the censor of salt inspection in the Huaihe River, and Luo Ruiwen, the prefect of Yangzhou, and rushed to the Qianhu Office of Jinyi Prefecture.
At this time, Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang were sitting in the lobby of Qianhusuo.
At this moment, Jia Yun walked into the lobby.
Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang were in no mood to be polite to Jia Yun at the moment. After they greeted Jia Yun respectively, Shen Yuanwen got to the point:
"Master Jia, the reason why I and I came to visit you today is because we just heard that you led the Jinyi Army to capture Wang Bingdong, and you also had a fierce battle with Wang's guards in front of the Wang's Mansion, resulting in the death of more than a dozen Wang's guards. , and many Wang’s guards were injured.”
Jia Yun did not respond immediately. She walked to the seat of honor and sat down. She pointed to the seats on both sides and said to Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang: "You two should also sit down and talk?"
Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang looked at each other, then stepped forward and sat down.
As soon as he sat down, Dong Shengyang couldn't wait to say: "My lord, I wonder what Wang Bingdong did that made you use such a cruel method to get him?"
Jia Yun responded calmly: "Today someone came to Qianhu Office in Jinyi Mansion to report that Wang Bingdong had occupied a shop. The owner of that shop was businessman Fang Qi. Because Fang Qi refused to obey, Wang Bingdong sent people to beat him to death. So today I So they took Wang Bingdong into custody and interrogated the case."
In fact, Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang had heard about this matter before they came.
Even so, hearing Jia Yun say this from her own words, both of them still felt ridiculous.
The two of them had similar views to Wang Bingdong, and both believed that this kind of thing was just a "little thing."
This type of evil deeds were not only committed by Wang Bingdong, but also by other general salt merchants, including Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang.
They are the chief salt merchants of Yangzhou, with an astonishing wealth and an astonishing background. To them, such evil deeds are nothing serious.
Dong Shengyang said: "My lord, we have not determined whether this matter is true or not. It would be too overbearing for your lord to use such brutal means to take down Wang Bingdong just because someone reported it."
Jia Yun smiled coldly: "Originally, I planned to invite Wang Bingdong to come to Qianhu Office for interrogation today, but Wang Bingdong didn't know how to commend himself, and he dared to order all the guards in the house to resist my Jinyi Mansion! Our Jinyi Mansion is equivalent to the emperor's personal army. Wang Bingdong's behavior is so different from rebellion!"
Shen Yuanwen, Dong Shengyang: "..."
For a moment, neither of them knew what to say.
The crime of rebellion was so serious that even though the two of them were the first and second presidents of Yangzhou respectively, they did not dare to speak lightly on this topic.
After being quiet for a while in embarrassment, Shen Yuanwen said: "Sir, this matter is very serious. I have sent people to invite Master Zou Jinzou and Master Luo Ruiwen Luo. I think they will be here soon."
Jia Yun said: "Oh? Then I'll be waiting here."
About two-quarters of an hour later, Zou Jin and Luo Ruiwen arrived at Qianhu Office of Jinyi Mansion almost at the same time. They met outside the main gate of Qianhu Office and immediately walked into the lobby together.
After Luo Ruiwen asked about the matter in detail, he said to Jia Yun: "Master Jia, this case between Wang Bingdong and Fang Qi should be interrogated by the Yangzhou magistrate's office. Please hand over Wang Bingdong to me now."
Jia Yun smiled coldly: "Lord Luo, this case has happened for two years. Why haven't you, the prefect of Yangzhou, interrogated it in the past two years? Now that Jinyi Mansion is interrogating this case, you want to take over it?"
Luo Ruiwen said: "Master Jia, it's not that I have neglected this case. In fact, I have not known about this case in the past two years. What's more, this case has only been reported by someone, and the person who reported it is still a relative of Fang Qi. Your Excellency cannot be blamed for this. It is concluded that the case is true and Wang Bingdong is found guilty."
"I'm thinking that Wang Bingdong is probably unjust in this case. Your Excellency will hand over this case to me. I, the Yangzhou Prefecture's Yamen, will strictly investigate the case. If this case is true, I will definitely convict Wang Bingdong."
Jia Yun's expression became serious: "This time my Jinyi Mansion went south under the emperor's order to urge the eight general salt merchants in Yangzhou for donations. In cases involving the eight general salt merchants, I, the Jinyi Mansion, have the right to intervene, but it is you who Yangzhou magistrate, please do not interfere!"
"My Jinyi Mansion is directly under the orders of the current emperor. It is equivalent to the emperor's personal army. It has the responsibilities of investigation, capture, interrogation and sentencing!"
Luo Ruiwen, Shen Yuanwen, Dong Shengyang: "..."
At this moment, the three of them were dumbfounded and felt that Jia Yun was really overbearing.
However, the three of them also knew that Jia Yun's words were not false or even exaggerated, because Jinyi Mansion was so domineering!
At this moment, Luo Ruiwen, Shen Yuanwen, and Dong Shengyang's fear of Jia Yun rose to a very high level.
Such a domineering Jinyi Mansion and such a ruthless Jia Yun are really troublesome!
Originally, Jia Yun felt that the imperial mission he was carrying this time was very difficult.
Now it is Luo Ruiwen, Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang's turn to find Jia Yun, the commander of the Jinyi Mansion, very troublesome.
Zou Jin felt conflicted at the moment.
On the one hand, Zou Jin didn't like the tyranny of the Jinyi Mansion. This kind of tyranny was really terrible, and it was a usurpation of the power of the Three Laws Division and the local government.
On the other hand, Zou Jin felt relieved now. As the saying goes, fighting fire with fire, the current huge mess of Lianghuai Salt Industry can indeed be rectified only by the domineering Jinyi Mansion.
At this time, Jia Yun said in a deep voice: "Jinyi Mansion has just interrogated Wang Bingdong. During the interrogation, Wang Bingdong confessed that he had an affair with a private salt!"
Luo Ruiwen, Shen Yuanwen, and Dong Shengyang were all dumbfounded again.
However, this was not over yet. Jia Yun then said in a deep voice: "Not only that, Wang Bingdong also confessed that except for Mr. Shen, the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, the other six people were also involved in illegal salt!"
As soon as these words came out, Luo Ruiwen, Shen Yuanwen, and Dong Shengyang were not only dumbfounded, but also panicked!
Dong Shengyang hurriedly said: "Mr. Jia, this matter is absolutely untrue. I have never been involved in any personal scandal!"
Jia Yun snorted and took out Wang Bingdong's confession: "Here is the confession signed by Wang Bingdong. Mr. Zou and Mr. Luo, please take a look."
Immediately, Zou Jin and Luo Ruiwen read the confession one after another, and also let Shen Yuanwen and Dong Shengyang read it.
Jia Yun suddenly shouted: "Come here!"
A group of Jinyi stepped forward.
Jia Yun pointed at Dong Shengyang: "Get this person!"