Although there were lights on in the prison of Qianhusuo in Jinyi Mansion, the dim light of the fire seemed to make the prison appear darker and darker, creating a gloomy atmosphere.
The prison has multiple cells, and the seven chief salt merchants were detained in one cell each.
At this time, the gloomy atmosphere in the cell where Yao Sili was imprisoned was particularly strong.
Because Yao Sili was huddled in the corner with a dull look, his face was pale, his mind was wandering, and he was in a state of despair. He looked like a person who was huddled in a corner on a cold winter street and was about to freeze to death.
He knew that he was going to be finished, and so was the Yao family!
Like the families of Shen Yuanwen and Li Danbai, the Yao family where Yao Sili belonged was also an Huizhou merchant.
The so-called Hui merchants, that is, Huizhou merchants, can also be called Xin'an merchants. Their birthplace is in the Huizhou area, which was the Huangshan area in the previous life.
Huizhou merchants had some characteristics, one of which was their emphasis on education and imperial examinations.
Huizhou is known as "Zoulu in the southeast, a state of etiquette", and it is said that "a village of ten households does not abandon recitation."
Jia Yun visited the ancient town of Huizhou in the Huangshan area in her previous life, and saw a couplet in the hall there, which read: For hundreds of years, people have only accumulated good deeds, and the first good thing is reading.
For Huizhou merchants, studying means doing business and becoming an official, doing business means becoming an official, and being an official means doing business.
Because of this, the families of Huizhou merchants often had officials.
For example, the Shen family where Shen Yuanwen lives currently has several family members working as officials. Among them, Shen Yuandao, Shen Yuanwen's younger brother, has become a second-grade civilian official. Even Shen Yuanwen himself donated money. An official is here.
The Yao family where Yao Sili lives is similar.
Both the Shen family and the Yao family attach great importance to education and imperial examinations.
Li Danbai's Li family is an exception, because the Li family made their fortune in the escort business. Even so, in the generation of Li Danbai's father Li Muqing, the family also began to attach importance to education and imperial examinations.
Li Danbai was not only a chief salt merchant but also a scholar, and his academic level was not bad. In order to inherit the family business, he did not take the imperial examination.
Yao Sili was a scholar and had passed the imperial examination. If he had not given up continuing the imperial examination in order to inherit the family business, with his reading level, the possibility of passing the imperial examination was not small.
In this regard, Yao Sili and Cheng Huanian are similar, but they are also different. Cheng Huanian passed the imperial examination, but failed to pass the imperial examination after taking the exam twice. In addition, his father died of illness, so he inherited the family business. If Cheng Huanian could have been able to After passing the Jinshi examination, he should no longer be a businessman but a civil servant.
Although Yao Sili gave up the Jinshi examination for the sake of his family business, he never gave up on studying.
Yao Sili loved reading and even writing.
Although he was also greedy for money, sex and alcohol, his greatest hobby was not money, sex and alcohol, but reading and writing.
Because of this, in addition to being Yangzhou's chief salt merchant, scholar, and civil servant, Yao Sili also had the identity of a poet and writer!
He often regarded himself as a poet and writer, and published several collections of poems and essays. He often gave away his collections of poems and essays, regarding this as an achievement of his own. He also liked others to praise his poems and essays, so he was often praised by others. Please him through this.
In fact, Yao Sili's poetry level is indeed not low, and his literary reputation is not small, which is equivalent to that of famous poets and writers in previous lives.
At that time, the Shui family and Yao Muchun conspired to exchange the son of Emperor Tianzhi and the son of Shuizhen. It was the biggest thing in Yao Sili's heart. This matter weighed heavily on his heart, but he could not talk to anyone. In addition, Yao Sili was afraid of being followed.
As time goes by, I will forget about this...
So one night, Yao Sili, who loved writing and writing, couldn't help but write this incident into a brilliant narrative.
This kind of thing is undoubtedly bizarre. Such a shocking secret was actually written into a narrative by Yao Sili.
Having said that, throughout the ages, many literati have made mistakes because of the words they wrote.
So, although this kind of thing is bizarre, it is not impossible to happen.
After Yao Sili wrote this narrative, he was very satisfied with it. Firstly, this narrative told a shocking secret, and secondly, this narrative was written with great literary talent.
However, such a narrative cannot be made public.
Even if Yao Sili's eldest son was to inherit the Yao family business in the future, Yao Sili would not be able to show it to him.
This shocking secret is really shocking, and once it is exposed and known by Emperor Tianzhi, the Yao family will suffer disaster.
When Yao Muchun told Yao Sili about this, Yao Sili was already quite old.
However, Yao Sili did not want to destroy this narrative for a while.
Yao Sili included this narrative in the account book of the Yao family's bribery of the Shui family for decades, and this account book was hidden in a secret compartment of his inner study.
In this way, Yao Sili didn't think anyone else could read this narrative except him.
His inner study is strictly guarded. No one is allowed to enter without permission except him, not even his wife, concubines and children.
As for the government search, Yao Sili thought it was absurd.
Like Wang Bingdong's Wang family, the Yao family has been rich and powerful for many years. Although there have been cases where the government came to look for trouble, it has never happened before that the government directly broke into the house to search and take people.
What's more, if something like this might really happen, Yao Sili felt that he could temporarily destroy the narrative he had written.
Yao Sili never expected that this narrative would be searched out by the Jinyi Mansion led by Jia Yun today!
For Jia Yun, being able to do this was not only because of his luck, but also because of his courage and strategy!
Fortunately, Yao Sili actually wrote such a shocking secret into a narrative and kept it in his inner study.
Moreover, Jinyi Mansion is good at such things as searches. Even though Yao Sili tucked this narrative into an account book and hid the account book in a secret compartment in the inner study, it was still searched by Jinyi Mansion.
If the officials from Yangzhou Prefecture's Yamen came to search, or the officers and soldiers from the military camp came to search, they might not be able to find the hidden grid, and this narrative would be missed.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Jia Yun was brave and resourceful in planning this special operation of raiding the main study room of seven Yangzhou general salt merchants to search the account books and letters, and kept confidentiality in advance
It was so good that even Zou Jin didn't tell him.
It is not difficult to imagine that even if it was only revealed in advance that Jia Yun came to Yangzhou this time with an imperial order to obtain the account books, Yao Sili would probably have destroyed the narrative contained in the account books.
I have to sigh again, Jia Yun is indeed blessed with great luck this time!
If he had not planned a special operation to raid the main study room of seven Yangzhou salt merchants to search for account books and letters.
Or, if he leaked relevant information in advance, Yao Sili had the opportunity to destroy this narrative.
Or Jinyi Mansion failed to discover the hidden compartment in Yao Sili's study.
Then, this narrative written by Yao Sili would not have fallen into Jia Yun's hands.
Then, Jia Yun doesn't know how many years or months it will take to know this shocking secret, and he may even not know it until his death.
Moreover, Jia Yun now knows this shocking secret, which seems very timely, because he is currently in a very dangerous situation. This shocking secret can help him resolve the crisis, and it also has other benefits...
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Under the night, because of the sudden and shocking secret, Jia Yun could no longer sit in the study and read the account books and letters. She walked out of the study and walked into the prison with the account books of the Yao family's bribery of the Shui family for decades and the narrative written by Yao Muchun.
After entering the prison, Jia Yun asked the guard Jin Yi to escort Yao Sili in front of him.
Immediately, Jia Yunping retreated from Jinyi.
At the moment, Yao Sili still looked dull, pale, confused, and lost his mind.
Jia Yun looked at Yao Sili like this and felt no resentment in her heart.
Logically speaking, Jia Yun should resent Yao Sili, because the conspiracy between the Shui family and the Yao family resulted in him, the sixth prince of the Tianzhi Emperor, being reduced to a side disciple of the Rongguo Mansion, and he suffered a lot because of it.
But Jia Yun was a time traveler after all. He thought that if the original owner had not become a sideline disciple of Rongguo Mansion, he, a time traveler, might not be able to travel through time.
Moreover, in the years he spent as Jia Yun, although he suffered a lot, he also experienced a lot of happiness and beauty. For example, he became associated with some golden hairpins.
Moreover, had it not been for the narrative written by Yao Sili this time, Jia Yun would not have known about it now, so that she could resolve the crisis and obtain other benefits...
Jia Yun has no resentment towards Yao Sili in her heart, and of course she will not be grateful to Yao Sili for this.
In his eyes, Yao Sili in front of him was about to become a dead person, and he was also a witness, nothing more.
After looking at Yao Sili for a while, Jia Yun smiled coldly, showed the narrative, and said in a deep voice: "You Yao family are so brave!"
Yao Sili shuddered, his expression became duller, his complexion became paler, he became more confused and lost his mind.
Immediately, Jia Yun interrogated Yao Sili.
He wanted to know more about this shocking secret.
For example, why Yao Sili wrote this narrative.
For example, why was Yao Muchun so bold that he dared to conspire with the Shui family in something tantamount to rebellion.
For example, what is the grand scheme of the Shui family? Is it true that, as he speculated, the Shui family has long been rebellious and is planning to support Xia Xu to ascend the throne and become the emperor, occupy the magpie's nest, and subdue the Qing Dynasty?
Shuijia.
For example, did the Yao family and the Shui family conspire to do other major things?
However, facing Jia Yun's interrogation, Yao Sili was like a living dead. He didn't say a word, or even made a sound, and kept drooping his head in a dull manner...
Jia Yun has no plans to torture Yao Sili now.
Yao Sili's look convinced Jia Yun that the shocking secret written in the narrative was true.
What Jia Yun had to do was to ask the Jinyi people to strictly guard Yao Sili, prevent Yao Sili from committing suicide, and take Yao Sili to Shenjing City.
At the same time, some action must be taken against the Yao Mansion...
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After Yao Sili was escorted back to his cell by Jin Yi, Jia Yun asked Jin Yi to escort Li Danbai to him.
Jia Yun had a secret conversation with Li Danbai.
Li Danbai said that he would definitely do the two things that Jia Yun had previously requested: transfer the Longshun Escort Agency at a low price and not grant Li Feixue to anyone within three years.
First, Jia Yun had already protected Li Danbai.
If Jia Yun hadn't protected Li Danbai, the first general salt merchant he captured in Yangzhou this time would probably not have been Wang Bingdong but Li Danbai.
Because among the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, Li Danbai had the lowest status, followed by Wang Bingdong, and Li Danbai, like Wang Bingdong, had other violations of the law besides having an affair with private salt merchants.
And if the first general salt merchant Jia Yun wins is Li Danbai, then Li Danbai will be miserable.
You know, after capturing Wang Bingdong, Jia Yun made Wang Bingdong confess that the other seven Yangzhou general salt merchants were involved in illegal salt, and then used this as testimony to capture the other six general salt merchants except Shen Congwen.
, and also threatened Shen Yuanwen with this, and said that Wang Bingdong also confessed that Shen Yuanwen had committed other violations of the law...
It is not difficult to imagine that other Yangzhou general salt merchants will definitely take revenge on Wang Bingdong afterwards, and Wang Bingdong will be miserable.
Secondly, Jia Yun had just checked the account books and letters collected from the main room of Li Danbai's study, and learned several other violations of the law by Li Danbai, which Jia Yun used as a threat.
Thirdly, Li Danbai still needs Jia Yun's protection.
The account books and letters collected from the main room of Li Danbai's study also involve some of Li Danbai's backstage officials, many of whom are of high rank and power.
Jia Yun had no intention of concealing the backstage officials involved in these account books and letters for Li Danbai's sake. Jia Yun would truthfully summarize these backstage officials and hand them over to Emperor Tianzhi.
Emperor Tianzhi only wanted to punish these backstage officials, which meant that these backstage officials could continue to maintain their official positions and power afterwards.
This means that these backstage officials will retaliate against Li Danbai.
In this case, without Jia Yun's protection, Li Danbai would not only be unable to retain his position as chief salt merchant, but his life would be in danger, and even the entire Li family would be in danger.
But when Jia Yun, the commander of the Jinyi Mansion, protected Li Danbai, and with the care of Zou Jin, the salt censor of the Lianghuai River, Li Danbai could not only save his life, but also his position as the chief salt merchant.
You must know that Jinyi Mansion has not only established a terrifying majesty in the imperial court, but has also established a thousand households in Yangzhou. Under such circumstances, it is still possible to protect Li Danbai.
What's more, the backstage officials involved in Li Danbai's account books and letters were not relatives of the emperor, princes or ministers.
Li Danbai originally had two biggest backers, one was a royal bachelor who had "begged for retirement", and the other was Lin Ruhai.
The former has lost its former power, and the latter is dead.
In fact, the grand scholar who had lost his former power did not embezzle much property from Li Danbai. The Li family had been very benevolent to this grand scholar, and it was with the help of the Li family that this grand master
It was only then that the Imperial Bachelor had the opportunity to take the imperial examination and rise step by step in the officialdom.
The protection given to Li Danbai by this grand scholar was mainly out of repayment of kindness rather than greed for money.