But it was said that Situ Cen had brought Steward Xu, who had forcibly bought someone else's embroidery workshop in his own name, back to the house for interrogation. The man was dragged into the study and collapsed on the ground, as color as earth. Situ Cen slowly picked up the tea cup and took two sips: "Say
Bar."
Jia Cong joined in the fun: "If you confess, you will be given leniency, but if you resist, you will be given strict punishment. If you are an accomplice, you can still get a lighter sentence."
Manager Xu was stunned for a long time, and then shook his head violently: "This slave made a mistake on his own, taking the name of His Highness, and just wanted to die quickly."
Situ Cen sneered: "Die soon? Do you want to die without confessing?"
Manager Xu crawled up from the ground to a kneeling position, and kowtowed: "You deserve to die! You deserve to die! You deserve to die..."
Situ Cen frowned: "I don't have the patience to use severe punishment on people."
Jia Cong said: "The torture is so rude, we are civilized people." Then he looked at Manager Xu and said, "Hey, look at your fat body, it's obvious that you haven't suffered much. You have to punish me even if you don't use torture.
, it’s better to save yourself some pain. Besides, it’s not like we don’t know who your master is. Don’t we need to figure things out? Your master might have his own reasons?” Manager Xu’s scalp was scratched at this moment.
, was startled when he heard this. Situ Cen rolled his eyes at Jia Cong.
Just at this time, a disciple came to report that a person came from outside the palace, claiming to have urgent matters and wanted to see His Highness the Third Highness. He said that he was the one wearing a bamboo hat just now. Situ Cen was startled and asked, "Didn't he tell me his name?"
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The disciple said: "No. He said Mr. Jia recognized him."
Jia Cong blinked, looked at Situ Cen and whispered, "Could it be that Mr. Mei?"
Situ Cen also whispered: "Why do I think of him too? He doesn't have the courage." Then he ordered the man to come in.
Not long after, the man in Tsing Yi walked into the door, carrying a bamboo hat behind him. Jia Cong took one look and shouted: "Liu Feng! Why is it you!"
Liu Feng smiled and held up his hands: "Third Master, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you seem to have become slimmer."
Jia Cong glanced at him and said to Situ Cen: "This Mr. Liu was originally the accountant of our Jia's Horse Racing Company. He later resigned and opened his own shop. Now he is a rich man."
Liu Feng said: "I don't dare. I just opened a small bank."
"Pull it down, is HSBC Bank too small?"
Situ Cen was slightly surprised: "Liu Dong's family of HSBC Bank?" Liu Feng nodded slightly and bowed to the ground.
Jia Cong said: "That year he said he wanted to take the exam for merit and fame, but I don't know if he took the exam or not."
Liu Feng said: "I have already passed the examination for Juren. Since there were many things going on in Qianzhuang, I did not take the examination again."
Although Situ Cen had just returned to Shu Kingdom, he knew about this Huifeng bank. It had only been opened in recent years. However, he was really a very rich man with many kinds of business. He looked at Jia Cong and said with a half-smile but not a smile.
What does this bank have to do with your family?"
Jia Cong said cheerfully: "Our family is a shareholder."
Liu Feng smiled and said: "The third master is too modest, he is obviously the major shareholder."
Jia Cong also smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Liu!"
"It's easy to talk about."
Jia Cong changed the topic: "In that case -" he pointed to the list that had not been put away on the desk, "Did you write this?" Liu Feng nodded. "Why did you record this?"
Liu Feng said: "This year is about to end. I want to take this to Taiwan to see Mr. Pardon and ask him if our bank wants to evacuate Shu." Jia Cong raised his eyebrows. Liu Fengmang looked innocent and said, "Until
It was only when Third Master came to Shu that I learned that you have a close personal relationship with His Highness. Our bank is doing very well, and I am afraid of following in the footsteps of these nineteen others."
Jia Cong argued: "I didn't listen to you last time I saw you!"
Liu Feng said: "Before I had time to say anything, the third grandma sent someone to say that she wanted to eat husband and wife lung slices, so the third master left me to buy them. Later I went there two times and never met the third master again. Ma Xing
People say that you have been following Mr. Qiu Liang on errands all day long."
Jia Cong was startled: "It's the same with the third grandma." Liu Feng glanced at him and said nothing.
Situ Cen coughed twice: "Dr. Liu, did you just say there was something urgent?"
Liu Feng nodded: "I just saw that Manager Xu Ershui was kidnapped by His Highness the Third Prince's men."
"good."
"Please, Your Highness, please don't ask any questions and just have this man beheaded. All nineteen cases of usurping people's property will be put on his head."
Situ Cen and Jia Cong were both shocked, and Jia Cong blurted out and asked: "Why?"
Liu Feng thought for a moment and said: "I was just standing at the door of Jixiang Embroidery Workshop, and I heard the people nearby talking and speculating. Some people said, it's strange, I have never heard of His Highness doing these things before. Could it be that he bumped into something when he went to the West?
It suddenly occurred to me that the Third Highness, neither the prince nor the princess’ mother’s family had done these things for many years. At first, I thought that because the Third Highness was about to get married, he found that the family’s money was not enough..."
Jia Cong heyed twice, and Situ Cen glared at him angrily. Jia Cong said: "If he doesn't have money, he can just ask his brother for some."
Liu Feng said with a smile: "I recently learned that you two are friends. I thought that the third master's friends are very good. Even if they are too lazy to make money and just want to rob, they will not use their own names to rob. There must be a misunderstanding here.
. Then I checked the accounts of our bank and found out that those who robbed people’s property were all the uncles of the state.”
Situ Cen and Jia Cong both stood up and asked at the same time: "Check your bank's accounts?! How do you know?"
Liu Feng said: "Although there are many banks in Chengdu, we are the only ones who have opened large customer accounts for deposits and withdrawals and overseas cashing of banknotes. Therefore, my uncle's house also opened an account at our bank. The ten dollars that His Highness the Third Prince had snatched earlier.
Managers from several industries have come to our bank to deposit money, and they all deposited the money into an account in the uncle's house." Nainai looked at Jia Cong and said, "Third Master, don't you know? Didn't you still return the money a few days ago?
Ask who robbed the Jixiang Embroidery Shop for His Highness the Third?"
Jia Cong said blankly: "I'm asking about your third grandma! I was very busy and didn't have time to check this, so I asked her to check it. She told me the next day that he was the younger brother of Princess Shu."
Liu Feng curled his lips and said, "Third Mistress sent a little girl with a new haircut to ask me. That clever little talker! It makes me choke to death."
Jia Cong guessed that it must be a bell, and immediately pointed at Situ Cen and said: "That was made by his wife, don't blame my wife!"
Situ Cen looked at Jia Cong and said: "The APEC was held in Dajiala that day. When the meeting was over, I heard your third girl, Minister Jia, say that when Jia Cong understands, he understands, and when he is confused, he is so confused that people want to strangle him. I just told him today
Know what it means."
Jia Cong cried out: "You really can't blame me! I don't know where she found her." He waved his hand and said, "Skip this section, it's not important at all. Liu Feng, you just said that those stewards deposited the money to the uncle.
My ‘one’ account? How many accounts do they have?”
Liu Feng said: "Two, this one was newly opened in April." Situ Cen frowned: the first item on Liu Feng's list was April.
Jia Cong held his cheek and said, "Then...has anyone withdrawn money from that account?"
Liu Feng said: "Shu doesn't have it yet. Other countries don't know about it."
Situ Cen thought for a long time and didn't quite understand: "What is this 'account' you are talking about?"
Liu Feng then briefly explained that deposits and withdrawals from large customer accounts at HSBC Bank are only open to wealthy individuals with assets of more than one million silver. Customers can open an account at HSBC Bank and attach a stack of ten fingerprints. HSBC Bank will send these fingerprints to
Each branch office has its own branches, and a copy of the account information of large customers is sent to each branch office every three months. Customers can deposit money into the account passbook at the HSBC bank in Chengdu; after three months, they can go to HSBC with their passbook and their fingerprints.
Go to the bank's Ping'an Prefecture branch to withdraw money. Not only do you not need to bring cash, you don't even need to bring banknotes.
Situ Cen was shocked when he heard this: "It can still be like this!"
Liu Feng said with a smile: "Without Jia's Ma Xing, this matter would not have been possible."
Jia Cong said: "Speaking of which, I wanted to ask last time, why not update the data every month? Isn't three months too long?"
Liu Feng said calmly: "Does the third master know how many rich people in the country have millions of dollars? Once every three months is already exhausting us." Jia Cong pursed his lips.
Situ Cen took a deep breath: "So, my uncle has at least two million-dollar fortunes in his hands?" Liu Feng nodded.
Jia Cong asked curiously: "Why do you need to open two accounts?"
Liu Feng said: "At first, I thought that the second account was opened for His Highness. Now I feel that something is not right. If it was not His Highness who made the money, then it was the uncle who used His Highness's name to make it. Then he
Why open another account? It costs millions of dollars to open an account.”
Jia Cong turned his head and looked at Situ Cen. Situ Cen's face was as heavy as water: "I didn't know he was so rich."
Jia Cong said: "As a relative of the emperor, a million dollars is really nothing."
Liu Feng coughed, lowered his head and said, "That's why I think Uncle Guo is just helping others to make money."
Situ Cen waved his hand: "Your Majesty, there is no need to amass wealth."
Liu Feng said: "It may not be the prince."
Jia Cong said: "Who else is there besides the prince?"
"I don't know." Liu Feng said, "I have never done anything like this before, but I have been so anxious to make money these past six months. I feel like I have been... blackmailed."
Situ Cen took a deep breath, and Jia Cong was silent as he reported the case. After a long while, Situ Cen looked at Liu Feng and said slowly: "Blackmail, fraud?"
Liu Feng said: "Otherwise, Uncle Guo has many ways to make money. It's not like he has no money now, it's just...ahem." He raised his eyes and glanced at Jia Cong.
Jia Cong raised his hand and said, "It's just selling stolen goods, smuggling overseas goods, etc. As long as the royal family and relatives don't rob people's property, they mostly make money from these." Situ Cen was speechless for a moment.
Liu Feng went on to say: "To be able to blackmail the uncle of the Kingdom of Shu, his background must be not small, and the uncle of the country must be in trouble, and the shortcomings that others take advantage of must be severe. If the Third Highness blatantly
Let's check... we may not know what we'll find." He closed his mouth.
Jia Cong said: "Hey, don't be hesitant. If you have any ideas, please tell them at once. After you finish speaking, we can all discuss it."
Liu Feng said: "What I mean is that His Highness the Third Prince only pretended to be a protector. He first killed Xu Ershui and made the big thing into a trivial matter... to show the people who threatened my uncle. Then he went back to investigate secretly."
Jia Cong said: "Let's check it out!" Then he looked at Situ Cen and said, "Can't we just go and ask your uncle?"
Liu Feng said with a smile: "Could it be that my uncle will tell the truth? Your Highness can't take my uncle down and torture him to extract a confession."
"Hiss..." Jia Cong thought about it and realized that it was really inconvenient. He simply spread his hands and looked at Situ Cen.
Situ Cen had never dealt with this kind of thing before. He frowned and thought for a long time and sighed: "I don't know how to ask."
Jia Cong clapped his hands and said: "As the saying goes, if you don't decide on foreign affairs, ask Google; if you don't decide on internal affairs, ask your wife. Ask your wives if they have any ideas."
Situ Cen had no choice but to send someone to the back to invite Qiu and Chen Ruijin. Not long after, two women came over. Ling Dang naturally followed Chen Ruijin. Seeing Liu Feng also in the study, she looked at him with a smile and raised her chin.
It was written on his plump face that a good man will not fight with a woman. Jia Cong spoke quickly and told what happened today and what Liu Feng had investigated. At the end, he said: "It really doesn't work. We can only wait three months to see who will use that bankbook to withdraw money."
It’s silver.”
Qiu thought to herself, "I'm afraid something will happen if I can't wait as long as three months."
Chen Ruijin suddenly said to Situ Cen: "Liu Feng is a reliable person. What do you think, Your Highness?"
Situ Cen was slightly startled: "Although I met Liu Dongjia for the first time, I trust him." Liu Feng bowed his hand.
Chen Ruijin said: "The glass flower hall in your back garden is bright and spacious. Why don't we go there and talk about it." Everyone's expressions changed slightly. The flower hall was originally built by Situ Cen to please the Qiu family. After it was built, it was discovered that it was a secret for discussion.
The good thing is that there is no way for outsiders to eavesdrop.
Qiu glanced at Chen Ruijin and said, "Your study room outside is really stuffy and dark. Just follow Sister Chen and let's go sit in the flower hall." They both spoke, and Jia Cong and Situ Cen naturally agreed. Several people immediately agreed.
Moving to the glass flower hall.
Others, including Zhou Hu, were waiting outside. Only Ling Dang followed in. After everyone sat down, Chen Ruijin glanced at everyone and said: "Your Highness, the Third Princess and I just interrogated two Wen Pos, and they
Nothing has been found out during the trial. However, one of the Wen Pos looked at the third princess with a strange look in her eyes - a sense of arrogance."
Everyone was surprised. Situ Cen said: "She is a stable woman and a prisoner. How conceited is she to look at my daughter-in-law?"
Chen Ruijin nodded: "Later, we asked the officials who were investigating the case, and they all said that they had never seen her look like that before."
Qiu thought: "When Sister Chen told them my identity, that steady woman seemed to suddenly become more energetic."
Chen Ruijin said: "I have a vague idea in my mind, but it's just too confusing to explain. Liu Feng is a very organized person. Please help me think about it." Then he glanced at Jia Cong.
Jia Congnai started from the beginning, including the rectification of officialdom, the Tao of Heavenly Masters, underground prisons, and the robbery of people's property by the uncle of the country. Finally, he said: "I suspect that these things are arranged by someone."
Liu Feng said with a smile: "There is no need to be suspicious? The third master just wants to think about what would happen if you and the third highness don't go to Jixiang Bank for a moment of pleasure today. If you don't keep all the embroidery workers and embroiderers, they will freeze to death and starve to death."
What kind of rectification of officialdom is the Third Highness going to do?"
Situ Cen said angrily: "This matter should be done by the crown prince! Why do you leave it to me?"
Chen Ruijin said: "The Third Highness's rectification of officialdom is only a recent matter. It has been more than half a year since I used your name to rob people's property."
Qiu glanced at her man: "His name is much cheaper than that of others. Even if someone files a complaint, the prince and prince will protect him."
Chen Ruijin nodded: "Yes. Others may not be so bold as to dare to bet that the prince and his son will not act impartially." Situ Cen's eyes twitched. Chen Ruijin said, "I guess only Princess Shu dares."