"One of those two foreign merchants who asked to become common people of the Ming Dynasty?" After hearing Song Liang's words, Song Qingshu was very surprised and said: "Could it be said that the reason why they wanted to become common people of the Ming Dynasty was to assassinate His Majesty?"
"This one named Su Dongli seems to be like that. I just don't know if the other one named Ba is like that." Song Liang said with a gloomy face.
"These foreign merchants can now travel throughout Guangdong Province. They must immediately order the police stations across Guangdong to arrest the other foreign merchant who was naturalized in the Ming Dynasty. If the entire Guangdong cannot be searched, he may have already gone. Other provinces will have to ask His Majesty to order nationwide sea arrests by then." Song Qingshu immediately said to Qian Minglin beside him.
"We have sent someone to ask for instructions from Mr. Li, the inspector. It is estimated that Mr. Li will give the order soon." Qian Minglin said with a look on his face. His expression was not because of this, it had nothing to do with him; Some of the policemen he relied on most were killed this time, which made him very unhappy.
"There is also the Baoan City Shipping Department. We need to inform the Baoan City Shipping Department immediately that everyone in the shop of this Su Dongli and that other foreign merchant named Zheng So-and-so should be arrested, and all the items must be carefully searched one by one." Song Qingshu said again.
Although the foreign businessman whose name they couldn't remember may not be related to this major witchcraft case, such a case would always be punished by mistake, not to mention that they would not kill that person now. It's just that you have to suffer a little bit, and no one thinks there's anything wrong with it.
After some further discussion, everyone did not dare to waste time and immediately took Su Dongli back to the palace to see the emperor and report the matter.
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Early in the morning, Yunxi asked Song Liang and others to go to Gao's house to search, and then sent people to the Guangzhou Police Headquarters to ask Qian Minglin to take people there. After he finished reviewing the two memorials sent yesterday, he declared that the Jin Yiwei in Guangzhou City The person in charge came over and asked about the situation in Guangzhou City, and then asked: "Do you Jin Yiwei have any clues about the major witchcraft case and the case of harvesting and cutting?"
"Your Majesty, I am incompetent. The clues I have obtained are the same as those from the Guangzhou Police Headquarters. There are no other clues." Fan Ming immediately knelt down and said.
Guangzhou Jinyiwei's performance this time can be said to have discredited Jinyiwei's previous "famous reputation". In these two major cases this time, Jinyiwei said that it is wrong to say that Jinyiwei found nothing at all, but it is almost the same as the Guangzhou Police Headquarters and did not reflect it at all. After that, he would inevitably be reprimanded by Qin Song or even dismissed from his post and investigated.
However, Yunxi understood this. In the 26th year of Hongwu, the Jinyiwei suffered a second attack, and the power of the branch offices in other places was greatly weakened. It was not until Yunxi succeeded to the throne in the 31st year of Hongwu that he began to rebuild the Jinyiwei.
And at the beginning, the main purpose of rebuilding Jinyiwei was to re-strengthen the surveillance of officials and other ethnic gathering areas, and later gradually resumed spying on civilian situations. In the second year of Jianye, Yunxi changed subordinate officials to police, which greatly expanded the local government A separate police station was also established to manage the private sector, so the local Jinyiwei gave up the expansion of the yamen to spy on private situations and mainly focused on monitoring officials.
Of course, someone from the Gao family is an official in the capital and falls within the surveillance scope of the Jinyiwei. It was not discovered that the Gao family was involved in the major witchcraft case. Jinyiwei was negligent in his duties, and Yunxi would also give him some punishment for this. However, Fan Ming's daily errands are done very well. It is true that when he first came to Guangzhou, he came specifically to report that the dental industry in Guangzhou was not stable. This major witchcraft case was completely different from ordinary murder cases and it was not easy to find out, so he would not be too harsh.
But thinking about the tooth shop, Yun Xi couldn't help but think: 'These tooth shops are not related to this case of harvesting and cutting or witchcraft.' He then asked: "The tooth shop you reported before, and
Are these two major cases related?"
"Your Majesty, I have two things to report to Your Majesty, one of which is related to these teeth."
"Your Majesty, although those people in the dental industry have been keeping quiet and doing nothing in the past few days, there seems to be some movement secretly, which seems to be related to the major case of harvesting and harvesting."
Fan Ming paused, seeing that Yunxi had nothing to say, and continued: "Second, there was a fire in Zhenhai Tower on Yuexiu Mountain. Fortunately, the caregiver noticed it in time and put out the fire."
"Fire?" Yunxi, who just had no reaction to the suggestion that several tooth shops might be related to the major case of harvesting and cutting, became aware of the fire in Zhenhai Building.
The tooth shop was an intermediary in ancient times, someone who helped people negotiate business deals. It cannot be said that the tooth shop had no contribution to society, and Yunxi did not crack down on the entire tooth shop industry, but the original official tooth shop was not one of them.
Guanya, a dental shop appointed by the government, also engages in the business of ordinary dental shops. The difference from ordinary dental shops is that they also bear the obligation to pay taxes to the government.
Of course, since they have to pay taxes, they will naturally have some benefits. According to the original regulations of the Ming Dynasty, these officials holding household documents can monopolize some industries. Many goods entering the city, especially big cities, have to go through their hands.
, they made a lot of money with this move.
They then gave a small portion of the money they earned to the government as taxes.
Yunxi could not tolerate such a thing. Not to mention that the commercial tax that the court could receive was not even one ten thousandth of the money earned by the dental shops. He could not tolerate the mere obstruction to business.
Most of the goods have to go through their hands, and they can get whatever they want, but because they are in a completely monopolized market, it is too easy to make money, so as long as they can pay the small amount of taxes stipulated by the government, they can have enough money for their own family.
There is not much motivation to make money other than bribing officials and daily extravagant expenses. Sometimes they are too lazy to earn the money they are offered by others. For example, if someone wants to transport some goods to Guangzhou for sale, the tooth shop will sometimes delay the payment.
In the past few days, even if bribes were given, it would still be the same, seriously hindering the development of business.
Of course, under the original system, their approach was understandable. The documents for monopoly trade were issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of Household Affairs could naturally take them back. Apart from bribery, they had no way to influence the officials' decision-making - if the farmers rebelled, the government would still
They may be appeased or suppressed depending on the situation, but they will always suppress businessmen who cause trouble. In addition, there are many dental shops that are willing to serve as officials, so they dare not make trouble. Therefore, if they lose their documents from the Ministry of Household Affairs, no matter how much money they save, they will not be able to make trouble.
If you don't live there, you might as well hang around like this. If you lose the documents from the Ministry of Household Affairs, you won't have others coveting your family's belongings.
Therefore, Yunxi would not target these officials alone, but would reform the entire system based on the time when subordinate officials were replaced by police officers, and set up tax police to collect taxes instead of officials.
Therefore, it is normal for these officials to be dissatisfied with Yunxi. Is taking someone's money like killing their parents? It cannot be said that it is very normal to be involved in the use of materials, harvesting and cutting of children, but he can understand it. Although it has been verified that they are indeed related to the children
After the divorce case is related, they will still be dealt with according to the law.
But when he heard that someone was going to destroy the Zhenhai Tower, he was not so calm. There was an open field around the Zhenhai Tower, and the nearby vegetation had a high moisture content because of the heavy rainfall in Guangdong. Only a fool would believe that it was a fire.
Yunxi immediately thought of Feng Shui. 'Don't you say that Zhenhai Tower is the dragon vein that controls Guangzhou? If the mastermind behind these two major cases did it, what is his purpose? I don't have the slightest intention to make Guangzhou the capital. .'
Yunxi really couldn't figure it out, so he decided to wait until he caught the mastermind behind it.
He asked Fan Ming again if he had anything else to report, but when he heard that there was none, he asked him to leave.
Yunxi immediately returned to the backyard and went to Xiyi's dormitory. Yunxi didn't go to Xiyi's dormitory yesterday, but today he felt that he would go to see her after he recovered a little.
When he passed by, Wanchun was sitting by the bed, feeding Xiyi porridge. Xiyi was now unconscious and unable to eat by herself, so Wanchun and others fed her porridge and meat soup every day.
And since yesterday, there have been more medicinal foods to replenish the body. Although it is said that when the person behind the evil spells is caught, he will be asked to unravel the evil spells in Xiyi, but who knows whether he can be captured alive? Such a person may It's easy to kill, but not so easy to capture alive.
Besides, even if he is captured alive, can he be allowed to undo Xiyi's evil spell? This is a crime for which Lingchi will be executed, and Yunhe is not sure about it.
Therefore, Yunxi could only adopt a slightly risky strategy: nourish Xiyi's body, let her heal better, and then let Zhang Sanfeng undo the evil spell.
Yunhe waited for her to finish feeding Xiyi, then sat by the bed and talked to Xiyi for a while, and told Xiyi some things before getting up and leaving her bedroom.
It was already noon, and Yunxi was about to have a meal, but at this moment, Feng Xishan, who had escorted the Gao family to the Guangzhou Police Headquarters, returned to the palace and said that he had to report two major cases. emperor.
Of course, Yunxi immediately met with him and learned that there was conclusive evidence that Gao Jingde was indeed involved in these two major cases.
Yunxi was not bad at all. He immediately thought of Li Guangrui who was waiting in the study outside and decided to reward him.
But just as Yunxi was thinking about it, he heard Feng Xishan say that the man named Su Dongli, whom Wizard Wu De and another Ning Cai had confessed to, was responsible.
Yunxi also has a good memory. Of course, because he just approved a memorial sent from Bao'an City Shipping Department yesterday, the names of the two foreign merchants who were naturalized in the Ming Dynasty were mentioned, so he remembered one of the foreign merchants who was naturalized in the Ming Dynasty. It's called Su Dongli.
‘This name is not common among Han people, so it’s unlikely that different foreigners would have the same Han name.’ Yunxi thought this way, and basically concluded that he was one of the two businessmen who were naturalized in the Ming Dynasty.
So he immediately said: "Pass the order to hunt down Su Dongli and Basong, two foreign businessmen who have just been naturalized in the Ming Dynasty throughout Guangdong."