At noon, two sixth-grade officials were walking on the bustling streets of the West City, followed by several police officers holding sticks. The two people did not seem to get along well. Although they walked side by side, they were separated by a foot from each other, as if they were unfamiliar.
They are two unrelated strangers.
They stopped in front of the busiest part of the West Market. Looking up, they could see a distinctive two-story store directly to the south. There was a corridor upstairs. The colorful silk hangings had faded. There was a plaque hanging on the door lintel with a letter of rice.
Remember the shop.
Yuan Zai took the initiative and asked: "Is it an open inspection or a secret visit?"
Xiao Hua stared at the shop building and said loudly and coldly: "As officials of the imperial court, we naturally investigate the case openly and secretly when we can't find it."
The two entered the store, looked around, and saw two boys standing behind the counter. There were sacks stacked in a side room, containing pepper and spices.
Yuan Zai pointed to the waiter at the counter and asked, "Where is your boss?"
The two servants looked at each other, crossed their hands and said to the two officials: "The master is naturally in the master's mansion."
Xiao Hua asked coldly: "Where is your boss's mansion?"
"I wonder which mansion the two superior officers are asking about?"
Yuan Zai's eyes suddenly became sore and he said angrily: "A mansion is a mansion, which one is this?"
The boy answered honestly, but his voice could not hide the sense of superiority, as if he was talking about his own family: "My family, Alang, has more than a dozen mansions in Chang'an City. We usually have no fixed place to live, and we have no fixed place.
I don’t know where he lives.”
Xiao Hua said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense, otherwise how will you contact the employer?"
"Our boss has a shopkeeper who is upstairs right now. Do you want me to invite the shopkeeper down?"
"Of course, aren't you asking nonsense?" Yuan Zai showed a sour and angry look, and his heart seemed to be touched with pain. He came from a poor family and was in the officialdom. He thought that marrying Wang Zhongsi's Queen Yunxiu would lead to a smooth career.
However, the father-in-law, who lived in Jiedu, the fourth town, did not hold on for long, and the Wang family declined. His well-thought-out son-in-law was only promoted two levels, from the eighth-grade judge of Dali Temple to the sixth-grade Dali Temple
Si Zhi did not take advantage of his father-in-law at all.
Now that he is thirty years old, he only has a house covering an area of five acres in Chang'an City. The director of Dali Temple does not have a lucrative job. He has tried his best to make money, but he is just a small wealthy family. It is a shame that this small family
Merchants can actually occupy more than a dozen houses, which makes people feel very unhappy.
The young man called the shopkeeper down, walked up to them and crossed his hands respectfully, saying: "I'm here to see you two superior officers."
Xiao Hua took out the official document of the Ministry of Justice from his arms, waved it in front of the shopkeeper, stuffed it back into his arms and said: "We have been ordered to come and thoroughly investigate the case of Miji Store colluding with officials to make money. Please tell us the entry and exit of the store in the past three years."
Leave the accounts to us for careful review."
The shopkeeper replied unhurriedly: "For your information, Shangguan, now the store only has the account books for this month. The account books for each month will be summarized and then the owner will send someone to pick them up. The rest are like the two stores in the East City.
is also like this."
Yes, after going around and around, we still have to go around to the boss’s head.
Xiao Hua nodded and said, "Then bring me your monthly account books first."
The shopkeeper hurriedly went upstairs, took down an account book and handed it to Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua reached out and took it and started to look through it. He found that the amount of money imported and sold in the store was indeed huge, and this was just the incoming and outgoing flow of a store in the West Market.
Michagan opened a total of four stores in Chang'an City, and they were never out of stock all year round. To have such a scale, this person should have at least five or six hundred-person camel teams to meet the current business scale.
He closed the account book and threw it back into the shopkeeper's arms. Yuan Zai asked: "As the shopkeeper, you shouldn't know where your boss currently lives."
"Of course I know. It's spring now, so I happen to be on an outing. He has moved to the Jinggongfang residence on Leyouyuan."
Xiao Hua and Yuan Zai looked at each other, and suddenly felt that the background of this shopkeeper was not simple. Jinggongfang is a place with good feng shui in Leyouyuan in Chang'an City. Those who can live here are some dignitaries, and it is adjacent to Xinchangfang.
There was the former residence of Princess Taiping, but now it has become the villa of the emperor's four brothers.
They were not intimidated by a mere Jinggongfang, so they immediately left the West Market to investigate.
After the shopkeeper watched the two people leave, he immediately waved to a boy and asked him to ride a fast horse to Jinggongfang to report to his boss, Michakan.
Michagan was entertaining a few friends at home, and the servants were waiting anxiously outside the hall. The steward of the Mi family entered the hall and whispered a few words to Michagan's side. The boss nodded calmly.
Michagan picked up the wine cup and said to several people with a smile: "Everyone, I'm really sorry. Something happened in my business and I need to go back to the store to take care of it. Please forgive me."
Several friends said that it was okay, who could not have an urgent matter, and they bid farewell to Michagan in a considerate manner.
He sent his friends outside the gate, then quickly turned back and asked the boy who came to report the news: "What official is the visitor and what is his rank?"
"Reporting to my boss, they seem to be from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple. Both of them are wearing sixth-grade dark green robes."
Michagan fell into deep thought for a moment, and he instinctively felt that the person who came was not just targeting him. If a wealthy man from Chang'an really committed a crime, there would be Wannian County and Jingzhao Mansion above his head, and the other party sent two of them at once.
A sixth-grade official must be someone with bad intentions.
He immediately sat down in front of the desk, picked up a pen to copy the letter and folded it. He called his two loyal servants to his side and ordered them one after another: "Immediately go to Hexi and enter the memorial hall and submit this letter to Cao Anding, who joined the army.
You immediately take this letter to the mansion of Mr. Yang in Xinghuafang and invite the eldest son Yang Xuan to come. Tell him that I have found two fine parrots from Lingnan and specially invite him to visit the mansion in Changxingfang."
The two servants rode away on fast horses, and Michagan also quickly moved to another place, hoping that this would scare off the intruders. If not, he would have to think of another strategy.
Xiao Hua and Yuan Zai came to Micha Qian's outer house in Jinggongfang. After asking the concierge, they learned that Micha Qian had been transferred to Changxingfang. The two were immediately furious. The two of them were dignified sixth-rank officials of the imperial court. How could they
How can a small businessman be allowed to play like this? When I see Michagan later, I must take him to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment and torture him for a few days, and then investigate, interrogate and convict him.
…
Yang Xuan was a well-known dandy in Chang'an City and the eldest son of Prime Minister Yang Guozhong. He only had two interests in his life, cockfighting and parrots. While Michagan was bribing the Yang family all the year round, he also noticed this libertine early and fell in love with him.
He went to Lingnan to buy parrots at a high price and ordered someone to tame them.
Another famous thing about Young Master Yang is that he took the Ming Dynasty Economic Examination last year and failed due to poor academic performance. The examiner, Da Xixun, was afraid of Yang Guozhong's power, so he asked his son to please Yang Guozhong and asked him, saying that your son did poorly in the exam.
, but my father did not let him fail. After hearing this, Yang Guozhong said angrily: "Why should my son worry about not being rich? He doesn't need you guys to come and sell him!" After hearing this, Da Xixun hurriedly assigned Yang Xuan to his family.
This is the first chapter of the Ming Sutra.
Now the second-generation ancestor is standing in the corridor of Michagan's house, using a bamboo stick to tease the parrot in the cage to talk.
"Hello, Young Master Yang. Wish you all the best, Young Master Yang."
"Haha, okay, Mr. Mi, can you retrain this bird to say that the Right Prime Minister Hongfu Qitian instead?"
While handing over the wine cup, Michagan nodded with a smile and said: "No problem, sir, I will order the parrot in the family who is good at training the parrot to train it carefully and make sure it changes its behavior after five days."
At this time, the steward trotted in from the door and said loudly, "Alang, folding his hands, two officials from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple came outside the door and asked you, Alang, to go out to greet them."