Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife - Chapter 199

[Chapter 199 The old hatred]

With the opening of Yibaoxuan, the status of the same name has quietly improved. After many inquiries, the matter of the salt purchase was finally confirmed, and the news was directly sent back to Jingling City.

Mu Yunyao sent the letter from Qi Ming to King Yue to check: “Fourth Master, what do you think?”

King Yue put the letter on the desk and tapped lightly on it with his fingers: “This matter is absolutely unusual.”

Mu Yunyao nodded in agreement: “As long as the officials are not stupid, they naturally wouldn’t buy a large amount of salt at this juncture, but they did so, there must be a reason.”

“It will cost a lot of money to buy salt now. Seeing that the salt tax is about to be verified, this large amount of money is spent, and the book is extremely ugly. Once the matter is reported to the emperor, it may be punished by the saint, but they are naturally willing to risk such a big deal. risk, then the biggest reason may be that there is a problem with these silvers.”

Over the past few days, I have also collected a lot of information. I have some understanding of the salt merchants’ lack of salt tax. The biggest possibility is that the hole in the salt tax is too large, and the salt merchants can’t fill it all at once. such a countermeasure.

Mu Yunyao also guessed like this: “If there is really a problem with the money, this matter will be easier to handle.”

King Yue nodded slightly: “There is a shortage of silver taels, and it is natural to buy and transport salt. However, the Salt Administration has made a very detailed investigation in this regard, how much salt is bought, what ships are loaded, what routes are taken, where are they shipped, and how are they distributed… 1 All have regulations. If the salt merchants want to collude with the government to make a fake, they will try their best to disguise it. There will not be too many problems when buying and loading salt. .”

“When the fourth master said this, I remembered something. I heard that the price of salt dropped sharply in the past few years. The salt merchants were extremely dissatisfied. During the process of transporting salt, the salt ship was deliberately flooded, and a large amount of salt fell into the river. , causing a shortage of salt for a while, people rushed to buy it, and the price rose several times in a short period of time.”

“You mean, this time they may repeat their old tricks?”

“It’s just a random guess, I’m not sure.” Mu Yunyao didn’t say too much.

Yue Wang’s eyebrows moved, and he thought quickly in his heart: “I will have someone check it as soon as possible.”

“Um.”

When Mu Yunyao returned home, she carefully studied the news about Li Yuanyi, and the more she watched, the more she frowned.

Jin Qiao brought the tea cup up: “Miss, Miss Mingyin is here.”

“Please come in.”

Mingyin’s injuries have long since healed, and now she sees Mu Yunyao Yingying bowing down and salutes: “I have seen Miss Mu.”

Mu Yunyao motioned Jin Lan to step back, and then said, “Miss Mingyin doesn’t need to be polite, please take a seat.”

Mingyin’s face was a little apprehensive. After sitting down, his fingers twisted the skirt slightly, and from time to time he looked up at Mu Yunyao.

“The reason why I invited the girl to come here, I think the steward Qin has already told you that?”

“Yes, I already know that.”

Mu Yunyao nodded: “This matter may be a lot of embarrassment for the girl. If you feel reluctant, you can tell me directly, and I will discuss with Steward Qin to choose someone else.”

“No!” Mingyin stood up abruptly, her tone a little hurried, “I am willing to do this, please give me a chance.”

Mu Yunyao looked at Mingyin and sighed slightly in her heart. When he discussed with Steward Qin earlier, he recommended Mingyin to approach Li Yuanyi. Later, after careful inquiry, he found out that all of Mingyin’s family members were taken by Li Yuanyi. Harmful.

Seeing Mu Yunyao’s silence, Mingyin stepped forward and knelt down directly: “I don’t know if the girl heard the steward Qin say that I am an orphan, but not abandoned by my parents, but all my relatives were murdered by adulterers!”

Mu Yunyao got up and helped Mingyin up: “I heard Steward Qin say that your family and Li Yuanyi have always had a grudge, but I don’t know how, if you want, you might as well tell me in detail, if you can help I’ll do my best to be busy!”

With tears in his eyes, Mingyin hurriedly said, “Ten years ago, my father was the prefect of Linjiang City, and Li Yuanyi was the governor of Linjiang. Linjiang City suffered a drought that has never happened in a century. The imperial decree went to inspect the granary, only to find that the grain in the granary was missing, and it was replaced by bags of sand. Later, after multiple verifications, I found out that it was Li Yuan who secretly went to the Chen warehouse and sold all the grain in exchange for silver taels!”

“After I came to Jingling City, I occasionally heard people talk about what happened in Linjiang City ten years ago. I didn’t expect your father to be the prefect of Linjiang City, Lu Yan. Since Mr. Lu has found out the truth , didn’t you try to expose him?”

Thinking of the past, Mingyin couldn’t help trembling all over, hatred in his eyes flickering: “My father is an honest and upright official, seeing that the people of Jingling City have no food to use, he angrily wants to report the matter to the court, but unfortunately the Li family is powerful. It was too big, Li Qingzhou was even more expensive as the Prime Minister of the dynasty, and the news was intercepted before it left Linjiang City. After that, Li Yuanyi even fabricated evidence and planted the matter on my father’s head, so much so that he was brought up to this day. Come on, the people of Linjiang City are all scolding…”

Mu Yunyao sighed: “Yeah, ten years ago, when the power of the Li family was at its peak, although Li Yuanyi was a side supporter of the Li family, once the incident broke out, the impact on the reputation of the Li family was extremely bad. Naturally, the Li family will try their best to hide it.”

Mingyin wiped away her tears: “I was still young at that time, and the old housekeeper tried to save my life. It’s a pity that it took too long, and now I can’t find any evidence…”

Mu Yunyao didn’t know what happened in Jingling City at that time, but he believed in Qin Steward’s person and Yue King’s ability to select people. If there was a problem with this Mingyin, he would have to deal with it early. She was screened out, so what she said is very likely to be true: “It has happened for many years, and I would like to ask the girl to mourn.”

“Miss Mu, I must get this opportunity to get close to Li Yuanyi. No matter what the price is, as long as the girl tells me, I will do my best to obey!”

Mu Yunyao thought for a moment, then nodded and said, “I can give you a chance, but you may promise not to show any clues?” There is a deep feud in the sea of blood. When the time comes, seeing your enemy is in front of you, may you control the killer without pain?

Mingyin’s eyes were firm: “Please don’t worry, girl, I know that Li Yuanyi alone could not accomplish what happened back then, and there must be the blessing of the rest of the Li family, so I won’t act impulsively, and will try my best to find it. Evidence, let the people who framed my father pay the price and return my father’s innocence!”

[End of This Chapter]