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Chapter 77 The old lady of the ruined Hou Mansion (12)

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    "I obey my orders!"

    What can the Dali Temple Prime Minister and several officials from the Ministry of Punishment present, including the Minister of Punishment, do at this time? The emperor has already issued an edict, can they still resist the edict and disrespect it?  He could only accept the order with a wry smile.

    I¡¯m afraid I¡¯m going to offend a lot of people next.

    After Emperor Ming Ling issued the decree, he quickly left and returned to the palace with a group of guards and eunuchs. Unfortunately, these officials had to stay in Dali Temple and continue to work overtime to sort out the case files. Now that they have been sorted out at night, they can seize the time tomorrow.  People check.

    In order to seize the time and complete the task, they may have to stay up for several days and nights.

    After the case was decided, the news quickly spread from inside Dali Temple. Everyone was talking about it for a while. They were either scorning and cursing such people as they deserved, or they were laughing and discussing that there were such vicious women in the world, etc.  , of course, the family members of the victims laughed loudly and shouted that the sky has eyes and the emperor is wise.

    In addition, after hearing the news from outside, some servants hurried back to tell their masters who had done the same thing.

    That night, not only did many officials from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment check the case files all night long, but many wives of ministers and ministers were also very busy, busy erasing evidence and destroying account books and IOUs.

    Although it is difficult to collect the debt after the IOU is destroyed, it is still better than being caught and beheaded in public.

    Qiao Mu has nothing to worry about. The original woman and her eldest daughter-in-law are both from aristocratic families, and they know the law well. Unlike those nobles who believe that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue, it is naturally impossible for her to do such illegal things.  , so after listening to Butler Min's story, he just laughed and put the matter aside.

    She has to be busy with maritime trade, so she has no time to take care of things that don't affect their family at all.  Maritime trade involves too many aspects, from shipbuilding to nautical charts to weapons, all aspects are involved. There are some aspects that Qiao Mu has experience in before, which are easier to handle, such as shipbuilding.  and weapons, but some aspects, such as sea charts, are really quite embarrassing.

    There is no problem with shipbuilding and weapons. Although there are differences in many aspects between different worlds, ships and weapons that comply with the conventional laws of physics are basically universal. As long as you use your previous experience and spend more time and money, you can build them well.  , however, nautical charts from different worlds cannot be used universally. The nautical charts, let alone different worlds, are also different from different eras. If the nautical charts are greatly different, then it is very likely that they are not based on  Sea trade makes money, but the money is sent to the sea.

    The ship has sunk, but we don¡¯t want to send it to the sea.

    In this era, only some big sea trade families have nautical charts, and they are not comprehensive. Basically, they only have charts of a few routes that their families often take. These are the charts of those big sea trade families who don¡¯t know how much they have invested and how many lives they have spent.  I finally figured it out and verified it.

    Now Qiao Mu has only two choices. One is to find a way to explore the outside sea area and draw accurate charts. The other is to find a way to cooperate with those big sea trade families and buy charts from them. However, those sea traders  The big family was in a monopoly business, so how could they be willing to cooperate with others? So although there were two choices on the surface, in reality Qiao Mu only had one choice, and that was to draw the sea chart himself.

    She is worrying about this now.

    An old woman living in a back house really has very few people she can use, and there are only a few of them, and none of them can be used.

    "After all, we can't let a few old ladies help us supervise and urge us to go to sea and draw sea charts.  However, this matter will not be solved in a short time. I guess Qiao Mu will still have worries in the future.

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    In the next half month, that is, the half month before the summer harvest, the atmosphere in the entire capital seemed very tense, because from time to time, people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment would send troops to the residence of an official or a noble wife to carry out an investigation.  Capture.  From princes to seventh-rank officials, there is no possibility of appeasement for anyone caught with evidence.

    But it¡¯s normal.

    The kind that truly hold real power, the wife of the house will not rely on usury to make money no matter what, let alone help some businessmen to handle lawsuits. The kind that are truly powerful, some people will give them money, there is no need at all  It's embarrassing to mix it up with these things.  Those who are really involved in these matters are mostly nobles who have not very high official positions, or who have been honored in the past but now have only empty titles.

    Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment are not afraid of these existences at all, so naturally they will immediately send people to arrest and confiscate the houses after catching the evidence. There is no need to report anything to the superiors. After more than half a month,, the Ministry of Punishment arrested a total of sixty-seven ladies and old ladies who had official orders, and more than a hundred, nearly two hundred of the other women who did not have official orders.

    There are already over a thousand officials and businessmen implicated by these ladies and old ladies. Originally, this matter might have continued to be investigated and spread to other big cities outside the capital. However, because these imperial wives were all emperors, or the Queen Mother personally sealed them.  Yes, at this time they were caught committing a crime, and the emperor and the queen mother were actually not ashamed. The emperor was okay, after all, he still had a large sum of silver from the house confiscation to soothe the injured little heart. The main reason was that the queen mother felt that the face was not bright, so she forced  She ordered the emperor to stop the investigation immediately. She could continue the investigation in private, but not openly. If she continued to investigate like this, her face would be lost.

    Think about it, the imperial wife she decreed has committed so many crimes and loan sharking. What will others think? What will ordinary people think? Ordinary people will say that she, the Queen Mother, does not know how to judge people and treats bad people as good people.  .  This is a nice thing to say, but if it's not nice, you might even secretly scold her for helping the emperor and so on.

    Emperor Ming Ling actually received many memorials from officials during this period, saying that continuing to investigate like this may have a bad impact and may damage the image of the court and officials, etc. In addition, he has already accounted for more than five million taels of silver.  In addition, there are countless antique jewelry and shop fields, and the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple cannot always be dragged down by this case, so he finally showed mercy and asked the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple to stop and put these  After finishing it, he quickly went to handle other cases. Once such an edict was issued, many people really cried with joy.

    The officials of the Ministry of Punishment were happy that they no longer had to stay up late to sort out case files and offend people. Some people who had not been investigated were happy that the matter was finally over for the time being. Fortunately, they were not investigated, and they would never dare to do so again in the future.  If you continue to do such shameful things, you will be scared to death.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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