Chapter 268
The work of copying the Wen family is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
Compared to the noise at the beginning, the courtyards inside and outside have become quiet.
The slaves of the Wen family were driven away by the officers and soldiers and all of them went to the front yard.
They were all in a mess, younger, hiding among the crowd, trembling, and older, either frowning or wiping away tears.
Especially the women in the Wen family, they all cried like tears.
The Wen family is a big family in Wenzhou. Today, they only confiscated ancestral homes, and the number of people arrested has been more than 300. If nine tribes are implicated, this is a very terrible number.
The men and children in the ancestral home have already run away. After all, it has been more than ten days since the Wen family’s accident. If you don’t run away, you will become a fool?
Wen Desheng's parents, brothers, uncles and uncles had already run away, leaving only a bunch of concubines and maids.
However, even if the monks run away, they can't run away from the temple. It's only a matter of time before they catch them. The key is the relevant personnel involved in the smuggling of seafood.
That is, the servants of the Wen family, and the men of the Wen family may not all do seafood business, nor may they do them themselves, but these things must be left to their servants.
For example, Zhang Mu once saw that secret pier in Nanxi River, all the Wen family's confidants were in charge.
Most of the men in the Wen family eat and wait for death every day, lifting cages and holding birds. Even if they catch them, it is useless.
Besides, the Wen family is doing business with long houses. Although other houses are also done, they all rely on long house relationships. People in the lineage of long houses are the key.
Only by finding those in charge can we thoroughly figure out where the Wen family smuggled goods were purchased, how to transport them, how to go out to sea, and how to dispose of the accounts after trading with Japanese pirates.
This is a complete industrial chain. Zhang Mu was undercover in the Wen family, but he only saw a surface.
Starting from here, you can dig out all the chains of underground seafood in Wenzhou at once.
By that time, if you want to figure out how much corrupt officials are corrupt, it would be like playing.
Han Fangshan stood behind Zhang Mu with a sad face, because Kong Gaofei's body was still lying there not far away, covered with white cloth.
He was secretly worried that after returning to Hangzhou, Wang An would not give up.
However, Zhang Mu looked calm and calm, as if nothing had happened just now, just with his hands on his back, not knowing what he was thinking.
At this time, Wang Houzi hurried to Zhang Mu and said, "Sir, I have found the shopkeeper."
Zhang Mu was overjoyed. This shopkeeper Xie was the middleman who met Wen Desheng at that time. Naturally, he was also among the servants who were familiar with the inside story of the Wen family.
I thought that the Wen family had happened, and the man named Xie should have followed the Wen family and fled to escape, but I didn't expect that he would find him again.
"Have you found it there?" Zhang Mu wanted to know if there were any clues about other people, so he asked on purpose.
"According to it, after entering the city yesterday, you sent us to secretly stare at Furuixiang cloth house. When we went there, the place had already closed. Later, when the young man asked, he found out that it was because of the Wen family that something happened, the cloth house was closed for more than ten days."
Wang Houzi said while wiping his sweat and continued, "I was unwilling to give up, so I asked the people around me for a while, and then I realized that this shopkeeper Xie's home was outside the city and was a famous filial son. So I thought that he should not have escaped, so I took people to his house to arrest people in the early morning, but it was blocked."
Zhang Mu smiled and said, "Thank you too, where is the shopkeeper?"
"Just outside the gate, will you summon him?" Wang Houzi asked.
Zhang Mu glanced around, pointed to the main room of the courtyard and said, "Take him there."
Let me tell you, I first entered the main room of the courtyard.
This hall is located on the central axis of the Wen family's outer courtyard. It is named Jushengtang and is the core building of the Wen family's power.
Unlike Wanrong Hall in the backyard, this place almost determines that there is no major decision in the Wen family.
Zhang Mu sat in the position of the owner of the Wen family and reached out to touch the smooth handrail.
This Taishi chair made of high-quality water-dwelling wood has been rubbed repeatedly by people.
I don’t know how many generations of the head of the Wen family were sitting on this chair and taking the helm for the Wen family.
Now that the building is about to collapse, it is probably only this chair that can witness the entire process of the rise of the Wen family to the downs.
Because he was raiding his house, the inside and outside were in chaos. Wang Houzi searched for a long time before finding a pot of tea and brought it to Zhang Mu.
When Zhang Mu just picked up the teacup and took a sip, he saw that Manager Xie was detained by two Jinyiwei and pushed into the lobby.
Zhang Mu thought that with the identity of Manager Xie, he probably wouldn't be qualified to enter here. Maybe this is the first time Manager Xie has entered this lobby.
Manager Xie was completely disgusted with Zhang Mu's appearance when he saw him. His hair was loose and his clothes were mixed with sewage and mud, and he was in a mess.
He was still wearing heavy shackles on his body, and when he fell to the ground, he couldn't straighten his back.
Zhang Muke knew how powerful these shackles were. When he was watching TV series in his previous life, he saw those prisoners wearing shackles and locks, and they all looked very relaxed.
In fact, these shackles are generally very heavy, with lighter ones ranging from thirty to forty kilograms, and heavy ones ranging from 50 to 60 kilograms.
Put it around your neck and hand on it. If you can't walk a few steps, your shoulders will not be able to stand it. Where can you bear this thing like Shopper Xie, who has never done a coolie?
"Raise your head." Zhang Mu put down the teacup and said coldly.
Manager Xie slowly looked up, and when he saw Zhang Mu, he was shocked.
For a long time, he didn't say a word, his dry and purple lips trembled, wanting to say anything, but he never said a word.
"Thank you, the mountains and rivers are not changing. I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon." Zhang Mu smiled.
Manager Xie sighed, smiled bitterly, and said in a low voice: "I thought you had a problem with you, but I didn't expect you to be the Jinyiwei."
"At this point, I think I don't need to say more. You only have one way to go, and you have vomited everything you know, and you may still have a way to survive." Zhang Mu said.
"Haha, I don't know what this adult is called? I guess it's not surnamed Yan, right?" Xie Shopkeeper sneered.
"Rareless, this is Zhang Mu, a hundred households of the Jinyiwei, Lord Zhang." Wang Houzi said angrily.
"Oh! It turned out to be a hundred households in the Jinyiwei, who were disrespectful. Then Lord Zhang, there is a saying that you should have heard of, the master is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the master is insulted to death. Xie is a little educated, but he understands the truth. I don't know anything about the Wen family." said the shopkeeper Xie.
Chapter completed!