The carriage was walking through Meizhou City, and Du Ruo looked at the streets on both sides.

The streets are still prosperous. In such a bad financial environment, Du Ruo admires the ability of these industrialists and businessmen to operate their business to such a scale.

Since ancient times, China emphasized agriculture and suppressed Shang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was the only exception, but it was just a passive repression of Shang under the temptation of high taxes. The monarchs and scholars in the court still believed in the Confucian style, and it was already the limit to being able to not suppress industry and commerce.

Therefore, there is still huge room for exploration for the potential of industry and commerce in the Song Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, if the healthy financial industry in later generations is developed slightly in this era, then industry and commerce will definitely explode at a speed of geometric times in a short period of time.

‘The sixteen prefectures in Yanyun in the north have not been recovered yet. The Western Xia of Liao is eyeing him, and Dali, Yunnan is not within the territory. There are many problems with redundant officials, soldiers and expenses within the country. This Song Dynasty is not as beautiful as I thought!’

Due to the sudden discovery of the folk ills this time, Du Ruo's sense of crisis was awakened. He felt that after traveling through this world, he should do something else in addition to participating in the imperial examination and becoming an official to save his life.

My thoughts flew all the way and arrived at the prefecture yamen in a blink of an eye.

Now, Du Ruo has become the "little magistrate" of Meizhou, so after he arrived at the prefecture yamen, he did not disturb Du Shouyi. He and Shangguan took Hu Yueer straight to the place where Wang Lei was imprisoned, and there were no obstacles for everyone.

"Brother Ray!"

"My Moon sister!"

When Hu Yueer saw Wang Lei, she rushed over. Wang Lei was also excited. The names of the two made people feel sick. Du Ruo and Shangguan looked at each other from afar and only passed by when they were almost tired of each other.

"Okay, now, it's time to confess, right?" Du Ruo asked.

Wang Lei looked at Hu Yue'er, nodded, and said, "I keep my word. Yue'er will take you to the Tibetan silver store. Please bring paper and pen. I will ask you for the amount of silver and money, so I will rest assured!"

Wang Lei said nothing before. In addition to giving out Tibetan silver, he also had to write down how much money he spent after stealing the money, the specific flow, and how much left.

There are also wealthy businessmen who report the amount of money they lose, and the case can be closed only if the right one is on the account.

Wang Lei knew that Du Ruo helped Du Shouyi solve the case to close the case as soon as possible. At this time, he took the initiative to ask for it, which was a pleasure.

He also understood that even if he did not ask for it on his own initiative, Du Ruo would ask him to confess the details as soon as possible.

But he was wrong. After he said that, Du Ruo did not move.

"Wang Lei, do you really want to return all the stolen silver to those profiteers?" Du Ruo asked softly.

"I can't help but think about it."

Wang Lei frowned unwillingly, then seemed to suddenly understand something, looked at Du Ruo and asked, "Young Master asked this, is it because he wants to..."

Du Ruo shrugged: "I don't think about anything, but you have to think about whether most of the stolen money has been used to help poor beggars. This money is not easy to recover!"

According to the law, stolen money that cannot be recovered can only be considered loss when the case is closed.

After Du Ruo finished speaking, Wang Lei was stunned, and Shangguan next to him showed a helpless smile.

When Du Ruo asked the coachman about the pawning, he was right aside, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with Du Ruo's doing.

"Ha ha."

Wang Lei laughed loudly, then looked at Du Ruo with contempt and said, "Okay! You are greedy for you, it is better than giving those merchants who have been killed by heaven! In my account, I will distribute 90% of the silver coins to beggars and refugees. You can just reconcile them with me after you withdraw the silver coins."

"I'm not greedy. I will help you with the money to help the poor."

Du Ruo laughed and then ordered someone to bring pens and ink to Wang Lei, while he and Shangguan took Hu Yueer to get the money.

The place where Wang Lei was detained was full of Du Shouyi's confidants inside and outside, so Du Ruo had nothing to worry about.

"Young Master Du, is it Sister Wan'er told you?"

On the way to hide money, Hu Yue'er stared at Du Ruo and asked, and she finally came back to her taste.

"It is your blessing to have such a good sister, and you should thank her." Du Ruo said.

"snort!"

Hu Yue'er bit her lip angrily, without saying a word, and naturally resented Xue Wan'er in her heart.

"I mean it is true that after this incident, I will return your contract to you. Wang Lei will be sentenced to exile for thousands of miles at most. You can go with him." Du Ruo said lightly.

The punishments in the Song Dynasty were the most generous among all dynasties. Not only did they not kill scholars and officials, but ordinary people committed crimes mainly by exile and assassination. Even if it was a murder, they would not be killed, and most of them were exiled to Shamen Island.

Only when the sins are so serious that both man and God are angry will the death penalty.

So Bao Qingtian and other dragon-headed tiger-headed dog-headed guillotines on TV are all fictional, and Bao Zheng is very likely to have never sentenced anyone to death in his life.

As for the popular house searches and implications in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was no one in the Song Dynasty. Even after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty dealt with the puppet emperor Zhang Bangchang, who was supported by the Jin people for treason, but he only gave the person to death, and did not confiscate the house and implicate it.

"We could have done this!"

Hu Yue'er still didn't appreciate it. Du Ruo looked at him, and a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, and he stopped talking.

Soon he arrived at Wang Lei's place where he was in a house on the back street of the state Yahou Street. Just as Du Ruo sighed that Wang Lei was really brave and careful and dared to hide the dirty silver here, Hu Yue'er shook her head and said she was not hiding it here.

“This is just the entrance!”

The entrance Hu Yueer mentioned was not an authentic cellar, but the entrance to the sewer in Meizhou City. After Du Ruo and Shangguan followed Hu Yueer in, Shangguan's face was not abnormal, but Du Ruo was stunned!

"Damn!"

Du Ruo never expected that the underground sewers in Meizhou, a thousand years ago, were wider than those in the small county town of his hometown a thousand years later!

It is more than half a person tall, surrounded by bluestones, and this sewer is still a small part of abandoned. It is conceivable how developed the lower main waterway system in Meizhou City is currently.

‘No wonder Meizhou dares to build a city on the bank of the Minjiang River! I think the sewer of the Song Dynasty, which has a population of millions, is wider!’

Du Ruo was so moved that he was not surprised when he came to Wang Leizang's silver place and saw the pile of white silver and various jewelry like hills.

The Song Dynasty lacked silver, and the currency was mainly copper coins, but it did not mean that there was no silver. The wealthy family still hid a large amount of silver. Wang Lei emptied the silver treasury of seven or eight wealthy merchants. Conservatively, the combined silver of these silver and jewelry would have to be hundreds of thousands of stagnant coins.

"How much did you spend?"

Du Ruo asked Yue'er.

"I didn't spend a penny, and I saved the money for redeem myself." Hu Yue'er said with a backbone.

Du Ruo smiled helplessly. He could never hate Wang Lei and Hu Yueer.

"What's in this box?"

Du Ruo noticed a black box next to the silver pile, so he asked Shangguan, who was holding the lamp, to take the lamp closer. He opened the box to check, but found that there was no money and jewelry inside, just a set of night clothes, a sturdy cloth bag, some chisel ropes and other theft tools. Finally, there was a drawing at the bottom of the box.

Picking up the drawings, Du Ruo found that it was actually a drawing of the tectonic distribution of the sewer in Meizhou City!

"No wonder he was able to steal so many silver vaults without realizing it!"

Du Ruo suddenly realized that with this sewer drawing, Wang Lei could temporarily transport the dirty silver into the sewer near the silver warehouse when he stole, and then transport it away from the sewer god during the day without knowing it.

"Young Master, this drawing..."

Shangguan seemed to notice something abnormal and muttered to Du Ruo a few words. When Du Ruo heard this, his expression changed. He looked at the drawings in his hand again, and his eyes were filled with joy.

Carefully put away the drawings, and Du Ruo left the sewer.

Du Ruo planned to find a servant in the mansion to come to the fortune to get money for the money here at night.

Hu Yue'er and Du Ruo did not ask her to go back, but put her in house arrest. As for the two big men in her house, Du Ruo sent someone to bring them up. Now they are useful again, and they are of great use.

After going back and checking the accounts with Wang Lei, Du Ruo made another arrangement.

He was busy until the evening, and Du Ruo was exhausted physically and mentally, so he planned to have a good sleep first and tell Du Shouyi the good news tomorrow so that he could close the case.

The next morning, after having breakfast, Du Ruo, who was full of sleep, went to find Du Shouyi leisurely.

However, Liu told me that Du Shouyi hurried to the prefecture yamen early in the morning.

Because, early this morning, the two chief inspectors and the chiefs of Chengdu Fu Road suddenly appeared in Meizhou together to investigate Du Shouyi!

"Come so soon?"

Du Ruo shook his energy, made some preparations, and hurried out.

"Du Qing, go find Shangguan..."

Shangguan was guarding Du Ruozang Yin's place. Last night, Du Ruo found three carriages and transported the silver to a secret place. Only the number that Wang Lei was about to confess was left in the sewer, about one-tenth of the original number.
Chapter completed!