Chapter 836

  After the death of Lord Hong Guo, the Lu family experienced the most panic in its history.

  Fortunately, there is also the Queen Mother secretly helping them. Now they have a new residence, and they have also spent money to buy servants and chariots, and the cost of food and clothing has gradually returned to the past.

  The days seem to have returned to the past.

  However, just this morning, the soldiers from Jingzhao Mansion suddenly rushed into Lu Mansion and arrested everyone in the Lu Family.

  Hongguo's eldest son, Lu Yin, now the head of the Lu family, was shocked when he saw this, and screamed.

   "What are you doing? We are all good citizens, why are you arresting us?!"

  An army soldier took out the arrest document issued by Fu Yin and said loudly.

  "More than a dozen merchants have jointly sued the Lu family for not paying for purchases, condoning slaves and beating people, oppressing the good people, and arrogant. It has been verified by the Jingzhao Mansion to be true. Now we will arrest you and go to the Jingzhao Mansion for a trial!"

   Amidst screams and scolding, more than 30 people from the Lu family were arrested and taken into Jingzhao Mansion.

  Mei Guangtao, dressed in official uniform, sat on the high hall, and began to hear the case.

  Lu Yin, as the head of the Lu family, is naturally the main subject of interrogation.

  He does not admit that he has not paid the debts.

  He is confident. The Lu family did not write down the IOU when they were credited. Even if the merchants wanted to sue them, they could not produce conclusive evidence.

  But he thought things too simple.

  Although the merchants can't produce IOUs, they have accounts and clearly record how many things they sell every day.

  Not only that, like fabric furniture, gold and silver jewelry, they all have their own trademarks, as long as they are sold from their homes, everything has their own unique mark.

  Not to mention antique calligraphy and painting, each piece is unique and can be recognized at a glance.

  The officials of Jingzhao Mansion took the ledger and went to the Lu family to compare them one by one, and quickly found out all those things.

   Now Lu Yin could no longer deny it.

  He could only try to quibble for himself, saying that they weren't not repaying the money. They just don’t have enough money recently, and they will definitely be able to pay it back later. I beg Master Fu Yin for a period of grace.

  Mei Guangtao could not help but sneer when he saw that he still wanted to play tricks at this time.

  "Do you know what to do with those who do not pay their debts according to the Dasheng Law?"

  As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, Hong Guogong himself is not a good thing, and the son he brought up naturally didn't learn much.

  Lu Yin hadn't learned no skills since he was a child. Even if he had been in the family for a while, he still had no idea about the law of Dasheng.

  Because he didn't understand the law, he dared to blatantly instruct his servants to knock out the merchants who came to ask for debts.

  At this time, hearing Mei Fu Yin's question, Lu Yin didn't think much about it, and curled his lips.

   "I just owe some money, the big deal is that I have someone return all those things back."

  Mei Guangtao has been an official for many years, who hasn’t seen anyone?

He saw Lu Yin's stupid look, knowing that it would be useless to say more. He directly asked people to move out all the valuable things from the Lu family, sold them to the pawnshop, and then used the money from the **** to pay off the merchants owed by the Lu family. Our money.

  When the merchants got the money, they were naturally satisfied and very happy.

  Lu Yin was crying, daring not to speak.

  However, this is not over yet.

Mei Guangtao: "The Lu family bullied others and allowed slaves to beat others. This is still at the feet of the emperor. You dare to be so rampant. If you can't give a lesson, I'm afraid you will intensify insulting the beloved in the future. All the above males were sent to the Tongshan quarry for one month to serve in the military service, so as to be like this!"

  Lu Yin was shocked and exclaimed: "I don't want to serve! We are a noble family, we have the privilege of not serving!"

  Since the rise of noble clans, there has been a great difference between noble clans and common people.

  The gentry did not have to perform military or military service, and the farms and businesses under their names did not have to pay taxes. Some of the more powerful families could even raise private soldiers.

  The common people not only have to serve three months of military service at the turn of spring and summer each year, each household must have at least one male to perform military service, and all kinds of taxes are scary. Not to mention doing business. Excessive taxes and taxes can almost crush people to death. After the taxes paid by merchants every year, there is basically not much left.

  In the previous dynasty, the common people were not even qualified to take the scientific examination, which was a game that only the gentry could afford to play.

  It was not until the Great Prosperity that this restriction was broken, and the common people had the opportunity to take part in the scientific examination to change their lives.

   However, it is limited to this.

  The privileges of the gentry are still there, and they still monopolize most of the resources of the entire country.

  Mei Guangtao listened to Lu Yin's words and sneered.

   "You have already been demoted as ordinary people, and you are not a gentry at all."

  Lu Yin choked, and then shouted: "Although we are not a gentry, but I am the nephew of the empress dowager, are you afraid that the empress dowager blames me if you treat me like this?!"

  Mei Guangtao leaned forward on the table with one hand and smiled coldly.

  "The official is not afraid to tell you the truth. The superintendent has already impeached the emperor for the messy thing your Lu family did. The emperor is very upset and signaled that the official must deal with the matter severely. Do you understand the meaning of this?"

  Lu Yin didn't expect that he just owed some money, and even the emperor knew about it.

  He was so frightened that his face was pale, and he dared not speak any more.

  Mei Guangtao waved his hand.

  Immediately, a mansion soldier stepped forward, grabbed Lu Yin roughly, and dragged him out.

   In the afternoon of the same day, all males over the age of 12 from the Lu family were sent to the Tongshan quarry for a month of labor reform.

  This matter was soon introduced into the palace.

  Lu Xinyao burst into tears immediately. Her father and her brother had never done heavy work. If they were to serve them for a month, they would definitely be exhausted!

  She cried and went to find the empress dowager, and begged the empress dowager to help save the Lu family.

  The Empress Dowager was shocked and angry when she heard this.

  She immediately sent someone to invite the emperor.

The Empress Dowager questioned: "The emperor has already confiscated all the properties of the Lu family, why should they be sent off for military service? You don't know how hard it is to perform military service. Do you really want to kill the Lu family before you are willing? ?!"

  Now the two soldier charms have been in Luo Qinghan's hands, he is in power, and he is too lazy to think of a snake with the Empress Dowager.

  He said blankly.

   "As long as the emperor's grandmother promises not to intervene in my private affairs, the Lu family will naturally be safe."

  The Empress Dowager was surprised by his undisguised threat.

It took a long time for her to make a sound in disbelief.

   "You worked so hard, just to vent your concubine?"

  Luo Qinghan did not answer, so he looked at her so coldly.

  (End of this chapter)