The new book of the burning prairie star

Chapter 112 All the deputies who survived until now have been promoted

Everyone present was so frightened by Wei Huaici's words that they immediately fell silent. This was blatantly asking for bribes. Some people hurriedly looked outside the door to see if anyone had just passed by.

"Get out of my way!" Judge Cao shook his hand off Yang Biao's shoulder. He was really ignorant and greedy. "After drinking a few bowls of cat urine, you don't even know your name?"

He is really courting death. The blood at Caishikou has not dried yet. I don't know if there are still people sent by the emperor in Guangping Prefecture, lurking here secretly.

Wasn't that Sun Xuanli killed by someone sent by his superiors? Thinking of this, he felt a chill on his neck.

So he took the opportunity to pull Wei Huaici away and said, "I'll take him out to the toilet." Walls have ears. Although Cao Tongpan knew that Yang Biao would not inform on others, he still had to be careful about the villains around him.

Yang Biao was very much in Cao Tongpan's sight, and Cao Tongpan thought that he had been good enough to him, so he personally selected a group of young and strong men with better boxing skills from the official guards who had been demoted to official slaves due to their property being confiscated, and sold them to Yang Biao. It would be difficult for him to find so many people with such good skills at once if he had to find them on his own.

"We've almost finished eating, why don't we just go our separate ways?" The others were scared and thought that they should leave this place as soon as possible. They must remember not to drink at the next dinner party, otherwise they would die without knowing how.

In the entire Guangping Prefecture, except for Xia Zhaofeng, other high-ranking officials were basically beheaded. The Tongzhi was concurrently held by Cao Tongpan, and other positions were taken over by the former deputies. It can be said that as long as the deputies who have not been bitten by others and have survived to the present have been promoted.

"Take care, sirs," Yang Biao sent them to the entrance of the restaurant. He knew that these officials were frightened by the beheading and would probably not come out to eat in the near future.

"Yang Biao, I see that the money houses are doing very good business recently. Why don't we open one too?" Qin Xiaoran found out that Fan Song next door and other shop owners went to the money house to borrow money, so she was tempted. The shops bought by Yang Biao were large enough and in good locations. Any one of them could be used as a money house. The most important thing was that he also bought a large number of former official guards who could be used to protect the safety of the money house.

"The money houses are doing well because everyone is mortgaging their houses or shops to borrow money to buy the confiscated items." Yang Biao smiled and patted her head gently. The little girl was still so naive that she thought it was easy to open a money house. There were many tricks here. Besides, even if those factors were eliminated, she had nothing in her hands now. How could she have money to lend to others?

"Why do they have to mortgage their own house to buy another one?" Qin Xiaoran didn't understand. She had learned housekeeping from her mother before, but she had never mortgaged her house to borrow money.

"It's the same as ours, actually. This is a rare opportunity, and we all want to take advantage of the low price of the land and real estate sold by the government to buy them, but we don't have the money, so we have to mortgage our own houses to the banks so that the banks can lend us money to buy them, and then we can pay back the money when we make money, and then we can get the mortgaged houses back." In fact, my situation is similar to theirs, so there's no need to laugh at others.

"Weiwei, what are you embroidering?" Liu came to her daughter's boudoir and saw her embroidering, so she stood beside her and watched.

"Mother, are you done with everything?" Xia Weiwei stopped holding the needle and looked up at her in confusion, otherwise how would she have the time to come over to her place?

"There is always something to do. It's more important to spend time with my precious daughter." Liu took the embroidery shed from her hand, but couldn't figure out what it was made of. "What is this embroidery for?"

"Daddy said his purse was lost, so he asked his daughter to embroider one for him." Xia Weiwei rubbed her eyes, feeling a little sore.

Seeing her rubbing her eyes, Liu hurriedly stopped her and said, "Child, I have told you so many times that you cannot rub your eyes blindly. It is easy to cause damage. You are lucky to be born in a medical family."

Then she realized that her words might have been too harsh, so she softened her voice: "Don't just think about finishing it in one night, go to bed early, your mother will sleep with you tonight." Fearing that she would not sleep all night, she rushed to make the purse at night and decided to sleep with the child tonight.

"Don't mother need to accompany father?" Xia Weiwei actually didn't want to sleep with Liu. She was so old, but her mother still had to hold her in her arms when she slept.

"Your father is busy with official duties and will handle government affairs in the government office tonight." There has been a shortage of staff recently, and many new faces have come to the government office, all of whom were transferred from the jurisdiction of Guangping Prefecture.

"Oh, then mother should instruct the kitchen to make delicious food for father so that he won't overwork himself." Xia Weiwei thought about buying some supplements for her father tomorrow and having someone prepare them and send them to the government office.

"Yes, mother has already told you to come and sleep." Although it was a little late for the child to show concern, Mrs. Liu was still happy, knowing that her daughter had her parents in her heart.

"Okay," Xia Weiwei saw that Liu had taken off her clothes and was lying on the bed, so she slowly walked to the bed, took off her clothes, got into the quilt, and reached her hand under her mother's armpit.

"Ouch, it's so itchy!" Mrs. Liu was caught off guard by her daughter's disturbance and instinctively started to tickle her.

Liu lamented that she had not been so close to her daughter for a long time, and the two of them kept playing and making noises on the bed.

"Sir, you haven't gone home yet?" Judge Cao was about to go off duty after checking the household registration population, but when he saw that the light was still on in Xia Zhaofeng's office, he came over to greet him.

"Well, there are still some matters that have not been dealt with. What about you? Have you compiled the exile list?" Except for the three clans of Zhang Shixian and the nine clans of Ji Fang, the families of all the others would be exiled to the wilderness.

"I have just sorted it out. Would you like to see it, sir?" Judge Cao wanted to go back to his office to get the list. He would feel at ease if the prefect could take a look at it sooner.

"I heard that the properties confiscated from the Zhang and Ji families were purchased by one person?" Xia Zhaofeng also got the news from Censor Luo. Out of curiosity, he asked, "Is it a merchant?" It was really generous to make such a large purchase.

"He is not a big merchant in Guangping Prefecture. The buyer is from Wenchang County and is a scholar." The prefect did not ask who the buyer was. It seemed that he was just asking casually. It would be better for him not to mention Yang Biao's name to avoid causing trouble to the young man's future life.

"Oh," Xia Zhaofeng lowered his head and continued to handle government affairs. He thought that those famous big merchants in the city were accused by Zhang Shixian of bribing him. Although they were not sentenced to death, they were all confiscated and exiled. Those small merchants were not able to take all of them. They just bought some of the real estate of other officials who had their property confiscated. There were many small merchants, and they managed to digest all of them in a short period of time.

"Sir, how about I accompany you to deal with it?" Seeing that his eyes were red from staying up late, Judge Cao wanted to help.