Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Han Zheng took the account book and went straight back to the Ministry of Justice.

When he met other officials from the Ministry of Justice on the road and they greeted him, he would respond with a few words.

He doesn't like to smile in front of outsiders, especially when handling official business, so he looks a little cold.

A doctor from the Ministry of Justice named Chen rolled his eyes at Han Zheng when they passed each other.

Then he complained to the head of the Ministry of Justice beside him: "Who does he think he is? If he didn't have a good sister-in-law, would he be able to be the Minister of Justice?"

The head of the Ministry of Justice was named Yang. He was afraid that Han Zheng would hear this, so he turned around quickly. Seeing that Han Zheng had already walked a long way away, he couldn't help but patting his chest.

Doctor Chen was dissatisfied with his performance and said, "Why are you afraid of him? You have been in the Ministry of Justice for eight years. In terms of seniority, we are older than him, but in terms of the number of cases handled, he has only handled a few cases."

*

Manager Yang was terrified when he heard this.

Lord Han was a third-rank official, and they were not even fourth-rank officials, far from him. If Lord Han or Lord Pei heard what they had just said, they would definitely be in big trouble.

Especially Lord Pei, he hated to see officials from the Ministry of Justice attacking each other in private.

Fearing that he would be implicated, Yang moved aside and kindly advised, "Doctor Chen, I think Mr. Han is okay. He is a decent person and works seriously. He just solved a big case a few days ago."

When Doctor Chen heard him speak for Han Zheng, he became even more dissatisfied: "Who knows how he got into trouble? His sister-in-law is now a princess. Maybe she asked the Shangshu for help."

"The Minister has always been upright and would not do such a thing." Yang said, "Mr. Chen has been in the Ministry of Justice for many years and should know the Minister well."

"No matter what you say, that Han shouldn't be in the Ministry of Justice, and shouldn't be the Minister of Justice. This position should be held by a more suitable person!"

Master Yang could see that this man was just dissatisfied with Lord Han, and no matter what he said, he could always refute it.

Never mind. If he doesn’t want to listen, he won’t say anything.

Thinking of this, Manager Yang said he wanted to leave as he had some unfinished business.

He just wanted to stay away from trouble, but Doctor Chen scolded him instead: "I always thought you were someone worth making friends with, and I treated you as a good friend, but I never thought you were secretly trying to curry favor with that Han."

Manager Yang didn't expect that his good intentions in persuading him would lead to him being blamed, and he was instantly furious.

He opened his mouth to say something back, but heard Han Zheng's voice coming from behind them.

"So Lord Chen is so dissatisfied with me."

*

Han Zheng pinched and touched the account book in his sleeve. He came back to ask Director Yang for help in finding the files, but he didn't expect to hear such words.

Without looking at Doctor Chen's changing expression, Han Zheng said, "It was His Majesty who transferred me from the Imperial Academy to the Ministry of Justice. If you have any objections, you can go and tell His Majesty to remove me from the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice."

His tone was light, but his words were like a mountain pressing down on Chen Lang's heart.

Doctor Chen laughed dryly and said flatteringly, "I didn't mean that. Your Excellency the Minister has misunderstood."

Han Zheng glanced at him calmly: "I hope so!"

*

After handing the task of checking the case files to Yang, Han Zheng returned to the house, took out the account book he brought from home, and compared it with the account book on the table.

He didn't take what happened just now to heart. He knew that many people in the court were dissatisfied with his becoming the Minister of Justice. They all said privately that he was relying on his second sister-in-law's influence.

Including what happened today, he had heard similar words no less than ten times.

He's used to it.

Let those people say whatever they want. If they are really dissatisfied, just like he said to Doctor Chen, they can go to the emperor and ask him to demote him.

What he has to do now is to assist Minister Pei in managing the Ministry of Justice and handling various cases.

Since Emperor Chenghe promoted him to this position, he naturally had expectations for him. If he wanted to go further in the future, he must not disappoint this expectation.

*

Han Zheng continued to compare accounts until the evening. It was time to go home, so he went out to find Minister Pei. After getting Minister Pei's consent, he took the account book home to continue looking at it.

When Li Yu couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and got up for a walk, he found that the lights in his yard were still on.

She thought about it and didn't go over to disturb him. Instead, she went to the kitchen to cook some porridge, and then asked someone to send a bowl to Han Zheng.

To this day, considering Han Zheng's health, she still prefers the Hanlin Academy, but unfortunately Han Zheng likes to be in the Ministry of Justice.

Li Yu didn’t know how long Han Zheng rested. When she got up the next morning, Han Zheng had already left home.

For more than a month, Han Zheng went out early every day and stayed up until midnight.

Seeing that he was visibly losing weight, Li Yu couldn't help it and decided to find time to talk to him.

Handling cases is important, but health is more important. Without a good body, you will not be able to accomplish anything in the future.

During the day, Li Yu organized his thoughts and planned to chat with Han Zheng before dinner, but it was already dark and Han Zheng had not returned yet.

She went to see the situation in person and found that the Ministry of Justice was brightly lit and under martial law all around.

She instantly realized that something big had happened. Without saying a word, she turned back home, prepared some food for Han Zheng, put it in a lunch box, and asked Miao Da to deliver it to Han Zheng.

*

Han Zheng has not returned for two nights.

It was not until the morning of the third day that he returned home, looking haggard and his clothes wrinkled.

Li Yu arranged for someone to boil water for him to wash, while he went to the kitchen to cook himself.

By the time Han Zheng had tidied his appearance, her porridge had just been cooked.

Li Yu brought the food over and watched him finish eating, then let him rest.

Han Zheng was indeed tired, so he nodded and went back to his room to sleep.

*

He slept for three hours, and when he woke up, he told everything he had recently discovered.

Only then did Li Yu realize what he had found out these days.

It turned out that the account books dug out from the cross-courtyard of Zhuangyuan Mansion were indeed related to the two account books obtained by the Ministry of Justice some time ago.

After continuous comparison, Han Zheng found the names of people that appeared in seven or eight account books.

Then, he checked according to the names and places written in the account books. After many searches, he finally found the people in the account books, and then discovered the secrets hidden in the account books through these people.

*

The account book was written by a wealthy businessman named Ling who lived in the Sanfeng House at that time (Chapter 308), and it recorded his collusion with some officials in the capital.

“The man surnamed Ling asked those officials to help him get the title of imperial merchant and to back him up.

In return, he gave those officials gold, silver, treasures, BMWs and beautiful women. In addition, he also helped those officials kill people.

Second sister-in-law, do you still remember that when we were looking at the house, the agent said that the house had bad feng shui.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with the house. What happened to the wife, children and old mother of the rich businessman surnamed Ling had nothing to do with feng shui. They were all killed by the rich businessman surnamed Ling.

Because the account book was missing, the wealthy businessman surnamed Ling suspected that they had taken it. "

Li Yu was speechless. This Ling guy was so disgusting. Wasn’t he afraid of having nightmares in the middle of the night?

"That Ling has lived outside the capital for many years, hiding his identity and continuing to work for certain officials. This time we followed the clues and arrested them all."

Han Zheng paused for a moment and said, "Second sister-in-law, I feel very happy."

Li Yu smiled and said, "You did a really good job."

*

Not only Li Yu thought so, Emperor Chenghe also thought so.

He was the one who promoted Han Zheng. The information he found out this time helped the court eliminate several corrupt officials, which was very good.

At the morning court session, Emperor Chenghe praised Han Zheng and gave him many rewards.

Some officials in the court were extremely jealous, but they stopped saying those unpleasant words.

(The second extra chapter is finished, there is one more extra chapter left related to modern times)