All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 139: Mr. Chen, you are so cruel!

Faced with strong pressure, Jiang Chun had no choice but to agree or not.

He chose to divert the blame and first confessed the person who killed Jia Min.

"You are unwilling to give up, and you want to test my determination and ability to act?" Chen Ran understood clearly, and said simply, "Tell me about it."

"There is strong opposition at home." Jiang Chun's smile was a little difficult. "We have to open their eyes to see the world before we can convince everyone."

Chen Ran did not comment on this.

"What do your Jiang family's affairs have to do with me? If you can't settle it, then let's die together. Can the whole family gather half an acre of land?"

"I dare not disobey your wishes." Jiang Chun bowed his head. "I just beg you to give me a few days so that I can raise money."

If Chen Ran had not come to Yangzhou with more than a thousand soldiers and the royal flag, Jiang Chun would have already paid the money to arrange for death squads to break into the Salt Administration Office overnight.

But there is no way, when you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.

He could see that the man in front of him was a man who was used to killing people decisively.

He really dared to bury his entire family in half an acre of land.

"When Lord Lin came, he strictly investigated all matters related to the salt administration and offended many salt merchants." Jiang Chun hurriedly changed the subject, "Many salt merchants hated him to the core at that time."

"This does not include you. On the contrary, you are very happy because you have taken this opportunity to expand the scope of your interests."

Chen Ran simply pointed out, "I have seen the records of salt tax payment in recent years. After Lord Lin took office, the amount of your family's payment increased significantly. As for Lord Lin, he was originally appointed by the Emperor to inspect the salt industry."

In the final analysis, Lin Ruhai and Jiang Chun were both the emperor's men.

The salt tax deficit was even more serious back then than it is now, and the emperor couldn't stand the days of lack of silver.

Lin Ruhai and Jiang Chun were arranged to cooperate with each other, one in the official position and the other in the Salt Guild, and many of the losses were recovered.

As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing his parents. These losses were all robbed from many salt merchants and salt smugglers, so naturally they offended people badly.

After that, Lin Ruhai's wife and son died of illness one after another as a warning.

It happened that there was a huge change in the court at that time, and the emperor abdicated and the new emperor ascended the throne.

Lin Ruhai, feeling disheartened, also became depressed.

No one expected that Chen Ran, an outsider, would actually want to seek justice for the deceased Jia Min!

This is something that Jia Min's husband and mother were unable to do and dared not do!
For those who know the inside story, like Ping'er, if they knew, they would exclaim, "You really spend a lot of money to pick up girls~~~"

"The He family took the lead, and several other salt merchants assisted in this matter."

In order to prevent his entire family from being buried in half an acre of land, Jiang Chun betrayed his colleagues without hesitation.

However, colleagues are all enemies, so he still feels pretty good now.

In his opinion, Chen Ran's talk of revenge for Jia Min was just an excuse to kill people, confiscate property and steal money. His real purpose was the same as Lin Ruhai's back then, which was to embezzle money from the salt administration.

If he knew the truth, and found out that Chen Ran's real purpose was just to pick up girls and win their favor, he would probably vomit three liters of blood and shout, "What kind of woman do you want? The Jiang family will sell everything we have to get her for you!"

If this is the case, it means that Jiang Chun has no idea what the beauty trap is.

What really makes people fall for it is not the beauties who are posing in coquettish ways. There are too many such beauties in clubs... ahem, there are too many of them in brothels and brothels.

The real beauty in the beauty trap is the white moonlight that you could never get when you were young~~~
Chen Ran helps Lin Daiyu, firstly to complete his strategy, and secondly to fill the gap of sympathy for her fate when he watched TV dramas in his youth.

Of course, the first reason is the most important.

As for the second one, it is more due to lustful nature.

I can't stand seeing beautiful women, especially famous beauties. I want to break into pieces when I see them~~~
He really has the same personality as Cao the thief.

Jiang Chun successfully bought a few days for the Jiang family, waiting to see how Chen Ran would deal with the He family.

If the He family is destroyed, the Jiang family will definitely bow their heads, because Lord Chen has proved that he is indeed cruel and ruthless.

If the He family is fine, the Jiang family will prepare for revenge.

For several days, there was no movement from Chen Ran.

Not to mention Jiang Chun, even the He family, who had learned the news and were secretly making preparations, were confused.

Didn’t you say you were going to fuck my whole family? Where are you?

It was not until the afternoon of the sixth day that Chen Ran finally took action.

Chen Ran, with hundreds of armored soldiers and hundreds of salt workers as assistants, marched to He's mansion in a mighty manner.

The He family had already made preparations. The door was wide open, and the person in charge of the family and the hired helpers were waiting at the door.

Chen Ran rode over, and the head of the He family immediately stepped forward to greet him, "Disciple He Keqiu, nice to meet you, sir."

'Tsk~'

Chen Ran could only sneer at the fact that in the Zhou Dynasty, any rich person would spend money to buy the status of a student.

Academic qualifications can be bought, the Zhou Dynasty is doomed!
For rich people, the biggest advantage of buying the status of a student is that they don’t have to bow to officials when they meet them.

After all, it is understandable that people want dignity when they have money.

"Humph." Chen Ran, who was on horseback, looked at him with his nose. "How dare you! You knew I was here to arrest you, yet you still dared to come out to meet me. You are looking down on the imperial court!"

A big hat was thrown down, but He Keqiu was not afraid at all.

His smile did not diminish as he turned his head to look at a middle-aged man with a pale face and no beard beside him.

The man cleared his throat, stepped forward and raised his head to speak, "Master Chen, my name is Zhen Yuandao."

He spoke with a strong voice and held his head high, as if this name, or this surname, gave him a strong self-confidence.

"Oh."

Chen Ran nodded expressionlessly, "Someone from the Zhen family in Jiangnan."

"Yes." Zhen Yuandao responded proudly, "Madam Fengsheng is my grandmother."

The Zhen family in Jiangnan is a very special existence in the world of Dream of Red Mansions. They are not a thousand-year-old famous family, nor are they a wealthy family in Jiangnan.

Before you really make your fortune, it's very ordinary.

The Zhen family started out by having Lady Fengsheng become the wet nurse of the retired emperor.

At that time, Jia Yuan and Jia Yan were still alive, and they followed the emperor to fight wars everywhere.

The emperor's biological mother died early, and he was brought up by Madam Fengsheng, whom he regarded as his biological mother. He once said, "This is the old lady of my family."

With such a strong backer, the Zhen family naturally began to tremble after the emperor ascended the throne.

By this time, after several generations, they had almost become the richest family in the Jiangnan area.

Chen Ran had no interest in this family that thrived and was destined to decline because of a person. "What are you doing here?"

Zhen Yuandao looked surprised.

In Jiangnan, upon learning that he was from the Zhen family, no one dared to be so disrespectful to him and even refused to dismount!
"Forget it. This guy from the north doesn't know etiquette. There's no need to worry about it."

Zhen Yuandao coughed and said, "I came here at the invitation of the He family, and I am here to witness it."

Chen Ran sneered, "Witness what?"

"Witness how the adults slandered and framed us!"

According to the behavior of salt merchants who appear to be salt merchants but are actually salt smugglers, if they meet someone like Chen Ran who wants to fight right away and cannot be bribed, they will usually kill him.

But the situation this time is really different. Chen Ran came to take office with armored soldiers and the royal flag!
In desperation, the He family had to spend a huge amount of money to invite the Zhen family to support them.

"Slander and frame-up?" Chen Ran smiled. "Who did you slander and what did you frame?"

"The He family is a salt merchant family, and they have been doing salt business for hundreds of years." Zhen Yuandao, who received the silver, the house, and the woman, spoke impassionedly, "Lord Chen is trying to slander them for selling private salt out of thin air. Our Zhen family will never sit idly by!"

He Keqiu nodded repeatedly and was almost clapping.

Their family had already made preparations in the past few days, and all the private salt business had been moved underground.

Want to use the He family as a raft? Dream on!

"Who told you that I was looking for their crime because they were selling illegal salt?"

Chen Ran's words immediately silenced everyone around him.

"What, what?" Zhen Yuandao didn't understand the situation. "Are you not arresting smuggled salt?"

Chen Ran waved his hand, and soon a young man tied up like a dumpling was dragged up.

"Brother Kun?!"

"Seventh brother?!"

"Xiao Qi!?"

These several different names all refer to the same person, He Yikun, one of the persons in charge of transporting private salt for the He family, the nephew of the head of the He family, He Keqiu, and the seventh child of this generation in the family.

Seeing He Yikun's condition, you can tell that he had been tortured. He looks extremely haggard.

He Keqiu was furious, "Master Chen! You are so lawless to arrest and torture people without authorization. Do you think you can do whatever you want in this great Zhou Dynasty?!"

The crowd watching the excitement suddenly started to make a commotion, filled with righteous indignation as if they were about to attack together.

Chen Ran would not argue with him. He turned to look at He Yikun who was lowering his head and said, "You speak for yourself."

He Yikun trembled visibly, subconsciously looked up at his uncle and family members, then quickly lowered his head again.

But his eyes were filled with guilt, regret, and excitement!

"He, He family." He Yikun cleared his throat and shouted loudly, "The He family colluded with the Japanese pirates and wanted to overthrow the Great Zhou~~~"

For a moment, there was silence all around.

He Keqiu's body shook, and he looked at He Yikun in disbelief, "Brother Kun, what nonsense are you talking about?"

His younger brother, He Yikun's father, also came to his senses and yelled, "You rebellious son, have you gone insane? Why don't you shut up!"

After all, he is a father. He immediately thought of pretending to be mentally ill to avoid punishment. He really loves his son.

"It's true." After saying this, He Yikun lost his scruples and shouted loudly, "I am the person sent by the He family to contact the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates acted without secrets and were caught by Lord Chen. I, I have repented and turned over a new leaf, exposing this heinous crime!"

He Keqiu's face turned pale and he almost collapsed to the ground.

He already knew Chen Ran's plan.

They didn't even look for the crime of smuggling salt. They just wanted to fabricate a crime of treason to smuggle the He family into death!
As for why the witness He Yikun turned against them, even if Sanmu asked He Yikun to say that he was He Keqiu's father, he would have to admit it!

In addition to confessing his guilt, Chen Ran also promised him that after the matter was accomplished, everything left in the He family would belong to him.

He Yikun is only the son of the second wife, and even his father has more than one son.

In this situation, if one follows the predetermined fate, the most one can get when the family is divided up is some property, and one can also supervise some business of transporting illegal salt. That is how life will be.

Most of the He family’s wealth will fall into the hands of the eldest wife.

His brothers and sisters also need to share the things that are allocated to the second house.

Thinking that others would enjoy the good life in the future and Skinny Horse would get as much as he wanted, while he could only get a sip of the soup, He Yikun naturally agreed to cooperate with Chen Ran.

"There is already evidence."

Flicking the whip, Chen Ran looked at He Keqiu with a smile, "Now I'm going to search the He Mansion for evidence!"

He Keqiu, with a pale face, finally fell to the ground.

Chen Ran has arranged things to this extent, which means that the so-called "evidence" must have been placed in He's house!
Colluding with foreign invaders to carry out subversive activities is a crime of high treason that should be worthy of being called the Nine Clans Elimination Chamber!

"Mr. Chen, you are so cruel!"

(End of this chapter)