The effect of mobilizing the masses to report and expose was very good!
On the first day, Sun Dafu's group of marquises collected more than a hundred anonymous reports from the report boxes in the markets.
As for Zhao Xin of the North Gate, there were more than ten people who had secretly contacted him and were willing to testify against the owner of the salt transportation company, Hu Biao!
The public testimony event lasted for a total of three days.
Snowflakes of white hemp paper, parchment, pulp paper, and even silk, filled with words, flew into the report box on the fourth street.
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Three days later, at the Wuhou Shop.
In Si Chen's spacious library (office), there were more than ten large bamboo baskets that occupied two rooms. They were filled with report materials.
A few officials in the Wuhou Shop were nervously arranging the materials and writing them into a book.
Meanwhile, Si Chen was in a room near the back door of the city office. He met with the merchants and citizens who had reported Hu Biao and asked about the situation.
Naturally, there were also civil officials who were recording from the side.
After a busy day, he finally summarized all the reported cases and formed a crime collection that progressed according to time.
"This isn't evidence of Hu Biao's crime. It's clearly the criminal industry chain of the Zheng family in Xi City!”
Si Chen looked at a crime document that had been sorted out and slammed the table angrily.
Sun Dafu, Zhao Xin, and the other eight team leaders from Xi City stood in front of the case, ashamed and silent.
What the merchants and citizens of Xi City reported the most was naturally the evidence of Hu Biao's crime.
Hu Biao used to be a hooligan in Huaiyuan Square in the south of Xi City. He made a living by watching the gambling dens in Xi City.
This person was ruthless and had committed many crimes. He could fight!
Four years ago, he became the owner of 40 over-sized trucks and started a salt transportation company. People in the underworld called him "Boss Hu"!
Boss Hu started off by transporting salt for the Zheng and Cui families 'shops in Xi City, but it was not limited to transporting salt.
Relying on the power of the Zheng family of Xingyang, he dominated the West City. Charcoal, bran, groceries, fruits, medicinal herbs, cloth, rice, wine shops, butchers, and other industries that needed to be purchased and transported had to be transported by his cart.
In Xi City, other than the 40 large carriages of the salt transport company, no other carriages were allowed! Other than Boss Hu, no other businessman was allowed to operate the car transportation business!
Since they monopolized the transportation of goods in Xi City, Boss Hu naturally had the final say on the transportation fees!
The merchants were exploited and suffered, but they had no one to turn to. Because the officials and marquises of the Xi City Department had to obey the Zheng family and didn't dare to interfere.
Do you want to do business elsewhere? Impossible!
The only places in Chang 'an where trade could be concentrated were the East and West Cities. Not only was the land price in the East City expensive, but the main products sold were luxury goods from the upper class, which did not match the business scope of the merchants in the West City.
Boss Hu was Xi City's " car tyrant "!
As for Boss Hu, he had fought and smashed shops, broken doors, and bullied women in the process of becoming a "car tyrant". Naturally, he had done a lot.
After saying Boss Hu, the next part was the main point!
Through sorting out the scattered clues revealed in the massive amount of evidence, as well as a few detailed silk materials, Si Chen understood that there were many "tyrants" like Boss Hu in Xi City.
Rice, salt, meat, oil, cloth, horses, restaurants, ironware, medicine stores... Of the 220 industries in Xi City, few were not dominated by tyrants.
If one wanted to do business in these industries, they had to accept the management of these "tyrants" and pay a monthly profit bonus of up to 50% to the "tyrants"!
Every festival and the end of the year, the merchants of Xi City would offer gifts and New Year money to the "tyrants" of their respective trades.
Why?
Just based on the "tyrants", there was someone above them!
On the fifth day of each month, all the "tyrants", including Hu Biao, the car tycoon, would go to a hall called "Loyalty Palace" in Huaiyuan Square and hand over the "bonus" they had collected last month to Ma Renjie, the head of the hall!
Ma Renjie collected all the " bonuses " and handed them over to the Zheng family.
The Zheng Clan had a powerful background and influence to protect these tyrants, allowing them to plunder wealth for them. With the help of these people, he controlled the entire Xi City!
What was this? This was a one-stop business!
It was just an illegal industry.
Xi City was no longer the Xi City of the Tang Empire. It was clearly a restaurant where the Zheng family of Xingyang devoured the bone marrow and blood essence of the Tang people!
No wonder the prices of goods in Xi City had been rising for the past few years. The people complained about the high prices of goods, but the merchants still said that business was not good.
All the money in the world had been eaten by the Zheng family of Xingyang!
"Arrange Hu Biao's evidence into a book and hand it over to the Ministry of Justice along with more than ten witnesses!”
Si Chen ordered coldly after reading all the files.
The quick-witted Sun Dafu immediately accepted the order.
Hu Biao's case had involved the Zheng family of Xingyang, and it was already a serious crime. Even the Chang 'an County Magistrate was not qualified to try it, so it was directly referred to the Ministry of Justice!
Hu Biao wouldn't be able to escape the fate of having his entire family raided and beheaded after autumn.
After dealing with Hu Biao, Si Chen's finger gently pointed at the place where the words "Ma Renjie" were written on the file.
Big fish!
The next step would be to destroy Ma Renjie and his Zhongyi Hall, as well as all the "bullies".
When they had enough evidence, the Zheng family would be like fish on the chopping board.
Anyone who does evil must be investigated by the court to show the light.
Si Chen had to severely punish these evil people and settle them one by one!
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