Chapter 966: No one died today either

Zhang Yulang's illness relapsed and tossed for several days, finally successfully entering a dying state.

Congratulations!

Report to the Ministry of Justice immediately and notify the Zhang family to smash silver.

If you want to fish someone out, you can't do it without enough silver.

Although Sun Daoning wished he could throw Zhang Yulang, this hot potato, away in the next second, on the surface, he had to ask for more money than other cases, even more cruelly. He opened his mouth with a sky-high price, and the Zhang family was so angry they had no temper.

Fortunately, Zhang Yulang was favored at home, and after some bargaining, Sun Daoning "reluctantly" made concessions. Both sides, in a tense atmosphere, secretly reached an agreement, Sun Daoning signed the document with a look of having suffered a great loss, and sent someone to notify Chen Guanlou to release the person.

Chen Guanlou was very straightforward about releasing the person; if the money was in place, he would release the person.

In other words, the Zhang family not only had to give the Ministry of Justice a sky-high price of silver, but also had to give the Heavenly Prison a sum of silver to fish their precious young master out. Sigh, the big money had been paid, so there was no reason to owe the small money of the Heavenly Prison.

As the saying goes, the King of Hell is easy to see, but the little ghosts are hard to deal with.

If the Heavenly Prison deliberately made things difficult and delayed for a day or two, their own young master would be afraid of dying in the cell.

The Zhang family decisively paid the money, and Chen Guanlou decisively ordered the prison guards to carry Zhang Yulang out of the Grade A cell.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Sick to the point of dying, it's really bad luck!"

"Young master!"

Seeing their young master unconscious, the Zhang Prefecture steward's face turned pale. He couldn't care about arguing with the Heavenly Prison, hurriedly ordering his servants to send Zhang Yulang onto the carriage and rushing back to the mansion to find a doctor.

He couldn't die!

Even if he died, he had to die at home!

Not mentioning the panic in the Zhang Prefecture.

After finishing the errand, Chen Guanlou felt relaxed.

He found Medical Official Mu and asked in a low voice, "The medicine given is no problem, right? Don't really kill him."

Medical Official Mu was very unhappy, silently rolling his eyes. "Does the lord not believe in my medical skills, or does he not believe in my medicine?"

"Believe, believe, believe everything. I'm worried about accidents. Zhang Yulang, don't look at how young he is, spending his days in debauchery, drunk and dreaming of death, his body may not be very good. Although he hasn't reached the point of being hollowed out by wine and sex, it's not far off!"

"My lord, rest assured, the medicine I gave was based on Zhang Yulang's actual situation, guaranteed not to die. Moreover, I considered the long term; even if the Zhang fellow returns home and asks a doctor to recuperate well, it's impossible for him to get better all at once. It must be slow..."

"Good! This is good!"

Chen Guanlou gave a thumbs up, very satisfied with Medical Official Mu's handling of the matter. He not only considered the present but also the long term. Even if the Zhang family had doubts, seeing their own treasure sick and weak, taking medicine all day, and getting better so slowly, they would dispel all their suspicions.

This is the attitude of doing things!

He immediately decided to give Medical Official Mu a generous reward.

"Starting at one thousand taels!"

Medical Official Mu gasped secretly, that's so much.

He couldn't help but be curious and asked in a low voice: "How much silver did the Zhang family give, that the lord is so generous? Could it be that you blackmailed all the gold and silver mountains of the Zhang family?"

"What blackmailed, can you speak? Do you want one thousand taels or not? If you don't want it, I'll put it into the public account and give bonuses to everyone."

"Who said I don't want it!" Medical Official Mu loved medicine the most in his life, and money second.

Chen Guanlou laughed happily; today is a good day.

He even ran to the Ministry of Justice to find Sun Daoning to share the benefits.

Sun Daoning was the truly ruthless one.

He wouldn't make a move if he didn't have to, but if he did, it would be a big move. In terms of blackmail, ten Chen Guanlous couldn't compare to Sun Daoning.

Sun Daoning was always stingy with money and didn't want to share, complaining endlessly that because of the fraud case, the Ministry of Justice was busy, and the handling expenses were not enough. If it weren't for blackmailing the Zhang family, the salary for this month wouldn't be issued.

The implication was, there is no money, only a life.

Chen Guanlou laughed angrily, digging his ears. "My lord, listen to what you just said, does it sound like human talk? When did the salary become the Ministry of Justice's own collection and distribution? If you say bonus, I admit it. You say salary, arrears are the style of major government offices in the imperial court. If a government office has no salary arrears, it's embarrassed to say it's a capital official."

Before the late emperor became a muddled emperor, the salaries of capital officials could basically be issued on time.

After becoming a muddled emperor, it was sometimes there and sometimes not, and there were always a few months every year that were not on time.

Now that Emperor Jian Shi is the emperor, good guy, arrears of capital officials' salaries have become a customary norm.

The Heavenly Prison side naturally couldn't be an exception.

If it weren't for the bonuses to look forward to, everyone would have to drink the northwest wind.

Sun Daoning rubbed his temples with an exhausted face. "I've been so busy lately that I've been running around, and I said the wrong thing. There is really no money now. You should be understanding."

"Can't be understanding at all. For this deal, I spent a lot of effort to get it done. Not to mention the Heavenly Prison sharing the benefits, my personal hard-earned money should be given. You here should compensate me for some hard-earned money.

Next time there is such a thing, leave it to me. Old Sun, you can't do one-off business! You can't just finish this Zhang family order and not do business in the future. Do you trust finding someone else to do this head-cutting business?"

Sun Daoning was silent.

Chen Guanlou continued to press on. "Seeing that the Prince of Chu is about to be defeated, the Ministry of Justice will have to be busy again. Don't you need me to contribute? Dealing with those defeated generals, at least I have some experience. In these few years, I have sent away no less than a thousand rebels, if not a hundred. The famous Great Ming Prince was also personally sent to the guillotine by me."

"Alright, alright, I'll approve one thousand taels for you, go to the accountant to withdraw it!"

"Old Sun, one thousand taels, are you sending away a beggar?"

"Which beggar is worth one thousand taels, you find it for me."

Chen Guanlou was angry, sat on the chair, and wouldn't leave today until he got the full amount of money.

Sun Daoning had a splitting headache, with a lot of errands on hand, and no time to waste!

"How about this, I'll approve a note for five thousand taels, of which one thousand taels will be charged to the Ministry of Justice's account. The rest will be charged to the Heavenly Prison's account. You can withdraw it directly from the Heavenly Prison's public account, how about that?"

That's more like it!

Chen Guanlou got the money and smiled.

"He must die! Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, you are a public official; how can you stand by and watch thieves operate right under your nose without doing anything?"

"Guaranteed not to! Medical Official Mu's medicine is precise, and there will be no such mistakes."

"Better be so. If the person dies two or three days after returning, I will hold you accountable." ===== CHAPTER 968 =====

"That's not my duty!" Chen Guanlou spread his hands. In any case, his main principle was to never do a single thing that was unnecessary, even if paid to do so.

"You, you, you... I am going to impeach you."

"After you get out of prison, feel free to impeach me, impeach me all you want! I've been eating public food for so many years and have never been impeached; I'd like to taste what it's like to be impeached. It must be recorded."

He looked eager to try, unable to wait. Inspector Geng was so angry he fell backward.

How could there be such a thick-skinned and shameless person in the world!

It's infuriating!