The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1812 Spirit Beast Dealer

Fang Yun issued a Governor's Order, and the Criminal Department and the State Office immediately took action.

This kind of murder case could only be handled by Juren officials, but this time a Legalist Jinshi and three Military Juren were dispatched, as well as more than ten Xiucai and Tongsheng. This team is comparable to a thousand-man army.

Early the next morning, the investigation results of the case of Sun Constable in Zhengde County were put into an official document and placed on Fang Yun's desk.

After Fang Yun arrived at the study, he picked up the official document and read it quickly, and understood the whole story.

This was a revenge case of spirit beast dealers.

The richest group of the human race is scholars. As long as you are a Tongsheng, you can't starve to death and you can find a living with your eyes closed.

As long as you are a Xiucai, you have the opportunity to accumulate a lot of property and become a rich family in a township.

If you are a Juren, if you manage it properly, you can have a fortune of ten thousand and become a well-known figure in a county. Before death, seal your talent into a literary treasure, and the wealth will be enough for your descendants to enjoy for generations.

As for becoming a Jinshi or a higher position, even if you don't run a family business, you will have endless money.

Few scholars who don't work as officials commit crimes just for money, and scholars who work as officials don't commit crimes for money.

However, ordinary people without a position are different. There are many who take risks for money.

There are many industries that make huge profits in the human race, and catching spirit beasts is one of them. A spirit beast can be worth at least a thousand taels of silver, which is equivalent to the income of an ordinary family for decades.

The highest price record of a spirit beast was created by a spirit tiger, which was sold at a high price of 150,000 taels, almost equivalent to a Jinshi literary treasure.

Spirit beasts are animals between wild beasts and demons, with high intelligence. Fang Yun's Nunu and Li Fanming's big rabbit are both spirit beasts.

Spirit beasts are very rare, so rare that more than 90% of people will never see a spirit beast in their lifetime.

Hundreds of years ago, after research, the semi-saint Zhang Zhongjing discovered that spirit beasts can purify the demon world aura that is harmful to the human race and transform it into the vitality of heaven and earth. Moreover, spirit beasts can absorb the vitality of heaven and earth, increasing the concentration of the vitality of heaven and earth near the spirit beast's nest.

The Five Demon Mountains are connected to the demon world, and the aura of the demon world is constantly infiltrating. Scholars with a higher literary rank or higher are not affected, but those with a lower literary rank or ordinary people who are in the aura of the demon world for a long time will go crazy.

The saints will inevitably dissolve the aura of the demon world near the Five Demon Mountains every few years, but at other times, the aura of the demon world will still dissipate around the Five Demon Mountains. The human race cannot solve these small amounts of the aura of the demon world and can only rely on spirit beasts.

The Holy Academy issued a decree a long time ago, prohibiting the capture of wild spirit beasts, but did not prohibit the trade of spirit beasts, mainly because most of the saints' families raise spirit beasts.

Even if the Holy Academy issued a decree, it could not stop those who wanted to absorb more vitality of heaven and earth, so spirit beast dealers appeared, specializing in capturing spirit beasts and selling them.

Later, the human race discovered that the meat of spirit beasts was not only delicious, but also could prolong life and strengthen the body after eating. In addition, the fur of spirit beasts was very beautiful, so more and more people hunted spirit beasts.

Spirit beasts were originally rare. After hundreds of years of capture, spirit beasts in many places were on the verge of extinction.

The Five Demon Mountains are blessed with unique environment and many spirit beasts. They have not been on the verge of extinction so far. Therefore, the five demon mountains in Shengyuan Continent have become a place for spirit beast dealers to hunt spirit beasts.

Just over 80 years ago, after research, the Medical Hall issued a warning to the countries near the Five Demon Mountains. Due to the continuous decrease of spirit beasts and the increase of the breath of the demon world, the human race near the Five Demon Mountains will be affected, and even the descendants will be harmed.

As a last resort, the human race countries increased the punishment for hunting spirit beasts, with the highest penalty being the death penalty.

However, because the spirit beast dealers have long been influenced by the spirit world, and the price of spirit beasts is too high, as long as they catch a dozen of them, they can be rich for life. Many spirit beast dealers ignore the ban and still hunt spirit beasts. Even if they earn enough money for their lives, they often find it difficult to stop.

In order to catch those spirit beast dealers, the government offices near Wuyao Mountain have special constables in charge.

Zhengde County is within the scope of Moyao Mountain, and there are far more spirit beast dealers there than in other places.

The constable Sun who was silenced was a member of the spirit beast dealers.

In order to catch the spirit beast dealers, Constable Sun pretended to be a spirit beast merchant and infiltrated the spirit beast dealers, sending back information continuously. The day before yesterday, Constable Sun met a distant relative in a remote town. The distant relative greeted him, but he did not reply, saying that the other party had recognized the wrong person and hurried away, but was seen by other spirit beast dealers and his identity was exposed.

That night, Constable Sun was dismembered by the spirit beast dealers, and the fourteen members of the Sun family were also killed.

The Legalist scholar who went to investigate was very good. He connected all the details and came to the correct conclusion.

Unfortunately, those spirit beast dealers fled into the mountains overnight. They must have fled Zhengde County, and may even have fled Jingguo and entered Qiguo or Qingguo. Even the Legalist scholar could not track them down. At least the Legalist scholar could find the traces of those people, but they might not be able to catch them, after all, the spirit beast dealers had rich experience in escaping.

Not long after, Dong Wencong entered the Governor's Mansion and came to Fang Yun's study.

The two did not greet each other. Dong Wencong went straight to the point and said, "Governor, have you read the official documents of the Criminal Department?"

Fang Yun nodded gently.

Dong Wencong tentatively said, "You have to prepare for the Shihan Ancient Land, so let me handle this matter. This matter involves a lot of things, and it may take a long time to resolve."

Fang Yun smiled indifferently and said, "Wencong, your nose is more sensitive than a dog, and you know what I care about and what I don't care about better than anyone else. I want to resolve this matter as soon as possible."

Dong Wencong smiled and said, "You are eager to help others. If you encounter such a thing, you will definitely find out the truth and comfort the spirits of the fifteen members of the Sun family in heaven."

"Then why are you here?" Fang Yun asked.

Dong Wencong paused for a few breaths, as if thinking about the wording, and then said, "Spirit beast trafficking is already a huge business among the human race. The annual transaction is roughly estimated to be no less than 10 million taels of silver. Many famous and even wealthy families are involved. Of course, they will not capture it personally, but they will be responsible for selling the stolen goods. All cases involving spirit beast dealers will be passive if there is any problem anywhere unless the government has solid evidence."

"I know this." Fang Yun said.

Dong Wencong continued: "The spirit beast dealers have been corroded by the spirit world for many years and have become crazy and inhumane, but they are not stupid, so they have various means to escape pursuit and arrest. They are familiar with Mo Yao Mountain, and they use money to bribe people from all over the country, and can even get the protection of some big families. Catching a sophisticated spirit beast dealer may require mobilizing hundreds of constables to cast a wide net and take several years to complete. This means that if you want to catch all the spirit beast dealers in Mo Yao Mountain in Xiangzhou, not only the constables of all Xiangzhou combined are not enough, even the combined forces of Panorama Country are not enough."

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