Iron shoes don't need to be stepped on, and it doesn't take much effort to get them.

Du Wenzhao never dreamed that Wei Liangchen, a dog thief, would be so intimidated that he would recruit all the things he committed without even putting on the torture instrument.

Because the amount involved was too large, Du Wenzhao trembled when he put pen to paper, and after writing the confession, he looked at the rear again and asked Wei Liangchen to sign it. After the other party signed the detention, without saying a word, he took the confession and pushed the door and went straight to the palace.

"So much?!"

Ma Tang was also shocked after reading the confession, when he was the tax envoy of Tianjin, he was in charge of the two tax customs in Tianjin and Linqing, and the filial piety deducted to the emperor for more than ten years was only hundreds of thousands of taels in his own pocket, and this Wei Liangchen had only opened the maritime industry for a few years, and the silver he had earned was more than his savings for more than ten years!

Ma Gonggong was angry, but also extremely jealous, and then the sky lived up to my coolness, thinking that he would take advantage of people's illness to kill people, regardless of the fact that the emperor might be resting, he took the confession and went to knock on the door.

The emperor is afraid that he will be angry with the events of the day, and he will not sleep. To Ma Tang's surprise, Zhang Cheng, who was not supposed to be outside the palace, also entered the palace at some point, and Zhang Cheng was standing trembling when he came. Before that, the concubine with a big belly had just left.

"What are you anxious to see?" Wanli motioned for Ma Tang to come forward and speak.

Ma Tang hurriedly said: "Emperor, Wei Liangchen has confessed, and the slaves and maids dare not slack off, so the emperor will make a decision." ”

"Huh?"

His face changed not only Wanli, but also that Zhang Cheng.

"Who asked you to try it?" Wanli was visibly unhappy.

Ma Tang was stunned, and he didn't know if he should submit the confession for a while.

"What are you recruiting?"

Wanli glanced at Zhang Cheng, who hurriedly lowered his head.

Ma Tang was still wondering, he didn't react for a while, and waited until Wanli asked again, and said busily: "Emperor, that Wei Liangchen is corrupt and perverts the law, and uses the name of the emperor to do nonsense outside, and when he has not entered the palace for thirty-six years, he extorted dozens of Nuerha Chidong pearls, the governor of Jianzhou, with the body of a sacrifice, and the price of pearls in the market today is more than 10,000 taels. ”

"Huh?"

Wanli's face changed again, but not sharply, but slightly, and then there was a sigh of relief in his eyes.

But the neck of Zhang Cheng's father-in-law, who was hanging his head, became stiff for some reason, and an old heart was also pounding.

"That's it?"

The bribes of more than 10,000 taels really can't attract the attention of Wanli.

"Yes, and more, much more, Emperor!"

Ma Tang didn't think that more than 10,000 taels of Dongzhu would make the emperor thunderous, and the premise of adding fuel to the fire was that there was enough oil and water, so he said in a throat: "Emperor, then Wei Liangchen not only dared to ask for bribes to build a state, but also dared to take advantage of the fire to rob the Qufu Yan Holy Mansion, he secretly swallowed the Qufu Confucian family's "Furong Brocade Chicken Picture"! ... Emperor, the brocade chicken picture is the secret of Xuanhe, if it is sold on the market, it can be worth 100,000 taels! ”

""Hibiscus Brocade Chicken"?"

This familiar name and familiar painting made Wanli's eyebrows can't help but raise, and then... And then do not speak. If he's not mistaken, this painting should be... Should lie in his inner library.

"Emperor?"

Ma Gonggong wondered again, this is Song Huizong's "Hibiscus Brocade Chicken Picture", Xuanhe Zhongmi, or Qufu Kong's thing, the emperor shouldn't be so calm!

The emperor finally spoke, but asked, "What else?" ”

"Huh? Yes... Yes, there is..."

Ma Tang recounted two more big cases according to the strangeness in his heart.

First, Wei Liangchen extorted more than 240,000 taels of silver from the Southern Capital; The second is to exploit 270,000 taels of salt merchants in Jiangbei and 340,000 taels of wealthy gentry in Zhenjiang Prefecture in the name of "borrowing".

"Emperor, these three sums of nearly one million taels all fell into the private pockets of Wei Liangchen, everyone in the gentry and wealthy families in Jiangnan and Jiangbei suffered, countless families were ruined and people died, the market was depressed, and all industries were not prosperous..."

The emperor's complexion has really changed greatly, and it is extremely terrifying.

Ma Gonggong looked at it, and his heart suddenly became open.

However, as everyone knows, the emperor is settling accounts at the moment.

In the matter of Nandu, Wei Liangchen's kid paid him a sum of filial piety, but it was only 60,000 taels, so if you count it, there are still 180,000 taels that have not been recorded. Wei Liangchen also paid tribute afterwards for the matter of Zhenjiang, but it was only 30,000 taels, plus the 100,000 taels that his emperor had cheekily borrowed, and the total account that went into the inner treasury before and after did not exceed 200,000 taels.

In this case, where will hundreds of thousands of taels go!

Wanli was very angry, what he hated most in his life was the greedy villain, this Wei Liangchen was really not kind, treacherous, very treacherous!

Ma Gonggong struck while the iron was hot, and said that Wei Liangchen extorted more than 100,000 yuan in North Korea, and the sea trade in the Special Economic Zone gained tens of thousands of taels...... Some of the chaotic inputs are hundreds of thousands of taels in total.

"Emperor, since the founding of this dynasty, how can there be such a huge greed!"

Ma Gonggong was filled with righteous indignation and asked the emperor to order the killing of Wei Liangchen to make the people angry. With a huge sum of nearly two hundred taels, if you don't cut him Wei Liangchen, how can he be worthy of Gonggong Ma's hard work for more than ten years.

"Kill, kill!"

The angry emperor also screamed again and again, but after a while, his face became cloudy, and finally in the expectant eyes of Ma Gonggong, he asked him to go back first.

"Emperor?"

Ma Gonggong was puzzled and unwillingly withdrew from the warm pavilion.

In the lights in the pavilion, the emperor seemed to call Zhang Cheng to him and whispered something. Then I saw Zhang Cheng nodding and shaking his head again and again.

God knows, what the two said.

...........

The action of "respecting the emperor and punishing the traitor, and punishing the thief" staged by Dongchang was suppressed by the envoy who came in a hurry from the palace.

Da Mujun's "jade shattering" was not completed, and he was even guilty in his heart.

Li Yongzhen was nervous, Deng Xian and Du Wenzhao and others, who had already rushed back, were calm, and Jin Liangfu, who had been hidden in the depths, frowned.

After the iron door was opened, Gonggong Wei saw a familiar face, which was the face of Jia Daquan, the emperor's close attendant.

"Grandpa Wei, the emperor asked us to come over and ask, where did the two million taels you borrowed go?" Jia Daquan had a solemn look on his face, and he did not have the slightest intimacy with Gonggong Wei.

Wei Liangchen immediately bowed: "Please go back to the emperor, let me lend out the money." ”

"Lent out?" Jia Daquan was stunned, "Who did you lend it to?" ”

"I lent it to Pei Guangpao, a businessman from Annam, and Japanese businessmen Murata, Yoshiyuan and others." Wei Liangchen said about seven or eight names with a sincere face.

How can this lend all the money to outsiders?

Jia Daquan hesitated for a moment: "Then how can I take it back?" ”

Wei Liangchen sighed: "I have to go and ask for it myself." ”

"Oh."

Jia Daquan took a deep look at Gonggong Wei and went back to the palace to resume his life. Before long, he came panting again.

"Grandpa Wei, the emperor has asked us to pass the word again."

Jia Daquan was out of breath, and he was in a hurry to run this way.

Wei Liangchen's spirits perked up: "Father-in-law, what did the emperor say?" ”

Jia Da's face sank: "The emperor said, let you go." ”