The howls of anxiety and panic quickly broke the silence of the early morning, occasionally mixed with a few terrible screams, An Huzi grabbed a servant casually, "Take this official to your master's study." ”

The old servant didn't seem to have figured out what the situation was, "Are you mistaken, we are here the mansion of the Household Guo Shilang, isn't this the flood washing the Dragon King Temple?" ”

A brocade-clothed lieutenant raised his hand and slapped him, causing the old servant's nose to bleed, "We're here for Guo Huan, and if you talk nonsense, we'll cut you!" ”

When they arrived at Guo Huan's study, the brocade guards immediately searched through the cabinets, An Huzi patted the table and said: "Damn it, find the account book for me first, and when you get rich after you finish your business." ”

"Found it!" The two brocade guards came over carrying a large wooden box, and opened it in front of An Huzi, "We are not as knowledgeable as Qianhu, please take a look at whether it is or not." ”

An Huzi, a student at the bottom of the academy, can indeed be regarded as a university scholar when he arrives at Jinyiwei, An Huzi rummaged through and found that there were not only account books in this box, but also a few thick bundles of letters.

"I'm afraid that the surname Guo has realized that he is dying, this is to prepare all the evidence, let us bring our accomplices to the funeral together, he is really a wicked person."

Seeing that there was a thick roll of paper in the box, he took it and untied the rope and opened it to see, it turned out that all of them were IOUs, and he was happy to check them one by one, and the last one was the IOU written by Qi Tai, and he said in his heart: "Hong didn't find it, it's really here!" ”

Taking advantage of the fact that his subordinates were not upset, An Huzi hurriedly stuffed the IOU into his sleeve, rolled the IOU back into the box, and ordered: "Hurry up and send this box of things to the palace, Commander Yang can just come in handy." ”

After that, An Huzi found a chair and sat down, and after a while, the originally noisy courtyard began to quiet down, and only sobbing was faintly heard.

"An Qianhu, all the people in Guo Mansion have been arrested."

An Huzi nodded and said: "Guo Huan's adult children and grandchildren and the stewards of the mansion are all sent to the edict, the other female dependents and young sons are sent to the Jiaofang Division, and the ordinary men are first sent to the prison cells of Yingtianfu to wait for the imperial court. ”

"Why did you send it to Ying Tianfu's cell, this is not in accordance with the rules!"

"There are a lot of people to be arrested when they turn around, and these irrelevant things can't be loaded in the edict!" An Huzi got up from his chair, "Let's go, take me to their storeroom." ”

The Guo family's treasury was like an ordinary rich family, full of silk, cloth, salt and grain and other daily necessities, but the secret room next to it almost blinded him.

Grandpa is the richest he has ever seen, but compared to the Guo family, they all look poor and sour, and the gold bricks and silver ingots are like ordinary goods, and they can't be seen at a glance under the dim light.

An Huzi patted the belly of the brocade-clothed captain, "I've only been pregnant for a while, I'm afraid I'm going to give birth to a golden doll." Hum! The people in Nanzhen Fusi are all old people, and their skills are much better than ours, and I don't know if you can survive it. ”

The Jinyi guards looked pale, they were also flesh and blood, and they were afraid of the means they used, not to mention the punishment of the Nanzhen Fusi.

A hundred households took out a cloth bag from their arms and handed it to An Huzi, "This is the brothers' filial piety to a thousand households!" ”

An Huzi didn't look at it and said: "It's normal for the brothers to be generous and get some money to supplement the family, and you can't see anything in the account with a little bit of money, even if the emperor knows about it, he won't care too much, but if he is greedy, he can only end up with the same fate as the surname Guo." Remember to start with some measure, no one can eat alone and forget the brothers outside! ”

All the brocade guards were overjoyed, and they all promised to have a good fart to An Huzi.

An Huzi took the candle and walked in front of the shelves, secretly calculating in his heart, his article was very poorly written, and the mathematics was not bad, and he only turned around to roughly estimate the total of more than one million taels on the shelves, which was almost the total number copied from Hongdu.

For Guo Huan, the mastermind, these are too little, he led a group of brocade wrestlers to continue the search in the yard, "Dig and dig under the rockery, and there is also the well, and by the way, the pond also has to be fished!" ”

A few brocade wrestlers dived into the pond despite the cold water, and sure enough, they found countless wooden boxes locked with iron chains, covering almost the entire pond.

An Huzi's heart was finally steady, and his stomach began to squeak and scream so hungry that his subordinates continued to salvage, he turned around and walked to the side door of Guo's mansion, ready to buy two baked cakes on the street and drink a bowl of bean curd to cushion his stomach.

Passing through the garden and seeing that he was at the side door, he suddenly stopped, nodded his tiptoes and looked behind the flowers, where a young woman was holding a girl in her arms, looking at him with a trembling look of horror.

An Huzi subconsciously pressed the hilt of the knife on his waist, and at the moment when he was about to scream, a sentence suddenly flashed in his mind, "Remember to raise the muzzle of the gun a little higher when you do evil." ”

His hand on the hilt of the knife froze and let go, and he looked at the several brocade guards at the back door of the handle and scolded, "You guys." ”

Xiaoqi asked, "What do An Qianhu command?" ”

"The pond is in need of a helper to fish for silver, and I'm still stupid here."

"My subordinates are going!" How can anyone not take such a thing as fishing for silver, Xiaoqi hurriedly took his subordinates down, leaving only the side door of the hole open.

An Huzi walked to the door and seemed to be talking to himself, "It's almost dawn, and it's too late if you don't leave." ”

At the court meeting on the day of the summer in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming Emperor lamented the hardships of entrepreneurship in the past, experienced the tyranny of the Mengyuan Dynasty, and talked about his early years of "traveling" the world, and saw the tragic scene of the hungry people everywhere changing their children and eating.

Speaking of the depths, Lao Zhu burst into tears, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also cried silently, and they all said that they would do their best for Lao Zhu and create an unprecedented paradise in the world.

It is obviously a beautiful scene of monarchs and ministers working together, but there is a bad scenery, the new Jiangxi Provincial Inspector Yu Shiru, in front of the Manchu monarchs and ministers, exposed the fraud of the Jiangxi treasury.

Without waiting for the officials to react, Yang Shuping, the commander of Jinyiwei, jumped out and pointed out that the treasury of Zhenjiang, Huzhou, Zhongdu and other places also had the same malpractice.

When Yang Shuping piled up all kinds of account books, letters, IOUs and confessions tortured by Hongdu on the court, the officials were even more frightened with their lips trembling, their legs trembling, and even peed their pants on the spot.

Lao Zhu, who had a face of compassion for the suffering people who wept for the suffering people, didn't know when his face became hideous, so Jinyiwei took people one by one on the spot.

In the face of ironclad evidence, no one can deny it, and the corrupt officials pleaded guilty and begged for mercy on the other hand, and on the other hand, they pointed out that Guo Huan, the household servant, was the mastermind, and he was just a coercion. Guo Shilang is not a vegetarian, and he has long been ready to pull them on their backs and count the ugly things of Lao Zhu Lishu's accomplices.

Lao Zhu didn't stop him from sitting on the dan pier and looking at them dog-eat-dog with a smile, and only after half a pillar of incense did he say: "You all said about it, it seems that there is no need to judge." Yang Shuping took them down, and he didn't want to torture them, he only needed to skin them and fill them with thatch, and then stand in front of the official government or the land temple to show the public. ”

Obviously it was the end of summer, everyone in the hall took a breath in unison, and after a short silence, the corrupt officials immediately wailed, no one has ever seen what kind of punishment it is to peel the skin and fill the grass, but just thinking about it is enough to make people tremble, and after death, there is not even a whole corpse, and the skin is still filled with grass to be shown to the public, which is much more cruel than beheading.

No one paid attention to their wails and cries, let alone pleaded for them, and when those people were dragged out, the originally neat civil and military trains had become very sparse, about a third less.

Lao Zhu got up from his seat, his eyes like sharp blades swept around everyone's faces, "I hope all the ministers are innocent." ”

In history, the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, the impact of the empty seal case was limited, and the impact of the Hu Weiyong case was not great at the beginning, until the end of Hongwu and the blue jade case broke out together, which brought disaster to the Ming Dynasty, and even affected the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and also made Lao Zhu bear the stigma of the hero of the massacre.

But you must know that the Hu Lan case was concocted by Lao Zhu after all, and it was a planned and purposeful purge. But Guo Huan's case is not, it is not within the scope of Lao Zhu's plan, but it happened under Lao Zhu's nose, and the blow to Lao Zhu is huge and fatal.

If Lao Zhu had been hovering on the verge of madness before, then Guo Huan's case completely made Lao Zhu completely lose his mind, annihilate his humanity, and become a bloodthirsty demon dragon.

If Lao Zhu's previous requirements for ordinary officials were strict, and then they were harsh and unkind, the real official life of the Hongwu Dynasty began here, and it may even be the catalyst for the Hu Lan case in the last years of Hongwu.

Everything that happened in the court and the Guo Mansion is just a prelude to this bloody blockbuster......