Wei Zhongxian's finding out about the Lin family was actually a very simple matter.

When he found that Wu Qinghou could no longer protect him, Qin Ming, the former Tianjin garrison, happily told the mastermind behind the Tianjin ship robbery.

Qin Ming, who didn't expect things to come to this point, was about to regret his intestines.

If he could do it all over again, Qin Ming would rather kill that little man from the Lin family with his own hands than let him rob the ship.

You must know that although Qin Ming accepted 10,000 taels of silver from the Lin family, he only stood by and watched the Lin family's promise.

Regret shouldn't be, he really shouldn't have helped the Lin family wipe his ass.

I knew that there would be such a day as now, the first investigation of the East Factory, Qin Ming would not hesitate to sell the Lin family.

Qin Ming never thought that the Dongchang case would not be investigated, and Wei Zhongxian would actually attack him. Counting this, Qin Ming is really a big loss.

Qin Ming really only received 10,000 taels of silver!

How could this mere 10,000 taels of silver be worth the real shortage of his Qin Ming Tianjin garrison.

So when Dongchang found Qin Ming again, Qin Ming, who was waiting for a vacancy in the capital, obediently summoned the Lin family out.

Haining Lin family is a well-known business family in Zhejiang. The Lin family's time in business can even be traced back to the Mongol and Yuan periods.

The Lin family is one of the most typical merchant families in the Ming Dynasty, and they have never intended to be loyal to a certain imperial court.

During the Mengyuan period, the Lin family was loyal to Mengyuan, but they did not do much with the anti-Yuan rebels.

Zhang Shicheng is the king, and the Lin family is loyal to Zhang Shicheng.

When Zhu Yuanzhang annexed Zhang Shicheng, the Lin family switched to Daming.

Of course, no matter who the Lin family turns to, their business partners are still everyone.

In the troubled times, the Lin family gave full play to their sleek merchant nature, which allowed the Lin family to survive the troubled times in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

But it was precisely because of the obvious merchant attributes of the Lin family that they were greatly suppressed in the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the suppression and liquidation of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Lin family can be said to have suffered a great loss of vitality.

After the Jingjing, the Ming Dynasty slowly relaxed the control of merchants, and the Lin family developed again.

After hundreds of years of Chengping in the Ming Dynasty, the Lin family has recovered its vitality, and its strength has even reached a higher level.

But the Lin family didn't expect that their biggest calamity would come so quietly.

On November 19 of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Tiqi from the capital suddenly appeared in Haining and directly raided the Lin family in the name of rebellion.

When the news came out, the world was shocked.

Countless gentry trembled, talking about the East Factory and changing color.

This is also the first case in Daming that the Dongchang Tiqi directly broke the house.

The East Factory was broken this time, and it is still a local clan that has been inherited for hundreds of years.

In the past, no matter how arrogant Dongchang was, arresting people and breaking the family would at least inform the local government, and then the local government would come forward. Dongchang Fanzi is in it, in fact, it plays the role of a superintendent.

This time, Dongchang even hid it from the local government, and directly took people to break the house by themselves.

It is precisely because of this that the Lin family did not get the slightest rumor until they died, and they were directly taken down by the Dongchang family.

Wei Zhongxian's East Factory performed too terrible this time.

It is a matter of their own safety, how can the gentry of the world not hear the change of style.

As for the Lin family's crime of rebellion, in the eyes of the gentry of the world, it was just a crime that Wei Zhongxian casually snared.

The real reason why the Lin family was convicted, in the eyes of the gentry, the biggest crime of the Lin family was that they were too rich.

Because he was rich, he was taken by Father-in-law Wei, so he broke his family and wiped out his family.

What a terrible reason for that.

The rumors were like the wind, quickly spreading this terrible reason to all corners of the Ming Dynasty.

And Wei Zhongxian's disposal of the Lin family's various properties confirmed this crime.

In fact, for the local people in Haining, the locals still gained a lot of benefits from the raid of the Lin family by Gonggong Wei.

The Lin family fell, and the small people and small households whose assets were embezzled by the Lin family received symbolic compensation.

And because it was too far away from the capital, Father-in-law Wei was not interested in the Lin family's real estate at all, so Dongchang sold the Lin family's real estate for cash.

This made the local families in Haining win a feast of celebration.

The various families of Haining lamented that the Lin family in the township was destroyed while laying bridges and roads;

On the other hand, they showed their greedy faces and ate all the real estate such as the Lin family's fields, shops, houses, and courtyards.

If you don't take advantage of it, that's not the work of the Ming gentry.

In this way, the clansmen were arrested and killed, the family property was sold out, and the Lin family, which had been passed down for hundreds of years, escaped the turmoil at the end of the Song Dynasty and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and was finally completely wiped out during the Great Ming Apocalypse.

Outside Haining City, a small boat went down the river, and several teenagers on the boat were full of tears, gritting their teeth and kowtowing in the direction of Haining.

These are the only remaining clansmen of the Lin family.

Haining Lin's family is broken, and they can only go overseas to gain a foothold.

Once they go, they don't know when they will be able to return to their hometowns.

They only know that in this life, if they can't take revenge on Daming, they will live in pain forever.

Haining Lin's family is completely gone.

With a cartload of the Lin family's belongings transported into the capital, Wei Zhongxian's rumors of greedy for money and destroying the whole family also spread throughout the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, inside and outside the Great Wall.

Capital

Looking at the financial bills submitted by the East Factory, Wei Zhongxian sighed deeply.

Although Wei Zhongxian couldn't read, he still recognized the numbers summarized in the bill.

Wei Zhongxian was very dissatisfied with this figure.

A total of 180,000 taels of silver, this is all the property obtained from the seizure of Haining Lin's family.

This figure was far less than Wei Zhongxian's expectations, and it was not enough to fill the gap in Ning Yuan's military spending.

Wei Zhongxian didn't expect that a huge Lin family, or a merchant family with hundreds of years of inheritance, didn't even have 200,000 taels of silver, which was too disappointing for Wei Zhongxian.

Of course, Wei Zhongxian also knew that all the people who handled the Lin family in Dongchang and Jinyiwei would get a little fishy.

But how much can they hide?

Wei Zhongxian believed that the people under the Lin family would never dare to move the bulk of the Lin family's wealth.

The little property hidden by the handler, Wei Zhongxian was not ready to pursue it.

If you don't give them some benefits when you employ people, how can they do things wholeheartedly.

At this point, Wei Zhongxian is still very reasonable. Just like although the money in hand is a little less now, Wei Zhongxian still plans to take out 50,000 taels of silver and distribute it to Tian Ergeng.

Father-in-law Wei will definitely share the money that should be shared.

Grandpa Wei is not the kind of person who is not a single person.

If you say that everyone will get rich together, then you must get rich together.

It's just that after another 50,000 is divided, there will only be 130,000 left.

This money, even if Gonggong Wei doesn't take a penny, it won't be enough for Ning Yuan's military expenses!

Not to mention the huge cost of building the Nishiki right defense line next year.

This time the Lin family was raided, and Gonggong Wei was not just raising funds for Ning Yuan's aftermath. He also wanted to lay a good foundation for the funds needed to build the city next year.

Shouldn't it?

How can it be so little?

Could it be that the road that the miscellaneous family thinks of is really impossible?

Wei Zhongxian fell into a state of irritability.