?? Song Jiang took the Hongtao brothers into the courtyard, and when he saw these many people, he shouted: "Who is the account room?" ”

?? A man in his fifties with a goatee trembled and said, "Back to the king, the villain is." ”

?? Song Jiang nodded and said, "How many years have you been in the Zheng family?" ”

?? The account room didn't know what Song Jiang meant, and said honestly: "Back to the hero, the villain has been in the Zheng family for twenty-three years, but the villain only manages the account books on weekdays and has not done evil." ”

?? Song Jiang nodded and said, "It's been some years, so how much do you estimate the Zheng family has?" ”

?? The bookkeeper didn't expect Song Jiang to ask him this question, and he was stunned for a while.

?? At this time, Zhou Tong also walked in and said with a smile: "Brother, just now Zheng Rong said that there is a secret room that hides 1,000 taels of gold and 10,000 taels of silver, but only he can find it, and wants us to spare his life." ”

?? Song Jiang's family has thousands of acres of dry land, Song Taigong is generous to Zhuangke, and Song Jiang, the master of spending money lavishly, has accumulated tens of thousands of family wealth.

?? The Zheng family has more than 3,000 acres of paddy fields and dry land, and they do everything possible to strip customers, how can Song Jiang believe that his family wealth is less than 10,000 yuan.

?? One thousand taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver are worth forty thousand guan, plus nearly ten thousand taels in front, a total of fifty thousand guan, but it is about the same.

?? Song Jiang didn't believe Zheng Rong easily, but said to the account room: "Do you have an answer?" If you say 50,000 guan, then I can only ask you to eat dozens of sticks with Zheng Rong. ”

?? The account room knew how much grain there was in the treasury, and when he heard that the master's family had recruited 40,000 yuan, he wanted to say about 50,000 yuan, but he didn't want Song Jiang to say such a sentence, so he immediately blocked his words in his throat.

?? Zhou Tong looked at the account room and didn't speak, and scolded: "This is the most treacherous way to do accounts, let him eat dozens of sticks first, and then ask." ”

?? When the bookkeeper heard this, he didn't dare to hesitate anymore, and hurriedly said: "At most, 60,000 yuan, there is no more." In the early years, grain prices were not high, and the Zheng family's income was also small. If it weren't for the money that the customer borrowed from the Zheng family and generated a lot of profits, 60,000 yuan would have been nothing. ”

?? Song Jiang felt justified when he heard what the account room said, and nodded: "Let's get rid of Zheng Rong's stick first, and take him to take out all the gold and silver." Find some artificial food, everyone walked for half the night, they must be hungry, full of food and drink, so that they have the strength to rectify these people. ”

?? After speaking, Song Jiang took Zhou Tong and the others into the front hall.

?? As soon as the three of them sat down in the hall, Kong Ming dragged Zheng Rong in.

??“ This guy wants his brother to promise to spare his life before he is willing to tell where the secret room is, or let the brothers search it first? ”

?? Zheng Rong looked at Song Jiang cautiously and said: "The hero spared my life, and the villain will not dare to do evil in the future." ”

?? Song Jiang looked at Zheng Rong with a smile and said, "Have you forced someone's life?" ”

?? Zheng Rong wanted to shake his head immediately, but he couldn't help but hesitate when he thought of the end of concealing the money in front of him.

Song Jiang also knew the answer when he saw Zheng Rong's appearance, shook his head and said, "You have done a lot of evil, and you will not escape death today." But if you hand over the gold and silver honestly, I can consider leaving you a queen, and we can't take the land away, your Zheng family is still a big family, otherwise ......"

?? On the side, Zhou Tong shouted: "Such a big harm, you should kill him all over the house, and leaving some evil to plant is also a scourge to the people." ”

?? Kong Ming also kicked Zheng Rong over and said: "What Brother Zhou Tong said is that he killed him all over the house and let the children dig in this courtyard for a day, and if you don't believe it, you can't find his family's secret room." ”

?? Song Jiang smiled: "Don't worry, let him go outside and think about it." Hong Tao, get some tea soup for everyone, it's cold weather. Then let the bookkeeper lead the brothers to get all the money and paperwork in the treasury, and search the secret room by the way. ”

?? Kong Ming picked up Zheng Rong and said with a glaring eye: "Since this guy doesn't say it, then I'll beat the sixty sticks just now?" ”

?? Zheng Rong saw Kong Ming carrying him like a chicken, and the thought of being beaten by him for sixty strokes made him tremble, crying: "I said it, but the hero wants to give me a good time." ”

??“ Bah! ”

?? Kong Ming spat to the side and scolded: "You eggless bastard, grandpa still has itchy hands." ”

?? Song Jiang was not surprised when he saw Zheng Rong agree, and said with a smile: "Okay, let him take his brothers to move the gold and silver out." ”

??“ Soft eggs. ”

Kong Ming scolded again, and pushed Zheng Rong away in disgust.

Zheng Rong saw that Kong Ming had a bad temper, and hurriedly walked outside.

?? In a short time, a few foot soldiers carried three boxes.

?? The account clerk followed behind with a cower, and said, "The villain has seen three heroes. ”

?? Zhou Tong saw the three boxes and said, "Smash them open." ”

??“ Be. ”

?? A minion with a hammer answered, and the lock on the chest was broken with a few hammers, apparently the hammer they had used to go to the storeroom.

?? Two boxes of copper coins, one box of silver, and some paperwork on them.

?? Song Jiang asked the minions to take the documents and flipped through them, there were notes that the Zheng family had borrowed money from the people in the village, and there were also contracts signed by the Zheng family with tenants and slaves.

?? These were often in contact with Song Jiang when he was the director of Yuncheng. Song Jiang didn't look at it much, flipped through it slightly, and let one of the minions burn it.

?? After a short time, Wang Ying led the minions to carry a few boxes.

?? This time the box is a lot smaller, but it is a little difficult for a minion to hold a box that is more than a foot wide.

?? Wang Ying strode in and grinned, "It's the first time I've seen so much gold and silver when I've grown so big. Children, open them all and let my brother see them. ”

?? A few minions put the boxes on the ground, lined them up, and lifted them open.

?? Under the light of the lights, the hall seemed to suddenly light up a lot.

?? One chest of gold, six and a half chests of silver.

?? Wang Ying said with a smile: "The two secret rooms have been emptied, one thousand taels of gold and thirteen thousand taels of silver." ”

?? Song Jiang saw that there was a small box on top of the last half box of silver, so he asked, "What's in that small box?" ”

?? Wang Ying shook his head and said: "The house deed and the title deed, it's useless for others to ask for it, but the guy is still hidden in the secret room." ”

?? Song Jiang said with a smile: "If there is a white deed, you can still return the land to the person who sold the land." You show it to me. ”

?? Although Song Jiang doesn't care about the family business, he has also checked his own property, and he is no stranger to the title deed.

?? Those who have paid the deed tax and stamped with the official seal are called red deeds, and when they file lawsuits, the government only recognizes the red deeds.

?? However, because of the trouble in handling the red deed, and the large number of deed taxes and additional money, many private transactions are privately concluded and do not have official seals, so they are called white deeds.

?? For formal land transactions, you must first submit a petition to the government, apply for a transaction, and obtain a document; Then the buyer mainly asks his relatives and neighbors, and if his relatives and neighbors do not buy it, others have the right to buy; Then the contract was concluded, the tax was paid, and the official deed was approved.

?? The official contract is printed by the government, in quadruplicate, one for the buyer and the seller, one for the county government, and one for the commercial tax court.

?? If the two parties make a white deed, when there is a dispute, the government's decision is generally to restore the land to the owner, and the money is confiscated into the official, so as to force people to enter into a red deed.

?? If the Zheng family loses the white deed, then the person who sold the land can naturally get the land back, and the Zheng family wants to sue the government for both losses, there is no contract, and the government will not be able to confiscate the money on the contract from the original landlord.

?? Wang Ying has never seen the title deed since he was born, so how can he recognize any red deed or white deed.

?? Leaned over and picked up the box and sent it to Song Jiang.

?? Song Jiang took the box, opened it and looked at it, and saw at a glance that it was all a contract uniformly printed by the government, picked it up and flipped it, saw that it was stamped, shook his head and said: "This guy is careful, all of them are red deeds, the government has a bottom, and the people in the village can't take it back." ”

Throwing down the title deed, Song Jiang Xun Zheng Rong and others said:

"There is a lot of blood shed by the Zheng family today, and I hope you all remember today. If anyone dares to do evil again, you are an example. ”

?? It didn't take much effort for Zhou Tong to come with a team of infantry escorting ten carriages. Song Jiang joined everyone and returned to Baihu Mountain.

Song Jiang had just arrived at the foot of the mountain, and Yan rushed to meet him. "Brother Gongming, someone from Jeju Mansion is here, escorted by Lei Heng!"