Li Laosi looked at Fan Yongdou and shouted, "Which wall?" ”

Fan Yongdou said with a sad face: "The sandwich wall of the middle room in the middle of the third entrance of Liangzi Courtyard is full of silver bricks. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Laosi looked at the officer beside him, and the officer hurriedly led people to tear down the wall.

After waiting for half an hour, Li Laosi went to take a look, and sure enough, he saw the soldiers and officers in the courtyard beaming with joy - the dismantled wall was wrapped with green bricks on both sides, and the middle was full of silver bricks, and the number was jaw-dropping.

The silver bricks were piled on top of each other, layered like hills. Each of the silver bricks was nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and three inches thick, and I don't know how many years they had been sealed in the walls, and the silver was slightly blackened. Li Laosi picked up a piece and looked at it, and felt that the silver brick was very heavy, and most of them were heavy.

When the house was completely demolished, it was found that there were more than 1,200 silver bricks. The officers found the scales in the Fan family's shop and weighed them, and determined that the silver bricks totaled more than 1.6 million taels of silver.

Li Laosi groaned slightly, and walked back to Fan Yongdou's side.

"Fan Yongdou, you are not small, only say this little bit and come out to send me? Do you know what happens to those who hide their money? ”

Fan Yongdou's face turned pale, and he looked at Li Laosi's face in disbelief.

Li Laosi waved his hand and said, "Shoot Fan Kecheng, the eldest son of Fan Yongdou, who is in charge of the Fan family." ”

"No! Cannot! No! ”

Before Li Laosi's words fell, a middle-aged man next to him begged for mercy like killing a pig. Fan Yongdou's eldest son heard that Li Laosi was going to cut off his head, and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

"The general spares his life! The general spares his life! ”

Fan Yongdou's face changed, and he opened his mouth and said, "General, wait, I said!" I say! ”

Li Laosi didn't give Fan Yongdou a chance to save people, and waved his hand again. A soldier of the Tiger Division armed with a rifle walked up, aimed at Fan Kecheng, who was trembling all over, and shot the collaborator to death with a snap.

The Fan family, who were kneeling on the ground, witnessed this scene, and they all trembled. They all looked at the head of the family, Fan Yongdou. The Fan family was afraid that the head of the family, Fan Yongdou, would be hard-mouthed again, and they were afraid that Li Laosi would kill the Fan family again.

Looking at the corpse of his eldest son, Fan Yongdou burst into tears for a while, his body trembled, and he no longer had the composure just now. But after he lost his son, he was frightened by Li Laosi, but he didn't dare to challenge Li Laosi again, pointed to the courtyard in the north and said: "There is a silver cellar under the rockery in the back garden. There are a hundred silver winter melons in it. ”

"Under the foundation of the main house of the first courtyard of Tianzi Courtyard, there are 400,000 Yongle Tongbao buried."

"The third person in Xinziyuan entered the well in the courtyard, and sent someone to enter the well with a torch, and you can see a round wall made of red bricks one zhang above the water surface. Smashed the brick wall, and inside was a silver cellar with more than 500,000 taels of silver. ”

Fan Yongdou burst into tears, knocking his forehead with blood: "Others, others are really gone!" ”

Li Laosi looked at Fan Yongdou and thought about it.

After pondering for a while, Li Laosi said: "Let's do this first, and take these profiteers down." Find a yard to lock up. ”

Only then did the soldiers escort the Fan family and push them towards the Liangzi courtyard.

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On the tower of the east gate of Taiyuan City, Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi who rushed from the capital, and Wang Jimo, the governor of Xuan, Da and Shanxi, stood together, looking at the ox cart carrying silver ingots and copper coins to Tianjin, and their faces were cloudy.

Wang Chengen looked at the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army who were carrying their goods to the east, shook his head and said: "I didn't expect that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the three towns of Xuanda Shanxi couldn't stop the 40,000 strong soldiers of the Duke of Jinguo, and they were beaten to the ground in a month. ”

"The Son of Heaven thought that this time the investigation of the Jin merchants was a protracted event, and he couldn't say that he would have to fight for a year, but he didn't expect that the Duke of Jin Guogong would complete the matter in only three months with the momentum of thunder. The civil officials in the court have not yet reacted, and the Duke of Jin has already wiped out all the Jin merchants who collaborated with the enemy. ”

Wang Jimo stroked his beard and shook his head and sighed, and said, "Zhonggui, this time the Son of Heaven was deceived by Li Zhiyu. This Jin merchant has been operating in the three towns for hundreds of years, and the property of the eight Jin merchants is tens of millions. The Son of Heaven only needs five million taels, which is really much cheaper than Li Zhi. ”

This Xuanda Governor Wang Jimo is a slippery character. He was appointed by the Son of Heaven as a liuguan, and he left after a few years, and his relationship with the eight Jin merchants in Shanxi was not as deep-rooted as that of the local military attachés. So this time, as soon as he heard that Li Zhi had investigated the Jin Shang by the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, he hid and said nothing.

It wasn't until Li Zhi's soldiers and horses were successful and they were all stolen and uprooted the Jin merchants that he jumped out. Because Li Zhi scavenged a lot of silver from his territory but did not give him a penny, he was dissatisfied. happened to meet Wang Chengen to implement the matter of "five million taels handed over to the Son of Heaven", Wang Jimo jumped out to fan the flames and instigated Wang Chengen to ask Li Zhi for silver.

When Wang Chengen heard Wang Jimo's words, his face twitched a few times, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "How much does the governor think Li Zhi has gained this time?" ”

Wang Jimo took a deep breath and said, "The nobleman, according to the general estimate of this official, Li Zhi is full of money this time. Not to mention those copper coins and silver ingots, just talking about the grange shops accumulated by the eight Jin merchants over the years, I am afraid that there are also 10 million yuan. There should also be 10 million of the silver goods obtained by the raiders. ”

Hearing this number, Wang Chengen's eyelids jumped uncontrollably, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

"So, counting the silver and copper goods, Jin Guogong will have to enter at least 20 million taels this time?"

"Twenty million taels is the least!"

When Wang Chengen heard Wang Jimo's words, he felt very distressed for the inner treasury silver of the Son of Heaven. Why did the Son of Heaven only open a mouth of five million? That's a big deal of 20 million taels! Wang Chengen forgot the etiquette all of a sudden, walked to the edge of the battlement wall by himself, and looked at the cart of copper coins that were being transported out with a worried face.

Wang Jimo came up and said: "The nobles, you must let Li Zhi spit out a little, hand over part of the Son of Heaven, and enrich part of the military arsenal of the three towns of Xuanda Shanxi!" ”

Wang Chengen took a breath and did not speak.

The two were standing there pondering with their own thoughts, and Zheng Kaicheng walked up to the city tower to greet Wang Chengen and Wang Jimo.

"Zheng Kaicheng has seen the prince..."

Walking in front of Wang Chengen, Zheng Kaicheng was about to salute, when he heard Wang Chengen say in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "I haven't seen you for half a day, General Zheng has gained weight again!" ”

Zheng Kaicheng was stunned and said with a smile: "The prince is joking, Zheng Kaicheng has been busy with food for half a day and hasn't eaten a bite, how can he get fat?" ”

Wang Chengen snorted coldly and said: "Tianjin has eaten so much silver in the three towns this time, it is really a big bite to eat, Tianjin has made a lot of money up and down, how can you not get fat?" ”

When Zheng Kaicheng heard these sour words, he arched his hand at Wang Chengen and laughed.

Wang Chengen looked at Zheng Kaicheng and said: "To put it bluntly, five million taels to the Son of Heaven is really disrespectful, Zheng Shen will say it directly, how much will the Son of Heaven be given at most?" ”