Zhao Li's manor is located on the east side of Xishan Town, only a stone's throw away from the town, it was originally a barren slope, and Zhao Liquan occupied it to build his own manor. Covering an area of about forty or fifty acres, the periphery of the manor is built with a wall eight feet high, the wall is four or five feet thick, the top can allow two people to go along, every forty or fifty steps there is also an arrow tower, which can accommodate more than ten Zhuang Ding to shoot arrows on it, it can be said that it is a fortress with great defensive power.

In the interior of the manor, there are hundreds of houses, which are inhabited by Zhao Li's family and some of the villagers, of course, most of the family members still live in Xishan Town outside. Seven or eight of the hundreds of houses are Zhao Li's treasury, which contains the wealth that Zhao Li has accumulated over the years. Now the doors of the warehouse have been opened one by one, and Chen Yue and the others are smiling when they see the materials inside.

Among them, there are three warehouses full of grain, wheat, corn, millet and other kinds of grain add up to more than 1,000 loads, enough for three or four hundred people to eat for a year, but think about the fact that nearly half of the land in Xishan Town belongs to Zhao Li, it is understandable to have so much grain.

A warehouse is filled with cloth, in addition to dozens of black coarse cloth, there are more than ten pieces of silk and satin, more than 20 pieces of refined Songjiang cotton cloth, I don't know what Zhao Licun is doing with so many cloths, but judging from the blood stains faintly left on some cloths, most of these cloths are stolen goods.

There are also two rooms with all kinds of miscellaneous items, hoes, shovels, plowshares, baskets and other farm tools.

The two rooms that made Chen Yue the happiest were the arsenal, but there were some empty inside, just dozens of knives and guns, and some shields. Thinking about the more than 100 knives and guns he captured from Zhuang Ding, Chen Yue can understand. To Chen Yue's surprise, two large guns with thick bowls were found in the corner of the arsenal, black and full of rusty guns, with several copper hoops on their bodies, and the front part of the big guns was supported to the ground with two brackets, and the muzzles of the guns were raised upward, like a tiger squatting on the ground.

Tiger Squat Cannon! Chen Yue flashed this word in his mind, this is a sharp weapon used by the Qi family army to deal with the Japanese invaders, its function is somewhat similar to the mortars of later generations, it is a curved artillery, but the range is shorter, less than a mile. The barrel of the cannon can be filled with more than 100 pieces of lead or small stones weighing five coins, and then more than 30 taels of lead bullets or stone bullets are used to press the top, and the barrage formed after firing covers a radius of several zhang, and the momentum is like thunder. I didn't expect there to be such a treasure in this remote Xishan town.

For the tiger squat cannon, Chen Yue has only seen it in the book of war, and today is the first time he has seen the real thing, so he can't help but step forward and touch it with his hand, and his mood is very excited.

After being excited, he went to check the other warehouses, but found that there was a door closed with a huge copper lock hanging on it. The whole body of the warehouse here is made of bluestone, and only two small windows for ventilation are left on both sides of the door, but no one can get into it at all. With such a tight warehouse, it must be filled with very valuable things, and it should be Zhao Li's silver treasury.

Several family members brought Zhao Li's concubines, and the concubines cried and said that the key to this warehouse was in Zhao Li's hands, and no one knew where he put it.

Chen Yue didn't have the mood or time to look for the key, so he sent someone to the arsenal to marry gunpowder, and decided to blow up the warehouse door directly. There were more than 10 jars of gunpowder in the arsenal, about 200 catties.

A man brought a jar of gunpowder, piled it up at the door of the storehouse, took out some of it as a primer, and then sealed the mouth of the jar tightly. Chen Yue ordered everyone to stay away from the door of the storeroom, and then personally lit the primer with a torch. I saw the light of the fire flickering, swimming towards the door of the storehouse like a fiery snake, and a moment later there was a loud bang, and the smoke filled half of the courtyard.

After the smoke cleared, I saw that the door of the warehouse had been blown to pieces. After waiting for a while, waiting for the pungent smell of gunpowder to dissipate a little, Chen Yue took the lead and entered the warehouse, and saw that there were five or six large wooden boxes inside, Chen Ping took a crowbar and pried open the lid of the largest of them, and saw that it was full of copper coins, and there were hundreds of copper coins in strings.

When priing open the lid of a box, the silver light flashed, and a box full of silver ingots was neatly placed in the box, I am afraid that there were not as many as a thousand taels.

The boxes were opened one by one, half of the boxes contained copper coins, and there were only three silver boxes, but it was roughly estimated that all the silver coins were converted into four or five thousand taels, which was also considered a fortune.

Zhao Li is just a small lieutenant in Xishan Town, and he is just a local tyrant, he didn't expect him to accumulate so much wealth, Chen Yue couldn't help but be very curious, and wanted to know what kind of business Zhao Li used, only in just a few years, from a butcher to a local tyrant with thousands of acres of land equivalent to tens of thousands of two properties. It's a pity that Zhao Li has been killed, and it's not so easy to know the reason.

Chen Ping and Li Yi took a few family members who had already written rough to check the property of all the warehouses and register them, while Chen Yue summoned all the Zhuang Ding in the manor and lectured them.

Chen Yue told them that Zhao Li was beheaded for colluding with the bandits of Heifengzhai to try to kill the official and rebel, and all his property, including the manor, was confiscated. However, God has the virtue of a good life, and since Zhao Li has been ambushed, he will no longer implicate their families. Zhao Li has been single in his early years, and only married a wife and concubine when he has developed in recent years, and there are a total of one wife and three concubines in the family, as well as five children from half a year old to three years old.

As for these Zhuang Ding who followed Zhao Li, Chen Yue also decided not to pursue their faults, and those who were willing to stay in the manor could stay here, and those who did not want to leave on their own.

There are more than 150 tenants attached to Zhao Li, most of whom are local villagers in Xishan Town, and most of them make a living by renting the fields of the Zhao family, so these people are naturally reluctant to leave easily. But there are also a small number of bandits and scoundrels caught by Zhao Li, not natives of Xishan Town, now Zhao Li is dead, although Chen Yue has promised not to pursue it again, but these people are still afraid that Chen Yue will settle accounts after the autumn, so they took advantage of the night to pack up their belongings and leave overnight. Chen Yue didn't want to pay any attention to these people.

That night, the entire Xishan Town was in a shock, the chief Zhao Li was killed, and the news that all the Zhao family's property was confiscated quickly spread throughout Xishan Town. Some people were panicked, for fear that they would be implicated because they had a close relationship with Zhao Li, and more people applauded, and they were extremely happy that Zhao Li, who bullied men and women, was beaten to death.

Early the next morning, an order came out from the Zhao family's manor, and the new Xishan Inspection Department was to summon all the people of Xishan Town and give them a lecture.