Chapter 166: Raiding the House (2)
Yan Xuan's house has five entrances, two side courtyards on the left and right, and a private garden covering an area of ten acres is built behind the house. The layout is neat, Manulife, luxurious and flamboyant, which is a few points better than the festival house. Yan Kun's wife, Zhao, a fat and strong woman, knelt outside the Yimen with two sons who looked thin due to excessive wine, and the woman saw Li Mao pounce on, hugged her thighs, snorted and cried tearfully that her husband was framed, and asked Li Mao to raise his noble hand.
The two guards rushed over, grabbed her by the hair, threw her away viciously, kicked her in the ribs, and finally spat on her face, and the woman lay on her belly and snorted, and her two sons were silent and did not dare to say a word.
The two sides of the corridor from the Yimen to the main hall are full of Yan Yan's concubines and prostitutes, three rows on one side, a total of no less than 100 people, the door of the house is broken, and everyone's expressions are different: there are mourners, most of these people are Yan Yan's favorite concubines or old and decrepit, and they have to grieve because they have fallen Yan Yan's big tree, and they have to suffer the most, so they have to grieve. There are people who steal joy, this kind of people are young and beautiful, ambitious, they are sluts, and they are just changing their homes to a new master, or they still have a chance to take the position, so they are happy, and they have the courage to look up at Li Mao and a guard, raise their eyebrows, show off their style, and hope that someone will take over.
There are also some people who deal with it calmly, this kind of person is neither favored, nor has much capital, although they are young, they are old, and they have the idea of messing around, whether they go or stay, it doesn't matter to them.
Yan Xiu, the head of the Yan Mansion, took the initiative to show favor to Li Mao in order to get rid of the crime, and expressed his willingness to assist the government to raid the house, Li Mao had dealt with Yan Xiu, and he had no good impression at all, but he hated it, such a person still had use value, so he promised him that as long as he was willing to work hard, he could not only forgive his sins but also reward, Yan Xiu was grateful to Dade, and he was very hardworking.
Accompanying Li Mao to raid the house is the third general of the left of the internal army, Huangfujian, Huangfu Yuan brothers are Li Na's righteous sons, grew up with Li Shigu since childhood, and flattered in front of Li Shigu every day, second only to Li Changshan.
Zhao snorted on the ground for a while, turned over, and crawled over with a wail, wanting to hug Li Mao's thigh again, but was surrounded by four guards and kicked and beaten desperately. Li Mao turned back, pushed the guard away, pulled out the slashing iron, and stabbed her in the chest. Yan Su can't escape death, and his wife and brother can't escape their doom, rather than letting her die of torture and despair, it's better to send her on the road as soon as possible. Blood splashed Li Mao's body, and the prostitutes and concubines who still wanted to beat him were silent one by one, and lowered their heads in fear.
Li Mao took the handkerchief and wiped the blood on the knife, and threw the handkerchief in front of Yan Su's two sons, who were not very concerned about their mother's death, but only thought that they would not be able to escape their doom, and cried tears one by one. The two guards drew their swords and stood behind the two, and Li Mao stepped out to stop them, as if such people did not deserve preferential treatment.
Huangfujian still looked at Li Mao coldly, but there was an extra layer of recognition in his heart, Li Shigu arranged for him to be the deputy envoy of the family, and he didn't say a word before leaving, and Gao Mu didn't say anything, but Huangfujian knew his mission in his heart, and he had been secretly observing Li Mao. Judging his loyalty and ability, killing a Zhao clan is nothing, but seeing his woman's kindness, but it is somewhat interesting to prevent the killing of his two sons, whether this is to give them a taste of life that is worse than death or to save their lives in the future to rescue.
Different people will come up with different opinions, and Huangfujian's opinion is that Li Mao is vicious enough, which is obviously to make two unfilial sons die well.
The goods copied from all parts of the country were piled up in the middle court, and the accounting experts selected from the Zhidu Prefecture and the local prefectures and counties were counted and registered, and those that were cumbersome and difficult to move were counted and sealed, and handed over to the inner and outer warehouses on the spot.
With Yan Xiu leading the way, the confiscation of property went very smoothly, Li Mao inspected the confiscated property in a leisurely manner, and saw that an hour had passed, and he was not surprised. Yan Kun built three warehouses in the house to store the looted property, one in the outer house, called the public treasury, which was in the hands of the chief Yan Kun; One is in the inner house and is in the hands of the housekeeper Zhao, and the other is in the secret room of his study, which is in charge of his favorite concubine. The greedy nature of his people is undoubtedly exposed here, but Li Mao also discovered a very interesting phenomenon, although Yan Su has looted a lot of property, there are few rare treasures that can be obtained, is it too low in taste to afford to play, or build another secret room no one knows?
asked Yan Xiu, Yan Xiu said: "There is no secret room at home, but there are good things stored in the inner treasury on weekdays, and I don't know where to go." ”
Huangfu Jian didn't believe it, he hung Yan Xiu up and tortured him, Yan Xiu's skin was opened, and he screamed like a pig, but he couldn't say why. Chen Xiangshan, who was ordered to come to supervise the raiding of the house, persuaded: "Don't bother with this thought, Yan Fatzi is just a pawn of some people, he has any good things, and he has not all honored his master." ”
This could not be clearer, Huangfu Jian no longer tortured, hated Yan Xiu for being unjust, and slashed him with a knife.
According to the division of labor, the outer treasury stores grain and cloth, the inner treasury stores gold, silver, money and soft things, and the arsenal under it stores ordnance and weapons.
There is a specialization in the art industry, and the property is handed over on the spot, and it is transported by the internal and external warehouses, which can effectively reduce the loss, which is a very tenable reason, in fact, everyone understands Gao Mu's intentions secretly, he is worried that someone will fish in troubled waters and swallow public property.
However, Gao Mu did this, it was only a superficial article, officialdom has its own rules of officialdom, and if you want to mix in officialdom, you have to abide by these rules. The reason why copying homes is called beauty is because there are cheap things to take advantage of, this is a well-known rule, and Gao Mu did this because he didn't want to make too much money for the raiding mission.
The internal and external treasury department is also a clear person, those are what they should do, and those should not be asked. The handover was carried out in an orderly manner and smoothly.
In addition to the mountains of goods, the concubines, prostitutes, and maidservants raised by Yan Yan's family are also jaw-dropping, with 27 concubines, 128 prostitutes, and 400 maidservants. Like his taste for collecting goods, the appearance and conversation of these prostitutes and concubines are hardly called superb.
It took a whole day to check the population, during which several vicious rape cases occurred, and the emperor's face was a little unbearable, and he severely punished the forbidden soldiers, and everything was calm after that. Li Mao and Chen Xiangshan climbed into the newly built cool building in Yan's back garden, which had just been built and was extremely luxuriously decorated. It is said that this building was built for three years, during which Yan Su revised the drawings several times, and even demolished and rebuilt, and the decoration was just completed after the building was completed, and Yan Su was imprisoned before he had time to enjoy it.
The cool building stands out from the crowd, surrounded by unobstructed, open the window and the cool breeze comes from all directions, drinking iced sour plum soup, Li Mao and Chen Xiangshan have been down the mountain for a whole day, and finally played this seemingly simple but full of wisdom game. A thousand years later, this kind of game is still circulating in his hometown, where farmers sit on the ridges of the fields and rub mud to kill a game to kill a game, chatting to kill time, more than a thousand years have passed, and the rules of Shuanglu have not changed much.
Chen Xiangshan didn't look down on Li Mao at first, he was a great talent who read poetry and books, and in his early years in Ziqing, he was on a par with Chen Jingsheng, the secretary in charge, and there was a "second Chen" for a while, but his official fortune was not very smooth. In the shogunate as a Confucius for many years, not promoted, easy to get an opportunity to release the county order, less than half a year after the arrival of the jurisdiction suffered a drought, the homeless people ate a large household and robbed a rich man, it happened that the rich man in Chang'an had relatives who were officials, and the small thing stabbed in front of the emperor became a big thing, in order to calm the matter, Li Shigu had to dismiss him and investigate it.
During this period, Chen Jingsheng was prosperous in official fortune, rising again and again, and was selected by Li Shigu and made the secretary, the status difference between the two was too great, and no one mentioned the name of Erchen. The depressed Chen Xiangshan's temperament has changed greatly, he has become cynical, he has become high-minded, cold and arrogant, he has always looked down on martial arts, Li Mao is a martial artist, Yan Su once spared his life in the past, but now he will take revenge to help Xue Yingying bring him down, kill his wife, and raid his house, such a villain cannot be friends.
Accompanying Li Mao to Shuanglu was not only out of boredom, but also because he didn't want to wade into the muddy water downstairs.