Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhao Liangdong, who was shaking like chaff, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhao, get up, today is not to punish you, what are you afraid of?" ”

Zhao Liangdong nodded and struggled to stand up, Zhu Hongsan pointed to the pregnant woman and asked, "Mr. Zhao, I made a bet with you, did you say that the child in the pregnant woman's womb is male or female?" ”

Zhao Liangdong thought to himself, how do I know? But now the time is right, and he dares to say that. Zhao Liangdong rolled his eyes and said: "Your Majesty is a man if he says it is a man, and if he says it is a woman, it is a woman!" ”

Zhu Hongsan laughed when he heard Zhao Liangdong slap his ass: "Old Zhao, I didn't expect you to pat yourself with thick eyebrows and big eyes?" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Zhu Yuan and Zhu Shengduo behind him: "What do you think? ”

Zhu Yuan and Zhu Shengduo have both read books and know the allusion of Liu Yu, the emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, who is a famous tyrant in history, and now seeing that the emperor is going to order someone to observe the fetus by caesarean section next, Zhu Shengduo hurriedly stood up and stopped: "Grandfather Emperor, you govern the country with benevolence, you must not use this cruel method!" ”

Zhu Yuan's face was already disgusted when he saw the burning of people's heads in the house just now, and now he was about to vomit when he heard that his father was going to see the fetus by caesarean section, but Zhu Yuan's heart moved after listening to Zhu Shengduo's words, this Zhu Shengduo is the son of the prince, and he is usually very favored by his father, so why not take this opportunity to give him some bad medicine, which can be regarded as adding to the blockage of the prince.

Zhu Yuan resisted the disgusting urge to stand up and scolded: "Zhu Shengduo, you are the emperor's grandson, but now you stand up against your father, you are disrespectful, I really don't know how the prince's brother educated you?" ”

Zhu Shengduo is not a few years younger than Zhu Yuan, and the relationship between the two was not good, but now when he heard Zhu Yuan scolding Huai for bringing the crown prince, Zhu Shengduo sneered: "Fourth uncle, you seem to be just an auxiliary general, the little nephew is a county king, do you just call him by his name?" ”

Zhu Yuan listened to Zhu Shengduo's pot and didn't open the pot, and his words went straight to his lungs, Zhu Yuan's angry finger Zhu Shengduo scolded: "You bastard boy, no matter how I say it, it's your uncle, what's wrong with calling you by your name?" ”

Zhu Hongsan had a headache when he heard that his son and grandson were arguing, and he was fed up with several princes in Beijing who were calculating each other in order to compete for a big position, and now he can't hide from Beijing.

Zhu Hongsan frowned and scolded: "Zhu Shengduo, how can you talk to your uncle?" Don't apologize to your uncle yet! ”

The emperor's order was a holy decree, and Zhu Shengduo had no choice but to give Zhu Yuan a deep salute and said, "The little nephew is wrong, please forgive my uncle!" ”

Zhu Hongsan said that he wanted Zhao Liangdong to guess the gender of the child, of course, he didn't want to really see the fetus by caesarean section, although Zhu Hongsan was cruel, he was not a pervert, and today he said this just to scare Fan Yongdou.

Zhu Hongsan scared Fan Yongdou, but Fan Yongdou didn't think so, Fan Yongdou had inquired about the origin of this bastard emperor before, Zhu Hongsan was born in the declining clan of Huguang Wuchang, his father died when he was young, Zhu Hongsan was no longer controlled, and he was mixed in the rivers and lakes at a young age, and he heard that the methods were very cruel. Fan Yongdou's son has been made into a pickpocketing head just now, and it is not impossible to play a caesarean section to watch the fetus now.

Fan Yongdou screamed, but his mouth was blocked and he didn't know what he said.

Zhu Hongsan motioned for him to speak, and the little eunuch stepped forward to take out the rags from Fan Yongdou's mouth, and Fan Yongdou cried: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Emperor!" The villain is wrong, the villain will hand over all the family property, please spare the life of the villain's whole family! ”

Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he heard Fan Yongdou say this, he wasted so much energy today because he wanted the family property of these families. This time, Zhu Hongsan went out of the customs with his own money, and a group of 70,000 or 80,000 people spent more than 500,000 silver dollars for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan made up his mind before leaving Beijing, and these eight large businesses in Zhangjiakou are simply mobile banks. These eight schools in the pre-Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Mongols eyebrows, without the support of these eight families, the Manchu Qing would not be able to develop and grow in the cold northeast. And these eight have nothing to do with Hu Guang Xungui, and there is no loss at all in moving their Zhu Hongsan's basic market, the most important thing is that these eight families hold the power of border trade, and Hu Guang Xungui has wanted to meddle in border trade in recent years, but the eight are united as a whole, and outsiders can't enter at all.

Now that Zhu Hongsan has brought down these eight families, the silver dollars of these merchants have gone to Zhu Hongsan, and the border trade has gone to Huguang Xungui, and this kind of generous behavior will naturally have no objections from the DPRK and the Central People.

It was only when Zhu Hongsan arrived at Xuanfu that he learned that the people of Shanxi were very picky, and last night Zhu Hongsan sent troops to copy the shops of their eight houses, and only got a total of 560,000 silver dollars, and a lot of other fur medicinal materials, but it was worth 1.8 million silver dollars, which was very inconsistent with the status of these eight "imperial merchants". According to Zhu Hongsan's estimation and the information from Jinyiwei, Fan Yongdou's family should have assets of five or six million, and the eight families add up to more than 10 million.

Zhu Hongsan knew the character of the merchants in this era, and the silver he earned had to be buried deep underground, so Zhu Hongsan had to get the exact location of the silver burial from Fan Yongdou's mouth, otherwise wouldn't this trip to Xuanfu come in vain?

Now that Fan Yongdou is soft, Zhu Hongsan is relieved, if this guy is stubborn to the end, then he has to really play caesarean section and watch the fetus.

The other seven merchants all looked at Fan Yongdou as the horse's head, and when they saw Fan Yongdou loosen his mouth and begged for mercy, they expressed their willingness to sacrifice all their family property.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said to Jinyi Wei Zhen Fu Ding Wei: "You take someone to escort these guys, get out all their buried silver, and seal all their family property!" If someone is not honest, you let them see what the torture of Jinyiwei is! ”

Ding Wei got the emperor's holy decree and led people to escort these eight people and began to raid the house. Zhu Hongsan took his son and grandson back to the General Military Mansion and waited for good news.

Ding Wei is a brocade guard, this kind of copying is naturally an expert, after receiving the emperor's holy decree, Ding Wei divided his subordinates into eight teams, except for himself, each team was led by a thousand households, Ding Wei himself escorted Fan Yongdou to Fan's house in Xuancheng.

When I came to Fan Zhai, I couldn't imagine that this ordinary courtyard was Fan Yongdou's home, Fan Mansion entered the courtyard seven or eight times before and after, and there were thirty-four rooms, of course, Fan Yongdou's home was also a good house in Xuancheng, but it was not worthy of Fan Yongdou's net worth at all.

At this time, Fan's house had been occupied by Jinyiwei, but there had not been a careful search, Ding Wei came to the door and looked at Fan Yongdou and said, "Come on, Fan Yuanwai, let's start!" ”

Fan Yongdou is now like a defeated rooster, bowing his head and saying, "Under the big locust tree in the backyard!" ”

With Fan Yongdou's information, Ding Wei took people directly to the backyard and found a cellar under the big locust tree. When all the belongings in the cellar were brought up, Ding Wei was stunned.

There were eighteen large silver balls of more than 100 catties in this cellar, and more than 20 chests full of silver ingots, silver bricks, and silver bars, and countless other treasures.

Ding Wei preliminarily estimated that there were five or six hundred thousand taels of silver in this cellar, and after Ding Wei and other cellars were emptied, he asked, "Fan Yuanwai, what about the next one?" ”

Fan Yongdou pointed to the well not far away and said, "There are still in the well!" ”

In this way, Ding Wei led people to search Fan Yongdou's house, and found a total of three silver cellars, with millions of taels of silver and more than 5,000 taels of gold.

After all the silver and gold were counted, Ding Wei asked, "Say, where else?" ”

Fan Yongdou said with a sad face at this time: "Official, there is really no more, that's all!" ”

Ding Wei can believe in Fan Yongdou there, and now he has a total of more than one million silver, which is not enough according to Fan Yongdou's net worth.

Ding Wei sneered: "It seems that Your Majesty is right, you guys really don't want to die in the Yellow River!" Come on, bring Fan Yongdou's grandson up and put a stick on him! ”

Jin Yiwei quickly brought Fan Yongdou's grandson Fan Yu up, put Fan Yu's legs into the clamp stick in front of Fan Yongdou, and pressed it hard, only to hear a crisp sound of Gaba, Fan Yu's legs were clipped, and Fan Yu fainted with a scream.

Fan Yongdou saw that his grandson's leg was useless, and scolded angrily: "You gang of Qiu Ba, Lao Tzu really has no money!" I'm really out of money! ”

Ding Wei said with a smile: "Fan Yongdou, do you know what grandpa does?" Grandpa was one of the hundred households in the Yamen of Jinyi Wei in Guangzhou, you said that you didn't tell the truth, can grandpa not know? If you don't tell the truth, the next step is not as simple as clamping sticks, our Jinyiwei's eighteen kinds of torture such as skinning, tongue cutting, spine breaking, finger falling, heart piercing, and playing the pipa, do you want your baby grandson to give it a try? ”

Fan Yongdou completely collapsed at this time, and quickly said more than ten places where the silver was hidden outside Xuanfu City, Zhangjiakou, Datong, Beijing and other places.

Zhu Hongsan lived here in Xuanfu for more than half a month, and Jin Yiwei finally copied the property of these eight merchants, and Zhu Hongsan was also very surprised when he saw the list.

Fan Yongdou's family copied out 3.3 million taels of silver, 2.4 million silver dollars, 12,200 taels of gold, countless other gold and silver jewelry, dozens of real estate, and the farthest in Nanjing there are two properties of Fan Yongdou, Jin Yiwei preliminarily estimated that the assets of Fan Yongdou's family had more than 8 million silver dollars. As for the other seven, although they were not as rich as Fan Yongdou's family, they copied out a total of more than 5 million taels of silver, more than 3 million silver dollars, and more than 20,000 taels of gold.

Zhu Hongsan was really shocked when he looked at the list in his hand, he knew that these guys were very rich, but he didn't expect to be so rich. Zhu Hongsan originally estimated that these eight families would be seven or eight million silver dollars at most, but when he thought that there were 17 or 8 million silver dollars, this is not counting real estate such as houses and land, and if they are all counted, it is even more amazing.

After the shock, he was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that he would have so much money by copying eight merchants casually, which was enough to have 20 million silver dollars. You must know that the total financial income of the Ming Dynasty is only 30 million silver dollars a year, and now it has actually got more than half a year's income from them, it seems that raiding the house is really a good way to get rich quickly.