"Yu'er, have all the people inside been solved?"

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"Okay, now go to the front yard with my father."

Chen Bangfu took the lead and walked briskly towards the front yard.

After a while, they arrived at the main hall of the front yard, where Liu Qingyong, the chief staff of the Qingzi Battalion, and Hu Zhigong, the chief staff member of Chen Bangfu, had been waiting here for a long time.

"Sir, the Ding family in the barracks has been killed by me."

Liu Qingyong saw Chen Bangfu coming over, and said innocently.

"Hu Zan painting, what about you?" Chen Bangfu nodded, turned his head and asked Hu Zhigong.

"Back to the marshal, the students in the Ding Mansion treasury have all been found, hehe, Ding Lao Thief's huge greed is not to say that the rich are rivaling the country, but also the rich and invincible province, the treasury is full of whole boxes of gold and silver, fifty taels and one ingots, there are hundreds of boxes. According to the students' rough estimates, there were almost 40,000 taels of gold and nearly 500,000 taels of silver, and the total amount added up to no less than 840,000 taels of silver.

The tax paid by our Liangguang in a year is only 160,000 taels of silver, and Ding Kuichu has been greedy for nearly one million taels in just a few years in Liangguang, amazing, amazing! Hu Zhigong's face was full of admiration, he admired Ding Kuichu's ability to make money.

"Hey, hey, hey......" Chen Bangfu's eyes glowed brightly when he heard this, and the color of greed was unobstructed, although he knew that Ding Kuichu had a lot of money, he didn't expect that there would be so many!

Hu Zhigong saw that Chen Bangfu was a little obsessed with money, and hurriedly reminded: "Sir, if you want to intercept this silver, in addition to destroying Ding's old thief's family, all the housekeepers and deacons who know the amount of money and capital in Ding's mansion must be wiped out in the account room, and none of them can be missed, otherwise there will be trouble!" ”

Chen Bangfu was shocked when he heard this, and immediately came back to his senses and said apologetically: "Thank you for the reminder, Benjue almost forgot about this stubble." After speaking, he issued several blocking orders.

After walking a few steps on the spot, Chen Bangfu was still excited in his heart, with so much silver, even if he expanded the army by another 10,000 or 20,000, it would not be difficult, and then he would be the real king of Guangxi, and no one could shake his status.

In the palace of King Gui.

Since the beginning of the operation, Zhu Youlang has been waiting for news in the heart hall, and Wu Jihei came at three o'clock, after the great gift of the monarch and the minister.

"How's it going? Has Ding Kuichu been caught? Did the nearly 2,000 Beijing battalion soldiers outside the city control it? Zhu Youlang asked three questions in a row, and under the anxiety in his heart, he seemed a little out of shape.

Wu Jisi replied: "Su Ping, the deputy general of the Jingwei Forward Battalion, has been killed on the spot, and the soldiers of the Beijing Battalion have also been handed over to Chen Zongrong for reorganization according to the emperor's orders, but when attacking Ding's mansion, Ding Lao Thief was mistakenly killed by his son. ”

"Manslaughter? Are you sure? Zhu Youlang wondered.

Wu Jisi frowned and said: "The minister feels that things don't seem to be so simple, at that time, Ding Lao Thief did not resist, but Ding Fu Ding on the side was doing the last dying struggle, and his son took advantage of the gap to stab Ding Lao Thief to death. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Jisi hesitated for a moment, and said: "There is another point that the minister feels a little strange, according to the will of the emperor, after the minister took advantage of the laxity of the military generals in Beijing to send a signal when he was ****, Chen Zongrong did not launch a night attack in time, but delayed for a while, if it were not for the minister to take Su Ping as a hostage, I am afraid that he would have been killed by his generals." ”

Zhu Youlang's eyes narrowed into a slit when he heard this: "This fang is really treacherous!" ”

Then he said as if to himself: "If it was deliberate, why did he want to kill Ding Kuichu?" ”

"What does the emperor think?"

"Yes." Zhu Youlang thought for a moment, suddenly slapped his thigh, and said, "It must be for money!" ”

"Huh?"

"Heir, is it that as soon as Ding Kuichu dies, he is in a hurry for you to come over and report to me?"

Wu Jisi nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

"Hahaha, that's true."

"The minister is stupid, please make it clear to the emperor." Wu Jihei thought in his heart.

Zhu Youlang said with a smile: "Ding Kuichu's family has strong assets, no less than one million taels, he must want to swallow that wealth." ”

Zhu Youlang is a traverser, naturally knows how much wealth Ding Kuichu has, before the crossing Zhu Youlang had carefully seen Ding Kuichu's life deeds, this guy was the first assistant of the cabinet, on the grounds of preparing food and salary to resist the enemy, set up a royal treasury in the household department, openly sold the official mantle, and embezzled no less than 200,000 taels of silver in just a few months.

When he was the governor of Liangguang, he regarded Liangguang as his forbidden body, and did his best to collect and scrape, and connived at the gentry and merchants to fornicate with foreign countries and extract commissions, and accumulated more than 600,000 taels of silver in a few years, not counting jewelry and jade, and finally the cash alone was close to one million taels.

One million taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty is not a small amount, when Emperor Chongzhen more than ten years of salary apportionment, from the people to get only 20 million taels of silver, the result also made the people's hearts scattered, smoke everywhere.

Zhu Youlang still remembers that when he used to read history books, he saw an incident: at the beginning of the Yongli Dynasty, due to the internal strife with the Shaowu Dynasty in Guangzhou, a war broke out, and the front-line food and salary were insufficient.

Zhai Shiyun also knew that Ding Kuichu's family was rich, so he persuaded him to donate more, but Ding Kuichu cried hard and was poor, and finally saw that other ministers donated one after another, and was forced to be helpless, only a few dozen taels of the situation, he kept money all his life, but he didn't expect that he had not enjoyed it now, but it became his life-amulet.

"Emperor, do you want to get rid of him?" Wu Jiji didn't expect Chen Bangfu to not only dare to calculate him, but also dare to calculate the emperor, and anger loomed on his resolute face.

Zhu Youlang waved his hand lightly and said, "No need, now from this matter, this fang is not only powerful, but also quite scheming, it is not suitable to move him for the time being, and you can't move him."

Besides, even if I get these goods now, it will be useless, so I should leave them with him first! ”

Wu Jisi bowed helplessly and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Zhu Youlang got up and walked to the window, holding the jade belt around his waist with both hands, looking at the hazy night in the palace outside the window, and said in his heart: "It seems that this Chen Bangfu is not so easy to use!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, when the officials and gentry in Wuzhou Mansion had not recovered from the mutiny last night, Zhu Youlang held an early court in the palace of King Gui.

After the ministers finished congratulating, Zhu Youlang sat on the throne and said with a gloomy face: "This morning, let's see if there is a shortage of personnel?" ”

"Huh? Why didn't Lord Shoufu Ding come to the court? ”

"Why didn't Shousuke-sama arrive? Strange, strange. ”

The first position of the civil official is vacant, and the courtiers can see it at a glance, Ding Kuichu has arrived in Wuzhou early, and he came to the court the day before yesterday, but he did not come today, everyone is very curious, and they whispered to each other, and many people who are closer to Ding Kuichu's temporary mansion have vaguely gotten some rumors, and they are as quiet as cicadas, with slight sweat on their foreheads, and they are silent.

"That's it!"

Zhu Youlang snorted, interrupting everyone's speculation and discussion, and after a moment of silence, he said gloomily:

"My Mr. Ding, the first assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, collaborated with the enemy and treason, the evidence is conclusive, I have approved the arrest last night, not only did he not admit his guilt and surrender to the law, but he resisted stubbornly, and he was killed on the spot by Chen Qing's beloved son, and now he will never come again!"

Like a drop of ice water into a hot oil pot, Zhu Youlang's words immediately caused an uproar among the ministers in the palace.

Without waiting for the ministers to react, Zhu Youlang continued: "The national disaster is at the head, the people are in the midst of water and fire, in addition to Mr. Ding's forgetting his ancestors and secretly communicating with the Dongyu, there are still many gentry and ministers who are doing the same thing, fornicating letters with slaves and thieves, and selling themselves for glory. However, with a god in the head, how can the conspiracy last, and now that all this evidence has been obtained, how can a person who plots treason predict it? ”

After speaking, with a wave of his hand, Yang Shouchun, the eunuch in charge who had already been ordered to wait beside him, handed over a small box in his hand, Zhu Youlang took the box, opened the lid of the box, and poured the stack of letters inside onto the imperial case.

The ministers were in an uproar again, and the ministers who had secretly corresponded with Dongyu were calm on their faces, but they were begging the gods to bless their letters not to be caught in them, and the rest of the eunuchs were also blocked by iron-clad evidence, and did not dare to argue for Ding Kuichu.