Chapter Twenty-Nine: Raiding the House and Dividing the Spoils
According to a thousand households surnamed Jiang in the yamen, he took more than 100 officials to turn Liu's mansion upside down. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Jiang Qianhu said to Chen Di stupidly: "Alas, it's strange, after checking for a long time, I only found 600 taels of Guanping silver. ”
Chen Di scolded the thousand households in his heart. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, officials were corrupt, and the methods of hiding gold were also full of tricks. Chen Di also wrote an article "Ming Dynasty Officials Secretly Hide the Golden Examination". Liu Mingtian has been operating in Qinyang for many years, how can he have six hundred taels of silver in his house?
Chen Di decided to take matters into his own hands and hunt for treasures in Liu's mansion.
He came to Liu Mingtian's study first. In the study, there is a bookshelf.
Chen Di knew that there were many sandwich walls behind the bookshelves in the study rooms of Ming Dynasty officials.
Chen Di said to Jiang Qianhu: "Let your men remove the bookshelves, and then hit the wall with a sledgehammer!" ”
Several officials were ordered to remove the bookshelves and knock the wall with a sledgehammer.
"Bang, bang." The wall behind the bookshelf was knocked open, and the wall turned out to be hollow, and a pile of gold ingots was neatly stacked in the hollow wall.
Jiang Qianhu said: "Lord Chen is really a man of God!" ”
Chen Di smiled: "Where, where." Quickly take out the gold and count it. ”
Jiang Qianhu asked people to count the gold in the wall, holding a brush in one hand and an account book in the other, and said: "The criminal officer Liu Mingtian's study has a thousand taels of red gold hidden in the wall!" ”
Jiang Qianhu asked Chen Di: "Lord Chen, since the hidden gold has been found, can we make a difference?" ”
Chen Di laughed and said, "My Lord Qianhu, where is this?" ”
After Chen Di finished speaking, he looked around in the study, and then said: "Jiang Qianhu, you see that this study is covered with bluestone bricks, let your people lift up all the bluestone bricks!" ”
Jiang Qianhu obeyed orders. More than a dozen officials took shovels and lifted all the floor tiles in Liu Mingtian's study.
Suddenly, an official shouted, "My lord, there is a secret compartment here!" ”
Under the floor tiles in the center of the study, there is indeed a hidden lattice, and there is a copper handle on it.
Jiang Qianhu pulled up his hand, and the dark grid was full of silver ingots.
The officials hurriedly counted, and Jiang Qianhu kept the accounts and said: "Prisoner Liu Mingtian, there are eight thousand taels of silver hidden under the floor tiles of the study!" ”
Jiang Qianhu asked Chen Di: "My lord, can you go to another room to check?" ”
Chen Di looked up at the beam of the study: "Wait, Jiang Qianhu, you send a few people to take a look at the beam of the room." ”
The two officials were hung on the beams of the house with ropes. An official shouted, "There seems to be an iron box here!" ”
The official took down the iron box, and Chen Di and Jiang Qianhu opened it to see that it was full of silver tickets.
Jiang Qianhu counted and said: "Prisoner Liu Mingtian, there are nine thousand taels of silver tickets hidden in the iron box of the house beam!" ”
Chen Di nodded with satisfaction. "Okay, Jiang Qianhu, Liu Mingtian's study is probably nothing. Go to his bedroom. ”
Chen Di took Jiang Qianhu to Liu Mingtian's bedroom.
Dozens of officials have already turned the boxes and cabinets in Liu Mingtian's bedroom upside down.
Chen Di said: "Carefully check whether the walls on the four sides are hollow. Also, remove the floor tiles. ”
Dozens of officials removed the floor tiles from the bedroom and inspected the four walls, but still found nothing.
Chen Di was a little strange, could it be that there was really no money hidden in Liu Mingtian's bedroom?
Chen Di walked to the Nanmu bed at the east end of the bedroom and sat down.
Wait, it seems that something is wrong.
Chen Di knocked on the bed board of the Nanmu big bed, and it was completely hollow!
He hurried to have someone take an axe and split the bed board.
In the mezzanine of the bed board, there is no gold or silver, no silver tickets, but there are a lot of house deeds and land deeds.
Jiang Qianhu sent someone to count it, and said: "Prisoner Liu Mingtian, the deed is hidden in the mezzanine of the bed board of the bedroom." There are 1,600 house deeds and 7,000 acres of land deeds! ”
Chen Di took Jiang Qianhu and searched everywhere in the mansion again, and seized a large amount of property.
Jiang Qianhu secretly said in his heart: This Chen County Ling is not very old, but he didn't expect that he was an expert in copying homes. This method of copying the house, I am afraid that Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi is not so clever.
After raiding the house, Chen Di asked people to put a seal in front of the gate of Liu's mansion.
Then, Chen Di took the account book to find the Gao press envoy.
The envoy was eating lunch in the back office of the Qinyang County Ya.
Chen Di said to the Gao Inspector: "Uncle Shi, the Liu family's wealth has been sealed. ”
The high prosecutor asked with concern: "Oh? How many? ”
Chen Di submitted the account book: "There are a total of 50,000 taels of silver and 180,000 taels of silver tickets." The red gold is 1,500 taels, the antique jade silk is discounted by about 10,000 taels, and there are 1,600 house deeds and 7,000 acres of land deeds. This account is remembered by Jiang Qianhu of the Yamen, and there will be no mistakes. ”
The envoy said with a smile: "It's really damn that a small county has amassed so much wealth." ”
Chen Di smiled slightly, leaned into the ear of the high press inspector and said: "Senior uncle, in my opinion, when this cash silver and silver ticket is reported, it can be reported 80,000 taels, and the remaining 150,000 taels will naturally belong to you, uncle." ”
Gao pressed the envoy and smiled: "In this way, it's not good?" ”
Chen Di said again: "Uncle Shi, you have just come to Henan to take up a post. I think you can be Henan's platform, Yan Cifu must have contributed a lot to it. This red gold of 1,500 taels was also erased from the account books. This batch of gold, sent to Yan Cifu in your name, should be regarded as your filial piety! ”
Gao pressed the envoy and smiled: "It's still the nephew you think thoughtfully." Our roots are in Yan Cifu, and Yan Cifu is the big tree behind us, so it's very good! ”
Chen Di said again: "As for those antiques, jade and silk, they are also erased from the account book, and I will let people seal them in a box and send them to the house, so that Uncle Shi will reward people in the future!" ”
The envoy was overjoyed: "This, how good is this!" This big fortune has been given to this hospital, aren't you unable to fall yourself? ”
The high press inspector knows better than anyone that only if Chen Di also takes the money can he be gagged. I won't talk nonsense when I go out in the future.
Chen Di said: "My lord, I hope you can give me these house deeds and land deeds." ”
Qinyang is plagued by floods and locusts, and the fields and houses are not valuable. Gao pressed to make a favor to make a favor: "Okay, no problem." ”
Gao pressed the prosecutor and said: "Since this case has been concluded, I will escort the criminal Liu Mingtian back to the provincial capital." ”
Chen Di asked with some concern: "When you arrive in the provincial capital, will this Liu Mingtian retract his confession?" Will that Wang Bu's political envoy stand up for him? ”
The envoy laughed: "Senior nephew, you are still very tender!" From Qinyang to Kaifeng for six or seven hundred miles, during this journey, the criminal officer became seriously ill because of fright, and died of serious illness, is it reasonable? ”
Gao pressed the envoy's words and woke up Chen Di! It seems that the Gao Zhicha envoy has embezzled most of Liu Mingtian's family wealth and wants to kill people!
Chen Di can't wait to do this!
Well, among the four evils in Qinyang, Liu, Wang, and the witch cult have been eliminated, and Chen Di can focus on disaster relief and saving the people!