Chu Huan was thoughtful and asked softly: "Since the Lu family is involved with the Huang family, and the Huang family is rebelling, is the Lu family also involved?" Touching his chin, he said: "Since the Lu family is in charge of grain, the family must be stockpiling grain, if all the grain is filled into the household warehouse, the problem of food shortage in our household department will be greatly solved!" ”

Lang Wuxuan shook his head and said: "Although the Lu family used to act for the tiger, but it is difficult to be implicated." On the ground in Anyi, the Huang family is the leader and the boss, and the Lu family is also the second deal, although the Lu family is subservient to the Huang family, but in his bones, he is afraid that he has never obeyed. Now that the Huang family has fallen, the Lu family is the head of the wealthy family in Anyi, if even the Lu family is implicated, the entire Anyi is afraid that it will be chaotic. And there are not a few wealthy families in Anyi who are attached to the Huang family, ten out of ten, I am afraid that eighty percent are involved in the Huang family, if they are all implicated, this wealthy family in Anyi is only afraid that they will be killed before they become ......! Fu Xu said: "The Huang family has fallen, Anyi will naturally be chaotic for a while, and the imperial court will rely on the big clans of the Lu family to stabilize Anyi, and it should not be a killer." ”

Chu Huan let out an "oh" and asked, "Has the imperial court already sent someone to Anyi?" ”

Lang Wuxuan shook his head, "It's really not clear. It stands to reason that if such a big event happens in Beijing, on the Anyi side, the saint will naturally send someone to arrest the Huang family, and it is inevitable that the family property will be confiscated. However, the imperial court has not sent people from our household department to Anyi, and people from our household department will naturally not be ......! He also showed a suspicious expression on his face, "What is the current situation of this Anyi, I really don't know, Lord Chu, if you want to know, I'll inquire later." ”

Chu Huan waved his hand and smiled: "I'm just asking casually." ”

Lang Wuxu smiled, leaned closer, and lowered his voice: "But in the past two days, our ministers have been very happy. A while ago, I was worried about money and food, and now the Huang family is rebelling, this time I will copy the house, there must be a lot of inputs, if even the Huang family's family property in Anyi Road is not included in the household department, our ministry is afraid that I will never worry about money and food again in the past two years. ”

Chu Huan said: "Can the Huang family's wealth last for a year or two? ”

"I'm afraid there's more." Lang Wuxuan said: "In recent years, the biggest expenditure of the household department is mainly to build the Tongtian Palace, and now that the Tongtian Palace has been completed, the imperial court does not have to spend money on it, and it will save a lot of expenses every year." The Huang family's family wealth is a heavenly number, and there are not a few officials involved this time, they are all quite wealthy, and all of them are included in the household department, Lord Chu, how much food do you think you have? ”

Chu Huan nodded and said: "If that's the case, the Lord of the Ministry really doesn't have to worry, with money and food, the war in the southeast will be much smoother, and the reconstruction of the northwest is just around the corner." ”

Lang Wuxu picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then Chu Huan asked, "By the way, Lord Lang, there is something I want you to ask for advice!" ”

Lang Wuxuan hurriedly said: "Lord Chu, please speak!" ”

"I heard that Huang Ju has a lot of shops on Jinyu Street? I don't know if it's true or not! ”

"Yes, yes!" Lang nodded hurriedly, "There are quite a few, there should be more than a dozen!" ”

"Those shops have also been sealed?"

Lang Wu said with a false smile: "That is the most valuable shop of the Huang family in Beijing, except for the Huang family's main mansion, I went to those shops yesterday afternoon, and they have all been sealed." After all, Lang Wuxu is not a stupid person, and he is very cunning, Chu Huan suddenly asked about the shop on Jinyu Street, he felt that there was something to say, and asked cautiously: "Lord Chu...... Are you interested in the shops on Jinyu Street? ”

Chu Huan just smiled and didn't speak, if he didn't speak, it was tantamount to acquiescence, but he was excited, clapped his hands and said: "Lord Chu has good eyesight, every shop on Jinyu Street is a daily ......!" Feeling out of shape, he lowered his voice and said, "What kind of business does Lord Chu want to do?" ”

"I haven't thought about it yet." Chu Huan knew that officials running business behind the scenes were already commonplace in the Great Qin Imperial Court, and there were probably not a few shops in front of him that Lang Wuxuan Lang was running behind the scenes, and he didn't hide it, "When the shop is settled, I will ask Lord Lang to discuss and see what kind of business to do." ”

Lang Wu smiled and said, "You should be serving." He seemed to be very enthusiastic about this matter, "Lord Chu, you wait a while, I'll go and check, this kind of trivial matter is in my hands." ”

After Lang Wuxu left, after only a moment's effort, he frowned and came back, and said with some embarrassment: "Lord Chu, things are a little bad. ”

"Oh?" Chu Huan thought that this kind of thing was the easiest trivial matter, and couldn't help frowning: "Could it be that the shop hasn't been sealed yet?" ”

"It was seized yesterday." Lang Wuxuan sat down, "It's true, it's just ...... It's just that those shops, which were just sealed yesterday, have already been taken away from the household department! ”

"So fast?" Chu Huan was a little surprised.

Lang Wuxuan sighed: "That's all fat, who doesn't want to take a bite." I checked, Huang Ju is on Jinyu Street, there are a total of eleven shops, and the decorations are very beautiful, the decorations inside have not been dismantled, and the shops can do business ......! ”

Chu Huan frowned and said, "Lord Lang, do you know who has taken them away?" ”

Lang Wuxuan sighed: "There are some merchants in the name, but there must be someone behind this ......!" After thinking about it, his eyes showed a strange color, and he said in a low voice: "Lord Chu, it seems that if you want to get the shop on Jinyu Street, you have to ask the Lord of the Ministry for advice!" ”

Chu Huan groaned slightly, a sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he actually got up and said, "Since this is the case, I really have to ask the master of the department." ”

"Not now." Lang Wuxu waved his hand and said: "Just now, Qiu Junxi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, personally came to our household courtyard and was talking to Ma Butang, so as not to disturb anyone!" ”

"Qiu Junxi?" Chu Huan thought to himself that if I didn't look for you, you would come to the door in person, and said with a smile: "I really want to find this Qiu Butang, but I didn't expect him to come here." ”

Lang Wu thought to himself, what was there to find in the king of Yama, but it was inconvenient to say more.

Chu Huan came to the courtyard of the ministry in a hurry, it was a coincidence, before he entered the door, he saw Ma Hong and Qiu Junhui talking and laughing, Chu Huan came to Beijing for a long time, although he had not had contact with Qiu Junhui, but he had also seen him, Ma Hong smiled with a horse face, and Qiu Junhui's triangular eyes were also scorching, and between laughing and laughing, when he went out of the courtyard gate, he didn't see Chu Huan, that Qiu Junhui almost hit Chu Huan headlong, fortunately he stopped quickly, his temper was ruthless, arrogant and arrogant, he almost bumped into someone, but he started a fire first, and said coldly: "What thing that doesn't have long eyes is blocking the door?" As soon as he saw Chu Huan, he immediately knew him, and his gloomy face suddenly showed a little smile, "Isn't this Uncle Zhongyong?" Faux pas, no wonder! In an instant, he became a humble and courteous man.

Chu Huan clenched his fists and smiled: "I almost collided with Qiu Butang, it was a rude official to be rude." ”

"Where's the word?" Qiu Junhui said affectionately: "I have long wanted to talk to Uncle Zhongyong, but I have been worried about disturbing Uncle Zhongyong, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, Uncle Zhongyong, I will be the east tonight afternoon, and we will have a light meal together, what do you think?" ”

Chu Huan said with a smile: "Xia Guan knows that Qiu Butang has been busy with official business recently, how dare he bother." He made a look as if he had suddenly thought of something, and said, "Yes, Qiu Butang, the lower officials really have something to trouble you, I don't know ......!" ”

Without waiting for Chu Huan to finish speaking, Qiu Junhui had already patted his chest and said: "What is the matter with Uncle Zhongyong, although it is said, if I can help, I will definitely go all out, and if I don't trouble these words, I will not mention them again in the future, if I say something like this, it will look down on me Qiu someone." ”

"Actually, it's just a small thing." Chu Huan sighed: "Two days ago, a villager came to me, he has a friend who does business in the capital, and the two of them often communicate on weekdays, but now more than half a year has passed, his friend in Beijing has no news, he came to Beijing to look for it, and found that the shop has changed hands...... According to the inquiry, that friend seems to have been invited to tea by several criminal department officials before, and he has not seen a trace of ...... since then! ”

"Oh?" Qiu Junxi immediately asked, "What is that person's name?" ”

"Shen Wansi!"

"Shen Wansi?" Qiu Junhui thought for a while, and finally said: "Don't worry, Uncle Zhongyong, I will send someone to check the whereabouts of this Shen Wansi when I go back, and if there is any whereabouts of him, inform Uncle Zhongyong as soon as possible." ”

Chu Huan arched his hand and smiled: "This will trouble Qiu Butang." ”

"Look." Qiu Junhui pretended to be displeased, "I just said it, don't say this kind of outsider, Uncle Zhongyong, if you say this kind of kind words again, I'm really going to be angry!" ”

Chu Huan laughed, Qiu Junxi also laughed, Ma Hong was on the side, he was also smiling, and when Qiu Junhui said goodbye and left, Ma Hong smiled and said: "Master Chu, since Qiu Butang agreed, that Shen Wansi will inevitably appear within three days, you don't have to worry too much." Everyone knows that Shen Wansi must be in the prison of the Criminal Department now, and Chu Huan said these words just to let Qiu Junxi find an opportunity and reason to release him.

Chu Huan looked at Ma Hong and said with a smile: "Lord Ministry, the lower officials also have something to ask you for!" ”

"Oh?"

"Xia Guan heard that more than a dozen shops in Huang Ju on Jinyu Street have been seized, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

"It is true." Ma Hong nodded and said: "Huang Ju rebelled, the entire Huang family should be punished for their crimes, their family property, the saint also made a decree, all of them were confiscated, and Qiu Butang came for this matter." He said with a smile: "This kind of thing is too tiring, so I didn't let Lord Chu go over, and I sent the head of the warehouse department to be responsible for the house." ”

Chu Huan nodded with a smile and said straight to the point: "I heard that those shops have to be inventoried, and it just so happens that Xiaguan has a friend who also wants to do some business in the capital, so he asked Xiaguan to set up two shops on Jinyu Street, but he doesn't know what procedures to go through?" ”

Ma Hong frowned and said, "Lord Chu, you should have said this earlier, the Huang family is a shop on Jinyu Street, and all of them have been taken away, and even the silver has been put into the warehouse......!" ”

"Take it away?" Chu Huan pretended not to know, "It's not that it was only sealed yesterday, why was it taken away so quickly?" ”

Ma Hong sighed: "Lord Chu, do you know, every store on Jinyu Street is a golden storefront, doing business on Jinyu Street, there is no profit or loss, who do you say doesn't want to take down the storefronts there?" There are many wealthy businessmen in the capital, and they are all shrewd people, after Huang Ju's rebellion, they all know that the Huang family's store must be copied, and someone has long been staring at Jinyu Street, this is not, it was just copied yesterday, and they all came to grab the store, and now the war in the southeast is tight, and the northwest is also turbulent, and the place where the household spends silver is too big, and it is not difficult to be in charge of the house. ”

Chu Huan smiled: "That's fine." I heard that every store in Jinyu Street is a gold storefront, and a store is down, not to mention thousands of taels of silver, so many merchants are vying for it, if you can have an auction, it is estimated that it can add a lot of input to the household. ”

"Auction?" Ma Hong was stunned, a little suspicious.

Chu Huan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's the lower official who lost his words." However, so many merchants are vying for the storefront, and it should not be a problem for this store to pay two or three thousand taels of silver! "My lord, I don't know how much silver is put on the façade of each household?" ”

Ma Hong frowned, and his face suddenly became ugly.

Chu Huan saw that Ma Hong's face was not good, and asked with concern: "Lord Ministry, your face is not good, but you have been overworked recently, but you have to take care of your body!" ”

Ma Hong smiled reluctantly and said, "How much silver is counted, the official really doesn't know." ”

"Xiaguan will go and take a look immediately." Chu Huan said with a smile: "It's not that I don't trust the officials below, but the ministers don't know how much silver they have put out, and the errand here is really damned." Lord Ministry, you rest first, I'll check first, see how much there is input, and wait for the check to be clear, and then report to the adult. ”

He arched his hand, turned around and left, muttering, "On average, a storefront should have two thousand five hundred taels of silver, and eleven storefronts, that is about thirty thousand taels, well, plus the things that were copied from it, it is not a few, fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver is naturally indispensable......!" ”

Although his voice was not loud, it was enough for Ma Hong to hear, Ma Hong heard him mutter, his face was even more ugly, the corners of his eyes twitched, seeing that Chu Huan had walked more than a dozen steps away, Ma Hong finally gritted his teeth and raised his hand and said, "Lord Chu, slow down!" ”

Chu Huan stopped, turned around, and asked, "What do you command?" ”

Ma Hong's ugly face was already smiling, and he went over to pull Chu Huan's arm, and said kindly: "Lord Chu, although you and I are in the same courtyard, we really haven't tasted tea together, come, I have good tea here, Lord Chu should taste it!" ”

Chu Huan immediately said: "The lord of the ministry is polite, this tea tasting has time, and official affairs are important, why don't you wait for the lower officials to go and check the number, and when you report to the lord of the ministry, please ask the lord to give you a cup of tea?" ”

Ma Hong smiled: "The silver can't run, why bother in a hurry, come, go into the house to speak." For fear that Chu Huan would run away, he dragged Chu Huan into the ministry compound.