As soon as Gao Suhong left, Lin Yi immediately ordered Ma Chao to pick up a thousand men and horses, gathered all the officials in the prefect's yamen to act together, and went separately to confiscate Zhou Dechang's property. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info himself personally brought 500 men and horses and went to the Zhou Mansion with Ma Chao.

The four generations of the Zhou family have been county princes and have accumulated a lot of wealth, and the natural mansion is also extremely beautiful. Lin Yi stood at the gate and looked at it once, was amazed, and ordered someone to go straight into the mansion, detain all the servants of the Zhou family, and wait for a while before walking into the mansion with Ma Chao.

"Huh! What about the county duchess? Lin Yi asked.

A master who had entered the mansion in advance bowed down and said, "My lord, the county duchess has already left with someone!" ”

"Did she leave with her dowry?" Lin Yi asked.

The master replied: "I brought it, what about a dozen boxes in total?" ”

"Have you checked?" Lin Yi hurriedly asked.

The master replied: "After inspection, they are all ordinary gold, silver, silk and other things, which are evidenced by accounts. ”

"Why didn't I see her?" Lin Yi asked again.

"Your Excellency, she said she didn't want to see you, and left through the back door!" The master replied.

"Hah! This little girly is still running very fast! After all, she is the daughter of an English duke, and she is a weak woman, spare her, let her go! By the way, have you found out about the Zhou family's wealth? Lin Yi asked.

The master replied solemnly: "My lord, as soon as I entered the mansion, I had already called the housekeeper of the Zhou family over and asked him, here are the account books of the various properties of the Zhou family, please take a look!" The master said, and handed over the account book he was holding in his hand to Lin Yi's hand.

Lin Yi took it and looked at it roughly, only to see that the homepage read: "57,800 taels of gold, 1,583,600 taels of silver, 2 buckets of precious stones, 2 gold armors, 3 golden hooks, 162 bundles of jade belts, 3 bundles of Shiman's belts, fifteen manors, 31,246 fields, 1,243 male and female servants, 135 shops, 800,000 stone ...... of grain."

"Tsk! This Zhou Dechang has also amassed a lot of wealth? Ha ha! Get rich! Get rich! Lin Yi couldn't help but be overjoyed on his face, and hurriedly instructed the master to carefully check the account books and not to omit anything. He happily walked to the living room and sat down.

"Oops! This Zhou Dechang has really helped the government a lot, and now the household department is in a hurry to ask for autumn grain, just the grain stored in this Zhou County public house is enough for the people of Zhengding Mansion to hand over the field endowment this year, this is really a local tyrant, there is a future! Lin Yi stretched his waist and said with emotion.

Ma Chao smiled beside him, stepped forward and said, "My lord, as far as my subordinates know, the bandits of Qinglong Mountain have never robbed the property of Zhou Dechang's family, so I think this Zhou County Prince, I'm afraid it's not that simple?" It's hard to figure out that he has colluded with the bandits in Qinglong Mountain. ”

Lin Yi's eyes lit up immediately, and he thought to himself, "That's right! Why did we raid the house, first, to make a fortune, and second, to search for evidence of his violation of law and discipline? If it can really be found out that he has colluded with the bandits of Qinglong Mountain or the Maitreya cultists? Why should we put a big hat of rebellion on him, and worry that the emperor will not kill him? I remember that Yan Shifan, the son of the traitorous minister Yan Song in the Ming Dynasty, was beheaded by Jiajing because of collusion with the Japanese Kou, it seems that we have to hurry up to search for evidence! Thinking of this, he was busy with Ma Chao leading people to carefully search the Zhou Mansion, while he sat down and led the pillar to the inner house.

There are more than a dozen courtyards in the inner house of the Zhou family, and the buildings are very gorgeous, and many courtyards have rockery pools and exquisite flower beds. Lin Yi took a general look, and saw a group of soldiers carrying out more than 20 boxes of gold, silver and jewelry from a large room, so he hurriedly walked over to look, only to see which room had the words "Treasure Hall" written on the door. I walked in and turned around, but I didn't find any valuable clues, so I had to retreat again and walk to another house.

"This Zhou Dechang, I don't believe he doesn't have the slightest handle?" Lin Yi thought hatefully, and when he was looking left and right, he saw Ma Chao running excitedly and said to him: "My lord, we have found a secret room. ”

Chamber? There's sure to be something good somewhere! Lin Yi was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed Ma Chao and ran over.

The two walked through the three mansions, and a Buddhist hall appeared in front of them, Ma Chao pointed excitedly, Lin Yi raised his eyes and looked, only to see a big Buddha in the house, which was moved to the side, and in the original place, there was a big hole, and several soldiers were standing around.

Lin Yi walked to the side of the cave and stretched out his head to look inside, only to see that there was a stone staircase leading to the bottom, and there was a lot of cold air inside, so he turned his head and asked the soldiers beside him, "Have you gone down?" What good things were found inside? ”

A soldier bowed and said, "My lord, because it is a secret room, we didn't dare to enter it, so we are waiting for you to come and check it out for yourself!" ”

Lin Yi liked it very much when he heard it, and hurriedly ordered someone to take a few torches, with Ma Chao in front and the pillar behind, and walked down among the soldiers. After walking more than 20 steps, a splendid palace appeared in front of me, the size of five or six houses, with dragon chairs made of sandalwood, dragon books, yellow dragon robes with five claws, and gold silk crowns, dozens of gold and silver utensils engraved with dragon patterns, each of which was contraband.

"Haha! I can't imagine that Zhou Dechang, you still dare to do such a rebellious thing, this time the gods can't save you. Lin Yi said happily in his heart. Stretched out his hand and picked up the dragon robe and looked at it again, and was carefully looking at the secret room, when he saw a soldier holding a sandalwood box walking in front of him, bowing down and saying: "My lord, there is a small box here, we don't dare to open it without permission, please take a look." ”

Lin Yi took the box, put it on the table, opened it, looked at it by the firelight, and saw that it was wrapped in yellow silk, and gently uncovered the yellow silk, and there were two books, one white and one black, both with the words 'Lotus Sutra' written on them.

"This ...... Could this be the other two of Maitreya's seven Lotus Sutras? Lin Yi couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, picked up the book, and flipped through them one by one.

"Yikes! It's really strange that these two scriptures are very ordinary, no different from the ordinary Lotus Sutra? Could it be that this book is a fake? Or is there something else going on in it? Lin Yi frowned and looked at it, but he really couldn't see anything famous, so he had to put the book away again, and ordered Zhuzi to take the box and walk out of the secret room.

"Listen, you are not allowed to tell anyone about the discovery of a secret room in the Buddha hall? Violators, behead! Lin Yi said in a deep voice.

Seeing that Lin Yi said solemnly, Ma Chao and the soldiers hurriedly agreed: "Yes, my lord!" ”

Lin Yi also instructed: "Immediately restore the Buddhist hall, and the wealth of the Zhou Mansion does not have to be transported back to the palace, and from today onwards, a number of soldiers will be sent to guard it strictly, and no one will be allowed to enter or leave." In particular, no one is allowed to approach this temple. ”