Household Yamen.

No matter how busy Lang Wuxu is every day, he has to go to Chu Huan's yard, which has become something that Lang Wuxu is accustomed to, and at this time, Lang Wuxu has no scruples.

Ma Hong, Lin Yuanfang and others are considered rising stars in the officialdom, they do not belong to the princelings, let alone the Anguo Gong Party, but their family background is not weak, and the members of the princelings are mainly a group of military people who made friends when the prince was marching and fighting, such as Lei Guheng, who is now fighting in the southeast, although it cannot be said that he belongs to the princelings, but his friendship with the prince is not shallow.

The main members of the Anguo Gong Party, in addition to the officials promoted by An Guogong, are mainly from the same township of Anyi Road.

Ma Hong, Lin Yuanfang and others do not belong to the military system, and they are not promoted by An Guogong, let alone villagers from An Yi Dao, they are all after the founding of the country, the emperor selected talents and stood out.

Whether it is the princeling party or the Han royal party, although there are many party members, it is not an abuse of party members, and they do not trust the officials selected by the imperial court later such as Ma Hong, and it is very difficult for such officials to enter the system, although it is not impossible.

Ma Hong and others naturally thought about getting closer to the prince or An Guogong, but I turned my heart to Mingyue, but Mingyue shines on the ditch, it is difficult for this kind of officials to really integrate into the party, so this kind of officials often help each other and form another faction, but this force only seeks self-preservation in the early days, and never dares to offend any party of the princeling party or the Han Wang party, which can only be said to be the weakest link in the court.

It is precisely because they are too weak that they have not been taken seriously before, but the emperor gradually favored Ma Hong and Lin Yuanfang, and focused on promotion, which gradually made the power of this party gradually stronger, and won the emperor's favor, Ma Hong, Lin Yuanfang and others are no longer close to the other two factions, with the support of the emperor, they do not offend the other two factions, but they also survived unharmed in the court.

Lang Wuxu was originally a member of the Han King Party, but now at this point, the three parties of the dynasty, the Han King Party can be regarded as a collapse, Lang Wuxu is naturally impossible to invest in the princelings, and if Ma Hong's group of new parties, it is impossible to have Lang Wuxu's position, his only way is to follow Chu Huan honestly and become a member of the Qi Wang Party, and the Qi Wang Party is even weaker than the new party, and now it has not even been able to form a powerful party, but after all, the King of Qi is the prince, even if there are not many party members, but Lang Wuxu understands, As long as you hug the big tree of King Qi, even if you can't soar, as long as you are cautious, it will not be a problem to save your life.

Therefore, he made high-profile contact with Chu Huan, but the meaning was also very obvious, Chu Huan was the core of the Qi King Party, and he maintained a good relationship with Chu Huan, just like if he explained to others, he was a member of the Qi King Party, and with the King of Qi to protect him, if anyone moved him, he had to weigh it.

On weekdays, when Lang Wuxu came, Chu Huan and him were just chatting boringly, but today Chu Huan said that there was really something to find him, so when Lang Wuxu came over, Chu Huan showed a little enthusiasm, but Lang Wuxu was used to Chu Huan's usual imminent departure, and today he suddenly became enthusiastic, and personally poured a cup of tea for him, which immediately flattered Lang Wuxu, and even called him polite, but he was not a general, Chu Huan's attitude changed today, Lang Wuxu felt that something was wrong, and after sitting down, he asked:" Do you have any commands? ”

He is now worried that he has no chance to do things for Chu Huan, if there is really something, as long as it is not too difficult, he is in his arms.

Chu Huan blew on the end of the tea and said with a smile: "Lord Lang, I haven't inquired about it in the past few days, how did the imperial court deal with Huang Ju's remnants?" ”

"Oh, they're all in the prison of the Criminal Department." Lang Wuxuan thought it was a big deal, and when he heard Chu Huan ask, he immediately said: "The Huang Dang in Beijing has been sent to prison, and I heard that most of them have been sentenced to death by the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, but the sentence has not yet been determined." Huang Ju also has a lot of henchmen in the local area, and the Criminal Department and the Yamen of Dali Temple have sent people to the local area, and many of them have been escorted to Beijing these days, and I am afraid it will not be long before they can be executed. After a pause, he leaned forward and said in a low voice: "Those guys in the Criminal Department, all of them are ruthless, if they find this opportunity, they wish the sentence would be later, I heard that Qiu Junhui has recently come up with several criminal laws, and he is ready to use them, you have been to the edge of the prison of the Criminal Department, and within a few miles, you can hear the sound of ghosts crying wolves day and night." ”

Qiu Junhui is the secretary of the criminal department, and he is also the most famous cool official in the empire, although his criminal law may not be comparable to the god Yiwei in terms of technique or function, but once he enters the god clothes, he almost never comes out alive, even if he is a high-ranking official and important minister of the court, he can't know what the torture of the god is like, but many people know that the criminal law of the criminal department yamen is like a cow's hair, and there are countless tortures, and most of them are Qiu Junhui, the secretary of the criminal department, came up with it himself, so Qiu Junhui's reputation as a cool official is very loud in the government and the opposition, Even at the mention of Qiu Junxi's name, many people will have hair on their bodies.

Chu Huan laughed and said: "These rebellious rebels are going to be executed, so the family property ......!" ”

Lang Wuxuan said: "Don't you know that Lord Da Chu has been raiding his house since yesterday!" ”

"Huh?" Chu Huan was stunned, he really didn't know, he was not enthusiastic about the follow-up of the rebellion for a while, and he didn't inquire, "Has it started?" ”

"The Criminal Department sent someone over the day before yesterday, and this raid requires the Criminal Department and our Household Department to work together." Lang Wuxuan said: "The yamen of the criminal department sent people to raid the house, let's take inventory, yesterday the ministry sent more than a dozen people, starting from the Anguo Mansion...... From early yesterday morning to midnight yesterday, the inventory has not been completed, no, someone in the ministry has passed over early in the morning......! ”

Chu Huan shook his head and said, "I really don't know, why, Lord Lang didn't go?" ”

Lang Wuxuan said: "This matter was sent by the master of the ministry and sent the head of the warehouse to bring people over, since he arranged it like this, we naturally have nothing to say...... ”

His words revealed a hint of dissatisfaction.

Chu Huan understands that the head of the warehouse is a person promoted by Ma Hong, who belongs to the New Party, everyone knows that this copy of the family is a big oil and water, not to mention the copy of the mansion of Anguo Gong, which is the richest man in the world, its oil and water are self-evident, such an errand, everyone wants to take their turn, Ma Hong rejects Lang without hypocrisy, although he is polite to Chu Huan, but he has never regarded Chu Huan as her own person, such an errand, she will naturally send her cronies to go.

If it was before, Lang Wuxuan would naturally be in high spirits at this time, but now it is different from the past, and such a beauty difference is not his turn.

Chu Huan knew this, smiled, and asked, "Lord Lang, I heard that the Huang family is very rich in the capital, and there are many industries in this capital, and I don't know if it's true or not?" ”

"Nature is true." Lang Wuxuan said: "It is said that the Anguo Gong family is rich and rivals the country, and some people think it is an exaggeration, but in fact, it is really not an exaggeration." As far as I know, An Guogong has no less than seventy or eighty industries in the capital, from silk cloth, to tea and porcelain, to restaurant calligraphy and painting, ......! He shook his head, his eyes showed envy, and he couldn't help but say: "His family's wealth, which can not be used up in several lifetimes, really can't understand why he wants to embark on the road of rebellion......!" Suddenly, he found himself a little speechless, and smiled awkwardly.

Chu Huan tasted the tea, didn't seem to hear it, put down the teacup, and asked with a smile: "I heard that after the house was raided, all the property was not included in the imperial court, that is, it was included in the household department, even those stores, which should also be subjected to by the household department, counted out, and exchanged for silver?" ”

Lang Wuxu nodded and said, "That's right, but if you want to copy all the Huang family's wealth, it's not a matter of ten days and half a month!" ”

Chu Huan was stunned, and Lang Wuxuan had already said: "What was copied this time is just the Huang family's property in Beijing, which is just part of the Huang family's industry, and the foundation of the Huang family is in Anyi, where their Huang family's industry is located." Anyi Road from the beginning of the previous dynasty, it is known as the land of fish and rice, there are many lakes, aquatic products are also quite rich, the Huang family is in Anyi Road good fields thousands of hectares, Anyi Road is the most famous Yusuo Lake rich in aquatic products, a radius of hundreds of miles, that has already become the Huang family's private lake, not to mention his field and shops in Anyi, is the annual output of parallel goods in the Yusuo Lake, is a huge input, the industry in the capital, has been searched out of the account book from the Guogong Mansion, and it can be completely counted out in two or three days, even if there is a leak, it will not be too big, but it is the end of Anyi, if you copy it over there, it won't be able to sort it out in ten days and half a month. ”

Chu Huan was a little surprised, he knew that the Huang family was very powerful in Anyi, but after Lang Wuxu's words, Chu Huan knew that the Huang family's wealth in Anyi was more than he imagined.

"The Huang family has countless fields in Anyi, and Huang Ju's eldest son, Huang Tianyi, was given the title of Shaoqing of Taichang Temple in his early years, although he is in name only, he is also an official." Lang Wuxuan sighed: "He, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, is much more powerful than other officials in Anyi Dao, and the governor of Anyi Dao is a big official, so he doesn't dare to offend Huang Tianyi, his words are equivalent to a holy decree in Anyi...... After a pause, he immediately changed his words: "Those fields come down every year, and the income is amazing, and Huang Ju himself is the head of the household, and the harvest is exempt from taxes, you say, after so many years, how much wealth does the Huang family have?" Those fields are divided into more than 20 manors, each manor is built a granary, each manor has hundreds of people guarded, these dozens of manors add up, there are thousands of people in the family alone, this Huang family is an official, it is not good to run a business on the surface, especially if there is so much grain every year, it can't be rotten in the warehouse, so someone sells grain for their family, and the silver money obtained from selling grain every year flows into their Huang family's silver treasury like water......! ”

The more Chu Huan listened, the more frightened he became, it seemed that the Huang family's claim to be rich and rivaling the country was really not a lie, and he couldn't help but ask: "Isn't Anyi's business monopolized by the Huang family?" ”

"Ten out of ten, at least fifty percent." Lang Wuxuan said: "Although they are the richest people, they can't let others have no way to live, otherwise it will not be a good thing if they really offend the anger of the public." There are also a lot of big and small wealthy families in Anyi, but then again, no matter what you do in Anyi, you have to have something to do with the Huang family, if you want to set up a single household, it is self-defeating. At that time, the Lu family, the first grain merchant in Taiyuan, had been making a living from grain in the previous dynasty, and it was also a first-class rich family in Anyi, and the wealth of the Huang family was even far from the ...... of the Lu family! ”

When Chu Huan heard the mention of "Taiyuan's No. 1 grain merchant Lu family", he immediately felt very familiar, and suddenly remembered that he had a great intersection with this Lu family.

He was only afraid that he would make a mistake, so he didn't wait for Lang Wuxu to finish speaking, and immediately asked, "Lu family?" Does Lord Lang know about Lu Shixun? ”

"Lu Shixun?" Lang Wuxuan was stunned for a moment, groaned slightly, and said: "The head of the Lu family is called Lu Lengyue, but it is said that the next generation is the generation of the world, I have not been back to Anyi for many years, this Lu Shixun has never heard of it, but it must be Lu Lengyue's son and nephew, why, Lord Chu knows the Lu family in Taiyuan?" Then he patted his head and said with a smile: "Look I'm confused." The adult's hometown is on Xishan Road, this Anyi Road is close to Xishan Road, and the reputation of the Lu family in Taiyuan Mansion is very loud, and adults should have heard of it. ”

Chu Huan is now nine points certain, the Lu family, the first grain merchant in Taiyuan, is Lu Shixun's family.

For Lu Shixun, Chu Huan did not forget that Linlang's Heshengquan was once in danger, and the Lu family once had business dealings with the Su family, Liu Juguang in order to suppress Heshengquan and control the Xishan Dao Chamber of Commerce, refused to sell grain to Heshengquan, Linlang had no choice but to go to Taiyuan City, the capital city of Anyi, to find the Lu family's help.

This Lu Shixun is a ghost, coveting Linlang, taking this opportunity to get close to Linlang, and even wants to force the two families to marry with food, one to occupy Linlang, and the other to merge the industry with Shengquan under the name of the Lu family, after being rejected by Linlang, he even tried to rape Linlang, Chu Huan was furious, and he actually abolished his descendants with his own hands and became eunuchs.

Since then, the Su family has won the name of imperial wine, so there is no need to do business with the Lu family, Chu Huan has not heard the news about the Lu family again, at this time, he heard Lang Wufu mention it, but suddenly remembered, and couldn't help but show a smile at the corner of his mouth, "Lu Shixun should be Lu Lengyue's son, not only have heard of their reputation, but also have a friendship, I remember that Lu Shixun seems to owe me 10,000 taels of silver!" ”

He remembered clearly that after Lu Shixun was abolished, Chu Huan forced him to write an IOU of 10,000 taels of silver, and now the IOU should still be in Linlang's hand, but he doesn't know if there is a chance to get the 10,000 taels of silver back from the Lu family.

Lang Wuxuan was a little surprised, and said strangely: "The Lu family owes the adult 10,000 taels of silver?" Fu Xu said: "The Lu family is one of the richest families in Taiyuan, and this 10,000 taels of silver is a drop in the bucket for the Lu family." At the beginning, the Lu family was richer than the Huang family, but later An Guogong became the head of the household department, and the Huang family developed rapidly in Anyi, and the Lu family could only invest in the Lu family in the end. ”