After some ups and downs, the four major families of Nanyang finally retained.

In the end, according to the evidence of the crime verified by Zhang Han and Lu Yuan, the four major families handed over a total of 287 people who had violated various laws and regulations of the imperial court, and on the day of the conviction, all of them were escorted to the Yamen of Nanyang County and beheaded in public.

In addition, the four major families each handed over a fine of 300,000 taels of silver to offset the military expenses of the imperial court to quell the rebellion in the south, and the Zhao family, as the culprit of the Nanyang incident, donated an additional 300,000 taels of silver to the imperial court, and at the same time, the four major families each handed over 100,000 mu of land to the Nanyang County Ya, which was distributed to the landless and landless peasants in Nanyang by the Nanyang County Ya.

At the same time, the four major families were led by the two congenital ancestors, Qian San and Sun Si, who were alive, and each produced five more masters of the five viscera and one hundred masters below the five viscera to serve in the army of the southern imperial court.

In the end, the position of the head of the four major families also changed, the shopkeeper of Chang'an Qian Duoduo officially became the head of the Qian family, Zhao Zifan, who hugged Wang Mang's thigh all the way, became the head of the Zhao family, Sun Zishan privately donated 200,000 taels of silver to Wang Mang to keep the position of the head of the Sun family, and the head of the Li family was temporarily appointed by an elder in his sixties of the Li family.

It can be said that after this big change, the four major families that originally dominated the land of the Three Suns have lived up to their existence, and the current four major families have paid 1.7 million taels of silver and 400,000 mu of land in addition to countless lives in order to retain a trace of blood, which can be said to be a great loss of vitality.

First of all, the court obtained a total of 1.5 million taels of silver from the four major families, and he personally obtained 200,000 taels of silver, in addition, Wang Mang also obtained a reward of 320,000 taels of silver from the system, and then found Wei Changyou, he accidentally discovered the accounts of the river yamen for many years, although most of the silver was squandered by the officials of the river yamen, but after checking the account books, he still found 560,000 taels of silver in the river yamen.

It can be said that the four major families were destroyed, and Wang Mang got 2.58 million taels of silver for silver alone, which was enough to support Wang Mang to directly exterminate the southern rebels.

Chang'an City.

The court quarreled into a vegetable market, and the news of Wang Mang's appearance in Nanyang could not be hidden.

The son of the daughter does not go down to the court, that is the principle of the sage, Wang Mang left the palace directly without anyone's consent, and ran to a dangerous place such as Nanyang, which directly scared the bigwigs in the court into a cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, why did you go to the land of tigers and wolves in Nanyang so disregarding your personal safety, and there was no danger this time, if something happened, what should you do?" Wang Yongji never spoke with his brain, and in a hurry, he didn't care about the eyes of the lords of the court, and he dared to say anything.

"Your Majesty, although what Lord Wang said is a bit alarmist, it is not unreasonable. Li Si opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, please also ask Your Majesty to put the dragon body first!"

Wang Mang looked at the ministers who persuaded him, and snorted coldly, Wang Mang is now becoming more and more powerful, and with a cold snort, the originally noisy court directly quieted down.

"Didn't you ask for military expenses?" Wang Mang said coldly: "You know all day long that you want money from me, where did I get the money, my money is not all in your hands, you don't know better than anyone else about my family background, you ask me for money, I don't have money, I asked you to find a way, you can't help it, I have thought of a way for you, you can't do it, in this case, then I have to personally go into battle to help you find money." ”

After a pause, Wang Mang continued: "What, now that the money has been recovered, you still don't want to?" I tell you, if I really have an accident, it will be forced by your gang!"

Wang Mang reprimanded, shamed the faces of all the ministers, and finally all kowtowed: "The ministers are waiting for ten thousand deaths!"

In a sense, Wang Mang is really right, he really helped a group of adults to think of ways to find money, but unfortunately they themselves are too wasteful, or they don't want to offend people, and in the end, everything has to be handled by the emperor himself.

Looking at a group of ministers who pleaded guilty, Wang Mang sneered: "You people, that is to recognize that I will not do anything to you, so you have the courage to wait for the guilty at every turn, and the ministers will die!"

"The ministers don't dare!" the ministers hurriedly kowtowed, they didn't dare to bear this charge, although from the bottom of their hearts they still thought so.

"Don't dare?" Wang Mang sneered: "What do you dare not have?"

Speaking of this, Wang Mang stopped and didn't say anything more, and if he continued to say more, the monarch and the minister would tear their faces.

There are some things I know in my heart, but I can't say it on my lips, such as what I say now that the ministers can't wait for the ministers to die at every turn, that is, Wang Mang can't do anything about them, after all, Wang Mang, the emperor, wants to govern the world, and he can't govern by himself, he needs the ministers to govern.

A minister of the imperial court, it is not just a person from the countryside, it is cultivated after decades of training, it can be said that each of them is the wealth of the imperial court, it doesn't matter if you lose one or two, but if you really lose it all, Wang Mang will really not find so many people to replace it for a while.

Don't say it's good to be an official, there are so many people in the world, you can do it with any person.

Just find someone who is capable, the problem is that doing it is not the same as doing it, the work of the imperial court has its own laws and regulations, and if you are familiar with these laws and regulations, not everyone can do it, such as those messy etiquette systems in the Ministry of Etiquette, if you don't study seriously for more than ten or twenty years, you really won't.

The ministers of the court saw this, so they wanted to wrestle with the emperor without fear.

Wang Mang didn't have a good way for a while, and he could only use some disobedient and unpleasant ones to get rid of them, and leave some obedient ones pleasing to the eye.

In Wang Mang's anger, the ministers did not dare to continue to investigate the matter of Wang Mang running to Nanyang without permission, and now everyone knows that His Majesty in front of him really dares to kill people, and no one will get along with his head.

"Wang Yongji, Li Hong, how did you raise the military funds last time?" Wang Mang asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, I am very happy!" Li Hong reported the good news to Wang Mang: "One million and two hundred thousand taels, the minister and the king are complete, no, they have overfulfilled the task assigned by Your Majesty." ”

"One million and two thousand taels?" Wang Mang was also taken aback, and said, "Didn't you just raise more than 60,000 taels of silver last time for military expenses?

"Your Majesty, now the shopkeeper of Qian Duoduo Qian himself donated 300,000 taels to the imperial court, and with him taking the lead, many businessmen in the south donated to the imperial court, and soon donated enough of the task assigned by His Majesty to Weichen, 500,000 taels of silver. Li Hong said this, continued: "Just the day before yesterday, His Majesty showed his might in Nanyang, and the news of pacifying Nanyang in one fell swoop reached Chang'an City, and the merchants of Chang'an were crazy at that time to run to the minister's household department, and donated money one after another, but in two days, they donated 700,000 taels of silver, and the minister only now found out that there are really many patriotic businessmen in Chang'an City!"

"What patriotic businessman?" Wang Yongji sneered on the side: "Li Hong, don't put gold on their faces, it's just a group of villains who are afraid of death!"

"I see. Wang Mang nodded, and immediately understood the ins and outs of the matter, and immediately smiled: "It doesn't matter if he is an adult or a villain, in short, he will get the thing done." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has a book!" At this moment, Gongsun Yan suddenly came out of the ranks.