"Li Si, your proposal is approved, and I will thoroughly investigate the relevant people in Qingdefang according to what you said. ”

As soon as Wang Mang returned to the study, he directly agreed to the proposal of Li Si and others, and Li Si and the others, who were originally going to spend some time, all felt like they were swinging their fists and hitting the cotton.

According to the emperor's attitude just now, they would never let them make such a big deal happen.

But just by going out to change clothes, the emperor's attitude has changed so much, then something must have happened in the process of changing clothes, which made the emperor change his mind.

So what's going on?

There are all kinds of speculations in the hearts of the ministers, and their hearts are itching with curiosity.

Wang Mang didn't tell these adults what happened, but looked at Shen Bu and said, "Lord Shen, I ordered you to raid your house yesterday and tell me what you found in Fang Xizhi's mansion." ”

Seeing that the emperor intended to divert the topic, the ministers naturally knew that the matter of Qingdefang's betrayal had been decided, and the new topic was so concerned that everyone turned their attention to Shen Buxian.

Shen Buxian didn't want to talk about this today, but now that the emperor opened his mouth, it was not good not to say it, so he had to speak: "Weichen led people to check the Fang Mansion yesterday: one mansion, three other courtyards, 3,500 acres of cultivated land around the capital, 1,000 treasures and antiques, 100 volumes of celebrity calligraphy and paintings, 1,600 taels in cash, 100,06,400 taels of silver, and other related items have not yet been pawned. ”

"What?" Wang Yongji was the first to jump up and said loudly: "Shen is harmless, don't you tell me that Fang Xizhi's family is so shabby?"

Everyone present, Wang Yongji is the most concerned about the other party's Xizhi's family property, otherwise he would not have come to the palace early in the morning, since ancient times, all the soldiers used are money, and their military department is now going crazy when they think about money, and yesterday a group of military officials were still waiting for Fang Xizhi's silver to save the emergency.

Shen Buxian rolled his eyes and looked at Wang Yongji, although he understood Wang Yongji's urgency, and also knew that Wang Yongji had an impulsive personality, but this was too faceless, right?

But before Shen Buxian could speak, Yu Wenkai, who was anxious about his own money for road repair, spoke: "Lord Shen, no, as far as I know, Fang Xizhi is very rich, and his son Fang Qiu is scattered for tens of thousands of taels of silver at every turn." ”

"Who in the capital doesn't know, Fang Xizhi is known as Fang Million, and his family definitely has a wealth of no less than one million taels of silver. Li Si also said in a strange voice at this time, he still remembered the little feud between himself and Shen Bu from yesterday to now, so he naturally seized the time to take eye medicine at this time.

So, as soon as Shen Buxiao finished talking about what he had gained from the quarrel, there was a quarrel in the study, all asking Shen Buxin where the money went.

Shen Buxian was also very depressed, he also had great expectations to copy the house, but the result of this raid was really unsatisfactory, and he had no face, and he felt sorry for his title of a copying expert.

Wang Mang looked at the scene in front of him, sighed deeply in his heart, and only felt that he was really miserable, these ministers under his command are not convinced by me, I am not convinced by you, as soon as something happens, they immediately attack each other, if it were not for Zhao Xin, the secretary of the Ministry of Etiquette, to watch, Wang Mang is sure that as long as the meeting is held, the ministers will definitely be beaten to the head and bloody.

However, these ministers are not stupid, they have a clear grasp of everyone's family background, and it seems that they are not useless.

Fang Xizhi does have a fortune of no less than one million taels, where does the wealth go, it naturally goes to Wang Mang's pocket, but when it enters my pocket, I will not take it out easily.

Cough!

As we coughed, the ministers who were in a battle in the study saw the gloomy emperor, and when he knelt down in a hurry, he said: "The ministers and other kings have lost their honor, please condemn your majesty." ”

"Let's all be flat. Wang Mang's face softened slightly, and then he looked at Shen Buzhi and said, "You have heard what your lords said, do you have anything to explain?"

"Your Majesty, as soon as Weichen received His Majesty's order yesterday, he took the people of Dali Temple to surround Fang Xizhi's mansion, it was really five feet to dig the ground, and the more than 1,000 taels of gold were found four feet above the ground. ”

Shen Buxian looked at Wang Mang with a look of grievance, paused, and continued: "After the minister searched the house, he found out that the situation did not match the rumors, so he went to the yamen of the Criminal Department to prepare for the interrogation of Fang Xizhi and find out how much money Fang Xizhi had, but when the minister arrived at the Criminal Department, that Fang Xizhi was already dead. ”

Shen Buxian spread his hands and looked at Wang Mang and the others: "There is no proof of true death, and the minister has no choice now, he has sealed all the confiscated account books and money treasures, please Your Majesty Holy Judgment!"

When Li Si heard this, okay, why did he turn to the matter of Fang Xizhi dying inexplicably in the prison of the Criminal Department, and immediately said: "Lord Shen, let's talk about the silver, can you not talk about it elsewhere." ”

"The official is just telling the truth, so that His Majesty will know the truth of this matter. Shen Buxian sneered: "It's you, Lord Li, who are acting like this, could it be that you want to deceive Your Majesty." ”

"You ......" Li Si was furious, pointing at Shen Buxian and being speechless for a while.

Seeing that the minister wanted to roll up his sleeves and fight again, Wang Mang immediately said: "You two, if you are making trouble, you will all go out!"

"Your Majesty, the ministers will disturb Your Majesty, and you will die!" Shen Buharm and Li Si immediately knelt on the ground in fright.

Zhang Jian stood up as a peacemaker at this time, and said: "Your Majesty, the two adults are also worried about state affairs, and they have no other meaning, and they definitely don't want to disturb Your Majesty. ”

When the others saw that Zhang Jian took the lead, they immediately followed suit, Wang Mang shook his head, and his face was unhappy, so that Li Si and Shen would not be harmed.

After the two got up, although they were still unhappy with each other, they didn't dare to be like just now.

Li Hong spoke at this time: "Lord Shen, I don't know if you have asked people to value the confiscated items. ”

Li Hong is the head of the household department and the chief of Fang Xizhi, he originally didn't want to get involved in Fang Xizhi's copying of the house, but as the head of the household department, he has a natural sensitivity to numbers, and he is really curious about how much money Shen Buxi copied, and even in his heart, Li Hong also has some ideas about the income from these copying.

"It's been valued. Shen Bu said: "After special accounting, the above-mentioned silver, gold, jewelry, house deeds, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other items confiscated in Fang Xizhi's house are equivalent to no less than 500,000 taels of silver. ”

500,000 taels!

The eyes of all the ministers in the study lit up, and even Wang Mang, who had no interest in confiscating items, his eyes lit up.

500,000 taels, although it did not meet the expectations of one million taels, is by no means a small number.

Everyone geared up, knowing that the next step was probably to divide up the 500,000 taels of silver.