Watching Chen Jiang walk out of the courtyard door of the study, Jin Xiang stood with his hands behind his back for a moment, turned around, walked slowly through the moon cave door, went out from the back corner door, and went back to his courtyard.

Old Madam Min stood up, Jin Xiang sat down, and then sat down again, looking at Jin Xiang's face carefully, "What's wrong?" ”

"Chen Jiang came to see me." Jin Xiang took a few sips of tea.

"Chen Jiang?" Old Madam Min was a little surprised.

"Well, he's coming to my case." Jin Xiang paused, lowered his eyes and drank tea, and after drinking a cup of tea, he looked at Mrs. Min who was looking at him with concern and said, "Over the years, I have been thinking about how to start and do that impossible thing. ”

Old Madam Min's face changed slightly.

"Alas, Chen Jiang came this time, I figured it out, there is a chance in the chaos, the stable word I asked for before was wrong." The metallographic expression was dark.

"Brother Parrot said that the case of Huangzhuang is very involved." Old Madam Min's voice was low and soft.

"Hmm." Jin Xiang's voice was a little absent-minded, and he looked at Mrs. Min for a moment and said: "Chaos arises, take chestnuts in the fire, our Changsha Palace, maybe...... The door is gone. ”

"It's going to take another two or three years." Old Mrs. Min's voice was low and calm, "This year, Sister Qiu'er's family affairs will be decided, she will be eighteen next year, she can get married, and the rest should be taken care of." ”

The rest are just three generations of their grandparents and three couples.

"That's the worst." Jin Xiang stretched out his hand and patted the old wife's hand, and the old lady Min smiled peacefully, "I know, we did something wrong, Brother Parrot, this is the road he insists on walking, Brother Parrot, his father and mother, is our son and daughter-in-law, Brother Parrot's father, no way." ”

The next morning, Jin Xiang followed the emperor into the apse, and said in a low voice: "The case of the Quan brothers, I called Chen Jiang over yesterday to ask, Chen Jiang said, what he found at the moment is the difference between dozens and hundreds of acres of land and the size of the bow, from north to south, there are many places involved, extremely trivial and complicated, Chen Jiang's meaning, these have to be checked and checked clearly, this is very true, just such a check, this case, I am afraid that it will be protracted." ”

The emperor frowned.

"Chen Jiang found out, there are tricks, but there are a few things, involving the fields of Huangzhuang......" Jin Xiang's words were not finished, and he was interrupted by the emperor, "Huangzhuang's fields? ”

"Well, the big bow out, the small bow in, the book is flat, or the big bow goes in, and then the small bow is changed, and the extra ones are quietly ceded out."

The emperor's face turned blue.

"The local tricks are not urgent, so we can only slowly verify and correct them, but Huangzhuang," Jin Xiang looked at the emperor, twisted his eyebrows, looking worried and anxious, "Seeing that it is going to be harvested in summer and autumn, it is not possible to do it without a general manager, and secondly, this Huangzhuang must not be put in the hands of the brothers of the whole family, and there must be a capable and suitable person, referring to the past, spend half a year and a year, or a year or two, to clean up the acres of Huangzhuang, and correct and make up for the disturbance of the whole father and son." ”

"That's a lot of it." The emperor immediately replied, "Who does the gentleman think is suitable?" ”

"Huangzhuang is dedicated to the palace, not suitable for outsiders, the old minister thinks that Jiang Yanshi is a suitable person, he is a subordinate official of the crown prince, and he is the nephew of Jiang Niangniang's mother-in-law, and he is shrewd and capable.

Jin Xiang immediately recommended.

The emperor snorted, "Sir, this is very true, Yonsei is indeed very capable...... It's rare to ......" The emperor's tone was hesitant, and Jin Xiang's eyelids drooped slightly, waiting for him to hesitate back and forth.

"This is a trivial matter, he is a subordinate official of the East Palace, and everything in the East Palace is complicated, he should pay more attention to state affairs, I see, let Su Ye go, I think he is too idle in this Hanlin, I heard that he has been messing around with a group of scholars recently? It's all idle, just find something for him to do, and more experience and practice, which is only good for him. ”

The emperor thought as he spoke, and it didn't take long for him to make a decision.

"It's still thoughtful and thoughtful." Jin Xiang looked up at the emperor, relieved with admiration, admiration mixed with admiration, and said with a smile.

"In the Quan's case, what Chen Jiang wants to sort out is just some specific details, and then correct them back, these are all water grinding skills, Quan's case, it is generally clear, well, how long will it take for Chen Jiang to sort out these details?" The emperor looked at Jin Xiang and asked.

Jin Xiang smiled a little bitterly, "Chen Jiang said that it will take three or five years, I think he is too optimistic, and such trivial things as checking a few acres and a few points are the most labor-intensive, according to the old minister, let alone five or six years, more, ten years." ”

"Well, these details are not urgent, let him sort them out, Quan's case is already clear, and it is not appropriate to delay until these details are sorted out."

The emperor walked to the long case, turned to Chen Jiang's excerpt, and roughly estimated the silver taels that the whole father and son had embezzled ink from the Huangzhuang and the big and small bow cases over the years, and the emperor looked at the dazzling amount of silver, and snorted, "The whole family is a ding, and they are all distributed to the far north, and the rest of the family members are driven out thousands of miles away, and the family property is confiscated." ”

"Yes, the whole family's property is obtained from the emperor's embezzlement, and it is not suitable to be filled into the treasury, and it is most appropriate to collect it from the inner treasury, where does it come from, and where does it go back." Jin Xiang agreed, and he was busy picking up the missing things.

"That's true! That's exactly how it should be. The emperor repeatedly agreed.

"Since it is the wealth lost by the Huangzhuang, and it has not been entered into the inner treasury, the old minister's meaning, this is a matter of copying the whole family, Su Ye is more appropriate, it is just right, if there is the number of acres of Huangzhuang, the details of rent collection over the years, etc., it will also save others from being damaged and omitted when they copy and inspect."

Jin Xiang followed up with the suggestion, saw that the emperor nodded, and then said with a smile: "There is another thing, almost all the details that Chen Jiang has checked have been done by the three brothers of the whole family, and the old minister feels that the three brothers of the whole family should be handed over to Chen Jiang for the time being, and then they will be punished after these details are investigated." ”

"It's still Mr. thoughtful, just follow Mr." The emperor nodded again and again, it is true.

Chen Jiang got the copy of this will, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and returned to his dilapidated courtyard unhurriedly, and asked Zhu Xi to come over, pointing to the copy, with a smile on his face, "Everything is as Mr. expected." ”

Zhu Xi took the copy, looked at it at a glance, and laughed, "Okay, everything is ready, just wait for Dong Weng to show his strength." ”

"Behind the gentleman, is there really no one else?" Chen Jiang leaned back, squinted at Zhu Xi, and asked again.

Zhu Xi spread his hands, "I said no, Dong Weng didn't believe it, if you want to say yes, then Dong Weng let me find one slowly." Zhu Xi said as he stood up, "If you don't feel at ease, let's be friends, my house is on the edge of Nancheng, if you have something, or want to find someone to talk to, just go to me." ”

Zhu Xi said, raised his feet and left.

"Sir is back!" Chen Jiang hurriedly stood up and stepped forward to grab Zhu Xi, "You and I are both cheerful people, at least now, I don't believe that there is no one behind Mr., but no matter whether there is someone behind Mr. or not, at least at this time, you and I are the same, Mr. Please sit down, Mr. forgive me." ”

"That's the same, you and I are the same, I'm this problem, if I can't get into it, my heart will itch uncomfortably, because of this, how many cheapness I have committed, alas, this person has no desire."

Zhu Xi sat back, raised his hand and wiped his face, looking helpless about his own cheapness.

Chen Jiang looked at him and laughed out loud, his problem is the same as his own.

Su Ye took the will, looked at the will for a long time, came out with it, met the criminal department and the former divisions of the inner palace, and went to the whole family.

The whole family's large mansion has been surrounded by the front of the palace for nearly a month, and at this time, the criminal department and the secretaries of the inner departments and secretaries poured in, and the whole family's house was in chaos, and outside, there was no big movement.

Su Ye stood in front of the moon cave door leading to the inner house, looked at the servants and subordinates running in terror in front of him, the mother-in-law and the girl, sighed lowly, turned around, looked at the full secretaries standing in the second gate, and said: "The emperor's will is to copy and check the property of the whole family and his son, which is a custom, and the dowry of the daughters-in-law of the whole family is not included in the copying inspection, right?" ”

The clerks nodded busily, this routine does exist.

"We have been given the will, so naturally we must strictly follow the will. In addition to the law, there are still people's favors, in this house, now there are only some ignorant women, in the next meaning, give them an hour, each clean up their dowry, pile it in one place, we don't have to be too disturbed, turn around, check one or two against the dowry book, what do you see? ”

The clerk smiled clearly, kept nodding, and said that the eldest prince Su was as gentle as jade, and this compassion was extremely rare.

The big steward of the whole family, Guicai, had already rushed all the way over, and after Su Ye's order, he knelt on the ground gratefully, kowtowed a few times, ran all the way in, and went to find the eldest wife, the second wife and others to pass the word.

Su Ye didn't expect anyone in this house to be in the mood to entertain them, so he ordered someone to find some chairs and low stools, and then went to find a pantry to boil water and make tea.

Su Ye didn't sit down, paced into the moon gate, looked left and right, went up five or six steps, entered a small pavilion next to him, and turned around to look around.

Cries and shouts, chaotic footsteps, mixed with a crisp and piercing sound of breaking, came from the house.

Su Ye sighed secretly.

When the Ming Shangshu Mansion was copied and confiscated, he heard the figure carefully say that the female dependents were orderly, there was no crying, Mrs. Ming Shangshu and several girls were indifferently admirable.

Compared with the Ming family, the whole family is not worthy of carrying shoes.

Su Ye stood for a while, walked out of the pavilion, went out of the moon gate, called a few leaders of the Criminal Department and the Inner Division, and assigned to discuss who was responsible where, he didn't care about the floating wealth, as long as the paperwork and account books, especially the account books, the Criminal Department came from a hall official, very eye-catching, only looked at the small officials led by the Inner Divisions talking, and the thin and soft belonged to the Inner Divisions, and they were all in the Criminal Department, responsible for counting the books and making all the furniture, as well as bulky objects.

After the rough allocation was made, and the time was almost up, Su Ye asked Guicai to come over and go to the outer tent room first.

When the plagiarists rushed into the inner house like a flood, the inner house was still in chaos, and the mother-in-law was still holding antique jade and gold bead jewelry, piling them up in the house circled by red ropes.

Su Ye put his hands behind his back, looked coldly at the ladies who were still piling things in the red rope circle, crossed over them, took his little servant and the servants of the Su Mansion, and went straight into the inner and outer study, as well as the residence of the four fathers and sons of the whole family.

Su Ye advanced into the study room that had been locked, watched the little servants open all the bright and dark drawers, flipped through a few letters, turned around, and went straight to Quan's residence.

Quan You's living place before his death was almost the same as the study, all the drawers were opened, all the cabinet doors were open, Su Ye stood in front of the empty shelf bed on the wall at the head of the bed on Quan You, and surrounded it, and instructed the little servant, "Pry open the bed board." ”

The little guy promised, stepped forward and the two of them neatly pried open the bed board, and under the bed board, there was a row of four flat boxes neatly placed.

The little guy came in pairs, put forward the box, Su Ye bent down, carefully looked at the old clothes and a pair of old shoes that the little guy took out from the box, it seemed that they all had it, and when it came to the third box, an old cotton jacket was shaken open, and a small black iron box fell out, the little guy hurriedly picked it up and held it to Su Ye, Su Ye turned around and looked at the black iron box that was integrated, and handed it to the henchman, "Put it away, go back and talk about it." ”

In the chaos of the house, the chief steward of the whole family quietly aimed left and right, retreated to a rockery near the second gate, looked around vigilantly, and beckoned imperceptibly.

A little boy about ten years old, dressed as a small servant and with a frightened face, climbed out of the rockery and ran all the way to keep up with Guicai, turning a few sharp corners in a row and passing through the big kitchen.

In the corner door of the large kitchen leading to the alley outside the wall, next to a grain cart, there was a middle-aged shopkeeper.

Seeing the two coming, the shopkeeper hurriedly took a few steps forward and stretched out his hand to hold the little boy.

"Sixth young master, take this well, see the prince, take this thing out again, remember, you must be sensible in the future." Guicai squatted down, took out a round and seamless copper cylinder from his arms, stuffed it into the little boy's hand, immediately stood up, and bowed his hand to the shopkeeper to the end, "The great favor cannot be repaid." ”

"Don't be like this, the small family, thanks to the big steward, the big steward can rest assured, it will be delivered." The shopkeeper returned the salute and did not dare to delay more, so he pushed the little boy into the car, drove the car, and went out to the corner gate.