Liu Han looked calm, of course he knew that except for the Empress Dowager Emperor, most of the high-ranking officials in the court probably received the silver from him, including the former King of Qi.

In the battle for succession, Sheng Huai supported King Qi, after the emperor succeeded to the throne, Sheng Huai stood tall, and even Pan Lian became his umbrella, which can only show one thing, Sheng Huai gave a heavy gift.

"I heard that Lord Sheng and His Royal Highness the King of Xianqi are very friendly, and the Lord can serve as the assassin of Yangzhou, which is strongly recommended by the King of Xianqi, and it is estimated that he gave the King of Qi a lot of silver. ”

Sheng Huai's eyes flashed, and he sneered: "Do you want to drag King Qi into the water?"

Liu Han smiled and didn't say a word, it was a tacit acquiescence, Sheng Huai snorted: "To tell you the truth, I have given a lot of silver, just before and after the Pan chain sent 300,000 taels of silver, the Queen Mother, send 50,000 taels of silver every year, do you dare to check?"

"Don't dare. Liu Han admitted very frankly, and then relieved: "No wonder you dare to confront the emperor, with Pan Lian and the Queen Mother behind you, what else is there to dare to." ”

Sheng Huai sneered, got up and said, "The old man is tired, if you want to know anything, let's talk another day." ”

Liu Han nodded, the clerk brought the confession, Sheng Huai didn't look at it, so he drew a handprint and pressed it, turned around and dragged the anklet back to the cell.

Out of the prison door, Nan Sheng stepped forward cautiously, at that time, in the cell, except for the secretary, it was him and Li Yan, Sheng Huai was an important prisoner, and Nan Sheng was personally guarded by fifty tiger guards, except for them, no one was allowed to touch.

"My lord, aren't you worried?" Nan Sheng suddenly asked in a low voice, Liu Han glanced back at him, and smiled: "What is there to worry about, I know, some cases have tried prisoners and officials, and some secrets of the imperial court have been revealed, so many people are afraid, and I am also afraid, but is it useful to be afraid, it is useless." Since it's useless, what are you afraid of doing, besides, the court can't be unreasonable, Sheng Huai is greedy for so much silver, his little family property can't be worth it at all, and the silver goes there, so you can't ask clearly. ”

"My lord is really... Nan Sheng couldn't help but shake his head, many officials were scared to death when they received this kind of case, and they were afraid that the prisoner would say something that should not be said during the trial, and the prisoner also knew this, so when the case was tried, he was more arrogant than the official.

"Nan Daren, let me teach you a hand, in this kind of case, the confession is to be sent, you send the original confession to the palace, and when the instructions from the palace come down, you will process the confession, delete the secret part, and then send the clean confession to Shang Shutai, this is not the end. ”

Nan Sheng was extremely surprised, and immediately understood that this was the best, safest, and safest way to deal with it, but only they Tiger Benwei could do this, and other officials had such a convenient way to contact the palace.

Li Yan followed behind him silently, after returning from Wu County, Liu Han transferred him to the Qincha camp, although he did not enter the Tiger Benwei, but he was also in the Qincha camp, and he was still by Liu Han's side, which made him walk from the darkness to the sun, however, this move also brought a little trouble, and he was rejected by the Tiger Benwei if he didn't have it.

Therefore, Li Yan was very cautious in his speech and deeds in Liu Hanqin's camp, he originally talked less, but now he has even less.

"My lord, why don't you let people talk to that Sheng Huai?" Li Yan suddenly asked, a few days ago, Sheng Huai didn't say a word, but today he talked eloquently, the changes in this seem to be as if he deliberately leaked some clues that embarrassed Liu Han, but Li Yan felt that it was related to Liu Han's previous strategy.

"This person needs to communicate, even if the dumb person also needs to communicate, if you don't let him talk, you just hold him, and when someone is willing to talk to him, he will be eager to say, I will induce it a little, and it will naturally become." ”

Liu Han smiled as he spoke, and added softly: "This method, I have used it in the Western Regions, and the longest resistance is only five days. ”

In Yangzhou, Liu Han still has a lot of things, the most important thing is the auction of confiscated property and the transfer of silver, the palace replied and agreed to let Tonghui Qian Zhuang transfer, and agreed to give a penny of silver, which saved Liu Han a lot of things.

The auction organization in Wu County was in a hurry, there was a deliberate factor, and the auction in Yangzhou would not be like that again, Liu Han returned to Yangzhou and began to organize the auction, and interested businessmen from all over the country came to Yangzhou one after another.

In the third trial, Liu Han made Sheng Huai wait for five days, and during the five days, Sheng Huai didn't see a person, no one said a word to him, and he was suffocated.

When he saw Liu Han again, Sheng Huai completely lost his initial bearing, and even couldn't wait to speak.

Liu Han was not in a hurry at all, he was refreshed, and although his attitude was still peaceful, he was not impatient or impatient, and his bearing was calm.

"I'm a little strange that Wei Zhen does business with many people, and he also gave a lot of silver to you, but he didn't send you silver, why is this?" Liu Han started with Wei Zhen's case, Wei Zhen's case, the imperial court has approved, there is no accident, the decision is made, the family is assigned to Liangzhou as a slave, and the women under the age of 30 in the family are auctioned as slaves, and those who can't be sold will also be sent to Liangzhou.

Together with Wei Zhen, there were more than 10 officials from the Yamen who were transferred to the Yamen, and there were seven or eight merchants who were assigned to Liangzhou, and these seven or eight merchants were all big businessmen in Yangzhou, and they did not dare to do such business if they were not big businessmen, involving several chambers of commerce such as the Yangzhou Salt Industry Chamber of Commerce, the Silk Chamber of Commerce, and the Grain Chamber of Commerce.

Liu Han has been dealing with these things for the past few days, the execution ground for murder, sorting out the auctioned property, and deliberately being cool and warm, so it took five days to delay.

He sent it, but the old man didn't dare to ask for it. Sheng Huai's voice was a little hoarse, Liu Han showed a look of doubt, Sheng Huai explained: "The old man has heard about Wei Zhenzuo's matter, but this matter involves many people, the old man doesn't have the guts, he does such a thing, it will be exposed sooner or later." ”

"The old-timers are cautious and admirable. Liu Han poured him wine appreciatively, this Sheng Huai received a lot of silver, an average of more than 100,000 taels per year, this amount is very amazing, probably only a rich place like Yangzhou can be reached, in Liangzhou, don't even think about it.

Sheng Huai's expression was faintly proud, Liu Han's purpose was not in Wei Zhen's case, this case had already been investigated, Wei Zhen also admitted that he did not send Sheng Huai silver, and even faintly looked down on Sheng Huai in his speech.

The transfer envoy yamen was an independent organization, with its own office and even soldiers, and the local government could not control it at all.

The reason why Liu Han brought up this case was to make Sheng Huai relax and completely relax.

"Two years ago, you had a sum of silver, about 30,000 taels, sent to Jizhou, what was this silver for?"

Sheng Huai was slightly stunned and looked at him vigilantly: "This is for the king of Changshan County, and I will buy an official for a nephew." ”

Liu Han nodded slightly, and quickly asked: "Last year, there was another 50,000 taels of silver, which was also sent to Jizhou, and I bought two a year?"

Sheng Huai opened his mouth to answer, but he kept his mouth shut, this clue was knocked out of the mouth of Sheng Huai's account room, in recent years, Sheng Huai has sent significantly more silver to the imperial capital and Jizhou, which makes Liu Han very suspicious, what is the purpose.

"What's the matter, what concerns do the old-timers have?" asked Liu Han.

Sheng Huai sneered, didn't answer, just grabbed the chopsticks and ate quickly, Liu Han didn't give him time to think, and sneered: "The old-timers still have things that they dare not say." ”

Sheng Huai sneered: "Don't provoke, it's useless to provoke, the old man will naturally say what he can say, and it's useless to be agitated if he can't say it." ”

"Fifty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, tell me, who is it for?" Liu Han asked with a smile, today, he focused his interrogation on the expenditure in recent years, and checked the account books of Sheng Huai's family, and the large amount of support in recent years was obviously much more, which made him very puzzled.

"Actually, there's nothing bad to say, the court gives a lack of money, and the officials are secretly operating, you are fighting with the Wang family in the imperial capital, the Wang family's fleet is destroyed, the Wang family wants to rebuild the fleet, lack of silver, find me to cooperate, the two sides count the shares, I account for forty percent." ”

This was very unexpected news, and Liu Han was very interested: "Fifty thousand silver only accounts for forty percent, and the scale of this fleet is not small." ”

The technology of this era is backward, but no matter what, it is an inland river vessel, the cost of a large freight ship costs two or three thousand taels of silver, Liu Han and Xiao Yu cooperated to build a fleet, Liu Han invested nearly 100,000 taels of silver before and after, but it was a Cao transport fleet, the number of ships was as high as fifty or sixty, and it also included the wharf that accepted the Cao Gang, and the Cao Bang Wharf was handed over peacefully, and it was nominally bought with money.

Therefore, 50,000 silver accounts for only 40%, so the number of ships in this fleet must be very large.

"If you can recapture Caoyun, the 50,000 taels of silver will be earned back in a few years. Sheng Huai was very confident, but Liu Han's brows furrowed, he had already calculated that the Wang family would rebuild the fleet, but he didn't expect the old ancestor of the Wang family to be so determined.

"The Wang family, it's the Wang family again. Liu Han whispered in a low voice, and looked at him gloatingly: "The Wang family is a big tree with deep roots, a thousand-year-old family, it is not so easy to deal with, if you provoke them, you will not have a stable life in the future." ”

Liu Han smiled faintly: "Seniors don't have to worry about me, Wang family, hmph, in your eyes it is a behemoth, but in my eyes, it is just a zombie who is dying, and the difference is who will make up for the last knife." ”

Sheng Huai laughed and gave a thumbs up: "Awesome! It's good for young people to have confidence, but don't be arrogant." ”

"I have been fighting with him for more than a year, and the ancestor of the Wang family has not done anything to me, a behemoth, it looks scary, people are used to it, but in fact, he is just bluffing. ”

Sheng Huai sneered again and again, and Liu Han asked again: "You gave Pan Lian silver, and you gave it once?"

"Twice, once 300,000 taels, once 20,000 taels. Sheng Huai was very cheerful this time and answered cleanly: "He has only been a scholar for a few years, which is enough." ”

Liu Han thought about it and couldn't help sighing, this Pan Chain is too good to fish, it's only been a few years, and one Sheng Huai alone is 320,000 taels of silver, if you add the input of other states, I am afraid that there will be millions of silver inputs.

At the beginning, King Qi had such a big momentum, but after succeeding to the throne now, there have been no personnel changes.

It's good to be an official in Dajin!