Chapter 36: Raiding the House

The temperature in Shenjing at the beginning of September has been a little cool, it rained overnight last night, the cold wind kept blowing, rolling up the fallen leaves on the ground, the nine gates of Shenjing are different in the morning every season, depending on the dawn, today on the second day of September, the sky will be bright before the hour, but in addition to the Chaoyang Gate and the Yongding Gate, the remaining seven doors are still tightly closed.

At this time, it has been five days since Jia Jue and Li Jiqing competed, and it was the second day that the deadline for repaying the arrears had been exceeded, and most of the officials had not paid it back, and dozens of officials did not go to the household lobby to explain the situation, which made the King of Shu and the King of Liang brothers very annoyed, and the brothers who felt disgraced gritted their teeth and issued a warrant to raid the house, however, in order to leave some face for the supporters behind the two sides, the two issued warrants to each other, the people of the King of Shu were issued by the King of Liang, and the people corresponding to the King of Liang were issued by the King of Shu. The little tricks that win people's hearts are clearly played by these two brothers.

On the second day after the competition, Jia Jue lived in the camp of the Rui Shi Battalion, sure enough, from the generals, down to the soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers saw Jia Jue from the bottom of their hearts, these days of getting along, Jia Jue won their respect and trust, Jia Jue promised that they would treat everyone fairly and justly, personally led them to train, with a wave of his hand, during the training with a meal, immediately won the support of the soldiers, so Jia Jue is very satisfied, because these civilian soldiers have very low requirements, as long as you can treat them fairly, Then give them a full meal, and they will really support you.

The life in the military camp was boring and boring, and the day ended uneventfully, today Jia Jue selected a thousand soldiers and led them into the inner city, because holding the edict of Emperor Tianyou, the forbidden army guarding the city was very cooperative to open the city gate and let them in.

In the hall of the Shu Palace, Song Liang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, sat on the guest chair and looked out uneasily, and there was no movement for a long time, Song Liang stood up, at this time, the palace Changshi walked in, Song Liang hurriedly greeted him, "Changshi, what did the prince say?" ”

That long history: "Lord Song, the prince has stumbled over something in the household department, and he won't be able to come back for a while." ”

"I asked the prince what he said!"

Song Liang was anxious.

Na Changshi looked deeply at Song Liang, who was a little excited, and sighed slightly, "Lord Song, it's not that I'm talkative, you should also think about it for the prince, and you can't afford it with your family's situation!" Pay it back, otherwise the Ruishi camp will come to the door to raid the house. ”

Hearing this, Song Liang was embarrassed and indignant, "Wow! This is going to take me under the knife! Good! I'm waiting at home! ”

As he spoke, he strode out the door.

That long history: "Lord Song...."

Song Liang's figure had disappeared outside the instrument gate.

The same scene also happened in the Liang Wangfu, where Zhang Hongyi, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, left the Liang Wangfu angrily.

The time soon came to the time, Chaoyangmen Street, the soldiers of the Ruishi Battalion took three steps, and stood tall outside the gate of the mansion of Song Liang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, forming a human wall.

Two household officials led several small officials and clerks to rush into the Song Mansion under the escort of a group of soldiers, and soon panicked cries were heard from the mansion.

Bursts of crying and scolding came from the gate.

The people who had just been driven away by the soldiers of the Rui Shi Battalion were all excited to hug over, and the government copied the officials' family property to pay off the debts, not to mention a hundred years, they had never seen such a big scene for decades, listening to the crying sound from inside, the people who were watching were even more excited, regardless of the intimidation of the soldiers of the Rui Shi Battalion, scrambling to be the first to watch.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, Jia Jue led his own soldiers to rush over, listened to the noise inside, looked at the excited onlookers, and shouted: "Let them disperse, what is there to see." ”

After getting Jia Jue's military order, the leading officer began to command the soldiers to drive away the onlookers, seeing this, the crowd of onlookers immediately dispersed in all directions, but they did not go far, or they said that the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven were bold, and they understood that these soldiers did not dare to do anything to them.

Xue Pan sat on the horse and shouted: "A group of Diao people! ”

Jia Jue was stunned for a moment, and glanced at him angrily, "These two families owe a total of 130,000 taels, of which the Song family owes 87,000 taels, and the rest are all Zhangfu, you kid be honest, don't fool around, all items must be converted according to the market value, and the price cannot be lowered, otherwise the palace will blame you, and I won't be able to help you." ”

"Don't worry, I still know this rule."

Xue Pan waved his hand and commanded loudly: "Be careful, whoever is going to mess things up, don't blame me for ignoring my face for many years." ”

All the stewards of the Xue family responded in unison: "Yes." ”

Under the leadership of the old housekeeper, the butler of the Xue family walked in from the gate with a large group of small servants carrying an abacus and an account book.

Copying the family is a fat difference, but this time the situation is different, you must follow the rules, otherwise you don't wait for the impeachment of the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate, the three of Emperor Tianyou's father and son will find trouble with Jia Jue, however, after more than 100 years of tempering, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has formed a set of effective rules and regulations, everyone is mixed in it, and the rules still have to be observed.

This time, according to the rules, you can confiscate property worth 170,000 taels, of which 20,000 taels must be handed over to the Internal Affairs Office, and 15,000 taels will be intercepted by the Ruishi Battalion, and the rest will be the Xue family, which is already a lot, you must know that the annual income of the Rongfu in the eight or nine Zhuangzi in Liaodong is only five or six thousand taels, if it were not for the Jia Family Chamber of Commerce and no pawnshop, this good thing would not have been the turn of the Xue family.

At this moment, Song Liang, the right attendant of the ministry, pushed away the soldiers of the Ruishi Battalion who were blocking and broke over, and kept making waves to Jia Jue with a bleak face, "Uncle Jia, please also ask for a noble hand, please allow me to borrow it.... Don't let them copy it, just pay me back...."

Jia Jue's hand reached out to Jia Fu and took a warrant from his hand, "This is a warrant signed by His Royal Highness King Liang, and His Royal Highness the King of Shu also nodded, and if he can't pay back the arrears, he will raid his house!" ”

Song Liang was stunned, his chest fell to the ground together, and after a long while, he adjusted his breathing, glanced at Jia Jue deeply, turned around and walked back to the Song Mansion.

The officials of the household department and the steward of the Xue family moved quickly, and the accounts were settled in less than half an hour, and at the gate of the Song Mansion, more than ten large mahogany boxes were lined up, and all of them were opened, and there were all kinds of pearls and jades, high-quality mink and fox skins, utensils, and satin....

Jia Jue sat on the horse and commanded, "Okay, send the things to the Xue family's pawnshop, take the cash and send it directly to the household department to ask His Royal Highness King Liang to sign for it, and the rest of the people will go to Zhang's mansion with Ben." ”

After a stick of incense, a team of Ruishi battalion soldiers surrounded the Zhang Mansion, and the household officials and the Xue family steward broke in from the gate under the escort of the soldiers.

Zhang Hongyi, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, seemed to accept his fate, he did not come out to beg for mercy, let alone stop the abuse, everything went very smoothly, and he copied enough property with just a stick of incense.

Jia Jue: "Okay, today's errand was completed very smoothly, Mr. Zhang Qian took the brothers back to the camp and told the gang that he would add vegetables tonight, and he would have to go to the palace to make an errand, so he wouldn't bother you." ”

Mr. Zhang Qian: "No." ”

Suddenly, a fast horse came galloping towards the west of the street.

The horse gradually galloped closer, and there was a small yellow door sitting on it, and Jia Jue's heart was pounding.

The little yellow door saw Jia Jue hurriedly reining in the reins, turned over and dismounted, took out a document from his arms, and shouted breathlessly: "This is what Chief Manager Dai asked him to hand over to his uncle." ”

Jia Jue stretched out his hand to take the text, unfolded it and looked at it, and was stunned, this turned out to be Emperor Tianyou's edict, and ordered him to immediately go to raid Chen Zurong's home in the military department, a military department Langzhong will not scare Jia Jue, what surprised him was the attitude of Emperor Tianyou, in addition, this Chen family is not simple, the Chen family belongs to the Xungui lineage, and the ancestors also followed the Holy Ancestor Emperor, but there is not much military merit, the title is gone, but with the help of the Xungui lineage, the life of the family is still good, and several generations have served in the military department, so Chen Zurong's position is not high, but he still has some say in the military department.

The amount of silver owed was not much, 46,100 taels, and I didn't know what I had done, but Emperor Tianyou personally ordered to confiscate all the family property except for real estate and ancestral business.

After a short silence, Jia Jue put away Emperor Tianyou's edict and said loudly: "Go to Fuchengmen Street in Xicheng immediately." ”

Zhang Qianhu replied loudly: "No." ”

The team of copying the house walked to the west of the city of Fuchengmen Street, experienced the Song Mansion and the Zhang Mansion of the matter, no one did not know what they were doing, at this moment to the West City, immediately attracted hundreds of people to watch, not long after, the team of the house came to Fuchengmen Street, at this time, the street has been full of people, there are people who came to see the excitement, more are the small people sent by each family to inquire about the news, when the team stopped in front of the gate of the Chen Mansion, many people were stunned, and the family of the Chen Mansion showed a frightened look.

Jia Jue didn't order anyone to rush in directly, and after a while, Chen Zurong rushed out with a disgraced face, and said angrily: "Didn't you say that you were making up money and would pay off the arrears in two days?" Didn't the nephew know about this? ”

Jia Jue turned over and dismounted, approached Chen Zurong, looked at him with a smile, and then hugged his fist in the direction of the imperial city, and said loudly: "I am instructed to confiscate all the property of Chen Zurong in the military department except for real estate and ancestral business, and Chen Zurong will be confined in the mansion and wait for the will." ”

Speaking of this, he waved his hand and shouted: "Raid the house!" ”

After getting Jia Jue's military order, all the soldiers did not hesitate, and with a roar, they broke into Chen's mansion together.

Soon panicked cries were heard from inside the house.

Jia Jue walked up to the stunned Chen Zurong, "Lord Chen, Your Majesty's will is difficult, you should go back to the study and think carefully about what you have done to make Your Majesty angry, and think about it as soon as possible, and ask for the guilt, I can't say that I can still get Your Majesty's grace." ”

As he spoke, he turned to his own soldiers and ordered, "Invite Lord Chen into the mansion!" ”