Once upon a time, the young Emperor Hongzhi was pitiful, weak and helpless in the palace.

He had two protectors in the palace. One is Wynne, and the other is grandmother Zhou.

Emperor Hongzhi's biological mother, Ji, died early. For him, Zhou is called a grandmother, but he is actually a mother.

The attitude of the Empress Dowager Zhou has a lot of weight here in Emperor Hongzhi.

When Chang Feng revealed to him the truth about the "mutiny and rebellion", Emperor Hongzhi had already murdered Li Guang.

However, Emperor Hongzhi did not want to kill Li Guang on the grounds of embezzlement, bribery, or framing the vassal king.

Li Guang is the person he reuses. The emperor's reuse of a corrupt and audacious eunuch is not a glorious thing to write into the history books.

Now, the Empress Dowager Zhou gave him an excellent reason to kill.

The henchman eunuch mistakenly repaired a pavilion and damaged the feng shui dragon veins of Banzai Mountain, causing the palace to commit a New Year's taboo, die a princess, and catch fire

This has nothing to do with whether the emperor is holy or not. It's just that the eunuchs below made a big mistake by mistake and were punished according to the rules.

Emperor Hongzhi was a little strange, how could it be so coincidental. I was struggling with how to kill Li Guang, and the imperial grandmother gave me a golden staircase to walk?

Emperor Hongzhi asked the Empress Dowager Zhou: "Dare to ask the imperial grandmother." When did you notice that Yuxiu Pavilion was broken dragon vein feng shui? ”

The Empress Dowager Zhou replied: "Fortunately, Daoist Zhang of Jinyiwei entered the palace and asked the mourning family. Only then did the mourning family receive a revelation from heaven. ”

"Son, Yuxiu Pavilion has to be demolished immediately. Li Guangde was immediately and severely punished. Princess Xianyou is his master. The house slave killed the master, and he should be killed according to the palace rules! ”

As soon as these words came out, Emperor Hongzhi immediately opened his mouth.

Emperor Hongzhi said in his heart: Daoist Zhang? That's Chang Feng's henchman!

I see. It was not the imperial grandmother who gave me the golden steps, but Chang Feng.

What a regular wind. It's like a roundworm in my stomach. He always understands what I think, and sends me the solution to the problem.

Kill Li Guang according to the palace rules? It's wonderful. This matter became a private matter of the royal family. The ministers have nothing to discuss.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi said: "Yes, my grandson listens to the emperor's grandmother." ”

Turning his head, he instructed Qian Neng, who was accompanying him: "Immediately order the Ministry of Works to demolish Yuxiu Pavilion." In addition, I passed on the edict to dismiss Li Guangsi from his post as a supervisor of ceremonies. ”

Qian Neng was also affected in the "Imperial Garden Mutiny" and was suspended for one day as governor.

Qian Neng had already held back the fire in his belly to Li Guang: Sample, for so many years, we have not violated the river water, this time you want to snatch the factory guard from me? Even if the emperor agrees, Chang Feng still doesn't agree!

Qian Neng arched his hand and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." The old slave went to deliver the decree. ”

The whole person is rectified to the end, and the murder is sent to the west.

Jinyi Wei is on duty.

Qian Ning walked in happily: "Master Chang, the emperor has made an order!" ”

Chang Feng drank tea, and his face was light. More than ten years of Jinyiwei's career has allowed him to develop the character of Taishan who collapses in front of him and does not change his color.

Chang Feng took a sip of tea, covered the teacup, and asked, "What will?" ”

Qian Ning replied: "The emperor ordered my godfather to go to the Ministry of Industry to give an order to demolish the Long Live Mountain Yuxiu Pavilion. In addition, Li Guangsi was dismissed from his post as a master of ceremonies. ”

Xu Fatzi, who was sitting on the side, waved his fist: "It's done, Chang Ye." Or are you unfathomable? ”

Chang Feng said: "It's just a side door that can't see the light." Nothing to boast about. ”

Li Guang only lost his post. It's not enough. We'll have to give him some more stuff. ”

Qian Ning asked, "What material?" ”

Chang Feng said with a smile: "The ten crow captains buried in the teahouse in the market of Beizhen Fusi have been idle for a few years, right?" Now it's time for them to run errands. ”

In the twenty-second year of Chenghua, Chang Feng created a rumor and saw the power of rumors.

A few years ago, when Chang Feng was in charge of the guard, he specially selected ten lieutenants in the guard, named "Crow". These ten people are specifically responsible for spreading rumors.

On weekdays, they spend a lot of money in the market teahouse, and win over a group of rich and idle fox friends and dog friends.

When Changfeng needs them, they will spread rumors in the market teahouse, one by ten, ten by hundred.

Chang Feng took another sip of tea: "Qian Ning, you let the crow captains spread a rumor. It is said that Li Guang's family has a sloppy Taoist "Longevity Sutra". ”

Fat Xu stretched out his thumb: "High! There is a way to live a long life, not to pay tribute to the palace, to hide privately, this is a taboo. You must know that the emperor has been obsessed with the method of longevity in recent years! ”

On the same day, the crow captains had a nose and an eye to create a rumor.

Rumors say that Emperor Hongzhi has respected the heavens and loved the people all these years, and he has moved the heavens. Shangcang sent the scattered immortal Zhang Sloppy to give Li Guang the "Longevity Sutra" in the palace diploma and asked him to transfer it to Emperor Hongzhi.

Li Guang became greedy, and took the "Longevity Sutra" to study the art of immortality.

This rumor spreads ten, ten spreads millions. Spread throughout the capital almost in two days.

The purpose of Chang Feng spreading this rumor was to create public opinion among the people and prepare public opinion for Emperor Hongzhi to kill Li Guang.

Neither the current nor the future civil servants will be interested in this kind of absurd story that has been circulated among the people.

It is not recorded in the history books, and this rumor will not affect the holy name of Emperor Hongzhi.

At night, Li Guangwai house.

Li Guang hid in the big quilt, shivering.

He's a stupid and bad guy. He didn't understand that he had framed King Xing, and the emperor was silent. The emperor did not pursue the mutiny at all.

He seized people's land, accepted bribes, and embezzled salt classes, accumulating huge sums of money, and the emperor was silent for so many years.

This time, he was dismissed for building a pavilion on Banzai Mountain.

Gu Dayong walked in: "Godfather, something is wrong." Now it has spread all over the capital. said that you always kept the sloppy Taoist's "Longevity Sutra" in the house. ”

Li Guang said angrily: "This is a rumor made up by a bastard." I want to have that thing, and don't I immediately offer it to the emperor for a reward? ”

Gu Dayong sighed: "Alas, godfather." Now you're always beating the drums. ”

"When the celebrant put pen to paper, you promoted many people. It also offended many people. ”

"I heard that the officials are privately colluding, saying that they want to jointly write an excerpt and suggest that the emperor punish you!"

Li Guang asked, "What time is it?" ”

Gu Dayong replied: "It's time." ”

Li Guangdao: "The queen mother has fallen asleep at this hour. I can't go to Kunning Palace. ”

"I'll go and beg the queen early tomorrow morning. Let her give me a few kind words in front of the emperor. ”

"Even if you can't be a celebrant and eunuch, at least you will be reduced to a local eunuch. With the identity of the eunuch guarding the town, the officials did not dare to fight my idea. ”

Li Guang knows Empress Zhang very well. Empress Zhang is a person with very soft ears.

Li Guang is full of confidence. Now that I have lost my position as the celebrant and the empress dowager, the empress dowager's anger has come out.

I beg Empress Zhang to blow the wind on the pillow. Get a seat as a town guard eunuch. After a few years of being the emperor outside, when the limelight has passed, I will think about returning to the celebrant supervisor. This hurdle has passed!

Li Guang made a good calculation. However, people are not as good as heaven.

Gu Dayong brought Li Guang a cup of Rennunai: "Godfather, after drinking this cup of immortal wine, you should rest quickly." ”

Li Guang quite understands the way of health preservation, and he has to drink this thing every day.

Li Guang took the cup and drank it all. After a while, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood: "Uh! ”

Gu Dayong smiled slightly: "Godfather, don't blame me." Non-toxic no husband! ”

Gu Dayong is a ruthless and thoughtful character.

The idea of framing King Xing and overthrowing Chang Feng was given to Li Guang.

But when it came to actually doing this, he hid far away and did not directly intervene.

In other words, as long as Li Guang dies, the Yuyuan planting case will have nothing to do with Gu Dayong.

Gu Dayong is a person who understands political speculation very well. The old backer has fallen, so it is natural to find a new backer.

Now the highest-ranking eunuchs in the palace are none other than Xiao Jing and Qian Neng.

However, these two giants would never accept a person who had betrayed from Li Guang's side.

Gu Dayong found a new home in just a few days, a promising person: Liu Jin.

He took the initiative to find Liu Jin with the silver ticket, and said that in the future, only Liu Gonggong would be the first to look forward.

Liu Jin confiscated the silver ticket, and only said meaningfully: "Even if the bandits worship the mountain, they still have to vote for their names." ”

Gu Dayong pondered: Don't want silver to vote for a name? Say!

In the eighth year of Hongzhi, Liu Jin almost killed Li Guang. The person Liu Jin hates the most is Li Guang. The best vote is Li Guang's head!

Gu Da used a horizontal heart. Oh, Li Guang lost his official position and offended the Empress Dowager again. Wouldn't it be reasonable to commit suicide out of fear?

In the immortal wine that Li Guang drank, Gu Da used arsenic.

Li Guang stared at Gu Dayong with a hideous face, he wanted to scream, but the blood that kept gushing out of his throat and eyes made him unable to make a sound.

After a while, Li Guang ran out of breath.

Gu Dayong shouted: "It's too long!" Grandpa Li vomited blood! He, he, he's dead! ”

History books: In the eleventh year, the emperor was persuaded to build Yuxiu Pavilion in Wansui Mountain. Tingcheng, the young princess died, not a few, Qingning Palace disaster.

The Japanese said that Guang Jianting committed a taboo, and the Empress Dowager said: Li Guang today, Li Guang tomorrow, it is really a disaster. Widespread fear of suicide.

Half an hour later, Li Guangwai's house was surrounded by three layers in the Jinyi Guard.

Chang Feng took Xu Fatzi and others to stand in front of Li Guang's bed.

Daoist Zhang examined Li Guang's body with a silver needle: "It's not a rare poison. It's just arsenic. ”

Chang Feng looked at Gu Dayong, who was kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Gu Dayong said: "Today, as usual, I came to send immortal wine to my godfather. ”

"After a while, I came over to see if my godfather was asleep. found that the godfather was bleeding from seven holes, and he probed his nose with his hand, and he had already returned to heaven. ”

"I think it's because my godfather was afraid that the Empress Dowager would blame, so he added arsenic to the immortal wine and committed suicide."

"Woooooooooooo Godfather, you died so miserably! ”

Chang Feng looked at Gu Dayong suspiciously.

Xu Fatzi asked, "Chang Ye, what should I do?" ”

Chang Feng said: "Let's take Li Guang's body back to the Fusi room in Beizhen first." ”

Chang Feng didn't seem to be in a hurry to find out the real cause of Li Guang's death. He didn't stay up all night anymore and went straight to his house to sleep.

Before dawn the next day, Liu Xiaoyan pushed Chang Feng: "Get up and change your clothes and have breakfast." ”

Chang Feng rubbed his sleepy eyes: "The night I dreamed of spending candles with you in the cave just now." As soon as I ripped off your pants, I woke up from the dream. ”

Liu Xiaoyan poked Chang Feng's temple with her finger: "It's an old husband and wife, look at your virtue." ”

Chang Feng is in a good mood. Li Guang is dead, and the traitor has been removed. The emperor's holy name will not be affected. In this battle, he won a big victory!

His son Chang Ponu, his father-in-law Liu Bingyi, and his concubine Ninth Lady got up late.

Chang Feng came to the dining room alone for breakfast.

As soon as the fried juniper was soaked in soy milk, a person came to the dining room - Chang Feng's old nephew Liu Jin.

Liu Jin didn't see it, sat directly opposite Chang Feng, and said to the Chang family servant, "Bring me a bowl of soy milk too." ”

After speaking, he picked up a fried cypress from the colorful plate: "Little uncle, please do one thing." ”

Chang Feng said: "What do our uncles and nephews say they don't ask for?" Despite the opening. ”

The servant filled the soy milk and put it in front of Liu Jin.

Liu Jin took a sip of soy milk and said quietly: "Li Guang's suicide, don't check it carefully." ”

Chang Feng was stunned for a moment, and then said meaningfully: "It doesn't matter how Li Guang died. It's important that he dies. ”

Liu Jin cast a grateful glance at Chang Feng.

Chang Feng said: "I advise you." If one day you have the power of Li Guang, don't follow his example. ”

Liu Jin hurriedly said: "My nephew keeps in mind the teachings of my little uncle. ”

Oh, Liu Jin's future is not just Li Guang? The outrageous things he did after gaining power, not to mention Li Guang, I am afraid that the eunuch Wang Zhen during the Baozong period will be embarrassed.

Morning of the day.

Xiao Jing shouted at the top of his voice: "Discussion! ”

Chang Feng came out of class: "Your Majesty, the former celebrant Li Guang committed suicide last night in fear of crime. ”

When Emperor Hongzhi heard the news, he secretly said in his heart: Li Guang is still aware of current affairs, and he has saved me a lot of trouble.

He spoke: "It is not a pity to die a sinful eunuch. According to folk legends, Li Guang privately hid the "Longevity Sutra" of the sloppy Taoist. ”

"I don't believe this kind of absurd rumor."

"Chang Feng, you go to Li Guang's mansion and do a good search. If you can't find it, you can be righteous. ”

Emperor Hongzhi is a good means!

In fact, Li Guang has been making a lot of money over the years, and Emperor Hongzhi doesn't care, not only because Empress Zhang protects Li Guang.

Another part of the reason is that Emperor Hongzhi treated Li Guang as a pig.

Pigs, fattened to kill.

Emperor Hongzhi was not greedy for money, but he needed a large amount of money to realize his political ambitions - to make the country prosperous, the world peaceful, and the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

Li Guang's family wealth was naturally one of the countless stepping stones for Emperor Hongzhi to realize his political ambitions.

But Emperor Hongzhi was not good at the day after the former confidant eunuch committed suicide, and immediately instructed Chang Feng to steal his family wealth. That would be suspicious of greedy for money and good goods.

So Emperor Hongzhi made up a reason to let Chang Feng find strange books and dispel rumors.

Finding strange books is just a clear reason, and the real purpose is to confiscate Li Guanglei's huge family wealth.

Emperor Hongzhi is too ghostly.

Chang Feng is also a goblin. He immediately understood Emperor Hongzhi's intentions.

Chang Feng arched his hand: "The minister Chang Feng leads the order." ”

Copying homes is Changfeng's specialty.

He took the seven hundred robes that inspected the capital where the thousand households were located, and came to Li Guang's outer house.

Shi Wenyi said with a smile: "Master Chang, in the twenty-second year of Chenghua, I am your apprentice. ”

"Today, you just drink tea and eat snacks, and chat with Xu Ye and Qian Ye."

"Leave the matter of raiding the house to me. I'll show you a hand. It also saves the robes from privately ridiculing me as a 'big guy' who will only be sent to me. ”

Chang Feng smiled: "Okay." Today, let's see how the apprentices I brought out thirteen years ago are doing to raid their homes. ”

The top of Li Guang's outer mansion is about the size of half a palace. It is divided into five houses. In addition to the mansion, the water of Yuquan Mountain is also diverted as a stream around the house.

Chang Feng sat in the stone pavilion in the middle courtyard with Xu Fatzi and Qian Ning, drinking tea and chatting.

Qian Ning said: "Li Guang is dead. There is a shortage of celebrant supervisors, and the sign of the steward of Kunning Palace is also vacant. ”

"I think that Zhang Yong's father-in-law may enter the celebrant supervisor. Liu Jin may take over as the steward of Kunning Palace and become one of the eunuchs. ”

Chang Feng said: "My father-in-law has been so famous since ancient times. However, Zhang's prestige is not a fake prestige, but a real prestige. ”

"He was born brave and talented. Wang Shu and Ma Wensheng once commented that he was a 'strong man Zhang'. ”

"There are many Bingbi who know how to lead soldiers to fight in the ceremonial superintendent, which is far stronger than many Bingbi who only know how to intrigue and accumulate money."

Xu Fatzi interjected: "Father-in-law Zhang is indeed brave. Oh no! Last time in the Dongchang martial arts arena, he opened a five-stone bow. ”

"I, a well-known strong man of more than 200 pounds in the brocade guard, am ashamed of myself."

Zhang Yong's character and ability are recognized as first-class. Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped. Zhang Yong's best friend is Yang Yiqing, who is far away in Shaanxi Province and raises horses.

Chang Feng smiled: "As for Liu Jin." He entered the palace at the age of six. He has been in the palace for more than forty years. For the first 30 years, the official career has been difficult. ”

"This time, it's also his turn to become a eunuch."

Qian Ning smiled: "Liu Jin is your old nephew Chang Ye. He's been promoted, and your face is shining. ”

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "Yes." We are all old ministers. I wish he was beautiful. ”

Xu Fatzi nibbled on an oil fruit and said, "Liu Jin is really good with sugar candy." Last summer, Sugar Candy casually said that she was hungry and fried. ”

"Liu Jin is a prison supervisor in the palace, and he is carrying a long bamboo pole wrapped in gluten on a hot day, and the palace is full of sugar and candy."

"In the end, I saved five hundred unlucky ones, put them in the ice book, and sent them to the county lord's mansion."

Chang Feng sighed: "Liu Jin is called Aunt Sugar Candy. In fact, I know in my heart that he treats her as a daughter! ”

The crowd chatted for an hour.

Shi Wenyi walked over excitedly, holding four thick account books in his hands: "Master Chang, Li Guang really doesn't shy away from it, whether he accepts bribes or competes with the people for profit, he has all recorded the accounts." ”

Chang Feng took the account book and flipped through it, and it was all about a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day, a certain official sent a number of stones of "white rice", a number of stones of "yellow rice", and so on.

The government and the opposition all know that this is a hidden word for Li Guang to bribe. White rice is silver, and yellow rice is gold.

Chang Feng said: "Let Ding Daabacus come over." Total number under the system. ”

The accountant Ding Daabacus came over, and Chang Feng gave him a seat.

Ding Da abacus put down the guy who was eating, and the abacus beads were dialed quickly.

Although Ding Da was skilled in business, Li Guang's massive bribery accounts still allowed him to calculate for a whole hour.

An hour. Ding Da abacus pointed to the abacus beads: "Li Guang's family wealth, the total amount of silver is 310,000 taels." 10,000 taels of gold. ”

Chang Feng was surprised: "So many? ”

You must know that in the twenty-second year of Chenghua, Chang Feng copied 30,000 taels of stolen silver from Cai Shilang's mansion, which is an astronomical amount.

At that time, the emperor's inner transport vault was only 30,000 taels of silver.

In the past 12 years since Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty is now prosperous, and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River has risen.

The ripple effect of the rise of commerce was that the smuggling trade became more rampant.

A huge amount of silver and Western silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the circulation of silver in the Ming Dynasty increased year by year.

Rao is like this, a celebrant and a celebrant collects hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is still a bit sensational.

Fat Xu exclaimed: "I'm fucking." This Li Guang can really fish! ”

Li Guang's mansion is so big, it is naturally difficult to copy.

For a whole day, Shi Wenyi only completed the cellar, wall and eaves in the "Eight Collections of the Family".

A total of 50,000 taels of silver and 1,000 taels of gold were copied.

It is still far from Li Guang's account figures.

In the evening, Chang Feng arranged the night duty and was just about to leave Li Guangwai's house to go home, when Li Dongyang, a cabinet member, came.

Li Dongyang arched his hand towards Chang Feng: "Chang Ye, you are rich." ”

Chang Feng smiled: "You can't talk nonsense. It was the imperial court that made a fortune. ”

Li Dongyang nodded: "Yes, the court is rich." How, how much silver was copied? ”

Chang Feng replied: "Silver ticket, 50,000 cash." One thousand gold. ”

Li Dongyang clapped his hands: "Wow! Good! In the spring of this year, the little prince of Tatar had the intention of occupying Helan Mountain. The military situation in the northwest is like fire, and it needs a large amount of military salaries, money and food. ”

"This windfall can solve the urgent needs of the household department."

Chang Feng asked: "The emperor has a decree to confiscate Li Guang's family wealth into the Taicang treasury?" ”

Li Dongyang said with a straight face: "The emperor said." The gold and silver of the mansion of the criminal eunuch Li Guang were all put into the treasury of Taicang. The rest of the land, treasures, and other items shall be sold and put into the treasury. ”

Chang Feng was surprised: "One or two don't go into the inner warehouse?" ”

Li Dongyang said from the bottom of his heart: "Long live today is the emperor of the ages. The amount of silver in the inner stock is never taken into account. Only the treasury is considered. ”

"Chang Feng, you are really capable. In one day, he copied out fifty thousand silver and one thousand gold. It is worthy of being born in the general banner of the family. ”

Chang Feng shook his head slightly: "This money is only a small part of Li Guang's family wealth." We copied out a general ledger. ”

"It is recorded in the general ledger that Li Guang's family wealth is 310,000 taels of silver. 10,000 taels of gold. ”

When Li Dongyang heard this number, he waved his fist fiercely: "Giant beetle!" ”

Chang Feng said: "Elder Li Ge, tomorrow morning, you will first ask the household department to send someone to hand over the silver coins that have been confiscated." ”

"I assured the cabinet that within three days, Li Guang's family wealth would be handed over to the state treasury."

Since ancient times, FLAG has not been allowed to stand randomly.

The next day, the seizure of Liangzang, Jingzang, and dung storage was completed. and fifty thousand taels of silver, and two thousand taels of gold.

On the third day, the Banzang, Mingcai, and Heterogeneous Tibets were confiscated. Thirty thousand in silver.

There is still a difference between the book figures of Li Guang's family and Li Guang's family wealth, 180,000 taels of silver and 7,000 taels of gold!

Chang Feng was a little anxious, so he went down in person and went through the process of copying the house of Bazang again.

And yet nothing was found.

Chang Feng was puzzled: "Could it be that part of Li Guang's property is hidden elsewhere?" ”

Qian Ning suggested: "Do you want to ask Gu Dayong?" ”

Chang Feng nodded: "Well, go and find Gu Dayong." ”

After a while, Gu Dayong came to Chang Feng. Gu Dayong deliberately brought a belt embroidered with lotus lotus.

Chang Tian loves to embroider belts when he is idle in the county lord's mansion. Embroider more than a dozen pieces a month to give away. The lotus flower and lotus pattern are the logo of "Chang Tian Zhuang".

Gu Dayong took refuge with Liu Jin. Liu Jin gave him a belt embroidered by Chang Tian. and instructed him to change it when he saw the Jinyi Wei Changye.

As soon as Chang Feng saw this belt, he understood that Gu Dayong was now Liu Jin's person.

Chang Feng asked: "Father-in-law Gu, you have served Li Guang for many years. Is there a part of his wealth hidden elsewhere? ”

Gu Dayong replied truthfully: "Master Chang, Li Guang's family wealth is hidden in this outer mansion. He was confident that he would never fall. I never thought that there would be a day when my house would be raided. ”

Chang Feng frowned: "That's weird." a full hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver, and seven thousand taels of gold. Where can it be hidden? ”

"The silver may have been exchanged for a silver ticket, and the silver ticket is easy to hide. But Daming's money bank does not accept gold, and there is no golden ticket. ”

"And where is the whole pile of gold?"

Gu Dayong said: "Li Guang regards wealth as his life. Never speak to me anything concerning silver or gold. ”

Lang Zhong, who was sent by the household department, said to Chang Feng: "Master Chang, the three-day limit is your own statement, not the emperor's limit. I think that today our people from the household department will go back first, and then come back tomorrow. ”

Lang Zhong's eyes seemed to say: Fine dog, can you do it?

Chang Feng said: "Done!" Gao Langzhong, please go back first. ”

Shi Wenyi asked Chang Feng: "Master Chang, what should I do?" ”

Chang Feng replied: "This time, I lost face in front of the people in the household department. The loss of face is small, and the dirty wealth is not even. ”

"It can't be helped. You can only add manpower and dig three feet into the ground. Tomorrow, another 1,000 wrestlers will be transferred from the guard, and they will be carefully searched together with the robes that inspected the thousand households. ”

Don't raid the house at dusk, this is the old rule of Jinyiwei.

Chang Feng returned home. Chang Tian led the guest of honor Huang Yuan back to his parents' house for dinner.

Chang Feng asked Chang Tian: "Didn't you bring Jianjian?" ”

Chang Tian replied: "Jianjian is still young, and he can't blow the wind." In the house, it was carried by the nurse. ”

Liu Xiaoyan said: "The dishes are all ready, just wait for you, the head of the family." Let's go to the dining room and talk while eating. ”

The family sat down.

Chang Feng said casually: "Today is considered to be folded in front of the people in the household." For three days, Li Guang's family wealth was not stolen. ”

Fortunately, Li Guang left a general ledger. Otherwise, the raid will be over. Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, thousands of taels of gold will never see the light of day. ”

Liu Bingyi said: "You went to raid the house in person, but you didn't copy it all?" ”

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "Yes." I don't know if Li Guang has a way to hide silver other than the eight Tibets. ”

"It doesn't matter. Just check slowly and carefully. After searching for half a month, I didn't believe that I couldn't find Li Guang's dirty money. ”

Chang Tian said: "Brother, you're all home, don't talk about your official business." ”

Chang Feng took a sip of wine: "Hmm." Brother-in-law, what have you been busy with at home lately? ”

Huang Yuan replied: "Write letters and poems with the literati in Jiangnan. Jiangnan has recently produced four young talents, and their poems are unique. ”

Huang Yuan, the guest of honor, to put it bluntly, is a royal vase, without any errands, dancing and writing at home all day long.

Huang Yuan sandwiched some dishes for Chang Tian and said, "Those four young talents are known as the four great talents in Jiangnan. They are Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming, Zhu Zhishan, and Xu Zhenqing. ”

"By the way, they sent a letter the day before yesterday. said that the four of them were drunk by the river, and each of them made a limerick poem one sentence at a time. ”

"It's ridiculous. I read it to my brother-in-law, and I should help the wine. ”

Chang Feng said: "Okay, you read." ”

Huang Yuan said with a smile: "A flock of geese on the mountain, boos drove down the river." Falling into the river to catch geese and cure hunger"

Chang Feng asked, "What about the fourth sentence?" ”

Huang Yuanqiang couldn't help laughing: "The fourth sentence is a bit vulgar and unbearable. ”

Chang Feng said: "Don't sell your kid. Read. ”

Huang Yuan restrained his smile and said the fourth sentence of the limerick poem seriously: "It's better to go home and play with your wife!" ”

"Poof!" Chang Feng took a sip of wine and sprayed it directly on the table.

Liu Bingyi laughed so much that his beard was cocked.

Mrs. Nine and Liu Xiaoyan also covered their mouths and chuckled.

Chang Ponu covered his stomach: "Hahaha, play with wife, play with wife!" ”

Chang Tian lightly slapped his nephew: "How old are you?" Don't follow adults to talk nonsense. ”

Chang Feng stopped laughing after a long time. He said: "I don't know how these four people are doing their art and serious poetry. But they're really interesting. ”

Huang Yuandao: "Brother-in-law, how can the four great talents be famous?" Their eight-strand system is also first-class. ”

"This autumn Jiangnan Township test, next year the capital will have spring. Maybe any of them will be in the first rank. ”

Chang Feng nodded: "Hmm." To make such an interesting limerick, they should not be rotten. The last thing the imperial court needs is rotten. ”

"Hopefully they'll be on the gold list next year. Alas, I don't count on it, go back to follow the tribute courtyard, and return to the name of Sun Mountain. ”

After the morning of the next day, Chang Feng returned to Jinyiwei and changed into the soap clothes worn by the family. led the little two thousand robes, and came to Li Guang's outer house.

The crowd was almost digging into the ground. After working for most of the day, I still didn't find a single ingot of silver, a silver ticket, or a gold ingot.

Gu Dayong acted as a leading party and also came to help. But his leading party didn't help at all.

Chang Feng was puzzled: "It's really weird, where did all the stolen money go?" ”

Xu Fatzi asked: "Master Chang, don't you want to tear down the entire mansion to find dirty money?" ”

"For such a big house, it will take at least a month to demolish it."

"Besides, this house is also stolen property. It can be left for the emperor to reward people. It's a pity to dismantle it. ”

Chang Feng said: "Let's go, let's go up to the pavilion and have a look." ”

In the middle courtyard, there is a pavilion. It is about three feet high. Climb the pavilion to overlook Yuquan Mountain, and the beautiful scenery of the suburbs of Beijing can be seen.

The people went up to the pavilion.

Chang Feng said: "Li Guang is so good at enjoying it!" The location of the outer house is well chosen, and the loft is also well built. It's a sight to behold. ”

He looked down at the ground below. The ploughing of the ground made this decent house potholes.

Chang Feng said to himself: "What's missing? ”

Suddenly, Chang Feng's eyes focused on the Huanfu stream that surrounded the mansion.

Chang Feng said: "Bring the water of Yuquan Mountain here." I don't know how much manpower it takes. ”

Gu Dayong answered: "At that time, there were 8,000 people, and I worked for a whole year. ”

"Dog Li Guang is really bold. The water of Yuquan Mountain is used by the royal family. But he attracted the Danghuanfu Creek. ”

A few days ago, Gu Dayong had a "godfather", but now he has become a "dog Li Guang".

Chang Feng suddenly felt that something was wrong: "The city has a moat, which is to guard against foreign enemies. ”

"Spending a huge amount of manpower and material resources to build a Huanfu Creek, is it just for the sake of eye-catching?"

"Gu Dayong, how deep is this Huanfu Creek?"

Gu Dayong replied: "It is one zhang deep." It is said to be a stream, but it is actually similar to a small river. It was best for the dog Li Guang to cruise on the stream before his death. ”

Chang Feng came to be interested: "Cruise? ”

Gu Dayong replied: "Exactly." As long as he returned to the outer house, he had to get on a small boat alone and paddle and row. It is said that the water is quiet, and it is convenient to think about things. ”

"Sometimes, he stays on the boat for a while before dinner. I went back to the house for dinner, and then went to the boat for a while. ”

"Oh, I remembered. He likes to float with stones on the boat. ”

Chang Feng was even more strange: "Playing in the water? Do you use stones? ”

Gu Dayong replied: "Yes." He said that he was afraid that the people below would disturb him to think about things, so he asked us to stand far away. ”

"We can hear the 'thump' of stones falling into the water."

Chang Feng turned his head to stare at Gu Dayong: "How can you be sure that he is throwing stones?" ”

Gu Dayong was stunned: "What else can it be if it's not a stone?" ”

Chang Feng asked rhetorically: "Wouldn't it be silver?" ”

Gu Dayong gasped: "Don't say it yet." It's really possible to be silver. He likes to get on the boat at night. It was dark, and those of us who were waiting for him were far away and couldn't see clearly. ”

"But there is no silver thrown into the water in this heaven? We all thought it was stone. ”

Chang Feng said: "Go to the Ministry of Industry and let the Ministry of Industry send an expert in water control!" ”

An hour later, the Ministry of Industry sent a Lang Zhong named Zhang Yuanning. This person is an apprentice brought out by Bai Ang, a powerful minister who controls water.

Qian Ning brought Zhang Yuanning to the attic.

Chang Feng asked Zhang Yuanning: "Zhang Langzhong." Is there any way to make the water of Huanfu Creek dry up and see the light of day at the bottom of the stream? ”

Zhang Yuanning put his hand on the pergola and looked around.

Then he said, "It's simple. Plug the aqueduct upstream and cut off its source. ”

"The terrain is low to the east. Dig an aqueduct and drain its water. ”

Chang Feng asked: "How many days does this project have to be done?" How many people are used? ”

Zhang Yuanning replied: "It is difficult to divert water, but it is easy to drain water. It only takes a thousand people, and one day can drain the halo of Fuxi. ”

Chang Feng said: "That's good." It's getting late today. I will send someone to send a message to Shuntianfu, and tomorrow they will send a thousand people over and hand it over to Zhang Langzhong, you will command. ”

Jinyi Wei Chang Ye passed the word, where did the officials of Shuntian Mansion dare to slack off?

In the early morning of the next day, a thousand people came to the outside of Li Guang's mansion.

Zhang Yuanning assigned tasks in an orderly manner.

Chang Feng and the others spread a white cloth by the stream and sat on the ground. While playing the leaf cards, wait for the stream to drain out.

Xu Fatzi asked: "Master Chang, shouldn't it be in vain?" Will Li Guang throw gold and silver into the water? ”

"It is often said that 'silver is squandered.'" Li Guang wouldn't really do that, would he? ”

Chang Feng looked at the leaf card in his hand and said, "I can't say it either." I just think there's something weird about this Huanfu Creek. ”

Chang Feng was born in a family and has an extremely sensitive intuition for gold and silver.

This time, my instincts didn't work, and I could see it before evening.

Zhang Yuanning is worthy of being Bai Ang's student, and he is very good at finding the discharge point. The upstream aqueduct was also blocked.

When the sun went down, the one-zhang deep Huanfu Creek had already leaked to the lower legs of people.

Chang Feng, who had just finished playing the cards, glanced at Huanfuxi, this glance didn't matter, he directly threw the leaf card in his hand.

Chang Feng stood up and pointed to Huanfu Creek: "Look! ”

Xu Fatzi was surprised: "Why is the silver light dotted?" It's like there's silver in the water! ”

Chang Feng took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and went into the water himself. He touched it with his hand, and he actually touched a silver collar.

Fat Xu was overjoyed at the water's edge: "Hey! There's silver in the water! Where is this Huanfu Creek? It's clearly a galaxy! ”

It turned out that Li Guang went back and forth to the boat twice a day in the evening just to throw gold and silver into the bottom of the river.

Throw fifty taels each time, and two times is a hundred taels. For more than ten years, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and thousands of taels of gold have become part of the stream.

As for how Li Guang had a penchant for using gold and silver, and what he did it for, only he himself knew.

Chang Feng beckoned to everyone: "Let the brethren all go into the water and touch the gold and silver." It's a lot more fun than fishing! ”

"When the water is gone, you can't touch gold and silver, you can only pick up gold and silver! It's not fun to pick it up. ”

A group of brocade robes and robes took off their shoes one after another and entered the water.

They laughed and touched the gold and silver in the water like children.

Chang Feng shouted: "Brothers, if you touch the gold, you can have good luck this year, and you can give birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, haha!" ”

Xu Fatzi shouted: "I touched a gold bill!" ”

With that, he threw a gold coin onto the shore.

None of the abacus elites of the 100 accounts went into the water. On the shore, they collected silver ingots, silver bills, and gold bills into wooden boxes and recorded their numbers.

After two moments of effort, all the water in Huanfu Creek was drained, and the creek saw the light of day.

And every ten or twenty paces in the brook there was a piece of silver or gold.

The five big and three thick brocade guards have changed from touching fish babies to little girls picking mushrooms.

They were like mushroom pickers, straddling baskets to collect gold and silver.

Finally, before evening, all the gold and silver were touched and collected.

They received about 180,000 taels of silver and 7,000 taels of gold.

Chang Feng was afraid that his brothers and the people of Shuntianfu would be greedy for private hiding. After gathering up the gold and silver, he ordered the people to search each other's bodies.

Sure enough, wealth touches people's hearts. A total of more than 60 people were found to be in possession. All people who hide it privately will be reprimanded and let go.

Anyone who keeps a brocade robe for private purposes shall be punished with a rod of thirty strokes. The private collection above the captain level will be demoted by one level.

The big abacus of the 100 households walked to Chang Feng's side: "Master Chang, the total amount of gold and silver we copied in five days matches Li Guang's accounts, and it fits perfectly!" ”

Chang Feng smiled: "This errand can be regarded as done." Let the household department immediately send someone to hand over. Let's send people to escort it, return the stolen money to the treasury, take it from the people, and use it for the people. ”

Qian Ning said: "Master Chang, you should go to the palace and inform the emperor of the news that the Li Mansion has been confiscated." ”

If you have made meritorious service, you will naturally have to show meritorious service.

Chang Feng nodded: "Cheng." After handing over to the household department, I entered the palace with the account book. ”

The handover with the household department was very smooth. Hubu Shangshu Zhou Jing came in person, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Since January this year, the situation in the northwest has changed drastically, and military salary expenditures have increased sharply.

The big fortune that Li Guang saved for Emperor Hongzhi can be regarded as relieving the pressure on the lower households.

After the handover, Chang Feng rode on his horse and prepared to enter the palace to show his merits to Emperor Hongzhi: What's the matter, it has to be our old man, right? The case of mutiny was solved overnight, and King Xing's innocence was returned.

In five days, he copied out 310,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold for the imperial court.

Your Majesty, you should give me back some of the power you deprived of me this time, right?

At this moment, more than a dozen official sedan chairs appeared in Chang Feng's sight.

After a short time, the official sedan chair stopped. Most of the officials who got off the sedan chair were the capital, deputy capital, and deputy court.

The leader is the left capital Yu Shi Min Jue.

Chang Feng arched his hand: "Min Duyuan, why are you here?" ”

Min Jue said: "The household department sent someone to hand over the gold and silver of Li Guangwai's house. We all came to the procuratorate to hand over the letters from Li Guangwai's house. ”

"Those who have correspondence with the traitorous eunuch Li Guang are all people who cling to the powerful and are not worthy of being officials. We are going to be impeached. ”

The generals of the Ming Dynasty liked to fight. Because you can be promoted in battle, and you can also cut off people's heads in exchange for silver.

The imperial history of the Ming Dynasty likes to participate in people. Because if you are involved, you can be promoted, and you can also win the reputation of sweeping away traitors.

The heads of this group of people are here to seek promotion and fame for their subordinates.

Chang Feng knew that there were too many nobles and high-ranking officials who had dealings with Li Guang.

A large part of them did not intend to cling to Li Guang, but were afraid of Li Guang's power. I had to have a relationship with him with my conscience.

Once the letter from the Li Mansion was handed over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. These officials who don't go to the excerpt for a day will definitely set off a shocking case.

This is what Emperor Hongzhi does not want to see, and it is also what Chang Feng has been trying his best to avoid.

Chang Feng made up a lie: "I'm sorry, Min Duyuan." Last night, there was a fire in the Li Mansion, and the letters copied out were burned. ”

Chang Feng is learning from his master, Emperor Hongzhi, who is talking nonsense and playing scoundrels with his eyes open.

Min Jue's expression changed when he heard this: "What? Burned? ”

Chang Feng nodded: "Yes." I was so angry that I spared a hundred households who were not well guarded. ”

Min Qi frowned and looked at Chang Feng: "Is it really burned, or is it fake?" Only God knows. ”

"Chang Feng, I want to join you in dereliction of duty."

Chang Feng said with a smile: "Participating in people is the duty of Min Duyuan. You can just participate. As for whether to punish me or not, it depends on the emperor's holy judgment. ”

Min Qi was so angry that he smoked: "Okay." Then we'll see! ”

Chang Feng got on the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and entered the palace with the account book to show his work and receive the reward.

(End of chapter)