Chapter 161: Gold in the Flower House
Under Su Hengyu's reminder, even though Jiang Luo was still confused, he still took someone to the flower room again.
Su Hengyu followed behind them, and when she saw the flower house, she felt strange.
Because the land on the other side of the flower house is a lot higher than the front. It's like inexplicably raising a lot, which makes people feel very abrupt.
Originally, Jiang Luo and the others didn't notice this, they felt that even if the ground of the flower house was a cut higher than other places, it was possible that Meng Changhe deliberately dug a good pile of soil in the flower house in order to raise flowers.
However, now that Su Hengyu was so sure that there was something wrong with the flower room, everyone became suspicious.
There was no need for Su Hengyu to mention the next thing, Jiang Luo and the others took the initiative to re-search the flower house.
They didn't pay much attention to this place before, but arranged for someone to come over and take a few turns to see how the flowers inside were.
But now they have not only moved all the flowers inside, but also every inch of land under every pot and flower house.
Nothing could be found in the pots, but under the flower house, after digging up a layer of black soil, everyone saw the planks under the soil.
Seeing this, Su Hengyu couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Lift the wooden board and take a look." ”
Jiang Luo did not refuse, and immediately led someone to lift the plank.
The planks that had been soiled by the dirt were easily uncovered, and when the planks creaked open and were pried open, the gold hidden beneath the planks unceremoniously unleashed its enchanting brilliance.
Even though everyone present had already prepared, they were still almost shocked by the scene in front of them.
The golden light reflected on everyone's faces, so that they could see that these were definitely real gold without having to check it!
The gold bars lay quietly under the boards, as clean as if they had been wiped every day.
"It seems that the county lord really didn't guess wrong, then Meng Changhe really hid everything here!" Jiang Luo couldn't help but be happy when he saw this scene.
Even if most of the gold had to be collected into the treasury, they did a good job when they came out. Emperor Wei will give them some rewards to some extent, and will not let them run in vain.
With this in mind, Jiang Luo hurriedly led people to lift all the remaining planks.
It took a whole day to dig up the soil and lift the planks. After all the planks were uncovered, everyone looked at the gold all over the ground and couldn't help but take a hard breath.
"Tut-tut, although I have long known that Meng Changhe is a big corrupt official, I didn't expect him to be so greedy. It's the first time I've seen so much gold! Jiang Luo sighed.
This flower house is not small, and it is surprising that there is gold buried all over the ground, not to mention that this gold is more than a layer.
Judging from Jiang Luo's simple estimate, there are at least 500,000 taels of gold here!
After this number was counted, let alone Jiang Luo, even Li Wei was taken aback.
He hurriedly asked people to lock all the gold into a room, and hung three locks outside the room, and the keys were pinched in the hands of Li Wei, Su Hengyu and Jiang Luo.
Not only that, but he also quickly sent news to the emperor, and did not let the soldiers who came to help raid the house leave, but separately ordered a team of several thousand people to escort the gold.
In addition, Su Hengyu also saw the clues when he saw those flowers, many of these flowers are very valuable varieties, and any one of them is not cheaper than precious calligraphy and painting or jewelry and porcelain.
If Meng Changhe wants to bribe anyone quietly, he doesn't need to send money aggressively, just send a pot of flowers, which is precious enough.
She told Jiang Luo about her discovery, and she thought that these flowers were useless before, and Jiang Luo, who wanted to dispose of them, suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly searched for the most powerful florists in the city and asked them to take care of these flowers.
When the gardeners were sure that the flowers were alive and well, there would be no problems for the time being, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he himself did not see the value of these flowers, as long as he sold them in the future, he could exchange them for silver for the treasury.
He didn't want to cause Da Wei to lose such a large amount of income because of his mistakes. Otherwise, there would be no need for Emperor Wei to punish him, and the household department would be able to scold him all day long.
Jiang Luo was very grateful to Su Hengyu, who helped him avoid punishment once.
Originally, in these days of getting along, Su Hengyu's calmness and intelligence made him very impressed.
In addition, the county lord made improved farm tools before, and I heard that it was very helpful for the people to farm, Jiang Luo had a good impression of her, and now she is getting closer to Su Hengyu.
After learning that the other party very much wanted to enter the court as a female official, Jiang Luo did not feel repulsed.
Because he saw Su Hengyu's strength, Jiang Luo hoped that the other party could become a female official, and it was much better to be an official in the same dynasty with a capable person than to meet a group of sons who were incapacitated, but who oppressed people everywhere with their family background.
However, Jiang Luo was still a little curious about being able to detect the abnormality of the flower room from a few words.
After he asked Su Hengyu, he replied with a smile: "It's very simple, the descendants of the Meng family said that Meng Changhe likes to raise flowers very much, so he specially built a flower room for this purpose, but he often renovated the flower room. If you really like to raise flowers and renovate them frequently, won't it damage the flowers in the flower room? I don't think anyone who really loves flowers would do anything like that that might affect flowers. ”
"One doesn't like flowers, but he always says that he likes to raise flowers, and he always renovates the flower room. So what he renovated the flower room for, it can be easily guessed. ”
Since you don't really like flowers, there's no need to spend so much time and energy in the flower room.
What can explain Meng Changhe's strange behavior is that there is definitely something he cares about very much in this flower room, even more than a place like the study.
The rest of the matter Jiang Luo himself understood.
After listening to Su Hengyu's explanation, he couldn't help but praise: "The county lord is really smart, and I am now looking forward to entering and leaving the court with you as a colleague." ”
Li Wei, who was on the side, heard Jiang Luo's words, although he didn't say anything against it, he also subconsciously pursed his lips.
When a female official enters the court, it can really be so simple to see the hell!
The gold was quickly and carefully packed and transported to the capital by the soldiers.
As for Su Hengyu, they will solve the work at hand as soon as possible in the next few days, and help the new Yuezhou prefect and his team who have just arrived to take up their posts to get started with the affairs of Yuezhou as soon as possible.
In this regard, Li Wei simply divided part of his work to Su Hengyu.
His explanation for his behavior was: "This is a tempering of your imminent entry into officialdom!" ”
Su Hengyu smiled helplessly, but still took over these tasks.
Because she had an inexplicable hunch that when she returned to the capital this time, she might really be able to become a female official.