Yang Feng seized tens of millions of taels of silver from eight salt merchants in Yangzhou. This news passed through the earth like spring thunder. Not to mention the civil and military officials in the court, the entire Ming Dynasty was confused by the news. Ten million taels of silver, so much silver is comparable to the taxes of the Ming Dynasty in two years. What does this mean? When everyone thought of this, the name of a person in the early years of the country immediately appeared in their minds.

This news also led to something. The memorial to impeach Yang Feng, which was originally rushing to the court like a tide, suddenly came to an abrupt end like a tightened faucet valve. In this matter, Gao Yannian and local officials in Yangzhou who acted as the pioneer of attacking Yang Feng were also embarrassed. They kept impeaching Yang Feng without any effort, saying that he was so cruel and unkind that he killed innocent people, but in the end, the cruel show slapped them hard.

Ten million taels of silver. Even if they are shameless, they cannot explain how these salt merchants have so much money?

What... It's normal for you to say that you have so much money? Oh, it seems that your family should have a lot of money. Do you need to check your family carefully?

Yang Feng spent most of the month dealing with the speculation, and the 10 million taels of silver mentioned by Yang Feng did not only refer to the cash bank they had in their family, but also included their property, shops, house deeds, fertile land and other real estate. These things were not easy to discount. Finally, Yang Feng personally came out to hold an auction for three consecutive days in Yangzhou City. During the auction, wealthy businessmen gathered in the entire Yangzhou city.

Who are these eight salt merchants? The shops, fertile fields and real estate they occupy are all the best areas, the best houses and the most fertile fertile fields in Yangzhou City. In the past, no one dared to make any decisions about salt merchants. But now, these wealthy merchants do not rush over like sharks that smell blood. They only took three days to buy these things. After dealing with these matters, Yang Feng rushed to the capital with hundreds of carts of gold and silver from the house.

He was escorting so much money on the road, or was he worried that it would be a lie. Tens of millions of taels of silver, so much money was enough to make any bandit take risks. To be on the safe side, Yang Feng applied for a transfer order from Zhu Youxiao and the Ministry of War half a month ago, and mobilized 3,000 soldiers from Jiangning Guard to Yangzhou. After the army gathered, the six thousand troops were escorting the money on the road. When they arrived in the capital, it was already early July.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, the silver escorted by Yang Feng arrived in the capital, and the entire capital caused a sensation. Countless people rushed to the streets to watch. This was the largest case of house search since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. When the soldiers of Jiangning Guard entered the capital with things filled with gold, silver and treasures, countless people were amazed at the big carts that had deep traces on the ground.

Although everyone knows that they have no relationship with these silver, they can't resist the fact that they will be in their hearts. Many people are thinking in their hearts that if these silvers are mine, then how would I use these silver...

Li Qiyuan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, led the entire Ministry of Revenue officials and yamen runners to gather at the household department entrance early in the morning, waiting for Yang Feng to deliver the silver cart. Many officials' eyes showed a glimmer of joy. For many years, the Ministry of Revenue has always had a little silver when sending taxes for two seasons across the country every year, in the rest of the time, the Ministry of Revenue's bank warehouse was so empty that it could almost run away mice. Now, 10 million taels of silver have been delivered to the door, so these people can't stand it.

The weather in June was already quite hot. When the sun jumped out of the top of the mountain and jumped into the air, the power of the scorching sun began to show its power. Li Qiyuan was originally a fat man, but now when the sun was exposed, his whole body was quickly sweating. Feeling the sticky feeling on his body, he couldn't help but feel a little irritated.

Guo Yunhou, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, kept slapping his sleeves on his cheeks, trying to cool himself down, but the effect was not very good. He turned his head and looked around with some annoyance, and found that the people around him were similar to him. If he had already run to the ice-filled signing room at this time, he would have gone to cool down. However, today's situation was a bit special. For the sake of 10 million taels of silver, this amount of summer tea poison could still be tolerated.

As time passed by little by little, the sweat on Li Qiyuan's body had already penetrated his clothes. Guo Yunhou couldn't help but complain, "What's wrong? I also know that the people in the capital will go to watch the fun today, but how big the capital can be? It's been more than two hours since I walked. Even if I climbed, I should have climbed to the Ministry of Revenue, right?"

Li Qiyuan, who was already impatient, could no longer hold back and immediately said loudly to the minor official beside him: "You all go to see why the convoy has not arrived yet?"

"Here!"

The little official responded and was about to go out. But before he could take two steps, he saw a little official running over not far away and shouting in a panic tone: "Two sirs, it's not good! Jiang Ningbo's convoy did not come to our Ministry of Revenue but headed towards the inner warehouse!"

Li Qiyuan and Guo Yunhou were stunned at the same time, and then their faces immediately turned pale and they said in unison.

"not good!"

"Oops!"

"Hurry... all follow me to the inner warehouse!"

Li Qiyuan shouted loudly, then ran towards the sedan chair beside him. Guo Yunhou also followed him, and the two sedan chairs quickly ran towards the palace...

What is the inner treasury? Maybe some people are not very clear, but as long as they say another name, everyone will understand, the alias of the inner treasury is called the inner treasury. It is necessary to explain here that the treasury stored in the treasury is the imperial court and the state’s money is managed by the Ministry of Revenue, and the so-called inner treasury stored is the emperor’s private money, which is controlled by him.

Yang Feng transported the 10 million taels of silver he received from the Yangzhou speculator to the in-house warehouse, which means that such a huge amount of silver would never be destined to the Ministry of Revenue again. How could Li Qiyuan, who had long been so poor, be able to bear it? He immediately ran towards the palace at a speed that was inconsistent with his body shape.

The news that Yang Feng drove the convoy to the inner warehouse was also immediately heard by the powerful families in the capital. At this moment, the officials who were still waiting and watching could no longer sit still. For a moment, countless officials flocked to the direction where the inner warehouse in the palace was located.

At this moment, all the reserved faces were thrown behind, because everyone knew very well that if these money was entered into the Ministry of Revenue, they could still share the benefits, but if they entered the internal storage, according to the virtues of the Zhu family, they could not even get any hair. At this time, they should give up their face and other things for the time being.

The vast convoy finally arrived at the location of the palace's warehousing at noon under the escort of thousands of soldiers. As the place where the emperor placed his private money, the people guarding the place were not soldiers of the Beijing camp or soldiers from the Ministry of Revenue, but the four Tengxiang guards under the Imperial Horse Prison were guarding.

When Yang Feng personally led the soldiers here, he saw a tall, fair and slightly fat middle-aged eunuch in his fifties standing at the door surrounded by dozens of eunuchs. When he saw Yang Feng riding his horse, he immediately stepped forward and bowed and smiled: "Jiang Ningbo has been here all the way. Please come in quickly. After counting the silver, we will meet His Majesty together as if we were to meet His Majesty!"

Yang Feng looked at the white and clean fat man. Although he was a little curious about why this guy looked familiar, as the saying goes, he didn't hit the smiling person. He nodded and smiled at the other party, "If you have time to wait here, then let's count the silver and put it in the warehouse together!"

"stop!"

Just as the two were about to enter, a loud shout came from behind Yang Feng. When Yang Feng turned his head and looked over, he saw a fat man in a scorching official uniform hurriedly coming down from the sedan chair and rushed towards them. Behind him, another thin middle-aged man also ran over.

The fat man rushed to the two of them and shouted loudly: "These silvers are the property of my Ming Dynasty court, how can we put them into the inner treasury privately!"

Looking at the fat man who was like a fishing out of the water, Yang Feng frowned: "Old man, who are you? You dare to rob the emperor's money. Are you impatient to live?"

The fat man looked at Yang Feng with some disbelief and said in surprise: "Yang Feng... do you actually call this official an old man?"

"Why can't I call you that?" Yang Feng looked up and down at him before saying, "Look at your clothing, you are just a second-grade official. My uncle is a super first-grade uncle, why can't I call you that?"

"You...you..." The fat man was almost dizzy and pointed at Yang Feng and couldn't speak.

At this time, the thin man behind also ran over and shouted loudly: "Yang Feng, don't be rude! This is Lord Li Qiyuan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. How dare you call the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue like this? What should you be guilty of?"

"Li Qiyuan, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue?" Yang Feng curled his lips, "But why can't Ben Bo call him that person? And who are you?"

The thin man looked at Yang Feng and said angrily: "This official is Guo Yunhou, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue. You are the uncle you conferred by Your Majesty at any time, but you can't be so neglected by the court, right?" After saying that, Guo Yunhou turned his gaze to the fat man with fair skin standing aside and watching the fun, and said unhappily: "Eunuch Wei, as the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor, can you just watch Yang Feng insult the ministers wantonly?"

"Eunuch Wei? The eunuch who was in charge of the company's eunuch?" Yang Feng was shocked when he heard this. He looked at the fat man with fair skin beside him in surprise and asked in surprise: "Are you the nine thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian?"

Seeing Yang Feng ask himself, Wei Zhongxian smiled slightly: "Jiang Ning Bo has been awarded too much. Our family is Wei Zhongxian, just a slave to Your Majesty, but he cannot be named Nine Thousand Years."

To be honest, although Yang Feng has been in the capital for several months, he has always thought it was too tiring to go to the morning court, so he never went back after taking the morning court twice. And during this period, he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. Although he and Wei Zhongxian knew each other's Ming Dynasty, they had never met each other, and they were officially met until today.

Yang Feng looked up and down at Wei Zhongxian for a long time and found that this guy was different from the later generations, either with a gloomy face or a deep grudge in the portrait. This guy looked like a harmless fat man. No wonder he had gained Zhu Youxiao's trust for so many years in another historical time and space.

Seeing Yang Feng looking at him up and down, Wei Zhongxian smiled and bowed to him: "We have long admired Jiang Ning Bo for a long time, but we have never had the chance to meet him. It is a blessing to be able to meet Jiang Ning Bo today."

At this time, Yang Feng also came back to his senses and replied with a smile: "Nine Thousand Sui has been awarded too much. Yang Feng just luckily made some minor achievements. He was just a miserable reward for a title. How could he be as good as the chief of the Nine Thousand Sui’s official position as a result of his hard work and contributions!"

The two of them said a few words without any nutrition and then calmed down. Since Wei Zhongxian was ordered by Zhu Youxiao to welcome the batch of silver, he naturally could not let others rob the silver. He turned to Li Qiyuan and said, "Mr. Li, this batch of silver was brought from Yangzhou by Jiang Ningbo, and it was not a tax sent by the local government. What qualifications do you have to take them away?"

"Eunuch Wei, you are wrong." Li Qiyuan said unwillingly: "This batch of silver is the income of Jiangning Bo who searched eight salt merchants in Yangzhou, and it is not the income of the royal farm or the royal merchants. How can we not enter the warehouse of our Ministry of Revenue? In addition, there are no silver in the warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue now, and disasters are frequent when entering Shaanxi and other places. With these silver, the Ministry of Revenue can also dispatch it to provide relief to the victims!"

"Mr. Li's words are wrong!" Wei Zhongxian sneered: "Our family is a eunuch who is a lie supervisor. Is there any silver in the Ministry of Revenue? Is it still clear that the Ministry of Revenue has more than 500,000 taels of silver in the Ministry of Revenue? "

"That is the silver used by the court to respond to emergency responses. You must not move until the critical moment!" Li Qiyuan retorted unwillingly, and the two of them argued one by one.

While the two were arguing, many sedan chairs arrived in a hurry one after another. Many officials came down from the sedan chair and ran towards them quickly. Yang Feng was slightly surprised when he saw it. These guys were moving too fast. It seems that when it comes to money, no matter who it is, they run fast.

Seeing that more and more officials gathered, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but feel anxious. If he could not bring the money into the inner treasury today, what awaited him would probably be Zhu Youxiao's anger.

When he was anxious, he turned his head and shouted loudly at the soldiers of the Tengxiang Guards behind him: "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you welcome the silver into the warehouse quickly!"

"Here!"

The soldiers came quickly and were about to respond to the cart. The officials led by Li Qiyuan were also anxious and rushed towards the cart and shouted: "I see who you dares? These silvers are the income from the investigation of the profiteering merchants and should belong to the Ministry of Revenue. You can't take them away unless you kill me!"
Chapter completed!