Chapter 064: The Three Talents
Li Sancai was shackled and was sent to the side. n∈n∈ dot n∈ small n∈ saying,...o&1t;/p>
The factory guards have begun to interrogate Li Sancai's slaves, but the interrogation is not smooth. These controlled Li family slaves are willing to cooperate, but they don't know where Li Sancai has hidden the money.&1t;/p>
After an interrogation, the factory guard focused on Li Sancai's housekeeper.&1t;/p>
Li Sancai's housekeeper was named Li Jinfu. He was not originally a surname. After following Li Sancai, he changed his ancestors' surnames. Li Jinfu was already scared to death at this time, but hesitated and waited.&1t;/p>
"Li Jinfu, tell me everything you know! As long as you tell the place where Li Sancai hides silver, it is not only innocent, but also a great achievement. This time, the emperor personally issued an order to arrest Li Sancai. His ship will definitely overturn. If you don't make meritorious service, you must drown together." Wang Sijin saw Li Jinfu hesitant and knew that this guy must be worried. If Li San can turn over, he would be in trouble.&1t;/p>
"Sir, please be aware! The villain doesn't know where the money is hidden!" Li Jinfu's feet softened and he knelt on the ground with a sad face.&1t;/p>
"Think about it more carefully. As long as you provide clues, even if you have made contributions." Xu Xianchun said.&1t;/p>
"Little man, think about it, think about it." Li Jinfu cried and thought about it hard, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't even think of it.&1t;/p>
This made Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijinyu frown. Li Jinfu was Li Sancai's housekeeper, and this was the biggest breakthrough. They were not sure whether this guy was lying.&1t;/p>
"Come on, give him a punishment." Xu Xianchun decided to use torture instruments, and Li Jinfu was dragged down immediately, and screams came soon.&1t;/p>
After a torture, Li Jinfu cried so hard that he could not provide any clues.&1t;/p>
"It seems that he really doesn't know." Xu Xianchun sighed depressedly, and Wang Sijin was also a little discouraged. Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijin immediately asked someone to put Li Jinfu aside and focus the interrogation on Li Sancai's family.&1t;/p>
Li Sancai's original wife is dead, but there are several young and beautiful concubines. There is a group of children. Except for two who need further pursuit in other places, the others have been completely controlled.&1t;/p>
After a trial, there was still no result.&1t;/p>
Li Sancai's concubines had no idea where the money was placed. Among Li Sancai's sons, the eldest son had a great chance of knowing where the money was hidden, but this guy was the same as Li Sancai. He didn't say where the money was hidden. If he said it was death, he might even survive.&1t;/p>
After a trial, it was completely fruitless.&1t;/p>
At the same time, the Jinyiwei almost turned Li's house upside down, and there was no underground secret room or other place. It was tossing until dawn, but it still disappeared.&1t;/p>
While Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijin were both sitting on the chair and taking a nap, a Jinyiwei lieutenant ran in. Seeing Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijin taking a nap, she called out: "Sir, sir."&1t;/p>
"Hmm?" Xu Xianchun quickly opened his eyes and asked, "What's the matter?"&1t;/p>
Wang Sijin also opened his eyes and looked at the Jinyiwei Captain who came in. He heard the Jinyiwei Captain report: "Sir, a slave thought of a clue that might be related to Tibetan silver. Will he interrogate the trial?"&1t;/p>
"Bring the person here right away." Xu Xianchun's expression was excited. Even if there was a small hope, it was hope. If you couldn't find the money this time, how could you still have the face to go back and report to the emperor.&1t;/p>
"Yes, sir." The Jinyiwei School Captain hurriedly went to mention the person, and soon a 27 or 28-year-old slave was brought over. Xu Xianchun asked, "What's your name?"&1t;/p>
"The villain Zhou Tongcai paid homage to the master." The slave knelt down and replied.&1t;/p>
"What do you know, say it all!" Wang Sijin said to Zhou Tongcai. Zhou Tongcai raised his head and asked, "Sir, can you escape from the crime if the clues of the villain are effective?"&1t;/p>
"Yes." Xu Xianchun replied with certainty. As long as these slaves have no bad records, they are naturally not guilty. They just wanted to find clues and were shocked.&1t;/p>
"Although the villain doesn't know where Mr. Li hides the money, when he first entered the Li mansion, he heard a strange thing from his friend." Zhou Tongcai said.&1t;/p>
"What strange thing?" Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijin quickly asked.&1t;/p>
"When the villain entered the Li Mansion, one time, the old thief Li called more than a dozen people to move things. The villain's good friend Lin Erdan was among them. After he came back, he told the villain that they were called by the old thief Li to move the wine. They were all big wine jars, and they asked them to move the wine jars to a wine shop in the east of the city. However, when moving, the wine jars were extremely heavy, and when they were shaking, they could not hear the sound of water at all. They moved all the wine jars to the wine cellar. The villain guessed that these wine jars were most likely the silver hidden by the old thief Li." Zhou Tongcai said.&1t;/p>
"Where is Lin Erdan?" Xu Xianchun asked.&1t;/p>
"When Lin Erdan came back to have dinner that day and talked about this with the villain. When they finished the meal, they were sent by the old thief Li to Suzhou to buy goods. After more than a month, the news came back that they encountered a strong wind while sailing, and the boat capsized and everyone died. In the end, the old thief Li sent three hundred taels of silver to the dozen people's families." Zhou Tongcai said, "The villain felt that this was a bit strange at that time, so he didn't dare to mention it to others."&1t;/p>
Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijin looked at each other, and their faces showed surprise. If Zhou Tongcai said that he was not a lie, this strange thing was definitely related to Li Sancai's Tibetan silver. Lin Erdan's dozen people died incredibly strange.&1t;/p>
"Okay, if you find Tibetan silver, you should remember your great achievements and submit them to the emperor and give them a reward." Xu Xianchun immediately said to Zhou Tongcai.&1t;/p>
"Thank you, sir." Zhou Tongcai replied.&1t;/p>
The factory guards who found the clue immediately began to track down the Lijia Liquor Store in the east of the city. Among the piles of contracts, a house deed located in the east of the city was indeed revealed.&1t;/p>
After searching for it, it was no longer a wine shop, but a place with a locked door. According to the confirmation of the slave, this was the wine shop that was originally opened, but it closed down shortly after it was opened because there was no business.&1t;/p>
The Jingying immediately surrounded the shop and prohibited idle people from approaching.&1t;/p>
A group of factory guards immediately pried open the door of the store, and it looked like an ordinary shop inside. However, these experienced factory guards discovered a very hidden cellar entrance.&1t;/p>
Jinyiwei and the people from the East Factory were busy all night. They were already very tired, and they were shocked.&1t;/p>
Xu Xianchun and Wang Sijin were even more happy. There was definitely something wrong with this cellar. If it was just an ordinary wine cellar, there was no need to make the entrance so hidden.&1t;/p>
"Go down and take a look." Xu Xianchun took a torch and took the people down. Walking into the cellar, there was a lot of space inside, and there were indeed big wine jars.&1t;/p>
Xu Xianchun picked up the embroidered spring knife and smashed it directly into a wine jar with the scabbard.&1t;/p>
Bang!&1t;/p>
The wine jar shattered in response to the sound. In the fire, golden lights were seen reflected from the wine jar.&1t;/p>
"Gold is gold, all of them are gold bars." A Jinyiwei Liss exclaimed, and everyone looked at it. Isn't it? A wine jar filled with gold bars. With the broken wine jar, the gold bars scattered all over the floor.&1t;/p>
"Smash again!" Xu Xianchun quickly ordered his subordinates. He immediately smashed five or six jars, but the result was that there were still gold bars inside.&1t;/p>
"Move all out." Xu Xianchun was overjoyed and quickly ordered to the left and right. The wine jar in the cellar was moved out soon and then smashed open one by one.&1t;/p>
Inside, there are gold bars and gold bars, each gold bar is ten taels. The Jinyiwei and the East Factory counted on the spot and there were a total of 35,000.&1t;/p>
350,000 taels of gold!&1t;/p>
"This Li Sancai still underestimated him." Wang Sijin said in surprise. As a result of the investigation of the East Factory, Li Sancai's property should be around 30,000 taels.&1t;/p>
As a result, 350,000 taels were found for gold alone. Now 1 tael of gold in the Ming Dynasty can be exchanged for 13 taels of silver. In the conversion, it is 4.55 million taels.&1t;/p>
Soon all the gold was packed, then sealed and handed over to the Beijing camp troops. When the Jinyiwei and the East Factory personnel walked out of the wine shop, they were all searched by the Beijing camp soldiers to confirm whether there was any private hiding.&1t;/p>
After finishing the business, the inventory, the packing, and handing over, it was already the hour. At this time, the city of Tongzhou was filled with an uproar, from the state officials to the people.&1t;/p>
Outside Li Sancai's house, a large number of Beijing soldiers were guarding there. At the same time, seals were stamped everywhere, and the sealing of Li Sancai's assets continued. More than a dozen Li Sancai's shops were sealed in Tongzhou City.&1t;/p>
"The emperor arrested Mr. Li!"&1t;/p>
"Wanli is incompetent. At that time, Mr. Li just wrote a memorial to express his suffering among the people and was demoted by Wanli. Unexpectedly, Tianqi is even more incompetent, and Mr. Li is demoted to the people and will not let him go."&1t;/p>
"Yes! You're simply a fool!"&1t;/p>
The people of Tongzhou have been making trouble for Li Sancai. Li Sancai is the number one figure in Tongzhou. Even the magistrate has to politely call himself a student when he sees Li Sancai. At the same time, it is also the "pride" of the people of Tongzhou. Under the hype of those businessmen, Li Sancai's stories of being upright and honest and loving the people are widely circulated in the market.&1t;/p>
When a corrupt official reaches this point, he can really reach the highest level of "big treacherous like loyalty".&1t;/p>
However, when Li San realized that the gold bars he had hidden in the wine cellar were found by the factory guards, he instantly turned ashamed and fell to the ground softly, then burst into tears.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!