On September 11, 2018, the fourth year of Jiajing, Wuding Marquis Guo Xun disheveled his hair and left the imperial city from Zuo'anmen in a daze. He came to Chang'an Street. His official robe was stripped off and he was only wearing a white underwear. The afternoon sunlight made his figure as desolate as the autumn wind.

In the morning court this morning, Guo Xun took the initiative to submit a confession to the emperor, admitted that he had accepted the benefits of Yi Gang, the former commander of Shanxi, and found a position of commander of Taiyuan Wei for Li Fuda, who was named Zhang Yin.

Note that Guo Xun just admitted that he had accepted bribes from the middleman Yi Gang, the commander of Shanxi, and did not have direct contact with Zhang Yin. He also didn't know that Zhang Yin was Li Fu, the leader of the Maitreya Sect, so he was just corrupt and did not acquaint with Bai Lian's rebels. The crime was naturally much smaller.

Although Guo Xun pushed the main responsibility to the late Shanxi commander Yi Gang, Emperor Jiajing was still furious and wanted to kill Guo Xun's entire family. Even the noble group and the upstarts headed by Zhang Cong tried their best to plead, which scared Guo Xun very much. However, in the Wu Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing actually changed his mind and exempted Guo Xun from his death penalty. It is said that Empress Dowager Jiang came forward to plead for him.

However, although Emperor Jiajing exempted Guo Xun from his death penalty, he also deprived him of his official position and title, and confiscated one million taels of silver. If he wanted to cash the money, he had to pay it within one month, otherwise he would be a death sentence.

One million taels of silver is definitely an astronomical figure, but for a top noble like Guo Xun, you can still get it by gritting your teeth. After all, it is a martial arts family of more than 150 years, and the family is still quite strong. What makes Guo Xun the most painful is the title. That is the ancestor of the Guo family exchanged for blood. No matter how much money it can be bought, it will not be able to buy it. Without the title and power, the Guo family will quickly decline and eventually become a common person.

But there is no way, neither title nor money is as important as his own life. Now Guo Xun can only lose money (letter) to stop the disaster.

Guo Xun stood on Chang'an Street and looked back at Zuo'anmen behind him. He thought that he would not have the chance to enter this door again in the future. He felt extremely unwilling and even resentful. The title that the ancestors exchanged for blood and life was written off in just one sentence by the emperor. Since ancient times, the ruthless ones were the imperial family. The ancients really did not deceive me!

Boom...

The sound of cannons rumbled in the direction of Xizhimen, and a stream of smoke rose into the sky, shouts of killing came one after another, and the smell of blood came with the autumn wind. At this moment, Guo Xun, who was full of resentment, actually had a little hope that the Tartars would break through the city gate and kill in, so that the "ungrateful" old Zhu family would pay the price.

When Guo Xun returned to his home in Xiaofang like a resentful woman, a joint family search team composed of the Ministry of Justice and the Jinyiwei had already raided his mansion to the sky. All the gold and silver in the house were found and packed. Even the private money hidden by the concubine and maid were not spared. The Wuding Hou's mansion was in chaos and cried loudly.

At this moment, the boxes of gold and silver that were copied were placed in the front yard of Guo's mansion, and the officials of the Ministry of Justice were counting and checking. In the sun, the yellow gold, white silver, and the five-colored jewelry were shining brightly, dazzling.

Finally, Lu Bing took the list of records of property searches from Fei Bin, the head of the Ministry of Justice, and walked to Guo Xun with a complicated expression and said, "We were ordered to search the Guo Mansion, and we collected a total of 27,500 taels of gold, 25,600 taels of silver, 30 hu of pearls... and got a total of 65,000 taels of silver."

After reading it, Lu Bing asked, "Old Guo, you can hear it clearly. Jewelry and jade are all discounted at the market. Do you have any objections?"

"I heard it clearly, no objection!" Guo Xun squeezed out a smile that was even worse than crying and said, "I'm less hard-working!"

"Since there is no objection, then sign and seal it!" Lu Bing handed over the property list to Guo Xun, who took the signature and pressed the finger mold.

Lu Bing patted Lu Bing's shoulder and comforted him: "Old Guo, money is all external things. Let's take a look. If you spend all your money, you will come back again!"

Guo Xun nodded miserably. If the title is still there, he could indeed disperse all his money and come back. Now that he has even taken away the title, what's the point of getting back.

Lu Bing didn't care about that much. Guo Xun is already a salted fish now. If it weren't for the strong relationship between the two, he wouldn't have been too lazy to look at Guo Xun in front of him.

"Old Guo, you should find a way to take action as soon as possible. The remaining 350,000 taels must be collected within one month, otherwise the emperor will pursue it," Lu Bing reminded hypocritically.

Guo Xun couldn't help but complain secretly that there were indeed many shops and fields under his name. As long as they were sold, it would not be a problem to raise 500,000 taels. However, now the Tartars are besieging the city and the soldiers are in chaos. The situation is still unclear. Who would buy his shops and fields? Unless they are sold at a high price.

"I will get the remaining silver as soon as possible." Guo Xun could only grit his teeth, thinking in his heart which noble could borrow some money from to respond to the emergency.

Lu Bing, no matter how Guo Xun packed up a million taels of silver, he helped him anyway. If Guo Xun couldn't collect all the silver within a month, the emperor would cut down his head.

Lu Bing comforted Guo Xun with a few words hypocritical words, and ordered someone to transport all the confiscated property into the warehouse to confiscate it.

Guo Xun saw that the wealth he had accumulated over a hundred years was transported away by the Jinyiwei, and almost fainted from pain. He thought that he had to sell his property and collected the one million taels of silver. His anger became even stronger.

If a person is used to a life of superiority and wealth, if you suddenly take away all his power, status and money and leave him with nothing, he will probably hate you to death. This is the case with Guo Xun at this moment, his heart is full of resentment and resentment towards Emperor Jiajing.

Dingling... Dinglingling...

An exquisite carriage drove to the door of the Xu Mansion opposite and stopped. After a moment, two pretty maids with graceful figures got off the car. Their sweet faces turned out exactly the same, which was the beginning of spring and early summer.

Chuchun and Chuxia both carried baskets, and they must have just returned from purchasing. They probably saw that the gate of the Wuding Hou Mansion was open here, so they stopped at the same time, stretched their necks and looked in curiously.

Seeing this, Guo Xun's face darkened, his eyes suddenly became vicious, and his anger became even more intense. Why did Xu Jin's affair with the White Lotus Demon Witch only seized the title and demoted him, and he didn't even have to be punished for money, and he could even be a small eighth-rank official? And he just greedyed tens of thousands of dollars and was punished by the emperor to the end, and he had to be fined one million taels of silver. This was almost all his possessions, unfair, this was too unfair!!!

At this time, Guo Xun couldn't help but think of his eldest son Guo Shouqian. If he hadn't chased Xu Jin to Tongzhou, he wouldn't have died tragically under the hoof of the Tartars. Everything was harmed by Xu Jin!!

The more Guo Xun thought about it, the more hated he became, the more cold and vicious he looked. Chuchun, Chuxia and Guo Xun's eyes touched, and they were so scared that they were lost. They turned around and fled into the gate of Xu's mansion.

"Sister, the look of Wu Dinghou's eyes was really scary." Chuchun said in a frightened manner, and couldn't help but pat his chest.

Chu Xia also stuck out her tongue in fear and said, "It's really scary, Xu Fu, close the door quickly."

Xu Fu smiled disconcertedly and said, "Marquis Wuding has been deprived of his title and is the toothless tiger. I am afraid that he will do anything."

It was right when I thought about it in the early spring and early summer. Guo Xun had been taken away, but his master was newly appointed by the emperor as the governor of Zhili, the general of the Peaceful General. It was just underground and in the sky. Guo Xun dared to provoke this side unless his head was in the water.

Let’s talk about Chuchun and Chuxia returning to the backyard, and first went to see their mistress Xie Xiaowan, who asked quickly: “Have you caught the medicine?”

Chuchun nodded and took out a few packs of injured medicine from the basket. Xie Xiaowan took it and opened it and smelled it, and asked vigilantly: "Didn't you go directly to the pharmacy to grab the medicine?"

Chu Xia shook her head and said, "No, when we were buying vegetables, we asked the familiar stall owner to help us catch it."

Xie Xiaowan felt relieved when she heard this, handed one of the packs of the wounded medicine to Chuchun and said, "Fry this pack of medicine and give it to Han Qianhu."

Chuchun agreed and turned to the kitchen.

...

As night fell, Lu Bing was like an angry wild beast roaring at his confidant: "A group of people have been having a two-day or two nights. So many of you can't find a seriously injured and dying fugitive. What's the use of raising you?

I will give you another five days. If you can’t catch anyone, you will remove one arm for me. Go, now I will look for me. I will see people in my life and see the corpse in my life!"
Chapter completed!