"Yet, don't tell me?"

With a sneer, Shi Lei walked up to Third Young Master Wang and chopped him off with his sword.

"Poof!" The knife struck, and blood spurted out four to five feet away. Third Young Master Wang, whose head was in two parts, fell to the ground.

Blood was flowing along the stone bricks on the ground. The Fourth Young Master Wang beside him was completely frightened. He was kneeling on the ground and was so frightened that he had feces and urine flowing out. He just kept crying.

"Dad, dad, please tell me quickly. I don't want to die. I don't want to die yet."

The cries of the Fourth Young Master Wang also stopped abruptly as the knife went down.

Seeing his four sons being beheaded like this, Wang Denku was dumbfounded. He didn't expect this man to be so cruel. His body kept shaking and he glared at this man.

"You, you don't have to die..."

After saying that, he suddenly burst out laughing.

"You, you killed Wang's four sons just for money. Well, Wang will not tell you even if he dies. When the time comes, if you are in trouble, the person named Zhu will definitely kill you, haha...

"

Suddenly, Wang Denku's laughter stopped abruptly. He was horrified to see several officers and soldiers carrying a wooden box full of soil.

That, that's... that's the silver buried in the ground!

He, how did he find it?

"Did you find it?"

Shi Lei asked.

"Report to the commander that we found three places where silver was buried in the back house of the Wang family. There are five batches in total. There is one batch in the main courtyard. There is also a cellar under the side room. The silver is stored in the cellar.

…”

Listening to that man's report, Wang Denku was dumbfounded and lost his mind.

"How is this possible? How did they find him?"

Looking at Wang Denku's appearance, Shi Lei sneered.

"Wang, when Shi came here, the emperor specially gave Shi a magical weapon. Not to mention that you only buried it one foot deep, even if you buried it three to five feet deep, you could still bring out the money you buried!"

What artifact?

It's just a metal detector. What do Chinese businessmen like to do the most? That is to bury money in the ground, sometimes for hundreds of years! Even until the Anti-Japanese War, they still did this, and in the end many people took advantage of the little devil -

—They also have metal detectors! A lot of the silver that the little devils dug up from wealthy families in Shanxi was from the Ming Dynasty.

"You, you knew the silver from the beginning. Where is the silver?"

Wang Denku, who finally came to his senses, glared at Shi Lei and roared.

"Then, then why do you want to kill my son!"

"because……"

Shi Lei smiled.

"I just want to kill you for you to see!"

"ah!"

When Wang Dengku heard this, he became furious and roared loudly. The next moment, his vision went dark and he fell down.

Seeing this, the internal guard next to him quickly checked his pulse and then reported it.

"Commander, Wang Denku is dead!"

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Looking at Wang Denku who was furious and angry to death, Shi Lei sneered.

"It would be easier for him to die..."

Looking at the Wang family members who were crying together, Shi Lei said coldly.

"By order, the Wang family colluded with the Eastern captives and betrayed the country for glory. The crime is unforgivable! No one from the Wang family, old or young, will be spared! The female family members will be used as camp prostitutes!"

For a moment, the Wang Family Courtyard was filled with cries, and the cries were accompanied by desperate shouts, to which Shi Lei completely turned a deaf ear.

…

In the next few days, all businesses in Shanxi, large and small, were confiscated. No male was spared, and the female relatives were sent to the frontier fortress to work as camp prostitutes. Amidst the deafening cries, the whole Shanxi was in an uproar.

They never thought that the first blow of the new emperor after he ascended the throne would be a Shanxi merchant. A group of Shanxi merchants who had forgotten their ancestors, colluded with the Eastern captives, and killed millions of people!

While the whole country was indignant over the Shanxi businessmen's crimes of altering their manuscripts and colluding with the Donglu, in the courtyard of the post station outside Taiyuan City, silver boxes were piled up like a hill.

These silver boxes obtained from more than 300 Shanxi merchants were neatly stacked in the backyard. They were surrounded by officers and soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition.

In fact, in the past few years, in addition to being busy killing people, they have also been busy collecting silver from Shanxi merchants. It is not only the Wang family that hides silver, but Shanxi merchants of all sizes are used to burying their silver underground, and they will not bury all their silver.

The money is hidden in one place, but the money is scattered and hidden in various places.

In fact, the job of confiscating a home is quite laborious in itself.

This was true when copying the eight major Shanxi merchants, and the same was true for copying the large and small Shanxi merchants who were dependent on the eight major merchants. Almost all the Shanxi merchants who could be counted were all handed over to one pot.

And the evidence is conclusive. After all, Shi Lei has been collecting evidence for several years. The only flaw is that the Fan family escaped.

However, after the silver, gold, copper coins, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other results confiscated from the house were counted one by one, Shi Lei felt relieved.

The Fan family... there is still use in keeping him!

"Commander Shi, how much silver did you just say?"

Zhou Yuji's whole body was shaking uncontrollably, and his eyes were filled with horror.

In the past half month, he has been fully cooperating with Shi Lei's actions. This is an action personally deployed by His Majesty, and he must fully cooperate.

Taking a deep breath, Shi Lei spoke in as calm a tone as possible.

"The amount of cash copied out alone is more than 11,100,600,000 taels, and this does not include the gold, antiques, calligraphy and paintings copied, and the preliminary house deeds and land titles. If all these things are added up, I am afraid that

More than 20,000 taels!”

These people are all "family members"!

Who doesn’t have a great family and a great business?

Zhou Yuji, who was trembling all over, stood up from his chair, stared at Shi Lei and asked.

"Commander Shi, with so much silver, is there any miscalculation?"

"This number is absolutely unmistakable."

Shi Lei said casually.

"The problem now is how to transport the money to the capital, and how to arrange the land!"

Compared with money, land is the real big deal. There are more than 300 large and small Shanxi merchants, and none of them doesn't have thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land.

Looking at Shi Lei, Zhou Yuji said,

"Gold and silver utensils must be transported to the capital. After all, after His Majesty ascended the throne, silver was used everywhere. This money can be used by the court, but what about the land?"

"Land? The command is worried?"

Zhou Yuji tentatively said.

"Are you worried that someone will take the opportunity to engulf you?"

"It's not a worry, but it is definitely possible. These people's lands are not only spread across Shanxi, North and South Zhili, Huguang, but also Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and even Sichuan. Is it possible that they didn't take the opportunity to engulf them?"

"Commander, don't worry. I'm keeping an eye on Shanxi. No one dares to do anything. As for the outside..."

Zhou Yuji said with cold eyes.

"I really can't believe that at this time, there are still people who are not afraid of death!"

…

The first year of Qiansheng was undoubtedly a devastating blow to more than 300 Shanxi merchants in Shanxi. Many of them have been in existence since the early Ming Dynasty. The so-called "Eight Imperial Merchants" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also These are the eight royal businessmen, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa. They are just representatives of this group.

Although these eight families cannot be said to be prominent families in Shanxi, they have been doing business for generations and have accumulated wealth beyond people's imagination. Because it was the emperor's order, the newly appointed governor of Shanxi did not dare not to check everything, let alone not Copy it to the end.

The King of Shanxi merchants came to the treasury, punished by execution for crimes, and killed all members of his family. None of his female relatives became prostitutes. My family was confiscated and exiled.

Jin Liangyu, a merchant from Jin Dynasty, was punished by execution for crimes, and all the female family members of his family were expelled as prostitutes. The clan's family was confiscated and exiled.

King Dayu of the Shanxi Shang Dynasty was punished by execution for any crime, and all the female family members of his family were expelled as prostitutes. My family was confiscated and exiled.

Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa...

There was no exception, there was no judgment, no trial, only a piece of imperial decree, which truly interpreted the saying "When the emperor is angry, millions of corpses will be laid down", he himself will be executed and his family will be killed. None of the female family members will become prostitutes.

What is a camp prostitute?

Fighting is a man's business, and repressed emotions are unavoidable in military life. In order to comfort the sergeants, there are camp prostitutes. This thing began in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was renamed "Jiaofangsi" in the Ming Dynasty. However, that place has nothing to do with ordinary soldiers, so The Pinglu army was far away in Liaodong at that time. In order to comfort the soldiers, they re-established camp prostitutes, most of whom were female prisoners of the East.

As for the officials from each family, regardless of whether they knew it or not, they were all dismissed and sent into exile! The officials who were appointed by the ancestors took back the imperial edicts. The Jinshi archway and Xiaoyi archway of each family were all demolished immediately!

Throughout Shanxi, more than 300 Shanxi merchants, large and small, were wiped out in one fell swoop. No matter how many members there were in the family, the men were killed at the first opportunity, and the women's family members were thrown into the army. Of course, the most important thing was to confiscate their homes.

When a house is searched, it is not only the money and jewelry in the home that are confiscated, but more importantly, the fields and houses. These things are scattered all over the place, making it difficult to search at a time. Moreover, these Shanxi merchants are all "cunning rabbits with three caves". , the money alone is buried in various places, not to mention the dead objects, and fixed assets such as fields are scattered in various places, which is also conducive to tax evasion, so it is the most time-consuming and troublesome to count and check.

It took almost a whole year of hard work, with the joint efforts of local governments, to finally copy all these things. Of course, in this process, did anyone show favoritism, did anyone enrich themselves... To be honest , there is really no way to avoid it.
Chapter completed!