Two soldiers from the Red Shirt Regiment were about to break down the door with sledgehammers when the door of Yang Mansion opened by itself. A middle-aged woman in plain clothes stood in the door with a calm expression, looked directly at Liu Ziguang and said: "My lord, are you here?"
A house raider, right?"
Liu Ziguang saw that she was neatly groomed and had a calm demeanor. She was probably not a servant of the Yang family, so he asked, "Who are you?" After speaking, he shook his head towards the door, and the soldiers immediately filed in.
"Me?" The middle-aged woman smiled sadly, and the soldiers on both sides poured into the Yang Mansion like a tide. She didn't even look at it, and said to herself: "I am the wife of Yang Bo, the admiral of Dongchang, and the first-ranked wife of the imperial court."
Whenever a house is searched, the house and the people are searched together. Everything related to Yang Bo will be confiscated. Houses, fields, facades, shares, gold and silver treasures, vehicles and horses, maids and employees, as well as Yang Bo's wife and children, if he has any
If so, this woman claims to be Yang Bo's wife, and of course she falls within the scope of confiscating the house. Judging from her age, she must have been with Yang Bo for a long time.
"It turns out to be Mrs. Yang, please come to the yard to gather. I have ordered to raid the house. From now on, all the plants and trees in the Yang family will be confiscated, and Mrs. Yang is no exception." Liu Ziguang said politely. Although it was
The wife of the chief eunuch is, after all, a poor woman whose husband has just died, so there is no need to scream and scare others.
Mrs. Yang nodded, said no more, turned around and entered the courtyard. Liu Ziguang followed behind, walked around the screen wall, entered the second door, and arrived at the entrance of the courtyard. The scene in front of him shocked him.
The yard was filled with gold and silver treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, land deeds, silks and satins, ginseng and deer antlers, all valuable things were neatly stacked in the yard, surrounded by a circle of red-shirted soldiers holding lanterns and torches.
, they had just come in and were stunned by this scene. The mountains of gold and silver glowed brightly under the light of the torches, which was really shocking.
"Don't bother me, sir. The convict has already arranged the things in the house and is waiting for the court to take them over. Those servants and maids have already returned their deeds of betrayal and sent them away, except for these two." Mrs. Yang pointed.
The two timid maids standing aside said, "You have to follow me and serve me in the prison, so I have no choice but to stay. I also ask you to show your loyalty to them and help them." Mrs. Yang said lightly.
There are only three people left in such a big house. It seems that Mrs. Yang is very foresighted, but her idea of bringing the maid into the prison is a bit naive. Yang Bo is not an ordinary prison officer, it is treason.
For a serious crime, it is certain that he will be put to death at a very early stage, and the whole family will be executed. Where is the theory of heavenly prison?
"Mrs. Yang, I have something unclear. Since you could dismiss the slaves in advance, why don't you escape by yourself? You know, as a family member of an imperial prisoner, you will be beheaded. Aren't you afraid?" Liu Ziguang asked strangely.
"Afraid, of course I'm afraid, but the convict has been afraid for ten years, and she doesn't want to live such a life of fear anymore. What's going to come will eventually come. The sins my husband has committed are heinous, and someone should pay for him.
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"You are so brave. I admire you a little. I will hire a sharp knifeman to send Mrs. Yang on her way. As for these two maids, I can decide not to kill them and let them take care of you before you are executed.
Your last trip." Liu Ziguang is not a compassionate person, but he still has a bit of humanitarianism. Since Mrs. Yang took the initiative to clear out all the family property, saving him a lot of time, this small favor can still be done
A bunch of them.
"Thank you, sir. Seeing that this gentleman is wearing a python robe and a jade belt at such a young age, I guess you are the current celebrity in front of the Queen Mother - Admiral Liu of Nanchang." Mrs. Yang asked with a soft blessing.
"It's me."
"Mr. Liu is the new Queen Mother and has been sent here for things like confiscating the house. It seems that your favor is not inferior to that of Eunuch Li."
It seems that Mrs. Yang has not yet understood what is happening outside, and actually thinks that the Queen Mother has won the coup. No wonder, Liu Ziguang has always appeared as a pawn of the Queen Mother, so this misunderstanding is understandable.
"Li Lianying has been sent to the Heavenly Prison. Now he is in charge of the Emperor's personal affairs. My current position is as the Minister of the Imperial Bodyguard of the Forbidden Road in the Inner Court."
Liu Ziguang is in a very good mood now. At least half of the gold and silver treasures in the yard will go into his pocket. The business of confiscating homes under orders is almost the same as embezzlement under orders, so he said a few more words to Mrs. Yang.
.But after hearing this, Mrs. Yang's eyes suddenly lit up.
"The Queen Mother...is no longer interfering in political affairs?" Mrs. Yang seemed a little unconvinced, but she thought that Liu Ziguang had no reason to lie to her, so she continued: "As an important minister around the emperor, can you say something to the prisoner's wife?"
, this is a secret that has been kept for ten years. Maybe the emperor will pardon the convict woman after hearing it.
There is also such a thing. A eunuch's wife actually holds a secret that can allow the emperor to pardon him. Liu Ziguang's interest immediately aroused. But since it is a secret, it is difficult to tell it in front of so many people. He pondered and replied: "
This officer came here specifically to search the house. Mrs. Yang is so cooperative, so I will do this for you. Tell me, what’s the secret?"
Mrs. Yang hesitated again. As Yang Bo's wife for many years, she had developed some suspicious habits due to the influence she had experienced. Since the Queen Mother was not dead, there was a possibility of making a comeback. If this sinister woman knew this secret, then
The consequences would be disastrous. Ten years of keeping the secret would be ruined. Thinking of this, she said: "Actually, it's nothing. The convict woman used to be a female official in the emperor's palace and once served the emperor..."
So, how big of a deal do I think it is? Liu Ziguang nodded and said: "I know this, and I will mention it to the emperor when the opportunity comes."
The search of the Yang Mansion went very smoothly. A total of 300 gold ingots, 2,000 silver ingots, 10,000 Lu Song gold coins, more than 300,000 taels of silver notes from Rishengchang, and two pure gold and pure silver utensils were found.
There are large cars, countless treasures, jewelry, antiques and porcelain, two cabinets of calligraphy and paintings, and a large number of house deeds: there are more than 30 shops facing the streets in the capital alone, five restaurants, and good paddy fields in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
There are tens of thousands of hectares of mulberry fields, and this does not include the dry shares of industries and mines in various places. The specific amount is difficult to calculate at the moment.
But this is not difficult for Liu Ziguang, because General Liu is an accountant, and he also called his former lackey Ding Libin to check the accounts together. Ding Libin has become much more mature after working as the accountant of Ziguang Car Dealer during this period.
He knows the prices of various gold and silver, the value of shop property, rental income, etc. With him, it is easy to calculate the results of house raids.
"Sir, the Jin Yiwei are here to pick up prisoners." A subordinate came over and reported that the East Factory is gone now, and the South Factory does not yet have the conditions for interrogation and detention, so Qi Zhenming's Jin Yiwei is still responsible for handling the prisoners.
"Okay, let them take the prisoners away, and tell the leader not to bully them, just do what I say." Liu Ziguang warned.
Mrs. Yang and the two maids were taken away by the Jinyiwei people. Only the brothers in the red shirt group were left in the yard. "These are the stolen goods of Yang Bo's traitor who exploited the people. They need to be inspected carefully. No carelessness is allowed. Someone is here."
Ah, load the car for me and go back." Liu Ziguang said seriously.
Soldiers are not stupid. They know that if you make a fortune, your share will definitely be indispensable. Everyone happily loaded up the truck and rushed to transport the treasure overnight. Liu Ziguang took Ding Libin to the Huang Mansion not far away.
Huang Huangrong's house was much more chaotic. There was a lot of chaos, with people crying for father and mother. Although Huang Huangrong was a eunuch, his perverted desires were stronger than ordinary people. He had more than fifty concubines alone.
And they are all young and beautiful women from good families, the oldest is only twenty-five or six years old, and the youngest is only thirteen or fourteen years old. The soldiers in the red shirt regiment are all gritting their teeth. They are all strong men with strong needs.
Except for some older men who begged for wives in Jinan Prefecture, most of them were single. But Huang Huangrong, an old castrate who occupied the manhole and shitted himself, a useless man begged for so many wives.
It is really unacceptable.
Huang Huangrong's mansion was one of the main targets after the coup began. A group of Donglin Army troops were the first to attack, but the red shirt group was given the job of confiscating the house. They couldn't swallow this. At this moment
Seeing the gold and silver treasures and beautiful women that had been copied all over the yard, the leader of the Donglin Army, Gu Dahai, couldn't bear it anymore. He didn't know Liu Ziguang and didn't know how powerful the red shirt group was, so he spoke very rudely:
"Wuna man, we brothers have worked hard to attack the Huang Mansion. We should share at least half of these treasures and women."
"Bold! These treasures are all imperial property stolen by Huang Eun, and they should be returned to the inner treasury. These mothers...these suffering sisters are all women of the people who were robbed by Huang Eun. Why are they half mine and half yours? What nonsense!" Liu Ziguang
He shouted with official authority.
"Why should we give you what we have robbed with blood and sweat?" Gu Dahai didn't know where Qi Zhenming recruited this reckless hero. He didn't understand any rules and actually started to choke with Liu Ziguang.
Both times were not good, and he was about to use force at the same time. At the moment when the situation was tense, Qi Zhenming suddenly arrived at the scene. After a while of scolding, Gu Dahai obediently took the people aside and Qi Zhenming took out a bag of things and handed it to Liu Ziguang.
Said: "This is something copied from Huang Yi's house."
Qi Zhenming obviously brought something from outside, so how could it be copied from the Huang family? Liu Ziguang suspiciously opened a corner of the cloth bag and looked at it. It turned out to be a bright yellow dragon robe.
"Oh, yes, yes, I copied it from Huang Eunuch's house. Thank you Master Qi for the tip." Liu Ziguang suddenly realized that this was framed by Huang Jinrong. After all, this old eunuch was a veteran of three dynasties.
He has been imprisoned in the sky prison, but the punishment still requires corresponding judicial procedures. This can show the wisdom of today's Holy Emperor.
Seeing Liu Ziguang's understanding, Qi Zhenming laughed and said goodbye: "Mr. Liu is slowly ransacking the house, Qi will go first."
"Wait a moment, I still have something to ask." Liu Ziguang has always been opposed to the implicated system of killing all the families. The incident with Mrs. Yang Bo just now touched him a lot, and now he just wants to ask Qi Zhenming for advice.
"Why are you asking for advice? Sir, if you need Qi to clear up any doubts, please tell me."
"Are all members of the eunuch party going to be executed?" Liu Ziguang asked, pointing to the more than fifty weeping young ladies in the yard.
Qi Zhenming immediately understood what Liu Ziguang meant and said with a smile: "Master Liu is very kind and gentle. The "Da Ming Code" I enacted under the instruction of Emperor Taizu stipulates that the first offenders of serious crimes such as treason and treason must be executed at the earliest possible time."
Their grandfathers, sons, grandsons, brothers and people who live with them, regardless of their surnames, uncles, uncles or brothers' sons, who are over sixteen years old, regardless of their differences in national origin, will be executed regardless of whether they are sick or disabled. However, female relatives are not included here.
As a result, they are usually sent to the Textile Department to work as prostitutes or to the families of meritorious officials as slaves."
"I see, Liu has been taught a lesson." Liu Ziguang felt relieved. These tender little girls no longer need to behead their heads, and they can also pay slaves to the hero's family. All they have to do is inform the emperor tomorrow. This is a little bit of face.
He was still confident. His brothers stared at these women as greedily as wolves that had been hungry all winter staring at fat lambs. It was time to solve their personal problems.
Having said that, Qi Zhenming bowed his hands to Liu Ziguang again and was about to leave. However, Gu Dahai, who was beside him, jumped out and shouted again, "If you give the hero a slave, doesn't that mean you give him a slave to us?"
We made the greatest contribution in attacking the Huang Mansion, Brother Qi, please reward these ladies to your brothers."
Which pot should I pick? Liu Ziguang had made it clear that he was destined to take over these women, yet Gu Dahai still jumped out to fight. It was really disrespectful! Qi Zhenming became cold-faced on the spot: "The imperial court has its own rules, who gets the credit?"
The Great Sage has his own discretion. Whoever the family members of these criminals are rewarded by the imperial court belongs to them, and it is not up to me to make the decision."
"Brother Qi, that's not what you said back then. Back then, you said that you would level the East Factory and that you could ask for money or women. Why did you change your mind now? The two geldings, Huang Huangrong and Yang Bo, have fallen.
, besides the Emperor, aren't you the biggest brother Qi in this capital? Why can't you do this little thing?" Gu Dahai looked confused. Then his eyes turned to Liu Ziguang, and he shouted as if he had discovered something:
"It must be these boys who want to fight with us, which is why Brother Qi is in trouble. They have no strength as a bird, and they haven't hurt a single hair. Now they are here to steal our money and women. We don't accept it."
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"Unbridled!" The veins on Qi Zhenming's forehead throbbed. The Donglin Party is a political group dominated by civil servants and scholars. In addition to a group of backbones cultivated since childhood, it also makes extensive use of reckless heroes recruited from the world.
Dahai is such a person. It was because he was afraid that they would conflict with Liu Ziguang's red shirt group that Qian Qianyi specially sent Qi Zhenming to deliver the dragon robe in person. He did not expect that such a thing would really happen.
"Don't be rude in front of the imperial guards!" Qi Zhenming actually lost his mind and wanted to use Liu Ziguang's official title to scare Gu Dahai. He had forgotten that Gu Dahai was a grass bandit. The one he was least afraid of and most disgusted with was an official. Otherwise, how could he have done it?
Follow him to rebel.
"What a bullshit minister, I won't accept that! These bitches, I'm going to make a decision! Who dares to say no, ask my brother first if he agrees!" Gu Dahai raised the Five Tiger Door-Breaking Knife in his hand.