A vigorous political purge movement has begun. Liang Shicheng and Shi Xuehe are just the beginning. Then one after another officials are investigated, demoted or beheaded. Everyone in the court is in danger, fearing that one day Zhao Huan's knife will swing at his head.
, and every official who was investigated, without exception, had his property confiscated.
Zhao Huan was very satisfied. The treasury was already very empty. The amount of silver stolen from these officials' homes was beyond his imagination. The Jin people's request had been made, two million taels of silver and six hundred thousand taels of gold. This was still Dazai.
This was the result of Zhang Bangchang's hard work, and more than 500,000 taels of silver were confiscated from Liang Shicheng's home alone. Together with Shi Xuehe, Zhu Conglong and others later, only a dozen officials were able to make up this amount.
But Zhao Huan would never have thought that while Zhang Bangchang collected the money for him, most of it was sent to Duoqi Zhuoma's residence.
Seven million taels of silver and one and a half million taels of gold, not counting other treasures.
This is a terrifying figure. The entire Song Dynasty's finances could not receive so much in a year, but now it has all gone to Xu Zizhen's family. Mou Xianting and the Duan family brothers and sisters have already left first, and Duoqi Zhuoma and Yelvfu have not yet arrived.
After leaving, they took turns escorting the gold and silver sent by Zhang Bangchang to Xu Zizhen's home in Yingtian Mansion.
This is the safest way, because no one dares to check their mission at any checkpoint. Just kidding, Liang Shicheng’s precedent is there, who dares to live and die?
Of course, Zhao Huan didn't know this. He only knew that he had collected millions of taels of white money, and it was the best way to solve the problem at hand. Now he was working hard to be his "wise king".
As the instigator of all these events, Xu Zizhen is now on his way from Bianjing to Taiyuan. He is in a good mood, because before he left, another large sum of money was credited to his account. This is the happiest thing for him.
"Xu Zizhen, how could Zhang Bangchang do such a bold thing for you? Have you got hold of him?"
Su San was silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking the doubts in his heart.
Xu Zizhen laughed: "He is the grand prime minister of the dynasty, what leverage can I use to hold him back? He did this for me willingly."
Su San said: "I don't understand, isn't he afraid that the emperor will find out and chop off his head?"
"No." Xu Zizhen said with certainty, "First of all, Zhang Bangchang will not die so early. His prime minister has a good job, and... Zhao Huan will have something happen to him before he finds out about this."
Su San was startled. Fortunately, we were on the official road now and there was no one around. Otherwise, Xu Zizhen should have been exterminated based on these words.
Xu Zizhen leaned forward on his horse and whispered: "Zhang Bangchang didn't dare to do it at first, but I told him one thing - the Jin people will soon defeat Bianjing, and instead of getting this silver cheap, they might as well give it away first."
Go to my place, as for Zhao Huan, hey, he only has a few days left as emperor."
"You mean the Jin people are about to attack Bianjing? Then..." Su San's eyes widened in shock, and suddenly he figured out something else, "Then when you go back to Taiyuan, you want Wanyan Ang to make preparations in advance.
?”
Xu Zizhen glanced at her in surprise: "Hey, you understand so quickly? It's rare."
Su San spat: "Bah! My aunt is not that stupid."
Xu Zizhen said with a smile: "I said you are fat and out of breath. In fact, I am not looking for Wanyan Ang, but Brother Han Wu. You don't understand. He will be our main anti-gold general in the next few decades. We cannot do without him."
Su San felt that she could not understand Xu Zizhen more and more. She could firmly believe that Xu Zizhen would not lie to her, but where did Xu Zizhen's predictions come from? What was the basis for them? Su San would never believe that he was a god. How could he?
The deity is so lustful, has married so many wives, and has so many beauties.
Xu Zizhen didn't say any more. There were some things that Su San couldn't understand, and there was no point in explaining them. Besides, Bianjing was the capital of the Song Dynasty, so it was not a good thing to be conquered by the Jin people. It was always a big shame.
In addition, Xu Zizhen had two other things to do when he went to Taiyuan this time. First, he wanted to see the development of his caravan in Taiyuan, because he had never cared about it since it was handed over to Hu Qing, and the shopkeeper did something wrong.
Sorry, another thing was the whereabouts of Shui Liuli. Xu Zizhen had a vague feeling. Although Zhao Gou kept saying that Shui Liuli would not be in danger this time, he still felt that something was wrong, otherwise it would not have been possible for him to be there for so long.
No news came back, this is not normal.
"Xu Zizhen, what exactly did you say to the emperor? Hasn't he always been timid and cautious? Why did he demote officials so much this time? Isn't he afraid of civil strife?"
Xu Zizhen said: "We can't care about the civil strife. Zhao Ji is not dead yet. Zhao Huan just came to the throne and was always worried that his foundation was unstable. Moreover, those old ministers relied on Zhao Ji's favor and did not take him seriously as the new emperor. Everyone is angry.
, wouldn’t he take advantage of Zhao Ji’s absence in the capital to replace his lackeys?”
He told Su San what he said to Zhao Huan, and then waited proudly for Su San's admiration for him, but unexpectedly, Su San's disdain came.
"Have you ever studied at all? What does it mean to fight against the outside world? To call it a fight against the outside world, one must first settle the internal affairs. It can only be said to be foreign aggression."
"Uh...is that wrong? Mr. Zhao Huan didn't even mention reminding me..." Xu Zizhen scratched his head in embarrassment. Fortunately, it was Su San, otherwise Gao Pujun or Wen Xian might not have been despised.
After walking leisurely for a few days, we finally arrived in Taiyuan. From a distance, we could see the gate of Taiyuan City open. The flow of people coming in and out was very dense. From time to time, we could see motorcades, obviously coming from all over the country.
The gathering of merchants.
Xu Zizhen was very satisfied with his work. Originally, Taiyuan Mansion had been surrounded by the Jin people. After Bianjing was defeated, the Jin people would come back and break it. However, under his layout, Taiyuan, which was originally in dire straits, was destroyed.
It turned into a prosperous and lively free trade zone, which would be rare even in his time eight hundred years later.
After entering the city, Xu Zizhen slowed down and walked slowly on horseback. The streets were bustling with people, and businessmen wearing exotic costumes could be seen from time to time. Apparently, his caravan attracted many neighboring countries.
merchants, such as Xixia, Tubo, and even farther away Uighur, Koryo, and Black Khan.
Xu Zizhen pointed in front of him and said to Su San: "Look, what's wrong with my brother's poor education? What is the most important thing these days? Making money! Money is king, and knowing how to study is useless."
Su San curled her lips and ignored him. Anyway, she knew that Xu Zizhen could make blind decisions, and he could make a dead person live, so she just knew it.
But at this moment, a disdainful voice came from beside him: "Huh, that's nonsense!"
Xu Zizhen was stunned: "Huh? Is there anyone in Taiyuan City who dares to despise me?"