The golden book and iron certificate are the privilege certificates awarded to the heroes by Zhu Yuanzhang in imitation of the Tang Dynasty system.
On it are engraved in gold characters his meritorious service, the titles he received, his treatment, and the number of times he avoided death.
Naturally, ordinary people would never see this thing, but for these honorary guards, it has no deterrent effect at all.
"Put it away, Brother Liao, as if no one has this iron plate." Mei Yi advised: "The edict made it very clear, it only asked us to search for evidence, it did not ask us to arrest people, let alone kill people.
, I don’t need your iron card to avoid death.”
Zhu Xian also walked to Liao Quan and whispered: "Now we are here to search to protect your family from being disturbed. Every valuable thing in the house will be mine, right?"
"This..." Liao Quan didn't expect that the other party would be so loyal.
"If it were someone else, it would be hard to say." He sighed again: "We are all a family of meritorious officials. No matter what is found, the emperor will still give him a lenient sentence in the end."
"Yes, Guan Guan can no longer confront the emperor." Mei Yi also nodded and said: "Otherwise, you will regret it too late."
"Alas..." Under the persuasion of the two of them, Liao Quan could only lower his head and waved his servants to get out of the way.
"Let's get started." Mei Yi then ordered the guard Qinjun: "Remember what we said, keep your hands and feet clean!"
"Yes!" the officers and soldiers responded, and under the leadership of their respective flags, they rushed to each courtyard separately.
Although it is said that there is no harassment, the screams of women, the curses of men, and the sound of banging are still inevitably heard throughout the Hou Mansion...
"These bastards!" Zhu Xian, who was having tea with Liao Quan in the front hall, cursed, stood up and said, "I'll take a look from behind and tell them to be careful!"
"Well, let's go." Mei Yi nodded, took a sip of tea, and sat as steady as a mountain.
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Zhu Xian came to the back house and went straight to Liao Yongzhong's study.
His left guard soldiers had already guarded the door. When they saw the commander coming, they quickly opened the thick door curtain.
As Zhu Xian approached the luxuriously decorated study, a wave of heat suddenly hit his face.
Liao Yongzhong's house was indeed extravagant. All rooms, no matter whether they were occupied or not, had charcoal pots lit all day long, so that he and his family could go to any room at any time without getting cold.
The study room was already in a mess, and several of his trusted soldiers were taking down all the books, letters, calligraphy and paintings from the bookshelf, the table, and the Arhat's bed and packing them into boxes.
"How was the harvest?" Zhu Xian asked.
"The most valuable ones are these letters." His younger brother Zhu Yu delivered a wooden box to him.
"Well, let's take a look." Zhu Xian quickly flipped through the box and found two letters, both written by Liu Ji.
Zhu Xian took out one and read it. It was Liu Ji who thanked Liao Yongzhong for sending gifts many times and said that he lived a simple life and had no need for those valuables, so he sent it back with the letter and asked him not to send any more gifts.
He took out another one, it was almost the same, it was a goddess who refused to lick the dog, without spending a word more.
"I didn't expect that the arrogant Marquis Deqing would be so humble in front of Old Man Liu." Zhu Xian was secretly happy, but then he couldn't be happy anymore when he remembered Xiang Hu's instructions.
Hu Weiyong asked him to see if he could find the letters exchanged between Liao Yongzhong and Liu Bowen.
If so, check to see if there is any shocking information about the two of them hooking up.
Obviously these two letters are at best considered unrequited love by Marquis Deqing, not hookup...
Fortunately, Prime Minister Hu also expected it and told him that there is no need to panic in this situation, we have operations.
When his subordinates carried the box out, only the two brothers were left in the study.
"No one has read these two letters, right?" Zhu Xian asked in a low voice.
"No, I collected all the letters with my own hands, and none of them have read them." Zhu Yu laughed softly: "A bunch of people are blind, but they actually read it in vain."
Zhu Xian glanced at him, and Zhu Yu guarded the door and watched what was going on outside.
Then Zhu Xian threw the two autographed letters from Liu Ji into the charcoal basin.
The blue flame suddenly turned orange, and the envelope and letter paper quickly turned to gray and curled...
But Zhu Xian quickly used the tongs to take out the two half-burned letters, shook them hard, and put out the fire.
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At dusk, sunset over Purple Mountain.
There are no lights in Wuying Hall yet, so it looks a little dark.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang has been here all afternoon, discussing something with Hu Weiyong, no one is allowed in.
When Cao Xiu came back with several large boxes, Eunuch Wu quickly led the little flamers in to light the lamps.
The palace lanterns were lit one after another, illuminating the emperor's face in a dark and uncertain manner.
"Your Majesty, they're all here." Cao Xiu clasped his fists and bowed.
"Then, Wei Chen will retire first." Hu Weiyong saw the opportunity and resigned.
"You stay and we read together." Zhu Yuanzhang refused to let him go, and then said to Cao Xiu: "Read the letter first."
Cao Xiu quickly presented the wooden box.
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and Eunuch Wu and the others hurriedly retreated.
The emperor then opened the box, but was stunned. "What's going on?"
Hu Weiyong took a closer look and saw some blackened and yellowed paper remains on a thick pile of letters.
"Oh, Zhu Xian found this from the charcoal basin in Deqinghou's study. He saw there were words on it, so he put it in together." Cao Xiu reported.
"Are you there?" Zhu Yuanzhang put on his reading glasses, carefully picked up a fragment, and looked at it carefully.
"Back to the emperor, Wei Chen is not here." Cao Xiu said with a slight sweat on his forehead: "The emperor has set an iron rule that at any time, one of the left and right captains must guard the palace. Violators will be severely punished. Therefore, Wei Chen must stay behind.
In the palace."
"Isn't Liu Ying also at the Yamen of the Duwei Mansion?" Zhu Yuanzhang pulled down his glasses and looked at Cao Xiu with a gloomy look.
"Liu Duwei was in the dungeon of the inner prison and could not leave even an inch. The ministers thought that he could not fulfill his duty of guarding the palace." Cao Xiu lowered his head lower.
"It's stupid." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head speechlessly and didn't delve into it any further.
Cao Xiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He is the son of Zhu Yuanzhang's godmother, Aunt Wang. Aunt Wang and Liu Jizu helped Zhu Chongba through the most difficult time, so Boss Zhu was not generally tolerant of Liu Ying and him.
It's just that sometimes, being too tolerant is not a good thing.
Zhu Yuanzhang exhaled and began to piece together the fragments, and asked Hu Weiyong to help.
With Zhancha Kung Fu, everything that can be put together has been put together.
"This is a letter written by Uncle Chengyi." Zhu Yuanzhang took off his flower glasses.
"I think so too." Hu Weiyong said hurriedly: "And judging from the signature, there are at least two letters."
"What about the content?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
"There are too many things missing. I can't even guess by looking at it. It's probably Uncle Chengyi who received the gift from him and wrote a letter to express his gratitude. I can't guess the rest."
"Well, almost." Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his frown and said, "The burned part is the key point."
"Let's read the other letters first." Hu Weiyong looked unconcerned.
"That's fine." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and the emperor and his ministers poured the letters in the box onto the imperial desk and read them one by one.
There are roughly three types of these letters. One is correspondence with nobles, the other is letters written to him by the Chaohu brothers, and the third is letters home.
Another thing these people have in common is that they are all vulgar and fearless.
The letter contained a lot of violent information, and there were many slanderous remarks about Boss Zhu. Boss Zhu was so angry that he scolded his mother countless times!
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