Chapter 13 Looting small officials and huge corruption!
Zhou Yan and Fang Yun each lit the small flag of a team of Jin Yiwei, the general flag, and then split up under Lin Nuo's order.
Fang Yun led his team and Brother Zhao to the Facai Casino and the homes of Qi San and others to search their homes. As for Zhou Yan, he led the team to follow Lin Nuo and rushed towards the mansion where Li Mo was located.
Li Mo's mansion is located in the most affluent area in the east of the city. However, at this time, the huge mansion was quiet, and there was a faint smell of blood surrounding it. The smell of blood did not completely dissipate overnight.
Last night, Xiu'er entered Li Mo's house at night, captured four members of Li Mo's family, and even killed all the servants in his house. It was for this reason that in the middle of the night, Zhang Yan led the policemen to enter Li Mo's house with great fanfare.
, so they encountered no resistance.
When Lin Nuo led a group of royal guards to the gate of this luxuriously decorated mansion, an old man suddenly shouted in anger in this huge mansion: "God damn Lin Nuo, he is asking me to
I have no children or grandchildren, I..."
Bang!
Zhou Yanbaihu kicked open the door, interrupting the angry shouts coming from inside.
Lin Nuo looked around and saw no one else in the wide courtyard. There was only a white-haired old man holding a kitchen knife, tremblingly looking at the Jin Yi guards who rushed in with a fierce look.
"I am Lin Nuo, what do you want to do?"
After Lin Nuo finished speaking, the guards in uniform all around him, who were full of murderous aura, stared at the old man with strange eyes, quite admiring him.
Dare to speak nonsense in front of the murderous Lin Qianhu, this old man is really courageous!
The strange looks from the guards around him made the old man feel a little panicked, but he immediately calmed down, raised the kitchen knife and pointed it at Lin Nuo and said angrily: "Traitor, I have already given up my descendants, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Today, I will
I’ll fight you!”
As he said that, the old man dragged his old body and rushed toward Lin Nuo tremblingly with a kitchen knife, as if it was either you or me who would die.
"You're still brave, let's leave the body intact!" Lin Nuo said calmly.
"yes!"
Zhou Yan accepted the order, and the sword on his waist instantly came out of his body. This time he did not slash, but stabbed out with the knife. First, he cut off the tendons of the old man's wrist holding the knife, and then lightly slashed his neck with the long knife.
, slit his throat.
"Uh...uh..."
The old man covered his throat, which was constantly spraying blood, and looked at Lin Nuo with a look of hatred on his face. After a few breaths, he fell to the ground with a thud, completely silencing himself.
Lin Nuo's expression was dull. It was obvious that this old man was Li Mo's father. Since he had already formed a deadly feud, he would naturally not be kind to a woman and left a hidden danger for himself.
Even if this hidden danger is an old and frightened old man!
"Search the house!"
The only obstacle was resolved. Lin Nuo looked at Li Mo's group of concubines in the lobby in the distance and gave the order in a cold voice!
Tap tap tap!
Dozens of tiger-like and wolf-like guards in uniforms rushed in excitedly, first driving a group of frightened women into the courtyard, and then began to move things out in an orderly manner.
"Sir, how should we deal with these concubines like Li Mo?" Zhou Yan looked at the dozen or so pretty women and asked quite emotionally.
"What, you want it?"
Lin Nuo suddenly turned his head and looked at Zhou Yan with a playful look.
"No, no, sir, please don't misunderstand. What I mean by humble position is that these are Li Mo's family members. How about we solve them all?"
"No, they will be detained first. If it is found out that they have not violated the law before, they will be restored to citizenship and dismissed."
In ancient times, the status of concubines was very low. To put it bluntly, they were commodities that could be bought and sold with each other. Now that Li Mo is dead, they are items without an owner. There is no need to worry that these women will come after him because of Li Mo's death.
revenge.
Maybe these women are still secretly having fun!
The Jinyi guards are very experienced in ransacking homes. In less than half a day, almost all the valuable things in Li Mo's mansion were cleared out, sorted into large boxes, and then moved into a truck.
In a carriage.
"Sir, the Li Mo mansion was confiscated this time, with a total of more than 180,000 taels of silver, and other items such as jades, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, with a combined value of up to 200,000 taels!"
With the house search completed, Zhou Yan handed a piece of statistical data to Lin Nuo.
"In addition, Li Mo also controls more than 20 shops and nearly a thousand acres of fertile land."
Lin Nuo made an estimate in his mind. This time, just by confiscating Li Mo's family, he got wealth worth five hundred thousand taels of silver. This figure can be said to be extremely astonishing.
You must know that in the late Ming Dynasty, the tax revenue of the national treasury for a whole year was only several million taels. Especially in the late Chongzhen period, the huge empire could not even come up with one million taels of silver, forcing Chongzhen to beg for money from his ministers.
Money, even so, can't bring much silver.
But now, in just one relatively wealthy county in the southwestern region, the wealth collected by a small hereditary bookkeeper family is equivalent to one-tenth or even one-fifth of the annual tax revenue of the late Ming Dynasty.
In the prosperous areas south of the Yangtze River where the sprouts of capitalism have begun to appear, what astonishing wealth will be in the hands of those powerful people?
This data seemed a bit ridiculous, but Lin Nuo felt heavy in his heart.
Zhu Yuanzhang is right when he says that if you pay a salary, the people will be rich and the people will be rich!
When an official no longer has any bottom line and starts to collect money wantonly, no matter how powerful and wealthy the empire is, sooner or later it will be completely emptied out!
Rows of carriages were transported to the county government office. When Lin Nuo and others returned to the county government office, the carriages and horses of Fang Yun and others also came back.
After seeing Lin Nuo's figure, Fang Yun quickly stepped forward and reported the results of the house raid to the magistrate.
"Sir, this time the properties of the third class were confiscated, totaling 90,000 taels of silver. In addition to the land deeds that your Excellency decided to return to the people, the other valuable materials add up to about 100,000 taels!"
Lin Nuo nodded, not much surprised.
Although Qi San is powerful, he is actually just a dog raised by Li Mo. Most of the wealth he looted was taken by Li Mo. The wealth of Qi San and others is naturally not enough to compare with Li Mo.
"Sir, what are you going to do with this wealth next?"
After the task of confiscating the house was completed, Zhao Da, as the master, naturally began to consider the next arrangements for his master.
The so-called wealth touches people's hearts. This time they ransacked the house and gained nearly 600,000 to 700,000 taels of wealth. If one of them is not handled well, I am afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble to my lord!