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Chapter 1090 What an eye-opener
The crowd in front of the lobby suddenly panicked, and an old and weathered voice shouted urgently: "Yuanfa..."

Then, another old woman's voice came: "No..."

The middle-aged man suddenly became violent, which was completely unexpected by the guarding soldiers. They watched the man rush to Chen Zheng's side, without any time to react.

"Bold!"

The guarding soldiers roared urgently while chasing him fiercely, but the distance between the two sides was still far away, and the matter was in a hurry, so it was no longer helpful.

Although Chen Zheng has become the commander of the first battalion of the Yongyi Army, he is still a military attache who has fought on the battlefield, and his skills are still there. He heard a commotion behind him, turned his head for a moment, and caught a glimpse of the man from the corner of his eye. Run this way.

He was not in a hurry, hooked his legs sideways, and tripped the running man to the ground. The guards around him also reacted at this time, and two people immediately swooped up and pressed the man heavily under them. Make it unable to move anymore.

"Boy...presumptuous!"

Huang An also ran quickly from the other side. He raised his kick and kicked the man's chin. Blood immediately flew out, and the chin and upper jaw were separated. How could the man endure such pain? He let out waves of deep groans. roar.

Refined thick-soled military boots kicked his body one after another, leaving footprints all over his head, face, chest and abdomen. The middle-aged man named Fan was in excruciating pain due to his dislocated jaw, but could only let out a low neighing sound. Very miserable.

"How audacious, how dare you attack my general!" Huang An yelled angrily from the side.

The middle-aged Fan man couldn't help but gushing blood from his mouth and nose, and his body was twitching in waves. He held his head in his hands and rolled on the ground.

"Dog thief, dare not be honest?"

The guards were also kicking and scolding him, because they hated him for sneaking up on their general, without even thinking about the severity of his attack, and threatened to take half of his life.

Seeing the tragic situation of the Fan clan member rolling and screaming with blood on his face, the old voice choked up and called out again: "Yuanfa...Yuanfa..."

The Fan clan members who were squatting or kneeling were all horrified. They hugged each other and cried into a ball. No one dared to stand up and resist.

"If I knew today, why was it in the first place?"

One of the guards stopped and said calmly: "Thieves like these don't deserve our sympathy. Think about the people who died under the sword of the Tatars, wouldn't they be a hundred times, or even a thousand times more pitiful than them!"

Another guard also stopped and cursed: "If God does evil, you can be forgiven. If you do it yourself, you will not live."

Chen Zheng had been watching with cold eyes. Seeing that the man couldn't resist any more, he said, "Okay. Save your energy for the thief."

He turned around and said to the team officer who was responsible for guarding these Fan family members: "We are careful about these Fan family members and we will detain them for a public trial."

"Here."

The team officer was originally worried that he would be punished, but when he saw that Chen Zheng did not mention the matter, he was already happy and hurriedly answered the order loudly.

Chen Zheng ignored him and led the Chinese army Huang An and the guards to the side courtyard in a hurry.

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"Congratulations to General Chen, my congratulations. The harvest from this investigation of profiteers is not small!"

After listening to his words, Chen Zheng also smiled and replied: "This trip went so smoothly, it is indispensable for Mr. Mi's internal operation. After everything is done, I will repay the uncle and never let the meritorious officials be buried."

Mr. Mi, who was dressed as a small vendor, waved his hands and said with a smile: "You and I are all following orders. As long as we live up to Uncle Yongning's orders, that's fine. How dare Mi take credit?"

"Mr. Mi is humble."

Chen Zheng also smiled and clasped his fists and said: "The Fan family's business in Jiexiu will be carried forward by Mr. Mi from now on. Various goods will be inspected and auctioned to convert them into cash for transportation. Mr. Mi is prepared." Are you ready for cash?"

Mr. Mi replied: "Cash money is definitely not enough. However, Mi has agreed with the Han, Zhang and Meng families to jointly take over the Fan family's businesses in Jiexiu and Taiyuan Fucheng. They will bear most of the money needed. Mi Someone is mainly responsible for operations."

Chen Zheng nodded and said: "What a 'borrowing chicken to lay eggs' method."

He continued: "However, if the money is too little, I am afraid that they will look down on us, and if we cooperate for a long time in the future, there will be resentment. Let's do this. After I count the money here, I will try to give you 10 taels of silver. That's it. First, Mr. Mi can be more forceful when talking to the three of them."

When Mr. Mi saw what Chen Zheng said, he did not refuse. He just smiled and said, "In this case, Mi will thank General Chen on behalf of Su Tou."

"no need to thank me."

Chen Zheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Although these 10 taels of silver are paid to you from the general, the account still has to be recorded on you, Su Tou. My uncle has already said that the silver paid to you here will be paid to you by the shogunate. Deducted from the funds given to Su Yiyang.

As for whether you can make more money with your capital in the future, it all depends on your ability! "

"With the reputation of Yongning Bowei, Mi believes that this new business will have a bright future."

As he spoke, he took another step forward and came to Chen Zheng's side, and whispered with a mysterious face: "General Chen, this Fan family has more than just one secret cellar."

"Oh!"

When Chen Zheng heard this, he immediately became interested, his face was full of excitement, and he asked eagerly: "Where is it?"

"It's not good to say..."

"What?"

Chen Zheng was stunned when he heard this and said in confusion: "What do you mean by 'not very good'? If you have it, you have it, and if you don't have it, you don't have it. Why can't you say 'it's not very good'!"

"General, Mi heard that there is a quiet room in the Fan Mansion that no outsider is allowed to enter. According to rumors, the pillars in this quiet room are made of pure copper, and the floor is paved with silver bricks."

After Mr. Mi finished speaking, he added very mysteriously: "I just don't know whether this rumor is true or not, and whether it is credible!"

Chen Zheng waved his hand and said: "Check it. Regardless of whether it is true or not, this yard is in our hands anyway. General Kuang has to wait for Zhang Guodong of Qinglong Camp to come and join him. He won't leave for a while. Let's search every house. , search him all over.

I still don’t believe it. If there really is such a house, I can’t find it even if I dig three feet into the ground? "

"It doesn't have to be so laborious."

"what!"

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I don't know how much time passed, but the sky had turned dark. At sunset, Huang An, an officer in the Baihu Camp, accompanied Mi Tianggong, the head of Fenzhou Intelligence Station in Antang, to the Fan family ancestral hall in the backyard. "how?"

Mr. Mi saw that Huang An was already looking anxious, so he smiled and said calmly: "Since there are no clues found in the main courtyard where the old dog Fan Yongdou lives, I think it is almost right, it should be here in the ancestral hall. "

He stood in the courtyard and looked around, and continued: "If Fan Yongdou really built such a quiet room, he must not only guard against outsiders, but also guard against insiders, so it must be built in a hidden and remote place."

As Mr. Mi talked, he walked around in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, but had no intention of entering any house. He only heard him saying to himself: "Even if it is not in a hidden and remote place, it will definitely not happen." It was a lively place with people coming and going. Now it seemed that there must be something fishy in this ancestral hall.

If I built such a quiet room, I would not allow others to enter it at will, but I would have to arrange for caring and thoughtful people to clean it every day. "

Finally, he stopped in front of a wing on the east side to take a look.

This is an extremely ordinary wing room. From the outside, it looks no different from other rooms. The only difference may be that there is no plaque on the door of this wing room.

However, the mysterious Mr. Mi only looked outside the door and seemed to have no intention of entering. After stopping for a long time, he finally turned around and took a step towards the main hall of the ancestral hall.

Suddenly, he stopped moving forward again, with an evil smile flashing at the corner of his mouth. He turned around suddenly, raised his hand and pointed at the ordinary wing, and said to the manager of the Fan Mansion who was accompanying him: "Open the door!"

The old manager is nearly [-] years old. Although he does not look old in action, it is still not as convenient as young people. However, now serving the Xuanfu generals who came to raid the house can be regarded as his last loyalty to his old club. .

However, when he heard Mr. Mi suddenly asking him to open the door of this room, he was stunned for a moment, looking at a loss, which strengthened Mr. Mi's determination.

"how?"

Mr. Mi's tone was not as polite as before, and became cold and stiff: "There are hundreds of houses in Fan's house, but this one is the only one that I can't enter?"

"Can...can...can enter..."

The old manager didn't come back to his senses until this moment. Although he didn't know why Mr. Mi suddenly wanted to look at this quiet room, he still felt something was wrong.

He walked towards the door tremblingly, and said: "This room is used by the owner for retreat. There is nothing in it, only a straw mat. Just take a look..."

As the door was opened by the old manager, everyone finally saw the layout of the house. It was really an ordinary retreat.

Indeed, as the old manager said, except for a small cushion in the middle, there is a small table by the window with tea trays, tea cans, teapots, tea cups, etc., and there is nothing else. It is indeed abnormal. concise.

Seeing this scene, Huang An couldn't understand why Mr. Mi was so cautious about this room.

But Mr. Mi didn't say a word. He slowly entered the quiet room, first walked around several large pillars in the room, and then came to the window, taking advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun shining through the window, and looked at it carefully. The ground that was illuminated looked thoughtful.

After a long time, Mr. Mi stopped in front of a pillar and suddenly pulled out a short dagger from his waist. The movement was so fast that even Huang An was a little embarrassed.

He lightly scratched the pillar with the dagger he held in one hand a few times. After the red paint on the surface fell off, the inside revealed a bright yellow color, which complemented the setting sun that shone into the house.

Everyone present was shocked by the scene before them. Except for Huang An, no one else knew that this was the object they were searching for, but this did not stop them from letting out bursts of exclamation.

"Ah...this...this pillar..."

"The gold one...is gold...no...the copper one..."

"Yes... copper... it's copper..."

Amidst the bursts of exclamation, many soldiers began to scratch at this pillar with the knives they carried. Some of them, unable to grab it, actually started thinking about other pillars.

"This...look at this...copper..."

"They're all...all made of copper..."

Although this is a wing room, it is quite spacious inside. There are as many as twelve large pillars used to support the roof, and without exception, they are all made of brass.

"With so much copper, how many copper coins must be minted!" An old soldier couldn't help but exclaimed.

Not only that, just when everyone's attention was attracted by the pillars, Mr. Mi actually became interested in the ground again. He squatted down and used a dagger to pry up a few square bricks.

Mr. Mi scratched and pulled hard on the square bricks a few more times, then lifted them up and blew on them. Immediately, silver ravines were revealed.

The rest of the people immediately felt their eyes light up, and they all hurriedly knelt down and scrabbled on the ground to pull it apart. After all, there were more people and more strength. With everyone working together, the square bricks were pried up one by one. .

As the surface layer of mud was scratched away, what was left were pieces of slightly rough silver bricks. It turned out that the floor of the entire quiet room was paved with silver bricks wrapped with mud...

"Our eyes have really been opened today..."

A team officer looked at the yellow and white color of the room and sighed: "Seeing these gold pillars and silver bricks, the silver winter melons and gold ingots in front of them, they are not so surprising."

While everyone was prying up the silver bricks one by one and sighing, the old manager had dull eyes and sat dejectedly in the corner of the quiet room, mumbling something.

But at this moment, everyone's thoughts were on the gold pillars and silver bricks, and no one cared about what he would say.

"...I'm sorry...I'm sorry, old master...I'm really...an old fool..."

The intermittent sounds reached Huang An's ears. He just shook his head and didn't pay much attention to it. However, it reminded him that you, the old manager, can be sorry for the traitor Fan Yongdou, but you can't be sorry for Chen. General, let alone Uncle Yongning.

At that moment, he stood up and shouted the order: "Everyone obeys the order, immediately exit the quiet room, and strictly guard the door until Xia Zhenfu comes in person to verify the registration. Anyone who violates the order will be subject to military law!"

"Here."

Seeing that all the sergeants had already received the order to withdraw, Huang An said to Mr. Mi: "It's all thanks to Mr. Mi that everything went so smoothly today. Please follow me to the front yard and report back to General Chen."

"Mi doesn't dare to take credit. Please ask Huang Zhongjun to lead the way. Mi will follow him."

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The seizures of properties of profiteers in Yuci, Qingyuan, Xugou, Taigu, Pingyao and other counties were all the same as Jiexiu's. Although it cannot be said to be extremely smooth, it was indeed shocking but not dangerous.

But there were also some episodes. Among them, the resistance from the Dengku family of King Taigu was fierce, and the Liang family of Yuci actually moved out the old Chaofeng from the Jin Palace in Taiyuan to block the gun.

As for the remaining sporadic resistance, it is nothing to worry about...

(End of this chapter)