Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 204

Zhu Biao looked down at Wen Chengde, then twirled his fingers and said, "The three generations of the ancestors of the Wen family were Shanxi merchants in the previous dynasty, and they were also imperial merchants. They only stole a few thousand taels of silver. Check it carefully and see the mouse hole." Is there anything?"

Wen Chengde and Wen Chengcai's hearts trembled, and their hearts rose to their throats.

Zhu Biao glanced around, then walked into a corner of the compound with Sanbao, he raised his head and said, "Where is the thing?"

Then a bamboo tube appeared at Zhu Biao's feet. After looking at it and hiding it in the darkness, Zhu Biao picked it up and pulled out a building diagram.

Zhu Biao then walked out of the gate again, looked at the Wen family members kneeling on the ground, raised his eyelids, and said, "Gu will give you one last chance, where is the money hidden?"

Wen Chengde and Wen Chengcai gritted their teeth and remained silent.

"Very good." Zhu Biao said to Li Wenzhong next to him, "Take them away."

"Yes." Li Wenzhong wiped the sweat off his forehead, and led someone to escort them away.

Eyes were constantly patrolling the person who was taken away, and Zhu Biao saw that the "document river" was not the one he had seen that day, but a fake.

"Wenshujiang, stop." Zhu Biao's voice suddenly sounded.

Zhu Biao took a look and was sure that Wen Shujiang was a stand-in, then walked up to Li Wenzhong and said, "Go to Wen's house and search again, Wen Shujiang has escaped!"

Unexpectedly, there was a stealthy situation under the nose, which was really incredible.

Wen Chengde heard that Zhu Biao asked people to arrest the document Jianghou.Kneeling down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed frantically: "His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness, please let my son go, this matter has nothing to do with him, it's all done by me alone."

Sanbao next to him immediately kicked Wen Chengde away and said, "Let go of your dog's paw."

Seeing that Zhu Biao was unmoved, Wen Cheng said incoherently in German: "His Royal Highness, I will explain the whereabouts of the silver, let Shujiang go."

"It's late." After Sanbao finished speaking, he followed Zhu Biao into the compound.

According to the drawings drawn by Jin Yiwei, Zhu Biao found a huge secret room directly under the dark room of Wen's study and Wen's garden.

The entrance is in Wen Chengde's study.There is a book of Great Ming Law on the bookshelf, and when you pick up the book, you can see a bump the size of a mung bean.

Zhu Biao sat in the middle of the yard, watching boxes of silver being carried out.

Zhou Qing and a few soldiers counted the records by the side, and they recorded half a book.

Several generations of Jin merchants in Shanxi were once the imperial merchants of the Yuan Dynasty.What Zhu Biao wondered was whether Shen Qiancheng, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, was rich, or this old Shanxi merchant and literary family was rich.

The Shen family must be rich, no doubt about it.

One night, the silver in the Wen family's secret room was continuously carried up by the command of the three treasures. At dawn, there were still some jewelry and jade, antique porcelain that had not been packed into the box, and even a lot of out-of-print books.

After Zhou Qing registered, he began to report to Zhu Biao, "His Royal Highness, the order has been made."

"Speak." Zhu Biao said.

“有大明通行宝钞80万两，铜钱一千贯。平纹银共有4906万两。杂色的元宝银1608万两、色银230七万四千95两三钱三分，碎银十万四千98两六钱二分。

Gold, more than 210 taels.

More than [-] taels of principal and interest were lent, and [-] Wenjia shops and banks.

There are five hundred houses in the south of the Yangtze River.Shanxi has 260 mu of land, one weaving workshop, and one thousand looms.

There are seven dull pearls, thirty-two eastern pearls, and one golden bird..."

Zhu Biao was a little dazed, how much silver did the imperial treasury have, and he only collected a million taels after recovering Beiyuan. There were only so many of the Wen family, and there were more than a dozen boxes of jewelry, gold hairpins, jade, and jadeite.

How many generations of Shanxi merchants in the Wen family drank the blood of the common people and accumulated so much property.It's a pity that I don't contribute to the court and don't follow the right path.profit by this means.

Fengtian Temple.

In front of the civil and military officials, there are banknotes, gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty, as well as confiscated jewelry and antiques.

"Let's take a good look at it." Lao Zhu threw the copied secret letter and list directly in front of the officials.

"Ask Xu Da and the others, what harm is it to them if the enemy's food is obtained on the battlefield?
It was this Wen family who transported the cartloads of grain from Sichuan to Yunnan, which means transporting our Daming’s grain away.

If you resell one shi of grain, you get 100 cash more, and you can calculate the profit of [-] million shi of grain. "

If the cash is not divided into different colors, it must be a small mountain when piled up. Lao Zhu then ordered the Wen family to be interrogated, and once implemented, they would be executed immediately.

The Wen family had been interrogated overnight, and before much torture was used, the second innkeeper of the Wen family explained everything, and Wen Chengde jumped up and scolded in anger.

As for Shen Qiancheng and several other cloth merchants in Nanjing, from Yanhu.After investigation, it was found that they all listened to the Wen family's talk about making a profit, and ran to actively stockpile and buy food.

Before dawn, everything will be revealed.

Jin Yiwei was responsible for making such a quick confession.

What Lao Zhu meant was that everyone who bought food would be punished, even if they didn't know it, they were involved.

But Zhu Biao thought that it would be better to use this matter to make trouble for them than to kill them.Besides, Jin Yiwei checked and found that the grain they bought was still in their granary.

Now the imperial court needs to help the Weaving Bureau, Salt Bureau, Mining Tea, etc., so they are simply incorporated directly.

Hearing that their heads were saved, these businessmen were relieved, but Lao Zhu still had them hit each of them with ten boards, and each was fined 10 taels of silver.

It is also necessary to fully cooperate with the government's decrees and work together to handle salt affairs.

For Shen Qiancheng, Zhu Biao asked Sanbao to convey some of his words, and Shen Qiancheng was very grateful.

Zhu Biao spent a whole night personally supervising and urging the house raid, and rushed back in the morning to go to the morning court. He was already drowsy.

Just as he was about to return to the East Palace, Mao Xiang came out from the corner, and Zhu Biao said, "Why are you so elusive?"

"His Royal Highness, that Wen Shujiang may have fled to Sichuan, and his subordinates have already sent people to hunt him down."

Zhu Biao nodded: "I leave it to you."

After walking a few steps, seeing Mao Xiang still standing behind him, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Miss Shen was brought here last night."

Only then did Zhu Biao remember what he had handed over to Mao Xiang yesterday, and he left for the East Palace.

Before he reached the sleeping hall, Shen Zhifu was sitting on the white marble steps in front of the hall. When he saw Zhu Biao coming in with the three treasures and a few young eunuchs, there was a trace of begging on his pale face, and tears came down.

Yu'er saw her prince come back, and after seeing the ceremony, she retreated.She sat here with Shen Zhishi last night.

Seeing her disheveled hair and chapped lips, Zhu Biao slowly stepped forward to look at her, with the appearance of not getting a drop of water.

She knelt on the ground in front of Zhu Biao and said: "I...I know...Your Highness, it was my father who did the wrong thing first, and I would like to take the blame for him. Please Your Majesty, I will. "

Shen Zhiwu's voice sounded a bit wrong, Zhu Biao looked down at her, and helped her brush her hair together, saying, "I'm hungry, let's eat with Gu."

"Your Highness..."

Does Shen know that she is very anxious at the moment, from last night to now, she couldn't eat a bite of food.

Although she is not close to her father, she is still father and daughter after all.

"Dinner first." Zhu Biao exuded majesty.

She nodded and obediently followed behind.

……

Yu'er and Jin'er set up the meals and retreated immediately.

Zhu Biao put food in her bowl: "Do you believe in orphans?"

Shen Zhishi bit her chopsticks and nodded. She believed in the character of His Highness the Prince.

"After drinking it, Gu promises that you can see your father when you go home." Zhu Biao helped her put a bowl of porridge in front of her.

Hearing Zhu Biao's words, she picked up the bowl and ate seriously, almost choking.

"Wen's loom needs to be taken over and arranged, those shops need to be converted into money, and the business of the Salt Bureau needs you to take care of it. Help Gu arrange for those women and women who came back from the grassland, and then Gu will select reliable officials to manage it. You to operate."

After Zhu Biao finished eating, he walked behind her and said, "Let Sanbao take you out of the palace later, and I will visit you when I have time."

"Okay." Shen knew whether she believed Zhu Biao, believed what he said, and could see her father after returning home. She trusted Zhu Biao unconditionally, and she was determined.

That beautiful figure was wearing a light-colored dress, setting off the slender and soft body, her silhouette made the palace walls lose their color, and she followed Sanbao out of the East Palace.

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