In the capital, Gao Shixin, who had searched Li Sancai's property, had returned to the capital. Li Sancai, who was imprisoned in the imperial prison, finally could not support the Jinyiwei's various means and had confessed to the rockery where he had hidden silver. The Jinyiwei dug up the rockery and found 3.62 million taels of silver and 450,000 taels of gold from the bottom of the rockery. In addition, the 570,000 taels of silver and 80,000 taels of gold found from the warehouse in the mansion, and the value of gold and silver treasures found reached more than nine million taels of silver!

All the boxes, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other belongings, Gao Shixin was distributed to Xu Xianchun, Tian Ergeng, a group of Jinyiwei and Dongchang men. Of course, there were exceptions. Gao Shixin found an ancient painting in the boxes filled with jewelry.

"Wow! It's the Qingming Festival of the River Map!" Gao Shixin, Zhang Yong and others were stunned. This is a national treasure!

After special identification, it was discovered that this ancient painting is an authentic work! "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was once passed by many people. It fell into the hands of Yan Song during the Jiajing period. Later, Yan Song was defeated and his family property was confiscated. The picture was entered into the palace. In the early years of Wanli, "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" fell into the hands of the eunuch Feng Bao. Later, for some reason, it came to Li Sancai.

But the reason is very simple. Li San is rich and rich enough to rival a country. He is willing to pay a high price to buy this painting from Feng Bao's adopted son.

Regarding the stay and departure of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", Gao Shixin, Zhang Yong, Xu Xianchun, Tian Ergeng, Wei Zhongxian and others argued that Eunuch Wei wanted to keep this ancient painting for his own collection.

"Uncle, this picture of the River During the Qingming Festival is a national treasure. I will give you this painting to Your Majesty again." Gao Shixin said.

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed. This was a good opportunity for him to make great contributions, so he took the painting away. Anyway, this priceless ancient painting was meaningless in his hands, so it would be better to offer it to the little carpenter.

After copying the gold and silver found, Gao Shixin took out half of them and left them all, and sent them to the palace.

"Two million taels of silver, twenty-seven thousand taels of gold! The two items are added together, worth five million taels of silver! Li Sancai, a dog official, is richer than me!" The little carpenter sneered, "If you don't have money, then forget it. After all, his family has accumulated more than 500 years of property, and the family has accumulated for more than 500 years, and they have been confiscated by Gao Qing, so that I can make a fortune. But this Li Sancai, however, is a minister of our Ming Dynasty, actually sold so much money from his family! This shows how greedy this thief is!"

Even though he was angry, the little carpenter was already so happy that he couldn't even close his mouth. Last time, Gao Shi's letter searched Yan Shenggong, seized a large amount of gold, silver and treasures and handed over to him. This time, Li Sancai was fired and another fortune was made.

"The confiscated land of Yansheng Gong and Li Sancai are all handed over to me as the imperial village. Gao Qing, don't you leave any land yourself?" asked the little carpenter.

"Your Majesty, all the king's land is the king's land! The land in this world is actually yours! But because the gentry and civil servants controlled the right to speak and secretly modified the ancestral system, you cannot obtain taxes from these lands. What I do is just to turn the tax-free land into your land step by step! I don't need so much land. As long as your Majesty has silver, I will naturally have more silver to train elite soldiers, and I will naturally have more rewards to me. As the saying goes, a big river has water and a small river is full of water.

Those corrupt officials only thought about scrambling silver from the inner treasury of the Ming Dynasty. They never thought about how to resist Jiannu outside the pass if the Ming Dynasty court had no money? If the Ming Dynasty court had no money, what would it take to provide disaster relief and comfort the victims? Once the victims could not survive, it would be a serious turmoil! Now that there is Jiannu outside, another civil turmoil, the consequences would be unimaginable!" Gao Shixin knelt on the ground, his face slightly towards the sky, his eyes were crying, and he showed a loyal look.

The little carpenter was so moved that he quickly helped Gao Shixin up: "Gaoqing, get up quickly! If everyone in the world is as loyal to the Ming Dynasty as Gao Qing and is loyal to me, the world will be peaceful!"

Wei Zhongxian next to him laughed in his heart: Our nephew is better than a civil servant! It’s a pity that he has no fame. How good would he be if he is a civil servant? Although Yongwazi is very literary, it’s not a problem to pass the exam, but he is a father-in-law. Forget it, we still listen to these two monkeys, both of them, and these two monkeys are our real relatives.

Gao Shixin said again: "Your Majesty, I have just received the 600-mile rush to the Jinyiwei. The rebel Li Jiaxing has been killed. The rebel Li Jiaguo has been arrested. There are many military households involved in this matter in the two Huaihe Rivers. The list of hereditary officers of the military households who were bewitched has been delivered to the capital, with a total of more than 2,000 people. Please make a judgment!"

"So many hereditary officers have committed trouble?" the little carpenter murmured, "If you kill them, you are afraid that the world will be in chaos. I deprive them of their official positions, demoted them to ordinary military households, and sent to Qiongzhou."

The little carpenter's method of handling was exactly the same as what Gao Shixin thought. Gao Shixin did not want to kill all these hereditary officers. These hereditary officers still have martial arts. It was only the accumulated problems of more than two hundred years, passed down from generation to generation, and they became what they are today. If it were the military households in the early Ming Dynasty, let alone beat the current Mongolians, even if they met Jiannu, they would beat them!

In the near future, these hereditary officers who committed the crime will be sent overseas by the unscrupulous brothers Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong, and become thugs who pioneered the colonies. In an environment full of enemies, they can restore their original bloodiness, beat local indigenous people, or even beat white-skinned colonists.

Of course, the little carpenter did not intend to let these people go lightly, but instead sent them to Qiongzhou as a military force. This would have no impact on Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong's plans. Anyway, it would take several years to immigrate on a large scale. Let these guys who have been used to good life go to Qiongzhou for a while. It is also a good thing to hone them first, and then send them out.

But there is another problem now. Although the land in Lianghuai River is fertile, the yield of this fertile land is not high due to two reasons. The first reason is the canal, because the canal has to inject water from the rivers on both sides of the canal during the dry season; in the peak season, the canal has to release water outside, which is contrary to the demand for farmland; the second reason is that the Yellow River is diverted. After the diverted route, the Yellow River occupies the estuary of the Huai River, causing the Huai River, which originally nourished the Huai River in the two Huai River areas to become a harmful river.

The military households in the Huaihe area fought against the Yellow River, Huaihe River and Canal, and survived hard among the three harmful rivers. Whenever there was a flood, there was no harvest of grain, and even the lives of the family were lost.

With the current technological level, it is not easy to manage the Yellow River and Huai River? What's more, sooner or later, the Yellow River will have to be diverted back to Shandong, which is the original estuary of the Yellow River. The Yellow River should also go back to Shandong to irrigate the dry northern land, rather than bringing floods to the rainy two Huai River areas.

But it is not easy to divert the Yellow River back? With the current technical level, it is almost impossible to do it. According to Zhang Yong's idea, when the technology develops to a certain extent and the steam engine is released, steam-powered engineering machinery can be produced, the plan to divert the Yellow River back to Shandong will be completed, and a double-distance river embankment will be built, and a flood discharge belt and a clear water pool will be left in the middle of the double-distance river embankment, and the water drawn from the clear water pool will be used to irrigate the northern farmland, so that the Yellow River, the harmful river, will become a mother river that benefits the people of the north.

Since the current technical level cannot be achieved, we can only renovate those farms first, so that the project volume will be much smaller and within the scope of the Ming Dynasty's technological level.
Chapter completed!