Burning the land deed is indeed cruel, and it is simply to cut off the foundation of Yan Shenggong. Although the land deed is burned, Kong Yinzhi can still dig out the silver buried deep underground and repurchase the land, but it is easy to say but difficult to do.

After the Qing Dynasty occupied the capital, the Eight Banners soldiers kept catching land in the occupied area of ​​the Qing army. The Eight Banners soldiers rode on horseback and ran around and then surrounded the land. On the enclosed land, the original landlords, tenants, self-cultivated farmers, and rich peasants all became slaves of bannermen. If they did not want to be slaves, they could only choose to escape. However, the Qing Dynasty then introduced a law of fugitives, and the escaped slaves were tattooed on their faces, and they ran three times. The punishment for those who were harboring fugitives was even more severe. The law of harboring fugitives was rectified, and the wife's property was not given to the original owner of the fugitives.

Why is the punishment for escaped slaves lighter than those who hide escaped slaves? Because slaves are animals in the eyes of bannermen and their personal property, as long as they can be captured, they will continue to enslave them. And the bannermen just killed your family and took over your property.

In the original time and space, Geng Zhongming, one of the Three Shun Kings, found more than 300 escaped slaves in his Green Camp army, which scared him to death, which shows the harshness of the law of escape.

The three things that escaping land and escaping into the Dharma seem to have no connection with the destruction of the Kong family’s land deed, but Kong Yinzhi knew very well that once his land deed was destroyed, the Qing court would not only not return the land deed to him, but instead a group of Eight Banners soldiers would encircle all the land that originally belonged to him. Who should I ask for reason at that time?

Kong Yinzhi's eyes were full of resentment, and he looked at Zhao Peng.

After a while, Wang Quan returned with two Jinyiwei: "The master, the cellar of hiding silver has been found."

"Let's go over and take a look." Zhao Peng stood up.

The four of them walked into the cellar of Kong's silver storm. With the help of the firelight, they saw a large wooden box piled up. Zhao Peng called one of the boxes, and saw a neatly-coded silver ingot inside. He opened another box, and saw a neatly-coded gold ingot inside. He opened another box, and saw various rare jewelry such as red sapphires, cat's eyes, jade, agate, tortoiseshell.

"Have you calculated it? How much silver, how much gold, and how much jewelry are there?" Zhao Peng asked.

"I just counted it. There are 500,000 taels of silver, 60,000 taels of gold, and jewels and jade. It is worth about 180,000 taels of silver." Wang Quan replied. In fact, Wang Quan was very smart and had strong computing power, so he was deeply loved by Zhao Peng.

"Just that little money?" Zhao Peng felt that this little property was obviously not in line with Yan Shenggong, a family that had been around for hundreds of years. Chen Yan, a small child, has only been the chief assistant for one year, and has a property worth five million taels of silver. Yan Shenggong only had more than one million taels? Is it possible?

Zhao Peng picked up a fifty tael silver ingot in his hand and weighed it a few times, then placed it under the torch and looked carefully. Looking at the words on it, he found that it was a silver ingot from the Wanli period. Then he picked up another silver ingot with the words "The Second Year of the Tianqi". He checked several silver ingots, all of which were new silver from the Jiajing Dynasty.

Then I opened another box and took out the silver ingots to check. They were all newer silver. The earliest ones were from the Jiajing Dynasty, and they were gone even earlier. So Zhao Peng said: "The second leader, these silvers are very new. For example, Yan Shenggong, who was awarded title for more than 600 years since the Northern Song Dynasty. It is impossible that the silver before the Jiajing Dynasty was spent or they were robbed? It must be hidden somewhere. I suspect that this is only a small part of the silver in the Yan Shenggong Mansion!"

"The boss is wise! I think so too!" Wang Quan said.

"When you go back, wash your face and let him wake up, otherwise this old guy won't tell the truth." Zhao Peng said.

Back in the Dacheng Hall, Wang Quan pressed Kong Yinzhi on his back to the sky on a large door panel, pulled his hands and feet apart, lay on the door panel in a large shape, then picked up a long nail, aimed it at the palm of Kong Yinzhi's right hand, and then nailed it hard with an iron hammer.

"Ah!" Kong Yinzhi let out a scream like a pig slaughtering.

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Then another nail was pushed into the palm of his left hand and nailed it to the door panel. Then two iron nails penetrated Kong Yinzhi's calves and nailed his legs to the door panel.

In the hall, a bunch of bellow bonfires were lit, a large iron pot was placed on the bonfire, and water was poured in. A Jinyiwei poured a packet of red powder into the pot. After a while, the pot smelled of boiled chili.

After the peppers were cooked thoroughly, then scooped them out and let them cool a little, then covered Kong Yinzhi's face with a white towel and poured the steaming pepper water on it.

About two minutes later, Zhao Peng shouted "Stop", and the Jinyiwei lifted up the towel covering Kong Yinzhi's face.

"Yan Shenggong, how do you feel? You should tell us what you know, right? As long as you tell us what we want to know, your family will survive, otherwise, I will not be able to ensure that your family is safe." Zhao Peng said to Kong Yinzhi with a smile.

Although Zhao Peng had a gentle smile on his face, in Kong Yinzhi's eyes, this was a smile from hell, which made him feel very scary. Even so, he was still unwilling to lose the wealth accumulated by his family over the past six hundred years. He shook his head desperately and squeezed out a few words with gritted teeth: "No! You evil thief, you kill me!"

"Brothers, it seems that Yan Shenggong is not clear enough. Wash him more and wake him up!" Zhao Peng turned around and shouted.

The towel was covered again, and the Jinyiwei poured pepper water on Kong Yinzhi's face.

"There is nothing that can't be done by adding ingredients and washing your face at one time. If so, then do it again!" Zhao Peng said with a smile.

The second water injection was carried out for nearly three minutes. After lifting the towel this time, Kong Yinzhi, who finally couldn't support it, confessed all five places where gold and silver were hiding like beans pouring in bamboo tubes, one of which was underground in Dacheng Hall.

A large floor tiles were moved away, revealing the secret passage below.

Zhao Peng ordered people to enter the tunnel with a torch. After a while, the man shouted inside: "It's safe inside, it's okay to get down, all the gold, silver and treasures are inside."

All the gold and silver treasures in the tunnel were brought up. The gold and silver treasures collected here have been quite old. This treasure cave is buried with gold and silver treasures from the Northern Song Dynasty. The gold no longer shines, and the silver is covered with a layer of black. However, these do not matter to Zhao Peng. Anyway, they are all full of gold and silver. Although they have been a little older, they are still gold and silver.

All the gold, silver and treasures in the five treasure caves were found, with more than 10 million taels of silver, and more than one million taels of gold and various gems worth more than two million taels of silver.

Zhao Peng opened a jewelry box and there were a wide variety of gems and beads. The beads were all beads of inorganic matter, such as priceless night pearls, jade beads and agate beads. As for pearls, they have become powder because of their age. Because the shelf life of the pearl is only about one hundred years. The pearls contain moisture. If the time is too long, the moisture in the pearls will be completely lost and eventually turn into a pile of powder.

More than 10 million taels of silver, this is 625,000 kilograms. There are so many silver, and more than 1,000 people from his own will never be able to take back. Therefore, Wang Quan suggested: "One of the boss, we will only take away gold and jewelry, and the silver will continue to be sealed in the treasure cave. When we go north to the Central Plains, we will come here to take away the silver."
Chapter completed!