House Search

Before this moment, Zhao Wenhua's life, who was still showing off his power, was completely over with this fall.

It’s not that Lord Zhao is just burying, but that his life is no different from death from then on, and only endless humiliation and torture are waiting for him.

He looked at Zhao Wenhua who was limp on the ground coldly, and Lu Bing spat contemptuously, spit out a mouthful of blood and phlegm on his face, and two words burst out from his teeth and said: "Search the house!"

With the order from the Grand Governor, the Jinyiwei, who had long been unable to hold back, rushed in like a hungry tiger. Anyone who could stop him would be killed!

But seeing Lord Zhao ended so miserably, the servants in the mansion were already scared to death. Who would dare to stop him?

The Jinyiwei first separated the family members in the mansion and drove them to the yard where the servants lived. When the idle people were cleared, they began to search Zhao Wenhua's home. The Zhao family's house was deep, and it was really more generous than the royal family, with more property. Until the third day, it was not clear.

The news that Zhao Wenhua was raided was like a bolt from the blue, exploding over the capital!

For the "anti-severe party" who is in dire straits, the thunder is followed by a timely rain to save lives, which makes them catch a glimmer of hope in despair!

For the struggling backbone elements, after the thunder sounded, they all became dumb geese. They no longer rush to stand in line to express their determination, but instead observe the changes in the situation.

Yan Dang, who was struck by lightning, was naturally blown up and tender on the outside and panic inside. Even the most silent Master Yan could not sit still. He could not steal half a day of leisure, and in the morning he enjoyed chrysanthemums and drank tea with his wife. He felt a bit like "collecting under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains". He took a nap at noon and was extremely comfortable.

But the old butler Yan Nian reported in a panic, disturbing Ge Lao Yan's dream.

‘The Jinyiwei surrounded Zhao Wenhua’s house!’ Every word was like a whip, making him restless and frightened. He was not the brainless Zhao Wenhua, so he naturally knew that without the emperor’s permission, Lu Bing, the dog at the door, would not be out of the cage and bite people casually!

"Call the East Tower quickly!" Yan Song was a little panicked. He was really accompanied by the king. What happened to Zhao Wenhua was completely beyond his expectations. He was frightened and suddenly became confused.

Yan Nian hurried to the backyard to find Yan Shifan. Before he could go to Yan Shifan's bedroom, he heard the noise inside. Although Yan Song was a model husband, his only son Yan Shifan was famous for being a ghost. He didn't say that he had a concubine with twenty-seven rooms, but he also forced a robbery girl. His one-eyed girl was blinded by a strong woman when he was committing a mob girl.

According to a neighborhood legend, the beautiful book "Jin Ping Mei" that is circulated by officials in Beijing. Among them, Ximen Qing is the one who alludes to Yan Donglou, because "Donglou" is opposite "Ximen". What's more coincidental is that Yan Shifan has a nickname called Qing'er. Moreover, both of them use any means to seize wealth, accumulate wealth, be lewd and lustful, and do all kinds of evil. In order to satisfy their insatiable desire for pleasure, they want to do all the things that are harmful to the will of heaven!

So those who are flirting with each other will take a look and say that the power-abiding and dictatorship is Master Yan Ge Lao, and the ten brothers of Ximen Qing are Yan Shifan's brothers and nephews. As for whether they are just a fool or have ulterior motives, only the mysterious "Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng" knows.

So it is common for Yan Donglou to proclaim lust in such a day. Yan Nian was also commonplace and knocked on the door outside: "Young Master, Master, let you go to the front quickly."

The noise inside was only smaller, and Yan Shifan was breathing and said, "Mom, I'm really good at picking things, you go first, I'll go there later!"

Yan Nian had no choice but to say: "What a big deal happened, Zhao Wenhua fell."

"What?!" Just a bang, the cry of several women sounded and the door opened soon. Yan Shifan, who was disheveled, tied his trouser belt and said with a penis: "What's going on?!"

Yan Nian followed behind and repeated what he said to Yan Song. When he saw his father, Yan Shifan had already tied up his belt and said to his father: "I'll go and have a look!"

Yan Song had recovered his calmness and said, "Don't have a conflict with Lu Bing. This time we are so proud. It seems that the emperor is teaching me a lesson."

"I understand," Yan Shifan nodded and was about to walk out.

"Wait." Yan Song said again.

"What else is there?" Yan Shifan asked impatiently.

"Wash your face before going!" Yan Song said: "You have lipstick marks on your face, you dare to go out like this!"

The Yan Mansion was separated from Zhao Zhenji's house, and there was a King of Jing's Mansion. He didn't even have to sit in a sedan chair, so he arrived just by raising his legs. But when he arrived at the gate of the heavily guarded Zhao Mansion, the Jinyiwei refused to let him in.

Yan Shifan was domineering and could not be wronged? He reached out to beat him, but was blocked by the Jinyiwei with a knife and said, "My governor has an order, no one is allowed to trespass!"

"Don't you know who I am?!" Yan Shifan pointed to his fat face and said, "I am the brother of your governor, why don't you get out of here!"

"Now I remember it was my brother who was a brother?" Lu Bing appeared at the door with a gloomy face, looked down at Yan Shifan and said, "When I beg you to let my master go, why can't you remember it?"

"Lu Wenming, you have to be reasonable." Yan Shifan said angrily: "Shen Lian wrote a letter to slander my father to death, but I finally tried to persuade my father to let your master go with a way out!"

I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen such shameless people. Lu Bing laughed backwards and said, "Is that because Shen Mo won the top scorer, okay?" He said coldly: "I'm not talking about Mr. Shen! I'm talking about Li..." He paused: "You each fight with each other based on your ability, and I have nothing to say if you lose and win. But you are too cruel, right?! You don't even leave your life for my teacher!!"

Obviously, he counted Li Mo's death on the Yan family's father and son... This is not to say that Chen Hong was perfect, but Lu Bing did not dare to guess elsewhere, and he didn't even dare to think about it!

People always take the blame for Yan Shifan. How could Yan Shifan be so cruel? He was so angry that he stamped his feet and said, "I swear to God that if we do it, I will not die a bad death!"

"You wouldn't have died well." Lu Bing sneered: "After doing so many bad things, do you want to die? Unless God is blind!"

"Damn it!" Yan Shifan burst into anger and pointed at Lu Bing and said, "Lu Wenming, why are you trying to clear it up? We are grasshoppers on a rope, and you dare to push me into the fire pit! You have to burn them together!"

Lu Bing had known that he would say this, and he sneered calmly: "If you don't say that, at least I did not embezzle the money for building the outer wall, nor did I embezzle the materials for building a palace for His Majesty."

Yan Shifan choked suddenly, and his single eye was filled with resentment and said, "Do you really want to tear your face apart?" Although Zhao Wenhua was Zhao Wenhua, he was the one who had the final say. If Zhao Wenhua greed for one million, he would have to greed for at least two million. Therefore, Yan Shifan could naturally understand the threat in Lu Bing's words.

Lu Bing knew that he had taken the initiative, and he laughed three times in a good mood: "It depends on my temperament, hahaha..." Then he turned around and entered the yard, ignoring Yan Shifan who was trembling with anger outside.

"Damn it!" Yan Shifan knew that he could not get in, so he vomited a mouthful of thick phlegm, turned around and brushed his sleeves away.

When passing by the gate of Prince Jing's Mansion, Yan Shifan saw that the door was closed without a sound, and couldn't help but say angrily: "It's really a human heart. Old Zhao has been cursing for so many years, but when something happened, he didn't even dare to show his face!"

When he returned home, Yan Song asked him how he was. Yan Shifan laughed without answering, "Hahaha..." The unique laughter was filled with murderous aura, like the crying of the night owl, which made people shudder.

It also made Ge Lao Yan feel uncomfortable. He slapped the armrest of the chair and said, "Stop laughing, speak well!"

Yan Shifan's laughter came to an abrupt end, but his mouth was still shaking, and his head and neck were shaking, just like an old man had a stroke, obviously very angry.

Yan Song asked what happened to Yan Nian when he was there, and Yan Nian described it in the original form. After listening, Yan Song sighed and said, "I got rid of Li Mo, but I completely offended Lu Bing. This deal is a bit unprofitable..."

"What's wrong with offending Lu Bing?" Yan Shifan couldn't hear these two words now, so he pushed him up: "He just dares to vent Zhao Wenhua. If you let him come to me, does he have the courage?!"

"Bastard!" Yan Song sneered and said, "Who are you talking to?"

Yan Shifan was walking back and forth like a trapped beast, but when he heard this, he had to stop and kneel down to his father and said, "The child is confused, please punish him."

"Oh..." Yan Song got his son back in old age, and he was the only seedling again, so he was naturally very doting. He sighed and said, "I am in my forties and fifties, why can't I be so calm?"

"The child can't swallow this." Yan Shifan gritted his teeth and said, "Wenhua went to the emperor to fight against the Japanese in the south, and he had no credit and worked hard. He also recommended Hu Zongxian and sued Li Shiyan. Such a great contribution would be abolished. This is not to kill the donkey, right?" He was so angry that it was not because of his brotherhood, but an emotion called "Rabbit dies and foxes are sad, and things hurt their kind."

Yan Song was also very injured when he was surprised by the emperor. He sighed in a voice: "Yes, it seems that 'the king's heart is as iron as iron, the emperor is ruthless', this sentence is never out of date." He said, and laughed at himself: "I thought that more than 20 years of service should make the emperor a little different to me."

Yan Shifan's fat face twitched and said, "Originally, my son thought he had figured out the emperor's ideas and could play with him in the clapping. It seemed that he was really arrogant." He said with a chill, "He first killed Li Mo, let Lu Bing break up completely with us, and then searched Zhao Wenhua's house. This is clearly telling us... There are no two tigers in one mountain."

Shen Mo's attack like a flying immortal outside the sky actually caused the Yan family, who had always been completely determined, to fall into deep reflection and self-criticism. If he knew about this scene, he would definitely be secretly happy for a long time.

After a frustrating discussion, Yan Song was somewhat excited and said, "I'll admit defeat this time. I'll try to tell Wenhua that I'll keep his mouth shut. I'll try to save his life, and then let him go back to his hometown to hide for a while. After a few years, this matter will fade and let him recover."

"Yeah." Yan Shifan nodded and said, "I will find a way."

"Also," Yan Song said: "This time we backfired and gave Zhao Wenhua a first-class evaluation. Now it's a joke. This matter will definitely be caught by those people. We should deal with it early, otherwise we will be passive."

"We can only put the blame on Li himself." Yan Shifan said bitterly: "But in this way, the original list will be invalid, and our hard work will be wasted."

"Oh..." Yan Song didn't know how many times it was today: "If you break it, you break it, otherwise you will suffer the trouble. This time we are really too greedy for merit. After we beat Li Mo, we should clean it up for a while so that we will not arouse your Majesty's disgust."

"It's useless to say it." Yan Shifan patted his knees and stood up and said, "How can we make up for it? You can't shoot yourself in the foot, right?" If the list is completely overturned, the Yan Party will be the ones on the list.

"Help me up." Yan Song pondered for a while and said, "I'll go find Xu Jie."

Yan Shifan helped his father stand up as he said, and asked in a muffled voice: "Can't you leave this to others? Lao Xu and us are not the same person."

"Hmph, who has the qualifications?" Yan Song said in a depressed manner: "It's only him... Fortunately, he sold his favors at the beginning, so it's not difficult to speak now."

It took three days to search Zhao Wenhua's house... Because Zhao Wenhua has four residences in Beijing, and there are villas for summer vacation in Yanjiao, all of them have to be found out one by one.

On the morning of the fourth day, Lu Bingcai entered the palace to report his life with a thick list of house searches.

Emperor Jiajing looked over with a gloomy face, and saw the list read: 'One main courtyard, nine-entry fifty-eight rooms; one east courtyard, five-entry twenty-seven rooms; one west courtyard, five-entry thirty rooms; one Hui-style house, thirty rooms, all in the prosperous area of ​​the capital. There is also a garden, and four villas.' He is worthy of being a contractor for more than ten years. The real estate is just one, and the valuation is 9 million taels of silver...

Of course, when we count the total assets in this era, Buxing distributes real estate outside the shop into cash bank. But even so, those that can be discounted are enough to kill him eight times...

In addition to the house, there are also several bronze tripods, Duan inkstones, pearls, gems, white jade arhats, Han jade Guanyin, gold and silver bowls, gold and silver basins, etc. The size of gold and pearls and jade jewelry is more than 8,000 pieces. In addition, there are 500 gold ingots, each weighing ten taels; countless silver ingots are discounted for 800,000 taels of silver; 100,000 taels of red gold and more than 300,000 taels of sand gold... This made the emperor the most angry because this thing was used to gild the palace, so Zhao Wenhua got all the house.

There are also eight pawn shops in Beijing, three antique shops in Liulichang, and five silver names. As for the dry shares included in each store, there are countless, with a discount of about one million taels of silver.

After reading the list, Emperor Jiajing laughed instead of anger and cursed Anlu Tu dialect: "A two-ball player, who says the country has no money? They are all at the house of these dog kids."

Lu Bing immediately became energetic: "Why would you copy a few more?"

Jiajing was quite moved, and then shook his head and said, "Forget it, the only one who is richer than him is probably Yan Shifan." Emperor Jiajing was very obsessed with the corruption of the people below, but he always believed that this was a bad habit passed down for many years, so he never took it seriously.

Lu Bing was a little disappointed, but he was helpless.

After reading the above list, Emperor Jiajing ordered the existing gold and silver to be delivered to the national treasury for pensions for local disasters. For a large number of industries that have been retrieved, the original order was handed over to Xu Ge Lao and the Ministry of Revenue to resell in detail. All the estimated silver was confiscated.

In addition to sending antiques and treasures into the homeland, Emperor Jiajing actually obtained at least three million taels, which was worth half a year from the national treasury.

This made the emperor who was almost mad and was in a good mood. Yan Song took the opportunity to make peace, reminding the emperor of Zhao Wenhua's contributions and issued an order: "Wenhua's crimes cannot be punished, but they have also been rewarded. Now the two have been offset to avoid his death, so as to show that I will not forget the meritorious officials." In the end, the great corrupt criminal Zhao Wenhua was punished with dismissal.

Of course, this cannot satisfy the officials who were harmed by Yan's party. Zhao Wenhua's old enemy Xia Bai and Sun Jun submitted a copy to impeach Zhao Wenhua for embezzlement of more than 2 million taels of money to build the city wall... They also learned their lessons and did not dare to implicate Yan Shifan, so they fell all the black accounts on Zhao Wenhua's head alone.

Later people followed suit. Zhao Wenhua embezzled one million taels in Zhejiang, and Zhao Wenhua built a garden for the emperor a few years ago, embezzled eight hundred thousand taels. A series of accusations added up to a total of five million taels. In addition to the confiscated three million, he still owed the country two million taels.

This time Yan Song didn't say anything, because it was true. If he had to investigate, he would find his son's head... You know, every time he embezzled, Yan Shifan took the big head!

Why not take advantage of this time to smooth out the bad debts of the past? Master Yan thought so.
Chapter completed!