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Chapter 390 Returning to Beijing
When Ma Yongcheng came to a courtyard under the guidance of Lin Pingzhi, he saw a figure standing there with a smile on his face, it wasn't Li Huan or anyone else.

When Li Huan saw Ma Yongcheng and his party, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "Brother Ma came from a long way away, and I have lost my way, please forgive me."

As the governor of the East Factory, Ma Yongcheng is the eyes and ears of the emperor, and he is in charge of the East Factory. It can be said that he is also a powerful figure above the court.

If it was an ordinary person who heard about Ma Yongcheng's arrival, they would have to open the door to greet him in person. Like Li Huan who just sent someone to greet him, there probably would be no one else.

If it were someone else, Ma Yongcheng would keep the safekeeping in mind, and he might be framed and retaliated at any time, but facing Li Huan, Ma Yongcheng showed a sincere smile on his face, and hurried forward a few steps He smiled at Li Huan and said, "Brother Li is really joking, you and my brothers are so particular."

While speaking, Ma Yongcheng sized Li Huan up and down and sighed softly: "Our family already knows about Brother Li. I didn't expect that there are so many bold and bold people in Yangzhou Mansion. Thanks to Brother Li Fuda Fate is big, otherwise, even slaughtering the officialdom of the Yangzhou government will not be enough to relieve the anger."

Li Huan welcomed Ma Yongcheng into the hall, looked at Ma Yongcheng's indignant expression and smiled lightly, "It's just a bunch of jumping clowns."

Ma Yongcheng laughed and said: "It's true, it's not good for these people to provoke anyone, if they insist on provoking you, brother, it's just as well that they deserve this disaster."

Li Huan smiled lightly, cupped his hands in the direction of the capital, and said, "I don't know if Old Brother Ma is here in person this time, does Your Majesty have any orders?"

You don't need to guess, you know that Ma Yongcheng, the governor of the East Factory, must be able to come here in person, there must be an order from the emperor, otherwise, it is not necessary for Ma Yongcheng to go there in person.

Ma Yongcheng immediately looked at Li Huan and said, "Brother Li, Your Majesty ordered me to bring Xu Lin and other criminals to Beijing. I don't know how those people are now..."

Ma Yongcheng looked at Li Huan with a sigh and said: "Your Majesty really cares about Brother Li very much, and I am afraid that Brother Li will punish those people on the spur of the moment. At that time, brother, you will definitely fall behind a cruel and bloodthirsty man." Notoriety, so His Majesty specially asked me to bring those people to Beijing."

Lin Pingzhi and Cao Yu on the side all changed their expressions slightly after hearing Ma Yongcheng's words, and at the same time their eyes fell on Li Huan.

Li Huan sighed softly, cupped his hands in the direction of the capital, and said, "Thanks to your majesty's love, your majesty's love, Li is so grateful."

Ma Yongcheng said with a smile: "Brothers have completed a major case this time. As long as you and I escort these criminals back to Beijing, they will be able to retire at that time, and the infamy will be given to those people in the court." Go carry it."

However, after hearing Ma Yongcheng's words, Li Huan shook his head slowly and said, "I'm afraid I will disappoint His Majesty."

Ma Yongcheng, who was slightly taken aback, didn't know what he thought of, his eyes gradually showed a bit of shock, and he said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, you...you don't want to say that those people have..."

Seeing Ma Yongcheng's astonished expression, Li Huan seemed to know what Ma Yongcheng wanted to say, so he nodded slightly at Ma Yongcheng and said, "Just like what you think, brother, just a few days ago, I All criminals have been ordered to be executed on the spot, and now those people have all obeyed the law, and there is no need to send them to the capital."

With a grunt, Ma Yongcheng, who was drinking tea, subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of tea, his face was full of shock, obviously shocked.

However, Ma Yongcheng is also in charge of the East Factory after all. A person who has seen the world, although he said he was shocked for a while, he quickly reacted.

After reacting, Ma Yongcheng just looked at Li Huan with a complicated expression, and sighed after a long time: "Brother Li, why are you doing this? Now you have killed so many people at once. I know that these people are all innocent people, but after all, there are tens of thousands of people. Killing so many people at one time will definitely cause a sensation in the world. At that time, Brother Li, you will definitely speak ill and become famous. Fall a thousand feet."

It can be seen that Ma Yongcheng is really thinking about Li Huan, if not, he would not have said these words.

Li Huan just smiled slightly and said: "Li only wants to be worthy of his heart and His Majesty. As for the bad reputation, I have nothing to do with it."

Ma Yongcheng sighed softly: "Forget it, I don't know how to explain to His Majesty after our family returns."

While talking, I saw the figures of Chen Ke and Zhang Huai approaching from outside the hall.

When several people walked to the front of the hall, when their eyes fell on Ma Yongcheng, they were stunned for a moment, and then they reacted.

Both Chen Ke and Zhang Huai are no strangers to Ma Yongcheng. Although they were a little curious as to why Ma Yongcheng suddenly appeared in Yangzhou Mansion, at this moment, they stepped forward to salute Li Huan with unchanged expressions, and then Shout out to Ma Yongcheng.

Li Huan waved his hands and looked at several people, saying: "Come to see me at this time, isn't everything already loaded?"

Chen Ke took a deep breath and said to Li Huan: "My lord, all the things have been loaded on the ship. You can leave at any time with an order from your lord."

Ma Yongcheng, who was sitting beside him, looked at Li Huan and the others with some puzzlement.

At this time, Li Huan smiled and nodded at Chen Ke and the others, and then said to Ma Yongcheng: "It's fortunate that Brother Ma came in time, otherwise, if it's a day or two in the evening, I'm afraid I'll have already boarded the ship and returned to Beijing." .”

A light flashed in his eyes, and Ma Yongcheng said: "Could it be that Brother Li, you are going back to Beijing?"

Li Huan nodded with a smile and said: "Since the case here is over, it's useless to stay here any longer. Naturally, it's time to return to Beijing to report to His Majesty."

Speaking of which, Li Huan said to Ma Yongcheng: "If Brother Ma has no other business affairs, why don't you and I go back to Beijing together."

Ma Yongcheng nodded and said, "That's fine."

On the mighty Grand Canal, a dozen or twenty large ships are sailing on the river surface, and on each large ship there are strong and sharp soldiers standing on it, showing a majestic scene.

On one of the big ships, in the cabin, Ma Yongcheng and Li Huan were sitting opposite each other.

At this time, several days had passed since their group left Yangzhou Mansion. Dozens of large ships were on their way on the Grand Canal except for occasional stops to replenish supplies.

Ma Yongcheng looked at the heavily guarded large ships, and said curiously: "Brother Li, your posture is too scary, it's just dozens of large ships, it's hard to put on such a posture." Can’t you confiscate a lot of property in Yangzhou Mansion this time, brother?”

Ma Yongcheng is not an idiot either, he can naturally see that each of these large ships has a very deep draft, and the heavily guarded soldiers on the ship, even if they are slow to react, they know that the things loaded on these ships are probably confiscated by Li Huan in Yangzhou Mansion property.

Although he guessed that the confiscated property might be loaded on board, Ma Yongcheng still couldn't guess how much, so he was quite curious.

It can be said that since boarding the ship, Ma Yongcheng has been guessing in his heart. Even in the past few days, Ma Yongcheng has been suppressing his inner curiosity and did not ask Li Huan.

It's just that Ma Yongcheng obviously couldn't bear it now.

Li Huan, who was sitting opposite Ma Yongcheng, just smiled slightly when he heard the words, while a slim figure was kneeling beside the two of them.

This slender figure has a good temperament and a beautiful face, but with a cold face, he kneels silently and makes tea for Li Huan and Ma Yongcheng.

If a senior member of the Sun Moon God Sect saw this woman, they would be able to recognize at a glance that this woman was none other than Ren Yingying, the holy aunt of the Sun Moon God Sect.

Maybe it's a bad taste, Li Huan, who was idle and bored, ordered someone to bring Ren Yingying over, after some threats and training, no matter what she thought in her heart, this holy lady of the Sun Moon God Cult at least humbled herself in front of Li Huan. head.

At this time, Ren Yingying heard Ma Yongcheng's words, her heart moved, and she also felt a little curious.

After all, this is human nature, even if she becomes a prisoner and is treated like a slave by Li Huan, it can't stop Ren Yingying's curiosity.

When Li Huan heard this, he looked at Ma Yongcheng with a slight smile and said: "Brother Ma is in charge of the East Factory, and he has presided over the family raids more than once. Why don't you guess what the younger brother got from copying Yangzhou Mansion this time?"

Ma Yongcheng was taken aback when he heard the words, and then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

After laughing, Ma Yongcheng murmured slightly: "Yangzhou Prefecture is a fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, especially there are many salt merchants in Yangzhou Prefecture, and each of these people has a lot of money. If we let our family guess, Brother Li will at least copy it." There is no more talk about a three and fifty million taels."

Li Huan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He had to say that Ma Yongcheng was in charge of the East Factory, and he also had experience in copying houses, which made his guess really quite reliable.

This time, the confiscated gold and silver alone add up to nearly 4000 million taels. After all, there are more than 150 million taels of gold, which can be regarded as more than 1000 million taels of silver, plus the more than 2000 million taels of silver. Nearly 4000 million taels?
The most important thing is that this is only the confiscated cash, and does not include the valuable rare treasures such as jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings obtained from the confiscation.

After all, the real ready-made gold and silver only accounted for a part of these people's wealth. If you count all the valuable things such as jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, land and manors, etc. whose value cannot be estimated, the proceeds from this raid may be worthless. To double Ma Yongcheng's figure, it would be nearly [-] million.

Of course, this number seems a bit exaggerated, but just think about it, it is the rich city of Yangzhou, especially dozens of salt merchants have been confiscated. You must know that these salt merchants hold at least half of the huge profits of the Ming Dynasty's salt industry. So much wealth can be regarded as a matter of course.

In fact, the total amount of property confiscated this time was that Jin Yiwei couldn't give a specific figure after counting for so long. The only thing he could give was the amount of gold and silver.

Li Huan didn't speak, but Ren Yingying, who was kneeling beside her, couldn't help being startled when she heard Ma Yongcheng's words, causing waves to rise.

Even though she was never short of property since she was a child, Ren Yingying was deeply shocked to hear that Li Huan's ransacked house in Yangzhou Mansion was worth 5000 to [-] million taels all of a sudden, and she couldn't believe it.

Li Huan smiled slightly and said: "I don't know the exact geometry, but this time when I return to Beijing, if so much wealth and goods are filled into His Majesty's inner treasury, His Majesty will be delighted to keep them."

Ma Yongcheng's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he couldn't help laughing: "If the wealth worth tens of millions of taels is put into the internal treasury, His Majesty will definitely be very happy, and he will definitely reward Brother Li heavily at that time."

Hearing this, Li Huan said with a straight face: "Your Majesty will reward Brother Ma again when the time comes. Besides, you and I are His Majesty's servants, and everything is done for His Majesty. How can it be for Your Majesty's reward?"

Ma Yongcheng clapped his hands and praised: "Brother Li is right, we do things for His Majesty, not for His Majesty's reward."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and then they couldn't help laughing out loud, the cabin was filled with their laughter, but Ren Yingying, who was at the side, looked at the two smiling and looking at each other with a strange look in their eyes. look.

On the vast Grand Canal, it can be said that there are many ships coming and going, and the water artery running through the north and south is definitely not as simple as talking about it.

It's just that the signs that Li Huan and his party put up were too terrifying, the imperial envoy's flag board was hung on the boat like that, but whoever is not a fool, who would dare to provoke Li Huan and his party.

Normally speaking, with so many large ships passing by on the Grand Canal, they would definitely not be able to escape the exploitation of the officials on the Grand Canal, but even if these people had the guts, they would not dare to provoke Li Huan, the killer.

After all, the news that Li Huan went on a killing spree in Yangzhou Mansion and killed nearly ten thousand people at one time has spread, especially with the convenience of the Grand Canal, the news spread at an extremely fast speed.

Naturally, the officials of the water transport system on the Grand Canal are the most sensitive. It can be said that these people know what Li Huan did in Yangzhou Prefecture.

It is precisely because of this that it can be said that any officials who know what Li Huan has done in Yangzhou Mansion regard Li Huan as a snake, even if they guess that Li Huan's dozens of large ships are loaded with Li Huan's confiscated goods in Yangzhou Mansion. Even if these people were salivating at the huge wealth that came, no one dared to provoke Li Huan, the god of death.

Maybe there are people who really want money but don't want their lives, but it depends on who they are facing. At least Li Huan's current vicious reputation is enough to restrain these greedy officials.

Relying on Li Huan's fierce reputation, the fleet sailed smoothly on the Grand Canal without any disturbances, which surprised Li Huan who was expecting some unlucky ghosts to come to his door.

Originally, he was expecting that someone would come to his door to make his journey back to Beijing less boring, but in the end, no one dared to come, so that Li Huan had to focus all his attention on teaching Ren Yingying. .

On this day, at sunset, under a ray of setting sun, the surface of the water seemed to be covered with a rosy glow. The scenery was so extraordinary that even Li Huan couldn't help standing on the bow of the boat to admire the rosy glow all over the river. .

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