Listening to politics behind a curtain?Kill the Queen Mother at the beginning!

Chapter 28 The Crouching Dragon Is Like the Age of the Phoenix, Ding Xiu
late noon,
Wing Lok Street,
Luo Porridge rode his horse on the blood-stained long street. As far as he could see, there were Jinyiwei Tiqi passing through everywhere. They were busy raiding their homes, collecting silk, gold, silver and jewelry from various prefectures.

The rest of the soldiers of the imperial guards were responsible for dragging the corpses, and after the men of Jin Yiwei finished counting, they were sent to the opposite fire to be cremated under Luo Porridge's instruction.

Although the autumn is cool right now, so many corpses piled up will inevitably breed plague, and I can count myself as doing something practical for the court, and I am kind to those thieves, and I don’t need to bury them after killing them.

As for the monstrous fire, after demolishing a large circle of houses nearby, it was also contained within a certain range, and there was absolutely no possibility of it spreading downwards.

"Here, Mr. Luo, all the rebels have been executed!"

"According to your lord's order, all the officials among them were done by the subordinates themselves, and there was absolutely no one left behind. Their heads were also kept as a memorial service according to your lord's order."

Ding Xiu retracted the long knife and fell to his knees to report loudly. The original crimson official uniform on his body had been completely soaked in blood into a frightening dark red.

After it dries up at noon, it condenses into lumps and sticks to the official uniform. When kneeling on the ground, cracked blood scabs keep falling off.

"My lord Commander, there are 46 criminals, including their family members and slaves, totaling 320 four people..."

A hundred households under the jurisdiction of Nanzhen Fusi who were responsible for counting beside him added in detail that the imperial guards not far away were lining up and throwing the corpses into the fire, and the smell of the corpses could be smelled in the air from a long distance away. Burnt smell.

"As for the rest of the rebel's property, it is being counted. Including the 230 million taels of silver obtained from the mansion of Xie Wenyuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, it is conservatively estimated that it will be no less than tens of millions..."

"Really, a horse has no night grass and no fat!"

Luo Porridge looked at the wooden boxes scraped from the mansions all over the place and murmured, that hundreds of carriages had already been filled just after he took the lead.

I still remember that after the anti-thief leader surnamed Li entered Beijing in his previous life, the officials in the capital alone gave as much as 7000 million taels of silver to save his life.

The white silver alone filled thousands of carriages, not counting those jade treasures, if all of them were converted together, there would be hundreds of millions of silver.

If the houses of all the officials of the imperial court were ransacked and wiped out, it would be even more incalculable, even hundreds of millions or even one billion taels of silver, which is not a lie.

The people are poor and poor, and suffering is bitter, but it does not affect officials big and small everywhere to make money. It is said that the more chaotic the world is, the bigger the pockets of officials.

The misery and barrenness of the people of the world,
The greed and wealth of the world's officials,
It has far subverted Luo Congee's previous cognition.

unitary time,

Thousands of Jin Yiwei spent a few hours back and forth, and when the sky was getting dark, they took away all the mansions of the rebels.

At the end of the unitary hour,
After the inventory is completed, the trucks are being loaded in an orderly manner.

"My lord, a total of 2906 million taels of silver and 50 taels of gold were confiscated this time..."

"My lord, what should I do with this money?"

The hundreds of households who were in charge of counting looked at the clogged carriages on Yongle Long Street with distressed faces. The carriages in ordinary households were no more than a rough horse, and the weight of the wheels around them was only about a thousand catties.

Calculated according to 16 taels per catty in Dali, a carriage can only hold 2 taels of silver when it is dead, not to mention other rare treasures piled up like a mountain, there are at least seven or eight hundred carriages blocked on the long street in front of you , piled up here is not the same thing, it has to be disposed of as soon as possible.

"Lord Luo, how about following the previous regulations, the 96 taels of silver will be sent to the treasury together with the gold and those rare treasures, and the remaining 200 million taels of silver will be sent to His Majesty's internal treasury through some other means? What do you think? "

Ding Xiu leaned over and asked.

"After all, the official is in the name of rehabilitating."

"Add two million taels of silver to His Majesty."

Luo Congee waved his hand.

"That's fine too. Among the remaining 800 million taels of silver, there are 300 million taels of silver bills, land deeds, house deeds, etc. The officials have already sorted out the remaining 500 million taels of silver and will send someone to your lord's house immediately. "

Ding Xiu skillfully handed out a wooden box. He had to say that Jiaqian Layman's title was not for nothing. He only ransacked the house once with Wang Ruling, and he had already memorized the process by heart.

"I'm afraid that the treasury in this official's house won't be able to store the remaining five million taels of silver."

Luo Porridge took the wooden box and said with a frown, the house that copied the minister of the Ministry of War has already piled up the storeroom to the brim, and even piled up quite a lot in the courtyard.

At present, another 500 million taels has been collected, even if the side hall is demolished, it may not be piled up, but this money is very important for the expansion behind Jinyiwei, and Luo Porridge does not want to put it elsewhere unless it is absolutely necessary.

"The lower official heard that Master Zhang in the mansion next door to Mr. Luo is approaching his sixtieth age, and he is not far from resignation. If we choose a house in the countryside from the land deeds of these thieves and replace it with him, it will be considered us. I have made preparations for his retirement in advance, and I think the master book will definitely accept it when he learns about it."

"From now on, after connecting Lord Luo's mansion with the master's mansion, and turning it into a warehouse, it will be able to pile up if you think about it, and it's right under the eyes of your lord, so you can feel more at ease."

Zhang Ruling, who came back from the Shangjing Yamen, interjected at the right time.

"Well, it can be regarded as a way."

"However, that master book has been a neighbor of my Luo family for more than ten years. Don't be too mean. You should make up for him according to the market price difference."

"My lord's lesson is that the next official will immediately send someone to do it."

Luo Porridge looked at Wang Ruling who had already started to make arrangements and pondered for a long time, and finally understood why courtiers have been favored throughout the ages.

It's not that the emperor is too stupid, but that the courtiers under him are really good at dealing with things. To be honest, this Wang Ruling is a bit better than Mr. Wolong for himself at the moment.

……

"Master Ding, something unexpected happened here."

While Luo Porridge was thinking, the Baihu got down from a carriage with a gloomy expression just now, and whispered in Ding Xiu's ear.

"Part of the batch of silver that has been sent to the commander's mansion is different from the one that was confiscated in Feng's mansion last time." The hundred households took out an ingot of silver from their pockets and handed it to Ding Xiudao.

"What is the difference?"

"There is a name written on this silver, isn't it?"

Ding Xiu played with the silver ingot and asked back.

"It does have a name written on it."

"..."

Ding Xiu felt stuck in his throat.

The hundred households bit their bullets and continued: "Master Ding, you don't know. In recent years, the treasury has been spending too much, and the mines in various places cannot supply it. Some of the official silver cast by the imperial court has too much lead, and the quality is not good. , Even if it is circulated in the market, it has to be discounted. For convenience, each government has recast private silver outflow, which is far more popular than official silver. The court knows that it is wrong, as long as the amount is not too large Also open one eye and close one eye..."

"How many taels of silver are engraved with private seals?"

After hearing this, Ding Xiu looked at the inscription on the bottom of the silver ingot in his hand and said.

"There are all kinds of things that add up to about 80 taels."

The latter wiped off his cold sweat and said, in the final analysis, it was his own carelessness. If this batch of silver was sent directly to the treasury, there would be no trouble.

"Bold!"

After thinking for a moment, Ding Xiu suddenly shouted.

"My lord, forgive me, it is the negligence of the subordinate!"

The hundred households suddenly knelt down and said.

"These rebels have the audacity to say nothing,"

"It's a shame to be born shameless!"

"Stealing adults' silver and engraving your own name on it!"

Ding Xiu pointed to the inscription at the bottom and said indignantly.

"Sir, this..."

The hundred households were at a loss.

"Why are you still standing still?"

"Hurry up and recast the private silver and return it to the original owner!"

Ding Xiu angrily threw the silver in his face and cursed angrily.

Luo Congee was interrupted from thinking and raised his head to look at the upright Ding Xiu in a daze. After finding out the reason of the incident, the corner of his mouth twitched unconsciously.

(End of this chapter)