A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 504 Contest

Liu Jing invited all the heads of noble, powerful, and official families to the government office. After arriving here, dozens of people saluted and talked to each other.

"Why didn't Liu Yushi invite us to the banquet? Why didn't anyone come?" Everyone waited in the hall for a long time and did not see Liu Jing come out. One of them got impatient and asked the attendant next to him.

"My lord, I don't know." The attendant said respectfully, but his manner seemed to be perfunctory.

"You don't know? Liu Yushi invited me to come to the banquet. You are Liu Yushi's attendants. How could you not know?" Pingyang Bo Nieting next to him frowned and immediately stood up to leave.

"My lord, you cannot leave." The attendant stopped him directly.

Pingyang Boneting's expression changed, and he asked directly: "What do you want to do?"

"Liu Yushi has ordered that all nobles should rest here and are not allowed to leave!" the attendant continued.

"What? He, Liu Jing, is a censor, but we are not fools. What crime did we commit that he imprisoned a noble noble?" Others shouted after hearing what the attendant said.

"Get out of the way, I want to go back and submit a letter to the court, please refer to him!"

"Yes, I want to go back and read his book too!" Many heads of noble, powerful and official families in the hall said one after another. The attendants naturally knew who were inside and did not dare to force them, but they also did not dare to let them out.

Everyone was in a stalemate here for a while. When the house owners saw these people, they didn't dare to do anything to them. They immediately pushed and tried to leave. More than a dozen attendants couldn't stop them and retreated.

"Dear nobles and nobles, I am very busy with my affairs, so I am a little late. I hope you will not be offended." Liu Jing saw the situation here from a distance and said immediately.

Everyone who was about to rush out just now saw Liu Jing coming, so they had no choice but to give up, and then saluted him and said, "I wonder what we have committed, so that Liu Yushi will lock us and everyone here?"

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I'm a step late." Liu Jing said calmly.

"Misunderstanding? Liu Yushi, I'm afraid it's not a misunderstanding!" Another nobleman next to him sneered.

"Mr. Li misunderstood. Liu is indeed delayed because of something urgent."

"It's urgent, so why don't you rush to my house and search the house?" Li Huang sneered.

"What? Liu Jing, you are so bold! What crime have we committed? You dare to search the current Viscount at will!"

"If you don't give an explanation today, I will join you in arbitrarily detaining the nobles of the court and raiding the nobles' homes without guilt!" Everyone in the hall said with dissatisfaction.

Seeing these people tearing their faces, Liu Jing sneered and said: "You have not committed any crime. It is not what I say, but what the "Da Qian Lv" says. When I finish raiding your house, you will naturally Report to the court!"

"The evidence in the "Daqian Law" is conclusive. Only if you are guilty can you confiscate your home. If you are not guilty, you have already committed a big taboo. I want to see how arrogant you can be!" Pingyuan Marquis Li Huang sneered.

"This is none of Marquis Pingyuan's business. I will apologize to Your Majesty when the time comes." Liu Jing said coldly.

"Okay!" Marquis Pingyuan stopped talking and immediately returned to sit in the hall. It seemed that the person who was so angry just now was not him.

Seeing this situation, the remaining heads of noble, powerful, and official families had no choice but to go back. Since they had already broken up with each other, Liu Jing would naturally not give them any more face, so there was no need to think about leaving.

Liu Jing watched everyone retreat and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then he immediately sent people to search the house quickly to find evidence of these people's crimes. This time he violated the "Da Qian Law" by locking everyone up and forcibly ransacking their homes. With this approach, even if incriminating evidence is found, his political future will be over. After all, no one wants to have their home forcibly searched for no reason. This time, he has completely violated the rules. Regardless of success or failure, he will no longer hold an official position, and even His Majesty will not be able to protect him.

When Liu Jing left, the attendants did not stay, but guarded outside the hall. Li Huang looked at the other people around and asked softly: "Everyone, have all the family affairs been arranged? If there is any disclosure, then only How lucky you are to be able to ask for it!”

"Don't worry, Sir, I've been observing the rules all these years and don't dare to step out of line!" Others said one after another.

"In that case, let me just wait here and watch Liu Jing perish!" After saying that, these people sat down and continued to talk about mysteries, as if they were not being imprisoned here.

On the other side, after inviting all the heads of noble and powerful official families to be imprisoned in the government office, Yulinwei immediately led his soldiers and began to ransack their homes.

Thousands of people completely surrounded these noble homes, and then went directly to the door to break it down and ransack the house. However, just as these people were about to break down the door, the door suddenly opened on its own.

Then a man who looked like a steward came out and said, "My lords, what's the matter?"

"The imperial censor has an order, and we are ordered to raid the house!" said the leading official.

"I wonder what crime we have committed? Did the imperial court confiscate family documents?"

"Here's the document!" The official immediately took out a copy of the family seizure order signed by the imperial censor. After seeing the order to seize the house, the steward took the document and immediately moved out of the way.

"My lords, please don't disturb the women."

"We naturally know that we are offended!" The official directly ordered the house to be searched.

At the same time, this scene was also played out in other noble and powerful families. It seemed that everything was normal, but it gave people an abnormal feeling. Yes, it was abnormal. It was too smooth. Although he had not ransacked the house, but that Have you ever heard of someone confiscating your home but just waited patiently?

But it's none of his business. The imperial censor has orders, so they must obey them.

Liu Jing waited quietly in the government office. About three hours later, the officials who went to search the house came back one after another.

"Liu Yushi, we have seized a total of 80,000 stones of grain and grass, a total of 357,634 pieces of gold, silver and copper coins, and 120 pieces of various rare and rare treasures. Among them, there are also people heading outside the city. The manor is being inspected.”

"Have you found evidence that those people broke the law?" Liu Jing asked.

"That's not true," said the official.

"What?" Liu Jing stood up suddenly, then took a step forward and said, "There is no evidence of their guilt?"

"No," the official said.

"Didn't they embezzle for two days, force the people, annex land and buy people?"

"We have carefully verified that there is indeed none of this, not even the members of the clan holding land on their behalf. They have really separated their families. We checked their account books and conducted several verifications based on their income. Even the deviation of the family’s property does not exceed ten guan.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Jing felt his eyes darken, and a thought suddenly arose in his mind: ‘I’ve been fooled! ’

(End of this chapter)