The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 350 Liu Jin is greedy for tons of gold and tons of silver? !

Chang Feng led people to Liu Jin's mansion.

Zhang Yong said to Chang Feng at the door of the house: "You are here. Come and take a look at the gold and silver copied from Liu Jin's house. It is spectacular."

Looting Liu Jin's mansion was far less difficult than raiding Cai Shilang's mansion twenty-five years ago.

Because Liu Jin never thought that he would fall. The gold and silver treasures obtained through bribery were not hidden at all, but were piled up in the sixty-eight vaults in the mansion.

At this moment, Jiang Bin led 300 armored soldiers from the Si Yong Battalion to the gate of Liu Mansion.

Zhang Yong was a little strange: "Why is Jiang Bin here? He also brought armored soldiers? Liu Jin has already captured him without any help, and the servants in the house are all honest. Even if Jiang Bin takes the credit, there is no need to bring armored soldiers."

The armored soldiers are the heavily armored sergeants in the Four Brave Battalions. They are all wearing heavy leaf armor. He is the elite among the elite of the Ming army.

Chang Feng said: "I asked Jiang Bin to bring them here."

Jiang Bin raised his hand towards Chang Feng: "Master Chang, we have arrived. Please give the order."

Chang Feng nodded. Shouted: "Remove armor!"

It is common for men to like women, and they don’t have any weird hobbies.

He asked three hundred armored soldiers to remove their armor, not for favor, but to frame him.

If Liu Jin cannot be completely tortured to death tonight, then he will be the one to die.

Three hundred armored soldiers obeyed the order, put their swords and guns on the ground, and took off their armor.

Chang Feng ordered a Qianhu: "Bring them back to the military camp. Tomorrow the Japanese admiral Wu Chen will give an order. If they have meritorious service in apprehending the eunuchs, each of them will be promoted to one level and will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver."

Qianhu was a little embarrassed: "Master Chang, Ye Zi Jia and swords and guns are nothing. But if Ye Zi Jia is lost, according to the military regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers will be dismissed, punished, and exiled from the army."

Chang Feng said: "Liu Jin's gang members have been operating in Beijing for many years. Naturally, they have raised many desperadoes."

"Wouldn't it be reasonable to encounter some resistance when arresting eunuchs?"

"During the fierce battle, it is reasonable to lose some armor, right?"

"I'll make the decision for you on this matter. Just go back to the military camp and wait for your promotion and get your reward."

Qianhu held up his hands and said, "Yes. We'll go back to camp right now."

But Chang Feng stopped him: "Wait a minute. I have something to say first. If there is someone among you who talks too much and cannot be promoted, or if you don't talk about the money you get, you will be in bad luck."

Qianhu said: "Don't worry, Mr. Chang, I understand."

Zhang Yong was confused by Chang Feng's operation: "Master Chang, what do you want three hundred pairs of leaf armor and a bunch of swords and guns?"

Chang Feng shouted: "You Jingwu!"

You Jingwu asked, "What are your foster father's orders?"

Chang Feng pointed at the armors, swords and guns: "These were all copied from Liu Jin's mansion, right?"

You Jingwu nodded: "Back to my adoptive father, that's right!"

Zhang Yong and Jiang Bin particularly admire Chang Feng's ability to tell lies with his eyes open.

Chang Feng said again: "Then why are you still standing there? Paste each pair of leaf armor with the seal of our Jin Yiwei. These are all evidence of Liu Jin's rebellion!"

Zhang Yong took a breath: "My Mr. Chang Shuai, you are cruel enough."

In the Ming Dynasty, concealing armor was a serious crime. Hiding a pair of armor privately is equivalent to hiding a 81-barrel with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and an 82 recoilless rifle at home in future generations.

This is an act that will put you in jail or even your head.

Chang Feng directly arranged 300 pairs of armor for Liu Jin.

Chang Feng turned his head and looked at Jiang Bin again. Although Jiang Bin has long been secretly forming an alliance with Chang Feng. But Chang Feng always felt that there was a layer of separation between him and him.

Chang Feng said: "General Jiang. Chief Assistant Li Dongyang and I will testify against you. You have been secretly an enemy of the traitor Liu Jin in the past few years. You played a major role in the downfall of the Eunuch Party."

Jiang Bin is very aware of current affairs: "Thank you, Mr. Chang Shuai. Ah, this Liu Jin is really ambitious. He has so many armors secretly hidden in his pocket. He is really going to rebel!"

"Thanks to Mr. Chang Shuai's proficiency in the art of raiding houses, these armors were able to see the light of day. Liu Jin's treason conspiracy was clearly exposed."

At this moment, You Jingwu lowered his voice: "Father, my wife is here, she is just over there at the side door."

Chang Feng said: "Eunuch Zhang, General Jiang, please wait a moment, I'll be back soon."

Chang Feng came to the side door.

Madam Ninth was sitting in the concierge holding a bundle.

Chang Feng and You Jingwu walked in.

Chang Feng asked: "Did you bring anything?"

Madam Ninth nodded and opened the baggage.

In the baggage are a jade seal, a jade belt carved with dragons, and a fan.

Chang Feng picked up the jade seal. The jade is the finest Hetian jade. The seal is "the emperor's treasure". And these four words, it is not a seal but a seal.

Chang Feng asked: "Where is the craftsman who carved the jade seal?"

Madam Ninth replied: "Half a month ago, I watched him get on the ship at Tanggukou with five hundred taels of gold. Soon he should be able to go to Nanyang and become a rich man."

Chang Feng did everything he could to bring down Liu Jin.

Madam Ninth has many connections in the Green Forest Road of Beijing. Anyone can recognize any mess.

Chang Feng sent someone to deliver a secret letter to her on the way back to Beijing. Let her find someone to forge the imperial seal.

This is also one of the means to frame Liu Jin.

Chang Feng picked up the dragon-carved jade belt again. Made in the Ming Dynasty, the first grade of civil and military officials, princes, princes, vassal kings and emperors all used jade belts.

But only the emperor's jade belt was carved with dragons. This is also illegal.

Chang Feng said: "The carving of the jade belt is average. But it can be used."

Finally Chang Feng picked up the folding fan.

Madam Ninth said: "This is the folding fan that Eunuch Liu used to carry. Your Majesty must have seen this folding fan many times."

"When my brother-in-law was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, Eunuch Liu gave him the folding fan as soon as he was happy."

Changfeng nodded slightly and opened the folding fan.

This folding fan was led by Madam Ninth and was modified by a hidden weapon master from Green Forest Road in Beijing. There is a mechanism on the fan handle. Two knives can pop out with one press.

Chang Feng said: "Liu Jin carries a folding fan with a hidden weapon and serves the emperor in the leopard room all day long. This is because he has the intention to assassinate the king!"

"Jingwu, quickly put the jade seal, jade belt, and folding fan among the properties seized by the Liu Mansion."

You Jingwu cupped his hands and said, "Yes, foster father."

Madam Ninth stood up: "After the matter is done, I will go back to the mansion. Oh, by the way, our sister is still in Liu's mansion."

Chang Feng frowned: "Tangtang is still in the Liu Mansion?"

Madam Ninth replied: "I heard from Huang Yuan that she was keeping vigil for Liu Jingxiang in the hall. Eunuch Zhang and Huang Yuan both came over to persuade her, but she just refused to leave."

Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, she is a person who values ​​friendship. It's a pity that in the capital, women can talk about friendship, but men can't. Talking about friendship will lose justice." That night, Chang Feng took out "Chang Feng" Butcher's ruthlessness. It seems that he doesn't care about the old relationship at all, and wants to kill the old acquaintance. He is a ruthless and unjust person.

actually not.

Zhang Yong showed Chang Feng a copy of "The Book of Yama" copied from Liu Jin's mansion.

The so-called "Book of Yama" refers to the list of officials Liu Jin killed and exiled through frame-ups over the years. It is a real account of blood and tears.

Chang Feng read the Book of Yama for the first time. If a person's name is marked in red, he or she will lose his or her life. At a rough count, there are six to seven hundred.

These are upright officials who are unwilling to rely on Liu Jin.

Liu Jin really regarded himself as the King of Hell. The reason for the killing is also recorded behind the person's name.

For example, a certain prefect arrested a rich boy who raped a common girl. The rich man used money to clear the way, and spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to find a young disciple of Liu Jin.

The young disciple Sun took advantage of Liu Jin's bathing time to speak for the rich man.

Liu Jin said casually: "Let the prefect release him."

The prefect enforced the law impartially and was unwilling to let people go. Within half a month, he was arrested by the inner factory and tortured to death. As for the charges, I'm sorry, but Eunuch Liu didn't even bother to make up the charges for killing someone.

Chang Feng took a cursory look at the book of blood and tears. If Liu Jin did this, the Ming Dynasty would no longer have upright officials, and the country would fall sooner or later.

He handed the "Book of Yama" to You Jingwu: "This is an important evidence of Liu Jin's crime. Put it in the box and seal it. I want to present it to the emperor."

Next, Chang Feng came to the backyard.

The backyard has become a mountain of gold and silver and a sea of ​​banknotes.

Zhang Yongdao: "Time is too short. After a rough calculation, Liu Jin's family wealth is 6.2 million taels of silver and 210,000 taels of gold. There are also land deeds and treasures. The total value of the family property should be around 10 million taels of silver. Really. It’s sensational. It’s simply the first silverfish since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.”

As an aside, what Zhang Yong said is seriously inconsistent with the amount of Liu Jin's family wealth recorded in history books.

The reason for the serious discrepancy lies in Changfeng.

Chang Feng said: "The accounts are wrong! In my opinion, Liu Jin's family wealth includes 12,170,000 taels of gold and 278,000,000 taels of silver."

Zhang Yong suspected that there was something wrong with his ears: "Master Chang Shuai, how much can you say?"

Chang Feng repeated: "One thousand two hundred and seventy thousand taels of gold; twenty-seven million taels of silver."

Zhang Yong squeezed out a few words through his teeth: "Are you crazy?"

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "I'm not crazy."

Zhang Yongdao: "Like you, I want Liu Jin to be saved forever. But even if it is framed, at least it has to be reliable!"

"Last year, the total revenue of the treasury was only 32 million taels of silver."

"But you want to make it up that Liu Jin's family's silver is nine times the national treasury's annual income? It is unknown whether the entire Ming Dynasty, from the court to the people's homes, has a total of 278 million taels of silver."

Zhang Yong told the truth.

Modern economists hundreds of years later made estimates. In the sixteenth century, Western countries discovered large silver mines in South America. Massive amounts of silver poured into the Ming Dynasty. The process of silver inflow lasted for more than a hundred years.

Until the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the total amount of silver in the Ming Dynasty was only 800 million taels.

The Zhengde Dynasty was still a full sixty years away from the Longqing switch. The inflow of silver is not serious. Later generations inferred from some Ming Dynasty monographs that the Zhengde Dynasty's national silver deposits would not exceed 150 million taels.

However, Chang Feng directly asked Zhang Yong to report that he had found 278 million taels of silver from Liu Jin's home. Is this a fool? Concentrating all the country's silver into Liu Jin's house wouldn't be enough for this figure.

As for the 12,170,000 taels of gold, it is even more nonsense. According to the Ming Dynasty's sixteen-liang system of gold and silver, this number was converted into a measurement unit of 380 tons in later generations.

You know, until 2023 AD, the country’s gold reserves were 2,200 tons.

Even if all the gold of the Ming Dynasty, the gold of the vassal states, Chao Yuyang, and the Nanyang countries were piled together at this time, they would not be able to make up even a fraction of 380 tons.

Zhang Yong thought Chang Feng was crazy: "I told you, Mr. Chang, if I report this figure, the emperor won't believe it. Should we risk our lives to make up for the shortfall of gold and silver?"

"It's not like you don't know the emperor's temperament. No matter how many figures are reported, he will see how much gold and silver he sees in the inner treasury."

"Let's put it this way, even if tens of millions of people in the entire Ming Dynasty went without food or water for 20 years and went mining, they still wouldn't be able to get so much gold and silver."

Chang Feng said: "You don't have to worry about it. Just put the number in your account according to the number I told you. I have my own way to deal with it on the emperor's side. Moreover, this ridiculous and fake number will make the border of Ming Dynasty peaceful for several years."

Zhang Yong was confused: "What does Liu Jin's family wealth have to do with Border Peace?"

Chang Feng said: "Change the number and let's enter the palace. In half an hour, you will understand my intention."

Half an hour later, it was still dark in the Leopard Room.

Half of the officials in the imperial court were dependent on Liu Jin. Half of the officials were arrested, and the imperial gate could not be opened today.

Emperor Zhengde yawned and asked Chang Feng and Zhang Yong who were kneeling in front of him: "How are things going?"

Chang Feng said: "Your Majesty, Liu Jin and his gang members were all captured last night. When they raided Liu Jin's residence, I found several pieces of evidence of Liu Jin's rebellion."

Emperor Zhengde said: "Oh? What evidence?"

Chang Feng replied: "Firstly, Liu Jin secretly hid three hundred pairs of leaf armor and countless swords and guns in his home; secondly, Liu Jin hid in his home a fake jade seal with a large inscription 'The Emperor's Treasure'; thirdly, Liu Jin hid in his house a jade belt with carved dragons; Fourth, there is a hidden weapon hidden in the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum folding fan that Liu Jin often uses."

Emperor Zhengde was surprised: "That folding fan with a sandalwood fan?"

Chang Feng nodded: "Yes. When Liu Jin served the emperor, he often carried that folding fan. He had the intention to assassinate the king!"

Emperor Zhengde burst out with a dragon roar: "Hidden armor, swords and guns, jade seals, jade belts, and the desire to assassinate the king. You are deceiving the sky!"

After the roar of the dragon, Emperor Zhengde asked about the topic of greatest concern: "How much gold and silver does Liu Jin have in his family?"

Chang Feng replied: "One thousand two hundred and seventy thousand taels of gold; twenty-seven million taels of silver. These are the book figures."

Emperor Zhengde looked at Chang Feng in confusion: "Chang Feng, do you think I am stupid? What number is this? There is not so much gold and silver in the world."

Chang Feng shouted: "Your Majesty, Holy Might! The book figures are indeed false. The real figures are 6.2 million taels of silver and 210,000 taels of gold."

Emperor Zhengde said: "I know that you are determined to punish Liu Jin to death. But you must at least make up the numbers that are more reliable. Which official in the DPRK and China can believe such a number?"

Chang Feng said: "Go back to the emperor. Everyone in the court wants to eat Liu Jin's flesh and blood. They will not raise any objection to this number."

"The most important thing is that it doesn't matter whether the officials from North Korea or China believe it or not. The Tatar barbarians just need to believe it!"

"I have found out in the past few months that the little Tatar prince has been annexing various tribes in the grassland and developing his strength in recent years. He is ready to make a move recently. He is preparing to go south to invade."

"If you let me know through the hidden stakes, the Ming Dynasty obtained two to thirty million taels of silver and more than ten million taels of gold by copying Liu Jin's wealth. The emperor also decreed that all this wealth should be used for military expenses."

"If the little prince has some courage, he won't dare to act rashly!"

Emperor Zhengde suddenly realized: "So that's it. But can these two figures fool the little prince? After all, Meng Ren has been in the world for decades. He should know the approximate amount of gold and silver in the world, right?"

Chang Feng said: "It was more than 150 years ago that the Mongols took over the world. The little prince is more than brave, but not resourceful. There are few Mongolians who are familiar with the major economic events of the Han region."

Emperor Zhengde nodded: "Okay. Then we will announce it to the public according to this number."

Chang Feng played tricks on the numbers, not just to scare the little prince.

There is another layer of intention. Once Emperor Zhengde recognized this number, Liu Jin became the number one giant beetle in the history of China.

Even if the gods come down to earth, they can't save Liu Jin.

(End of this chapter)