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Chapter 53: Both Cao and Fan were destroyed, and the money and food were confiscated

The Cao family is also a large landowner in Minggang, with more than 3000 acres of land.

At the same time, he also runs two restaurants and seven butcher shops in the town, and is the largest vegetable supplier in the town.However, the Cao family's most profitable business now is its cooperation with the Fan family store to make loan sharks.

Therefore, the Cao family actually had many guardians and servants, but when it came to a critical moment, few were willing to stand up and protect the master.

After the rebels rushed in, they easily captured a dozen adult men of the Cao family.

The head of the Cao family, Cao Wenjian, whose appearance was seriously inconsistent with his name, was a middle-aged fat man weighing [-] pounds. He tried to escape over the wall, but fell and broke his leg. The huge movement also attracted the rebels patrolling outside the wall, who dragged him away to meet other Cao family men. Ding reunited.

After arresting the man, the red lady took out 600 taels of gold and more than 1 taels of silver from Cao's house.

I also found ten silver winter melons weighing 8000 kilograms in a cellar of Cao's family. After conversion, it was [-] taels of silver!
The silver winter melons were designed to prevent theft, but could not be prevented from being confiscated by the rebels. Two people quickly brought up all ten silver winter melons.

In addition, the rebels who ransacked the house also took some gold and silver jewelry and jewelry from the Cao family. The Red Lady did not have any rules in this regard, so naturally they were not included in the seizure account.

On the other side, while Yang Heqing was responsible for guarding the Zhang family's granary, he also had people confiscate the Zhang family's property.

Unfortunately, after the red lady and others robbed the men of the Zhang family at noon, the guards and servants of the Zhang family lost control, robbed a small amount of money and fled.

When the officers and soldiers sent by Liu Xicai came in, they robbed again.

Later, the archers fought with the officers and soldiers and also robbed them.

Someone grabbed some gold and silver and sneaked away.

As for the subsequent group of officers and soldiers and the Fan family nurses, they also participated in the frenzy of carving up the Zhang family's money.

Therefore, Yang Heqing confiscated only more than 300 taels of gold and more than 8000 taels of silver from the Zhang family, and most of them were found from the corpses of officers, soldiers, and archers.

There should be silver winter melons, and maybe even golden winter melons, but unfortunately the rebels couldn't find where they were hidden for a long time.

"The Zhang family must know where the gold and silver is hidden!" After all the efforts to no avail, Yang Heqing became a little angry, "Why don't I send people to the Refugee Valley now and ask the Fourth Brother and the others to send the men of the Zhang family over!"

After speaking, he looked at Liu Sheng, obviously asking for Liu Sheng's opinion.

Liu Sheng didn't care as much about gold and silver as he did about food, but he wanted to collect more, so he said, "To be on the safe side, you should personally take a dozen of your best men back to the Refugee Valley and escort the Zhang family here."

Yang Heqing laughed, "Zhao Liu is still thoughtful."

After saying that, he hurriedly ordered a dozen cavalry soldiers and left.

Not long after, the red lady returned to the Zhang family mansion with the men of the Cao family and the confiscated gold and silver.

Liu Sheng said: "Fan Yongcheng was killed by me - he colluded with Liu Xicai to destroy the Zhang family, so you can arrest the Fan family and confiscate the Fan family's property.

By the way, the Fan family should have put in a lot of usury when they opened banks and pawn shops.If you find contracts, IOUs, etc. at Fan's house, be sure to collect them.

Before the public trial tomorrow, if you burn it in front of the people, you can win a lot of people's hearts. "

The red lady's eyes sparkled after hearing this, and she looked at Liu Sheng and said, "Zhao Liu is really good at rebellion."

Liu Sheng said seriously: "It doesn't sound good to say rebellion - we are making decisions for the common people who are oppressed by local tyrants and evil gentry."

"You are so good at it." The red lady smiled.

She didn't know when she washed off the heavy makeup on her face, revealing her pretty bare face.

On the slightly thin oval face, there are a pair of large and watery crescent eyes. The nose is straight and the eyebrows are somewhat heroic. The smile is like plum blossoms blooming under the bright spring light, which is a bit dazzling.

Liu Sheng coughed lightly and said, "The Fan Family Nursing Home didn't suffer much loss. They may resist. If it's difficult to get in, you'll send someone back to tell me."

"I see."

The red lady agreed and led a hundred infantry to the Fan family mansion.

As a small branch of the Jiexiu Fan family who moved here, the Fan family is indeed much stronger than the Cao family. The nursing home that escaped has not been separated, and under the organization of the eldest young master and the chief steward of the Fan family, they want to stay behind closed doors.

Unfortunately, Madam Hong had a lot of experience in breaking up strongholds and destroying houses. It didn't take long for her to lead her troops to attack, and the Fan family was captured by the rebels.

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At the beginning of Haishi (after nine o'clock in the evening).

The Zhang family mansion is still brightly lit.In the main room in the yard next to the granary compound, Liu Sheng was responsible for the statistics of gold and silver.

Hong Niangzi, Yang and Qing were all sitting aside eating noodles.

However, after Yang Heqing escorted the Zhang family for interrogation, he was busy confiscating the gold and silver and other properties in the Zhang family's secret cellar, and took over another Zhang family's granary. He was not finished until nine o'clock.

In addition to copying the gold and silver from the Fan family, the matchmaker also searched for deeds, IOUs, etc. Later, Liu Sheng informed her that the whole family's accountants at the Fan family's pawnshop and bank were arrested, and they were busy until after eight o'clock. Take a break.

Since there was no actual need to count gold and silver for the time being, only literal statistics, Liu Sheng wrote and drew on a piece of paper and quickly completed the work.

"The Zhang family confiscated a total of 1000 taels of gold and 3000 taels of silver.

The Fan family confiscated a total of 500 taels of gold and 800 taels of silver.

Including the 600 taels of gold confiscated by the Cao family, the silver was nearly 6 taels.

This time, a total of 100 taels of gold and 800 taels of silver were confiscated from the Zhang, Fan and Cao families. "

After listening to Liu Sheng read the statistics, Yang Heqing couldn't help but wonder: "The reason for the small amount of gold and silver confiscated from this family is because the Zhang family used money to buy food, and a lot of it was robbed today.

Didn't the Fan family run a bank? Why did they pay so little gold and silver?The silver is less than 1 taels. "

The red lady knew that Yang Heqing did not suspect her of being greedy, but was simply confused, so she explained: "I asked an accountant of the Fan family and he said that a lot of the Fan family's money was used for business.

For example, loan money was used to purchase goods from the South and the North.The most important thing is that the Fan family has only moved here for more than [-] years, and the accumulated wealth is naturally far less than that of other large families. "

Liu Sheng said: "It doesn't matter how much gold and silver you pay. There is no need to force it. In this world, food is more reliable than gold and silver."

As he said this, Liu Sheng picked up another piece of paper, which turned out to be the statistics of Zhang, Fan and Cao's grain harvesting.

Among them, Fan and Cao, although they did not engage in grain trading due to unspoken rules, they each hoarded a batch of grain.

Neither of them were much. The Fan family had hoarded one thousand shi, while the Cao family had only hoarded [-] shi.

As for the Zhang family, there is also a large mill on the southeast edge of the town, which is dedicated to shelling grain and grinding it to supply grain stores in Minggang Town and surrounding markets.

Therefore, the Zhang family also built a granary compound next to the big mill, which could also store six thousand shi of grain.

It's just that a lot of grain was sold before, but now there are only two thousand stones of raw grain and more than 500 stones of rice and noodles left there.

After this calculation, the rebels now have [-] shi of food in their hands!
Liu Sheng told the number, and the red lady, Yang Heqing were all happy - Zhangjiatun Liangjuqi was indeed abominable, but they also really got a big deal.

Yang Heqing just finished sucking the last few noodles and drank the noodle soup in one gulp.

He put down the bowl and said, "Speaking of it, the manager of the granary at the big mill is quite sensible. Today, there were several waves of people who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to grab food, but he led the guards to drive them away.

When I led the rebels over, he not only did not resist, but opened the door to greet me, and even handed over the accounts of the granary. I was too embarrassed to kill them, so I let them go. "

Liu Sheng laughed when he heard this and said, "Have you ever thought that what you let go is a nest of giant rats?"

"Shuo Shu?" Yang Heqing didn't react for a moment.

Liu Sheng said bluntly: "I guess the granary manager and the nursing home probably steal a lot of food on weekdays. With such a good opportunity today, they will probably steal more."

"How is that possible!" Yang Heqing cried out in surprise, "I have only heard of officials stealing and selling official food, but the manager of this big family will also steal it?"

After speaking, he looked at the red lady.

He knew that although the red lady was several years younger than him, she had more travel experience than him.

The red lady also smiled and said: "It's so normal for a steward to embezzle the master's property, and it's not uncommon. There's also the steward who murdered his master, seized the family property, and turned into a big landowner."

"So, the steward of the granary probably handed over the granary to me so happily because he stole the Zhang family's grain?" Yang Heqing finally reflected.

Liu Sheng and Lady Hong nodded together.

"Straight bitch!" Yang Heqing slapped the table angrily and stood up, "I will take people to catch that Shuo Shu and ask him how much food he stole!

Let me tell you, how come such a big granary contains less than half of the grain! "

(End of this chapter)