Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 53

"Li Si, I agree with your proposal, and I will thoroughly investigate the relevant people in Qingde Fang as you said."

As soon as Wang Mang returned to the study, he directly agreed to the proposal of Li Si and the others, which made Li Si and the others, who were about to spend a lot of time, feel like they were punching the cotton with their fists.

According to the emperor's attitude just now, it would never let them make such a big deal happen.

But just going out to change clothes, the emperor's attitude changed so much, then something must have happened during the changing process, which made the emperor change his mind.

So what happened?
All the ministers had various speculations in their hearts, and their curious hearts were very itchy.

Wang Mang would not tell these adults what happened, but looked at Shen Buhai and said, "Master Shen, I ordered you to ransack your house yesterday, and tell me what you found in Fang Xizhi's mansion."

Seeing that the emperor deliberately diverted the topic away, all the ministers naturally knew that Qingdefang's responsibility had been settled, and the new topic was so interesting that everyone turned their attention to Shen Buhai.

Shen Buhai originally didn't want to talk about this matter today, but now the emperor opened his mouth, and it's not good not to talk, so he had to say: "Yesterday, I led people to search Fangfu: one mansion, three other courtyards, surrounding areas of the capital. The land lease is 600 mu, 400 pieces of various treasures and antiques, [-] volumes of calligraphy and painting by celebrities, [-] taels of cash, [-] taels of silver, and other related items have not yet been pledged."

"What?" Wang Yongji was the first to jump up, and said loudly, "Shen Buhai, don't tell me that Fang Xizhi's house is just so shabby?"

Among the people present, Wang Yongji is the one who cares most about Fang Xizhi's family property, otherwise he would not rush to the palace early in the morning. Since ancient times, soldiers have been using money, and their military department is now crazy about money. The officials of the Ministry of War are still waiting for Fang Xizhi's money to help them.

Shen Buhui turned his eyes to look at Wang Yongji, although he understood Wang Yongji's urgency, and also knew that Wang Yongji's impulsive character, but this was too disrespectful to him, right?

But before Shen Buhai could speak, Yu Wenkai, who was anxious about the road repair money, said, "Master Shen, isn't that right? As far as I know, Fang Xizhi is very rich, and his son Fang Qiu can easily spend tens of thousands of taels." The money was scattered."

"Who doesn't know in the capital, Fang Xizhi is known as Fang Wanwan, and his family definitely has a wealth of no less than 100 million taels of silver." Li Si also said strangely at this time, he still remembers that from yesterday to now he and Shen Buhai For that little grudge, it is natural to take the time to apply eye drops at this time.

Ever since, as soon as Shen Buhai finished talking about what he got from the quarrel, there was a quarrel in the study, all asking where Shen Buhai's money went.

Shen Buhai was also very depressed, he also ransacked the house with great expectations, but the result of the house raid was really unsatisfactory, he was ashamed, and felt sorry for his title of house raid expert.

Wang Mang looked at the scene in front of him, and sighed deeply in his heart. He only felt that his life was really hard. The ministers under his command would not accept me, and I would not accept you. Whenever something happened, they would immediately attack each other. Wang Mang is sure that as long as there is a meeting, all the ministers will be beaten to death.

However, these ministers are not stupid. They have a clear grasp of everyone's family background, and it seems that they are not useless.

Fang Xizhi did have a wealth of no less than 100 million taels. Where did the wealth go, it naturally went to Wang Mang's pocket, but if it went into my pocket, I would not take it out easily.

cough!
After we coughed, all the ministers fighting in the study room saw the gloomy emperor, knelt down and said in their mouths: "Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty to punish you for your disrespect."

"Let's get back together." Wang Mang's expression softened a little, and he looked at Shen Buhai again and said, "You have heard what all the adults said, do you have anything to explain?"

"Your Majesty, as soon as I received His Majesty's order yesterday, I led the troops from Dali Temple to surround Fang Xizhi's mansion. It was really digging five feet from the ground. The more than 1000 taels of gold were four feet above the ground. I found it somewhere, and I naturally know what your lords said, but I really exhausted all my strength, and indeed I only found so many things in Fang Xizhi's house, but if there is even a little bit of it, I or my subordinates will find it. If you are greedy, I will end up like Fang Xizhi in the future."

Shen Buhui looked at Wang Mang with an aggrieved face, paused, and continued: "After the house was searched, I found that the situation was inconsistent with the rumors, so I went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to interrogate Fang Xizhi, and find out how much money Fang Xizhi had, but When I arrived at the Ministry of Punishment, Fang Xizhi was already dead."

Shen Buhai spread his hands, looked at Wang Mang and the crowd and said, "There is no proof of death, and I have nothing to do now. I have sealed up all the confiscated account books and money and treasures. Your Majesty, please judge!"

When Li Si heard it, okay, why did he turn to the matter of Fang Xizhi's inexplicable death in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and immediately said: "Master Shen, let's talk about money, can we not talk about it elsewhere."

"I'm just telling the truth, so that His Majesty can know the whole story." Shen Buhai sneered, "It's just that you, Mr. Li, acted like this, so it's possible that you want to deceive Your Majesty."

"You..." Li Si was furious, pointing at Shen Buhai and being speechless for a while.

Seeing that the minister wanted to roll up his sleeves and fight again, Wang Mang immediately said, "You two are making trouble, so let me out!"

"Your Majesty, if you disturb Your Majesty, you will die!" Shen Buhai and Li Si immediately knelt on the ground in fright.

At this time Zhang Jian stood up as a peacemaker again, and said: "Your Majesty, the two adults are also worried about state affairs, and have no other intentions. It is definitely not intentional to disturb Your Majesty."

Seeing that Zhang Jian took the lead, the others immediately followed suit. Wang Mang shook his head, making Li Si and Shen Buhuo look unhappy.

After the two got up, although they were still unhappy with each other, they didn't dare to be like before.

Li Hong said at this time: "Master Shen, I wonder if you have asked someone to evaluate the value of the confiscated items."

Li Hong is the secretary of the household department and Fang Xizhi's chief. He originally didn't want to intervene in the matter of Fang Xizhi's house copying, but as the head of the household department, he is naturally sensitive to numbers. How much money was paid, even in the bottom of his heart, Li Hong also had some ideas about the proceeds from the house raids.

"The valuation has already been done." Shen Buhai said: "According to special calculations, the above-mentioned silver, gold, jewelry, house deeds and land deeds, antique calligraphy and paintings confiscated from Fang Xizhi's home are equivalent to no less than 50 taels of cash. "

50 taels!

The eyes of all the ministers in the study lit up, even Wang Mang, who had no interest in confiscating the items, his eyes lit up.

50 taels, although it did not meet the expectation of a million taels, it was by no means a small sum.

Everyone was gearing up, knowing that the next step would be to divide up the 50 taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)