Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 66

More than a dozen wrestlers surrounded him and hurriedly smashed the golden scorpion to the ground.

Not long after, in the front hall, besides a mountain of silver, there was another mountain of gold.

Lao Hu counted the number and said to He Liu: "There are almost six hundred gold ingots. These are five taels of small ingots, adding up to 3000 taels of gold. That's more than 3 taels of silver!"

Before He Liu was in the Wu Mansion, he borrowed a pen post from the Governor's Mansion to help him record the property he found.

He Liu ordered the pen to post: "For the record: the main living room in the front yard found 8 taels of silver and 3000 taels of gold."

Written and faithfully recorded.Suddenly, He Liu turned his head and walked in front of a guard in brocade clothes.

"Take it out." He Liu ordered the wrestler to say.

Lux looked puzzled: "Master Liu, what are you taking?"

"What? Of course it's gold!" He Liu said angrily.

Lishi became confused: "Master Liu, what kind of gold is that?"

He Liu remained silent, but just put his hand into the sleeve of the warrior's robe.In the sleeves of his robe, there were two golden lockets.

Old Hu jokingly said, "Hiding gold under He Liuye's eyelids? Silly young man, do you know that our Liu Ye has a dog's nose! You can smell gold and silver!"

Lishi fell to his knees and kowtowed endlessly: "Master Liu, please forgive me, my subordinates are blinded by eating shit, and their hearts are blinded by fat..."

He Liu has always been very tolerant towards the junior lieutenants and warriors in Jinyiwei: "Come on, don't do it next time. Every bit of this money is the people's fat and people's anointing. If you keep it privately, wouldn't you be like Wu Liangyong? Became a bastard looking for people's fat and people's anointing?"

In front of the governor's mansion's pen and papers, He Liu could not make it clear: Anyway, this large amount of dirty silver would cost Jin Yiwei's private treasury a hundred and one.By the end of the year, everyone from commanders to wrestlers can share a share. . . .

Lao Hu said to He Liu: "The main hall of the living room in the front yard has been searched, and there are two side halls in the north and south. Do you want to search the side halls?"

He Liudao: "Don't worry."

He circled the living room hall.His gaze stayed in front of a huge landscape painting hanging in the center of the living room.

He Liu went to the landscape painting and took it off.I saw two small depressions behind the painting.In each depression, there is a copper handle.

He and Lao Hu each grabbed a copper handle and pulled it back. "Crash".On the wall behind the landscape painting, there is actually a large piece of wood covered with mud powder.

The board was dragged to the ground, and a huge hidden compartment appeared in front of He Liu.

In the dark compartment, fifty or sixty jade ruyis of different sizes are densely arranged.

He Liu picked up a Ruyi and looked at it, and said to Lao Hu, "All of them are top-quality Burmese jade! This lattice jade Ruyi is worth no less than [-] silver!"

The wrestlers stepped forward, carefully took out Yu Ruyi, and put it in a large wooden box.

He Liu ordered the post to say again: "It is recorded in the record that there are 57 jade ruyi handles in the secret compartment in the front living room."

Lao Hu did the math: "Lao Liu, there are only [-] to [-] silver hidden in this living room!"

He Liu smiled: "Don't worry, I can smell the silver in the living room, and it hasn't been cleaned yet!"

Old Hu looked around: "Haven't copied it all? Can't it? Is there any place to hide silver here?"

He Liu didn't answer, but just walked around the landscape painting that fell on the ground twice.He bent down and pulled out the upper and lower scrolls of the landscape painting.

The front ends of the two painting scrolls are actually alive and can be unscrewed.

He Liu unscrewed the scroll, and the inside of the scroll was actually hollow, full of rolls of banknotes.

The wrestlers counted and counted.Among the two scrolls, there are a total of thirty volumes of bank notes.Five sheets per roll.150 sheets in total.These banknotes were all issued by Jiangnan Sifang Bank, and they were all 200 taels.

Old Hu's eyes were straightened: "There is another 3 taels of silver hidden in the two scrolls of a broken painting?"

He Liu nodded: "Oh, this Wu Liangyong is also a good way to hide the silver. Added up, the main hall of this living room has already found 60 to [-] silver. Hongwu Lord once set a rule that if the embezzlement exceeds [-] taels of silver, he will be skinned Grass. Heh, it’s fortunate that Master Wu didn’t live in the Hongwu Dynasty. Otherwise, the Tibetan silver in the front hall alone would be enough for him to peel the grass three hundred times!”

Emperor Hongwu often imposed extrajudicial punishments on the issue of official corruption, the most typical of which was skinning and weeding: that is, opening a hole in the neck of a corrupt official, pouring mercury, peeling off the human skin completely, making it into a bag, and putting it inside Filled with straw and displayed to the public.

Lao Hu carried the innocence box on his back: "Lao Liu, should we go to the side hall?"

He Liu nodded: "Well, the search is similar. Let's go to the side hall."

But as soon as he reached the entrance of the main hall, He Liu stopped and turned around.

Old Hu asked: "Why, sixth son, you smell the silver again?"

He Liu smiled: "You are really the roundworm in my stomach."

Old Hu laughed and scolded: "You are really sharp-tongued. Do you want to say that I eat your excrement in your stomach all day long?"

He Liu turned back to the living room.He came to a screen in the living room.

There are four screens in total.The screen is embroidered with Shu brocade, and the four friends of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are embroidered.

Old Hu asked, "What's so special about this screen?"

He Liu studied antique appreciation for 20 years with Xu Yanping, the old shopkeeper of Duan Ancient House in Beijing, as his teacher.He is very familiar with the value of antiques.

He said to Old Hu: "We almost missed 5000 taels of silver!"

Old Hu asked: "You mean, this screen is worth 5000 taels? Why can't I see what's so good about it?"

He Liudao: "If I'm not mistaken, this is the relic of the Shu Han Emperor Liu Chan! After Liu Chan surrendered to Wei, Sima Yan gave him a Shu embroidered screen to relieve his homesickness. The painting is the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. Master Xu from Duanguzhai told me that this Sichuan embroidery fan is made of gold and silver threads, and the color of the six treasures. The screen frame is carved from a single piece of sandalwood! It can’t be wrong! Look at the signature , as a gift from Xiangguoyan. At that time Sima Yan had not yet proclaimed himself emperor, and controlled the Great Wei as Xiangguo."

Old Hu said: "I am a good boy. This Master Wu's random decoration is a priceless treasure!"

He Liuming said in a written post: "It's on record! The relics of Emperor Liu Chan of the Shu Han Dynasty were found in the front hall - a sandalwood Shu embroidered plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum four friends screen, and it was worth 5000 taels of silver!"

Lao Hu and He Liu finally moved to the side hall.

Like the main hall, the side hall is full of hidden compartments and silver cellars.After a whole noon, Lao Hu and He Liucai finished checking the main hall, north hall, and south hall of the living room.A total of 40 taels of silver were found.

This is the first half of Wu Liangyong's twelve courtyards.That is, one-twentieth of the entire Wu Mansion.

While eating lunch, Lao Hu said to He Liu while drinking wine: "It is said that the Lianghuai salt transport envoy is the most fat in the world. Today we finally saw it! The official hat of the Lianghuai salt transport envoy is simply a Cornucopia! A few days ago, Yan Shifan, the old man of Xiaoge, exchanged this seat with you for "Baiguan Xinglu", and it seems that the price offered is really not low."

He Liu shook his head: "The fatter the seat, the easier it is to lose your life. Isn't Wu Liangyong's life in danger now?"

(End of this chapter)