The king behind the empress

Chapter 78
Zhou Qi didn't answer what he meant, sheathed his long sword, turned around and left.

After he turned around, a crack appeared on the sword in Yang Yi's hand and on his neck at the same time, and then Yang Yi's head and the tip of the sword fell to the ground together.

There was only one headless corpse standing there holding a broken sword, and after a while, the headless corpse also fell to the ground, and the ground was instantly soaked in blood.

After Yang Yi's body fell down, Yang Xiong closed his eyes in despair, he knew that the Yang family was completely over.

"Twenty years of the cold window, everything is empty in one day."

Yang Xiong's expression was a little sad. At this moment, he seemed to have aged 20 years. He walked towards Dongchangwei with a somewhat staggering pace, and let Dongchangwei lock himself up.

Looking at Yang Xiong's sad back, Mo Zizai didn't have the slightest sympathy in his heart. Twenty years in the cold window were indeed difficult, but this was not the reason for him to plunder money after he gained power.

He has been an official for more than 1000 years, received more than [-] million taels of bribes, and at least thousands of people died in his hands directly or indirectly. Just beheading him and ransacking his home is already very cheap in Mo Zizai's opinion. him.

The place where Yang Xiong hides money is not very secret, or these corrupt officials hide money is not secret, after all, it is a full of tens of millions of taels of silver, it is absolutely no problem to pile it up and fill a room, such a large volume , Even if they want to hide it, they can't hide it.

So their usual method is to dig one or more secret rooms, and then store all the silver bars and silver ingots in the secret rooms.

And this is also the reason why Yang Xiong didn't struggle and just caught him without a fight, because the so-called secret room is not as secret as people imagined, it is more like a cellar, just a place for storing gold and silver, as long as you search carefully, it is easy You can find the entrance.

It's just that when Chen Ying opened Yang Xiong's secret room and moved the gold and silver out, Mo Zizai suddenly realized that there was not enough manpower.

Tens of millions of taels of silver, if it was loaded into a carriage, at least dozens of carriages would be needed, even if all the [-] people from Dongchang were called here, they would have to work all morning to pull them away.

And if Mo Zizai didn't take it away and just recharged the money in the cellar, it would be difficult to convict Yang Xiong.

Mo Zizai pinched the center of his brows. He was only thinking about ransacking his home and recharging his money before, but he didn't take these things into consideration. "It's a bit ill-considered."

"Chen Ying, do you know where the ceremonies accompanying the king's wedding are kept?"

"Back to the prince, according to the usual practice, they are usually sent to the House of Internal Affairs."

After Chen Ying finished answering, he hesitated for a moment, and then said cautiously: "My lord, in fact, the money obtained from house raids should also go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to the rules."

"Ok?"

Mo Zizai was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know about this, "Isn't the money from house raids going to the national treasury? How did it go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

There is still a big difference between the national treasury and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The treasury is the money of the Great Zhou, which is regarded as public funds. The emperor cannot embezzle the money privately. Even if the emperor has a legitimate reason to use it, if the household in charge of the treasury Bu Shangshu felt that the reason was not sufficient, so he could force it back.

Of course, this kind of situation rarely happens. After all, there are still a small number of people who dare to confront the emperor.

But the Ministry of Internal Affairs is different. The Ministry of Internal Affairs belongs to the emperor's private small treasury, and the emperor can use it as he wants.

"The money that goes with the gift goes to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the money from the house raids also goes to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then there is no money for the treasury?"

Mo Zizai somehow felt that this was a bit ironic. As a country, tax revenue was always the big one, and the tax money stored in the national treasury, no matter how it was looked at, should far exceed the internal treasury that the emperor had accumulated by confiscating homes and collecting gifts.

But now it's the other way around. The country's tax revenue for a year is not as much as that of a corrupt official. This is really indescribably ridiculous.

"Forget it, if you don't have it, you don't have it. Since they can't collect money, let the treasury be empty."

Mo Zizai planned to put the money into the national treasury just now, but now he has changed his mind. Although in this case, there is no difference between putting the money into the national treasury and the internal treasury. Impossible not to give.

But Mo Zizai just didn't collect the money into the national treasury, he just left the treasury empty, and he wanted these household officials to always remember that they didn't collect taxes!
"Chen Ying, send someone to the household department, and let the people from the household department come over and count the belongings."

The corner of Mo Zizai's mouth twitched slightly, and he continued: "After they finish counting, bring all the money to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and don't leave a single coin to them."

Hearing Mo Zizai's order, Chen Ying and Zhou Qi looked a little weird, asking people to count money, and not keeping a cent after counting, which is too bad.

However, regarding Mo Zizai's decision, Chen Ying didn't dare to say anything more. He waved over and summoned one of his subordinates, and then said in a low voice, "Go to the household department and tell them that Zuodu Censor's house has been ransacked, and let them hurry over and seize the property." Check it out and load it up."

As for where to get the money after loading the car, Chen Ying did not say, it would not be too late to talk about it after they finished loading the car.

Mo Zizai waited for a while in Zuodu Censor's Mansion, ready to take Chen Ying to search the house after the people from the household department came, but the people from the household department did not wait, but waited for a news.

"My lord, something happened a little bit unexpectedly."

After Zhou Qi received the news, he whispered to Mo Zizai: "The news that Zuodu Yushi's mansion was copied has spread, and the ministers in the court are now transporting money to the palace, saying that they did not follow the ceremony. You have to pay the accompanying gift."

Speaking of this, Zhou Qi paused for a moment, with a strange expression on his face, "And I received news that because there were too many ministers sending money, Suzaku Avenue was blocked by carriages."

"The Suzaku Avenue is blocked?"

Hearing Zhou Qi's words, Mo Zizai was also a little speechless. You must know that Zhuque Street is the widest street in Tianjing City. It is more than 100 meters wide, which is wider than the eight-lane Chang'an Avenue that Mo Zizai saw in his previous life.

Just relying on the horse-drawn carriage to block such a wide street, it seems that he copied Yang Xiong's house and really frightened the officials.

"Chen Ying, stop ransacking the house, he sent money to the door himself, bring some people with me, and go to Suzaku Street to help Tianjingwei sort out the traffic."

After Mo Zizai finished giving his instructions, he still didn't forget to turn around and tell Zhou Qi, "Slow down the house raids, but those ministers should keep an eye on them. When today's gift list comes out, they will check it carefully. It's a little bit hard to keep it all right." Willing to give money."

"As long as anyone who dares to follow the etiquette is less, no one will be let go."

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