MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 933 overnight arrest

  Chapter 933 Arrested overnight

  The house where the master lived was very quiet. There was no one there. There was an old man who was looking after the house, but Zeng Huai drove him to the barracks.

   "Didn't Zeng Huai's entourage follow?" Yan Qing looked around and asked.

  At this time, the woman realized that they were not robbers, but officers and soldiers. The fear in her heart subsided a little, "He never brings his followers here, he always comes here alone."

   "How do you know there is a secret room here?"

   "Liulang took me in and showed me the gold inside. I saw a lot of account books, which were placed on iron shelves."

  The woman led them into a room that looked like a study. She touched the wall for a while, only to hear 'click! ’ With a sound, the bookcase moved a few inches to the side, "The entrance is at the back!" The woman pointed to the bookcase and said.

  Li Ying stepped forward and pushed open the bookcase, revealing an iron door behind him, Yan Qing took out a bunch of keys found in Zeng Huai's clothes, tried them one by one, only for a moment, 'click! ’ With a sound, the iron door was opened.

  Yan Qing grabbed the woman and walked inside. If there was a hidden weapon inside, the woman would die first.

Fortunately, there are no organs inside. The secret room is a very large room, three feet long and three feet wide, and nearly two feet high. The walls are surrounded by large bluestones. This is a secret room made of bluestones. There are windows, but there are ventilation holes, so it doesn't feel stuffy, and the design is very clever.

  The soldiers lit a few oil lamps, and Yan Qing saw several rows of iron shelves by the wall at a glance. The iron shelves were full of account books. Yan Qing slashed the back of the woman's neck with her palm, and the woman fainted immediately.

  He said to the two soldiers: "Take her to the room, tie her up, gag her, and leave her alone."

The two soldiers carried the woman out. Yan Qing went to the wall and flipped through the register. There were lines of densely written names on it, and fingerprints on the back. It was the original registration book for tax collection. It was indeed a military expense collection record. This is the best evidence. Next to it, there are account books compiled by local governments, with storage and withdrawal records on it.

   There were more than 200 books and books. Yan Qing ordered the soldiers to pack them into a big box. At this time, Li Ying called out from inside: "Controller, please come here."

  Yan Qing walked over quickly, and saw big iron boxes piled up in the corner of the room, one box had been opened, and it was filled with yellow gold ingots, at least ten catties a piece.

  Yan Qing said to the stunned soldiers on both sides without hesitation: "These are our military expenses, and the salaries of our brothers. No one is allowed to be greedy!"

Li Ying cried out inwardly ashamed, he was almost fascinated by these golds, and his vision of control was higher, so he was completely convinced by Yan Qing, and he could not change his face in front of tens of thousands of taels of gold noodles, which is not something ordinary people can do arrive.

   "Then how do you move the gold?"

  Yan Qing saw that there were at least 20 large boxes of gold, so he said to everyone: "Let's take the account books away first, and then kill the armed servants in the manor, and then it will not be too late to transport the gold away!"

   Everyone sealed the wooden cover, carried away several large boxes of account books, then closed the iron door of the secret room, and Xin quickly left the house.

Although Yan Qing did not kill the middle-aged woman, it did not mean that Yan Qing was merciful. In the ensuing raid on the Villa Ding, five hundred scout battalion soldiers killed three hundred armed Zhuang Ding who were sleeping soundly. Killed them all, and took away the 50,000 taels of gold hidden in the manor.

   Hundreds of soldiers escorted the gold slowly, while Yan Qing marched quickly with 400 soldiers carrying account books, and arrived at Chengdu County at five o'clock.

The city gate of Chengdu County has not yet been opened, and the night is still dark. There are only a few township soldiers on duty patrolling back and forth on the north city gate. Since the troops from the prefectures on Chengdu Fulu Road have already gone to Jingzhao Mansion, only a small number of township soldiers in each prefecture and county are responsible for opening and closing the city. Door.

  In Chengdu County, there are only 200 township soldiers in charge of guarding the four gates, and there are more than 100 yamen servants in charge of maintaining law and order.

Dozens of rural soldiers guarding the city were still sound asleep, and only three rural soldiers were yawning and pacing back and forth on the top of the city. who?"

   "We are the performance team invited by Xu Tongpan to celebrate the New Year, please open the city quickly!"

Chengtou Township soldiers heard that they were invited by Xu Tongpan. They didn't dare to be negligent and rushed to report to Tuan Lian. Tuan Lian's surname was Wang, and he was sleeping in the tower. With an hour left, he yawned, waved his hands and said, "It's not good to disturb Xu Tongpan's rest, let them rest outside the city for an hour! Open the city gate on time."

   As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier came to report, "Xu Tongjuan is here!"

  Wang Tuanlian was taken aback, and hurriedly got up and ran down the city, only to see the general judge Xu Qinghui standing at the gate of the city with more than 20 subordinates, the torch in his hand illuminated the gate brightly.

  Wang Tuanlian climbed up to salute, "I don't know the judgment coming, I'm not far away to welcome you."

Of course, more than 20 people are under Li Yanqing's subordinates. Li Yanqing was standing behind Xu Qinghui at this time. He nodded to Xu Qinghui, and Xu Qinghui immediately reprimanded him with a downcast face: "People outside the city travel hundreds of miles and go all the way. Come here, but we don't even have the most basic manners, do you want to continue?"

Wang Tuanlian was really depressed. Keeping the door open at night was a century-old rule set by the imperial court. Except for emergency military reports, the city gate was not allowed to be opened. Why did it become impolite when Xu Tongpan came here, and he was also a little strange. As soon as the outsiders arrived, Xu Tongjuan arrived. Could it be that they made an appointment?

  Although he was puzzled in his heart, he didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly said: "The humble official is about to ask for instructions, and the judgment will arrive soon."

  Xu Qinghui cursed in his heart, if Li Yanqing was not worried about alarming Zeng Xiulin, none of the town soldiers guarding the city would survive.

  He scolded angrily: "Since this is the case, don't rush to open the city!"

   Wang Tuanlian had no choice but to order to open the city, the city gate creaked open, Yan Qing led 400 soldiers and rushed into the city, Wang Tuanlian was stunned for a moment, this is clearly the army! Where is the performance team.

  At this time, Yan Qing knelt down on one knee to report the situation to Li Yanqing. Wang Tuanlian recognized at a glance the person standing behind Xu Tongpan just now, and it turned out to be the envoy Li Yanqing, and he was completely stunned.

  Xu Qinghui walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, "If you don't want to die, just pretend you don't know anything."

  Wang Tuan practiced a spirit, nodded again and again, "I understand, thank you for the reminder."

  Li Yanqing has checked the account books, he waved to Xu Qinghui, Xu Qinghui stepped forward to check these account books carefully, nodded and said: "That's right! There are a lot of them, and they are very complete."

  Li Yanqing said coldly: "In that case, let's arrest people!"

Four hundred soldiers quickly started to move. They were divided into two teams. One team rushed to Zeng Xiulin's mansion, and the other team rushed to the Zeng family's family home in Chengdu County, where Zeng Xiulin's brothers lived. The Zeng family controlled the stronghold of the tea and wine monopoly in Chengdu.

The two mansions are not far apart, they are both located in the north of the city, with a distance of less than a hundred steps. These two mansions are the two largest mansions in Chengdu County. Zeng Xiulin's official mansion alone covers an area of ​​more than 30 acres, with pavilions, terraces and pavilions inside , a rockery pond with fish, all kinds of carved beams and painted buildings, extremely luxurious, and Zeng Xiulin and his dozen wives and concubines lived in it.

Zeng Xiulin had four sons and two daughters. The eldest son was the magistrate of Leshan County, Meizhou. The second and third sons served as county magistrates and county captains on Kuizhou Road. Only the youngest son was still studying at Lin'an Taixue. The second and third sons lived with him At the same time, the other two sons-in-law are also officials in Bashu.

Maybe Zeng Xiulin is because of his excessive indulgence. He would get up on time and have diarrhea at five o'clock. This old problem has been going on for ten years. He only wants to pave the way for his son and family, but he doesn't care too much about his own future, which has something to do with his old problem.

   Today's five o'clock leak was particularly serious. Zeng Xiulin was dizzy from tormenting, and he couldn't sleep anymore, so he simply half-lyed in the study and closed his eyes to rest.

   At this moment, there was a commotion outside, and someone was crying faintly, Zeng Xiulin was startled, what's going on?

   "Help me up!"

  Two little maids hurried forward to help him up from the couch, a rush of running sounded in the yard, and the butler shouted out of breath, "Master, something happened!"

  Zeng Xiulin opened the door, and asked dissatisfiedly: "Why panic, talk about it!"

   "Master, there are many troops outside, and they have already rushed in."

   Zeng Xiulin was taken aback, "Where did the army come from!"

  At this time, the sound of footsteps outside the yard suddenly sounded, and dozens of soldiers rushed into the yard from all directions, and surrounded Zeng Xiulin in an instant.

   Zeng Xiulin's pupils suddenly shrank into a line. He had vaguely guessed the reason, and couldn't help gritting his teeth: "Where is Li Yanqing, let him see me!"

  At this time, there was a burst of applause from outside the courtyard, and Li Yanqing walked in from the courtyard gate, "As expected, I have been in the officialdom for decades, and I really have a sharp mind, and I thought of it all at once!"

   "Li Yanqing, what tricks are you up to?"

   "I'm just doing my job!"

   "Responsibilities?"

   Zeng Xiulin sneered, "Your duty actually came to my house."

   "Who made me the envoy of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Economic Strategy, and who made you the prefect of Chengdu? Of course I have the right to control you, Zeng Xiulin, you should know what you have committed?"

"I don't know!"

"Okay! Then I will tell you that you have collected taxes on Chengdu Fulu without authorization, deceived the king, poisoned the people, enriched your own pockets, and are suspected of embezzling 3.8 million yuan of national wealth and private assets. Do you think I have the right to do so?" catch you?"

   "You are talking about the anti-golden military expenses, right? Only hundreds of thousands of guan were collected, and I have sent all of them to Jingzhao Mansion, and it has nothing to do with me."

  Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "I'm sorry, my army just came back from Minghe Villa."

  Zeng Xiulin's face turned pale, and his whole body began to tremble. He suddenly yelled, "Xu Qinghui, you bastard!"

   His eyes darkened, and he fainted immediately.

  Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Take him away and put him in custody, search his mansion thoroughly!"

The soldiers stepped forward and carried the fainted Zeng Xiulin into the carriage, and two hundred soldiers began to search Zeng's mansion thoroughly. At this time, Li Yanqing saw that the sky was getting brighter, and ordered: "Send a pigeon letter to Jingzhao mansion, so that the king Gui immediately lead ten thousand cavalry to go south!"

  (end of this chapter)