The Prime Minister Seduced Me to have Babies!-Chapter 623: Search Carefully

Jiang Zhongxing didn’t even need to think to know who the little brat mentioned in the letter was.

He glanced at Su Qi.

At this moment, Su Qi was trembling with fear.

His family were merchants, and most of the correspondence they handled was business-related; they didn’t have the habit of destroying important letters.

The moment Jiang Zhongxing picked up the letter, a thought finally occurred to him: Why didn’t I burn this letter?

He stole a glance at Jiang Zhongxing and found Jiang Zhongxing was looking at him as if he were dead.

Previously, Jiang Zhongxing was only thinking about confiscating the Su Family’s property and exiling them, but now he felt that all adult men of the Su Family must die!

They cannot be given the chance to make a comeback.

He placed the letter aside and quickly finished reading the remaining letters; all letters and account books involving bribery and illegal matters were placed with that letter.

Soldiers were carrying out more and more boxes from the inner courtyard.

Soon, an officer strode over from the backyard, leaned in beside Jiang Zhongxing, and whispered: "Lord, we found an underground silver vault in the backyard with a large amount of gold and silver."

Jiang Zhongxing grunted, "Look carefully to see if there are any more hidden silver vaults. They say a cunning rabbit has three burrows." He lifted his eyelids to glance at Su Qi, "The Su Family has a lot of silver; one vault might not be enough."

The officer bowed his head in response: "Yes, I’ll have people search thoroughly."

Jiang Zhongxing continued: "Once the inventory is completed, register everything and have someone requisition carriages from the carriage service to transport the gold and silver to the Ministry of Revenue’s silver vault."

The officer agreed and then headed to the backyard.

Not long after, soldiers from the Ministry of Justice came to apprehend people.

All the servants and masters of the Su Mansion were bound together with ropes and taken to the Ministry of Justice’s dungeon.

Jiang Zhongxing didn’t have them searched; it wasn’t because he showed mercy, but rather he wanted to leave a bit of grease and water for the people of the Ministry of Justice.

Night fell quickly, and torches were lit throughout the Su Mansion as boxes of gold and silver were continually carried out from the underground silver vault.

Some of the secretaries doing the inventory were swiftly using their abacuses, while others kept their heads down, calculating with urgency.

Soon, soldiers came to report another silver vault was discovered.

By midnight, only then had they finished thoroughly searching every corner of the Su Mansion.

Boxes were piled into small mountains in the front courtyard; none of the soldiers had eaten dinner, and each was full of excitement, bursting with energy.

Finally, the secretary reported the statistics: there were two hundred hundred-tael gold ingots, amounting to twenty thousand taels of gold, equivalent to two hundred thousand taels of silver; two thousand hundred-tael silver ingots, also twenty thousand taels of silver.

Additionally, various gold and silver ingots totaled over a hundred thousand taels, along with assorted Zhenzhu, gemstones, crystals, jade artifacts, ginseng, furs, silk fabrics, corals, antiques, paintings, and calligraphy, which were hard to estimate but roughly valued at twenty to thirty thousand taels.

Furthermore, there were land deeds totaling over ten thousand acres, two houses in the Capital City, and eighteen shops throughout the Capital City, with the property inside the shops calculated separately.

After hearing the statistics reported by the secretary, Jiang Zhongxing nodded and instructed the officer, "Select all the paintings and antiques, along with a box each of gold, silver, and Zhenzhu, and after registering, send them to the Inner Treasury."

"Register the rest and send it all to the Ministry of Revenue’s silver vault."

The Inner Treasury is the emperor’s private treasury, and the money inside can be considered the emperor’s pocket money.

The Ministry of Revenue’s silver vault is the National Treasury, and even the emperor cannot casually use the silver inside.

The emperor loves elegance and has a penchant for paintings and antiques; sending them to the Inner Treasury is also catering to his tastes.