The Prime Minister Seduced Me to have Babies!-Chapter 624: Aggrieved
Soon, carriages hauling gold and silver headed towards the inner vault and the Ministry of Revenue’s silver vault, flanked by soldiers in armor with swords.
At the same time, an officer personally drove a carriage to the rear gate of the Duke Mansion.
After notifying, Ah Yun went to the rear gate.
The carriage quickly entered, a large chest was lifted down from the carriage, and the officer promptly drove away.
Jiang Zhongxing had just returned to the mansion, since it was late, he didn’t go to the inner courtyard but stayed in the outer study.
Ah Yun quickly came to report, Jiang Zhongxing said flatly, "Take the chest to Lady Wu’s courtyard, first give it to Lady Wu’s maid Da Ya, and let Lady Wu deal with it tomorrow."
A round of asset confiscation inevitably brings some income, this is considered an unspoken rule in officialdom.
The soldiers naturally stuff some into their pockets.
The officers take some home.
Even the Emperor needs to be gifted some.
The rest goes into the National Treasury,
Jiang Zhongxing understands these rules well after decades in officialdom, he wouldn’t pretend to be clean by rejecting it.
However, the wealth of the Su Family is astounding, and this is just in the Capital City, Jiangnan is where the Su Family’s true base is, who knows how much silver will be confiscated there.
Jiang Zhongxing sat in front of the desk deep in thought, the Emperor giving him the task of confiscating assets was a way of showing favor.
After all, in everyone’s view, the Duke Mansion was the backing behind the Su Mansion, sending Jiang Zhongxing to confiscate assets meant allowing him to destroy incriminating evidence to avoid implicating the Duke Mansion.
In this regard, Jiang Zhongxing wasn’t worried, even if the Su Mansion acted under the banner of the Duke Mansion, it had nothing to do with him.
Besides, the report was submitted by his own mother, could the Princess betray him?
Since Jiang Zhongxing hadn’t slept, his close guards couldn’t sleep either.
Jiang Zhongxing called Ah Yun who was standing at the door inside, "By the way, how’s the interrogation of Aunt Su and the people in her courtyard?"
Ah Yun went out for a while and quickly brought back a stack of confessions.
Jiang Zhongxing glanced at them, he didn’t bother with the matters of Aunt Su dealing with the women in the back courtyard, only took out the confessions related to Aunt Su’s bribery of Lady Wu’s nanny, inciting Lady Wu to leave the mansion, the nanny almost suffocating Jiang Youzhi and discarding him, as well as Aunt Su giving him cottonseed oil.
Jiang Zhongxing said, "Remove anything involving people from the palace, copy another version, and have them sign it. Tomorrow, I need to present these to the Emperor."
Ah Yun took the testimony and left.
Jiang Zhongxing stayed up all night, at dawn, estimating the palace gates would soon open, he went to the palace with dark circles.
The Emperor was also waiting for the results of the asset confiscation, seeing the items Jiang Zhongxing presented on the table, first looked at the list of assets, including the goods and deeds seized from the shops, totaling roughly a million taels of silver.
This figure pleased the Emperor, thinking about Jiangnan Su Mansion, that should be the main source.
He felt more hopeful about buying back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.
Next was another list, ancient paintings and calligraphy were sent to his inner vault, pleasing the Emperor even more, Zhong Xing was indeed capable.
Following that, the Emperor saw letters, and the confessions from Aunt Su and the mansion staff.
Jiang Zhongxing stood there, aggrievedly saying, "If not for seeing this letter, I wouldn’t know my concubine harbored malicious intent, even plotting to harm my legitimate eldest son."
"After returning to the mansion, I conducted night interrogations, only to discover many matters were orchestrated by this vile maid."
