Chapter 182: Mutual Calculation

In the backyard of Zhizhou Yamen, Li Chunhui was leading someone to count the belongings in the yard.

From now on, his main task is to ransack homes. As the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, all the property in front of him must be transferred to the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Of course, he certainly couldn't handle the matter of confiscating a house by himself. Next to him, there was a censor from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a young eunuch from the palace, and a director of the Ministry of Punishment.

Li Chunhui was just a worker, while the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the young eunuchs in the palace supervised them.

They spent most of the day searching everything inside and out, packing all the money into boxes, and storing all the valuable items together.

Looking at the detailed booklet in his hand, Li Chunhui's eyes moved slightly.

"Eunuch Yu, the property copied this time seems to be inconsistent with our expectations!"

"It doesn't match!"

Eunuch Yu looks very young, probably around twenty years old. His face is fair and his voice is a little shrill.

"Is there any discrepancy? How much property did you expect to be able to copy?"

He looked at Li Chunhui strangely. How could he expect a house raid?

Just copy as much property as there is in this family. What can we predict?

Li Chunhui smiled and said: "Of course it can be predicted. Generally speaking, when we search a house, we will first estimate the property that will be confiscated, and the basis for the estimate is the confession from the criminal."

"Look!"

As he spoke, he took out a booklet from his arms and said, "This is Lin Xuan's confession."

"According to the above description, Lin Xuan has received 80,000 taels of bribes from the Liang family in the past five years, as well as various gold and silver jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, furs and cloths, etc."

"But look at the property we took out, the money is only 20,000 taels, and there are only more than 1,000 items of various kinds. The total value is probably between 50,000 taels and 60,000 taels!"

"There is a gap of more than 20,000 taels!"

Li Chunhui is not an incompetent person if he can take the position of head of the household department.

He has a very detailed understanding of prices, and is also familiar with official matters such as confiscating homes.

Before each house search, he could estimate a rough number. Although this number was not very accurate, it was not very different.

But it was the first time for young Eunuch Yu to go out to the palace on errands, and he knew very little about the process.

"Maybe it was spent by these untouchables!"

Eunuch Yu thought for a while and said.

Next to him, Zheng Xiao, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, looked at Li Chunhui thoughtfully.

"Eunuch Yu may not know that the Lin family also has many industries. The income from those industries is enough to meet their daily expenses. Even if it is not enough, there should not be such a big gap." Li Chunhui said.

After hearing this, Eunuch Yu looked like he was suddenly enlightened, "So what does Mr. Li mean?"

"Someone secretly hid the Lin family's belongings!" Li Chunhui finally made the point.

"Who?" Eunuch Yu said cooperatively.

Li Chunhui put on a hesitant look and said, "I don't know this either. I am just a doctor from the Ministry of Household Affairs. This investigation depends on the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Punishment!"

As he spoke, he cast his eyes on Zheng Xiao, who was not far away. However, Zheng Xiao had quietly walked a few steps away and was standing next to a flower bed, studying the exotic flowers and plants in the flower bed. It seemed that there were no flowers at all. It was the same as hearing the conversation between the two of them.

"..."

Li Chunhui looked stunned.

That’s not right!

Isn’t it said that Mr. Zheng hates evil as much as he hates evil?

Shouldn't it be that Mr. Zheng will examine the matter carefully after hearing what he said?

Who is most responsible for the lack of property in the courtyard is naturally the guard who was responsible for guarding it before.

"Master Zheng, Master Zheng!" Li Chunhui suppressed the doubts in his heart and called out.

He didn't think Zheng Xiao didn't hear their conversation just now.

"ah!"

"Master Li, what's the matter?"

Zheng Xiao turned around and looked at Li Chunhui with doubtful eyes.

Li Chunhui had no choice but to say what he just said. However, after Zheng Xiao heard it, he smiled casually, then pointed at the exotic flowers and plants in the flower bed and said, "Master Li, what do you think of these flowers?" ?”

Li Chunhui was a little confused, but he still looked at the flowers in the flower bed and said, "This is Cuiyunlan."

"How much is it worth?"

"Well, Cuiyunlan is not considered expensive. In Kyoto, one plant costs three silver coins. However, Anyuan City is located in the northern cold land. Flowers and plants like this are more expensive. One plant should cost five coins. !”

Li Chunhui said proudly.

This is his ability, even if it is just a green cloud orchid, he can still speak clearly.

Zheng Xiao smiled and said: "Master Li is dedicated to serving the public, and I admire him very much. However, Master Li missed something just now."

"The flowers and plants in this yard are changed every year, I'm afraid it costs a lot of money!"

"And this official courtyard, haha, a magistrate's official courtyard is bigger than the chief envoy's official courtyard! If I guess correctly, this courtyard should have been expanded several times in recent years!"

"Eunuch Yu, do you think it's right?"

Zheng Xiao looked at Eunuch Yu with a smile.

Eunuch Yu's eyes jumped, and his gaze jumped back and forth between Zheng Xiao and Li Chunhui several times.

He has never been out of the palace on errands. But that doesn't mean he doesn't know anything.

Being able to hang out in the palace and be a bit human doesn't mean you have to make up your mind, otherwise you won't even know how you died.

He hadn't come to his senses just now, but now he understood.

Li Chunhui wanted to cause trouble and used him to cause trouble with Zheng Xiao.

"Haha, Mr. Zheng is so thoughtful. Both our family and Mr. Li have ignored the flowers and plants in the yard!" Eunuch Yu said with a smile.

Zheng Xiao smiled and turned to look at Li Chunhui, "Master Li, it's still early, why don't we go to the Bingbei Road Yamen to have a look!"

Li Chunhui's face looked a little ugly. It was a bit embarrassing for someone to see through his little thoughts on the spot.

But now that the matter has come to this, he can no longer force it. He can only say nonchalantly: "Then let's go and take a look first!"

After that, he walked out of the yard first, and Zheng Xiao followed him leisurely with his hands behind his back.

Eunuch Yu turned his eyes and walked forward a few steps quickly, "Mr. Zheng, what exactly does Mr. Li have in mind?"

Although he guessed that Li Chunhui wanted to use him, he did not see through the secret.

"What else can you think of? I just want to borrow a knife to kill people!" Zheng Xiao said.

"Killing with a borrowed knife, we are the knives! Then who is he going to kill?"

"Who else can be killed? Who else can privately occupy the things in this yard before we come!" Zheng Xiao said lightly.

"Secret Martial Guard!" Eunuch Yu was shocked.

"..."

Zheng Xiao stopped and looked at him helplessly.

Eunuch Yu came back to his senses and smiled, "Well, I guessed wrong!"

Isn't it obvious?

Who is Li Chunhui? He dares to find trouble with the secret military guards, even if his brain is kicked by a donkey, he doesn't dare!

"Anyuan City guards Yang Zhengshan!" Zheng Xiao said softly, then quickened his pace and left.

Eunuch Yu obviously didn't know who Yang Zhengshan was, and couldn't figure out why Li Chunhui targeted Yang Zhengshan.

He wanted to catch up and ask again, but unfortunately Zheng Xiao was already far away.

On the other side, Yang Zhengshan didn't know that someone had blocked him. At this time, he was planning how to destroy the other party's plan.

He wrote three letters in a row and sent them out.

This unreasonable disaster made him feel very annoyed. He clearly had no interest in the position of the Songzhou Guard commander, but someone regarded him as a competitor and wanted to use a knife on him.

But no matter who the opponent is, he will make the opponent lose everything.

After asking someone to deliver the letter, Yang Zhengshan waited with peace of mind.

The next morning, Wang Bin received Yang Zhengshan's letter again.

When he saw Yang Zhengshan's letter, a faint smile appeared on his lips.

"This Yang Zhengshan is really scheming!"

"Pull the fire under the cauldron!"

"Haha~~"

He laughed in a low voice, then raised his head and said to the messenger: "Go back and tell your master that I will help him this time, but he owes me a favor!"

This time it was not Han Fei who came to deliver the letter, but Yang Zhengshan's personal entourage.

"Here!"

The attendant responded, then bowed and left.

Yang Zhengshan received Wang Bin's reply in the afternoon.

In the study room, Yang Zhengshan waved his hand to signal the personal attendant to leave, then grinned helplessly.

This favor is considered owed.

But there is nothing we can do about it. If you want to ask someone to do something, how can you do it without owing a favor?

Of course, Wang Bin's willingness to help him was not just for his favor.

To put it bluntly, his favor is worthless now, and it is not worth Wang Bin helping him for a favor.

As for Wang Bin's thoughts, it's not difficult to guess.

The commander of the Songzhou Guard was under his command, Wang Bin.

Wang Bin naturally does not want to have a restless master under his command.

To cause so many things before he even arrives, this person is definitely not someone who can be manipulated by others.

In the past, Wang Bin couldn't make the decision to drive Sha Pingchuan away. If he could, he didn't want to have a subordinate who messed around behind his back.

So Wang Bin was just doing a convenient favor.

However, Wang Bin agreed to Yang Zhengshan's plan, so the matter was half successful.

As for the other half, it is at Chongshanguan.

The position of commander of the Songzhou Guard cannot be decided by Wang Bin alone. It also requires the consent of Chongshan Pass.

"I don't know if Wei Cen has this ability!"

Yang Zhengshan said with some worry.

He was not fighting for himself, but wanted to push the position of Songzhou Guard commander to Tan Jingtai.

Yes, he was doing good deeds and promoted Tan Jingtai to the commander of the Songzhou Guard.

If you are fighting for yourself, then it doesn't matter if you owe a few more favors, but in order to do good people and good deeds, it is not appropriate to have too many favors.

Therefore, he did not ask Zhou Lan to take action, nor did he find anyone else. He just asked Wei Cen for a favor.

There is no need to repay Wei Cen's favor, because Wei Cen still owes him many favors.

It was not in vain that he had spent so much thought before.

All of this will be attributed to Wei Cen.

However, Yang Zhengshan was not sure whether Wei Cen could influence Dusi Yamen in Chongshanguan.

If Wei Cen couldn't do it, then he could only think of other ways.