Chapter 90: Confiscating the house
Zhu Houzhao had already made it clear that the arrest, house confiscation and execution of the regicide rebels were all political achievements, and gold and silver rewards would be given afterwards, and the amount of the reward was directly linked to the proceeds from the house raid. Therefore, the officers and soldiers who participated in the house raid were After knowing that they can also get rewards after confiscating their homes, and it is related to how much they earn from confiscating their homes, everyone is gearing up to do something big.
At dawn, Taiping Hou Zhang Jie, the eunuch in charge of the house search, Gao Feng, the royal eunuch, and Xu Jing, the director of the Royal Taxation Bureau, led three groups of officers and soldiers to the residence of Liu Jian and other rebels in the capital.
The officers and soldiers who searched houses on the three routes also had their own division of labor.
The first thing confiscated was Wang Yue's mansion.
Although Wang Yue was once the prime minister of the inner court, he also had his own outer residence in the Chongwenmen area.
The person responsible for confiscating Wang Yue's property was Taiping Hou Zhang Jie.
At the same time as the house raid, the arrest of Wang Yue's family members was carried out, and the person responsible for arresting Wang Yue's family members was the capital commander Li Jun.
Zhang Jie and Li Jun rushed to Wang Yue's foreign house one after another. Wang Yue's foreign house had been controlled by Zhu Houzhao as early as the end of October, so it was easy to arrest and confiscate it.
Li Jun, who was in charge of taking people, first led people into Wang Yue's outer house. After entering Wang Yue's outer house, Li Jun began to take people directly. The officers and soldiers directly broke open the doors of various rooms and took the people who had been detained in various rooms. Wang Yue's relatives rushed out one by one and escorted them to the prison van.
At this moment, Wang Yue, who was being escorted, could only watch his relatives being escorted by the cars. He couldn't help but cry: "Your Majesty! I regret it! I shouldn't have tried to kill you. You begged for their mercy." Go! ”
"Wang Yue, please stop wailing. His Majesty can't hear you. However, I never thought that you, a eunuch, could raise so many women. You have always been greedy for a lot of money. In the end, all your money will be lost." Identify it honestly for me, otherwise I won’t blame you for being rude to you.”
Taipinghou Zhang Jie said and waved his hand: "Copy!"
As soon as Zhang Jie finished speaking, two groups of officers and soldiers immediately rushed into Wang Yue's mansion. Seeing this, Wang Yue cried even harder: "Oh my god! This is all the wealth I have accumulated for most of my life!"
No one paid attention to Wang Yue's cries. The officers and soldiers were only busy searching rooms one by one, demolishing walls one by one, and carrying boxes one by one. In a short time, in less than half an hour, the screen wall in the front yard was full of goods. They bought more than 20 boxes of various gold and silver antiques, as well as land deeds and other items.
Prior to this, Zhu Houzhao had already asked Xu Jing to prepare a professional team of house searchers, so at this time, Mr. Abacus and clerks wearing uniforms with the logo of the Royal Taxation Bureau began to count.
"Statistics, a box of silver totals one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four taels and seven cents!"
"Statistics, a box of gold totals two thousand four hundred and seventy-four two-six cents!"
"Statistics, a box of land deeds totals 245 hectares of upper land, 123 hectares of middle land, 56 hectares of lower land, 420 hectares of upper land, 645 hectares of middle land, and 120 hectares of lower land. Seventeen hectares!”
"Statistics, a box of IOUs, a total of three thousand four hundred taels of gold and silver released!"
"Statistics, Tang Yan made a scroll!"
"Statistics, a volume of Jin Wang Xizhi's book!"
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The sound of abacus, sealing boxes and people's reports kept ringing in Taipinghou Zhang Jie's ears, and also in Wang Yue's ears.
Taipinghou Zhang Jie was very excited when he heard this.
When Wang Yue heard this, he was in great pain.
"Eunuch Wang, I didn't expect that you have accumulated such a huge family fortune after being the Prime Minister for so many years. My dear, you have tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. You, a eunuch, have no sons or daughters, who can you leave it to in the future?" Zhang Jie couldn't help but think. asked.
Wang Yue replied in a depressed tone, not crying but not depressed: "It's all the emperor's, it's all the emperor's!"
Regardless of whether Wang Yue means that these family fortunes were obtained by him from the royal estate or that all of them will eventually become the property of Emperor Zhu Houzhao, at least now Taiping Marquis Zhang Jie has confiscated a lot of property from Wang Yue, even more than him. Taipinghou’s family business.
Taiping Hou Zhang Jie shook his head in disbelief: "Wang Yue, Wang Yue, you only have one less, and you also have many others!"
Wang Yue did not answer.
Taiping Marquis Zhang Jie didn't waste any words, and only ordered the officers and soldiers to continue confiscating. After two full days of work, Wang Yue's property was confiscated and all was taken to the newly built Royal Taxation Bureau warehouse.
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at the same time. Gao Feng also led a group of officers and soldiers to Li Dongyang's mansion on the right side of Xuanwumen Street.
And half a quarter of an hour after Wang Yue's foreign residence was confiscated, Gao Feng also began to confiscate Li Dongyang's mansion.
Li Dongyang's mansion was awarded to him by Emperor Hongzhi. It covers a large area and is adjacent to the Royal West Garden, which is the area closest to the palace city.
At this time, Li Dongyang's mansion was still brightly lit, but the officers and soldiers of Jinyiwei had already taken control of the place.
The Jin Yiwei commanded the minister Guo Rong to personally suppress the formation and completely surrounded Li Dongyang's mansion.
However, at this time, the people in the Li Mansion only knew that Li Dongyang was imprisoned and did not know what crime Li Dongyang had committed. They even just learned that the ministers of the DPRK had pleaded with the emperor.
It is not like people in the Li Mansion have never seen officials enter Jinyiwei and then be released. Coupled with Hongzhi's preferential treatment of civil servants for eighteen years, the people in the Li Mansion initially thought that Li Dongyang would still be released.
Therefore, at the beginning, Li Dongming, the fourth brother of Li Dongyang who was second only to Li Dongyang in the Li Mansion, directly questioned Guo Rong: "Guan Tang, I dare to ask you what are you doing! Are you trying to surround our Li Mansion with such a large number of troops?" It’s impossible to regard our Li family as rebels. Is it possible that our Li family has rebelled?”
"Who are you?"
Guo Rong did not answer Li Dongming's words, but asked directly.
"Li Dongming, the former chief minister of Shandong Province, is now the chief minister." After finishing speaking, Li Dongming stroked his beard, thinking that Guo Rong would give him some face.
And Guo Rong shouted directly: "Get it!"
Immediately, two guards in golden uniforms rushed up and pushed Li Dongming to the ground, and at the same time tied him up with iron chains.
Only then did Guo Rong say: "You are right, your Li family has indeed become rebels, but you Li family have committed a crime tantamount to rebellion!"
Guo Rong said and took out the imperial edict: "By decree! Li Dongyang killed the late emperor. The crime cannot be pardoned. All relatives of Li Dongyang are specially detained! No one can be let go!"
With that said, two groups of guards in uniform rushed into the Li family's mansion in unison. Li Hong, the butler who had just rushed back to the house and was waiting for Li Dongyang to come back to report the failure of his silence plan, instinctively shouted when he saw this: "What do you want to do? This is At the Prime Minister’s Office!”
Before Li Hong could finish speaking, he was knocked to the ground by Jin Yiwei and detained.
Li Dongyang is a native of the capital. He has been a wealthy family since the Tianshun period, and naturally has a large population. Therefore, it took more than an hour to capture the relatives of the Li family.
At this time, Gao Feng also escorted Li Dongyang here, and pointed at Li Dongyang's family and asked Li Dongyang: "Li Gefu, how do you feel?"
Li Dongyang did not answer Gao Feng. He really didn't want to say anything at this time. He was now afraid of being settled by Zhu Houzhao during his lifetime and by Emperor Hongzhi after his death, so he could only remain silent.
However, when Li Dongyang saw that he had caused his family to go from enjoying dignity to being prisoners now, he was quite ashamed and did not dare to look up at his family.
After Li Dongyang's family members were arrested, Gao Fengcai ordered: "Search the house!"
Immediately, people and officers from the Royal Taxation Bureau began to confiscate the Li Mansion.
In an instant, boxes of gold and silver jewelry were carried out, pieces of antique jade were copied, and house deeds and land deeds were searched out.
Li Dongyang even became excited when he saw a jade Buddha being carried out: "This is the jade Buddha left by my uncle. It is an object from the Southern Dynasties. You vulgar people, please be careful!"
"You can't confiscate this. This is the wine vessel used by Duke Zhou!"
Li Dongyang shouted excitedly.
"Li Dongyang, your Li family is really rich! There are many treasures!" Gao Feng said and said: "Seal them all!"
Li Dongyang also sat on the ground dejectedly at this time.
Thank you to book friend V Mengzhi Infinite V for the reward of 2000 starting coins. Thank you to book friend Xiao Mang for the reward of 12600 starting coins. Now the house confiscation mode has been started, with four imperial ministers, three cabinet bachelors, one minister, and many imperial officials. Something, everyone I think it is more reasonable to set the number of taels of silver for the number of houses confiscated, and the number of acres of land obtained from the raids. For reference, the amount of silver during the Hongzhi period was not as much as that of Chongzhen. During Chongzhen, Li Zicheng copied 70 million taels. It should be much less here, so how many taels is appropriate? ?
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