It is about forty miles from Tongzhou to Beijing, and if you gallop on horseback, you can enter the city in less than an hour, but you can't do it with a prisoner's cart, and it will take twice as long.

In fact, after noon, Xu Jincai led the team into the outer city from Guangqumen, and the long line of prisoner carts and thousands of boxes of property escorted immediately attracted a large number of onlookers, and the streets were surrounded by water. Fortunately, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division had been prepared and sent a large number of people to maintain order, so there was no big chaos.

After entering the outer city, Xu Jin led the team to enter the inner city from the Chongwen Gate on the left, and then went straight to the location of the six departments along Chang'an Street, while the eunuch Huang Jin happily carried thousands of boxes, directly from the Dong'an Gate into the palace, the boxes were filled with confiscated property from the house of the eunuch Luo Xiang, the total value is estimated to be five or six hundred thousand taels, of course, there are also a small part of Huang Jin's "private goods" caught in Beijing this time.

Originally, if Xu Jin wanted to make a profit, he would definitely be richer than Luo Xiang, but in the end, he didn't take a penny, not that Xu Jin was noble and clean, but this kind of thing was easy to be true, and it became an excuse for the official to attack. Therefore, if you are full of loopholes, you deserve to be stabbed!

There is another important reason why Xu Jin is not greedy, that is, he is not short of money at all, the business of carriage and horse shops and black tea will have a very generous dividend every year, coupled with the identity of Xiaowan County Lord, there is also a considerable amount of money every year, which is enough for the whole government to spend. Therefore, the money is still the right way to spend the peace of mind, spend it comfortably, and just use it!

Xu Jin first escorted a group of prisoners to the Criminal Department to hand him over, and Zhang Zilin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, personally received him. After all the criminal officers verified the evidence, they were taken into the prison of the Criminal Department, and all the case files were also handed over, and Xu Jin came to the military department non-stop to return the flag token, which was equivalent to handing over the military power.

In the end, Xu Jin came to the place where the household department was, and Yang Tan, the head of the household department, had long been looking forward to the long neck, and immediately pretended to invite him to sit down warmly after seeing Xu Jin, and ordered someone to serve tea, and then ordered the officials to count the stolen goods, which were to be handed over to the treasury.

It is said that the current finances of the Ming Dynasty are very tight, especially some time ago, several provincial anti-thieves put up flags to rebel at the same time, and the imperial court used troops everywhere, and the cost was very huge.

Xu Jin and Yang Tan sat in the house drinking tea and chatting, waiting for the officials of the household department to count the stolen goods, and it took an hour for the household department to finish counting the stolen goods. A head of the household department walked to Yang Tan with the account book and whispered a few words, the latter's face changed suddenly, he looked at Xu Jin with an unkind expression, and coughed lightly: "Xu Ziqian, is there a discrepancy in this number?" ”

Xu Jin frowned and said, "Why did Lord Shangshu say this, all the stolen goods are here." ”

The head of the household department patted the account book and said, "Lord Xu, the amount of stolen goods is different from what is recorded in the accounts, and it is worth 500,000 taels, which is too exaggerated!" ”

Xu Jin pretended to be a sudden and said: "The lower official forgot this, the missing part has been transported back to the inner treasury by Huang Gonggong, and Lord Shangshu can find the internal supervisor to check the accounts when he arrives." ”

Yang Tan's face sank and he shouted: "Xu Ziqian, you are so confused, the stolen goods of the criminal officials should be returned to the Ministry of Household and handed over to the treasury, how can they be handed over to the internal officials and transported back to the inner treasury!" ”

The inner treasury is the emperor's personal money bag, usually the emperor wants to reward ministers, or repair the palace, etc., generally will pay out of his own pocket, and the treasury is public, are used for the construction of the country's people's livelihood and the distribution of officials.

The inner treasury is supervised by the palace, and the treasury is managed by the civil officials of the household department. Therefore, in Yang Tan's opinion, Xu Jin is also a member of the civil officials, and he should be on the side of the civil officials, and now he actually handed over some of the stolen silver to the eunuch and transported it back to the inner treasury, so he was very annoyed.

Xu Jin naturally understood the relationship, but Zhu Houxi's kid was always crying poor, so he deliberately handed over part of the stolen money to Huang Jin and transported it back to the inner treasury, and then said with a clear pretense: "Lord Yang, the stolen goods that Huang Gonggong transported back to the palace were all confiscated from the house of Luo Xiang, the eunuch of Shandong Town, and the internal officials were the emperor's domestic slaves, and the confiscated money naturally had to be returned to the inner treasury, is there a problem with this?" ”

Yang Tan was so angry that he couldn't get up in one breath, and he paused for a long time before he said, "Xu Ziqian, you ...... After all, he is still too young and inexperienced, although it is true that the internal officials are the emperor's domestic slaves, but the property looted by the internal officials is also the people's fat and people's ointment, and it should be taken from the people, used for the people, and all of them must be handed over to the treasury! ”

Xu Jin pretended to be ashamed and said, "This ...... Xia Guan really didn't expect this layer, Xia Guan was taught! ”

Yang Tan rolled his eyes, although he was annoyed, but what else could he do, the property had already entered the palace, could he still send someone to rob the emperor of money? Coupled with Xu Jin's good attitude of admitting his mistakes, he couldn't continue to have seizures, so he could only sigh and say in the end: "Alas, Xu Ziqian, this official really wants to be angry with you, don't take it as an example!" ”

500,000 taels of silver, Yang Caishen's heart was dripping blood, and he picked up the teacup angrily, the meaning was obvious, he was serving tea to send off guests, and asked Xu Jin to get out of the house quickly, so as not to look at the diaphragm!

Xu Jin bowed very wisely and withdrew from the household department, at this time it was already late at night, Qi Jingtong, Wang Lin'er and other more than a dozen personal soldiers were waiting outside, already hungry.

It was almost dark, so the little emperor did not summon Xu Jin into the palace to see him, but sent a little yellow door to pass on the edict and ordered him to go to the court early the next morning to reply to the decree. Xu Jin naturally couldn't ask for it, he was tired and hungry at this time, and he also remembered Xiao Wan's Nizi, so he led all the soldiers to leave the six departments.

"Master, Dabao kowtows to the master and says goodbye!"

Xu Jin had just come out of the six departments, and Dabao had already waited there with a few family members, and he had prepared a carriage.

"The little ones say hello to the master!" Several family members also hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

Xu Jin smiled and said, "Get up!" ”

Dabao stood up and said with a beaming face: "Master, Madame has been waiting at home for a long time, hurry up and get in the car and go home." ”

Xu Jin nodded, Xiao Wan mentioned in the family letter that the little emperor gave him a big mansion located in Xiaofang, which is said to be quite trenched, and he couldn't help but have some expectations in his heart, and was about to board the carriage, when his eyes suddenly fell on the faces of the two family members, and he said strangely: "Why are you two blue noses and swollen faces?" Beaten? ”

Xu Fu Xu Lu hesitated, shook his head and said, "Back to the master, it was snowing and the world slipped and I accidentally fell." ”

The housewife sternly instructed not to sue the master, so Xu Fu and Xu Lu did not dare to disobey.

Xu Jin frowned, but he didn't ask, stepped on the stool and got into the carriage, while the Dabao housekeeper personally sat in the driver's seat and drove towards the hourly fang.

The hour square is not far from the sixth department, and because of this, the house here is the most expensive, and it is convenient for the officials to commute to work, just like the current city, the closer to the city center, the more expensive the house is.

When Xu Jin's carriage appeared in front of the gate of Xu's mansion, the entire Xu's mansion was boiling, and there were several strong men standing outside the gate of the Wuding Marquis Mansion opposite, all holding their hands on their chests, and the old god was staring at the Xu's mansion on the ground, but when he saw Xu Jin's car followed by more than a dozen military men with big shoulders and round waists, and they exuded the smell of blood, they immediately shrank back into the mansion in fright.

Xu Jin didn't notice this scene, he got out of the carriage and quickly stepped into the vermilion lacquer copper gate, and when his eyes fell on the little girl with a pregnant belly in the courtyard, he immediately couldn't move away.

"Xianggong!" Xie Xiaowan looked at Xianggong gently, her heart was happy and shy, and her nose still had a sour feeling.

Xu Jin strode forward, gently hugged Xiao Wan, and said softly: "Lady, I want to die." ”

Xie Xiaowanqiao's face was flushed, her head was buried in Xu Jin's arms, and her face was happy. Mei Wan Yue'er stood beside her, with a look of envy, and called softly: "Master! ”

Xu Jin hugged Xie Xiaowan for a moment, then turned around and gave Yue'er another hug, the latter blushed and smiled happily, this time it was the turn of the early spring and early summer next to him with envy. The surrounding servants and servants all had joy and smiles on their faces, the lord had made a great contribution to return to Beijing this time, and it was said that he would be promoted to a knighthood, and they naturally had a bright face as servants of the Xu family.

"Fluttershy has seen Lady Xu!" Xiao Yudie, who was standing next to her, saw Xu Jin and his wife and maid finishing their warmth, and saluted with a smile.

"Miss Xiao doesn't have to be polite, let's go, let's go into the house and talk!" Xu Jin smiled, took Xiaowan's arm with one hand, and supported her waist with the other, and walked towards the house, while saying softly: "Lady, be careful, the ground is slippery!" ”

Seeing this, Xiao Yudie's eyes couldn't help flashing a trace of envy, saying that her status in the Xu Mansion is a little embarrassing now, neither a hostess nor a maidservant, but just living in seclusion in the Xu family.

"Old Qi, what's the matter, do you like someone?" Wang Lin'er lightly bumped Qi Jingtong and teased in a low voice, the latter was staring intently at Xiao Yudie's curvaceous and plump back.

Qi Jingtong's old face turned red, and he said in a low voice: "Let your mother's fart, cough...... Anyway, what is the relationship between this Xiao girl and adults? ”

Wang Lin'er's eyes widened and said, "How do I know, old Qi, why are you asking this?" ”

At this time, Er Niu Han next to him smiled and said: "Miss Fluttershy was originally the personal servant of Concubine Lou of King Ning, who once saved the master, and then Miss Fluttershy was sent to the Teaching Workshop Division, and the master won her back when he participated in the Shangyuan Festival, and has been living in the mansion ever since." ”

Wang Lin'er and Qi Jingtong couldn't help but suddenly, and the latter's mind also came alive.