Wei Liangchen didn't expect that this matter was related to Ma Tang, let alone Gao Huai.

To be precise, Wang Yueqian confessed to a historical case.

That's where Gao Huai's money goes.

Gao Huai served as the Liaodong Mine Supervisor in the 24th year of Wanli, and then served as the Shanhai Tariff Envoy, until the year before last due to the loss of power due to the Guanmen Army, before and after the 14th year in Liao, the annual deportation of the inner treasury tax silver more than 60,000 taels.

According to Wang Yueqian, Gao Huai's tax money from the Inner Treasury was only one-third of the money he earned in Liaodong.

In other words, Gao Huai has embezzled millions of taels of silver in the past 14 years, and in addition to expenses, he has also swallowed at least 780,000 taels.

"Father-in-law, don't you believe it?"

The eyes of the young eunuch before the meeting widened, Wang Yuqian thought that he didn't believe it, and deliberately told the story of the impeachment of Gao Huai by several imperial historians back then.

“… Only His Majesty's faith in Gao Huai, and the science and Taoism are all left in the middle, Gao Huai has no fear. ”

"Ahem... We believe you, you go on. ”

Wei Liangchen's eyes returned to their original state, and he believed in this matter, ten thousand letters.

He asked Wang Yueqian, such a large sum of money, if Gao Huai was still the supervisor of the Liaodong mine, then he would be safe and sound, but now that Gao Huai had lost his position and was sent to Fengyang to guard the tomb, this money should be handed over to the inner treasury according to reason, but why he had never heard of it.

"My father-in-law doesn't know..."

After Wang Yuqian said it, he had nothing to hide. After he took over as the former Tongzhou tax envoy Zhang Ye, who took over as the supervisor of the Liaodong mine, he began to investigate Gao Huai's past, but he never found the whereabouts of this huge amount of money.

"If Grandpa Zhang can't find out, he won't check it?"

Wei Liangchen didn't believe that Zhang Ye was so kind, the phoenix that fell into the water was not as good as a chicken, Gao Huai changed from a high-ranking Liaodong mine supervisor to an old slave guarding the tomb in Fengyang, that huge amount of money was tantamount to a child's gold hug for him, how could Zhang Ye let it go.

"I'm afraid that my father-in-law hasn't done a business trip, but if he does, I know what Zhang's father-in-law thinks." The king said dry.

"Oh?"

Wei Liangchen understood why Zhang Ye didn't bite this matter to the end, because his butt was not clean.

Gao Huai and he Zhang Ye are both mine supervisors and tax envoys, what Gao Huai has done, you Zhang Ye has also done. If you Zhang Ye broke the rules for money today, he would wonder others would treat you the same way.

So even if he was worried about Gao Huai's Tibetan silver, Zhang Ye didn't dare to do it too ruthlessly.

"Doesn't Your Majesty know about this?"

As soon as he finished asking, Wei Liangchen knew that he shouldn't ask, because Wanli definitely didn't know about it, and no one would definitely report it to the emperor.

This kind of thing that cuts off everyone's financial routes, and even traps himself in, which eunuch is willing to do it and dares to do it?

In this world, he is loyal and honest, dedicated to the public, and serves the emperor wholeheartedly, but he doesn't know what money is.

Other people, the quality is too low, the ideological consciousness is not good, it is not good...

As for why Gao Huai didn't take the initiative to turn it in, Wei Liangchen also figured it out.

He's all like this, what's the difference between turning it in and not turning it in. I'm afraid that if you really hand over this huge amount of money, it was originally just Fengyang guarding the mausoleum, and in the end, a corpse may be separated.

One or two silver, the emperor only has one-third of you, and he still carries the black pot for you, bears the infamy, wipes his buttocks, and sells words at a lower price to you, a house slave, Wanli is very aggrieved no matter how he thinks about it...

Gao Huai is right not to make friends, and others dare not force him to death.

Who doesn't have friends and relatives in the palace?

From this matter Wei Liangchen is even more determined to build the Ming Imperial Army where he can hit wherever he goes, at least, when he really has something, whoever dares to touch his silver must first ask the brothers of the imperial army whether they agree.

In addition, Gao Huai is not afraid that he will make a comeback one day.

This situation is not impossible.

"What does this have to do with you, and what does it have to do with Ma Tang? What does it have to do with this major rebellion case? ”

Wei Liangchen asked three times in a row.

"Father-in-law Xu knows that Ma Tang and Gao Huai have always been at odds, and the two have been fighting for many years, if it weren't for Gao Huai's loss of power due to the closed army, Ma Tang might not be able to enter Beijing... Two years ago, Gao Huai secretly sent someone to Linqing to collect Ma Tang's crimes, and when Ma Tang learned about this, he greeted Shi Gonggong, and Shi Gonggong asked me to do this......"

What Wang Yueqian said next Wei Liangchen knew something, Gao Huai sent to Linqing was the fat man Qi Erdao, this person is now running around Zheng Guotai, belongs to the internal opportunists, and Wang Wenyan belongs to the same nature.

Shi Gonggong is Shi Yuanya, one of the previous internal files of the East Factory, he was transferred from the post of the internal file of the East Factory last year, and his position was taken over by Zhang Jinzhong, the head of the imperial superintendent.

Shi Yuanya and Ma Tang had a very close relationship, so Ma Tang asked him to use manpower to help intercept Qi Erdao, and Wang Yueqian, who was the general banner of Jinyi Wei at the time, was the candidate Shi Yuanya was looking for.

The reason why Shi Yuanya did not call on the internal staff of the East Factory was because Chen Ju, who was the palm print at the time, also intervened. This involves the struggle between the inner court, Wang Yuqian didn't know the inside story, he finished doing things for Shi Yuanya, although he didn't catch anyone, but Shi Yuanya still helped him rise to a hundred households, and introduced him to Ma Tang, and then worshiped under Ma Tang and recognized him as his father-in-law.

After Shi Yuanya was transferred out of the East Factory, he was sent to Linqing as a tax envoy. This seat was originally taken by Ma Tang, but now Shi Yuanya has been called, and it is obvious that this is Ma Tang's arrangement.

“…… Although Zhang Ye no longer tracks down Gao Huai's Tibetan silver, Ma Tang does not give up, he was not good at this matter when he was in Tianjin, and after entering Beijing and Jin to Bingbi, he called me to investigate secretly..."

Wang Yueqian confessed that he used all kinds of means, and finally found out the whereabouts of the eunuch Kong Zhen who had gone to Liaodong with Gao Huai. Although he knew that Kong Zhen had a younger brother, Kong Xue, who was a close confidant of Liu Cheng, a close attendant of the noble concubine, Wang Yuqian still secretly arrested him and tortured him, and finally found out from Kong Zhen that Gao Huai's huge amount of money was hidden in Liaoyang and Gaizhou.

Wang Yueqian, who was overjoyed, immediately reported the matter to Ma Tang, and he believed that Ma Tang would definitely reward him. Sure enough, Ma Tang said on the spot that after the matter was completed, he would definitely seek a thousand families for Wang Yuqian.

However, what I never expected was that when Ma Tang led people to rush to Liaoyang to raise silver, he pounced, but in Gaizhou, he raised 350,000 taels of silver, and Kong Zhen said that Gao Huai hid 460,000 taels of silver in Liaoyang.

There is silver in one place and no silver in another place, so Ma Tang suspected that someone had swallowed the Tibetan silver in Liaoyang, and the object of this suspicion was Wang Yuqian. He didn't listen to Wang Yueqian's explanation at all, so he ordered someone to take him down, and he was also tortured and interrogated, but Wang Yueqian really didn't swallow it privately, and he couldn't recruit him no matter how he beat him.

Seeing that he was about to be beaten to death by Ma Tang, Wang Yuqian had no choice but to admit it, and then said that he would take Ma Gonggong to get the silver. Bandao took advantage of the guards' inattention, absconded in the night, and fled back to the secret place where Kong Zhen was imprisoned in one go, and finally learned from Kong Zhen that he had a secret communication channel with his younger brother Kong Xue.

"So, it was Confucius who secretly swallowed Liaoyang's Tibetan silver?"

When Gonggong Wei heard this, he was also very sympathetic to Wang Yueqian: That guy in Matang is not kind to his subordinates, and his brain is also lacking roots, if Wang Yuqian wants to swallow silver, why should he tell you where the silver is.

Putting aside his father-in-law Wei, he must have to grasp it with both hands, and both hands must be hard, and you don't even think about it.

"It's not Confucius, it's Liu Cheng!"

Wang said hatefully.