Yang Feng confiscated tens of millions of taels of silver in eight salt merchants in Yangzhou, and the news swept across the earth like spring thunder. Not to mention the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, the entire Ming Dynasty was stunned by this news, 10 million taels of silver, so much silver is already comparable to two years of taxes in the Ming Dynasty, what does this mean? As soon as they thought of this, the name of a person in the early years of the dynasty immediately came to everyone's minds.

And this news also led to an incident, the impeachment of Yang Feng, which was originally pouring into the court like a tide, suddenly came to an abrupt end like a tightened faucet valve. In this incident, Gao Yannian and the local officials in Yangzhou who acted as the vanguard of the attack on Yang Feng were also embarrassed, and they kept sparing no effort to impeach Yang Feng, saying how brutal and inhumane he was and killed innocents, but in the end, the cruel display slapped them hard.

Ten million taels of silver, even if they are shameless, they can't explain how these salt merchants have so much silver?

What the...... You say it's normal to have so much silver? Oh, it looks like you should have a lot of money at home, don't you want to check your house?

Yang Feng has been dealing with speculation for most of the month, and the 10 million taels of silver that Yang Feng said does not only refer to the cash silver stored in their homes, but also includes their family property, shops, real estate deeds, fertile land and other real estate, these things are not very easy to discount, and finally Yang Feng personally came forward to hold an auction in Yangzhou City for three consecutive days, during the auction, the entire Yangzhou City rich businessmen gathered.

Who are these eight salt merchants? The shops, fertile fields and real estate occupied are all the best locations, the best houses and the most fertile fertile fields in Yangzhou City, in the past, when those salt merchants were there, naturally no one dared to fight their ideas, but now these people are not like sharks that smell blood, and it only took three days to snap up these things, and after dealing with these things, Yang Feng rushed to the capital with hundreds of carts of gold and silver from his family.

Escorting so much silver on the road, or worry that it would be a lie. Tens of millions of taels of silver, so much silver is enough for any bandit to take risks, for the sake of insurance, as early as half a month ago, Yang Feng applied to Zhu Youxiao and the Ministry of War for an order, and mobilized 3,000 sergeants from Jiangningwei to Yangzhou, and waited until the army gathered after the 6,000 troops escorted the silver on the road, when they arrived in the capital it was already the beginning of July.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, the silver escorted by Yang Feng arrived in Beijing, and the entire Beijing division was in a sensation, and countless people poured into the streets to watch and see, which can be called the largest case of copying homes since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. When Jiang Ningwei's sergeants escorted the things full of gold and silver treasures into the capital, countless people were amazed when they looked at the carts that had pressed deep marks on the ground.

Although everyone knows that they have nothing to do with this silver, they can't stand it in their hearts, and many people are thinking in their hearts that if these silver are mine, then how will I use this silver......

Li Qiyuan, the secretary of the household department, led the officials and officials of the entire household department to gather at the entrance of the household department early in the morning, waiting for Yang Feng to send the silver car, and the eyes of many officials showed a glint of joy. For many years, in addition to sending two quarters of silver from all over the country every year, the treasury of the household department was so empty that it was almost enough to run a mouse, and now it was finally 10 million taels of silver delivered to the door, where can these people still stand safely.

The weather in June is already quite hot, when the sun jumps out of the top of the mountain and jumps into the air, the power of the sun begins to exert its might, Li Qiyuan was originally a fat man, and now he is exposed to the sun like this, and his whole body is quickly sweated profusely, feeling the slimy feeling on his body, his mood can't help but be a little irritable.

Guo Yunhou, the left waiter of the household who was standing beside him, kept fanning his cheeks with his sleeves, trying to cool himself down, but the effect was not too good, he turned his head a little irritably and looked around, and found that the people around him were similar to him, if it was at this time of the day, he would have run to the signing room with ice cubes to cool off, but today's situation is a little special, for the sake of 10 million taels of silver, this summer tea poison is still bearable.

Time passed little by little, and the sweat on Li Qiyuan's body had soaked all the clothes on his body, and Guo Yunhou couldn't help complaining on the side: "What's the matter, this official also knows that the people in the capital will run to see the excitement today, but how big can the capital be, and after walking for more than two hours, even if it is climbing, it should climb to the household, right?" ”

Li Qiyuan, who was already waiting impatiently, couldn't hold back any longer, and immediately said loudly to the little official beside him: "You all go to this official to see why the convoy hasn't arrived yet?" ”

"Whoa!"

The little official answered and was about to go out, but before he could take two steps, he saw a little official not far away hurriedly running over and saying loudly in a panicked tone: "Two adults, it's not good!" Jiang Ningbo's convoy did not come towards our household, but towards the inner storehouse! ”

Li Qiyuan and Guo Yunhou were stunned at the same time, and then their faces immediately turned pale, and they said in unison.

"Not good!"

"Oops!"

"Quick...... All follow the official to the inner storehouse! ”

Li Qiyuan shouted loudly, and then pulled his legs and ran towards the sedan chair on the side, Guo Yunhou also followed him, and the two sedan chairs quickly ran in the direction of the palace......

What is a vault? Maybe some people don't know it very well, but as long as you say its other name, I believe everyone will understand, the alias of the inner library is called Neiji. It is necessary to explain here that what is stored in the treasury is the money of the imperial court and the state, which is managed by the household department, while the so-called inner treasury is the emperor's private money, which is in his own hands.

And Yang Feng transported the 10 million taels of silver he got from Yangzhou Speculator to the Inner Treasury, which meant that such a huge amount of silver would never be related to the household department again, which made Li Qiyuan, who had long been poor, how could he bear it, so that he immediately rushed towards the palace at a speed that was not commensurate with his size.

The news that Yang Feng drove the convoy to the inner treasury also reached the ears of various powerful people in the capital for the first time, and the officials and magnates who were still waiting and watching could no longer sit still, and for a while, countless officials rushed towards the direction where the inner treasury of the palace was located.

At this moment, what kind of reserve and face has been left behind, because everyone knows very well that if these silver enter the household, they can still share one or two, but if it enters the inner treasury, according to the virtue of the old Zhu family, they can't even catch a hair, so at this time, the face or something should be put down for the time being.

Escorted by thousands of soldiers, the mighty convoy finally arrived at the location of the palace at noon, as the place where the emperor put his private money, and the people guarding this place were not the soldiers of the Beijing camp or the soldiers of the household department, but the four guards of Tengxiang under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Horse Prison were guarding.

When Yang Feng personally led the soldiers here, he saw a tall, fair-skinned and slightly chubby middle-aged eunuch in his fifties standing at the door surrounded by dozens of eunuchs looking at himself, seeing Yang Feng riding his horse over, he immediately stepped forward and said with a smile: "Jiang Ningbo has come from afar and worked hard all the way, please hurry up and enter, and after counting the silver, we will meet Your Majesty together!" ”

Yang Feng looked at this white and clean fat man, although he was a little curious about why this guy looked like he was familiar, but as the saying goes, he didn't hit the smiling person when he reached out, he still nodded towards the other party and smiled: "There is Gonggong Lao waiting here, then let's count these silver taels together and put them into the warehouse!" ”

"Stop!"

Just when the two of them were about to enter, there was a loud shout from behind Yang Feng, and when Yang Feng turned his head to look over, he saw a fat man in a scarlet official uniform hurriedly getting off the sedan chair and rushing towards them, and another thin middle-aged man also ran behind him.

The fat man rushed to the two of them and shouted: "These silver taels are the property of my Ming court, how can they be put into the inner treasury without permission!" ”

Looking at this fat man whose whole body was like being fished out of the water, Yang Feng frowned: "Old man, who are you, even dare to rob the emperor's silver, are you impatient?" ”

The fat man looked at Yang Feng in disbelief and said, "Yang Feng...... You even call this official an old man? ”

"Why can't Benber call you that?" Yang Feng glanced at him up and down before he said: "Looking at the clothes on your body, you are just a second-grade official, and this uncle is a super first-grade uncle, why can't I call you that?" ”

"You...... You ......" The fat man almost fainted to the ground, pointing at Yang Feng and speechless.

At this time, the thin man behind also ran over and shouted: "Yang Feng, Hugh is rude!" This is Lord Li Qiyuan, the head of the household department, you dare to call the head of the household department of the dynasty like this, what kind of crime should you be guilty of? ”

"Hubu Shangshu Li Qiyuan?" Yang Feng pursed his lips, "It's just a corpse vegetarian person, why can't Ben Bo call him that!" Also, who are you? ”

The thin man looked at Yang Feng and said angrily: "This official is Guo Yunhou, the left attendant of the household department, you are the uncle of His Majesty at any time, but you can't be so snub to the court officials, right?" After speaking, Guo Yunhou turned his gaze to the fair-skinned fat man who was standing aside and watching the excitement, and said unhappily: "Gonggong Wei, as the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, can you just watch Yang Feng wantonly insult the minister?" ”

"Grandpa Wei? The eunuch of the celebrant and the pen? When Yang Feng heard this, he was shocked, and looked at the fair-skinned fat man next to him in surprise and asked in surprise: "You are the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian?" ”

Seeing Yang Feng ask himself, Wei Zhongxian smiled slightly: "Jiang Ningbo has won the award, our family is Wei Zhongxian, but he is just a slave of His Majesty, but he can't be named nine thousand years old." ”

To be honest, although Yang Feng has been in the capital for several months, he has always been too tired to go to the early court, so he will never go again after going to the early court twice. And I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional during the period, although he and Wei Zhongxian knew each other's Daming, the two had never met, and they had officially met until today.

Yang Feng looked Wei Zhongxian up and down for a while, and found that this guy was different from the haze or bitter hatred in the portrait of Du Niang in later generations, this guy looked like a harmless fat man on the surface, no wonder he could gain Zhu Youxiao's trust for so many years in another historical time and space.

Seeing Yang Feng looking himself up and down, Wei Zhongxian smiled slightly and arched his hand towards him: "Our family has admired Jiang Ningbo for a long time, but we have never had the opportunity to meet, and it is really a blessing to meet Jiang Ningbo today." ”

At this time, Yang Feng also came back to his senses, and returned the salute with a smile: "The nine-thousand-year-old has passed the award, Yang Feng is just a fluke and has made some small contributions, and he has been rewarded with a knighthood by the emperor's wrong love, how can it be compared to the hard work of the nine-thousand-year-old chief official and the ceremonial supervisor!" ”

The two of them quieted down after saying a few words without smiling, since Wei Zhongxian was ordered by Zhu Youxiao to welcome this batch of silver taels this time, naturally he couldn't let others rob them of the silver. He turned his head to Li Qiyuan and said, "Lord Li, this batch of silver taels was obtained from Yangzhou by Jiang Ningbo with great difficulty, but it is not a tax sent by the local government, what qualifications do you have in the household department to take them away?" ”

"Father-in-law Wei, what you said is wrong." Li Qiyuan was not to be outdone: "This batch of silver taels was obtained by Jiang Ningbo from confiscating eight salt merchants in Yangzhou, and it is not the income of Huangzhuang or the Royal Commercial Bank, how can it not be entered into the treasury of my household department?" In addition, now there is no silver in the household treasury, and disasters are frequent in Shaanxi and other places. ”

"Lord Li's words are not right, right?" Wei Zhongxian sneered: "Our family is the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, is it not clear whether there are silver taels in the household department, but our family clearly remembers that there are still more than 500,000 taels of silver in the household department that have not moved." ”

"That is the silver used by the imperial court for emergencies, and it must not be moved until a critical moment!" Li Qiyuan retorted not to be outdone, and the two of them argued word by word.

When the two were arguing, a lot of sedan chairs arrived in a hurry, and many officials came down from the sedan chair and ran towards them quickly, Yang Feng couldn't help but be slightly shocked when he saw it, these guys are too fast, it seems that when it comes to silver, no matter who it is, they are running fast.

Seeing that the officials were gathering more and more, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but get anxious, if he couldn't welcome the silver into the inner treasury today, what was waiting for him would probably be Zhu Youxiao's anger.

In a hurry, he turned his head and shouted loudly to the soldiers of the Teng Xiang Four Guards behind him: "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and welcome the silver into the treasury!" ”

"Whoa!"

The soldiers hurriedly came over and were about to put the cart in, and the officials led by Li Qiyuan were also anxious, and they also rushed towards the cart and said loudly: "This official looks at which of you dares, these silvers are the proceeds of the confiscation of profiteers, and they should belong to the household department, unless you kill the old man, don't think about taking them away!" ”

Looking at Li Qiyuan's posture of not hesitating to live and die with these silvers, the soldiers hesitated......