Rebirth: Remarrying the Emperor's Uncle

Chapter 134 Confiscating the Hou Mansion (Part )
Zhao Chengyuan was eating glutinous osmanthus cakes without any haste, he glanced at Zhao Chen, "Zhaoping doesn't give you much osmanthus cakes, so I won't entertain you."

Zhao Chen withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "Uncle Huang, you are welcome."

He changed the subject, "Uncle Huang asked Zhaoping to wait patiently, what's the point?"

Zhao Chengyuan ate the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, smiled and said nothing.

Seeing his secretive appearance, Zhao Chen felt doubts in his heart.

Although Yongpinghou is now imprisoned, he is not imprisoned in Dali Temple, but in the imperial prison controlled by the Imperial Forest Army, which can be regarded as under the eyes of his father.The father even bypassed the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, and directly sent Chengjun Wang to lead the Yulin Army to the Yongping Hou Mansion to find evidence.

What evidence can there be in the Yongping Hou's mansion? The father clearly intends to put on a show, perfunctory the courtiers, and then said that there is no evidence to release Yongping Hou.

Even if Chengjun Wang finds out something and whether to announce it to the public, the initiative is still in the hands of his father.

With a thought in his mind, "If the Marquis Yongping Mansion has enough silver, that would be evidence... Uncle Huang wants Father to search the Marquis Yongping Mansion?"

If Marquis Yongping can collect money for Da Zhou, and even more for himself, his family property must be rich.

When the royal father saw it, it was inevitable that he would not be tempted.

Rabbit dead dog cooking, why can't Yongping Hou become the cooked hunting dog?

Zhao Chengyuan was noncommittal, and asked instead, "How much money does the crown prince think can make the emperor make up his mind to raid the house?"

Zhao Chen thought for a moment, "Marquis Yongping gave my father about million taels. The Chen family can pay taxes of two million taels every year. For this more than million taels, my father can tolerate it." The Marquis of Yongping killed the chicken to get the eggs. If the silver in the Marquis Yongping’s hand can cover the fifteen million taels, it would be enough to make the emperor want to kill. But... I’m afraid that the Marquis of Yongping doesn’t have that much silver.”

No matter how corrupt he is, he can't save the family wealth of the treasury revenue for the second half of the year, right?
Zhao Chengyuan said leisurely, "The crown prince still underestimated the ability of Marquis Yongping. The extra money he collected for the emperor in a year was more than two million taels, and his role was much greater than that of the Chen family. If it comes out to million taels, the emperor may not be willing to kill him. After all, if he is convicted, not only will he not be able to pick up eggs in the future, but the emperor will have to spit out the more than million taels he got."

Zhao Chen lowered his eyebrows in thought.

Marquis Yongping has already entered the Imperial Prison, no matter what, he cannot be allowed to stand up again.

Otherwise, there will be no chance of bringing him down in the future.

Zhao Chengyuan swallowed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and when he reached into the box again, he frowned and paused, "Have you eaten four already?"

He looked at the brass hand stove inside and reached for it.

The hand stove is still hot, and the whole is in the shape of a plum blossom. The lid is embossed with a pattern of folded plum blossoms. It is so small that he can hold it with one hand.

Thinking of the little girl holding it with two tender chubby hands, she felt so cute and tight.but……

He frowned and said, "This hand stove is not delicate enough. Luo Ping, go search in the warehouse, pick some exquisite and beautiful ones, and send them to Zhaoping."

"Yes!"

Before leaving, Luo Ping glanced at the copper hand stove that the prince was obviously fond of.

This is already exquisite enough, do you want to return the county owner?

Zhao Chen's eyes turned cold successfully.

He got up and cupped his hands and said, "The emperor is busy, and my nephew has stepped back."

Zhao Chen walked out of the Prince Jin's mansion with a heavy face, and saw Chief Shi Liang Zhong coming quickly.

Liang Zhong jumped off his horse and walked quickly to Zhao Chen's side, and said in a low voice, "My lord, Cheng Jun Wang found more than million taels of silver, more than one million taels of gold, and some jewelry, calligraphy and paintings in Yongping Houfu. He just entered the palace to report to the emperor."

Although this was good news for him, Zhao Chen's face was still angry, and he sneered, "The appetite is really big enough, the treasury of the Great Zhou is not as much as his money!"

He got on his horse and looked back at the majestic Prince Jin's Mansion, doubts arose in his eyes.

The Seventh Emperor Uncle actually found out the details of Yongping Hou's family assets.

What's even more frightening is that it seems that from the moment the Seventh Emperor ordered the city gate to be closed, every step was within his calculations.

Common people and students are causing trouble, veterans are impeached, the emperor is thinking, and the Yongping Hou Mansion is being searched...

Predicting events and scheming people's hearts is worthy of being the Seventh Emperor Uncle.

When Zhao Chen arrived at the palace, Emperor Qingming was furious.

His face was cloudy and rainy, and he roared with gritted teeth, "Good job, Wen Boshi! It's more than million taels of silver, which is more than one year's treasury revenue! I've been busy for half my life, but I don't have as much money as a minister!"

Thinking about how happy he was for the thirteen million taels of silver a few days ago, he couldn't sleep, and this was not even half of the silver in Wen Boshi's hand.

Really ridiculous, really humiliating!
It's no wonder that the Seventh Emperor also thinks that the emperor is pitiful, really pitiful and pathetic!

Seeing that Emperor Qingming was almost roaring, the king of Chengjun presented another golden hairpin with jewels in it, and said, "Your Majesty, among them, one million taels of gold, two million taels of silver, and several large boxes of silver on top of the jewels are all It’s new, exactly the same as the one that was put into storage for you a few days ago. Look at this hairpin, it has the imprint of the Chen Family’s Silver Building on it. I’m afraid even the prefect Hu doesn’t know about these gold and silver jewels.”

Emperor Qingming clutched the golden hairpin tightly, the veins in his hands popped out, his face became darker and darker, as if a hurricane was coming.

One million taels of gold is equivalent to ten million taels of silver. Although he guessed that Marquis Yongping would keep some, he actually left half of it for himself just as he was saving his life!
The eunuchs in the imperial study were all silent, kneeling on the ground and not daring to breathe.

Emperor Qingming walked quickly back and forth in the imperial study, and seeing Zhao Chen standing beside him, he pointed at him and said, "You take the officers and soldiers of Dali Temple, together with King Chengjun, to search the Yongping Hou Mansion carefully, Don’t miss a single inch of land! All the family members in the mansion will be sent to jail!”

Zhao Chen cupped his hands and said, "I obey the order!"

Emperor Qingming paused suddenly, squinted his eyes and looked at Zhao Chen, "Did you guess that Marquis Yongping has so much money?"

Zhao Chen's heart sank when he heard this.

He shouldn't be in such a hurry to enter the palace.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that he had been fooled by the Seventh Emperor Uncle.What Uncle Seventh Emperor said was clearly the reason to lure him into the palace!
And he was afraid that his father would not deal with Marquis Yongping, thinking that he might be able to add fuel to the flames when he came...

And now I try to forcefully explain it myself, it would be a fall.

He secretly sighed, and said in a deep voice, "I don't know. If I knew about this earlier, I should have asked for an order to search from the very beginning."

The king of Chengjun couldn't help slandering, ever since he found out that the son of Duke Zhen Guo and Liao Yuansi had dinner together at noon that day, the emperor suspected that you were setting up a situation.But now you are rushing over so impatiently, the emperor doesn't doubt who you suspect?

If you push the suspicion on King Jin at this time, how much can the emperor trust you?

Emperor Qingming looked at him for a moment, then said, "You guys go."

(End of this chapter)