Three Kingdoms: I am not Liu Bian

Chapter 127 If I don’t take it, how can His Royal Highness take it? If His Royal Highness doesn’t take it, how can you and I make progress!
No matter how arrogant and domineering they were in their daily lives, they were not even considered as wandering heroes. After seeing the blood, especially seeing that Zhao Rao's son was killed so casually by Xu Chu, these guests and servants immediately realized that something was wrong.

Either he encountered a desperado, or the emperor or the prince made a big move!
Immediately, the retainers and servants scattered like birds and beasts, but the entire mansion was surrounded by the Prince's guards, and there were also embroidered guards stationed outside to catch any fish that slipped through the net. Today, no one in the Heike mansion could escape.

"Xu Wei-Lue was a formidable figure. Tu Hui stated in his memorial to the Crown Prince that Zhao Ping resisted arrest with an armed force, and Xu Wei-Lue attacked in self-defense."

Guo Tu smiled and thanked Xu Chu, but Xu Chu just waved his hand and said, "That's not necessary. The Chief Supervisor and the Minister of Agriculture can just speak the truth in their memorials."

Are you kidding? If you write that I acted in self-defense, how can you make it seem like I killed someone on purpose to relieve the prince's worries?
Guo Tu was slightly startled, nodded, and was about to follow Xu Chu into the mansion to search the property, but suddenly he felt a force on his sleeve.

Looking back, he saw Cao Song grabbing his sleeve and pointing at the crimson gate where Xu Chu had hammered a deep hole. He said, "Don't you think there's a hidden meaning here?"

Guo Tu frowned, but he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Although the Yingchuan Guo family could not compete with the Runan Yuan family, the Yingchuan Xun family and others, they were also the leaders in the second echelon. However, they were somewhat inferior in terms of wealth.

After all, the gentry, whose livelihood depended on judging cases and amending laws, could not amass wealth on such a large scale, or seize farmland and hide the population. The Yingchuan Guo family had almost no taxes missed, and although they were still among the big families, they were far inferior to those truly extravagant and powerful families.

But Cao Song is different!
His father Cao Teng was a corrupt official, and he himself was once a corrupt official.

As a corrupt official, he naturally had a qualified plan to hide his property. When he saw Xu Chu holding a battering ram, but only deformed the red door but did not break it open, and only broke the door bolt, he could not help but sigh inwardly.

Cao Song took out a small knife from his bosom for scraping off the mistakes on the bamboo slips, and gently scraped it on the door of the mansion. A conspicuous and attractive golden color appeared in the sight of several people.

Then, there are places such as the cracks between the walls, the cellars, the soil, the barns piled with rice, and even the seemingly ordinary clay statues of the God of Heaven, which actually have their own secrets!
Some statues have gold, jade, and jewels hidden in their bellies, while others simply cast the statues out of gold and then cover them with a layer of mud.

What's more, even the nanmu tablets of ancestors, the beams and pillars of the courtyard, the gun barrels on the weapon rack, and the bed were all made of gold inside!
It must be said that the means of hiding property revealed by Cao Song really opened Guo Tu's eyes and brought him great benefits.

At the same time, in addition to finding the hidden property of corrupt officials, Cao Song also taught Guo Tu a way to protect himself.

Cao Song took a box of jewels from the confiscated wealth and gave it to Guo Tu. He also kept one box for himself. He patted Guo Tu on the shoulder and said, "If you don't take it, how can I take it?" "If I don't take it, how can Your Highness take it?"

"If His Royal Highness doesn't take it, how can you and I make progress?"

Especially as the prince's henchmen and confidants targeting the aristocratic families, offending people and cutting off his own escape route is only the most basic thing. The real way to make the prince maintain his trust in him for a long time is for him to personally hand the handle to the prince, giving the prince the opportunity to put him to death according to the law at any time.

At this moment, in Yong'an Palace, Zhao Rao's affairs did not take up too much of the prince's attention.

After all, it was a piece of delicious jerky, and all that was left was to swallow it, so there was no need to rush.

The prince's energy was mainly focused on the northwest. He had previously reprimanded Jia Xu, the Embroidered Uniform Censor, for his poor supervision and failure to report the corruption of Zhang Ju, the prefect of Taishan County.

But in fact, this was not only because the embroidered uniform envoys were in collusion with local governors, but also because he dispatched a large number of embroidered uniforms from all over the country to the northwest.

Some time ago, Han Yue, the chief accountant of Jincheng County in Liangzhou, went to Beijing on official business and reported to the Secretariat that the Qiang people in the northwest were plotting something unreliable and hoped that the court would be more prepared. He also submitted a memorial detailing the recent unusual movements of the Qiang people in the northwest.

Seeing that Han Yue had such insights and the clear arguments in his memorials, Liu Bian appointed him as the Prince's attendant.

Liu Bian was already quite wary of the northwest, and even sent Zhu Jun to take charge of Liang Province and granted him the power of the fake imperial seal. Based on what Han Yue said about the recent unusual movements of the Qiang people in the northwest, Liu Bian naturally kept a close eye on the northwest and was ready to face a new rebellion war at any time.

However, just four days later, news reached the capital Luoyang from Yanzhou.

A new rebellion war is about to come, but it is not coming from the northwestern Liangzhou, but from Yanzhou in the heart of the Central Plains!
Zhang Ju, the prefect of Taishan County, raised the flag of rebellion!
Zhang Ju falsely claimed that a strange baby with two heads was born in Luoyang City, and claimed that this was God's hint that the Han Dynasty was about to end and the country would perish, and that there would be two monarchs in the world.

Later, Zhang Ju killed Zhuge Gui, the prefect of Taishan County who reported and impeached him to the court, and proclaimed himself "Son of Heaven". His cousin Zhang Chun, the commander of Taishan, proclaimed himself "General Mi Tian and King Anding", recruited soldiers and called on righteous men all over the world to rely on the will of heaven and fight against the tyrannical Han Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)