Under the gaze of everyone, Li Huan slowly shook his head and said: "I'm afraid you may have misunderstood me. I didn't call you here just to ask you to donate money and food!"

"ah!"

Jiang Hong and others immediately exclaimed and were a little confused. They looked at Li Huan in confusion. If Li Huan summoned them not for their money and food, then why? Could it be that he really wanted to do something to them as they guessed?

Disadvantageous?

When thinking of this, many people's faces became a little pale, and even cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

Jiang Hong was also very nervous and said in a trembling voice: "Please let me know clearly."

Li Huan glanced at Jiang Hong and said, "You are the Fuzhou tycoon Jiang Hong that Commander Dong mentioned."

Jiang Hong felt anxious and said: "They are just ordinary people!"

Li Huan coughed slightly and said, "I think you all know that in these two days, Japanese officials ordered people to confiscate the properties of the Gu family, the Qian family, the Cai family, the He family, etc., and gained a large amount of gold and silver."

Everyone was silent, not understanding what Li Huan meant by what he said to them.

Li Huan continued: "Among these properties, there are only gold, silver and jewels. I will order people to seal them up and transport them to the capital to be presented to the emperor. However, among these confiscated properties, besides gold and silver, there is also land."

Acres, shops, mansions and even maids and servants.”

Jiang Hong's eyes lit up, and he suddenly looked up at Li Huan and said, "Could it be that the imperial envoy wants us to take over these things?"

Li Huan nodded slightly and said: "Yes, these things are dead objects. I can't present a bunch of land deeds to the emperor, so I thought of you."

Li Huan has already said this. Anyone who is not a fool can actually understand Li Huan's intention. It is obvious that Li Huan wants them to take over these things that cannot be taken away.

Of course, Li Huan would not be so kind as to give these things to them for free. He must have wanted them to pay for them.

While speaking, Li Huan glanced at the crowd, and saw that everyone understood what he meant, so he clapped his hands.

Soon I saw Chen Yao walking in with several Jinyi guards carrying several boxes.

When everyone saw it, their eyes naturally looked at the wooden box that was carried in by the Jin Yiwei, guessing what was in the wooden box.

"Open!"

Li Huan gave the order and saw the box being opened by several Jinyi guards. Immediately, a pile of land deeds, field deeds, etc. appeared in their sight.

Seeing these things, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up. As a businessman, what I like most is the land deeds and house deeds for things like fields and shops.

Don't doubt anyone's desire for land. It is absolutely endless. Whenever possible, they will definitely take out their hidden gold and silver and exchange it for fertile land that can be passed down to future generations.

Seeing everyone's expressions in his eyes, Li Huan smiled slightly and said: "There are hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land here, hundreds of shops, hundreds of properties, and even hundreds of large and small ships that can be used at any time."

Li Huan said with a smile: "It depends on whether you are interested."

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Hong was in high spirits. He seemed to have forgotten Li Huan's identity as imperial envoy. He was not as nervous as before but looked at Li Huan and said: "Sir, are you sure about these things? As long as we are willing to bid, you will give them to us."

Sell ​​it to us?"

Li Huan laughed loudly and said: "If this were not the case, why would I invite you here? You wouldn't think that I am deliberately looking for you to have fun when I have nothing to do."

Jiang Hong and others didn't dare to say anything after hearing this, but their eyes sparkled as they looked at the pile of land deeds, house deeds, etc. in the box.

With a wink at Chen Yao, Chen Yaodang stepped forward, stood in the hall, looked at the crowd and said: "Everyone, according to the wishes of the imperial envoy, the things are here. You can bid to buy them later. As long as you

If you can get gold and silver, these things will belong to you."

As he spoke, Chen Yao took out a stack of land deeds and said loudly in front of everyone: "This is a land deed for 10,000 acres of high-quality paddy fields. The one with the highest price will get it!"

Everyone's eyes lit up, 10,000 acres of high-quality paddy field, this is a good thing. Many of them have worked hard for half a lifetime, and with a little bit of savings, it is quite good to be able to own such thousands of acres of good farmland.

After all, these most high-quality assets have always been in the hands of those wealthy and powerful official families. Whenever there is an opportunity, such high-quality assets will only fall into the hands of these people, unlike them.

Compared with wealthy businessmen who only have money but no power, they naturally have a huge advantage.

Ten thousand acres of high-quality paddy fields. If you miss this opportunity, you may never encounter it again in your life.

I saw a wealthy businessman suddenly stood up and couldn't help shouting: "I will pay you fifty thousand taels of silver!"

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this. Ten thousand acres of land cost fifty thousand taels of silver. This price was already quite high. You should know that the average farmland was only about two or three taels.

Of course, considering that Fujian has many mountains and few fields, plus it has high-quality paddy fields, five taels of silver per acre is really not high.

Sure enough, someone immediately looked at the man with disdain and said, "Brother Chen, if you don't have money, don't bid randomly. If you want to win these high-quality paddy fields, then show some sincerity."

After saying that, he cupped his hands towards Chen Yao and said, "Sir, I would like to offer you 80,000 taels of silver!"

As soon as this person said this, there were still people who were eager to give it a try, but 99% of the people were immediately dumbfounded. The price was really a bit high, and this was just the beginning. There will definitely be more high-quality assets waiting for them.

.

Chen Yao glanced at everyone and said: "Everyone, is there anyone who has made a bid? If not, then this 10,000 acres of paddy field will belong to this gentleman. As long as the money is paid, you can go to the government office to go through the formalities at any time."

After more than a dozen breaths, no one spoke again. Chen Yaodang said: "Okay, sir, I have written it down for you. You just need to send someone to pay the money."

Next, Li Huan sat there leisurely, watching these wealthy gentry competing for a piece of land or a good shop.

After doing the math, after disposing of those properties and shops, there would be another one or two million taels of silver. This made Li Huan couldn't help but sigh, it was really fast enough to make money by confiscating the family and exterminating the clan.

Li Huan's place was extremely lively, and a lot of money came in, but Qian Li was panting, his chest seemed to burst, but he didn't dare to stop at his feet.

Finally seeing the familiar alley, Qian Li couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. His body went limp and he couldn't hold on anymore and fell to the ground.

Seeing Qian Li fall to the ground, a Jinyi guard picked up the scabbard and slapped Qian Li on him, causing Qian Li to let out a muffled groan.

"who!"

The noise here was not small at all, and it immediately alerted the Jin Yiwei who had already searched nearby.

Several Jinyi guards rushed over immediately, and even had their swords drawn out of their sheaths, ready to take action at any time. However, when they saw the person opposite, both sides breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that it was one of their own.

The little flag officer glanced at the imperial guards opposite and said in surprise: "What are you..."

Among the Jinyi guards opposite, a Jinyiwei captain said hurriedly: "Sir, we have two brothers. Cai Chao and Zheng Kui were chasing the rebels yesterday. There is no news so far. The higher-ups have ordered us to dig three feet into the ground.

Find the person. So our brothers are searching now..."

The little flag officer was startled and his eyes fell on Qian Li who was lying on the ground. He remembered that Qian Li had said before that a man named Linghu Chong had killed one of their people. Could it be that...

When he thought of this, Xiaoqi Guan immediately pointed to Qian Li on the ground and said: "This is the fourth son of the Qian family, Qian Li. Not long ago, he and the gangsters tried to climb over the city wall to escape from Fuzhou City, but they were killed by the brothers.

After realizing it, the man from the Jianghu was shot dead on the spot, and Qian Li said that the man from the Jianghu killed two of our brothers, could it be that he killed the two brothers Cai Chao and Zheng Kui?"

When the Jinyi Guards Captain heard this, he couldn't help but look at Qian Li. At this moment, Qian Li was lying on the ground, breathing heavily. He seemed to feel the gazes of all the Jinyi Guards and said, "I don't know about the two Jinyi Guards who were killed."

What are their names? But their bodies are in the yard in front. You can go and identify them. You will know at a glance whether they are the people you are looking for."

In fact, if they had paid Qian Li, the Jin Yiwei would have more or less determined in their minds that they were looking for Cai Chao, and Zheng Kui should have been killed here.

Because except for the two of them, no one else was missing.

The Jinyi Guardsman who had been searching for most of the night suddenly stepped forward, picked up the money gift, and growled with a fierce look in his eyes: "Tell me quickly, Cai Chao, where are the bodies of Zheng Kui and the others?"

After a violent cough, Qian Li's face turned red and he was almost strangled. He pointed hard at the yard in front and said intermittently: "That... is that yard..."

Looking at the courtyard pointed by Qian Li, several Jinyi guards looked at each other, immediately drew their swords out of their sheaths, slammed open the door, and rushed into the courtyard.

But the courtyard was quiet and there was no movement, as if the companions Qian Li mentioned did not exist.

At this moment, Qian Li was also escorted into the courtyard by a guard in uniform. The flag officer stared at Qian Li coldly with a knife and said: "Where are the people, where are the accomplices of Linghu Chong you mentioned? And Cai

Chao, where are the bodies of Zheng Kui and others hidden?"

Qian Li pointed to the huge wine vat in the corner not far away and said: "I saw Linghu Chong hiding his body in that wine vat. As for Linghu Chong's accomplices, his master Yue Buqun seems to have gone out, and his junior sister

It should still be here..."

Qian Li also found it strange that so many of them had barged in and made such a big noise. If Yue Lingshan was still there, she must have noticed it. Why didn't she react for a long time?

Could it be that the other party had already realized something was wrong and left first?

The little flag officer immediately waved his hand and said to several people: "You guys, go and search the room to see if there is anyone there. Please be careful. These are people in the world. If you see them, just shoot them with powerful crossbows."

, don’t give him a chance to take action.”

Then he said to the remaining people: "Let's go and see if they are the bodies of brothers Cai Chao and Zheng Kui."

Several people sheathed their embroidered spring knives, held strung crossbows in their hands, and cautiously approached the row of rooms, while the flag officers and others strode towards the row of wine vats.

One by one, the lids were lifted, no, no. Just when a few people thought Qian Li was lying, a lid was lifted, and two corpses wearing brocade hoodies appeared in their sights.

Two corpses were seen huddled in the wine vat, and the situation inside the wine vat could be vaguely seen through the light of the torch.

Someone recognized the two men's identities at a glance and exclaimed: "It's the two brothers Zheng Kui and Cai Chao. They were indeed killed!"

The ugly-looking little flag officer stepped forward, looked at the situation in the wine vat, suppressed the anger in his heart, and slowly reached out to take out the two bodies.

When I touched their bodies, I could clearly feel that their bodies were cold and stiff. It was obvious that they had been dead for a long time.

Looking at the body being taken out, Officer Xiaoqi took a deep breath and said: "Search!"

Since Qian Li said that Linghu Chong had a companion, they had to find him. Although Linghu Chong, who directly killed Cai Chao and Zheng Kui, was dead, it did not mean that his companion could go free.

However, it was said that the Jinyi guards who were carrying crossbows and searching the houses one by one, when they kicked open a room and entered it, their sharp eyes scanned the entire house, and they were instantly attracted by a figure lying on the bed.

Immediately, a series of powerful crossbows were aimed at the figure on the bed. At the same time, one of them shouted: "Bold thief, you can't escape anymore. If you don't catch me without mercy, don't blame us for being rude."

Hearing the movement here, several Jin Yiwei outside also ran over immediately carrying embroidered spring knives. The leader of the flag officer shouted: "Where are the people?"

The several Jinyi guards who were on alert moved out of the way, gestured towards the bed and said, "Sir, you see, the other party seems to be unresponsive. Could it be that he is dead?"
To be continued...