Gu Dayong couldn't help but laugh and said: "Our family also followed Brother Li Huan's instructions. Brother Li Huan said that in order to prevent the officials from knowing in advance, he asked me to send the silver to the inner treasury before telling His Majesty."

Ma Yongcheng watched the silver on the ship being transported away at an extremely fast speed, and wondered what Yang Tinghe and others would think if they arrived and found that most of the silver had already been transported away.

Suddenly, Ma Yongcheng looked at Gu Dayong and said, "Manager Gu Dayong, I still have so much money, I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it."

Gu Dayong smiled, he naturally knew what Ma Yongcheng meant, but Gu Dayong smiled and said: "Brother Ma, would you like to go with me to meet Yang Ting and them for a while."

Ma Yongcheng was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized what Gu Dayong meant. He couldn't help but laugh and said: "Okay, then our family will go with the manager of Gu Dayong to meet Yang Tinghe and others."

After all, Yang Tinghe and others came all the way on foot, so they weren't too anxious at first. After all, the money was there, and they wouldn't have to run away, right?

But when they learned that Gu Dayong had actually brought people from Tengxiang Youwei Camp and a cart to grab the money, Yang Ting and the others became anxious.

It doesn't take much. If hundreds of soldiers work together, the speed of transporting gold and silver will definitely not be slow. If they arrive late, the silver may really be taken away by Gu Dayong.

Suddenly, several figures in front appeared in the sight of all the officials.

Someone couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw it: "It's Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng and the others."

Yang Tinghe frowned, but he kept walking and soon arrived in front of Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng and the others.

With a smile on his face, Gu Dayong stepped forward to face Yang Tinghe, Li Dongyang and others cupped their hands and smiled and said: "Gentlemen, our family has been waiting for you here for a long time."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, wondering what Gu Dayong meant and why he was waiting for them here.

Yang Tinghe glanced at Gu Dayong and suddenly said: "Manager Gu Dayong, if you don't tell secrets, the money..."

Before Yang Tinghe could finish his words, Gu Dayong said with a smile: "Isn't the matter of silver easy to discuss? Isn't it just some silver? Our family knows that your lords are thinking about the court, so it's okay for your lords to think about collecting the silver into the national treasury."

Can understand.”

I thought that Gu Dayong was here to grab money, but after hearing Gu Dayong's words, he turned out to be very reasonable. This made many officials who were staring at Gu Dayong angrily look at him a little kinder.

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Yang Tinghe glanced at Gu Dayong in surprise and said, "Oh, so Manager Gu also thinks that the money should be put into the national treasury?"

Gu Dayong coughed slightly and said: "There is no problem in entering the treasury, but your Majesty is also poor, so you can't understand His Majesty's difficulties."

When Yang Tinghe heard this, he snorted coldly and said: "It's not that I don't understand your Majesty's difficulties, but the imperial court is in urgent need of a batch of money to do things."

Gu Dayong smiled and said: "Our family knows that the court needs money, so aren't we here to discuss it with you adults?"

Ma Yongcheng on the side looked at Gu Dayong with Yang Tinghe and other officials arguing with a strange look, and even quarreled several times over the ownership of the money.

But Ma Yongcheng felt like a clear mirror in his mind. Gu Dayong was not competing for the ownership of the money. He was clearly competing for time.

More than half an hour passed, and Gu Dayong felt that his mouth was a little dry, and he thought that the money on the ship should be transferred.

But now Yang Tinghe and others saw that Gu Dayong was not getting oil and salt, and they had no intention of continuing to discuss with Gu Dayong.

Yang Tinghe was heard saying angrily to Gu Dayong: "Since Manager Gu insists on his opinion, then please ask Manager Gu to get His Majesty's imperial edict. If there is Your Majesty's edict, the money on the dock will be put into the inner treasury.

I have nothing to say."

Gu Dayong waved his sleeves and said: "That's ridiculous. If our family could get the imperial edict, would we still discuss it with you here? Since you adults are unwilling to agree, then our family will say goodbye."

As he spoke, Gu Dayong said to Ma Yongcheng: "Brother Ma, let's go."

Regardless of what Yang Tinghe and others looked at, Gu Dayong directly took the others and left with Ma Yongcheng.

Bao Qing and others had stunned expressions on their faces, and they could only hear Bao Qing muttering softly: "It's strange, Gu Dayong stopped us and talked for a long time, but it seemed that all of them were meaningless words."

When Yang Tinghe heard this, his expression suddenly changed and he said: "No, Gu Dayong may be delaying time. Please follow me to the dock quickly."

No one was stupid. They were just fooled by Gu Dayong's trick before. Now after hearing what Yang Tinghe said, everyone felt vaguely that they had been fooled by Gu Dayong.

The group of people rushed all the way to the dock, and saw several officials from the Ministry of Revenue sitting there with sad faces, and even their bodies were covered with dust.

When they saw Yang Tinghe, Bao Qing and others, several officials seemed to have been rescued and ran over almost crying.

"My lords, my lords, the money is gone..."

Yang Tinghe stiffened when he heard this, and his expression became extremely ugly, while Bao Qing slapped an official in the face and shouted: "Didn't I let you stare at it? How could the money be gone?"

Li Huan, who was slapped, cried: "Sir, not long after you left, Gu Dayong brought a team of people and transferred the money away at a very fast speed, while we were vacated.

The soldiers of the Xiangyou Guard Camp are under guard..."

Bao Qing said in a trembling voice: "All the money was taken away by Gu Dayong's people?"

The official said with a mournful face: "Just a quarter of an hour ago, Gu Dayong's people took all the money and left."

Yang Tinghe suddenly burst out laughing. While laughing, he said angrily: "What a great guy. I never thought that I would be deceived by you."

Thinking that Gu Dayong stopped them more than half an hour ago, Gu Dayong's people must have been transferring money at that time, and Gu Dayong said so much nonsense, which was nothing more than delaying time.

But at that time, they didn't think Gu Dayong could take away the money in such a short period of time, so they gave Gu Dayong a chance.

Bao Qing looked at Yang Tinghe and said, "Sir, the money is gone, what should we do?"

Yang Tinghe took a deep breath and said: "Since the silver was taken away by Gu Dayong, how easy is it to get it back again?"

As he spoke, a strange color flashed in Yang Tinghe's eyes and he said, "But this money will eventually return to the treasury."

Many officials looked at Yang Tinghe with confusion after hearing this.

At this time, Censor Bian Yu suddenly said: "That Jinyi Guard Qianhu Du Guang..."

Yang Tinghe sneered and said: "Let the governor send someone to arrest Du Guang when he returns home on the charge that he was good at killing court officials."

An official responded immediately and left.

After losing money, we can't just forget about Du Guang's murder of the household official.

The officials dispersed, and what happened on the dock spread quickly.

In the palace, evening

Zhu Hou looked after Ma Yongcheng and Gu Dayong, especially Gu Dayong, who was holding the account book containing millions of taels of gold and silver that had been put into storage, with a look of astonishment and surprise on his face.

Listening to Gu Dayong's story, Zhu Houzhao exclaimed: "So, everything is as expected by Li Huan?"

Gu Dayong nodded and said: "Although Brother Li couldn't predict what happened, he also guessed that it was impossible for the officials to let the gold and silver enter His Majesty's inner treasury, so he specially wrote a letter to warn the old slave, so that he could

The money was snatched from the hands of hundreds of officials."

Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly and said: "Okay, okay, Li Qing really did not disappoint me."

Autumn of the third year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty

The October autumn wind already carried a bit of a chilling chill. On the official road, a long team escorted several prison cars forward slowly.

Behind these prison cars were no less than a hundred large carriages making a creaking sound. Wherever the carriages passed, they left a very obvious rut ​​mark on the official road. It can be seen that each of these carriages

How heavy was the load pulled on the carriage?

On top of the leading war horse, a figure was dressed in brocade clothes and a black cloak, letting the autumn wind rustle.

Surrounded by a team of imperial guards, the convoy was protected by a group of elite soldiers exuding an evil aura.

And this group of people was none other than Li Huan and others who personally led the Jin Yiwei to Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture more than a month ago to deal with Xie Qian's rebellion.

Li Huan, who was riding on the horse, had a look of emotion on his face. Thinking of his experience of more than a month, he was filled with emotions.

Even he did not expect that Xie Qian's influence in Yuyao County would be so great. To be precise, his influence among Shilin was completely beyond his expectation.

Those scholars who listened to Xie Qian's lectures were completely brainwashed by Xie Qian and became his loyal followers.

If he could avoid killing people, Li Huan actually didn't want to kill people either.

However, the reactions and actions of those scholars had already touched Li Huan's bottom line. It is conceivable that if Li Huan really let Su Kui, Xizhen and others go, it would only make those people even more arrogant.

What's even more frightening is that when these people take part in the imperial examination and enter the court, these people will inevitably become potential serious troubles.

Li Huan had no choice but to wield the butcher's knife. Even if he was regarded as a murderer and a butcher, he would admit it.

It can be said that Li Huan did not gain nothing in Yuyao County this time. Except for the Qu family and the other eight families in Yuyao, it can be said that all six families were confiscated and exterminated by Li Huan.

Counting the confiscated property of the Xie family, the amount of cash confiscated this time alone is almost three million taels. This does not include acres, manors, mines, etc.

Although there are still some finishing touches that have not been dealt with completely, Li Huan also arranged for someone to deal with them.

Looking at the capital city that had come into view in front of him, Li Huan showed a slight smile on his lips. He, Li Huan, was back again.

Almost half a month ago, Li Huan received news from Jin Yiwei that Gu Dayong had snatched away the silver and put it into the emperor's inner treasury.

The officials who were originally furious suddenly fell silent. For such a long time, all officials turned out to be honest. No one mentioned the issue of the ownership of the confiscated money. It was as if

Baiguan suddenly suffered from amnesia and forgot about the matter.

Although he failed to get the first gold and silver, there was still a sum stolen from Fujian, plus the millions of taels that Li Huan brought back this time, adding up to several million taels.

If the civil servant group is not eyeing these two gold and silver coins, no one will believe it.

With nearly ten million taels of gold and silver involved, Li Huancai didn't believe that the civil service group would give up just because of one failure.

But no matter what these people's plans are, Li Huan is not afraid. The worst thing is that the water will come to cover it up, and the soldiers will come to stop it.

At the gate of the city, several figures were looking forward to it, led by Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng, Qiu Ju and others.

Suddenly, Qiu Ju said with a somewhat excited look on his face: "Here we come, Brother Li is back."

When Li Huan's figure appeared in front of Qiu Ju and others, Qiu Ju and others couldn't help laughing and stepped forward.
To be continued...