The next day, Zhao Yu did not go outside the city as he had done a few days ago, but went straight to the Jinyiwei Yamen.

Zhao Yu found An Jianqing while on duty and got a list of names from An Jianqing.

This is a secret report sent back by Jin Yiwei's secret agent. The disaster situation in all prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili is clearly written.

The situation was worse than Zhao Yu imagined. Many victims from dozens of counties around Beizhili were already fleeing towards the capital.

Zhao Yu could only select some serious places first, and then asked Shen Lian and Lu Jianxing, who had been promoted to Zhengtang Qianhu, to lead people to provide disaster relief.

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At noon, Zhao Yu led fifty servants to a luxurious mansion.

Chen Zhong has died in the imperial edict, and the house has been sealed up. We are waiting for Zhao Yu, a governor from the Inspection Department, to come and cause trouble!

"Open the mansion!"

Arriving at the door of the mansion, Zhao Yu took out the driving certificate from his arms and threw it to Liu Jin, who had been guarding the door for a long time.

Who in the capital doesn't know that Chen Zhong is a 9,000-year-old bastard?

So if his home was raided, Dongchang or Jiuqiansui would definitely send someone over to keep an eye on Zhao Yu.

No one can guarantee whether this Chen Zhong will leave something shameful like Zhang Ying before him?

"snort!"

After reading the driving notice, Liu Jin snorted coldly, and then waved his hand. The Dongchang officers behind him immediately stepped forward and pulled off the seal on the door.

Zhao Yu, who pushed open the door of Chen Zhong's mansion and stepped inside, frowned slightly.

Although the mansion in front of him was very luxuriously decorated, it would not make Zhao Yu, who had seen a nine-thousand-year-old mansion, frown.

The reason why Zhao Yu really frowned was that he seemed to smell a hint of sinister aura from the house in front of him.

After crossing the screen wall, Zhao Yu came to the front yard. It had snowed heavily for several days and had already covered the steps of the two corridors. The snow in the courtyard was more than a foot thick.

Zhao Yu walked along the stone steps and stepped on the snow step by step towards the corridor leading to the inner hall.

I don’t know why, but in broad daylight, the courtyard in front of me looks like a ghost house, which always makes people feel chilly.

Zhao Yu walked through the corridor pavilion and saw through the arch that the inner courtyard was just like before, with falling snow already piled up on the steps of the wing rooms on both sides.

It was obvious that no one was walking around the house for several days at least!

According to Daqian law, before the criminal's house is raided, the family members of the criminal are not allowed to leave their home for even half a step! As time went by, the term "sweeping out the victims" came into being.

But in the yard in front of me, there seemed to be no sign of anyone moving in the past few days.

Although Chen Zhong is a 9,000-year-old bastard, as one of the four wealthy businessmen in the capital, he should have children, wives, concubines, and servants.

"Where are the criminal's family members?" Zhao Yu asked with a slight frown as he looked at the empty house.

In the art of confiscating a house, in addition to relying on experience to search out the money and valuable items hidden by the prisoner, the prisoner's relatives, especially concubines, are actually first interrogated at the very beginning.

From their mouths, you can easily know where some valuable things are hidden.

Of course, this presupposes that the notice to search the house is issued in time, otherwise by the time the person who searches the house comes, the people inside will be dead long ago.

"If you come back to the town, your Majesty, the criminal's family members are all in the back house!" Liu Jin, who had been following closely behind him, said in a strange tone when he saw Zhao Yu asking questions.

When Zhao Yu led his people to the back house, he couldn't help but take a breath when he saw the corpses strewn all over the ground.

Judging from the bodies of these people, it was obvious that they had been dead for a long time.

Moreover, these people all had obvious wounds on their bodies, most of which were on their necks. Almost everyone's throat had been slashed with a sharp weapon!

More than forty people were lying upright in the snow, with a look of fear still on their stiff and purple faces.

Kill and silence...

You can tell with just your toes that after he left Chitose Mansion, Wei Zhongxian sent people to kill Chen Zhong and his family directly!

Looking at the corpses in the inner hall, Zhao Yu naturally understood in his heart that since Wei Zhongxian had the ability to kill people and silence them, he also had the ability to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.

But he didn't do this, and instead let these corpses stay upright in the mansion.

There is only one reason. These corpses were specially displayed by the old eunuch for him, the governor of Beisi Town, to see!!

"Come here, why don't you clean up these unlucky things quickly?!"

After a while, Liu Jin looked at the expressionless Zhao Yu and sneered, then pointed at the corpses on the ground and said to the officer behind him.

The servants who followed Liu Jin covered their mouths and noses with cloths, then stepped forward and carried out the frozen corpse.

Zhao Yu glanced sideways at Liu Jin, then waved his hand.

The subordinates immediately dispersed and headed towards the central wing of the mansion.

On Liu Jin's side, except for the dozen or so unlucky guys who were assigned to carry the corpse, the rest of them entered the side room separately under the men brought by Zhao Yu.

An hour later, all the valuable belongings in the house were looted.

Chen Zhong is indeed one of the four wealthy businessmen in the capital. The cash collected from this mansion alone has piled up a hill in the courtyard of the inner court.

Zhao Yu came to the cash bank, picked up an ingot of fifty taels of official silver, and threw it directly to the leader of the squad he had brought with him.

"Sir, what does this mean?"

The waiter looked at the silver ingot in his hand and was a little confused.

"These fifty taels are for you. The remaining brothers are each worth ten taels!" Zhao Yu pointed to the cash on the ground and said lightly to the boss.

"ah?!"

The boss was startled, and then subconsciously looked at Liu Jin aside.

Although there are unwritten rules among factory guards, and the inspection department checks every ten of them, you should at least prepare some people!

How dare you split money so blatantly with the official in charge of Dongchang's punishment at your side?!

"Zhao Yu, you are so brave, you dare to secretly share the dirty money?!" Liu Jin jumped out immediately, pointed at Zhao Yu and shouted sternly.

He looked shocked on the face, but actually he was happy inside!

This guy was used to sharing dirty money in the past. If he dared to secretly share dirty money in front of him, this crime is not a small one.

Zhao Yu did not pay attention to Liu Jin, but stared directly at the captain and said coldly: "Didn't you hear what the envoy of this town said?!"

"Oh...oh, obey!"

Seeing Zhao Yu's cold expression, the manager immediately gritted his teeth, went directly to the cash bank, and took out a box of ten taels of silver.

The other officers looked at Liu Jin, and they didn't dare to take the money.

But looking at Zhao Yu on the side, and thinking about the evaluation of Zhao Yu by the officers at the Military Administration Department of Xichang, he stepped forward and accepted the reward of ten taels of silver.

"You...you are so brave, you actually dare to secretly share the dirty money in front of our family, the official in charge of punishment. Our family wants to be in front of Master Qiantose..."

Before Liu Jin finished speaking, Zhao Yu turned around, his right hand shot out and grasped Liu Jin's stretched out fingers with lightning speed.

Click!

Before Liu Jin could react, there was a sharp pain in the finger pointing at Zhao Yu.

"Ouch..."
Chapter completed!