Chapter 122: There are too many money and treasures in the Grand Master’s Mansion

Zhao Ji left the Bajiao Garden in the courtyard of Yanfu Palace and ignored Princess Maode, who was kneeling there with her child in her arms.

Princess Maode felt that her father's incomparable love seemed to no longer exist.

After being angered by Princess Maode, Zhao Ji originally planned to interrogate Cai Jing in Dali Temple and then raid Cai Jing's home after getting a clue. This was also in line with the principle of treating scholar-officials and veterans of the three dynasties in the Song Dynasty.

However,

What's annoying is that Cai Jing and his sons asked Princess Maode to hold a one-year-old Cai Yu, and came to me to try to make family love more painful, but I am not the original owner, Song Huizong, who was indecisive.

Naturally, I want you, the Cai family, to take a closer look. The result of the fact that you introduced the beloved daughter of the original owner of my body, Princess Maode, to plead with me through a bitter trick is not only counterproductive, but also accelerates the destruction of your Cai family.<

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Zhao Ji returned to the Chuigong Hall angrily and ordered the eunuch: "Draw up the decree:

I order Zhao Kai, King of Yun, Zhao Gou, King of Kang, Taifu Yang Jian, and Yushi Cao Fu to serve as imperial envoys and lead eight hundred personal officers (soldiers) of the Imperial City Division to immediately search Cai Jing’s residence, find evidence of Cai Jing’s corruption, and confiscate illegal gains.

Money..."

After the eunuch in charge drafted the edict, Zhao Ji reviewed it and stamped it with a jade seal.

The eunuch who delivered the order immediately went to deliver the order...

Zhao Ji had some considerations when he asked these people to search Cai Jing's house. Among the four imperial envoys who searched the house, they were led by two princes. This is my great courtesy to Cai Jing's Taishi Mansion. It can also train Kang Wang Zhao Gou.

Grand Tutor Yang Jian, a great eunuch, is a person close to me. He has a certain degree of threat, and he is also good at doing business such as plundering people's property and confiscating their homes.

In addition, Cao Fu, the censor who was so upright that he dared to impeach the emperor,

Then, a four-person home raiding team can check and balance each other and not worry about anyone among them taking bribes and bending the law during the house raid.

As for the imperial censor Cao Fu, Zhao Ji had previously sent him to the forge to supervise him. He was first sent back to raid Cai Jing's house, and then went to the forge to supervise, and asked the weapons craftsman to study and see if he could trial-produce the paintings that Zhao Ji had drawn.

Steel on the drawing.

After all, Zhao Ji knew that he was just providing the old craftsmen in the forge with a drawing of blast furnace steelmaking production in modern industrial society. It would be extremely difficult to actually produce it. It would only take months or even years.

, it should be impossible to do it.

The story allows Cao Fu, an upright minister, to join the four-person imperial mission that raided Cai Jing's house, so that he can play a role in admonishing Cao Fu, who is upright, non-corrupt and steadfast enough to die.

The original owner of Zhao Ji's body, Song Huizong, has been to Cai Jing's Imperial Master's Palace seven times in history. The memory of Zhao Ji's body is that the original owner has been to Cai Jing's Grand Master's Palace five times so far.

, and every time he went there, he completely ignored the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers. As the aloof emperor of the Song Dynasty, he actually ate, drank and had fun at the same table with his grand master Cai Jing...

Zhao Ji guessed that the original owner had not gone to the Grand Master's Mansion two more times. It should be that Xuanhe is going to go in two years, right?!

However, Cai Jing will inevitably step down and be dealt with according to the national law, and the Taishi Mansion will no longer be the place where officials, big and small, came in and out to pay bribes and visit Taishi Cai in order to seek promotion.

This time, Zhao Ji was not interested in going to the Taishi Mansion in person, and he also had to pay attention to his image as an emperor.

Although I want to increase the revenue for the national treasury as much as possible, I still have to pay attention to the "eating appearance" of the house of Cai Jing, the patriarch of the three dynasties. The eating appearance is definitely not right or too ugly.

Half an hour later, two eunuchs who left the palace separately to deliver the decree entered the palace and entered the Chuigong Hall, echoing to Zhao Guan's family:

I have already been to Prince Yun’s Mansion and conveyed the imperial edict to Prince Yun Zhao Kai...

The adult prince must move out of the palace and set up a palace outside the palace. This is to prevent the adult prince from falling in love with the emperor's concubines and leading to adultery...

The eunuch who went to convey the imperial edict to the imperial censor would also come and report back to Zhao Ji. He had already conveyed the official imperial edict to the imperial censor Cao Fu...

As for King Kang Zhao Gou, he is only thirteen years old this year and has not yet moved out of the palace because he is underage.

Zhao Ji is looking forward to the fact that the four imperial envoys he personally nominated can seize as much money as possible from Cai Jing's palace.

You don’t need to think about it to know that Cai Jing has been the prime minister for so many years. He is not only insidious and cunning, but also good at amassing money. The money and treasures confiscated from the Taishi’s house will definitely pile up...

In order for Zhao Ji to be able to understand the progress of the raid on Cai Jing's house and know how much money Cai Jing had embezzled and bribed over the years, Zhao Ji selected more than 20 personal officers and cavalry as messengers and traveled to and from the palace.

Real-time information about the confiscation of the house was passed between him and the Grand Master...

After making these preparations, Zhao Ji felt that he should call Zhao Fujin, Princess Maode, who wanted to intercede for the criminal Cai Jing, to come to him.

Zhao Ji asked his eunuch to pass the order and call Princess Maode, Zhao Fujin, to the Chuigong Hall. There would be a good show to watch.

Princess Maode, who was kneeling alone in the courtyard of Yanfu Palace, had not seen her father come to see her for a long time, but the chamberlain came to report that Zhao Guan's family was waiting for her in Chuigong Hall and that there was a good show to watch.

Zhao Fujin felt that even kneeling here alone would not arouse his father's sympathy.

At this time, Zhao Fujin's child Cai Yu stopped crying and fussed because he was full of milk and slept in his swaddling clothes.

Zhao Fujin handed the child to the palace maid to hold. She was about to stand up, but not only did she not stand up, she almost stumbled and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the eunuch who delivered the order had quick eyesight and quick hands, and he helped Princess Maode Zhao Fujin, who was so frightened that she kept saying:

"Princess Maode, get up slowly!

Oops, don’t fall!

Just now, I scared the little slave to death!

Princess, slow down, don’t rush!

If the princess kneels for a long time, her knees will hurt and her body will become numb.

I have knelt down before, so I know this.

However, the princess is a golden girl, so why is she willing to suffer like this now?

Wuwuwu..."

The official started sobbing. I don’t know if he really felt sorry for Princess Maode from the bottom of his heart, or if he was just a slave who had been a slave for a long time and was good at talking like this and warming people’s hearts.

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The princess felt a slight fondness for this eunuch, and after being touched by his words, she felt so uncomfortable in her heart that her nose quivered, and Princess Maode Zhao Fujin almost cried along with her.

The eunuch said again: "Princess, please let the slave help the princess stand up, okay?"

Princess Maode nodded.

She was helped up by the young eunuch who delivered the decree and headed towards Chuigong Hall. The maid held the infant Cai Yu and followed behind Princess Maode and the eunuch...

When Princess Maode entered the Chuigong Hall, she saw her father sitting aloof on the dragon throne. She immediately felt aggrieved like a little girl and started crying.

"Plop",

Princess Maode knelt in front of Zhao Ji again...

At this time, the father and daughter were fighting each other, and no one said anything more.

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Half an hour later,

The first batch of personal servants and cavalry messengers returned to the palace and reported the information to several eunuchs waiting at the palace gate...

The eunuch who served in the chamber quickly returned to Chuigong Hall and reported to Zhao Guan's family:

"King Yun Zhao Kai, Kang Wang Zhao Gou, Grand Tutor Yang Jian, and Yushi Cao Fu were the imperial envoys, leading eight hundred officials (soldiers) from the Imperial City Division to Cai Jing's mansion...

Everyone in the Taishi Mansion has been controlled and prohibited from leaving the mansion, so as to prevent them from taking away property, house deeds, land deeds, paintings and calligraphy, etc. in order to destroy the evidence of Cai Jing's crime..."

Zhao Ji nodded, feeling that the four-person imperial mission was quite thoughtful.

Princess Maode, who was angry at her father for not giving her face, immediately turned pale after hearing what was reported.

"Father!" Princess Maode, who had not spoken just now, suddenly spoke and asked angrily:

"Father, why are you so anxious to raid the Cai family?"

"Father, how could Dali Temple send imperial envoys and troops to raid the Grand Master's residence before they could find out whether he was guilty or not?

There is an old saying that a doctor cannot be punished by punishment, but how can my father convince the world of what happened today?!"

"Haha..." Zhao Ji sneered: "Princess Maode, I think there will be a good show to watch later."

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Another quarter of an hour passed,

The second batch of personal servants and cavalry messengers returned to the palace and reported the information to the eunuchs waiting at the palace gate.

Then the chamberlain will report it to the officials:

"Four imperial envoys checked out the gold and silver secret warehouse in the Taishi Mansion. There were mountains of gold and silver in it! Because there was so much gold and silver, there was no complete weighing for a while. Now we don't know the exact number of gold and silver..."

Zhao Ji nodded and said: "Very good, let's continue the inspection..."

In fact, during the Song Dynasty, the main currency in circulation among the people was still copper coins. Of course, the world's earliest paper currency 'Jiaozi' appeared in Sichuan, but copper coins were still the main currency in circulation nationwide.<

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The gold and silver of the Northern Song Dynasty were precious metals that were still scarce in the mid- to late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

However, when Cai Jing, who has been in charge of the court for many years and has served as prime minister three times, accepts bribes, most of the gift givers choose gold and silver, which are more valuable and easier to carry...

Also, after Cai Jing became prime minister, every year before his birthday, when local officials wanted to curry favor with the powerful Master Cai, they would use the pretext of celebrating Master Cai’s birthday to plunder local rare treasures or directly spend large amounts of gold and silver on them.

, formed a birthday plan, sent people to escort it, and sent it to Cai Jing thousands of miles away...

When Princess Maode, Zhao Fujin, heard that so much gold and silver had been confiscated from the Grand Master's Mansion, her pretty face turned red and hot with shame...
To be continued...