Zhu Ji pressed the hilt of his waist and came to Zhu Qiyu, saying, "Please look at your highness. The layout of these two mansions is very strange, especially the back house."

"This place... is indeed strange, but what does it have to do with the Gao family's house?"

Of course it’s strange. This is not a house, it’s clearly a warehouse!

Zhu Ji came to the courtyard wall and said, "Did Your Highness find that this wall is very short?"

Zhu Qiyu looked at the courtyard wall and nodded and said, "I'm a little shorter, but so what?"

Zhu Ji continued: "This is the back house. Generally speaking, people live in female scrolls, so the walls of the back house are often raised to prevent people from climbing over the wall and disturbing female scrolls. However, this wall is not only very short, but also uses simple materials. It seems that a flower wall is built in his own yard, without any ability to prevent it. Manager Li, don't you think?"

Manager Li's face was ashamed at this time, looking desperate.

Zhu Qiyu seemed to understand and said, "What do you mean is that these two houses are originally connected?"

Zhu Ji said: "The officials boldly asserted that this mansion was actually owned by the Gao family, or the Gao family bought it in the name of others, and was specially used to hide silver. As the amount of money increased, Gao came up with this method, so that one day, if the matter was exposed, he could refuse to admit it and leave a way out for himself."

"You... are simply nonsense!"

Gao Zidong rushed forward, hugged Zhu Qiyu's thigh, and cried, "Your Highness must not believe the slander of the Jinyiwei, my father's life is conscientious, and you can see it all. Please let Your Highness decide for your father!"

Zhu Qiyu was unmoved at all and just nodded at Zhu Ji.

Zhu Ji understood and ordered: "Smash!"

The captains immediately became energetic and rushed forward, and a group of people began to break through the wall.

Soon someone said: "There is a...fake door here..."

The wall was quite unsolid and opened as soon as it was smashed. There was no mud between the cracks of the bricks. Just pull out the bricks one by one.

Someone kicked hard and it became a hole.

After a little cleaning, you will see the outline of an arch.

The Gao Zidong brothers' faces changed suddenly, but they shouted: "Are you still going to defame my father's innocence now?"

Zhu Ji sneered: "You two might as well talk about it, what's going on with this sect?"

"How do we know that since we can remember, this wall has been there. I guess it was left by the former master, maybe..."

Zhu Ji picked up a brick and walked up.

Gao Zidong was so scared that he retreated repeatedly and said in a panic: "What are you...what are you...doing?"

Zhu Ji took the brick to Zhu Qiyu and said, "Please look at this blue brick, there is a signature on it!"

Zhu Qiyu took it and looked carefully. Sure enough, the corner of the blue brick was engraved with the words "Eleventh Year of the Orthodox Ming Dynasty in Sun Ji Workshop in Dongcheng".

Speaking of engraving words on bricks, we have to trace back to the early Ming Dynasty that Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to build the Nanjing city wall.

The city wall was the most important defense project in ancient times. The quality of a city wall directly affects the safety of a dynasty. Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of the city bricks and eliminate corruption and cutting corners, Zhu Yuanzhang asked the names of responsible officials and manufacturers at all levels to be engraved on the city bricks and implement a system of responsibilities to be assigned to others.

If there is a problem with a brick, everyone will be held accountable from the craftsman who burns the bricks to the relevant officials.

Sure enough, this measure greatly increased the quality of the project.

Since then, the habit of engraving on bricks has become popular all over the country, and it is also to facilitate the search for problems and divide responsibilities.

The signature of this brick shows that it was made in Zhengyi 11th, which means that the Gao brothers could not have seen this wall since childhood.

The facts were in front of me, and the Gao brothers looked at each other, and their faces were pale and there was no trace of blood.

At this time, Manager Li, who was sitting on the ground, smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, you are right. The two houses were originally opened, but later, in order to cover people's eyes and ears, they built a wall, leaving only one door, and later, they built this door."

As the courtyard wall was pushed down, the situation was already clear.

Zhu Ji’s main job in Fuzhou is to search corrupt officials (this chapter is not finished!)

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These people have all kinds of means to hide their money.

However, most people are reluctant to leave this kind of money that comes from greed.

To put it bluntly, it means that there is no sense of security, so this money is often only at a close distance from you.

Zhu Qiyu was already furious and looked at the Gao brothers on the ground and said sarcastically: "It's over, what else do you have to say?"

The Gao brothers immediately bowed and kowtowed, "Your Highness, you know, maybe this wall was arranged by the Jinyiwei and rebuilt. My father worked diligently throughout his life and was diligent in the king's orders, and he had no mistakes..."

Now, they seem to have no other way except to refuse to admit it.

Zhu Qiyu sneered: "Your family manager has admitted it, what else can I make a quibble? Could it be that the money was also framed by the Jinyiwei for your family?"

Gao Zidong looked at the warehouses full of them and had to bite the bullet and said, "Manager Li must have been bribed by the Jinyiwei or threatened. These money... I really don't know about it. Jinyiwei... I must have been framed by the Jinyiwei, and it was wronged, wronged!"

Zhu Qiyu didn't say anything with a cold face, but Zhu Ji laughed and said, "This is easy. Is it a frame-up? You can tell at a glance that Yinzi can speak."

Everyone looked at Zhu Ji in confusion. How could Yinzi speak?

Zhu Ji waved and ordered people to take a box of neatly sized silver ingots into the yard.

"Please look at your highness. These silvers are made into silver ingots and then stored. The silver in this warehouse is a bit old. The dust on it is evidence. The official has just carefully observed that there are many silver in the warehouse, and there may not be any traces of artificial movement in the past one or two years. Gao Zidong, tell me, did the Jinyiwei start to frame you a year ago and store these gold and silver here in advance?"

Gao Zidong was speechless and didn't know what to do.

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were full of contempt and said, "The pillars of the country are so ridiculous!"

Seeing that the matter was exposed and there was no chance of turning around, Gao Zidong's eyes suddenly turned red and he shouted: "That's right, the house belongs to my family, and the money belongs to my family, and they belong to my family!"

Gao Ziliang was still persuading: "Brother, be careful!"

Gao Zidong was as crazy as he shouted and roared, and he had already been polite, as if he was venting his emotions.

"My father is a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. Shouldn't he have some savings? You don't have to count it. The silver here is 3.7 million taels, but what can I do? How many people are clean in the civil and military dynasty? If you really want to investigate, who dares to say that you are innocent? If that's the case, why do you have to target my Gao family?"

Gao Ziliang was still pulling him: "Brother, stop talking!"

"Second brother, can't you still see that? Whether it is the emperor or the king of Zhu, it is the same. There is no distinction. They just think that the wealth of the whole world belongs to the Zhu family. If their Zhu family takes it, it is natural. If our Gao family takes it, it is corrupt and abuse of power. Haha, it is ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Seeing this, Cao Nai was about to step forward, but was stopped by Zhu Qiyu.

"Let him continue to talk!"

Gao Zidong had already made his promise, with a look of contempt and continued, "I have seen many ways of the officialdom. I have seen people fighting for power and profit, and have seen people corruption and abuse of power, but I have never seen anything to benefit the people. What is the only joke. It is because everyone is not clean, so I need to cover up my shame under the guise of benevolence and righteousness, right?"

The implication of these words seems to be still defending one's own crimes.

At first I refused to accept it, but now I want to find an excuse for the money to be honest and open.

"shut up!"

Cao Nai could no longer help but said angrily: "Mr. Gao is an important official in the dynasty. I didn't expect that there would be descendants like you?"

Gao Zidong sneered: "Now that the matter is exposed, I have nothing to say. All my life gains for my father lies in this, but no one can think of my Gao family's jokes. Didn't the Jinyiwei investigate corruption? OK, there are officials all over the world who count and go door to door to check. I don't believe it. Who doesn't have tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Qiyu's face looked like frost, and said to Zhu Ji: "According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty (this chapter is not finished!)

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, investigate this case strictly!”

After saying that, he walked out without looking back.

Cao Nai and others shook their heads, sighed again, and turned around and followed.

Zhu Ji ordered: "Take all the suspects involved back to Zhaozhu, and leave the rest to count the stolen silver!"

It is not easy to count money, after all, the amount is too large.

The Jinyiwei gathered all the civil servants and clerks here, and it took three days to count them.

Gao Zidong is right, the silver here is 3.7 million taels.

In addition, there are more than 200,000 taels of gold, which is about 2 million taels if converted into silver.

There are also a large number of jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and real estate deeds, which cannot be valued for the time being.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of large trucks began to head towards the treasury.

The big trucks were filled with gold and silver.

At least ordinary people dare not think about these gold and silver.

After working hard for a lifetime, the family’s savings are only a few taels of silver.

But here, gold and silver are loaded in big trucks.

Looking at the long dragon-like carriage, many people's eyes were straight.

They were filled with righteous indignation from the beginning, becoming confused, confused... until they were angry!

The lieutenant who was escorting the car along the way seemed very nervous, as if everyone seemed to be someone who wanted to hijack gold and silver.

Finally, someone began to curse: "Things that are worse than pigs and dogs have been greedy for so much money!"

Unexpectedly, a scholar immediately stood up and retorted: "Don't believe it. Gaoge Lao is reluctant to replace the sedan chair with a new one. Throughout the year, there are only four regular clothes. How could there be so much gold and silver? This must be framed by the Jinyiwei!"

"I also want to be framed by the Jinyiwei. I have so much money, even if I put it in my house for a day, I will take a look at it happily, and I will be willing to die!"

"Hahaha………"

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, as if they heard the funnyest jokes in the world.
To be continued...