"The garden of dogs is really big!" Wang Chengen snorted.

Zhang Shuheng took the Jinyiwei and the Jinyiwei to search the house in the Butterfly Garden happily. After extinguishing the fire, the Huai Army soldiers protected the Butterfly Garden well. Nothing in the room had been moved. The Huai Army, with strict military discipline, did not even take away a piece of copper plate, and left all in place, waiting for the Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi to take over.

The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang men worked in Gaoyou City for three days and copied boxes filled with gold, silver and treasures and piled them into a hill. There were countless items such as grain, silk, cloth, salt and other items.

"Eunuch Wang, this is a list of obtained from the nine Wang clans." Zhang Shuheng handed over the list.

"More than 6 million taels of silver! 500,000 taels of gold! These dogs are so rich!" Wang Chengen widened his eyes. He never expected that in the small Gaoyou City, he could copy so many things by just copying Wang Yongji's nine tribes!

Zhang Shuheng sneered: "Eunuch Wang, this is quite a small number. He only copied the nine tribes of Wang Yongji. This thief became a chief official of a border area. If the people he caught were examined, he might also involve many officials who had contact with the Wang family, salt merchants. Eunuch Wang, let alone anything else, those salt merchants and salt envoys are all rich and can rival the country! Eunuch Wang, do you know that our Huaiyan salt income in the Ming Dynasty a year is 26 million taels of silver, and the court can only receive two million taels. Where did the other silver go?"

"Of course, it was the corrupt officials and the profiteers who divided it up!" Wang Chengen said gritting his teeth, "Zhang Dusi, you should carefully examine it and search all the houses of these dog-hearted dog-goodd things!"

"Old Eunuch Wang, please give your Majesty 60% of the income from the house. If you give the rest, your brothers will have to get some. Thank you for your hard work, and you will get some points."

"No problem, this is also due." Wang Chengen nodded in agreement.

"As for the land deeds, IOUs, shops, and salt indices, all of them belong to Your Majesty. Please give these things to Your Majesty. The confiscated fields will be turned into imperial farms, and the tenants will directly become tenants of the imperial farm. The IOUs will be confiscated. The debtor will only repay the principal and the interest will be cancelled. The store will be confiscated and the shopkeeper will be appointed by Your Majesty. The salt indices will be confiscated and will be handed over to Eunuch Wang for your business." Zhang Shuheng pointed to several large boxes of land deeds, store contracts, body sales deeds, IOUs, salt indices, etc. and said.

"The emperor doesn't know how to do business, and our family doesn't know how to do business. As the owner of the imperial merchant, it's better for you Jinyiwei to come forward to find someone and find a few reliable people to manage it."

"Then it's okay. Go and find someone. Eunuch Wang, the emperor's shop will be opened in the future, so you can supervise it."

"Take all the money I have collected back to the camp!" Wang Chengen turned his head and gave an order to the Dongchang man.

Carts loaded with gold, silver, treasures and various property left Gaoyou City and entered Li Guodong's Huai Army camp; Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi escorted people and drove them to the camp. In addition to more than 600 relatives within Wang Yongji's nine clans, there were more than 5,000 servants, maids, old mothers, servants, servants, and servants in their family, all of them were taken into the barracks.

Li Guodong tried his best to cooperate with the work of the Jinyiwei and the East Factory, and set up a temporary detention area in the military camp. It surrounded it with a wooden fence of one and a half people and patrolled the outside. In the detention area, there were temporary Jinyiwei Zhao Prison, interrogation room, factory and bathroom office area, etc. All relatives of Wang Yongji from the nine tribes were detained in cages. As for the servants, maids, and servants at home, they were tied up with ropes and held in the large shed. They were relatively free and were not abused except being tied up with ropes.

Although the domestic slaves were not abused, the screams from the interrogation room were creepy.

The so-called interrogation room is just a small house built with bamboo. Because the climate is hot, it is airtight so that the Jinyiwei, who is responsible for interrogation, will not faint in front of the stove. Of course, the airtightness on all sides is airtight, and the sound insulation effect can be imagined. The screams of the criminals who are interrogated are constantly coming out.

The first person who was pulled in for interrogation was Wang Yongji's brother and son. Although Zhang Shuheng mastered civilized forms such as waterboarding, ducks floating in water, standing in cages, depriving sleep, and supporting walls, the people who were interrogated at the beginning were inevitably suffering from flesh and blood.

It is impossible for the people who were arrested in the interrogation room to do nothing, and they could just confess honestly. As a result, as soon as they entered the interrogation room, they were all beaten with a whip. This was just an appetizer.

Behind them, there are some traditional tortures of the Jinyiwei waiting for them, such as washing, playing the pipa, wearing mourning clothes, etc.

If the mouth is really hard, then use some more "civilized" methods such as water beads, and basically there is no need to use water beans. Most people who enjoy appetizers will confess like pouring beans on bamboo tubes. Occasionally, a few people with hard mouths will float a duck and can't hold on for a few strokes, and they will confess everything they know.

For three consecutive days, continuous screams came from the interrogation room, and then someone who was beaten to the point of being dragged out of it and threw it into the cage. So much so that when Wang Yongji's relatives who were far away were sent to the interrogation room, their legs became weak and they knelt on the ground, confessing everything they knew, and they also saved them from the pain of flesh and blood.

"Hahaha!" Wang Chengen looked at the long list of long lists, and his mouth couldn't close.

This list includes almost all the salt merchants, salt envoys in Lianghuai, some salt merchants from Shanxi and Huizhou, grain merchants and other merchants, and some officials from Lianghuai.

"Eunuch Wang, if you copy and search according to this list, it would be terrible! I'm afraid I'll catch all the salt merchants and salt envoys in one go." This time, Li Guodong's first opposition, Wang Chengen took down all the people on the list.

Wang Chengen said: "Wu Weibo, don't you hate these officials, gentry and profiteering businessmen the most? Why do you have to plead for them again?"

"Eunuch Wang, I think so many people should be treated differently. If you catch all the salt merchants in one go, the impact will be too great, and the people of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to eat salt. We should treat the salt merchants as fat sheeps from time to time, rather than as fat pigs (the meaning of pigs. Li Guodong said to his brothers on weekdays that pigs are okay, but in front of Wang Chengen, you should still avoid taboos and not just talk about pigs). He slaughtered it with one knife." Li Guodong said.

"Shearing wool? This is interesting. How do Wuweibo shearing wool?" Wang Chengen smiled.

"Actually, it's very simple. We can treat salt merchants and grain merchants differently. There is no need to be polite to those old monks from the north. Their hometowns are either in the thieves or have fallen into the hands of Jiannu. Their grain merchants or salt merchants in Shaanxi can be confiscated. As for grain merchants and salt merchants in Shaanxi, they can stay for the time being. After all, the thieves and Jiannu are fighting at the moment. We should keep our promises and provide grain and salt to the thieves, so that those merchants can go. Hui merchants cannot search their homes. They should show them the evidence, scare them, catch them, and let them hand over a huge ransom. After paying the ransom, they will not cause the supply of salt in Jiangnan to be cut off."

At present, Li Guodong cannot control the production and sales of salt. The salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty had complex relationships. They colluded with officials on the top and countless salt merchants below. Not only did the officials want to be greedy, but those salt merchants also had to rely on the salt merchants to earn some money to support their families. They could not cut off the life of the salt merchants.

If the imperial court forcibly intervenes in taking over the salt fields at present, it will cause a bad chain reaction. Once the salt merchants stop the market, not only will the people of the Ming Dynasty not be able to eat salt, but the poor salt households who have made a living by boiling salt for generations will starve to death.
Chapter completed!