Chapter 11: Confiscation of the house! Ruthless confiscation of the house!

Chapter 11: Confiscation of the house! Ruthless confiscation of the house!
The next day, early in the morning.

Ye Xuan got up early in the morning, ran out of the city, and tried the skill of making wind under his feet rewarded by the system.

After all, it can travel 800 miles a day, which is faster than those good horses.

The only thing faster than this is the legendary thousand-mile horse.

In the mountains and forests, Ye Xuan ran freely and experienced the speed himself.

Really fast pace.

The most important thing is that Ye Xuan can maintain this speed for a whole day and has great patience, which is abnormal.

However, Ye Xuan likes it.

If he encounters danger in the future, Ye Xuan can run away directly with this skill without worrying about being caught.

There is no way. Being an official under Zhu Yuanzhang is too insecure.

It’s always good to be prepared ahead of time.

In case he makes Zhu Yuanzhang unhappy one day, Ye Xuan will have someone to rely on.

After experiencing the skill of making the wind under his feet, seeing that the sky was brightening, Ye Xuan slowly walked towards the city.

The Jinyiwei have been very busy during this period. They are responsible for all kinds of dirty and tiring work, including arresting people, interrogating people, searching homes, etc.

Ye Xuan, a middle-level leader who had just taken office as a centurion, was lazy and refused to go, which would inevitably give people a chance to talk.

Moreover, Ye Xuan also wanted to get familiar with the life of Jinyiwei as soon as possible.

Township.

As soon as Ye Xuan arrived, Captain Wei Qingming came immediately.

"Master Wei."

Ye Xuan hurriedly saluted.

Every time Wei Qingming looked for him, he had something to tell him, and Ye Xuan was almost developing this habit.

"Ah."

Wei Qingming nodded, and then said:
"The commander has ordered us to use all means to keep a close eye on the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and obtain all their information. The person you need to keep an eye on is Inspector Tang Wenrui of the Ministry of Revenue."

Hearing this, Ye Xuan couldn't help but be curious and asked:
"Why does the commander want us to keep an eye on the officials of the Ministry of Revenue?"

Although Mao Xiang was the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and held a high position of power, the Minister of Revenue was a second-rank official, which was already considered a high-ranking official in the court.

Even if Mao Xiang had great courage, he would not dare to give this order privately.

Therefore, this should be what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.

Could it be caused by yesterday’s house raid?

Sure enough, the next moment, Wei Qingming said:

"Yesterday you searched the residence of Zhang Zhengxing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and seized so much silver. His Majesty was very angry, so he ordered me and other officials to monitor the Ministry of Revenue to prevent such a situation from happening again."

"My subordinate understands."

Ye Xuan responded.

The Jinyiwei were Zhu Yuanzhang's personal guards. No matter how difficult or bizarre his orders were, all the Jinyiwei had to carry them out without fail.

And now Ye Xuan finally understood why so many people died in the four major cases of Hongwu.

In a feudal dynasty like the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of officials would be implicated.

What the hell, one thing leads to another, after checking this, they check that, who can escape?

What’s more important is that all court officials cannot withstand investigation.

Once checked, there will definitely be a problem.

The case of blank account books is just an introduction, the bigger thing is yet to come.

Ye Xuan shook his head and didn't express any more emotion.

Fortunately, he is a member of the Imperial Guard. As long as he does not have any connection with the civil and military officials, he will not be implicated. Ye Xuan will only be the one who arrests people.

After sending Wei Qingming away, Ye Xuan immediately gathered the main flag and small flags under his command.

Pass on the order of Jinyiwei commander Mao Xiang.

In fact, the Jinyiwei has developed a fairly mature system of doing things since its development.

If you want to monitor an official in every detail, it is actually very simple. Just send a few more spies to his home.

According to historical records, Minister Qian Zai suddenly felt inspired to write a poem after leaving court one day:
At the fourth drum, I got up and put on my clothes.
It's too late to meet at the Meridian Gate.

When will I have pastoral joy?
Sleep until the world is ripe.

When he went to court the next day, Zhu Yuanzhang said to him with a smile: The poem you wrote last night was very good, but I didn't complain. Let's change the word "dislike" to "worry".

When Qian Zai heard this, he was almost frightened to death.

This shows how omnipresent the Jinyiwei was.

Now that Ye Xuan wants to monitor the family of Tang Wenrui, the inspector of the Ministry of Revenue, he has to send a few capable secret agents in.

After some discussion, Ye Xuan selected several elite members of the Jinyiwei Guard. Some of them pretended to be woodcutters delivering firewood, some pretended to be cooks, and some pretended to be guards guarding the courtyard.

Monitor Tang Wenrui's family day and night.

Except for Ye Xuan, the rest of the Jinyiwei colleagues were the same. All officials in the Ministry of Revenue were under the surveillance of the Jinyiwei.

In the following period of time, in addition to being busy with the remaining issues of the blank account books, Ye Xuan spent the rest of his time compiling and summarizing the words and deeds of Tang Wenrui, the inspector of the Ministry of Revenue.

Everything that Tang Wenrui ate, drank, defecated, urinated, and slept in the mansion, as well as the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of the servants and family members in the Tang Mansion, were all delivered to Ye Xuan's desk every other day.

There are no secrets in the whole house.

The most exaggerated thing is that even which concubine Tang Wenrui slept with at night, how many times they had sex, and how long it took each time were all recorded clearly.

Under such strict surveillance, if there is any secret, it will be immediately known to the Jinyiwei.

Sure enough, within less than half a month of surveillance, the secret agents of the Imperial Guard saw with their own eyes that there was a secret compartment in Tang Wenrui's bedroom, which contained his many years of collection.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's order, once discovered, they can be captured directly.

So, Ye Xuan immediately sent someone to put Tang Wenrui into the Sky Prison.

Once he was put into the Jinyiwei prison and the torture instruments were used, Tang Wenrui didn't even have time to defend himself before he confessed everything about how he had embezzled money from the Ministry of Revenue.

The next day, Ye Xuan led the team to search Tang Wenrui's mansion again.

More than five thousand taels of silver were also seized from his house.

But this time, Tang Wenrui's family was not so lucky.

Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to send all the female members of the Tang family to the Jiaofangsi and all the male members to exile.

Any official who embezzled too much money would be punished in this way.

Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of giving a lighter sentence.

After inspecting the entire Ministry of Revenue, it was found that except for a few minor officials who refused to go along with the corrupt practices, all officials, from the Minister of Revenue to the chief officials, had engaged in corrupt practices.

So, during this period of time, Ye Xuan was very busy.

The empty seal case plus this corruption case together would be too much to search the entire house.

It would take most of the day to copy a larger house.

Without some physical strength and endurance, you really can't do this.

However, as he worked harder, the system rewards Ye Xuan received also increased.

"Ding Dong! Congratulations to the host for raiding the residence of Inspector Tang Wenrui of the Ministry of Revenue. The raid was successful and you will be rewarded with the skill of Photographic Memory!"

"Ding Dong: Congratulations to the host for raiding the residence of Li Sanyang, the head of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Finance. The raid was successful and he will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver."

"Ding Dong! Congratulations to the host for raiding the residence of Chen Quanxi, the head of the Ministry of Revenue and Warehouse Department. The raid was successful and you will be rewarded with the skill of the Unbreakable Golden Spear!"

Ye Xuan: ???

Why do I feel like there's a strange skill sneaking in?
(End of this chapter)