Chapter 53 Confiscating Yang Xian's Property
Chapter 53: Confiscation of Yang Xian's Property

But when he thought that the person to be responsible for the confiscation of property was appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, Mao Xiang became suspicious again and thought: Could it be that Ye Xuan had known about this for a long time, so he behaved so abnormally?

After thinking for a while without any result, Mao Xiang gave up and said with a smile: "Since this matter is handed over to you, you must handle it properly and don't embarrass us Jinyiwei!"

"Master Mao, don't worry!" Ye Xuan said excitedly.

After leaving Mao Xiang's office, Ye Xuan gathered everyone and headed straight to Yang Xian's residence.

When they heard that this time they were going to raid the house of Prime Minister Yang Xian, they were all so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths.

Although they had begun to secretly monitor Yang Xian a long time ago, it was just monitoring after all. They never thought that one day Yang Xian would actually be brought down.

When everyone arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, the entire mansion had been surrounded by the Embroidered Uniform Guards.

It was left behind when Mao Xiang and his men arrested Yang Xian yesterday, in order to guard the Yang family's family members.

This made things convenient for Ye Xuan, as he could slowly search and confiscate the property without having to assign anyone to monitor the Yang Mansion.

After greeting the captain who led the team, Ye Xuan walked into the gate of Yang Mansion in the other party's envious eyes.

Although the Yang Mansion did not seem to be in chaos at this time, the servants and maids all looked terrified.

There was only a graceful old lady, surrounded by a group of young masters and young ladies, who walked towards Ye Xuan angrily.

Before she even walked in front of Ye Xuan, the old lady had already started to curse angrily: "Do you Jinyiwei still have any respect for the law? Who told you to arrest people at will? My son is the prime minister of this dynasty, and you dare to abuse private punishment like this!"

The old lady had also heard about the Jinyiwei arresting people in Yingtian Prefecture during this period.

But she never dreamed that Yang Xian's capture was actually ordered by the emperor himself.

Ye Xuan smiled slightly and said playfully, "Madam Yang, right?"

A man in luxurious clothes angrily said, "You know it's my old lady, why don't you kneel down and salute!"

Wang Feihu, who was standing by, sneered when he heard this: "Except for the emperor today, no one in this world dares to make our Jinyiwei kneel down. Your old lady is nothing!"

The man was furious when he heard this, and pointed at Wang Feihu's nose and cursed: "My father is the prime minister of the dynasty. How dare you speak to my grandmother like that? Believe it or not, I will let my father report you to the emperor!"

Hearing this, Ye Xuan couldn't help but laugh.

Wang Feihu went up and kicked the man to the ground, then mocked him, "Your father is drinking tea in our prison now. I'm afraid he will never get out again except on the day of beheading."

"what!"

"This is impossible!"

"My father is the Prime Minister. Your Majesty will not treat my father like this!"

When Yang Xian's family heard this, they were struck by lightning!
Originally, they had a bad feeling when the Jinyiwei came to their door, but they never expected this.

Is it true that the prime minister of the current dynasty would really kill someone if he said so?

Yang's mother was quite old, and upon hearing this she spat out a mouthful of blood and then fainted.

More than a dozen family members suddenly became chaotic. Some shouted at the servants to call a doctor, and some screamed at the maids to bring ginseng tea.

However, the servants and maids who used to be so respectful and eager to lick their shoes just stood by and watched coldly without moving.

"You...you dogs, are you all deaf?" The man pointed at the servants and cursed angrily.

Among the servants, a young man sneered and said, "Master, do you still think you are a master? You are now prisoners, yet you still dare to show off your power in front of us!" Immediately, a maid said, "It's all because your father Yang Xian did bad things that the emperor ordered the confiscation of your property, and implicated us servants as well. Now you still have the nerve to yell at us!"

"That's right. You have caused us to be confiscated and exiled. You must give us an explanation!"

"Everyone, let's go together and beat these young masters and young ladies to death before they can show off their power to us again!"

The servants became more and more excited as they spoke, and were about to rush forward and start punching and kicking.

But he was stopped by Ye Xuan, "Jinyiwei is here, who dares to act rashly!"

After hearing this, everyone stopped walking in indignation, but they still looked at the Yang family members with resentment.

Old Madam Yang, who had just fainted, woke up at this time. Seeing how she was abandoned by her friends and relatives, she vomited blood and died.

At this moment, the Yang family members were in complete chaos, with cries of grief and wailing everywhere.

However, the Jinyiwei, including the servants, just watched this scene indifferently, without any sympathy in their hearts.

As the saying goes, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

When you are at the top, you enjoy all the glory and never share it with others. So when you fall to the bottom, don't expect anyone to shed a tear for you.

It can be seen that Yang Xian's family doesn't treat their servants very well.

Although Ye Xuan felt a little sad, he didn't show anything.

He just waved his hand lightly, and Wang Feihu and others immediately understood what he meant.

More than a hundred Jinyiwei suddenly scattered like hungry tigers!
Just as the Jinyiwei were scattered around to search the house, a clever subordinate had already brought a throne to Ye Xuan. Ye Xuan sat leisurely in the yard, waiting for his subordinates to report the results of the search.

It’s just that the crying and shouting of Yang’s family members spoiled the mood a bit, otherwise it would have been quite pleasant to drink tea and appreciate the scenery in the front yard of Yang’s house.

After about an hour, with boxes of valuables piled up in front of Ye Xuan, the house-raiding operation was declared over.

"Sir, this is what you got from the raid. Please take a look!"

Song Zhenshan walked up to Ye Xuan with a booklet in his hand.

"Read it." Ye Xuan didn't even look at it. He believed that Song Zhenshan would not dare to do anything with the account book.

"Yes."

Song Zhenshan agreed and began to read from the book: "This time, the total amount of property seized was: 32,000 taels of silver, 2,300 taels of gold, three carts of antiques and paintings, and five carts of jewelry and silk, which is equivalent to about 80,000 taels of silver!"

Even though Ye Xuan was no longer a novice in confiscating property, he was still surprised when he heard the figure of 80,000 taels.

No wonder the Yang Mansion is so luxurious and has so many servants and maids.

No wonder he is so rich.

Eighty thousand taels may not sound like a lot, but you have to know that it was only the early years of the Hongwu period and people's livelihood was in decline.

Take the minister whose property Ye Xuan had confiscated for example. He was a third-rank official and his entire property amounted to only three thousand taels of silver.

This shows how greedy Prime Minister Yang Xian was.

In this regard, Ye Xuan could only say that Yang Xian’s head was indeed not chopped off unjustly!
(End of this chapter)