Chapter 173 Hate Li Not Wei

The next day, Ou Zanghua got up early and went into the Water Guanyin Pavilion with a group of people. He wanted to move all the valuables away before Prince Ning took over.

In just one morning, more than half of the Water Guanyin Pavilion was empty.

Ou Zanghua took the list and walked into the room where Li An was imprisoned. Seeing that the old eunuch was still tied up with ropes, he said, "Why is Eunuch Li tied up? Untie him quickly!"

A Jinyiwei bowed and saluted, "Sir Ou, Li An has a strong inner strength. If we untie the rope and let him run away..."

"No," Ou Zanghua sat opposite Li An and said calmly, "If Eunuch Li wanted to escape, he would have left yesterday. Why would he have to wait until now? If it really doesn't work, just put shackles on him."

Li An: ???
Seeing that Ou Zanghua insisted, the Jinyiwei had no choice but to untie Li An and unblock his acupoints.

By the way, put on the shackles, they will jingle when you walk, I'm sure Eunuch Li will like it.

Li An moved his body, making a few "cracking" sounds.

He looked at Ou Zanghua, grinned, and said cheerfully: "Thank you very much, Lord Ou, for your kindness."

"You are too polite, Eunuch Li."

Ou Zanghua said as he handed over the registration book, "Please check it to see if there is anything missing?"

Li An was stunned, looked at Ou Zanghua in surprise and said, "Master Ou, you know how to kill people and destroy their hearts."

"Because you are His Majesty's servant, anything you take is from Your Majesty."

Ou Zanghua said seriously: "So, I am just verifying my father-in-law's theft record."

"Haha. You civil servants are the ones who can say it!" Li An smiled and picked up the registration book on the table to check it.

Some of the things listed above were given to him by others as a token of flattery, some were taken by force, and only a small part was bought with his own money.

Now watching these treasures leaving him, Li An felt an indescribable melancholy in his heart.

It feels a bit like being away for half a lifetime and still being a teenager when returning.

"The real name of this Buddha bone relic is Xueshanzi Relic, which was created by Xueshanzi, the eminent monk who wrote "Chiyang Baiwen"."

"This 'Eagle Picture' was created by an embroiderer in the imperial court of the Northern Song Dynasty, not the Southern Song Dynasty."

"The chrysanthemum stone in "Chrysanthemum Buds Alone" is from the Yuan Dynasty. Why is it written as the current dynasty here?"

"There are also the beams of the Xinghua Tower. Lord Ou, did you not notice? There are four of them, all made of rosewood. I had them painted with a layer of black paint. Didn't you notice? Hehe."

"You're incredible!" Ou Zanghua couldn't help but laugh out loud after hearing this.

"Didn't the skills these Jinyiwei have now been learned from the Eastern Depot?"

Li An pointed at himself and said proudly, "I also worked in the East Factory for a while, helping out."

"Talent!"

With Li An's help, things can be done faster.

Li An looked at the emptied house and asked with some melancholy, "Master Ou, has your work efficiency always been so high?"

"Not really. We need to vacate this place as soon as possible so that we can sell it to His Royal Highness Prince Ning." Ou Zanghua stood aside, watching the Jinyiwei seal the big boxes one by one, and said calmly.

"You, you sold the house?!" Li An was shocked and immediately reminded: "This place was sealed by His Majesty, so it belongs to His Majesty. How can you sell His Majesty's things?"

"It's okay. His Majesty said in the imperial edict that I should be bold when I am in charge of sealing up the property. Don't worry."

Ou Zanghua said calmly: "Then I have to be bolder. Besides, if I don't sell this house, will it just gather dust here?"

"You are braver than me!" Li An shook his head. He felt that he couldn't understand the young people nowadays.

Ou Zanghua smiled and said nothing. It was not because he was brave, but he knew where the bottom line of the number one brother on the list was.

Looking at the sixteen bosses of the Zhu family, except for the entrepreneurial Zhu, the Wala student, and the innocent boy Zhu Youjian, the other thirteen bosses are not very good to their workers, but at least they will not send their workers to death easily.

With Hai Rui's output like that, there weren't many emperors in history who could have resisted killing him.

There was also Luo Yuren, who submitted a memorial to Emperor Wanli titled "Four Admonitions on Wine, Sex, Money and Anger", saying that the reason Emperor Wanli did not attend court or offer sacrifices was because of wine, sex, money and anger.

He listed all the ways in which Wanli indulged in wine, sex, money and power, and attacked his faults. He believed that these four diseases entangled the body and mind, and that taking medicine could not cure them.

Wanli was so angry that he withheld the memorial, and from then on he kept it in his empire and did not publish it.

He wanted to punish this guy but was stopped by Shen Shixing, allowing Luo Yuren to resign and return home unharmed.

Wanli was blamed for his indulgence in alcohol, sex, money and power for hundreds of years. It was not until the 20th century, when Guo Moruo and Wu Han opened the Ming Dingling Mausoleum, that they learned that Wanli suffered from severe leg disease and toothache. Although he had toothache and leg pain, he just stopped attending meetings and continued to do what he had to do.

As an employee, you accuse your boss of being a man of lust, sex and power. Tell him to stop taking medicine and quit lust together!

This kind of person
It was a wonder of the feudal era that Wanli was persuaded by Shen Shixing and did not kill him.

With these predecessors setting the example and Zhengde personally backing him up, Ou Zanghua naturally didn't mind spending a little extra.

Finally, the Imperial Guards seized more than 10,000 taels of gold ingots, gold bars, gold cakes, gold leaves, gold utensils, and gold jewelry from Li'an's mansion, 800,000 taels of silver, more than 130 pieces of jade artifacts, more than 200 scrolls of ancient calligraphy and paintings, more than 800 books, more than 100 magic weapons and swords, and more than 3,000 pieces of brocade and silk.

Thirty boxes of other treasures such as ivory, rhino horn, tortoise shell, agate, coral, etc.

Ou Zanghua watched the Jinyiwei move out, put them on the carriage, and then transport them to the dock. He couldn't help but sighed: "Eunuch Li, if you give me all this property, I can fight to the other side of the sea."

"This is my accumulation of decades." Li An's eyes were filled with tears. He almost forgot that he had accumulated so much wealth.

Anyway, when you see something good, you will find ways to bring it home. This is called accumulating little by little to create a big one.

In the afternoon, Ou Zanghua brought the Jinyiwei to Prince Ning's mansion, happily took out the land deed, and waited for the rich prince to pay.

Prince Ning did not bargain. He would not go back on his word. Besides, this amount of money was not much for him and would definitely not hurt him greatly.

You should know that in order to restore the guards of the royal palace, he bribed Liu Jin with 20,000 gold and silver.

As a result, as soon as Liu Jin fell from power, the royal palace guard system was cancelled, and the whole thing lasted less than three years.

But Zhu Chenhao did not give up. Instead, he increased the dosage and spared no expense to bribe the then Minister of War He Jian. He also transported treasures to the capital and asked Zang Xian, a favorite actor of Emperor Zhengde, to lobby princes and ministers on his behalf, thus gaining their tacit approval and successfully resurrecting the palace guards once again.
Anyway, the most important thing is that the boss is happy!
With this money, wouldn’t it be better to just find a place and start practicing?

Ou Zanghua looked at the calm Prince Ning, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He asked, "Prince, do you want the land?"

"I will take as much as Mr. Ou has!" Zhu Chenhao said immediately after hearing this.

As a native of the Ming Dynasty, no one knows more about farming than His Royal Highness Prince Ning!
As for whether this will lead to a significant increase in Prince Ning's strength.
Ou Zanghua said that he was very emotionally stable, and the person who protected him was actually a saint!
Speaking of the price of land in the Ming Dynasty, it fluctuated just like stocks.

During the Chenghua and Hongzhi years, after a long period of recuperation, the commodity economy in the country had developed well. In just forty years, it increased tenfold, and the price of one mu of land reached ten taels of silver.

But during the Zhengde period, due to rebellions in various places and bureaucratic corruption, the number of wealthy households decreased and the price of land also fell.

At present, it can still be sold for five taels of silver. In the 13th year of Zhengde, due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, the price of land dropped to one tael of silver.

Through various means, Li An acquired 40,000 acres of land around Nanchang Prefecture.

This number was not considered large in the Ming Dynasty. After all, the chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Jie, claimed to have annexed more than 200,000 acres of farmland in Jiangnan, so 40,000 acres was not worth mentioning.

These fields were divided into 'inner fields' and 'outer fields'.

Simply put, the owner of the 'interior field' is the landlord, and the owner of the 'exterior field' is the tenant.

The 'tenant' rented the 'landlord's' fields to cultivate, and paid a certain amount of grain to the 'landlord' every year, but the 'landlord' did nothing about it.

This is called the two-field system, a patchwork system that emerged during the process of land annexation in ancient times. After development during the Tang and Song dynasties, it had become relatively mature and standardized by the Ming Dynasty.

The advantage of the two-field system is that it can separate land ownership from possession rights, and the land rights of private fields are gradually expanded.

The disadvantages are also obvious. Unfair land ownership and serious annexation have led to a huge gap between the rich and the poor, thus triggering social unrest.

Of course, these are all rather one-sided things. If I want to explain them clearly, it will take at least two or three days.

Li An had all these "li fields", so Ou Zanghua was not at all panicked when he sold these fields to King Ning.

It's just a change of 'landlord', and it has little impact on the 'tenant'.

King Ning waved his hand and took all the 40,000 acres of land!
Ou Zanghua was filled with gratitude and earned another 200,000 taels of silver for Emperor Zhengde with tears in his eyes. Anyway, he could get it back in a few years.

At this moment, Ou Tanhua felt a little emotional. Why did he meet Eunuch Li instead of Eunuch Wei?
With Eunuch Wei's ability to make money, he must have made a huge profit from Prince Ning.

Led by Yang Qing, the group came to a courtyard in the palace, which was filled with a hundred wooden boxes.

Yang Qing stood aside and said, "Master Ou, can you weigh it? There are 3,500 taels in a wooden box. Can you verify it?"

"it is good."

Ou Zanghua responded and then let the Jinyiwei in. They were professionals in checking these things and did the job quickly and efficiently.

After checking everything and finding no problems, Ou Zanghua ordered the Imperial Guards to carry all the boxes onto the boat, and then he said goodbye to the local tyrant King Ning.

Everyone smiled so sincerely, obviously very satisfied with the deal.

Ou Zanghua reluctantly boarded the boat, and immediately left Nanchang Prefecture at full speed, fearing that he would be caught by Prince Ning if he was late.
(End of this chapter)