[System] Former political enemies are all guilty of peach blossoms

As soon as the Clean Official Order was promulgated, several officials who had passed the selection test were thoroughly investigated, and the newly established criminal office directly under the emperor was a bit of a test.

First select a few small officials to make some achievements, and then come to the big prey.

There happened to be a few people that Mu Yunmen witnessed in the Zuiyan Building, they were all suspended from their jobs and investigated with other property income that was more than double their salary.

Sure enough, it was found that a lot of money from unknown sources flowed in, and during the investigation, several people coincided with each other, and the same amount of money flowed out at about the same time every year.

After careful investigation, it was finally caught by the criminal officials who were eager to make achievements, and all the directions of the outflows coincidentally led to Taichang Liu Rulai's warehouse.

After reporting to the emperor, Longyan was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of Liu Rulai.

When the servants poured into Liu Rulai's luxurious mansion like flowing water, Liu Rulai, who had already withered a lot of firewood, looked calm and let them seal up his warehouse.

Tang Ping stood in Liu Rulai's mansion with a knife in his hand by mistake. The government servants were very busy, sealing the cash boxes in the warehouse one by one, and transporting them to the criminal office in a special carriage. Before the investigation is completed, the people of Liufu must not open it again.

He has been scrutinizing Liu Rulai's expression with his subtle eyes. Even when the seal was sealed, his tiny eyeballs did not change, as if they would not affect Liu Rulai at all.

It was a little strange to be calm, Tang Ping felt strange in his heart.

After the investigation, the result was unexpected. The income of Liu Rulai's mansion met the standard of the net official order!

Tang Pingcuo, who has a keen sense of smell, immediately felt that Liu Rulai must have transferred most of the money earlier because the cunning rabbit has three caves.

But...how do I find out where the money is hidden?

He sat in the shadow of the courtroom, playing with a small knife in his hand, the silver light shone, and the knife kept throwing streamlined sword flowers between the man's fingers.

Tang Pingcuo fell into deep thought, and with a "crack", the knife came out of his hand and nailed it straight into the wall of the courtroom.

Let’s start with a few industries under Liu Rulai’s name.

As a result, all six properties under Liu Rulai's name were searched, but there was no abnormality.

Finally... the accountant's records often show the name of Zuiyanlou on Flower Street in the west of the city.

Liu Rulai has a fixed outflow of funds from Zuiyan Building. According to the amount of speculation, sometimes it is used for consumption, and sometimes the amount is too high.

But after further investigation, it was found that the Zuiyan Building was owned by Lian Yu.

Tang Pingcuo was a little hesitant. Lian Yu was Lian An's youngest son, and if he didn't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, would the criminal officials offend Lian's son, would they startle the snake?

"If we pull out the clues of the collusion between Lian An and Liu Rulai this time, we can kill two birds with one stone."

When he reported the search process to Mei Fu, he asked by the way, but Mei Fu gave an answer that he would not choose at all.

"Prime Minister Mei, do you think Lian An is such a careless person?"

Tang Pingcuo asked in a low and quiet voice, but Mei Fu evoked a deep smile instead.

"So you are suitable for handling cases, and I am suitable for being an official! Why don't we follow the plan and wait for Lian An's next move. This is called leading a snake out of its hole."

Tang Ping heard it wrong, and felt that it made sense.

The next day, he took a group of yamen servants to Zuiyan Building in Huajie, and left in a mighty way.

When Lian Yu got up early in the morning, when more than a dozen servants of the criminal government gathered under his flower building, his handsome face was sometimes livid and sometimes pale.

"Punishment office, Tang Pingcuo, some of Liu Taichang's funds have flowed into your Zuiyan Tower. Mr. Liu is currently undergoing an investigation. I hope that Mr. Lian will cooperate."

It stands to reason that it is very unusual for merchants and common people to be investigated by the court, but Lian Yu's situation is not unexpected. After all, his father is a well-known royal doctor, so it is understandable that he is involved.

Lian Yu's long and narrow eyes moved to the knife carried by Tang Pingcuo's waist, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart.

Liu Rulai was investigated recently, and he already knew that Lian Yu took advantage of the few days Liu Rulai was imprisoned in Liu's mansion, and ran back to Lianfu, which he hated, to ask what his father's note to Liu Rulai meant.

But Lian Ang locked the door tightly and avoided seeing him.

He didn't have time to think about how to deal with this ill-gotten wealth, and he didn't expect the court's criminal officials to come.

When Tang Ping stood in front of her by mistake, Lian Yu had already understood.

Most likely, it was Liu Rulai's stolen money placed here in order to avoid the court's investigation!

But it was too late, cold sweat broke out on Lian Yu's forehead, refusing now would only make his behavior even more weird.

"Okay...Master Guan, come in and check."

Lian Yu squeezed the note hidden in the skirt of her shirt, and let the yamen guards come in to search.

...If the situation really deteriorates, it may be a life-saving talisman for him.

He still can't believe it, it was his father who guided Liu Ru to hide the stolen money in his building...?Although he was already disappointed with the Lian family, he did not want to believe that a father would do it to his son with such a ruthless trick...

The servants searched the building wantonly, and sure enough, not long after, dozens of boxes of gold and silver were seized in the basement of Zuiyan Building!

Two guards immediately stood beside Lian Yu, blocking his way, as if they wanted to interrogate him.

After moving the boxes one by one to the first floor, after detailed counting, there were 30 gold and [-] silver!

The old man who was also held up on the side was the accountant of Zuiyan Building. Seeing the large amount of money that appeared out of nowhere, he widened his eyes, and he could guess at a cursory glance that it was much more than the income of Zuiyan Building in a year.

Since the establishment of the brothel, the old man has checked the account book every day. It can be said that he has a clear picture of the income and expenditure in the brothel. Unless it is the rest of the boss's own savings, it must not be the money of Zuiyanlou!

"30 gold and [-] silver, is this Mr. Lian's own property?"

Tang Ping sat on the sandalwood chair beside him by mistake, and asked with sharp eyes.

"..."

Lian Yu was silent, but his face was not very surprised. He should have known about the existence of this huge sum of money.

"The account books of Zuiyan Building are here."

Tang Ping mistakenly saw that Lian Yu was silent, so he didn't ask any further questions, and he just checked the accounts to find out how much Zuiyanlou earned.

Doubled the total income in recent years, less than half of this huge sum.

"If it's your own savings, the imperial court will not interfere completely. It's just that according to the tax amount recorded in Zuiyan Building, the payment is too little, which is tax evasion. In addition to confiscating the due amount and paying it, even the boss has to bear the burden." A lot of fines accrued over the years."

"Tang took a look and found that even the boss's ten-year income was not fined, so he could only be sent to the frontier for permanent labor."

Tang Pingcuo's tone was calm, but like a poisonous thorn, every sentence pierced his heart.

All the yamen servants watched quietly from the side, knowing that the Tang official's best mind attack had already begun. They didn't believe that it was Lian Yu's money, but Lian Yu seemed to be hiding something.

The shopkeeper saw that Lian Yu was silent, and heard that the boss might be fined to send him to the frontier, so he hurriedly explained:

"Guys, I personally record the income of the boss Zuiyan Building. He relies on this building for food, drink, housing and transportation, and he has a bad relationship with his family, let alone having such a large amount of money. There must be something wrong. "

"Mr. Shi, stop talking."

Lian Yu's complexion was deep, and she prevented the old man from defending, and was taken away by the criminals under the distressed and surprised eyes of everyone in Zuiyanlou.

Lian Yu didn't look back, but Tang Ping mistakenly took her onto the horse and escorted her to the criminal office for further interrogation.

"boss!"

Several servants who had been serving for a long time involuntarily chased them out. With tears in their eyes, they saw a group of government servants riding horses and carrying a large amount of seized gold and silver, disappearing at the end of Huajie.

"Could it be... Liu Rulai did it?"

After thinking about it carefully, I knew that Liu Rulai had come to Zuiyan Building many times recently, and now he is under investigation for corruption. Could it be that he came here secretly?

Old Man Shi wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and speculated towards the people in Zuiyanlou.

They are all ordinary people, and they don't know the twists and turns and bloody winds in the officialdom, but they know that their boss is inviting disasters for no reason.

"I'll go to Lian Mansion to ask Master Lian for help, Xiaoqian...you go to Prime Minister Mu for help."

The old man lowered his head and thought for a while, then thought about the person who could save his boss, the only one he could rely on was Mu Yunmen, whom the Lian family and the boss wanted to make friends with repeatedly.

Xiaoqianzi is a clever young man who usually helps the cook in the kitchen with cooking.

He roughly listened to Mr. Shi's explanation, took a sip of tea, and raised his round eyes.

"Remember, Mr. Shi should be more careful with Master Lian."

After finishing speaking, the young man hurriedly walked towards the Mu Mansion in the north of the city.When he got to the gate of Mu Mansion, Xiao Qianzi was told that Mr. Mu was in Mei Mansion. Fortunately, not far away, he came to the gate of Mei Mansion again.

"Who are you looking for?"

Zangzi, the gatekeeper, had a savage face and a fierce look. At first glance, he thought he was doing something with a white knife in and a red knife out!

But Xiaoqianzi was not afraid. Looking at Zangzi who could crush himself into a flesh, approaching, he said confidently:

"Zui Yan Lou has a request from Prime Minister Mu."

As soon as he heard about Muyunmen, Zangzi's face immediately became docile. He looked at the boy hesitantly for a while, and then went in to report.

Soon, the boy was led into the mansion by Zang Zi, and in the gazebo under the cedar, he saw Mu Yunmen, a gentle man in a jade shirt.

"Master Mu! Please save our boss. Even the boss was taken away by the criminal officials because he had about 40 taels of gold and silver in his possession. Mr. Shi, the accountant in the building, thinks that huge sum of money is not the boss's money."

When he saw Mu Yunmen's probing eyes, that calm and gentle expression, without the arrogance of other high-ranking people, he blurted out immediately.

Mu Yunmen was really surprised. Why did the investigation of officials affect Lian Yu, who was not an official at all?

"What's going on? Tell me well."