The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Without the emperor's order, Li Wen would not have dared to go to Zhu's mansion to fetch someone, so it must be the emperor's order for him to appear here.

How many officials are completely innocent and not greedy at all, Zhu Guangquan knows what he has done.It's just that he made a complete miscalculation, he thought that he was someone close to the emperor, and the emperor was reluctant to touch him, but today the emperor sent someone to arrest him, and Zhu Guangquan knew that he could not resist, nor could he.

He has been able to come to this day, in addition to the trust of the emperor, he also has his own ability and wrist to climb to the position of Shangshu.

But the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. Zhu Guangquan himself still understands this truth.

Seeing that people on both sides were about to fight, the emperor dispatched troops from the camp in the outskirts of Beijing to arrest him. The opponents were numerous and powerful, and the guards raised by his mansion were definitely no match for these people.Even if he leads people to resist today, his chances of winning are not great. Instead, he will add another crime to himself, Zhu Guangquan knows in his heart.

In such a short period of time, Zhu Guangquan's thoughts turned several times, and finally he said in a deep voice, "Stop it all, the old man will go with you."

His men dropped their weapons.

"Take it down." Zhao Xiangyi waved his hand, and his men stepped forward to arrest Zhu Guangquan, detained him, and escorted him out.

What happened tonight was beyond Zhu Guangquan's expectation. The guards in the entire mansion were all controlled by the officers and soldiers before they could respond.None of the female family members in the backyard of Zhu's mansion, Zhu Guangquan's sons and grandchildren, together with the maids and servants of the mansion, were all escorted away.

"Search!" Li Wen gestured for someone to go in and search.

Tonight, he was not only ordered to come to arrest people, but also to search the Zhu Mansion, which was also the intention of the emperor, and he was the sword in the hands of the emperor, and if the emperor pointed it out, he had to hit it.

"Yes, my lord." The leader led the people to search.

This kind of carpet search, but put it in any corner, quickly found a lot of things.

"My lord, our people have discovered a secret passage."

"My lord, our people have discovered the secret room."

"Go and see 〇,,

The bed in Zhu Guangquan's bedroom was opened, and a secret passage was found underneath. Inside the secret passage was piles of gold, silver and jewels.

The person who went down came up and said, "My lord, a lot of gold and silver were found inside."

"Go, take me down to have a look."

Li Wen asked someone to lead the way, and went down with him to have a look.Zhao Xiangyi didn't stop him, and followed the boy to protect his safety.

"Zhu Guangquan is the Minister of the Household Department, which is really unexpected."

Seeing what was inside, Li Wen stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of pearls, and the beads fell from his hand like rain. It seemed that he did not wrong Zhu Guangquan.Who would have thought that there would be so much gold, silver and jewels piled up in the house of a minister of household affairs who knelt in the court hall all day and called the emperor and officials poor?

Based on these things, Zhu Guangquan is absolutely inevitable.

As for Master Zhu Guangquan who was escorted away, he thought he still had a chance to stand up, but he didn't know that he would never have a chance to stand up in his life.

"Leave a few people here and take inventory." Li Wen said to the man behind him.

"You guys stay here." Zhao Xiangyi nodded his hand and called a few of his confidants to stay and count things.

"Yes, my lord."

"Let's go up."

After arranging for people to stay and count things, the two of them went up together.

Not only were mountains of gold, silver and jewels found in the secret passage, but the left and right walls were opened, and inside were two secret rooms, which were filled with valuable calligraphy, paintings and antiques of various masters. Some of the things inside were priceless treasures. Things that money can buy.

"I don't know, I just searched and found such property in an official's house." Li Wen took Zhao Xiangyi to visit the secret room to see what Master Zhu had collected.

This is simply more gold and silver property than the emperor's private treasury. I am afraid that the poorest person in the whole court is the emperor and his old man.I don't know how the emperor will feel when he sees the list. One can imagine that the emperor's face will definitely not be too good-looking.

"Officials in this capital have to search every household, who can't find something?" Zhao Xiangyi, a warrior, is not interested in these calligraphy and paintings. In his eyes, they are just a few pieces of paper, which are not as valuable as a piece of silver.

But he wasn't interested, but he knew the boy was interested.

"That's what you said." When Li Wen thought of this possibility, it was really great, but it was a pity, "Let's just think about it. If we want to search every household, the emperor probably won't allow it. But I think, today You should be able to harvest a lot of good things in the evening.”

Li Wen stopped in front of a picture of Chunhui, and saw that the signature was his teacher's name.After just one glance, he knew it was his teacher's own painting, and he couldn't help laughing, "I didn't expect that there is still my teacher's painting hidden in Zhu Shangshu's secret room."

He has been studying with Dean Fu for so many years, so he is naturally familiar with his teacher's handwriting, and he can tell the authenticity of this painting at a glance.

"Scholar Fu's paintings are hard to find in the capital." Zhao Xiangyi waved his hand and asked the people behind him to take the painting.

Come down.

"Oh, really? I really don't know about this." Li Wen remembered that his teacher's study room was full of various paintings. He had seen a lot of them before. In his eyes, Dean Fu's paintings were too commonplace. Naturally, I didn't expect Dean Fu's paintings and calligraphy to be hard to find in the capital.

Touching his chin, Li Wen pondered in his heart, and said half-jokingly, "It seems that I will have to ask the teacher for two more pictures later."

A smile flashed in Zhao Xiangyi's eyes, and he said, "Go and ask, Master Fu will definitely not reject you.

"That's for sure, I'm his lover." Li Wen raised his chin and said.

Seeing that Zhao Xiangyi asked someone to take this painting down for him, Li Wen did not stop him. This painting belonged to his teacher, even if the emperor knew that he had taken a painting, he would definitely not say anything.

There is nothing to visit here in the secret room. After walking around, they probably know what is inside, and the task of checking and counting things will be handed over to the people behind.

This rainy night is destined to be a restless night.

As the night deepened, the rain outside did not seem to stop in the slightest. The rain fell on the ground, making waves. Accompanied by the sound of rain, was the sound of orderly cavalry. The soldiers on horseback were well-trained. acted.

This night, officers and soldiers from dozens of government houses in central Beijing broke into the doors to arrest people.Some officials were still sleeping with their concubines in their arms, and they were taken away by the officers and soldiers who came to the door. When they were taken away, they still didn't know what happened.

However, it should be known soon.

Some neighbors who lived next door heard the noise at night, so they only dared to open the windows to take a peek. Seeing so many officers and soldiers outside, they quickly closed the doors and windows, and hid in the house, not daring to go out.

Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflake silver, this sentence refers to the corruption and darkness of officials in the officialdom.A small official only receives a few taels of monthly salary, and the family does not have much income. Where did so much money come from?A small Beijing official has so much silver in his family. I'm afraid these people can't explain the origin of the money.

Seeing the money seized from these people's houses, Li Wen knew that none of the officials arrested tonight would be able to escape.

After working outside for most of the night, Li Wen brought people back to the house. His shoes and clothes were almost soaked, and the ends of his hair were dripping. He planned to take advantage of this time to come back and wash. After taking a bath and changing clothes, I have to go out to court in a while.

I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight, my eyes are slightly astringent.

When he came back and saw the light in the lobby was on, Li Wen took a handful of water from the hem of his clothes and walked in. Seeing the girl sitting in the room waiting for him, he frowned and asked, "It's so late, why don't you Go back to the house and sleep, what are you doing here?"

"Third brother, you're back." Hearing the sound of footsteps, Li Jinwan, who was dozing off in a chair, woke up and saw her brother back.

Seeing that her brother was drenched, Li Jinwan felt very distressed, and hurriedly ordered the maid beside her to bring ginger soup from the kitchen, and asked someone to bring a cloth towel to wipe the water on her brother's hair, saying , "Wake up after sleeping at night, I heard that you haven't come back yet, so I'm not at ease, I'll wait here for you to come back."

It was thundering and raining again at night, and she couldn't sleep well.

After waking up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, she found out that her brother had been away for a day and hadn't returned home after asking. Li Jinwan was worried and couldn't fall asleep. She came to her brother and waited for her brother to come back.

"Miss." The maid from the ground came over with a cloth towel.

Li Jinwan took it, handed it to her brother, and said, "Seeing that you are completely soaked, wipe off the water quickly.

"Although it's April at this moment, it's raining at night and it's so wet that if you're not careful, you might catch a cold. It's not good if you get sick.

Li Wen took the cloth towel and wiped the water off his face, and said, "Give it to me, I'll just wipe it myself, and I'll go back to my room to take a shower and change clothes later." He was completely soaked, so he wiped it off with a towel. Wiping is useless, I still have to go back and take a shower and change clothes.

The master didn't come back, and Li Tong didn't dare to go to sleep, so he waited until now.

Seeing his young master coming back, Li Tong circled around behind him.As soon as he heard the master said that he wanted to take a bath, he hurriedly said, "The hot water is boiled in the kitchen, I'm going to prepare hot water for the young master."

"Well, let's go." Li Wen nodded, threw the towel in his hand aside, and asked, "Is there anything to eat in the kitchen, get me some." After working all night, I didn't eat anything at night , I'm so hungry right now

"There is food left for the master in the kitchen, I'll bring it to the master." Yingchun said hurriedly.

Li Wen said, "It will be sent to my room in a while, I will go back to the room to take a shower and change clothes."