Songjiang City, Xu Mansion.

Wang Honghai received a document from the court in the signing room, and immediately summoned hundreds of yamen servants in the government office, and then surrounded the Xu family's mansion and broke through.

Seeing this, the butler also ran to the room in panic and disturbed Xu Jie's Qingmeng.

When Xu Jie learned that his family was surrounded, the first thing he thought of Xu Fan going out to cause trouble. He couldn't help but ask angrily: "Where is Xu Fan? Have you been secretly walking out again!"

At this time, Xu Fan did not go out, but stayed in his room, and there were unsuitable sounds of children coming from inside.

Xu Fan is actually a lustful person. In addition to taking seven concubines himself, he also often visits brothels. His son alone has given birth to more than twenty.

"Young master, something happened. The people from Songjiang Prefecture surrounded our door!" A confidant, regardless of the situation inside, broke in and reported.

The one in this room is the top brothel. It is said that flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers. They didn't pay much attention to the people who broke in. They fought with Xu Fan.

Xu Fan, who was lying flat, was already exhausted, but he patted the woman's thigh and asked her to come down, and then cursed: "Wang Honghai is really tired of living, and even dares to block my door!"

Although it is said that "the magistrate of the family will be destroyed and the county magistrate of the family will be destroyed", he is the dignified fourth-rank Taichang Shaoqing, and his father is the former chief minister. How can he take a small fifth-rank Songjiang Prefecture Tongzhi seriously?

Xu Fan walked through the clothes and came to the door. When he saw Wang Honghai, he was indeed blocking the official at the door. He immediately cursed: "My man surnamed Wang, you are blind, how dare you come to block my house?"

"Xu Fan, shut up!" Xu Jie was very calm, and then said to Wang Honghai: "Wang Tongzhi, what are you thinking this time? Why do you want to bring people to block our mansion?"

"The officials just received a document from the court, but they wanted to cooperate with the search of the Xu family. Please forgive me! From now on, the personnel of the Xu family are not allowed to enter and exit!" Wang Honghai, wearing a fifth-rank official uniform, ignored Xu Fan and explained seriously to Xu Jie who came out.

Search the Xu family?

When Xu Fan heard this order, he stared at him in disbelief.

Although he had thought that his younger brother would be in trouble, he thought that there were many internal supporters in the capital, including Li Chunfang and Zhang Juzheng, but he never thought that he would end up raiding his house.

When Xu Jie heard that the court was trying to search his home, he thought of the terrible consequences of this incident, his eyes suddenly became dark and he fainted.

As the news of the Xu family being confiscated spread in Songjiang City, a series of firecrackers were lit in many places.

"The sky has eyes, and the culprit in Songjiang has been eliminated!"

"Destroying the dike and flooding the fields is just the tip of the iceberg, and the Xu family is not unfair this time!"

"Isn't it? How many families have been destroyed for hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land!"

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Upon learning that the Xu family was raided, the people of Songjiang did not express sympathy for the fall of the Xu family, but they applauded and even felt happy for many victims.

In the next few days, the yamen guarding the Xu family's door stopped the Xu family from entering and leaving, and the Xu family's bank deposit was arranged by Wang Honghai to guard it at the first time.

This era is not unfamiliar with home searches, but there are also corresponding processes.

Especially nearly two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has long been corrupt. Faced with those greedy officials, raiding homes is naturally the best way to punish them.

The Xu family has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land and the largest workshop in Songjiang cotton cloth. The servants alone have more than a thousand bribes, which shows that the Xu family is undoubtedly a corrupt.

As the acting prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, Wang Honghai immediately sealed the Xu family's house and industry after receiving the imperial decree.

However, he did not have the power to search the Xu family, and he did not dare to infer the Xu family's property. Instead, he wanted to wait here for the Jinyiwei sent by the emperor to come and investigate the Xu family's wealth.

After being surrounded by the mansion for a few days, the Xu family asked to go out and said, "The rice and food at home have been exhausted, so let me go in and buy some more!"

"There are thousands of stones in your granary in your house, so don't talk lies with your eyes open, just stay there!" Faced with the request of the Xu family, some officials immediately expose it.

After the front was unable to break through, someone from the Xu family tried to climb over the wall at night, but was soon discovered by the yamen guarding outside the wall.

Wang Honghai's group of people surrounded the Xu family very quickly, and did not give the Xu family any time to react, so many of the property could not be taken away from the Xu family.

A few more days later, Wu Kang led a team of Jinyiwei to Songjiang City.

The Jinyiwei first drove the Xu family to the area where the servants lived, and then began to check the family wealth of each house. The seemingly ordinary house outside, but it was extremely luxurious here, and many antiques were obviously worth tens of thousands of yuan.

As antiques were moved out and piled up in the yard and then packed in categories, the officials accompanying the house search were dumbfounded.

Because Wang Honghai's move was timely and quickly, the Jinyiwei actually brought out nearly one million taels of gold and silver from the Xu family's silver treasury, and there were countless treasures.

After ten years of secondary support and six years of primary support, the Xu family is located in the richest Jiangnan area, which makes Xu Jie's wealth not much better than Yan Song, and his money has long been shocking.

After two days of inventory, the property seized from the Xu family's mansion was already loaded with ten trucks, and the property seized was first taken back to the treasury for sealing.

After submitting the roster to the emperor, the batch of property will be escorted to the capital.

Of course, in order to prevent any fish that misses the net, not only should we check the property hidden by the Xu family, but we should also recover the debts of those who owed the Xu family's money.

The reason why the Xu family has such a strong family background today is that in addition to Xu Jie's greed, the Xu family is the largest usury creditor in Songjiang Prefecture.

No matter in which era, loan sharing is the fastest way to accumulate wealth. If it encounters a disaster year, many people will have their own land in the name of the Xu family at an extremely low price in order to make a living.

Although the act of lending usury is often hit by local governments, Xu Jie was once at the peak of his life in the court. Zang Jifang, who was the prefect of Songjiang at the time, was even Xu Jie's disciple and lackey. Naturally, no one would pay attention to the Xu family's lending usury.

Even the people who were treated unfairly did not dare to sue the Xu family.

In the original history, fortunately, the upright Hai Qingtian pleaded for the people, but in the end, Hai Rui was driven away only because a letter from Xu Jie was delivered to the capital.

But now, the evil deeds of the Xu family have been exposed one after another, and his ugly side will be revealed to the world.

After several searches, the Jinyiwei also carried a box of thick documents from the bank treasury. These were documents borrowed by the Songjiang people from Songjiang. A rough count was as much as 400,000 taels.

As the huge Xu family mansion was emptied, the Jinyiwei drove the Xu family's family and more than a thousand servants out of the house, and conducted a second investigation at the same time.

Out of responsibility for the search of the house, even the gold and silver hairpins on his head were not allowed to be taken away, so the Xu family's family will face another search like participating in the imperial examination.

Humans are greedy after all. Many women are hiding gold, silver and jewelry, but the female prison guards were quickly arranged to search out most of the boxes, and the most of them were Zhujiang watches.

Ahem...

Xu Jie walked over with Xu Fan and Xu Yuanchun. After this sudden change, the old master seemed even older, as if he needed someone to support him to walk, and he bent down and coughed non-stop.

"Gei Master Xu, please take care of yourself!" Wang Honghai also stepped forward sympathetically and said with mercy.

Xu Jie was wearing a thin long gown, but it was not that he didn't want to dress more decently, but that the Ming Dynasty had strict clothing regulations on the people. As Wu Kang arrived with the imperial edict a few days ago, he was no longer an official, but he raised his face to Wang Honghai and said, "Wang Tongzhi, don't break the old man. I am just a commoner now, so how can I be called a senior master!"

"If there is nowhere, in the heart of the Xiaguan, you will always be the master!" Wang Honghai also had the style of a gentleman and expressed his opinion very gently.

Xu Jie showed some relief on his face, and then raised the golden bowl in his hand and said, "I am very relieved by Wang Tongzhi's words! Now I have a reluctant request, but now my home is being raided. Even if I want to join my friend, I still need some support on the road, so I want to take this bowl away, can I agree?"

"It's just a golden bowl. You have confiscated a lot of money from my family!" Xu Fan said angrily when hesitated on Wang Honghai's face.

Wang Honghai let out a long sigh, but shook his head firmly and said, "Gei Xu, this matter is inappropriate! The Xu family has been investigated, and this golden bowl should be among the items in the search. Please ask the officials to agree!"

"Are you really not giving me such a thin face?" Xu Jie said as if he heard Wang Honghai rejected him.

Wang Honghai faced Xu Jie's gaze and firmly insisted on his principles: "Gei Xu, please forgive me, this golden bowl must be kept!"

Although he sympathized with Xu Jie's experience, he had his own way of becoming an official. He especially thought about the people who were murdered by the Xu family over the years. How could the Xu family leave a way to survive for those people?

"Your surnamed Wang, you are simply too lying!" Xu Fan looked at Wang Honghai's ruthless face and pointed at Wang Honghai's nose and said angrily.

Wang Honghai knew that he was in the wrong, but he had no intention of giving in. At the same time, he asked his subordinates to touch Xu Fu, who was big belly, but he found a lot of gold, silver and jewelry from him.

Even Xu Yuanchun was not honest and found a few gold bars in his shoes.

"Ge Lao Xu, offended me!"

Wang Honghai personally searched Xu Jie's sleeves, but saw a few private letters above, but there was nothing wrong with it, so he respectfully returned it back.

Xu Jie received the letter, but asked coldly: "Can I leave now?"

Xu Fan and Xu Yuanchun's private possessions were plundered, and they also stared at Wang Honghai angrily.

"Gemaster Xu, take care of yourself." Wang Honghai had no reason to make things difficult for others anymore, so he sincerely wished him.

Xu Jie looked at Wang Honghai and said with a resentful look on his face: "Wang Tongzhi, I carry other valuable items on my body. Do you really not search for them?"

After all, Xu Jie is the former chief assistant, and the one who committed the crime was his son Xu Ying. It is really hard to do things too ugly. Wang Honghai had just taken off the other person's golden bowl. If he really wanted to search inside and out, it would be bad for his reputation and his teacher if it was reported.

Especially Xu Jie was wearing very thin clothes, and he probably couldn't take a few taels of gold and silver with him. It would be better for both parties to keep a decent person. He ignored Xu Jie's angry words and said, "Gei Xu, please!"

Xu Jie looked at Wang Honghai indifferently, and then asked Changsun Xu Yuanchun to support him and walk out, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.

"Let's wait!"

It was at this moment that a voice suddenly came from behind.

Everyone looked at it, but saw Wu Kang, the commander of the Nanjing Fufu Department, coming over, like a sword that was unsheathed.

"It turned out to be Governor Wu, but I don't know what's going on?" Xu Jie turned around and looked at Wu Kang, asking very naturally.

Wang Honghai looked at Wu Kang suddenly coming forward, and looked at Wu Kang in confusion.

Wu Kang looked at Xu Jie with his eyes curled up, and then said seriously: "Gei Xu, but I don't know what valuable things you carry, please keep them!"

Huh?

When the yamen and Jinyiwei around him heard this argument, they looked at Wu Kang in confusion. Just now, Xu Jie was obviously just angry, so why did he take it seriously?

"Wu Kang, when did you not even hear good or bad words? Did my father mean that just now?" Xu Fan frowned and blamed him immediately.

Wu Kang ignored Xu Fan, but said to himself: "This commander came to search the Xu family by the emperor's order. Even if you are the former chief minister, you must not leave with any property. Please hand it over immediately!"

"I just brought a few private letters. Do you have to hand over all of them?" Xu Jie took out the letters from his sleeve and said unanimously.

Wang Honghai sighed inwardly and said to Wu Kang: "Governor Wu, I have checked these private letters and there is nothing wrong with it. Let him take it away!"

"Mr. Wang, this letter is probably a straw on the pearl!" Wu Kang was not moved, and his eyes looked at Xu Jie again and said, "Gei Xu, are you handing it over by yourself or do you want us to search?"

"You dare to search for my father's body, you... are arrogant!" Xu Fan immediately accused him in anger.

Wu Kang was not moved, and even used his strength to jokingly say, "It was indeed inappropriate to search Master Xu's body, but Master Xu said he also carried valuable things on his body, so my commander naturally had to act on the emperor's order!"

"Commander Wu, I just was just a joke. Don't threaten the public and private news!" Xu Jie didn't expect that he would arrest him and explained immediately.

Wu Kang snorted coldly, then waved his hand and said, "Is this a joke? Just search for it and you will know! Come and check the clothes for Master Xu. We cannot let down the emperor's trust!"

As he said that, several Jinyiwei, who were like wolves and tigers, immediately rushed towards Xu Jie, first drove Xu Fan and Xu Yuanchun away, and then began to search Xu Jie's clothes.

After reaching out and touching each other, one of the Jinyiwei discovered an abnormal situation. The seemingly thin long gown on Xu Jie had a universe inside.
Chapter completed!