Under the eager gazes of all the Jinyi guards, cold sweat was faintly oozing out from Chen Zhe's forehead.
Facing the pressure from Jin Yiwei, no matter how capable Chen Zhe was, he still didn't know what to do.
If the Jin Yiwei were allowed to enter the mansion, just some of the things hidden in the mansion would be enough to make the Chen family doomed. But if they were to confront the Jin Yiwei and prevent the Jin Yiwei from carrying out the crime, that would also be a crime of treason.
For a moment, Chen Zhe's face was full of confusion.
Chen Zhe's reaction was seen in the eyes of Li Huan and others, and Li Huan couldn't help but show a bit of surprise.
At first he thought it was just an ordinary search to arrest someone, but now looking at Chen Zhe's reaction, Li Huan was looking forward to the next search.
Because Chen Zhe's reaction is so abnormal, anyone who is not a fool can see that something is wrong with Chen Zhe's expression. I wonder if there is something shameful in the Chen family, otherwise Chen Zhe will definitely not be
Such a reaction.
The area where the Chen family's mansion is located is where the dignitaries of the capital gather. Yesterday, the backbone of the Chen family, Chen Wenliang, the censor of Zuodu, was sent to prison. Not long after, the Chen family was surrounded by Jin Yiwei.
Naturally, this kind of thing came out immediately, especially the situation where the Jin Yiwei surrounded the Chen family was seen by many people.
Many dignitaries nearby saw with their own eyes the scene of groups of royal guards surrounding the Chen Mansion, so many people were secretly watching what was going on in the Chen Mansion.
When Li Huan and his men appeared in front of the Chen Mansion, many people who were secretly paying attention to what was going on here couldn't help but sigh.
The Chen family is really unlucky. They just impeached Li Huan, but they ended up getting bumped into by Li Huan. The most important thing is that the Chen family’s own buttocks are not clean. As a result, Li Huan was impeached by Chen Wenliang.
Nothing happened, but my own house was involved.
Now it seems that Li Huan personally brings people here. If Li Huan will let the Chen family go, I am afraid no one will believe it.
However, Chen Zhe led people to block the door, and actually showed a posture that he would not let the Jin Yiwei people into the house, which lifted the spirits of many people.
Although everyone has heard that Chen Wenliang's eldest son has extraordinary methods, but everyone usually just listens to it, but now many people look at Chen Zhe in a different light.
Even Li Huan, the God of Death, dared to stop him, and even the Jin Yiwei dared to block the door. Not to mention other things, his courage was beyond comparison with ordinary people.
At the same time, many people are watching the development of things at the gate of Chen's residence with great anticipation. Some people are even looking forward to Chen Zhe's people to have a fierce fight with Li Huan and his party.
Li Huan's momentum is really too great. If Chen Zhe can bring people to meet Li Huan, they will be able to see some of Li Huan's jokes.
In a mansion hundreds of meters away, on top of a high attic, several figures were standing at the highest point of the attic, watching the scene in front of the Chen Mansion from a distance.
Lu Jing, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, looked gloomy at this time. Standing next to her was the core member of Lu Jing's small group, not Zuo Yang, Bao Ming, Yang Ling and the others.
From the moment she opened her eyes early in the morning, Lu Jing has been staying in the attic, her attention always focused on the Chen Mansion.
When Lu Jing and others saw Li Huan appearing at the door of Chen's house, their eyes were filled with deep hatred when they looked at Li Huan's figure.
Especially Lu Jing, who was almost captured at the court meeting yesterday, wanted to eat Li Huan alive.
At this time, Lu Jing squinted her eyes and looked at Chen Zhe and the servants of the Chen family behind him and said slowly: "It is said that these servants of the Chen family are not good people. They are all a group of desperadoes. I don't know what they are today."
Do you have the guts to meet Li Huan?"
Zuo Yang heard this and said, "I'm afraid Chen Zhe doesn't have the courage."
At the name of Bao, several people in Yangling also nodded. That is the Ming Dynasty Jin Yiwei who represents the majesty of the emperor. The power of the Ming Dynasty royal family is still there. Unless they are ready to rebel, who would dare to fight against the Jin Yiwei.
Zuo Yang, Lu Jing and others were waiting for what decision Chen Zhe would make. At the door of Chen's mansion, Chen Zhe seemed to have experienced a fierce battle. He looked extremely sluggish. His originally upright body was hunched over.
After a few minutes, he said in an extremely hoarse voice: "Everyone, get out of the way, please come into the house."
Obviously after some mental struggle, Chen Zhe finally did not have the courage to confront Jin Yiwei.
Seeing Chen Zhe and others dodge, Lin Pingzhi, who was already preparing for a killing spree, couldn't help but look a little disappointed, but he immediately waved his hand and said: "Brothers, follow me into the mansion.
Check it out."
The next moment, a group of Jinyi guards were seen directly knocking away Chen Zhe and others who were unable to dodge, and went straight into the mansion.
As for Chen Zhe, he was captured by the Jin Yiwei almost immediately, and as for the powerful servants of the Chen family, they were also captured one by one.
Even though these people are all desperadoes, it is precisely because they are desperadoes that they are more in awe of Jin Yiwei. If Chen Zhe encouraged everyone to fight against Jin Yiwei at the beginning, these people may have a hot head.
So he rushed forward with weapons in hand.
But the moment Chen Zhe chose to surrender, the thoughts of resistance in the hearts of these desperadoes completely disappeared. Although they looked fierce and ferocious, they were like sheep facing the yoke of the Jin Yiwei, not daring to resist at all.
When Li Huanxing arrived at Chen Zhe's side, he paused slightly, glanced at Chen Zhe with interest and said, "Li is a little curious. Is there something shameful hidden in your Chen family's mansion that you let you
I almost had the idea of fighting against Jin Yiwei."
After listening to Li Huan's words, Chen Zhe, who was slightly embarrassed, looked up at Li Huan, with a hint of bitterness on his lips, but he said bitterly to Li Huan: "Li Huan, even if you took down my father, how can you destroy my Chen family?"
No matter what, you, a traitor, will not have a good outcome."
"Bold! How dare you be rude to adults!"
Lin Pingzhi slapped Chen Zhe on the face. Chen Zhe immediately vomited blood and half of his face was swollen. It has to be said that Lin Pingzhi's behavior would only make him feel like Lin Pingzhi in the eyes of others.
Pingzhi is too arrogant, just like those court eagle dogs who do all kinds of evil.
Li Huan just looked at Chen Zhe indifferently and said: "Send the order and order people to search carefully. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you are not allowed to miss any suspicious place."
Chen Zhe's expression changed slightly when he heard this. Even though he had expected such a thing for a long time, after actually listening to Li Huan's order, the last bit of luck in his heart that had no hope at all disappeared.
In the distance, high up in the attic of the Lu Mansion, Lu Jing looked disappointed when she saw that Chen Zhe finally chose to surrender. She snorted coldly: "What a piece of trash. It's unworthy of me to praise him so much. He even failed to do so."
I don’t even have the courage to fight.”
Listening to Lu Jing's words, Zuo Yang, Bao Ming, and Yang Ling looked at each other and smiled bitterly in their hearts.
My Lord really said it was easy, let Chen Zhe risk the lives of all the Chen family members, let alone Chen Zhe, who else would dare to fight against Jin Yiwei blatantly.
If we were to change places and face Li Huan, I'm afraid my master's final choice would be like Chen Zhe's.
As a large number of Jin Yiwei poured into the Chen Mansion, the Chen family soon fell under the control of the Jin Yiwei. The core members of the Chen family of Chen Wenliang were immediately controlled. At the same time, nearly a hundred strong people were under control.
Chen's servants were also captured.
With the way Jin Yiwei looks at people, how can he not see that these servants of the Chen family are afraid that all their hands are stained with blood? Naturally, they do not dare to underestimate these people. It can be said that at least most of Jin Yiwei's attention is on control.
Above these people.
Only after these people were completely controlled, the Jin Yiwei began to search the Chen mansion with ease.
With a bang, a warehouse was violently kicked open. Immediately, several Jinyi guards broke into the warehouse, and what came into view were large boxes.
When these boxes were opened, the expressions on the faces of several Jin Yiwei who broke into the warehouse changed and they exclaimed in surprise.
Looking at the contents in the box, Xiaoqi, the leader of the Jin Yiwei team, immediately ordered his men to seal the warehouse, and at the same time turned around and ran away.
"My lord, my lord, I have discovered something."
The little flag officer came running all the way with a strange look on his face.
Li Huan was standing in the huge courtyard with his hands behind his back, and a group of core members of the Chen family were being escorted in the courtyard.
When the little flag officer shouted and rushed over, everyone couldn't help but raise their heads and look at each other.
Lin Pingzhi shouted at the flag officer: "Tell me, what did you find?"
Not long ago, a subordinate came to report that he had discovered the location of the Chen family's silver vault. It was roughly estimated that there were at least one million taels of gold and silver.
To be honest, Lin Pingzhi was really looking forward to the discovery brought by this little flag officer. He was very curious about what news this little flag officer could bring.
The flag officer hurriedly said: "Sir, my subordinates discovered a bunch of boxes in a remote warehouse of the Chen Mansion. Among those boxes were hidden armor stomachs, crossbows, bows and other items that are strictly prohibited by the imperial court.
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"hiss!"
Someone let out a low cry, and his expression changed drastically.
Although the imperial court was not allowed to use weapons, and the people hid some swords and guns, generally speaking, the imperial court turned a blind eye and did not regard it as a serious crime.
But not being allowed to use weapons does not mean that you are not allowed to use armored stomachs and powerful crossbows. It can be said that armored stomachs and powerful crossbows are strictly prohibited by the imperial court. Even if you are a noble family, if you want to have armored stomachs and powerful crossbows,
That also requires the emperor's permission.
Otherwise, if anyone hides this kind of thing secretly, it will be a serious crime of treason, confiscating the family and exterminating the clan.
It can be said that secretly hiding armored stomachs and powerful crossbows is not much different from secretly hiding dragon robes. Once discovered, it will be regarded as a crime of treason.
Now that the Jin Yiwei actually found armor stomachs, strong crossbows and other items strictly prohibited by the imperial court in the Chen family, one can imagine the reactions of everyone present.
Everyone in Jinyiwei looked excited. How can someone who investigates corruption compare with someone who investigates treason?
They came here just to investigate Chen Wenliang's corruption. They never thought that the Chen family would be so audacious. They would even dare to hide things like a stomach and a strong crossbow in the capital, in their own mansion.
Once discovered, this is a big secret that goes straight to heaven. As a Jin Yiwei who finds out these things, he will definitely be rewarded by the emperor, so all the Jin Yiwei who participated in this incident are extremely excited.
However, compared to Jin Yiwei's excitement, the faces of the core members of the Chen family who were originally detained here now changed drastically.
In fact, most people in the Chen family have no idea what happened, why the well-behaved Jin Yiwei suddenly came to the door, and even started a search in the mansion.
Many people still have some hope in their hearts, thinking that as long as the Chen family cooperates well with the court, they will be able to escape disaster this time.
But when the little flag official said that a stomach and a strong crossbow had been found in their Chen Mansion, many people felt weak and almost fainted.
Everyone who knew the stakes turned pale in an instant, with a look of despair on their faces.
Suddenly, a young man in gorgeous clothes shouted at Chen Zhe, who was bowing his head and saying nothing: "Chen Zhe, is it you? Tell me quickly if you want to kill us all. Everything in the house, big and small, is your responsibility."
In charge, why are there forbidden items such as armored stomachs and strong crossbows in the mansion?"
This man is one of Chen Wenliang's sons and a well-known playboy. He is usually extremely fearful of Chen Zhe and would not even dare to speak loudly in front of Chen Zhe. But now, before the life and death crisis, how can he still
There is fear of Chen Zhe.
Not only this person, but many people also questioned and cursed Chen Zhe after they reacted. Some people even shouted at the Jinyiwei people, putting all the blame on Chen Zhe. It seemed that this would be enough.
Get rid of the suspicion of treason and clear up the relationship with Chen Zhe.
Li Huan's expression looked very calm, as if the forbidden items such as armor stomachs and strong crossbows found in Chen's mansion did not attract Li Huan's attention.
After giving the Chen family a dull look, Li Huan said calmly: "Continue searching, don't miss any place."
After the tea time passed, I saw a figure approaching in a hurry, who could it be if it wasn't Chen Yao.
Chen Yao, who was dressed in the official uniform of the Qianhu Guards, walked up to Li Huan with a bit of excitement on his face and whispered: "Sir, I found what you were looking for!"
Li Huan, who had always looked calm, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, and a bright light flashed in his eyes: "Are you sure this is what we are looking for?"
Chen Yao took a deep breath and nodded: "Those things have just been inspected by our veterans of Jinyiwei. They are exactly what you are looking for."
Hearing this, Li Huan showed a slight smile on his face and nodded slightly at Chen Yao: "Take me with you!"
While they were talking, Li Huan and Chen Yao walked towards a study in the backyard of the Chen Mansion. At this moment, Chen Zhe, who had his head drooped, seemed to have noticed the actions of Li Huan and Chen Yao just now, and looked at the two figures.
There was a look of confusion, but soon he seemed to have thought of something, and his expression changed.
Thinking that Li Huan had not responded to the search for taboo items such as armored stomachs, strong crossbows, etc. in Chen's house before, but now he went to check it out in person, Chen Zhe was a little shocked and at the same time his face showed a clear look.
Enlightenment and understanding seemed to have suddenly figured out Li Huan's true purpose of coming to their Chen Mansion today.