Chapter 487: Distribution of Benefits from Home Search
As soon as Li Huan said these words, Sun Wei's expression suddenly changed. You must know that Li Huan's words were quite heartbreaking.
If he dared to nod, even though he was still a third-grade minister, there was only one end.
What kind of happy ending will come to those who are really involved in the case of Prince Ning's rebellion?
Unexpectedly, Li Huan went on a killing spree in the south of the Yangtze River. Not only did he kill tens of thousands of people, he even escorted dozens of former nobles, emperors and even clan members after his return.
I dare not say that all of these people have a higher status than him, but at least half of them are not comparable to him. Even these people have fallen into the fate of confiscating their families and exterminating their clans. What does it mean that he is just a minister of the Ministry of Rites? So it is almost
The moment Li Huan left the house, Sun Wei's expression changed drastically and he turned to Li Huan almost out of conditioned reflex with a bit of fear: "If you don't want to slander others, how can I defend those rebels?"
Li Huan glanced at Sun Wei who reacted fiercely, and said with a bit of disdain: "Oh, could it be that Li misunderstood, but listening to what Mr. Sun just said, it was clearly for those rebels.
What a shame!"
"Don't talk nonsense if I don't have you!"
The emperor who was sitting there glanced at Sun Wei with some surprise and snorted coldly: "Shilang Sun, why don't you apologize to the champion?" The emperor finally opened his mouth and gave Sun Wei a step to get down.
It was as if the person had grasped a life-saving straw. Although he felt a bit unwilling in his heart, his physical reaction was quite honest, and he immediately apologized honestly to Li Huan.
After what happened with Sun Wei, among the people present, no matter how dissatisfied they were with Li Huan, they would not stand up to seek bad luck for Li Huan again at this time.
Apart from anything else, even the emperor would not allow anyone to provoke Li Huan and others who were meritorious ministers over and over again at this reception banquet.
During the banquet, the atmosphere was quite harmonious. After the five dishes and three rounds of wine were served, the dancing maids slowly withdrew, and a bit of calm gradually returned to the huge hall.
At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark. Considering that Li Huan and the generals had returned home after a long journey and had not even returned home, the emperor had no intention of leaving Li Huan and others behind after the banquet.
Li Mansion
Li Huan has been away for more than half a year, and now he has finally returned to Beijing. It can be said that the entire Li family is filled with joy and expectations.
When Li Huan was welcomed into the imperial city by the emperor and hundreds of officials for a banquet, servants had already hurriedly conveyed the news back.
When Li Huan left the imperial city and returned to the Li Mansion, everyone in the Li Mansion immediately received the news.
Li Huan rode back all the way, surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers. When he stopped in front of the mansion gate, he saw the gate creaking slowly, and he saw Li Feng's face.
A group of people headed by.
Zhu Lin and Zhang Jin supported Li Feng on the left and right, and, surrounded by servants, respectfully welcomed Li Huan back home.
"Welcome to my victorious return!"
Except for Li Fengshi, everyone else bowed to Li Huan. Li Huan looked at this scene, got off his horse, strode forward, helped Zhu Lin and Zhang Jin up, and then bowed to Li Fengshi.
: "My son is unfilial and makes my mother worried!"
At this time, Li Feng reached out and touched Li Huan's face. Her eyes were full of love. When she heard this, her eyes turned red. There were faint tears and she said tremblingly: "It'll be good to come back. It'll be good to come back!"
At this moment, Feng Yongguo, who was standing aside, coughed lightly and comforted Li Fengshi in a low voice: "Sister, Huan'er's return is a great joy, why are you crying!"
Li Fengshi wiped away her tears and smiled a little, helped Li Huan up, took Li Huan's hand and said, "Yes, yes, go home quickly." The sky became brighter, Li Huan opened his eyes, and only felt
A soft and greasy feeling came, the two soft and delicate bodies on the left and right were pressed against her, and a faint fragrance hit her nostrils.
Thinking of last night's absurdity, Li Huan couldn't help but sigh softly. People say that Wenwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes. This is true at all. It's a blessing that he has enough blood. Otherwise, ordinary people would really not be able to bear it.
As soon as Li Huan woke up, the two women naturally woke up and looked at each other. The two women couldn't help but feel embarrassed. However, after last night's experience, they were just a little shy at least, suppressing their inner feelings.
After the waves, he was busy waiting on Li Huan to wash and change clothes.
After going to greet Li Fengshi and having dinner with Li Fengshi, Li Huan did not stop at the mansion but rushed to the imperial city.
It's not that the emperor was unreasonable and didn't give Li Huan time to rest, it was because Li Huan had returned and had many things to explain to the emperor himself. Even if Li Huan wanted to take a rest, he could only wait until the matter was settled.
In the imperial city.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the refreshed Li Huan, smiled and motioned for Li Huan to sit down and said: "Li Qing didn't get much rest after coming back. It's all my fault."
Li Huan smiled and shook his head: "Your Majesty's words are really embarrassing!"
Sitting beside him were Wang Yangming, Yang Ting, several cabinet elders, and six important ministers, who looked at Li Huan with envy. Looking at the whole court, Li Huan was probably the only one who could be treated like this by the emperor. Li Huan was like this
Shi coughed lightly, his expression straightened, his eyes swept over Wang Yangming, Yang Tinghe and others, and he slowly said: "Your Majesty and all of you are here today, so Li will tell you what happened in the past six months.
Let me tell everyone about it one by one."
Although Li Huan has been submitting memorials for more than half a year, memorials are just memorials after all, and no matter how detailed they are, they cannot be perfect.
As Li Huan began to talk, everyone present seemed to have followed Li Huan's perspective back to more than half a year ago.
It took a full morning for Li Huan to explain how he used King Ning to lure out those people with ulterior motives, how he contacted the Duke of Wei, and cooperated with each other to destroy King Ning's rebel army in one battle, and then what happened in the south of the Yangtze River.
Confiscating the family and exterminating the clan.
Each of these things sounds simple, but the bloodshed contained in them is something that even those of them who have not experienced it personally can imagine.
After a while, after everyone had digested Li Huan's words and came to their senses, everyone couldn't help but look at Li Huan with a somewhat strange meaning.
Li Huan had just unabashedly revealed his plan to use King Ning to clean up Jiangnan. Although everyone present was not a fool, they had already inferred Li Huan's purpose from some of Li Huan's actions.
But Li Huan wanted to think about it and did it, but they never expected that Li Huan would say it so openly. This naturally made some officials look at Li Huan with complicated expressions.
Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting there, coughed lightly. Zhu Houzhao could more or less guess the thoughts of some of the officials present. They must be very dissatisfied with Li Huan's use of King Ning to fish.
But considering that there were so many people colluding with Prince Ning, it can be imagined that the emperor was definitely on Li Huan's side.
At this moment, Zhu Houzhao's eyes swept across the crowd, and finally landed on Li Huan and said slowly: "Li Qing sent someone to quickly report a secret report and part of the confiscated account books. Is that data really true?"
As soon as Zhu Houzhao said these words, the eyes of more than a dozen important officials present immediately fell on Li Huan.
To be honest, if Li Huan only confiscated millions of taels or even tens of millions of taels of property, perhaps Zhu Houzhao would have concealed the property from the civil and military officials of the court and returned it to his private treasury.
But don't forget that it involves hundreds of millions of property. Even Zhu Houzhao, as the emperor, knew that it was impossible to put all such a large sum of property into his private treasury.
Zhu Houzhao was not a foolish king. After seeing the secret report submitted by Li Huan and the confiscated property data in the account books, Zhu Houzhao convened the cabinet and the ministers of the court to hold a small meeting to discuss this transaction.
A discussion was held over the ownership of the horrific property.
To this day, Zhu Houzhao still remembers the reaction of the important officials who were qualified to attend the meeting when they learned the approximate figures of the amount of property that Li Huan had confiscated.
It can be said that everyone looks incredible.
At this moment, what the emperor and all the important ministers were most concerned about was not what to do with Prince Ning and the criminal ministers who were escorted back to the capital, but whether the terrifying amount of property had been recovered.
After it was successfully transported back, I wonder if the number of the property is really as much as what is stated in the account book.
Under the gazes of one after another, Li Huan nodded slowly and confirmed to everyone that the number of the property was exactly as recorded in the account book.
The expressions of everyone present changed slightly when they saw Li Huan nodding. Even though they had already been mentally prepared, they were still shocked when Li Huan really nodded in confirmation.
As the chief officials of the Household Department, the Minister and the left and right ministers were even more delighted. No matter how they divided such a large sum of property, their Household Department would definitely have a large amount of income by then.
When I think that the Ministry of Revenue will receive a large amount of income, as the head of the Ministry of Revenue, it is strange that I would not be happy.
Wang Yangming, the chief minister in the palace, also had a flash of light in his eyes at this moment. Although he had known for a long time that Li Huan was talented in confiscating houses, he also knew that Li Huan would put down the rebellion of King Ning, and the court would definitely receive a large sum of money.
However, I never thought that the amount of this income would be so astonishing.
Then I heard Li Huan slowly describing the property he had obtained from his house one by one: "There are 123 million taels of silver, 8.5 million taels of gold, and 58,660 jewels and jades."
The remaining items include more than 1,300 mines, more than 7.85 million acres of fertile land, more than 3,200 shops, and about 8.4 million dan of grain."
I have to say that these figures are so shocking. They are like fairy music in the ears of everyone, especially Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, who is even more happy.
When Li Huan finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said: "Li Qing, when will these properties be transported to the capital?"
At this moment, not only Zhu Houzhao, but also everyone present looked at Li Huan.
Naturally, they couldn't wait to take such a large amount of property back to the court. Although in recent years, because of Li Huan, the court's finances had been greatly enriched and even had a surplus, but who would think it was too much?
It's a lot of money, not to mention such a large sum of money.
Li Huan pondered for a moment and said: "Back to Your Majesty, because there are so many properties involved, there are hundreds of ships transporting these properties alone. In order to ensure the safety of these properties, I have sent extra
We have tens of thousands of elite escorts all the way, so the time is a bit slow, but if nothing unexpected happens, we will be able to arrive in Beijing in three to five days at most."
If the property is hundreds of thousands or millions of taels, a few ships will be enough, and it will take only a few days to reach Beijing smoothly along the Grand Canal.
But the amount of property confiscated this time was so shocking. Just to transport these properties, Li Huan collected hundreds of large ships. In order to ensure safety along the way, Li Huan even made regulations.
How many miles these ships travel every day and where they rest are all planned in great detail.
Although Li Huan didn't believe that anyone would dare to take such a big courage to rob an official ship on the way, he was not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, and was careful to sail the ten-thousand-year ship, so even if Li Huan led the army back to Beijing
, it is not surprising that it will take several days for those belongings to arrive in Beijing.
Everyone present showed a bit of anticipation when they heard this, but at this moment Wang Yangming coughed slightly, looked at the emperor and Li Huan and said: "Your Majesty, I wonder how this property should be distributed?
"
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at the emperor and Li Huan.
If such a large amount of money enters the national treasury, they have the right to say how it is used. If it enters the emperor's private treasury, they may only be able to covet it.
At this time, Wang Yangming must also represent the hundreds of officials to compete with the emperor for the distribution of this property. Otherwise, once Wang Yangming remains indifferent, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty will think that Wang Yangming cannot represent the hundreds of officials, and the consequences will not be the same at all.
Not small.
Zhu Houzhao was not surprised that Wang Yangming spoke. Even if Wang Yangming didn't speak, the officials present would not let go of such a large sum of money.
Zhu Houzhao smiled at Li Huan and said, "Li Qing, I wonder how you think this property should be distributed?"
Li Huan didn't really think about giving away all his belongings
All of them were sent to the emperor's treasury, because this was simply unrealistic, and Li Huan also knew that just because the emperor asked him, it did not mean that he could really lead the distribution of such a large amount of property, and it certainly did not mean that he
If you do, you have no right to speak.
After pondering for a while, Li Huan glanced at the crowd, then raised his hands to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that most of the gold, silver, and grain will be returned to the treasury, while gold, silver, jewelry, shops, fields, mines, etc.
It would be more appropriate to deposit it into the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"
