Chapter 344 Dividing the spoils, raiding homes, and embezzling!
After Shen Youwei defeated the six masters, the fighting around her gradually stopped. The soldiers of the Shangguan family and the two kings were either killed or began to surrender.
There is no way, the situation is stronger than the people. In this situation, if you don't surrender, you will be killed. No one wants to die. Since they can't be defeated, they don't dare to surrender and seek a way to survive.
An hour later, the fighting at the scene completely stopped. Everyone began to collect the corpses and count the losses. Su Cheng also invited Liang Wang and Dongfang Ming to the Gongyuan Hall.
After the two parties took their seats, Su Cheng smiled and said to them: "Thank you very much, Prince Liang and Lord Chief Assistant, for coming to help me today. I will report this matter to your majesty truthfully!"
These words made Prince Liang and Dongfang Ming look a little unhappy.
Reporting truthfully means that Su Cheng will delay them for some time, hoping to wait until both sides are injured in a fierce battle before taking action.
Once the emperor knew their thoughts, they would be in big trouble.
It's okay for a person to be ambitious, but if the ambition is too great and the emperor knows about it, that's not a good thing.
The King of Liang sneered: "Marquis Wu'an, there is some misunderstanding about today's matter. The King and the Chief Assistant initially thought of sending troops as soon as possible, but the two old foxes, King Qin and King Yan, arranged manpower outside. Let's solve these problems." It took a lot of time!"
Dongfang Ming also quickly nodded in agreement: "Yes, Marquis Wu'an, you have to make this matter clear to His Majesty. We are not intending to watch you and the Shangguan family fight and remain indifferent."
Su Cheng stared at the two people who were hurriedly explaining without saying a word, with a hint of a smile on his face.
If you say this, you can only deceive a child, how can you hide it from him?
When King Liang and Dongfang Ming saw that Su Cheng was silent, they couldn't help but look at each other. They knew that if they didn't pay some price, Su Cheng would make a fuss about this matter.
Thinking of this, Dongfang Ming said: "Marquis Wu'an, there is no need for us to fall out over a trivial matter. We are all officials in the same court, and we will not see you when we look up."
This is a reminder to Su Cheng that even if you are reasonable this time, there is no guarantee that you will not ask for anything from them in the future. Leave a line now so that we can meet each other in the future.
The King of Liang also echoed: "The first assistant is right. Marquis Wu'an is a smart man. I believe you know what to do."
The two of them were indeed worried that Su Cheng would speak ill of them in front of the emperor, but this time they did something wrong. If Su Cheng really told the truth, they would have no way to refute Su Cheng.
The only way is to find a way to convince Su Cheng now!
Su Cheng glanced at the two of them after hearing this, pondered for a moment, and then said, "It's not impossible to make me say something against my will. It depends on whether you two are willing to give up enough profits."
Some things are better said directly, as it would be boring to go round and round. Moreover, the emperor should have just returned, and he must take care of the remaining matters before the other party comes back.
Liang Wang and Dongfang Ming must give up their profits, and neither of them looks very good.
But compared with Su Cheng's complaint to the emperor, they felt that they still could not let the emperor know what they did today.
King Liang took a deep breath, stared at Su Cheng and asked, "What does Marquis Wu An want?"
Su Cheng looked indifferent: "I don't want to do anything. Just now, there was news from the Shen Family Buzhuang that the King of Wu and the King of Zhao were restraining each other and did not take action. I would like to ask you two to go over and pacify the King of Wu. Don't worry, the King of Wu is here A cowardly person will definitely surrender if he sees you leading so many people there!"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of Liang Wang and Dongfang Ming changed drastically.
At this time, they were going to deal with King Wu. Su Cheng must have led his men to capture the Shangguan Mansion and Shangguan Chamber of Commerce. This was a good job. If they captured these two places, they would definitely get a lot of property.
Although most of these properties have to be turned over, some private corruption is still a huge amount of income.
King Liang was the first to refuse. He stared at Su Cheng with a look of reluctance: "Isn't Marquis Wu'an's appetite too big?"
Su Cheng shrugged: "If you are unwilling, then I will tell the truth to your Majesty. Of course, if you agree, the palaces of Prince Qin and Prince Yan can be handed over to you. If you hesitate again, when His Majesty returns to the city, you will want to ransack the houses again."
It’s difficult.”
After all, these two people came to help, and they couldn't give no benefits at all. He went to raid Shangguan's house and Shangguan Chamber of Commerce, and left the rest of Yan Prince's Palace and Qin Prince's Palace to these two people. This kind of division of the spoils can be regarded as each getting what he needs.
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Upon hearing this, King Liang narrowed his eyes and turned to look at Dongfang Ming who was standing aside.
Dongfang Ming thought for a while, and finally nodded in agreement: "The matter has come to this, we can only agree, but Marquis Wu'an, you have to remember your words, we don't want His Majesty to cause us trouble because of today's incident."
Su Cheng laughed: "Don't worry, I am not someone who would burn bridges when crossing rivers!"
When the King of Liang saw that Dongfang Ming and Su Cheng had reached an agreement, he immediately stood up and said: "In that case, I and the chief assistant will each take half of their people to pacify the King of Wu, and the remaining people will raid the Yan Palace and the Qin Palace!"
After speaking, they both left at the same time.
Su Cheng was not idle either. After the two left, he gave the order: "He Changsheng, Tian Dazhuang, you two take people to copy the Shangguan Chamber of Commerce. Remember, you must find their account books!"
"Shen Xingyu, take someone with me to Shangguan's house. Our purpose this time is to find evidence that Shangguan Hao cultivated dead soldiers!"
After giving the order, both sides divided into two teams and left separately.
Shen Youwei followed Su Cheng to the Shangguan Mansion. At this moment, the Shangguan Mansion was only guarded by servants, and Shen Xingyu led his men to kill him directly.
When Shen Youwei saw this scene, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Ms. sir, you are really willing to attack Shangguan Yunge's family."
here we go again!
Women’s damn desire to win!
Su Cheng smiled bitterly: "Madam, it's now this time. There's no need for you to say this. It was the Shangguan family who made the first move. If we don't catch them all, there will be endless troubles in the future!"
While talking, screams came from the Shangguan Mansion. Someone resisted and was killed. For a while, the Shangguan Mansion was dripping with blood and corpses continued to fall.
A quarter of an hour later, Shen Xingyu came to report covered in blood: "Brother-in-law, we have found a tunnel, and our people are going along the tunnel to check!"
"In addition, we also found a secret room inside, which contained many account books, which recorded the officials the Shangguan family had befriended and the money given to these officials every year."
Su Cheng narrowed his eyes: "This time, the Shangguan family is completely finished. Let's go and have a look!"
Under the leadership of Shen Xingyu, they came to Shangguan Hao's house in the backyard. The secret room inside had been opened. It was densely packed with gold and silver jewelry, and there were many account books beside it.
Su Cheng casually opened one of the books and took a few glances at it, and found that it was indeed a record of bribery.
"Take away half of the gold, silver, jewels and gold, and give the rest to Your Majesty!"
If the confiscation of the house was not for corruption, everything would be meaningless. He had lost so many people this time, so he must find a way to compensate for it.
As for the emperor?
He has already made excuses to deal with it... Oh no, it's to deal with it!