Fang Chen arrived at the door of Shangshu Mansion.
"Report! Young Master, the palace manager Fang has come to Shangshu Mansion!"
At this moment, Zhang Fengwu was drinking and listening to music in Shangshu Mansion.
Now my father is recuperating in the Imperial Hospital and cannot handle political affairs for the past three months.
The eldest brother Zhang Shaolong is the commander of the patrol camp. He is very busy every day and does not come back at night.
So now Zhang Fengwu handles everything in the Shangshu Mansion.
Wu Xuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, also moved into the Shangshu Mansion. This was arranged by Zhang Yu and asked Wu Xuan to assist Zhang Fengwu.
The two of them were drinking and listening to music, and were shocked when they heard Fang Chen coming.
Wu Xuan said: "What is Fang Chen doing here at this time? He came directly to Shangshu Mansion. He must have come prepared."
Zhang Fengwu put down the wine glass in his hand: "It seems that this dead eunuch can't raise money, so he came here to beg for mercy."
The two decided that Fang Chen could not raise the money.
Before, they suppressed Fang Chen and asked Fang Chen to sign an IOU of 400,000 yuan. After three days, he could destroy Fang Chen's family.
Zhang Fengwu waved his hand and asked the beauty singing the ditty to go down.
Soon, Fang Chen came to the living room under the guidance of his servant.
"Master Fang, what kind of wind brings you here? Master Fang's arrival really makes our Shangshu Mansion shine!"
Zhang Fengwu seemed to welcome him warmly, but his voice was strange.
Fang Chen stepped forward, saw the scene in front of him, and the musical instruments placed next to him, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Master Zhang would be so casual and elegant."
With that said, Fang Chen sat down, grabbed the wine bottle on the table, poured himself a glass, and drank it himself.
“What a great wine!”
Zhang Fengwu and Wu Xuan were confused by Fang Chen's impolite behavior.
Wu Xuan said straight to the point: "Master Fang, I don't know what you are talking about when you come to Shangshu Mansion?"
Fang Chen poured himself another glass of wine and took a sip: "I'm here today to pay off the debt."
Soon, Fang Chen took out the 400,000 taels of silver notes from his bag and threw them casually on the table.
Zhang Fengwu and Wu Xuan were stunned.
The two people grabbed the banknote on the table and checked it. It was genuine and it was a banknote from Wancai Bank.
After checking that there was nothing wrong with the banknote, Zhang Fengwu and Zhang Fengwu felt very complicated.
They thought that Fang Chen couldn't get the banknote at all, but they didn't expect that Fang Chen had brought the banknote before the agreed three days.
Zhang Fengwu's face was ugly, and he laughed twice: "I wonder where Mr. Fang got so many banknotes? A total of four hundred thousand taels, which is not a small amount. I remember I told Mr. Fang before, if the money comes from
If it’s not clean, you’ll have to turn around if you don’t do it properly.”
He was testing, asking Fang Chen to tell the origin of these banknotes.
However, Fang Chen did not say: "You don't care where I got the money, as long as I can take it out from Wancai Bank and spend it. I gave you the money, just take out the IOU."
Since the other party had paid back the money, Zhang Fengwu went to the study, took out the IOU, and handed it to Fang Chen.
Fang Chen tore the IOU into pieces on the spot.
"Master Zhang, from now on we don't have any debts. If we find that any merchants in Yanghuafang have any dealings with Master Zhang again, I will not let him go leniently!"
Fang Chen left.
The two remaining people, Zhang Fengwu and Wu Xuan, looked cold and ashen.
Zhang Fengwu picked up the wine glass in his hand, threw it to the ground, and shouted angrily: "Where did this damn bastard get the money from?"
Their plan failed.
Wu Xuan frowned and thought for a while and said: "Fang Chen himself does not have 400,000 taels of silver at all, and the Ma family has recently invested all their money in building factories and housing, and it is impossible to come up with 400,000 taels. Even if His Majesty wants to
Even if you support Fang Chen, Your Majesty will not be able to take money from the finance department because it needs to be reviewed by our Ministry of Household Affairs."
"And His Majesty has donated all his personal money over the years and used it to improve people's livelihood. Your Majesty can't take it out, and none of the people Fang Chen knows can take it out. So where did these 400,000 taels come from?"
Zhang Fengwu looked at the banknotes in his hand one after another and said, "We can check based on the numbers on the banknotes. We can naturally get useful clues by going to Wancai Bank."
So Zhang Fengwu asked Wu Xuan to go and investigate in person, but the result was that there was no information at all.
The bank kept the large amounts of property secret, and only told Wu Xuan that the money came from the auction of antique calligraphy and paintings, and all came from legitimate sources.
Zhang Fengwu has been waiting for news, and Wu Xuan will inform him of the results of the inquiry after he returns.
Zhang Fengwu cursed secretly: "Damn it!"
"Fang Chen was able to take out the money, most likely because he was well prepared. I didn't believe in any antique calligraphy and painting, so he immediately sent someone to contact my elder brother and other people from the Ministry of Accounts and asked them to find a person in Wancai Qianzhuang.
Find an acquaintance and find a way to secretly find out the real source of the money."
"If the money comes from an unclean source, Fang Chen can be put to death."
The hard work paid off, and the next morning, news came from the Zhang family's secret agent Tang Rongjun.
"Second Young Master, yesterday Fang Chen went to Mr. Ye Fanye's house and met with Hu Yanzhuo, the envoy of the Western Empire. Fang Chen most likely got the money in his hands from Hu Yanzhuo!"
Zhang Fengwu and Wu Xuan were both very surprised when they heard the news.
Wu Xuan said: "This Fang Chen is really in a hurry and seeks medical treatment. He dares to conspire with envoys from other countries and get money from Hu Yanzhuo!"
"If this money comes from a foreign envoy, and Hu Yanzhuo is willing to give 400,000 taels to Fang Chen at once, the two parties must have conspired to discuss something and reached some kind of deal."
Zhang Fengwu nodded heavily: "Yes, Fang Chen must have given Hu Yanzhuo huge benefits, so Hu Yanzhuo was willing to pay 400,000 taels."
"I heard that not long ago, Hu Yanzhuo wanted to buy Fang Chen away from the court, and was willing to pay tribute to the Great Yan Dynasty for ten years. Later, I also heard that Hu Yanzhuo was willing to spend one million taels a year.
He bought Fang Chen with his money, but His Majesty refused at the time. But this time Fang Chen encountered a problem and had no way to solve it, so he obviously agreed."
Hearing this, Wu Xuan's eyes lit up and he said: "If Fang Chen agrees, he will be disobeying His Majesty's order. He colluded with envoys from other countries and did some ulterior things. We can definitely seize this handle.
Get a copy of it from Your Majesty."
Zhang Fengwu thought about it and felt that this method was inappropriate.
"A lot of the protection fees we have collected in the past few years are to force those merchants to write IOUs and collect protection fees in disguise in the form of repayment. If Fang Chen's conspiracy is revealed in the court, Fang Chen will reveal these things.
Although there is no evidence, doing so would be extremely detrimental to us."
Wu Xuan had his own opinion: "Can't the second young master see it? Your Majesty has long wanted to deal with us. We have fought with Fang Chen for so long, which is equivalent to fighting with His Majesty for so long. Now this result is what we must do
Try your best to stop Fang Chen!"
"There is no use in raising matters without evidence. We have done it so cleanly that no clues will fall into the hands of others. So the second young master will go to court with me tomorrow, and we will use your majesty's hand to bring these 400,000 silver notes."
Check the road clearly."
The two discussed for a long time and finally decided to go to court tomorrow to uncover the conspiracy of Fang Chen and Hu Yanzhuo.