At the Xiao Yang family's mansion, with an order, hundreds of officials rushed into Xiao Yang's home and began to search the house.

Today, Li Weiguo personally brought people to copy Xiao Yang's home, but after working hard for most of the day, the total value of gold, silver, coins, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, rare treasures, grain, cloth, etc. collected was less than 300,000 taels of silver.

Of course, the Xiao family's real estate, shops, land deeds, etc. are not included for the time being.

You should know that Chongming County is a top-notch county with a cultivated land area of ​​100,000 hectares, and Xiao Yang alone occupied 10,000 hectares, equivalent to 150,000 mu of them, and they are all good fields.

Xiao Yang has been in Chongming County for decades. His property does not have tens of millions of taels of silver or at least several million taels of silver. Now he has only collected less than 300,000 taels of silver, which is a far cry from it.

Even the heads of the Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan families who followed Li Weiguo to search their homes together did not believe what they saw. They also occupied the family for hundreds of years in Chongming County, each of which was worth one or two million taels of silver, not to mention the largest Xiao family.

Especially the head of the Su family, he donated more than 200 merchant ships from the Su family to Li Weiguo in one breath to bet on the Yangtze River. At that time, Li Weiguo agreed to take him to copy Xiao Yang's house, but now he has not copied out valuable things. How can he be willing to do so?

"Impossible! Xiao Yang's family property has at least five million taels of silver. Excluding fixed assets such as real estate, land deeds, shops, etc., there are at least two million taels of silver for other properties. He must have hidden it to see if there is a secret or a secret room!"

Before Li Weiguo could speak, the head of the Su family became anxious and ordered people to dig three feet into the ground to continue to "seek treasures".

Li Weiguo did not stop him, but instead found out that he would have to be assigned to him in the end. The head of the Su family who actively helped him save Li Weiguo from worrying.

The head of the Su family quickly focused on the butler of the Xiao family and threatened him and turned a blind eye to this.

"It's a secret room! Sir, I found it!"

Accompanied by a scream, an official finally dug three feet into the ground and found a secret room in the rockery of the Xiao family's back house.

When Li Weiguo saw the secret room locked, he was immediately delighted. This was probably Xiao Yang's treasure.

"Why are you still standing there? Smash it open!"

With the order of Li Weiguo, the head of the Su family couldn't wait to snatch the hammer and rushed forward to destroy the lock of the secret room.

"Master, I'm sorry for you! This huge family business has been ruined in the hands of me!"

Butler Xiao suddenly shouted loudly, rushed towards the door of the secret room like crazy, and hit him and died on it.

Li Weiguo sighed. No matter whether it is a good person or a bad person, there are always followers and loyal people. Butler Xiao obviously saw that the secret room was discovered and the Xiao family's property could not be hidden. He felt ashamed of his master and had to apologize for his death.

Li Weiguo ordered people to carry the body away, but he did not feel any discomfort because the enemy was not worthy of sympathy.

Soon, the head of the Su family came out of the secret room and said to Li Weiguodao: "Congratulations, Xiao Yang's entire family is inside!"

Li Weiguo was overjoyed and hurriedly brought people into the secret room, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.

The secret room is divided into two parts. There are more than a hundred large boxes on the left, and there are neatly placed gold ingots, silver ingots, gold bars, silver bars, gold bricks, silver bricks, etc. on the right. There are more than a dozen rows of shelves, divided by wooden boards into small grids of different sizes, lengths, and heights. The grids are placed with various finely carved jewelry, jade, porcelain, antique calligraphy and paintings, swords and books, etc., and there are thousands of pieces.

After some inventory, Zhang Xiaoliu handed over the account records to Li Weiguo for viewing.

Oh my god, I'm worthy of being a big landlord!

Li Weiguo couldn't help but be amazed. The account recorded the 24,300 taels of gold and 1,173,000 taels of silver, and other jewelry, jade, antique calligraphy and paintings. The general estimate of the four heads of the Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan families was about one million taels of silver.

"Sir, these two boxes are sealed, and are about to be handed over to Lord Lu Jianying, the Governor's Office of Liangjiang. There are 320,000 taels of silver inside, and all the silver is engraved with the words "Chongming County House Manufacturing". It is the official silver of Chongming County!"

It turns out that this is Xiao Yang's official bank in Chongming County Government's fraudulent account, and a lot of it is here.

However, Xiao Yang clearly planned to give the 320,000 taels of silver to Lu Jianying, but unfortunately, before he had time to hand it over to Lu Jianying, they all fell into the hands of Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo thought for a while and said, "This batch of silver will not be included in the list for now. This county will also use it to disgust the old thief Lu Jianying!"

At this time, the heads of the four Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan families were all surrounded by Li Weiguo, and kept scolding Xiao Yang for being greedy for so much money.

How could Li Weiguo not understand the meaning of these four guys, and immediately smiled and said, "The four heads of the family have made great contributions to following the county, and the county should reward them without hesitation. Especially the head of the Su family, who was willing to use more than 200 merchant ships from the Su family to help the county achieve success in the matter of blocking the juncture, and the county remembers it in mind."

"Sir, I'm over the award!"

"This is what the grass-roots should do!"

"It should be!"

The heads of the Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan families hurriedly answered modestly, but they all pricked up their ears and waited for Li Weiguo's following.

When the water is clear, there is no fish. Li Weiguo smiled bitterly. There is no free lunch in this world. No one will give for nothing. They always demand rewards. Even those who do charity are for the sake of reputation.

Li Weiguo immediately made the decision. The heads of the four families of Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan were rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver each. The heads of the Su family made great contributions to blocking the river embankment and broke the ridge, and they were particularly rewarded with 400,000 taels of silver.

As a result, the four companies received a total of 800,000 taels of silver as rewards, showing joy, thanking Li Weiguo repeatedly, and showing their loyalty.

Of course, Li Weiguo would not give them real money, because those real money and silver Li Weiguo had great use, so Li Weiguo distributed a portion of the jewelry, jade, porcelain, antique calligraphy and paintings, swords and books that Xiao Yang collected, and directly exchanged them for the four of them.

The heads of the four families of Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan were so happy. They had originally simply and conservatively estimated the value of these antiques. If they found the right buyer, the batch of antiques that Li Weiguo gave them could be sold for at least one million taels of silver, which would undoubtedly give them a big advantage.

Seeing the four people's dancing expressions, Li Weiguo smiled and said, "This county has always been kind to repay kindness and revenge. You four have helped this county, so this county will naturally not treat you badly. I hope you can continue to assist this county in governing Chongming County in the future!"

The heads of the four families were greatly moved and immediately said in unison: "Mr. Li is kind and righteous, we should repay you today's kindness!"

Li Weiguo nodded, quite satisfied with the performance of the four.

Soon, Xiao Yang's family was confiscated.

Everything in the secret room was not recorded. In addition to the antique cultural relics worth 800,000 taels of silver from Li Weiguo to Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan, there were antique cultural relics worth 200,000 taels of silver, 24,300 taels of gold, 1,173,000 taels of silver, and 320,000 taels of Chongming Treasury silver archived separately. The only things recorded in the county government's search were recorded before, with a total price of less than 300,000 taels of silver.

"The officials who participated in the search today were rewarded with twenty taels of silver each, and one hundred taels of silver for being an official!"

This is called hush money. Adults eat meat and villains drink soup. Any search is inevitable.

This is also the unspoken rule of the officialdom. Every official is clear in his mind. If there is a lot of money to make money, they will naturally not talk nonsense.

As for the remaining money, Li Weiguo naturally had to accept it with a smile. Compared with the fact that he had just recruited 4,000 new recruits, although one thousand of them could be reimbursed as soldiers in Chongming County, the remaining three thousand people had to eat, drink and equipment, which was a huge expense. At present, Li Weiguo's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank had no profit to squander, so the job of raiding homes to make extra money is particularly important to Li Weiguo.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoliu said excitedly: "Young Master, Xiao Yang's family has been searched. Should we go to Lu and Huang's family?"

Only then did Li Weiguo remember that in addition to Xiao Yang's family, Lu and Huang's family were also sentenced to be confiscated.

Li Weiguo nodded immediately, leaving some people to deal with the aftermath. He and Zhang Xiaoliu and his master and servant led the team to Lu Huang's family in person.

Sure enough, it is easy to get addicted to house searches!

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Chapter completed!