Red Mansion: I relied on the AFK system to create a dynasty

Cen Mingche tapped the account book in his hand with a smile.

"It's not impossible to tolerate mercy outside the law."

"It's just that if you eat something from me, you have to spit it out for me."

Only then did Zhen Yingjia notice that there were piles of ledgers piled high in the room, with different colors.

"This is……"

"Of course it's a private account."

Cen Mingche smiled.

"If you want people not to know, unless you don't do it yourself."

Zhen Yingjia's pupils shrank suddenly!

How did Prince Yi get it!

A salt merchant's private account book is almost as important as their life!

Where did he get such great ability? He took the thing in his hands without any trouble!

Could it be that it is the emperor...

Alarm bells rang in Zhen Yingjia's heart.

"How did Your Highness...?"

"Ok?"

"The official made a mistake."

Zhen Yingjia bowed with difficulty and retreated.

He needs to quickly discuss countermeasures with his second brother!

If the salt merchant who worked closely with their family was taken down...

Then the Zhen family will be in bad luck!

Looking at Zhen Yingjia's hastily leaving, a sneer escaped from the corner of Cen Mingche's lips.

Are you afraid?

Starting to panic?

Where is this going!

The good show is still to come!

that night.

Emperor Qian opened the secret folder sent by Cen Mingche from Yangzhou.

"...Yangzhou salt merchants and the Zhen family colluded with each other, mixed public interests with private interests, sold on a large scale, and made profits of more than one million..."

"...Express the salt people and raise the price of salt..."

"...The Zhen family annexed the land, sold their official positions, bullied men and women, and even poisoned the court officials...Evidence...I don't dare to be good at it..."

Along with the secret documents came a thick stack of account books, evidence signed by multiple parties, and the living witness.

The more Emperor Qian looked at it, the more he frowned.

"The Zhen family has betrayed the emperor's favor and acted wantonly, preying on the common people and begging for His Majesty's decree."

Zhen family, Zhen family...

The emperor knew that the Zhen family was powerful, but the emperor did not expect that the Zhen family was really so courageous!

The Zhen family has committed many crimes, and they should be punished!

But wet nurse...

Ugh……

Emperor Qian gently rubbed his temples, picked up the teacup, and sipped slowly.

After a long while, he picked up his pen and wrote down his answer.

Finally, give them another chance.

"Your Majesty, it's time to turn the cards."

"Go back."

This is what I mean by not flipping the sign today.

By the way, Concubine Zhen...the Zhen family...

I hope they will just accept it when they see fit.

……

Jiangnan.

Yangzhou.

There was silence in Yangzhou City, but this silence was not deathly silence, but the silence of an undercurrent, like a deep river.

"How many were found?"

"Salt triggered 370 million deaths this year, but the existing salt can no longer match the number."

"How much more?"

"One hundred thousand quotes."

It's not even April yet.

OK, that's great.

What a great way to deceive superiors and hide from subordinates!

"You can use private accounts and public accounts to find out how much salt is wrong."

"Your Highness, because time is tight, we only checked the accounts of the four major salt merchants in the past three years. There was a total difference of 970 yuan. The difference in silver is about 650 million yuan."

The entire country's annual tax revenue is only 2000 million taels.

The four major salt merchants in Lianghuai sold more than 650 million yuan of private salt within three years.

That’s one-tenth of a country’s tax revenue in one year.

Great, really great.

"Which one has the most?"

"The Dou family."

"How many?"

"About half."

half? !

Cen Mingche was startled.

It seems that the Dou family and the Zhen family have colluded.

Otherwise, how could you get so much?

"The Dou family can be ransacked. If anyone is greedy when searching the house, please watch your head and behave yourself. Do you understand?"

"As ordered!"

"The remaining three families... let them pay back the money at three times the price of salt, or else they will have their homes confiscated."

"My subordinates will inform you immediately!"

Tonight, there is no sleep in Yangzhou.

"Brother, you have to save your brother!"

In the study, Zhen Yingke looked at his brother Zhen Yingjia nervously.

"Brother, this money is not for my own use. It is for our family. You can't ignore me at this time."

Zhen Yingjia frowned.

"Don't worry, I can't ignore you."

"Besides, although Prince Yi is a prince, he is still just a prince, do you understand?"

"The only one who can deal with us is the Emperor."

"Prince Yi doesn't have the guts to kill him first and tell him later."

Zhen Yingke was still obviously anxious.

"But, Your Majesty..."

Zhen Yingjia waved her hand.

"Don't forget, our mother is still alive, and there is a pregnant mother in the palace. But she is greedy for money and does not delay things. The emperor will not deal with it too harshly."

"However, remember to tell the younger generations at home to restrain themselves during this period. Now is not the time for them to show off their power. Do you understand?"

"...Brother, are you really going to be okay?"

"Don't worry. However, our family has to keep its tail between its legs during this period of time."

"Yes, brother, I understand. I will restrain these boys in my family."

"At this time, it would be wrong to say anything. All we can do is wait."

The Zhen family is waiting for a result.

The Dou family is also waiting.

The small ear room was crowded with the female relatives of the family.

Listening to the commotion outside, everyone's face was full of confusion.

"Old lady, what's going on?"

Mrs. Dou asked softly.

Mrs. Dou forced herself to calm down.

"Don't panic, after all, even those things don't involve the elderly, weak, women and children."

Mrs. Dou had tears in her eyes, holding her daughter tightly with one hand, and holding Mrs. Dou's wrinkled hand tightly with the other, as if she wanted to draw strength from it.

"Mom, grandma, I'm afraid."

"Bao'er, don't be afraid, ah, don't be afraid."

Several concubines were crowded together like a nest of chickens.Their aunts are not here, but in the backyard, and they don't know what the situation is.Seeing the deep love between the legitimate daughter and the legitimate mother, I feel panic and envy at the same time.

"Don't you have a good relationship with the Zhen family? Our family is like this... Could it be that the Zhen family doesn't help?"

Mrs. Dou smiled bitterly.

"What's going on with the Zhen family, and what's going on with our family? Our family is just their pawns. If we abandon them, we'll abandon them."

"Now, I can only ask the adults above to be kind and let us go free and not be sold into slavery."

Mrs. Dou covered her mouth, wanting to cry but not daring to cry, tears welling up in her eyes.

"This, how is this good?"

Madam Dou sighed.

"Wait, wait slowly."

"Don't panic. Don't scare yourself to death before you wait for the result. What will happen to your children?"

The Dou family's once colorful garden was in chaos.The warehouse door was wide open, and soldiers were coming and going in an orderly manner, with a few counting sounds coming from time to time.

"Ten boxes of silver, worth 1 taels!"

"Remember, Coral Head has a different face!"

"Remember, there is a pure gold Guanyin statue, one foot and eight minutes high!"

"Remember, a pink pearl shirt!"

"Remember, there are six gold plates, a total of one thousand, two hundred taels!"

"Remember, a three-color jadeite carved mountain stone ornament!"

"remember,……"

The books that were copied from the house were piled up into a hill, and all kinds of gold, silver, pearls and jade were put in boxes and hung to dry in the sky, making them dazzling.