Chapter 526: House Seizure

In the interpretation of costume dramas, home raids are often simplified into a scene where a group of officials go to the criminal's residence to transport gold and silver property.

Of course, in fact, confiscating a home is also a science.

Because in ancient times, people paid attention to farming and heirlooms, gold and silver were just floating wealth, and the most important thing was the land.

For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, the blessed king who was cooked into a feast of fortune and wealth was rewarded with 20,000 hectares of land!

Although King Wu's fiefdom is located in the southwest corner, there are still 300,000 households under his rule, and the vassal territory totals 23 counties.

According to Li Zhao's wishes.

The old territory of Wu Fan would be converted into counties and counties, taken back to the imperial court, and officials would be dispatched to manage people's livelihood.

Therefore, what Lin Chen wanted to do was not just confiscate gold and silver property.

Every time he went to Wu Fan's administration, he had to accuse the old ministers of the King of Wu.

Lin Chen would not tolerate those who had committed crimes and committed numerous crimes in the past, and decisively beheaded them to serve as a warning to others, thus winning the hearts of the people.

Those with a good official reputation can be retained, but they have to wait for the Ministry of Household Affairs to deal with it. The worst result is that they will become white again and return to their hometown to live their lives.

Although Lin Chen did not bring many soldiers with him on this trip, before the King of Wu conquered Sichuan and Shu, he took away almost all the soldiers in Wu Fan's fiefdom, and even the county soldiers were only left with a group of old and weak soldiers.

In this case, there was no need for him to take action. With the power of the imperial court, he could make various places surrender.

After all, if you don't vote now, the result will be different when the imperial army arrives.

This is similar to the modern principle of leniency for those who confess and severity for those who resist.

certainly.

It’s not that there are no stubborn resisters.

For example, some of King Wu's relatives knew that they would inevitably die, so they wanted to fight for it!

Among them, a distant uncle of King Wu's family made the most noise.

This man spent all his wealth and recruited thousands of local ruffians in an attempt to continue resisting the imperial court.

It's just that he felt that he could get a response from the people of Wu Fan by raising his banner.

However, the fact is that before this uncle of the Wu royal clan left the county seat, he was jointly eliminated by several squire clans.

The thousands of bandits he recruited were scattered like birds and beasts.

His head was also sent to Lin Chen to show his loyalty to the Li Tang court.

It can be said that Wu Fan did not have any resistance, and they were all surrendering!

So Lin Chen came to Kunyang Mansion, the core area under the rule of King Wu's vassal, without encountering many obstacles.

have to say.

Even in the northwest border far away from the Central Plains, King Wu did not deprive himself of his enjoyment.

The Xiping Mansion that was built is not much inferior to some of the houses in the capital that contributed to the founding of the country.

Yes.

What Lin Chen was referring to was the Jia Mansion.

However, just a few days before he entered the city, the maids and servants of the mansion fled with a large amount of money. The public security under Kunyang Mansion was also in chaos, and people were panicked.

This situation played into his own hands. Lin Chen immediately ordered two hundred elite soldiers to go to the government office to retrieve the escaped officials' documents and order them to be reinstated immediately.

At the same time, arrest the gangsters who are causing the most trouble here and behead them in public!

In just two days, order in Kunyang was cleared!

This also allowed the people of Kunyang to discover that the notorious General Yulin was not as cruel as the rumors said.

You know, before Lin Chen came, Wu Fan had already rumored him to be a brutal and bloody figure like the God of Killing Bai Qi.

Therefore.

Many frightened gentry and wealthy merchants of Wu Fan saw the opportunity and immediately delivered the hidden descendants of King Wu to Lin Chen.

According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the rebels must punish the three tribes!

Lin Chen didn't have many other ideas about this.

As relatives of the King of Wu, these people had a good enough life in Wu Fan in the past.

You can't be in trouble. Do you still think you can avoid it?

Therefore, these people were escorted to Beijing by Lin Chen. Whether they were killed or exiled depended on how Li Zhao dealt with them.

He was just here to ransack homes, not to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

At this time, the palace of Prince Wu was in a mess and even more deserted.

Apparently it had been searched by several groups of people first.

Lin Chen didn't care much about this. Those things that were taken away were just floating wealth.

The background of being a royal family is not directly exposed.

It was exactly what he thought.

In the Xiping Mansion, which occupies an extremely large area, it would be difficult to find the many hidden secret rooms with just the two hundred soldiers brought by Lin Chen.

Therefore, he specially mobilized hundreds of capable and experienced officials from Kunyang Mansion to assist.

soon……

"Remember, Beihai Pearl Three Dendrobiums!"

"Remember, twelve pairs of Western Man white jade ivory!"

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"Remember, the total value of gold and silver property is 470,000 taels!"

These scribes were sweating profusely, but the brushes in their hands were very steady, and they did not dare to write a single wrong word.

The officials who were originally called by Lin Chen to count the property of King Wu still wanted to try to figure out the thoughts of General Yu Lin.

For example, write down one number less for the gold and silver property.

Lin Chen would naturally accept the extra money.

In this regard, his statement is.

You are very good, go to the county closest to the barbarians in Central and South to be the chief clerk and manage the grain depot.

Now, no one dares to cheat anymore.

After all, this gentleman is not taking any advantage. If he and others stretch out their hands, do they feel that their necks are harder than a knife?

certainly.

For Lin Chen, these worldly possessions did not have much appeal to him.

After all, the reward package on the system side contains endless amounts of money and rare items.

However, it was the martial arts skills that King Wu had in stock that made him slightly more interested.

There are more than 200 copies of the acquired skills that some first- and second-rate sects in the world regard as treasures in Prince Wu’s Mansion!

Although many of them are copies of martial arts that are widely circulated in the martial arts world, there are also rare genuine ones.

There are even five innate martial arts.

They are two boxing techniques, one gun technique, one leg technique, and an internal martial arts technique called Shenlong Su Nu Gong.

Lin Chen was not very interested in the first four. After just a glance, they were copied into the Sutra Pavilion of the family's blessed land.

As for the internal martial arts technique of Shenlong Su Nu Gong, he had some impression of this name.

It is the martial arts practiced by Long Er in the movie.

Although this martial arts can be mastered quickly, the price is that after losing your virginity, the cultivation must be shared with the man who lost his virginity in half.

It can only be said that this thing is suitable for mass production of cauldrons and furnaces.

An idea flashed through Lin Chen's mind, and then he shook his head strangely and didn't think about it.

In addition, there are secret archives in the Wu Wang Mansion.

Just look at the manuscripts placed in the two large rooms, which record in detail the various affairs of the Wu Wang's fiefdom.

For example, what happened in the vassal state in a certain year and month; or at a certain time, the southwestern barbarians raised troops to invade, and how they won or lost.

However.

Lin Chen still found some things that Li Zhao should be interested in among these vast amounts of information.

"At the beginning of the year, the King of Wei sent 2,000 sets of armor."

"In the middle of the year, the King of Qi sent 20,000 stones of salt and 120,000 stones of grain and grass."

"Hong Antong of the Shenlong Sect led a total of 9,726 disciples to surrender."

Well.

Lin Chen looked at these records in amazement.

It turned out that the King of Wu dared to rebel, and there were many financial sponsors behind him.

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