As soon as Chang Feng got his hands on the second blue brick, he felt that the weight was wrong! Too heavy!
Chang Feng threw the green brick in his hand against the well wall.
"Bang!" The green brick did not break into two pieces, only one corner was broken, revealing its silvery color.
Green bricks are fired from clay. Apparently, Cai Zhong coated the silver bricks with clay, fired them into green bricks, and set them into the walls of the well!
Chang Feng guessed. There are about seven or eight hundred blue bricks on the surrounding well walls. There should be part of it made of ordinary blue bricks and part of it covered with silver bricks!
When Fatty Xu heard Chang Feng's words "Heaven will never stop me", he quickly shouted to the bottom of the well: "What's wrong?"
Chang Feng said: "I found the silver. Pull me up!"
He went outside the well and had someone bring a small hammer. After breaking the green bricks into pieces, there was a solid silver brick inside! It weighs twenty taels.
Chang Feng ordered one of his men: "Hurry and take turns to go down the well, pull out all the green bricks from the well wall, put them directly in the bucket and hang them up."
Captain Shi was the first to go down the well.
One green brick after another was transported up. Chang Feng was busy smashing green bricks with a small hammer at the edge of the well to find silver bricks.
Basically, one out of every three green bricks has the wrong weight, and when broken, the silver brick inside is revealed.
It's getting closer and closer to Youshi. Beads of sweat broke out on Chang Feng's forehead.
The number of silver bricks is also slowly rising. Ten yuan, twenty yuan, fifty yuan, one hundred yuan...
Two moments before the deadline, all the green bricks in the dry well were removed and smashed.
The white silver bricks are also piled up in piles.
Fatty Xu counted: "The silver bricks found total 230 pieces. The total weight is about 4600 taels."
Chang Feng called to the accounting officer: "Report the total number!"
The accountant opened the ledger: "Add these 4,600 taels of silver. The four items of gold, silver, copper coins, and treasure banknotes seized by the Cai Mansion totaled 31,200 taels of silver."
Chang Feng slumped beside the well as if his strength had been drained from his body.
My future is saved and I don’t have to be sent to Datong anymore!
Moreover, if this job is done well, it will be equivalent to contributing to the imperial concubine's party. His superiors will definitely give him a promotion.
Fatty Xu smiled and said, "That's right! I don't need to take care of Tangtang anymore. Master Chang, I congratulate you in advance on your promotion and wealth!"
Chang Feng rubbed his legs and stood up. He dusted himself off and straightened his clothes: "Let's go to the door of the mansion. Ambassador Zhu Zhen should be arriving soon. Let's go and greet him."
Standing at the door of the house. Chang Feng is thinking about the future with great satisfaction.
If you make a trial of 100 households, as long as you don't make any big mistakes, according to the rules, the word "trial" will be erased after one year and you will officially become a 100 households.
Hundreds of households can be equipped with embroidered spring knives. By then, he had become a mid-level official of Jinyiwei.
Not to mention, the factory guards are all controlled by the imperial concubine party. This time he has done so much for Fei Chu, and maybe Lord Shang and Commander Wan will remember his name!
You know, Xu Baihu from Fusi, Beizhen, bribed Zhu Ji with 400 taels of silver a while ago. Just to serve tea while Commander Wan plays chess with Mr. Shang of Dongchang.
In the end, Commander Wan didn't even remember his name.
At this moment, a burst of yellow dust rose to the west of Cai Mansion!
Zhu Ji did not serve as an official sedan chair, but rode a horse to clear the way for the top horse.
Behind them came a hundred cavalry. Behind them were two hundred warriors in uniforms trotting all the way.
When high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty travel, they pay attention to supporting their horses and clearing the way. The rider of the top horse is usually the official's confidant.
Chang Feng secretly thought: Today, the governor of Zhu Zhen actually became a top horse? It seems that Commander Wan and Eunuch Shang of Dongchang are here in person!
Sure enough, behind the cavalry and the warriors were two official sedan chairs.
One can carry eight, one can carry six.
On both sides of the eight-carriage sedan, there were dedicated people holding official badges. The official plaque on the left reads "Eunuch in Charge of the Chief of Ceremony", and the official plaque on the right reads "Eunuch in Charge of the Imperial Envoy and Governor of Dongchang Official School".
There are also official plaques on both sides of the six-carriage sedan. The official sign on the left reads "Commander of Imperial Guards", and the official sign on the right reads "Emperor's decree to grant the title of Xin'an Bo".
Fatty Xu was surprised: "Have Duke Shang and Commander Wan arrived?"
Chang Feng quickly ordered his subordinates: "Kneel down to greet the Governor and command the envoy!"
Hula la, the Jinyi Guards and the soldiers from the Wucheng Army and Horses Division knelt down together.
Not long after, two official sedans stopped in front of the Cai Mansion.
A eunuch with a white face and a beardless face and a thin body, as if he could be blown away by a gust of wind, stepped out of the eight-carriage sedan.
This person is Shang Ming, the number one person in charge of the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the internal minister who oversees the East Factory.
Shang Ming, a man with mixed reputations. No one can tell whether he is a good guy or a bad guy.
When he supervised Dongchang, the first thing he did was to compile a list of wealthy households inside and outside the capital.
Then, the dignified internal minister began to engage in an unattractive business - kidnapping!
He asked his men to arrest more than 600 wealthy households and enter the East Factory according to the list. I won’t beat you, and I won’t scold you either. All you need to do is write a letter and let your family get the money to redeem the person.
The ransom is usually one-tenth of the property of each wealthy family. It doesn't cost you anything, just do what you want. After seeing the ransom, he immediately released him without saying a word.
The Ming Dynasty is related to the business of bandits. Logically speaking, Shang Ming should be notorious and notorious.
Ke Shangming used the ransom money he extorted from wealthy households to build nursing homes for the lonely elderly near Gyeonggi Province; he built free schools for children from poor families; he built free clinics for patients who couldn't afford to see a doctor; he opened porridge for the hungry...
Take ill-gotten gains and do righteous things.
The people of Gyeonggi Province call him "Shang En Gong". Everyone said that he was a knight-errant who robbed the rich and gave to the poor.
There is also a saying. This person is both greedy for money and fame. After blackmailing a rich man, half of the money he got was used to do good deeds, and the other half was put into his own pocket. This is called fame and fortune.
The governor Shang Ming in front of Chang Feng is such a complicated person.
People, how can anything be black and white?
A tall, muscular warrior in his fifties came down from the six-carriage sedan. This person is the commander of the Jinyi Guards, Wantong.
Wantong is the second brother of Concubine Wan Guifei, the master of the harem. Known for his fierceness and viciousness.
In name, the commander of the Jinyiwei was held hostage by the governor of the East Factory. But with the relationship between Wan Guifei, Wantong and Shang Ming are equal in status.
The two of them can be called Concubine Wan Gui's right-hand men.
Shang Ming is a famous smiling tiger in the court. He smiled broadly: "That's all, let's all get up! Who is in charge of the search of Cai Zhong's residence?"
Chang Feng raised his hand and said: "My subordinate Chang Feng, the general banner of Fusi in Jinyiwei North Town, pays homage to the Governor."
When he mentioned the word "Chang Feng", he deliberately emphasized his tone.
As long as the giants of Dongchang remember his name, it will be enough for him to endure ten years of hard work in Beizhen Fusi.
Shang Ming asked: "How much silver was copied in total?"
Chang Feng replied: "Return to the Governor. I copied out gold, silver, copper coins, and treasure banknotes, totaling 31,200 taels of silver. Antiques, calligraphy and paintings, land and real estate contracts, domestic prostitutes, etc. are not counted."
Shang Ming pretended to be surprised: "Oh! Cai Zhong is really the number one beetle in our Chenghua Dynasty! He has a good way of making money!"
"His wealth actually amounts to thirty-one thousand two hundred taels. It is more than the emperor's internal transportation warehouse."
"More than thirty thousand taels of silver. How many widows and widowers can be helped, and how many children from poor families can be sent to school?"
Chang Feng said: "What the Governor said is absolutely true."
Shang Ming looked at Chang Feng with a smile: "Chang... what is Chang?"
Zhu Ji on the side reminded: "This young man is called Chang Feng."
Shang Ming nodded: "Chang Feng. You are very capable."
"Although I didn't remember your name before, I recognized you. Last year, you were also responsible for the errand of raiding Wang Zhi's mansion, right?"
"You're wearing the Feiyu suit because you stole Wang Zhi's house, so I gave you an unusual reward."
Chang Feng cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, Governor, for the compliment."
Shang Ming smiled and said: "You have a share of the credit for the collapse of the West Factory. You are a smart and capable person with a bright future."
Wang Zhi, Shang Ming's biggest enemy.
Although both of them belong to Concubine Wan Gui's party. However, one is in charge of the East Factory and the other is in charge of the newly established West Factory. They are incompatible with each other.
Last year, Shang Ming teamed up with foreign ministers to defeat Wang Zhi, and the West Factory was also abolished. Wang Zhi himself was assigned to Sixiang, Xiaoling, Nanjing.
Chang Feng said respectfully: "The Governor has over-honored me. My subordinates just performed their duties."
