"I'm afraid the Su family won't be able to pass this level." A calm and powerful voice came in.
"Who dares to make such bold statements?" The jade ball in Su Wen's hand suddenly stopped and he looked towards the door of the Assembly Hall.
A dark and tall young man strutted into the Su family's meeting hall. He was wearing a black guard uniform embroidered with a majestic white tiger. Coupled with his solemn eyes and slightly smiling face, this kind of grace soon followed. The ghost-faced man who entered also secretly admired.
"Master Ghost Face, the twelve-hour deadline has not yet come, why are you here again?" Gong Rufeng recognized the ghost face behind the dark-skinned boy and couldn't help but frown slightly.
"That's not what I meant." Ghost Face shook his head and stretched out his hand towards the young man beside him: "This is Ye Hu, the guard of the White Tiger Academy of the Jingwei Mansion. If you have anything you want to ask, just ask him?"
"Oh? Is that Ye Hu who was ruined by a rat who disrupted the engagement party and lost face?" Su Zhu stood up and punched Ye Hu: "I want to see what you are capable of and dare to come to the Su family to act wild."
Ye Hu didn't even move his body. Just when his fist was about to touch his left cheek, the back of his right palm came first and pinched Su Zhu's fist.
"Humph! What a businessman should focus on is harmony and wealth. How can he be so angry?" Su Zhu felt that every bone in his fist was "rattling" and about to be crushed at any time.
"Wei Ye, please calm down." Seeing this, Su Wen quickly stood up and smoothed things over: "My brother's words are meaningless, Wen hereby apologizes."
"You are still magnanimous as an elder brother. I will bear this apology." Ye Hu showed a contemptuous smile and let go of Su Zhu: "I have decreed that from now on, the Su Mansion will be jointly managed by the Jingwei Mansion and the Tingwei Mansion. ; If Su Xing does not show up when the twelve hours expires, the Su Mansion will also be sealed."
"We will obey the order." Everyone in the Su family kowtowed in thanks.
In the Nanyuan study room, Li Chongde, the Minister of Household Affairs, was talking in front of Xiao Shiyu's case: "Your Majesty, the Su family has always been unkind to the rich, and this mutiny was also due to the fact that they deducted their subordinates; I didn't expect that this fake tax collector was also the Su family. It is really a heinous crime for an insider to make someone pretend to be someone else."
"Li Shangshu, you can't say that." Liu Yuanzhi, who was given a seat at the side, smiled at Li Chongde: "Although some dirty silver and fake tax plates were found in the secret room of the Su family's Tianyi Gambling House, we cannot directly determine that the fake tax collector is the Su family. Instigated by someone else."
"Your Majesty, I have found out that the Su family has suspicious bank deposits at Sanshun Bank and their own Guangyuan Bank. Please have your Majesty take a look at it." Salba, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, respectfully presented a paper with both hands. A memorial.
"Yun Shisan and Leng Fengtian each deposited two thousand taels of silver at Sanshun Bank, Li Shu deposited one thousand taels of silver into Yanran's account, and Zuo Tianhao deposited five thousand taels of silver at Guangyuan Bank." Xiao Shiyu looked at the memorial. : "Tell me more about what makes these people suspicious?"
"Yun Shisan and Leng Fengtian are the stewards of the Su family's Tianyi Gambling House, and Li Shu has confessed that Su Xing gave him the silver. As for Zuo Tianhao, he is a foreigner and no one knows him. Recently, he suddenly made such a deposit at Guangyuan Bank. A lot of money is suspicious in itself." Salba bowed and reported.
"Banks and casinos are places where dirty money can be laundered. Although the Ministry of Accounts has ordered all banks to allow entry and exit of large deposits recently, but the nights are long and dreams are long, His Majesty also ordered the Su family to be seized to recover the tax money." At this moment. Li Chongde is completely different from his previous submissive appearance.
"Liu Zhongshu, what do you think?" Xiao Shiyu turned around and asked Liu Yuanzhi for his opinion.
"Your Majesty, I don't know much about this matter; I just raised some doubts of my own." Liu Yuanzhi smiled and said: "It is up to Your Majesty to decide how to decide."
"Huh?" Xiao Shiyu leaned on the imperial desk with his left palm and held a cinnabar pen in his right hand. He wanted to write something but couldn't. It was obviously difficult to make a choice.
"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible to seal down the Su family now." A burst of hurried shouts came from outside the study, causing everyone in the room to look towards the entrance of the study.
Zhang Shumin couldn't wait for the announcement, so he directly lifted up his official robe and stepped into Xiao Shiyu's study: "I, Zhang Shumin, bow to your Majesty."
"Pingsheng." Xiao Shiyu looked happy when he saw Zhang Shumin: "Shumin, tell me your reasons. Why can't the Su family be sealed up?"
"Although the Su family is at the bottom of the four major families, it is also the Shang family that was granted the imperial title by the late emperor." Zhang Shumin took care of his official robes that were messed up because he ran too fast, and straightened his official hat: "Just now Sha Sha What your Excellency has said is just evidence. The fake tax collector has not yet been arrested, and Su Xing himself has not been found. At this time, we can monitor and control the Su family, but we cannot take such a big step of sealing it down."
"Sir Nong's words are wrong. If we had waited for all the evidence to be conclusive, the tax money that had been defrauded would have been shipped out of Jinling City long ago." Salba put forward a different statement: "Besides, this Su Xing has been missing for nearly six hours, I'm afraid he did it on purpose."
"You all should step aside first and let me think about it." Xiao Shiyu couldn't make a decision for a while: "In two hours, I will make a clear decision."
"Your Majesty, please leave." All the officials exited the Nanyuan Study Room.
"I'm a little tired, let me show off for a while." Xiao Shiyu ordered Gao Xian: "No one is allowed to disturb you for two hours."
"Yes! Your Majesty." Gao Xian responded respectfully.
Xiao Shiyu slowly walked from the back of the study into the bedroom of Fei Ji Palace. A dark figure knelt in front of him: "Kui Niu has met your Majesty."
"Kui Niu, how are the conditions at the city gates these days?" Xiao Shiyu lit the oil lamp and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Respecting His Majesty's will, all city gates are guarded by secret guards. No abnormalities were found." Kui Niu knelt down on one knee and cupped his hands towards Xiao Shiyu.
"That's good." Xiao Shiyu sighed: "I am in charge of such a big country, and sometimes I feel really tired."
"Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body and don't be too nervous." Kui Niu bowed and said, "I will do my best to guard the city gate."
"Kui Niu, I am undecided on whether to seal up the Su family." Xiao Shiyu shook his head helplessly: "I wonder what you think?"
"I am just your Majesty's bodyguard and don't understand these important national affairs." Kui Niu also shook his head.
"Yes, I was confused too, so I shouldn't have asked you." Xiao Shiyu smiled bitterly.
"But..." Kui Niu seemed to have remembered something.
"But what?" Xiao Shiyu asked again.
"Yesterday at the ugly hour, I was secretly on guard at the east gate of Jinling, but I was attacked by a man in black." Kui Niu reported to Xiao Shiyu truthfully.
"Oh? I know your abilities. Who dares to attack you?" Xiao Shiyu couldn't help but become curious.
Yesterday, at the ugly hour, on the roof of a house facing the east gate of Jinling, a secret guard in black clothes was guarding here motionless.
"It's time for shift change, you go and have a rest." Kui Niu lightly jumped onto the roof and patted the attentive secret guard in black.
"Yes! Sir." After listening to Kui Niu's instructions, the secret guard in black jumped down and disappeared into the vast night after a few ups and downs.
Kui Niu was just like the secret guard just now, lying motionless on the roof and staring at the city gate, repeating boring tasks.
"Huh?" Kui Niu suddenly felt something was wrong, and a black shadow struck at his face from below. Kui Niu's arm that was lying on the roof made a slight effort, and he jumped up, avoiding the sudden attack of the black shadow. .
The black shadow grabbed the eaves with one hand, jumped up, swung his hands sharply in mid-air, and fired more than a dozen silver needles at Kui Niu like raindrops.
"What a powerful concealed weapon technique." Kui Niu thought carefully, a green light appeared on the surface of his body, and the shining light could only be heard as a "chichi" sound; these green lights made his movement skills suddenly increase by a factor of 100 compared to before. Double speed. He touched the ground with one foot and swayed back and forth like a tumbler, avoiding all the flying needles.
"What a green lightning dry thunder body technique, I didn't expect your soft skills to be so powerful." The black shadow was five feet away from Kui Niu, and suddenly stopped chasing him, and just looked at him quietly.
"The hidden weapon in your hand just now was the Silver Needle Flying Crossing?" Kui Niu frowned: "Where did you come out from?"
"It doesn't matter where they come out from?" Black Shadow said with a smile: "What's important is that even if you guard the city gate like this every day, you can't share your master's worries?"
"I am a warrior, can't you understand these convoluted words?" Kui Niu also faced the black shadow: "If you have anything to say, just say it directly?"
"Since you don't understand, it's okay not to listen." Black Shadow took out a letter from his arms and threw it gently, and it fell steadily into Kui Niu's palm: "Go back and show it to your master, and he will understand."
"Your Majesty, this is what happened." Kui Niu took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Xiao Shiyu: "If it hadn't been about the Su family, Kui Niu would still be hesitant to hand the letter to Your Majesty."
"Since there is a letter, why not take a look at it?" Xiao Shiyu opened the envelope and said with a smile: "I am very curious. If you continue to compete, who will lose?"
"It's hard to say, I didn't use all my strength; and the other party held back." Kui Niu said truthfully: "But I have a hunch that if we really continue to fight, we won't get any benefits."
"Although moving the Su family can solve the urgent need, it is tantamount to killing the goose to lay eggs; is His Majesty's ambition limited to this?" Xiao Shiyu read the letter over and over again, but there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment in his heart.
"Your Majesty, why are you silent?" Kui Niu looked at Xiao Shiyu in a daze and couldn't help but become worried.
"Kui Niu, if you can handle this well, I already have an idea in mind." Xiao Shiyu took the letter and walked to the oil lamp and burned it: "Remove all the secret guards guarding the city gate."
Two hours passed quickly, and Xiao Shiyu's imperial edict was quickly sent to the Su family: "Your Majesty has decreed that all properties under the Su family's name, except Wujian Lefang and Shanshui Inn, be seized, and a fine of one hundred thousand silver be imposed. Two, admire this!"
"The common people are waiting to thank the Lord for His grace!" After receiving the imperial edict, Su Wen, Su Zhu and others looked ashen on their faces and their hearts were bleeding.
"Ye Huwei, the rest of the matter will be handled by you and the Tingwei Mansion." Gao Xian flicked the fly whisk and turned away.
"Yes! Eunuch Gao!" Ye Hu said to Gao Xian: "Come here, carry out the emperor's decree and notify all the guards to seal it."
