"When you meet a minister like you, I wonder if it is my blessing or my misfortune?" Zhu Youlang curled his lips and said.

"Hehe, it's a blessing for a minister to meet a wise monarch like Your Majesty." Chen Bangyan smiled embarrassedly.

"Okay, you never flatter someone in front of you said this. It would be unreasonable if I didn't give you a point. Is it okay to give you this number?" Zhu Youlang stretched out five fingers.

"Fifty thousand? Your Majesty, give me more. In that case, I will be harder when I see the people from the Ministry of War." Chen Bangyan bargained.

"Is it true for half a million?"

"Cheng, Cheng, it's so successful! Your Majesty is really a wise king. No emperor can compete with Your Majesty in ancient times..." Chen Bangyan didn't expect that the emperor would be so generous, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

"Didai, I feel uncomfortable when you say these nice words. Ling Bin, this is the house search order. Take it, leave 500,000 for the Ministry of Revenue, and the rest will be included in the inner treasury. Tell you, you will also take care of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. You can't move all the money from my house search to the treasury." Zhu Youlang asked Li Hong to hand over the house search order to Chen Bangyan.

"Yes, yes, I obey the order." Chen Bangyan took the order and his eyes narrowed into a slit with joy.

"It seems that silver is really a good thing. Even people like you are jealous of money." Zhu Youlang said.

"Your Majesty, you are really right. I am really a jealous person who sees money. To be honest, I wish I could sleep with the silver." Chen Bangyan knew that the emperor was telling a joke, and was so happy to follow him.

"Hahaha, Ling Bin, don't say anything. Every time I go to the inner treasury, I want to sleep in the treasure house. When I touch those ingots, I feel so at ease." Zhu Youlang said with a very obsessed look.

Seeing the emperor's appearance, Chen Bangyan was startled: "It's not good if the emperor loves money, so he has to persuade him."

"Your Majesty, I can love money, but you can't love money. You are already rich in the world, so why do you need so much money? Hiding wealth among the people is the sign of great governance in the world."

"Okay, am I such a person? It's boring to talk to you. Leave, I'm optimistic about my inner treasury, I'm still of great use." Zhu Youlang was speechless when he heard Chen Bangyan's words: "Where do you follow? If I were such a person, I could give you 500,000 at once? At 200 yuan per twelve, it would be 10 million in the future. Ten million. Although I feel so distressed, I still gave it to you. I also said that I love money. It's really..."

"Yes, I'm wrong and I'm going to leave."

Chen Bangyan thought about it and thought that the emperor was joking with him, but he took it seriously. Anyway, the 500,000 taels of silver were about to be in his hand, so he quickly bowed and retreated tactfully.

...

When the house was confiscated, Huang Zongxi followed him. At Huang Fengyuan's house, he saw the house in the back garden, exactly the same as the house he had fallen into Feng Qingjun's hands.

To be on the safe side, he also saw Huang Zongxi's wives and concubines, and actually found the green woman who followed Feng Qingjun and Hu Tian and Hu Di. Although she is no longer wearing green clothes now, Huang Zongxi will never forget her appearance.

...

Because it was a rebellion case, several major criminals were detained in the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei, rather than the Ministry of Justice.

Under the severe torture of the Jinyiwei, Huang Fengyuan was already exhausted. In fact, as soon as he entered the imperial prison, he had tortured everything, but Ma Jixiang still wanted to dig deep and search, so he tortured him. But no matter how much he tortured, Huang Fengyuan's confession was never new, so Ma Jixiang believed his confession.

According to Huang Fengyuan's confession, he and a merchant named Fan Yongdou in Shanxi gradually became friends because of trade exchanges. Fan Yongdou became a supporter of Manchu during the Wanli period. He not only trafficked urgently needed military and daily necessities for Manchu, but also reported the guard information of the Ming army in various passes to Manchu. Not only did he make a lot of money, but he also gained the trust of Manchu. After the Qing army entered the pass, Fan Yongdou was commended by the Qing court and was named "Imperial Merchants". He presided over various procurements from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and monopolized the salt industry monopoly in Shanxi and Shaanxi.

After Huang Fengyuan learned the news, he admired Fan Yongdou's vision very much. He believed that anyone who makes business bigger must be an official businessman. If he does not connect with the government, the business will never be a big deal.

Generally speaking, ordinary merchants try their best to please and curry favor with local governments while doing business, in order to provide convenience and protection for business. Who can do this? They saw from the beginning that Manchus could win the world, and they held their thighs early on. Now they have become imperial merchants, doing business under the banner of the Qing court. Which businessman in the world dares to compete with him?

I heard that Fan Yongdou's annual investment amounts of millions of taels were worth millions of taels. Without the protection and recognition of the Qing court, could he do so big?

Huang Fengyuan was inspired by Fan Yongdou's history of becoming a fortune. He also saw that the Qing army defeated Emperor Hongguang, and his army was extremely powerful and pointed directly at Fujian and Guangdong. Then he became active and wrote a letter to Fan Yongdou, willing to respond to the Qing army.

However, the letter was written, but Fan Yongdou had no reply. He seemed to have seen through his speculative thoughts and didn't care about what he said was his wish to be an insider.

It was not until Li Chengdong was defeated and the situation in Guangdong was reversed by Emperor Yongli that Huang Fengyuan received a reply from Fan Yongdou, and the person who brought the letter was Feng Qingjun.

In the letter, Fan Yongdou agreed to his request, asking him to focus on collecting information on military, political and civil affairs of the Yongli Dynasty. When the Qing Dynasty conquered Guangdong in the future, he would definitely reiterate his merits. He also asked him to cooperate with the letter to assassinate Emperor Yongli.

Huang Fengyuan Lanxin was very happy. In his opinion, if he had taken the Qing Dynasty line, it would be safe to win the richest man in Guangzhou or even Guangdong in the future?

So, he flattered Feng Qingjun and agreed with all his requests.

...

After receiving Huang Fengyuan's confession, the nature of the small rebellion gang of Huang Rizhang changed slightly.

It is also a rebellion, "fighting in the nest" and "collusion with outsiders" are different.

"Fighting in the nest" is an internal conflict, and brothers fight against insults outside the wall, and there is still pity. But "collusion with outsiders" is very different in nature. If you put it in a family, it is to rebel and sell ancestors, and if you put it in a country, it is to treason.

...

Huang Rizhang insisted that he had no idea about Huang Fengyuan's collusion with the Qing court. He said that he just couldn't stand Chen Zizhuang and others' stolen in the temple and was very resistant to the new policy. However, he would never do the collusion with the Qing court to sell the country and seek prosperity. Because doing so would be sorry for his conscience and not in line with his integrity as a literati.

Not only did Huang Rizhang say he didn't know, but even Su Mingfeng and Yue Bao said he didn't know at all.

Could it be a coincidence? Huang Fengyuan is really a personal behavior?
Chapter completed!