Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhao Liangdong who was shaking like a sieve and said with a smile: "General Zhao, get up, I am not punishing you today, what are you afraid of?"

Zhao Liangdong nodded and struggled to stand up. Zhu Hongsan pointed at the pregnant woman and asked, "General Zhao, I'm making a bet with you. Do you think the baby in the pregnant woman's belly is a man or a woman?"

Zhao Liangdong thought to himself how I knew? But at this time, he dared to say that. Zhao Liangdong turned his eyes and said, "Your Majesty said that it is a man, that is a man, that is a woman!"

Zhu Hongsan heard Zhao Liangdong flattering and laughed: "Old Zhao, I didn't expect that you would flatter if you have thick eyebrows and big eyes?"

After Zhu Hongsan said that, he turned his head to Zhu Yuan behind him, and Zhu Shengduo said, "What do you think?"

Zhu Yuan and Zhu Shengduo both read books and knew the allusion of Liu Yu, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, who had a caesarean section and observed the fetus. Liu Yu was a famous tyrant in history. Now that he saw that the emperor would be required to take a caesarean section and observe the fetus, Zhu Shengduo quickly stood up and stopped him and said, "Grandfather, you must do this cruel method with your benevolence!"

Zhu Yuan's face turned pale when he saw the scalled head in the house just now. Now he heard that his father wanted to have a caesarean section and see the fetus, he was even more angry. However, after hearing Zhu Shengduo say something, Zhu Shengduo was the prince's son and was usually favored by his father. Why not take this opportunity to give him some rotten medicine, which can be considered to be a trouble for the prince.

Zhu Yuan resisted the disgusting impulse and stood up and scolded: "Zhu Shengduo, you are the emperor's grandson, but now you stand up against your father. You are very disrespectful. I really don't know how the prince brother educates you?"

Zhu Shengduo is not a few years younger than Zhu Yuan. The two had a bad relationship. Now, when Zhu Yuan scolded and brought the prince with him, Zhu Shengduo sneered: "Fourth Uncle, you seem to be just a general of the auxiliary country. My nephew is a prince after all, so don't you just call him the name?"

When Zhu Yuan heard that Zhu Shengduo had not opened the pot, he spoke directly into his lung tube. Zhu Yuan pointed his fingers in anger and scolded: "You bastard, no matter what I say, it's your uncle. What's wrong with calling you by your name?"

Zhu Hongsan felt a headache when he heard his son and grandson quarrel. He had enough of the princes in Beijing to plot against each other in order to compete for the throne. Now he can't escape leaving Beijing.

Zhu Hongsan frowned and cursed: "Zhu Shengduo, why are you talking to your uncle? Why don't you apologize to your uncle!"

The emperor's order was an imperial edict. Zhu Shengduo had no choice but to bow to Zhu Yuanshen and said, "I'm wrong, please forgive me!"

Zhu Hongsan said that Zhao Liangdong wanted to guess the gender of the child, of course he did not want to really have a caesarean section to observe the fetus. Although Zhu Hongsan was cruel, he was not a pervert. Today he said this just to scare Fan Yongdou.

Zhu Hongsan scared Fan Yongdou, but Fan Yongdou didn't think so. Fan Yongdou had inquired about the origin of this bastard emperor before. Zhu Hongsan was born into a declining royal family in Wuchang, Huguang. His father died when he was young, so Zhu Hongsan lost control and wandered around the world at a young age. He heard that his methods were very cruel. He had just made Fan Yongdou's son to burn people's heads, and it is not impossible to play with caesarean section now.

Fan Yongdou whined, but his mouth was blocked and he didn't know what he was saying.

Zhu Hongsan signaled him to speak, and the eunuch stepped forward to take out the rags in Fan Yong's quarrel. Fan Yongdou cried and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Emperor! The villain is wrong. The villain handed over all his property. Please spare the lives of the villain's family!"

Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he heard Fan Yongdou say this. He was so motivated today that he wanted the property of these companies. This time, Zhu Hongsan spent money on his way out. The group of 70,000 to 80,000 people costs more than 500,000 silver dollars for food, clothing, housing and transportation. According to Zhu Hongsan's poor appearance, he had to lick his fingers even if he shit. How could he be worthy of the title of emperor without getting some money?

So Zhu Hongsan made a good idea before leaving Beijing. The eight large merchants in Zhangjiakou were simply mobile banks. These eight companies were with the Qing Dynasty and the Mongolians in the Ming Dynasty. Without the support of these eight companies, the Qing Dynasty could not have grown and grown in the cold northeast. There were also eight companies that had nothing to do with the nobles of Huguang. Zhu Hongsan's basic base had no loss at all. The most important thing is that these eight companies held the power of border trade. The nobles of Huguang have wanted to interfere in border trade in the past few years, but the eight companies were united into a whole, and outsiders could not enter at all.

Now Zhu Hongsan defeated these eight businesses, and the silver dollars of these merchants were returned to Zhu Hongsan and the border trade was returned to the nobles of Huguang. Naturally, the court would not have any objections to such generous behavior.

It was only when Zhu Hongsan arrived at Xuanfu that the people in Shanxi were very stingy. Last night, Zhu Hongsan sent troops to confiscate the shops of their eight families, and only got 500,000 and 600,000 silver dollars. There were a lot of other fur and medicinal materials, but it was only worth 1.8 million silver dollars, which was very inconsistent with the status of these eight "imperial merchants". According to Zhu Hongsan's estimate and the information sent from the Jinyiwei, Fan Yongdou's family should have assets of 50,000 million yuan, and the eight families combined with tens of millions.

Zhu Hongsan knew the character of businessmen in this era, and the money he earned had to be buried deep underground, so Zhu Hongsan had to get the exact location of the burial of the silver from Fan Yong's bickering. Otherwise, wouldn't this trip to Xuanfu be in vain?

Now that Fan Yongdou surrendered, Zhu Hongsan breathed a sigh of relief. If this guy was so stubborn, he would have to really play with a caesarean section and observe the fetus.

The other seven merchants followed Fan Yong's horse-drawn leader. Seeing Fan Yong's reluctance to ask others and begging for mercy, they expressed their willingness to offer all their property.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said to the Jinyiwei tutor Ding Wei, "You bring people to take these guys, take out all their buried silver, and seal all their property! If someone is not honest, let them see what the Jinyiwei torture is!"

Ding Wei received the emperor's imperial edict and took the eight people to start scouting the house. Zhu Hongsan took his son and grandson back to the General's Mansion and waited for good news.

Ding Wei was the Jinyiwei, so this kind of house search was naturally an expert. After receiving the emperor's imperial edict, Ding Wei divided his subordinates into eight teams. In addition to himself, each team was led by a thousand households. Ding Wei took Fan Yongdou to Fan's house in Xuancheng.

When I came to Fan’s house, Ding Wei could not imagine that this ordinary yard was Fan Yongdou’s home. Fan’s house entered the yard seven or eight in front and behind, and there were thirty-four rooms. Of course, Fan Yongdou’s home was also a good yard in Xuancheng, but it was not worthy of Fan Yongdou’s wealth.

At this time, Fan's house had been occupied by the Jinyiwei, but had not conducted a careful search yet. Ding Wei came to the door and looked at Fan Yongdou and said, "Come on, Mr. Fan, let's start!"

Fan Yongdou is now like a defeated rooster, lowering his head and saying, "Under the big locust tree in the backyard!"

With Fan Yongdou's message, Ding Wei brought his people directly to the backyard and found a cellar under the big locust tree. When all the property in the cellar was brought up, Ding Wei was shocked.

There are eighteen large silver balls in this cellar with hundreds of kilograms, more than twenty boxes filled with silver ingots, silver bricks and silver bars, and countless other treasures.

Ding Wei initially estimated that there would be 500,000 taels of silver hidden in this cellar. After Ding Wei and others all the silver in the cellar were empty, he asked, "Mr. Fan, where is the next place?"

Fan Yongdou pointed to the well not far away and said, "There is still in the well!"

Ding Wei took his people to search Fan Yongdou's house and found three silver bins, with silver worth millions and gold worth more than five thousand taels.

After all the silver and gold were all sorted out, Ding Wei asked, "Say, where else?"

Fan Yongdou said with a sad face at this time: "Official, I really have nothing, that's all!"

Ding Wei could believe Fan Yongdou, but now there is only a total of more than one million silver, which is not enough based on Fan Yongdou's wealth.

Ding Wei sneered: "It seems that His Majesty is right. You guys are really unwilling to die if you don't want to Huanghe! Come on, bring Fan Yongdou's grandson and put a stick on him!"

The Jinyiwei quickly brought Fan Yongdou's grandson Fan Yu up, and put Fan Yu's legs into a clamp stick in front of Fan Yongdou, pressed him hard, and there was a crisp sound. Fan Yu's legs were pinched off, and Fan Yu screamed and fainted.

When Fan Yongdou saw that his grandson's legs were broken, he cursed angrily: "You Qiu Ba, I really have no money! I really have no money!"

Ding Wei laughed and said, "Fan Yongdou, do you know what grandpa does? Grandpa was a hundred households in the Jinyiwei Yamen in Guangzhou. How could grandpa not know if you didn't tell the truth? If you don't tell the truth, the next step is not as simple as clamping sticks. Our Jinyiwei's skin, cutting tongue, cutting spine, falling fingers, pricking the heart, playing the pipa and other eighteen tortures, such as skinning, cutting the tongue, cutting the spine, falling into the fingers, pricking the heart, playing the pipa, playing the pipa, etc. Do you want your baby grandson to give it a try?"

Fan Yongdou's spirit was completely broken at this time, and he quickly revealed more than ten Tibetan silver sites outside Xuanfu City, Zhangjiakou, Datong, Beijing and other places. Ding Wei immediately sent someone to follow the map and search for all Fan Yongdou's property.

Zhu Hongsan lived in Xuanfu for more than half a month. The Jinyiwei finally copied the property of the eight merchants. Zhu Hongsan was also very surprised when he saw the list.

Fan Yongdou's family copied out 3.3 million taels of silver, 2.4 million silver dollars, 12.2 million gold, dozens of other gold and silver jewelry, dozens of real estate, and the farthest one was in Nanjing. The Jinyiwei initially estimated that Fan Yongdou's family's assets were more than 8 million silver dollars. As for the other seven, although they were not as rich as Fan Yongdou's family, they copied out a total of more than 5 million taels of silver, more than 3 million silver dollars, and more than 20,000 taels of gold.

Zhu Hongsan was shocked when he looked at the list in his hand. He had known that these guys were so rich, but he didn't expect that they could be so rich. Zhu Hongsan originally estimated that the eight families would have to be only 70 million silver dollars at most, but then he thought that there were 170 million silver dollars, which did not include real estate such as houses, land, etc., and it would be even more amazing if all of them were included.
Chapter completed!