Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

"Hey? Uncle?"

Suddenly Wang Yan and Wang Yihong saw Wang Hongfu sitting on the top, and immediately knelt on the ground and wailed:

"Uncle, you came at the right time. These thieves want to kill us. Uncle, you have to stand up for us."

"Yes, uncle, let them let us go quickly. They even dared to provoke our Prince Ji's Mansion. This is a provocation to Prince Ji."

"enough!"

Wang Hongfu shouted angrily, causing the two men to stop.

"I was the one who asked them to catch you."

"Uncle arrested us? Why is that, uncle?"

The two of them were stunned.

"Why? Don't you know what you are doing?

Wang Yan, you are in the weaving workshop, do I need to tell you what you are doing?

Look at this. "

After Wang Hongfu finished speaking, he threw the two account books down.

Wang Yan crawled over, picked it up, and looked through it for a few seconds. After confirming that these were the two account books he had lost, he slumped down on the ground.

Wang Yihong stopped talking. His cotton processing workshop was not much better than the weaving workshop.

"Alright, Wang Wencheng, at this point, it's useless for you to say anything, and I don't want to know why you are like this anymore.

If you have anything to say, please wait until we return to Chang'an City and talk to His Royal Highness Prince Ji.

Come, take them all away and assign people to keep them under strict guard.

No one in the manor can leave."

"Yes!"

After Wang Hongfu gave the order, someone naturally took Wang Wencheng and the other two away.

"Captain Sun, please send two people to follow and guard him."

Wang Hongfu didn't believe it, so he asked the guards to watch over it before he led his men out of the manor.

"Young Master, I have something else to trouble you with."

Ashina Liang was eating meat and drinking wine by the fire.

Wang Hongfu came up to Ashina Liang and said respectfully.

"Well, Manager Wang, if you have something to say, just say it directly. We don't have to be polite."

After swallowing a mouthful of meat, Ashina Liang said with a smile.

"Young Master, I want to search the manor. Wang Wencheng has embezzled a lot of money from His Royal Highness Prince Ji.

I must find this money and bring it back to Chang'an.

Young Master, you also know that although my prince doesn’t like these yellow and white things, he cares a lot about others taking his things.”

"Oh, not a problem, come here."

Upon hearing that Wang Hongfu wanted to borrow someone, Ashina Liang immediately called his confidant over.

"Take all the infantry and follow the orders of Manager Wang. Tell the people below to behave themselves.

Everything in here belongs to my uncle. Anyone who dares to touch it will be chopped up and fed to the wolves."

"Follow the order."

"Thank you, young master."

Wang Hongfu expressed his gratitude again.

Ashina Liang waved his hand and continued to chew the meat.

"Search~Search carefully, don't miss any place."

"Keep your men under control. If anyone steals anything, chop him up and feed him to the wolves."

When Wang Hongfu expressed his thoughts, Ashina Liang's confidants immediately ordered a search of Wang Wencheng's manor.

Wang Hongfu had already learned the location of the warehouse from Wang Wencheng's wife.

After breaking into the room, all that came into view were copper coins, as well as some cloth, silk, blankets, clothes and the like from the Western Regions.

Wang Hongfu personally led the guards to take inventory.

These pastoral infantrymen in the manor rummaged through all the boxes and cabinets, even searching the rockery.

Wang Wencheng's wife and Wang Wencheng's family were trembling with fear.

"Shopkeeper Wang, the inventory has been completed."

In front of the warehouse door, Wang Hongfu took the notebook handed over by the guard squad leader.

"Send someone to guard this place, and we'll go back and see if we can find anything."

Wang Hongfu and his guards returned to the front hall to wait for news.

Take the record book and calculate carefully.

"Sir, we have searched all the rooms and found nothing else."

Ashina Liang's confidant came in to report.

"not found?"

Wang Hongfu was a little confused after hearing this.

"Someone, bring Wang Wencheng here."

"Manager Wang, is there something wrong?"

The guard squad leader asked in a low voice.

"Captain Sun, something is wrong. Let Wang Wencheng come and ask about it later."

At this time, Wang Wencheng was also brought over. After a while, Wang Wencheng looked much more depressed.

He no longer had the arrogance he had just had.

"Wang Wencheng, let me ask you, besides that warehouse, does your rich businessman have any other place to store his money?"

Wang Hongfu asked straight to the point.

"No."

Wang Wencheng shook his head.

"No? Wang Wencheng, think about it before you answer. Now the only way to save your life is to forgive your sins.

If you don't think about yourself, think about your family too.

Don't forget, you still have three sons, two daughters, and your parents at home!"

Wang Wencheng was shocked when he heard this. He understood that Wang Hongfu was threatening him.

"Cousin, there really isn't any. This is the only treasury in our house."

"You are lying!"

Wang Hongfu threw the inventory record in his hand in front of Wang Wencheng with a snap.

"Wang Wencheng, take a look at yourself, why do you only have 600,000 strings of cash here?

I've just had someone do the inventory.

The property on the carriages outside is worth about 500,000 strings of cash, while the copper coins and silk in your warehouse are only worth tens of thousands of strings of cash.

All the sum total would not exceed 700,000 strings of cash.

Based on the evil deeds you have done over the years, I estimate that you have earned at least two million strings of ill-gotten gains.

If you distribute this money to your subordinates and build relationships, you should have at least 1.5 million strings of cash left.

Millions of taels of money are missing from here. Where did they go?"

Wang Hongfu banged the table so hard that it made a loud noise. It turned out that Prince Ji alone had to find out that the amount was more than one million strings of cash.

But after he arrived, combined with Zhang Sheng's confession, he found that it was still conservative.

As for cotton, Prince Ji's mansion invested millions of strings of cash every year. He exploited the people and workers and embezzled at least half of it.

He has made a lot of money over the years, including money he earned from forced purchases and sales and other extortions.

He also withheld the money from the cotton cloth from Prince Ji's mansion and sold it to merchants from the Western Regions.

It would have to be at least over two million strings of cash.

"No... no... cousin, how could I dare to embezzle so much money? All the money is here.

The rest were distributed to the managers and shopkeepers below, and to the people who established connections.

And this estate of mine also cost a lot of money.

Cousin, I really didn’t lie to you.”

Wang Wencheng was extremely excited when he heard Wang Hongfu's words. He wanted to get closer but was stopped by the guards.

"Cousin, you have to believe me, I really didn't hide anything, all the money is here.

I hope my cousin will understand this.”

Looking at the excited Wang Wencheng, Wang Hongfu remained unmoved and had a calm expression on his face.

He took out the testimony Zhang Sheng had written to him and walked up to Wang Wencheng.

"Look, Zhang Sheng has confessed everything. His Highness Prince Ji knows everything you have done.

Wang Wencheng, the evidence is irrefutable. It is impossible for you to deny it. You should just tell the truth."