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Chapter 64 Chapter 064 Fifty million taels!

Prime Minister's Mansion.

A prime minister and three ministers talked in secret for a long time.

Then, the three ministers left the Prime Minister's Mansion.

As the leaders of the aristocratic family's huge interest group in the court, the secret conversation between these four people was equivalent to a secret conversation among the aristocratic family's huge interest group in the court.

No one knows what the specific outcome of their discussion will be, but the next DPRK situation is expected to be even more volatile and strange.

After the three ministers left, Prime Minister Yuan Bo was silent for a moment, called the housekeeper and said, "Let the young men and ladies at home pack up, and send them away from Luoyang as soon as the city gate opens!"

Preventing problems before they happen is a necessary means for a family to survive.

No matter how the situation changes next, we must prepare for the worst.

In this way, if something happens, the whole family will not be destroyed.

Prime Minister Yuan Bo knew in his heart that no one in this court could remain standing forever. No matter how many dynasties they were, there were only a few people who could truly be a roly-poly.

Nowadays, the situation in the court is strange. Two of the four auxiliary ministers have lost their jobs.

Therefore, Prime Minister Yuan Bo had to make preparations in advance to prevent unexpected events.

Prime Minister Yuan Bo believed that the three ministers, namely, the Minister of Hubu, the Minister of Punishment, and the Minister of Industry, would probably make such arrangements to prevent problems before they occur after leaving his Prime Minister's Mansion.

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Luoyang, the divine capital.

For three days in a row, there was a lot of noise.

In the city, the factory guards led the imperial troops around to arrest people. In just three days, an unknown number of people were arrested.

Although Zhou Chen did not expand his involvement, many people were arrested because of General Wu Jin.

Within three days, the prison was overcrowded.

It was not until three days later that calm returned to Luoyang City, martial law disappeared, and the city gates were opened wide.

However, inspections at the city gates are still stricter than in the past.

The Hall of Nourishing Heart.

Zhou Chen opened his eyes and breathed out slowly.

There were sounds of brittle bones coming from the body.

"Seventh grade!"

Zhou Chen's eyes flickered and the corners of his mouth curved.

In addition to dealing with some important matters in the past three days, Zhou Chen spent most of his time practicing.

Although there are people such as the Forbidden Army, Factory Guards and Cao Zhengchun to protect him, in Zhou Chen's view, no matter how good the protection is, it cannot be safer than his own strength.

In three days, Zhou Chen directly broke through from the ninth-level warrior to the seventh-level, and was just one step away from reaching the third-level qi training.

This kind of cultivation speed is not unpleasant at all.

This is all thanks to Zhou Chen's capture of Queen Wu Ying and the general's relatives.

After capturing these people, eliminating the influence of his relatives and one party in the court, and consolidating his power, Zhou Chen's luck as emperor improved a lot.

When you practice, you will naturally get twice the result with half the effort much faster.

To be honest, even Zhou Chen himself did not expect that after solving the influence of the queen and the general's relatives in the court, he would cultivate so quickly.

"If I gather all my power and bring the Great Zhou Dynasty back to its peak, I wonder how fast my cultivation will be?"

"Can you reach the sky in one step and break through the 'celestial realm' between the free world and the earth?"

Zhou Chen thought secretly in his heart.

at this time.

Sudden.

Cao Zhengchun walked in quietly.

"Your Majesty, this is the record of the confiscation of the properties of General Wan, Taifu and more than twenty other officials."

"Please also ask the emperor to take a look."

Cao Zhengchun handed a piece of paper to Zhou Chen.

"Oh, have you finished checking?"

Zhou Chen knew that with such an important minister in the court and so many officials, his family property would probably be quite large.

If you want to check thoroughly, it will probably be difficult to do in a short time.

But now, in just three days, Cao Zhengchun had already completed the search.

It seems that this Dongchang is indeed an expert at confiscating homes and exterminating clans, and the efficiency is quite fast.

Zhou Chen took the fold from Cao Zhengchun's hand.

Open.

I saw that the booklet was densely filled with the property of various officials whose families had been confiscated and exterminated.

The first among them is General Wu Jin.

"Fifty million taels?"

After seeing the number behind General Wu Jin, Zhou Chen couldn't help but secretly take a breath of air.

How much tax revenue will be generated in the entire New Year?

Isn’t it only two to thirty million taels of silver?

But in the General's Mansion, fifty million taels of silver were actually confiscated from the house of a minister of the auxiliary state, which was enough to cover the tax revenue for two years in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This doesn't count the real estate such as shop titles and deeds, it's just pure money.

If you include the real estate, the family property in the General's Mansion is estimated to reach more than 70 million.

It can be seen that General Wu Jin always secretly and overtly embezzled a lot of ill-gotten gains.

Zhou Chen calmed down and continued to look down. The second one was Grand Tutor Yan Hua.

After Grand Tutor Yan Hua was imprisoned before, Zhou Chen was not in a hurry to confiscate his house. This time, he just handed it over to Cao Zhengchun to confiscate his house and exterminate his clan.

Forty million taels of silver were also confiscated from Taifu Yanhua's home.

Although there are not as many as generals, there are still many, and he is also a huge greedy person.

Then there are the family properties of these officials, such as the Minister of Personnel and the Minister of Rites.

When Zhou Chen finished reading the records of the property seizures of various officials, he let out a long sigh.

No wonder everyone wants to be an official.

They were all squeezing their heads out trying to climb up.

The properties of these confiscated officials had at least two to three million taels of silver.

Sure enough, he became the magistrate in three years and received one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver.

Zhou Chen was a little jealous when he saw it. He was a majestic emperor of the Zhou Dynasty and the ruler of the world, but he was not as rich as one of his officials.

This has to be said to be a kind of irony.

Zhou Chen closed the folder and glanced at Cao Zhengchun: "Half of the confiscated money will be put into my internal treasury, and half will be put into the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"Let the factory guards keep an eye on the household department."

"I would like to see how many mice can be caught with such a big piece of fat meat."

Zhou Chen said with a sneer.

Now that the national treasury is empty, Zhou Chen's inner treasury is also stretched thin.

Previously, it was because the imperial court did not have enough money and food that the severe drought in the four northern continents could not provide comprehensive disaster relief to the people.

So much so that civil unrest broke out in places like the four northwest prefectures where the drought was most severe, resulting in the current corrupt situation.

Now so many officials have been confiscated and their families have been confiscated, so much money has been confiscated, which can be used to fill the national treasury and Zhou Chen's inner treasury.

At the same time, Zhou Chen can also be used as a fish to catch the rats in the household department.

Look how many rats are hiding in this household.

After Cao Zhengchun heard Zhou Chen's words, he immediately bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Now Dongchang has stepped into the forefront and made a name for itself.

Although the number of people was not large and a lot had been lost before, Zhou Chen signed in 500 more factory guards in the past three days.

Not only did it make up for the losses of the previous factory guards in Dongchang, it also more than doubled the number of people in Dongchang.

It won't be a problem to allocate some manpower to keep an eye on the household department.

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