Chapter 294: Going to the Prime Minister's Mansion to confiscate his property, can you get some benefits?
The night is dark.
Xiao Chengjin brought Jiang Ruo to a somewhat dilapidated courtyard.
The two of them leaped into the courtyard and walked directly towards the room that contained a lot of secrets.
Xiao Chengjin lifted the wooden board on the bed in the dark, pointed to the secret room inside and said, "Ruoruo, the secret guards have come to investigate. You can go down and collect it."
Jiang Ruo looked at the dilapidated house, then at the underground secret room emitting a faint light, and couldn't help but complain: "What an old fox."
"Wait a minute, I'll be there soon."
Jiang Ruo said this, got on the bed, and walked up the stairs into the secret room.
After Jiang Ruo entered the secret room, Xiao Chengjin turned back to the door and stared outside vigilantly.
Jiang Ruo looked at the wooden box filled with gold, silver and jewelry, and put it into the space without any hesitation.
After finishing everything, she returned quickly.
We have to act quickly tonight. After all, the Royal Guards are also moving quickly.
After Jiang Ruo came out, Xiao Chengjin put the wooden board back to its original state.
"Ruoruo, the other secret room is in Tang Zhongxu's bedroom. Let's go there now."
Jiang Ruo nodded and whispered, "The Imperial Guards have probably already started to move. Let's move quickly."
"good!"
After the two left the room, they quickly disappeared into the night.
.......
Imperial Palace.
The commander of the Imperial Guards, Wu Zhengyuan, received an order from Xiao Junze and quickly summoned his brothers.
If we go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to search and confiscate his property, we can at least get some benefits!
Besides, it's night time, so no one should notice if you do something secretly.
Commander Wu stood to one side and said to his brothers, "Brothers, the emperor has issued an order that all the property in the Prime Minister's Mansion be transferred to the national treasury. Everyone, hurry up."
"You guys go harness the carriages, and you guys have to guard the Tang Mansion and not allow anyone to enter or leave."
.......
"We obey your orders." The voices of the Royal Guards resounded through the night sky.
Tang Zhongxu supported the Prime Minister's wife who had regained consciousness and hid aside.
"Prime Minister, what should we do?" the Prime Minister's wife said tearfully.
They came to attend the palace banquet, how come their house was ransacked in the blink of an eye!
Tang Zhongxu thought about his dismissal and covered the prime minister's wife's mouth with his hand. "I am no longer the prime minister. Please be careful with your words."
"Remember, you are no longer the Prime Minister's wife, but Mrs. Tang, do you understand?"
After hearing these words, Mrs. Tang became even more devastated.
She beat Tang Zhongxu's chest and sobbed, "It's all your fault. If it weren't for you..."
Tang Zhongxu knew what Mrs. Tang was going to say next without even thinking.
His face was filled with anger. He raised his hand and slapped Mrs. Tang with all his strength.
“Bang!”
"ah......"
Mrs. Tang was caught off guard, screamed, and fell to the ground.
She covered her swollen face and said in a trembling voice: "You, you hit me..."
Tang Zhongxu glanced at Commander Wu, who was arranging things, squatted down and scolded him, "Today is different from the past. You'd better be more careful with your words."
"Otherwise, it will easily bring disaster to our family."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Tang realized the seriousness of the situation.
She nodded, and said with a look of horror: "Prime Minister, Master, I understand."
Tang Zhongxu let out a long sigh, bent down and dragged Mrs. Tang up from the ground.
He looked around the palace in the night and whispered, "Madam, as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no worries about lack of firewood."
"Huan'er is pregnant with the emperor's eldest grandson. In the future, she will be the heir to the throne."
"So, we just have to wait patiently."
After hearing this, Madam Tang immediately perked up, "Master, I will wait patiently."
After Wu Zhengyuan gave the orders, he shouted to the two assembled teams of imperial guards, "Do you understand?"
"Understood."
"Set off."
After Wu Zhengyuan finished shouting, he came to Tang Zhongxu and his wife, "Master Tang, Madam Tang, please come in!"
Tang Zhongxu nodded and said flatteringly, "Commander Wu, my parents are old. Can you please keep the noise down?"
Commander Wu snorted coldly and said pretentiously, "Sir Tang, it was the Emperor's order that the Tang family's property be added to the national treasury. We are only following orders to move the property. How can we make such a big fuss?"
"By the way, starting tonight, the Tang Mansion will be guarded by the Imperial Guards, so when you return, please tell your family not to leave the house."
"After all, the saber I'm waiting for doesn't have eyes."
When Tang Zhongxu and his wife heard the tone of Commander Wu, they knew that they could not bribe him.
I cursed in my heart: You ungrateful people, sooner or later you will be kneeling down and begging us.
Commander Wu shouted to the two teams of the Imperial Guards, "Move out."
Tang Zhongxu and his wife did not dare to slack off and followed cautiously at a trot.
At the same time.
The coachman from the Prime Minister's Mansion, who was waiting not far outside the palace gate, drove his carriage towards the palace gate after seeing the ministers and their families leave the palace.
He muttered to himself: Today's palace banquet ended a little early!
After the ministers walked a distance away, they gathered in groups of three or two and gossiped about what happened at the palace banquet as they walked.
"Prime Minister Tang is having a really miserable time tonight."
"The one who suffered the most was the Crown Princess. The Prime Minister's Mansion is finished. So what if she gave birth to the Emperor's eldest grandson?"
"Yes, at the palace banquet tonight, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince clearly abandoned the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"It's just a confiscation of property, not the execution of the entire family..."
......
The coachman of the Prime Minister's Mansion subconsciously pulled the reins when he heard the news.
What the hell?
Something happened in the Prime Minister’s Mansion?
The driver parked the carriage aside and listened attentively to another group of people's conversation.
The more he listened, the more frightened he became, and his face was full of panic.
His prime minister actually withheld military rations?
When did this happen?
The Prime Minister’s Mansion is destroyed, what will these servants do?
Just as the coachman was panicking, he saw two teams of royal guards walking towards him with torches in their hands.
Following behind were Tang Zhongxu and his wife, who were running out of breath.
In a hurry, the driver jumped off the carriage and ran into an alley...
Never mind, let’s run away first and find out the details tomorrow morning.
When Tang Zhongxu and his wife saw the carriage parked on the side of the road, they knew that the driver had abandoned it and run away.
They prayed silently, hoping that the driver would come back home to report the news...
"Everyone hurry up and catch up." Commander Wu shouted to the Royal Guards behind him.
.......
When Jiang Ruo and Xiao Chengjin arrived at Tang Zhongxu's yard, there were two guards guarding outside the yard.
To the two of them, the two guards were just gatekeepers and posed no hindrance at all.
After the two entered Tang Zhongxu's bedroom in the dark, Xiao Chengjin came to a painting, moved the painting away, and directly turned the switch of the secret room.
"Ruoruo, come in!"
Jiang Ruo nodded and went straight into the secret room.
She took out a tinder, lit a candle on the wall, and looked around the secret room.
It seems that Tang Zhongxu sits here every night to admire these jewels and jades!
This shelf is also nice...
Haha, now you don’t have to feel bad about handing it all over. I’ll “keep” it for you first.
Jiang Ruo didn't even let go of the portraits hanging on the wall, rolling them all up and storing them in the space...
Looking at the secret room with only a table and a chair left, Jiang Ruo happily extinguished the candle and turned away.
"Everything is collected, let's retreat!"
"Oh, and there's also a warehouse..."
"I'll take you there, Ruo Ruo."
As soon as the two of them left the room, they heard a noisy sound coming from outside.
"Ruoruo, let's go this way."
Xiao Chengjin pulled Jiang Ruo, jumped onto the roof, and ran towards the warehouse.
Commander Wu was afraid that the Tang family’s neighbors wouldn’t know about it, so he deliberately made a bigger noise.
After he arrived at the gate of Tang Mansion with a group of imperial guards, he shouted loudly: "Quick, surround Tang Mansion quickly."
"Yes, Commander Wu." The imperial guards rushed directly into the Tang Mansion.
The servants of the Tang Mansion were so frightened by the fierce intrusion of the Imperial Guards that they lost their minds, and then there was a burst of ghostly howling.
The Tang residence's steward was so drunk that he couldn't see clearly that it was the Imperial Guards. He staggered over and shouted, "Oh no! Someone is robbing the Prime Minister's residence."
"Hurry up and report to the police..."
The imperial guard closest to the Tang family's housekeeper took a few steps forward with a dark face and knocked the man unconscious with a punch.
Seeing this, the other servants were so frightened that they covered their mouths and dared not make a sound.
The old man from the Tang family rushed over after hearing the noise and looked at the imperial guards who were searching the mansion. He shouted sternly, "What are you doing? Stop it!"
Mrs. Tang, who followed, was full of anger and slammed the floor hard with the cane in her hand.
She shouted, "Someone come, someone is going to kill someone."
Commander Wu drew his sword and shouted, "Shut up, Commander!"
When the two elders of the Tang family saw this situation, they were frightened like quails.
Commander Wu snorted coldly and said with a gloomy face, "We are following the emperor's order to confiscate the property of the Tang Mansion."
"Anyone who dares to obstruct...will be killed without mercy."
The Tang family's days of wealth and glory are over.
Don't dare to shout again.
You're simply looking for death!
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