From these few families, more than 10,000 taels of silver were confiscated. Although Yinzhi fought on the battlefield, he was not a murderer. After killing a few people to establish his authority, the servants were terrified, fearing that the eldest prince would go on a killing spree.
The family of Consort Hui, who were in charge of looking after Yinzhi's shops, had more than 10,000 taels of silver found in their house. Yinzhi then handed all of it over to Consort Hui.
This was a disgrace to Consort Hui. The confidant she had entrusted to her son had turned around and harmed him, leaving no one in the family alive.
After taking all of the innkeeper's belongings, Yinzhi drove the family away. With such a reputation, the family couldn't survive in the capital. Not long after, the whole family moved out of the capital. However, having lived a life of luxury for too long, they were no longer capable of doing farm work, and their fate was also very bad.
There's always a way out. Logically speaking, it's not unreasonable to kill her. After all, back then, the Ming Shang Efu of the Guo Luo Luo family was beheaded for 2,000 taels of silver. Even now, the newly appointed Eighth Prince's wife is not well received in the Guo Luo Luo family. However, the Eighth Prince's wife doesn't care. She has lived in the Prince An's family since she was a child, so why would she care about a small Guo Luo Luo family?
Ming Shang was the eldest aunt of He Zhuo, the second son of Lady Guo Luoluo, and the younger brother of Consort Yi in the palace. At that time, he was actually implicated by Prince An. Prince An was very powerful and could take the Eighth Prince's wife back whenever he wanted. If you were to ask who hated the Eighth Prince's wife and Prince An the most, it would undoubtedly be Lady Guo Luoluo.
If it weren't for Prince An, his several sons, and Consort Yi and Noble Lady Guo in the palace, Lady Guo Luoluo probably wouldn't have been able to endure it.
In addition, Yinzhi's wet nurse betrayed him twice, which broke his heart. Instead of punishing her, he locked her up, saying she could not be released unless she died.
Yinzhi didn't know what to do with the wet nurse's grandsons. He couldn't bear to kill them all, so he handed them over to Consort Hui.
After the incident became public, neither Yinzhi nor Zhuo concealed it. As a result, in the past two months, in every wealthy household in the capital, several servants had died and some silver had been found during searches. For a time, the servant market was in high demand.
In this matter, both the head nanny and the principal wife were negligent. The head nanny had managed things quite well, but this rule was a tacit one, and the head nanny wouldn't specifically point it out.
Therefore, He Zhuo was only symbolically fined half a year's worth of silver, and the matter was dropped.
Yinzhi also replaced the people in these positions, so he could be said to have a clear understanding of everything happening in the mansion from then on.
The residences of the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince have been completed. Because of this, the Third Prince went to check the accounts of the Imperial Household Department for the construction of the residences, and then personally went to the market several times to understand the market conditions. He learned that these audacious servants had directly embezzled forty or fifty thousand taels of silver. Thinking that his own residence was completed, he went to check it, praised them, and rewarded them with money. He was really stupid.
The Third Prince, Yinzhi, directly impeached the entire group of people involved in building the mansion.
Compared to other families, the Ma family was not wealthy, so the Third Prince was not wealthy either. His father gave him 200,000 taels of silver as a share of the family property. He was initially pleased with himself because he had more than 50,000 taels of silver left over, but when he received it, it turned out that the other family had already made their money.
Before Emperor Kangxi even heard about the hot topic in the capital, "How much do chickens cost in your household?", he received a memorial from his own son. The Third Prince had given Kangxi a difficult problem, as it was a matter handled jointly by the Imperial Household Department and the Ministry of Works, and could be said to have far-reaching consequences.
However, Kangxi was soon proven wrong. Why? Because when he learned about the question of "how much are the chickens in your household?", he impulsively ordered someone to bring him the accounts of the Imperial Household Department, only to discover that he was the biggest sucker. He was furious.
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