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Chapter 16 Catching Corruption

Yuan Man looked at the people around him, "Those who help the evildoers are guilty of the same crime."

He fell to his knees with a loud bang.

Yuan Man has no idea who is innocent or not. Since he has become someone's lackey, he has to pay the price.

What's more, she doesn't want to use such a person again. Who knows what will happen next.

There are many refugees nowadays, and many of them are willing to come and work.

Soon Song Chengyin brought the account book over, and Yuan Man only flipped through it and saw that there were over a thousand taels of silver in it.

"Song Chengyin, take someone you trust with you to raid the Yang family, and then calculate how much is still missing."

Song Chengyin paused and looked at her and said, "Boss, the Yang family lives in the other courtyard, would you like to move there together?"

Yuan Man immediately looked at Yang Cheng and his son, his face grim, "You really don't know how to live or die, you dare to live in the boss's villa."

"Let's go and see what they have done to my villa."

The group walked towards the villa.

The format of the villa is similar to that of the one in Qingfeng County, with two courtyards, but it is a little bigger.

As soon as the group walked over, they were stopped by someone.

"Who dares to break into Yang's house?"

Yuanman looked at the plaque on the door and laughed angrily.

"Yang Mansion, very good."

Yang Cheng's wife, Wang, was sitting in the hall enjoying the maid's service. Seeing the man suddenly breaking in, she immediately scolded him, "What are you doing? Don't you want to stay in the farm anymore?"

Yuan Man glanced at her, chose a chair to sit on, and asked Yuan San, Yuan Si and Song Chengyin to take people to search the house to see how much they could find.

Seeing that her husband and son were tied up, Wang knew that the truth must have been revealed. Thinking of her daughter, she looked at Yuan Man and said proudly, "Please put my husband and son at ease, or I will make you pay."

"Also, transfer this farm to my son's name, and we will not care about what happened today. Otherwise, I will put my daughter in jail."

"My daughter is the favorite concubine of Mr. Liu, the prefect of Jin'an City. She can still do this."

Yuan Man raised his eyebrows and looked at her, then looked at Yang Cheng on the ground.

No wonder he wasn't worried at all from beginning to end. So that's why.

"Heh, I hold your indentures, and you deceived your superiors and subordinates, coveted hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from me, and now you want to arrest me?"

"How come you are the one who rules the country? You can send me to jail just because you want to?"

"If that's the case, then I'll wait in this villa." Yuan Man said and glanced at Wang.

Then he took out their indentures and read them. "Yang Cheng married Wang, and they had a son, Yang Yishu, and a daughter, Yang Zijuan."

"Oh, it turns out that the prefect's concubine contract is still here with me."

Yang Cheng raised his head and glared at her, looking at the indenture in her hand with a sinister look, "Impossible, my children didn't sign an indenture at all!"

Yuan Man laughed, "Oh, the children of slaves are the property of the master from birth, and they automatically sell themselves into slavery. You have been a steward for nearly twenty years, how could you not know that?"

After saying this, Man looked at Wang and said with a smile, "Go and ask your daughter to come over. I'm waiting here."

"Oh, and it would be best if you could invite the prefect as well. I have something to ask him."

"I have the indenture of his concubine. How should I deal with this?"

Wang looked at the indenture in her hand and didn't take it seriously. She said viciously, "Okay, you wait." Then she was about to walk out.

"Come back." Yang Cheng said in a low voice.

He was very sure that he was registered as a good citizen when his children were born, but he did not dare to gamble whether the deed in his hand was real or fake.

After thinking for a while, he laughed, "When my children were born, I registered them as good citizens. If you want to change their household registration and their birth deeds, you need to go through the government."

"And the prefect is my half-son-in-law, so it is impossible for him to give me a birth deed, so the birth deed in your hand is fake."

Yuan Man held the two deeds of his children in front of him and pointed at the names on them and asked, "Do you see clearly? Are they your children?"

Yang Cheng was stunned when he saw it, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, full of disbelief, "No, it's impossible, how did you do it?"

Then he looked up at Yuan Man and asked, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"Oh, what do I want to do?" Yuan Man laughed, "This is my farm, and you coveted 100,000 taels of silver from my farm. You ask me what I want to do?"

"I don't mind if my subordinates are greedy, but it's better not to let me catch them. They will die and they won't even go to jail."

"And you, not only did you take my money, but you also lived in my villa. It disgusts me."

"You...even if you have Xiaojuan's bond in your hand, she is the prefect's man after all. What can you do to her?" Yang Cheng said gritting his teeth.

Yuan Man propped up his chin and squinted his eyes at him, "Then let the prefect come and try to see if he can take you away from me."

As an honest official, she would not stand up for such a villain. If the other party really stood up for this family, then she naturally would not be polite.

Yang Cheng frightened her and she was guessing the other party's identity. After all, the other party was not afraid of even the prefect, so he must be of great importance.

Then it won’t be difficult to get those two indentures.

By the evening, Song Chengyin had finally calculated how much money and grain the Yang family had left.

"Boss, we found a total of 1,800 taels of silver, 3,140 taels of silver, and 1,200 kilograms of grain."

Yuan Man glanced at Yang Cheng and asked, "How much do you need?"

Song Chengyin looked at the account book and said, "I only have accounts from the past ten years, and the total is 103,860 taels."

"Oh, that's all, not counting the private gains."

"More than 103,000, and now there are more than 4,900 left?" Yuan Man looked at Yang Cheng who was hanging his head and keeping silent.

"Boss, in addition, I still owe the farmers three hundred and fifty taels of monthly wages for the past two years."

Yuan Man looked up at Song Chengyin and asked, "Do you know which government officials he bribed?"

Song Chengyin shook his head. "But I know he has a small account book that records the names of officials he bribed and the amount of money he paid."

"Very good." Half of it would be used as bribe, and the remaining 50,000 taels would also have to be spit out by him.

"Yuan San, take the father and son away for separate questioning. I want to know where the account books and the silver are."

As soon as Yuan Man finished speaking, Yuan San and Yuan Si walked in and picked up Yang Cheng and his son.

Wang rushed over when she saw this, "You, let them go, let them go quickly."

Yuan San picked her up with one hand and threw her out, then took Yang Cheng away.

Yang Cheng knew he couldn't run away. He almost forgot that the other party had secret guards, so he immediately said, "I'll tell you."

"The account book is in the secret compartment under the bed in my room. There is also a banknote of 10,000 taels in it."

"We have almost used up the rest. We used a lot of silver to buy food during the famine, so we have used up a lot."

Yuanman waved his hand and asked Yuansan to take it.

When she looked at the account book, her brows furrowed.

There were dozens of officials who accepted bribes, including those from Jin'an City, Xiaocheng, and even Kyoto.

Each person received no less than a thousand taels of silver, and the one who received the most was the prefect of Jin Ancheng, who received more than 20,000 taels.

"Yuan San, find a way to get this account book to Yuan Yi and have him pass it on to the prince."

"Tell the prince that the silver recovered will be used to help Huiguo."

"There are also 10,000 camphor tree seedlings. Ask him to arrange for someone to transport them and tell him that they can be used to prevent landslides."

"Yes." Yuan San took the account book and walked out.

Yang Cheng was dumbfounded.

Prince!

He is the prince's man, and now he is really dead.

No matter what, as long as he reveals that he has the account book, he will be the only one to die somewhere.