Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 154: A wave of free purchases

Jiang Yizhou finally opened the underground secret room.

Then she saw that in a space of more than 20 square meters, there were boxes of gold, silver and jewelry piled up, and various calligraphy and paintings and treasures were placed on the shelves against the wall.

It almost blinded her titanium dog eyes.

After a rough estimate, the wealth here is worth at least tens of thousands.

Jiang Yizhou thought about his hard work in Yunshan and Tianshui, and the golden finger of the system, which exceeded the production of this era by several times, various technologies, formulas, etc.

After several years of hard work, there are only a few thousand taels in the account now, and the year-end holiday money has not been distributed to everyone. Once it is distributed, the account will be empty again.

And he easily pocketed tens of thousands...and this was the leftover from his offering to his superiors.

It really proves the saying: It is better to have power than to have money. If you have power, you will definitely have money - and if you have power, naturally people will give you money.

Jiang Yizhou looked around and thought that the three cubic meters of space might not be enough...

These boxes and other things are no longer needed. Just collect the gold ingots and silver cakes directly. At least the entire warehouse is emptied, leaving only a pile of empty boxes and empty shelves.

Jiang Yizhou came out of the warehouse and felt his back straighten.

It feels good to have money.

Well, in the early spring of next year, construction of her canal can finally officially begin.

With tens of thousands of silver as a foundation, there is nothing to be afraid of.

As long as the canal is built, Tianshui will become the most important base and hub.

Just then, Xiao Tongzi asked, "Do you want to take over a few more warehouses?"

Jiang Yizhou blurted out: "You mean the county government's treasury? Those are all recorded in the accounts. If there is a shortage, those people will probably have to collect taxes from the people to make up for it."

Of course, anyone who wants to levy heavy taxes will find an excuse, but Jiang Yizhou had no psychological pressure to collect money from the private coffers of these corrupt officials.

Xiao Tongzi knew that the other party would do this, and he continued: "Of course it's not this public warehouse, but the Huo family..."

When Xiao Tongzi mentioned this, Jiang Yizhou's eyes suddenly lit up.

That's right, these people have bullied her time and again and forced her into a desperate situation. Now they just killed a small family head and let her go. It would be too easy for them.

Furthermore, for a large family, the head of the family is just a spokesperson for an interest group.

If one dies, they just push another one out.

Therefore, only by truly touching upon their vital interests can we teach them a real lesson.

Do it when you think of it.

Jiang Yizhou hurriedly left Jiang'an City, climbed over the city wall, but his horse had not left yet, so he rode on it and galloped back to Tianshui.

He put several cubic meters of treasure into his own storeroom, ate something and drank some water in a hurry, then changed horses and rushed to the Huo family.

After a day of traveling back and forth, Jiang Yizhou arrived a few miles away from the Huo family. He hid in the nearby woods to rest and waited for night to fall.

The Huo family not only has a main warehouse, each branch has its own warehouse, and each master also has a private warehouse.

There is really a mountain of gold and silver inside...

Fortunately, these people had transferred their elite servants away to deal with Jiang Yizhou, and they had not been replaced for a while.

Even if we recruited them temporarily, the coordination and strength between them are far inferior to what they were before.

It's fine for dealing with ordinary petty thieves, but for Jiang Yizhou, it's like an empty space.

After three trips back and forth, they finally managed to empty all the gold, silver and jewelry from the warehouses, big and small.

Then there are the Chen family and the Zhou family.

On the third day after the heavenly punishment, the three major families in Jiang'an County broke out in shocking cases of theft from their inner treasury.

On the fourth day, the new acting county magistrate arrived.

Firstly, there was the former county magistrate and several former family heads who were punished that day, the dozens of corpses outside the dungeon, and the thefts in several major families.

Acting county magistrate Zhou Qi is now in a dilemma.

The original team was in cahoots with Zhang Tao and the Huo family, and they put everything on the line to capture Tianshui and Jiang Yizhou.

Now all the capable yamen runners are dead, and the Huo, Zhou and Chen families have also been severely damaged.

The family was already in a mess because of the issue of re-electing the head of the family, and the theft case made things even more chaotic.

It took Zhou Qi two days to finally settle all the bodies. Most of them had their identities confirmed and recorded in the files.

But there is still one part that cannot be confirmed.

Because these are the killers of the Viper Gang, who were originally trained by the other party using orphans.

Therefore, the deaths of Magistrate Zhang, the head of the Huo family, and others who were struck to death by lightning could only be classified as accidental. As for the additional injuries on the bodies of the thugs who died with them... since there was no other confirming physical evidence, they could only be ignored.

There were dozens of bodies outside the prison, some of them were runners, some were thugs from wealthy families, and some were people of unknown identities...

All we can say is that they fought each other, and then... they died anyway.

As for the theft of Magistrate Zhang's private vault, they could only swallow their anger - they must have known that Zhang Tao had amassed a lot of money over the years, and now his basement was empty, so they knew that it must have been taken away by someone, just like the Huo, Zhou and Chen families.

However, this was not the county government treasury, and there were no clues left at the scene, so the matter could only be left unresolved at this point.

So, just at the beginning of this year, Zhou Qi was involved in a hair-pulling case, and he managed to cover the matter up.

There was also the previous case of selling illegal salt at the Yunshan Grain Station, which was not mentioned at all - because everyone knew that they were all wrongly accused.

Zhou Qi didn't bring it up again. After all, these things were annoying enough.

Besides, his predecessor and several major families joined forces but failed to deal with Tianshui and Jiang Yizhou through that case. Now he is alone and powerless, so he should not cause trouble for himself.

So, after sorting out this mess, the only cases left were the thefts from the Zhou, Huo and Chen families.

Zhou Qi knew Tianshui and Jiang Yizhou before he came, and he also knew that his predecessor and superiors were targeting Tianshui and Jiang Yizhou.

Now everyone is in trouble except Tianshui and Jiang Yizhou. I heard that during the Chinese New Year, everyone was given a holiday and big red envelopes were distributed. It was very lively.

It's easy to tell that Jiang Yizhou has something to do with these things.

But what's the point of just guessing there is a connection? There's no evidence.

It is impossible to deal with it the same way as other people - if there is no evidence, you can fabricate evidence and arrest people at will.

The problem now is that the newly formed team of the yamen is simply no match for the others.

Why should they say whatever you say and let you convict themselves and take the person away?

Looking at the entire Jiang'an County right now, those major families have been severely damaged.

Of course, they still have people in the court, and they will definitely recover in time.

But at present, Tianshui has become the one with the greatest development potential.

Therefore, after Zhou Qi has finished all this, he should not only not rush to find fault with others, but also take the initiative to show goodwill.

As for what happens next, we’ll deal with it slowly later.