At this point, Leopard Slave's fight was no longer important. The other six eunuchs stopped shouting and looked at Liu Jin.
The only sounds in the air were the panting and roaring of the two leopard slaves.

"Believe you?" Zhengde narrowed his eyes, "How can you make me believe you? I remember that there is indeed a grandson named Liu Erhan in your outer house."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please sentence me to death now! I have been with you since you were the Crown Prince. I exist because of you. Without you, I am nothing. I am afraid that I will be skinned alive by those ministers the next day."
"For more than ten years, I have grown up with you. I have come to regard you as my closest person. I am willing to die for you, Your Majesty!"

A trace of depression flashed across Zhengde's face, and he lost interest in watching the fight. He waved his hand at him and said, "Get up first. I will discuss your matter after I have investigated it."
"Then your majesty, you'd better order me to be executed immediately. Gossip can melt gold. I'm afraid that after today, the spit of the common people and ministers will drown me to death!"
Liu Jin was desperate. The only way for him now was to ask the emperor to give him a golden medal of immunity from death. At the very least, he had to wait a while and let himself deal with the people or things that needed to be dealt with.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Zhengde angrily said: "Who dares! I won't let you die, so who dares to let you die..."
But before he could finish his words, he heard a faint sigh from the voice in the heavenly scroll.

[Unfortunately, daydreams are just daydreams after all. Liu Jin had a beautiful idea, but Zhang Yong, one of the Eight Tiger Eunuchs, reported Liu Jin after suppressing the rebellion of Prince Anhua.]
[The memorial listed 17 crimes of Liu Jin and stated that Wang Mou of Anhua started the rebellion under the slogan of killing Liu Jin and clearing the court of officials.]

[It’s a pity that the up master has searched a lot of information but couldn’t find out what the specific 17 charges are. He only knows that the most serious one is attempting to kill the king and rebel. ]
【According to the Ming Dynasty law, those who plotted rebellion would be executed by slow slicing.】

After hearing Tianjuan's words, Zhengde could not continue. At this time, the other six eunuchs had surrounded him and placed Zhengde in the middle, guarding him.
Liu Jin remained kneeling, but did not dare to say anything. Big drops of sweat fell from his forehead, hitting the ground and quickly seeping into the soil.
He was so nervous that he even held the folding fan tighter.

[After Zhang Yong wrote to the emperor, Zhengde realized the seriousness of the matter, but he still couldn't believe that Liu Jin, whom he trusted the most, would commit regicide and rebellion.]
[So at Zhang Yong's suggestion, Zhengde personally led his troops to search Liu Jin's outer residence.]
[As a result, the search turned out jade belts, dragon robes, jade seals and other items. Not only that, even the fan that Liu Jin always kept with him was found to contain two sharp daggers!]

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao's face changed slightly. He looked down at Liu Jin, who was trembling in front of him, and pointed at the folding fan in his hand and said, "Bring it to me."

Gu Dayong, who was standing by, heard this and was about to take it, but unexpectedly, he saw a flash of cold light in front of his eyes.
He was startled. He subconsciously kicked the object that was shining with cold light and immediately kicked it to the side. Only then did he realize that it was actually a black dagger.
At the same time, the murderer was captured by the other five tigers. It was Liu Jin, who had just been kneeling in front of him and trembling.

As for the folding fan he had just held in his hand, it had now broken into two halves, with one half of the fan bones broken, which was where the dagger was hidden.
Seeing the broken folding fan, thinking of how Liu Jin had just used it to fan himself, Zhengde's eyebrows were twisted into a knot. He ordered again: "Take apart the fan bones over there as well."

"Yes!" Gu Dayong responded. He picked up the broken fan on the ground, squeezed it gently, and broke the ribs on the other side.
Then, another black dagger appeared.
The black-skinned white blade was exactly the same as the one he had just kicked away.

Zhu Houzhao took the dagger and looked at it carefully, then looked at the scroll again and smiled: "Good, very good!" [In addition to these, Zhang Yong also searched out a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from Liu Jin's home. According to records, after statistics and settlement, Liu Jin's property actually amounted to more than 12 million taels of gold and 250 million taels of silver.]
【At that time, the Ming Dynasty's treasury only had 20 to 30 million taels of silver.】
[This Liu Jin, in just a few years, has acquired wealth that rivals that of a country. If it were today, he would probably be ranked as the richest man in the world.]

"God has me doomed!" Upon hearing these words, Liu Jin could no longer hold on and instantly fell to the ground, unconscious.
Zhengde just snorted, without even looking at Liu Jin who had collapsed on the ground, and said to the eunuchs around him: "You all heard it, why don't you hurry up and get to work."

Gu Dayong was the first to react and immediately said, "Well, I will take people to search Liu's house right now."
After saying that, he glanced at Liu Jin on the ground and asked, "How should we deal with him?"

"Take him in first... No, don't we have a cage for Leopard Slave? Put him in the cage first and place it in..."
Looking around, Zhu Houzhao pointed to the big cage where two leopard slaves were fighting and said, "Put it next to it. I can take a good look at it. As for the others, I will make a decision after the search."
"Yes." Gu Dayong immediately took the order and left.

After a while, someone brought the cage containing the leopard slave over. The others threw the unconscious Liu Jin inside and locked the cage door.
After all this was done, the fight between the two leopard slaves nearby had come to an end. However, the black panther and the leopard were evenly matched, and although both were dying, the winner had not yet been determined.

Wang Feng glanced at the leopard slaves inside and curled his lips: "Your Majesty, it seems that there is no way to tell the winner between these two leopard slaves."
"It's good that we can't tell who will win." Glancing at Liu Jin who was still unconscious beside him, Zhengde narrowed his eyes and said, "Then I, the banker, wins everything."

While Zhengde was looking for a cage to put Liu Jin in, Lei Xiaomeng had already listed all of Liu Jin's methods of making money.
[Some people say, how could a eunuch embezzle so much money in just a few years? ]
[It can only be said that Liu Jin has too many means and too much power. Sometimes, money will be delivered to his door without him saying anything.]

[The most common means are nothing more than embezzling public funds, selling official positions and titles, soliciting and accepting bribes, creating false cases, etc., and then taking advantage of the opportunity to make money.]
[However, Liu Jin is really a talent. He has come up with a new idea to generate income. He faked an imperial decree to confiscate the property of the other party, and then took the other party's property for himself. This can be said to be crazy.]

[So, some officials sold their granddaughters to collect enough money to give to Liu Jin. The Ming officialdom was filled with wailing.]

[However, since he was so powerful, so crazy, and so reckless, why did the Emperor Zhengde arrest him, confiscate his house, and skin him alive whenever he wanted? ]

(End of this chapter)

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