Chapter 428 Thorough Investigation
With the intervention of Dongchang, several officials were sent out and led away the group of fighting common people.
Seeing how happy they all were, it was obvious that they were going to jail for three days happily, and nothing would go wrong in the process.
After the gang left, Li Chen looked at the leading officer and said indifferently: "Who is the prefect of Weihaiwei?"
The leading official quickly replied: "My Lord Magistrate, Zheng Baorong."
Li Chen went through his mind and found no impression at all.
"Three Treasures."
Li Chen called out, "Send two guards in royal robes to follow this official with a verbal order and take Zheng Baorong to Guanhai Academy to await his fate."
Guanhai Academy is Mr. Jingzhi’s secluded residence in Weihaiwei.
Li Chen's words came out cleanly and without any sloppiness. Although the official was full of doubts and confusion, he didn't dare to ask, thinking that anyway, someone from Dongchang would go back with him, and his own magistrate was just looking for trouble.
, and can’t find it on my head.
After thinking this, the idea suddenly became clear. The official saluted respectfully and then got up and left with the two guards sent by Sanbao.
"Let's go directly to Guanhai Academy."
After Li Chen finished speaking, he turned around and returned to the carriage.
Su Jinpa also hurriedly followed.
The motorcade started again. Su Jinpa smiled at Li Chen and said, "How about you stop being the prince? I think it would be more suitable for you to be a prefect, chief envoy or something like that."
Li Chen said angrily: "Don't give up the position of prince and become a prefect or chief envoy? This deal is only what you think of."
Su Jinpa supported her face with her pink wrist and said: "The exorbitant collection of miscellaneous taxes involves the livelihood of the people of the city. If it is just local officials filling their own pockets for greed, that's it. But if there is something hidden in it, what should you do?"
Li Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "How do you say this? Do you know this Zheng Baorong?"
Su Jinpa said: "Look, there is something you don't know after all, right? You are the prince, you are in charge of everything, and you are involved in the general trend of the world. It is normal for a small prefect of Weihaiwei not to listen to you, but I really
Just know it."
"This Zheng Baorong is a native of Weihaiwei. The Zheng family is the largest wealthy family in Weihaiwei and the largest landowner in Weihaiwei. Landlords in other places only work in farming. Weihaiwei is located on the seaside and agriculture is not developed.
, so we enclosed a piece of sea area for sea farm use. Anyone else who enters the sea area for fishing must pay rent to the Zheng family."
"In this way, after decades of accumulation, the Zheng family can be said to be rich and wealthy."
"And this Zheng Baorong took advantage of the time when the imperial court was defeated at Yumen Pass and fought several more battles, and when the national treasury was at its most empty, he created a special case for donating officials and spent a full 600,000 taels of silver to buy this prefect
Once you hold the position, it lasts for more than ten years."
Li Chen sneered and said: "Six hundred thousand taels is a big deal. You spent so much money to buy an official. After more than ten years, you have made enough with the capital and profits, right?"
Su Jinpa shook his head and said: "You just like to look at people with such old eyes. Who says that the official you bought must not be a good official? Just like the officials in the world, nine out of ten are from reading books of sages, but
Traitors and sycophants all come from these people, so the officials they buy may not necessarily be bad officials, such as Zheng Baorong."
"Zheng Baorong has been working hard for more than ten years and has managed Weihaiwei in a great way. Look at this city wall, Weihaiwei built it with his own money. The Qin Empire has a long coastal defense line and many seaside cities, but only
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