From ancient times to the present, a single word of greed has ruined many situations: Chongzhen, in the month when ammunition and food were exhausted, fully believed that all the officials in the court would know the meaning of death, and abandoned the dignity of the emperor and did not ask officials to pay for labor.
He resisted the enemy, but received an almost humiliating 200,000 taels.
Those penniless officials had previously allowed Li Zicheng to enter the capital, but they were forced to pay him a total of 70 million yuan. Countless officials were ruined and their families were ruined... Save a small amount of money and lose a big one.
By the time of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the northern captives were not yet at peace, and only half of the country was left. However, the ministers in the DPRK were still fighting for power and profit...Are they stupid? Not necessarily, but who among the officials could not cross the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses?
, a child prodigy who emerged from among millions of scholars?
Please tell me they are not stupid...
Even though they are obviously not among the elite, they still cannot see the word "profit", and they always act in ways that make small gains at the expense of big gains. It can be said that the more people make decisions, the more short-sighted the judgments they make...
Li Shanchang's mistake was that he did not directly disclose the exact amount of money. As a result, no one wanted to pay big money, and everyone wanted others to pay big money.
At first, they only summarized the number of 100,000 taels that made Lao Zhu furious.
Bu Nao thought carefully about whether it was destined. After all, most of the court officials did not care about the Qingliu in eastern Zhejiang and did not think it was profitable before they came together with Li Shanchang. Li Shanchang, who had worked hard from the bottom, wanted to win over them.
Naturally, he knew that if he was assigned to the task from a high position, the East Zhejiang faction who was assigned to it would definitely feel resentful. If he said it was popular, the two parties would not actually have a cooperative relationship.
Just like now, many of the officials who were scolded by Li Shanchang had turned away with ugly faces. An old minister from the Ministry of Revenue said: "Why did Prime Minister Li scold him so harshly?"
"They also have their own considerations. They thought that they could save as much as they could by helping everyone. Even if Bidong gets angry and scolds Yan Xizhe, it will be over."
"Who would have thought that Bidong would ask King Qin and King Yan to investigate the case..."
Li Shanchang heard his strange anger, and his whole body trembled with anger.
The old servant still didn't realize it, so he thought to himself and said:
"The King of Qin didn't know the importance of it. After receiving the order, he took the imperial censor and sealed the household department directly. He made a mess in the file room of the household department. He brought many major affairs of the household department to a halt... and King Yan led him
The guards in royal robes supported him, and no one dared to say anything."
"If we go east like that, their household department will exist in name only! The previous method was not proposed by you, Prime Minister Li, but now it's like this. You have to think of a way to help them tide over the difficulties!"
His words were implicitly threatening, and the veins on Li Shan's forehead were bulging with anger. The Ministry of Household Control controlled the most lucrative area in the court. How many people in Dongdong were clean? If the King of Qin hadn't been allowed to read the files, he might have pointed out who he was.
The flaw was found in one day. This was a subtle threat to him, Li Shanchang. If something happened to the Ministry of Household Affairs, he would definitely beg to pull him away from Dongshui, and Li Shanchang would not have an easy time.
Li Shanchang felt depressed for a while. He never thought that those officials from eastern Zhejiang would actually dare to threaten Li Shanchang. To be fair, he really felt guilty. Although he was secretly making plans, he would not have been able to instigate those people.
The thing that fooled Lao Zhu was found out. With Lao Zhu's temper that does not rub sand in his eyes...
Now that the matter has come to an end, there is a way out. Li Shanchang suddenly seemed to have aged many years, and his legs on crutches trembled slightly: "Come on, come on, I will come up with another plan for me."
"On that occasion, we must follow it properly and never make decisions carelessly."
The officials were overjoyed, and the waiter said, "In that case, I'd like to thank Prime Minister Li for your help."
"After this incident, they will be waiting for you, Prime Minister Li, to look down on you!"
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"It's strange, those officials really can't find any clues about them."
In the Hubu Yamen, King Qin Zhu Pang walked in front of the hall with a golden sword. There were a lot of Hubu records in front of him.
During those confinement months, he took the censors from the Yushitai to conduct a thorough inspection of the household registration records at night. Among the many store contracts in Yingtian Mansion, there were actually very few that belonged to Mingdong, an official of the imperial court. Zhu Ping angrily handed over a registered account book
Throwing it to the ground, he turned to Zhu Di and said, "Fourth brother, let me ask, is it possible that the censor behind him also played a game of official-official mutual protection with those officials, deliberately fooling the two brothers?"
"Lao Wu held an auction before, and many of the housekeepers and servants of Guan'er's family appeared at the auction. How come those people's homes only have such insignificant properties?"
Zhu Di had an embroidered spring knife on his waist and glanced at the group of censors who were still checking the accounts. The censors were so frightened that they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the King of Yan. Seeing this, Zhu Di said to Zhu Xi:
"Probably not. Even if those people are brave enough, they would not dare to make false claims right under Jin Yiwei's nose."
"Are you afraid of killing the Nine Clans?"
"Perhaps, those people's legs and tails are really so perfect that they can't catch their fox tails." Zhu Di touched Dongba, which was starting to grow stubble. "Even if Bu Nao was sold, how could it be done so quickly?
But there’s a reason for it.”
"Humph, if it's tax avoidance, those officials are more powerful than the others..."
"He has a good idea." Zhu Xi rolled his eyes and laughed shamelessly, making Zhu Di laugh like a monk who was two feet tall and confused.
Zhu Xi motioned to Zhu Di to come over and tell him what he was thinking. Zhu Di frowned deeply when he heard it: "Well...no, no, it's a bit inappropriate..."
"Hey, what kind of decency is there? Dad can help me, so it's not decency!" Zhu Xi said, with a rare righteous and awe-inspiring temperament. Zhu Di was speechless for a while, and Zhu Xi became angry when he saw it: "Fourth brother, I
Just say whether you want to do it or not. If I don’t do it, he will bring someone else to do it himself!”
"What am I going to do with my people? Let the censors with weak legs behind me set sacks and beat sap?" Zhu Di rolled his eyes. "That's all, they are all brothers, not the two of us.
Let’s do it together.”
"Dad blames Dong Lai. At worst, he will be scolded with me."
If he hadn't been there to watch, the second brother would have done something shocking. If he had gone alone, he could have easily thrown him into prison on a random charge.
Anyway, Jin Yiwei was not allowed to do that kind of work in the first place. When Mao Xiang had an accident with Hu Weiyong in the past few months, he often poured dirty water on innocent people.
"Okay! Be loyal!" Zhu Xi was overjoyed. He didn't know if Zhu Di was afraid that he might alert someone and delay the matter. "That's his good brother!"
As the most inconspicuous person among the brothers, Zhu Feng naturally couldn't think of any serious solution. His so-called "good idea" was to kidnap an official's family and drag him to a dark place to scare them.
, afraid that they won’t reveal the secret inside.
Because I had heard from Zhu Su before that Li Shanchang was most likely involved, Zhu and Zhu Di targeted Li Shanchang's mansion as their first target. At five o'clock in the morning, the two of them led a team of plainclothes guards.
Squatting outside the Korean government palace.
We were going to rob the housekeeper of the Korean government who was out shopping at noon, so we wanted to interrogate him first.
"Fourth brother, wake up, someone is coming out of the corner door!" Zhu Xi poked Zhu Di beside him.
Zhu Di was leaning against the wall to catch up on his sleep with his Xiuchundao in his arms. He was woken up by Zhu Xi and took a closer look: "Hey, isn't that the Korean prince Li Qi? Why is he so sneaky..."
"It's so early in the morning, and he actually asks to leave the house? Could it be that he has something to ask for?"
"Is that person the crown prince of the Korean government?" When Zhu Xi heard this, he immediately started gearing up. "Dazzle, Fourth Brother! Get ready quickly, let's catch him!"
"Li Qi?" Zhu Di was a little stunned. "Second brother, isn't that bad?"
"Li Qi is not the eldest son of the Korean prince after all... If he tortures himself without permission, I'm afraid it will cause a big trouble... Besides, didn't I just want to arrest the housekeeper?"
"What do I know!" Zhu Xi acted like an elder brother and gave Zhu Di a lesson. "Just a housekeeper may not know anything important. Li Qi has a distinguished status, and Li Shan has a long ass, but if there is something wrong with Dong Qiuzhen, how can he hide it from him?"
That biological son?"
"Besides, those second-generation ancestors have very soft bones, and all they can do is scare you. Where do you need to torture and why do you ask questions?"
"Hurry up, he's begging to be turned away to the main road... Where is my sack? Hurry up and take care of daddy's worries. It will be tomorrow!"