Li Jinglong smiled and sent Chang Sheng to the door, "Hey, it's hard to quell greed if people's hearts are not enough."
"Yes!" Chang Sheng sighed, "Sometimes I feel that it is more comfortable and happy in the army!"
"It's about being happy and comfortable when fighting!" Li Jinglong said with a smile.
"Anyway, Wang Duzi, I'll leave this matter to you. I'll remember the favor and repay it later!" When he reached the door, Chang Sheng stopped and clasped his fists, "Stay!"
"Slow down!" Li Jinglong stood at the door and watched Chang Sheng get on his horse and drive away.
In troubled times, although we can do things with each other, we still need to keep a little distance at least on the surface, and we can't get too close to anyone.
~
The residence of Cao Guogong.
Mrs. Deng had prepared the bed and was placing a thermos to warm the quilt.
"What does Duke Zheng want from you?" Seeing Li Jinglong come in, Deng asked casually.
"Get people!" Li Jinglong waved his hand to the maids to get down, and he began to take off his shoes.
Mrs. Deng came over again with foot-washing water in her hand, "Is it the Jingcang case? There has been a lot of trouble in the city recently, and my sister-in-law even talked about it today!"
"Is the Deng family involved?" Li Jinglong was shocked.
"Does our family have the ability to mix in? The fat spots in Jingcang are like pits for every pineapple!" Deng helped Li Jinglong wash his feet. "My sister-in-law is asking if our family has mixed in!"
Li Jinglong leaned on the bed, closed his eyes and said, "I have never been involved with Jingcang at all!" He said with a sneer, "Jingcang Military Warehouse, the more lucrative these places are, the less likely I am to get involved."
"Is the oil and water in that place so easy to get?" Li Jinglong continued, "It can support people to death! In these years, I have been in charge of the Firearms Foundry Bureau, the Gunpowder Bureau, and the Treasure Shipyard. They are also places rich in oil and water."
"Hmph, the accounts are clear and accurate, and we never make any mess that everyone gets caught by rain and dew. Every nail must be recorded and placed in the warehouse. When it's time to reward people with money, I'll tell you in advance.
Master said."
"I know you are awesome!" Mrs. Deng smiled and wiped Li Jinglong's feet with a soft towel.
"It's not that I'm great, it's that I know that a man must love money in a good way!" Li Jinglong got into bed and said, "Otherwise, sooner or later, he will fall into trouble!"
Mrs. Deng packed up, turned on the lamp and got into bed, lying on her side against Li Jinglong.
Then, his hand was placed on Li Jinglong's lower abdomen intentionally or unintentionally.
"Don't prick it, scratch it!" Li Jinglong muttered.
"Hey, you haven't touched me in a while!" Madam Deng looked up with something in his eyes, "I find that you seem to be a different person now. Since you recovered from your illness, you haven't looked at the girls at home anymore.
I won’t eat the wild food outside either!”
"You...don't want to at all?"
Li Jinglong pupaled twice more, "I'm not cured yet, what are you thinking about?" He said, squinting at his wife, Deng Shi, "I said you, an old lady, what are you thinking about all day long? Are you ashamed?
"
"What do I have to be ashamed of with my own men!" Deng got into Li Jinglong's arms, "What are you doing by marrying a man?"
"Go, I'm not very good at it yet... Hey... your hands are cold..."
~~
The next morning, Li Jinglong blocked He Guangyi in the guard room.
Li Jinglong thought it was a trivial matter, but He Guangyi's expression turned out to be very embarrassing.
"You said you can't let go of this person!" He Guangyi said in deep thought.
Upon hearing this, Li Jinglong's heart skipped a beat, "Have you registered before the emperor?"
"That's not the case!" He Guangyi said with a bitter smile, "It's just that this prince... involves too many people." As he said that, he looked out the window where people were coming and going, and whispered, "He is in charge.
Account!"
The people who always get into trouble the quickest are those in charge of accounting.
Li Jinglong's eyelids fluttered, "This man still has to live!"
He Guangyi was still a little embarrassed, "It's not impossible to stay alive...The Jingcang case is not like Yangzhou. At most, it is about reselling food and materials and making money through various losses, so as to not usurp the people's wealth and money!"
"However, even if we can spare his life, this man... will have to go to Burma!"
"Hey, as long as he can survive, no matter where he goes?" Li Jinglong laughed, cupped his hands and said, "I owe you a favor!"
He Guangyi curled his lips, he knew exactly who owed this favor!
This is power. With a few words and a few words, the two of them saved the life of a man who was destined to be cut into pieces.
Embezzling fifty taels is the crime of using Cordyceps sinensis as a scarecrow. Seventy or eighty thousand silver dollars is an astronomical figure, enough to kill ten thousand times.
But it is a trivial matter to the two of them!
Small power is subordinate to big power, and big power is subordinate to people. So people work hard to climb up, those below give money to those above, and those above give money to those above...
~
Zhu Yunxi received the money, and it was still a huge sum of money.
To be precise, the Integrity Institute ransacked the homes of the criminals involved in the Jingcang case... to recover the proceeds.
"There are more than 300 people involved in the Jingcang case, and the cash in cash alone is more than 1.7 million..." Zhu Yunxi looked at the account book in his hand, "Not counting the real estate shops in Jingzhong and the farms outside the city.
Counting the valuables at home..."
As he said that, he put down his account book and rubbed his temples tiredly, "The highest official position of the officials involved is only the sixth grade. Small officials are extremely corrupt! No wonder there is a strange phenomenon in the capital. Scholars and candidates do not want to continue studying for the imperial examination, nor do they want to go to the imperial examination.
The civil servants participate in the selection of officials, but they only focus on becoming a minor official!"
"This is just a temporary figure!" Opposite Zhu Yunxi, Bao Zhao, sitting like a red-eyed rabbit, said, "There is still a lot of money missing, and it will take some time to recover it!"
"In addition to 1.7 million, what else?" Zhu Yunxi sighed again, "Up to now, the actual cost of using troops against Burma is less than 600,000... The current temporary figures alone are enough.
I will fight Myanmar three more times!"
At this point, he leaned back slightly and said, "How many moths are there in this Ming Dynasty? How come they can't be killed!"
At this moment, Xin Yande came in with several minor officials from the General Affairs Department, holding several thick stacks of memorials.
"Your Majesty, this pile here is from Jiangnan official circles impeaching Li Zhigang. The selected ministers are all put together!"
Xin Yande said, "Here are the officials from the capital who have written letters opposing the New Deal. I have also selected them and put them together!"
"This last pile is what you want to see today!"
"Got it!" Zhu Yunxi said lightly. He didn't read the other two piles of memorials and directly picked up the top one from the last pile.
Then, he said, "Where is Li Zhigang?"
"We have set off from Yangzhou and are almost arriving in Hangzhou!" Xin Yande said.
"Ha!" Zhu Yunxi suddenly laughed, "Just wait, when he arrives in Hangzhou, the memorial to impeach him will definitely be twice as many as this!"
Li Zhigang was extremely smart. The case in Yangzhou was a revelation, but he simply handed it over to Jin Yiwei and continued southward.
He seems to have done nothing, but he is more useful than what he has done. Jin Yiwei will find out the ins and outs of the matter.
The Ministry of Punishment and the Dali Temple Metropolitan Procuratorate, as long as official business was done, would invisibly help Li Zhigang fight against his competitors in the world.
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi's expression condensed.
"Hong Xi is coming back? So soon?"
The fold is Zhu Gaochi's. It says that the ceremony of Burma's new dynasty has been completed, and the new Burmese king is on his way to the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunxi looked at the date of the book and made some calculations in his mind. He estimated that Zhu Gaochi had arrived in the Ming Dynasty by now.
"Come back as soon as you come back!"
In fact, deep down in Zhu Yunxi's heart, he hoped that Zhu Gaochi would come back later.
"The decree is sent to the state capitals along the way, and the king of Burma should be greeted with the courtesy of a prince. Don't be negligent!" Zhu Yunxi said.
"I will pass the decree to the Ministry of Rites and the Administration of the Domain to welcome the King of Burma to pay his respects now. It must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. Let Qin Tianjian choose an auspicious day!"
Hearing this, Bao Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In this troubled year, the Ming Dynasty finally had some good things that made people happy!