Chongzhen asked Fu Shan again: "Are the accounts complete?"
Fu Shandao: "Because the Yiding acted quickly and the Yangzhou garrison eunuch office and hundreds of minions were unprepared, there was no time to burn the account books, so the accounts are very complete."
"It's just that I was short of time and didn't have time to check it carefully."
"But the big number is correct, the total is around 14 million!"
"Okay, I already know, thank you for your hard work." Chongzhen nodded happily and said, "Now you can hand over the account book to the Yangzhou government office."
"Yes." Fu Shan bowed and retreated.
Chongzhen said to Ma Mingluan again: "Prefect Ma, I'll leave the next thing to you."
"This?" Ma Mingluan stood up, looking embarrassed. There were some things he couldn't say directly in public.
"What? Are you cowarded again now?" Chongzhen said suddenly, "Just now you dared to insult me in public as a foolish king, but now you are just asked to investigate a case, but you don't dare?"
"Why don't you dare?"
Ma Mingluan no longer had any scruples and said in a deep voice: "It's just that this case involves the inner court, so I would like to ask the Holy Father to give me a charter. How far should this case be investigated?"
After saying that, Ma Mingluo glanced at Han Zanzhou.
Han Zan and Zhou Hun were almost scared out of their wits. Ma Mingluan, what do you think our family is doing?
"How far will the investigation go?" Chongzhen said, "Of course it will be investigated to the very end!"
"In this case, I'm done." Ma Mingluan chuckled. Since the Holy One said he would get to the bottom of it, he would really get to the bottom of it. He has such an upright character.
Just don’t regret it when the Holy Spirit arrives.
Ma Mingluan turned around and left.
"Wait a minute." Chongzhen suddenly waved his hand and stopped Ma Mingluan again.
Ma Mingluan turned around and asked, "Is Your Majesty going to regret it now?"
"What do I regret?" Chongzhen said with a snort, "I just want to tell you that the stolen money and goods seized from this case are all the wealth and wealth plundered from Yangzhou merchants!"
Ma Mingluan was stunned for a moment and asked: "So what does the Lord mean?"
Chongzhen glanced at the Yangzhou merchants present and said solemnly: "The 1 million taels sent to the inner court's key storehouse have been used for military expenses, so I will not return them. But the remaining 13 million taels, no matter how many are eventually seized,
All stolen money and stolen goods must be returned to the merchants one by one according to the account books, and not even one tael of silver is allowed to enter the treasury!"
"Ah this?" Upon hearing this, the Yangzhou merchants present suddenly changed their expressions.
Ma Mingluan also couldn't believe his ears. Is the Lord crazy?
Zhu Cijiong also looked at Chongzhen in confusion, thinking that this was 13 million taels!
Even if only half of the amount can be recovered in the end, that is still 6.5 million taels of silver!
Zhu Cixiang's heart surged. Is this 13 million taels the wood of his father's south gate?
Chongzhen then said to a group of Yangzhou merchants: "Everyone, the reason why I set up mine supervisors and tax envoys in various places was originally just to make up for the shortage of national funds, and the amount requested was not much, but my domestic slaves dared to use my name.
It is not my original intention to impose exorbitant taxes and expropriations in various places, causing countless merchants to lose their families."
"I will apologize to you for these bitches!"
Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen actually bowed deeply.
"No, Your Majesty! You are the king and father of all the people in the world!" All the merchants were so shocked that they knelt down one after another.
Chongzhen bowed to the ground and stood up again, saying: "In addition, you can rest assured. From today on, I will remove the Yangzhou garrison eunuch office, the mine supervisors established in Yangzhou, and the tax envoys will also be removed."
"Holy, Holy Ming!" All the merchants present burst into tears.
After waiting for seven years, are these plague gods finally going to go away?
These plague gods are really outrageous. They point at one family and say that the other family has a mine, and that family will be ruined immediately.
Those shops and warehouses are even worse, and they are often exploited by tax envoys.
It's fine now. The Holy Spirit is finally going to remove these plague gods and we can open our doors for business again.
Ma Mingluan was also filled with emotion. He was originally planning to go against Yan Jin's advice and risk his life to get the emperor to remove Yangzhou's mining supervisors and tax envoys, otherwise Yangzhou would really suffer from ruin.
But now, before he could remonstrate, the Holy One had already taken care of the matter.
"Holy Lord, Holy Ming." Ma Mingluan immediately prostrated himself on the ground, heartily convinced and calling for long live the mountain.
By this time, Ma Mingluan could basically see what kind of emperor Chongzhen was. He was truly a holy king!
"Everyone, please stand up." Chongzhen raised his hands and said, "In addition, I also want to ask you something."
A group of Yangzhou merchants stood up one after another, and an elderly man even said directly: "Your Majesty, please speak."
At this time, even if Chongzhen asked them to help with salary, he would not hesitate to donate money. As long as the Holy Emperor can remove the mine inspectors and tax envoys from Yangzhou, as long as they can do business well, donating a few military salary money doesn't matter.
However, the Yangzhou merchants miscalculated again, and Chongzhen did not allow them to donate stipends.
Chongzhen said: "In the middle of this month, there will be an official sale in Nanjing to sell off some palace assets, such as the Nanjing garrison eunuch residence and the Jiangning weaving residence. I hope everyone will support it."
In order to raise military pay, Chongzhen finally made his first slash after crossing over.
But no one expected that Chongzhen's first sword would actually hit the eunuch.
As a time traveler, Chongzhen knew very well what kind of people the eunuchs and their minions were.
These eunuchs and minions are the vampires lying on the body of Daming, a dying patient. Not even 10% of the people's fat they sucked can be put into their internal funds!
Before time travel, Chongzhen had read historical materials.
Whether it is the mine supervisors, tax envoys, or income tax silver sent by Emperor Wanli or Emperor Chongzhen, one will win for those who invest money in the house, two for envoys, three for followers, and four for those with local sticks!
In other words, most of the tax money is divided up by minions.
Killing these vampires will do no harm to Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to worry about backlash.
Because all eunuchs are essentially the emperor's domestic slaves, according to the Ming Dynasty Law, everything owned by the domestic slaves belongs to the family master, and the family master has the power of life, death and seizure over the domestic slaves.
…
Huang Jiarui is still waiting outside the gate of the camp.
Waiting and waiting, Ma Mingluan arrived.
However, what surprised Huang Jiarui was that Ma Mingluan was still wearing the magistrate's official robe and the black gauze hat on his head, as if he had not been punished. This was really unexpected.
"Prefect Ma..." Huang Jiarui stepped forward to say hello.
As a result, Ma Mingluan snorted lightly and gave Huang Jiarui two nostrils.
After this meeting with the Holy King, Ma Mingluan was already full of confidence in the Ming Dynasty. With the Holy King at the court this time, the Ming Dynasty was expected to be revived, and there was no need to compromise with Huang Jiarui and others.
What about the Donglin Party? He is an imperialist party!
The backstage of his Ma Mingluan is the current Holy Emperor!
What? Will he bear the infamy of Ah Shang?
That's all, as long as you can do things! What does a mere reputation mean?
"Sir Tang." Ma Mingluan walked straight past Huang Jiarui, and called Tang Laihe, the promotion official of Yangzhou Prefecture, to him and said, "You must summon the household immediately, no, summon all the officials in the sixth household, I have important official duties!"
"I accept my order." Tang Lai bowed his head in greeting, turned around and left in a hurry.
Ma Mingluan flicked his sleeves at Huang Jiarui again and walked away.
"Damn it!" Huang Jiarui's face turned livid with anger.
…
On the other side, Kang Shaojing and other Yangzhou merchants also left through the side door.
After leaving the guard eunuch camp in Yangzhou, Kang Shaojing was so dazed that another salt merchant walking behind him, who was also thinking about something, bumped directly into his back.
"Ah." Kang Shaojing was knocked unconscious.
Looking back, it turned out to be Weng Zhiyi, a salt merchant originally from Shaanxi.
Weng Zhiyi quickly apologized: "Shopkeeper Kang, I'm so sorry."
"It turns out to be shopkeeper Weng." Kang Shaojing waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter."
Weng Zhiyi glanced at the merchants who were leaving in twos and threes, and asked in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Kang, what do you think of today's events?"
"There's nothing to say." Kang Shaojing bowed his head far away in the direction of the train behind him and said with a sigh, "Now that I have a sage king in the Ming Dynasty, I am waiting for the good days of merchants to come."
"What Shopkeeper Kang said is in my opinion." Weng Zhiyi said, "Then will you go to Nanjing?"
"I want to go." Kang Shaojing said without hesitation, "Nanjing is a must for my Kang family."
However, Weng Zhiyi hesitated slightly and whispered: "Why don't you wait until Magistrate Ma finds out the case?"
Kang Shaojing just smiled when he heard this. Of course he could hear Weng Zhiyi's suspicion. Weng Zhiyi was just worried that Chongzhen had another secret order for Ma Mingluan, so Ma Mingluan would not really return the stolen money to them.
, in this case, it is equivalent to Chongzhen just saying a few superficial words and lying to others.
But Kang Shaojing didn't think so.
Kang Shaojing is confident but still a little judgmental.
Although he only had two brief contacts with the current Holy Master, he could still feel that the current Holy Master was definitely not a short-sighted person who only cared about small profits.
Today's Holy King is a Holy King with a big mind and great ambitions!
Therefore, he will never make superficial remarks about this kind of thing.
However, Kang Shaojing would not say these words to Weng Zhiyi.
Firstly, because his friendship with Weng Zhiyi was not as good as this, and secondly because they were enemies in the same industry, so Kang Shaojing hoped that the Weng family would not go to Nanjing, so that the Kang family could get a larger share.
The businessman's intuition told Kang Shaojing that there was big business waiting for them during this trip to Nanjing!
At that moment, Kang Shaojing nodded slightly and said, "Shopkeeper Weng is right. Let's wait until Magistrate Ma finds out the case first. As for Nanjing, we won't go to Nanjing yet."
Weng Zhiyi nodded: "It's better to be more cautious when doing things."
Kang Shaojing clasped his fists and bowed his head, then said: "Shopkeeper Weng, I'm sorry."
"Shopkeeper Kang, please go slowly." Weng Zhiyi also bowed and bowed.
After he straightened up again, Weng Zhiyi waved to his attendant to come forward.
"Agui, you go to Gaoyou immediately and ask the second master to return to Yangzhou immediately! You must be quick, and tell him that there is a major event related to the family's century-old plan!"
On the other side, Kang Shaojing also got on the carriage.
"Uncle Fu, please go to Taizhou later and ask the eldest lady to return to Yangzhou as soon as possible."
The same thing happened to all the merchants. These merchants were all human beings, and all of them had already smelled it.