Poor family mother and son

The conversation between Nanny Yu and the Queen Mother did not avoid Princess Zhaohua, and Zhaohua naturally understood what the imperial grandmother was thinking at this time.

She calmly helped the queen mother put on both wool socks, then got up and said to the queen mother: "Grandmother, leave this matter to me."

Then she sent her personal nurse to pass the message: "The princess asked me to ask you three questions:
Who is your master?
What happened to your master?
What do you want to do to the Queen Mother? "

After three sentences, the nun turned around and left.

Huang Rong and Mu Nianci looked at each other, seeing the helplessness and powerlessness in each other's eyes.

The first question: Who is your master?Their master is naturally clear, so if they have something to do, they should ask their master to go.

But something happened to the master!They just want to share with the Master.

Second question: What happened to your master?That's right, neither Chu Qing's charges nor orders to arrest Chu Qing came out, which means nothing happened to the master.

Is that really the case?Shops all over the country were blocked and investigated. Isn't that to prove that something happened to the master?However, there is no official handling document, and it can be described as "creating something out of nothing."

The third question: What do you want to do to the Queen Mother?This is a knife hanging on their heads.Who can do anything to the Queen Mother, and who dares to do anything to the Queen Mother?

Once it is clear that they no longer buy from here, they will fall into an economic crisis of "oversupply".

The original intention of not falling into his own pocket is also that he does not want the emperor to fatten him up and kill him.

When encountering such officials, even if Chu Qing wanted to use the secret investigation department's power to investigate their corruption, he had no authority at all.

In other words, Chu Qing used 5 taels of silver to buy the balance of supply and demand in the local area, so that the county magistrate, who was seeking personal gain, would personally collect the country's wool and give it to Chu Qing.

All local councils are at the same level as Chuqing, what right do you have to dictate our work?
If you report it to the secret investigation department, you will sue if it is like this in one place; but it is like this everywhere you go, so what should you do?How to report?How incompetent!

Chu Qing has his own caravan, as well as a "logistics company" like Sanshun Escort. By buying low and selling high, the money is earned back from the local area.

Huang Rong shook her head; "Forget it, the queen mother and princess have been alarmed now, even if you go to the queen, you still can't get around these three questions."

A small county magistrate of the seventh rank, facing the officials of the fifth rank, who still holds the position of secret investigation department, although his tone is humble, the words he can say are not without threatening meaning: If you don't pay and send it to my yamen, you will never get it The support of my yamen.

Zhao Min was originally from the Queen's Palace, so he couldn't help but said: "How about we look for the Queen?"

what can we do about it?On the carriage back to the inn, although the journey was tiring and meals were uncertain, they were already hungry at this time, but the maids didn't seem to notice it, and their faces were depressed: I can't help the master!
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After several days of thinking, Chu Qing confirmed one thing: she can't reverse it!
Because Wei Chengyi informed of the urgency and seriousness of the situation, Chu Qing also weighed it in his heart.

It seems to be sending money to the yamen for nothing, but in the end, there are boys from the Chu family who come to buy the products they process and manufacture, and take the opportunity to control some local products, such as wood and stone.

Although it didn't fall into her own pocket in the end, it gave her the opportunity to give back to the brothers who supported and helped her.

Since you are sympathetic to the people, it is better to find a way to feed them, otherwise, how can they have the strength to open up wasteland and grow cotton? "

The twenty palace maids did not dare to stay outside the palace, since the Empress Dowager thinks they are causing trouble, it is not good to stay any longer, that would be even more detrimental to the master.

For example, Chu Qing "subsidized" the county government with 5 taels of silver to hire labor for processing and manufacturing, and the government would naturally withhold [-] to [-] percent, leaving only [-] to [-] percent for the right way.

Up to now, even though Chu Qing holds several positions, and the highest official rank has reached the fifth rank, it is still only superficial.

For example, a county magistrate once said: "My lord Chu, you care about the world and grow cotton widely, but the people still can't afford to wear such good things. It's really because the county's products are single, but the population is so large that the people can't eat enough. It's hard." !

This happens almost everywhere.

If the grievances cannot be cleared, she is bound to achieve a fait accompli: Don't you all say that I conspired against you?If I can't rehabilitate, I might as well just go against it!So as not to be wronged in vain!

Chu Qing was manipulated and threatened by the local officials. Firstly, she out of sincere sympathy for the suffering of the people—the so-called greater ability comes with greater responsibility—the key is that people raise you so high that no one hands you a ladder—so she Simply release money to "subsidize" the Yamen.

But for this kind of "subsidy", she usually contacts Zheng Xiaorou to choose suitable candidates from her family to run some "income-generating projects".

But things have two sides.

When it comes to making money, don't look at the fact that you don't have economic acumen, but you don't make less money.

Perhaps it was because she was a woman and was in business, so no one in the officialdom paid much attention to her, and even officials of the same level dared to criticize her in front of her, so it could be said that she had no status at all.

Just as Beijing officials are naturally promoted to three ranks invisibly when they arrive in the local area, female officials are invisibly demoted by several ranks in front of male officials.

This is to remind them, what situation do you want to put the Empress Dowager in when the emperor has not expressly stated it?Why did you put the queen mother in such a situation?
Gongsun Lue burst into tears: "We are the ones given by the queen mother, if the queen mother doesn't care, then the master is not, not..."

With her character, she would never allow her to be wronged.

The result of this was that after Chu Qing broke up most of the income and gave it to his "family", the remaining [-]% ​​of the income was given to the emperor.

So much so that whenever she went to promote the cotton project, the local government officials dared to ask her to contribute money and efforts blatantly.

On the surface, the county magistrate extorted a lot of money from Chu Qing, and the local people had jobs to solve certain economic problems, but in essence, Chu Qing's people controlled their property.

To sum up, Chu Qing does not have the strength to rebel no matter in terms of manpower or financial resources.

She calculates her "capital": in terms of manpower, she has two thousand retired soldiers, but they are all scattered everywhere, and those who have married families, even if they are single, have small assets, and may no longer have the courage to fight. The courage to kill;
In terms of financial resources, she has continued to break up the industry into pieces over the years. Although she needs to turn over [-]% of the income to the emperor every year, this [-]% is the result of her "repairing".

Even if her two thousand veterans could follow her wholeheartedly, there were only more than 2000 of them, facing the entire state apparatus, it was a drop in the bucket.

What she didn't know was that her son was secretly doing this kind of thing too.

Her son ran his own engineering team behind her back, and took back the money she had given out to "support local infrastructure".

Two of their wives, one controls the property, the other controls the infrastructure, in the name of being "blackmailed by the local yamen", the one puts the extorted money into the hands of the Chu family boy, and the other recycles it into her own pocket.

Moreover, her son also controlled nearly [-]% of Daxuan's transportation routes, and merged many gangs from the north and the south.