The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 240 Do You Dare To Renege?

Zhang Jiayu turned her head to see Yu Xin's expression, stepped back a little and said, "Let's talk about Chuangzhi first."

Yu Xin didn't refuse, nodded to him, and said happily to Zhu Linmi: "My lord, the investigation of the prisoner is going quite smoothly.

"At present, only about 30% of the copies have been completed, and more than 70 taels of silver and money have been obtained. There are also real estate, land deeds, jewelry, antiques, etc., and the price is more than [-] taels."

so much?Zhu Linmei was secretly surprised, just after 170% of them were copied, there would be a million taels, and when all the more than 300 people were checked, there would be more than [-] million taels no matter what.

One must know that the annual salary of a first-rank official in this era is only equivalent to more than a thousand taels of silver, while a third-rank servant is only about five hundred taels.And the average property of these corrupt officials is nearly 2 taels!In other words, even a third-rank official would have to go without food or drink for 40 years to save this net worth.

No wonder it is said that Li Zicheng was able to seize 7000 million taels of silver from Beijing officials when he entered Beijing. These corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty were really rich!He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, was he not ruthless enough?

Of course, this was just a thought. Li Zicheng's banditry ruined his Dashun Dynasty in just a month.

Yu Xin said again: "It's just that my lord ordered me to allocate 50 taels to the household department for disaster relief. In addition to all the copied money, there is still a shortfall of nearly 20 taels. It is difficult to exchange real estate, land, antiques and other things for cash... ..."

When he said this, Zhang Jiayu's face turned darker.It was precisely because he was ineffective in recovering the "subsidy for food, rice, salary and silver" promised by the officials before that the assistant king ordered the confiscated silver to be used for disaster relief first.

After all, he caused trouble for Yu Xin.He immediately cupped his hands and said: "My lord, my subordinates have already recovered 10 taels of silver owed, and the remaining 10 taels will be made up within three days. Don't make it difficult for Chuang."

Zhu Linmei frowned. After being in the city for so long, five out of six people still renege on their debts.He asked Zhang Jiayu, "But is there any obstacle?"

Zhang Jiayu sighed, "These guys are just crying for poverty, but they are all courtiers, and their subordinates can only persuade them..."

Zhu Lin is angry, these corrupt officials are rich in taels of wealth, why?It seems that Tianxing Mansion will be peaceful now, so there is no need to "subsidize the salary"?

He pondered for a while, motioned for Zhang Jiayu to come over, and whispered some advice.

"This..." Zhang Jiayu said in surprise, "Is this appropriate?"

"What's wrong with repaying the debt? Just do it!"

Zhang Jiayu took a breath, stood at attention and saluted, "Yes!"

As the three of them were talking, Shi Lin entered the study room, saluted Zhu Linmi and handed over a booklet, "My lord, I just arrived at the residence newspaper. It seems to be a great victory for Guangxin."

Zhu Lin quickly took over the booklet with the words "Di Bao" printed in red on the cover and opened it. As Shi Lin said, it was the news of the victory of Polu Ying and Yang Tinglin's troops in defeating Liu Guangbi's army in Guangxin.

The day after the Polu battalion arrived in Guangxin, under the command of Gu Yanwu, they cooperated with Guangxi wolf soldiers to storm Liu Guangbi's camp.

Liu Guangbi had already received news that the entire Qing army in Fujian had been annihilated. It was at a time when morale was low. In addition, its combat power was inferior to that of the Polu camp, so there was no suspense in the course of the battle. .

Zhu Youmao's cavalry, who had been lying on the flanks for a long time, followed Liu Guangbi and chased them all the way to the north of Shangrao, where they encountered Dai Xiuyuan's troops who attacked Jianlu Liangdao again.

Liu Guangbi was devastated, and when he ran near Raozhou, all the 1000 troops had been captured and killed except for more than [-] Han Eight Banners soldiers and horses.

At the end of the Di Bao, it was written that King Yongning and Dai Shoubei were still chasing and suppressing the defeated enemy, and they were now approaching Huizhou.

"Fight well!" Zhu Linmi handed the residence report to Zhang Jiayu, "In this way, all the soldiers who committed crimes in the south have been surrendered, and there will be no more wars in Jiangxi.

"Next, we will take advantage of Jianlu's temporary inability to go south to deal with the internal problems of Ming Dynasty as soon as possible."

He said and looked to the north, "After that, it's time for us to go to Jianlu to settle the score!"

The news of Guangxin's great victory quickly spread throughout Tianxing Mansion, and the people in the city rushed to tell each other, filled the city with laughter and laughter.

But at this time, Zhao Li, the censor of the Zuoqian capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was panicking at home and ordered his subordinates to put a seal of silver on the title in front of the door, and kept urging the soldiers of the Dragon Guards who held the title, "Master, Please hurry up."

He had to be in a hurry, because there were several drummers from the Dragon Guards making noise outside his house, attracting countless people to watch.On the other hand, there were military officers loudly "explaining" to these common people, saying that Mr. Zhao owed the imperial court 4000 taels of silver.

Zhao Li looked at the crowd outside the house and couldn't help pointing at him, his old face was flushed, but he couldn't do anything about it—these people making noise outside his house were soldiers of the Dragon Guards!
It is said that the bird guns in their hands can be released in ten breaths, and the armor will be destroyed within sixty steps. Thousands of Jianlu Xiaoqi died under this kind of guns.

Even the dagger on the blunderbuss was not a vegetarian. It was said that Jianzhou's elite muskets fought hand-to-hand with knives, and within an instant of incense, they were stabbed with corpses all over the field.

How could he provoke these masters? !Don't say drive them away, even if you speak disrespectfully to this soldier, he dare not.

Those servants, court guards and martial artists in his family who used to show off their power in the past have long been scared and shrunk behind the wall, not daring to take a breath.

These soldiers of the Dragon Guards were making such a fuss in front of his house, they didn't beat anyone or curse, but this battle made him a hundred times more embarrassing than beating him.

After finally paying 4000 taels of silver, Zhao Li wiped the sweat from his brow, and hurriedly sent these soldiers away respectfully.

But the leading officer still said loudly: "Master Zhao's 4000 taels of silver in arrears have been settled. Next, I will go to the Secretary of General Administration to consult with Mr. Yuan Youdao at Mr. Yuan's residence."

Immediately there was a bang from the spectators, rushing towards Yuan Youdao's house like a tide.Entertainment items in this era are limited, who would let things like watching the Dragon Guards collect debts go away?
The "debt collection" Long Weijun was nearly two miles away from Yuan Shenyi's house, and saw the housekeeper of Yuan's house hurriedly greeted him with several servants.They respectfully offered the 3000 taels of "grain, rice, and salary" in arrears, and then nodded and bowed to see the soldiers go to the next place, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zhang Shilang, hurry up and call back the officers and men under your command, this is too disrespectful to the court." A middle-aged official said anxiously to Zhang Jiayu, "Oh, by the way, the money promised by the lower official is outside the house ..."

Zhang Jiayu shook his head slightly, thinking that the assistant king's method was very effective, he only sent more than 30 soldiers out, and within half a day, almost all the money owed by the officials had been recovered.

"The imperial court is decent?" He said with a straight face: "The disaster victims in southern Fujian have no food relief, this is the most disrespectful of the imperial court!"

"Yes Yes……"

As soon as the application time passed, Zhang Jiayu cheerfully went to the Fuzheng Palace to do business.

When he entered the study room of the palace, he saw His Royal Highness Fuzheng Wang frowned, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask: "My lord, what are you..."

Zhu Linmei handed over a Tang newspaper, and when he looked at it, his expression immediately became serious.

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