Prime Minister

Chapter 482 Thighs
The next day, when Zhang Yue went to the third division's office, he saw many officials coming in and out frequently.He piled up the old accounts of the Sansi Yamen on the dozen or so desks beside Lu Gongbi.

There is a scholar sitting behind each case table, doing calculations and reconciliation with a counting chip.

Lu Gongbi was sitting behind a table, flipping through the account books with a solemn expression, saw Zhang Yue and said, "Zhang Taichang sit first."

Zhang Yue and Lu Gongbi met several times, but they didn't talk in depth.

Lu Gongbi looked at the account for a while, rubbed his eyes with his fingers, and said: "Zhongyan often talks about Taichang's name in front of this official. He said that you are the most capable and the best among his friends."

"Master Pu Mi praised this, I'm not as good as Master Pu when it comes to human experience." Zhang Yue thought, Han Zhongyan's evaluation of Lu Gongbi's father-in-law was that he had met him face to face, and he could run as far as he could.

Lu Gongbi said: "The officials let the envoy root the lack of financial resources in Shaanxi, so the envoy is now reviewing the financial declaration and audit settlement of Shaanxi Wulu, whether the officials have concealed fraud."

"However, since the Qingli period, the registers have been filled with countless books. It takes a lot of effort to check whether there are any suspicions of large deficits in the provincial accounts of the three divisions and the expenditures of local states and counties. More than a dozen people under me searched for three days and three nights but failed to find out, and the other figures are dozens of times more than Jieyan, what year and month do we have to find out?"

Zhang Yuedao: "I want to report to the Governor, I have heard a saying that some things are not on the scale, and there is no four or two. If you put it on the scale, you can't hold it. If you really don't check it carefully, I'm afraid the accounts are really unclear. .”

Lu Gongbi laughed when he heard the words: "Zhang Taichang's words are good. It's like this in the west. The Qin, Feng, and Yongxing routes, especially the two routes, have few soldiers and insufficient funds. The officials suspect that the local supervisors have tampered with the accounts. Now Xixia is invading Shaanxi. We But checking the accounts of local civil and military officials, I’m afraid it will cause the army’s morale to be unstable. Once I have verified it here, how many people will be dismissed from their posts along the way in Shaanxi? Will it disturb the local area?”

Zhang Yue wondered if Lu Gongbi wanted to go against the official and Zhongshu's wishes.

But Zhang Yue thought about it, and the third division was already very independent, and he didn't need to be responsible to anyone.

In history, Wang Anshi successively elected Xue Xiang and Zeng Bu as the third envoys, but after Xue Xiang and Zeng Bu became the third envoys, they all turned against Wang Anshi and disagreed with Wang Anshi in terms of political opinions.

During the period, there were personal reasons for Wang Anshi, and it was also because of the independence of the third division.

This is why the third division can stand side by side with Zhongshu and privy secretaries.

Could it be that Lu Gongbi had to oppose the arrangements made by the officials on his first day in office?It should be known that Lu Gongbi is only the official business of the third company.Because the power of the third division is too great, the official family secretary consciously weakened the third division. Except for Cai Xiang, the later three division envoys had to add the word "quan" in front of it.

Lu Gongbi said: "When I met the official, I heard him talk about Jiaoyin Prison several times..."

Zhang Yue's heart trembled.

Lu Gongbi said: "The officials said that the Jiaoyin Prison is very rich now. I didn't know it before, but I heard that the Jiaoyin Prison last year had a dividend of 91 yuan at the end of the year. Is it possible?"

Zhang Yue said: "There are indeed so many. Last year, the annual income of the prison was 380 million yuan, the surplus was 1207 million yuan, the dividend was 91 yuan, and the dividend per share was 36 yuan. In the end, there was [-] yuan left!"

Lu Gongbi asked, "Why is Jiaoyin Prison so profitable?"

Zhang Yue said: "Returning to the governor, the livelihood of the world is divided into three classes, the first class feeds labor, the first class feeds profits, and the first class feeds capital. It's like opening a wine shop, and the guys sell their labor. No matter how hard they work, it's just food and clothing. Although the restaurant owner employs so many people, but even if it is running, it will make a profit and lose money, and if it is not careful, it will close down, but only the landlord who leases the land to the store owner as a restaurant will make a steady profit."

"The easiest thing in the world to get started and the hardest to lose money is the business where money can make money. It just so happens that this job is the business where money can make money."

Lu Gongbi said: "No wonder Bianjing is full of reference offices and quality warehouses."

Lu Gongbi said: "There is such a big hole to be plugged in the Northwest. I thought it would be better to open up money instead of saving money. The Jiaoyin Prison now has so much money. I thought it was the responsibility of the Third Division to fund the Northwest military expenditure."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, no wonder, you, Lu Gongbi, originally planned to hand me over to prison early in the morning.

Zhang Yuedao: "It's not difficult for the provincial lord to give, but there is a saying above, among the 13 shares of our company, Shaanxi Yunsi has 35 shares, and this company has 17 shares. At the end of last year, when dividends were paid, Shaanxi Yunsi [-] guan have already been taken away, and [-] guan have also been taken by our company.”

"If the money is diverted to the Northwest this year, then the dividends at the end of the year will be greatly reduced. Shaanxi Yunsi and our company will also take less money."

"This..." Lu Gongbi said, "But it's hard not to refuse the government's wishes. What else do you think?"

Zhang Yue said: "The lower officials think that they can spend [-] guan as military expenses for the Northwest, and the shareholders will refuse."

Lu Gongbi shook his head and said, "Not right, not right."

Zhang Yue said a few more ways, and Lu Gongbi dug the ground together.Zhang Yue said in his heart, Lu Gongbi would not do this, and he would not do that, so he already understood what he meant.

Seeing that Lu Gongbi refused to say what he meant, Zhang Yue simply pretended to be stupid.

Finally, Lu Gongbi couldn't help but said: "I heard that the government will spend a lot to build the imperial garden recently."

Zhang Yue responded casually, but did not follow Lu Gongbi's meaning.

Lu Gongbi looked at Zhang Yue frequently, but Zhang Yue just pretended not to know.Lu Gongbi finally said: "Zhang Taichang will go back first, and the envoy will think of a way."

Zhang Yue stood up and said, "Resignation, my subordinate."

When Zhang Yue walked out of the hall, he couldn't help feeling amused. Sure enough, Lu Gongbi and Lu Gongzhu are real brothers!

It's all a routine.

On his side, Lu Gongbi told the officials at the reception banquet that he wanted to follow Cai Xiang and Xiao Cao, and continue to maintain the independence of the three divisions and not favor any side.

Whether it is Zhongshu or the official, we will not sell anyone's account.

But what about today?

When Lu Gongbi approached him, he hinted that he had given money to the officials.

If you really say one thing and do another, are the people in the old Lu family so shady?

But Zhang Yue thought to himself, isn't Lu Gongbi saying this a joke?If you are really willing to throw money, would you still wait until today?If Lu Gongbi really dared to force himself, Zhang Yue immediately defected to Zhongshu without saying a word, leading the Jiaoyin prison.

However, Zhang Yue is still unwilling to go to this step, and it is no good to fight against the leader.

Don't go this route unless you have to.

So what should I do?

Therefore, Zhang Yue is still the old man's old way-hugging his thighs!

He wrote a letter to his father-in-law Wu Chong, asking him to speak to Lu Gongbi on his behalf.Before his father-in-law returned to Beijing, he faced Lu Gongbi as much as he could.

At this time, the transfer order for father-in-law to return to Beijing to report on his duties has arrived, and father-in-law is already on his way to the capital.

In June of the second year of Zhiping, Wu Chong, the transfer envoy of Huainan, returned to Beijing to report his duties.

However, the official family had already heard of Wu Chong's reputation before he took the throne.The officials told the left and right ministers many times that when Wu Cheng was a professor at Wu Wanggong, he copied the six admonitions of the clan many times.

After being in charge of the official family, he asked Han Qi many times about Wu Chong's current situation.

Ouyang Xiu is Wu Chong's in-laws and close friend, and he is also willing to recommend it to officials.In the end, Wu Chong was able to enter Beijing, and Meng Guan's family's grace became more and more suitable!
(End of this chapter)