Red House Shoufu

Chapter 141 Warning
Xue Baochai walked into the room with the tea herself and poured Jia Lian a cup.She bowed and said solemnly:
"After my brother went to the imperial mausoleum, the family business will probably become more and more difficult. On the first day of the new year, can the second brother Lian take the younger sister to the Zhongshun Palace? I want to hand over the family business to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Xue family only receives part of the income to maintain the family. The expenses, and the rest will be owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a period of three years. After my brother comes back, we will talk about other things."

Jia Lian looked at Xue Baochai with a serious face in surprise. Even though the Xue family's business income has decreased a lot in recent years, it still has a huge amount of 500,000.If it is run by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, relying on the Xue family's spread of the Dachu business roads, plus the royal signboard, I am afraid that it will not be able to earn millions of taels of silver every year.

"You want to see His Royal Highness King Zhongshun? It's easy to hand over this business, but if you want to get it back, the losses and risks involved are not so great."

Zhongshun Wang Gao Yongheng leads the job of the head of the House of Internal Affairs. Although he doesn't take care of things very much, if he is a middleman, it will be easier for Xue Pan to take back the management right when he comes back in the future.

Xue Baochai seemed to have made up her mind, nodded and replied: "If my brother is in Beijing, those storekeepers will be more cautious. When my brother goes to the imperial mausoleum, relying on my mother and me alone, maybe someday these shops will not be named Xue. It's better to vote for the Royal, in exchange for a respite."

Jia Lian turned his gaze to Xue Pan, but he heard Xue Pan say, "Second Brother Lian, don't need to look at me. I used to be just a mouthpiece. Everything is decided by my sister..."

"Okay, since my cousin has made up her mind, you will go with the second sister on the first day of the new year. As for whether you can persuade the prince, that's up to you."

Jia Lian smiled and boasted: "The Xue family has you as a female Zhuge, so I can't fall!"

Why did King Zhongxin take Xue Baochai as his concubine? It was not because of the Xue family's business routes all over Dachu and their millions of property.In fact, Wang Ziteng also had this idea, and even made many calculations for these things regardless of family affection.

Xue Baochai also saw this point, knowing that he might not be able to keep his greedy piece of fat, so he thought of the way Lin Ruhai designed for the Lin family.

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At the end of May, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple three divisions jointly tried the case of Qian Xingde, the heir of the Dongping County Prince, who killed a Shuntian government official, and the case of Jia Hua, who bent the law for personal gain.

One is the shocking case of beating the Dengwen Drum for the first time since the founding of the Great Chu Kingdom in nearly a hundred years.The other is even more miraculous, it turned out to be a case of favoritism caused by someone voluntarily turning himself in to plead guilty.

It has to be said that these two cases have greatly satisfied the gossip of the people in the capital.

Qian Xingde was deprived of his position as the son of the eldest son and demoted to a commoner.The third division was convicted and asked to be executed after autumn.The king of Dongping County had no way to teach his son, so he cut off two hundred households.The Emperor Taishang issued an imperial edict to Liaodong, ordering him to return to Beijing and make himself present.

The other case made many people feel uneasy for a long time, until the end of the joint trial of the three divisions, these people put their minds back to their stomachs.

Jia Hua bent the law for personal gain, accepted bribes, demoted to common people, confiscated his family property, and exiled Lingnan to serve as a servant.Wang Ziteng was also fined for one year and banned for one month because he was suspected of disturbing local justice.

As for Jia Zheng, the emperor deliberately passed an oral order to the third secretary, and did not publicly punish him, but only sent the servant to pass on the order, ordering him to suspend his post and reflect on himself.

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"It's really lively!"

Just as the morning court was over, Lin Shu was about to leave when the voice of Qian Qianli, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, came from his ear.

"Students pay homage to their teacher!" Lin Shu hastily saluted.

Qian Qianli is the chief examiner of Lin Shu's examination, that is, his tutor.Although the old man never formed a clique and usually did not give any special care to the new Jinshi he admitted, Lin Shu and others still respected this old man very much.

"Did Jia Hua teach you?" Qian Qianli helped Lin Shu up, motioning him to leave the palace with him.

Lin Shu replied truthfully: "About six or seven years ago, I taught students for several months."

Qian Qianli stopped in his tracks and stared into Lin Shu's eyes very seriously: "This man is also a man of outstanding talent, and his ability to handle government affairs is also very strong. But he does not follow the right path, and is fascinated by the glory and wealth. I saw how many people trembled, and they were afraid that Jia Hua would confess them. Don't learn from him, you have to remember, you are paid, and the people anoint the people. The people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for a response, he strode directly towards the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, leaving Lin Shu standing there dumbfounded and staring at Qian Qianli who was going away.

Your salary, your salary, the people's anointing and the people's fat.The people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully.There are 24 original sentences, which were created by Meng Chang, the ruler of Shu in the Five Dynasties.

Later, after the death of Shu, Song Taizong believed that the epigrams had a good warning and educational effect on officials, but the content was too much, so he shortened the original 24 sentences into [-] characters and engraved them on the stone tablet in the south of the prefectural and county yamen. The name is "Jie Shi Ming".

Lin Shu couldn't understand why his master suddenly warned him with this sentence.He stood there and murmured softly: "Your salary, your salary, the people's anointing and the people's fat..."

"Bachelor Lin, what are you talking about standing here?"

A voice from behind interrupted Lin Shu's thinking, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Du Zimu, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Du Zimu was already in his thirties. In the first year of Zhide, Enke got the second grade in the middle school, and he entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate after the Hanlin Academy was closed.In mid-June, Lin Shu will go to Henan with him and Jia Zheng to inspect the river defense.

During this period of time, because of discussing the itinerary, the two had exchanges.Lin Shu turned around and cupped his hands and said, "So it's Senior Du..."

Although Du Zimu was only of the seventh rank, he had been an official in Lin Shu's two disciplines before, and the position of censor was really special. Maybe one day he would be promoted several ranks in a row and become a great official in the frontier.

For example, Lin Ruhai was directly promoted from a seventh-rank censor to a third-rank, sitting on the Jiangnan Salt Road.

Lin Shu diverted from the question just now, and asked bluntly, "Senior Du, what do you want from me?"

Du Zimu didn't ask again, and handed him a few booklets in his hand: "A few days ago, didn't you look for the fish scale booklet from Henan when the country was founded? I had someone transcribe it from the Ministry of Households, including the details of the state property on both sides of the Yellow River. .”

Lin Shu happily took the brochure: "There are too many archives in the Imperial Academy. Do I have time to search them one by one? Senior Du has a way. Let's go, let's go to the valet and talk about it..."

Why did Lin Shu want to find the fish scale book from the founding of the country?There is only one reason. He wants to compare the situation of the land granted by the imperial court when the state capitals on both sides of the Yellow River were founded with the current land ownership.

He wants to find out.How much land does the Zheng family of Xingyang own?Some of them were normal purchases, and some of them were plundered by force, and even dug up the embankment of the Yellow River, causing natural and man-made disasters, and depriving the people of their livelihood.

"Actually, I checked the fish scale book in Xing County carefully last night. It's really shocking! In Xing County alone, nearly [-]% of the land is directly or indirectly in the hands of the Zheng family."

Du Zimu felt that the cup of tea Lin Shu handed him was extremely bitter.He has been an official for eight years and is still only a seventh-rank censor. First, he doesn't like flattery, and second, he also likes the Xiezhi on the official censor's robe.

Pleading for the people is his idea of ​​being an official. Over the years, he has offended people a lot because of impeachment and lawlessness. Even the door of his home has been smashed several times, but he still does not change his original intention.

The situation in Xing County really shocked him, the land annexation is so serious, when the people have no land to stand on, as long as a match is needed, a raging fire will be ignited.

(End of this chapter)