Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 384 Take this big mouse as a birthday gift for the emperor's grandfather!
The two of them just used the Analects of Confucius to strike a tactic. The original words came from "The Analects of Confucius Ji Shi", which originally meant guarding oneself and stealing.

Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Qinglai smiled tacitly, and Sun Yuan, whose face was covered in soot beside him, couldn't understand, but also giggled along.

This is his cheat book for being an official, no matter what time it is, he must maintain a high degree of consistency with the leader.

Zhu Yunxi looked at the smoky Ambassador Ku and said gently.

"Ambassador Ku has worked hard!"

When Sun Yuan saw that the grandson of the emperor praised him face to face, he was so happy that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed on the spot.

"It's not hard!"

"This is the duty of the next official!"

"The grandson of the emperor did not commit the crime of ineffective supervision of the subordinate officials. The subordinate officials are already very grateful."

Zhu Yunxi was surprised when he heard this.

"Who said you were offended if you couldn't be cured?"

"Come on!"

"Isolate all those responsible for managing the warehouse!"

Following Zhu Yunxi's order, hundreds of Jinyi guards rushed forward and surrounded all the warehouse personnel who had just participated in fighting the fire.

Sun Yuan was stunned when he saw this scene, why did the grandson of the emperor turn his back on him?

"Your Highness, I have wronged you!"

"The lower officials have already written to the magistrate, saying that the lower officials are too old to be qualified for the post of Ambassador Ku!"

"And recently, the old lady in the lower official's family is sick, and the lower official serves day and night, and it is understandable for him to be careless occasionally."

"Furthermore, the people guarding the warehouse are all members of the Jinyiwei, even if the subordinate officials want to do something wrong, it's impossible!"

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, a smile appeared on his face.

"what!"

"How do you know someone has tampered with it?"

"Xu Liuzi!"

"You give us the key to investigate this person!"

"I have a hunch, there must be something wrong with this guy!"

Hearing this, Xu Liuzi immediately walked out of the crowd, clasped his fists at Zhu Yunxi, and dragged Sun Yuan to interrogate him on the spot.

Jin Yiwei handled the case very efficiently. Almost immediately after the fire was put out, he found a few empty houses around the warehouse and temporarily interrogated dozens of people who managed the warehouse.

Zhang Qinglai listened to the howling of ghosts and wolves in the middle of the night, and his calves twisted in fright.

During this period of time, he accompanied the emperor's grandson to travel all over Suzhou City, and the number of times he had dinner with the emperor's grandson cannot be counted on one hand.

He always thought that the emperor's grandson was a good boy with a benevolent heart, modesty and courtesy, but in the blink of an eye, he would become the King of Hades in the Hall of Yama!
Zhu Yunxi had the habit of eating late at night, even if there was constant crying in the surrounding fields, it didn't stop him from eating and drinking.

"Old Zhang, come and eat with Gu?"

Zhang Qinglai looked at the delicate and small charcoal hotpot, shook his head listlessly and said.

"I can't bear a humble job..."

"Inferior... Inferior..."

When Zhang Qinglai came here, he knelt down to Zhu Yunxi with a plop.

"Your Highness, please forgive me. Since I became the prefect of Suzhou, I have never done anything corrupt or perverted!"

"Prefect Zhang is dead!"

"Wei Chen dare not!"

"Wei Chen should kneel, I feel comfortable kneeling!"

Seeing this, Zhu Yunxi personally helped him up, and comforted him softly.

"Old Zhang!"

"You don't have to be so cautious in front of Gu!"

"Everybody knows about your situation. There is nothing serious about you."

Zhu Yunxi's call "Old Zhang" successfully brought Zhang Qinglai back to life.When Zhang Qinglai heard the emperor's grandson personally say that he was fine, Zhang Qinglai felt as if a big rock had landed, and his mentality immediately stabilized.

However, as soon as he sat down next to his butt, he realized something was wrong.

The emperor's grandson said that he was fine, so that proves that there is still something wrong?
"The grandson of the emperor, the humble minister has received some filial piety from merchants, but he has never done anything for them..."

Zhu Yunxi hurriedly beckoned.

"I don't know!"

"Sit down..."

"Your situation, I ordered Jin Yiwei to investigate secretly. If you really had a serious problem, you wouldn't sit here and eat supper with Gu."

"Come on, have a glass of wine to suppress the shock!"

When Zhang Qinglai heard the emperor's grandson say this, his heart became even more agitated.

Although I have not corrupted the law over the years, I am definitely not clean.The fire consumption that should be eaten is the same, and the tribute that should be taken is also reduced.

According to the laws of the old emperor, it is not enough to pick up skins and fill grass, but it is not enough to send them into exile.

"Your Highness, humble position..."

"When I was young, my family was poor, and I depended on my widowed mother to help me to study. Therefore, I valued money a little bit more, always wanted to earn more money, so that my mother could live a better life, and let the people who looked down on me grow up. Look at me, and want to make up for yourself..."

"Humble position is guilty!"

"Please punish the emperor's grandson!"

After some self-reflection, Zhang Qinglai decided to accept the emperor's grandson's disposition, so as not to be settled by the emperor's grandson Qiuhou in the future.

Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhang Qinglai with a headache, thinking that he didn't even want to deal with his bad things, so why did he still have trouble with himself?

"Punishment..."

"There was a fire in the warehouse, and you will be fined for half a year's salary."

Zhang Qinglai was stunned on the spot when he heard this, and after understanding Zhu Yunxie's meaning, he kowtowed three times to Zhu Yunxie.

"Humble post, thank the emperor and grandson for your protection!"

The reason why Zhang Qinglai was so grateful was mainly because Zhu Yunxi charged him with a very light crime, and only convicted him of dereliction of duty.

In this way, even if he is evaluated by the Ministry of Officials, it will not have much influence on him. As long as he does one or two outstanding things, he can be cleared of his crimes.

"If you want money, Gu will show you a way."

"There are two workshops in the capital alone. You can buy the shares of those two workshops. The interest alone is enough for you to live a good life."

"Gu will give you another internal price!"

Zhang Qinglai was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly poured Zhu Yunxi a glass of fruit wine graciously.

"Thank you for your support, the grandson of the emperor!"

Holding the wine glass, Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhang Qinglai with great interest.

"Old Zhang, you are so lonely, how much money have you pocketed all these years?"

When Zhang Qinglai heard this, his old face turned red.But after thinking about it, even if he didn't say anything, Jin Yiwei's pervasiveness could still find out his family background.

Therefore, instead of hiding it, it is better to be a straightforward minister.

"Reporting to His Majesty the Emperor Taisun, the humble position is just following the old rules, eating some fire and the money left by the predecessor."

Zhu Yunxi asked in puzzlement when he heard this.

"Gu knows the fire consumption. This thing is also the money that the court tacitly approves. It is not illegal for you to hold it. But what is the share money, this Gu has never heard of it."

"The so-called member's money is the cadres of some big restaurants and shops in Suzhou City. This cadres are against officials and not people. Whoever holds the position of Suzhou magistrate will give filial piety to them."

"For example, for government banquets, you can use anyone's restaurant, but with this dry stock, the meaning is different."

"There are also car and boat shops, feet and teeth, which belong to the key industries under the supervision of the imperial court. They will also give half of the shares to the magistrate, and then give half of the shares to other people in the magistrate's office. Everyone has a share... ..."

"There are also subsidies for business trips, and tea money for filial piety from various places."

After hearing this, Zhu Yunxi called him a good guy, how dare it be so cool to be an official in Daming, with so many invisible benefits?

No wonder Grandpa Huang killed so hard, people who want to be officials are still like crucian carp crossing the river.

Zhang Qinglai felt a little embarrassed about what he said, so he hurriedly made up for himself.

"However, not all officials have these benefits. They must be Zhengyin officials, or the top three..."

"For example, in Suzhou City, the magistrate, Tongpan, and Tongzhi share the benefits, and the magistrate takes the lead."

"At the county level, only county magistrates, county lieutenants, and pawns are eligible to share profits, and no one else is eligible."

"However, in general, local officials are richer than Beijing officials. Beijing officials are the most miserable, and no one gives them filial piety, not to mention that they are often in arrears with their salaries..."

Zhu Yunxi knew that Beijing officials had a hard time, especially the small officials in various yamen, who had little power and had no place to be greedy if they wanted to.

Then my grandpa is quite unreliable, just like a hater, wishing not to give a penny of salary.

Therefore, the life of Beijing officials is indeed a bit bitter, but it is far from going to the streets to beg for food.

It's just that the life is not so decent, and the life is not so good.

"Old Zhang, you'd better just say the total, so as to shock Gu!"

Zhang Qinglai stretched out a finger in embarrassment, and Zhu Yunxi secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"good!"

"You have been the magistrate for three years, and you only saved 1 taels of silver, which is not too much."

Zhang Qinglai blushed on the spot when he heard this, and stretched out another finger, forming a "ten".

Seeing this, Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth wide in surprise on the spot, his face full of disbelief.

He used to hear that the magistrate was awarded a hundred thousand snowflakes in three years, so he thought it was just a fabrication.

Looking at it now, it turned out to be true!
"wipe!"

"You are so good at making money, but after being a magistrate for three years, you made 10 taels of silver?"

Zhang Qinglai hurriedly explained.

"Your Highness, calm down!"

"The money taken by the humble official is clean, and he has never been corrupt and broke the law. The tax money handed over to the court every year, even the humble official has not taken a penny!"

While the two were chatting, a Jinyiwei Xiaoqi ran over bumpily.

"Reporting to Your Highness, the interrogation came out. It was Ambassador Ku who took other people's money, deliberately let people mix in a few bags of raw silk mixed with white phosphorus, and set the warehouse on fire."

"According to the soldiers in the warehouse, Ambassador Sun Yuan of the warehouse has embezzled at least millions of dollars over the years."

"Xu Qianhu asks the humble official to ask His Highness if you want to continue to interrogate the details of the embezzlement of the treasury ambassador Sun Yuan?"

Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Qinglai were stunned when they heard this, and they both showed the same surprised expressions.

What surprised Zhu Yunxi was that there was such a "small official with huge corruption", who was as greedy as the section chief of a certain waterworks.

Zhang Qinglai was ashamed!
The magistrate of Suzhou, who is a dignified fifth rank, is not as greedy as the ambassador of the ninth rank Ku, how embarrassing is this for him!

Zhu Yunxi glanced at Zhang Qinglai meaningfully, and said jokingly.

"Gu take back what he said just now. Compared with this Ambassador Ku, you, the prefect, are a joke!"

After Zhu Yunxi finished speaking, he was so excited that he burst into tears.

"check!"

"Let's find out everything!"

"It just so happens that Grandpa Huang's spring and autumn are coming again, so Gu will take this big mouse as a birthday present for Grandpa Huang!"

(End of this chapter)