Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 46 Salted fish eating melon 18
But he said that soon an official suddenly fell ill and was about to retire. He wanted to arrange a position for his son who had no future. He found a few people who had worked with him that day and asked them to help. As a result, those people did not want to wade into this muddy water and did not plan to He wanted to help, so the official became unhappy and said that he was going to quit. People who are barefoot will not be afraid of people who wear shoes. If they don't help him, he will expose what they did that day and then his family will be unlucky. Well, those people can't even think about it.

In fact, it was a threat, because if he told it, it would not do any good to his family.

However, their family was from a small family, and he wanted to retire, and the children in the family had no future, or were completely in decline.

Although Wang's family was ransacked last time and he was given one to two million taels of silver, since no one in the family was an official in the court, the money could easily be taken away once someone knew about it.

At that time, there were so many people who participated in the distribution of spoils, and sooner or later word would spread about their family's wealth. That is to say, if no one in the family was an official, the money would be lost sooner or later, so there must be an official in the family.

——Although they have a total of 200 million taels of silver, there are too many people involved, and they are divided here and sealed there. It is not bad for him to distribute [-] million taels of silver.

What's more, money is hard to keep, and if the children and grandchildren don't live up to it, they are a prodigal son, and they can lose no matter how much money they have.

On the contrary, if you become an official, even if you are incompetent, as long as you stay honest, you will not lose your official position and you will have a guarantee. That's why he wanted to find a position for his son.

It is also not good for him to have too high expectations for his son. He had always hoped that his son would make achievements in the imperial examination, so he wanted to wait until his son won the imperial examination. Even if he did not win the imperial examination, he would still win the imperial examination. Who knows, after so many years, However, his son never passed the exam, which made him waste his time.

Who knew that he suddenly fell ill now and couldn't get better, so he could only retire. At this time, he realized that he hadn't arranged a way out for his sons, so he hurriedly asked for help.

I thought that I hadn't retired for the time being, and those people would help out of my own face, and because I still had something in my hands.

Unexpectedly, they were so indifferent. They saw that he was sick, about to retire, and that his family was about to fall into disrepair, so they treated him lightly. How could he not be angry?

It is said that the tea becomes cold when people leave. Well, the tea becomes cold before he leaves.

If that's the case, then let's die together.

Anyway, if you are about to decline, if you say it, it will hurt yourself, but it will hurt those few families even more, because they have not yet stepped down and are still high-ranking officials in the court.

In fact, it was precisely because he came from a small family that if he retired, the children in his family would be worthless, and the family would completely decline, and other people would not want to help. If his family was a big family, how could those people dare to refuse.

Of course, if it is a big family, there is no need to find these people who have the leverage in his hands. It is estimated that just anyone can help his son arrange things. After all, the dynasty has been running for more than 100 years and has become more and more decadent. , It is common to run for an official position, and powerful people can easily find a job for the children of the family.

Those who were threatened by him did not take his words to heart at all. They felt that he was just making threats and did not dare to tell them. After all, if he said it, even if he had merit in reporting, the emperor would not punish him, but he was The 200 million taels of silver they took will definitely be handed over, and then they will definitely lose their official position immediately, and they will not be able to wait until they become official. By then, they will have no money and lose their official position. How will their family live in the future?It's not something you just say casually.

The official who wanted to retire due to illness was really just planning to threaten him, because as they said, if he really exposed this matter, his money would be gone, and his family's life would be even more difficult.

But at this moment, seeing people treat him like this, even threatening them, they still don't take it to heart, the anger in my heart is getting higher and higher, I really want to stab it out.

But...he still couldn't win the battle to the death, so although seeing each team's performance made him hate it to death, he kept hesitating and never made up his mind.

Seeing him hesitate, Lin Lang was ready to "help" him.

It just so happened that the money the emperor borrowed from the Wang family last time was almost used - although it was tens of millions, the emperor was exempted from taxes for one year when he received the money. In this way, the fiscal expenditure for that year was used. This is the money.

After that, they began to build large-scale water conservancy projects, and sent troops to deal with the Hu people who had been harassing the border. The Hu people had been harassing the border before, but because the expenditure of sending troops was very high and finances were tight, they always focused on defending and guarding the borders. Generals rarely lead soldiers into attacks.

This time, with the money, the emperor bought a lot of horses, trained cavalry, and when the Hu people came to disturb the side again, he sent troops to beat the Hu people once again.

Because of money, good equipment, and the fact that the Hu people were used to disturbing the border, the Central Plains court would not attack, thinking that it would be the same this time, so they lost their defenses, so they successfully beat the Hu people once.

And whether it is building water conservancy or sending troops to fight, it is a waste of money, so the tens of millions will be spent quickly.

Now the court is tight again, so at this time, if these people's greedy money is taken out, the court will have money again. Moreover, this time, the water conservancy has been almost repaired, and the war has been fought, unlike before. There are too many places to spend money. This time there are fewer places to spend money. This money can be used for a long time.

Thinking of this, Linlang did as she said.

But the official who was about to retire from illness was still hesitating, so the emperor received Lin Lang's secret report.

Hearing that the Wang family, which he had taken all precautions against, was ransacked, but in the end a huge sum of [-] million was taken away. Naturally, the emperor was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

He thought he was on good guard and copied out tens of millions, and he was very proud of it. However, someone actually took away one hundred million, which was almost the same amount as what he got.

These people were greedy for so much money, which naturally made the emperor very angry.

At present, the emperor sent people to investigate secretly, and found that there was indeed something wrong with the money spent by these people. He immediately understood that this anonymous report letter was true, and immediately decided to copy the few people mentioned in the report letter. , and then clean up these people severely, so that they dare to do such a thing.

If these people got money and didn't use it for a while, the emperor might not notice it, but it's a pity that after getting so much money, who can bear to not use it at all, and once they use it, they often can't control it, because spending money is easy to become addicted. , so it will be discovered that their expenses are completely inconsistent with their income, which is normal.

In fact, they did not dare to use it at first, for fear of being found out, but later they wanted to use the money, and after using it secretly, they found that the emperor did not move. Obviously, the emperor did not find that their family was greedy for money, so as time went by, they began I became more and more daring to use it, so I was discovered by the emperor at this moment.

(End of this chapter)