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Chapter 210, Opportunity to Settle Accounts
"By the way, you must not do anything to him. Yufeng is a good girl!"

Jiang Yulang looked at Jiang Yuyan and said, "The first time I saw you, I knew that you were like me, a person who looked glamorous on the outside but was actually vicious and cruel on the inside. We are all the same people in our family, except for that Liu, who is extremely bad and doesn't look like anyone in our family at all."

Jiang Yuyan nodded, "Same, as soon as I saw my brother, I knew that you were the kind of person who appeared to be a gentleman but secretly killed people and set fires. We are indeed brother and sister. Even though we are not born of the same mother, we are still as vicious and cruel in our bones!"

Jiang Yulang raised his eyebrows, then picked up the wine glass, clinked it with Jiang Yuyan, and drank the wine in one gulp.

"We do look alike, but Yufeng is different. This girl is a good person!"

"I know she's a good person, but that's why I'm worried!"

Jiang Yuyan rubbed her temples. She had a headache now!
"How come such a small flower has emerged from the thousand-year-old scourge of our family? It's really like a good bamboo shoot comes out of a bad bamboo."

Jiang Yulang nodded, "It is true that bad bamboos produce good bamboo shoots, and fertile fields produce shriveled rice!"

"By the way, what do you want to do when you come back? You can't be missing your father, right? With your skills, you can live well anywhere. The deaths of those thugs in the brothel prove your ability, and you pushed all these things onto those lone thieves, which is considered a good job. But if it weren't for the money spent by the family, you would still be exposed. Those lone thieves don't know each other, and it's impossible for them to get together and commit crimes in a small place, so the family spent money to help you settle the matter."

Jiang Yulang demonstrated his abilities, thinking that this would serve as a warning to his younger sister, telling her not to take her abilities too seriously, because without the family to help her clean up the mess, she would be nothing.

But Jiang Yuyan's face turned green at this time.

"When did this happen? Which of you smart people came up with this idea?"

Jiang Yuyan was about to explode, she was almost going crazy!
Jiang Yulang didn't expect his new sister to be so irritable. "What's wrong? I'm just helping you clean up. You were a little hasty and left too many traces. People will doubt you. We spent money to help you deal with this matter. Why are you still unhappy?"

Jiang Yuyan glared, "I'm happy, why should I be happy! Originally, there was nothing wrong with me, everything had nothing to do with me, they can doubt me if they want, anyway, it has nothing to do with the political situation, and besides, this matter is still a credit to them. Catching one person is just arresting a bandit, and arresting a group of people is clearing out a group of rebels, it's not the same concept, one is just doing what he should do, and the other is solving a major case of treason."

"But those people are just a bunch of bandits!"

Jiang Yulang couldn't figure out what was going on. He was a gangster and had never been in the government, so he didn't understand what the problem was. Jiang Yuyan didn't understand it either, but the emperors of the Ming Dynasty taught her all these things.

"You are wrong. That is not a bandit. That is a traitor who robbed the treasury."

Jiang Yuyan's arrangement was not simple. He actually put two ingots of official silver on those people.

"Ku Yin."

Jiang Yulang was still very sensitive and immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Yes, it is the treasury silver. Three hundred thousand taels of treasury silver are gone. These treasury silver were originally mining taxes, but they were divided privately by the eunuchs guarding the garrison and the local officials. The eunuchs guarding the garrison were Liu Xi's subordinates, and the official was a local bully. Both parties equally divided the three hundred thousand taels of treasury silver that should have been handed over."

The brothels were well-informed, and Jiang Yuyan was a maid serving various prostitutes at that time, so she was even more well-informed. This was because those officials always liked to show off how capable they were in front of women. Even eunuchs would do so, and they would even tell some private things in front of prostitutes to show how powerful they were.

These words cannot be said casually in front of normal people, as saying them may result in death. However, you can say them in front of a prostitute, because if a prostitute dies, she dies.

No one expected that a little maid who was serving by his side at the time heard all these things, wrote them down, and then used them all.

"Three hundred thousand taels of silver, are the local rich people in this small county so bold?"

Jiang Yulang couldn't help but take a breath. Three hundred thousand taels of silver was a very large amount even in the world of martial arts.

Moreover, the treasury silver of a county amounted to 300,000 taels, which was not a low number.

"You have to know that for more than ten years, there have been no officials sent down to the local areas. The county magistrates in various places have long been concurrently held by local wealthy households. The 300,000 taels of silver are not taxes, but silver from the mine supervisor. The treasury is the inner treasury."

Jiang Yuyan had no idea what the grassroots level was like during the Wanli period before, but after joining the chat group, he found out that all the official vacancies during the Wanli period were unfilled. For a full 20 years, not a single official was added to the entire court.

This completely destroyed the power of the entire Ming Dynasty court.

This is also the reason why the Donglin Party was able to occupy such a large power later on.

Because after Wanli's son came to power, in order to fill the vacancies of officials across the country during Wanli's time, he arranged all the forces such as the Donglin Party and the Chu Party to various positions in the court.

If these people had worked their way up from the grassroots level, then there would be no problem for them to fill those positions. However, none of these officials have any experience in grassroots politics, nor do they have normal promotion experience. They have picked up a big melon for nothing, so they have no idea how to govern the world. All they know is how to make money and how to fight.

"You mean the silver we gave went into the hands of the local rich?"

"No, it's worse than that."

Jiang Yuyan suddenly felt that her brother was so stupid!
"It's not that our money will go into the hands of those big families, but it's telling those people that we are related to this matter. Our family may be labeled as traitors at any time. Even with Liu Xi as a backer, something will happen because we have handed our handle to others. Although we are a family of Jianghu, not a family of officials, this is more dangerous because we will become a knife in the hands of others!"

Jiang Yuyan gritted her teeth. She really didn't expect that the Jiang family, which had such a wide network of connections in the underworld, would do such a stupid thing!
[Jiang Yuyan, I really didn't expect the Jiang family to be so stupid. I had clearly arranged everything before escaping from the brothel, but the Jiang family turned themselves into a knife and handed it to others. In order to calm this matter, they actually gave money to local officials, hoping to push these things onto those lonesome people so that I would not be exposed. I don't know whether they love me or want me to die! ]

[Gao Yuliang, your family members are crazy. They are eager to blame you for this. You are asking to be a butcher for others!] [Ying Bailuo, what are you still thinking about? Hurry up and kill all the people who know about this. The gap in the Wanli period was already large. A few more deaths is not a big deal. At most, you can just pay some money to buy an official position yourself.]

[Jiang Yuyan, @英白罗, how come you suddenly got it? ]

[Ying Bailuo, I am also from the Ming Dynasty. I know what the Ming Dynasty is like. When the Huashan Sword Sect was victorious, we paid money to buy the magistrate of Huayin County. Even if we were weak, if the magistrate dared to attack us, we would kill him. Anyway, we would just blame it on the bandits. When has the martial arts sect ever been afraid of the court officials?]

Ying Bailuoke has never been stupid. Although he doesn't know the way, he cannot be said to be stupid. He is also a ruthless person, otherwise he would not have been able to revive the Huashan Sect within two years.

[Zhu Jianshen, how is your brother's brain? If possible, spend money to buy him an official position, preferably a perfect official, such as a county magistrate or prefect, a bureaucrat who can control a region. It is best to follow Liu Xi's path. You don't need to pay a lot of silver, a few hundred thousand or a hundred thousand taels will be enough. The most important thing is to give him some other good things, such as elixirs to strengthen the body.]

[Wang Kaixuan, the pills to strengthen the body may not work, because Emperor Wanli smoked opium and probably won't live for many years. If that doesn't work, see if you can choose the crown prince Zhu Changluo. He was a womanizer and died in three months. If you become his crown princess, it would be a good choice. Of course, the premise is to deal with Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian. ]

[Zhu Youjian, ..., then can't we see what year of the Wanli Emperor's reign it was? If it was during the early years of the Wanli Emperor, he would still have some ambition. Of course, if it was during the late years, could he have chosen to be the young emperor's wet nurse? ]

[Zhu Jianshen, @Zhu Youjian! Do you know what you are talking about? What is a nanny?! ]

[Zhu Youjian, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing, it should be the older concubine. ]

[Jiang Yuyan, this is not about the concubine and the wet nurse, but about my unlucky brother giving someone a handle. As for killing someone, I don't want to do it. Also, it's the 30th year of Wanli.]

In the 1602th year of the Wanli reign, which was 30 AD, the -year-long dispute over the foundation of the Ming Dynasty had just ended the previous year, and Zhu Changluo finally became the crown prince.

It was still 18 years before Emperor Wanli's death.

[Gao Wenfeng, it turns out that it is time to choose a princess for the crown prince. Jiang Yuyan, if you don't want to be with Wanli Huangli, you can choose Zhu Changluo. This person should be useful to you, but from then on, Zhu Youxiao may have to call you mother.]

[Zhu Houzhao, that is a good choice. Zhu Changluo was also not long-lived. He was only emperor for three months. If you can stay by his side, you can probably do what Empress Dowager Zhang did in the future!]

[Jiang Yuyan, Empress Dowager Zhang, are you talking about the Empress of Emperor Renzong? That's a very good choice!]

Jiang Yuyan's eyes widened. He had discovered that in the entire chat group, all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty wanted him to become the daughter-in-law of the Ming Dynasty and rule the world as the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty, rather than ruling the world as Jiang Yuyan. At this moment, Jiang Yuyan felt a little cold.

[Gao Wenfeng, Jiang Yuyan, everything depends on your choice. In fact, if you don't want to play this way, you can choose something else, but these operations are very troublesome. ]

[Jiang Yuyan, no, I need the rights of this world. Only by gaining the rights of a world can I gain the resources of a world. Peaceful times are more conducive to obtaining resources than chaotic times. So I don’t want the world I live in to be a chaotic one. I must be the queen mother.]

Jiang Yuyan now explained everything to her brother Jiang Yulang. Jiang Yulang was full of emotion, thinking that he knew nothing and was like a fool in front of his new sister.

"That means we're helping you clean up, but you're actually selling us out."

Jiang Yuyan poured herself a glass of wine and said, "Yes, your choice was the most wrong. You could have killed all the people there instead of giving them money."

"Alas, the tax supervisor Pan Xiang and his entourage in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, caused public outrage, causing the porcelain workers there to revolt, abolish the porcelain factory, and burn down the tax office. The entire Jiangxi province was planning to take this opportunity to balance its own taxes and public accounts, but you gave them a brand new choice!"

In fact, the ancient courts were very optimistic about the occasional rebellions, because it was an opportunity to settle accounts.

In peacetime, to settle accounts, one would need to use a fire dragon to burn the warehouse, but when someone is rebelling, there is no need to use a fire dragon to burn the warehouse, all one can do is send bandits to rob the government office.

To be honest, during the Jiajing period, dozens of Japanese pirates were rampant throughout Jiangnan. This was actually an opportunity for the entire Jiangnan to settle accounts, because if just a few dozen Japanese pirates could run rampant throughout Jiangnan, Jiangnan would have been in chaos long ago. However, during that period of time, there was no chaos in Jiangnan at all, as if those Japanese pirates did not kill many people at all.

But on paper, these dozens of Japanese pirates killed tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and also looted and burned multiple government warehouses. Most of Jiangnan was destroyed, and reports came from all over the country about the presence of Japanese pirates.

During that period, the Japanese pirates might appear in multiple places within a thousand miles at the same time in one day, and then rob the government offices there, capture and kill the soldiers and government officials there, rob the treasury silver, and set fire to the granaries and grain yards.

In short, the whole Jiangnan region settled the accounts well, and this time they could have taken this opportunity to settle the accounts, but something went wrong.

"Brother, go ask the officials who are familiar with our Jiang family. They said that a group of bandits came recently. It is said that these bandits want to rob government offices, loot granaries, wealthy households, and silver vaults. See if they need our help!"

Jiang Yuyan was giving an official her family knew an opportunity to settle accounts and make a fortune.

"As a price, you need a status of a juren, and your sister I want a chance to be selected as the crown princess."

"Crown Princess?" Jiang Yulang was stunned for a moment, "What does the Crown Princess have to do with us? Do you want to be the Crown Princess?"

"Yes, I want to be the Crown Princess. You should find a way to get yourself an official position. Besides, our family will be in the imperial court in the future. We don't want to play in the underworld anymore."

Jiang Yuyan had already made up her mind long ago that she would never again hang out in the underworld because there were too few resources there.

(End of this chapter)