Wanli 1592

Chapter 691 The Uninvited Guest
With a calm expression, Shen Yiguan stretched out his hand to pick up a piece of meat and put it into Luo Sigong's bowl.

"I heard that Commander Luo likes venison. This is the deer meat that the old man specially ordered the restaurant to cook carefully. It is extremely tender. Please try it."

Shen always smiled, like a kind and kind old man treating his juniors, but this attitude made Luo Sigong feel horrified.

Ordinary officials saw Jin Yiwei coming to the door, and even half of their souls were frightened. Of course, these are all middle and low-level officials, and the power held by senior officials is different. The prestige of the envoy is really nothing in front of senior bureaucrats.

Not to mention that now that Shen Yiguan has the emperor's order in his hand, he can dispatch Jin Yiwei to do things as appropriate. Right now, Luo Sigong needs to obey Shen Yiguan's orders to a certain extent.

"I don't know what important business Mr. Shen Ge has come here, please tell him clearly, otherwise such a rich meal, the lower officials dare not accept it."

Luo Sigong moved his chair back, expressing that he did not dare to enjoy this sumptuous meal.

"Hehehe, shouldn't you young people be in a hurry and have few worries? Jin Yiwei should be more like this, worrying about this and that, it's something people like this old man would do, you are different."

Shen Yiguan chuckled: "Eat when you want to eat, drink when you want to drink, this meal is arranged by the old man privately, it comes into your mouth and out of your door, no third person will know, absolutely no, Hehehe, come here, this is specially prepared for Commander Luo, if Commander Luo doesn't eat it, it will be wasted."

Luo Sigong forcibly held back the anxiety in his heart.

"I also ask Mr. Shen Ge to express it clearly, otherwise, I will not be satisfied with the food."

Shen Yiguan sighed, put down his chopsticks, and shook his head.

"Forget it, forget it, if you don't tell me about this matter, Commander Luo will not be at ease. In fact, when I come here, I really have a problem and I want to ask Commander Luo for advice."

Luo Sigong's heart trembled, and he said, "I don't know what old Shen Ge meant by asking for advice?"

"It's just some personal doubts of the old man."

Shen Yiguan smiled slightly and said, "I don't know very well the property of those officials whose houses were confiscated. Is it enough to reward the army at the frontier? Xiao Zhennan has [-] soldiers under his command. Not a small sum."

Luo Sigong already guessed part of Shen Yiguan's intention to come here.

"To tell the truth, Mr. Shen Ge, 21 officials ransacked their homes in the past few days, 15 of them at a time, and 1000 at a time. [-] million."

Luo Sigong honestly reported the real data.

Shen Yiguan's body trembled imperceptibly, his eyes flickered, and he was silent for a while.

"1000 million? Isn't that right?"

Shen Yiguan suddenly said so.

"wrong?"

Luo Sigong frowned and said: "This is calculated by a special person. There is no mistake. This number is a conservative estimate. It may be more or not. After all, the methods used by people to hide silver taels today are really unimaginable."

Shen Yiguan laughed when he heard this, and then kept shaking his head.

"No, no, this number is absolutely wrong."

Luo Sigong didn't quite understand Shen Yiguan's meaning.

"What does Old Shen Ge mean?"

"What the old man means is that the salaries of the officials of the Ming Dynasty were so generous that one or two corrupt officials could get so much money? There must be some misunderstanding here, otherwise, such a meal would not be for everyone. Can you eat them all?"

Shen Yiguan smiled and pointed to a table of dishes.

Luo Sigong suddenly realized, he suddenly understood the fundamental purpose of Shen Yiguan coming here.

In an instant, Luo Sigong's thoughts turned back and forth, but even so, it was not enough for him to make his own decision in a short period of time. When he finally made up his mind, it had been a while.

Luo Sigong looked deeply at Shen Yiguan, looking at his kindly smiling face.

He thought about other things that made him feel uncomfortable.

He made a decision.

"Hehe, Shen Ge's old lesson is that this number is indeed a bit too exaggerated. I thought about it just now, and maybe I made a mistake. It's not 1000 million, but 800 million."

Shen Yiguan smiled again, then shook his head again.

"No, no, it's still wrong. Even if the officials of the Ming Dynasty were devoid of conscience, they wouldn't be greedy for so much money, would they? Besides, there wouldn't be that much money to be greedy for money, would they?"

not enough?
Luo Sigong thought about it carefully, and asked tentatively, "Then 500 million?"

Shen Yiguan shook his head again.

"No, no, still no, one or two silver can buy hundreds of catties of rice grain, 500 million silver, how much rice grain is that? The Ming Dynasty didn't have that much rice grain, Commander Luo, it's obvious It was wrong."

Luo Sigong pursed his lips.

"That's right. I'm overworked these days. I must have made a mistake. It's clearly only 300 million."

Shen Yiguan still shook his head with the same smile.

"The annual income of the national treasury of the Ming Dynasty is only 300 million. Commander Luo is joking again, isn't he? If these twenty or so people can embezzle one year's income from the treasury, then what if Your Majesty mistakenly thinks that every twenty officials can embezzle the treasury?" How about a year's income?"

Luo Sigong took a deep breath, thinking about the emperor, Xiao Ruxun, Zhang Jing, and his own situation.

"Then Shen Ge always thought, how much money did these 20 people lose because of corruption?"

Shen Yiguan stretched out a finger.

"Your Majesty must not be allowed to have the wrong idea that none of the officials in the Manchu Dynasty is loyal to His Majesty. We, those who are loyal to the monarchy and the country, must help Your Majesty suppress the alarmist news. What does Commander Luo think?"

Luo Sigong looked at the finger and nodded slowly.

"What Elder Shen Ge said is justified. As ministers, we should share the worries of His Majesty and not make His Majesty overworked. This is the duty of a loyal minister to the country."

After finishing speaking, Luo Sigong took out the detailed report in his hand and handed it to Shen Yiguan.

"The subordinates under the lower officials are not good at learning skills. They only confiscated 100 million taels, but it was counted as 1000 million taels. This is really laughable and generous! The lower officials are not effective in managing their subordinates. Please punish Mr. Shen Ge."

Shen Yiguan took the report, took it out to look at it, nodded in satisfaction, then took out another envelope from his pocket and handed it to Luo Sigong.

"Commander Luo understands the righteousness and is loyal to the emperor and the country. He is actually a rare loyal minister in the country. What's wrong? Besides, Jin Yiwei is His Majesty's army. Apart from His Majesty, who else can What about punishment? This old man would never dare to do that."

Luo Sigong took the envelope, opened it, and pulled out a stack of papers from inside. After looking at it, his pupils shrank, his hands shook, and he almost shook the stack of papers.

(End of this chapter)