Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 446 Selfishness
"Yes, you are right." Xie Jue said with a faint smile: "She is a woman who only wants to be vicious and harm others, but she didn't expect that she would be used by others. Bu Shangshu just made tens of thousands of taels of fake silver."

"How many taels?" Su Yue was a little puzzled.

Isn't tens of thousands of taels also made of fake government-made silver?The nature is not the same?
"The tens of thousands of taels is just the selfishness of the commander-in-chief or my concubine mother." Xie Jue said lightly: "The princess probably thinks that the tens of thousands of taels, as long as the prince pushes out my mother and concubine, says it is a woman's Because, he didn't know about it, so the late emperor could accept the prince's statement."

A stupid woman who doesn't know the heart of an emperor at all.

Since government-made counterfeit silver can be made, it is only a matter of time for a few hundred thousand taels and a few million taels.

Using the official bank name to hide the emperor's fake silver, this in itself represents the intention of treason. The first emperor was already suspicious of the crown prince. How could he not be angry when he learned about this matter? Can cover up the past.

What's more, in order to make government-made counterfeit money, there must be someone in the household department. Concubine Xie is an orphan with a dead father and no brothers. Even if she has a few connections in the military, how can she intervene in the household department?
No matter how you say it, you can't break away from the prince.

If the other policies and debates made the late emperor and the crown prince alienated, and the crown prince's tough implementation of the new law made the late emperor taboo, then this government-made fake silver is the last straw that overwhelms everything.

What's more, at that time, this matter was still used by people, not tens of thousands of taels, but several 10 taels of fake silver flowed to Sanzhou.

And after the incident broke out, the Minister of the Household Department probably realized that something was wrong, so he hurriedly wiped off the traces, which was tantamount to helping those people get rid of their ties.

And the more no traces can be found, the more suspicious the late emperor will be. At this time, Cai Bing only needs to find an opportunity to send the letter...

"Then, Confucius Mansion?" Su Yue asked in confusion.

In this way, in fact, this matter is the crown princess looking for death, and the former Minister of the Ministry of Households has used Cai Bing's tricks to help the evildoers.

But is there any relationship with Confucian Mansion?

Xie Jue frowned slightly, and said with deep eyes: "At that time, the Minister of the Ministry of Households had three daughters. After her elder sister became a concubine, she married far away in Qufu, Jizhou, and her husband is a branch of Yan Shenggong's Kong family, and the wife who is in charge of the bank account, if you talk about it in detail, is also from the Kong family."

"Let's talk about it in detail?" Su Yue repeated.

"Yes." Xie Jue nodded and said, "After this incident came out, the crown prince also sent people to investigate, but at that time it was to check whether someone had been replaced during the transportation. I'm afraid it wasn't a replacement during transportation, but it came from the official forge, because it is too similar to real silver ingots, and private workshops can't produce fake silver of this quality. Besides, it is the inner core. The lead used is not available to ordinary people, after the prince received the letter, he sent someone to investigate the forge, but the manager committed suicide as soon as the person was sent there."

The voice paused, Xie Jue picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, then continued: "Actually, at that time, the concubine mother had already reminded my father that this matter might not be good, so I asked my father to make preparations. Unfortunately, my father didn't believe it. If I didn't believe it, the emperor would not believe me Son, I don't believe that this matter is really related to the Minister of the Household Department, his father-in-law! The concubine can only send Mr. Gu to investigate in private."

Su Yue took a moment and understood.

I'm afraid it was precisely because he was dispatched that Mr. Gu escaped the catastrophe and was able to take the people outside to rescue people.

"At that time, those traces had been wiped clean, but when Mr. Gu arrived, he happened to meet the servant of the steward's family being auctioned." Xie Jue took another sip and said, "The servant called out, It is said that she is from the Confucian Mansion, and married from the Confucian Mansion with his wife, and she cannot be regarded as the person in charge of the family. Afterwards, she was taken away with her mouth covered. died."

"Murder to silence?" Su Yue asked in surprise.

"That's right, kill someone to silence you." Xie Jue nodded and said, "Mr. Gu searched for a long time before he found someone who knew a thing or two. He said that the wife of the steward was married for the second time. She had been married for less than three years, and the steward The wife's former husband is a side branch of the Kong family."

One is the daughter who married the Confucian mansion, and the other is the abandoned wife who married the Confucian mansion...

Su Yue also frowned slightly.

However, this cannot be said to be completely relevant.

"Also, do you know where the official silver forge is?" Xie Jue said with a faint smile, "It's in the land of Jizhou, because here, there is a silver mine, the mine is mixed with silver and lead, and the output of lead is ten times as much as silver, and the silver mine, from the previous dynasty, produced one-fifth of the lead ore it produced every year, which was used as a salary for the Confucian family."

"I understand!" Su Yue clapped her hands and said, "A million taels of fake silver also requires a million taels of lead. Such a large amount of lead is not something ordinary people can get out, and if it is a government mine Inside, if so much lead is used, it is impossible not to leave traces!"

"That's right." Xie Jue said with the corners of his lips slightly curled up: "There is one more thing. The military salary of the government soldiers is very low, each person is only ten guan a year, and the total number of government soldiers from the three states is only 6. Even if all the soldiers are paid in silver , but only 60 taels."

"That's right! Besides, the soldiers don't like to take silver ingots, so most of them should be copper coins. Besides, as you said earlier, they are mixed in. How could there be millions of taels of silver?" Su Yue frowned.

Xie Jue put down the tea bowl, rubbed her brows and said, "It is said that when the first emperor sent people to investigate, the records of the household department showed that nearly one million taels of silver was sent out, real silver."

Su Yue was startled and said, "Someone has exchanged this batch of silver!"

"Yes." Xie Jue narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a faint smile: "Someone knew the stupid thing the princess wanted to do, and used it to forge far more than tens of thousands of taels of silver. The Minister of the Ministry personally let go, and replaced two-thirds of the military pay sent to Daizhou with silver. I am afraid that the military pay of the three states will be replaced by silver. Some of them are still going to be distributed to the frontier army, but because the imperial court has always delayed the frontier army as long as they can, so the distribution time will be one month later than that of the Fubing. Two real pieces of silver, which have not yet been taken away."

"Ah!" Su Yue rolled her eyes, clapped her hands and said, "I understand! According to the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs, those people should want to replace 100 million taels, but by mistake, there are 50 taels or not. Exchange it, that is to say, they should still have 50 taels of fake silver!"

In other words, as long as you find those who used fake silver, you can find out who made this batch of fake silver!
"Yeah." Xie Jue nodded her nose and said with a smile: "However, if Yue'er wants to go out to eat next time, no matter how late I sleep, she must wake me up before going out together!"

This time, I won't settle accounts with Tang Bing Mint Bailu...

(End of this chapter)