I, Altria, only want to rule China.

Liu Xianpeng was stunned for a long while. After thinking about all these questions, he suddenly became furious: "He is playing tricks on me? I'm going to kill him!"

Just after she finished scolding, Liya snorted coldly: "You bastard, you're going to kill your father-in-law? I'm telling you, someone will naturally take care of your father-in-law's affairs."

"As for you..."

Liya snorted again and said, "You accepted Gao Dajin's money, which is indeed not considered corruption, but you were used as a gun by him and almost caused big trouble for the court. After all, you are too stupid."

Liu Xianpeng did not argue, but replied dejectedly: "Yes, I was too stupid."

Liya glanced at Liu Xianpeng, looking at the pitiful appearance of this guy, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "Remember to think twice before doing anything in the future. This time I just happened to encounter it. If I didn't encounter it this time, and you made such a big mess, what do you think I should do?"

Liu Xianpeng said without hesitation: "Then I will resign from this position. I am not very smart anyway, so I might as well stay by your side in the future."

Liya was also so angry that she laughed: "You still want to be a eunuch? Get out of my way. I am annoyed just looking at you."

You should know that there are no eunuchs in the Wu Kingdom now. Leah has abolished this criminal law a long time ago. However, although this criminal law has been abolished, there are still many eunuchs left over from the previous dynasty, so Leah continues to use them.

When this group of eunuchs die of old age, the position of eunuch will no longer exist.

After Liu Xianpeng rolled aside, Liya instructed the people below: "Please invite Master Gao Dajin Gao over. Some accounts must be settled after all."

Following Liya's order, the Jinyiwei under her command immediately turned around and left the lobby of Yongcheng County Government Office, and went straight to the Gao family compound with their men. Not long after, they brought Gao Dajin to Yongcheng County Government Office.

Since these people did not reveal their identities, Gao Dajin, who was short and stocky, was still barking and groaning when he was taken to the Yongcheng County Office: "Rebellion! Rebellion! Let me tell you, my son-in-law is the magistrate of Yongcheng, and he is a loyal follower of the current queen! You dare to arrest me and raid my house, you are rebelling!"

Chapter 232: Nine Out and Thirteen Back? It's a piece of cake

Liya got angry whenever she saw Gao Dajin's appearance. Even when he was caught by the Jinyiwei, this guy still did not forget to pin his folding fan behind his collar, just like a domineering playboy.

What Liya didn't expect was that once she entered the lobby of Yongcheng County Government, even though her son-in-law Liu Xianpeng had already stood obediently on one side of the lobby, Gao Dajin actually dared to shout, "Son-in-law! You fought for the country with Her Majesty the Queen, and Her Majesty will help you with everything!"

Liu Xianpeng was immediately furious and was about to rush over to kill his father-in-law Gao Dajin, but Liya, who was sitting in the lobby, coughed to remind him, and Liu Xianpeng immediately stopped where he was.

The reason why Liu Xianpeng did not take the Inspection Censorate or even the Anhui Prefectural Government Office seriously was, on the one hand, because this guy was not greedy, so he was not afraid.

On the other hand, it is also because this guy has too many old friends in the army. You know, many bigwigs in the army now may have been his former superiors. If anyone dares to attack him, this guy will really dare to run to the capital of Chang'an and make a big fuss.

But in front of Leah, Liu Xianpeng was as honest as a quail.

These personal soldiers who had followed Leah early on knew how terrifying Leah was better than anyone else.

Although Leah looks like a young girl, she leads the troops personally in every battle and is also the first to rush to the front. The most important thing is that she has witnessed His Majesty firing a light cannon to kill thousands of people.

For these personal soldiers, Leah is their god!

Including those bigwigs in the army, who hasn't been beaten by Leah personally? No one dares to act rashly in front of Leah.

Seeing that Liu Xianpeng suddenly became as cowardly as a dog just because of a cough, Gao Dajin felt something was wrong when he looked at Liya again.

Gao Dajin knew what kind of person his son-in-law was. Let alone an ordinary inspector or prefect, even if an official of a higher level came, his son-in-law would not be so nervous.

The only possibility is that the young girl sitting in the lobby can shock her son-in-law.

There are women who can shock their own sons-in-law, but it is very rare for women to do so.

Although Wu State has many female officials now, in fact, there are still relatively few female officials. One tenth is considered a lot. In addition, the other party is so young, could she be the princess in the palace?

As for whether the person sitting in the lobby might be the Queen of Wu Kingdom... Gao Dajin had never thought of this possibility.

First of all, Leah did not make any big moves when she went to the south of the Yangtze River this time, and she did not even bring the emperor's ceremonial guards.

Secondly, as an emperor, how could Liya suddenly come to a small and unknown county like Yongcheng?

The more Gao Dajin thought about it, the more he felt that he was right. After pondering it again, Gao Dajin suddenly laughed and said loudly, "I wonder if it is the princess in person? Can you tell me her name? I am Gao Dajin, and I am here to meet you. If you want to see me, you only need to send someone to summon me. Why make such a big fuss?"

Leah chuckled and looked at Gao Dajin with a bit of admiration in her eyes.

This guy is indeed a character. Although he guessed his identity wrongly, he can be said to have remained calm in the face of danger and even pretended to be open-minded.

If it were someone else, most of them would think that this guy is a talented person and would cherish his talent.

Next, as long as Gao Dajin uses his eloquence to confuse right and wrong, he will most likely be able to get away with today's matter.

Unfortunately, the person who came today was not her daughter, but herself.

Liya ignored Gao Dajin's intention until a few Jinyiwei officers carrying boxes hurriedly came to the hall. Then Liya said, "Tell the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate and the Patrol Censorate to come over and check."

After seeing the two boxes being carried into the lobby, Gao Dajin's face was no longer as calm as before, and his legs were shaking slightly.

Both boxes were sealed, one of them had the word "Gao" stamped on it, and the other had the word "Workshop" stamped on it.

And Leah just mentioned the word "check".

What to check?

When we use the word "查" to form words, we usually get words like "查案", "找", "检查账", etc. However, considering the current situation, the only possibility is "查账".

After forcing himself to calm down, Gao Dajin looked at Liya and said, "If Your Highness wants to check the accounts of my Gao family, you only need to tell me. I will just bring the account books here. Why bother Your Highness?"

Liya waved her hand and said, "Tell him to shut up."

The Jinyiwei immediately agreed, but after searching for a long time they couldn't find any rags or the like, so they simply asked Liu Xianpeng to take off his shoes and socks and stuffed his stinky socks directly into Gao Dajin's mouth.

The hall returned to its calm again, with only the clacking sound of abacus ringing incessantly. The clerks from the Ministry of Personnel, the Inspection Censorate, and the Chief Censorate were frantically turning their abacus and beginning to audit all the account books in Gao Dajin's home and workshop.

"In the twelfth month of the fifteenth year of the Holy Emperor, Zhang San borrowed 500 coins and paid an interest of 50 coins. He paid 450 coins and should have 800 coins back..."

After hearing a clerk sing these words, Gao Dajin's legs went limp, as if he had lost all his strength.

Gao Dajin's family actually has two sets of account books, just like those companies in later generations, one set in public and one set in private.

The various records in the account books that were on the surface were relatively normal, with some minor omissions, but those omissions were deliberately made by Gao Dajin in order to deal with the overt audits.

No matter how they checked, they only found those insignificant minor omissions. Analyzing simply from the account books, Gao Dajin's family was like the reincarnation of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.

However, the set of account books secretly recorded all the calculations of the Gao family.

Nine out and thirteen back?

I'm sorry, I only make a little money out of nine out of thirteen. It's embarrassing enough to tell others about it.

The really amazing thing about the Gao family is that after they lend the money out, they unknowingly let these peasants get trapped in it, and the interest is compounded over and over again. In the end, they have to borrow and repay repeatedly until they can no longer pay back. Then they can reclaim the land directly.

But no one could say anything.

When you borrowed money, the Gao family lent you the money, but you couldn't pay it back. Can you blame the Gao family for lending you the money?

What these petty officials are reading out now is exactly the set of account books that the Gao family keeps secretly.

In desperation, Gao Da couldn't help but struggle frantically, and muffled whimpering sounds kept coming out of his mouth.

Chapter 233: The Disgusting Face of the Capitalist

However, Leah seemed to have heard nothing and saw nothing. She just kept waiting for the petty officials to come up with the final result, and by the way, she was boredly flipping through some letters brought back by the Jinyiwei.

But what Leah didn't expect was that the Gao family's account books were so amazing that even though dozens of clerks worked in groups of two to handle them, they still couldn't finish them in a short time.

The Ministry of Personnel, the Inspection Censorate, and the Chief Censorate even had to transfer more minor officials to carry out some of the settlements.

As the sun moved from east to south and then from south to west, and it was almost time to light the lamps, the Gao family's account books were finally processed.

"Your Majesty, over the past thirty-eight years, the Gao family has seized more than 900 hectares of good farmland from the people through trickery and plunder. More than a thousand households have been forced to sell their houses and land and become tenants because they have fallen into the trap of the Gao family's interest payments."

"Your Majesty, please read it."

Leah had a habit, that was, when she was looking for trouble with someone, she would never avoid ordinary people. On the contrary, Leah hoped that as many people as possible would watch.

Therefore, a large number of people gathered outside the Yongcheng County Government Office to watch the fun, and it was even more lively than the trial scene in TV dramas.

What the common people gathered outside the Yongcheng County Government Office did not expect was that the evil gentry to be tried today would actually be the well-known and kind-hearted Gao Dajin.

This made the onlookers very curious.

Especially when they heard those petty officials addressing the young girl sitting in the hall as "Your Majesty", and when they heard the county magistrate Liu Xianpeng standing in the hall with a dusty face, the people were even more surprised.

Shouldn't Her Majesty be almost forty years old? How come Her Majesty is still so young? She looks like a little girl, not much older than their youngest daughter.

According to the people's impression of Leah, Her Majesty the Queen is the kind of person who is full of royal sister style in every move and her face is full of majesty. If we want to pick someone out for comparison, it would be Morgan.

Morgan's queenly demeanor is exactly what they imagine Her Majesty the Queen to look like.

Her Majesty the Empress of Wu State actually came to Yongcheng County in plain clothes, first reprimanded the county magistrate, and then publicly tried the county magistrate's father-in-law?

It's an eye-opener.

The people watching actually couldn't understand what the petty officials were reading out, such as the accounts of nine out and ten back, and they didn't know what the trick was.

But these people understood one thing, that is, if an ordinary citizen owed Gao Dajin's family 500 coins, it could somehow turn into several taels or even dozens of taels of silver, and finally they would have to sell all their land and houses, and the whole family would become tenants.

The benefits of Leah's efforts over the years to promote literacy and build schools, to promote newspaper distribution and to insist on publishing articles in newspapers finally showed up at this time.

Out of trust in Liya, the Emperor of Wu, even the common people still believed that Gao Dajin's family was a kind-hearted family that passed down the tradition of farming and studying.

Even though these people still believed that Gao Dajin was a kind-hearted man, they chose to listen quietly and see how Liya, the Emperor of Wu, would deal with Gao Dajin.

And Leah did not disappoint these people.

After the clerk reported the methods used by Gao Dajin and summarized them on paper, Liya ordered the people below: "Alright, let him go first. I have something else to ask."

After the smelly socks were removed from his mouth, Gao Dajin didn't care about the disgusting taste in his mouth at all. He just fell to his knees with a plop and howled miserably, "It's unfair! It's unfair to me!"

After howling miserably, Gao Dajin did not hear the gavel sound as he had imagined, nor did he hear Liya asking him what injustice he had suffered. Gao Dajin felt something was wrong.

Under normal circumstances, shouldn't they slam the gavel, yell for silence, ask about the grievance, and then give the person a chance to defend himself?

This is different from what is written in the opera!

After Gao Dajin calmed down, he quietly looked up at Liya who was sitting in the main hall, but saw that Liya was also looking at him with a smile. Gao Dajin was suddenly startled and quickly lowered his head again.

It was only at this time that Liya sneered and looked at Gao Dajin and said, "I really didn't expect that you, Gao Dajin, are so good at playing!"

Gao Dajin quickly lowered his body and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, please have mercy on me. I am truly wronged!"

Liya pointed at the account books in the lobby and asked, "Are you innocent? Could it be that these account books were made by the Jinyiwei to frame you?"

Gao Dajin wanted to say that it was the Jinyiwei who was framing him, but what was the point of saying such nonsense? You are a country rich man, what qualifications do you have to be targeted by the Jinyiwei?

Seeing Gao Dajin was silent, Liya sneered again and said, "First, you use double wages to induce the workers to increase their working hours, in the name of making them earn more money. But tell me, when all the workers are used to working overtime, will you still give them double wages?"

This kind of method is very common nowadays. Isn’t all the overtime work in vain? Only a few people can actually get the money. Most people are working for the capitalists for nothing.

Capitalists are disgusting!

At this point, Liya simply picked up a letter from the table and threw it to Gao Dajin: "What does this letter say? Come on, read it out loud so that everyone can hear it!"

The tall and tight body crouched even lower

Gao Dajin certainly knew what was written in the letter that Liya threw over. But Gao Dajin never expected that the Jinyiwei could actually find out all the letters that he had secretly hidden.

Liu Zhiyong, a Jinyiwei standing next to Gao Dajin, immediately walked over to pick up the letter, tore it open and read it aloud: "Brother Dajin, I think there are so many factories in the workshop nowadays... Brother, you suggested increasing the wages to increase the working hours... Not only can you reduce the recruitment of workers and save tens of thousands of dollars, but you can also let the workers get along with each other.

There is a gap between us, I really admire you... I will definitely follow the instructions from above..."

After reading it, the Jinyiwei sealed the letter again and put it back on the table in front of Leah.

Liya said: "Come on, explain to me what is going on with this letter?"

But before Gao Dajin could answer, Liu Xianpeng rushed over, raised his fist and started to hit Gao Dajin: "Damn it, what did you tell me? You said you could make more money for the people, you said I could do meritorious service to His Majesty, and this is what you said? You old bastard, you even cheated your own son-in-law!"

Chapter 234: Of course it is solved in advance

As Liu Xianpeng began to take action, the people watching outside the hall also became excited and shouted, "Beat him to death! Beat him to death!"

Many people here work in Gao's workshop. It's not unheard of that Gao Dajin wants to double the wages to increase the working time. Many people are even looking forward to this day.

But who could have imagined that there was such a far-reaching plot behind this?

The workers no longer unite, they lose their jobs, they despise and target each other, Gao Dajin and his men slowly use all kinds of excuses to reduce wages, and finally find a way to take away every last penny in the pockets of the workers and the people.

When the onlookers thought of the ending described in the letter, they broke out in cold sweats. Then some impulsive people wanted to rush into the lobby and follow Liu Xianpeng to beat Gao Dajin to vent their anger.

Seeing that chaos was about to break out, Liya slammed the gavel and shouted, "Quiet!"

Taking advantage of the moment when the people were stunned, Liya said loudly: "I am here, will I let these guys who prey on the people have an easy life?"

The people then realized that the person sitting in the hall was the current Queen.

If someone else sat here, the people might still have some doubts, but when it came to Leah, the Emperor of Wu, the people would not have the slightest doubt.

After the people had completely quieted down, Liya couldn't help rubbing her forehead and ordered the Jinyiwei below: "Pull this idiot away!"

The idiot that Leah was talking about was Liu Xianpeng who was beating up the tall and strong man.