Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 320 Kaiping Undercurrent (Part [-])
Gao Wushi fell silent, lowered his head slightly, and analyzed carefully in his heart.

When Lu Bing was in charge of Jinyiwei, due to the special relationship between Lu Dadu and Emperor Jiajing, Jinyiwei's power expanded rapidly, almost reversing the situation in Liu Jin's era when Dongchang regarded Jinyiwei as a lackey.

However, following the death of Lu Bing in Jiajing 39, Jinyiwei was transferred to Zhu Xixiao, the younger brother of Cheng Guogong Zhu Xizhong.Zhu Xixiao was born in a top honorable family in the Jingnan family, and his brother Zhu Xizhong's disposition is very similar. He does not seek meritorious deeds but seeks no faults in everything. He exercises power in a regular manner. Follow the rules and be more cautious in handling various affairs.

At the same time, the brothers Zhu Xizhong and Zhu Xixiao are partners with Gao Yushi. According to the current development situation, the private interests of the two parties may reach 3 to [-] taels a year—and his two brothers There are no actual shares, but only dry shares for dividends. In other words, if Gao Yushi collapses, they will not get half of it.

Because of the relationship between the above two points, Gao Wushi never believed that Zhu Xixiao would quietly send someone to investigate him—unless Gao Wushi was involved in treason and the evidence of the crime was conclusive, Zhu Xixiao would be able to hide it from Gao in order to get him out. Check him out.

But if even Zhu Xixiao, the governor of Jinyiwei, didn't know about it, then where did these Jinyiwei come from?
Gao Yushi posed this question to Gao Guoyan, and Gao Guoyan was a little puzzled when he heard it. However, although he was good at calculations, he was only good at calculations in mathematics. On these political issues, his level was actually far inferior to that of Gao Yushi. Wu obviously asked Yu Blind.

Gao Guoyan thought for a long time, and finally he could only say: "I think you can get a huge sum of 3 to [-] taels a year just for doing nothing. If it were me, even if you were suspected of treason, I would definitely quietly Let me know."

Nonsense, you got into the eyes of money and couldn't get out.

Gao Wushi slandered, and analyzed to himself: "We might as well assume that Zhu Xixiao really didn't know, then there are only two possibilities for the origin of this group of Jinyiwei."

Gao Guoyan was taken aback for a moment: "There are two possibilities?"

Gao Wushi rolled his eyes, ignored him, and continued to analyze on his own: "The first possibility is that Jinyiwei's expatriates accidentally discovered that we were buying land near Kaiping. They felt that this situation was very abnormal. I thought there was something wrong here, so in order to make merit, I decided not to report it for the time being, but to investigate first, and if I find something, I can get great merit."

"Oh..." Gao Guoyan thought for a while along this line of thought, and suddenly asked: "We are just buying land, what could be wrong?"

Gao Wushi rolled his eyes at him helplessly, and said weakly: "Yes, we are only buying land, but have you ever seen someone who buys land not to buy good land, but to buy bad land with a radius of tens of miles or even hundreds of miles as soon as they buy it?" What’s more, let’s not talk about buying bad land, and buying it in such a hurry that even the commander of the local guards came forward to force the local residents to relocate?”

"Uh, it's a little strange to say that." Gao Guoyan agreed.

Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "Is this just 'a little' strange? I think it is very strange in the eyes of Jin Yiwei. Even, since these Jin Yiwei have never judged people with the greatest malice, they might think that, The relocation of Kaipingwei itself was a conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?" Gao Guoyan asked confusedly, "What kind of conspiracy could there be?"

"It's not important that there is a 'what' conspiracy, the important thing is the word 'yes'." Gao Wushi looked cold, narrowing his eyes slightly and said: "At the very least, it is very likely that there is an issue of collusion between the government and businessmen involved here? Or, Kaipingwei, Yongping Bingbeidao, and even Jizhen Zongbing Yamen, can these government offices at all levels get a lot of benefits from this relocation? Otherwise, why did the good people suddenly relocate? And the relocation The entire Kaiping Zhongtunwei cost nearly 30 taels, which is almost one-tenth of the imperial government’s annual revenue. Such a huge amount of money was actually paid by private individuals who came to buy bad land..."

"Besides, if it's not the yamen at all levels who take the benefits, but simply the commander of the guards, the deputy envoy of military preparations, and even the chief soldier of Ji Town himself accepts bribes, wouldn't that be a great contribution to the local Jin Yiwei?"

Gao Guoyan was completely stunned, looked at Gao Wushi, and said after a long time: "Pragmatism, are you full of conspiracies and tricks in your head? When you say that, even I think it's very abnormal. !"

Gao Wushi said helplessly: "If this is the case, then it is still a small problem. After all... No matter how they investigate, if there is no problem, there is no problem. Even if there is such a trouble caused by Xue Cheng, the great thing is that Xue Cheng handles the matter by himself Fuck it, even if the higher-ups know about it, they will just give a reprimand, at most a little punishment, and at least there is a Marquis in his family, so this matter is not a big deal to him at all."

"As for reporting this matter to Zhu Xixiao, it is estimated that nothing will come to pass. Zhu Xixiao will either not reply at all, or he will simply warn them clearly and clearly not to make troubles... So if the expatriates of Jinyiwei make their own decisions, then It’s basically out of the question.”

"Oh, that's it." Gao Guoyan nodded and approved of this judgment, but he immediately asked again: "You said there are two possibilities, so what is the other possibility?"

Gao Yushi's face darkened, he subconsciously picked up the teacup, turned the cup lid around, and said in a deep voice, "There is another possibility that cannot be ignored..."

Gao Guoyan was also made nervous by his expression, and hurriedly asked: "How to say?"

Gao Wushi said coldly: "There is another person who can even use Jin Yiwei's staff to handle affairs without Zhu Xixiao's approval."

"Ah?" Gao Guoyan was taken aback, his voice trembling with fright: "You mean... the emperor?"

"Emperor?" Gao Wushi rolled his eyes angrily: "I said Brother Sanhuai, the emperor wants to use Jinyiwei, of course through the governor of Jinyiwei, thinking that the Zhu Xixiao brothers have received the emperor's favor for generations, and the emperor trusts them deeply. It's almost the same as trusting Sanbo, how could it be possible to bypass Zhu Xixiao?"

Gao Guoyan felt relieved, reached out and wiped the unnecessary sweat on his forehead, and asked, "Oh, that's okay, that's okay...Then who are you talking about?"

"Hehe..." Gao Wushi suddenly showed a smile, turned the lid of the teacup lightly, leaned back on the chair, half-closed his eyes and said, "Admiral of the East Factory, Feng Bao."

　After Qingming, we will resume two changes a day tomorrow, thank you for your understanding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)