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Chapter 624 Don't Be Afraid Brother-in-Law, My Uncle Is Here
The legal salary for a second-rank governor is 155 taels a year, about 10,000 taels for Yanglian silver, plus other various gray incomes. As a guarantee, Xu Ji’s annual income as a governor is about 80,000 to [-] taels in silver.

This is only legal income recognized by the law, excluding corruption and bribery.

Converted by purchasing power, the legal income of the governor is about 60 million a year.

If this is the case, Xu Ji can be regarded as an upright official.

The governor of Shandong Province next door, Guotai, together with the chief envoy Yu Yijian, ran out of the vassal treasury by as much as 2 million taels only during Wang Lun's uprising.

It was the top leader in Shandong who teamed up with the second leader and stuffed the national treasury with nearly 3 billion.

At the same time, in the name of the governor's office, they wantonly borrowed money from merchants to fill their warehouses, extorting state and county officials, and the amount was tens of thousands at every turn.

Why did Yijiang's fellow Daoist Monk Wang become a local official in Shandong? It wasn't Cathay who sold favors to Yijiang, who presides over the Ministry of Household Affairs' Shandong Cleaning Department.

But there are no impervious walls in the world.

Last year, just after the end of the Linqing Rebellion, there was a letter of impeachment from the imperial court to impeach Guotai and Yu Yijian, saying that the two were corrupt and broke the law and embezzled the vassal money.

Qianlong, who had not been exposed as a paper tiger at that time, must have taken this matter seriously, so he ordered a question.

Cathay Pacific replied that due to the Wang Lun Rebellion, the public funds of the states and counties were all used for military affairs, so they were in shortfall.

And submitted a lot of expenses to the court, including the supply of the army to quell the chaos and the aftermath of the aftermath.

Anyway, the sum of the pen is very clear, more than two million taels were indeed spent.

Wang Jie, the censor of the right capital, wrote that it took only a few months for Wang Lun's rebellion to subside. Even if the military expenditure was urgent and the money and food were extremely expensive, he would never spend 2 million taels.Even if it really used 2 million, Shandong would act as a bookmaker and report the truth to the imperial court. Why was it indifferent, indifferent, and waited until the emperor issued an order to ask questions before repaying the account.

Wang Zhuangyuan intends to take advantage of this incident to remediate Cathay Pacific. After all, the civil unrest in Shandong is inseparable from Cathay Pacific's misconduct in Shandong.

Qianlong also intends to send the censor to Shandong to investigate and deal with it, but Cathay is not finished, and he, the emperor, fell first.

When Lao Fu presided over the Military Aircraft Division, someone from the Metropolitan Procuratorate tried to pursue Cathay Pacific, but was suppressed by Lao Fu.

If Shandong's accounts were to be investigated, it would definitely involve the six sons of Shandong's military affairs prime minister at the time, including Yi Jiang'a, the precious son of Shangshu Yonggui.

Moreover, he, the new Chief Minister of Military Aircraft, also needs the support of the local governor, even nominal obedience is what he urgently needs.

Besides, it would be unseemly to treat Yu Minzhong as his brother just after he brought Yu Minzhong back to his hometown.

The key point is that Cathay Pacific and Yu Yijian are both members of the Mutual Aid Association. He, Fu, can't just turn his face and deny members just because he is the foreman military minister.

Shaanxi Governor Le Erjin and Governor Bi Yuan also privately wrote to Lao Fu, hoping that he would not pursue Cathay and Yu Yijian.

Wang Danwang, the founder of the Mutual Aid Association and Gansu's political envoy, even sent his cronies to Beijing to mediate the matter, and said that in the Northwest, only Fu Zhongtang followed suit.

The local officials in the northwest unanimously agreed that Fu Zhongtang led the Qing Dynasty, which undoubtedly consolidated Lao Fu's leadership and strengthened his strength.

Under such circumstances, it is of course impossible for the old rich to fight in the same room, and he has to use Cathay Pacific and Yu Yijian.

In order to give back to Wang Danwang, Lao Fuyi promoted him to be the governor of Zhejiang next year, so that the Mutual Aid Association will open up the situation in the southeast.

The current governor of Zhejiang, Sanbao, is also a mutual aid member, and Lao Fu plans to transfer him to be the governor of Huguang.

So far, the governor-level members of the Mutual Aid Association include Le Erjin, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Li Shiyao, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Yade, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Jia Jiashikai, governor of Zhili.

It is a great shame for the Mutual Aid Association that former member Huguang Governor Chen Huizu defected to the enemy.

There are nine governors at the first level, including Shandong governor Guotai, Anhui governor Min Eyuan, Jiangxi governor Hao Shuo, and Shaanxi governor Bi Yuan. If Wang Danwang is transferred to Zhejiang governor, then there will be ten.

There are nine people who are in charge of the administration, Chen Huai, the governor of Hubei, Yu Yijian, the governor of Shandong, Wulana, the governor of Fujian, and Yang Jingsu, the governor of Zhili.

There were 24 governors, governors, and chief ministers, accounting for one-third of the provincial senior officials in the Qing Dynasty.

If you count the ministers and ministers in Beijing, including the nine-door admiral Ma Erqin, the Guizhou admiral Wang Jintai, and others, the number of members reaches more than forty.

This is also the reason why the old rich dared to force the palace that day and dared to preside over the government afterwards.

Even if Lao Fu was beaten to death, he didn’t know that his six sons and virtuous brothers jumped out of the Three Realms and created a co-promotion association. Currently, there are two senior officials at the governor’s level in the association. They are Jia Liu himself, and Jia Liu’s father-in-law, the governor of Sichuan. Bo balance.

The governor is Li Shijie, the chairman and governor of Sichuan.

There are two ministers, Kui Ni from the Ministry of Rites, and A Siha from the Ministry of Officials.

There are several other generals and lieutenants.

The other is the double-faced member Yang Jingsu, who, like Jia Liu, is both a joint member and a mutual aid member.

The number of high-ranking officials on the card is not as high as that of mutual aid associations, its territory is not as good as that of mutual aid associations, and even the troops that can be mobilized are not as good as those of mutual aid associations.

The problem is that the cohesion of the Gongjin Association far exceeds that of the Mutual Aid Association, and the control over the localities and the military is even worse than that of the Mutual Aid Association.

Under the leadership of Jia Liu, the lifelong honorary president, the Gongjinhui has brought its collaboration with the enemy and the country to its limit.

Right now, they are planning to solve the Dingxi General Feng's promotion, and they are preparing for another disastrous defeat of the Qing army since the defeat of Wen Fu.

The purpose of the Mutual Aid Association, "Officials and officials protect each other", is essentially behind the "common progress" of the Gongjin Association, and the Gongjin Association also put forward the concept of protecting property with guns for the first time, and firmly put this idea into action, and the actual control is not low. An army of [-].

That is to say, Jia Liu can set off a big uprising at any time and get the support of all members of the Gongjin Association.

Do the governors, governors, and chief ministers of the mutual aid association dare?

Moral support from many, scant support.

Jia Liu played it clearly.

This is also the reason why Xu Ji was given a huge sum of 300,000 taels a year.

He needs Xu Ji to cooperate wholeheartedly and unconditionally in the large-scale development project he is engaged in in Tianjin.

Faced with the lure of 300,000 taels of dividends per year and the high amount of money he would receive after retirement, the 52-year-old governor of Tianjin suffered a heart attack on the spot. If Jia Liu hadn't given him artificial respiration himself, Mr. Xu would have been honored.

Jia Liu couldn't help but reflect on whether he gave too much?
After waking up, Xu Futai pulled the governor of his son's generation, tears welling up in his eyes, a thousand words and only one sentence - big brother, let's do it!If you don't want to do it, I will do it for you!
Jia Liu, who received a satisfactory answer, happily went to Yongping for a wedding banquet. The road was also light and easy, and he had to put out the guard of honor wherever he went.

So, a few days later, Jia Liu came to Yongping Mansion and ordered the brigade to stay in Yongping Mansion, otherwise it would be easy to scare the man with so many people there.

Jia Liu came to congratulate Xi and drink the wedding wine sincerely, not to put on a show to scare his brother-in-law.

He directly led Shuanzhu, Baozhu and dozens of people to Linyu for a wedding banquet, and then the team met at Shanhaiguan.

When the younger sister gets married, the elder brother can't be shabby.

Jia Liu prepared a batch of gold and silver jewellery, all of which were trophies presented to him by the guards and soldiers from Prince Xian's mansion that day.

There are many good things worn by Prince Fujin.

In addition, 5000 taels of cash were withdrawn in Tianjin.

It's not ugly for a younger sister to marry 5000 taels.

After arriving in Linyu, through the address in the letter, Jia Liu and his party came to a place called Shenhebao where the second uncle Jia Dazhong lived.

This place was originally a guard post in the Ming Dynasty, and it was surrounded by fertile fields. After the Eight Banners entered the customs, all the Jingdong area was enclosed by the Eight Banners.

Jia Dazhong was a Han Chinese when he came out of the banner, so he couldn't buy the banner fields, so he could only rent other people's land.

It was noon when everyone arrived, and the sun was scorching hard. The people in the fort were resting at home, and few people were outside.

Fortunately, there were a few children swimming in the pond, and Shuan Zhu asked where the second uncle's house was after he offered a lump of candy.

Looking from a distance, it is a small courtyard where ordinary people live. There are three brick houses with two kitchens inside, and two thatched roofs where grain and sundries are piled up.

Jia Liu couldn't help feeling guilty, he took good care of his subordinates, but he didn't seem to take enough care of his family.

After all, Dazhong is his own uncle.

How can one forget the ancestral motto of chicken and dog ascending to heaven when one person attains the Tao?

While thinking about how to arrange an errand for uncle, he had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard.

But there is no posting of big red happy characters and hanging red lanterns.

It's a bit of an anomaly.

Because even if you are marrying a daughter, your parents' home must be decorated for festive occasions.

Could it be a wedding held in the county?

Jia Liu asked Shuan Zhu to call the door, but no one answered the calls a few times. He couldn't help being even more surprised. Bao Zhu climbed over the wall to have a look, and said that there was no one in the yard.

"What's the date today?"

"Master, NO.11 today."

Jia Liu thought he was early, but the day was right.

The eldest sister got married on the twelfth, so it must be no problem for his elder brother to come to drink the wedding wine on the eleventh.

Baozhu said that the courtyard didn't look like a wedding event, which made Jia Liu even more puzzled by Monk Zhang Er. Even if the second uncle's family held a wedding banquet in the city, there is no reason why there should be no movement at home.

When everyone was wondering, someone came out of the neighbor's house carrying a hoe. Seeing a group of people gathered in front of Jia Dazhong's house, he was startled for a moment, and then asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"My fellow, we are from Beijing. Jia Dazhong is my uncle. We are here for a wedding."

Jia Liu's kindness to the people was from the bottom of his heart, and the smile on his face was extremely sincere.

"Wedding wine? Are you Dazhong's nephew?"

After hearing this, the neighbor put down his hoe and guard, but shook his head and said, "We can't drink the wedding wine, something happened to Dazhong's family."

When he heard that something happened to his uncle, Jia Liuyi immediately asked the neighbor what happened.

"His son-in-law committed a crime and was arrested by the government. Da Zhong said a few words to the people in the government, but he was also arrested."

Shuan Zhu became anxious: "My fellow man, do you know what happened to Mr. Jia's son-in-law?"

"Who knows, it is said that he wrote an anti-poetry and asked someone to sue him, and the soldiers from Guanli came to arrest him."

The neighbors don't know much about it. After all, Dazhong's son-in-law's family bought a house in the county. They neighbors only know the general idea, and they really don't know why.

"Anti-poetry?"

Jia Liu looked at Shuanzhu, and Shuanzhu looked at the young master.

"Master, this is your strong point."

"Uh-huh?"

Jia Liu gave Shuanzhu an angry look, "What are you still doing in a daze, and you're not going to let others go."

(End of this chapter)