The rise of the prince

Chapter 444 Is Your Money
"Not only that, but also the Xiong Village, plus the villages in the north of the mountain, the Xixia Kingdom will also provide us with strong crossbows and hard bows."

"What about the benefits?"

"Everyone will share the food in Weizhou. If the robbing is successful, Xixia will give back a million dollars, and we will share it too." Yumian Fox said.

Before the black leopard could speak, the old black head next to him whispered: "Boss, if this is done, it will probably be enough to feed us for two years, but the big soldiers in Daizhou, Ninghua, and Baode in the north will go hungry with Liao Someone hit."

The black leopard didn't speak, but touched his chin and thought quietly, "What if we don't go?"

"It's all said and done, the black-headed leader doesn't know what to do?" Jade-faced fox's voice cooled down.

"I'm just asking." The black leopard knew in his heart that if he didn't agree, they wouldn't be able to walk down the mountain today, and the village on the north side of the mountain, even Xiongzhai, had listened to the jade-faced fox. Nothing good will come of it.

"When will it be done?"

"The twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, I asked someone to see it. It is a good day. By then, there will be at least 800 people in your village."

"Five hundred, at most five hundred." Black Leopard stretched out a palm, "Pull down more."

There was no words in the sedan chair for a long time, and everyone nervously held the knives in their arms. The desolate mountain top fell silent until a "OK" came from the sedan chair to break the silence, and the dignified atmosphere dissipated.

"Before the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, you bring 500 people to join us in the Dew Valley south of Tengwei."

Hei Baozi didn't directly answer her words, "If Weizhou is robbed, we don't need money, and if it is converted into cash food, it will be as much as it should be. If there is a little less, we will wait and see."

The cold wind was blowing, and the snow on the top of the mountain began to melt. The jade-faced fox didn't speak, but the black leopard greeted him and took the man away.

When they got down to the mountainside, the black leopard urged everyone to leave quickly.

"Boss, do we really want to be dogs for Xixia people?" Old Heitou said as he walked.

The black leopard turned around, "Labor and capital don't care about Jingguo Xixia, everyone's life is a big deal, whoever you do with is a business, and whoever cares about it after you finish it."

"That's why the boss wants food but not money!"

"This is no nonsense. If you want money, it depends on the person's face. When the time comes, we will take what we deserve and leave. No matter what kind of dog Pi Xixia, the jade-faced fox, the general is still complacent and wants to please the Xixia court. , if she is caught by the Yang family army, will the Xixia people dare to speak for her when they see it!"

At the beginning of November, under the secret letter of Li Xinzhou, Qi Fang, who had just finished business in the south and was about to go north to the palace, brought a large amount of silver and gold into the warehouse, and her big ship "Qi Fang" went directly north and stopped at Jiangzhou Ferry overnight.

When Qifang got off the boat, he saw Li Xingzhou and the young girl He Qian who was still full of vigor in the winter, and immediately made fun of him: "I said why the prince is reluctant to go back to the palace, so it turns out that there is such a little beauty outside to accompany him. "

He Qian blushed all of a sudden, Li Xingzhou shook his head, and didn't care about it, Qi Fang had this kind of personality, so it would be useful for him to find Qi Fang.

Zhang Gui confessed truthfully that all the officials involved were "invited" by Li Xingzhou to the Zhuanyuan ambassador's mansion. After he asked Wang Ke to read out Zhang Gui's confession, many people's faces changed at that time, but a few people who reacted quickly at the same time He insisted that Zhang Gui was framing them, and told him not to listen to the slander, not just listen to the family's words, and demanded to confront Zhang Gui on the spot.

How can Li Xingzhou not know what they are thinking, these people are numerous and influential, and some of them are of high authority, such as the leader of the same acquaintance Wang Kai, Zhang Gui dare not say it, even if he said it, he can say it There are so many of them?

At that time, the matter of false accusation will be implemented, and Li Xingzhou will not give them a chance to confront Zhang Gui.

"My lord, everything needs to be based on evidence. Zhang Gui is a servant, a small prison boss, and he just spouts a few nonsense. How can the lord trust me? Please think twice, lord." Wang Kai cupped his hands.

Li Xingzhou laughed: "That's right, Zhang Gui is just a villain and servant, so talking is nothing, but not only Zhang Gui, but also someone who wants to sue you."

As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes widened, and as they spoke, under his signal, the yamen servant brought up several bags of rice that had been cut open.

Li Xingzhou said: "These bags of rice were given to me by Mr. Wang Kai."

Wang Kai was puzzled, and recalled that he had hidden silver ingots in the rice back then, and several bags of rice added up to at least 500 taels.
"This..." he was still hesitating, Li Xingzhou directly took a gift list from the desk: "This king remembers this clearly."

"That's right, it's a gift from the lower official!" Wang Kai didn't take it seriously, giving gifts to the upper official, and moving around in favor, was originally reasonable, and the court would not object.

"That's good." Li Xingzhou nodded.

"You have intentions. Originally, this king thought you were just sending some rice noodles, but I didn't expect that the gift was actually silver."

"My lord is very polite, I'm just showing my heart." Wang Kai smiled with his hands clasped, thinking that the matter was over.

In fact, in ancient times, giving some money to a Shangguan was not considered a bribe at all, it was called a favor, as long as the amount was not very unreasonable, there was nothing wrong with it. The Tang and Song Dynasties were fine, officials were treated well, even if they were not greedy, they could live well very good.

In the Qing Dynasty, the salaries of officials were very low, and some officials even had no salary at all.To put it bluntly, the imperial court tells you to find a way by yourself, go to the relationship by yourself, use the official to make money by yourself, and the imperial court acquiesces.

So in the Qing Dynasty, the annual salary of a magistrate was about 100 taels, but it was the real "three-year Qing magistrate, [-] snowflake silver", even the Qing magistrate was like this, let alone those who were unclear?

Li Xingzhou wants to punish these people, but Zhang Gui is unreliable. They will say that Zhang Gui is just a family story and slander them.

It is not acceptable to convict the officials by bribing them, because this is a matter of favor, and everyone acquiesces, but he must give these people a crime to get rid of it, otherwise there will be accidents in Jiangzhou in the future.

He clapped his hands: "Come here, present the physical evidence."

After a while, two yamen servants brought a small pile of gold bars and put them next to the rice bag.

"At first, I thought it was nothing, but later I found these in Mr. Tongzhi's rice bag. It must be tens of thousands of taels of silver." Li Xingzhou slowly pointed to a pile of gold bars and asked: "My lord, This is very strange, you are a magistrate in the same house, and your annual salary is only more than 150 taels, how can you get so much money?"

Wang Kai was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head: "My lord, this is not money from a subordinate official."

"No, no, no, this is yours. You admit that you gave the rice. This king also remembers it clearly here. When the gold bar is taken out of the rice bag, it is naturally yours."

"My lord!" Wang Kai was a little panicked, and quickly defended: "Your official only stuffed 500 taels in it! It's still silver ingots, not gold bars!"

"Everyone heard it, Mr. Wang himself admitted that the money was stuffed, and since it was stuffed, and the king took it out, it would be stolen and stolen." Li Xingzhou slapped the table and said angrily: "Well, Ning The magistrate of the Jiang family! The annual salary is only more than one hundred taels, but the gifts are easily tens of thousands of taels! Is it not corruption and perverting the law to get so much money? This is not the people’s fat and people’s anointing! Judge Wang, you think it makes sense."

"It makes sense, it makes sense." Wang Ke nodded towards the ceiling.

"My lord, that's not the money of the lower officials! No!" Wang Kai knelt on the ground and cried loudly in fright.

(End of this chapter)