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Chapter 438 No Evidence Required

Thinking of this, when Cui Ying and others looked at the gold in front of them, their hearts became more and more excited.

And Lu Yu on the side also saw the expressions of Cui Ying and others, and a trace of disdain flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Although these people can be regarded as high-ranking court officials, when facing these yellow and white things, they are still no different from ordinary people.

And the master behind him just took out some gold and silver, which is enough for these officials to use, so there is nothing in this world that money can't do, if it can't be done, then it is money The quantity is not enough.

With a chuckle, Lu Yu looked at Cui Ying and the others and said, "Everyone, the gold belongs to your lords now. Are you satisfied with it?"

When they came back to their senses, Cui Ying and the others couldn't help looking at each other, and then Cui Ying couldn't help smiling and said to Lu Yu: "Lu Yuanwai is really polite, we are naturally very satisfied. Everyone said Right!"

Several other officials also echoed it, but these people's attention was actually on the gold in front of them. It can only be said that the gold is too attractive.

And Lu Yu was not surprised when he saw the reaction of several people, but said with a smile on his face: "You don't have to worry, when you return to your home, Lu will send someone to deliver the gold to you adults. Go up and keep nothing missing."

Said that Lu Yu got up and said to several people: "Everyone, come with Lu."

Seeing Lu Yu walking towards a hall in the distance, although Cui Ying and the others said that they were quite reluctant to part with the gold in front of them, they tried their best to look away and followed Lu Yu.

Walking into the hall, Cui Ying and the others couldn't help showing a bit of curiosity. They really didn't understand why Lu Yu brought them here at this moment.

There was nothing in the hall, it was empty, but looking at Lu Yu's posture, it was clear that something was going on.

But now under the watchful eyes of several people, the smile on Lu Yu's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a solemn look.

Gradually, Cui Ying and others felt a pressure from Lu Yu.

Taking a deep breath, Cui Ying looked at Lu Yu and said slowly, "I don't know how many of us are invited by Lu Yuanwai, but what's the matter?"

Cui Ying was naturally quite uncomfortable that he was affected by the atmosphere created by Lu Yu. He was also a dignified court official, even if he was above the court, he could be regarded as an official with certain real power. up.

Being influenced by Lu Yu at this time, when he looked at Lu Yu again, his complexion was naturally a little ugly.

But Lu Yu didn't seem to see the change in Lu Yu's expression, but glanced at the crowd and said: "Everyone, what happened today, Lu hopes that everyone can keep this matter in their hearts forever, no matter what the future holds, Lu does not want to hear from other people that this matter has nothing to do with Lu."

Hearing what Lu Yu said, Cui Ying and the others immediately realized that Lu Yu wanted to remind them of this matter.

Cui Ying glanced at Lu Yu lightly, and said with a smile, "Don't worry about Lu Yuanwai, we've done everything right, even if something really happened, we still have a lot of ways to deal with it, even in the face of those gold coins." Above, the big guys will not implicate Lu Yuan."

Hearing what Cui Ying said, a smile finally appeared on Lu Yu's face and said: "So Lu can rest assured."

While speaking, Lu Yu clapped his hands.

The crackling sound spread, Cui Ying and the others looked at Lu Yu with some doubts, and Lu Yu had a somewhat mysterious smile on his face.

But soon there was the sound of footsteps, and just by hearing the footsteps, one could tell that there were quite a few people coming.

At the same time when Cui Ying and the others were puzzled, they heard the sound of Yingyanyan, followed by a faint scent of powder, and saw several slim women in colorful brocade clothes walking in. into the hall.

These women's looks are naturally extraordinary, although they are not stunning, they can all be called beauties, and the appearance of several of them together naturally adds a bit of temptation.

So when these women appeared, they immediately attracted the attention of Cui Ying and the others.

Some officials couldn't help swallowing, looked at Lu Yu and said, "Besides Lu officials, this is..."

Lu Yu smiled slightly and said, "This is specially arranged by Mr. Lu for your lords, you just have to enjoy it to your heart's content."

Cui Ying and the others looked at Lu Yu when they heard the words, and then looked at the stunning beauties in front of them. Their eyes lit up immediately. Cui Ying even nodded slightly to Lu Yu and said, "Yuanwai Lu really has a heart!"

Great meeting

This day is the Grand Court Meeting again, all officials gather

Because the emperor has not yet arrived, it is said that on the square, many officials are gathering in small groups and talking in low voices.

At this time, Li Huan was together with Wang Yangming and Zhang Lun.

During this period, under the auspices of Li Huan and Wang Yangming, the tax reform is being carried out step by step. If we say that at the beginning, many of the officials only verbally expressed their opposition to the tax reform , so now that Li Huan actually started to implement tax reform with the support of the emperor, this made many officials' opposition to Li Huan not just stay in words.

At this time, many officials looked at Li Huan with a hint of hatred in their eyes, giving people the impression that Li Huan had dug their ancestral graves.

Similarly, some officials looked at Li Huan with a bit of sarcasm, as if they wanted to see Li Huan's joke.

Naturally, it was impossible for Li Huan not to notice these strange gazes, but Li Huan didn't take them to heart at all.

He is well aware of how much the tax reform he wants to carry out will have an impact on these officials. Although many people have a bad attitude towards him, this is only the first step of the tax reform, which is to touch their hearts a little bit. Benefits only.

Li Huan dared to say that if in the future, he continued to promote the government and gentry to pay the grain together on the basis of sharing the land with the mu, and the fire consumption should be returned to the public, Li Huan dared to say that some of the officials present would dare to rush to trouble him.

At this time, Wang Yangming obviously had a somewhat sad expression on his face. He looked at the empty emperor's dragon chair, then looked at Li Huan and couldn't help but whispered to Li Huan: "Is the champion really going to kill you later?"

Wang Yangming, who presided over the investigation of Tianmu and Dingkou, naturally, like Li Huan and Zhu Houzhao, immediately obtained the data on Tianmu and Dingkou from the statistics of the Ministry of Households.

Both Li Huan and Zhu Houzhao could see that the data was wrong at a glance, let alone Wang Yangming, who had been sitting in the cabinet for a while.

Even though Wang Yangming didn't have a specific figure on how many acres of fields and Dingkou he owned in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, but with the large and small government affairs that he handles from the cabinet on weekdays that are related to people's livelihood, there are many A rough figure can be deduced.

After all, Dingkou and the number of acres are not directly related to people's livelihood, but they are indirectly related. If nothing else is mentioned, the consumption of salt is completely related to Dingkou.

With a large population, there will inevitably be a large consumption of salt. This is the eternal truth.

Not long ago, Li Huan visited him in person, and directly told Wang Yangming that the statistics from the household department were incorrect. The two of them still had some confidence in the officials and Jin Yiwei they selected to supervise the localities. Buying, it is impossible to be bought in large quantities.

In this way, there shouldn't be too much difference in the local statistical data. Even if there is a phenomenon of concealment, it must not be that big.

In this case, the only doubtful thing is that the officials of the household department responsible for counting the data reported by hundreds of state capitals in these places have tampered with it.

It's just that the two looked through the account books of dozens of large boxes brought back by Jin Yiwei from the household department. From the dense data, they really couldn't find out which places were tampered with.

Although it is said that Li Huan has ordered the Jinyiwei to mobilize capable personnel to check those account books, but there are too many account books in dozens of large boxes, and the capable personnel who are proficient in spells are quite limited even among the Jinyiwei, so It is definitely not something that can be done in three or two days if you really want to find out the problem from these account books.

If it is an ordinary person, it is naturally not easy to provoke and point the target at certain people without evidence. If it is not good, it will be bitten back.

But this is not a problem for Li Huan.

Since it is certain that the officials of the Ministry of Households did something wrong, even if Li Huan wronged these people, it is really a problem in other links, but Li Huan does not believe those officials of the Ministry of Households, so he cannot see the statistics. what's wrong.

In this case, none of these officials came forward to play it to the emperor, so don't blame Li Huan for being rude.

After hearing Wang Yangming's words, Li Huan glanced sideways at Wang Yangming slightly and said, "Not to mention how long it will take to find out those account books, and how much time will be delayed during this period, anyway, Li can be sure that these people have tampered with it, so why? You can’t take these people down directly.”

Li Huan said with a light smile: "Li can't solve the troubles, can it be said that he can't solve the people who caused troubles for Li? Besides, as long as these people go to the imperial prison, what problems will come out? Yet?"

Hearing that Li Huan's understatement had determined the fate of many officials, Wang Yangming couldn't help but smile wryly.

Although Li Huan's method is really simple and rude, there is one thing Wang Yangming has to admit, that is, Li Huan's method is the most direct and effective in this situation.

As long as the officials of the household department go to the prison, they don't need him and Li Huan to send people to check the accounts. The people who keep them will honestly explain all the tricks in it.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Yangming finally chose to agree to the suggestion that Li Huan had discussed with him not long ago to launch a direct attack at today's Great Court Meeting, and take down all the officials in charge of field mu and Dingkou statistics in the Ministry of Households.

Among the hundreds of officials, Cui Ying, who is a doctor in the household department, is a high-ranking official even if he is placed among the hundred officials. At this moment, there are several officials gathered around him, who can be seen from the household department.

Cui Ying's face was flushed, and she looked as if she was in high spirits on happy occasions, full of energy.

"Brother Cui, what a great thing happened!"

Seeing Cui Ying's flushed face, a colleague from the Ministry of Rites smiled lightly and said to Cui Ying.

Cui Ying is indeed in a good mood these past few days, not to mention the full 1 taels of gold that he has been given in Lu Yu's mansion these two days. In addition to beauty and gentleness, Cui Ying still can't help but feel agitated when recalling the experience of the past two days.

With a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, Cui Ying shook her head towards the official and said, "Your Excellency Hu was joking, Cui just finished his work in the yamen, and he felt a lot more relaxed."

Hu Lianwen raised his brows and looked at Cui Ying and said in a low voice: "I heard that Mr. Cui and his subordinates have been busy collecting and counting the data on local farmland and Dingkou submitted by various governments these days. Could it be that there are already Is it going to work?" "

Cui Ying smiled and said: "Fortunately, I did not disgrace the mission, and finally got results a few days ago."

Hu Lian looked stunned and said: "So that's the case. No wonder Master Cui has a red face. Presumably, with this achievement, both the champion and His Majesty will reward Master Cui for his merits later."

Cui Ying looked righteous and said: "Cui is just doing his duty faithfully. This is our company's duty. How can we give credit for it? I just hope that the champion and His Majesty will not blame us for negligence."

Hu Lian couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words: "Master Cui, why did you say that? It is not an easy job to count so many local data in the two capitals and thirteen provinces and hundreds of state capitals. Even if there is no credit, there is hard work. How can there be any accusation?"

Cui Ying sighed softly, glanced at some officials attracted by his conversation with Hu Lian, and said, "You all know that Champion Hou is really urgent about this matter, and my household department has already pulled out as much as possible. Enough manpower to participate in the statistics, busy for many days in a row, many people have not left the office for several days, devoted themselves to this matter, finally lived up to expectations, and integrated all the data. I can’t guarantee that there are any mistakes or omissions.”

While speaking, Cui Ying glanced at several people and said pointedly: "It's a blessing if there are no mistakes or omissions, but if there are any mistakes or omissions, it will ruin the important event of the champion and delay the court's tax reform. Wouldn't it be impossible to escape the blame of death!"

[Well, those who have a monthly pass will be smashed. 】

(End of this chapter)