marquis of jingan

Chapter 51

With the development of the matter here, the small-scale "struggle" that took place in Jiangdu City has come to an end.

Since Zhifu Chen is willing to give that part of the money to the household department, even if this matter spreads to the capital, no one can say anything about him.

But this time, Chen Fuzun fell a bit.

Because it is not enough to spit out what you eat to make up for the household department.

This time, he, Chen Yu, took money from the Ministry of Households. Originally, Mr. Zhao Yu, Mr. Zhao, and Mr. Yang in the capital had his share. He himself, the magistrate Chen, was not going to take a penny.

Since it is money for relationship, even if the money has to be paid back now, it has already been given to Mr. Zhao and Mr. Yang, so it is impossible to get back a penny.

He can't ask for money back, but also has to make up money to the household department. The shortfall can only be filled by Chen Fuzun himself.

This is what Shen Yi called "breaking money".

Moreover, the extent of Chen Zhifu's bankruptcy is much more serious than Shen Yi's guess, and the deficit is also bigger than Shen Yi's imagination.

Because Chen Yu didn't take money from it.

He didn't take the money, so he had to pay for the deficit by himself. This time, the household department allocated 5 taels of silver. Even if it was calculated as half of it, Chen Fuzun had to fill in at least 3 taels of silver to make up for it. This deficit.

Two to thirty thousand taels is an extremely huge number!Even for a wealthy businessman like Ma Yuanwai, it would be a bit painful to spend so much cash in one go, let alone an official like Chen Yu whose salary is only a few hundred taels a year?
Even if Chen Fuzun has been an official for so many years, it may be difficult to come up with so much money all at once. This time, even if he doesn't go to the point of asking someone to borrow money, he will clean up his family.

What's more terrible is that the money Chen Yu has to spend is not just to fill in the shortfall.

Mr. Zhao from the household department returned to the capital a few days in advance, went to the household department to help Chen Yu in activities, and helped Chen Yu to settle the matter at the household department, so that the household department would not investigate this matter in detail and step on it. Steadily collect money into the treasury.

This is not an easy task either.

After all, Chen Yu wanted to get the money at first, so he didn't talk to the Ministry of Households about buying grain at real prices. So as to find out the truth of this matter.

Only when Mr. Zhao returned to Beijing to do things for him in the Chen family, this matter could be done successfully.

After this incident is over, Chen Yu will go to the capital again to settle the bill for Mr. Zhao's "peaceful affairs" for him.

This bill cannot be written off by two pipa girls by the Yudai Lake.

That is to say, afterward, Chen Fuzun had to pay for it again.

However, for young and strong officials like Chen Yu, the future is boundless and I dare not say that the money is boundless, so no matter how much money is spent, it can be earned back in the future, so it doesn't matter if you spend some money .

What worries Chen Fuzun is whether Yang Xiangguo, who is in charge of the country in the capital, will be dissatisfied or unhappy with him as a student after this incident spreads to the capital.

If the old man becomes unhappy, the future of Chen Fuzun... will be bleak.

But no matter what, Chen Fuzun will lose some money at most this time, and the disaster will be eliminated, but the Ma Yuanwai family who are against Chen Fuzun will not pass the test so easily.

Jiangdu grain merchants, in the name of the imperial court purchasing grain, colluded and maliciously increased the price of grain. After the Jiangdu government intervened, they even went on strike and closed the market together with the local grain merchants, threatening the government and even alarming the imperial court!

Each of these charges is serious or light, and the court really cares about each of them to the point of ransacking the house!
Not only Ma Yuanwai and others, but also the censor who forced Chen Yu to be impeached in the court behind his back, will also be affected by this "false accusation"!
The horseman's face was extremely ugly.

With frost on his face, Chen Zhifu looked at Yuanwai Ma faintly, and said: "Master Ma, if you have anything to say in front of the imperial envoy, you might as well say it all at once. Would you like to tell the two imperial envoys, my officer?" Since I came to Jiangdu for more than a year, how many times have I accepted bribes from you?"

The officials in Jiangdu have more or less taken money from these grain merchants, including Feng Lu, the magistrate of Jiangdu County, who have taken advantage of the Ma family. Otherwise, the magistrate of Jiangdu County would not have let it go so easily Ma Jun, son of Ma Yuanwai.

If the Ma family hadn't been diligent and filial on weekdays and wanted to let Ma Jun out, the Ma family would have spent a lot of money in it.

But Chen Yu did not receive any money from these grain merchants.

At least no cash was received.

One reason is that he has just been in Jiangdu Mansion for more than a year, and he is more cautious in doing things. Second, the relationship behind these grain merchants is complicated. Chen Fuzun, who wants to go on stage to pay homage to the Prime Minister, does not want to have too much involvement with them.

But even if Chen Yu really took money from Ma Yuanwai, Ma Yuanwai would not dare to say it in front of the two imperial envoys. This is the most taboo thing in the officialdom. Maybe there is still a chance to get ahead, if he bites Chen Yu at this time, then no one in the entire imperial court will dare to accept money from their Ma family.

That's the end of the game.

Ma Yuanwai's expression was ugly, he first looked up at the prefect Chen, then at the two imperial envoys, then lowered his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead, gritted his teeth and knelt down in front of Chen Yu, bowed his head and said, "The government My lord, I don’t know the truth of the matter, I don’t know you are upright, I misunderstood you, I misunderstood the magistrate’s yamen, please give me a chance..."

The horseman's face was pale, and he bowed his head and said: "After I go back, I will immediately stabilize the grain price. In three days at most, the grain price in Jiangdu will definitely return to the previous level..."

The horseman knelt down, and naturally several other grain merchants also knelt down. They knelt behind the horseman, begging Chen Fuzun.

Chen Yu raised his head slightly, and glanced at the grain merchants kneeling in front of him, with disdain in his eyes.

"Five days ago, my official and County Magistrate Feng talked to you many times, asking you to stabilize food prices so that the people in Jiangdu would not have a hard time. Did you hear that?"

"You keep saying that you are from Jiangdu, and that's how you treat Jiangdu's elders?"

Speaking of this, Chen Fuzun was expressionless: "Originally, this matter is a scandal in my Jiangdu Prefecture, and I don't want to make this matter a big deal. Let's close the door and deal with it ourselves, and it will be fine, but ..."

He glanced at these grain merchants coldly, and said coldly: "But who brought this matter to the capital and to the court?"

Ma Yuanwai and the others all lowered their heads, not daring to speak.

"I'm afraid it won't be the official?"

Chen Fuzun closed his eyes, and said slowly: "Since the imperial court has been alarmed and the imperial court has sent imperial envoys to investigate, then this matter is beyond my government's control, and you don't have to kneel to me besides the horsemen."

Chen Fuzun turned his head to look at Master Lu and the others, bowed his hands to Master Lu and the others, and then looked at several grain merchants waiting for Ma Yuanwai with his hands behind his back.

"You and I, just wait for the court to deal with it!"

After saying this, Chen Fuzun left in a huff.

Master Lu watched Chen Yu leave silently, then turned his head to look at Shen Yi, and sighed slightly: "You see, this is the officialdom, intrigues and murders at every step."

Compared to Master Lu's emotion, Shen Qilang watched with relish. After hearing Lu Anshi's words, Shen Yi smiled slightly.

"It's indeed murderous every step of the way, but it's also very exciting..."

　I'm going out this weekend, it's even later, sorry!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)