Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 110
"Jiong'er, sit down!" Chongzhen shouted.

Only then did Zhu Cijiong sit back on the chair angrily.

Chongzhen asked Fu Shan again: "Are the accounts complete?"

Fu Shandao: "Because Yi Ding acted quickly, and the Yangzhou Garrison Eunuch Office and hundreds of minions were unprepared, there was no time to burn the account books, so the accounts are very complete."

"It's just that due to the rush of time, there was no time to check it carefully."

"But the large number is correct, the total is around [-] million!"

"Okay, I already know, you guys have worked hard." Chongzhen nodded happily, and said, "Now we can hand over the account books to the Yangzhou government office."

"Yes." Fu Shan bowed a few times and retreated.

Chongzhen said to Ma Mingpao again: "Prefect Ma, I will leave the rest of the matter to you."

"This?" Ma Mingpao stood up with a perplexed expression on his face, some things were not easy to say in public.

"Why? Are you being cowardly again?" Chongzhen said sarcastically, "Just now you dared to insult me ​​as a foolish king in public, but you didn't dare to just let you investigate a case?"

"Why don't you dare?"

Ma Mingpao no longer had any scruples, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that this case involves the inner court, so I ask the emperor to give me a charter. How far should this case be investigated?"

After finishing speaking, Ma Mingpao glanced at Han Zanzhou.

Han Zan and Zhou Hun are almost scared out, Ma Mingpao, what do you think our family is doing?
"Ask to the extent of the investigation?" Chongzhen said, "Of course it is a thorough investigation!"

"In this way, the minister will count." Ma Minglu smiled, since the Holy One said to investigate to the end, then he really did. He has such a straightforward character.

Just don't regret it when the time comes.

Ma Mingpao turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait." Chongzhen suddenly beckoned Ma Mingpao to stop again.

Ma Mingpao turned around and asked, "Your Majesty, are you going to go back on your word?"

"What do I regret?" Chongzhen snorted, "I just want to tell you that the stolen money and goods confiscated from this case are all people's fat and people's anointing from Yangzhou merchants!"

Ma Mingpao was stunned for a moment and asked, "So what does the Holy One mean?"

Chongzhen glanced over the Yangzhou merchants present, and said solemnly: "The 100 million taels sent to the inner court secretary's key bank have already been used for military pay, so I will not return it, but the remaining 1300 million taels, no matter how much money is finally found, The stolen money and stolen goods must be returned to the merchants one by one according to the account books, and no one tael of silver is allowed to enter the treasury!"

"Ah this?" Hearing these words, the faces of the Yangzhou merchants present changed suddenly.

Ma Mingpao couldn't believe his ears, the Holy One was crazy, right?

Zhu Cijiong also looked at Chongzhen in bewilderment, thinking that this is 1300 million taels!

Even if only half of the amount can be recovered in the end, that is still 650 million taels of silver!
However, Zhu Cihong's heart surged, this 1300 million taels is the tree of the father's south gate?
Chongzhen said to a group of Yangzhou merchants: "Everyone, the reason why I set up mine supervisors and tax envoys in various places was originally to make up for the shortage of national expenses, and the amount of demand was not much, but my domestic slaves dared to use my name. It is not my original intention to expropriate and extort in various places, causing countless merchants to destroy their families."

"I will apologize to you for these bastards!"

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen actually bowed deeply.

"Your Majesty can't do it! You are the father of all kings!" A group of merchants fell to their knees in shock.

Chongzhen bowed to the ground and got up again, saying: "In addition, you can rest assured that from today onwards, I will remove the Yangzhou Garrison Eunuch Office, and the mine supervisor and tax envoy set up in Yangzhou will also be removed."

"The Holy Spirit!" All the merchants present cried bitterly.

After looking forward to it for seven years, are you finally going to let these plague gods go away?
These plague gods are really too much. Just pointing at a family and saying that that family has a mine, the other family will be ruined immediately.

Those shops and warehouses have even worse footsteps, and they will be exploited by tax envoys every now and then.

It's all right now, the Holy Majesty is finally going to remove these plague gods, and he can open the door for business again.

Ma Mingpao was also full of emotions. He was planning to remonstrate with Yan Jin, and desperately wanted the emperor to withdraw the mine supervisor and tax envoy in Yangzhou, otherwise Yangzhou would really wither.

But now, without waiting for his advice, the Holy Majesty took care of the matter first.

"Holy One, Holy Ming." Ma Mingpao immediately prostrated himself on the ground and shouted Long Live in admiration.

By this time, Ma Mingpao could basically see what kind of emperor Chongzhen was, he was truly a sage!
"Everyone, please stand up." Chongzhen raised his hands falsely, and said, "Besides, I want to ask you one more thing."

All the Yangzhou merchants got up one after another, and an elderly man said directly, "Please tell me, Your Majesty."

At this time, even if Chongzhen offered to let them contribute to the salary, he would not hesitate to donate the money. As long as the emperor can withdraw the mine supervisor and tax envoy in Yangzhou, as long as the business can be done well, donating a few military salaries is nothing.

However, the merchants in Yangzhou miscalculated again, and Chongzhen did not ask them to donate their salaries.

Chongzhen said: "In the middle of this month, there will be an official sale in Nanjing to sell some of the assets in the palace, such as the Xingyuan of Nanjing's guarding eunuchs, and the weaving of Jiangning's Xingyuan. Please join us at that time."

In order to raise military pay, Chongzhen finally made the first cut after crossing over.

It's just that no one thought that Chongzhen's first cut would be on the eunuch.

As a time traveler, Chongzhen knew very well what kind of things eunuchs and their minions were.

These eunuchs and minions are the vampires lying on the dying patient of Daming, and the fat and ointment they sucked are even less than [-]% of their internal funds!
Before crossing, Chongzhen had read historical materials.

Whether it is the mine supervisor or tax envoy sent by Emperor Wanli or Emperor Chongzhen, among the ten stops of income tax and silver, one is for the internal money, the second is for the envoy, the third is for the follower, and the fourth is for the soil stick!

That is to say, most of the tax money is divided up by minions.

Daming would benefit from strangling these vampires without any harm, and there was no need to worry about backlash.

Because all eunuchs are essentially the emperor's domestic slaves, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, everything belonging to the domestic slaves belongs to the master, and the master has the right to life and death over the slaves.

……

Huang Jiarui was still waiting outside the gate of Xingyuan.

Wait, wait, wait, Ma Mingpao arrives.

However, what surprised Huang Jiarui was that Ma Mingpao was still wearing the magistrate's official robe, with a black gauze hat on his head, as if he had not been punished, which was really unexpected.

"Prefect Ma..." Huang Jiarui stepped forward to greet him.

In the end, Ma Mingpao snorted softly and gave Huang Jiarui two nostrils.

After this face-to-face with the saint, Ma Mingjue was already full of confidence in Daming. With the sage in power this time, Daming's rejuvenation is expected, and there is no need to make false claims with Huang Jiarui and others.

What about the Donglin Party?He is an imperial party!
The backstage of his Ma Mingpao is the current Holy Majesty!

What?Will he bear Ah Shang's infamy?

Ah Shang is Ah Shang, as long as you can do things!What is infamy?
"Master Tang." Ma Mingjue went straight past Huang Jiarui, and called Tang Laihe, the governor of the Yangzhou government, to him, and said, "Call the house immediately, no, call all the officials in the sixth house, I have important official duties!"

"The next official takes orders." Tang Lai bowed in congratulations, turned around and left in a hurry.

Ma Mingju flicked his sleeves at Huang Jiarui again, and walked away.

"Damn it!" Huang Jiarui's face was livid with anger.

……

On the other side, Kang Shaojing and other Yangzhou merchants also left through the side door.

After leaving Yangzhou's garrison eunuch Xingyuan, Kang Shaojing was a little dazed, so that another salt merchant walking behind him who was also thinking about his own thoughts directly bumped into his back.

"Ah." Kang Shaojing staggered when he was hit.

Looking back, it was Weng Zhiyi, a salt merchant whose ancestral home was in Shaanxi.

Weng Zhiyi quickly apologized: "Shopkeeper Kang, I'm really sorry."

"So it's Shopkeeper Weng." Kang Shaojing waved his hands and said, "It's okay."

Weng Zhiyi glanced at the merchants who left in twos and threes, and asked in a low voice, "Shopkeeper Kang, what do you think of today's affairs?"

"There's nothing to say." Kang Shaojing bowed in the direction of Xingyuan behind him, and sighed, "Now that I have a sage king in Ming Dynasty, I will have a good time waiting for merchants."

"What shopkeeper Kang said is very much in line with my wishes." Weng Zhiyi said, "Then will you go to Nanjing?"

"Go." Kang Shaojing said without thinking, "Nanjing, my Kang family must go."

Weng Zhiyi hesitated a little, and said in a low voice, "Don't you wait for the magistrate to investigate the case?"

Kang Shaojing just smiled when he heard the words, and of course he could hear Weng Zhiyi's ambiguity. Weng Zhiyi was just worried that Chongzhen had another secret decree for Ma Mingpao, so Ma Mingpao would not really return the recovered stolen money to them. , In this case, it is equivalent to Chongzhen just saying something on the scene, just deceiving people.

But Kang Shaojing didn't think so.

Kang Shaojing's self-confidence is still somewhat judgmental.

Although he only had two short-term contacts with the current sage, he could still feel that the current sage was definitely not a short-sighted person who cared only about small profits.

Today's sage is a sage with a big heart and great ambition!
Therefore, he will never make superficial articles about this kind of thing.

However, Kang Shaojing would not tell Weng Zhiyi these words.

One is because his friendship with Weng Zhiyi is not up to this level, and the other is that his colleagues are enemies, so Kang Shaojing hopes that the Weng family will not go to Nanjing, so that the Kang family can get a bigger share.

The businessman's intuition told Kang Shaojing that there was big business waiting for them during this trip to Nanjing!

At that moment, Kang Shaojing nodded slightly and said: "The treasurer Weng is right, let's wait until Ma Zhifu finds out the case first, and then we will not go to Nanjing."

Weng Zhiyi nodded: "It's better to be more cautious when doing things."

Kang Shaojing clasped his fists together and said again: "Shopkeeper Weng, excuse me."

"Shopkeeper Kang, please go slowly." Weng Zhiyi also bowed and gave a long bow.

After he straightened up again, Weng Zhiyi waved his hand to signal the leader to come forward.

"Ah Gui, go to Gaoyou immediately and let the second master go back to Yangzhou immediately! You must be quick, and tell me that there is a major event related to the family's century-old plan!"

On the other side, Kang Shaojing also got into the carriage.

"Uncle Fu, go to Taizhou later, and let the young lady return to Yangzhou as soon as possible."

The same thing happened to various merchants. These merchants are all good people, and each of them has already smelled it.

(End of this chapter)