my wife is queen

Chapter 91 A Memorial

Li Mian understood that judging from the current situation, if Ma Yun was not allowed to read the contents of the memorial, he might not dare to hand in the memorial without authorization.

He didn't dare to check any letters and memorials written by the son-in-law without authorization, so he fell into a dilemma and an embarrassing situation.

Li Mian took the official green paper memorial from him, opened it directly, and put it in front of his eyes: "There is not much content in it, only a few lines of amount, you should have read the book in the inner study of the palace, and understand this The content of the seal is not a problem."

In order to fight against the civil servants in the court, Emperor Xuanzong set up an inner study in the palace and arranged for eunuchs to study in the inner study.

Later, it gradually formed the practice that the cabinet was responsible for drafting votes and the supervisor of rituals was responsible for approving awards.

Ma Yun, as the personal companion next to the eldest princess, is of course one of the best eunuchs in the inner study, so it is possible to be a great companion next to the former eldest princess.

Ma Yun quickly turned his face away, he would not read any letters and memorials written by the son-in-law if he was killed, which showed his duty as a slave.

Li Mian had no choice but to say in a strong tone: "I let you read this memorial in the name of my son-in-law, why don't you turn your face away quickly."

Hearing this, Ma Yun heaved a sigh of relief, and looked at the humble son-in-law that the officials looked down upon with a little more respect and curiosity.

The son-in-law, Li Mian, did not look like a son-in-law from a poor family at all, but rather like the sons of officials and gentry, whose fathers were still high-ranking officials in the capital.

Under the influence of his father's generation since he was a child, he is well versed in the rules of officialdom and knows how to behave.

Ma Yun couldn't wait to take the memorial, read it carefully, and read all the contents of the memorial word by word.

The expression on his face became even weirder, full of surprise and doubt at the same time.

Ma Yun couldn't understand Li Mian, the poor son-in-law in front of him.

Having read the content of the memorial, I am sure that Li Mian did not have any complaints, but instead solved the problem that had been lingering in his mind.

It touches the silver benefits of Caochangyuan.

Others don't know whose interests are involved in Caochangyuan. Ma Yun is now one of Emperor Jiazhen's pocketbooks, and has been exposed to many things that he had never been exposed to before.

He knew better than anyone else that the person ultimately involved in Caochangyuan was Emperor Jiazhen.

The seemingly unsolvable problem was solved by Li Mian with a memorial.

Ma Yun held the memorial in both hands, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "It's not too late, this servant will go to the palace and hand over the memorial to His Majesty."

After saying this, Ma Yun left Dongshaojian's study in a hurry, and rushed to the palace in a hurry.

Li Mian sat back next to the window lattice again, through the rain curtain, looked at his big companion Ma Yun who left in a hurry, and felt relieved.

Calling Ma Yun to send the memorial to the palace is also a crucial step for him to solve the matter of Caochangyuan.

The purpose is to take advantage of Ma Yun's right to go up to Tianting, so that he can directly pass the cabinet and hand over the memorial to Emperor Jiazhen.

Without Ma Yun's Shangda Tianting, no matter how powerful Li Mian is, he would not be able to solve the problem of Caochangyuan.

The cabinet officials only need to bury Li Mian's memorials in a large pile of memorials by using a small trick of keeping it from being published, and use a dragging formula to drag Li Mian to death.

With Ma Yun's right to go to Tianting, it is completely different. You can directly bypass the cabinet without worrying about the methods of cabinet officials.

Ma Yun came to the door of the three gates, tidied up his official uniforms, no matter how anxious he was, he slowed down and walked into the three gates.

As soon as he walked to the three gates, he heard the officials arguing again, but this time, it was the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate criticizing Li Mian.

Officials who can enter the three gates generally have to be important court officials wearing scarlet clothes. Other than that, only the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six divisions have the grace to enter and exit the three gates.

The discussions among the officials in the three gates were not like in the past. The eunuchs, the Yan Party, and the Donglin Party quarreled in the three gates for their own interests.

This time, except for Qingliu, they were all attacking Li Mian who had caused public outrage, trying to pull him down from the position of son-in-law, and kill the chicken for the monkeys to show, so that the officials in the capital would no longer have the idea of ​​Caochangyuan.

The eunuchs, the strict party, and the Donglin party are all criticizing the same person, and it's still because of a humble son-in-law without any background.

As soon as Ma Yun walked into the three doors, he felt a suffocating breath of rain.

Wan An came out and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, the city tax of Caochangyuan has dropped a lot this year, and it has paid 20 taels less to the court than last year."

20 million taels of silver? !
Hearing this amount, Ma Yun's heart trembled, and he almost knelt on the ground with his legs limp.

He finally understood why the news revealed by Liu Jin, the eunuch of the Cao Supervisor, confirmed that Li Mian had committed a crime that offended His Majesty.

Before Ma Yun came here, he clearly knew the ins and outs of Caochangyuan, and knew that Li Mian controlled [-]% of the prostitute gambling house through Li Dingguo and He Jin.

In other words, the city tax of 20 taels of silver only accounts for 50% of the entire Caochangyuan, so the city tax that Caochangyuan can pay to the imperial court every year is [-] taels of silver.

Ma Yun swallowed his saliva, feeling that he could not stand up anymore. He never imagined that a Caochangyuan could pay the city tax of 50 taels of silver to the imperial court.

It is equivalent to the tax money of half a province.

Ma Yun felt unbelievable about this amount, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was reasonable.

The businesses involved in Caochangyuan are prostitutes and gambling houses. These two can be said to be the fastest-growing businesses. It is not surprising that they can bring half the tax money to the court.

Just bringing tax money to the court will not make Jack Ma feel weak in his legs, because all the tax money that seems to be paid to the court has entered the emperor's private pocket.

Wan An's words were straightforward but effective.

Clearly told Emperor Jiazhen that 20 taels of silver were missing from the internal funds.

It is an unacceptable thing for the emperors of all dynasties, let alone the emperor Jiazhen who loves money.

The sound of chanting in the three doors stopped, Emperor Jiazhen closed the Taoist scriptures in his hand, sat on the futon, still facing away from the courtiers in the hall.

However, all the officials in the hall could see that Emperor Jiazhen was dissatisfied with the sudden loss of 20 silver in his internal funds.

As a eunuch, Ma Yun understood the emperor's temper better than Wan An and other officials, and he knew that the emperor was not only dissatisfied at this time, but almost moved to take someone to the knife.

Wan An stopped when he heard the sound of chanting, and turned his head to look at Yan Maoqing, as if he was asking the Deputy Prime Minister what he meant.

Yan Maoqing didn't reveal any meaning, but expressed his thoughts, as long as he entered the three gates, all the consequences would be borne by Wan An himself.

(End of this chapter)