Mingshi

Chapter 674 Wonderful Chess and Smelly Chess

Qi Jiguang looked at Luo Xin worriedly.If Luo Xin gave Hu Zongxian 50 taels of silver, if it was given privately, it would be greedy for ink.If it is publicly given, what is it?Does that count as a reward to the three armies for His Majesty?Can His Majesty bear it?Is this army your Majesty's, or your Luo Xin's?

"Don't worry, I'm not that confused yet." Luo Xin said with a smile: "When I left the capital, His Majesty once said to me that I will settle Hu Zongxian's military expenses in the future, and the court will not give Hu Zongxian military expenses again. Of course, If I fail to provide Hu Zongxian with military expenses in time and let Hu Zongxian make a fuss with His Majesty, Your Majesty will punish me."

"Your Majesty, this is..." Qi Jiguang said in surprise.

"You think too much." Luo Xin said with a smile: "How could Your Majesty be confused? All the military expenses I gave to Hu Zongxian are in His Majesty's name, and every money must be reported to His Majesty."

"That's good!" Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing nodded reassuringly.

Luo Xin continued: "There are still 300 million taels of silver left, big brother, tomorrow you will escort the 300 million taels of silver, bring my memorial back to Beijing, and send it to Your Majesty."

Speaking of this, Luo Xin laughed happily: "I just killed two corrupt officials and some domestic slaves, pirates. With these 300 million taels of silver sent to His Majesty, for those who have no salary For the imperial court, it is the corn bread in hunger, not to mention your majesty, even the civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty are embarrassed to punish me for this trivial matter."

Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing looked at each other and smiled again, letting go of another worry.Rossin went on to explain:

"I will keep those goods, because the six great families will not just end like this. Because I gave His Majesty 300 million taels of silver, so they can't sue me in the officialdom, so they will come to me secretly. When our city's shipping department is established, I'm afraid I won't be able to receive the goods at all. But with this batch of seized goods, I can finally deal with the first wave. As for the future..."

Luo Xin narrowed his eyes slightly: "Let's just watch."

Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing really smiled at this time, completely relieved.Luo Xin said to Qi Jiguang:
"General Qi, tomorrow you and I will go to Suzhou to visit Lord Butang and send 50 taels of silver."

"Okay!" Qi Jiguang nodded happily. Luo Xin took him there, and also gave him the opportunity to meet Hu Zongxian and impress the Lord Minister. There is something to say, Qi Jiguang stood up and said:
"No, my brother is leaving first."

"I'll send it to my brother."

Brothers Luo Xin and Luo Qing sent Qi Jiguang outside the door, and Qi Jiguang roared away with the soldiers.The two brothers returned to the study and sat down, Luo Xin said softly:
"Brother, you should be more careful when escorting 300 million taels of silver to the capital tomorrow, maybe the six great families will intercept the money."

Luo Qing frowned slightly and said, "Isn't it possible?"

"It's very unlikely." Luo Dao said, "You will set off tomorrow, and the six great families will not have time to collude with pirates and Japanese pirates. The power of the six great families is not enough to rob you. But there is nothing wrong with being careful."

"I understand." Luo Qing nodded.

"There is one more thing." Luo Xin lowered his voice and said: "After you go back this time, tell uncle about your cousin and see if uncle and his family are willing to go to Taiwan Island. If so, let uncle I resigned from the imperial court, and then secretly came to the southeast, and I will arrange for my cousin to pick up the uncle's family."

"If uncle goes to Taiwan Island, won't our strength in the capital be much weaker?" Luo Qing asked with some concern.

"You can't think like this." Luo Xin shook his head and said, "Now our Luo family is walking on the edge of a knife. It can be regarded as leaving a bloodline for our Luo family."

"I understand."

The two brothers talked for a while, Luo Xin sent Luo Qing outside the door, and Luo Qing also led his men to roar away.

After Luo Qing left, Luo Xin called Wan Daquan into the study, and asked in a low voice:
"How much goods and gold and silver did my cousin get?"

"Returning to your lord, General Luo entrusted his subordinates to tell your lord that General Luo got a total of 300 million taels of silver, and goods worth nearly 400 million taels of silver. General Luo took half of it, and the remaining half has been sent to Zhuangzi. "

Luo Xin was overjoyed. In this way, including the silver that Luo Qing and Qi Jiguang gave him, it was a full 230 million taels of silver, and this was not counting the nearly 200 million taels of goods that Luo Sheng sent to Zhuangzi.With these gold and silver, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

These days, the Escort's money is used to buy those exiled scholars, not to mention the expansion of the Escort, and even maintenance has become a problem. With this money, the Escort can finally get on the right track again.

Lu family in Wu county.

The patriarchs of the six great families gathered here, and the atmosphere in the lobby was very depressing, and everyone's face was very ugly.Luo Xin's sudden blow was unexpected, and it hurt them all.They have a backlog of goods for nearly two months, and almost emptied their working capital, and some people even owed the payment for the goods. The big family has difficulties. The daily consumption is astonishing, and they lost so much gold and silver all at once. Let them not be nearly stretched.

"Do it like this?"

Everyone looked at each other, and the Patriarch of the Lu family pondered and said: "Should we take some action, otherwise this Southeast will no longer belong to our Six Great Aristocratic Families, but will be named Luo."

The head of the Cui family said angrily: "Even Hu Zongxian didn't dare to do this, but he, Luo Xin, dared to do this. Who gave him such courage?"

The Patriarch of the Wang family pondered and said: "It's useless to say these things now, we should first find out how much Luo Xin has robbed us?"

"What's the use of knowing?" The Patriarch of the Wu family said: "We also went to see, and there were no sea ships on the shore. This can only prove one thing, that is, Luo Xin did not catch all the pirates at all. Those The pirates escaped with some of the goods and gold and silver. But so what? Who are those pirates? They are pirates. So they will not admit that they took the goods and gold and silver, but will bite us and say yes We let them lose, and maybe we will make them pay for their losses, and they will never give us goods or gold and silver."

"That also needs to be investigated. Once Luo Xin is greedy for ink, gold and silver, we will have a handle on him. At that time, whether to impeach him or manipulate him depends on our mood."

"Investigation is necessary!" Lu Ding finally said: "But we can't wait for the investigation to find out before impeaching him."

"What does your lord mean?" Everyone's spirits lifted.

"Time waits for no one. We can't wait any longer. Luo Xin has taken the initiative by surprise. We must take this initiative back. We will proceed in two steps.

Lu Ding glanced over the crowd with burning eyes, and everyone cheered up, and walked out of the shadow of Luo Xin's murder.All eyes were on Lu Ding.Lu Ding said in a concentrated voice:

"The first step, we immediately mobilized all our contacts to impeach Luo Xin, and impeached him for killing hundreds of people in the southeast at once, including two court officials."

"But..." Patriarch Cui said hesitantly, "Those people are all pirates and pirates, even those two officials are also corrupt officials."

"Don't worry about it so much." Lu Ding waved his hand and said, "Some things can't just be based on the facts. Anyway, he, Luo Xin, is killing people, which is inhumane. Influence His Majesty's thoughts. We don't expect His Majesty to transfer him away. Such arrogance can also let those officials in the southeast see the energy of our six great families."

"Good!" Everyone nodded.

"The second step is to investigate how much goods and gold and silver Luo Xin got, and where he used these gold and silver and goods. If it is found that he is greedy for ink, we can impeach him for the second round."

"Okay!" Everyone nodded and said: "Let's go back and write a letter, and have someone send it to the capital overnight. Tomorrow, we will start investigating the quantity and direction of the goods and gold and silver confiscated by Luo Xin."

Everyone left one after another, and before noon, groups of fast horses had already left the southeast and galloped towards the capital.

In an inconspicuous house in Dongcheng, several Jin Yiwei sat there.A man sitting at the top said:

"The process of Luo Xin's murder has been sent to the capital. Now we should investigate how much goods Luo Xin has robbed. These are all explained by the governor."

Day two.

After breakfast, Luo Xin arranged work for another half an hour. Now the work of building the wharf has started again, and the Shipbuilding Department has also become busy. Everyone knows what Luo Xin did yesterday. It is completely different from yesterday. Before yesterday, I was downcast, but today I am refreshed.

At this time, there was a lot of activity outside the Shibo Division, and there was a lot of traffic. It turned out that Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing sent the confiscated goods and gold and silver to the Shibo Division.Of course, both Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing secretly left 40 taels of silver, and they both quietly sent 60 taels of silver to the manor outside Luo Xin City last night.Today is the escort of 410 million taels of silver, and there are goods worth 100 million taels of silver. Luo Xin has been in the southeast for more than two months. I got a big fat man.

The people of the six great families saw the scene of turmoil, and reported the news to the six great families continuously.And they also found out through various relationships that Luo Xin and the others did not wipe out all the pirates, let those pirates escape with their ships, and took a lot of goods and money, but the hall did not know how many they had, so six The aristocratic family also spent a lot of money to buy off Luo Qing and Qi Jiguang's military officials who were in charge of accounting, and finally learned that the two parties had received a total of nearly 100 million taels of goods and 410 million taels of silver.

Of course, this was all arranged by Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing, and the two of them and Luo Xin would naturally not tell others about the money they had been greedy for.

At the gate of the City Shipping Department.

Luo Xin handed over the memorial that he had written long ago to Luo Qing, and Luo Qing led three thousand soldiers to escort three million taels of silver to the capital.And here, Luo Xin and Qi Jiguang escorted 300 silver to go to Suzhou.

The changes in these two directions made the six great families puzzled, and immediately sent people to start investigating, and waited until dark to find out. Luo Xin divided the 410 million taels of silver into three parts, one part was 62 The two are reserved for the operation of the Shibo Department.The second one was 50 taels, which was sent to Hu Zongxian as military expenses, and the largest one was 300 million taels, which was escorted by Luo Qing to the capital.

The patriarchs of the six great families sat blankly in the lobby of the Lu family, their hearts were bleeding, the more than 400 million taels of silver belonged to them, and they were sent out by Luo Xin just like that.

They could imagine what Emperor Jiajing would feel when the 300 million taels of silver were delivered to Emperor Jiajing.Not to mention that Luo Xin killed hundreds of smugglers and pirates, even if he killed two corrupt officials twice, Emperor Jiajing would not take it seriously.Emperor Jiajing will definitely suppress this matter, even if Emperor Jiajing is buried in the memorial to impeach Luo Xin, Emperor Jiajing will not respond.

Ok?
wrong!

It is no problem for Luo Xin to leave 62 taels of silver to run the Shibo Department, and it is even less of a problem to give 300 million taels of silver to Emperor Jiajing.

but……

There is something wrong with giving Hu Zongxian 50 taels of silver!
He even dared to give money to Hu Zongxian privately. Is he trying to rebel?Is the army raised by the royal family, or by Tara Shin?
Lu Ding's mind was spinning rapidly, and at this moment, the Patriarch of the Lu family suddenly said:

"We have to send someone to recover the letter we sent out immediately. Luo Xin gave 300 million taels of silver to His Majesty, but we let people impeach him. Isn't this harming us? Dismiss those people from office. They are all the forces of our six great families in the capital."

"It's been so long, and we told them to hurry up and catch up." The Patriarch of the Cui family shook his head and sighed.

"Our six great families have lost a lot this time!" The head of the Wang family sighed, "Not only have we lost money, but we have also implicated our officials in the capital."

"My lord, what should we do now?" Everyone's eyes focused on Lu Ding's face.

Lu Ding's expression was calm, and he said lightly: "There is no need to chase, we will continue to send people to the capital to let our people continue to impeach Luo Xin."

"Huh?" Everyone was shocked: "My lord..."

Lu Ding smiled confidently: "It's a wonderful move for Luo Xin to give His Majesty 300 million taels of silver, but he should never have given Hu Zongxian 50 taels of silver. "

Speaking of this, he smiled sarcastically: "He may have forgotten that he has another identity, and that is Marquis Wu."

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