Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 9 Wan Anliang

He Liu raised his ears.The question Jin Wanguan asked was exactly what he was most interested in.

Wan Anliang poured beans out of the bamboo tube, and said: Three years ago on the Mid-Autumn Festival, he had just moved from the left to the right servant of the Ministry of Rites.He sent the old servant to the vegetable market to buy a chicken for the festival.

Never would I have thought that when the old servant was buying vegetables, he would have an argument with the vegetable vendor—naturally because of the price.

The vegetable vendor has a cousin who is a well-known rascal in the vegetable market generation.The two cousins ​​beat the old servant hard, and even detained the old servant when they were done.Ask his family members to redeem him with [-] taels of money.

Wan Anliang, a dignified third-rank member of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't even come up with twenty dongs of money!Of course, even if there is, he will not give it.

Wan Anliang's bearers have already gone home for the festival.He didn't take a sedan chair, and came to the vegetable market alone.

Wan Anliang revealed his identity, but was ridiculed and humiliated by a group of rascals in the market: "The family of a third-rank official buys a chicken and still talks so much nonsense for thirty or fifty big money? If you are a third-rank official, we are first- and second-rank officials." Your boss!"

The yamen servants from Xunjie Street in Shuntianfu passed by here and asked why they were making such a noise.Wan Anliang revealed his identity again, and they took Wan Shilang into the Yamen as a charlatan pretending to be an imperial official!

If Yin Shuntian hadn't gone to the Ministry of Rites to meet Wan Anliang, this third-rank official might be thrown into prison.

This matter was passed as a joke in the official circles of the capital—a joke, not a good one.

Those strict party officials all laughed at Wan Anliang's poverty.

Wan Anliang was completely angry: I have been an official for more than 20 years, but in the end, I can't even afford a chicken for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Why are those officials of the strict party able to sit in Guangsha with tens of thousands of rooms, wives and concubines in groups, and rich clothes and good food?

Why should I be willing to be poor?
Wan Anliang made a decision: I want to get back everything I lost in the previous 20 years!

I, Wan Anliang, am a first-class upright official when I am an upright official. If I am a corrupt official, I will also be a huge corrupt one!
He encountered a problem: he has been an official for 20 years, but he doesn't know how to get corrupt.He is indeed in charge of the incense, tax and silver of Taoist temples and temples in the world.My predecessors also made a lot of money because of bribes from Taoist masters and hosts.

But his "clear" name is outside, which Taoist priest, which temple abbot dare to bribe him?
Wan Anliang suddenly felt that he was incompetent.

Finally, he set his sights on the Shenli Library that he was in charge of.In the Shenli treasury, the incense tax silver accumulated by the Ministry of Rites for decades is stored.

When checking the treasury before, Wan Anliang was not interested in the money that was about to mold.

Now in Chaku, when Wan Anliang looked at the silver, there was a strange light in his eyes!

Since you can't do the huge corruption in the court, let's use the method of thieves in the market, ants move mountains, and Jingwei fills the sea.

Since then, he has stolen four ingots of 50 taels of silver from the Shenli treasury every day.It has been like this every day for three years.In the end, like ants moving mountains and Jingwei filling the sea, they stole 20 taels of silver from Shenli Treasury!

When Wan Anliang finished telling all this, He Liu couldn't bear it anymore. He asked Wan Anliang: "Master Wan, you still haven't revealed the secret of the four silver pillars. Well, since you have entered Beizhen Fusi, I can Let me be frank with you. For a high-ranking official like you, wherever you go, there are three or four of us Jinyiwei who follow you closely. How did you avoid the eyes of our Jinyiwei brothers and silently melt 20 taels of silver? Silver pillars?"

Wan Anliang rubbed his nose, and regained some of the demeanor of a Qingliu leader: "Well, I naturally know that Jin Yiwei is watching me all the time. Who made me a third-rank official? Naturally, I have a way to avoid your eyes and ears. "

Jin Wanguan said with a smile: "My lord, don't be so secretive. Our Sixth Master He, who has been a family confiscator of Jinyiwei for generations, loves to get to the bottom of the method of hiding money. If you don't tell him, His heart is like a dog's paw scratching."

Wan Anliang said: "This method is quite simple. Build a large hollow pillar with bricks in the room first. The upper end leads to the attic, leaving a small hole the size of a child's arm. Then paint the brick pillar with blue lime—— ——Mix the gap. In the attic, set up a small furnace. Every night, I will melt the 200 taels of silver that I 'take' back from the Shenli treasury into silver water, and pour it into the brick pillar through small holes. Oh, what a waste , nicknamed 'The Thieves'. Even if a thief has entered the house, there is nothing they can do about this silver pillar."

He Liu suddenly realized, and sighed softly: "Ingenious! Such a simple method is also the most secret way to hide money!"

Wan Anliang said: "Every time a big silver pillar is cast, I will seal the small hole with green mud. It took more than three years, more than 1000 days and nights. Every night, like the worst thief in the market, I put myself The stolen goods were melted into silver water and poured into the pillars. Alas, I am really the most greedy person in the world—greedy both for fame and profit. I want to be a loyal minister who will leave a name through the ages, but what happens behind my back? The meddling of a small thief in the market place! Woohoo! My momentary greed cost the court a total of 40 taels of silver."

Jin Wanguan suddenly interrupted Wan Anliang: "Wait a minute. Master Wan, what did you just say? 40 taels of silver? Didn't you say that you stole a total of 20 taels from the Shenli Treasury? What happened to the other 20 taels?"

Wan Anliang continued to make a confession: the Shenli Treasury was directly under the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites.Before he got greedy, Ku Yin took stock every month.Wan Anliang became malicious, and in order to find a reason for himself to go in and out of the warehouse every day, he changed the rule to take stock every day.

The small officials and soldiers in the Shenli Treasury felt that this "honest official" boss was too serious—even out of his mind.It's just that no one doubts that the famous and upright officials in the dynasty will put money in their sleeves like a thief.

Shenli Division is different from Taicang State Treasury.When officials come in and out, they don't need to take off their dirty pants for inspection like Taicang.

A few years ago, the Taicang State Treasury had a major silver theft case, and the soldiers in the treasury stuffed silver into their anus.

Wan Anliang only needs two sleeves.

After stealing for a month, finally one day, a soldier named Ding Wang discovered Wan Shilang's secret.

Ding Wang is over 40 years old and born with the eyes of a deer-headed rat.I used to eat imperial food for a few days in the Jiangnan Guards Army.Later, he entered the Shenli Treasury of the Ministry of Rites as a soldier.

That day, Ding Wang drank too much tea and felt anxious, but the nearest latrine was next to Yizhi Qinglisi, three hundred steps away.Ding Wang was greedy for convenience, so he went into the Shenli library, trying to drain his water behind that silver shelf.He happened to catch a glimpse of Wan Anliang secretly throwing money into the sleeve of his robe while he was unaware.

The next night, Ding Wang visited Wanfu.He, a small soldier, actually used this matter to blackmail the dignified servant Wan Anliang.

The soldiers in Shenli Treasury, including Ding Wang, have long been coveting the money in the library.

However, the silver whiskers in the library were counted by the right servant of the Ministry of Rites.If the money is stolen, the accounts will not match, and the truth will be revealed immediately.So no one has dared to do it.

Ding Wang told Wan Anliang that if he wanted to shut up, he had to take him with him to steal money from the treasury.Every month, Wan Shilang balances the accounts to deceive the public.

Ding Wang is not greedy, he only takes 200 taels of silver every day like Wan Anliang.Over time, 20 taels of silver were also stolen in three years.

Therefore, Wan Anliang said that he caused the court to lose 40 taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)