The king behind the empress

Chapter 48 Disaster Relief Matters
Mo Zizai looked at the right-handed censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly. It's really not easy to maintain a clean and honest officialdom in Dazhou, where most of the officials are corrupt.

"Master Shi, as a fourth-rank official, receives 180 two-month tribute every month. How can he say he has no money?"

Hearing what Mo Zizai said, Shi Zhipei couldn't help being a little taken aback. All the officials in the court, no matter how big or small, owed their services for half a year. Hu Xiaosheng said this at the beginning of this matter. How could Mo Zizai start to play dumb again.

But there was no way, although he didn't understand Mo Zizai's purpose of pretending to be stupid, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "My lord, I haven't paid my salary for half a year."

"Then why didn't the court pay any salary?"

"Of course it's because the treasury is empty..."

Hearing Mo Zizai's question, Shi Zhipei gave the answer without thinking, but just halfway through speaking, he suddenly reacted and looked at Mo Zizai with some surprise, "My lord, do you mean that you are going to pay a salary?"

"It doesn't count if the king says it. After all, the king is just a prince, so he can't manage the affairs of the treasury."

Facing Shi Zhipei's expectant gaze, Mo Zizai suddenly spread his hands out in a wicked manner, pretending to be innocent, "So it's useless for you to ask me, you have to ask His Majesty."

Looking at Mo Zizai's face full of smiles, Shi Zhipei's teeth were itchy. If he couldn't beat Mo Zizai, he would go up and beat Mo Zizai now.

I can't control it, why didn't I see you say that I couldn't control it when I killed the man just now?Why didn't you say you couldn't handle it when you were blackmailing?Now when I ask you for money, you say you can't control it.

Bah, what a grandson!
While Shi Zhipei was scolding Mo Zizai in secret, the empress sitting on the throne said, "Now that the national treasury is full, it will naturally make up for the salaries owed to you. Shi Qing doesn't have to worry."

"Your Majesty is merciful."

Hearing the Empress speak, Shi Zhipei immediately felt relieved, and bowed his hands to the Empress to show his gratitude.

"Your Majesty, please pay the double salary for the half year that is owed."

Mo Zizai thought about it for a while, and then suggested: "After all, it is inappropriate for the court to not expressly owe you the salaries for such a long time without any reason."

"Double salary?"

The poor and frightened empress was a little reluctant to hear the double salary, but it was Mo Zizai's proposal, and she couldn't refute it, so she nodded with some pain and said, "Well, since King Zizai said so, then Just pay a double salary."

Hearing that the empress said that they would pay a double salary, the eyes of several ministers who also did not make extra money suddenly brightened, and they shouted at the empress in unison, "Your Majesty is merciful!"

Mo Zizai shrugged his shoulders and expressed his understanding for these people who only thanked the empress but not himself.

After all, I killed so many ministers just now, and even stomped the officials' faces on the ground. It's no wonder that they can thank me, but looking at the ministers bowing and saluting, Mo Zizai suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Mr. Qian Ge, Mr. Hu said just now that you are the most corrupt official in the Great Zhou Dynasty, so you should express more about the wedding between this prince and His Majesty."

Mo Zizai thought for a while, and then said: "How about this, the king said the number, 1000 million taels, what do you think?"

"My lord, Hu Xiaosheng was just chasing and biting at random, I'm really not corrupt."

Seeing that Mo Zizai came to look for his own business again, Qian Min knew that it was caused by speaking for the Jiangnan family just now, and could not help but secretly complained in his heart, "1000 million taels, I really can't get it out."

"Old Qian Ge, since I told you to pay the money, it means that I can let go of everything before and let the past go."

"But this is based on your willingness to contribute money to the country. If you still plan to give nothing away, then don't blame me for being ruthless."

Mo Zizai's eyes showed a trace of coldness, he looked at Qian Min, and said lightly: "I'll just ask once, 1000 million taels, can you take it out?"

Hearing what Mo Zizai said, Qian Min suddenly felt a chill in his heart. Is this a multiple-choice question?This is a proposition!

If he dared to say that he couldn't get it out, Mo Zizai would definitely take someone to his house to help him get it, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"I'm going home to sell some of my property. Maybe I can get 1000 million taels. When His Majesty and the prince get married, I will definitely be able to get 1000 million taels."

"Hmph, come together."

Mo Zizai didn't bother to talk to him. Hu Xiaosheng said he was the number one corrupt official in Dazhou. If he had to scrape together 1000 million taels, then his title as the number one corrupt official would be too worthless.

If it weren't for the fact that the court still needed people to work, Mo Zizai would have chopped him down with a sword and ransacked his house.

"Now that the treasury has money, you can discuss disaster relief."

Mo Zizai signaled Chen Ying and the others to tidy up the corpses in the main hall, and then retreated to the corner with his Long Zaijian, "I'm not very good at this kind of thing, so I won't bother you."

Chen Ying and the others moved very swiftly, and they cleaned up the corpses on the hall in just a short while. Although there were still a lot of bright red blood and the pungent smell of blood, it was better than the slaughterhouse-like scene just now. much better.

In addition, the executioner Mo Zizai also retreated to the side now, so the ministers present felt relieved and discussed things much faster.

Because the money that Mo Zizai blackmailed the officials just now has not yet arrived, so the money has not been counted for the time being, and now we are only discussing the distribution of the more than 1000 million taels of silver copied from Hu Xiaosheng's house.

In the end, it was decided that the money would be divided into two, and 400 million taels would be allocated to the Marquis of Zhenyuan in the eastern border, and asked him to gather troops on the spot, buy food and grass, and defend the eastern border.

The remaining 600 million taels will be divided into three parts. Three hard-hit counties will allocate 200 million taels to each county to help the victims and collect grain and millet from neighboring counties.

After talking about how the money is spent, the rest is who will supervise how the money is spent.

After all, Hu Xiaosheng also said just before his death that everyone was greedy. If the money for disaster relief is not supervised after it is allocated, it may not reach the victims at all.

Mo Zizai watched them discuss and discuss, but the discussion did not come to a conclusion, so he couldn't help but speak again, "Your Majesty, this king thinks that Master Shi Zhipei can go for this disaster relief."

Hearing Mo Zizai's words, the noisy Xuanzheng Hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Shi Zhipei in unison.

Regarding Mo Zizai's proposal, the empress has always agreed without thinking, so she asked directly: "Shi Qing, would you like to go?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is no problem for me to supervise the disaster relief, but..."

Shi Zhipei was slightly hesitant. He wasn't afraid of supervising disaster relief, but he was not good at accounting and had no experience in disaster relief. If the people below teamed up to fool him, it would be difficult for him to notice.

"Master Shi, don't worry."

Knowing Shi Zhipei's concerns, Mo Zizai said calmly, "The Dongchang Guard will accompany you to the disaster site. If you have time, I might go there in person."

"The minister has no worries."

Hearing what Mo Zizai said, Shi Peizhi's worries disappeared immediately. If Dongchangwei also went, he would not be afraid of being fooled by others as he had a right-hand man under his command.

It's just that Mo Zizai said that he was going too, which immediately gave Shi Zhipei a bad feeling. If he really went, he wouldn't kill all the grassroots officials, would he?
　Good guy, just now I saw a book with 6 words on the shelves, which made me almost run to the editor to apply for it. After all, my main source of income is full attendance. If I can put it on the shelves a month earlier, it will be much more Fifty thousand income.

　　But after thinking about it a little bit, I think it’s better to forget about it. The pace of writing is slow, and it’s posted so early. I’m really sorry for the brothers who will subscribe in the future.

　　So let's put it on the shelf next month, and because I won't be full-time next month, so as long as the editor doesn't rush me, I will try to put it on the shelf as late as possible, and I can count as one day for free.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)