After tossing for nearly half an hour, the feast finally ended, and Ma Jixiang returned to the room to rest tastelessly.

Bi Yuntao was worried that Ma Gonggong was not happy, and arranged for two Japanese girls to serve him to let him taste some exotic customs.

It's just that Master Bi overestimated the eunuch's ability, and as soon as Ma Jixiang returned to the house, he summoned a few godsons and asked them to come to the scene to check the accounts.

The two little eunuchs spread out the paper, took out the names of the account books they had copied before, and began to calculate the accounts.

Ma Jixiang was wearing pajamas, pacing, and said viciously: "Check it out for our family!" Look at how much money these corrupt officials have embezzled for repairing the river! ”

"Yes, godfather!"

The little eunuch worked very hard, more hard than serving his father.

In the small courtyard behind the river yamen, Bi Yuntao was relieved, and the officials of the river were also down-to-earth, and the big eunuch was both receiving gifts and people, it seems that this matter should be over!

Ma Jixiang's old eunuch, but the eunuch guarding Xijing, represents the royal family, and in the officialdom of the northwest, it is more effective than His Royal Highness King Yong, who guards Xijing!

With the protection of such a person, it is more effective than finding a cabinet minister in the capital!

To put it bluntly, Ma Jixiang is a super umbrella for officials in the northwest, and even cabinet ministers have to give some face!

However, the next day, Bi Yuntao was dumbfounded.

According to a subordinate report, last night a subordinate entered the house to urinate and found that several eunuchs inside were checking the accounts.

Bi Yuntao, who heard the report, was frightened into a cold sweat, and an ominous premonition came to his heart.

He hurriedly rushed to see Ma Jixiang, but was blocked by the eunuch guarding the door in an official tone: "Godfather is busy with official business, please don't disturb Master Bi." ”

Bi Yuntao was dumbfounded, as if he had been poured a basin of ice water, and he was suddenly cold from head to toe.

He understood, the old eunuch was disgusted that the money sent by the river channel yamen was less, and it was not too little!

It is said that eunuchs are more greedy than corrupt officials, it seems that this is really a golden saying!

Bi Yuntao and several officials of the river yamen combined, and they all felt that they needed to give some more blood and send some silver yuan!

Seeing that the old eunuch didn't say anything about his feelings, he planned to put himself to death, and he couldn't give it away!

In the end, Lord Bi prepared 100,000 silver yuan according to the price of the first-class minister in the capital.

At two o'clock, Ma Jixiang was thinking about how to clean up the officials of the river yamen, when he suddenly heard his godson come to report, and a group of river workers in front of the yamen carried a plaque and asked to see him.

Hearing that it was a river worker, Ma Jixiang originally wanted to send someone away, but when he heard the plaque, he had the idea of receiving him.

Everyone in the world loves fame, and eunuchs are the same, sending plaques to praise this kind of thing is to earn fame!

Ma Jixiang ordered: "Put the plaque in." ”

Not long after, dozens of plainly dressed "river workers" beat gongs and drums and carried a plaque into the river yamen, on which were written four square characters: love the people like a son.

After going through the process, Ma Jixiang sent someone to send the plaque to the bedroom, and then couldn't wait to open it.

According to his well-informed and countless experience in receiving gifts, this is by no means an ordinary plaque, and there must be hidden mysteries in it.

Sure enough, this plaque is made of two red sandalwood boards, and after gently priing it up, a fragrance of ink came from inside.

A whole plaque of dragon dollar banknotes!

These dragon dollars were neatly stacked, and each stack was tied with paper tape, like a book arranged horizontally in a plaque.

The top dragon yuan is printed with exquisite and complex patterns, and the horizontal inscription on it is printed with the six words of 'Daming Pass Dragon Yuan' (traditional Chinese), and the two sides of it are the eight characters of the seal text: 'Daming Longyuan, the world passes', and the middle is the denomination of the dragon yuan: one hundred.

Ma Jixiang said: "Take it out and count, how many!" ”

The little eunuch grabbed stacks of dragon yuan, took them out, put them on the table, and counted them carefully.

After a while, the eunuch replied: "Godfather, a total of 1,000 dragon yuan, a total of 100,000 silver yuan!" ”

"One hundred thousand?"

Ma Jixiang sneered and threw a stack of dragon yuan in his hand on the case, and said gloomily: "I really treat our family as a mallet, last year the imperial court allocated three million taels of public funds to govern the river, and they made at least half of the river yamen, and now they want to use 100,000 silver yuan to send our family?" It's just vicious! ”

Ma Jixiang, as the river supervisor, is also partly responsible for the river embankment breaking, and of course he will not shoot himself in the foot.

This time he came to the river yamen, firstly, to extort some silver yuan, and secondly, to find an uncooperative official as a scapegoat, and completely put the matter to rest.

Now, these river officials don't give face at all, so they want to send people with this money! Excessively!

After a while, Bi Yuntao, a fellow acquaintance of the river, came under the guise of congratulations, standing there like a grandson with all the good words, and cautiously testing whether Ma Jixiang was satisfied.

Ma Jixiang said simply, with a cold face: "Our family came in the rain tirelessly, so you take this to be filial?" ”

Bi Yuntao was dumbfounded again, 100,000 silver yuan plus a piece of Tianhuang stone worth tens of thousands of silver yuan is not enough?

By the way, there are a few Japanese too! This old eunuch's appetite is too great!

Bi Yuntao's eyes rolled, pinched his sweat, and smiled cautiously: "Ma Gong, how much do you think is appropriate?" ”

Ma Jixiang lazily stretched out a finger and raised it in mid-air, almost poking Master Bi's face.

Bi Yun suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to smile and said, "Ma Gong means that he wants another hundred thousand silver yuan?" ”

Ma Jixiang glared angrily and said in a deep voice: "One hundred thousand silver yuan? Is Lord Bi calling Hanako? ”

The little eunuch next to him shouted in a sharp voice: "Master Bi, my godfather is talking about one million silver yuan!" ”

"A Million ......"

Bi Yuntao only felt that his eyes were dark, his ears were buzzing, and he was almost unsteady on his feet.

He never expected that this old eunuch's heart would be so black, this is to eat the river yamen raw!

Master Bi swears that this is the most ruthless high-ranking official he has ever seen since he became an official!

He thought that sending more than 100,000 silver yuan was already the highest price since he became an official, after all, it was only 350,000 silver yuan to send up.

Although the river yamen is a fat man, it is not every year that public funds are allocated for river repair, and it is normally only issued once every few years, or it encounters a major flood.

But this land in Shaanxi is usually dry to death, how can it be so prone to flooding?

This is also the reason why the river yamen dares to be greedy for public funds for river repair, I don't know how many years it will only encounter a flood, why should it be so good?

According to the rules of the imperial court, after two or three terms of normal work, the officials of the iron yamen have to move the land, and the next thing is the responsibility of the next official.

Bi Yuntao knelt directly to Ma Jixiang, and he said with a handful of snot and tears: "Ma Gong, you don't know, this public money for repairing the river is not greedy by the lower officials alone, there are still many people up and down who have to take care of the fat, don't say one million silver yuan, it is the hundreds of thousands of silver yuan, or the lower officials squeezed out of the tight trouser belt!" ”

"You just raise your noble hand, take a little less, and leave a coffin book for the lower officials......."

Master Bi is right, this public money cannot be corrupted by an official, and the safest thing is to be corrupt by a group, from the same knowledge of the river, to the general judgment, the state judgment, the main book, the river patrol command, and even the sluice officer and dam official who manage the embankment, all need to be divided.

Because some people, although the official is not big, but they have the ability to poke things up, they must give some hush money, and they are also pulled into the water in disguise, so as to ensure absolute safety.

Now, the old eunuch asked for a million silver yuan when he opened his mouth, which is equivalent to taking away more than half of the total amount of ink greed from all the officials of the river yamen, who can stand it!