Liang Jia has been in a good mood recently, although he hasn't scraped anything good for more than ten consecutive days, but Yue Fei's appearance really surprised him for many days. With Yue Fei, he felt that it was not difficult to exterminate the Liukou and the two disobedient alien races in the north.

What's more, in addition to Yue Fei, he also has a military general with super physical fitness. Xiaohua's combat effectiveness is not much better than Lu Bu in Liang Jia's opinion.

The Oriental silver ship had arrived at the Tanggu wharf three days earlier, but they had not seen any of their own personnel, and the people on board were all confused and headless like flies. Moreover, after a long journey, food and fresh water were scarce on their ships, and the dock soldiers of the Great Liang State did not let them go ashore because they did not have the two countries to go back and forth.

Three days passed, and the people on the ship were dying of thirst and starvation, but the soldiers of the Great Liang Kingdom still did not give them any chance to go ashore.

Liang Jia got a report from Jinyiwei and asked Chen Yueqiang to starve them for a few more days before negotiating.

As a result, when Chen Yueqiang negotiated with the Oriental Chinese, the other party was in no mood to negotiate, and they were hungry and weak, and they kept shouting for water and food.

The result was a surprisingly good negotiation.

Chen Yueqiang's seized ship was redeemed at double the price, and at the same time, the arrested scholar was compensated with 10,000 taels of silver, and Jinyiwei's troop expenses were compensated by another 10,000 taels, and finally all the silver on the ship of the Oriental Kingdom was directly wiped out.

These silver Dongyang countries were ready to continue to buy Daliang grain, but the result was that they were all spent after only one trip.

In the end, the total amount of silver obtained was 2,480,000 taels.

Liang Jia gave the household department one million taels, and the rest was all charged into the inner money. Of course, Jin Yiwei also got a reward, Liang Jia directly gave 30,000 taels. The more than 20 scholars who were kidnapped were divided into ten taels of silver.

During the interrogation, Chen Yueqiang also got the purpose of the Dongyang Kingdom to kidnap the Liang scholars, that is, to borrow seeds.

Nima, this trick is quite ruthless.

Chen Yueqiang returned to the capital with the silver, and the silver confiscated from Jiangnan by Tang Sai'er also arrived in the capital together.

Chen Yueqiang's dozen or so big cars were a little dwarfed by the fifty or sixty cars of Tang Sai'er's team.

Before Liang Jia could greet him, dozens of officials from the household department blocked the entrance of the palace like crazy, preventing the escort team from entering the palace.

If you enter the palace, there will be nothing to do with the household. The poor rats in the household department don't want to touch it, and they all look forward to it after knowing that Jiangnan has confiscated a large amount of silver.

"Your Majesty, what should I do, the household officials will not give way. Jinyiwei couldn't get rid of it. Tang Sai'er took the lead in entering the palace and reported the situation to Liang Jia.

"Give them some points." Liang Jia said with a smile.

"How much is appropriate?"

"It can't be too little, isn't it, 100,000 taels."

Tang Sai'er said yes and went out, but came back after a while.

"They asked for three million taels...... Well, Lord Shangshu is here. ”

Liang Jia looked up, and sure enough, he saw Feng Sanfeng, the head of the household, walking briskly towards the Chongning Palace. But he was stopped by the guards at the gate of the temple.

"Let him in."

Feng Sanfeng walked in quickly, and after saluting, he said anxiously: "Your Majesty, according to the practice of the imperial court, two or eight percent of the silver is confiscated and two percent is put into the warehouse, and two percent is put into the interior, but the emperor only gives 100,000 taels, which is really too little." ”

"How many taels of silver do you have in the household now?" Liang Jia asked.

"The household department has long run out of money, and now there are still many officials who have not paid it."

"Gone again? Didn't I just allocate 100,000 taels to you last time? ”

"Your Majesty, where is 100,000 taels enough for what? The annual income of the Beijing officials is seventy or eighty thousand taels, and the income of officials from all over the country and the members of the royal family need hundreds of thousands of taels ......"

"Gotta get it, don't say it, give you 500,000 taels this time, if you have more, it will be gone."

"Your Majesty, don't have too many ministers, just ask for the batch of silver from the Oriental Kingdom!"

"The Oriental Kingdom has already given you a million taels of silver, and you still want to ask for it, how can you be so good at calculating it?"

"Your Majesty, the batch of silver in the Oriental Kingdom was originally bought on credit from various merchants, and now I still owe them hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

"500,000 taels, love or not."

"Your Majesty, give another million taels."

"Sixty."

"Ninety."

"Seventy."

"Eighty."

"Yes. I'll give you 800,000 taels. Sayr, dial them up. ”

Tang Sai'er agreed and went out, and Feng Sanfeng let out a sigh of relief. In the eyes of the emperor's ministers, they have now become synonymous with miser, no matter what silver is transported to the palace, and they don't care about the operation of the court at all.

It's not that Liang Jia doesn't want to allocate money to the household department, but he doesn't trust the character of these officials.

Just this 1.8 million taels will be set out, and it is estimated that a large part will be stuffed into the pockets of some guys.

However, the imperial court does have to operate, corruption can't be stopped, and the money that should be spent has to be spent.

According to Liang Jia's idea, it would be good to give 100,000 taels to the household, and giving them 1.8 million taels would be a bit beyond his psychological tolerance.

More than 6 million taels of silver were recorded in the account, which made Xiaochunzi happy. This guy is the same as Liang Jia, both the master and the servant are misers. However, Liang Jia prefers this characteristic of Xiaochunzi, and the expenses in the palace have been reduced by almost twice as much as in previous years under his deliberate suppression and Xiaochunzi's picking.

It seems that you don't need to wait for the spring tax to come up before you can act.

After all the silver taels were counted, Liang Jia immediately secretly gave an order to Jinyiwei and Dongchang, asking them to quickly collect the situation of grain merchants in various places. When he found that there were illegal grain merchants who directly raided and transported all the grain to the capital, he had to implement the plan in advance.

The two million stones of grain that Tang Sai'er brought back were estimated to be only enough for a month's consumption. Liang Jia was ready to save up more than five million stone of grain before setting off.

Rourou has already carried out a huge campaign to purge the White Lotus Sect in Jiangnan, and this guy is much more ruthless than Tang Sai'er. Tang Sai'er will also come up with evidence before the raid, which will convince people to die. But the meat is coming directly, as long as it is reported by someone, or there is a little suspicion, it will be checked directly.

If the other party can prove it, then it is easy to say, but it must also pay a large sum of silver taels.

If it can't be proven, and there are people who testify, then just raid the house. The main participants directly ask about the beheading, if the family members know, all the questions are asked, and the uninformed distribution of the frontier.

For a time, Jiangnan was bloody and bloody by flesh and blood, and countless wealthy businessmen and officials who did evil were tragically beheaded and exiled. The murderous name of the butcher factory governor instantly resounded in the south of the Yangtze River, and the children cried at night.

In addition to his fame, he directly copied more than 8 million taels of silver, 4 million stones of grain, and countless other materials in several major provinces.