Chapter 3: Reincarnation of Corrupt Officials (II).
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Zhao Junchen has no father, and his mother, Zhao, is a "slut" who has been kicked out of the clan. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)
To put it simply, the Zhao family was pregnant with Zhao Junchen before they got married, not only that, no matter how the clan elders pressed them, the Zhao family refused to say who Zhao Junchen's father was, let alone beat Zhao Junchen in his stomach.
At the time, this was a shocking act.
So, naturally, the Zhao clan was driven out of the clan.
After being kicked out of the family, the Zhao family was helpless, always bullied but speechless, and unable to fight back, after a lot of hardships, finally gave birth to Zhao Junchen, and then relied on needlework for others to support the family, but the same work, because of the bad reputation, only half of the salary of others, relying on such a meager income, barely supported her and Zhao Junchen's life, dependent on each other.
No matter what mistakes Zhao has made, she is indeed a great mother - with such a meager income, she even did not hesitate to send Zhao Junchen to a private school to study and read, hoping that Zhao Junchen would have a career in the future!!
However, when Zhao Junchen was eleven years old, Zhao was overwhelmed and died of exhaustion!! Zhao Junchen was also sad to death because of this, and fell seriously ill, and in the end, it was the old master Xu who taught Zhao Junchen to read and write at that time, seeing that Zhao Junchen was pitiful, he took Zhao Junchen in, not only continued to teach Zhao Junchen the six arts of poetry and calligraphy, but later paid for Zhao Junchen to enter the county school and become a member of the imperial examination.
And Zhao Junchen did not live up to his dead mother and the old master Xu who recreated Entong's expectations for him, and he won the list again and again in the township test and the general examination, although he was just qualified every time, and he always hovered in the last few places, but considering that Zhao Junchen was only seventeen or eighteen years old at that time, it was also commendable.
If it continues to develop like this, Zhao Junchen's future is probably to reluctantly enter the palace examination, get a ranking in the latter part of the top three, and after a few years of drilling, he will become a petty official such as a county order, and if he is lucky, he may be able to become a middle-level official in the Ming Dynasty such as the prefect.
However, what no one expected was that because the palace examination only tested the current affairs, and the palace examination that Zhao Junchen participated in, the current affairs and policies tested mainly involved the country's financial management, and Zhao Junchen actually had a natural talent for financial management, which was a blockbuster, and finally he was appointed as the champion by Emperor Deqing, who personally presided over the palace examination, and I don't know how many scholars he envied.
After the imperial examination, Zhao Junchen directly entered the household department, starting from the head of the household department of the six products, three moves a year, the green clouds went up, in just three or five years, he has become the three products of the household department, and soon after the Deqing Emperor handed over the internal carrier library to Zhao Junchen to manage.
This kind of steady progress is inseparable from Zhao Junchen's financial management skills.
It can be said that over the years, Zhao Junchen has indeed done a lot of practical things. Before Zhao Junchen entered the court, the Ming Dynasty's financial turnover was difficult, and it did not spend, but after Zhao Junchen's various constructions and rectifications, it was greatly improved, and in recent years, there has been a gradual surplus!
But more importantly, it was the current Emperor Deqing's extraordinary favor for Zhao Junchen.
Basically, since Zhao Junchen became an official in the court, he has become a close minister by the emperor's side, always accompanied, and there are many rewards, once there is an opportunity to let Zhao Junchen show Xiàn, Emperor Deqing will never let it go, and let Zhao Junchen watch Xiàn as much as possible. As soon as Zhao Junchen has something to show for himself, Emperor Deqing will definitely seize the opportunity to promote Zhao Junchen's official position, and the reward is so generous that the government and the opposition are all red-eyed.
In this way, in less than five years, Zhao Junchen is only thirty-three years old, and he has already become a third-class minister of the dynasty!!
It is precisely because the holy favor is too heavy that there are many rumors between the government and the opposition that Zhao Junchen is likely to be the illegitimate son of Emperor Deqing.
There are many reasons, for example, Zhao Junchen's appearance is six or seven points similar to that of Emperor Deqing when he was young, and who Zhao Junchen's biological father is, except for the dead Zhao, no one knows;
For example, in the year before Zhao gave birth to Zhao Junchen, Emperor Deqing happened to tour the south, and passed by Zhao Junchen's hometown Yangzhou Mansion, during which he also made a mysterious private visit to Weifu for a period of time.
For another example, when Zhao Junchen and His Majesty met for the first time, after learning the identity and origin of Zhao Junchen, the emperor was unusually concerned about Zhao Junchen's life experience and his dead mother Zhao's cousin, and after learning that Zhao was exhausted to death, he still showed a sad face and was silent for a long time......
In short, regardless of the government or the opposition, the rumors about "Zhao Junchen is the illegitimate son of His Majesty the Dynasty" are already known to everyone, and they are conclusive.
For such rumors, although Zhao Junchen has heard of them, and he has been secretly proud, he is not sure, and the emperor himself is also undeniable.
But it is undeniable that it is under the boundless grace that Zhao Junchen's talent in financial management has been fully displayed, and his flaws have also been clearly revealed.
Maybe he was poor and afraid when he was young, Zhao Junchen has an unusual persistence and fanaticism for money, simply put, he is greedy for money, as long as he sees that it is profitable, whether it is legal or not, whether he should get it or not, he will try his best to benefit himself, and the favor and even doting of the current emperor makes him a little unscrupulous, especially in the past two years, it has gradually evolved into insatiable greed.
Thinking of what Zhao Junchen has done over the years, Zhao Gang sighed helplessly.
Two million three thousand taels of silver!!
Among Zhao Junchen's many memory fragments, even his own dynasty and environment are not very clear, but this number is extremely clear.
This is the result of his five years of greed for ink - you know, he was promoted to the head of the household and was able to be ranked in the court only a year ago, and for most of the past five years, he was only working for the original head of the household, and even so, during that time, he could be greedy for 400,000 taels of silver.
And after being promoted to the head of the household, in just half a year, he was greedy for 800,000 taels of white!! After concurrently serving as the undertaker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in just half a year, he once again embezzled 1.1 million taels of silver!!
Yes, among the memory fragments in the place where Zhao Gang received, these numbers are very clear, very clear!!
What kind of greed and madness this is.
Zhao Gang has seen corrupt officials, but he has never seen such crazy corrupt officials who are greedy for ink.
Trading power for money, openly taking bribes, embezzlement and bribery, and all kinds of means, as long as he can get huge profits, he will never refuse to give up.
In addition, Zhao Junchen was young and ambitious, and many people were jealous, relying on the favor of Emperor Deqing, and doing things unscrupulously, which offended many people. The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who are jealous and resentful of Zhao Junchen, are probably no less than half.
It's just that Zhao Junchen is too favored by Emperor Deqing, and Zhao Junchen has indeed made a lot of contributions to national financial management in addition to corruption, which can be regarded as an outstanding meritorious service, so those ministers who are red-eyed and resentful of Zhao Junchen can't help him for a while, but in secret, they have begun to target him everywhere.
There is no so-called secret in the officialdom, whether Zhao Junchen is corrupt and how much he has embezzled, those ministers who are officials in the same hall all know. In order to ruin Zhao Junchen's reputation and lay the groundwork for the future closure of the net, they added fuel and vinegar to publicize Zhao Junchen's corruption and bribery all over the world, making it known to passers-by.
So much so that today, although Zhao Junchen will not be the most greedy among the Manchu civil and military - after all, he has been an official for a short time - but he is definitely the most famous corrupt official in the world.
Of course, in all kinds of propaganda materials, he is still a courtier next to the emperor, and as for all his credits, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty selectively ignored them, and the ordinary people who spit and curse Zhao Junchen all day long do not know at all.
Some of the above situations were obtained by Zhao Gang from Zhao Junchen's memory fragments, and some were just inferences and speculations obtained from existing information, but they were also inseparable from the actual situation.
And this is the original Zhao Junchen!!
But what makes Zhao Gang helpless is that now he is Zhao Junchen, and all the consequences that Zhao Junchen has made need him to bear.
Thinking of this, Zhao Gang couldn't help but smile bitterly, shook his head, and said helplessly: "If God wants to make it perish, he must first make it crazy, how do I think that this Zhao Junchen is on the verge of extinction?" I thought that although I had crossed over, as an ancient official, at least I was safe and worry-free, and I didn't expect it to be such a scene, but now, I am Zhao Junchen, and Zhao Junchen is me. How to act in the future, but we must plan carefully, otherwise according to the current situation, I am afraid that it will not end well. ”
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