Chapter 207: The Official's Business
didn't wait for Li Er to react.
I heard Liu Shixiong suddenly say loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister has been the commander of Yi County for ten years, embezzled at least 300,000 yuan, 10,000 taels of silver, 1,000 taels of gold, 1,000 acres of land, and married 30 concubines, bullying the people in Yi County, and mutilating large households......
This guy is like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, revealing all his crimes.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Li Er was also stunned.
After a while, Li Er asked incredulously: "Liu Shixiong, are you telling the truth?" ”
Liu Shixiong raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, what the minister said, every sentence is true, the minister was blinded by lard before, ashamed of Your Majesty, ashamed of the Tang Sheji, the minister should be most grateful to Yixian Bo Duhe, if it weren't for his book, the minister would not understand so many truths, Du He is right, happiness is not easy to come by, but it is also simple, the tone is frightened and scared, it is better to let go of everything." ”
After a pause, Liu Shixiong continued: "Let go of everything, be happy, even in prison, you can feel happiness, and continue to hide, I can only live in the world, and sink in the torment of my heart...... The minister hated to meet Boduhe earlier than Yi County, and listened to him talk about these truths. ”
Li Er frowned in anger, picked up the book, and slammed Liu Shixiong's head.
"I, I want to kill you, as an official of the Tang Dynasty, you are corrupt and pervert the law, oppress the people, I want to kill your whole family!" Li Er roared.
Liu Shixiong showed a relieved smile: "Minister, thank you, Your Majesty, it is not a kind of happiness to die like this." ”
Li Eryi waved his hand: "Come on, put Liu Shixiong in the prison of the Criminal Department, Wei Ting, you quickly take people and find out about this matter." ”
Wei Ting, the secretary of Dali Temple, immediately agreed to come down and began to investigate Liu Shixiong.
Li Er immediately ordered a retreat.
With Li Er's personal order, the matter was investigated very quickly.
In the evening, Wei Ting rushed back from Yi County and entered the palace to see Li Er.
Wei Tingyu reported: "Your Majesty, what Liu Shixiong said this morning is true. ”
Li Er was furious and slapped the table.
"How can this be true, the dignified county magistrate has done such a thing, is he worthy of me? Is he worthy of the society of the Tang Dynasty and the people of Yi County? How unreasonable is that......"
Seeing Li Er angry, even Wei Ting didn't dare to come out.
After a while, Li Ercai said: "This matter, Wei Ting, you personally supervised, confiscated Liu Shixiong's family property, all family property, all confiscated, originally, I should have beheaded him all over the house, for the sake of Liu Shixiong's voluntary confession, I only beheaded him, and the rest of the family members were all exiled, and they were never allowed to return to Yi County." ”
"Yes!"
Wei Ting hurried to handle the matter.
That night, Li Er stayed up until the third watch, not to deal with political affairs, but to finish watching "Du He Talks about Happiness".
On the morning of the second day, the ministers saw Li Er's eyes red, and thought that they were troubled by Liu Shixiong's affairs and had not slept all night, but they didn't know that Li Er had finished reading Du He's new book last night.
After announcing Liu Shixiong's disposition, Li Er picked up the book and said in front of everyone: "Zhong Aiqing, I took a rough look at this book last night, Du He said, although it is full of mistakes, but there are also a lot of truths, especially after reading this book, it can be thought-provoking and thoroughly understand his own mistakes, Liu Shixiong is a living example, so I decided to allocate money from the treasury to order 10,000 copies of "Du He Talks about Happiness" from Du He, and distribute it to Datang officials all over the country. Datang Officials' Integrity and Self-Discipline Manual", those who dare to deceive their superiors and subordinates will never be spared. ”
What Li Er thought about was that there was definitely more than one Liu Shixiong in Datang, there must also be Zhang Shixiong, Wang Shixiong, if these moths could be pulled out through a book, it would be great.
Everyone was a little dumbfounded.
10,000 books is not a small amount.
In recent days, His Majesty has been crying poor every day, why did he suddenly become generous at this time.
The eldest grandson Wuji hurriedly stood up: "Your Majesty, this book "Du He Talks about Happiness" is 30 yuan, 10,000 copies, is 300,000 yuan, such a huge expense, the minister thinks it is better to forget it." ”
Li Er waved his hand: "This matter has been decided, and it is useless to dissuade anyone." ”
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The order of 10,000 books was personally delivered to the furniture factory by Zhao Yang, an internal attendant, and he told Du He in person.
Duhe gets the news when you squat on the ground and brush your teeth.
Hearing the news, he stood up excitedly, and with a pop, he spit all the foam in his mouth on Zhao Yang's face.
"Ouch, Mr. Zhao, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"
Du He hurriedly put down the toothbrush and quilt, and reached out to wipe it, who knew that the more he wiped, the more he wiped.
Zhao Yang was so angry that he almost wanted to hit someone, but unfortunately he didn't dare to do it.
"Uncle Yi County, aren't you so excited?" Zhao Yang finally cleaned it up, and said helplessly.
Du He smiled: "Manager Zhao, you don't understand this, my Tang Study, now there are more than 50 people, so many people are waiting to eat, no order, it means no business, the workers have no place to eat, Your Majesty is really a charcoal in the snow this time, Manager Zhao, you tell Your Majesty for me, this matter is absolutely done properly, 10,000 books, within 15 days, guaranteed delivery." ”
Du He didn't believe it at first, but when he saw the deposit of 50,000 yuan brought by Zhao Yang, he couldn't help but believe it.
He said in his heart, when did His Majesty Li Er become so generous.
This incident really made Du He angry.
In particular, when the people heard that Du He's book could find out corrupt officials and corrupt officials, even those who were not interested in reading should buy a copy and read it carefully.
For a time, Chang'an City set off a craze for reading "Du He Talks about Happiness".
At this time, the craze of "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" has not passed.
The orders for the Tang Study were endless, and Yang Hao couldn't stop smiling all day long.
Li Lizhen learned the news, but on a dark and windy night, quietly sneaked into Du He's room, and even ignored the suspicion of a lonely man and widow, knelt down and begged Du He to develop a new industry for the furniture factory, because the furniture factory's old revolving wooden chair has shown that the market is saturated at this time, as for the bubble stick, although Li Lizhi has been put into the furniture factory's industry, but has never made much money, especially after the secret of the soap horn liquid was discovered, the income from the sale of bubblers plummeted.
In the face of Li Li's soft grinding and hard foam, Du He finally decided to open up a production line for the furniture factory: making mahjong.
You know, in later generations, the popularity of mahjong can simply become crazy.
In some areas, every household has mahjong and even several mahjong machines in one household.
Mahjong is a form of entertainment suitable for men, women and children, and is also known as the fashion of national entertainment, and 80-year-old ladies and 78-year-old children can play 300 rounds on the table.
The prospects are promising!
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