Wu Zongda Zhishi, Zheng Yiwei died, Xie Sheng and Wang Yingxiong entered the cabinet, Wen Tiren was suddenly powerful, and no one could govern him in the court, it stands to reason that he should be satisfied.

But there was one thing he had been haunting about.

Hubu Shangshu Bi ran to Chongzhen to complain, causing him to destroy his plan to make a handful of money in Fuguang, and he also folded in two cadres, this hatred he has always remembered.

He knew that Bi Ziyan was angry because his brother Bi Zisu was angry, so he would do it with them.

Wen Tiren believes that Bi Zisu did not intend to target Bi Ziyan, only blame Bi Zisu for not dying, just in the position of the governor of Liaodong, in order to clean up Yuan Chonghuan, he must send someone of his own to take the position of the governor of Liaodong, Bi Zisu can only be regarded as a mistake.

He "had to" pull Bi Zisu off the horse "out of helplessness", but Bi Ziyan deliberately targeted him, it was really too deceitful, how could he swallow this breath!

During this time, he has been busy seizing power, so he has no time to clean up Bi Ziyan, and when the plan and the imperial examination are over, he finally has time, Bi Ziyan, the head of the household, must be killed, because those who dare to offend him are basically cleaned up, and fortunately, they stay in the court, and this Bi Ziyan.

Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die, Wen Tiren at this time is so crazy!

However, Bi Ziyan's deep trust in Chongzhen, and his honesty and dedication, not a party or a group, it is really a bit difficult to clean him up, Wen Tiren gathered a group of party henchmen to discuss for several nights before he came up with a poisonous plan.

Within a few days, Tang Shiji's distant relative, Tang Wan, came to work and made up for a fat shortage.

This Tang Wan may not have a good name, he is a step late for everything, he has studied hard for more than ten years, participated in the imperial examination eight times before he was admitted to a show, at that time he was nearly forty years old, the road to the imperial examination seems to be impassable, but he still did not give up, continued to take the exam five times, to the age of fifty, he was really admitted to the lift, but at this time everything is too late, he has already stepped into the coffin with half a foot, and then continue to take the Jinshi examination, it is estimated that he will not be able to pass the examination until death!

He thought that his life had stopped like this, and perhaps he would die before the ministry could arrange a position for him, and it was at this time that he suddenly received the appointment and dismissal documents from the ministry and appointed him as the ambassador of the household department.

The ambassador of the Ming Dynasty is not much of an official, generally a nine-grade sesame official, just like the officials, is the lowest official, the original ambassador of the Tai Warehouse is not even a nine-grade sesame official, it is a small official who has not entered the stream, but this Tang Wan is a lifter, and the official department "discretionary" gave him a positive nine-pin, which can be regarded as the right to start him.

It is said that this too warehouse ambassador is also a fat shortage, no matter how fat the problem position is, you have to be able to eat the fat meat in your mouth, the warehouse is the silver treasury of the household department, there is no backstage, you dare to steal it, the teeth are knocked out for you is light, and it is normal to lose your head!

To go, or not to go?

Just when he was hesitating, his distant relative, Tang Shijituo, sent him a message and asked him to enter Beijing quickly.

Tang Shiji is the pride of the Tang clan in Jiaxing, today's Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Palace, a big official who is better than the six books, such an important minister of the court sent someone to pass on the word to him, what is there to hesitate, it is definitely a great benefit!

He packed up his bags on the same day and hurried to the capital, just like rushing to reincarnate.

Tang Shiji did have great benefits for him, before he took office, Tang Shiji secretly confessed to him, and asked him to find a way to eliminate the records of Qingpu County's tax and silver storage last year in Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, and then find a way to steal out the tax and silver paid by Qingpu County last year, no matter how much, it was his.

A county's tax money for a year, he wants to be greedy, if he wants to change it, he doesn't dare to be greedy, but Tang Shiji told him that as long as he finds a way to be greedy for this silver, not only will no one hold him accountable, but after the matter passes, he will also be promoted, at least the county order of the seventh grade!

This guy can be promoted even if he is greedy for money, where to find such a good thing, Tang Wan naturally can't ask for it, so as soon as he took office, he tried his best to figure out how to give Qingpu County's tax money last year to greedy ink, so that he could be promoted and make a fortune!

The full name of Taicang Silver Warehouse is the Taicang Silver Treasury, which is set up by the Ming Dynasty to store property and materials such as taxes, silver, confiscated assets, and land.

Originally, the Tai Warehouse was not very important, because the taxes in the early and middle Ming Dynasty were mainly grain, and the silver collected was very small, and the assets were not much, so the ambassador of the Hubu Tai Warehouse was just a small official who did not enter the stream at the beginning, and he didn't even have a grade.

However, since the early days of Wanli, after Zhang Juzheng's reform and the implementation of a whip law, the Tai Warehouse has become the most important warehouse of the household department, because all taxes, including forced labor, have been converted into cash, and the annual income of the Tai Warehouse is at least more than 4 million taels!

As for the source of this official, it is generally the Ministry of Officials who selects the old and respectful, loyal and reliable people, and at this time the Ministry of Officials are all controlled by the remnants of the eunuch party, and it is naturally easy to appoint and dismiss the ambassador of the Tai Warehouse.

Tang Wan took office like this, and he didn't have any experience, so he was driven to the shelves and sent to the Tai Warehouse.

Fortunately, the things in the warehouse are not complicated at all, that is, the management of the silver two in and out of the warehouse, just like the cashier of later generations, as long as the brain is normal, those who have read books, and those who know words can almost go up and try, the only thing that is a little difficult is to prevent the miscellaneous servants from stealing the silver in the warehouse.

In other words, why is there a miscellaneous servant in the place where the silver is stored?

It's very simple, because the weight of silver is not much different from the iron lump, if it is one or two hundred catties or even one or two thousand catties, it is enough to have an ambassador and a deputy envoy, the two of them work hard, run a few more times, one or two thousand catties of silver is not very difficult to move, the problem is that the silver in and out of the warehouse is at least four million taels a year, which is converted into hundreds of thousands of catties.

However, after so many years of experience, the Tai Warehouse also has a set of practical methods to prevent miscellaneous servants from stealing tax silver, and this method is a bit ridiculous to say, that is, all miscellaneous servants must strip naked and put on special pants made by the household before carrying the silver taels, and after the transportation, the deputy envoy will also conduct a full body inspection of everyone, and the envoy will count all the silver taels, so that it is almost impossible for the miscellaneous servants to steal the silver taels.

Of course, there are some loopholes in this, after all, there is so much silver in the Tai storehouse that it is impossible to count all the silver every time, and the handyman does not have to hide the silver in his clothes, and he can still bring the silver out of his body from some places.

In this regard, the household department also came up with a way, that is, the shape of the silver tael has changed, and all the tax-discounted silver taels are no longer cast into the appearance of silver ingots, but cast into palm-sized silver ingots, flattened, and the surface is also covered with fish scale-like lines, which looks particularly beautiful, and the name is also very good, and its name is "gold and silver".

This gold and silver is beautiful, but if you want to stuff it into your body, it will be fatal.

It turns out that when the silver ingots were cast, there were often officials who stuffed them into their bodies from the back door and secretly took them out of the warehouse, but after they were cast into gold and silver, basically no one dared to plug them into the back door.

Because this gold and silver is not as round as the silver ingot, like a silver ingot, the average person will put it in after enduring, and the gold and silver dare not be plugged into the back door, because it has fish scale patterns on the surface, that guy, the resistance is very large, and it can't be stuffed at all, and it is as wide as a palm, who dares to plug it into the back door, absolutely direct anal fissure!

In fact, even if the household department tries all kinds of methods, there are still big loopholes, for example, the Tai Warehouse is making it extremely easy to steal the silver taels, because he didn't go in shirtless, he was wearing an official uniform, as long as he didn't stuff too much into his clothes at a time, who could see it.

Tang Wan only found this loophole after a few days of familiarization, and the general ambassador naturally did not dare to steal it, because the household department would regularly send people to check the deposit of silver, and once it was found that it was not right, the ambassador and the deputy envoy would be finished.

However, Tang Wan didn't have this worry, because this silver was told to be stolen by Lord Yushi of the Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his distant lobby brother said that as long as he could steal last year's tax silver from Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, he would be able to get promoted and make a fortune, if he couldn't steal it, let him go home and farm!

This stealing silver is easy to do, but it is not easy to destroy the storage records, because the account book clearly records that Chongzhen, Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, paid 2,931 taels of tax silver in six years, and put it into the warehouse on a certain day in a certain month, and stored it in a certain warehouse, a certain shelf, and a certain location.

This thing, it must not work to cross it out directly, you paint this piece of black paint so black, people will know that there is a problem at a glance, and it will not work to tear it off directly, each page of the ledger can be numbered, no matter how clean you tear it, the number is wrong!

In the end, it was Tang Shiji who sent him a master who imitated handwriting, and he wrote a page for him again, and directly changed it to Chongzhen, Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, to pay taxes and silver in six years, none!

Now it's simple, he pretends to inspect the warehouse several times a day, each time he brings out dozens of hundreds of taels, and in a few days, he will store a certain warehouse, a certain shelf, and a certain position of the silver are all stolen, and the tax silver paid by Chongzhen in Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili has disappeared in the warehouse since then, and has become Tang Wan's property!

Isn't it a bit ridiculous for them to do this, even if the records of the Tai Warehouse are gone, there are still records on the side of the household department, and there are records on the side of Qingpu County, what's the use of destroying the records on the side of the Tai Warehouse, doesn't this hide your ears and steal the bell?

Of course it works, Wen Tiren's shameless ordinary people really can't learn it, Tang Wan just secretly reported that the silver had been stolen, and he immediately ordered someone to submit a fold to impeach Bi Ziyan Zheng Youyuan, the former Qingpu Zhizhi County of Songjiang Prefecture, for falsely reporting the amount of tax silver, and committing fraud for personal gain!

In other words, how can a magistrate of Nanzhili have anything to do with Bi Ziyan, and what is the direct relationship between whether he pays taxes and silver and Bi Ziyan?

Wen Tiren is naturally not untargeted, because Zheng Youyuan and Bi Ziyan are both from Zichuan, and his father and Bi Ziyan are still old friends, and when he entered Beijing to participate in the general examination and the palace examination, he lived in Bi Ziyan's mansion, and Bi Ziyan couldn't deny this relationship.

As for the matter of taxes and silver, the imperial court has regulations that if there is a transfer of local officials, the household department must first check whether the taxes and expenditures in his office are correct, and at this time, Zheng Youyuan has been transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to serve as the inspector of the imperial history, if the taxes and expenditures in his tenure in Qingpu County are not counted, it is the responsibility of the household department!

This kind of trivial matter was originally nothing, after all, there were more than 1,000 counties in the entire Ming Dynasty, and it was not a big deal if there was a problem with the tax payment of a county for a year, and it could not be related to Bi Ziyan, but this matter deteriorated in the hands of Wen Tiren.

After this was transferred to the cabinet, Wen Tiren personally wrote the vote, and the wording was very harsh, and he wrote on the vote: bending the law for personal gain, embezzling taxes, and the circumstances are heinous, and it is recommended that the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, and the Criminal Department jointly investigate thoroughly!

Chongzhen didn't think it was a big deal when he saw this recital, a county, less than three thousand taels of taxes, if it's wrong, it's wrong, just send someone to track it down, it's boring to insist on the prince and Taibao's household department Shangshu Bi Ziyan, people have a lot of things a day, how can they always keep an eye on this little thing.

However, as soon as he saw the ticket written by Wen Tiren, his face changed instantly, and the wording was so harsh, could there be something greasy in it!

He immediately sent someone to summon Wen Tiren to the imperial study, holding up a fold and asking, "Changqing, what's going on?" ”

Wen Tiren pretended to guess: "Your Majesty, are you talking about the impeachment of the Household Department Shangshu Bi Ziyan by the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate?" ”

Chongzhen nodded solemnly and said, "Yes, what do you mean by bending the law for personal gain and embezzling taxes?" ”

Wen Tiren pretended to sigh and said: "Your Majesty, you don't know, this Zheng Youyuan and Bi Ziyan are both from Zichuan, and his father and Bi Ziyan are still old friends, when he entered Beijing to participate in the general examination and the palace examination, he lived in Bi Ziyan's mansion, and their relationship is not ordinary!" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his face changed, and he asked, "Then what do you mean, the content of the impeachment on this fold is true?" ”

Wen Tiren denied it: "This Weichen is not sure, but Weichen has heard of Zheng Youyuan's matter, and someone complained to Weichen, this Zheng Youyuan is seriously corrupt, and he is almost greedy for taxes and silver in Qingpu County, but Bi Ziyan bends the law for personal gain and asks people to help him falsify accounts, so from the records of the household department, there is nothing abnormal in the tax payment in Qingpu County." ”

Chongzhen was shocked when he heard this: "There is still such a thing? ”

Wen Tiren still couldn't be sure: "This has to be checked to know, it is rumored that Zheng Youyuan did a great job when he left office last year, he collected all the tax and silver of Qingpu County for a year, and there was no problem with the accounts of the household department, so Wei Chen dared to suggest that the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, and the Criminal Department jointly investigate this time!" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he nodded solemnly and said: "This matter should indeed be thoroughly investigated, taxation is the foundation of the country, and there must be no problems. ”

Wen Tiren couldn't help but bow his head and smile treacherously, and then said loudly: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”