In early April, Boyuan Jun Ji Feng and his nephew Ji Kang entered Xianguo, and when they entered Qiunan County, they took a train, all the way to Shanling, and when they passed the Yongxing Railway Bridge, Ji Feng's heart was heavy. He had already received news that Xianguo could smelt 100,000 catties of copper and iron a year, so he came here for Yongxing City, and he wanted to completely empty it.

Just when Ji Feng's uncle and nephew took the train all the way east, Gao Xun was already completely out of proportion, Bailiyan's revenge was more ferocious than he imagined, to be precise, Bailiyan's means of revenge were far beyond his cognition.

"Your Majesty, as of noon today, the futures market has lost more than 2.7 million yuan, and businessmen from all over the world have flocked to the royal family's mansion, and in the counties, more than 3 million new landless peasants have been added in just one and a half months, and there is still surplus grain in the peasants' homes.

Gao Xun kicked the ball to Jiang Zhen, Jiang Zhen paced back and forth briskly, and he was actually even more annoyed, because after two months of auditing, he found that at least more than 400 million catties of steel, pig iron, copper, tin, and bronze could not be checked with Yongxing's production capacity, and the whereabouts of more than 7 million catties of various commodities were unknown. Of course, this is not an accumulation of one or two years, it has been accumulated in the past nineteen years since Bailiyan took full power in 634, so no one is more angry now.

"Enough!" King Xian scolded, and then said angrily: "The futures market will be shut down immediately, and the landless people will rent the land of the nobles, will it be possible for them to starve to death?" ”

"Wang, whether to discuss the closure of futures with Xuanting Hou, this matter has been supervised by Qianfang, and Qianfang should be responsible. In addition, if the peasants are nobles and have land, the current land law and tax law must be changed, otherwise the nobility will not be profitable. ”

"Then change, now there are countless grain fields with a yield of three or five stones per mu, that is, only half of the land rent is collected, can the people still starve to death?"

"The approval of the cabinet is required to amend the tax law, and a change to the land tax law will affect the supply of Yongxing materials and even implicate the national treasury, so the king should be cautious."

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do if I want to be widowed, is it possible that without him Bailiyan, the widow's country will collapse." Do you want the cabinet to agree, then, pass on the widow's will, and the cabinet will come to the Guangyuan Hall immediately, and the widow will ask them well. ”

"No!"

Jiang Yuzheng couldn't find a place to vent his anger, and he was ready for a showdown.

Half an hour passed, and the cabinet, in addition to the great Si Nong Tan Le, the Marquis of Xuan Ting, and the imperial historian Li Xu gathered in the Guangyuan Palace, Lu Gao did not show up for a month, and this time he also came.

Nuo Yiyan, as the most disinterested minister in all the cabinets, looked at King Xian's angry face carefully, and asked cautiously:

"I don't know what the king has ordered me to come in a hurry."

The next moment King Xian sat back on the couch and asked:

"What are the movements of countries today?"

"After the leakage of iron production in Yongxing, the prince of various countries should have just received the news, and the decision is on the way to Xianguo, so he has not yet received news from the princes, but the envoys of various countries in Lingling have made several appointments to ask Xianguo to stabilize the market, otherwise they will complain to their own country, and the ministers have already met with the king several times before, and the king should know."

"The widow knows, but there are also the widows who don't." When the words fell, King Xian's cold eyes swept towards the Qiao family's father and son, these two were both people with strange skins, and they couldn't be frightened by Jiang Yu's immature gaze: "Xuanting Hou, the widow's uncle." ”

"The old minister is here, what does the king command?"

"Uncle does you know how much money Yongxing Hou has in Qianfang."

"This ...... It's hard to say. ”

Qiao Lian pretended to shirk, and King Xian then said:

"It's hard to say because there is too much money and I'm embarrassed to say it, but I still can't say it."

"According to the rules set by Qianfang, the original shareholder account cannot be checked without the consent of more than two or more shareholders without the consent of more than two shareholders, so the minister cannot say."

At the beginning of the establishment of the National Money Fang, there were only four original shareholder accounts, Xianwang, Luhou, Xuanting, and Yongxing, and without the consent of the person, the inquiry of account funds required the approval of at least two shareholders.

In fact, this is a backdoor unilaterally opened for Jiang Hai, because no matter what period, Jiang Hai can always let Luhou cooperate, so Jiang Hai will always know how much money Bailiyan has in Qianfang, but Bailiyan can't know how much money Xianwang has saved in Qianfang, how much money has been transferred in and out, and he can't check all the running accounts.

After getting this information, Jiang Yu asked Qiao Lian again:

"Then does my uncle agree to the widow's accounting?"

"This ......" Qiao Lian glanced at everyone's faces, all of them disagreed, but he finally gave in to Jiang Zhen, he said: "As of last year, my son-in-law's account in Qianfang has a total of more than 1.74 million inches of silver, more than 93,600 yuan of gold, and more than 11.72 million Singapore dollars. ”

Instead of being shocked and moved by such a huge sum of money, Jiang Yu asked:

"That's all?"

Qiao Lian didn't seem to understand, and said affirmatively:

"That's all."

"Is that really all!"

Jiang Yu's tone was even tougher this time, and Qiao Lian also heard what King Xian was hinting at, but he really couldn't think of what King Xian was hinting at, so he said:

"Wang, that's all, and half of these deposits are liquid money, all of which are living money that needs to be put into commercial operations, so they need to be transferred in and out on a regular basis, and that's it."

"It seems that my uncle doesn't know enough about the Marquis of Yongxing, Doctor Yushi."

King Xian signaled to Li Xu, and Li Xu stepped forward to answer:

"Minister, what does the king command?"

"Report the accounts you checked to all the adults, as long as the report is not correct, there are too many others, don't delay time."

"No."

At this time, Lu Gao, Zhao Huan, Zhang You, and Qiao's father and son were still confused, and they didn't know that Li Xu had checked the accounts in private. At the next moment, Li Xu took the accounts from his subordinates, and said while looking at them:

"After two months of verification by the lower officials, after investigation, since 634 of the Shengyuan Dynasty, nearly 40,000 catties of steel, pig iron, copper, tin, and bronze have been missing, more than 7 million catties of various commodities have disappeared, 2.7 million horses of cloth, 420,000 horses of silk, 120,000 catties of salt, 20 million catties of sugar, and 120,000 catties of tea are missing. This is only the account found by the Sinong Mansion, and the gap between the output of Yongxing City over the years. In addition, the accounts of the Ordnance Division have not been found, and the actual amount is not known. ”

As soon as Li Xu's words were outstanding, even Gao Xun didn't expect Jiang Yu to do such a big thing behind his back.

If you want to talk about corruption, being an official is a little bit, and sometimes you just want to get some public benefits, but if you want to be greedy like this, I'm afraid you can't find a second one throughout history.

This is corruption, it is a thief of the country. Moreover, the small amount of copper and iron is enough for the princes to produce for decades, and the armor soldiers of this equipment alone are enough. can't help but highly doubt the authenticity of the accounts checked by Li Xu, and the first person to oppose it is Lu Gao.

"The king, the Marquis of Yongxing is fair and selfless, will there be any errors in these account differences, and this is not a decimal, it is tens of thousands of days."

"What Lu Sima said is very true, so the widow has to ask Xuanting Hou, how much money Yongxing Hou has saved in Qianfang, if it is calculated according to last year's price, the difference here alone must be tens of thousands of new dollars, it is really the first profiteer in the world. Uncle, did you say so? ”

"This, this...... This is also true, how can the king's cousin-in-law be greedy for ink so much, not to mention that the Yongxing industry is owned by the king's cousin-in-law, how can he be greedy for his own goods. ”

"Humph!" King Xian snorted angrily, and said the next moment: "Whether there is a greedy ink widow or not is looking at the facts, and now that the account is here, can it be fake." ”

At this time, Zhao Huan stepped forward and said:

"King, the accounts of Sinong Mansion are complicated, Lord Li may not be able to clarify the context when he first gets involved in this way, it must be a negligence to end up with such a big difference, and the minister suggests re-examining."

"The minister also suggested a review."

Promise seconded the proposal, Zhang You, Lu Gao, Qiao Cheng and others all seconded the proposal, and King Xian pushed the boat down the river, but his tone was full of murderous intent:

"Since you have asked for a review, Yongxingjun will take the lead in reviewing the accounts, but the widow's ugly words are ahead, if the accounts are still like this, how are you going to explain to the widow!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone couldn't help but start worrying, Lu Gao said:

"This matter is very important, you should ask Yongxing Hou about the ins and outs, maybe there are any accounts that have not been included in it, and the king should be cautious. Yongxing Hou has made great contributions to the country and the people, and even more to the Central Plains, please think twice about the king, don't ......"

Before Lu Gao's voice fell, Yan Ping outside the hall came to report:

"King Qiyu, General Ye rushed back from Qingtian, there are 100,000 urgent things that need to be reported to the king."

"General Ye is not in the army, and there is no Wang Zhao to come to Shanling to do anything."

Jiang Yu asked, and Yan Ping hurriedly said:

"The people of Qingtian, Sangnan, and Sangbei mutinied, and more than 500 people from the Third Town Army led the troops to mutiny, killing more than 70 members of Maofengjun's family, killing more than 200 guards, and fleeing with a large number of qiāng zhīdàn yào, the situation in the three counties is out of control, and the Third Town Army is now divided into seven places by the chaotic people and cannot move, General Ye asked for help."

"Traitor, thief!" Jiang stinged and roared, his eyes red: "Go, hurry up and send Ye Xin to see the widow." ”

"No!"

Ye Xin's third town army was originally stationed in Xianxi and Qiunan, and after Qingtian, Sangbei, and Sangnan were incorporated into the territory, Ye Xin's main force moved to the territory of the three counties, and the areas where the mutiny occurred this time were concentrated in Sangnan and Qingtian, because before these two counties were merged, the remnants of the black turban had been entrenched here for a long time.

February's feudalism intensified the antagonism among the people who had just been incorporated into the three counties, and the forcible annexation of land by the aristocracy seriously exacerbated the contradictions.

However, it is impossible for internal problems to intensify rapidly in just two months, especially in the two years since the merger, the living standards of the three counties have been substantially improved, and there is no basis for a large-scale civil uprising, so it is impossible for a mutiny affecting the three counties to occur within two months.