Zhang Bin was extremely depressed, he was really lying on the grass, why did he encounter such a big trouble as soon as he crossed over?

On one side is Qian Qianyi, the boss of the Donglin Party, and on the other hand, Xu Dahua, a cadre of the eunuch party, and neither side can afford to provoke it!

Is it possible that a small county town can meet two guys with such a big background?

Wu Shiqi seems to have just heard about it, Xu Hui and Zhao Mu can't blow it!

He couldn't help but feel lucky: "How could this Xu Hui be related to Xu Dahua, and how could this Zhao Mu be under Qian Qianyi's door?" These two people are just Tu Xiucai in the countryside, and Xu Dahua and Qian Qianyi are both high-ranking officials in the imperial court. ”

Wu Shiqi directly arched his hand and said: "Lord County Order, it cannot be confirmed whether Xu Hui and Xu Dahua are distant relatives, but Xu Dahua is the auditor of Shaoxing Mansion, and they may really be able to get involved." As for Zhao Mu, it stands to reason that he really can't vote for Qian Qianyi's disciples, but the Zhejiang Township Test in the first year of the Apocalypse was presided over by Qian Qianyi, and the villain also heard about ....... ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked around vigilantly, and then whispered in Zhang Bin's ear: "The villain heard that after Qian Qianyi presided over the township test, all the health offices under the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division were checked. ”

"Hiss", Zhang Bin couldn't help but gasp when he heard this, Wu Shiqi meant that the corruption under Jin Shanwei's command was dug up by Qian Qianyi, and more than 2,000 acres of land was one of his goals!

This seems to be a bit too unreliable, one Pingyang County is more than 2,000 acres, and the entire Zhejiang Chengxuan Political Envoy Department is how many acres, Qian Qianyi's appetite is inevitably too big.

He couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "What do you mean, Zhao Mu bought these lands as a gift to Qian Qianyi, it's unlikely, the price of the household department is twenty taels of silver per mu, and more than two thousand acres of land is nearly fifty thousand taels of silver, how much money does he Zhao Mu have, even if he has, what can he get by sending so much money to Qian Qianyi?" ”

When Wu Shiqi heard this, he looked at him dumbfounded, and instantly fell into a stupor.

Zhang Bin couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, is this question wrong?

He cautiously probed, "What's wrong, is there something wrong?" ”

Wu Shiqi came back to his senses when he heard this, and asked in disbelief: "Lord County Commander, please forgive the villain for being unreasonable, may I ask, how many acres of land are under your name?" ”

Zhang Bin was dumbfounded, he really didn't know this, he didn't have any memories of these in his mind.

He was stunned for a moment, then simply said bluntly: "This official really doesn't know, and the property is handled by my father." ”

When Wu Shiqi heard this, he suddenly said: "Oh, it turned out that it was handled by the Lord of Qianhu, and it was the villain who was too talkative, and I ask the county magistrate to forgive me." ”

It seemed that he was still blindfolded, Zhang Bin shook his head and asked curiously, "Why are you asking this?" ”

Wu Shiqi hurriedly explained: "Lord County Order, didn't you just ask Zhao Mu if he bought this land as a gift to Qian Qianyi, in fact, what he gave was not land, but money, and he didn't give it directly to Qian Qianyi, but to a few of Qian Qianyi's protégés, and these protégés also had to draw a little, and finally give it to Qian Qianyi." ”

When it comes to money, Zhang Bin suddenly remembered one thing, that is, the love story of Qian Qianyi and Liu Ruyi, a famous beauty among Qin Huai Shiyan.

The reason why he remembered this incident was not because he was envious of the love between the two, but because he thought of the money Qian Qianyi spent in the process of pursuing Liu Ruyi.

According to historical records, Qian Qianyi was very generous in order to win a smile from the beauty, and he built an embroidery building and a library pavilion, and it was conservatively estimated that he would have tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Where did this money come from?

From Qian Qianyi, he thought of the allusion of Chongzhen borrowing money from civil and military officials.

When Emperor Chongzhen opened his mouth to borrow money from those ministers, they all said that they had no money, but after Li Zicheng captured the capital, he immediately squeezed out more than 70 million taels of silver from these ministers!

In other words, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, these Beijing officials had at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in their hands, and even more than 100,000 taels, where did they get these money?

Now, it looks like he's about to find out.

He couldn't help but say with interest: "What kind of method is this money, you can tell the official well." ”

In fact, at this time, most readers are well aware of this problem, but Zhang Bin, a nerd, is an exception, because someone in his family worries about money for him, and he doesn't have to worry about it at all, so he doesn't know anything about it.

Wu Shiqi didn't think it was strange at all, this was the baby bump of the Lord of Qianhu, and it was normal for Lord Qianhu to not let this person contact for these messy things.

He straightened his thinking, and then explained in detail: "This method of sending money is called dedication, after Zhao Mu buys this land, he will not really give it away, he will separate these lands, hang them in the names of Qian Qianyi's protégés, and then hire people to farm the land, and then exchange the harvest in the field for money, hand over seven or eight percent, and keep two or three percent for himself." ”

Zhang Bin seems to have seen the word dedication in some novels, but those novels only mentioned it and did not explain it in detail, so he still didn't understand it.

He couldn't help asking: "Why did Zhao Mu put the land in someone else's name, what if someone else directly took the land?" ”

Wu Shiqi shook his head and said: "No, this is the rule, no one will do such a thing as snatching land, as for why he hangs the land in someone else's name, it is to avoid paying the land tax." Adults, you should know that the meritorious name of the Jinshi can be tax-exempt from 2,000 acres, the meritorious name of the person can be tax-exempt from 400 acres, and the meritorious name of Xiucai can be tax-exempt from 80 acres. ”

It turns out that this is the case, Qian Qianyi doesn't need to take these lands as his own at all, he just needs to let people buy the land, hang it in the name of his students, and then wait for the people below to hand over the money layer by layer, a Jinshi student is 2,000 mu, and a person is 400 mu, he only needs to accept dozens of poor students who have no family background, tens of thousands of taels, drizzle!

Now Zhang Bin understands that most of the civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty relied on this method to accumulate money, no wonder they all confidently said that they were not corrupt, strictly speaking, this is indeed not corruption, they are just using the power in their hands to annex land in a different way.

It seems that this is the case nine times out of ten, Zhao Mu and Xu Hui are indeed Qian Qianyi and Xu Dahua's people, and they are the tools to make money for these two guys.

The problem is back to square one, both sides can't afford to offend, what should I do?

If it is replaced by the original Zhang Bin, it is estimated that he can only take refuge on one side and offend the other, and he is likely to defect to the eunuch party, because judging from the newspaper, the eunuch party seems to have gained the upper hand, and the bigwigs of the Donglin party will soon be cleaned up.

Now Zhang Bin naturally doesn't think so, because he knows that sooner or later the eunuch party will be finished, once Emperor Chongzhen succeeds to the throne, the Donglin Party will once again control the power of the imperial court, and that time is the critical period to seize the position of governor of Fujian, if he offends the Donglin Party, the governor of Fujian, he doesn't have to think about it!

Therefore, it is the Donglin Party that can really affect his future, not the Eunuch Party.

Of course, at this time, the eunuchs were in full swing, and if they offended, there would be no good fruit to eat.

In other words, the land must be sold to Zhao Mu, and the eunuch party cannot be offended.

How can you not offend the eunuch party and sell the land to Zhao Mu again?

Zhang Bin racked his brains and thought for a long time, and finally came up with a way, that is, to let Zhao Mu go to hack Xu Hui, fabricate charges against Xu Hui, make Xu Hui temporarily guilty, and sell the land to Zhao Mu, and then help him clear his name.

In this way, Zhao Mu himself is helping him get the land, while Xu Hui will think that he is helping him clear his name, neither side is offended, and there is a desire to please him.

As for whether Zhao Mu will hack Xu Hui, there is no need to worry about this, now that the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party are fighting, as long as he speaks, he will definitely want to clean up Xu Hui.