Chapter 134: Confucius Bows His Head (Page 1/1)

Wu Mengming picked up the gift list and looked at it, only to find that it was not a gift list at all, and it directly said 25,000 yuan in silver coins, thinking that the Confucian Mansion had invested a lot of money.

He couldn't help but smile and said: "This commander has thanked the brothers for the concern of the Confucian Mansion, and the envoy will inform the emperor of the emperor's intentions." ”

Kong Zhengqi's face changed greatly, his name was to reward Jinyiwei, and this gift list was actually a hush money for Jinyiwei, and now Wu Mengming has received the money, but he said that he wants to tell the emperor, which is incomprehensible.

If you want to tell the emperor, then you shouldn't take the money, but now you have to tell the emperor after you have collected the money, which makes Kong Zhengqi completely confused about what he has in mind. But he saw Wu Mengming hand the gift list to the Jinyi Wei next to him and said: "Take it and register it, there is a percentage of it that belongs to Jinyiwei." 2,500 yuan, each person gets almost 100 yuan, this is really lucky. ”

Hearing this, Kong Zhengqi understood that the money was paid, but not only did he not let Jinyiwei stop, but he was charged with bribery. But he brought all the silver coins, and now it is impossible to carry them back, so he had to arch his hand and say, "Commander Wu, can you take a step to speak?" ”

Wu Mengming smiled: "Steward Kong, please." ”

The two came to the corner of the house, and Kong Zhengqi said in a low voice: "This is a special reward for Jinyiwei, the commander is 20,000, and the following is 5,000." The head of the family only hopes that when the time comes, Jinyiwei can say a few kind words in front of the emperor, and the Kong family is grateful, and there will be a retribution. ”

Wu Mengming arched his hand and said: "Steward Kong, I'm afraid that this matter will not work, we have regulations, and if you encounter bribery, you must report it, and we will have a percent." If we don't, the Bureau of Economic Investigation will get us in trouble. ”

Kong Zhengqi said: "Our family master also has a gift list for the Economic Investigation Bureau, and everyone accepts it, so naturally there will be no problem." ”

Wu Mengming said with a smile: "Steward Kong, I'm afraid that you don't know much about the rules of Jinyiwei and the Economic Investigation Bureau, anyone who accepts bribes, as long as you turn yourself in and confess to others, you can be exempted from punishment, and the emperor will reward you for the bribes you receive, but everyone else will be held accountable, fined ten times the amount of the bribes received, and the sentence will be calculated according to 100 yuan a year." And if you sue us for accepting a bribe one day, then you will not be guilty of bribery, and all the money from the bribe will be returned to you, and you will be rewarded with the same amount of money at the end. Do you think that under such rules, we dare to take your money and not report it? ”

Kong Zhengqi looked at Wu Mengming desperately and said, "Commander, we are sincerely rewarding all Jinyi Guards, and we don't think about bribes. ”

Wu Mengming said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, whether we report it as a reward or a bribe is the same for us, it's all one percent." But if Steward Kong is willing to cooperate with us, then how to say it is not a very simple matter. ”

Kong Zhengqi was alive again, and said in a low voice: "Then our family master is willing to send another 20,000 yuan to the commander, and please have mercy on the commander." ”

Wu Mengming said with a smile: "Steward Kong, what I said about cooperation is not to ask you to send me money again, I just don't dare to ask for it." I mean, as long as the Confucian Mansion cooperates with our investigation, it is best for you to go back and tell your family master, we have a lot of evidence in this case so far, and it is impossible to think that nothing will happen. But if it is Yan Shenggong himself who finds out the lawbreakers under him, it is definitely much better than us finding out, and it is easy to explain in front of the emperor. I say this for the sake of your reward, and it is up to the Holy Father to do it. ”

Kong Zhengqi thought for a while, and said, "Thank you for the commanding envoy's guidance, and the little one will go back and report to the head of the family." ”

Kong Zhengqi returned to the Yansheng Mansion and reported the entire process to Kong Yinzhi. Kong Yinzhi pondered for a while and said, "What do you think? ”

Kong Zhengqi said: "Wu Mengming didn't dare to accept money, but this subordinate can understand that the emperor's rectification of corruption and bribery in the past two years is very powerful, and of course he doesn't dare to do it in front of Tian Ergeng." It's just that his subordinates feel that judging from Wu Mengming's tone, the emperor has no intention of uprooting the Confucian Mansion. ”

Kong Yinzhi scolded: "You still need to say this, the new era has just been announced, will he choose to do it to me at this time?" Now I just don't know what to do to satisfy him and make us lose the least. ”

Kong Zhengqi said: "Grandpa, since it is impossible for the emperor to attack us, then we will let him investigate, and what can the emperor do to us in the end?" ”

Kong Yinzhi scolded: "Are you a pig? He doesn't dare to do anything to me now, but it won't be more troublesome to wait a few years before doing it. This is the opportunity he gave me, and if I don't seize it, I will have to let him slaughter it. Did Wu Mengming say how to cooperate? ”

Kong Zhengqi said: "He said that he wanted to find out all the lawbreakers below. ”

Kong Yinzhi sighed and said, "There are some people down there, and it's really too much to make trouble. Originally, it was ten taels of silver and one acre of good land, but he only gave people five or six taels, and the rest fell by himself. It's not that I don't know about these things, but I don't blame them, they also want to drink soup when I eat meat, right? But it wasn't my order to kill people, these people were all arrested for me and sent to Jinyiwei. When he asked people to go to Yang Lian, he said that the cultivator who was willing to support the imperial court had his land, and invited him to come to Confucius, and we sold the land to the imperial court. ”

Kong Zhengqi said: "Grandpa, how much does it sell?" ”

Kong Yinzhi pondered for a while and said, "Sell half of it, and keep 10,000 hectares." ”

Kong Zhengqi said: "Grandpa, this is all hundreds of years after hundreds of years of grandfathers, you sell half of it at once, don't you feel pain in your heart?" ”

Kong Yinzhi said angrily: "Do you say my heart hurts? Everyone knows that good money is hard to give up, but now that you don't want to sell your land, can you calm the emperor's anger? If you want to blame it, blame you for your ineffective work, so that Jinyiwei grabbed the handle. Go, go to wealth and avoid disaster, so it will be all right. ”

The Confucian Mansion escorted several members of the Kong family who had murders under his hands to Jinyiwei, Wu Mengming naturally smiled, and he asked the county order to send these people to the Jinyiwei Office of Jinan Prefecture, and he was still busy with Jinyiwei and the Economic Investigation Bureau.

After Yang Lian was invited by the Confucian Mansion, he said directly to Kong Yinzhi: "The land given by the Great Ancestor is still owned by the Kong family, and the rest of the fields are all sold to the imperial court. ”

Kong Yinzhi said: "Everything depends on Lord Shangshu, if Lord Shangshu wants these two thousand hectares of land, the Confucian Mansion is also willing to dedicate it to the imperial court." ”

Yang Lian was very surprised by the change in Confucius's attitude, but he didn't know that someone in the capital sent a letter to Kong Yinzhi the day before yesterday, telling him that the emperor was going to re-establish his title. Only then did he understand that the emperor would indeed not uproot Confucius, but he could dispose of himself at will, and Confucius's descendants were not the only ones.

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