Zhu Houzhao's silence made Li Gang very uncertain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The young man who dared to sit in the Shangshu Mansion and drink tea in such a big thorn, not to mention the background, was enough to impress Li Gang.

You must know that when the young people who are usually invited into the mansion face Li Gang, they either only sit on half a chair with their buttocks, or their hands tremble like a kang sieve when they drink tea.

But Li Gang is unhappy, that's for sure.

"Who are you? What is the purpose of being here? Li Gang said expressionlessly: "If there is nothing to do, I will report to the official." ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled and put down the tea bowl in his hand: "Report to the official?" ”

He pointed at Li Gang and then at himself and said: "Li Shangshu is an official, and I am also an official, so what must be done?" ”

Li Gang said coldly: "Since you know that Li is a scholar, do you know what the crime of trespassing into an official's mansion is?" ”

"Naturally, I know that the laws of this dynasty are to break into the mansions of officials, and at least they will be imprisoned and exiled for 500 miles. But this official doesn't say that it is your mansion, even the governor's mansion is not wrong! ”

Li Gang was shocked in his heart, although the official position of the governor is often the second grade, but it is a real feudal official, and his power is not many times greater than his Shangshu, who is just a fictitious position.

However, in recent years, the southern provinces have been relatively stable, and the imperial court has not set up any governors in charge of military and political power.

But Rao is like this, he is jealous of the unknown young man in front of him, especially since he still can't figure out the purpose of the other party, which is simply ridiculous.

"Since Your Excellency said that you and I are both officials, then open the skylight and say something, what is the purpose of your invasion of my Li Mansion today, say it, let's discuss and solve it!" Li Gang said immediately.

This is not a show of weakness, but a delay, although this young man has a big tone, he still won't believe that there is that Guo Jianglong who dares to bluff the court members so unscrupulously. At this time, he had already begun to assign his subordinates to summon patrols, preparing to arrest this unknown young man.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't guess Li Gang's thoughts, there were still more than a dozen people in the front yard who were beaten to the ground and couldn't get up, Li Gang naturally wouldn't do it again, otherwise it would be no different from looking for a fight.

"Then let's make it clear, do you know that your turtle son was beaten up in the silk village a month ago?"

Li Gang automatically ignored the young man's insulting remarks, and he remembered it carefully after recalling it. Last month, his son did have a blue nose and swollen face for a while. It is said that he beat up a ruthless man when he was making trouble in the silk village, and he was also angry at that time, after all, it was at his behest that his son went to find trouble in the Mo family's business.

The purpose is nothing more than to show how much he values the filial piety of the Mo family.

"What, you were the one who did it that day? What does it matter to you that my son went to the silk village to buy something? Li Gang snorted coldly.

"He molested my wife and disrupted people's business!"

It's just a teasing of a woman, and in Li Gang's opinion, it's not a big deal: "You've already beaten people, what do you mean by hitting the door again today?" ”

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said: "It's not interesting, the main thing is that your son is too arrogant, a few days ago he begged me for a beating at the Peach Blossom Party, and I was embarrassed to say three times and twice, I just wanted to see what kind of child was born like this." ”

Li Gang took the case and said angrily: "Young man, no matter how disrespectful you are, don't be arrogant and don't talk about the friendship of your colleagues!" ”

Zhu Houzhao laughed: "I'm an official, your son is just a citizen, is there a problem for him to provoke me to beat him?" But don't you hear the point here? ”

Li Gang shook his head very steadily, even though Zhu Houzhao had been mentioning silk and satin.

"Okay, I want to know now, is it at your behest that your son went to the Mo family's shop to make trouble?"

"Naturally not, how can this official say that he is also a member of the imperial court, how can he do such a boring thing? Shinong Industry and Commerce was set by Emperor Taizu, and there was no reason for this official to mix with that group of merchants who smelled of copper. ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly felt bored, this old man is indeed a master who does not eat oil and salt.

He took out an account book and threw it on the table, and motioned to Li Gang: "But as far as I know, the copper smell on your Li Shangshu can be less than that on the merchant." People say that the Qing prefect has 100,000 snowflakes of silver in ten years, and you are afraid that you are worth tens of millions of snowflakes in the past ten years, right? ”

Li Gang was startled, the Mo family account book written on the account book really frightened him in his heart, and sweat came out on his forehead.

But when he opened it, he immediately laughed: "You young man, where did you get a broken thing to trick me into playing?" ”

"Why, Lord Shangshu didn't see your own name on it?" Zhu Houzhao said lightly.

"How can there be an official's name on the Mo family's account book, it's really ridiculous." Li Gang said calmly.

Zhu Houzhao opened the account book, pointed to the person who marked the first on it, and the person who paid at least 300,000 taels of filial piety silver every year behind his name and said, "Master Li is really old and has a poor memory?" Isn't this Li Hu Lord Shangshu you? ”

"My real name is Li Gang."

"The surname is Li, he is an official of the household department, are there any other people in the sixth department of Nanjing?"

Li Gang laughed: "There are thousands of people surnamed Li in the world, how can Your Excellency confirm that this Li Hu is the official with a small name?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was too lazy to play dumb riddles, and said directly: "Do you want me to call the people of the Mo family?" ”

Li Gang stood up and said in a trembling voice: "Who are you, and why did you collude with the Mo family?" ”

At this time, he was indeed a little panicked, because the Mo family who recorded this account book would send boxes and boxes of silver to his home every year, and with him testifying, it was not very likely that he wanted to escape.

Thinking of this, Li Gang couldn't help but hate his quirks, why do he always like to watch the silver enter the warehouse with his own eyes, and touch the silver with his own eyes.

If it weren't for that, those who hadn't seen him in person wouldn't be much of a threat to him.

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Let's make it clear, the emperor actually knows that you people are greedy, but he has no intention of pursuing it." But the emperor has already given the Mo family the title of imperial businessman, but you still shamelessly ask for silver, obstructing the commercial tax reform plan of which Huansha to change, so you are dead. ”

Li Gang panicked, the entire Jiangnan province can be said to be unofficial and not greedy, and an ordinary county prefect has a minimum of thousands or tens of thousands of silver every year, which has become an unspoken rule of officialdom, so no one regards the habit of reaching out to merchants to ask for silver as a major matter.

For example, many people think that the merchants usually do not work hard, and there is a lot of silver to earn, which is simply destroying the small peasant economy, and they need to be sanctioned by the officialdom, which can not only suppress the arrogance of the merchants, but also save a lot of silver for the emperor.

But in fact, they are taking a lot of the money issued by the imperial court, and they are also knocking out the hard-earned money of the businessmen.

It's a fucking shame.

(To be continued.) )