"Bastard thing!"

Wang Xijue slapped the table and scolded angrily. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's just that I don't know if he scolded Fan Yongdou who bribed or Li Sancai who took bribes.

700,000 taels!

You must know that the imperial court emptied the treasury, and even cheekily went to the emperor's inner treasury to ask for silver, and only then did it collect 2.7 million taels of silver to supply the front-line army as military expenses.

For these 2.7 million taels, Hubu Shangshu is still worried about the silver of the three major halls of the rebuilt harem!

And just one Li Sancai, just from one Fan Yongdou, he got 700,000 taels of silver, which is a quarter of the military expenditure of a big war!

What made Wang Xijue even more shocked was that a mere Fan Yongdou, a businessman could actually take out 700,000 taels to bribe an official, and listening to Zhu Changluo's tone, Li Sancai was only one of the bribes he bribed, which shows how huge the money of these businessmen is.

And such a huge amount of money obviously cannot be a legitimate way to come!

Thinking about the embarrassment of the country's finances stretched in recent years, Wang Xijue suddenly began to understand why the emperor insisted on collecting mining taxes under the pressure of the courtiers!

These people are so rich!

The country's silver has flowed into their pockets and is used to corrupt officials, how can the court not be embarrassed!

However, Zhu Changluo was very calm, and pressed down with his empty hand, and said.

"Yuanfu doesn't have to be angry, it's a coincidence, this account book is usually carried by Fan Yongdou, if it weren't for the New Year's Day, maybe you wouldn't be able to find this account book, but the amount in this account book is really shocking, according to the account book, Fan Yongdou's family alone, the total amount of bribes paid to officials in the DPRK and China exceeded six million taels! It's really shocking! ”

Wang Xijue clenched his fists, his white brows were even more wrinkled, and he said a little weakly after a while.

"Then Your Highness can find out, what is the relationship between this Fan family and the Jianzhou Nuzhen?"

So far, if it was just a bribe, then things would be easier, but the problem is that this time the matter is obviously not as simple as taking bribes, six million taels of silver!

Perhaps a big merchant family can have so much wealth, but it is really incomprehensible that it is all spent on bribery.

The only explanation is that there are other people behind them, and the purpose of bribery is not just bribery, but a deeper purpose, and the person behind the Fan family is very likely to be the Jianzhou Jurchen!

A sneer appeared on the corner of Zhu Changluo's mouth, and he said in a deep voice.

"Yuanfu, after capturing these people, Jinyiwei immediately conducted a surprise interrogation on them, and secretly ordered the Jinyi Guard in Liaodong to hand over all the information about the Fan family.

Speaking of this, Zhu Changluo took a deep breath and said.

"Judging from the current situation, it can be basically determined that the Fan family was ordered by Nurhachi to bribe officials in the DPRK and China, and vainly tried to use this to blackmail the officials who took bribes, and provided them with all kinds of conveniences, including arms, weapons, salt and iron, and even horses, and all these things flowed into the Jianzhou Jurchens."

"And that's not all, the report sent by Liaodong Jinyiwei shows that among the many officials who Fan Yongdou bribed, a considerable part of them are in the hands of the important points of the imperial court, and this king suspects that over the years, Nurhachi has repeatedly grasped the timing of the army, and it is also inseparable from them......"

After hearing this, Wang Xijue seemed to have aged several years in an instant, and after a long time, he said in a hoarse voice.

"So, among the officials who took bribes, they probably didn't know that they were facilitating the Jianzhou Jurchens, right?"

In the final analysis, Wang Xijue didn't want to believe this fact, he was upright and the most important reputation, but now Zhu Changluo tore the fig leaf of the civil official group in front of him, telling him that there are countless civil officials and doctors, for their own selfish interests, prostrate at the feet of money, and sell the secret military newspapers of the imperial court, and even military supplies, to foreign races.

How did he accept this?

Although he knew that whether these people were helping the Jianzhou Jurchens or not, their actions were already a major crime, but the boss still held on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that they would finally keep the bottom line in their hearts......

Although the bottom line is already so low that it can't be lower!

Looking at Wang Xijue's appearance, Zhu Changluo sighed in his heart, and suddenly felt a little unbearable to tell the truth.

He knows that there are still really talented scholars and doctors in this court, although in today's court, the party competition is fierce, there are all kinds of problems, but at least the six departments and nine secretaries, their private morality is first-class, and they know what can be done and what cannot be done.

But that's all there is to it, in addition to them, many local officials, and even some low-grade officials in the Sixth Ministry, are already rotten......

Sighing, Zhu Changluo's eyes slowly became firm, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, he still had to say that Wang Xijue was the head of the cabinet, and the court was corrupted to such an extent, he must take responsibility, and the first step to solve the problem was to face the problem.

If this continues, sooner or later there will be big problems in the imperial court.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Changluo said.

"Yuanfu, according to the news obtained by this king, Fan Yongdou only said that he was doing business for the convenience of business in the early days of bribery, but once it reaches a certain amount, it will be vaguely stated that the silver taels are from the Jianzhou Jurchen Shule Belle, and indeed some officials will wake up, but more, they continue to sink, and it is difficult to resist Fan Yongdou's money offensive, and these people have gradually become convenient for the Jianzhou Jurchens from the convenience of the Fan family......"

Looking at Wang Xijue, whose eyes were a little gloomy for a moment, Zhu Changluo couldn't help but sigh again and comforted.

"But fortunately, according to the information that Jin Yiwei has obtained, at least officials above the third grade, including Li Sancai, are not aware of this!"

In fact, Nurhachi did not use clever methods, first in the name of the Fan family, bribes officials, and large-scale bribes, in order to quickly enrich his strength, through the Fan family to obtain advanced weapons and grain and grass of the Ming Dynasty, to expand his strength.

And once the bribery reaches a certain level, the officials on one side will become the umbrella of the Fan family, and at this time, the Fan family began to gradually show their fangs, and through their own bribery accounts, they blackmailed some low-level officials to let them join the Jianzhou Jurchen.

And these low-level officials, who are generally hopeless and greedy for money, are easy to be co-opted, even if they can keep the bottom line, they will be destroyed by the Fan family with more silver taels, so that they corrupt the officials step by step, and finally achieve their own goals.

Of course, for officials above the third grade, they dare not do this, Zhu Changluo did not lie, Li Sancai did do a lot of convenience for the Fan family, but these conveniences are limited to some ordinary businesses, such as wood, cloth and so on.

The Fan family bribed him the most, using a full 200,000 taels to ask him to help remove a seven-rank magistrate, on the grounds that the magistrate ordered the Fan family's caravan to be detained, which was already the most outrageous thing Li Sancai did for the Fan family!

And Zhu Changluo still didn't say a word, that is, although there are no officials above the third grade who secretly attach to the Jianzhou Jurchen, but it is not far away, according to Fan Yongdou's confession, he entered Beijing this time, with a lot of money, hoping to win over an official from the third grade.

However, what Zhu Changluo didn't expect was that Wang Xijue only sank for a moment, and his eyes became sharp again, and Zhu Changluo felt a rare murderous aura from this Shoufu adult.

"Your Highness doesn't have to comfort the old man, Li Sancai may only think that he has received the Fan family's silver taels, but whether he knows it or not, he has become an accomplice of the Jianzhou Jurchen, without Li Sancai's protection, the Fan family would not be so bold, to this day, he is still running for the Fan family, but there is no doubt about this!"

Zhu Changluo opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.

Because Wang Xijue's words are to the point, it is precisely because of such a big man as Li Sancai that no one dares to do anything to the Fan family, even if there are occasional people who find out the intentions of the Fan family, because there is no evidence, and they are afraid of Li Sancai's power, they dare not say it, this is the foundation of the Fan family's development to this day.

Even if some news reaches Li Sancai's ears, with his stubborn character, he will only think that this is a political opponent slandering him in this way!

And for this situation, Li Sancai will only fight back with tougher means!

In this way, invisibly, they became accomplices of the Jianzhou Jurchens in corrupting the Ming officials......

Even now, Zhu Changluo knows that Li Sancai has not been idle in the past few days, but has been running around, plotting something, if nothing else, it is because of the Fan family......