(Today's fifth chapter, there are two more chapters, please recommend!) ）

Lian Zining just smiled: "Xia Guan once said that the road he chose would be completed while kneeling!" ”

Dai Zhangpu didn't doubt him, he just thought that his so-called road was the future high-ranking official Houlu, but he didn't know that the road Lian Zining said was the same as what he thought in his heart.

Lian Zining thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "My lord, these silver are a total of fourteen boxes, twenty-four thousand eight hundred taels, and in addition, a large amount of white salt was also found, you see?" ”

"I don't want this, you can do whatever you want!" Dai Zhangpu glanced at Lian Zining, pointed at him and scolded with a smile: "You little slippery head, you are still scheming with me here!" I know what you think in your heart is nothing more than the line built by Wang Kang to sell smuggled salt, which is worth a lot of money, and you don't want to give it up. That's what I thought, but what should I do with another person? Do you cubit? That person may not have the ability of you, and may mess things up for you, but they are not as good as you. I don't care how to get in touch with the smugglers and unscrupulous salt dealers, and reconnect this line, but at this time next month, I want to see the money and the results! ”

Lian Zining understood what he meant, you let it go, I will be your backer, and when the time comes, you will pay the protection fee.

He was happy in his heart, selling smuggled salt is a profiteering industry in these years, and the profits are extremely high, as long as he can grasp this line well, the money is really rolling in, even if he honors Dai Zhangpu at that time, he can have a lot left. If you have money in your hand and a lot of things, you can start doing it.

He nodded, and finally couldn't help asking, "My lord, what do you want so much money for?" ”

He felt that it was inappropriate, so he added: "The lower official wants to say that you want much more money than you need, and you are not a corrupt person." ”

If someone asked this, Dai Zhangpu would have beaten him out of the mess a long time ago, but Lian Zining is not an ordinary person after all, not to mention the relationship between his daughter and him, let's just say that the ability and talent he showed in this month are definitely difficult to find a second among the younger generation.

"I see what you mean." Dai Zhangpu smiled lightly: "How are you looking at my mansion?" ”

Lian Zining said: "Compared with the average five-rank civil official, it is much better, but compared to the power in your hands, it is nothing." ”

"Yes! Although this house is exquisite, it is not big, and compared with those old Shangshu Pavilion, I don't know how much worse. Although the people in my house are extremely good in terms of food and clothing, there are few people, and they are not as good as those who have thousands of domestic slaves, so they can't spend a lot of money. One hundred thousand taels of silver a year is enough, and since he has been in this position, the official's income in a year is not only 300,000? Among these dignitaries and nobles in the Ming Dynasty, even if they are Shangshu Shilang and Pavilion Laodu's imperial envoys, there are 300,000 yuan a year, isn't it? ”

Lian Zining nodded: "Not much." ”

In this era, Zhengde opened the sea in the ascendant, a large amount of silver has not flowed into the Ming Dynasty, the depreciation of silver in the late Ming Dynasty did not appear, one or two silver can buy more than 300 catties of grain, a bunch of water chicken is only four or five pennies. The annual silver income of the Ming Dynasty was only two million taels, and the three hundred thousand taels were already an extremely appalling number.

Dai Zhangpu changed his words and continued: "However, these are not enough. ”

"How do you think I got into the position of this foreign minister of the military election? Open the joints, where does the money to bribe the officials come from? Meet the saint and please the nobles in the palace with the silver? Go to the house of the eunuch Ma Gonggong to visit the eunuch Ma Gonggong, and fill in the silver of these eunuchs who only know silver in their eyes, where does it come from? ”

A month ago, the official funded the construction of a Cisheng Temple, which has a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, with a physiognomy and face, and the Queen Mother is the same. The Buddha statue is three feet high and five feet high, the surface is gilded, and this Buddha statue alone costs five thousand taels of gold! Not to mention the entire temple, it costs no less than 100,000 taels! ”

"Ma Yongcheng, the nephew of Ma Gonggong, is twenty years old this year, and he has not had an errand yet, I am in charge and gave him a fictitious title of a thousand households in the government army, but the military department is not me covering the sky with one hand. In order to settle those colleagues who had a lot of complaints, they spent another 8,000 taels of silver! ”

He suddenly laughed, and there was a lot of anger in his laughter: "An incident happened in the court today, you may not know. ”

Lian Zining just lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows, waiting for him to continue, for him now, the height of the temple is really too far.

"Sun Yanzhi, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, impeached the official, bent the law for bribes, accepted bribes, and wantonly promoted his cronies, between the lines, it is simply saying that the official is useless and heinous! Hehe, your name was mentioned! ”

Lian Zining's eyelids jumped, and the killing intent flashed in his eyes. However, he knew that since Dai Zhangpu was talking here, then this matter would naturally be fine.

"The official knows why he was impeached, you did a good job in this matter, hehe, if life is only as first seen! Tsk, I only knew that Sun Yan was ruthless before, and he loved to bend and make moves, and he was a big cool official! I really didn't see that he was so short to this extent! He couldn't even tolerate a person who swept his son's face! However, if you want to impeach this official, how easy is it? The emperor accepted the recital, but he just stayed in the middle and didn't pay attention to him! Above the court, Sun Yanyi's face was greatly swept away. Do you know, why is the emperor willing to sweep the face of such a third-grade official for the sake of me, a mere fifth-grade official? ”

Lian Zining joked: "The lower officials don't know. ”

"The emperor is old, his body is naturally a little sick, in recent months, the weather has become warmer, may be a cold, throat and nose are a little uncomfortable. Half a month ago, the official met the emperor and sent a snuffbox imported from the West and 5,000 taels of gold. The snuff box was carved from a fist-sized pearl of the night, and the price was no less than 100,000 gold! It's a first-class treasure, and as for the gold, hehe, the emperor's inner mansion is not very rich now! ”

Lian Zining felt a slight feeling in his heart, he was teaching himself the way to be an official.

After saying these words in a row, Dai Zhangpu's emotions seemed to be a little excited, and Lian Zining hurriedly took the tea and handed it over.

After a while, he asked, "Then my lord, why are you doing these things?" ”

"Promotion!" Dai Zhangpu took a long breath, with a resolute expression on his face: "When I was studying, this official made a grand wish, I don't want to be a well-known Qing official in this life, I only want to be a capable official like Yu Shaobao, and a capable official who can protect my Ming Dynasty!" And now this position, although extremely powerful, is still a little smaller. Do you understand? ”

Lian Zining nodded, he realized that Dai Zhangpu's ambition was to be a powerful minister!

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