Cao Haosheng said that not long after that, Rehe had a will to come down and let him stay in the capital to do business.

Finally, there was no need to toss anymore, and Cao Hao also breathed a sigh of relief.

After a Dragon Boat Festival, "Jiuzi Zong" made Daoxiang Village not profitable. The newly opened shops around the city have also opened up sales channels by selling zongzi and are well known to the people.

In the Cao family's treasury, there are already more than 100,000 taels of silver.

It is rare to have this cash in the mansion, and when Cao Hao and Chu Yu saw it, they were also amazed at Han Jiang's ability to make money. However, after three or two years of hard work, Daoxiang Village has not only recovered its capital a long time ago, but also made a lot of profits.

After discussing with Sister Lianqiu, Cao Hao, who received the dividend from Rongyuan, asked someone to buy Zhuangzi in Changping. On Wei Hei's side, the big head also bought the land, and some of the rest was sent to Henan to Wei Bai, which was regarded as silver for his parents to buy tomb land.

On Cao Hao's side, he began to go to the yamen every day at eight o'clock in the morning, and came back from the yamen at the beginning of the day (three o'clock in the afternoon).

The holy driver is not in the palace, and he is idle. In addition, there is also a newly promoted head of the Internal Affairs Office of the Department of Internal Affairs Dong Dianbang, Cao Hao is more and more at ease.

Occasionally, there is a big and small affair in the palace, and the holy driver is not in Beijing, and it is not the turn of the Internal Affairs Office to intervene, and most of them are handled by the kings of the Zongren Mansion.

Nowadays, the hottest topic in Beijing is the ink corruption case of Zhao Fengzhao, the son of Zhao Shenqiao, the former prefect of Taiyuan.

Su Keji, the governor of Shanxi, was ordered to recover the goods embezzled by Zhao Fengzhao.

As early as March, there was a conclusion about Zhao Fengzhao's embezzlement of ink. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, he committed the crime of "perverting the law and receiving stolen goods", which should be divided by hanging.

However, Zhao Fengzhao, as the son of the six ministers, was deeply gracious, so he should be severe, and Jiuqing discussed and decided, and the stolen silver he received was more than 174,600 taels, and he was chased into the official according to the number.

Because of the excessive amount of bribes he had received, he was later detained in the Yamen Prison of the Governor of Shanxi. During this period, officials from the Criminal Department went to interrogate and recover stolen money and other bribes.

Three or four months have passed, and now there is a war of words about the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Su Keji's argument is that he has never heard of any confusion, and all the recovered items are handed over to local officials; Where it has not been recovered, it is still being recovered.

On the side of the yamen of the Criminal Department, it is a different story. What they meant was that the local officials had recovered the money before, and not all of it had been recorded in the accounts.

The 170,000 taels of that account are far from the actual number recovered.

The quarrel broke out, and Su Keji bit back again, and put on the fold, explaining that when the members of the department went down to chase Zhao Fengzhao's embezzlement, they closed the door and asked people to avoid interrogation. Su Keji heard here, there is nothing confused.

There is an old saying that someone in the court is good to be an official.

Even if he is a superintendent, after arriving in the capital, Bing Jing and Tan Jing in the six departments will not dare to pull it.

Su Keji dared to stand up and fight a lawsuit with the Criminal Department, which shows that his holy family is in his body and he has no fear.

The excitement is someone else's excitement, Cao Hao didn't take it to heart, but Nersu's words made him feel shocked in his heart.

To tell the truth, there are a few officials who are not greedy for ink. It's just that the Jingguan is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous, and he is a little bitter. The ones that are released are scraping the ground in a different way.

If you don't scrape the ground, there is no way to honor your superiors, and this official can't do it.

Ma Jun and Gu Ne both chose to return to Beijing, in addition to their families, because they couldn't adapt to the rotten officialdom atmosphere of local officialdom.

"Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", this is by no means empty words.

Cao Hao had never seen Zhao Fengzhao and could not find out who he was, but Ping Suli looked at Zhao Shenqiao, the head of the household department, but he had the appearance of a Qing official. The official uniforms he wore were all five points old, he was in his seventies, and when he entered and exited the yamen, he only rode a horse, not a sedan chair.

To be too humble is to deceive.

Xu is Zhao Fengzhao's reputation for greedy ink is too strong, which makes Cao Hao even have a little prejudice against Zhao Shenqiao, a "model of integrity", thinking that he is a person who is inconsistent with his words and deeds.

There are two fathers and sons, one tree archway, and one silver, and they have all the face.

What is the truth?

"The war in the northwest is dragging on, the treasury is empty, and the emperor is in a hurry." After telling Cao Hao about the secrets he had heard recently, Nersu sighed and said.

Cao Hao's eyes were already wide-eyed: "Brother-in-law, this Su Keji's impeachment of Zhao Fengzhao was really instructed by the emperor?" ”

Nersu raised his eyebrows and said, "That's not the case, Su Keji is full, so he dares to impeach the son of Jingtang?" You know, in this way, he offended not only Zhao Shenqiao. The governor offended Jingtang, which in itself was a taboo in officialdom. Not to mention, Zhao Shenqiao is highly respected among Han officials, and his in-laws are old and there are many people with status. ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he couldn't help frowning.

Could it be that Zhao Shenqiao's reputation is too good, and the bad is on top of this "high morality", so Kangxi couldn't tolerate it, and wanted to talk about his most respected "incorruptible", and slapped him hatefully.

After Zhao Fengzhao's ink corruption case came out, Zhao Shenqiao was reprimanded because he "couldn't teach his son", but was rejected by Kangxi and retained in his original position.

"Xu is afraid that Zhao Shenqiao will form a party, Xu is just for the silver, who knows." Nersu said: "I heard that the emperor got the news first, and I heard that Zhao Fengzhao has more than 100,000 taels of silver in his hands. Just in time for Zhao Fengzhao's term of office to expire, if the silver is transported back to his hometown, it will not be traced. Subsequently, Su Keji impeached Zhao Fengzhao for embezzlement. After Zhao Fengzhao's greedy silver was recovered, it was not transported back to the capital, but directly sent to the northwest to serve as military funds. ”

Cao Hao listened, thinking about the 100,000 taels of silver at home, only to feel a cold sweat on his back. Immediately, I thought about it, but I didn't know what to think.

Although he knew that Kangxi was short of silver, this matter was obviously not just a matter of silver, otherwise he would impeach a few officials above the prefect level casually, and it would be not a problem to have 100,000 taels of silver.

Kangxi suppressed Hanchen and balanced the political situation.

In the imperial court, the weight of the Manchu officials was heavy, and the Han officials were just auxiliary positions. However, after the party struggle of Mingzhu and Suo Etu, the turmoil of the "first abolition" and "second abolition" princes, and the resignation of many officials, the Han officials of the six ministries gradually grasped real power.

Ma Qi's reinstatement is probably related to this.

Han officials are no longer as ornaments as in the past, plus Fu Ning'an, the secretary of the ministry, supervises the army in the northwest, and the affairs of the ministry are taken care of by Zhang Pengxi, the secretary of the Han Dynasty, so that the Jiuqing ministry is divided into Han Jiuqing and Manchu Jiuqing, and the weight of Han officials is increased.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao finally understood why Kangxi would use the excuse of praying for rain to deal with the officials in the capital. It's not just because of his age, for fear that the courtiers will be disrespectful, but because he has another deep meaning.

Among the six officials who were punished, although there were full officials, only 30% of them were full, and the remaining seven became Han officials.

Regardless of the previous political achievements, after this disposition, everyone has become a body to be punished, and there is no room for loud speech...... Cao Hao's side couldn't help but be vigilant.

Although he can't ask for a name, over the years, the circle of relatives and friends has become bigger and bigger. On the silver side, he didn't get it from the yamen, but if he was not careful, he made a windfall.

If Kangxi has a number on his side, he can't keep it all in time, and then think about him.

You can't ask for fame, you can't ask for profit, you can't ask for profit, you can't stop talking, and others won't let go.

What else can you rely on in this world?

* Fangjia Hutong, Guogong Mansion.

"What? Xiao Si wants to say that Yongquan's sister? When Cao Yi heard this, he was a little incredulous, and asked, "Is it Yongquan, the general of the Zhuangwang Mansion?" ”

Seshtu nodded and said, "It shouldn't be wrong, Bai Yuli saw Yongquan, and said that he would marry us in the future, and he said that he would invite us over to listen to the play." ”

"How many girls does he have?" Cao Yi thought about it for a while and asked: "A few days ago, the shadow was enough, and I heard the fifth sister-in-law mention it once, that is, it was about their family." It seems that there is a girl, who is not obedient, and was brought back from outside the city half a month ago, and it is not a good word. ”

"I don't know, but since the second wife is optimistic about it, the designation is also to inquire clearly." Seshtu replied: "What kind of tongue are they chewing on the fifth sister-in-law?" People are so good, and they are unbearable to talk about the whole day. Unmarried girls, who is not used to it? In the early years, before Bao Gege got married, he was not also crazy in and out of the city, and he was not talked about less. ”

"If there is no wind or waves, you should always be careful." Cao Yi said.

"What can happen to this person? It's not an old girl who has delayed the flowering period, and it's easy to talk about it. Seshtu shook his head and said, "You should be careful......

* Cao Mansion, Orchid Courtyard, Upper Room.

Li was wearing a big coat to go out, so he went out to see the girl with Zhao Jia, and he didn't have time to change his clothes.

Zhao Jiashi sat on the edge of the kang, his face was already a little proud, and he couldn't stop boasting to Li's family: "This thin skin and tender meat is really a beautiful fetus." Although his father's and brother's titles are not high, they are also yellow belts. Tsk, fifteen, flower-like bones. If it weren't for the uncle to tell Xiao Wu first, I would have been a little daughter-in-law. There is no way, so I can only cheapen the fourth. ”

"It looks like a blessed one." Zhao Jia's mother-in-law is satisfied, and Li is naturally not good at saying anything. However, she still had some doubts in her heart, and said: "Gege in the clan, there are few people who go out at fifteen or sixteen, and there are still many people in their twenties who say they are married." This Yun Gege is only fifteen, how can the old lady be willing to let her daughter go out, and she still has to be sent to office? ”

"What's the use of having a mother? Now that her sister-in-law is in charge, she probably wants to spend her peace of mind. Zhao Jiashi said disapprerovingly: "I heard that the dowry prepared is also decent, but in the end, it is a yellow belt, if it is too shabby, it is estimated that they will not be able to pull their faces." ”

Chu Yu was beside him, listening to the two of them talking, and he was also puzzled.

Although the family has been separated, it is close to each other, with the squire of the Ministry of Rites as an uncle, the head of the Internal Affairs Office as a cousin, and the daughter of a clan general in the second room is nothing. But Cao Xiang is a concubine, and he is in a foreign office, so he needs to be married, who is willing to give up his daughter......

(To be continued)