Time flies, in a blink of an eye, it is April 44 of Kangxi, compared with the chaos of last year, the court situation in these months seems to be exceptionally stable, and all affairs are carried out in an orderly manner - the official department finally came up with the final plan for returning the fire to the public, and reported it to the inner court. The household department will also complete the repayment contract signed by all the arrears, and attach the implementation of the rest of the year, report to the imperial review, the old man issued an edict to approve the line, and issued an order to reward the fourth master and many officials of the household department, and the reward is poor; The Ministry of Industry reported the progress of the Yellow River control and the shipbuilding progress of the Macao shipyard, and together with the governor of the Beihe River, Chen Qidong, and the governor of Henan, Rong Zhu, together with the book, asked for the pre-sale strategy of the fertile land obtained by Neng'en Zhun Zhihe, the old man happily agreed, and the edict was written, Henan almost became a hot spot for the government and the opposition overnight, and I don't know how many wealthy families sent people to Henan with silver tickets, but a few days of hard work, it made the Henan governor's yamen the most lively place in the world, and Rong Zhu, who was caught off guard, was anxious.

It is naturally a good thing that the situation is stable, at least for Hongqing, after all, although the harvest of last year is a lot, but it takes time to digest, whether it is to install people in various departments, or to govern the river and shipbuilding and other matters, it needs a relatively peaceful transition period, besides, through the last few big competitions, the third master is now firmly in the leading position, there is really no need to be ignorant anymore, Hongqing is happy that this kind of harmonious scene can continue like this, every day in the school photo, the Ministry of Industry to go to the photo, occasionally idle, can also get together with the fifteen brothers and have fun, this little day is really comfortable.

As the so-called tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, Hongqing wants to be stable, but others may not be willing to let it settle down like this, no, this early dynasty has just begun, and Liang Cheng, the superintendent of the imperial history, has taken the lead in jumping out, and the last book impeached the third master for the use of 2.6 million catties of salt in the disaster relief last year. As soon as this book was written, without waiting for the old man to ask, he saw that there were many people who came forward to echo it, including the extraordinary prince, the eldest brother and the eighth master's disciples, one by one, they frothed at the mouth and reprimanded the third master for abusing the grace of the court, and there was a negative emperor's grace.

What do these bastards want to do?

The dogs barked wildly, and the Manchu Dynasty was stunned, but Hongqing was puzzled - the leader of the salt introduction was the third master, but the actual person in charge was Hongqing, of course, Hongqing was actually just a name, and the original matter of governing the river had involved most of Hongqing's energy, how could he care about who the salt was sold to, and generally by the "Qilin Firm" came forward to negotiate with the big salt merchants on the ground of Lianghuai, Hongqing only collected the cash, and even the face of those salt merchants had never been seen. It's only after Mu Ning's case happened, I have seen those salt merchants, since there can be no fraud, the problem is that these salt pipes are flowing out of the hands of the third master, if something really goes wrong in use, the third master wants to stay out of the matter but it is difficult, but, it is not too much trouble, at most it is not effective in supervision, even if it is implicated, it is just a matter of admonishment, and it is difficult to really hurt the prestige of the third master, this article, Hongqing knows a lot in her heart, but the only thing she doesn't know is what the elder brothers want to do so hard to work together to make this impeachment drama.

"Yinzhen."

Not to mention that Hongqing was full of doubts about such a sudden joint impeachment, the old man was also a little ignorant, frowning slightly, and after patiently listening to the words of the ministers, he did not ask for details, but raised his eyebrows and quietly named the name of the fourth master.

"Erchen is here!"

As the elder brother of the management department, the fourth master was already at the front of the queue on the occasion of listening to politics at the imperial gate, and he had already seen the change in the old man's expression in his eyes, and he had already planned in his heart.

"Let's talk about it, did you find anything wrong with the household write-off?"

The profit of salt and iron is the important weapon of the country, the court has always been very strict in this regard, the old man does not believe that the third master will make a mistake in such important matters, the reason is very simple, I have not seen the business of the "Qilin Firm" so hot, how can the third master lack silver taels, and why risk the risk of ruining his reputation in the total price of only 800,000 taels of silver salt to do tricks, this is obviously unreasonable, with the wisdom of the old man, how can he really be blinded by the raging bullets of the ministers, but after all, this is the period of the Great Dynasty, It is not a trivial matter for so many courtiers to be on the bullet seal in one, but it is really impossible not to express their position, and it is precisely because of this that the old man named the name of the fourth master, that is, he wanted to understand how serious the problem was from the verification results of the household department.

"Back to the emperor Ama, the verification of this batch of salt is the household department that reported at the end of last year, after several months of verification, it was found that some of the actual number of salt introductions carried are suspicious, and the sons have ordered Fan Shijie to review in detail, and the specific details have not yet been reported to the sons and daughters, and they must ask Fan Langzhong to know the details."

The fourth master is a shrewd person, and he knows the intention of the old man's question as soon as he hears it, which is nothing more than planning to turn big things into small things and small things, and this is obviously not something that the fourth master is happy to see, but the fourth master does not intend to detonate a big storm in person, but kicked the problem to Fan Shijie, who is specifically handling it, with a few words.

"Well, where is Fan Shijie?"

Fan Shijie can be regarded as a man of the year in the settlement of debts last year, and the old man still has a good impression of him, and when he heard the fourth master say this, he didn't think much about it, and then named Fan Shijie's name.

"Weichen Jiangnan Qing Officials Shilang Zhongfan Shijie knocks to see Your Majesty!"

Fan Shijie is only a fifth-grade official, barely enough to be qualified to go to the court, and he is naturally backward in the ranking, at this time, he heard His Majesty's roll call, and he didn't dare to delay it in the slightest, so he hurriedly squeezed out of the queue of household officials, rushed to the front of the palace, fell to the ground on his knees, and respectfully reported to his home.

"Well, since Aiqing is in charge of the salt introduction and write-off, do you know where the special salt introduction last year went, and is there anything that does not match the number?"

Although the old man did not shout, the tone of the question was very kind.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, Wechen is last year November 12 received the Qing Beile sent to forward the verification documents and all kinds of bills, because of the big matter, Wechen did not dare to ignore a little, this spring early in the morning has submitted two Huai salt transport envoys and along the way have their own divisions, carefully study the details, according to investigation, this batch of 2.6 million catties of salt is purchased by five companies, all of which are transporters (one of the classifications of salt merchants), respectively, Huainan Xujia, Yangzhou Sun, Wang, Dong, Liu four major merchants, according to investigation, Huainan Xujia transported 400,000 catties of salt to Sichuan, verification is correct; Sun's family transported 500,000 catties of salt to Hubei, and according to investigation, it was 50,000 catties more than the approved amount; The Wang family, Ben had to lead 600,000 catties of salt, transported to Beijing, according to investigation, more than 35,000 catties more than the approval, unloaded in Baoding; The rest of the families also have their own differences, however, the amount is not large, and it is basically the same as the approval, and Weichen does not dare to conceal it, and all the values are based on evidence. ”

Fan Shijie obviously came prepared, and after a long speech, the data was detailed, and he opened his mouth, which immediately made the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty all discuss.

"Yinzhi, do you have anything to say?"

Although the difference between the data obtained from the write-off and the amount of salt originally approved is not too big, but the two benefits of salt and iron are related to the income of the imperial court, which can not be ignored, the old man is obviously quite dissatisfied with this mistake, and he did not wait for the ministers to stop talking about it for a while, so he directly named the name of the third master.

"Back to Huang Ama's words, the sons really don't know about it, if what Fan Lang said is true, the sons do have negligence, they don't dare to shirk, and everything is left to the emperor Ama."

The third master didn't expect that there would be such a big drama in the early dynasty today, this situation is not right, and it is inevitable that he will panic in his heart, but he doesn't know anything about the salt introduction and write-off, even if he wants to justify, how can he find a very reasonable argument for a while, instead of arguing indiscriminately and being held by everyone, it is better to simply admit his guilt, and leave and right a negligence, there is nothing terrible, in view of this, as soon as the third master stood up, he immediately admitted the fault of negligence, and put on a posture of obeying the old man's fall.

"Huang Marfa, grandson has something to say."

The third master can admit his mistake, but Hongqing can't sit back and watch the third master's name be damaged, seeing that the old man's face is slightly dark, Hongqing can't help it anymore, so he walked out of the queue quickly, bowed deeply to the old man sitting in front of the Qianqing door, and said in a loud voice.

"Buzz ......"

As soon as they saw Hongqing coming out at such a time, the ministers who were neatly arranged below suddenly had a chaotic discussion for a while, and although the eldest brother and others at the front of the queue did not participate in it, they all closed their mouths one by one, but the eyes that looked at Hongqing were obviously full of strange heat.

"Well, if you have anything to say, then say it, I'll listen."

The old man is actually very satisfied with the performance of the third master last year, whether it is the neatness of the disaster relief or the decisiveness of paying off the debt, or the humble retirement after the success, it is very suitable for the old man's appetite, although this time it is suddenly besieged by the ministers, but the old man does not have the heart to punish the third master in his heart, I thought that if the third master resisted a little, he would also take advantage of the situation to pull the third master, but he didn't expect the third master to give up so easily, and it really made the old man a little difficult to deal with - the punishment was heavy, the old man couldn't bear it, and the punishment was light, I was worried that the ministers were fighting, and when I was hurting my head, I saw Hongqing come out, and the old man was happy to let Hongqing play a good role, so he pressed his hand and stopped the chaotic discussion of the ministers, and gave Hongqing a chance to speak.