Concave one by one. One one

I only heard Tu Lidao, "This official has been checking the accounts for three days, and no problems have been found. After a pause, he said, "It seems that Yan Butang was falsely accused."

Shen Mo's heart sank, and he said secretly, "Yan Dang softened so quickly." "According to the original direction of the industrial party, it was to make things bigger, so as to achieve a big turnaround, but Tu Li now wants to calm things down, and it is obvious that he is retreating and not being defeated."

If Shen Mo is a pure politician, it doesn't hurt to accept this situation, but his conscience hasn't let the dog eat it after all, how can he watch Yan Dang continue to harm the country? In any case, he has to let the Yan family father and son step down, this is his bottom line. That's why he notified Xu Jie as soon as possible, and took over this thankless errand without hesitation.

People can't always be so selfish. Sometimes being stupid is a true gentleman.

I only heard Shen Mo sink his face and said, "Master Tu, I have no opinion if you want to save Yan Donglou, but you can't compensate us for it."

This Tu Li was stunned and said, "What does Lord Shen mean?"

"If Yan Shifan has no problem, how do you explain the 1.5 million taels of silver that disappeared? . Silent and said in a deep voice: "Could it be that the three of us were corrupted?" ”

Tu Li and Zhou Huai'an's faces changed greatly when they heard this, and said, "Lord Shen, you can't talk nonsense."

Silent asked, "Then the emperor asked, how should we explain?" ”

This Lord Shen didn't know something, Tu Li smiled lightly, "The materials in the forbidden palace are extremely exquisite, not to mention anything else, that is, those large sections of golden silk nanmu, red sandalwood, and pineapple wood can no longer be found in the Central Plains, so they have to be harvested from Yunnan and Hainan, and then transported into Beijing for a long time, rubbing their hands together, "At that time, the world was not very peaceful, and I didn't dare to take 6 ways to transport, so I built 30 big ships and 10 ships to transport wood." Twenty ships were escorted as warships, and this alone cost nearly 800,000 taels of silver

"Then why can't the Ministry of Engineering find these ships in its accounts? Shen Mo asked, "No one has ever mentioned this.

"Shipbuilding is the responsibility of the Guangdong Political Envoy and the Command Envoy Department, and the money is directly allocated to the local government, Tu Li said slowly, "This is well documented." "I asked the people of the Ministry of Engineering about this, and they said that now that the project is complete, thirty ships can be handed over to the Ministry of War." The expenditure of 800,000 taels can be justifiably recorded in the account of the Ministry of War. ”

The other party gave such an explanation. Shen Mo knew that they were going to clear themselves up first, and then threaten the 800,000 taels in the palace, if you don't accept this statement, then let's investigate thoroughly, deduct the part we can tell, and then check where the rest goes? Let's see who dares to check it!

"It's really a bachelor" was reversed, and he couldn't help frowning secretly, he used to be in charge of the city, and he was very familiar with the cost of ships. Thirty large ships, including ten transports, would be enough for a maximum of 200,000 taels of silver, even if they were of the highest specification. Which is 800,000 taels?

And silently know that over the years, the shipping industry of the Ming Dynasty has been very good, from Tianjin to Shandong, from Jiangxi to Fujian, from Fujian to Liangguang, from Liangguang to Nanyang, there are large fleets such as shuttles, as long as you pay a considerable freight, you can transport timber from the southeast to Beijing, where can you use special shipbuilding?

But people's concepts are always behind the times, and the adults in Beijing, especially the emperors of the Forbidden City, are still stuck in the consciousness of a few decades ago, when Kazuki was not allowed to go to the sea. The sea route from Hainan to Tianjin is regarded as a daunting road. You can't change it without experiencing it yourself.

If Shen Mo grasps this matter and does not let go, at most the imperial court will send someone to investigate the matter. Guangdong can be in the southernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, and it is several months to come and go, and Yan Dang has time to build ships, but it is really impossible to say.

The silence, which has always been very thoughtful, suddenly lost his thoughts. had no choice but to accept Tu Li's statement, so Tu Li said, and the next day he explained the situation to the saint, "As a subordinate official, Shen Mo couldn't stop him, so he had to go."

In fact, Shen Mo was not afraid of Tu Li's report, he had already learned about Emperor Jiajing's attitude through the inside line, and this time he was going to take Yan Shifan no matter what, so he took this errand quickly, and really expected to give himself another credit, so that the future would be more certain.

But if you wait until Jiajing rejects Tu Li's opinion, it is not a plus for himself, but a minus of points; And what's even more serious is that once Yan Shifan is forced by the emperor to be anxious, he will definitely become a punching bag if he uses the 800,000 taels of silver given to the inner court as a blackmailer, so that Emperor Jiajing will be uncomfortable. If it really comes to that point, Zhu Bajie will look in the mirror, and he will not be a person inside and out.

Shen Mo is even more worried that his image of being wise and martial since his debut will be ruined, and it is an important weapon to maintain his fragile small group, and he must not be lost. Is he a man who gives up? Let Tie Zhu pack all the dossiers in one go, take them home and continue to think.

When he got home, he plunged into his study. I began to carefully study the accounts of the Ministry of Industry, trying to find some loopholes and turn the tables around at the last moment. But he was sad now, he was in a mess with the accounts, and he was dizzy and dizzy, but he still couldn't get the point.

He thought that he confidently took over the errand and wanted to complete the layout that was most beneficial to him, but who knew that he had touched the two, and Han Zhiyan sobbed and said, it is really a chicken steal! Yodo Mo Lao Gan Eight with! Sheng, the maid who came to invite him to dinner was so fierce that the maid was so frightened that she fled.

Shen Mo lowered his head and prepared to continue his research, but now it was dark and he couldn't see clearly. I couldn't help shouting, "Hold the lamp!" Palm light! "Waited a moment. There was still no movement, and Shen Mo said angrily, "Where are all the people dead!" ”

Before he finished speaking, there was a light outside, and then he saw Ruohan coming in with a candlestick.

Shen Mo couldn't help but be embarrassed and said, "Madam." It's not about you."

Ruohan glanced at him, lit a few lights in the room with a candlestick, and the study was brightened, and then he said to Shen Mo, "The master is the master." Of course, you can scold anyone you want, but it's just that if you spoil the children, it's troublesome

Shen Mo said, "I'm also in a hurry." That's why he didn't choose what he said. He smiled and said, "You're just in time." I have a question

The slave maid was frightened, and pretended to say, "I am willing to share my worries for the eldest master."

Shen Mo asked, "You have a semicolon in various provinces, but you never come to inspect in person, how do you prevent those shopkeepers from enriching their own pockets?"

"When the water is clear, there are no fish". Ruohan said, "They take some food harmlessly, and I will turn a blind eye to it, but there is a limit to everything, if it doesn't make a good scene, I will directly smash his job!" ”

"I know you're amazing." Shen Mo took her hand and said, "I'm asking, how did you do it?" ”。 Look at the accounts." Ruohan said, "Every month, the account book is sent to me, and I can check the accounts to see abnormal income and expenditure, and often those dogs cheat." It's in these anomalous places. Behind the light words, I don't know how much sweat and hard work has been condensed, but she doesn't say it.

"So, can you help me sort this out?" Shen Mo pointed to the pile of account books related to the case. Said to Ruohan, "I know a little too much," those account books are more than twenty thick books, and in Shen Mo's opinion, there are no ten days and half a month. I want to figure it out, but time waits for no one, how can there be so much time? That's why he was in a hurry.

Who knew that Ruohan flipped through the account books and said calmly, "One night is enough." ”

"Ma'am, don't you want to entertain me?. Silent smiled bitterly, "I can't compensate you for my husband."

"Am I that careful?" Ruohan glanced at him charmingly and said, "Even if you eat the gall of the ambitious leopard, the slave family will not dare to coax the master." Then he took Shen Mo's hand and said, "Let's go to dinner first, and then we will start work after dinner, so as not to delay." ”

Silent was skeptical, but he didn't dare to offend the authority, so he had to agree.

After eating absentmindedly, when Shen Mo and Ruohan returned to the study, they saw ten smart-looking women standing in front of the door, and greeted them together.

Shen Mo saw that they were all carrying a standard burden on their shoulders, and felt strange in his heart, but he didn't ask, he knew that Ruohan must have a plan.

After entering the study. Ruohan asked people to bring two large square tables, and lit all the lamps in the room so that they were as bright as day, and closed the doors and windows tightly. Taking advantage of the busy work of the people below, Ruohan whispered to Shen Mo, "I have cultivated these girls for many years, and so many accounts can be settled in time, all thanks to their iron abacus." Then he said to the women, "There are twenty books here, and there are only two items of receipts and expenditures. There are no sales, no loans, so you have to sort it out as soon as possible. Yes". The women responded crisply, and then took out the abacus, paper, and Western wrong pen in the baggage, crackled and counted.

Shen Mo watched these women flip through the account books while flipping through the account books, and whispered to Ruohan, "It seems that you can make your career so big, it's really not a fluke."

Ruohan looked at Shen Mo and said, "There is no big man to support a piece of the sky, and the little woman has no great ability, and there is no place to show it." ”

"Alright, let's stop flattering each other." Silent smiled: "I don't know how to figure it out." Is there anything to be gained? ”

Ruohan, who will definitely have it, said softly: "Master, don't worry." After saying that, the two fell silent. In the study, only the rustling sound of spring silkworms was heard.

In Beijing tonight, there is more than one sound of abacus, and in the Ziguang Pavilion of Xiyuan, there is also a crackling sound at this time.

On the two long rosewood cases, there are two huge mahogany abacus one zhang long and one foot wide, and standing in front of the case are twenty bookkeeping eunuchs who were temporarily transferred from the Needlework Bureau, the Scarf and Hat Bureau, and the Shangyi Supervisor. Ten eunuchs shared an abacus, and ten slender hands were quickly fiddling with the abacus at the same time, sweating profusely to count the account books.

The four eunuchs of the celebrant eunuch gathered in the Purple Light Pavilion at this moment. But he didn't have the spirit of the past. They all knelt down in front of a beaded curtain, not daring to move.

On the soft couch behind the bead curtain, sitting cross-legged the supreme of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty the Jiajing Emperor, at this time the emperor was staring at a few bills on the small machine next to the couch for a moment, and his face became more and more ugly.

After a while, the sound of the beads stopped. Huang Jin, who was kneeling on the ground, quickly got up, took the newly sorted bill, and said softly, "Master, the general account is out" "Until Jiajing inside snorted, it was sent behind the bead curtain." The last piece of space resting gently on the small machine. Then he went out backwards and knelt outside the beaded curtain again.

The hall was quiet as before. There were more than a dozen people waiting, but they couldn't hear a sound.

To kneel on... The two ridiculed the four major prisoners, and every second was the front of the spear; This is especially true for the twenty-four yamen eunuchs of the factory.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiajing behind the bead curtain finally spoke up, "Huang Jin, you are in the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau." How much money can be given to the palace every year?

"Back to the master, 500,000 taels." Huang Jin said softly, among these people today, he is in a slightly relaxed mood, because he has not been in Beijing for five or six years, and bad debts are generally not counted on his head...... 500,000 taels, Emperor Jiajing said, "These 500,000 taels, but they are all in the inner gang," he said, and said in a cold voice, "Why did you make such a big hole, and you have to rely on the foreign ministers to make up for you!" "It turns out that tonight, the emperor settled accounts with the eunuchs, just to find out how the 800,000 taels of holes in the inner court were caused", although Li Fang was sent by the emperor to repair the tomb. But he was still very loyal, and at the risk of being punished, he also told the emperor Yan Shifan's hole card.

After the outburst, Jiajing quickly regained his composure, because he knew that the more angry he was. The more he falls for other people's calculations, of course he can be angry. Arrest Yan Shifan and put him in prison, and just find a crime to click. But then the world will say. Yan Shifan made up for the deficit for the Son of Heaven, but in the end, he was unloaded and killed the donkey, which is really chilling. This is Jiajing, who wants to save face, and it is absolutely unacceptable.

Although Jiajing is old and doesn't want to do much, he is still the emperor who is extremely smart and has a strong desire to control in his bones, and he has always been someone else, how can he tolerate being subjected? And again and again! Isn't it just bullying him for being old and frail, and he has no intention of reorganizing the government?

Why is Yan Shifan so bold? Because he lives in a politically stable society. Since ancient times in China, the Zhengshuo Dynasty has been a monarch and a scholar in the world, and the emperor is not free to do what he wants in political life. There were only one or two generations of emperors who were founded. Because they are the persimmon makers of the empire, they may not care much about the official class and dare to do something drastically, but when their children and grandchildren succeed to the throne, the politics will be stabilized, and the imperial power will be put into a cage by the officials of the whole world, and what the emperor wants to do, he must get the support of the ministers. Otherwise, you won't be able to do it. Han, Jin, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, the five Zhengshuo Han dynasties, there has never been a situation where the emperor monopolizes power, and the monarchs and ministers always test each other, restrain each other, and jointly govern the huge country.

An unscrupulous and unreasonable emperor like Jiajing. Definitely an outlier in the past dynasties, the ministers reasoned with him, he talked to the ministers about feelings, the ministers talked to him about feelings, he reasoned with the ministers, and he couldn't listen to a word of people, so he had to do his own thing, after a long and arduous struggle, he finally led to the "crying door incident" that Jiajing hated for a lifetime, and said to the ministers, "The country has been raising soldiers for a hundred and fifty years, and the righteousness of the war is today!" So, the ministers knelt down at the Zuoshun Gate. Shouting Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Xiaozong. Jiajing ordered the eunuch to preach "wait for your aunt to retreat", but the ministers still couldn't stand on the ground until noon. So, the emperor ordered Jinyi Wei to arrest eight people including Fengxi, a bachelor of Hanlin, and put them in prison. Yang Shen and others then shook the door and cried, and for a while, "the sound shook the court." Jiajing was furious, and used court techniques on the weeping officials, killing more than 20 people, almost all of whom were seriously injured and disabled, and Yang Shen and other lucky people who did not die were assigned to the army, and they were not pardoned and could not turn over for life.

After this incident. Jiajing finally pocketed all the authority shared by the monarch and ministers, and truly became a self-respecting only husband, but he is sad that he has separated from the righteous man and the gentleman and the direct minister Qingliu, and it is impossible to get the sincere support of these people anymore, so Yan Song appeared on the stage and opened the twenty years of the Yan family's father and son dictatorship. The emperor, who was able to deal with the old guys in the cabinet in his teens, is it that the worse he lives, the worse he lives, and he really doesn't know people? No, Jiajing knows that this father and son don't do good things. dressed his country in a smoky miasma, but Jiajing was really frightened by the tragic "crying time". was dragged down by the vigorous ceremony, and he didn't want to come back a second time to kill him, so he couldn't do without the Yan family's father and son. It's not because I'm afraid that the country will be in chaos", in fact, Jiajing knows very well that he is already a chicken feather, what else can he mess up with?

What really scared him was that once there was no suppression of the father and son, and there was no obedient Yan Party, the Ming Dynasty would once again have a terrible situation of "all the people are in the court, and there will be another big ceremony?" Knock the door and cry again? Then I really want to become the first faint king, the first tyrant, and the first lone husband in the past! This is the essential reason for Jiajing's connivance with the Yan family's father and son.

It's a pity that no one understands the emperor's heart, including Yan Shifan, who thinks Jiajing is too simple, leading to the emperor who has been in power for the longest time in the Ming Dynasty and has the most experience in political struggle, Jiajing knows too well what he is afraid of and what he is not afraid of.

So Yan Shifan connived at the emperor. Cheng Jiajing has no intention of political affairs, is lazy and afraid of trouble; Under Jiajing's tolerance again and again, the more he felt that the emperor was a bully. Dare to blackmail the emperor again and again!

Well, thought about it. Let's explain the emperor's heart clearly. Otherwise, many people can't understand why Jiajing's court situation is so muddy, believe me, there is no waste pen, this is the real main line.

In addition, this book is written in the Ming Dynasty, not the Qing Dynasty."