Ma Hong pulled Chu Huan into the house and closed the door, which allowed Chu Huan to sit down, saying that he was drinking tea, but he didn't have the slightest intention of making tea, so he sat down next to Chu Huan and said with a smile: "Lord Chu, the shops on Jinyu Street have nothing to check, since they have all been transferred by the merchants and the money has been recovered, then why bother making more trouble." ”

Chu Huan shook his head and said: "Lord Ministry, although I said that, but we are entrusted by the Holy God to take care of the household yamen, then we must be dutiful." The lower official follows the lord of the ministry, the lord has a lot of opportunities, and some things may not have time to ask, and the lower official leads the court to deal with some things that the lord has no time to ask. ”

Ma Hong reluctantly smiled and said, "What Lord Chu said is true. ”

"There are many affairs in this household department, in fact, the lower officials really don't know anything." Chu Huan laughed to himself, "But the lower official has figured out a way to be an errand in the household department!" ”

"Oh?" Ma Hongqi said: "Please also ask Lord Chu to teach!" ”

"Xia Guan doesn't know if it's right or not, but Xia Guan thinks that this court is like a family, and the household department is like a family's account room, and what the account office has to do is to balance the family's income and expenses." Chu Huan said with a smile: "To put it bluntly, the more inputs the better, and the less expenditures the better, I don't know if this is the reason?" ”

Ma Hong nodded and smiled: "You can say the same, but it's not so simple to really do it." When it comes to spending, it's not that you want to spend less money, some of the silver that should be spent, that can't be saved. ”

Chu Huan bowed his head and said: "What the adults said is true, but the more entries in this one, the better." Let's just say that the eleven shops on Jinyu Street, since they have been confiscated and can be taken out by the household department, then they can have one or two more silver, and the household department can also have one or two more silver in stock, and they can do one more silver in the future. The lower official was worried that the situation below was unclear, so he hurriedly put the shop out, but he didn't offer a good price, that is, the official robe he was wearing. ”

Ma Hong frowned and did not speak.

"Xia Guan has already estimated that the shop over there must not be less than two thousand five hundred taels." Chu Huan looked very firm, clenching his fists, "If this amount is missing, the lower official will personally negotiate with the merchant and make up the silver." And less than this number, it means that those merchants want to take advantage of the fire to rob, and the lower officials must check their details, and in the future, our household department must strictly manage these profiteers who have lost the interests of the imperial court......! ”

Ma Hong's eyelids were beating faster and faster, and his expression was ugly, Chu Huan looked at him and said with concern again: "My lord looks really uncomfortable, and his face is very bad, why don't you go and ask the doctor to come over and take a look?" ”

Ma Hong waved his hand, groaned slightly, and finally said, "Master Chu, you just said that you have a fellow villager who wants to do business in Jinyu Street?" ”

Chu Huan waved his hand and said, "Since it has been put out, this matter has not been mentioned by the current official." ”

"Lord Chu don't worry." Ma Hong smiled: "Don't you just want to shop everywhere?" I'll send someone to handle this for you, and we're also the head of the household, so the small shop is not a problem. By the way, does he want a storefront? ”

"Not really." Chu Huan shook his head and said: "Since you want to do business, this store is too shabby, there are no three or four, and the business is not interesting to do!" ”

"Three or four?" Ma Hong gasped and stared at Chu Huan, seeing that Chu Huan looked calm, but his heart was sneering, this young man looked very honest on the outside, but his appetite was really not small.

The shops on Jinyu Street, each one has the shadow of a court official behind it, and even there are two shops on that street with the Yiguo Gong Xuanyuan family.

Ma Hong has been in Beijing for many years, and naturally has many industries, but he is a rising star in the officialdom, and Jinyu Street has long been divided, even if he wants to squeeze in, he can't do anything.

This time Huang Ju fell, as the first person behind Jinyu Street, Huang Ju had a total of 11 shops on Jinyu Street, so that after the raid, 11 stores were vacated.

Although there are so many people who are worried about these shops, Ma Hong naturally can't let these shops with a price higher than gold flow into the hands of others, he has been eyeing there for a long time, and when the emperor issued a decree to raid the house, he immediately sent his cronies to confiscate all the shops of the Huang family in Jinyu Street.

At eleven o'clock the store arrived in his hand, and he waited for eleven more mines, he was in a good mood, but Qiu Junxi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was the first to come over, and talked about it for a long time, and the two played dumb words to each other for a long time, and finally Ma Hong was helpless, with a smile on his face but a painful heart, Qiu Junhui took away three shops.

Qiu Junhui is a well-known cool official in the court and the opposition, this person's status in the court is different from others, he does not belong to any party, not even the new party, the yamen of the criminal department has always been a self-contained system, and Qiu Junhui is very loyal to the emperor, if the emperor holds two things, a sharp knife and a hunting dog, then the god Yiwei is the emperor's knife, and Qiu Junhui is the emperor's hound.

For this hunting dog, no one wants to have a deep friendship with such a ruthless person, but no one wants to offend him, and even when An Guogong was there, he would give Qiu Junhui a little thin face.

Ma Hong knew that this Qiu Junhui was a person with a knife on his face with a smile on his face, since he came to the door in person, it was inevitable, Ma Hong actually knew in his heart that he could not swallow all of the eleven shops on Jinyu Street after all, especially this Qiu Junhui, copying the family is a union of the two departments, if he offends Qiu Junhui, it will be no good, so he can only endure the pain and cut his love, and throw out three facades.

Sending away a wolf in front, who knew that there was another tiger in the back, and Chu Huan's appetite was not small, he opened his mouth to ask for three or four shops, Ma Hong was annoyed, the corners of his eyes twitched, but he reluctantly smiled: "Lord Chu, I'm afraid I can't vacate so many shops." ”

Chu Huan smiled: "It's okay, it's okay. He didn't say much, got up, and arched his hand: "Lord Ministry, the lower officials should go and check the situation of the eleven shops, and don't bother the adults anymore." "I'm going to leave.

"Two!" Ma Hong gritted his teeth, "Lord Chu, your fellow villagers want to do business, and this official asked people to vacate two!" ”

Chu Huan shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't dare to embarrass adults, two shops, I'm afraid he still has no interest." As soon as he walked up, Ma Hong's eyes showed a look of resentment.

In fact, except for Qiu Junxi, he is really not afraid of interfering in this matter with other officials.

As long as he cooperates with Qiu Junxi, other officials have no right to enter the household department for verification, even if someone finds those merchants, Ma Hong doesn't have to worry, he has already thought of a way, even if someone knows that those shops are related to him, they can't come up with evidence.

But he was afraid of the people inside the household.

Especially Chu Huan, the household servant, Chu Huan is not only the household attendant, but also has the title of earl, he is a person within the household, but he is not Ma Hong's person, if he really wants to toss some chaos in the household department, Ma Hong's life may not be easy.

Ma Hong never doubted Chu Huan's courage to make waves.

At the beginning, Chu Huan just entered the ministry, and there was a turmoil, which is already a well-known thing, at that time Chu Huan had no scruples, and now Chu Huan has even been appreciated and trusted by the emperor to a certain extent, so he has more confidence to make a disturbance in the household department, in fact, Ma Hong's biggest wish is that Chu Huan can honestly stay in the ministry, it is best to drink tea and doze off every day, and do not interfere with his measures in the household department.

But today, the Tobe waiter obviously didn't want to be quiet.

Chu Huan had no reason to be quiet.

After Ma Hong entered the household department, he wantonly called his cronies and built a foundation in the household department, although it is still unstable, but today's household department can be said to be almost under Ma Hong's control.

Chu Huan didn't have much interest in controlling the household department, but he was very unaccustomed to Ma Hong covering the sky with one hand in the household department, and he could feel that Ma Hong was quite polite to him on weekdays, but he was full of hostility to himself in his bones.

Chu Huan also knows that Ma Hong is a member of the New Party, and the greater Ma Hong's power, the greater the power of the New Party, he doesn't want to see the New Party grow strong, and the growth of any force in the dynasty will not be a good thing for Qi Wang Yingren.

Chu Huan knew very well in his heart that the shops on Jinyu Street were taken away in a short period of time, and they could only be done by Ma Hong himself, he didn't think that this was a trick to bring down Ma Hong, in fact, it was commonplace for officials to secretly run shops, but it was not easy to put them on the table, and even the emperor was very clear about it.

Even if this matter is thoroughly investigated, the emperor will nothing more than reprimand Ma Hong, take away the shop, and then confiscate Ma Hong some silver, which may not have a big blow to Ma Hong's own status, in this case, Chu Huan is happy to tear off some fat from Ma Hong's mouth, at least to warn Ma Hong clearly that this household is not the world of his Ma Hong's family.

Seeing that Chu Huan was about to walk out of the door, Ma Hong finally gritted his teeth, "Sanjian!" ”

Chu Huan stopped, turned around, and saw Ma Hong raise three fingers, "Three, Lord Chu can tell you that fellow villager that he can operate three shops on Jinyu Street." ”

"Oh?" Chu Huan said with a smile: "Then there is Lord Lao Butang, by the way, I still have to check how much silver is needed for those shops and plates for merchants, and I can also ask my fellow villagers to compensate them." ”

Ma Hong said angrily: "Lord Chu doesn't have to work hard, there is no need to investigate." Three shops, you let your fellow villager take out 600 taels of silver is ......! ”

"How much?" Chu Huan was stunned, three rooms were six hundred taels, wouldn't one room only cost two hundred taels of silver, which was almost no different from picking up for nothing.

Ma Hongxin was furious, and said coldly: "Six hundred taels." ”

Chu Huan smiled: "This ...... I'm afraid something is wrong! ”

"Since you are a villager who is loyal to Uncle Yongbo, you must always take care of some." Ma Hong waved his hand, "Lord Chu can now ask your villagers to go to Jinyu Street to choose three shops, and after looking at it, pay six hundred taels of silver, and come to me to get the title deed." I couldn't help but add, "Lord Chu, on behalf of the official, I want your villager to prosper, and the official expects his business to prosper!" ”

Chu Huan turned his head and said with a smile: "My lord is also doing a prosperous business!" Without further words, he opened the door and left, Ma Hong looked at Chu Huan's back hatefully, reached out to take the teacup, raised his hand and was about to smash it to the ground, then glanced at the door, and finally slowly put it back.