Yang Bo took the song list, and he was already impatient in his heart, so he had to say: "Uncle, let's get straight to the point, tell me how much silver you want!" The old man pondered it! ”

Xia Mu smiled, and then asked Yue'er to go down and stretched out a palm.

"What, fifty thousand taels?" Yang Bo looked at it and almost exclaimed, he knew that sooner or later there would be such a day, and he couldn't hide, the emperor asked him to reorganize the twelve regiments, this is a debtor, and he will come to the door sooner or later. It's just that the money of the military department is already a little stretched, and 50,000 taels really can't be taken out.

Thinking about Yang Bo's face sank: "Uncle, you don't take charge of one, I don't know the difficulties in this, since the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, the ministries have begun to eat grain, move the east wall to make up the west wall, most of the silver in Taicang has been embezzled by Yan Shifan, no one knows where the misappropriation is, the ministries are in short supply every year, and the rest will be sent after a while, and the 50,000 taels are really not available!" ”

Xia Mu looked at Yang Bo sitting there silently, it stands to reason that he, the governor of the Jingying Rongzheng, reorganized the twelve regiments and battalions, and took the silver from the military department, but now he can't take it out, don't be ruthless.

Yang Bo saw Xia Mu turn his face, sweating profusely, and saw Li Chunfang in the household, he knew the most about it, so he had to look at him.

Li Chunfang is a good man, Xia Mu invited him tonight to ask him to sing white face. At this moment, Li Chunfang saw that the atmosphere between Yang Bo and Xia Mu was awkward, so he really hurriedly mediated: "Guangzhong should know the difficulties in this, your Beizhen Fusi is under the control of the emperor, and no one dares to detain you Hades, but we bulls and horses are hungry and full." ”

Zhang Juzheng and the others didn't know that they were used as a gun by Xia Mu. Seeing Xia Mu turn his face at this moment, he hurriedly helped Yang Bo speak.

Among them, Zhang Juzheng has a deep understanding, he has been in Hanlin for ten years, what can he do with those Yulu, if it weren't for Wang Shizhen, Li Chunfang and a few people usually provide relief, he bought some paintings himself, and got some from the teacher, the children would not be able to support them.

Xia Mu had long known that it would be extremely difficult to get money from the military department, and at this moment he wanted to give Yang Bo a trap so that he could drill into it.

At this moment, seeing that everyone was grinding and putting him on the shelf, Xia Mu smiled in his heart, so he let the play start, and he ordered a song "Return to Saibei"

I saw three pianists on the stage sitting down, one pressed the flute, one played the flute, and one played the pipa, Chunyue gently hit the sandalwood board in his hand, and suddenly the string orchestra was melodious, and the bamboo sound was pleasant, and he sang:

[Return to Saibei] intestinal fracture, take the second as a parting. The people of Wuli Short Pavilion got on the horse, sighed and wept their clothes, and looked back at various things.

Thousands of stacks of clouds and mountains, thousands of fireworks, who will send the music book? Hatred lingers, sorrow accumulates, and the sky and the sky are haggard.

The emotional scenery is sad, the mountains are green, and the water is blue. Who returns to the outside of the reed flowers? Returning to the urgency, the mandarin ducks flew away from each other.

If you don't drink away from the cup, you must believe in "sending you a thousand miles". Grievances and sorrows, miserable and bitter weeping. The singing is broken, and Ding Ning instructs him to rest. It is not in vain that the man has fallen into ambition and has made the tears in the eyes of the hero.

This song was sung sadly, and everyone felt depressed in their hearts, and Yang Bo's face became more and more unsightly.

Yang Wan was also drinking tea, watching the play, knowing that Xia Mu was playing this Hongmen banquet, his heart was overjoyed, and he rarely saw Yang Bo embarrassed.

Therefore, it added fuel to the fire: "Alas, the emperor asked Guangzhong to reorganize the 12th regiment, but he couldn't get the money from the military department, and he saw that the camp was going to be opened in winter, but how is it good, Yang Lao has not been in the military department for a day or two, how can it be so difficult." ”

Yang Bo's face turned red, he gritted his teeth, and his heart was dripping blood: "Don't talk to the old man, you really can't take out 50,000 taels, only 10,000 taels!" ”

"Huh!" Xia Mu saw that the heat was almost the same, Yang Bo was already angry, and hurriedly smiled, "The boss doesn't have to take a penny of silver, but I will fill in 50,000 taels for the boss, and everyone here will share 1,000 taels each, how about it?" ”

"You ......" Yang Bo's eyes widened when he heard this, "Are you going to copy the Yan Mansion, where can you get so much silver, the old man can't do it!" ”

Li Chunfang and Wang Shizhen also looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in this gourd.

Xia Mu looked at the people who didn't know why, and didn't point out the source of the silver, so he had to take out the white deer table written by Xu Wei, handed it to Yang Bo and said: "My lord also knows that the cabinet is all under the control of Yan Shifan, and all the excerpts that should be played need to be handed over to the cabinet to be handed over to Xiyuan. ”

Yang Bo took the white deer watch, and after reading it, his face was cloudy, and he sighed for a long time: "Xu Wenqing is also a person who is very important among the literati, how can he write such an article, it is full of absurdity, flattery, and the backbone of the literati is interrupted." ”

When Wang Shizhen heard this, he hurriedly took the article in Yang Bo's hand, he was the leader of the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty, and he was the Taishan Beidou of the northern literary circle, and he advocated Li Mengyang's "Confucius is not expensive, but later generations said that literature and poetry are not skilled, how soft?" ". Zhu Xi's theory is used to govern the poor and the poor, and he pays attention to "destroying people's desires and preserving heavenly principles." ”

To put it bluntly, Wang Shizhen is the most opposed to God's theory, see Xu Wei's article, what is 10,000 years of white deer, 500 years of longevity, all of them are low-voiced, flattering and favoring. Immediately furious, he scolded: "Xu Wenqing trampled on the bones of our literati and other literati, and made such an article, it was actually from his pen, such a pampering and charming thing!" ”

Xia Mu smiled: "Brother Yuanmei, everyone has their own ideas, although this article is a work, although it is absurd, although it flatters the emperor and damages the style of the literati, it is a real life-saving article!" ”

Wang Shizhen snorted coldly: "Shaft, what do you know?" After saying that, he slapped his hand Chinese on the table, turned his head and left.

Li Chunfang and others wanted to persuade them, but they were afraid of slapping Xia Mu in the face, so they stood in place for a while, neither to go, nor to go.

When Xia Mu heard Wang Shizhen's words, he was not angry, but just smiled: "Uncle, you guys will disperse today, it's good to accompany Brother Yuanmei for me." ”

Saying that, Xia Mu instructed the old housekeeper again, one thousand taels of silver per person, and really wrapped a big bag and stuffed it into everyone's hands.

Everyone was sent out of the house by Xia Mu in a daze, only to see him say at the end: "Brothers, now that Yan Song is in power, I can't help but have the same enemy as me." ”

Li Chunfang and Guo Pu took the silver for no reason, and when they saw Xia Mu say this, they couldn't excuse themselves, so they had to nod and leave.

Xia Mu saw that everyone was dispersed, and the play was complete, but before he could turn around and go home, he saw Yang Bo walking out by himself, and Zhang Siwei was holding the article in his hand behind him.

Yang Boshen sighed: "Money can make ghosts grind, 50,000 taels of silver, uncle has to talk about it!" ”

Xia Mu nodded, and was happy with this old money fan in his heart, so he had to say: "The silver must be delivered in full!" ”

said that he sent Yang Bo and Zhang Siwei away.

Yang Qian saw that everyone was leaving, and a sneer appeared on his face: "It's okay now, the three divisions will be tried, and our Beizhen Fusi Ke will be opened, and the four or nine cities will have to jump again!" ”

On the second day, throughout the morning, Fusi of Beizhen, located in Dong'anmen Outer Street, was like a great enemy, and saw hundreds of Dongchang Fanzi wearing round hats and whirl-folded straight white boots, all of whom were guarding the team with swords.

But it was Chen Hong who wanted to interrogate Hu Zongxian and go to Dali Temple, and the three divisions would be tried.

Xia Mu had to ask Jinyi Wei to hand him over.

Hu Zongxian came out of the prison, saw that Xia Mu was outside, and without saying a word, he got into the prisoner car of Dongchang, escorted by the 300-meter Dongchang Fanzi, and sent to Dali Temple.

Luo Kedi couldn't watch it from the sidelines: "These eunuchs are so arrogant, why should they mention people here in Jinyiwei!" ”

Xia Mu smiled and didn't say anything, just handed him the edict from Dongchang. The edict of this East Factory is different from Jinyiwei, and it is much grander than Jinyiwei. Dafan brocade clothes and guards are poor, and the casting and printing are all in the unified format of "somewhere forbidden army customs defense", but the east factory is different, and the customs defense seal is a fourteen-character seal "Qincha Governor Dongchang official school office eunuch customs defense".

It not only points out the "Qin Cha", but also adds the title of "eunuch" to show the prestige of the institution and the importance of the saints.

"They are proposing people on behalf of the emperor, do you dare not hand them over? Moreover, Dongchang is a reconnaissance and criminal institution directly controlled by the emperor. The Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which are among the three legal divisions of Jiuqing's authority and sanctity, cannot be controlled. Now that I see that the power of Dongchang is all-pervasive and far-reaching, it is really great. Where the three legal divisions will handle the case and try the prison, the Beizhen Fu Division, the patrol city and the imperial history torture repeat offenders, there are people in the East Factory to attend to record the oral words, and even the number of times the prisoner was beaten and the punishment situation are also recorded in detail, which is better than the night or the next morning into the Imperial Tour, and the six major yamen are in front of the six major yamen, and there are secret detectives in the East Factory every day to see who is in and out, and whether there is a Tang report. The imperial city of each gate of the capital, the gate of the gate to prevent entry and exit, there are also detailed records, a fire in a certain place, a lightning strike somewhere, every day, in the Beijing market miscellaneous grains, rice, soybean oil and noodles price, also must be heard immediately. We have a lot of Jinyi guards, but he's good, just make a small report and monitor! ”

Saying this, Xia Mu couldn't help but think of the military commanders and the central commanders in later generations, which were simply the same virtue as Dongchang, no different.

People were escorted to Dali Temple, and the presiding judge Li Mo and Zhu Xizhong sat in the main hall, and there were jurors on both sides, and the emperor sent Huang Jin to listen to the trial.

Xia Mu nodded to everyone, lifted the purple bullfighting reckless clothes, and frowned behind the big copywriter with the red sandalwood, and sat down on the rose chair with the openwork backrest of Huanghuali.

However, he saw that Li Mo had already placed a folding box with a seal on his desk, thinking that it was the emperor's fold to the cabinet and returning it to the three divisions for trial, but all this kind of folding that the emperor had seen was sealed by the celebrant and sent to the cabinet's duty room every morning.

At this moment, Hu Zongxian has been escorted to the hall by Dongchang Fanzi, and now his charges are undecided, and no one asks him to kneel, so he has to stand under the hall for interrogation.

Li Mozhuo opened the box, picked up the top one, and saw the inscription on the cover read: "Li Mo, the head of the household, asks the three divisions to interrogate Hu Zongxianshu", and immediately opened it to read:

"Hu Zongxian appointed the governor of the southeast, and secretly embezzled military salaries with Zhao Wenhua, the former secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and deducted taxes from the vassal king. Check: In the 31st year of Jiajing, the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau used 800,000 taels of silver. According to the usual department, half of the headquarters should allocate 400,000 taels of silver, and Hu and Zhao should deduct 400,000 yuan privately. ”

After speaking, Li Mo put down his hand, glanced at Hu Zongxian, shook his face, and shouted: "Where did you use all this money?" ”

Hu Zongxian stood in the hall, did not quibble, and confessed unexpectedly. I saw that his eyes were faint, and he didn't panic at all, and said in one breath: "30,000 taels to bribe Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shi Yu Qiulong, 30,000 taels to bribe Wu Dacheng, a member of the Ministry of Officials, and 5,000 taels to bribe Zhu Xiaocheng, 5,000 taels to bribe Zhu Xiaocheng, 5,000 taels, bribe ......."

When Li Mo heard this, he immediately gasped, slapped the shocked wood, and shouted, "You...... Fart ......"

Zhu Xizhong coughed, Li Mo knew that he had lost his temper, but he couldn't help but lose his temper, thirty percent of these people were from his own household, all of them were some ancestors who were budding and meritorious, and a few of them were his henchmen, although he knew that these people were not clean under their hands on weekdays, but they would not take Hu Zongxian's money, is this clearly a naked frame!

"Hu Zongxian, you don't have to be a fool!"