Hearing Tang Yi say that he was going to start a war with the Yan Party, everyone present felt that their blood was gushing, and they were full of energy, and they couldn't wait to rush out immediately and die with the evil forces.

It's just that this heroism came too short, and soon the big guy was discouraged.

The comparison of the strength of the two sides is really desperate.

Yan Song, as the first assistant, not to mention, the six Shangshu plus the imperial history of Zuodu, are all people from other people, and they have just cut off the heavenly official Li Mo, and through Jingcha, he has established supreme prestige, and he has reached the point of reversing death and life.

The court is like this, and the inner court is even worse, because Lu Bing was implicated and went to Tianjin, several of the celebrant supervisors were fed by Yan Song, and it was impossible to win by surprise.

Even the second assistant Xu Jie, who was willing to be small, and Tang Yi and them were just a few new Hanlin, and the highest official position was just a bachelor's degree, from the little people of the fifth grade, if they wanted to challenge the Yan Party, it was simply an ant against an elephant, and the gap was simply incomprehensible.

Wang Shizhen pulled her hair without any image, and said tentatively: "Yes, in fact, it is not without a precedent of small and broad, for example, Xia Yan in the matter back then, he relied on his own strength to defeat the first assistant Zhang Xuan, and replaced him, I believe that as long as there is the support of His Majesty, we will still win." ”

"No!" Tang Yi himself denied it.

Xu Wei also nodded, "It's right, Xia Yan's kind of success can't be replicated." ”

Zhu Dazhu and Tao Dalin were puzzled, Tang Yi explained: "Xia Yan himself is a speech official, and he has the power to hear about things, and His Majesty was still young at that time, and his fighting spirit was endless, he overthrew the patriarch Yang Tinghe with his own strength, and naturally he was willing to see Xia Yan bring down the infamous Zhang Xuan, but don't forget." Today's Your Majesty is fifty years old, as the saying goes, the tiger doesn't bite, and His Majesty was also scared by the long Great Rites Discussion, and became afraid of trouble. The result was designed by Yan Song. ”

Wang Shizhen suddenly realized, "I also said that Your Majesty is so wise, how can you be deceived by the Yan Party, and now I understand that I dare to love Your Majesty, but I am afraid of trouble, afraid of facing hundreds of officials, so I pushed the Yan Party to the front as a shield." ”

Tang Yi didn't expect that Wang Shizhen's political understanding was not bad. I was able to see this and gave him a thumbs up without hesitation.

Wang Shizhen shook his head, "Okay, I understand what is the use of these, how did I find that Yan Dang is more difficult to deal with." ”

"It's right and it's not right." Tang Yi said with a smile: "Knowing ourselves and knowing that we have won all battles, and figuring out Your Majesty's mind, we will not make Li Mo's mistakes." At present, the strict party controls the two capitals and 13 provinces, and wants to bring them down. I am afraid that His Majesty is not willing to bear the consequences. So I can't do it, but ...... Beat the strict party. Take down a few of Yan Song's minions, Your Majesty is still willing to support. ”

"Difficult!"

Xu Wei said unceremoniously: "It doesn't hurt Yan Party at all to deal with ordinary minions and henchmen, but if you move Yan Song's closest godsons, the old thing will work hard, who to attack and how to start." It is necessary not only to kill with one blow, but also to prevent the Yan Party from counterattacking. It's too hard to get the right balance. ”

Xu Dacai didn't say anything further, but the meaning couldn't be clearer, that is, I don't believe you can do it.

Tang Yi didn't raise the bar with Xu Wei either, to tell the truth. He didn't know what he knew.

"Let's inquire separately and see what the Yan Party has to do, and then discuss the solution." Tang Yi instructed: "Everyone remembers, it's better to miss the opportunity than to take risks easily, and protecting yourself is more important than anything else." ”

Everyone thought so and dispersed.

After the turn of the day, Tang Yi still went to the household department to observe the politics as usual.

Others watch politics, that is, serve tea and water, Tang Yi is different, he came by order to understand the financial situation. In the first two days, the thirteen officials under the household department, big and small officials, all sneered at Tang Yi and did not think so.

In their eyes, Tang Yi is a lucky boy who rose up on a rocket, you have a good literary style and a hard relationship, but you may not be able to know about specific government affairs when you really encounter them.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of high-scoring and low-level non-commissioned officers, many people had taken the imperial examination for most of their lives, and their heads had been stuffed with eight strands of literature, so it was easy to become officials, let them study again, they were unwilling, so what should I do, just ask the master!

In many local states and counties, the big man is an ornament, and the real organizers are the old officials below, and the officialdom pays attention to bullying the upper and lower levels, and the officials get together, often fooling the big man.

The situation is even more so in a very professional yamen like the household department, where ordinary jinshi come in and don't study for three or five years, so don't even think about figuring it out.

On the first day of Tang Yi's visit, he adjusted the accounts of taxes paid in Zhejiang and Fujian over the years, and in less than an hour, a scribe brought ten wooden boxes, put them in front of Tang Yi, and the people left.

After Tang Yi opened it, he saw that the wooden box was messy, the year was also confused, the state and county were not right, the land and commercial taxes were mixed together, it was a mess, and it was impossible to sort it out.

He immediately understood that it was these little officials who gave him a dismissal.

According to the normal situation, the Jinshi master of the new branch will often find some old officials, reassure them with good words, and promise some benefits, so that in exchange for the cooperation of the officials, the officials and officials, the distribution of power between the two sides is realized in this kind of running-in.

But Tang Yi is a strong seed, and his arrogance is even higher than that of Yan Shifan, who claims to be the smartest person in the world.

Tang Yi didn't call anyone, he was alone, facing the ten boxes of account books, and launched a challenge, he first classified the account books, and then carried out accounting, of course, he had to calculate them all, tired Tang Yi couldn't do it, he only selected a few major states and counties, and counted the accounts of the last five years.

Just like this, ordinary people have to work for several scribes for half a month, and Tang Yi is alone, and it will be solved in three days.

When he settled the accounts clearly, he sneered and asked someone to call a scribe named Zhou Qihua over.

Zhou Qihua was less than forty years old, took over his father's position, and worked in the household department for more than ten years. These officials have no possibility of promotion, and they will not be expelled if they do not make big mistakes, so they treat Shangguan only on the surface, and they are quite dismissive in their hearts.

"Little one, meet the bachelor, sir, you are auspicious, rich and glorious."

Tang Yi smiled slightly, "Scribe Zhou, you don't have to talk about it, this official came to you to ask you, the law of the Ming Dynasty contains a clear text, if you embezzle sixty taels, you have to pick up the skin of daylily, if you embezzle eight thousand taels, what should you do?" ”

When Zhou Qihua heard this number, he was stunned, and then said with a smile: "The adults are joking, don't say eight thousand taels for the small ones, they haven't even seen eighty taels, how to punish them, the little ones really don't understand, adults, why don't you ask the officials of the Criminal Department?" ”

"The Criminal Department? When you get to the Criminal Department, are you still alive? Tang Yi stretched out his hand and took out a list and threw it in front of Zhou Qihua. Zhou Qihua was suspicious, held the list in his hand, and looked at it nonchalantly, but when he glanced at it, his hands and feet were suddenly cold, and his whole body trembled.

Seeing the end, he simply collapsed on the ground, convulsing all over, as if he had been fished out of the water.

Tang Yi stood with his hands in his hands and said with a sigh: "Everyone says that the household is poor, but who would have thought that a small official could use the way of flushing accounts to be greedy for tens of thousands of taels, which is really breathtaking!" ”

It turned out that Tang Yi checked the accounts of various prefectures and counties in Zhejiang and found an interesting problem.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting the world, Suzhou Songjiang and other places belonged to Zhang Shicheng's territory, and due to the fierce resistance of the local people, Zhu Yuanzhang hated Su Song, including Zhejiang and other places, and ordered heavy taxes.

Ordinary people pay three liters of grain for one acre of land, while one mu of land in Suzhou has to pay seven buckets at most, which is more than 20 times worse.

Moreover, due to the heavy taxation imposed on these places, it was also specially stipulated that officials of Susong, Zhejiang and other places of origin were not allowed to serve in the household department. lest the party protect the villagers.

There are policies, there are countermeasures, the imperial court collects taxes on these places very heavy, and Susong and Zhejiang and other places also have a secret, that is, delay, some states and counties can delay for one or two decades, and the few have seven or eight years, dragging it back and forth, and when the imperial court is desperate, it will issue a decree to exempt some taxes, which is also a game of places and centers with Ming characteristics.

But to Tang Yi's surprise, the taxes in Jiaxing Mansion were not in arrears, which made Tang Yi puzzled. He searched all the accounts, stayed up all night, and finally found the reason, because before that, a sum of money had been remitted to the household department, and the accounts were filled.

Where did the money come from?

Tang Yi continued to investigate, and it turned out that the household department borrowed money from wealthy businessmen to make up for the shortfall.

Could it be that the wealthy businessman has a good heart and helps Jiaxing Mansion repay the debt? Obviously not, in fact, it was the wealthy businessmen who bought Zhou Qihua in order to eat both ends, and asked him to help with the accounts, and the money went around in the household department, first offsetting the arrears of taxes in Jiaxing Mansion, and then handing it over to the household department.

In this way, the wealthy businessman has two IOUs in his hands, one is from the household department and the other is from Jiaxing Mansion, as for how people make money from the household department and Jiaxing, it is not Tang Yi who can be clear, but Tang Yi knows that with this hand alone, Zhou Qihua has made a benefit of eight thousand taels.

After reading Tang Yi's list, how each account flows, and writing it clearly, Zhou Qihua seems to have been hollowed out and spread on the ground.

"It's over, it's all over!" He really couldn't understand what Tang Yi made of this guy, such complicated accounts, even people who have been working for decades may not be able to understand it, how can he make it clear in a few days, is what people say is true, he is a Wenqu star, can he pinch and calculate? Zhou Qihua looked at Tang Yi's gaze again, and he was full of awe.

Tang Yi squatted opposite him with a smile, "Zhou Qihua, if I send this list out, no one will be able to save your head!" However, God has the virtue of a good life, and this official is just here to watch the government, and he doesn't want to get involved in your bad things. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhou Qihua got up excitedly and kowtowed, "Thank you for your grace not to kill, thank you, my lord, you are my reborn parents, and you will be my father and mother again." ”

"Okay, okay, I don't want a son as big as you." Tang Yi scolded with a smile: "Zhou Qihua, you have been in the household department for so many years, do you know how much silver the Yan family has made?" Is there any evidence? (To be continued.) )