Chapter 199: The Present World Comes Quickly
"The big man is not good, the big master is not good!"
Jia Zheng's henchmen knelt down in front of the eldest lord with a plop, and cried with a handful of snot and tears: "The second master was taken away by an official sent by the capital!" β
The second political brother is unlucky, Lao Tzu hasn't made a move yet!
"What's the panic, Lao Tzu is not dead, what are you yelling about?"
The eldest lord slapped his palm on the armrest, and said angrily: "If you have something to say, don't open your mouth and shut up, 'The eldest lord is not good', what I don't know means that the lord is going to hang up!" β
Startled!
The second master's henchman who came to report the news with a panic was not embarrassed, sorted out his thoughts and hurriedly said: "The eldest master rescued the second master, the official from the capital just now took the second master away!" β
"What's the reason, what did the second child do out of the ordinary?"
The eldest lord unceremoniously interrupted this guy's words, and said directly: "Say it clearly, don't try to hide it, I am not so easy to deceive!" β
"This ......"
The henchmen of the second master of politics were speechless for a while, and he was speechless for a long time.
"What's the matter, the second child was miserable by the people below?"
Seeing at a glance the weakness of this guy's heart, the eldest man laughed and said: "I sit in the temporary office every day as a bodhisattva, thinking that everything will be fine if I tell things to continue, what a naΓ―ve thing!" β
"Master Mingjian!"
The second confidant of the second political boss who came to report the news smiled bitterly, which can be regarded as acquiescing to the guess of the eldest master.
Lying on the grass!
Although I had known for a long time that something would happen to the second political child sooner or later, I didn't expect the time to be so short!
"If I'm not mistaken, the imperial court allocated 100,000 taels as the project money for the second child's canal dredging, and it has only been less than a month and a half, and all the 100,000 taels of silver have been lost?"
The eldest man was angry, glared at the kneeling second henchman and said angrily: "Tell me clearly, what is the situation on the second side, how much money is left in the imperial court, and how far has the canal dredging project been carried out?" β
The second confidant of the second political boss who reported the news turned pale with fright, his body trembled, but he didn't dare to say anything.
Kindness?
The eldest lord's eyes widened, and his heart instantly understood, and he sneered; "You guys are really big dogs, you will lose all the 100,000 taels of silver in a month and a half, the court wants to take the second child to open the knife, you people are waiting to be sent to the mine by the old lady for a lifetime!"
"Big lord help, big lord help, we really don't have that guts, so we took less than 40,000 taels of silver, and the rest were all deceived by the Cao Gang!"
The little guy was scared out of the sky, as Jia Zheng's personal entourage, how partial the old lady was, the second master of Zheng knew very well, once the old lady sent a big deal to them, these henchmen and the little guy would die.
The eldest lord still said lightly, once the old lady knew that the second master was arrested, it was because of them, and the end was so miserable that you can imagine.
As long as he thought of the terrible consequences, the little guy kneeling on the ground couldn't help but feel cold and weak, and he couldn't raise the slightest thought, and he only finished talking about it.
As for running away, I didn't even think about it.
It is very simple for a high-ranking guy like him to get a new household registration paperwork, but they are used to the rich and wealthy life, and they don't dare to imagine how difficult it is to live independently outside.
They are not willing to take such a risk at all, they have long been accustomed to a rich life, and asking them to live that kind of hard life is no different from asking for their lives.
The so-called good shade under the big tree is true, but relying on the big tree for a long time, the flowers and plants under the tree have lost the courage to fight the wind and rain alone, and no one can tell whether it is good or bad when you drink and peck at things in the world.
"If you want to live, double the silver you have embezzled, and don't tell the master that you don't have it!"
The eldest lord said indifferently: "As for the matter of the Cao Gang, wait for the old man to figure out the situation before making a plan, first of all, what I want to know is, what step has the canal dredging project been carried out in?" β
It's a joke to say, the work of dredging the Tongzhou Canal is actually quite simple, you only need to coordinate the construction in sections, and it is quite easy to use good tools.
It may take a little more time, after all, the Tongzhou section of the canal comes and goes every day, and it is almost impossible to build it every day, so it can only be busy at night when there are no boats, but it is only a little troublesome.
Otherwise, how difficult will it be to be robbed of the head by the middle and low-level officials of the Ministry of Industry?
It's just that this is a matter of river affairs after all, and even if the eldest lord is the boss of Tongzhou Prefecture, it is not easy to interfere too much.
There is such a strange thing as the second political boss, and the eldest master has no mind to know about it.
But sitting in his position, many things in the governance will naturally come to his ears, although there are not many things about the second political child, but there are also a few key pieces of information.
One of them is that the second political elder did not ask the state government to cooperate in recruiting people, but he didn't know where he got the manpower to clean up the silt under the canal at night?
Suddenly, a ridiculous idea came to mind, and the old man's face froze, wouldn't it really be so ridiculous?
It's a pity that the words of the kneeling guy told him that there is no most ridiculous, only more ridiculous.
"If you go back to the old man, the work of dredging the canal has arrived, and it has not really opened yet, so start work!"
The kneeling guy put his head on the bluestone floor of the state ya, and carefully told the truth.
Tut!
The eldest lord has an urge to beat people, and the object is definitely not the little guy in the house kneeling in front of him, but the second political boss who was arrested by the official mission of the capital.
I've seen stupid and incompetent, but I've never seen an official as stupid and incompetent as him, it's like an older baby, no one paves the road for him and doesn't know how to go!
"Go back and make it clear to your gang of bastards who are greedy for money, and pay all the money within three days, or you will prepare to flee!"
With a wave of his hand, the eldest man didn't even bother to look at the kneeling guy, and sneered: "Now that I know I'm scared, what did I do when I couldn't see the factor earlier?" β
He won't move this little guy, who knows if this little guy has already made up his mind to touch porcelain and wants to get through this level by being beaten?
I really don't doubt the audacity of the little guys in the house, and I don't know if Jia's mother did a good job in publicity, so that these subordinates think that the second brother of the royal family is the third child all day long, and the house can carry it if anything happens.
As a result, they have developed a hollow-eyed temperament, don't think that the big man doesn't know their urine.
In front of the adult master in the mansion, he will pretend to be one, which one of them is not a domineering uncle when he goes out of the mansion?
Most of the reputation of Rongguo Mansion was destroyed by these grandsons, but Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang also joined forces to protect it, saying what kind of family Rongguo Mansion was, and it was easy not to beat and scold the subordinates.
It's a joke, now the second political child has suffered a lot!
The gang of Qingke and the little guy around the second political brother don't have any good things, the eldest master doesn't want to be relied on by them, who knows what these things will say to Jia's mother?
Sometimes, the eldest lord really can't understand that women like Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang believe in the people around them more than in the family.
In this case, if you don't ask Mother Jia to be scared once, the eldest master will never come forward to save people easily this time.
Of course, if he hadn't guessed that the second political officer had done this errand, it might have been deliberately so-called today, and the eldest man would not have been so peaceful.
Zheng Lao Er had an accident in Tongzhou, if the eldest master didn't make a move, it was estimated that he would be drowned by Jia's mother's reprimand, who called the world like this, the so-called filial piety is as big as the sky?
"Tsk, these guys are really rich!"
For three days, the eldest lord deliberately did not send anyone back to Beijing, pretending not to know, but he had already sent his intelligence officers to find out all the affairs of the second political officer.
The thing is very simple, the little guys and Qingke brought out by the second political elder took the silver allocated by the court as their own, anyway, the second master only knew how to sit in the government as a bodhisattva, and the following work was done by them, and it was too easy to make money with their hands and feet.
As a result, you make a profit, I make a profit, and by the time these little servants noticed that something was wrong, the silver allocated by the imperial court was already 40,000 taels less.
But the canal dredging project has not yet begun, and now they are a little anxious, if it is really the second political child who is finished, none of them will be pleased, including the family members and children, they will have to die.
These guys are not good at doing things, and they have to coordinate the dispatch and command the night construction, not only do they not have the ability, but they also can't bear the hardships of working overtime at night.
So I don't know which bastard proposed to outsource the project to the people of the local snake gang, and they only need to pay 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver to solve the problem.
As for how the Cao Gang squeezes the people's power, and how much public resentment will come out, it is not their business at all?
It's a pity that the so-called Cao Gang boss they found is also a master who plays tricks and abductions, but he is just a little minion in the Tongzhou section of the Cao Gang, and the result of giving the silver to this guy can be imagined.
Running away with money is not a modern proper noun, and the little Qingke under the second-hand government also encountered a time, just when they were angry and ready to find out the person, the official sent by the imperial court arrived.
It's as simple as that, the 70,000 taels of silver really allocated by the imperial court were spent in a month and a half.
In other words, the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry are not things, what do you say to leave three layers, 100,000 taels of silver to dredge the canal, only seven percent of the real appropriation, this is still in Tongzhou such a Gyeonggi gateway, if it is placed in other places far away from the capital, it must not be stripped clean layer by layer?
Things are actually as simple as that, once again explaining what it means to be an official and incompetent to harm others and yourself!
The eldest lord gave an ultimatum to the little servants under the old man, but these guys were really rich, and it was not enough for three days for 80,000 taels of silver tickets to be neatly placed on the eldest lord's bookcase.
"If you don't do anything else, let's get the stall that dredges the canal up first, otherwise the second political boss will really be completely finished!"
The eldest lord did not play with the land after receiving the money, and directly ordered the old man to get busy first......