also asked the Huo family for silver, obviously not.

Today's Huo family is no longer the wronged boss who just came from Jiangnan, besides, Huo Jiu got an official status for this back then, although Huo Jiu died, but the Huo family is no longer a merchant, but a family of small officials, when is there a precedent for asking for money from the family of small officials?

As for the handle? The Huo family was bitten by a snake for a while, don't they know how to take precautions?

Even that incident was also a disaster, Guo Yong wanted to exonerate the queen, so he arrested the Huo family as a scapegoat, and now the Wang family is no longer Pengcheng Bofu, they are guilty of murdering the emperor, they have already raided the house and destroyed the door, the queen mother has died for many years, and the last thing the saint wants to mention today is the Wang family and the queen mother.

The current official in charge of the household department is Lu Xian, who only entered the cabinet last winter.

Zhao Xu has served as an official of the household department for many years, and the household department is his person from top to bottom. After Zhao Xu's death, Emperor Ming He spent a lot of effort to find a Lu Xian.

Lu Xian was not only not Zhao Xu's person, but also had a conflict with Zhao Xu on one matter, which made him suppressed for many years.

Emperor Ming He's promotion of Lu Xian can be described as a shock. Cui Shilun of the Ministry of War is also the deputy governor anyway, but Lu Xian has been promoted more than three levels in a row.

It is conceivable that Emperor Ming He is clear and happy, but he suffers Lu Xian.

Emperor Ming He only promoted him, but did not clear the obstacles for him, and looking at it, the household department was still dominated by Zhao Xu's people.

Although Zhao Xu is gone, these people are either his protégés, his classmates, or they climbed up with his connections.

Lu Xian had a conflict with Zhao Xu before, and even offended most of the household, and now he is the official of the household, it is conceivable that the people below are in disobedience, and secretly have to poke him a few times, and he has been in this position for less than half a year, and he has been vacated for less than half a year.

Cui Shilun and Lu Xian, one is in charge of the military department and the other is in charge of the household department, but now they can only stare at each other, and no one can do anything.

Although the Huo family can't move, there are other merchants, as long as they follow the example of Guo Yong and Zhao Xu back then, and pull another merchant into the water, they can also squeeze out the silver.

They just thought of this method, but they didn't know that the reason why Guo Yong found the Huo family back then was also a coincidence, and that incident was not originally to find the Huo family for silver, but the queen mother had an accident, and when they solved the matter for the queen mother, they made the Huo family a scapegoat. The Huo family is not good at stubble, and it is with this incident that Guo Yong and the entire Wang family are pushed to the forefront, and in desperation, Guo Yong asked Zhao Xu to ask the Huo family for silver, which not only exonerated the Huo family, but also exonerated themselves.

Even so, Guo Yong eventually lost a head.

Of course, almost no one in the capital knew that the real reason why Zhan Huai killed Guo Yong was to make Huo Jiu angry.

Outsiders only said that Guo Yong was unlucky and provoked Zhanhuai's little demon star.

Cui Shilun didn't know these things hidden behind the scenes, and Lu Xian didn't know either, what they saw was only on the surface, but the imperial court got the silver from the Huo family and solved the urgent need, and what the imperial court gave to the Huo family was just the official body of an eight-grade petty official.

The two of them thought about it, and there was no better way.

The head of the household department is endowed with silver all over the world, and the merchants in the capital are also registered.

Eight or nine out of ten people in the household department have a good account, and the people who can calculate the accounts are all meticulous, and when Lu Xian asked people to find these businessmen, someone over there guessed what he was going to do.

By the time Lu Xian finally chose the candidates, the few families who might have been selected had already gotten the news.

The first person to be selected by Lu Xian was the Li family in Hangzhou.

The Li family was born as a salt merchant in Yangzhou, and later the business of salt transportation was interfered with by the nobles, and there was little left after several strippings, so the Li family retired early, moved to Hangzhou, and started other businesses.

Later, the Li family, like the Huo family, also moved to the capital, and the capital extended in all directions, which was more suitable for them than Hangzhou. These Li families have already gained a firm foothold in the capital, and with their foundation in Jiangnan, it is not a problem to take out more than 100,000 taels of silver at one time.

The reason why Lu Xian chose the Li family was because he had a handle on the Li family.

In the early years, when King Rong rebelled, a son of the Li family in Hangzhou followed Xie Sicheng to King Rong, although this Li son had already died, but the Li family was still there.

And it has long been ascertained that Xie Sicheng is the head of the Taiping Society, and now the people of the Taiping Society are all important criminals in the imperial court, and there are people in the Li family who have an old relationship with Xie Sicheng and an old relationship with King Rong, that is, Qin criminals, and they are chaotic ministers and thieves.

These two big hats were pressed down, and the Li family could only break their teeth and swallow blood.

Lu Xian and Cui Shilun discussed, and the two hit it off, even if they found the Li family.

The Li family came to Li Ye.

If Li Ye is not outstanding among the merchants in the capital, he is the most sleek.

If the Li family hadn't gotten the news in advance, they might have been caught off guard, but now that they knew it in advance, they came prepared.

Sure enough, when Li Ye came out of Lu Xian, he was smiling, but Lu Xian was like falling into an ice cave.

Li Ye asked him, if because of this incident, someone in the court mentioned that the Huo family was guilty of the Wang family back then, and Long Yan was displeased, could he still be a petty official like Huo Jiu?

Only then did Lu Xian realize that he had almost made a big mistake.

Whether it is the Queen Mother or the Wang family of Pengcheng Bofu, it is what Emperor Minghe does not want to mention, and the incident of the Huo family back then was promised by the Queen Mother, King Qing and Princess Fangyi all participated, and the host of Yongji Temple personally opened the Hall of Merit, so it was done so beautifully.

Now with just him and Cui Shilun, can they do this?

As long as there is a copy of the imperial history to him, saying that he is harsh on merchants to loot silver, he has no way at all.

The emperor would never personally decree that the Li family should pay for the silver, so what happened? Of course, this kind of humiliating thing can't be done by the emperor, but there is no second empress dowager, even if there is a empress dowager, there is no eleven-year-old child crying and making trouble to stir up the situation.

And over there, Cui Shilun also got the news from Hangzhou, although the Li family had a Li Gongzi who took refuge in King Rong, but as soon as this matter came out, the Li family crossed out Li Gongzi on the family tree, and this matter was filed in the county government.

The incident back then, even if it was all over the house, it had nothing to do with the Li family, not to mention that it was an old case, and now that the national crisis is at hand, it can only take out this matter to scare ignorant women and children, will the court really take the time to dwell on this?

Cui Shilun and Lu Xian were almost forced to the end of the road by these military spending, but at this time, there was bad news in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhan Chen occupied Jinling City!

What does this mean, for Lu Xian, it means that Jiangnan's taxes this year will not be collected!