Li Min led Yan Song and the three into the study, and then the housekeeper brought a stack of account books and piled them on the floor of the study.

"Lord Yan, Li Ledger, Wang Ledger." Li Min had a smile on his face, and quietly took out more than a dozen silver tickets with a denomination of 1,000 taels issued by the Daming Royal Bank, and said: "A few people work hard, and a little care is not respectful."

Li Min's meaning is simple, Yan Song is responsible for checking the mineral deposits, and the two account offices are responsible for calculating the value of the mineral deposits, and then setting the contract amount, so there is a lot of room for manipulation.

To put it simply, the three of them have great power, and the final contract amount is completely up to the three of them.

Li Min's purpose in bribing is naturally to reduce the contract quota, even if it can be reduced by 350,000 taels a year, it will be a considerable amount in those years.

As the saying goes, 'being an official for thousands of miles is more wealthy', and there is a way that once the power is in hand, and it is not used today, and it will be invalid after expiration, Li Min feels that as long as he feeds Yan Song and the three of them, what is the contract amount, and it is not a matter of three people's words?

Yan Song glanced at Li Min, bribe?

The Son of Heaven entrusted him with such a matter as the inventory of mineral deposits, and also handed over such authority to him, how could Yan Song not know how much authority he had in his hands? Wouldn't the Son of Heaven know that someone would give him a bribe?

must know, but the Son of Heaven did not point it out, which means that the Son of Heaven must have a way to control it!

How to control?

For example, these two account offices that the Son of Heaven allotted to him!

What is the origin of these two bookkeepers?

From the Yongwangfu Academy!

At the beginning of Yongwang's vassal in Huzhou, he took in a large number of children, most of these children were orphans, and after being accepted into Yongwang's mansion, Yongwang provided food, drink, and clothing, and let them enter the hall to study, and the first reading was seven years!

It can be said that today's son has great kindness to these children in the school, and their loyalty to today's son is even stronger than gold and iron!

Yan Song glanced at the two account rooms, and sure enough, he saw that the eyes of the two had never taken their eyes off the account book, and they seemed to scoff at Li Min's bribe!

Obviously, the two bookkeepers didn't intend to accept bribes at all, if he dared to accept them, it was estimated that there would be a secret letter on the royal table of the Son of Heaven when he turned his head, what would happen to Yan Song waiting for him?

A new salt policy has brought the heads of hundreds of officials to the ground, and what is the crime of beheading these officials?

Collusion between officials and businessmen, corruption, and acceptance of huge bribes!

To put it bluntly, just two words, greed and bribery!

Yan Song is not qualified to be ranked in the court, but it does not mean that he knows nothing about the affairs of the court, such as what the Son of Heaven said in the court, which once caused heated discussions in the Hanlin Academy.

The meaning of these words is actually very simple, the Son of Heaven does not mean to kill all the corrupt officials in the world, because corrupt officials cannot be killed, what he needs is an official who can do things, if an official can do things, then even if he is less greedy, he can not know.

What the Son of Heaven doesn't like is the kind of official who can only talk and can't do anything, in his eyes, such an official is more hateful than a corrupt official, and he is a typical official who misleads the country and the people!

As for the officials who are as honest as water and upright and can still do things, they have been rare throughout the ages, and the Son of Heaven did not expect that there would be many in the Jiajing Dynasty.

In general, the Son of Heaven can tolerate small greed but not big greed, because the mind of big greed is on the word greed, and they will have the mind to govern?

There are ghosts when there is a mind!

Yan Song clearly knows this, and can also guess the bottom line of the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven asked him to check the mines, so the first thing he has to do is to verify the mines in the world, so that the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven is more abundant, and under this premise, it will not be too big for him to accept less bribes.

But the premise that he took bribes must not damage the Son of Heaven, but now he can't understand what Li Min means!

As for whether the two account offices will be in cahoots with him, Yan Song may not even dare to think about it, whether the two of them have ever been instructed by the Son of Heaven to stare at him, Yan Song doesn't know, and there is the eye of heaven!

Divine eye! The Son of Heaven monitors the eyes of the world, these eyes are everywhere, no one knows who is the eye of the sky, and the existence of the eye of heaven itself is the biggest and most ruthless deterrent to corrupt officials.

Yan Song's gaze was a little reluctant to move away from the silver ticket, and said with a straight face: "Master Hou is going to send this official to the guillotine."

Li Min was stunned for a moment, and then said solemnly: "Lord Yan's words are serious, Lord Yan came from afar, this candidate has a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, and it has nothing to do with the word bribe, Lord Yan has no enmity with Ben Hou in the past, and there is no grudge in the near future, how can Ben Hou harm Lord Yan!"

"Master Hou's heart, the official has received it, and the official can't accept this silver."

Li Min was completely depressed, there are still officials in this world who don't love money? And those who push the money out of their hands?

Has the world changed?

However, Yan Song didn't accept the cash, and the two account rooms were also treated as if he didn't exist, Li Min was completely embarrassed, and the silver couldn't be sent, so he said that there was no room for negotiation on the contracted silver......

At this moment, Li Min's heart was dripping blood......

The speed of the two young bookkeepers to check the account books is extremely fast, and Li Min himself knows the accounts, but now he is directly confused.

Because the two young men were reading the ledger and recording at the same time, he could not understand the things that could be recorded, it seemed to be symbols, and he had never seen what the meaning of these symbols represented.

Yan Song drank tea all day long, checking the accounts and taking inventory had nothing to do with him, and he didn't understand, naturally there were people from the Son of Heaven to do it, all he needed to do was to wait, and when the two of them checked the accounts, he set the contract limit.

At that time, the matter of Dexing Copper Mine will be over, and he will naturally leave Dexing and go to the next place.

The good thing is that the recognition of the Marquis of Fengcheng will make his next audit much smoother, and those nobles who are also Hou Ye or Earl will definitely weigh it in their hearts, and then see if they have the head iron of the Marquis of Fengcheng, and think about whether it is necessary for them to be the chicken that sets an example to the monkey.

The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it gives the nobles of the world enough time to deal with it, and then start arranging, such as making fake accounts.

Of course, he doesn't understand the accounts, how to check the fake accounts is the business of the account room, although Yan Song doesn't understand, but he believes that these nobles and wealthy families who occupy mineral deposits want to reduce the contracted silver by making false accounts, which is almost impossible.

And it's not much use to fake the ledger alone, because the two account rooms are only on the surface, how can the wisdom of the Son of Heaven let Xungui have loopholes to drill?

The two account rooms once told him that long before them, there were people who had already arranged for the fans of the East Factory and Jinyiwei to go to various mines to secretly investigate, and if they wanted to know the approximate output of a mine, the easiest way was to find those miners and then calculate an approximate output.

This output will be handed over to the account office when he arrives at a certain place, and then the account office will check the accounts, and then compare, if the difference is not too big, it is needless to say, but if the difference is too large, then it is time to slowly check it carefully.

Previously, Yan Song assumed that the annual output of Dexing Copper Mine was 500,000 taels, so you thought he was casually talking?

Joke!

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