"Li Qianhu, you write a detailed report, and this matter will be reported to Your Majesty together with the evidence of the previous secret investigation officials, and it will be issued today."

"Boss, you said that after Your Majesty knows, will Jiangnan officialdom ......?"

Yuan Bin rubbed his eye sockets with his fingers, staying up late made his eyes bloodshot, his face was also flushed, and although he had a short rest, his eyebrows were still full of tiredness. At this time, he didn't want to talk much, Jiangnan officialdom ...... What does Jiangnan officialdom have to do with Jinyiwei? Just do what you need to do and report it to Your Majesty, where are there so many 'will you be'.

For Li Qianhu's question, he was inexplicably irritable, but he still said in a calm tone: "It is impossible for one or two prefects to do fraud of this scale, presumably a tacit understanding has been formed, we only need to collect evidence and hand it over to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty will cut it off, don't think too much about the rest." ”

"Yes...... I don't know what His Majesty will think of to deal with these corrupt officials, according to his humble position, it is best to have a melon and vine, and then all of them will be sent to prison, see who dares to be greedy again! ”

Laugh at! Yuan Bin was disdainful in his heart, how could it be so easy, the protection of officials and officials here has become a climate, if it is really like this, Jiangnan will be in chaos.

"Based on the current evidence, at most it is a serious tax evasion, and it is not a place in Jiangnan, do you want to copy it, is the evidence enough, and where is the money that has been stolen?"

"Uh...... Humble duties are just words," Li Qianhu said with a smile.

Yuan Bin didn't want to talk to him anymore, and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, Li Qianhu saw that this was the meaning of sending off guests, so he said a word and went out of the house, and hurried to complete the secret report, so that it could be sent out today......

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The secret report was sent out quickly, and I don't know what method Jinyiwei used, in short, it basically took only two nights and one day for the secret report to arrive in the capital to Yongding Gate.

Yongding Gate is the largest city gate in the outer seven cities, there are urn cities and arrow towers outside the city gate, at this moment in the early morning, the sentry soldiers of the patrol camp have patrolled inside and outside the city gate. Directly south of the city is a mud-rammed avenue lined with shops and surrounded by a moat.

In such a quiet world, there are only three or two barks occasionally, so the sound of horses' hooves is clear. The dog was alert, and had already barked when he heard the movement, and the guards on the upper floor of the urn city seemed to have heard the movement, and came to the city wall, and with the help of the torches in their hands, they could barely see the person who came dressed in brocade clothes.

After a brief answer, the gate of the urn city slowly opened, first a row of torches were lit, and the first to come out was still the patrol camp, and after carefully comparing the documents and bronze medals, the patrol camp put this man and horse into the city gate.

Half an hour later, Sun Fuhai had already received this secret letter from Jiangnan, he skimmed through it roughly, and then weighed in his heart whether he wanted to go to His Majesty now.

At this time, Emperor Yongming was in the Purple Light Pavilion in Xiyuan, and since midsummer, he had been here several times. The Xiyuan in the summer night was cool and comfortable, he slept late and woke up early, and he was in good spirits without any sense of fatigue.

Sun Fuhai still came to Xiyuan, and soon handed over this secret letter that had just arrived in Beijing to His Majesty.

Emperor Yongming spent a cup of tea reading it, and he couldn't see the slightest expression on his face, but his fingers kept knocking on the table of the imperial case.

After a long time, he said, "Sun Fuhai, what do you think should be done?" He patted the secret letter with his palm and asked.

Sun Fuhai barely paused, and quickly replied: "The minister thinks it is necessary to punish him." ”

"Punishment? is so gentle, it's not like what you Sun Fuhai would do. ”

"The purpose of this move is not to rectify the rule of officials, but to exert pressure on the south."

Emperor Yongming raised his eyebrows lightly and said, "You can see it." ”

Sun Fuhai twisted his body slightly, a little embarrassed, and didn't want to admit it, and said after a while: "Actually, the minister was also inspired by others......

"Oh? Tell me, how was it inspired? Emperor Yongming suddenly had some interest and wanted to hear it.

"That's it...... The man told the minister about the "public land law" of the Song Dynasty, and the minister immediately thought of the land problem in the south of the Yangtze River, which was the same as the land problem in the Song Dynasty at that time. ”

"The public land law does take back the land, and after recovering it, it will be cultivated by the tenants, which seems to solve the problem, but I don't know the disadvantages of this, which is inappropriate."

His Majesty thought it was inappropriate, but the minister's understanding was that the "Gongtian Law" did not refer to the privileges of the gentry but to property, which was naturally inappropriate. His Majesty was targeting the right of preferential exemption rather than the land of the gentry, and the minister thought that this was the right thing to do. As for the impact on land prices...... That's not something Your Majesty can control. ”

"Hahaha......," Emperor Yongming laughed, "That's right, I really can't control the rise and fall of land prices." ”

"However, the price of land has fallen, will Your Majesty pay for the purchase of land like Song Ting? This...... If you are stupid, you won't understand. ”

Emperor Yongming smiled and said nothing, only looked at him, and asked again after a while: "I still want to add more firewood to make the price of this land fall again." ”

Sun Fuhai immediately understood in his heart at this time that His Majesty really wanted to buy the land, but it was just ...... Where does this money come from? Do you really want to print treasure money to pay?

"The minister is stupid, I don't know how Your Majesty can add this firewood to make the price of this land fall again?"

"How many people from the Xu family you checked were dedicated to the Xu family?"

"Hmph," when it came to the Xu family, Sun Fuhai himself was a little ashamed: "I found out that the Xu family in Wuxi accepted the invitation to vote, with a total of more than 30,000 people......

Emperor Yongming snorted, and a trace of coldness crossed his eyes: "Presumably, his Xu family is not the crown of Jiangnan, just listed in this secret letter, there are several people who exceed the scale of his Xu family, so ...... It seems that punishment is not enough, and severe punishment is necessary to deter! ”

Sun Fuhai reacted instantly: "Your Majesty wants to severely punish the act of surrendering?" ”

"That's right, those who dare to accept the offer are to be severely punished and make an example of the monkeys! I'd like to see how many heads they have. Dongyan ......"

When Li Dongyan, who was with him, heard this, he stepped forward and replied, "The minister is here." ”

"Intended ......"

Sun Fuhai was secretly happy when he heard this, it seems that he has another big case to deal with in Jinyiwei, which is a rare opportunity for meritorious service!

The emperor's decree is usually placed in a red box at night, held by the official in the clerical room to the six official offices outside the noon gate, and then received by the minister on duty. Therefore, when Kechen saw this, he did not dare to delay, and reviewed it overnight, and if it was correct, he would copy it out on the second day and send it to the Political Department to be sent to the relevant departments for implementation, and the original copy would be sent to the cabinet for revision.

In just a few days, the imperial court has issued three decrees in a row. It's like archery, the disc is right in the bull's-eye.

The decree arrived on the day of the year, and it was normally only three or five days. Shu Daizong, who set off from the capital before, had already arrived in Liuhe at this time, and it took seven or eight days to calculate the road, if it wasn't for the female dependents by his side, I'm afraid it would only take three or five days.

This is already much faster than when he went to the capital last year, indicating that the road conditions are gradually improving.

The great changes in Liuhe have surprised these three authentic Liuhe people, and the appearance of the county has changed without returning for a year. Mama returned to the old house, in Xichen, five miles east of the county seat. This place is called Xichen, it is a suburb, but the geographical location here is excellent, the waterways are convenient, take a boat at the wharf in front of the door, cross the river to the south along the winding Chu River, you can go to Nanjing City.

There is a big road in front of the door to the east, and you can reach Yizhen again; To the west, along the water and land south of the Chuhe River, you can reach Jiangpu, and go north through the north-south channel, which is the direction of the capital.

As soon as Shu Daizong returned to Liuhe, he hurriedly went to the "Southern Commercial Daily" hall on the county front street, which is now the leader of the press and publishing circles in Yingtianfu and even the entire Nanzhili.

The old colleagues and old partners were all happy and excited to meet again after a year, and after accompanying Shu Daizong for a turn, they went to the printing factory outside the third gate of Shansan. It is distributed to the entire city of Nanjing, while Liuhe is mainly to the Jiangbei region, where the circulation of the "Southern Business Daily" has far exceeded that of the capital.

Reunions naturally have to gather to celebrate reunions, and a meal of wine will definitely not run away. Shu Daizong remembered that when Uncle Zhang was still there the year before last, he often went to the wine shop next to the Chunshan restaurant in the east of the city to sell wine, "There is mash in southern Shu, and the fragrance is overflowing with Siyu; When the stove and stew, moisten my heart. Jiangyang wine was mellow and long, and now that he thought of its taste, he couldn't help but feel liquid at the bottom of his tongue......

The happy gathering was chosen in the Chunshan restaurant of his own Fulai Pavilion, where more than a dozen people gathered around a table, eating heartily, drinking three rounds, slightly drunk, and naturally talking more, and the topic was also related to recent facts.

Shu Daizong has always been worried about buying land, of course, it is best to buy back his previous piece of land, and he is most concerned about the price of land.

"Several, this time I came back to have another thing, that is, I want to buy some land here to be my ancestral field, I don't know how the market is in the near future? Or might it be better to ask that dental store for help, do you know? Just give a recommendation. ”

"Yo, Mr. Shu is really in a hurry to buy land, recently, several decrees of the imperial court have been pushed down, and the land price in Jiangnan has loosened a lot, and as soon as the land price falls, people's hearts will begin to panic. Our Liuhe County has also fallen, down a lot, and now the high-grade paddy fields have fallen by almost three taels of silver per mu, and maybe fifteen or six taels can be won if we talk about it again. ”

"Recently, taking advantage of the cheapness, I am also ready to buy some more paddy fields, I don't know if it will continue to fall? If I continue, then I'll wait. Of course, the people who sell the land definitely don't want it to fall, but we who buy the land want you to fall, and the more you fall, the happier I am. ”

"Hehe, that's what I said, how long does the old brother plan to buy it? Just the two of us are looking for a dental shop together? ”

"It's hard to say, I just want to wait, if Brother Shu is in a hurry, in fact, it's appropriate to buy it now, my family is because I have land, I can buy it or not, so I naturally want to wait and see."

Shu Daizong thought to himself that this is right, if there is enough time, I also want to wait. It's a pity that this time I came back not for vacation and leisure, I really have a task.

"Does that brother have a reliable dental recommendation?"

"Looking for the Wang family, will you find another family here in Liuhe?"

"That's right, the Wang family, isn't it the Wang family of Master Hao's in-laws, why did I forget his family!"

"You won't even forget that the head of his family is called Wang Dalong, right? Master Hao's brother-in-law, last year, his Wang family made a lot of money just by doing business with the small owner's family, which really fulfills the old saying: don't open for three years, open for three years. ”

"I think this Wang family will not only eat for three years, but it is estimated that it is enough to eat for ten years."