From the legal salary of the second-grade governor to 155 taels a year, about 10,000 taels of incorruptible silver, plus other kinds of gray income, if the bottom is calculated, Xu Ji's annual income as a governor is about 50,000 to 80,000 taels of silver.

This is only legal income recognized by the law and does not include the proceeds of corruption and bribery.

According to the purchasing power, the governor's annual legal income is about 60 million.

If this is the case, Xu Ji can be regarded as a clean official.

The governor of Shandong, Guotai, next door, only during Wang Lun's uprising, teamed up with the political envoy Yu Yijian to empty the treasury of as much as 2 million taels.

It was this Shandong leader who worked with the second leader to stuff the treasury of nearly 3 billion.

At the same time, in the name of the governor's yamen, he wantonly borrowed silver from merchants to fill his warehouse, and extorted state and county officials, and the amount was often tens of thousands.

How did Yijiang's Taoist friend Monk Wang become a magistrate in Shandong, and it was not Cathay that sold favors to Yijiang'a, who presided over the Shandong Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Households.

But there is no such thing as an impermeable wall.

Last year, as soon as the Qing Rebellion ended, there was a letter in the imperial history to impeach Guotai and Yu Yijian, saying that the two were corrupt and perverted the law and embezzled the feudal silver.

Qianlong, who had not been exposed to the paper tiger at that time, must have attached importance to this matter, so he ordered an interrogation.

Cathay Pacific replied that due to Wang Lun's rebellion, the public funds of the states and counties were all used to cooperate with military affairs, so they were in deficit.

He also submitted a number of expenses to the imperial court, including various expenses such as supplying the army to quell the rebellion and the aftermath of the rebellion.

Anyway, it is very clear that more than two million taels were indeed spent.

Wang Jie, the imperial historian of the right capital, wrote that Wang Lun's rebellion had only been carried out for a few months until it was quelled, and even if the military expenditure was urgent and the money and food were greatly spent, it would never be used to 2 million taels. Even if it really used two million, Shandong also told the court the truth as an excerpt, why was it indifferent, ignored it, and waited until the emperor issued an order to ask questions before reporting the account.

Wang Zhuangyuan plans to take advantage of this incident to rectify Cathay, after all, the civil unrest in Shandong is inseparable from Cathay's misdeeds in Shandong.

Qianlong also intended to send the imperial history to Shandong to investigate, but Guotai was not finished, and he, the emperor, fell first.

When Lao Fu presided over the Military Aircraft Department, someone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate tried to continue to pursue Cathay, but was suppressed by Lao Fu.

If you really want to check Shandong's accounts, it will definitely involve the six sons and disciples of the then prime minister of Shandong's military affairs, including the baby son Yijiang'a of Hubu Shangshu Yonggui.

Moreover, he, the new foreman, also needs the support of the local governor, even if the nominal obedience is what he desperately needs.

Besides, just got Yu Minzhong back to his hometown, and it would be unbeautiful to be a brother.

The key is that Cathay Pacific and Yu Yijian are both members of the Mutual Aid Association, and he can't turn his face and deny members just because he is the foreman and minister of military aircraft.

Shaanxi Governor Leerjin and Governor Bi Yuan also wrote to Lao Fu privately, hoping that he would not track down Guotai and Yu Yijian.

Wang Kangwang, the initiator of the Mutual Aid Association and the political envoy of Gansu, even sent his cronies to Beijing to mediate the matter, and said that only the rich and the central hall in the northwest were looking ahead.

The local officials in the northwest unanimously agreed that Fu Zhongtang led the Qing Dynasty, which undoubtedly consolidated the leadership position of the old rich and strengthened its strength.

In this case, of course, the old rich man will not be able to fight in the same room, so he has to take Cathay and Yu Yijian.

In order to repay Wang Kangwang, Lao Fuyi promoted him to the governor of Zhejiang next year, so that the mutual aid association could open up the situation in the southeast.

The current governor of Zhejiang, Sanbao, is also a member of mutual aid, and Lao Fu plans to transfer him to the governor of Huguang.

So far, the members of the Mutual Aid Association are at the level of Governor Leerjin, Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Li Shuyao, Governor of Liangguang, Yade, Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Jia Jiashikai, Governor of Zhili.

Chen Huizu, the former governor of Huguang, defected to the enemy, which was a great shame for the Mutual Aid Association.

At the governor level, there are nine people, including Shandong Governor Guotai, Anhui Governor Min Juyuan, Jiangxi Governor Hao Shuo, and Shaanxi Governor Bi Yuan.

There are nine people, including Chen Huai, the political envoy of Hubei, Yu Yijian, the political envoy of Shandong, Wu Lana, the political envoy of Fujian, and Yang Jingsu, the political envoy of Zhili.

There were a total of 24 governors, governors, and politicians, accounting for one-third of the high-ranking officials at the provincial level in the Qing Dynasty.

If you count the Shangshu and Shilang in Beijing, including the Admiral of Jiumen Marqin, the Admiral of Guizhou Wang Jintai and others, the number of members is as high as more than 40 people.

This is also where the old rich man dared to force the palace that day and dared to preside over the government afterwards.

Even if the old rich man was killed, he didn't know that his six sons and disciples jumped out of the Three Realms and created a common advancement association, and there are currently two high-ranking officials at the governor level in the meeting, namely Jia Liu himself, and Jia Liu's father-in-law, Bo Qing, the governor of Sichuan.

The governor is Li Shijie, the president and governor of Sichuan.

There are two Shangshu, Queenie of the Ministry of Rites, and Asha of the Ministry of Officials.

The rest of the general soldiers and adjutant generals are several.

The other is Yang Jingsu, a double-sided member, who, like Jia Liu, is both a member of the common and a mutual aid member.

The number of high-ranking officials on the card is not as good as that of the Mutual Aid Association, the territory is not as good as the Mutual Aid Association, and even the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized are not as good as the Mutual Aid Association.

The problem is that the cohesion of the Mutual Aid Association is far greater than that of the Mutual Aid Association, and the control of the local government and the military is even more unattainable than the Mutual Aid Association.

Under the leadership of Jia Liu, the lifelong honorary president, the Communist Association has even played the limit of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

At present, he is planning to solve the Fengsheng of the Dingxi general, and is brewing another fiasco of the Qing army since the defeat of Wenfu.

The purpose of the Mutual Aid Association, "Mutual Protection of Officials and Officials", essentially lagged behind the "common progress" of the Mutual Aid Association, and the Mutual Aid Association also put forward the concept of protecting property with guns for the first time, and firmly put this concept into action, and actually controlled no less than 40,000 troops.

That is, Jia Liu can set off a big uprising at any time and get the support of all the members of the Communist Association.

Do the governors, governors, and rulers of the Mutual Aid Society dare?

There is much help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust.

Jia Liu played clearly.

This is also the reason why Xu Ji was given a huge amount of money for 300,000 taels a Chinese New Year's Eve.

He needed Xu Ji's wholehearted and unconditional cooperation with the large-scale development project he was engaged in in Tianjin.

Faced with the temptation of Chinese New Year's Eve 10,000 taels of dividends and the high amount of money he received after retirement, the 52-year-old Tianjin governor had a heart attack on the spot.

Jia Liu, who was engaged, couldn't help but reflect on whether he had given too much?

Xu Futai, who woke up, pulled the governor of his son's generation, it was really tearful, and a thousand words were just one sentence - big brother, do it! If you don't do it, I'll you!

Jia Liugao, who received a satisfactory answer, happily went to Yongping to drink happy wine, and the road was also light and simple, and he had to put out the honor guard wherever he went, if he didn't go like before.

In this way, a few days later, Jia Liu came to Yongping Mansion and ordered the team to stay in Yongping Mansion City, otherwise it would be easy to scare the man by bringing so many people over.

Jia Liu really came to congratulate him and drink wine, but he didn't put on a show to scare his brother-in-law.

Dozens of people such as bolt pillars and pillars went straight to Linyu to drink happy wine, and the team turned back to meet at Shanhaiguan.

When my sister gets married, I can't be a brother who is shabby.

Jia Liu prepared a batch of gold and silver jewelry, all of which were trophies presented to him by the officers and soldiers of the guards from Prince Xian's mansion that day.

There are many good things that Wang Ye Fujin has worn.

In addition, he withdrew 5,000 taels of silver in Tianjin.

My sister is married to five thousand taels, which is not ugly.

After arriving in Linyu, through the address in the letter, Jia Liuyi and his entourage came to a place called Shenhe Fort where the second uncle Jia Dazhong's house was located.

This place was originally the guard of the former Ming Dynasty, surrounded by fertile fields, and after the Eight Banners entered the customs, all the Jingdong areas were enclosed by the Eight Banners.

Jia Dazhong is a Han when he goes out of the flag, and it is impossible to buy flag fields and plant, so he can only rent other people's land.

When everyone arrived, it was noon, the sun was scorching, and the people in the fort were resting at home, and few people were outside.

Fortunately, a few children were swimming in the pond, and the bolt gave a piece of candy and asked where the second uncle's house was.

From a distance, there is a small courtyard where ordinary people live, with three two-kitchen brick houses, and two thatched roofs for storing grain and sundries.

Jia Liu couldn't help feeling guilty, he took good care of his subordinates, but he didn't seem to take enough care of his family.

Dazhong is his own uncle after all.

If one person attains the Tao, how can the ancestral training of the chicken and dog ascend to heaven be forgotten.

While thinking about how to arrange an errand for my uncle, I had already arrived at the gate of the hospital.

But I didn't see the big red happy words posted and the red lanterns hung.

It's a bit of an anomaly.

Because even if you marry a daughter, your parents' house must have a festive decoration.

Could it be that it is a wedding wine run in the county seat?

Jia Liu asked the bolt pillar to call the door, but no one answered after a few calls, and he couldn't help but be even more strange, Baozhu climbed the wall and took a look, saying that there was no one in the yard.

"What time is it?"

"Young Master, today is the eleventh."

Jia Liu thought he was coming early, but the day was right.

The eldest sister is twelve married, and it must be no problem for his eldest brother to come to drink the wedding wine eleven.

Baozhu said that the courtyard didn't look like a happy event, which made Jia Liu even more confused, even if the second uncle's family was holding a wedding banquet in the city, there was no reason why there was no movement at home.

When everyone was wondering, someone from the neighbor's house next door pushed the door out with a hoe, and saw a group of people gathered at the door of Jia Dazhong's house, first stunned, and then asked: "Who are you looking for?" ”

"Fellow, we are from Beijing, Jia Dazhong is my uncle, and we are here to drink wine."

Jia Liu's kindness to the people was from the bottom of his heart, and the smile on his face was extremely sincere.

"Drinking wine? Are you Dazhong's nephew? ”

After hearing this, the neighbor put down his hoe and let down his guard, but he shook his head and said, "I can't drink the wine, and something happened to the Dazhong family." ”

As soon as he heard that his uncle had an accident, Jia Liuyi hurriedly asked his neighbor what had happened.

"His son-in-law committed something and asked the government to arrest him, and Dazhong said a few words to the people in the government, but he was also arrested."

Zhu Zhu was anxious: "Fellow, do you know what Jia Erye's son-in-law committed?" ”

"Who knows, it was said that he wrote an anti-poem and told people to sue him, and the soldiers in the customs came to arrest people."

The neighbors don't know much, after all, the house that Dazhong's son-in-law's family bought in the county seat, and their neighbors only know a rough idea, and they really don't know why.

"Anti-poetry?"

Jia Liu looked at the bolt pillar, and the bolt pillar looked at the young master.

"Young master, this is your strong point."

"Uh-huh?"

Jia Liu glanced at the bolt pillar angrily, "What are you still doing in a daze, don't you go to the dog." ”

(End of chapter)