"Back to Your Majesty, of course this can't stop corruption from happening." Liu Song replied honestly: "In fact, in recent times, because of the rapid development of Yanjing's economy, this situation is actually more obvious than before. ”

Liu Ji is going crazy, he is also surnamed Liu, why is the gap between people so big?

Don't you know what you can and can't say?

There are some things that everyone knows in their hearts, and there is no need to say them at all, okay?

It's a pity that no matter how Liu Ji gave Liu Song a look, Liu Song continued to say to himself as if he hadn't seen it: "In the past month, our economic picket department alone has found as many as 17 people. ”

"The most excessive of these is that of a director of the Ministry of Industry, because this person is in charge of land bidding, he even received more than 300,000 taels of silver openly and secretly."

"What?" Even Lao Zhu, who hates corrupt officials and corrupt officials, hears this number, and the first thing that comes to mind is not to cut people, but that this guy can embezzle so much money.

300,000 taels, which was an incomparably huge amount of money in the past.

Even if some state capitals invite disasters, such as the Datong drought this time, the disaster relief funds allocated by the imperial court are only three and a half million taels of silver.

But here in Yanjing, an ordinary priest can embezzle so much money?

After the shock, there was endless anger, Lao Zhu's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "What a gut, dare to blatantly embezzle so much money in our Ming Dynasty, I want to punish his nine clans!" ”

Liu Ji's face was pale and he didn't dare to speak more.

Liu Song still didn't care about anything: "Back to Your Majesty, this person has already been tried three days ago, and he has been sentenced." ”

"As for the money he embezzled, it was found in the house he bought to hide the dirty silver."

"According to our current law, unless it involves heinous crimes such as rebellion, it will not implicate his family. As long as the family can prove that they did not know about it, and hand over the dirty money embezzled by the official, they will not be held responsible. ”

"Nonsense!" Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table angrily again: "What kind of punishment is this, the families of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials enjoy the benefits they bring, so naturally they can't stay out of it." ”

"They themselves say they don't know if they don't know? Who knows if these people are lying in order to evade the sanctions of the Great Ming Law. ”

"And!" The more Zhu Yuanzhang said, the more he felt that something was wrong: "Wait." We seem to have overlooked one thing. ”

"This guy embezzled 300,000 taels of silver, and you even said that the situation is not bad."

"The two Qing families are now high-minded, and they don't even care about 300,000 taels of silver?"

In the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's ridicule, Liu Song and Liu Ji glanced at each other, and a strange expression appeared on their faces at the same time.

In the end, Liu Song took the initiative to explain: "Avoidance, these rules were formulated by His Royal Highness the King of England, and before he left Datong Mansion, he wrote a chapter and sent it to Yingtian, maybe His Majesty has not received it yet." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes when he heard it: "We didn't receive anything, are you fools when you think of me?" ”

Liu Song and the two hurriedly said, "The minister doesn't dare." ”

"You ......" Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth.

If the eyes can kill, Liu Song and Liu Ji are afraid that they have already been cut by Zhu Yuanzhang with a thousand knives.

But if you think about it, it seems that they can't really be blamed for this.

If it is really as Liu Song said, all this was planned by Zhu Han in advance, and it has been written into a piece and sent to Yingtian.

Well, it doesn't seem like a problem to deal with it this way.

It's just that what makes Zhu Yuanzhang depressed is how many pieces Zhu Han, a little bastard, sent to Yingtian.

How does he feel that he hasn't received many concerts in Yingtianfu in the past few days?

Could it be that this kid is just fooling Liu Song and Liu Ji?

Although Zhu Han's character is already incapacitated, it's not that he can't do this kind of thing.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that his brother is not the kind of person who doesn't know the depths.

Everything he did in Yanjing was related to the future of the entire Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the current Yanjing is in the stage of laying the foundation.

Once the construction of Yanjing was completed, he moved the capital to Yanjing with the whole Manchu dynasty.

Many of the rules in the court may continue to follow the rules of Yanjing.

In the middle of the national capital, Zhu Han has talked to Zhu Yuanzhang more than once about the importance of Yanjing.

This kind of thing, Zhu Han can't mess around.

Although he understood Zhu Han's approach, Zhu Yuanzhang still felt that he couldn't let go of the corrupt official's family.

At the moment, he said coldly: "The family of the corrupt official, has you left Yanjing now?" ”

Liu Song didn't dare to hide anything, and immediately explained: "Back to Your Majesty, they have already left Yanjing, and they didn't even come on the day when the corrupt man cut off his head." ”

"People like them can't stay in Yanjing."

"Oh." Zhu Yuanzhang was quite surprised.

You know, he hasn't killed corrupt officials before. Although the people hate those corrupt officials to the core, ordinary people basically do not take the initiative to do anything to the families of those corrupt officials.

If they can't gain a foothold in the capital, it would be even more nonsense.

Of course, if the other side has a strong political opponent, that's a different story.

But listening to Liu Song's tone, it doesn't seem to be like this.

"Why can't you stay?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with some curiosity.

Although they were not able to slaughter the corrupt official's whole family, if their life was not good, it would be good.

Liu Song said with some embarrassment: "His Royal Highness the King of England has set a rule before, but if there are corrupt officials in the family, no immediate family member shall be allowed to gain fame within three generations. ”

"Good!" After hearing Liu Song's words, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but cheer loudly.

It has to be my own brother who has the ability, such a brilliant idea, why didn't I think of it before?

Even those corrupt officials must think about the future of their children.

If because they have committed something, their children will not be able to continue to gain fame, it will definitely be a blow to these traditional scholars.

Liu Song and Liu Ji were speechless at the same time.

They knew that as soon as they heard the news.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eight achievements are this attitude.

Liu Song waited until Zhu Yuanzhang was almost happy, and then continued: "What's more, the benefits that His Royal Highness has given us officials are really good. ”

"Your Majesty, now all the officials who serve in Yanjing have almost no need to worry about their livelihood."

"In terms of housing, there is a welfare house issued by the imperial court. These welfare houses are distributed according to grades, and higher-level officials, such as ministers, are relatively large houses. ”

"His Royal Highness has said that this is only temporary, and if Yanjing is completely completed in the future, high-grade officials will issue villas."

Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth pursed downward, his younger brother is good at everything, but sometimes he is too generous.

Does he know how many officials there are in Yingtian and Yanjing, and how much will it cost if they all issue houses?

"No wonder you support the King so much, His Royal Highness is much better to you than we are, right? This big mansion is placed in Yingtianfu, and I am afraid that I can't get down without 20,000 taels, right? ”

……

Liu Song and Liu Ji had a sneering expression on their faces at the same time.

Seeing their appearance, Lao Zhu knew that the situation was wrong, and immediately said sharply: "If you have anything to say, just say it directly, if you let us find out for ourselves, we will have your good fruit to eat." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang asked directly, and Liu Song naturally didn't dare to slack off after following Liu Ji, and immediately explained carefully.

"I don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, because Yanjing is now carrying out more and more projects, and land is becoming increasingly scarce. Weichen's house is worth ......" Speaking of this, Liu Song hesitated, in fact, even if it was him, now thinking of the price of this house, there was a strong sense of unreality.

"How much, exactly." Zhu Yuanzhang could feel that the value of this house would definitely not be low, otherwise Liu Song would not be so hesitant.

Although he was mentally prepared, when Lao Zhu heard the price of this house from Liu Song's mouth, his eyes still widened in shock.

"Your Majesty, Weichen's house, together with the land, is about 120,000 taels."

Seeing Liu Song speak, Liu Ji immediately said in a slightly smaller voice than Liu Song, and said quickly and simply: "The minister's 120,000 taels." ”

Lao Zhu's head buzzed suddenly, he originally thought that it would be a little more expensive than Yanjing's, maybe more than 10,000 taels of silver.

Outcome...... The price immediately doubled.

Special mother, he built a big hall in his palace, and he didn't know if there were 120,000 taels of silver.

The place where Liu Ji and Liu Song live can be so expensive.

Besides, Liu Ji won't say it first, Liu Song, what's going on with you?

The house of 120,000 taels of silver is for you to live in like this? The yard is overgrown with weeds, many rooms are unoccupied at first glance, and the window paper is broken?

The old sow eats ginseng, and spoils things for you.

If you want to look at words and looks, I'm afraid that ten Liu Song can't catch up with Liu Ji's thighs.

As soon as he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's face, Liu Ji had already guessed Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts.

Now is a good opportunity to talk about favorability, of course Liu Ji will not let it go.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are greedy for pleasure. The reason why Lord Liu and Fa Chen live in such luxury is actually because of their hardships. ”

What's that?

Let you be glorious, rich, delicacies, and delicacies, but are you embarrassed?

"Oh? We want to hear how our brother is embarrassed for you. Zhu Yuanzhang sneered disdainfully.

That means clearly questioning Liu Ji, if you can't say a reason to satisfy us, there will definitely be no good fruit for you to eat.

This time, Liu Ji didn't have any weakness at all, because what he said was true, so he naturally wouldn't be afraid.

It's just that what he wants to say is what Zhu Han said to Liu Song. And he's just a repeater.

Even so, when Zhu Yuanzhang understood what Liu Song meant, his impression in Lao Zhu's eyes would definitely change greatly.

So Liu Jiming really praised Liu Song on the face, but in fact, it was for himself.

It's just that Liu Ji won't use this way of harming others and benefiting himself.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of England ordered the transfer of the government, at the beginning, Lord Liu Song and Lord Liu completely disagreed."

"Lord Liu thinks that we are officials of the imperial court. The so-called food of the monarch and the worries of the king, how can we still use the convenience of our position to let the court give us more benefits? ”

Hearing this, Lao Zhu gave Liu Song an appreciative look.

Although this guy doesn't like to listen very well, he is still very commendable for Daming's loyalty.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang's face softened, Liu Ji was secretly happy in his heart, knowing that he was pressing the right treasure, and his voice became higher and higher: "Your Majesty knows what His Royal Highness said?" ”

Although Liu Ji deliberately sold a lawsuit, he knew that Lao Zhu was not the kind of person who liked to guess.

said this, but only deliberately stirred up Zhu Yuanzhang's suspense.

The so-called language arts, which are naturally not interesting when they are described directly.

It has to be up and down so that it can arouse the interest of the audience.

However, his current audience is not those readers in later generations, who are cut off by the immortals who want to die, scold their mothers every day, and finally have no choice but to charge money.

But if Lao Zhu lets people die, it will really die.

So he didn't wait for Lao Zhu to guess at all, and after arousing Lao Zhu's interest, he immediately explained: "His Royal Highness the King of England talked about the deeds of Zilu to redeem people. ”

"Zilu's family is well-off, so he doesn't need a reward from the imperial court. However, it is impossible for others to have such a family background as Zilu. He doesn't want the last time, if others ask for the last time, it will seem that they are greedy and have a noble character. ”

"Obviously doing good deeds, instead of getting the reward he deserves, he will be criticized. In the long run, no one will want to go to another country to ransom people. ”

"It's the same in Yanjing." Liu Ji looked righteous and awe-inspiring: "The ministers and Lord Liu are in high positions, and their salaries are much higher than those ordinary officials, so there is naturally no pressure in life." ”

"But those ordinary officials don't have much salary, and the housing prices in Yanjing are getting more and more expensive, and the salaries of many officials are already a little difficult just to rent a house, let alone daily life."

"His Royal Highness's welfare policy is to give benefits such as housing to officials according to their grades."

"If this kind of welfare, Lord Liu Song and Lord Liu don't want it, and the ministers don't want it, then why are the officials below embarrassed to ask for it?"

"Therefore, in order for His Royal Highness to be able to smoothly promulgate the welfare decree, so that those lower-level officials can live in the welfare housing issued by the imperial court as a matter of course."

"Weichen and Lord Liu Song can only be forced to wronged themselves and lead by example."

Zhu Yuanzhang smacked his lips.

He understood what Liu Ji meant, but Zhu Yuanzhang always felt a little uncomfortable.

Why do you always feel that when Liu Ji said this, he seemed to be particularly underbeaten, as if he wanted to give him a few punches?

What's more, Liu Song is reluctant, Lao Zhu can see it. He lived in such a big house.

Looking at the state of the house, you can see that it is indeed the only permanent residence here, and the other houses have no owners at all.

But you Liu Ji ......

It's quite comfortable, and I don't see any reluctance at all.

(End of chapter)