"Jiong'er, sit down!" Chongzhen shouted.

Zhu Cijiong sat back in the chair angrily.

Chongzhen asked Fu Shan again: "Are the accounts complete?" ”

Fu Shan said: "Because Yiding acted quickly, and the Yangzhou Garrison Eunuch Office and hundreds of minions were defenseless, there was no time to burn the account books, so the accounts were very complete. ”

"It's just that due to the rush of time, I didn't have time to check it carefully."

"But the big numbers are right, the total is around fourteen million!"

"Okay, I already know, you guys have worked hard." Chongzhen nodded happily and said, "Now you can hand over the account books to the Yangzhou Mansion." ”

"Yes." Fu Shan bowed down a few times.

Chongzhen said to Ma Mingluo again: "Governor Ma, the rest will be handed over to you." ”

"This?" Ma Mingluo got up, looking embarrassed, some things are not good to say in public.

"What? Will this be cowardly again? Chongzhen said abruptly, "Just now you dared to insult me in public, will this just let you investigate the case but don't dare?" ”

"Why don't you dare?"

Ma Mingluo no longer had any scruples, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that this case involves the inner court, so I also ask the Holy Lord to give the minister a charter, to what extent should this case be investigated?" ”

After speaking, Ma Mingluo also glanced at Han Zan.

Han Zan Zhou's soul was about to be scared, Ma Mingluo, what do you think our family is doing?

"To what extent do you ask?" Chongzhen said, "Of course, it's a thorough investigation!" ”

"In this way, the ministers will be counted." Ma Mingluo smiled, since the saint said to check to the end, then he really checked to the end, he is this upright character.

Don't regret it.

Ma Mingluo turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait." Chongzhen suddenly waved his hand and stopped Ma Mingluo.

Ma Mingluo turned around and asked, "Is the Holy Lord going to regret this?" ”

"What do I regret?" Chongzhen snorted and said, "I just want to tell you that the stolen money and goods seized from this case are all stolen from Yangzhou merchants!" ”

Ma Mingluo was stunned for a moment and asked, "So what does the Holy One mean?" ”

Chongzhen's gaze swept over the Yangzhou businessmen present, and said solemnly: "The 1 million taels sent to the key treasury of the Inner Court have already been used for military expenses, and I will not pay it back, but the remaining 13 million taels, no matter how much stolen money and goods are finally seized, must be returned to the merchants one by one according to the account books, and not one or two taels of silver are allowed to enter the treasury!" ”

"Ahh Hearing this, the Yangzhou businessmen present changed color.

Ma Mingluo also couldn't believe his ears, the saint was crazy, right?

Zhu Cijiong also looked at Chongzhen puzzled, and said in his heart that this is 13 million taels!

Even if only half of the amount can be recovered in the end, it will be 6.5 million taels of silver!

Zhu Cihong was in a hurry, these 13 million taels are the wood of his father's south gate?

Chongzhen said to a group of Yangzhou businessmen: "Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why I set up mine supervisors and tax envoys in various places was originally just to make up for the lack of national use, and the amount I asked for was not much, but my domestic slaves dared to expropriate in various places in the name of me, causing countless merchants to destroy their families, which was not my original intention. ”

"I can't compensate you for these dogs!"

Speaking of this, Chongzhen actually bowed deeply.

"Holy not! There is no monarch in the world! The merchants fell to their knees in shock.

Chongzhen got up again, and said: "In addition, you can rest assured that from today onwards, I will remove the Yangzhou Garrison Eunuch Office, and the mine supervisors and tax envoys set up in Yangzhou will also be removed. ”

"Holy Heaven!" The businessmen present all cried bitterly.

I've been looking forward to it for seven years, and I'm finally going to let these plague gods go?

These plague gods are really excessive, casually pointing to the other family and saying that their family has a mine, and their family will immediately break down.

Those shops, warehouses, and shops are even more miserable, and they will be exploited by the tax envoys every once in a while.

Now, the Holy Lord is finally going to remove these plague gods and open the door to business again.

Ma Mingluo was also full of emotion, he was originally going to make a mistake and let the emperor remove the mine supervisors and tax envoys in Yangzhou if he died, otherwise Yangzhou would really be covered with all industries.

But now, without waiting for his advice, the Holy Lord took care of the matter first.

"Holy Heaven." Ma Mingluo immediately fell to the ground, and he was happy and sincerely obeyed the mountain and shouted long live.

At this time, Ma Mingluo basically saw what kind of emperor Chongzhen was, this is really a holy monarch!

"Everyone, please." Chongzhen raised his hands and said, "In addition, I want to ask you one more thing. ”

A group of Yangzhou businessmen got up one after another, and an elderly man said directly: "Holy Lord, please speak." ”

At this time, it was Chongzhen who offered to let them help with the salary, and he would not hesitate to donate, as long as the saint could remove the mine supervisor and tax envoy in Yangzhou, as long as he could do business well, what would it be to donate a few military salaries.

However, the merchants in Yangzhou miscalculated again, and Chongzhen did not let them donate money.

Chongzhen said: "In the middle of this month, there will be an official sale in Nanjing, selling some assets in the palace, such as the Nanjing garrison eunuch Xingyuan, Jiangning weaving Xingyuan, these houses, please be sure to support the scene." ”

In order to raise military salaries, Chongzhen finally cut the first knife after crossing over.

It's just that no one thought that Chongzhen's first knife turned out to be a slash at the eunuch.

As a traverser, Chongzhen knew very well what kind of goods the eunuchs and their minions were.

These eunuchs and minions are the vampires lying on the dying patient of Daming, and the amount of the people's fat and ointment they suck is less than 10% of the inside!

Before crossing over, Chongzhen had read historical materials.

Whether it is the Wanli Emperor or the mine supervisor and tax envoy sent by the Chongzhen Emperor, among the ten stops of income tax silver, the internal envoy is one, the middle envoy is two, the attendant is three, and the earth stick is four!

That is to say, the vast majority of the tax silver is divided among the minions.

Strangling these vampires will do Ming no harm, and there is no need to worry about backlash.

Because all eunuchs are essentially the emperor's house slaves, according to the Ming law, everything about the house slaves belongs to the house master, and the house master has the right to kill and seize the house slave.

……

Huang Jiarui was still waiting outside the gate.

Wait, wait, wait, just wait for Ma Mingluo.

However, to Huang Jiarui's surprise, Ma Mingluo was still wearing the prefect's official robe, and the black gauze hat on his head was also there, as if he had not been punished, which was really unexpected.

"Ma Zhifu ......" Huang Jiarui stepped forward to say hello.

As a result, Ma Mingluo snorted lightly and gave Huang Jiarui two nostrils.

After facing the saint this time, Ma Mingluo is already full of confidence in the Ming Dynasty, this time there is a holy monarch in the court, and the Ming Dynasty is expected to prosper, and there is no need to be with Huang Jiarui and others.

What about the Donglin Party? He's imperial!

The backstage of his horse is the current saint!

What? Will it be infamous as a shang?

Ah Shang will be Ah Shang, as long as you can do things! What's infamy?

"Lady Tang." Ma Mingluo went straight past Huang Jiarui, and called Tang Laihe, the governor of Yangzhou Mansion, to him and instructed, "You immediately convene the household, no, convene all the officials in the sixth room, this official has important official business!" ”

"The subordinate officer takes the order." Tang Laihe shook his head, turned around and hurried away.

Ma Mingluo flicked the sleeves of his robe at Huang Jiarui again and walked away.

"Damn!" Huang Jiarui's face turned blue with anger.

……

On the other side, Kang Shaojing and other Yangzhou businessmen also left through the side door.

After leaving the Yangzhou garrison eunuch, Kang Shaojing was a little stunned, so that another salt merchant walking behind him who was also thinking about his heart hit him directly.

"Ahh Kang Shaojing was knocked to a stumbling ground.

Looking back, it was the righteousness of the salt merchant Weng from his ancestral home in Shaanxi.

Weng Zhiyi hurriedly apologized: "Shopkeeper Kang, I'm really sorry." ”

"It turned out to be the shopkeeper." Kang Shaojing waved his hand and said, "It's okay." ”

Weng Zhiyi glanced at the businessmen who were leaving, and asked in a low voice, "Shopkeeper Kang, what do you think of today's events?" ”

"There's not much to say." Kang Shaojing waved in the direction of the line behind him, and said abruptly, "Now that I have a holy monarch in the court, the good days of my waiting for businessmen are coming." ”

"What Shopkeeper Kang said is very much in line with my wishes." Weng Zhiyi said, "Then will you go to Nanjing?" ”

"I'm going." Kang Shaojing said without thinking, "Nanjing, my Kang family is a must-go." ”

Weng Zhiyi hesitated slightly, and whispered: "Don't you wait for the Ma Governor's Mansion to find out the facts of the case?" ”

Kang Shaojing just smiled when he heard this, of course he could hear Weng Zhiyi's extraneous strings, Weng Zhiyi was just worried that Chongzhen had another secret decree to Ma Mingluo, so Ma Mingluo would not really return the recovered stolen money to them, in this way, it is equivalent to Chongzhen just saying a scene and deceiving people.

But Kang Shaojing didn't think so.

Kang Shaojing is confident and still has a bit of an eye for people.

Although he only had two brief contacts with the current saint, he could still feel that the current saint was definitely not a man who only cared about small profits.

Today's saint is a saint with a big heart and great ambitions!

Therefore, he will never be superficial in this kind of matter.

However, Kang Shaojing would not say these words to Weng Zhiyi.

One is that his friendship with Weng Zhiyi has not reached this point, and the other is that his peers are enemies, so Kang Shaojing hopes that the Weng family will not go to Nanjing, so that the Kang family can get a larger share.

The businessman's intuition told Kang Shaojing that there was big business waiting for them on this trip to Nanjing!

At that moment, Kang Shaojing bowed his head slightly and said: "What the shopkeeper Weng said is right, then wait for the Ma Governor's Mansion to find out the facts of the case first, and as for Nanjing, I won't go first." ”

Weng Zhiyi nodded: "It's better to be cautious in doing things." ”

Kang Shaojing clenched his fists and said, "Shopkeeper Weng, I'm out of company." ”

"Shopkeeper Kang, please go slowly." Weng Zhiyi also bowed his body for a long time.

After standing up straight, Weng Zhiyi beckoned to the long follower to come forward.

"Agui, you immediately go to Gaoyou, and let the second master return to Yangzhou immediately! Be sure to be quick, just talk about the major events related to the family's century-old plan! ”

On the other side, Kang Shaojing also got into the carriage.

"Fu Bo, go back to Taizhou and let the eldest lady return to Yangzhou as soon as possible."

The same thing happened to various merchants, all of whom were human spirits, and they all smelled it.