The second day after the Double Ninth Festival is Xiumu, early in the morning, Ergou stood outside the Qianqing Palace with a few books in his sleeves, and came up when a chicken came out.

"Boss Chicken, doesn't the emperor look like he's going to get angry today?"

Yiji instructed a little eunuch to deliver a message to Changchun Palace for the emperor, and then turned his head to look at Ergou's sleeve.

"But what's the bad deal?"

Ergou nodded lightly: "The one sent to Dengzhou by Jinyiwei has returned, and it is indeed the same as Chen Shouzhang said, many people in Dengzhou Mansion abandoned their fields and fled because they could not pay the grain tax in full."

As he spoke, Ergou pointed the fingers of his left hand downward, first making a gesture of "two" and then "seven".

Yiji immediately understood that the gang of dogs had set up twenty-seven kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

He turned around and glanced at the emperor who was reading a book in the Dongnuan Pavilion, and he was a little hesitant in his heart, these days the emperor has a rare moment of relaxation, if he is ruined again, he is afraid that there will be another bloody storm.

Before Yiji could think about what to say, he saw Ergou bend down and take out a roll of silver tickets from his boots.

"Who gave this?"

"Yesterday afternoon, the soldiers of the British Prince's Mansion sent me to the house outside the palace, put it down and left, and scared my old lady half to death."

The four of them are still alive only the father and mother of the second dog, and the second dog made a meritorious contribution when he captured Zhang Play two years ago, and the emperor specially let the second dog take the father and mother of the family into the palace, and also gave the mansion.

"Four thousand taels of silver." His fingers flicked on the silver ticket with the smell of his socks, "This is for the four of us each person, Chicken Boss, do you think we can take this money?"

The second dog was born with a strong force, but a pair of eyes were not small, and he looked at a chicken with a stagger, quite like a big dog.

Yiji knew that this stupid-looking dog had a lot of eyes, and he was obviously asking him if he would accept the money, and secretly asking the emperor what he was thinking about the Yingjun Wang's family.

As the leading eunuch, the emperor did not hide from him about the summoning of the four rats alone, even if he didn't know what the emperor had ordered the four rats, he knew in his heart that there were a few times that it must be for the Yingjun Palace.

It's just that he can't say these words to Ergou.

"The emperor just dismissed Jiangxi from the post of supervising the imperial history a few days ago, and sent Yao Qian, who has the most fame in supervising the imperial history, to Jiangxi, do you think we can collect this money?"

Hearing what Yiji said, Ergou suddenly felt that the silver ticket in his hand was hot: "Then I'll quickly find a little grandson to send back."

"I don't have to send it back." Yiji glanced at the emperor from afar, "How to dispose of this money, you have to let the emperor decide."

When Ergou heard this, he hurriedly stuffed the silver ticket into Yiji's hand, but was blocked by Yiji with his hand.

The handsome eunuch leader couldn't hide the disgust on his face: "Use more soap balls when you wash your feet next time, or you don't need to sprinkle some perfume, and you dare to serve in front of the emperor with a pair of stinky feet!"

As he spoke, a chicken raised his hand and fanned the wind with his sleeve.

The second dog, who gave birth to a pair of stinky feet, suddenly made a bitter face.

A chicken didn't say much to him, and found a little eunuch to take a small incense burner with white sandalwood and smoke a few silver tickets, and then sent them to the palace with money.

Looking at the results of Jin Yiwei's investigation of Dengzhou Mansion, even if he had expected it in his heart, Shen Shiqing was really a little surprised. ….

A full twenty-seven kinds of excesses and miscellaneous taxes in the name of the name of the whole thing, the people of Dengzhou were forced to knock out the bones and suck the marrow, but Jin Yiwei searched all the homes of Zhou Shu, the prefect of Dengzhou, and other seven people, and only got 30,000 taels of silver.

If you want to be greedy, these people are indeed greedy, but this amount is far from matching.

Zhou Shu and the others were on the verge of death, and they also knew that they would definitely die, and under the means of Jinyiwei, they confessed all the crimes they had committed, but they all said that they were only greedy for the money, and there was no money hidden.

What about the money?

Where has the people's fat and ointment of the people of Dengzhou gone over the years?

Shen Shiqing flicked her fingers, and suddenly smiled on her face:

"Chen Shouzhang wrote to me to reduce taxes and disarm, but he did not report Zhou Shu and others for corruption

Chen Shouzhang brought ...... No, the two of you pack up and accompany me to Beizhen Fusi."

Hearing that His Majesty was going to leave the palace again, the two great eunuchs hurriedly knelt down.

Ergou took the opportunity to take out the silver ticket sent by the Yingjun Palace: "Emperor, the Yingjun Palace's sent so much money to the slave maid, and the slave and maid really don't know what to do......

Looking at the faintly fragrant silver ticket, Shen Shiqing waved her hand, she had Zhao Qinyang's face so low yesterday, he would naturally try his best to please the people around her:

"Since he is willing to give it, you should ask for more, and you will all use them to make firearms."

After speaking, Shen Shiqing stood up and planned to change out of the cloud dragon pattern straight-fitting robe on her body, and after taking two steps, she stopped again and looked at the two big eunuchs who had been serving her:

"The King of Yingjun and his family are powerful and blessed in Jiangxi, and the net income is some ill-gotten gains, and sooner or later I will let them all vomit out. He is like this with a vassal king surnamed Zhao, and when you see money, you also weigh it in your heart."

The emperor's tone of voice seems to be just casually speaking, but there is no doubt that this is already the most straightforward admonition.

One chicken and two dogs hate to bury their faces in the ground.

"Don't worry, don't worry, give the slaves and maids a few hundred more guts, and the slaves and maids don't dare to take what they shouldn't take!"

After speaking, one chicken glanced at the second dog.

Ergou's face was already densely covered with sweat.

Seeing this, Ichiji's brows furrowed deeply.

When he was called out of the prison, Chen Shouzhang even had some joy in his heart, since he was brought to Beizhen Fusi like a dead dog by the Jinyi guard, except for the first few days when someone came to interrogate, he was locked in the black prison day after day, and there was no one who could speak.

If he had known that the corner of the sky he looked up at at the gate of Fusi in Beizhen was the last time he stood under the sunny sky in dozens of days, he would have to look twice at everything.

To Chen Shouzhang's surprise, the jailer did not take him to the black room used for interrogation, and walked all the way along the black corridor, Chen Shouzhang suddenly felt a pain in front of him.

Several jailers hurriedly took out black cloth bags and buckled them on his head:

"I haven't seen the sun these days, so be careful of being blind."

Chen Shouzhang struggled, but in the end his eyes were still covered.

But even so, he could still feel the sun shining on his body, with a slight warmth.

The jailer took him all the way forward, walked east and west for a while, and someone took over him, this time the two of them walked solidly and well-behaved, Chen Shouzhang listened to their footsteps and knew that these people must be Jinyiwei. ….

"Lord Qiyu, the people have already been brought."

There was silence in the room, except for the sound of the door.

Chen Shouzhang tentatively took a step forward, but heard another crisp sound in the room.

It was the sound of a teacup being placed on the table.

"I heard that Lord Chen is from Huzhou, I specially prepared some purple bamboo shoot tea, Lord Chen might as well taste this tea?"

Chen Shouzhang listened attentively, and only felt that the person who spoke was very young and had an official tone, but he was not like the brocade guard he had seen.

"I'm just a detained criminal minister, how dare I sit and drink with adults? I wonder what's going on with the adults looking for you?"

The sound of a stream of water pouring into the teacup sounded, and Chen Shouzhang turned his head sideways again.

Staying in a rotten and rancid prison for so many days, just smelling the fragrance of tea made him feel intimate.

"Lord Chen, I can't hide it, I'm here to inquire about something, not an interrogation, and Lord Chen doesn't have to be restrained."

There was no shortage of princes in Jinyi Weizhong, listening to this person's tone, Chen Shouzhang only thought that this was another family who wanted to play with him, he paused slightly, and his heart was horizontal, and he took another step forward:

"In that case, the lower officials will be disrespectful."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came up and led him to sit down, first rolled up the black cloth bag on his head slightly and exposed his mouth, and then brought a large three-inch-high lamp to his palm.

The best porcelain starts with warmth

, like beautiful jade, Chen Shouzhang took a deep breath, and it was not until the aroma of tea filled his lungs that he raised the teacup and drank the tea inside.

Comfortable!

He couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and his heart was much more relaxed.

Putting the tea cup on the table, he was about to ask the other party about his intentions, but he heard the sound of pouring tea again.

didn't hold back, Chen Shouzhang picked up again and poured the tea into his stomach.

Repeatedly, the other party poured three cups of tea in a row, and he also drank three cups in a row.

After drinking, Chen Shouzhang smiled.

"If this adult has anything to say, just ask, for the sake of the love of these three cups of tea, even if I, Chen Shouzhang, died in Yanjing this time, I also inherited your love for sending tea!"

The other party still filled his teacup, and finally spoke:

"Jin Yiwei and his entourage of more than 30 people went to Dengzhou, and after checking for so long, it was found that the people of Dengzhou had to pay more than 50,000 taels of taxes this year, but the officials in Dengzhou only found a total of more than 30,000 silver, I came here to ask Lord Chen, where did the rest of the money go?"

After listening to this person's words, Chen Shouzhang smiled first:

"Why did you come to ask me? Do you think that I, Chen Shouzhang, even dare to write such words as tax reduction and disarmament in the recital, and there must be nothing I dare not say?"

"Definitely." The young man sitting across the desk from him also poured himself a cup of tea, "I came to ask Lord Chen, not because Lord Chen thanked him for tax reduction and disarmament, but because Lord Chen only wrote about tax reduction and disarmament, but did not write about the greed for money in the Dengzhou capital."

Chen Shouzhang was silent.

After a moment, he picked up the fourth cup of tea:

"When the founding of the country was in order to guard against the two parts of the northwest, the court set a policy of raising horses in various places, the people along the Yellow River raised a horse in five families, and ordered the Taifu Temple to take charge of the horse administration in various places, but since the defeat of Shenzong in the northwest, the dynasties did not dare to mention the war again, but also let the people raise horses, the young horses of the stallion but the people of the poor pond had to pay a fine to the Taifu Temple, Mingzong was sympathetic to the people, and allowed the people to replace the horses with money, and the Taifu Temple became the one who managed the money. 西边抵御西北两部，南边水患，北边大旱，州府无钱，便向本州府的牧监伸手，甚至户部、兵部没了钱也都向太仆寺伸手，大雍朝数十年来的太平盛世钱皆从此出。 Until His Majesty's Northern Expedition to the West and asked for horses from all over the country......

Using his fingers as a pestle to knock the table, Chen Shouzhang's voice became more and more angry in his chest.

"Your Majesty abolished the South Taifu Temple, no one dared to move the old accounts over the years, the emperor's order could not be violated, the Ministry of War asked for horses from the Taifu Temple, and the Taifu Temple asked for horses from the pastoral supervisors of the state capitals, and no one dared to say to Your Majesty that the income of the horse administration in the past few decades has long become a money bag to fill the deficits everywhere. There is no way, the state capitals can only try their best to raise money and horses for their own heads, the horses are sent to the northwest, and the money is added to the holes of the Taifu Temple, they admit that corruption is just a person's head to the ground, if they shake the entire scarred Ma Zheng in front of His Majesty's eyes, they will drag their nine clans to die together. If you ask me where the money went, I can only tell you that the money has become medicine, but it can't save the chronic diseases accumulated by the Dayong Dynasty over the years."

After speaking, Chen Shouzhang drank the tea.

He heard a soft noise across from him, and someone stood up from his chair.

Looking out at the lower edge of the cloth bag that only covered his nose, Chen Shouzhang saw a corner of the embroidered robe in a trance.

"Thank you, Lord Chen, for your doubts."

Plop on.

It seems that someone is kneeling on the ground.

Chen Shouzhang didn't know that standing in front of him, the young man in a splendid flying fish suit bowed to him.

And behind this young man, a group of people were already kneeling on the ground in fear.

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