"What are you doing here?"

Although he knew that Zhang Ji was the favorite of Yingzheng and Zhao Ji, as a court lieutenant, even if Ling Qi was already a death row prisoner with five punishments, at least on the surface, he could not allow others to use lynching at will.

Moreover, the abuse of lynching was also illegal in the Qin State.

Of course, Kui asked questions, but he didn't really want to blame Zhang Ji, as long as Zhang Ji just found an excuse to fool around. He took the initiative to ask questions, firstly to defend Tingwei and Qin Fa, and secondly, to help Zhang Ji.

As a court lieutenant, he initiated the accusation against Zhang Ji, and naturally it was up to him to decide whether to care or sentence.

Therefore, when he questioned Zhang Ji like this, he just wanted to give Zhang Ji a step not to violate the Qin Law.

But Zhang Ji just smiled faintly at Kui Xiang and bowed slightly, indicating that he knew Kui Xiang's kindness, but he didn't intend to accept it.

"This person separates the mother-son relationship between the king and the queen mother, and I, as a courtier of Great Qin, are really ...... Really! Zhang Ji's eyes were red, he gasped for breath, and his demeanor at this moment was the same as after running with Zhao Ji at night on weekdays, "Minister, righteous indignation!" That's why slap this guy! ”

Zhang Ji's voice trembled, as if he was extremely angry.

"The minister knows that he is guilty of violating the Qin law, please ask the king and the queen mother to surrender!"

Zhang Ji bent his waist to the bottom and said word by word.

The look of gritting his teeth, as if the two of them had some kind of enmity against each other.

Ying Zheng on the throne looked at Zhang Ji below, his expression revealed a little chill, and his voice was cold and majestic: "Hmph, even if it is out of loyalty, it is still against Qin's laws." ”

"If everyone was indignant, then Ling Qi would have been broken into thousands of pieces long ago! I tell you, even if you abuse your private deeds for the sake of widowhood and motherhood, it is still illegal! ”

"Moreover, knowing the law and breaking the law should be held responsible!"

"Three thousand!"

Ying Zheng's voice was slightly heavier, but it was still not enough to be called the tone and tone of the scolding.

Moreover, in a few words, Ying Zheng characterized Zhang Ji's illegal behavior.

Characterize it as an abuse of lynching for faithfulness.

Although the Qin law is complete and comprehensive, although it lacks entertainment, it protects the rights of the people and the people's livelihood, and in the final analysis, this is all to maintain the royal power and protect the interests of the Ying Zheng as the king of Qin.

Therefore, if you break the law because of your faithfulness, you can get a certain amount of forgiveness and a reduction of the penalty.

The ministers looked at each other, and Nei Shiyan, as the only remaining henchman with a little bit of resourcefulness in Chang Yu's small circle, had the heart to accuse Yingzheng of favoring Zhang Ji, but found that he had no way to say it.

Because, the punishment of 3,000 is not a light punishment, but a heavy punishment.

Qin Law has many financial punishments, either armor or shields, but don't underestimate such punishments.

Three thousand pairs of armor is enough to equip an armoured army armed to the teeth.

You know, armor does not only include the layer of iron armor on the body, but includes the helmet, face armor, skirt armor and military boots.

You must know that even in the Qin State, a full set of armor with a helmet, skirt, and armor costs 2,500 yuan, which is almost more than 50 stone of grain, which seems to be only the age of a first-class knight for more than a year, but the armor is 3,000...... That's nearly 7.5 million yuan, nearly 180,000 stone of grain.

If a marquis does not have a fief, then it is only a thousand stone a year, that is, a marquis without a fief needs to go without food or drink for 180 years to be able to afford a fine of 3,000.

Who dares to say that such a punishment is Yingzheng's favoritism?

But for Zhang Ji, 180,000 stones don't seem to have anything.

Seven and a half million yuan, Zhang Ji's interest-free loan to Qin Guo to repair the canal has exceeded 20 million yuan.

Everyone underestimated Zhang Ji's income, even Ying Zheng, before he became pro-government, he had never carefully settled the taxes and expenses of the Qin State for a year, nor had he checked the income, and he didn't think about how much property Zhang Ji had, but simply thought that these properties were just a small piece of meat for Zhang Ji.

Today's paper and books, with the development of Mohist technology, the cost and efficiency of paper manufacturing and text printing are less than one-tenth of the cost originally made by Zhang Ji and a group of craftsmen, coupled with the improvement of technology and the almost assembly-line workmanship, even the efficiency has increased by nearly four times.

The cost is greatly reduced, the efficiency is greatly improved, and the income is naturally increasing.

At the beginning, the profits from the sale of paper and books by the Jade Tiger were about to go to the Mo family, two percent to Zhang Ji, two percent to the net, one and a half to Confucianism, and the last half to the Jade Tiger.

Among them, half of the two percent of the net entered the treasury of the Qin State, and Zhang Ji also took out one and a half percent of his income as an interest-free loan to the Qin State, that is, the treasury of the Qin State actually occupied thirty percent of the paper and book income.

However, it seems that this is a mere thirty percent of the shares, but it greatly alleviates the financial difficulties and the emptiness of national strength caused by the construction of the Zhengguo Canal, so that the Qin State can have sufficient defenders in the land outside Hangu Pass, otherwise the countries would have raised troops long ago.

The canal, which was repaired by the hydraulic engineer Ling Zheng Guo, has not yet been completely completed, but it has been completed for the most part, and the progress is growing day by day. Moreover, the part of the canal that has been built, many people along the way have been brought by the canal, and the water brought by the canal has been used to irrigate the land, so that the land along the canal has greatly increased the annual income, and has begun to feed back to the Qin State.

Zhang Ji's funding helped Qin to further relieve the pressure on Qin, so that Qin would not be like the last time when the Qin State was united, Qin's national strength was empty, and eventually led to the fact that although Qin State occupied a large area of land outside Hangu Pass, it was not even enough to make up soldiers, basically every city outside Hangu Pass was a symbolic resistance was broken by the Hezhong coalition army, and even most of the cities of Shangdang were divided by Zhao, Han, and Wei.

Therefore, it is precisely because the rulers of the countries saw through the fact that the national strength of the Qin State would not decline again but began to slowly rise, so they began to prepare for the official opening of the merger and the holding of the alliance in the near future, instead of continuing to try to wait for this canal to completely crush the Qin State.

It is conceivable how much property Zhang Ji, who almost single-handedly supported the financial crisis of the Qin State, owns.

What's more, Zhang Ji's wealth is far more than that.

Zhang Ji, as the head of Zhang Ji's family in Anyi, has a lot of property, and Nanyang has the limestone mine given to Zhang Ji by the Jade Tiger, and Zhang Ji also has the wealth he plundered from the treasure trove of those mountain bandits, as well as the property of the Xinzheng Chao family brought by the tide.

That's the wealth accumulated by the Chaojia who has been sucking up blood on South Korea, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, for decades!

Seriously, that is, Zhang Ji handed over all these affairs to the tide, and even he didn't know how much property he had.

Otherwise, if Ying Zheng knew about Zhang Ji's net worth, he might really have the urge to raid Zhang Ji's house.

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