After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Biao's words, he suddenly jumped to his feet angrily, ignoring the account book in his hand, and jumped directly in front of Zhu Biao.

"Biao'er, what's wrong with this grain tax? Show it to us! ”

If the commercial tax was exempted at the beginning, but the grain tax is the country's capital, and if there is a problem with the grain tax, it will be a big deal.

"Father, you see, the grain tax in Songjiang Mansion has not changed at all since the first year of Hongwu to the third year of Hongwu."

Zhu Biao pointed out the grain tax of Songjiang Mansion and said to Zhu Yuanzhang:

"This means..."

"This shows that there must be corrupt officials in this!!

Without waiting for Zhu Biao to finish speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang directly insisted that there were corrupt officials in Songjiang Mansion.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's gritted teeth, Li Shanchang only felt his eyelids jump.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament, it seems that Songjiang Mansion is about to blow a bloody storm again.

However, if there is really any big mistake in Songjiang Mansion, he, the prime minister, is afraid that he will not be able to escape the blame, in order to avoid punishment, Li Shanchang has to bite the bullet and say:

"Superior, can you let the minister look at the account books?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were cold and scary at the moment, and when he heard Li Shanchang's voice, Zhu Yuanzhang threw the account book in Zhu Biao's hand directly in front of Li Shanchang and said:

"Then you can take a good look!!"

Li Shanchang picked up the account book and quickly began to flip through it, and when he finished flipping through it, Li Shanchang didn't see any problems.

"Superior, what's wrong with the grain tax in Songjiang Mansion?"

"Hmph, what's the problem?"

If Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't gone to Shanghu County in person, then he wouldn't have found any problems.

But Zhu Yuanzhang saw with his own eyes that the endless fertile fields in Shanghu County were all green and full of grain.

What was Shanghu County like before? It's all swampyland, and there isn't much fertile land at all.

However, Shanghu County has long been different from what it used to be, why is the grain tax paid only so little?

There must be people who are corrupt in the middle, and even dare to be greedy for the taxes of the imperial court, this time Zhu Yuanzhang must go on a killing spree and kill these bold dog officials.

"Good chief, let's ask you, do you know that Songjiang Mansion is no longer what it used to be?"

Li Shanchang belongs to Huaixi, and of course he is not very familiar with Songjiang Mansion, so he shook his head very simply and said:

"I don't know."

"I don't know, I don't know. Let's see that you, the prime minister, are too comfortable. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and shouted angrily at Li Shanchang:

"The fertile land in Songjiang Mansion is endless, and it has long been incomparable, but the grain tax paid is still the same every year, how many corrupt officials must be there?"

"These corrupt officials collude with each other, and even you and I can hide it, we must not let them go this time!"

Li Shanchang trembled, but the more he listened, the more wrong it became.

It seems that the upper position went to Songjiang Mansion this time, but what did the upper position see in Songjiang Mansion that could make the upper position so gaffe?

However, Li Shanchang will definitely not take the blame for the grain tax, he bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said:

"Superior, the matter of grain tax, the minister thinks there is another hidden secret."

"Secrets? The hidden secret is that these corrupt officials collude with each other, deceive their superiors and subordinates, and corruption becomes commonplace. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang has now decided to attack Li Jin.

This dog official is not only greedy for money, but even dares to embezzle food taxes, what does he want to do? Is there anything else in the world that he doesn't dare to do?

Li Shanchang argued:

"In the first year of Hongwu, in order to encourage the people to actively open up wasteland, the upper position once promulgated a national policy."

"As long as it is a newly opened wasteland, within three years, the imperial court will not collect taxes."

"Within ten years, the imperial court will only collect half of the tax."

"Although this Songjiang Mansion may not be what it used to be, it is also a newly opened wasteland, and we can't collect taxes!"

The anger on Zhu Yuanzhang's face froze, and then he thought that he had sealed the Purple Mountain and founded the country in the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

Swore to heaven and earth, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the first national policy was to make great efforts to restore production.

Among them is the policy of not collecting taxes on newly opened wasteland, but after a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang himself has forgotten a little.

But Li Shanchang didn't remind him, but Zhu Yuanzhang only felt his heart ache for this reminder.

In other words, all the food in Shanghu County over the years has been made to Li Jin, that bastard?

Thinking about the thousands of miles of fertile soil and heavy ears of rice, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a toothache.

"Good elder, you go down first, and we'll pass you on if there's something."

Since Li Shanchang is not to blame for this matter, there is no need to keep Li Shanchang behind.

Zhu Yuanzhang still thinks about it by himself, how to get these grain taxes and commercial taxes out of Li Jin's hands, only in this way will he be satisfied in his heart.

"If you are in charge, the minister will retire first."

Li Shanchang found that Zhu Yuanzhang's killing intent was gradually dissipating, so he knew that he had escaped again, and hurriedly turned around and left.

After Li Shanchang left, Zhu Biao touched the back of his head at this time, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang embarrassedly:

"Father, I'm sorry, it's the son's negligence."

Zhu Yuanzhang slumped in his chair and waved his hand, indicating that it was okay, and it was Li Jin, not Zhu Biao, who made him distressed.

"Biao'er, you said that this Li Jin has taken so many business taxes and grain taxes, how can we make him spit them out?"

Zhu Biao was also speechless when he heard this, feeling that his father was really a miser.

However, for this kind of thing, what can Zhu Biao think of, so he has to be silent.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to say:

"Don't care about that bastard for now, there are so many twists and turns, let's deal with it today."

After speaking, he pulled Zhu Biao and began to deal with the accumulated twists and turns.

.....

Late at night, Zhu Yuanzhang secretly summoned Mao Xiang.

"Mao Xiang, let's let you investigate someone for us."

Zhu Yuanzhang said to the personal guard commander beside him:

"Investigate the ins and outs of this person and how much he is worth now."

"Obey the order, it's just that the emperor wants to investigate who is humble?"

Mao Xiang asked.

"Shanghu County Order, Li Jin!"

Zhu Yuanzhang spit out Li Jin's name word by word.

"Remember, don't startle the snake, let alone let him find out, everything must be quietly investigated."

"We'll give you a month, I hope you can give us a satisfactory answer."

"The humble position will not live up to the emperor's trust."

After Mao Xiang finished speaking, he said goodbye to Zhu Yuanzhang and took his right-hand man to Songjiang Mansion and Shanghu County.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Mao Xiang's back and nodded thoughtfully.

This Mao Xiang is the first commander of the Jinyi Guard he established, but it has not yet been announced.

And this operation is a test for Zhu Yuanzhang to Mao Xiang, if Mao Xiang can give Zhu Yuanzhang a satisfactory result, then Zhu Yuanzhang will move Jinyiwei to the bright side.

With the continuous growth of Huaixi Group, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his old Zhu family's country was not so stable.

In order to better monitor the actions of these arrogant soldiers, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to set up a spy organization to be responsible for monitoring these people.

Li Jin is the first whetstone selected by Zhu Yuanzhang for Jinyiwei.