Bragging rights!

Gao Kui and the others immediately looked at each other, and couldn't help but have doubts in their hearts.

You must know that Chen Shou was assigned to the remote Lujingshan County, Huguang'an, and the household department only subsidized 100 cloth tickets, and the five of them combined were only worth 250 tickets.

Not to mention that Zhang Sui was excluded this time, and Liaodong and the capital are only a few hundred miles away, how could the household department give him a full 500 cloth tickets?

Unbelief!

Although Xu Hong has always believed in Zhang Sui's character, when he heard Zhang Sui give such a ridiculous answer, the first thought in his mind was not bragging by the other party, but he didn't believe it in his heart.

After all, this goods have braised the grass carp, since it was released by the imperial court to Liaodong as the supervising imperial history, then the ticket supplement given by the household department will only be low and not high.

Not to mention the number of 500 cloth tickets, which is too staggering, and it is impossible for them to have such a large gap in ticket compensation, this must not be the truth of the matter.

Xu Hong felt that Zhang Sui deliberately made an excuse to shirk his intentions, but still firmly pushed the twenty cloth tickets over: "Our brother don't be polite, if I fall into trouble in the future, I still count on you!" ”

Gao Kui and the others nodded silently, agreeing that Zhang Sui was actually lying, and now Zhang Sui was the one of the six of them who needed the most love and help.

"I really didn't lie to you, the five hundred cloth tickets are here, you still believe it now, right?" Zhang Sui saw that everyone didn't believe what he said at all, so he simply took out all the cloth tickets in his arms.

Under the light, a large stack of thick cloth tickets appeared as if they were worthless, and the twenty cloth tickets that were also stacked on the table seemed so insignificant at this time.

The shopkeeper Zhang, who happened to send peanuts over, saw such a thick stack of cloth tickets, and the whole person suddenly became excited, and couldn't help but swallow and spit secretly.

Although his eyes immediately flashed with greed, he only gave him a hundred guts, and he didn't dare to kill the dignified court officials.

Yes?

How so?

It turned out to be true?

After Haikuan and the others saw a thick stack of tickets, although the matter was unbelievable, the facts were already in front of them, and Zhang Sui's ticket supplement really had a full five hundred.

originally thought that Zhang Sui was the one who needed the most love and help among the six of them, but the five hundred cloth tickets directly shattered this conclusion, and things were completely different from what they had guessed.

For a moment, everyone's breathing became rapid.

After Zhang Sui put the thick cloth ticket on the table, he was suddenly slightly stunned, and immediately hurriedly took back the letter he took out.

Hey?

Xu Hong and Gao Kui's eyes were very sharp, and after just glancing at them, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Both of them had shocked looks written on their faces, and they even had eyes that couldn't believe themselves. Just now, the two of them clearly saw that the title of the secret cover was "Zhang Qing", who else in the world can use this title?

As soon as they thought of this, the two of them woke up for seven or eight minutes, and this information was really too explosive.

Now the personnel power of the Ming Dynasty has fallen into the hands of the emperor, like their teacher Wang Yue, who was unable to ask for it, was originally a criminal minister of the palace, but in only a year and a half of work, Wang Yue has become the high imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace.

Liu Zhong, the governor of Huguang, Chen Kun, the governor of Xuanda, and Yin Songcheng of the Shuntian Mansion were all promoted from the official position, and the current imperial court no longer attaches importance to the so-called seniority and good name, but the ability and holy family of the officials themselves.

Among the six hundred and one new scholars in this year's year, since Liu Chengye, Qian Fu and Jin Gui applied for admission to the Hanlin Academy because they were afraid of hard work, they knew that it would be difficult for these three people to get holy favors.

In other words, among their current class of jinshi, the person with the highest achievement in the future will definitely not be the three first-class jinshi who entered the Hanlin Academy, but will be born among their five hundred and ninety-eight jinshi.

It is precisely because of this that the 598 new science and technology jinshi worked hard to express themselves in this errand and strive to become the first person in the second year of Hongzhi.

It's just that now it seems that it may be difficult to say whether they will win or lose among the five hundred and ninety-eight new science and technology scholars, but now it is probably this Zhang Sui, who has been unknown, who is at the forefront.

Obviously, they had just guessed all wrong, and they were wildly wrong.

Although Liaodong is located on the border, and the supervision of the imperial history is far less popular than the six main affairs, but now that it is accompanied by the holy family, then the matter is naturally a different matter.

The whole front hall suddenly fell silent, as if a pin had dropped.

Where is the brother in front of him who is the object of care and help, he is clearly ahead of everyone, but he is the existence they need to look up to.

Embarrassing, really embarrassing with a capital letter!

Haikuan thought that he still wanted to sympathize with others when he was a little magistrate, and his face turned red instantly.

Gao Kui once imagined that he would get ahead and give a little to the other party and pull a hand, but he had a hot feeling of being slapped in the face.

Xu Hong saw that he was ranked in the first place of the other party, but he saw the insurmountable gap between the two of them, and immediately wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Come, let's keep drinking, we won't get drunk tonight!" Zhang Sui knew that it would be difficult to reunite again after this separation, and he didn't even have the opportunity to reunite, so he didn't think much about it and raised his wine glass and shouted.

"Okay, don't get drunk tonight!"

Haikuan and the others thought that everyone was about to separate, and they were no longer entangled in the embarrassing things that had just happened, and they raised their wine glasses to the ground in response.

Shopkeeper Zhang brought over a plate of pig's head meat, and said very flatteringly: "This is a small dish given by the shop, and I hope you have the opportunity to come often!" ”

Haikuan and the others wiped the wine stains on the corners of their mouths, although the thick stack of cloth tickets on the table was very conspicuous, but no one mentioned the matter of ticket compensation.

There is no love for no reason in this world, and now Zhang Sui has received 500 votes, which is enough to prove that Zhang Sui was not abandoned by the imperial court, and even reused by the imperial court.

Now everyone is in the officialdom, and they vaguely guess that the matter is related to the one in the Forbidden City, so no one does the stupid thing of breaking the casserole and asking the end.

Next, Weng Peng continued to use chopsticks to knock on the Chaoshan song, while Haikuan sang Qiongzhou folk songs, and the atmosphere became lively again.

Although everyone was about to separate, and Zhang Sui carried everyone on his back to the thickest thigh in the world, everyone's hearts still seemed very happy at this moment.

They studied hard for ten years, just to become officials, and now they can be said to have gotten what they want, especially they are very satisfied with their whereabouts.

It's not that everyone is eager to pay homage to the prime minister, especially after seeing what Wang Yue has done, they feel that it is better to do practical things in a down-to-earth manner than Wan An and Liu Ji and others.

Xu Hong was actually the most entangled one, and he wanted to ask Zhang Sui about the reason for the emperor's family several times, but in the end he wanted to stop talking.

The question about grass carp has become a lingering mystery for him at this time.

Liu Cunye and the other three chose to raise grass carp with them, so they got the most beautiful champions, Bangyan and Banghua; He chose to greet Miss Qian and settled the grass carp in the pool of the Qian house, so he was arranged to enter the military department.

Just Zhang Sui?

He obviously has no place to raise fish!

How did he dispose of the grass carp and thus receive the Holy Grace?

Earlier speculated that Zhang Sui steamed or braised the grass carp, but since Zhang Sui was not suppressed by the imperial court, this speculation naturally does not hold, but what is the truth after all?

That night, Xu Hong also did not go home, and was drunk at the table because he drank too much wine, so he was arranged to spend the night at the Dongsheng Inn.

Zhang Sui is the only sober person, not that he doesn't want to get drunk, but that these four people drink too much. After settling the four of them, he called Haikuan, who was also from a military family, to continue drinking under the moon.

In fact, there are many similar situations, the new science and technology jinshi who have worked hard for a month have been assigned jobs, and when they are about to go their separate ways, they have also called three or five friends to choose to get drunk and rest.

No matter how reluctant they were, the sun rose the next day.

It's just that they are like the five hundred and ninety-eight seeds newly cultivated by the Ming Dynasty, and after nearly a month of tempering, they are sprinkled on the land of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, hoping that a few pillars will emerge from them.

As the new science and technology scholars went their separate ways, the capital was obviously not as lively as before, and the days seemed to return to calm all of a sudden, and everyone was busy step by step.

The lives of the inhabitants of this era were usually the same, and the merchants, workers, and peasants were already deeply entrenched, and these roles rarely changed.

Ever since the Emperor planted a cotton seed at the ploughing ceremony, things seemed to have gone in the other direction.

Due to the thirsty demand for cotton cloth from overseas countries, the Royal Weaving Factory chose to continue to expand its production, causing more and more people to invest in this production chain.

Those who know how to weave can naturally become weavers, and those who know how to print and dye can become printing and dyeing masters, even if they don't understand anything, they can become a porter on the dock of the Tonghui River.

With the increase in the overall income of Beijing residents, the business of the shops is getting better and better, the streets around the Drum Tower are becoming more and more lively, and goods from other places are constantly pouring into the city.

Beijing City is still the same Beijing city, but it has become more and more prosperous, showing a thriving scene.

It's just that this is a feudal society after all, and economic prosperity alone is not desirable, and the most important thing is political clarity. Now, under the leadership of Emperor Hongzhi, the various yamen appear to be operating in an orderly manner.

In April of the second year of Hongji, this was destined to rise up a great slaughter.

Things are getting worse and worse, and the imperial court originally only confiscated the account books of 100 financial stores, and the result is that the account books contain more than 100 murders.

When the imperial court ordered the raid of Yefu, there was a shocking thing that shocked the world.

Although Ye Qi's ancestor was Ye Heng, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, by Ye Qi's generation, the Ye family had already declined, and Ye Qi's father was just a showman.

When Ye Rongtian raided Ye Mansion this time, Qin Conggui unexpectedly discovered that the kiln silver in Ye Mansion was as high as one million taels, and Ye Qi's budget for building the Humble Administrator's Garden reached 300,000 taels.

This huge amount of property of unknown origin, if it weren't for Ye Qi's greed for ink during his official period, how could the Ye family get so much kiln silver?

Although it is very profitable to run a private finance, it is impossible to earn as much as one million taels, not to mention that the profits of Ye's money bank are already clear at a glance.

It is precisely like this, after Qin Conggui copied such a huge amount of property from the Ye Mansion, it was not only Ye Rongtian who had something to do, but also Ye Qi, who was in his sixties and still wanted to take a concubine.

After this matter was exposed, Emperor Hongzhi was furious and ordered Qin Conggui to immediately release and escort him to Beijing, and Ye Qi, who had traveled all the way to Beijing, looked embarrassed.

Wang Yue personally presided over Ye Qi, and said straight to the point: "Ye Shilang, it's useless for you to find anyone now?" If you still don't take the initiative to explain the origin of these properties, my Metropolitan Procuratorate can also ask you to behead you, and at the same time, I will also have to connect your three clans in accordance with the law! ”

"You threaten the old man?" Ye Qi was already unkempt, and immediately said angrily.

Wang Yue snorted lightly with disdain, and said very seriously: "What about threatening you?" You should know that this official's eyes can't tolerate sand, let alone a good man and a woman! Do you want the three clans to give you a burial, or do you honestly confess the facts of the crime, and maybe you have to keep a posterity? ”

Ye Qi knew that Wang Yue was different from other officials, and other officials usually talked a little about affection, but the king in front of him cut off his head without any mercy at all.

Faced with the threat of the Yi three tribes, he finally chose to confess the facts of the crime, or part of the facts.

The person who was in cahoots with him was none other than Li Min, the first corrupt official of the Ming Dynasty.

He and Li Min were friends in the same year, and when Li Min went to Huai'an to serve as the governor of Caoyun, he was serving in the household department at that time. Since Huai'an is his hometown, he and Li Min soon cooperated together to make profits.

If other departments may not be able to get so much money, but the Caoyun Governor's Office is in charge of Caoyun, and it is also the governor of the river, so the annual project cost is astronomical.

With the fall of Wang Zhi, and Huai En and other eunuchs seemed to be very easy to deal with, so the two of them started with the construction money and other funds, so as to embezzle a large amount of construction silver.

West Garden, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

Zhu Youji, who was wearing a dragon robe, looked at Ye Qi's confession, although he had already guessed about this matter, but when he saw the truth in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a wave of anger and helplessness in his heart.

From the salt administration to the Cao Yun, as well as those unpredictable river projects, all exposed the various shortcomings of the Ming court.

Zhu Youzhu is now like peeling a sugar cane, thinking that he can continue to eat by cutting off a part of the moth in front of him, but when he peeled it, he found that it was all rotten.

There are few officials in the Ming Dynasty who are not greedy at all, even if they are not greedy this month, they may be greedy next month. Even if you don't have power or power now, you will be greedy when you have power.

The reason why Qingliu has always dared to flaunt himself with honesty is that the silver of the imperial court will not flow to the Hanlin Academy and the Ministry of Rites in large quantities, and they have no chance to be greedy if they want to.

As for the silver they receive, the charcoal and the silver, they do not consider this to be greed for ink in their self-deception.

"Order the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be fully responsible for the investigation of the Caoyun Yamen, and the officials of the Caoyun Yamen shall not be delayed, if not, they can be imprisoned!" After Zhu Youzhu saw that Ye Qi had already given a list of the personnel of the Caoyun Governor's Yamen, he waved his pen and agreed that the Metropolitan Procuratorate would thoroughly investigate the corruption of the Caoyun Yamen.

It is gratifying that the current Metropolitan Procuratorate is like a knife in its own hands. Although the Ming Dynasty has exposed more and more insect eyes, as long as he swings his sword, he will definitely make those people bleed.

April 19, the day of execution.

Since the beginning of April, executions have become a daily occurrence, with a number of people executed every few days, so that many people who like to eat melons are not as active as before.

It's just that today's situation is different, and the people surround the torture platform three times inside and three outside, and they all want to see this unique beheading with their own eyes.

(End of chapter)