"This ......" Zhang Jicai was silent and refused to say it explicitly.

"The fourth brother didn't hear clearly, what he said was that he didn't embezzle military rations," Zhu Zhen sneered: "But he didn't say that he didn't embezzle official rations." ”

"That's right, the military rations are all shipped directly from Liujiagang to Dagukou, and you can't touch him if you want to." Zhu Di said suddenly: "But the prefect's yamen has an official warehouse and a reserve warehouse, and he can be greedy and greedy!" ”

"Lord Wang, the lower officials don't have the guts!" Zhang Jicai hurriedly shouted: "Those are all bad rules left by the predecessor, and the lower officials not only haven't added anything, but also reduced a few items as much as they can." ”

"What bad rules?" Zhu Di asked in a deep voice: "Hurry up and recruit from the truth, hide a word from the two of us, and immediately send you to meet the two top bosses!" ”

"Yes, yes, in fact, it is a clever name, peeling off the skin layer by layer. For example, when collecting taxes, in addition to the regular tax, miscellaneous items such as water foot money, food money, treasury money, and god and Buddha money should be added, which is said to be transportation expenses, but most of them go to the yamen. At this point, Governor Zhang had no way to hide it, so he had to say truthfully:

"All these expenses add up to about the same as a regular tax."

"Anything else?" Zhu Di asked.

"After entering the warehouse, there are insects and rats every year, and there are some losses of mildew and deterioration." Governor Zhang replied again.

"How much?" Zhu Di asked in a deep voice.

"It's usually ...... Two to three percent. Zhang Jicai replied with difficulty: "The normal loss is actually less than one percent, and the actual excess is sold to grain merchants." Therefore, in fact, most of the grain sold by grain merchants in various places is the tax grain paid by the common people......"

"What a fucking fuck." Zhu Zhen couldn't help but scold.

"Good guys!" Zhu Di said speechlessly: "After eating, the people have to eat the court again, you corrupt officials and corrupt officials, your appetite is also a little bigger!" ”

"Wronged, my lord, the lion's share is still spent on the daily operation of the yamen. Such a large government is in charge of so many things, such as taxation, public security, criminal name, defense, construction, water conservancy, sacrifice, school, relief, ...... There are so many errands, which one of them doesn't have to be paid? Which one is not allowed to be hired? As for the little money and pen and ink money given by the imperial court every year, nothing is enough. As far as the few registered officials in the yamen are concerned, nothing can be done. ”

"If the court doesn't give it, the local government can only think of money, and only with money can people be hired and things can be done." Zhang Jicai poured bitter water and said: "Even if it is an official who eats the emperor's grain, the monthly income is not enough to support his family, so he points to it."

Divide some of the subsidies from the bad rules. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, if the lower officials cut down all these bad habits, can they still be expected to work for me? ”

"So you rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, the water to eat the water, and the tax grain to eat the tax grain?" Zhu Di said lightly.

"Yes, this is a bad habit that existed in previous dynasties, no, it has been like this in all dynasties." Zhang Jicai nodded.

"Since all dynasties and dynasties have come down like this, then what are you panicking about?" The fourth asked.

"Bad rules can't be more serious, and if they are true, it's a mortal sin." Zhang Jicai said with a bitter face: "The emperor obviously wants to be more serious this time, as long as those Qincha come down to check, can they still find out the problem?" ”

"You can't just say that this ass is inherently unclean just because everyone has shit on their cheeks." Zhu Di said hatefully: "And whether you said it is like this, it remains to be verified!" ”

"Xia Guan swears to the sky, it's really like this!" Zhang Jicai patted his chest and said: "The prince can let people check it, there is a prefect in Quanbeiping who is more disciplined than the lower officials, and he calls me to fight five thunderbolts in the sky!" ”

"Look, this is still a relatively clean corrupt official." Zhu Di smiled angrily and said to the sixth child: "You have been the governor of Yunnan for so many years, is this really the case?" ”

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"We in Yunnan have not yet confiscated taxes, and the main job of the government is to distribute materials." Zhu Zhen said implicitly: "But it's still three days to let those toasts and military leaders smash the yamen." ”

"Hmm." How smart Zhu Di is, he naturally understands the meaning of the sixth child's words, he will never admit the existence of this situation, but this situation exists objectively.

"And what to do with this guy?" Zhu Di asked again.

"Your official in Beiping asked me what I was doing." Zhu Zhen smiled slightly, lowered his voice and said, "But there is one thing he is not wrong, this is the rhythm of setting off a big prison, and the scale will be far greater than any before." ”

"Won't it?" Zhu Di said with a tight expression: "If according to Zhang Jicai's statement, this time I am afraid that from the imperial court to the locality, but all the officials who handle the tax and grain will be blamed, can my father still arrest them?" ”

"Quite possibly." Zhu Zhen nodded.

"Who's going to do the work?" Zhu Di said in disbelief: "The court and the government are not paralyzed?" ”

"Wear a flail to work." Zhu Zhen smiled.

"Haha, you're quite whimsical." Zhu Di naturally couldn't imagine that the sixth child was not joking at all, and felt that he was hinting at himself in this way, so that Zhang Jicai could make meritorious contributions.

He said to the prefect in a deep voice: "If you want to follow, follow first, as for whether you want to protect you, this king has to investigate first." ”

"Thank you for your great kindness, the lower officials must have done their best to die, and they will not hesitate to do anything!" Zhang Jicai was grateful and kowtowed. He knew he had saved his life. As long as he can behave well in front of the prince, can the prince still protect him?

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Let this delay be made, and on the fourth day of the new year, he only traveled 300 miles, and rested in Jingzhou when it was dark. Jingzhou is the later Hengshui, which has reached the place where Beiping and Shandong border.

Jingzhou is still the territory of Hejian Prefecture, and Zhang Jicai really didn't brag, and gathered 2,000 ice trucks full of wood and firewood here.

This is not the scope of Xu Da's business, and with this level of mobilization, it can be seen that his ability and prestige are still quite good.

After staying in Jingzhou for a night, Zhu Zhen and his brothers led 16,000 ice cars to enter the Shandong border and come to Dezhou!

In this era, Dezhou was still subordinate to Jinan Prefecture, as soon as he entered the boundary of Dezhou, he opened the road in front of the head to guard, and reported to the two princes, and the political envoy of Shandong Province took the two divisions and Jinan officials to wait by the river for a long time.

"Go, meet them." Zhu Zhen ordered with a smile.

The luxurious ice boat sailed to the side of the river where the flag was waving and the crowd was crowded.

Cai Lou, music, salute, Shandong officials with the most solemn treatment to welcome the six princes back to Lu. Although they had just sent off the Six Princes with the same ceremony ten days ago......

"Hahaha, Lao Hu and Lao Wu, I didn't expect to meet again so soon!" Zhu Zhen picked up Hu Rang and Wu Yin from the ground.

"It can be seen that the fate of the prince and our Shandong is not over!" Hu asked Wu Yin to print the joy from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't pretend it at first glance.

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