"Since you are incompetent, then I can only find a way to investigate tax evasion and evasion, which is a very good decree, which can not only fill the treasury, but also clean up the merchants and deter them, so that they know to operate with integrity."

Seeing this, the ministers' hearts sank to the bottom.

Hubu Shangshu was finally unwilling, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, the investigation of tax evasion and tax evasion can only save a temporary predicament after all, and in the long run, we should reduce expenditure and open source is the right way." ”

"Throttling open source?" Li Jingfu condescendedly and stared at the man kneeling on the floor tiles, "How to throttle and open source the law, talk about it well!" ”

The other ministers kneeling on the ground were also curious, what kind of idea did Master Zhang think of to open up sources and reduce expenditure?

Lord Zhang stared at the pressure of death, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said hard: "The minister remembers that Lingnan imported a lot of out-of-season vegetables to the Central Plains last winter, and can grow out-of-season vegetables in winter. ”

One person in the court opened his mouth, and some of the other ministers immediately stood up and shouted: "Your Majesty, this technology is beneficial to the country and the people, why don't you send a special envoy for promotion to be in charge of this matter?" ”

"If this technology can be promoted to the world, so that the people can have vegetables to eat in winter, it will definitely solve the suffering of people's livelihood, what are you hesitating about, Your Majesty?"

Li Jingfu thought that these ministers had a good idea, and it turned out that he had taken a fancy to the queen's technology.

As for benefiting the country and the people, Li Jingfu has reservations, and it is only a few powerful people who will benefit in the end.

He rolled his eyes in his heart, "Don't worry about this matter, these out-of-season vegetables are all made up by the queen, I."

When Lord Zhang, the head of the household department, heard this, his eyes flashed with a trace of ruthlessness, and he said sincerely: "My Queen Dayu is a model for women in the world, and she should be the mother of the world, promote this technology to the world, and benefit the people of the world."

Listening to the righteousness and awe-inspiring words of the courtiers below, and having the world in mind, Li Jingfu was a little suspicious of whose world this was?

How do you feel that the courtiers below are more worried about the country and the people than him?

What is going on with the out-of-season vegetables, Li Jingfu doesn't know, but Anu standing next to him knows it very well.

He took a few steps forward and whispered next to Li Jingfu's ear for a while, and the ministers were not sure what Anu had said when they saw this situation?

After listening to Anu's words, Li Jingfu held his forehead and sat on the dragon chair with his head down, and the ministers couldn't see the expression on his face.

I only heard him sigh deeply: "There are you who are 'full of poetry and books' Wenchen, I don't know whether it is the misfortune of the country or the misfortune of the world, thinking about how to intrigue all day long, what crooked doors, and I don't see you thinking about the national economy and people's livelihood, I know that I am worried about my ideas and family affairs, and Confucianism is to teach you to serve the country and the people like this?" ”

Li Jingfu's subordinates asked inexplicably, aren't they worrying about the national economy and people's livelihood?

"Your Majesty, what we are talking about at the moment is the technology of out-of-season vegetables, isn't it for the sake of the country and the people?"

Zuo Servant couldn't hide behind at this time, and if he didn't come out again, maybe the emperor would even be degraded to the ancestors of Confucianism.

"Think about it!" Li Jingfu couldn't help but burst into foul language, this group of rice buckets almost brought him into the ditch just now, "The four seasons of Lingnan Mansion City are not obvious, they can grow out-of-season vegetables in winter, there is not much technology, but your face today is too ugly!" ”

In the final analysis, they just fancy the queen's technology and want to take it away for their own use.

But they are courtiers, Xia Jing is the queen, they are not good to attack the queen directly, so they came to instigate him, the emperor, to come forward, it is really a good calculation!

If this succeeds, everyone will rejoice!

If he fails, his image of wisdom and martial arts will collapse in the eyes of the queen, and in the end, only him, the emperor, will lose more than he loses.

The ministers can still stand below and watch the show!

The discord between the emperor and the queen, and the disharmony between father and son is exactly what the ministers want to see, and it is not terrible for the imperial power to monopolize it, but it is afraid that the imperial power will be twisted into a rope and work hard in one place.

If this is the case, how can the court control the emperor, and how can the emperor be a mascot and a seal tool?

The ministers blushed when they were scolded.

The words are so obvious, there are still courtiers below who don't understand, "What do you mean?" ”

When the other courtiers heard this, the courtiers standing next to him wanted to step forward and cover his mouth, but they had never seen anyone so slow to react.

As soon as these words were asked, the emperor did not take the opportunity to vent.

Sure enough, Li Jingfu ignored the image of the Ninety-Five Honor, and looked down, "Phew!" "What do you mean?" Do you know what the Three Principles and the Five Constants are? Or have you learned all these years of Confucianism? ”

"You used to always say that martial arts generals are martial artists, rude and barbaric, but martial artists are not as insidious and cunning as you, despicable and shameless!"

The noble generals in the court have long been unaccustomed to the set of Taoism of the civil ministers, and at this time, when they heard the civil officials being scolded by the emperor, they were bloody, and their hearts were full of joy!

They are different from these civil servants, they like to go straight to everything, they don't behave like them as many twists and turns, sometimes they scold people without swearing, and they don't see blood when they kill people.

The civil officials present frowned slightly, the shrews scolded the street, they had seen it, but the Ninety-Five Emperor scolded in the court, it was the first time they had seen it, and it was also the first time to wait for such an emperor, so that they had poor adaptation and abnormal headaches.

"I see that you have been high for too long, so long that you have forgotten the hard life you once lived, so long that you have been out of the world, and you don't even know the common sense of geography, it is simply a rice bucket!"

The noble military general looked at the civil officials who were trained by the emperor to bow their heads, and was amazed in their hearts, worthy of the face that has been tempered for many years, comparable to the city wall!

Civil officials were trained to lose face, how to be willing to let a group of martial artists see jokes, they generously stated, quoted scriptures, and made powerful statements, so that the emperor paid attention to the cultivation of morality, and swear words should not be said in the court, which will have a far-reaching impact on the future emperor of the Dayu Dynasty.

You can't imagine what it will be like for the emperor sitting on the dragon chair in the court to scold when he doesn't like it a little in the future?

Li Jingfu, who listened to these bad clichés, was furious, and he yelled at the group of civil officials below: "Shut up!" ”

"Listen to you again, it seems that the life and death of Dayu Jiangshan Sheji is in the blink of an eye, and I have no shame to say it so high-sounding, fresh and refined!"

"The queen has a saying that is right, people want face, trees need bark, once people are shameless, they are invincible in the world!"

"If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat!"

"Get out of here!"

Originally, I was usually bored, but sitting on the dragon chair and listening to them make noise could also be used as a pastime. But today they want him to be the protagonist, and Li Jingfu is not wonderful in his heart!

When the courtiers all withdrew from the hall, Li Jingfu's anger did not subside, and he told the commander of the forbidden army: "You give me the key to investigate the business of these civil officials' families, but I want to see how corrupt Dayu's civil officials are?" ”

"Yes!"

Before the commander of the forbidden army left the palace, Xiang Rongrang left the palace one step ahead of everyone, mobilized 5,000 soldiers and horses from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, and conducted a major inventory of the high-grade shops in Jiankang City.

As in Lingnan, the first thing to control when entering the store is the steward and account book, and finally the inventory.

When the civil and military officials came out of the palace, they instructed the servants at home to go back and send a letter to the family first, so that they could quickly find a way to deal with the emperor's investigation.

It's just that what they never expected was that Xiang Rong would make this emperor's lackey so fast.

By the time they made a move, their shop had been controlled by the soldiers and horses of the five cities led by Xiang Rongrang.

In fact, it is very easy to grasp the handle of court officials, and not to mention their tax evasion, just talk about their mansions, and you can weave a large basket of crimes.

Yu extravagance into the wind, Jiankang than Lingnan even more, at the beginning because of the illegal construction of Lingnan Lou family, Jiankang these officials and rich businessmen, from top to bottom, but where a little wealth of people, the family has followed the trend according to their own preferences to build a lot of illegal buildings.

Xiang Rongrang has accumulated more experience in Lingnan, he will not work hard to check any accounts, he selected a few representative figures, rushed directly into their mansion, and listed all the illegal buildings to report to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, as you expected, the shops in Jiankang City have the problem of tax evasion, and the ministers have found that most of the buildings in the official mansions and wealthy merchants are more or less overdue."

"Overdue?" Xiang Rong didn't mention it, Li Jingfu couldn't think of the overstepping of the system for a while, and it was because of this crime that he copied Lou's house in Lingnan at the beginning.

Xiang Rongrang nodded: "Yes, except for the court officials, the richest people in Yangzhou are still the major salt merchants, before our sea salt hit the market, they sold official salt with private salt, and they all made a lot of money, and there was too much silver to spend."

If according to Dayu's hierarchy, their silver can only be placed in the treasury to fall into ashes, and they can't enjoy life arbitrarily at all, in order to enjoy a luxurious life, whether it is a residence or living materials, they are extremely extravagant, so to speak."

Xiang Rongrang paused here and saluted Li Jingfu: "It can be said that your quality of life is less than one-tenth of theirs, Your Majesty!" ”

"Bang!"

Li Jingfu slapped his palm on the desk, and the last sentence completely stimulated him, the supreme in the world is actually inferior to the lowly merchants, which shows that the wealth of the world is concentrated in the hands of these profiteers.

A little bit of these salt merchants is enough to drink a pot, but Li Jingfu wants to fabricate a little more of their crimes, "Have you checked their account transactions?" Questions? ”

Xiang Rongrang shook his head: "Salt merchants are no better than ministers, they are more cautious in their work, and the accounts in the shop are not greasy on the surface, so I think they have made yin and yang account books." If we want to find out that they are evading taxes, we need to give the ministers some more time. ”

Li Jingfu was about to agree, but suddenly remembered that Xia Jing had said that he was too indecisive in doing things.

He changed his mind and said, "Since they dare to overstep the system, you can choose a few representative salt merchants to come out and directly take the soldiers and horses to raid their homes." However, don't forget to check the evidence of tax evasion during the home raid. ”

Xiang Rong let the order go.

There are many salt merchants in Yangzhou, and there are also many salt merchants in Jiankang City.

Among them, there is a big salt merchant in Yangzhou named Lu Yugui, who has never done charity in his life, lives a luxurious life, pays attention to pomp and circumstance, likes to be flattered, especially likes to visit Qinglou, and compete with other wealthy businessmen for the top card of Qinglou, he feels that he has won a lot of face.

Sometimes I was coaxed by the top card of the Qinglou, and I would sprinkle silver beans downstairs to play.

Therefore, in Jiankang's Qinglou Street, if you see a lot of idlers and beggars guarding under any window, then you don't want to know that Lu Yugui must be having fun in the upstairs room.

Xiang Rong led troops to surround the Lu family's over-controlled house, and there was no accident that Lu Yugui was not at home.

Without even thinking about it, you know that you must be going out to visit the Qinglou again.

As soon as the Janissary Commander and the Praetorian Guards entered the year-round street, a group of beggars and idlers looked up at the closed windows on the second floor.

Before the commander of the forbidden army could walk over, the window on the second floor was pushed open from the inside, and then a lot of silver beans were sprinkled.

Some of the Praetorian Guards who followed behind the commander of the Praetorian Army couldn't help but catch a few silver beans and put them in their mouths to bite, "Hey! It's real money! ”

Another Praetorian Guard bent down and picked up a few grains and handed them to the commander of the Janissaries: "Head, you see, a grain of silver beans weighs about two coins, and if he scatters it like this, it will not be less than a thousand taels of silver." ”

The commander of the Praetorian Guard pinched the silver beans in his hand, looked at the beggars and idlers who were crazy about robbery, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a touch of mockery: "When I was a child, what the textbook said was right, Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there were frozen bones on the road; The dung is precious and precious, and it is still not extravagant. ”

With such a show, it is no wonder that the emperor will target them.

The emperor of a country can't even afford to raise 100,000 soldiers and horses, and a low-status businessman actually spends a lot of money, and it is for the top brand of Qinglou!

The forbidden army who followed behind nodded approvingly: "What the head said is right, our Fenglu, who has worked hard to defend the imperial city for a year, is not as good as what he has sprinkled today, you say that this person is really angry compared to people." ”

The corners of the other Praetorian Guards' mouths twitched uncontrollably, saying this, Fenglu is less, but they have a lot of oil and water, and the two sides are even, and the income of being a Praetorian Guard is not bad.

The commander of the forbidden army stood on a street corner and waved his hand lightly, "Go ahead, invite this rich man down for me." ”

The subordinates behind him listened to the order and rushed into the opposite Qinglou like a wolf.

Screams continued in the Qinglou, and it seemed that the arrival of the officers and soldiers had disturbed many people.

The commander of the forbidden army plucked his ears and said with disgust: "This group of boys is getting more and more majestic, so they don't know how to restrain, there will always be a time when they will suffer!" ”

One of the two Praetorian Guards who followed behind him as a guard said: "Our Praetorian Guards have a commander on top, and they can only do things freely, if everyone is afraid of doing things, who will be afraid of us outside." ”

Only the fox and the tiger can get twice the result with half the effort, otherwise there will be many obstacles, how to do the things that the emperor explains?

The Janissary Commander glanced at the kid and smiled as if he was in a good mood, but he didn't forget to warn:

"You have a reason for what you kid says, and you will do less in the future, the current emperor is not the first emperor, he is not so easy to fool, if I can't hold back one day, you can lose your life in the end!"

"Let go of me! Official, let me go! You can't just arrest people, what did I do? ”

"Be honest, don't rely on your age to think that we won't dare to beat you, if you provoke me, a kick to you will be enough for you!" The Praetorian Guard threatened.

Waiting to be escorted to the commander of the Praetorian Guard: "Head, the people have been brought." ”

The commander of the Praetorian Guard glanced at him: "Lu Yugui? Not a bad name, if the name is right, then we haven't caught the wrong person! ”

As he spoke, he motioned to his subordinates: "Take it away!" ”

(End of chapter)