Chapter 47: The Salted Fish Eating Melons 19

What made the emperor even more angry was that many of these people involved in the distribution of spoils were still his own henchmen.

You must know that when he raided his house, he was afraid that people who were not his confidants would participate and would be greedy for the money they copied, so he asked his henchmen to do this.

As a result, I didn't expect that these people lived up to their trust, and they were still greedy, and they were so greedy!

So the emperor's anger was twofold, angry that those people were greedy for so much of his money, and angry that these people had betrayed his trust.

And more importantly, if he hits such a pole and beats his own henchmen, his power will be weakened.

The emperor couldn't help but become more and more angry when he thought that these people had betrayed his trust, were greedy for money, and had caused his power to weaken.

So before killing these people, he had to think about the substitutes first, so as not to weaken his power.

After all, the people who participated in the raid at that time, since they were his confidants, their status was naturally extraordinary, and they were all important ministers.

There are so many fewer important ministers, but there is a lot of influence, who let too many people participate in the distribution of spoils, if you clean up, you have to cut a lot of people, cut so many people, the court will naturally lack a lot of people, that is, his power will be greatly weakened.

But if he was afraid that his power would weaken, he would not clean up those people, and the emperor would not be able to swallow this breath, so the more the emperor thought about it, the more angry he became, and his stomach was angry.

After all, if these people hadn't failed them, they wouldn't have been so embarrassed at this time.

In the end, the emperor decided to first promote the people in the key positions and replace them with the substitutes he thought, and then the emperor would attack these people when these important positions were replaced by substitutes.

When the emperor was replaced, he was afraid of startling the snake, so he was very cautious every time, for fear that those people would find out that something was wrong.

Fortunately, these people consciously are the emperor's henchmen, and the emperor's promotion of their officials is not a bad thing, but they are afraid that the emperor has more important arrangements, so they don't notice that something is wrong.

Fortunately, there are only two or three key positions in the hands of the emperor, and although the other positions must also be replaced by the emperor's people, so as not to weaken the power, as long as the important places are in their own hands, it is not too late for other places to replace the people who have been replaced after these people have been dealt with.

Since the emperor was sure that these people had taken the money, and then the people in the key positions had been replaced, he immediately began to clean up these people.

To do this kind of thing, in ancient times, it was naturally a raid and exile.

Of course, the officials who cooperate in doing these things are not simply exiled, and it is certain that they will lose their heads, after all, they are so greedy for ink, and it is not bad to not sentence Ling Chi.

However, it is time for the emperor to have a headache again, because he is afraid that the person who raided the house will be greedy for ink like last time.

But he can't find a particularly good way, unless he personally copies it one by one, otherwise, let others find it, it is difficult to ensure that these people are not greedy for ink, after all, it was useless to let more than two people in a group last time, how can they stop it.

I can only think that the minimum guarantee is 100 million taels, and the rest can only be as many as there are.

The reason why the emperor guaranteed 100 million taels in his heart was because he thought about these people, unlike the Wang family, who were in business, maybe they didn't have much money at home, and they also spent money from the Wang family, and they could copy out 100 million, even if it was good, maybe they couldn't copy so much.

In fact, the emperor underestimated these people.

These people are indeed not as rich as the Wang family, and they may not have much money in the public middle school on the surface, but there are many private rooms among the ladies and old ladies in each room.

This is not to say that the women of this era are rich, and the men are not rich, the reason is also very simple, in ancient times, most of the people lived together, and then the parents were there, not separated, the small family was not rich, or in other words, there was not much money, because of the month and the year, in fact, there was not much, those old and young masters, often eat, drink and have fun outside, that little money was wasted, and people who were not thrifty must be moonlight.

The ancient people admitted it like this, their small family has no money, and if they want to do something, they still have to apply to the public middle school, and it is particularly difficult to get money?

No, because when they get married, they will divide the family from the family once through the dowry.

It can be said that when there is no separation, getting married is actually a small separation in disguise.

And these dowries, in the end, are placed in the hands of wives, that is, those wives and grandmothers, on the surface it is their dowry, but in fact, ancient women have a low status, saying that it is a dowry, in fact, it is also the property of the husband, after all, in ancient times, Mo said that concubines, wives can be sold - although the rich will not sell, but logically speaking, their husbands do have the right to dispose of them - three from the four virtues, women at home from the father, marry from the husband, husband from the son, no personal independence of their own, their property, naturally is the property of the small family, After all, even they themselves are the property of their husbands and can be sold.

Since these families will divide the family in disguise when they get married, it is normal for the wives and grandmothers of each family to have a lot of private houses in their hands, because in ancient times, the small family was managed by the wife, so the property was also in the hands of the wife.

And the amount of these properties is a lot, after all, many of these families who have been cleaned up have good backgrounds, and very few of them are from poor backgrounds.

Since the background is good, then their dowry is naturally a lot, and then most of the wives are right, and the dowry sent by the mother's family is also a lot, so that the private rooms of the wives and grandmothers of each family are not a lot, so the emperor copied more than 100 million taels of money from each family, and did not spend as he thought, and each family kept spending, and spent a lot of money from the Wang family back then.

The emperor saw that more than 100 million taels were copied, and he was also satisfied, so he didn't embarrass those who copied the house, thinking that even if they were greedy for ink, they couldn't be greedy for ink, after all, the property of these families could not be compared with the Wang family.

Of course, this is on the surface, secretly, the emperor sent people to monitor these people, wanting to see if these people are like the previous group of people, and they have also made a lot of money.

Don't talk about the effect of the emperor's monitoring, only say that after the emperor raided the house, those people felt that what happened to them was done by the sick retired official's family, so when they were exiled, they hated the sick and retired official's family to death, and on the way to exile, they bullied the family of the sick and retired official, and the people of the sick and retired official's family said that it had nothing to do with them, they didn't do it, and these people didn't believe it, and they didn't write the report letter.

The people who retired from the official's family did feel very wronged, because when the emperor copied each family, and then issued a holy decree, saying that when they were raiding the royal family before, the matter of greedy ink was reported by someone and exposed, they were stunned when they heard it, because, obviously the head of the family had not made up his mind, thinking about whether to report it, how did it really happen? Not only were they stunned, but they were also panicked.