The so-called business, of course, is a matter of money.

How to get eight million dollars from the corrupt officials and profiteers as soon as possible is a top priority.

Tomorrow, An Le Xiang will enter the palace to see His Highness, but now it is still a lot short of eight million.

"How much of the confiscated property is there now?" Chen Xiu asked.

"Yesterday I went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find a master book and calculate, there are already seven million dollars that have been sealed or have been sealed but have not yet been sealed, of course, this also includes the houses of those filthy officials, the cattle and horses and slaves in the family, it will take a while to become cash."

Because of the shortage of manpower, all the property of these people was not collected, but only temporarily sealed in situ, registered, and then assigned special personnel to guard it.

This is only the property confiscated in Changyi County, if you count the property confiscated in other counties, it can be at least 12 million yuan.

After paying off His Highness's eight million dollars, there is still a huge amount of money left in the country.

From this point of view, these corrupt officials are also a fat pig to be slaughtered, and it may be a good way to make money by checking corruption from time to time.

You must know that the annual oral endowment of the entire Changyi country is only two million yuan.

"That's a little bit worse." Chen Xiu said as he stretched his hand into his arms.

"So I have to rely on Brother Chen to see if you can give me the names of two more profiteers, so that I can go and make up some money for His Highness."

Chen Xiu smiled and took out a piece of wood from his arms and put it in Zhen Fu's hand.

Zhen Wei looked at it, and it recorded a person's name and where he lived.

"Han Ping, what's the origin of this person?"

"This family lives in Shangliulu, and he is still the chief of Shangliulu, and he has opened a small grain store."

"Shangliulu? Isn't that Tian Bu's outer house also in Shangliulu? ”

"That's right." A very mysterious smile appeared on Chen Xiu's face.

"Isn't this Han Pingmo having business dealings with Na Tian?"

"Exactly, the Chen Su that Tian Buxi sold in February was sold to this Han Ping, and this business alone made him 100,000 yuan."

"And Tian Buxi's account records that he has made a total of three transactions with this person, and the difference between the profits is 280,000 yuan."

The measures taken against corrupt officials are not the same as those taken against businessmen who collude with them.

Corrupt officials and corrupt officials will have all their family property confiscated.

Unscrupulous profiteers only need to return the money and grain they have embezzled.

This is also the principle of handling cases set by An Le, and it is also very similar to the way of following the officials.

If it were a cool official like Zhen Fu and Chen Xiu, he would like to punish these businessmen with a bankrupt fortune in order to set an example.

"Why did such an important person hand it over today?" Zhen Wei has already received the wooden slip into his arms.

"After all, this case was asked by His Highness to be thoroughly investigated, so naturally you should be careful, as for the others, you don't need to be so careful."

"Then I understand, there is Brother Lao Chen."

"Eh, where is this, you have to work hard to make you next."

After the greetings ended, Zhen Wei took the pavilion guards of Liangshi in Changyi County and rushed to Shangliulu in Beicheng.

At this time, Shangliu Lu was also panicked.

At first, dozens of pavilion guards suddenly surrounded a courtyard in Jiazi Lane, and then kidnapped all the people inside, and the gate was sealed.

The people in Lu surrounded the pavilion guards guarding the door and asked for a long time, only to know that this was actually the outer residence of an envoy in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

And this envoy committed the great crime of killing his head.

Then, people gradually heard some rumors from the market, and knew that this envoy was greedy for the money and grain of the king of Changyi, which was as much as millions.

People all hate it so much, when they pass by this house, they have to spit fiercely, and then say "catch it well" fiercely - this is the most simple hatred of the people for corrupt officials, even if the corrupt official's greedy money has no entanglement with them.

In the past two days, corrupt officials and profiteers have been raided everywhere in the city, which has made the people very happy, and they have been dispatched to inquire about the news.

Therefore, under the willow tree that divides the upper and lower willows, it has become the best place for people to exchange rumors.

Every day at lunch and dinner, people would rush to the willow tree in groups with a large bowl of millet porridge with clear soup and little water, sharing the purpose of the porridge while foaming at the mouth and exchanging various rumors in their heads.

These rumors are half-true, and some are even bizarre and absurd, but people enjoy them.

Without him, the palace ministers had enough money and food to afford musicians and dancers to pass the time, but the common people could only come to talk under the willow trees half-starved.

The big guy really wanted to find Lizheng Han Ping to find out some news, but this Han Ping rarely showed his face, and even hung a "closed" sign at the door of the rice shop, and sometimes he was bumped into by people by chance, and he lowered his head and ignored anyone.

People don't know how this Lizheng, who usually likes to brag about his good business, seems to have suddenly changed as if he has changed a person.

In addition to Han Ping, there is another person who is not very concerned about this matter, and that is Meng Ban.

On the one hand, Meng Ban was busy selling the woodware in the shop, and the family was ready to go to the workshop to work.

They had already decided that the whole family would live in the workshop when the time came, so that they would save a lot of time on the road.

On the other hand, after Meng Ban returned from the palace, he developed the habit of being cautious in his words and deeds, and as soon as he heard that this matter had something to do with the king in the palace, he immediately sent a message to his family, and no one should go outside to talk about idle days.

He didn't want to be scared of saying the wrong thing, as he had done a few days ago.

At noon that day, Meng Ban finished lunch early, first asked his sons to check the luggage that had been packed, and then went out

He took his hands and walked leisurely in the direction of the old willow tree.

The reason why they want to go over there for the first time is that tomorrow they will set off with the people sent by the palace.

Although the home is still here, the number of times I come back is getting less and less.

Meng Ban has lived in this alley for several generations, and he gets along well with most of his neighbors, so before leaving, he still plans to say hello to everyone again.

Meng Ban used to walk in a hurry, but he was in good spirits when he was happy, and now he walked with his chest and stomach folded, and walked extremely leisurely.

Along the way, as long as he met acquaintances, Meng Ban would stop and talk to each other.

"Eh, business is not easy to do these days, my family has a lot of sons, and the taxes are heavy, so this shop can't be opened, so I simply closed it and went to the palace to work for the king."

"You say monthly money and monthly rations? Not much, not much, that's 20,000 yuan and 50 yuan a month. ”

"Eh, so-so, passable."

These words were the most spoken by Meng Ban, and every time he finished speaking, he could attract a burst of pleasant admiration from the other party, and Meng Ban would move on to the next acquaintance.

Meng Ban walked and chatted all the way, and finally came to the willow tree.