Xie Zhou lowered his voice and said, "I heard that the destruction of the salt pond this time is related to those bald donkeys on Wutai Mountain. These thieves seem to be implicated!"

Wen Fei was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you Ambassador Tong for telling me, I will have a good reward!"

Tong Guan laughed and said, "I told the official family that I must win the battle, otherwise I will come to see you." These thieves and birds are playing behind their backs, grandma's salt pond is broken, there is no salt output, there is no money and food. Do you want me to go to war with my brothers hungry?"

Wen Fei said with a smile: "Ambassador Tong, don't worry, this salt pond will definitely be repaired soon, and it will definitely not delay you from entering the war!"

Tong Guan smiled with satisfaction and said, "Then please Father Shang!" His heart of fame is now as hot as fire, and whoever dares to stand in the way of his military exploits is his mortal enemy.

And for Wen Fei, I can't wait to quickly flatten the brains of Western Xia and Tubo, and then deal with the Liao State, Jurchen. Speaking of which, Wen Fei was still a little angry inside.

Coupled with the ass to decide the head, he is a great immortal master and a great father of Wen. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor was respected and courteous to hundreds of officials. It can be said that it is a high-powered, absolute interest class in the center of the empire, if the Northern Song Dynasty is destroyed. Could it be that those Jurchens would still be so polite to themselves? Therefore, Wen Fei had already stood in the perspective of safeguarding the interests of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"What about these officials?" Wen Fei asked. It's easy to take these guys down, but it's hard to get an explanation.

A Taoist priest and a eunuch will put the entire Jiezhou up and down. All the big and small officials, including the salt relief department, were taken down. And it's also a crime of communicating with foreign countries, which makes Wen Fei feel very unreliable!

Tong Guan smiled: "It's not simple, I don't believe that these thieves and birds will be so clean in their hands." Wait a minute, I will copy their house first. Take out the stolen goods and talk about it!"

Wen Fei shrugged, if he wants to be in the future generations, he will be corrupt and bribed, it must be a big killer. No matter who you want to rectify, as long as you sacrifice this big killing weapon, there is nothing that is not allowed.

But the Northern Song Dynasty was too good for those officials. is a first-class official, and the monthly collar is 150 stones. In addition to the 120,000 yuan, plus 20 horses of silk every year. Luo one horse, fifty taels. And from the nine officials, the moon is five stones, and the money is eight thousand. Plus twelve taels per year.

This is still just the court. In addition to the above salaries, the officials of the Song Dynasty enjoyed a variety of welfare subsidies, including tea and wine money, kitchen material money, charcoal money, horse material money, and so on.

The government also "pays" the food, clothing, and wages of the servants of the officials' households, and each servant spends about 3,000 wen a year, while there are often hundreds of servants in the mansion of a high-ranking official, which is also a huge amount of expenditure when accumulated.

In the Song Dynasty, the interest on public money loans and the income from vocational fields. In addition to the expenditure by the head of the department, most of it went into the "small treasury" of the department. It is distributed to officials every other day and becomes part of the income.

When officials go on business trips or go to work, they can use the "gift rolls" issued by the imperial court to eat and live in the local area for free, and even receive food and clothes. It also set up the "ancestral hall system", that is, the state built palaces and shrines in scenic spots for some high-ranking officials with high moral integrity to carry out regular recuperation. 1. The cost of qiē is borne by the state.

This kind of legal and gray income alone is already extremely eye-catching. However, those officials are still corrupt, and the court almost does not care much.

It can be said that the officials of the entire Northern Song Dynasty fell under corruption, almost none. For example, Fan Zhongyan in "The Story of Yueyang Tower" mentioned at the beginning of "In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing guarded Baling County".

Why was this Teng Zijing demoted to Yueyang? It was because this guy was so corrupt that when the imperial envoy came to investigate, he directly burned all the accounts in front of the imperial envoy.

was so arrogant, but it turned out to be fine. At most, he will be an official in another place!

Therefore, it is really not easy to use the crime of embezzlement to take down all these officials. So Wen Fei was a little worried.

Tong Guan smiled: "If this is ordinary corruption, it is not a big deal." But if these guys are richer than the official family, do you think the official family can tolerate them?"

"Richer than the official family?" Wen Fei gasped, although he thought that these people would definitely not be clean, but if it was really such an exaggeration, it would be a little too shocking.

Tong Guan smiled: "If you don't believe it, we'll see!"

The result of the raid made Wen Fei stunned, although he was already mentally prepared. But he hadn't thought of the rich man Fu Cheng Dù of the salt relief envoy, not to mention anything else, just the eight pillars made of rosewood in the main hall of the mansion were enough for Wen Fei to open his eyes. Each one is a whole wood, full of two people hugging each other, and the height is five or six feet.

Wen Fei was suspicious, so he pulled these eight pillars back to modern times. I don't know how much money I can auction off! That's not all, how big an ancient house can be built depends not on anything else, but on how big the beams are. As big as the beams, you can build as much as you want.

It is said that when the Ming Dynasty built the Forbidden City, the three major halls were much larger than those seen by later generations. It's just that after the fire, when it was rebuilt, it was no longer possible to find a big wood to make beams, so I had to rebuild a shrunken version.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Fengtian Hall was more than 90 meters wide and nearly 50 meters deep, and it was only after the fire in the Jiajing period that it shrank to be more than 60 meters wide and more than 30 meters deep.

And now the main hall of this Hu Rong's brother's private residence, from Wen Fei's point of view, is definitely not smaller than the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City. You can imagine how big the beams of this house are. Moreover, the ones used in this house are still big woods.

Fortunately, in this year, there was no rule that only the royal family could use large wood. So it doesn't matter if it's violated. But from this point, you can see how much silver taels Hu Rong is greedy for.

When other houses were raided, a large number of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver utensils were shipped out in piles. I can't even see a copper plate, and people don't look down on copper coins at all......

It took more than ten days to check the house, and it took me a rough idea to clean up, in short, the net worth of this goods will not be less than five million. It's definitely much richer than the grain merchants in Tokyo!

and Wu Yanchang, the Zhizhou who dared to order the robbery, was not much better. Two or three million yuan of money was also seized from the house. In addition, plus those officials, large and small, there are not a small number of tens of millions of people who have been confiscated.

As Tong Guan said, if it is a petty corruption, it is nothing. But with such a huge amount of stolen money, it's different.