Inside Wuying Hall.

Emperor Chongming sat in front of the imperial cabinet with a gloomy look on his face, while Jia Yun knelt down at the foot of the hall. Kneeling beside Jia Yun was Li Wenzheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

At this time, he looked sad and told Jia Yun's "atrocities" with a dark circle under his right eye.

"You bastard, who gave you the courage to demolish the Household Department Yamen?"

Jia Yun, who was in the audience, naturally knew that Emperor Chongming was speaking to him. After all, Jia Yun was the only one who demolished the Hubu Yamen.

Jia Yun immediately replied: "Your Majesty, Mr. Li said that the Ministry of Hubu was about to be repaired. I demolished the Yamen of the Ministry of Hubu to help him. He also said that I should do what I want. I have never heard of it since I am so old.

This kind of request, thinking of Lord Li’s hard work, I helped Lord Li with this favor.”

Emperor Chongming had a dark look on his face, while Li Wenzheng glared at Jia Yun and shouted: "You fart."

You can imagine how angry Li Wenzheng was when a dignified minister of the Ministry of Finance was allowed to speak foul language in front of the emperor.

Jia Yun curled his lips and choked: "In front of His Majesty, do you dare to say that you never said this?"

When Li Wenzheng heard this, his face was as ugly as if he had eaten a dead fly. He said this sentence purely as a mockery. He never thought that Jia Yun would take it as a truth and report it to His Majesty. This tone of thinking about him made him even more fascinated.

angry.

Emperor Chongming naturally knew this too. Seeing that Jia Yun's words were meaningless, he cursed angrily: "You bastard, what nonsense are you talking about? If I asked you to demolish the imperial city, would you also have the guts to demolish it?"

When Jia Yun heard this, he said seriously: "If your Majesty gives the order, I dare to demolish it."

Emperor Chongming was speechless at this time. He liked Jia Yun's obedience to him, but his words were clearly made out of anger. How dare Jia Yun continue?

Waving his hands with a headache, Emperor Chongming said angrily: "Shut up, you bastard. You demolished the Hubu Yamen and didn't say anything about it. You also beat up the officials of the imperial court. You are arrogant because of your favor. Do you really think I won't deal with you?"

The demolition of the Hubu Yamen is a serious crime. Coupled with the beating of court officials, it is almost considered a crime of treason and should be executed according to the law.

Jia Yun heard the words and said respectfully: "Thunder and rain are all your kindness. I will never complain about how your majesty handles it. But this Li Wenzheng is really bullying people too much. Your majesty has long issued an order to let his subordinates pay the capital camp salary, but this old thief has been slow to do so."

If you don't say it, I went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to question him, but this old thief used words to prevaricate. He simply didn't take your majesty's words seriously. I would like to eat the flesh of such people who disrespect your majesty."

After listening to Jia Yun's words, Emperor Chongming turned his head and looked at Li Wenzheng, and said dissatisfied: "I didn't ask the household ministers to distribute the royalties to the capital. What's going on?"

Seeing that Emperor Chongming was targeting him again, Li Wenzheng hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the tax money from various places must be paid into the national treasury first, so the national treasury does not have the money to issue wages, so the old minister asked the uncle to wait for a few days, but the uncle did not listen.

I advise you to demolish the Household Office on the spot and beat up the old minister indiscriminately. Please make the decision for the old minister!!!"

As he spoke, Li Wenzheng began to cry. A second-rank minister of the Ministry of Finance began to cry, which seemed a bit sad!!!

Jia Yun looked at Li Wenzheng who was crying and thought about whether he should howl too......................

Emperor Chongming's expression did not change. He understood what Li Wenzheng said, but even if the tax money had to be paid into the national treasury first, it had been so long. How could it be possible that even the tax money of one province had not been verified.

When Jia Yun reported the payment of pay to the Beijing camp earlier, he stated the reasons in order to win over the favor of the Beijing camp. After all, the pay for the Beijing camp was already in arrears. Now Jia Yun has paid the salary in full, so how can he pay his troops enough?

Not being loved by the soldiers was a matter of concern to the capital, so Emperor Chongming agreed.

At this time, there was a problem in the Ministry of Household Affairs, which made Emperor Chongming suspicious. Emperor Chongming said coldly: "How can the Ministry of Household Affairs do things if there is no regulation for tax and bank verification after such a long time?"

Li Wenzheng explained: "Your Majesty, the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue are complicated. The Ministry of Revenue has hurriedly calculated a sum of tax money, which has been put into the national treasury, but the tax money must be used for other purposes."

Accounting for tax money is not only about calculating the amount, but also the land and people need to be inspected, so there are many things to do.

After listening to Li Wenzheng's words, Emperor Chongming said coldly: "Use it for another purpose? Didn't I say that we should first issue the salary to the capital camp?"

Emperor Chongming wanted to question, and Li Wenzheng naturally understood. He glanced at Jia Yun and respectfully replied: "Your Majesty, the second day of February next year is the wedding day of Princess Leping."

Jia Yun raised his eyebrows when he heard this. This excuse really made Jia Yun not know what to say.

Most of the marriages of princesses and princes are financed by internal funds, but Princess Leping is different. She is the daughter of the Supreme Emperor, so it should be funded by the Supreme Emperor. But the Supreme Emperor lives in seclusion, how much private money can he have?

Therefore, this money could only be settled by his son, Emperor Chongming. However, Emperor Chongming was reluctant to pay for it, and it ended up falling on the national treasury.

Don’t underestimate the cost of Princess Leping’s wedding. Originally, the average princess wedding cost only three to four hundred thousand taels of silver. But Princess Leping is different from others. She is the beloved daughter of the Supreme Emperor, and because the Supreme Emperor used her for political marriage.

, so it was very generous. The princess mansion alone cost 340,000 taels of silver.

What is different from the wedding customs in modern society is that ancient dowries are often exaggeratedly rich, and it is even more overwhelming if there are many daughters in the family. The man gives a betrothal gift, and the woman returns a dowry, and in ancient times the dowry was higher than the betrothal gift.

Many, several times to ten times more.

A person of Zhao Xi's status is marrying down, so the dowry is naturally indispensable.

Although Jia Yun ignored these things, he also heard that Jia Yun's betrothal gift list was about 300,000 taels, and Zhao Xi's dowry was more than ten times that of Jia Yun. It can be seen from this

How much Zhao Xi's dowry could be, it's no wonder Emperor Chongming didn't want to pay for it out of his own pocket.

However, Emperor Chongming agreed to the matter. Due to his feelings, he could not go back on his words, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and let the treasury pay for it.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongming couldn't help but glared at Jia Yun, and then said seriously: "That's all, the salary money for the Beijing camp will be paid out of the internal funds for the time being. After the tax calculation is completed, Li Aiqing will make up the internal funds."

Jia Yun was silent after hearing this. Li Wenzheng's rhetoric was really unreasonable. After all, he had done the job, but the money had to be used for other purposes. It was a perfect excuse, and the only disadvantage was that the household

The problem of departmental work efficiency is just that, it’s really hard to blame him.

As for the money used for the wedding, Emperor Chongming will never touch it. After all, it is also the face of the Supreme Emperor. If he embezzles it first, don't think too much, there will definitely be trouble in the Daming Palace.

In order to prevent any trouble from happening again, Emperor Chongming first used his internal funds to pay his salary.

When Li Wenzheng heard what Emperor Chongming said, his eyes dimmed and he responded respectfully: "I obey the decree."

After solving the problem of paying the capital in the capital, Emperor Chongming was in no mood to pay attention to Li Wenzheng. He waved his hand and ordered: "Li Aiqing, you go back to the Ministry of Revenue to do your errands first."

Li Wenzheng responded: "I obey your order."

With that said, Li Wenzheng retreated...

After Li Wenzheng retreated, Emperor Chongming stared at Jia Yun, making Jia Yun's scalp numb. He groaned, and Emperor Chongming said coldly: "How dare you disturb the Hubu Yamen and beat the imperial officials in public?"

Get it done."

Jia Yun responded hurriedly: "I am guilty, please punish me."

No matter what, we must admit this mistake and put our attitude here.

Emperor Chongming snorted coldly and said: "It's good to know that he is guilty. Come on, drag him down and punish him fifty times."

Jia Yun in the audience couldn't help but twitching his mouth when he heard this. "Fifty big bucks and heavy responsibility, this is different from what Jia Yun imagined..."

After a while, two guards came outside the palace. Seeing this, Jia Yun said bitterly: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."

No matter how much punishment Emperor Chongming gave him, he had to express gratitude. This was the rule. What's more, considering the crime Jia Yun had committed, it was extremely merciful to only give him fifty punishments.

Outside the palace gate, Zeng Guofan and others who were waiting saw Jia Yun being pressed out, and immediately stepped forward and said, "Uncle, what is this?"

Jia Yun said in a deep voice: "My uncle will be punished with fifty sticks."

Hearing this, Zeng Guofan and others calmed down. It was a great blessing to only hit fifty big boards.

Jia Yun didn't care about this and said: "Wait aside and take me back to my house later."

After being beaten fifty times, Jia Yun shouldn't expect to be able to walk back. He must have arranged for someone to carry him back in advance.

Zeng Guofan and others promised, and Jia Yun was immediately pressed on the tiger skin stool. At this time, Dai Quan walked out with a smile, stepped forward and said to Jia Yun: "Uncle, your majesty has ordered that the execution will be carried out later."

Uncle Robert sent someone to go with our family to collect money from the house."

Upon hearing this, Jia Yun turned his head and said to Zeng Guofan: "Bo Yue, later you will take someone with Eunuch Dai to collect the salary."

Zeng Guofan responded: "I respect your order."

After pondering, Jia Yun added: "This time the pay for the capital camp will be paid directly from internal funds. When you return to the capital camp, you must publicize this well so that the soldiers will know your majesty's grace."

Zeng Guofan clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, uncle, I will take care of this matter."

Dai Quan on the side laughed and said: "Based on my uncle's loyalty, no wonder the emperor thinks so highly of my uncle."

Jia Yun smiled and said nothing. It is very important for ministers to remember their duties. In response to Dai Quan's kindness, Jia Yun said kindly: "Eunuch Dai is too grateful. When it comes to the people your Majesty trusts the most, it is Eunuch Gao and Dai Quan."

Father-in-law and other people around me."

Dai Quan heard this and said humbly: "We are just slaves, no more noble than my uncle."

Jia Yun did not comment and replied: "It's just a different division of labor. Eunuch Dai doesn't need to be too modest."

Dai Quan had a very favorable impression of Jia Yun. In the past, when he was working under Gao Xian, Jia Yun was very kind to eunuchs like them, and there was no such contempt in his eyes.

Jia Yun and Dai Quan were chatting heatedly. The two executioners beside him fell aside, and Jia Yun said: "Eunuch Dai, it is not convenient to say anything today. I will wait until my uncle carries out the execution before talking about anything else.

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Dai Quan looked at the two big men who were executing the execution, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, uncle, these two men have real skills, and they won't hurt their bones if they are taken care of."

With that said, Dai Quan opened Jia Yun's lapel, took out a futon and put it on Jia Yun's buttocks, and then covered it with the lapel.

Jia Yun knew it well and said politely: "Thank you for your service, father-in-law."

Dai Quan smiled and nodded, then looked at the two executioners, spreading his toes.

The executioner took out the futon from Dai Quan and knew he had to be merciful. At this time, he saw Dai Quan's actions, understood and raised the board and struck it down.

Just a "snap" sound was heard, and the board was swung with a terrifying force. In fact, Jia Yun felt no pain, but Jia Yun was sensible and hurriedly shouted: "Ah! Ah!!"

When Dai Quan saw that Jia Yun was coming, he sighed that Jia Yun was really a smart man.

When the forty strokes were reached, Dai Quan raised his hand to stop the executioner, stepped forward and took off the futon from Jia Yun's hip, and explained in a low voice: "Uncle, you have to bear the last ten strokes."

Jia Yun understands the rules. If it doesn't matter if he gets beaten up, what will happen!!!

Dai Quan saw that Jia Yun understood, and immediately gave a signal, and the executioner swung the paddle and hit him. With a "pop" sound, Jia Yun suddenly felt the pain and shouted hysterically...

This damn thing is really painful......................
Chapter completed!