Chapter 115 Fundraising
"Cheng'en, what is this?" Zhu Youjian did not answer the memorial, but pretended to be puzzled.
The old eunuch still looked dead and said blankly: "Report to the emperor, I feel that... the stolen punishment deposit has another silver, and the amount is still quite large."
"Oh? Are you saying...a corrupt official sent me money again?" Zhu Youjian was excited and took the memorial, looked at it in a fake manner, and suddenly became very strict. He stretched out his hand and threw the memorial at Zhou Yanru, and said with anger: "Zhou Aiqing, look, look... it's so annoying to me."
Lao Zhu's nervous face change was so shocked that Zhou Yanru shook a few times. Seeing the memorial falling and falling on the table, he quickly stepped forward and picked it up tremblingly.
"Kexiong, is your reward true?" Zhu Youjian did not wait for Zhou Yanru to look slowly, but asked Xia Kexiong, commander of the Jinyiwei, with a stern expression.
The Jinyiwei was subordinate to the emperor, and Xia Kexiong, as the eldest son of the Jinyiwei, was naturally one of Zhu Youjian's confidants. When he saw this scene, he had already understood it. He immediately stood up and said, "Report to the emperor, every sentence that my subordinates have made is true. If there is half of the sentence that is not true, my subordinates are willing to be killed!"
Zhu Youjian slapped the table and shouted: "Wu Changshi! Are you aware of your crime?"
The slightly fat civil servant sitting between Zhou Yanru and Xia Kexiong's middle table was originally looking like he was watching a show, but unexpectedly, the fire suddenly...it caught him. It seemed that Lao Zhu's fire was even bigger, so he was so scared that he crawled to the table and said in horror: "Emperor... the emperor... the minister... the minister has always been obedient to the public and law... it is really... it is not... I don't know what crime he has committed..."
"What a law-abiding!" Zhu Youjian sneered and angrily said: "Brising and accepting bribes, buying and selling ~ official positions, lying about military information, and traffic eunuchs... This is your law-abiding and abiding by the law-abiding??!!"
"Emperor... the emperor... is wronged... Commander Xia's commander... This is avenging personal revenge, slandering and framing... The empress is a model for Lord Zhou, fair and honest, how dare you do bribes, bribery, business, and official positions... What's more, the ancestors clearly ordered the eunuchs to behead him. If the empress is not talented, how dare you commit this?" Wu Changshi argued and his tongue was quick. Of course, the many crimes listed by Lao Zhu are definitely at the critical moment of life and death. Can he do it easily?
"Wu Changshi, how dare you argue in front of the emperor?" Before Zhu Youjian could speak, Xia Kexiong snorted coldly, "Since you became the doctor of the Wenxuan, you have thought you were in power, arrogant and domineering in the court, and you are greedy for profit and promotion. Every time you use the court to adjust officials, you will try every means to eliminate dissidents and clear them out of the central Taoist platform, which makes the censors panic. You actually openly ask for bribes from them. Your words and deeds have been recorded, and there are multiple censors to prove it..."
"You...you are talking nonsense! The court's finances are tight, so I am considering streamlining, just to save expenses for the emperor... You collude with the censor and frame the emperor, but it is not because I am giving advice to the emperor that I want to abolish the Jinyiwei and make you lose your job..."
"Bah, what's the point of losing your job? My life is all the emperor. But the Jinyiwei was created by our ancestors to maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty. If there were no Jinyiwei, wouldn't you corrupt officials be even more lawless?"
"After all, it's because I suggest that I cancel the Jinyiwei, which makes you hold a grudge..."
When talking, Xia Kexiong was obviously not Wu Changshi's opponent. Seeing that he was still quibbling, Xia Kexiong smiled coldly and suddenly asked: "Luoshan was defeated, you followed the army to fight, but you reported the victory with the emperor. What else do you have to say about this crime of deceiving the emperor?"
"Luoshan's defeat was the beginning. Later, I dispatched troops and generals. Wasn't it a great victory again?"
"What a big victory!" Xia Ke was so eloquent, but he couldn't help but swear, "Then you also sent a letter to the emperor to issue silver, saying that you would redeem the refugee refugee women. But when the Yinliang came to your hands, he told the emperor that Yinliang was missing..."
"There are certainly some things that will be lost..."
"Wu Changshi, how much is your annual salary?" Lao Zhu couldn't listen, and interrupted coldly, but without waiting for his answer, he asked and answered himself: "Your annual salary is only 120 taels, which is only your position as a doctor of the Wenxuan. Even if you have been in office for ten years, you don't eat or drink, it's only 1,200 taels..." Lao Zhu suddenly emphasized his tone and shouted angrily: "But why does the cellar in your mansion have 700,000 taels of silver? And 400,000 taels of it were for me to piece it together to send you to redeem refugees!! The stolen stolen is huge, and when do you have to argue? Kexiong, break his leg for me!!!"
Xia Kexiong kicked Wu Changshi to the ground and was about to kick him off his leg again, but Zhou Yanru suddenly stepped forward to stop him and bowed to Zhu Youjian and said, "Emperor... Emperor, the palace is punishing, and our court has never had any precedent. I think... I will still hand him over to the Ministry of Justice for investigation."
"Hmph, huhhhh... The palace is punishing, and there is no precedent in our court. Wu Changshi is also a person who has not seen in our court for hundreds of years!" Zhu Youjian said, and changed his heartache and said, "Zhou Aiqing, Wu Changshi was promoted by you and served in your Ministry of Personnel. You didn't even notice that he committed such a serious crime. It really made me feel disappointed... Kexiong, beat me!!!"
Zhou Yanru asked Lao Zhu to hand over Wu Changshi to the Ministry of Justice, not to plead for Wu Changshi, or to perform activities at that time, and sentencing lightly, but to be an old and old man who abides by the ancestral system and claims to be noble. At this time, when he heard Zhu Youjian say this, it seemed a bit of a fire, so he quickly closed his mouth and flashed to the side, Mingzhe protects himself first.
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With just one moment, Xia Kexiong kicked Wu Changshi's thigh and immediately fainted from pain.
"If you do evil, you will die!" Zhu Youjian said with a stern face, "Come on, take me out and hand it over to the Ministry of Justice, quickly convict and behead you, and behead you for public purposes. If you involve your family, you will be punished with serious crimes. The rest of the people will be dismissed on the spot, and all your property will be confiscated!"
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Zhu Youjian's banquet tonight was a very ups and downs for all the senior officials in the venue, and was frightened. Finally, after eight people appeared one by one, they came to an end.
Of course, for the great official Ximen, he gained knowledge, saw the way his father-in-law controlled people, and also saw the dangers of the officialdom.
However, no matter how powerful the father-in-law is or how dangerous the officialdom is, the official Ximen still doesn't care. He is very content with his unique two-life experience in the world, he can easily control it. At worst, if you leave, who will do what I can do?!
Therefore, when Ximen was pulled out during Wu Chang, everyone was silent. When they were careful, the only guy was drinking wine and eating cabbage, looking relaxed and at ease.
"My dear friends, I began to say that I would like to call you up. There are a few things to talk to you. Actually, it is two things. The first thing is to introduce Ximen to everyone. Now everyone knows each other. Now, I want to talk about the second thing..." Old Zhu obviously has a good alcohol tolerance. After drinking almost a pound of wine, he not only has a little face, but his speech is still clear and can distinguish the first. Second, he said, smiling and stopped around the people in the scene. Seeing that everyone, including Ximending, put down his chopsticks and looked at him listening carefully, his face turned upright and said with a worry: "There is the rampant bandits, and the border is also urgent, but the inner warehouse is only 3.12 million taels of silver. Even if the storage of Guangying warehouse, A character library and C character library is sold as military pay, it is less than 5 million taels. I wonder if you have any good ideas to help me solve this urgent problem?"
When it comes to money, everyone is looking at the nose and the heart, sitting upright, and no one dares to take the blame, for fear that the emperor will ask him about his own problems in a short period of time, so he can't pay out of his own pocket? Even if he endures the pain and pays for it, how much does it cost? If he loses it, it will be useless to use it. If he has too much, does it mean that he doesn't ask for it and reveals that his huge amount of money is unknown? Wu Changshi was a living example just now.
"Ximen Aiqing, you are the first time you are involved in the government affairs. I wonder what you think about this issue?" Obviously, everyone's reaction was expected by Lao Zhu. Seeing that only Ximen Daguan looked around, he looked at him without caring, so he had to ask him first.
Ximen officials spent other people's money and had no fixed place to live, so there was definitely no private money. However, he knew that treasure, but it was difficult to tell him. When his father-in-law asked him, although this guy had just become an official and didn't understand the government affairs at all, he had already had an idea on how to raise money.
The great official Ximen nodded, pretending to be thinking hard, and suddenly slammed the high fives and said, "Your Majesty, I thought of a solution, but I quickly raised military pay..."
Zhu Youjian's eyes lit up and he asked quickly: "Oh? What's the solution? Tell me quickly."
“Raising money!”
"Raising...raising funds?"
"Yes, there are all dukes of lords in the capital. Whose minister in the court has no ten thousand dollars in his house? If not, jewelry and jade are fine. As long as everyone is willing to take out more or less, it will accumulate more and solve the emperor's urgent needs, right?"
Zhu Youjian laughed, and the others were about to cry.
Seeing everyone looking at him with "resentment" in his eyes, Ximen Daguan curled his lips and said seriously: "Now the country is in danger, what's the use of keeping silver? When the nest is destroyed, how can we finish it? As long as everyone works together to donate silver to save the country, a million heroic troops are not worth it."
Chapter completed!