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Chapter 573 The Taste of Conspiracy

"Husband, there are several Huangzhuang that my mother married me as a dowry, I want to go and see."

The corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and these things in charge touched her a lot.

There are people so bold under their noses, let alone those Huangzhuang.

"After Guining, I will go with you." Lin Xuan said.

Huangzhuang is the Zhuangzi who farms for the royal family. All the income of these Zhuangzi belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Although the emperor sits on the world, all the taxes he gets go to the treasury, and the emperor cannot use it privately.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty cleverly set up a name to sell officials and nobles, just to collect money for pleasure.

The imperial court at that time was not as poor as imagined. From the ability of the Eastern Han court to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion, we know that although the imperial court at that time was not very rich, it was definitely not poor.

It's just that the money belongs to the national treasury, and Emperor Han Ling can't use it.

On the contrary, many Mingjun even use money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to subsidize the national treasury.

These Huangzhuang are directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the local government can't control them. If there is nothing tricky in them, Lin Xuan doesn't believe it.

In fact, Lin Xuan looked down on the income from the land, and the grain he got from one mu of land throughout the year was not worth much.

But since Li Lizhi wanted to go, he didn't mind going to have a look.

"If my husband is busy, I can go by myself." Li Lizhi said.

"My business during this time is to accompany you." Lin Xuan said.

He will go to the battlefield soon, and he doesn't know how long he will be back, so he feels somewhat guilty towards Li Lizhi.

"Husband, why don't you take Miss Caiyue into the door today." Li Lizhi suggested.

The status of a concubine is not high, and there is no such thing as three letters and six appointments, and auspicious days.

Basically, it is just a notification from the mansion, a yard is allocated, and some servants are arranged.

"Let's wait for Guining to talk about this later."

Taking a concubine after two days of marriage, even if Li Lizhi agreed, he couldn't do it.

Everything is mutual, Li Lizhi is considerate, but he can't take it for granted.

Seeing what Lin Xuan said, Li Lizhi didn't say anything.

Ziyi walked in and said, "Report to the princess and son-in-law, Steward Sun is asking to see you."

Li Lizhi looked at Lin Xuan and smiled calmly, and said, "Husband, it seems that someone who breaks the game is here."

"Let him in."

Ziyi responded and led Sun Laixi in after a while.

"The little one has met Lord Hou and Princess." Sun Laixi saluted.

Li Li asked with a smile: "Sun Guanshi just left and came back not long ago, is there something wrong?"

Sun Laixi thumped and knelt on the ground, put the money bag aside, and said, "Princess, because the little one owed gambling debts, in order to pay off the gambling debts, he falsely reported the price when buying fabrics. I'm sorry for the Lin family."

Lin Xuan looked at Sun Laixi who was kneeling on the ground, and said calmly: "Sun Guanshi, I remember correctly, you should be an old man of the Lin family, right? How many years have you been in the Lin family?"

Sun Laixi said with some shame: "Back to Lord Hou, the younger one sold himself to the Lin family as a slave when he was 15 years old. It has been seventeen years now."

"Did our Lin family treat you badly for so long?"

Sun Laixi prostrated himself on the ground, his body trembling, and said with a choked voice, "I never treated the little one badly, but the little one is a wolf-hearted dog. I'm sorry for the Lin family."

Both Lin Dongyang and Zhang Qing are not people who treat servants harshly. As long as they don't make any serious mistakes, they will basically not punish them.

"Is there anything else to say besides these?" Lin Xuan asked.

Sun Laixi raised his head, with tears of remorse in his eyes, and said: "Master Hou, the death of the young one is not a pity, but Luo Peng and others are usually greedy for ink, and the young ones know it but dare not say it because they have something in his hands. , They actually want to steal the princess's reward now, and only leave four pennies for the others, and the younger ones would rather die than expose them."

Lin Xuan didn't cause too much disturbance because of Sun Laixi's words, and said calmly: "Sun Guanshi, there is no evidence, so don't talk nonsense."

"Master Hou, I'm not talking nonsense. That Luo Peng usually buys inferior products as good ones, not to mention falsely quoting the price. He also secretly sells the vegetables for Master Hou's greenhouse. Then Qian Nan..."

Sun Laixi revealed all the things that the others had done.

Although Tang law has certain protection for slaves, but slaves are slaves after all, and the law is also very harsh on them.

According to the law, slaves who are greedy for the money of the master's family are exiled, and those who are greedy for ink are almost immediately executed.

The rest of the people regarded Sun Laixi as "one of their own", and did not hide many things from him.

From their point of view, the amount of Sun Laixi's greed for ink would be fatal once discovered, and it was impossible for Sun Laixi to expose them.

The more Lin Xuan heard it, the more gloomy his face became. If these people just took some kickbacks and did not harm his interests, he would not kill him.

But these people usually buy second-hand goods as good ones, not to mention false prices, and even steal things and sell them.

Naturally, they didn't dare to do anything to Lin Xuan and the others.

But the Lin family is more than just their family, the rest of the servants, and five hundred soldiers, add up to six to seven hundred people.

Just the food and clothing of these people is enough for them to eat a lot.

Among them, Luo Peng was the most unscrupulous one. Lin Xuan distributed some vegetables to all the servants and soldiers every day, and Luo Peng secretly withheld some of them and secretly sold them outside.

Those servants and soldiers are already grateful for having vegetables to eat, even if they have less, they will not say anything, after all, they don't know how much they should get.

Lin Xuan said coldly: "Qiu Fu, did you hear everything? Send someone to investigate as he said."

"Yes." Qiu Fu replied.

Lin Xuan looked at Sun Laixi and asked, "After you paid off your gambling debt, have you ever gambled?"

"Back to Lord Hou, the young one was deceived by others at the beginning. At that time, he was anxious to lose his mind, so he borrowed some money. Later, the young one came to his senses and regretted it. How dare he go." Sun Laixi said hastily.

Lin Xuan frowned slightly. There was collusion between the gambling house and those gamblers. The gamblers lured people to play, and the gambling house would give some rebates.

It's just that Sun Laixi is just a servant and has no money at all. If he knew his identity, he probably wouldn't invite him to gamble.

If not, it's intriguing.

There is also a time limit for Sun Laixi to go shopping. The shopkeepers or waiters in those shops usually come into contact with him. It is unlikely that those people will trick him into gambling.

"How did the person who took you know? Did he find you afterwards?" Lin Xuan asked.

"Back to Lord Hou, the person who invited the young one to gamble is also the servant responsible for the purchases. The young one can basically meet him every time he buys, and he becomes familiar with him after coming and going. After the young one owes money, he finds the young one. Yes, he said that there was a way to help the young man pay back the money. At that time, the young man had already paid back the money, so he told him that he had already borrowed the money, and the man invited the young man to gamble, but was rejected by the young man, who was afraid that he would continue I tempted the little one to gamble, so I changed to another shop, and I haven't seen him since then."

Lin Xuan's eyes flashed, and he smelled conspiracy from Sun Laixi's words.

"Let me ask you, did that man tell you which family he is a servant of?"

Sun Laixi shook his head and said, "Back to Lord Marquis, that man never said that, but the younger one didn't tell him that the younger one was a servant of the Lin family."

Lin Xuan shook his head, if you don't tell me, people won't know.

When the other party came into contact with Sun Laixi, it was obvious that he knew Sun Laixi's identity and made contact on purpose.

(End of this chapter)