Acting for the gods

Chapter 153
The problem of corruption is indeed difficult to eradicate. After all, people’s hearts are fickle. Maybe they used to have a breeze in their sleeves. It can be seen that after getting used to the prosperity, how many people can maintain their original aspirations?
Even Jiang Fan actually has the potential to become a corrupt official. He is equally greedy, but because he has a dungeon system, he is not interested in officialdom, and he doesn't value worldly money so much.

If he just used power for personal gain to get some money, Jiang Fan would turn a blind eye, but regardless of the life and death of the victims, he resold disaster relief food and made money for the country.

Jiang Fan couldn't sit idly by.

Anyone involved in the case will be severely punished by Jiang Fan.

Fan Yongdou's ancestral home was in Jiexiu, Shanxi Province. He lived in Zhangjiakou all the year round and did business with Mongolia. After seven generations, when Fan Yongdou was passed down, the Zhang family had already become a wealthy businessman, considered a representative of Shanxi merchants.

Later, when the Jurchen clan established Houjin, due to the hostile relationship with the Ming Dynasty, the trade was cut off. In order to develop, Houjin needed military and living materials. Fan Yongdou and the other seven businessmen saw business opportunities, so they began to betray their country and seek glory in the face of huge interests. , ignoring Ming Dynasty's trade ban, reselling strategic materials such as salt, grain, ironware, and even gunpowder to Houjin, seeking huge profits.

It's simply capitalizing on the enemy and betraying the country.

It is precisely because of these unscrupulous profiteers that Houjin obtained a lot of firearms from the Ming Dynasty, and in turn slaughtered the Han people!

Jiang Fan has also heard about the "Eight Merchants of Shanxi" in Shanxi.

The eight Shanxi merchants refer to the eight big families: Qiao, Chang, Cao, Hou, Qu, Kang, Fan, and Kong.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the top sixteen consortiums in the country were all located in Shanxi.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" records that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, and the peasants in the northwest were so hungry that there were rebels everywhere.

With the Jiangnan chaebol, they can be called crouching dragons and phoenixes who betray the country.

The eight Shanxi merchants were able to accumulate massive wealth in a short period of time, all of which were obtained by smuggling contraband and exploiting the common people.

Reselling disaster relief food is only one of their sources of income.

One tael of silver per catty of rice, and the sale is still disaster relief food from the imperial court. This is no longer driving up prices, it is simply cutting the flesh of the people and slapping the imperial court in the face.

After finding out the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants and learning about their many evil deeds, Jiang Fan immediately ordered to mobilize Jinyiwei from all over the country to carry out a large-scale raid on their homes.

Those who resist will be killed on the spot.

Another day full of people!
The property of the eight families of Shanxi merchants was confiscated by Jin Yiwei, and the silver piled up like a mountain. It would take a lot of time just to count.

The total amount of money confiscated from the homes of the Eight Great Families and some corrupt officials and profiteers colluding with each other exceeded [-] million silver.

Jiang Fan made the decision, in the name of the imperial court, distributed a fraction of millions of taels of silver to the refugees, and then opened warehouses to release grain, built shelters, controlled prices, and used the grain hoarded by the Eight Great Families to help the people.

Of course, opening warehouses to release food is only for emergency relief, and later the victims will be given work for relief.

Don't help the poor, otherwise we will raise a group of lazy people who only know how to eat for free, and no amount of food will be enough.

As for the gold and silver treasures worth hundreds of millions, they were sealed and escorted back to Beijing by Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan doesn't care about money, but if he finds great medicines such as century-old ginseng and thousand-year-old ganoderma, Jiang Fan will still pocket them.

In addition, some top-notch jade, calligraphy and painting, and black gold from the Western Regions, Jiang Fan will also put them into the pouch after discovering them.

It can be regarded as using power for personal gain and enriching one's own pockets.

He has never been a hypocritical person, he has shed blood for Daming, he has worked hard for Daming, what's wrong with taking something?
Even if Emperor Tianqi found out, he would probably feel that Jiang Fan took too little and feel uneasy.

After all, compared to the changes Jiang Fan brought to Daming, this little thing is really insignificant!
All the way back to Beijing with Nuqing chicken eating deer antler and ginseng.

On the day Jiang Fan entered Beijing, he finally broke through to the sixth floor of "King Kong Immortal Boy Skill".

Relying on physical strength and physical strength alone, Jiang Fan at this time can directly smash into the city wall. His defense is so strong that he can resist artillery shells.

It can be said that the current Jiang Fan is the combination of Wu Liuqi and He Dachun. If he is placed in the world of Assassins Wu Liuqi, even if he doesn't use "The Strange Gate after the Wind", he can still smash the shadow assassins such as Chiya and Blue Bird. .

"How, how lonely it is to be invincible!"

Jiang Fan turned into Brother Chao and hummed "Invincible", feeling that some heroes are useless.

Because there seem to be few in this world who can fight.

Without an evenly matched opponent, Jiang Fan couldn't feel the joy of upgrading.

Back in the capital, Jiang Fan entered the palace to face the saint.

"Jiang Aiqing, I'm looking forward to you coming back. I heard that on the way back to Beijing, you raided the eight major families of Shanxi merchants and rescued the victims. You are really a great pillar. If all the officials of the Ming Dynasty are like this, how dare the Japanese pirates?"

After seeing Jiang Fan, Zhu Youxiao showed a gratified smile on his face, and at the end, a little bit of indignation gradually appeared on his face.

"Japanese pirates?!"

Originally, Jiang Fan thought that Zhu Youxiao urgently called him back to Beijing to quell the civil uprising, but he didn't expect it to be because of Japanese pirates.

Today's Wa country is actually not very powerful, but it is ambitious. It once wanted to capture North Korea, but was taught a lesson by Daming and ran away in despair.

Later, he invaded Daming and was taught to be a man by Qi Jiguang.

Compared with the civil uprisings in Houjin and the territory, the Japanese pirates were actually relatively less harmful, but they just relied on sea ships to roam the sea and often harass the coastal cities of Ming Dynasty.

[I don’t know if solving the Japanese pirates is the key to the third main task? 】

Jiang Fan thought to himself.

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "Aiqing just came back, don't mention these disappointing things, I have already hosted a banquet in Qianqing Palace to clean up Aiqing's dust."

The corner of Qinglong's mouth twitched slightly when he heard the words.

The last person who commanded them to let the adults clean up the dust, now the grass is growing on the grave!

Your Majesty, entertaining guests is risky, so be cautious when accepting the wind!
But thinking of Zhu Youxiao's identity, Qinglong felt that he was thinking too much.

Jiang Fan followed Zhu Youxiao to Qianqing Palace.

As the saying goes, don't talk when you eat and sleep, but Chinese people like to talk about things at the dinner table, and the emperor Zhu Youxiao is no exception.

While eating the food in the imperial dining room, Jiang Fan and Zhu Youxiao chatted about state affairs.

The two are about the same age, they don't look like monarchs and ministers, they are more like friends, Jiang Fan has no scruples, he and Zhu Youxiao actually get what they need, if Zhu Youxiao makes Jiang Fan unhappy, he can give up at any time .

Or even replace it.

Although Zhu Youxiao didn't know Jiang Fan's thoughts, he valued Jiang Fan's ability to handle affairs very much.

This time Jiang Fan was summoned back to Beijing, in fact, he wanted Jiang Fan to go to Hebei to fight against Japanese pirates.

On the one hand, in order to solve the Japanese disaster.

On the one hand, Jiang Fan has won the hearts of the army in Liaodong, and he is worried that Jiang Fan has other ideas.

As for Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, Jiang Fan could guess a little bit.

It is indeed a taboo for a minister to be a master of high meritorious deeds. There are many such cases in history.

Taiping is originally decided by the general, and the general is not allowed to see Taiping!
This may be the greatest sorrow for the general.

Regarding Zhu Youxiao's imperial mind, Jiang Fan didn't bother to guess. His goal was to complete the task and do what was in line with his own interests and wishes.

Zhu Youxiao's worries are completely superfluous, as long as he doesn't risk his life to harm Jiang Fan, Jiang Fan will not attack him.

In order to verify the conjecture in his heart, Jiang Fan readily agreed to go to Hebei to destroy the Japanese pirates.

Seeing that Jiang Fan agreed, Zhu Youxiao said earnestly: "Jiang Aiqing, please be careful when you go to Hebei. Those Japanese pirates colluded with the local Miao people. Yang Xi, the manager of the East Factory I sent before, was beheaded by them. The boat was also sunk."

(End of this chapter)