Immediately after the death of the master

It is hoped that they will only happily send these wealthy families to Xingjiao.Xiangquan and imperial power have joined forces again. The current bureaucracy is established by the master and the old prime minister.

The rich and squire had no way out.

They are the birds in the cage, we are the cage of the bunch of birds.

Prime Minister Ji Lao is the executor.

Now, see the poor dagger.

At the moment, the entire ruling and opposition parties are discussing the matter of relocating rich households, but I am the only one who is holding on to the marriage of Xiaoshizi and Xiaozizi, with a unique style of painting.

According to the usual practice, the master must read the documents submitted by the Metropolitan Procuratorate first, and must be approved every day. After being harassed by me for several days, the master couldn't stand it. He put the marriage of the two on the agenda, but he didn't mention it. The matter was left to me, who is currently the most idle, but to the despondent Prime Minister Ji.

The old prime minister, who pretended to be asleep during the court, suddenly woke up, turned his head and gave me a hard look, and then accepted the order.

That afternoon, I took the best roast duck in the capital and ran to the old prime minister to drink tea with him all afternoon. He directed me to move several stacks of official documents, and chatted with the old man for half an hour, Ji Qingshuang. , the old prime minister spoke.In the marriage between Xiao Shizi and Xiao Zaizi, Xiao Shizi will choose first, and after he finishes choosing, the remaining portraits of noble girls will be sent to Xiao Shizi.

I drank too much tea at the old prime minister's place, and I already have a premonition that I won't be able to sleep tonight.He didn't stop doing anything, took the portraits of the noble ladies from Ji Qinghe, and went straight to Xiaozizi's mansion.

From the time I stepped into the threshold of their house, the little brat kept smiling, and when I settled down in his study, this guy was still smiling non-stop.

"What's wrong with you?" I looked at him strangely, and then took out portraits of noble ladies from my arms, "Look, do you like any of them?"

The little boy took it with a smile, and when he opened the first one, his face darkened:

"what is this?"

"Your future wife," I took up the soft bed in his study, and slumped on it to rest, "Fat and thin, a lady from all walks of life, a jade from a small family, all kinds of beauties, I guarantee you will be satisfied."

The boy flipped through a few portraits at random, then turned the dozen portraits upside down on the table.

"There are too many, and I am confused."

His hand was pressed against the portrait, and the back of his hand faintly bulged with blue veins.I turned over and sat up, walked to his side, lightly pressed my hand on the back of his hand, and then squeezed his hand tightly, his hand bones creaking under my palm.

He hurts, I know, I just want to make him hurt.

Pain can make him take thoughts that he shouldn't have.

"I'll help you choose, Fu Keji."

I removed his hand from the portrait.

I picked out seven or eight portraits of a dozen noble ladies, and placed them one by one under the eyes of the little boy.

"The boobs are too small."

"The face is too ugly."

"The nose is ugly."

……

Maybe it's because I was a bit shady just now, and the brat deliberately went against me, trying to find fault with these beautiful and beautiful ladies.

I was about to be laughed at by him, so I put down the portrait and asked him:

"No this, no that, what exactly do you want, do you know..."

Before I could finish speaking, this guy has grown up and even took the initiative to interrupt my words:

"Li Nian'en, I am already in the game. The road to succession is too bloody. I have made up my mind to die, but I can't drag the person I love into this abyss. For the person I love, I can only Enjoy happiness with me, don't share suffering with me."

The young man looked resolute and made such a promise.

This guy spoke affectionately, but unfortunately, he couldn't cover up the logical loopholes in it.

"Even if you don't drag them into the water, their father and brother are still in the game. If they can escape, the monk can't escape the temple."

I point it out mercilessly.

The little boy choked for a moment, and began to play rascal:

"I don't care, the great cause has not been accomplished, I can't let my family become my weakness."

He really doesn't want to talk about this matter anymore. I don't want our relationship that has just improved because of these small things to turn bad, so I can only press the button.

"Swear not to marry a wife before the big thing is done? Why didn't you see this kind of awareness when you clamored to go to the brothel with me?"

I teased him teasingly and lightly punched him on the shoulder.The little boy smiled shamelessly, changed the subject, but did not mention the marriage.

After all, the two of us have an indescribable tacit understanding.

136,

When I was in the boy's mansion, I looked very happy, and I didn't talk about bad things, but only about the happy past.

We talked happily until late at night, I rejected his invitation to stay overnight and stepped out of his mansion.

It is snowing heavily in the capital tonight, and the snowflakes are falling silently in the silent night. When I stepped into the snow, the joy on my face was peeled off like a mask.

Liu Er, who had been waiting all this time, stepped forward and silently held an umbrella for me.

"No need," I refused her who wanted to send me back to Li's mansion, and gave her an order, "Go and tell that girl of the Liu family now that I will give her a chance to 'meet' with Xiao Shizi soon , if she can catch it, everything will be fine."

"Yes, my lord."

Liu'er responded, very obedient.

Before she left, she looked at the heavy snow all over the sky, and then at me who was still wearing a thin official uniform.

She forced the umbrella into my hand, and ran into the snow just like that.

"Liuer."

I stopped her and wanted to give her the umbrella.Liu'er stopped in her tracks, turned her head and waved at me.

"My lord, that umbrella was originally brought for you."

In the dark snowy night, before she ran away, she seemed to have smiled at me.

137,

Prime Minister Ji Lao started to do it.

This old man's methods are beyond my imagination. He is a gentleman and more unscrupulous than us old hooligans.Relying on his prestige among the people, he mobilized the people to concoct unjust prisons.

It is not difficult to see from the reasons why those wealthy businessmen were imprisoned, most of them are unjust cases that are known at a glance.

Several wealthy businessmen who were as famous as Xu Yuque did not escape the liquidation. Even if Shen Laosan, a wealthy businessman in Jingzhou, was very clever and volunteered to donate half of his family property to fund the imperial court’s construction of a new capital city wall. Chance sent him into exile.

Unfortunately, Shen Laosan died on the way to exile, and the other half of his family property was also "naturally" nationalized.

In this cleansing that reversed black and white, the old prime minister showed his sophistication in the political arena for many years, dividing and conquering, assassinating and framing, combining vertical and horizontal, etc., which is dizzying.

After having money and land, the old prime minister started his next plan in an orderly manner.

In the past few years, the Dayu Kingdom has been fighting for years, with constant natural disasters, and the three frontier fortresses are at risk of being invaded at any time. This has caused the population distribution of the Dayu Kingdom to be extremely uneven. A large number of people are concentrated in the hinterland, and the land prices in the hinterland states are extremely high. , the rest of the states and counties are barren and sparsely populated.

After conducting a large-scale census for one year, the old prime minister began to migrate the people according to the picture in his mind, and the population of the whole country began to migrate on a large scale.

From a long-term perspective, population migration is a win-win outcome for the court and the people, but in the short-term, this is a heinous crime.

I don't deny that the old prime minister thought of the common people wholeheartedly, but for the common people, he is not a loving mother but a strict father.

From the records sent up by my subordinates, from the complaints from the Ninth Prince's mouth from time to time, even if I live in the capital, I can still imagine the miserable conditions of those people.

Under the orders of their superiors, local officials went to the countryside one after another, organized the people into teams according to the roster, and the land and residences in their hometowns abandoned by the people were under the strict supervision of the escorts. They carried heavy objects and were tied with ropes. , marching towards the unknown front.Along the way, some old people may fall down, or children may get sick, but the procession will not stop because of this, and the officials will burn the corpses on the spot without even giving a chance to erect a monument.

In my Metropolitan Procuratorate, criminal evidence about Prime Minister Ji and his henchmen has been accumulating, and the amount is astonishing. However, the master has unpredictable thoughts, and he neither allows me to destroy nor use it.

Prime Minister Ji Lao is now a hard-riding tiger, he can't stop, once he stops, the landlord forces will immediately counterattack, and all his previous efforts will be in vain.

Therefore, he could only bite the bullet and ride on.

To my surprise, Xu Yuque, who was against the old prime minister publicly, praised the old prime minister's various behaviors in private.

"A big man with a pattern."

Xu Yuque praised his political opponent in this way, his expression was full of longing.

The old prime minister drove the bureaucracy forward with unprecedented efficiency. In order to make us lazy officials act, the old prime minister held up a whip to tempt us, while giving us bright sweets.

The old prime minister, who hated corruption so much, allowed local officials to "scrape land", that is, to allow officials to withhold a small amount of money from the government's tax revenue. The faster the place where the officials are located, the better, and the more money the officials can retain .

This policy has significantly promoted the enthusiasm of officials, and also attracted a steady stream of talents to enter the court.But the disadvantages of this policy are also obvious at a glance-corruption, the retained part of the money is too maneuverable, and officials have a strong motivation to conceal and falsify for the sake of profit and promotion opportunities.

"Scraping the ground" is one of the sources of motivation for officials, but if they are left alone, big troubles will happen. The old prime minister came up with a strange trick-"spot checks".Every year, the Metropolitan Procuratorate selects several counties and counties to conduct a thorough investigation of various official documents of the counties and counties. Once a huge amount of corruption is found, it will be decided.

'Spot checks' a headache for local officials