Lin Ruhai of the Red Chamber Reborn
Chapter 096:
Lin Ruhai patiently explained to Emperor Changqing: "The fields in Weichen's family are scattered all over the country, and not all of them may have a good harvest. If there is a natural disaster, they will be rent-free to the tenants, and additional grain will be distributed to tide over the difficulties. Even so, there are still harvests every year. Tens of thousands, if the weather is good, you can receive 6 to [-] taels a year."
His family collected very little rent. If many high-ranking officials and dignitaries had so many fields, they would collect less than [-] yuan in rent a year.
Compared with shops and houses, etc., Lin Ruhai prefers to buy farms. One is that he is fond of reading and does not want to compete with the people for profit, even if the shopkeepers are all servants. He is kinder than other officials and gentry, and has always treated tenants kindly, and the rent is lower, so that many tenants can have enough food and clothing without suffering from hunger.
Because the Lin family never had to pay taxes, Lin Ruhai felt guilty, ashamed of both the people and the country, so not only was he not annoyed by the money donated by his wife and daughter, but he approved of it, and he also donated a lot of silver in private to disaster relief.
Emperor Changqing was even more surprised when he heard Lin Ruhai's words.
Every time he went back to the Ministry of Households to urge the treasury to pay back the money owed to the treasury, he often heard officials crying about his poverty. Originally, he thought that he was extremely poor. The salary of a first-rank official was only 180 taels of silver. .However, after the incident of donating silver in the old year, he understood that none of those officials' families who cried poor was poor. If they were really poor, where could they just give out tens of thousands of silver?And how to feed hundreds of people in the mansion?
He asked Lin Rui before he found out that the so-called poor officials, as long as they have fame, they will have a lot of extra income, not to mention Bing Tan, three festivals and two lives, but all the officials who pass the Jinshi exam are sent by the academy every year The Shuxiu ranged from a few hundred taels to a few thousand taels, because when they passed the Jinshi examination, they were already famous in many academies.Regardless of Lin Rui's young age, many academies invited him.These are not corrupt and bribery, and the annual income of officials who are corrupt and bribery is even more.
The hateful thing is that the silver taels borrowed from the treasury that year have not yet been repaid, which is a huge amount of 3000 to [-] million taels!
He knew that although Lin Ruhai's family had a lot of land, it wasn't the most. Of course, it wasn't too small. Their family bought land every year, and it wasn't occupied by powerful forces.However, their family collects less rent, and I have always known that it will benefit so much, so what about other families?Regardless of how much land they own, how much should the treasury have if they pay taxes?Is it more than ten thousand taels?
Emperor Changqing closed his eyes, opened them after a while, sighed, and said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult."
Lin Ruhai remained silent.
Yes, very difficult.
This truth is not only understood by Emperor Changqing, but also by Lin Ruhai.
Everything is inferior, only reading is high.
The reason why this sentence is regarded as the most reasonable saying is that the status of a scholar is above everything else. People cannot be exempted from corvee and taxes, but scholars with fame can.Scholars who pass the exam do not have to serve in the military, and at the same time they can receive money and rice. People who pass the exam don’t have to pay taxes, and they can also be officials. Many people study for fame and fortune.
And the children of the aristocratic family do not have to serve and pay taxes since they are born, and they are also above the common people.
If Lin Ruhai's words spread, he would be the enemy of the world.
Emperor Changqing said slowly: "Last year, the amount collected from the 7000 million tax was less than 4000 million, and the agricultural tax was only 2000 million. There are often arrears in various places, which have not been paid off yet, but the imperial court has spent more than 5000 million silver taels. I learned the news It is said that the common people have paid the taxes, and there are few tax arrears. It is just that officials from all over the country filled their private pockets and reported that they have not paid, and they have pushed the crimes on the common people. I am very relieved, but people's hearts are unpredictable. The more officials give out money, the more cleverly they set up their names. They search for grease from below, and go down layer by layer. The people who suffer are only the people, so I can't bear to do it anymore. Just this matter is enough. So, let alone the theory of paying taxes? At that time, not only the Qing family, but also I, I am afraid that they will not be able to defeat their concerted opposition."
Lin Ruhai smiled wryly, being a ruler is far more worrying than being a minister.In fact, how could he not know what Emperor Changqing said?If you want to change the status quo, the power of the two monarchs and ministers is nothing more than a mayfly shaking a tree.
Emperor Changqing suddenly said: "Picture it slowly, it may be effective."
When the power is in his hands one day, who would dare to refute it?Now that the court has been stabilized, and the confidants and ministers have a lot of skills, they can completely take over the military power and influence everywhere, so as not to cause chaos and shake the foundation of the country.The people he likes are all loyal and selfless people who obey their own orders, regardless of whether they have successors in the future or whether their descendants are incompetent, he only looks at the present.
Lin Ruhai nodded and said: "Your Majesty is very right. If dignitaries and famous scholars are dissatisfied with this, they can also reduce their taxes a little to show that they are different from the common people. Common people pay one for fifteen, and officials and gentry can pay one for thirty. Still superior."
Emperor Changqing sighed: "It happens that these officials and gentry are far better than the common people."
Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "Compared with ordinary people who only farm land, the income and benefits of the families of officials and gentry are very many. In addition to the land tax, there are also houses, shops, forests and businesses, including salaries, etc. Thirty taxes are one. It’s not a small sum.” In fact, the income of the latter is several times that of the common people, even if the tax is one thirty, it is more than the tax money collected from the common people.
Emperor Changqing was thoughtful, and asked half a day: "If the Qing family pays taxes with this, what is the annual amount?"
Lin Ruhai silently calculated for a while, and replied respectfully: "The fertile land in my family has a total of 6000 hectares, that is, 6000 mu, and there are some fractions. I don't know it anymore. According to the year when the weather is good and the weather is good, [-] mu of land has two seasons. The annual income is three or four shi, eight qian to one tael of silver per shi, one thirtieth tax, and five to six thousand taels of agricultural tax. There are also mountains and forests, the number of which is not very clear to me, but looking at the income, the tax is one for thirty, and there are five or six thousand taels a year."
Emperor Changqing did some calculations, and said in surprise: "With this calculation, the annual income of the Qing family is more than [-] yuan?" As far as he knows, it seems that the income of the richer family than Lin Ruhai's is not so much.
Lin Ruhai shook his head quickly and said, "Your Majesty, how can there be so many? In the past few years, the income of the Weichen family has been the most, but it is only 8 taels, and it is usually only [-] to [-]."
Emperor Changqing wondered, "Why is this?"
Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know something."
Emperor Changqing waved his hand and said, "Since I don't know, Qing will tell you one by one."
Lin Ruhai had no choice but to explain it to him in detail, saying: "After the harvest of fertile land and mountains and forests, the tenants and hunters who have to share the farming lease, as many as [-]%, and as little as [-]% to [-]%, usually [-]% to [-]%. The income from the shops and buildings must also be distributed to shopkeepers and other people, that is, monthly money and bonuses, and the money for repairing the shops and buildings is also spent every year. Therefore, it is difficult for a humble official to earn more than [-] yuan and tens of thousands of taels of tax Silver is counted when there is no expenditure."
Emperor Changqing said suddenly: "That's not right either!"
Lin Ruhai was stunned, and asked, "I don't know what your Majesty said, what is wrong with this humble minister?"
Emperor Changqing waved his hand and said, "It's not about the Qing family. I have also sent people to inquire about the harvest of some official families at the end of each year. Their income seems to be very interesting. There are more shops and houses in fertile land than yours. You, who are less than you, earn more than you, why is that?"
Lin Ruhai understood immediately, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please listen to me carefully. There is only one reason why the income of a family with a wealthier family is not as good as that of a minister. , and because there are so many Zhuangzi in charge, and the weather is obviously good, but they lie about the famine in several Zhuangzi of the master’s family. If the master’s family is kind, they will inevitably waive the rent. Well, no matter in business, since they manage it, it is common to make false accounts. The reason why the minister is so clear is that the accounts in the family are very clear. Falsely reporting income and expenditure, enriching private pockets."
Emperor Changqing asked: "That family's wealth is weaker than Qing's, so why does it earn more money?"
Lin Ruhai sighed, and said: "It's just harsh on the people. The minister's land is leased to the tenant farmers, and they share [-]% of it, and they are already grateful, let alone [-]%. They all share [-]% to [-]% of them. After seeing them in person, they feel that they are living a difficult life. Then they change it to [-]% or [-]% or [-]%. Rent collection ranges from [-]% to [-]%. Even if the wind does not adjust and the rain does not go well, some rents are collected according to previous years, which is extremely harsh. There are also tenants who are punished for less rent. Yu Chen."
For this matter, he is not praising himself and suppressing others, but telling the truth.
Besides, he really wanted to change the suffering of sharecroppers.
Lin Ruhai deeply understands the heart of Emperor Changqing, which is different from the generosity of the Supreme Emperor. He really wants to understand and change the sufferings of the people. When Emperor Changqing summons himself to ask questions, he must tell the truth, because he often has already heard some information up.
This is why Emperor Changqing especially trusted Lin Ruhai.
After being an official for a long time, few people are as frank and honest as Lin Ruhai, and they are willing to talk about the difficulties of the people.
Emperor Changqing said to himself: "Listening to what you said, I suddenly thought, is there something like this in my Huangzhuang?" Zhuang's Zhuangtou also lied about the disaster situation as Lin Ruhai said, he really deserved to be killed, and he should send his confidants to inspect it.
Lin Ruhai didn't dare to speak about the Changqing Emperor's Manor, so he didn't take Changqing's words, but said: "There are still some stewards who will add [-]% or even more to the tenants on top of the rent ordered by the master's family. If the host family doesn’t know, the tenant farmers should be harsh to the host family, so the host family’s reputation will be ruined until there is not much left, and the extra rent will fall into the hands of those in charge.”
Emperor Changqing sighed: "I only know today that there are hiding places everywhere."
Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Your Majesty has a lot of affairs to deal with every day, and each of them is related to people's livelihood. How do you know such trivial matters?"
Emperor Changqing said: "It's not a trivial matter. Everything in the world is seen from the small to the big. It is not false that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant's nest. It is only one item of agricultural tax. If it can be improved, it will not only benefit the family. The country? When the treasury benefits, there will be money to pay salaries, provide disaster relief, build mausoleums, and supply the needs of frontier soldiers, all from this.”
Lin Ruhai respectfully said: "Your Majesty is wise, what you said is very true."
Emperor Changqing said: "Although our monarchs and ministers have a lot of these things, they are long-term matters and cannot solve the urgent needs. The Ministry of Households asked me for money, and the Ministry of War also asked me for money. I thought I was a money box."
After hearing this, Lin Ruhai could only remain silent, and for a while, he couldn't solve the matter.Emperor Changqing didn't want to accept donations from all the officials, fearing that they would get it back from the people when they turned around. It was the people who suffered in the end, but there was no money in the treasury, and those who owed money didn't want to pay it back. Wait, owe money!
Lin Ruhai knew very well that the families of those so-called officials who owed money had a lot of money, and many people who borrowed money also drifted with the crowd. They just felt that many people had not paid back, so they refused to pay back.
Thinking of this, Lin Ruhai asked: "I don't know what is your opinion on filial piety?"
Looking at the government and the public with cold eyes, the person who most wants to recover the owed money is none other than Prince Xiao Jing who is in charge of the household department.
Emperor Changqing's eyes lit up, and he suddenly smiled and said, "Yesterday my ninth brother gave me an idea, what is Qing Dao's idea?"
Lin Ruhai thought about the methods of the new emperor in his previous life, acted swiftly and resolutely, then smiled and said: "I think, the idea of filial piety to the prince must be: for those who commit crimes and crimes that are unforgivable, raid their homes to fill the treasury, and behead them as a warning. Monkey. This unforgivable family not only has countless crimes, but also has a crime of deficit." Only in this way can we recover the remaining money owed.
Emperor Changqing wondered, "How did you guess that?"
Lin Ruhai said: "Your filial piety is an upright person, and he is loyal to the emperor and loves the people. It's not hard to guess his intentions." In his previous life, he could clearly see his way of being a king. In this life, he is also the husband of his adopted daughter. Every time he communicates, he expresses his anger towards corrupt officials in every word and demeanor, and he has long wanted to stand up.
Emperor Changqing clapped his hands and laughed.
After laughing, Emperor Changqing ordered Ma Ping to announce his filial piety to the prince and enter the palace.
Hearing that both Emperor Changqing and Lin Ruhai agreed with his idea, Prince Xiao Jing was overjoyed and said: "It should have been like this a long time ago. Kill a chicken first, and those officials who owe money are not willing to return it? It is enough for the recent expenditure. Then Carefully investigate and uproot those heinous families one by one, and I don't know how much silver they can get into the treasury!"
Emperor Changqing smiled and said: "How do you know that you can get a lot of silver taels by confiscating a house? Previously, when the Supreme Emperor was in power, he also confiscated a century-old family, and the final amount was not much."
Prince Xiao Jing's eyes widened, and he said: "That's the person that my father didn't expect to send to enrich his own pocket! Your Majesty doesn't know, this house raid is a fat job. When the house was ransacked, who didn't reach out to get some good things? Obviously his family has millions of treasures, and they greedy half of it, and everyone is very happy!"
Emperor Changqing Su liked this younger brother, he was puzzled and said, "Why are everyone so happy?"
Filial piety to the prince said: "Your Majesty is the son of heaven, how do you know how to be a minister below? Those who ransacked their homes and corrupted them got benefits, and those who were ransacked were lessened because of less money. Wouldn't everyone be happy? If they have embezzled their own money, they will not say how much money their family has embezzled. That would be a more serious crime. Therefore, if your Majesty confiscates the family of the guilty minister tomorrow, you must remember to hand it over to your younger brother, who doesn’t have those Selfish!"
Emperor Changqing knew that Prince Xiao Jing was the most upright person, and said with a smile: "Okay, I will leave the Zhen family to you."
Prince Xiao Jing was startled, immediately overjoyed, and said: "Your Majesty is planning to move the Zhen family? I only think that Your Majesty will have to wait, collect more evidence of the Zhen family's crimes, and finally deal a heavy blow!"
Emperor Changqing said indifferently: "At this time, the evidence of the crime is enough to convict the Zhen family and confiscate the house. Why wait any longer? If you wait one more day, they will show off their power one more day, and the sufferer is still an innocent person. How can I bear it? Why don't you wait now? The house was ransacked, imprisoned, and then slowly investigated. The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and the wall fell and everyone pushed it. At that time, many officials must be willing to prove the crime of the Zhen family, and the officials can also let the people tell what the Zhen family did. The evil, spare us the hard work."
The indictment of this family has not yet been completed and has made Changqing Emperor Longyan furious, that is really shocking, how can it be tolerated?He never thought that the Zhen family would be so daring, could it be that they were trying to replace the emperor in choosing an official?Even if the family is guilty, they ransacked the house, but the crime is not fatal, and the crime of the Zhen family, it is not an exaggeration for the men of the whole family to behead their female relatives and make them slaves.
Therefore, Emperor Changqing had to deal with the Zhen family immediately.
Lin Ruhai secretly admired him. He was worthy of being the heir who was taught by the Supreme Emperor himself. Compared with the new emperor in his previous life, he was better at methods and had a stronger heart for the people.
Prince Xiao Jing felt a little ashamed, and said: "In the end, His Majesty is the one who thinks carefully."
He looked at Emperor Changqing, and then at Lin Ruhai. He was a little worried that the news would leak out, but he thought that Lin Ruhai had always been strict in his speech and acted righteously. , then relieved.As for whether Lin Ruhai will take care of the Lian family after the defeat of the Zhen family, that is his way of life, and no one can interfere.
Emperor Changqing sat on it, how could he not understand what he saw?He smiled and said: "Let's arrange for Dou Chen to impeach the Zhen family tomorrow, the soldiers are very fast, so as not to give them a chance to find out."
Honor the prince and Lin Ruhai with a bow.
Dou Chen is Mrs. Dou's younger brother. After Mrs. Dou married Jia She, she was very good at studying. He was raised by Mrs. Dou herself. He has no selfish intentions in doing things, and has gradually been relied on by Emperor Changqing, and he has been promoted to the post of imperial censor.
Emperor Changqing said to Lin Ruhai again: "The Qing family drafted an order. After the crimes of the Zhen family are settled, order Heng'er to personally lead the troops to Jinling, and order the crown prince to personally seal up the Zhen family's ancestral house and other property, and take them back to the capital after inventory." Although the whole family of the Zhen family came to Beijing, their roots are in Jinling, the old lady is also there, and most of the belongings are in the ancestral house. Only by sending the crown prince to handle it personally can he feel relieved.
Lin Ruhai immediately agreed.
Emperor Changqing said again: "Wait, if the Zhen family is convicted, it will inevitably implicate many people, and it is not only the Zhen family who have committed crimes. In the capital, I am the master, and the ninth younger brother takes care of it. The prince in the south of the Yangtze River will personally investigate and deal with it. power." He was in the capital, and Jinling was out of his reach, so in order to prevent the night from having many dreams, it was better for the crown prince to deal with it.
The crown prince is the eldest son of Emperor Changqing, who has always been taught by him personally. The purpose of ordering the crown prince to supervise the country in Nanjing is to make him familiar with the way of controlling people and the way of being a king without affecting the power of the capital and his own prestige.
Lin Ruhai said yes.
The matter was settled, Emperor Changqing said some good things, and said to Lin Ruhai: "Your nephew named Jia Lian is quite capable. In the past few years, the impoverished county has been taken care of, and many people live in a well-fed life. day."
Lin Ruhai was taken aback for a moment, and then a look of joy appeared on his face, and he said, "Your Majesty taught you well."
Jia Lian is very smart and talkative. He never read a few books in his previous life. He was well-organized in cooking and household affairs. In this life, he can read and write.
Compared with the fickleness and ignorance in his previous life, Jia Lian now knows how to repay his kindness, and many children of aristocratic families are eager to follow suit.He has not been in the capital for the past few years, but he has not stopped giving gifts to his family every year. There is no shortage of three festivals and two lives.
Emperor Changqing shook his head and said, "It's because of his own progress that he is what he is today. Nowadays, many officials' children in official families rely on their ancestors' corpses to eat vegetarian meals. I am very troubled. If everyone is like Ruier and Jia Lian of Qing's family, why should I worry? Why worry about the country? It is too much to live up to. I only know how to enjoy myself. I originally wanted to transfer Jia Lian back to the capital to take charge of Chang'an County. Who would have thought that the people there would kowtow and beg for mercy, but would not let him go. After thinking about it, I promoted him to two level, tell him to continue to make decisions for the people there.”
Lin Ruhai was very happy for Jia Lian after hearing this.
Being valued by Emperor Changqing, even if the Jia family's affairs fail in the future, Jia Lian will never be implicated.
The next day, Dou Chen made a memorial, which shocked the government and the public. The evidence of the crime was investigated by Emperor Changqing, and the evidence was conclusive. After the memorial was published, Emperor Longyan of Changqing was furious, and immediately suspended him for investigation!Unlike Lian's family who ransacked their home from impeachment to investigation and final conviction, Emperor Changqing immediately ordered Prince Xiao Jing to lead troops to seal up Zhen's family and not allow his family members to flee privately.
Prince Filial Piety never dragged his feet when he did things. When the court ordered Zhen Yingjia to be taken into custody, he personally led the troops to Zhen's house.
The Zhen family is worthy of being a century-old family, and there are not many eunuchs in the palace that they have bought. Even though Emperor Changqing and Prince Xiao Jing acted so quickly, their family still got a word of it first, and quickly transferred some belongings to the family.
As Prince Xiao Jing said, confiscating a family is a fat job, Xianfei’s natal family is not very rich, so they want to intervene in it, and Defei’s natal family also wants to get more silver taels for Defei to manage in the palace, the two families spent a lot of money secretly She tried her best, but was beaten back by Prince Xiao Jing.He is the younger brother of Emperor Changqing, more useful than Prince Zhongshun, and he personally acted for the sake of Emperor Changqing, how can these people intervene to take away the money that is about to be filled into the treasury?Emperor Changqing also let him, and ignored the actions of the second concubine's natal family.
When Jia Min went to the banquet, he was secretly surprised to hear the letter from the Zhen family who ransacked the house.
Because of this incident, even the daughters-in-law who attended the banquet had no intention of feasting, and went home immediately.
Seeing that Lin Ruhai hadn't returned home yet, Jia Min couldn't ask any more questions even if he wanted to.Du Daiyu understands the affairs of the court better than her, and also knows the evil things that the Zhen family has done, comforting Jia Min: "Mother, don't worry, the saint is wise and powerful, and he will never wrong others. Since he made this decree, it must be Zhen The family has done a lot of evil things."
There was an ominous omen in Jia Min's heart, and he sighed: "The world is impermanent, it's true."
The Zhen and Jia families have been friends for a hundred years, and their friendship is extremely strong, so it is hard to say that they will not be implicated.Afterwards, Jia Min secretly rejoiced that Lin Ruhai was not in charge of this matter, otherwise the Jia family would definitely intercede for the Zhen family, and the Zhen family would also come to Luo Zhao.Although she was worried about her natal family, she understood how those two families behaved, and she was afraid that they would involve Lin Ruhai in it.
Emperor Changqing knew people well, and at the same time he was sympathetic to his subordinates. He knew that Lin Ruhai and the Zhen family were close, so he didn't entrust this matter to him, in order to prevent those people from finding the Lin family.
Emperor Changqing felt that even though he knew that Lin Ruhai would never use public affairs for personal gain, it was annoying after all, wasn't it?
How could Lin Ruhai not understand?I am very grateful.
Although not everything in the world is good and good is rewarded for evil and evil is rewarded for evil, often the perpetrators are still glorious, but he still feels that life has a cause and an effect, so he will intervene in some things, such as Su Lizhen, Shiyin, Guo Fuxian, etc. There are some things that I don't want to remind, such as the Zhen family, and in the future when the Zhen family fails, the Jia family hides their wealth.The grievances between the Lin family and the Jia family were settled in the previous life, but he always remembered the bullying Daiyu suffered in the Jia family, so he would not remind the Jia family not to take the Zhen family's wealth.
The greedy nature of Yijia's family, even if he reminded them, would they not accept it?
will not.
Jia's family has always been short of money. A while ago, he saw the big pawns of gold, silver, copper and tin from Jia's pawnshop in his pawnshop, as well as a few gold necklaces inlaid with gemstones and pearls, gold step shakers, etc. It's just that they didn't provide Yuanchun's envoy fee in the palace, and they didn't have to let the eunuchs ask for it, and they didn't build a family-friendly villa, so they supported it until now.
Of course, the money for building the family-visiting villa in her previous life was all left to Daiyu by herself, and their family did not spend their own money.
The Jia family was in a difficult situation, and they couldn't even make up the money for Jia Mu's birthday and the Mid-Autumn Festival. They stole it as Jia Mu's property. Next year will be Jia Mu's eighty-year-old birthday. It is necessary to do a big job, and urgently needs a sum of property to support future daily ostentation, so when the mother-in-law of the Zhen family hurriedly brought in thirty or forty boxes of things, Mrs. Wang immediately took them away without saying a word. It was actually collecting his wealth first, rather than worrying about his crime first.
In Madam Wang's heart, these families are powerful and powerful. Now Wang Ziteng is the inspector of nine provinces. Not afraid of rebellion.No matter how bad it is, there is Lin Ruhai, the confidant of the saint, who is the son-in-law of the Jia family.
Therefore, Mrs. Wang believed that the accident in the Zhen family was only temporary, and she would definitely be innocent because of the generosity of the Supreme Emperor.As for whether the Zhen family will return the property when the Zhen family is innocent in the future, Mrs. Wang is not worried, because the Zhen family still collects 5 taels of silver from their family.
Because Jia Mu is old and afraid of being frightened, Mrs. Wang ordered her servants not to disturb her, and ordered Li Wan Tanchun and others to hide the news of Zhen's house raid when they were entertaining Jia Mu.Li Wan and Tanchun knew it well, and they obeyed their orders. Many things in the house were kept from Jiamu's knowledge, just because they were afraid that Jiamu would be old and troublesome.
Tanchun said worriedly: "In the long run, what should I do?"
Li Wan has never been very concerned about this, and said indifferently: "My wife is not worried, what is my sister worried about?"
How can I not worry?Tanchun's astuteness is beyond the reach of others. Seeing that her family is becoming increasingly desolate, she is very worried. She only hates that she is not a man, so she cannot make contributions and take up the inheritance of her ancestors.Others only said that the raid of the Zhen family would not affect her own family, but she knew that her family and the Zhen family had a constant relationship, and maybe tomorrow would end up like the Zhen family.
These thoughts have been in Tanchun's heart all the time, making her feel like frying oil, but she can't tell others, otherwise, she will definitely accuse herself of lying and deceiving people.
Others think about wealth and honor, but Tanchun sees crisis.
My eldest brother died young, and my eldest sister married far away. Only Jia Lian was the most outstanding, and the eldest son had a rift with himself, so he left Beijing with his family and did not return for several years. Except for the three festivals and two birthdays every year, unexpectedly No news at all.Encounter between two spouses is the root of a chaotic family. How good would it be if they could be intimate and friendly, and overcome difficulties together?Presumably even the Duke would be happy to see it.
Tanchun said with a low expression, "The mansion is getting worse and worse than before."
Li Wan laughed and said: "You are crazy too. The elder's family is not in the mansion, and the second girl has left the cabinet again. Now the fourth girl keeps filial piety and doesn't like to go out very much. There are fewer people. Naturally, you feel that you are not as good as before." Li Wan didn't Feeling that something is wrong, what kind of life she and Jia Lan lived in the past, the life is the same now, without any change, only 20 taels of silver per month, and there is a little bit of regulation every year, whether there is more or less. It will not shorten their mother and child.
Tanchun sighed, and said, "That's right, I haven't seen Fourth Sister for quite a while."
Speaking of this, Tanchun suddenly remembered something, and was about to speak, when he saw the sewing room sent over clothes, a total of four sets, all of which were red, willow and green, and turned to ask Li Wan, "It will be the old lady's birthday in a few days, and then Mid-Autumn Festival, The clothes made for the fourth sister, sister-in-law, have you ordered the sewing room to be careful to use plain colors? In the past, we all had the same hairpin and ring skirts, but now she has hot filial piety on her body, so don’t send them to the sewing room like in the past, isn’t it? My sin?"
Li Wan's face immediately changed color, and he said half a day: "I have taken care of Lan'er for the past few days, and I didn't give orders, only my sister has already said it."
After finishing speaking, the aunt and sister-in-law hurriedly asked the girl who delivered the clothes.
The girl was also taken aback for a moment, and then mumbled: "As usual, the fourth girl's clothes are the same as the third girl's, and she didn't hear the order."
In other words, she didn't make plain clothes for Xichun.
Hearing this, Tanchun became very angry, and said: "Usually you are very clever in doing things, why are you not so clever when you should be clever? Go back to the sewing room and have a look, have you sent the clothes for the fourth sister? If you don't Hurry up and put it away, and use plain materials to make a few more sets for the fourth sister overnight!"
Hearing this, the little girl went back in a panic, turned around after a while, and said, "It has been sent." Xichun and Tanchun have always lived in the three Baosha halls behind Li Wan, very close, and when delivering things Nature is all together.
Li Wan and Tanchun had no choice but to go to Xichun's room in person, and when they saw Ruhua standing on the porch feeding the birds, they asked quietly.
Not only was Xichun annoyed when she saw the brocade clothes sent by the sewing room, but she was also annoyed when she entered the painting. Even if they were not from this mansion, but they had been in this mansion for many years, they must respect Xichun, right?Unexpectedly, he didn't take it to heart at all.Fortunately, Daiyu, the former son, was thinking of changing seasons, so Tete sent some horses of plain and plain material to make clothes for them.
No matter how displeased I was, there was a smile on the screen, and said: "Our girl has just read the scriptures for one day, and she has already rested now. It's not the fault of grandma and girl. Grandma and girl don't have to apologize to the girl. Our girls are wearing filial piety clothes, we don’t need new clothes, the clothes we made today are given to the girls outside.”
Both Li Wan and Tanchun knew Xichun's withdrawn temperament, and after hearing Ruhua's words, they knew that she was annoyed, and it happened that the mansion didn't think carefully, and they couldn't say it was Xichun's fault, so they had to turn around disgruntled.
Entering the painting and sending them out to their room, seeing Xichun painting under the window, he reported the matter.
Xichun looked indifferent and did not respond.
Ruhua sighed, carefully arranged the return gift for Daiyu, only hoped that Mrs. Lin's aunt would read the old lady's entrustment, and when Xichun was filial piety, she would find a good life for her and stay far away from here.
Not to mention Daiyu's attitude when she received the gift in return, but said that the matter of the Zhen family caused civil and military scrambles in the Manchu dynasty to prove it, and she was charged with more than a hundred crimes in one day. There are quite a few, every time they complain about their grievances, the surrounding people all scold the Zhen family for their crimes.
All of a sudden, people complained about Zhen's family, and they heard that the sage was strict with him, and they shouted for the sage.
It took a full three months for this matter to be settled. At that time, the snowflakes had already fallen, all the family members had been escorted to Beijing, and all charges against the Zhen family had been settled.
Because all the evildoers in Zhen Yingjia's family were executed, the female family members were either exiled or served as slaves in the government, and all the family members were sold off. The whole capital was in turmoil because of this matter. The Taishang Emperor couldn't bear it when he heard about it. Immediately send the criminal evidence to him, and ask him to read the list of the house raids.
When he saw that more than [-] million taels of silver, more than [-] taels of gold, and thousands of acres of antiques, calligraphy and painting houses and so on were copied from the list, the Supreme Emperor was shocked and said in surprise: "There is such a thing?" many?"
Emperor Changqing replied: "Not only that, millions of gold and silver properties were also confiscated from his family, and the ladder of the old lady of the Zhen family was confiscated and returned 1 taels and a [-]-room house for the elderly. For the money, the widow who kept the chastity in his family also sent back some belongings, which are not on the list of confiscating the house." He originally thought that the old lady of the Zhen family was old and had ties to the palace, so she would not confiscate her property, so as to To show the emperor's kindness, after hearing from Prince Xiao Jing that the old lady's ladder was no less than a million, even the widow's grandma was worth a hundred thousand, he knew that there were many people's anointings in it, and immediately confiscated it.
The Supreme Emperor recalled that the treasury he left to Emperor Changqing after his abdication was only a few million taels of silver, and could not help scolding: "The Zhen family really failed me, they deserve death! I remember that their family has a deficit of three or four million taels? Back in the day, I thought that they would take care of their family four times and spend a lot of money. I specially gave them a few salt lessons and weaving duties. Who would have thought that they would have more money than me!"
When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he also ordered the Ministry of Households to urge the repayment of the owed money, but they all cried to themselves that they were poor, and even sold their houses and land. , and because the Zhen family spent a lot of money to pick them up, they tried every means to reuse them, who knows that they are all rich.
The Supreme Emperor felt that he had been fooled, so he immediately issued an order to reprimand Zhen Yingjia and the others, and ordered Emperor Changqing to conduct a strict investigation, because there were not many officials and eunuchs who were defeated by the Zhen family, and in the end, the confiscated property was as huge as tens of millions!
Emperor Changqing became more and more annoyed, and like a thunderbolt, he dismissed his officials and beheaded them all. In a panic, all the officials in the court hurriedly returned the borrowed money to the household department.One of the most important charges against the Zhen family is deficit, how dare they not pay it back?Otherwise, it would be too late for my family to be charged with a deficit.
Everything was as expected, tens of millions of taels of silver were added to the treasury in an instant.
Prince Xiao Jing only took care of the case of the Zhen family, and handed over the rest to Lin Ruhai, so while he led people to register and collect the owed money, he tried every means to convert the copied things into silver taels and put them into the national treasury.
He didn't want to stuff the old clothes and things used by Zhen's family into the national treasury without being able to use them.
What the court needs is silver, not antique calligraphy and paintings.
Prince Xiao Jing is very shrewd in calculating accounts. In the past, the things obtained during the house raids were taken by various families at extremely cheap prices. Now his official prices are all [-]% of the market price, so the buyers have to take advantage of it.
He knew that Lin Ruhai's family was very rich, and they bought good farms and houses every year. He also bought many books, calligraphy and paintings from dilapidated families, so before he folded those things, he asked Lin Ruhai to pick them first, saying: "I remember my sister loves calligraphy, painting and books. , although the descendants of the Zhen family are incapable of studying, they have a lot of good things, and the other families also have a lot of good things."
Lin Ruhai didn't refuse after hearing this, and immediately picked out a lot of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc. Daiyu will be 14 years old in the new year, and she will be a year old, so she should prepare more dowry, and bought four more that are connected to her farm. Zhuangzi.
This time, Lin Ruhai spent a total of 5 taels.
Lin Ruhai gave it to Daiyu, how could Daiyu be willing to have it all to herself?Hastily allocated a lot to brothers and sisters-in-law.
It wasn't until the end of the busy year and in February that the confiscated things were sorted out. Prince Xiao Jing came to report back. Emperor Changqing didn't care about it. Compared with others, Lin Ruhai bought these things at the market price. It can be said that he has devoted himself to the country, and he said with a pleasant face: "The ninth brother has done an excellent job, and I am very relieved."
A smile appeared on Prince Xiao Jing's cold face, and he asked, "When will those who hide the property of the Zhen family take care of it?"
The Zhen family not only accumulated property in the Jia family,
His family collected very little rent. If many high-ranking officials and dignitaries had so many fields, they would collect less than [-] yuan in rent a year.
Compared with shops and houses, etc., Lin Ruhai prefers to buy farms. One is that he is fond of reading and does not want to compete with the people for profit, even if the shopkeepers are all servants. He is kinder than other officials and gentry, and has always treated tenants kindly, and the rent is lower, so that many tenants can have enough food and clothing without suffering from hunger.
Because the Lin family never had to pay taxes, Lin Ruhai felt guilty, ashamed of both the people and the country, so not only was he not annoyed by the money donated by his wife and daughter, but he approved of it, and he also donated a lot of silver in private to disaster relief.
Emperor Changqing was even more surprised when he heard Lin Ruhai's words.
Every time he went back to the Ministry of Households to urge the treasury to pay back the money owed to the treasury, he often heard officials crying about his poverty. Originally, he thought that he was extremely poor. The salary of a first-rank official was only 180 taels of silver. .However, after the incident of donating silver in the old year, he understood that none of those officials' families who cried poor was poor. If they were really poor, where could they just give out tens of thousands of silver?And how to feed hundreds of people in the mansion?
He asked Lin Rui before he found out that the so-called poor officials, as long as they have fame, they will have a lot of extra income, not to mention Bing Tan, three festivals and two lives, but all the officials who pass the Jinshi exam are sent by the academy every year The Shuxiu ranged from a few hundred taels to a few thousand taels, because when they passed the Jinshi examination, they were already famous in many academies.Regardless of Lin Rui's young age, many academies invited him.These are not corrupt and bribery, and the annual income of officials who are corrupt and bribery is even more.
The hateful thing is that the silver taels borrowed from the treasury that year have not yet been repaid, which is a huge amount of 3000 to [-] million taels!
He knew that although Lin Ruhai's family had a lot of land, it wasn't the most. Of course, it wasn't too small. Their family bought land every year, and it wasn't occupied by powerful forces.However, their family collects less rent, and I have always known that it will benefit so much, so what about other families?Regardless of how much land they own, how much should the treasury have if they pay taxes?Is it more than ten thousand taels?
Emperor Changqing closed his eyes, opened them after a while, sighed, and said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult."
Lin Ruhai remained silent.
Yes, very difficult.
This truth is not only understood by Emperor Changqing, but also by Lin Ruhai.
Everything is inferior, only reading is high.
The reason why this sentence is regarded as the most reasonable saying is that the status of a scholar is above everything else. People cannot be exempted from corvee and taxes, but scholars with fame can.Scholars who pass the exam do not have to serve in the military, and at the same time they can receive money and rice. People who pass the exam don’t have to pay taxes, and they can also be officials. Many people study for fame and fortune.
And the children of the aristocratic family do not have to serve and pay taxes since they are born, and they are also above the common people.
If Lin Ruhai's words spread, he would be the enemy of the world.
Emperor Changqing said slowly: "Last year, the amount collected from the 7000 million tax was less than 4000 million, and the agricultural tax was only 2000 million. There are often arrears in various places, which have not been paid off yet, but the imperial court has spent more than 5000 million silver taels. I learned the news It is said that the common people have paid the taxes, and there are few tax arrears. It is just that officials from all over the country filled their private pockets and reported that they have not paid, and they have pushed the crimes on the common people. I am very relieved, but people's hearts are unpredictable. The more officials give out money, the more cleverly they set up their names. They search for grease from below, and go down layer by layer. The people who suffer are only the people, so I can't bear to do it anymore. Just this matter is enough. So, let alone the theory of paying taxes? At that time, not only the Qing family, but also I, I am afraid that they will not be able to defeat their concerted opposition."
Lin Ruhai smiled wryly, being a ruler is far more worrying than being a minister.In fact, how could he not know what Emperor Changqing said?If you want to change the status quo, the power of the two monarchs and ministers is nothing more than a mayfly shaking a tree.
Emperor Changqing suddenly said: "Picture it slowly, it may be effective."
When the power is in his hands one day, who would dare to refute it?Now that the court has been stabilized, and the confidants and ministers have a lot of skills, they can completely take over the military power and influence everywhere, so as not to cause chaos and shake the foundation of the country.The people he likes are all loyal and selfless people who obey their own orders, regardless of whether they have successors in the future or whether their descendants are incompetent, he only looks at the present.
Lin Ruhai nodded and said: "Your Majesty is very right. If dignitaries and famous scholars are dissatisfied with this, they can also reduce their taxes a little to show that they are different from the common people. Common people pay one for fifteen, and officials and gentry can pay one for thirty. Still superior."
Emperor Changqing sighed: "It happens that these officials and gentry are far better than the common people."
Lin Ruhai smiled and said: "Compared with ordinary people who only farm land, the income and benefits of the families of officials and gentry are very many. In addition to the land tax, there are also houses, shops, forests and businesses, including salaries, etc. Thirty taxes are one. It’s not a small sum.” In fact, the income of the latter is several times that of the common people, even if the tax is one thirty, it is more than the tax money collected from the common people.
Emperor Changqing was thoughtful, and asked half a day: "If the Qing family pays taxes with this, what is the annual amount?"
Lin Ruhai silently calculated for a while, and replied respectfully: "The fertile land in my family has a total of 6000 hectares, that is, 6000 mu, and there are some fractions. I don't know it anymore. According to the year when the weather is good and the weather is good, [-] mu of land has two seasons. The annual income is three or four shi, eight qian to one tael of silver per shi, one thirtieth tax, and five to six thousand taels of agricultural tax. There are also mountains and forests, the number of which is not very clear to me, but looking at the income, the tax is one for thirty, and there are five or six thousand taels a year."
Emperor Changqing did some calculations, and said in surprise: "With this calculation, the annual income of the Qing family is more than [-] yuan?" As far as he knows, it seems that the income of the richer family than Lin Ruhai's is not so much.
Lin Ruhai shook his head quickly and said, "Your Majesty, how can there be so many? In the past few years, the income of the Weichen family has been the most, but it is only 8 taels, and it is usually only [-] to [-]."
Emperor Changqing wondered, "Why is this?"
Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know something."
Emperor Changqing waved his hand and said, "Since I don't know, Qing will tell you one by one."
Lin Ruhai had no choice but to explain it to him in detail, saying: "After the harvest of fertile land and mountains and forests, the tenants and hunters who have to share the farming lease, as many as [-]%, and as little as [-]% to [-]%, usually [-]% to [-]%. The income from the shops and buildings must also be distributed to shopkeepers and other people, that is, monthly money and bonuses, and the money for repairing the shops and buildings is also spent every year. Therefore, it is difficult for a humble official to earn more than [-] yuan and tens of thousands of taels of tax Silver is counted when there is no expenditure."
Emperor Changqing said suddenly: "That's not right either!"
Lin Ruhai was stunned, and asked, "I don't know what your Majesty said, what is wrong with this humble minister?"
Emperor Changqing waved his hand and said, "It's not about the Qing family. I have also sent people to inquire about the harvest of some official families at the end of each year. Their income seems to be very interesting. There are more shops and houses in fertile land than yours. You, who are less than you, earn more than you, why is that?"
Lin Ruhai understood immediately, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please listen to me carefully. There is only one reason why the income of a family with a wealthier family is not as good as that of a minister. , and because there are so many Zhuangzi in charge, and the weather is obviously good, but they lie about the famine in several Zhuangzi of the master’s family. If the master’s family is kind, they will inevitably waive the rent. Well, no matter in business, since they manage it, it is common to make false accounts. The reason why the minister is so clear is that the accounts in the family are very clear. Falsely reporting income and expenditure, enriching private pockets."
Emperor Changqing asked: "That family's wealth is weaker than Qing's, so why does it earn more money?"
Lin Ruhai sighed, and said: "It's just harsh on the people. The minister's land is leased to the tenant farmers, and they share [-]% of it, and they are already grateful, let alone [-]%. They all share [-]% to [-]% of them. After seeing them in person, they feel that they are living a difficult life. Then they change it to [-]% or [-]% or [-]%. Rent collection ranges from [-]% to [-]%. Even if the wind does not adjust and the rain does not go well, some rents are collected according to previous years, which is extremely harsh. There are also tenants who are punished for less rent. Yu Chen."
For this matter, he is not praising himself and suppressing others, but telling the truth.
Besides, he really wanted to change the suffering of sharecroppers.
Lin Ruhai deeply understands the heart of Emperor Changqing, which is different from the generosity of the Supreme Emperor. He really wants to understand and change the sufferings of the people. When Emperor Changqing summons himself to ask questions, he must tell the truth, because he often has already heard some information up.
This is why Emperor Changqing especially trusted Lin Ruhai.
After being an official for a long time, few people are as frank and honest as Lin Ruhai, and they are willing to talk about the difficulties of the people.
Emperor Changqing said to himself: "Listening to what you said, I suddenly thought, is there something like this in my Huangzhuang?" Zhuang's Zhuangtou also lied about the disaster situation as Lin Ruhai said, he really deserved to be killed, and he should send his confidants to inspect it.
Lin Ruhai didn't dare to speak about the Changqing Emperor's Manor, so he didn't take Changqing's words, but said: "There are still some stewards who will add [-]% or even more to the tenants on top of the rent ordered by the master's family. If the host family doesn’t know, the tenant farmers should be harsh to the host family, so the host family’s reputation will be ruined until there is not much left, and the extra rent will fall into the hands of those in charge.”
Emperor Changqing sighed: "I only know today that there are hiding places everywhere."
Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Your Majesty has a lot of affairs to deal with every day, and each of them is related to people's livelihood. How do you know such trivial matters?"
Emperor Changqing said: "It's not a trivial matter. Everything in the world is seen from the small to the big. It is not false that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant's nest. It is only one item of agricultural tax. If it can be improved, it will not only benefit the family. The country? When the treasury benefits, there will be money to pay salaries, provide disaster relief, build mausoleums, and supply the needs of frontier soldiers, all from this.”
Lin Ruhai respectfully said: "Your Majesty is wise, what you said is very true."
Emperor Changqing said: "Although our monarchs and ministers have a lot of these things, they are long-term matters and cannot solve the urgent needs. The Ministry of Households asked me for money, and the Ministry of War also asked me for money. I thought I was a money box."
After hearing this, Lin Ruhai could only remain silent, and for a while, he couldn't solve the matter.Emperor Changqing didn't want to accept donations from all the officials, fearing that they would get it back from the people when they turned around. It was the people who suffered in the end, but there was no money in the treasury, and those who owed money didn't want to pay it back. Wait, owe money!
Lin Ruhai knew very well that the families of those so-called officials who owed money had a lot of money, and many people who borrowed money also drifted with the crowd. They just felt that many people had not paid back, so they refused to pay back.
Thinking of this, Lin Ruhai asked: "I don't know what is your opinion on filial piety?"
Looking at the government and the public with cold eyes, the person who most wants to recover the owed money is none other than Prince Xiao Jing who is in charge of the household department.
Emperor Changqing's eyes lit up, and he suddenly smiled and said, "Yesterday my ninth brother gave me an idea, what is Qing Dao's idea?"
Lin Ruhai thought about the methods of the new emperor in his previous life, acted swiftly and resolutely, then smiled and said: "I think, the idea of filial piety to the prince must be: for those who commit crimes and crimes that are unforgivable, raid their homes to fill the treasury, and behead them as a warning. Monkey. This unforgivable family not only has countless crimes, but also has a crime of deficit." Only in this way can we recover the remaining money owed.
Emperor Changqing wondered, "How did you guess that?"
Lin Ruhai said: "Your filial piety is an upright person, and he is loyal to the emperor and loves the people. It's not hard to guess his intentions." In his previous life, he could clearly see his way of being a king. In this life, he is also the husband of his adopted daughter. Every time he communicates, he expresses his anger towards corrupt officials in every word and demeanor, and he has long wanted to stand up.
Emperor Changqing clapped his hands and laughed.
After laughing, Emperor Changqing ordered Ma Ping to announce his filial piety to the prince and enter the palace.
Hearing that both Emperor Changqing and Lin Ruhai agreed with his idea, Prince Xiao Jing was overjoyed and said: "It should have been like this a long time ago. Kill a chicken first, and those officials who owe money are not willing to return it? It is enough for the recent expenditure. Then Carefully investigate and uproot those heinous families one by one, and I don't know how much silver they can get into the treasury!"
Emperor Changqing smiled and said: "How do you know that you can get a lot of silver taels by confiscating a house? Previously, when the Supreme Emperor was in power, he also confiscated a century-old family, and the final amount was not much."
Prince Xiao Jing's eyes widened, and he said: "That's the person that my father didn't expect to send to enrich his own pocket! Your Majesty doesn't know, this house raid is a fat job. When the house was ransacked, who didn't reach out to get some good things? Obviously his family has millions of treasures, and they greedy half of it, and everyone is very happy!"
Emperor Changqing Su liked this younger brother, he was puzzled and said, "Why are everyone so happy?"
Filial piety to the prince said: "Your Majesty is the son of heaven, how do you know how to be a minister below? Those who ransacked their homes and corrupted them got benefits, and those who were ransacked were lessened because of less money. Wouldn't everyone be happy? If they have embezzled their own money, they will not say how much money their family has embezzled. That would be a more serious crime. Therefore, if your Majesty confiscates the family of the guilty minister tomorrow, you must remember to hand it over to your younger brother, who doesn’t have those Selfish!"
Emperor Changqing knew that Prince Xiao Jing was the most upright person, and said with a smile: "Okay, I will leave the Zhen family to you."
Prince Xiao Jing was startled, immediately overjoyed, and said: "Your Majesty is planning to move the Zhen family? I only think that Your Majesty will have to wait, collect more evidence of the Zhen family's crimes, and finally deal a heavy blow!"
Emperor Changqing said indifferently: "At this time, the evidence of the crime is enough to convict the Zhen family and confiscate the house. Why wait any longer? If you wait one more day, they will show off their power one more day, and the sufferer is still an innocent person. How can I bear it? Why don't you wait now? The house was ransacked, imprisoned, and then slowly investigated. The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and the wall fell and everyone pushed it. At that time, many officials must be willing to prove the crime of the Zhen family, and the officials can also let the people tell what the Zhen family did. The evil, spare us the hard work."
The indictment of this family has not yet been completed and has made Changqing Emperor Longyan furious, that is really shocking, how can it be tolerated?He never thought that the Zhen family would be so daring, could it be that they were trying to replace the emperor in choosing an official?Even if the family is guilty, they ransacked the house, but the crime is not fatal, and the crime of the Zhen family, it is not an exaggeration for the men of the whole family to behead their female relatives and make them slaves.
Therefore, Emperor Changqing had to deal with the Zhen family immediately.
Lin Ruhai secretly admired him. He was worthy of being the heir who was taught by the Supreme Emperor himself. Compared with the new emperor in his previous life, he was better at methods and had a stronger heart for the people.
Prince Xiao Jing felt a little ashamed, and said: "In the end, His Majesty is the one who thinks carefully."
He looked at Emperor Changqing, and then at Lin Ruhai. He was a little worried that the news would leak out, but he thought that Lin Ruhai had always been strict in his speech and acted righteously. , then relieved.As for whether Lin Ruhai will take care of the Lian family after the defeat of the Zhen family, that is his way of life, and no one can interfere.
Emperor Changqing sat on it, how could he not understand what he saw?He smiled and said: "Let's arrange for Dou Chen to impeach the Zhen family tomorrow, the soldiers are very fast, so as not to give them a chance to find out."
Honor the prince and Lin Ruhai with a bow.
Dou Chen is Mrs. Dou's younger brother. After Mrs. Dou married Jia She, she was very good at studying. He was raised by Mrs. Dou herself. He has no selfish intentions in doing things, and has gradually been relied on by Emperor Changqing, and he has been promoted to the post of imperial censor.
Emperor Changqing said to Lin Ruhai again: "The Qing family drafted an order. After the crimes of the Zhen family are settled, order Heng'er to personally lead the troops to Jinling, and order the crown prince to personally seal up the Zhen family's ancestral house and other property, and take them back to the capital after inventory." Although the whole family of the Zhen family came to Beijing, their roots are in Jinling, the old lady is also there, and most of the belongings are in the ancestral house. Only by sending the crown prince to handle it personally can he feel relieved.
Lin Ruhai immediately agreed.
Emperor Changqing said again: "Wait, if the Zhen family is convicted, it will inevitably implicate many people, and it is not only the Zhen family who have committed crimes. In the capital, I am the master, and the ninth younger brother takes care of it. The prince in the south of the Yangtze River will personally investigate and deal with it. power." He was in the capital, and Jinling was out of his reach, so in order to prevent the night from having many dreams, it was better for the crown prince to deal with it.
The crown prince is the eldest son of Emperor Changqing, who has always been taught by him personally. The purpose of ordering the crown prince to supervise the country in Nanjing is to make him familiar with the way of controlling people and the way of being a king without affecting the power of the capital and his own prestige.
Lin Ruhai said yes.
The matter was settled, Emperor Changqing said some good things, and said to Lin Ruhai: "Your nephew named Jia Lian is quite capable. In the past few years, the impoverished county has been taken care of, and many people live in a well-fed life. day."
Lin Ruhai was taken aback for a moment, and then a look of joy appeared on his face, and he said, "Your Majesty taught you well."
Jia Lian is very smart and talkative. He never read a few books in his previous life. He was well-organized in cooking and household affairs. In this life, he can read and write.
Compared with the fickleness and ignorance in his previous life, Jia Lian now knows how to repay his kindness, and many children of aristocratic families are eager to follow suit.He has not been in the capital for the past few years, but he has not stopped giving gifts to his family every year. There is no shortage of three festivals and two lives.
Emperor Changqing shook his head and said, "It's because of his own progress that he is what he is today. Nowadays, many officials' children in official families rely on their ancestors' corpses to eat vegetarian meals. I am very troubled. If everyone is like Ruier and Jia Lian of Qing's family, why should I worry? Why worry about the country? It is too much to live up to. I only know how to enjoy myself. I originally wanted to transfer Jia Lian back to the capital to take charge of Chang'an County. Who would have thought that the people there would kowtow and beg for mercy, but would not let him go. After thinking about it, I promoted him to two level, tell him to continue to make decisions for the people there.”
Lin Ruhai was very happy for Jia Lian after hearing this.
Being valued by Emperor Changqing, even if the Jia family's affairs fail in the future, Jia Lian will never be implicated.
The next day, Dou Chen made a memorial, which shocked the government and the public. The evidence of the crime was investigated by Emperor Changqing, and the evidence was conclusive. After the memorial was published, Emperor Longyan of Changqing was furious, and immediately suspended him for investigation!Unlike Lian's family who ransacked their home from impeachment to investigation and final conviction, Emperor Changqing immediately ordered Prince Xiao Jing to lead troops to seal up Zhen's family and not allow his family members to flee privately.
Prince Filial Piety never dragged his feet when he did things. When the court ordered Zhen Yingjia to be taken into custody, he personally led the troops to Zhen's house.
The Zhen family is worthy of being a century-old family, and there are not many eunuchs in the palace that they have bought. Even though Emperor Changqing and Prince Xiao Jing acted so quickly, their family still got a word of it first, and quickly transferred some belongings to the family.
As Prince Xiao Jing said, confiscating a family is a fat job, Xianfei’s natal family is not very rich, so they want to intervene in it, and Defei’s natal family also wants to get more silver taels for Defei to manage in the palace, the two families spent a lot of money secretly She tried her best, but was beaten back by Prince Xiao Jing.He is the younger brother of Emperor Changqing, more useful than Prince Zhongshun, and he personally acted for the sake of Emperor Changqing, how can these people intervene to take away the money that is about to be filled into the treasury?Emperor Changqing also let him, and ignored the actions of the second concubine's natal family.
When Jia Min went to the banquet, he was secretly surprised to hear the letter from the Zhen family who ransacked the house.
Because of this incident, even the daughters-in-law who attended the banquet had no intention of feasting, and went home immediately.
Seeing that Lin Ruhai hadn't returned home yet, Jia Min couldn't ask any more questions even if he wanted to.Du Daiyu understands the affairs of the court better than her, and also knows the evil things that the Zhen family has done, comforting Jia Min: "Mother, don't worry, the saint is wise and powerful, and he will never wrong others. Since he made this decree, it must be Zhen The family has done a lot of evil things."
There was an ominous omen in Jia Min's heart, and he sighed: "The world is impermanent, it's true."
The Zhen and Jia families have been friends for a hundred years, and their friendship is extremely strong, so it is hard to say that they will not be implicated.Afterwards, Jia Min secretly rejoiced that Lin Ruhai was not in charge of this matter, otherwise the Jia family would definitely intercede for the Zhen family, and the Zhen family would also come to Luo Zhao.Although she was worried about her natal family, she understood how those two families behaved, and she was afraid that they would involve Lin Ruhai in it.
Emperor Changqing knew people well, and at the same time he was sympathetic to his subordinates. He knew that Lin Ruhai and the Zhen family were close, so he didn't entrust this matter to him, in order to prevent those people from finding the Lin family.
Emperor Changqing felt that even though he knew that Lin Ruhai would never use public affairs for personal gain, it was annoying after all, wasn't it?
How could Lin Ruhai not understand?I am very grateful.
Although not everything in the world is good and good is rewarded for evil and evil is rewarded for evil, often the perpetrators are still glorious, but he still feels that life has a cause and an effect, so he will intervene in some things, such as Su Lizhen, Shiyin, Guo Fuxian, etc. There are some things that I don't want to remind, such as the Zhen family, and in the future when the Zhen family fails, the Jia family hides their wealth.The grievances between the Lin family and the Jia family were settled in the previous life, but he always remembered the bullying Daiyu suffered in the Jia family, so he would not remind the Jia family not to take the Zhen family's wealth.
The greedy nature of Yijia's family, even if he reminded them, would they not accept it?
will not.
Jia's family has always been short of money. A while ago, he saw the big pawns of gold, silver, copper and tin from Jia's pawnshop in his pawnshop, as well as a few gold necklaces inlaid with gemstones and pearls, gold step shakers, etc. It's just that they didn't provide Yuanchun's envoy fee in the palace, and they didn't have to let the eunuchs ask for it, and they didn't build a family-friendly villa, so they supported it until now.
Of course, the money for building the family-visiting villa in her previous life was all left to Daiyu by herself, and their family did not spend their own money.
The Jia family was in a difficult situation, and they couldn't even make up the money for Jia Mu's birthday and the Mid-Autumn Festival. They stole it as Jia Mu's property. Next year will be Jia Mu's eighty-year-old birthday. It is necessary to do a big job, and urgently needs a sum of property to support future daily ostentation, so when the mother-in-law of the Zhen family hurriedly brought in thirty or forty boxes of things, Mrs. Wang immediately took them away without saying a word. It was actually collecting his wealth first, rather than worrying about his crime first.
In Madam Wang's heart, these families are powerful and powerful. Now Wang Ziteng is the inspector of nine provinces. Not afraid of rebellion.No matter how bad it is, there is Lin Ruhai, the confidant of the saint, who is the son-in-law of the Jia family.
Therefore, Mrs. Wang believed that the accident in the Zhen family was only temporary, and she would definitely be innocent because of the generosity of the Supreme Emperor.As for whether the Zhen family will return the property when the Zhen family is innocent in the future, Mrs. Wang is not worried, because the Zhen family still collects 5 taels of silver from their family.
Because Jia Mu is old and afraid of being frightened, Mrs. Wang ordered her servants not to disturb her, and ordered Li Wan Tanchun and others to hide the news of Zhen's house raid when they were entertaining Jia Mu.Li Wan and Tanchun knew it well, and they obeyed their orders. Many things in the house were kept from Jiamu's knowledge, just because they were afraid that Jiamu would be old and troublesome.
Tanchun said worriedly: "In the long run, what should I do?"
Li Wan has never been very concerned about this, and said indifferently: "My wife is not worried, what is my sister worried about?"
How can I not worry?Tanchun's astuteness is beyond the reach of others. Seeing that her family is becoming increasingly desolate, she is very worried. She only hates that she is not a man, so she cannot make contributions and take up the inheritance of her ancestors.Others only said that the raid of the Zhen family would not affect her own family, but she knew that her family and the Zhen family had a constant relationship, and maybe tomorrow would end up like the Zhen family.
These thoughts have been in Tanchun's heart all the time, making her feel like frying oil, but she can't tell others, otherwise, she will definitely accuse herself of lying and deceiving people.
Others think about wealth and honor, but Tanchun sees crisis.
My eldest brother died young, and my eldest sister married far away. Only Jia Lian was the most outstanding, and the eldest son had a rift with himself, so he left Beijing with his family and did not return for several years. Except for the three festivals and two birthdays every year, unexpectedly No news at all.Encounter between two spouses is the root of a chaotic family. How good would it be if they could be intimate and friendly, and overcome difficulties together?Presumably even the Duke would be happy to see it.
Tanchun said with a low expression, "The mansion is getting worse and worse than before."
Li Wan laughed and said: "You are crazy too. The elder's family is not in the mansion, and the second girl has left the cabinet again. Now the fourth girl keeps filial piety and doesn't like to go out very much. There are fewer people. Naturally, you feel that you are not as good as before." Li Wan didn't Feeling that something is wrong, what kind of life she and Jia Lan lived in the past, the life is the same now, without any change, only 20 taels of silver per month, and there is a little bit of regulation every year, whether there is more or less. It will not shorten their mother and child.
Tanchun sighed, and said, "That's right, I haven't seen Fourth Sister for quite a while."
Speaking of this, Tanchun suddenly remembered something, and was about to speak, when he saw the sewing room sent over clothes, a total of four sets, all of which were red, willow and green, and turned to ask Li Wan, "It will be the old lady's birthday in a few days, and then Mid-Autumn Festival, The clothes made for the fourth sister, sister-in-law, have you ordered the sewing room to be careful to use plain colors? In the past, we all had the same hairpin and ring skirts, but now she has hot filial piety on her body, so don’t send them to the sewing room like in the past, isn’t it? My sin?"
Li Wan's face immediately changed color, and he said half a day: "I have taken care of Lan'er for the past few days, and I didn't give orders, only my sister has already said it."
After finishing speaking, the aunt and sister-in-law hurriedly asked the girl who delivered the clothes.
The girl was also taken aback for a moment, and then mumbled: "As usual, the fourth girl's clothes are the same as the third girl's, and she didn't hear the order."
In other words, she didn't make plain clothes for Xichun.
Hearing this, Tanchun became very angry, and said: "Usually you are very clever in doing things, why are you not so clever when you should be clever? Go back to the sewing room and have a look, have you sent the clothes for the fourth sister? If you don't Hurry up and put it away, and use plain materials to make a few more sets for the fourth sister overnight!"
Hearing this, the little girl went back in a panic, turned around after a while, and said, "It has been sent." Xichun and Tanchun have always lived in the three Baosha halls behind Li Wan, very close, and when delivering things Nature is all together.
Li Wan and Tanchun had no choice but to go to Xichun's room in person, and when they saw Ruhua standing on the porch feeding the birds, they asked quietly.
Not only was Xichun annoyed when she saw the brocade clothes sent by the sewing room, but she was also annoyed when she entered the painting. Even if they were not from this mansion, but they had been in this mansion for many years, they must respect Xichun, right?Unexpectedly, he didn't take it to heart at all.Fortunately, Daiyu, the former son, was thinking of changing seasons, so Tete sent some horses of plain and plain material to make clothes for them.
No matter how displeased I was, there was a smile on the screen, and said: "Our girl has just read the scriptures for one day, and she has already rested now. It's not the fault of grandma and girl. Grandma and girl don't have to apologize to the girl. Our girls are wearing filial piety clothes, we don’t need new clothes, the clothes we made today are given to the girls outside.”
Both Li Wan and Tanchun knew Xichun's withdrawn temperament, and after hearing Ruhua's words, they knew that she was annoyed, and it happened that the mansion didn't think carefully, and they couldn't say it was Xichun's fault, so they had to turn around disgruntled.
Entering the painting and sending them out to their room, seeing Xichun painting under the window, he reported the matter.
Xichun looked indifferent and did not respond.
Ruhua sighed, carefully arranged the return gift for Daiyu, only hoped that Mrs. Lin's aunt would read the old lady's entrustment, and when Xichun was filial piety, she would find a good life for her and stay far away from here.
Not to mention Daiyu's attitude when she received the gift in return, but said that the matter of the Zhen family caused civil and military scrambles in the Manchu dynasty to prove it, and she was charged with more than a hundred crimes in one day. There are quite a few, every time they complain about their grievances, the surrounding people all scold the Zhen family for their crimes.
All of a sudden, people complained about Zhen's family, and they heard that the sage was strict with him, and they shouted for the sage.
It took a full three months for this matter to be settled. At that time, the snowflakes had already fallen, all the family members had been escorted to Beijing, and all charges against the Zhen family had been settled.
Because all the evildoers in Zhen Yingjia's family were executed, the female family members were either exiled or served as slaves in the government, and all the family members were sold off. The whole capital was in turmoil because of this matter. The Taishang Emperor couldn't bear it when he heard about it. Immediately send the criminal evidence to him, and ask him to read the list of the house raids.
When he saw that more than [-] million taels of silver, more than [-] taels of gold, and thousands of acres of antiques, calligraphy and painting houses and so on were copied from the list, the Supreme Emperor was shocked and said in surprise: "There is such a thing?" many?"
Emperor Changqing replied: "Not only that, millions of gold and silver properties were also confiscated from his family, and the ladder of the old lady of the Zhen family was confiscated and returned 1 taels and a [-]-room house for the elderly. For the money, the widow who kept the chastity in his family also sent back some belongings, which are not on the list of confiscating the house." He originally thought that the old lady of the Zhen family was old and had ties to the palace, so she would not confiscate her property, so as to To show the emperor's kindness, after hearing from Prince Xiao Jing that the old lady's ladder was no less than a million, even the widow's grandma was worth a hundred thousand, he knew that there were many people's anointings in it, and immediately confiscated it.
The Supreme Emperor recalled that the treasury he left to Emperor Changqing after his abdication was only a few million taels of silver, and could not help scolding: "The Zhen family really failed me, they deserve death! I remember that their family has a deficit of three or four million taels? Back in the day, I thought that they would take care of their family four times and spend a lot of money. I specially gave them a few salt lessons and weaving duties. Who would have thought that they would have more money than me!"
When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he also ordered the Ministry of Households to urge the repayment of the owed money, but they all cried to themselves that they were poor, and even sold their houses and land. , and because the Zhen family spent a lot of money to pick them up, they tried every means to reuse them, who knows that they are all rich.
The Supreme Emperor felt that he had been fooled, so he immediately issued an order to reprimand Zhen Yingjia and the others, and ordered Emperor Changqing to conduct a strict investigation, because there were not many officials and eunuchs who were defeated by the Zhen family, and in the end, the confiscated property was as huge as tens of millions!
Emperor Changqing became more and more annoyed, and like a thunderbolt, he dismissed his officials and beheaded them all. In a panic, all the officials in the court hurriedly returned the borrowed money to the household department.One of the most important charges against the Zhen family is deficit, how dare they not pay it back?Otherwise, it would be too late for my family to be charged with a deficit.
Everything was as expected, tens of millions of taels of silver were added to the treasury in an instant.
Prince Xiao Jing only took care of the case of the Zhen family, and handed over the rest to Lin Ruhai, so while he led people to register and collect the owed money, he tried every means to convert the copied things into silver taels and put them into the national treasury.
He didn't want to stuff the old clothes and things used by Zhen's family into the national treasury without being able to use them.
What the court needs is silver, not antique calligraphy and paintings.
Prince Xiao Jing is very shrewd in calculating accounts. In the past, the things obtained during the house raids were taken by various families at extremely cheap prices. Now his official prices are all [-]% of the market price, so the buyers have to take advantage of it.
He knew that Lin Ruhai's family was very rich, and they bought good farms and houses every year. He also bought many books, calligraphy and paintings from dilapidated families, so before he folded those things, he asked Lin Ruhai to pick them first, saying: "I remember my sister loves calligraphy, painting and books. , although the descendants of the Zhen family are incapable of studying, they have a lot of good things, and the other families also have a lot of good things."
Lin Ruhai didn't refuse after hearing this, and immediately picked out a lot of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc. Daiyu will be 14 years old in the new year, and she will be a year old, so she should prepare more dowry, and bought four more that are connected to her farm. Zhuangzi.
This time, Lin Ruhai spent a total of 5 taels.
Lin Ruhai gave it to Daiyu, how could Daiyu be willing to have it all to herself?Hastily allocated a lot to brothers and sisters-in-law.
It wasn't until the end of the busy year and in February that the confiscated things were sorted out. Prince Xiao Jing came to report back. Emperor Changqing didn't care about it. Compared with others, Lin Ruhai bought these things at the market price. It can be said that he has devoted himself to the country, and he said with a pleasant face: "The ninth brother has done an excellent job, and I am very relieved."
A smile appeared on Prince Xiao Jing's cold face, and he asked, "When will those who hide the property of the Zhen family take care of it?"
The Zhen family not only accumulated property in the Jia family,
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