The little monk who crossed the Red Mansion

It is still very fast to clear up the outstanding debts of the Ministry of Households.

The fourth elder brother took a look at the list of arrears, and the top few were indeed the crown prince and the eldest elder brother or were related to them.

He also knew that the reason why these people borrowed money was purely because of the fighting between the two elder brothers in the past few years.

The current situation is that those two have already quit, so he can't be stingy and hold on to such a small matter of money, it's really troublesome.

However, they can't be cheap. Every year, they get at least 20 taels of silver from Brother Nine, plus the reward from Khan Ama, and some other private properties. He owed more than 50 taels of silver to the treasury.

This money is enough to raise a private army, and it is enough to rebel in troubled times.

But after careful investigation, these two people have only fought against each other in the past few years?

What a prodigal, he didn't even know what to say about them.

It was decided that instead of asking for the money directly, it was better to keep it from Lao Jiu.

Anyway, they won't need so much money in the future.

And what happened to the Zhen family, a coat-coating family who owed 170 million taels?

Their family is in charge of Jiangning Weaving, one of the fattest errands in the world, and they still owe so much money to the treasury.

Is it really because Khan Ama got used to it? !

However, the old lady in their family had been kind to Khan Ama after all, so it shouldn't be too chilling.

We can only see the situation first.

Ten days later, people from Jiangnan sent back news about the Zhen family, and the fourth elder brother was furious at that time. Such a luxurious and extravagant family dared to claim that they had no money and needed to borrow money from the treasury to survive?Shameless!

Taking the secret booklet to see Kangxi, it is better to inform the old man about this matter.

Kangxi looked at the contents of the secret book: two gardens in the south of the Yangtze River; eleven villages with a thousand acres of fertile farmland, see the appendix for the small ones; four Wujin houses, see the appendix for the rest of the small houses; 5 taels of gold; 120 million taels of silver; See the appendix for ornaments and antiques; see the appendix for rare copies of famous paintings; see the appendix for gold and silver jewelry...the private properties of the wives and grandmas of each house see the appendix...a total of more than 700 million taels.

The appendix list that follows is actually two palms thick.

Thinking back to the book that Zhen Yingjia entrusted sent him before, he felt a kind of anger of being deceived and fooled.

What cost a lot of money and what made it impossible to make ends meet? Although the whole article did not say where the family's money was spent, it can still be seen between the lines that the Zhen family's two pick-ups cost a lot of money.

Kangxi had always thought that the old lady of the Zhen family was a good one, and that his baby brother was also loyal to him, but he didn't expect that he would dare to deceive him like this, and even tried to pour dirty water on him.

Kangxi also knew that the Zhen family spent a lot of money on him, so he gave Jiang Ning weaving to them. Over the years, he has not paid back the money despite being so rich.

Kangxi always thought it was because the Zhen family was honest and not greedy, but he didn't expect, he didn't expect...

A punch hit the table, and the whole table immediately fell apart. Both Li Dequan and Wei Zhu were so frightened that they didn't dare to move.

The fourth elder brother acted as if he hadn't seen it.

Kangxi stared at the table and felt that venting was not enough. He said to the fourth elder brother in a sinister tone: "Send someone to confiscate Zhen's family. Aren't they poor and have no money? I will let them live a poor life." .”

"Then the old lady of the Zhen family?"

"Here I come directly to Beijing, I can still take care of a wet nurse."

"Hey, Khan Ama, my son wants my fifth brother to go on an errand this time."

Kangxi waved his hand: "It's up to you to make a decision. Tomorrow, I will take the prince and the boss to live in Changchun Garden. You don't have to answer me about things in Beijing."

The fourth elder brother looked at himself and felt a little speechless. What does this mean?

Does this mean he won't even go to morning morning?

He is still just a county king now, let a county king be a director in Beijing, and the emperor and the prince ran away together?

The fourth elder brother knew that this was Kangxi who had reached the peak of the embryonic stage of cultivation and could break through at any time, so he left in such a hurry.

Taking those two away is already a burden for myself.

That's good, they don't live in the palace, so they can be more comfortable doing it themselves.

In this unannounced investigation, he also found evidence of a lot of people taking bribes and breaking the law, taking part in lawsuits, so he could punish them freely.

The emperor went to Changchun Garden but left the fourth elder brother in Beijing to be in charge. Although those cautious and timid people were frightened, some really felt bad, so they secretly went to the household department to return Kuyin.

This includes Jia Amnesty, after all, he now has advice from Yue's family, and Mrs. Wu has an old nanny sent by the fourth elder brother. She also has some understanding of the behavior of the fourth elder brother. After persuading Mrs. Wu, she is now pregnant and favored. Speaking in front of Jia She still carries a lot of weight.

Moreover, Mrs. Wu said something that touched his heart. The 28 taels of silver in their house was borrowed by their ancestors.

When the family is divided, the ancestral property belongs to him, so the debt also belongs to him alone?

As expected of being Jia Amnesty's bedside person, he immediately talked about his pain points. If he was asked to pay it back alone in the future, it would be too uneconomical. To pay it back, the money must be paid back immediately.

Knowing that the old lady would not agree, Jia Amnesty made a rare decision and called the people from the household department to open the warehouse and return the money.

After that, the old lady's place was full of chaos. Anyway, he lived far away, so he didn't know about it.

Although those in the capital were timid or someone suggested something, they returned the money either explicitly or secretly.

But the vast majority of officials are still waiting and watching, or stubbornly resisting, and a small number of them are really worried. They really have no money.

Beijing officials have little money, and they are not very courageous, let alone make money, but who doesn't have a family.

Originally, some of them were of good fortune, but some of them were from poor backgrounds who really couldn’t survive, so they just borrowed the money. Now that they are asked to pay back the money, their hair is turning gray and there is nowhere to borrow it.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Household Affairs issued a loan exemption notice soon, and these people were basically among them. The reason for the loan and the reason for the exemption were written in detail.

And there is a notice in the back, if you are in a hurry to borrow money from the treasury due to poverty, but you are unable to repay it for some reason, you can report the reason for the matter, and after verification, it will be reduced or exempted as appropriate.However, if the investigation is not true, the penalty will be doubled.

This matter was announced, although it made people lose face, but it also removed a piece of their heart disease.

What surprised them even more was that the Ministry of Rites even gave them rewards afterwards, either in money or plaques.

Some praise officials for being honest and honest, and some praise benevolence and filial piety. This is a surprise.

As soon as this incident happened, the voices of praises and virtues from all over the capital could not be heard for a while, and some people who wanted to smear the fourth elder brother for being greedy could only temporarily disappear.

A month later, the news that Zhen's family was confiscated and escorted to Beijing shocked the world even more.

The fourth elder brother directly counted the crimes of the Zhen family in the imperial court newspaper, including taking over lawsuits, killing people, occupying fertile land, and forcibly robbing civilian women... a total of more than 170 items, the last sentence: The Zhen family's property exceeds ten million, A total of more than [-] million gold and silver were hidden, but [-] million silver was borrowed from the treasury. Why?

Let everyone know that this is still caused by the money owed to the treasury.

The fourth elder brother was trying to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys, but they were also shocked. This was no longer a small matter of money, but related to the survival of the family and generations to come.

Although some of the underage children of the Zhen family were not convicted, but with such a reputation, it will be difficult for them to become officials through the imperial examination.

What's more, it's even more chilling down the spine.

Unexpectedly, this matter was not only registered in the Imperial Palace Newspaper, but also in the newly printed "Da Qing Bao" not long ago, Brother Jiu described in detail every crime committed by the Zhen family, including all the crimes committed by the Zhen family. House specific property.

The imperial palace newspaper is only circulated among officials, the so-called interaction between officials and officials, even if the Zhen family's reputation is ruined, there will always be people who will sympathize.

But this "Da Qing Pao" is distributed all over the world, because there are many pages, and it contains astronomy and geography, literati and refined scholars, and everything in the daily life. The clan masters like to hold a copy to discuss with Qing guests.

Because of its low price, even peddlers can afford it.

This time, because the front page was made with a big corrupt official, it attracted ordinary people to borrow money and buy a copy. What they saw was both knowledgeable and happy.

Even if there are those who can't understand, street storytellers, teahouse sitters, the jokes they say these days are all things in the "Da Qing Bao", and the Zhen family is the first choice.

This reputation is really far-reaching!

The "Da Qing Bao" outside made Brother Jiu a celebrity in the whole Qing Dynasty again.

Now this famous person, with a bitter face, is leaning on Ah Zhe, "Ah Zhe, you just give the things to Brother Nine, whoever we brothers are with, Brother Nine can still lose to you.

And how much reputation did the newspaper brother give you, and why didn't he give you any benefits? "

"This is really cheap and good-looking."

"How can fourth brother say that about younger brother? If it's not to share some pressure for fourth brother, and this newspaper doesn't make any money, why would younger brother put so much thought into it?"

"Newspapers don't make money? Brother Jiu, who did you hear that from?"

"Azhe, is there even a need to talk about it? The fee is only so much, and the cost is not enough. How can you make any money?"

Ah Zhe just remembered that he forgot to mention the advertisement. Now that the newspaper has just been published, no businessman has realized this, so Brother Jiu thinks it is not profitable.

"Ninth brother, fortunately you are still a businessman.

Have you forgotten our original propaganda of 'nothing at all'? "

"Ah, what's the idea of ​​Ah Zhe, please tell me?" Brother Jiu's eyes lit up when he heard Ah Zhe's words, as if he had overlooked something.