I am the county magistrate in Daming

7 taels is not a small sum, even the imperial merchants of Shuntian Mansion can't afford so much silver taels at once.

Although Li Guang stayed in the palace all year round, he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and he saved a lot of salary, but 7 taels was still a bit too much.

In ancient times, eunuchs wanted to purify their bodies, which was performed by a purifier.The pain suffered during the cleansing process was unbearable for ordinary people. There was no anesthesia at that time, and the person to be cleansed could only be given strong alcohol and drunk until unconscious.

Most of the eunuchs have a long lifespan. If they have not committed any crime, they can stay in the palace for decades.There are no more than a few dozen eunuchs who enter the palace every year, and more than one body purifier, and there are very few jobs assigned to them.Moreover, the body purification teacher has no official position, and naturally has no salary, and relies entirely on money collected from body purification to maintain his livelihood.

If a body purifier only purifies five or six people a year, he will not even be able to support himself, let alone support his family.

So, they figured out another way to make money.

The body, hair and skin are the parents, the ancients paid attention to returning a fallen leaf to the root.After the eunuch purifies, the purifier will seal all the cut things and the contract in "sheng", then wrap the "sheng" with red cloth and hang it on a high place, which means "red cloth rises".

When the eunuch is about to be released from the palace, he will invite local dignitaries to discuss the price of redemption at the purifier's house, and welcome the "sheng" back, which is called "yingsheng".

The more famous and powerful the eunuch is, the more silver taels are needed for "Yingsheng".

For an eunuch with Li Guang's status, the "Yingsheng" fee is naturally quite a lot.

Many eunuchs couldn't save enough money for Yingsheng throughout their lives, but Li Guang took out 7 taels of silver at this time, which is really shocking.

Mu Qingtian didn't record all 7 taels in Li Guang's name, but blurred the number and donated 7 taels in the name of Li Guang's family, in order to avoid arousing the emperor's suspicion.

This is also Li Guang's own request.

No matter what, for 50 taels, Mu Qingtian can always covet some of it back, 7 taels is not worth mentioning, and he can also use this to get the emperor's reward, killing two birds with one stone.

Zhu Youtang didn't check the details of the donation carefully, but asked Mu Qingtian to copy the names of more than [-] people who donated the most money and handed it to him for review.

"7 taels?" Zhu Youtang really couldn't believe it, "7 taels per person?"

Mu Qingtian hurriedly said: "Master Li didn't donate 7 taels alone, but Mr. Li worked on books overnight and gathered from Li's family from all over the place."

"That's enough..."

The doubts in Zhu Youtang's heart became more and more serious.

He believed that Li Guang really had the heavenly book in his hand, but as an emperor, he was too aggrieved to be restricted by officials everywhere.

"In any case, both the Broken Bridge and Yuxiu Pavilion have money to repair." Mu Qingtian smiled slightly and bowed his hands.

Zhu Youtang let out a long sigh and showed a narrow smile.

"It's still your idea."

This sister-in-law is worth it!The younger brother who was full of thoughts about running away must be hopeless, but with Mu Qingtian around, the younger brother was not in vain.

Not long after Mu Qingtian resigned, Zhu Youtang pointed at his temples, called Luo Xiang, the supervisor of the East Factory, and gave instructions.

"This year's new good cloth, cut a few feet, make a new official uniform and send it to Li Guang."

"The minister understands."

After raising all the funds, Mu Qingtian and the officials of Jinyiwei escorted the silver to the household department.

Ye Qi couldn't figure out how Mu Qingtian found 50 taels in just ten days.The imperial court allocated 20 taels, and the remaining 30 taels would be difficult to rely on merchants and ministers alone?

"Master Shangshu, the silver book is here, please trouble the household department to check it."

The top and bottom of the household department worked non-stop for two days before counting all the silver taels. It was indeed 50 taels, and each one had its origin.

Ye Qi's attitude towards Mu Qingtian became more subtle.

After leaving the household department, he turned around and went to the restaurant, ordered some good wine and food, and asked his servants to carry them, and went straight to Ma Wensheng's mansion.

-

"What, he has all the money?!"

Ma Wensheng knocked over the teacup in his hand in shock.

"Where is the silver book, are there any mistakes?"

Ye Qi shook his head, and said mysteriously: "I think he is showing his favor to us."

“How come you see?”

Ye Qi turned around and opened the door, looked left and right, then closed the door carefully, leaned close to Ma Wensheng's ear, and said in a low voice.

"Li Guang donated 7 taels."

Ma Wensheng sneered and said, "Master Ye is probably the same as the old man, his old eyes are dim."

"It's true."

Ye Qi's tone was firm, and Ma Wensheng's smile slowly froze on his face.

"It was really donated by Li Guang?"

"It's him. The 1000 taels that King Qing said in the hall, and the 500 taels that Mu Qingtian himself gave are all in place."

"This is impossible."

What is the concept of a small eunuch who can spend 7 taels?Ma Wensheng didn't dare to think about it.

"Let's not talk about 7 taels." Ye Qi knew what Ma Wensheng was thinking, "The most important thing is that Mu Qingtian was able to persuade Li Guang to pay."

Judging by Li Guang's performance in the hall, he was afraid that someone's hand would reach into his pocket and take away his gold and silver treasures.

Ma Wensheng fell into deep thought.

"Maybe we were wrong from the beginning."

Although King Qing was a threat to the emperor, over the years, King Qing had made great contributions to the establishment of overseas expeditions, and the relationship between the two brothers had always been very close.

If Mu Qingtian is really Li Guang's person, then he will definitely not be able to fool King Qing's eyes.

Ye Qi and Ma Wensheng exchanged glances and nodded with a smile.

After drinking for three rounds, Ma Wensheng still couldn't hold back his feelings.

"7 taels, such a moth, it's really sad, sad."

"Since ancient times, villains are so proud of themselves." Ye Qi was drunk and filled himself up again.

-

The officials of the Ministry of Industry are not good at handling their affairs, and they can't even draw the blueprints well.When Xu Guan heard about this, his eyelids twitched, he severely reprimanded them, and reported it to the emperor.

Mu Qingtian's prestige spread quickly, even though there were still people in the Ministry of Industry who were dissatisfied with him, but under the threat of fines and demoted officials, they still obeyed Mu Qingtian's assignments honestly.

In mid-August, the construction of the Broken Bridge started, which aroused applause from the people of Shuntian Prefecture.

According to the drawings given by Mu Qingtian, the officials of the Ministry of Industry directed the workers to divide into different groups, responsible for cutting stones, measuring angles, moving stones and so on.

At the end of the month, the Broken Bridge was repaired, and it was so exquisite that it even became the most spacious bridge in Shuntian Mansion, allowing two carriages to pass side by side.

Next to the Broken Bridge, a small wooden temple with a height of half a person has also started construction.

Zhu Jingshou helped Mu Qingtian find many stonemasons and asked them to carve according to the portraits, including many familiar people, such as Li Guang, Yuan Lao...

The Gongde Temple was built, and the stone statues were invited in one by one, consecrated by an expert to invite blessings, and finally incense and food were offered for worship.

Because the stone statues are for people to look up to, in order not to occupy too much road, dozens of statues are lined up and stand on the side of the road where people come and go.There is also a stone tablet at the foot of each stone statue, with the name of the enshrined written on it.

After work was over, Mu Qingtian and Zhu Jingshou tossed and tossed for several days, and finally made a "fake account" that was flawless.

"Not a penny left?" Ye Qi's jaw almost dropped from Mu Qingtian's shock.

Mu Qingtian shook his head with "regret".

"Not a penny left."

"Lord Mu, don't open your eyes and talk nonsense." Hongwen said coldly, looking at the several large boxes pulled by the carriage behind Mu Qingtian.

"Oh, you said these boxes." Mu Qingtian walked over and patted them with his hands.

Then his expression changed suddenly, and he took out the token from his pocket.

"I was ordered by the emperor to escort the silver, and you dare to stop it."

Ye Qi knew the goods, and when he saw the token, he immediately knelt down and apologized.

A total of 20 taels was spent on repairing the broken bridge and building meritorious deeds, and the remaining 30 taels were directly charged to the treasury.

This is Mu Qing's big game in the world.

-

In April, in the Hall of Martial Arts.

Mu Qingtian's expression remained unchanged, and he said: "The emperor just said that he wanted to borrow the minister 'Xiangshang's head'."

Zhu Youtang said with great interest: "Why, you want to force me to die and persuade me not to build Yuxiu Pavilion?"

"No, quite the opposite."

"The minister is willing to use a plan to exchange the head for safety."

Long before going to the disaster relief, Mu Qingtian had already decided to start with the broken bridge, punish Li Guang first, then complete the system tasks, and finally donate money to build a pavilion for Zhu Youtang.

Knowing his plan, Zhu Youtang specially gave him a sword and token.

The disputes and debates in the court are all under their control.

Now the plan has been successfully completed, except for a small episode in the middle, which caused Mu Qingtian's mission to fail and suffered so many days of grievances for nothing, the other two goals have been achieved.

After Mu Qingtian quietly sent the remaining 30 taels into the palace and handed it over to Zhu Youtang, he said he was ill and shrank in the palace, thanking the guests behind closed doors.

Li Guang heard that there was no 50 taels left, and his 7 taels was lost, so he fainted on the spot.After waking up, the first thing he did was to settle accounts with Mu Qingtian, but it turned out that he was in Prince Qing's Mansion with impregnable walls, so he had no chance at all.

"Mu Qingtian!!!"

He only realized now that he was played by Mu Qingtian and Zhu Jingshou.

In Shuntianfu, the newly built broken bridge soon became the stone bridge with the largest flow of people.

When people pass by the broken bridge, they always touch the head of the stone statue next to it.

"Hey, I touched Officer Dog's head."

Over time, the tops of the stone statues became shiny, like monks who became monks.

Some more radical people spit directly on the stone statue and threw rotten eggs.

When the rich merchants who donated money to build the bridge heard about it, they were furious, and jointly signed a letter asking the emperor to call the shots.

Zhu Youtang sat on the dragon chair with a "sorrowful face".

"Or, stop it."

So an iron fence was added in front of the stone statue, and a sign was erected, which read: Do not touch.

A few days later, a team of jugglers came from the capital, and they happened to be performing on the edge of the Broken Bridge.One of them was good at acting as a monkey, and when he was not performing, he put the monkey back into the cage.

There is also a sign outside the cage.

Don't touch, don't touch.

"Hey, it's all monkeys."

Anyone passing by will laugh involuntarily.

The wealthy businessman wrote again, but this time Zhu Youtang was not so easy to talk to.

"I have installed the railings, what else do you want!!"

Those rich businessmen and ministers who had been carved into stone statues by Mu Qingtian could only smash their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, and never went to the Broken Bridge.

When Zhu Jingshou returned home after running the horse, he saw Mu Qingtian squatting on the ground, teasing the monkey.

He looked dotingly at the person in front of him, walked over slowly, took the tulle from Shuhui's hand and put it on him.

"You're still playing, it's time to eat, Master Mu."

Mu Qingtian happily turned her head and threw herself into Zhu Jingshou's arms, laughing non-stop.

"You, you didn't see hahahahahaha, the faces of those profiteers and corrupt officials are all green."

"Okay, okay." Zhu Jingshou stood up and walked to the room.

After Zhu Jingshou was called into the palace the next morning, Mu Qingtian quickly called out the system.

"Submit the task."

[System testing. 】

[It has been detected that you have completed the second routine task, congratulations, please continue to work hard. 】

[Due to a system error, you will be punished for an extra seven days, and the system will compensate you for the 'one life' buff, please go to the mall warehouse to check. 】

[Regular task two reward: Concealment potion, two thousand points. 】

The author has something to say: Please refer to the video of station B for the content of body purification. The author himself has not inquired about relevant information, so please do not trust the description in the chapter.If you are interested, you can look through the historical materials yourself.

PS: Mumu carves stone statues of profiteers and corrupt officials, not good people~

small theater:

Mu Qingtian: In his hand, holding the steamed corn bread - there is not a drop of oil in the dish! ! (heart-piercing)

Zhu Jingshou: Don't howl, I don't know who is greedy and eats his stomach.

沐青天：要你寡！！！感谢在2021-01-2021:06:51~2021-01-2123:52:01期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 2 bottles of small fireworks overhead; 1 bottle of my husband Luo Yunxi after learning for 1 minute;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!