The Heart of the Red Chamber

It was not until noon the next day that Wang Ren walked out of the side room haggardly with two inconspicuous dark circles under his eyes. , doubts, and how much difference there is in it are clearly written down, and the account book is stuffed into Chen Yejun's hands. Wang Ren said in a hoarse voice: "It's all here, find me a place, I want Get some sleep!"

This night and morning's workload made Wang Ren extremely exhausted, not because of staying up late, but because of overuse of his brain. At this moment, he only felt that his eyeballs were extremely dry and his brain was aching.

Seeing that Wang Ren's expression was not very good, Chen Yejun quickly said, "Okay, I'll take you to rest right now, Zijing, why don't you drink the ginseng soup first to replenish your vitality?"

"No need!" Wang Ren shook his head, "I just want to have a good night's sleep, and I'll be fine when I wake up!"

Chen Yejun found a bedroom for Wang Ren to rest in. Seeing the faint blue color under Wang Ren's eyes, he felt a little distressed. He lowered his head and kissed Prince Wang Ren's cheek, and helped him tuck the corner of the quilt. Then he went out holding the account book .

I took the account book to Wu Lin, the chief envoy, who was in charge of the administration. Wu Lin looked it over and exclaimed, "I used to think that the young master of the Wang family was just a nerd, but I didn't expect him to be so capable. This ability must be attributed to those veterans in the household department." It's far behind! Let's go, Junhe, let's go to face the saint together, this time, those bastards in Jiangnan must make a big fall!"

It's more than a big fall, when the time comes, the Zhen family may be protected by the emperor, and they can protect themselves by throwing out a side child. However, those salt merchants who participated in it may eventually be ransacked possible.Chen Yejun took a deep breath and nodded, "Your officer obeys!"

Wu Lin took Chen Yejun and hurriedly left this very unremarkable courtyard and went to the palace.

There were not many departments that the emperor really held in his hands except for the General Secretary. Therefore, when he heard that the General Political Envoy asked to see him, he immediately ordered the two to meet.

Under the guidance of a young eunuch, the two entered Juanqinzhai, and saluted the emperor together. Wu Lin lowered her head and said, "All Jiangnan's account books have been checked and checked. Please look over them!" The ledger hands up.

The chief eunuch next to the emperor hurried over to take the account book, and presented it respectfully in front of the emperor. The emperor roughly flipped through it, and then asked, "Tell me first!"

When they were in the carriage, Wu Lin and Chen Yejun had already read the account book from beginning to end, and felt that those people in Jiangnan were really bold. In Jiangnan, the salt tax added up twice a year was almost 800 million taels. , As a result, before Zhou Chuan was in office for more than half a year, he was tripped by someone. There was a gap of nearly one million taels in the salt water handed in in the first half of the year. Zhou Chuan was imprisoned for this. If you want to have both ways, let's talk about it after these three years.

However, first he was tricked by the Zhen family and those powerful families in the south of the Yangtze River, and then the emperor also thought he was a fool, so naturally he was not willing to take advantage of him. Dali Temple quickly issued a judgment, Zhou Chuan was sentenced Asked to kill, the family property was confiscated, and all males were exiled. The better ones were exiled for six hundred miles, and the direct males of Zhou Chuan's family were directly sentenced to three thousand miles. Died in exile.The rest of the lucky ones don't live long.

As a result, when Zhen Yingjia took over, the gap widened even more. The emperor asked them to defend themselves, but Zhen Yingjia spoke convincingly and confidently. That's all, nothing else. If it comes out, it means that so much salt has been sold, and private salt is rampant, so it is normal for the salt tax to drop.

Although it is almost flawless on the books, the emperor would only believe this if he was stupid. When he thought about the loss of nearly 400 million taels of silver, he didn't know what bad things the money was used by Yizhong county king's party. It's hard to sleep or eat.In fact, it was an expedient measure to find Wang Ren. The emperor really didn't trust the officials of the Ministry of Accounts. Of course, no one expected that Wang Ren would discover something strange in the account book so quickly.

A few beads of sweat appeared on Wu Lin's forehead, but she still lowered her head and said, "I would like to report to the emperor, Jiangnan Yanzheng has a total deficit of 210 taels of silver this year. As for the specific whereabouts, I don't know..."

The emperor's face was gloomy, and he slammed the account book in his hand on the table, and snorted coldly: "I don't know, if I don't know, what's the use of raising you people! Are all the General Secretary in the south of the Yangtze River blind?"

Wu Lin lowered her head even lower, and said in a low voice: "Returning to the emperor, when the Xue family was in charge of the Nantong administrative department, something went wrong, and some people were bribed. Although after rectification, a large number of people were replaced, but, The control over the south is far less than that of the north..."

"I don't want to listen to these excuses!" The emperor stared at Wu Lin coldly, and said, "As for the matter of the Jiangnan salt administration, this time, I will hand it over to your Secretary of General Administration, and you must ask me where the money is going. Come out, understand?"

Wu Lin quickly kowtowed in response.

The emperor eased his face, and said lightly: "Then Wang Ren is indeed a talent, and it is a shame to put him in the Imperial Academy!"

Wu Lin hurriedly said, "Your Majesty will see you!"

Chen Yejun hesitated for a moment, and interjected: "Your Majesty, please think twice, the Emperor has just used Wang Ren as soon as the matter of the Yan Administration came out, wouldn't it make people doubtful?"

There was a meaningful smile on the emperor's face: "Junhe, don't worry, the Wang family is loyal to me, and I will never betray my loyal ministers!"

Only then did Chen Yejun relax slightly, and kowtowed: "The emperor is wise!"

"Forget it, the Secretary of the General Administration should deal with this matter urgently, you should step back!" The emperor waved his hand, looked at the account book in his hand, and let out another cold snort in his heart.

Wu Lin and Chen Yejun resigned, and when they stood outside, they wiped off their cold sweat at the same time, while the emperor was inside, after contemplating for a moment, he got up and said, "Come on, let's drive to the Chui Gong Palace!"

The emperor didn't know what tricks he used, which caused the Supreme Emperor to be furious, and he directly agreed to the emperor. If the Zhen family really moved the salt tax, there is no need to worry about it, and it will be dealt with directly.The emperor was naturally overjoyed, although if the Zhen family was really involved, the Supreme Emperor would definitely miss his old love again, but the emperor could take this opportunity to clean up the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River, and slowly cut off the wings of the Yizhong County King, In this way, no matter how eccentric the Supreme Emperor is, he will not be able to shake the overall situation.

In the early morning of the next day, there was a lot of excitement. Several censors were there to impeach the various issues of the Jiangnan Salt Administration. Not enough to warn the world.The emperor was very angry at the occasion, and then ordered the officials involved in the case to be escorted to Beijing, and handed over to the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple for trial.

The royal party of Yizhong County didn't react for a while, and any weak arguments were immediately drowned in the saliva, and finally had to watch the emperor make an edict.

You know, with so much money, at most hundreds of thousands have been sent to the Yizhong County King, and the rest is still in the Zhen family. There are no cash checks or bank transfers these days. Such a large amount of money wants to be transferred. Most of them still have to use cash. The Zhen family is probably being targeted. If there is no accident, the money will probably fall into the hands of the emperor and be recovered. Moreover, the Zhen family may not escape the fate of being ransacked and questioned. King Yizhong couldn't calm down.

Wang Ren, a junior official of the sixth rank, did not have the honor of going to court, so he finally learned about these things from Chen Yejun. However, from Chen Yejun's light words, Wang Ren smelled blood.

After so many years in ancient times, Wang Ren did not feel that time travel was a lucky thing. Not to mention the issue of living standards, but the issue of people's life security. Wang Ren has seen many prominent families who were convicted for various reasons. When they were very young, they had to be escorted to those bitter cold places to serve as soldiers in chains and shackles. Some of them were beheaded directly at the entrance of Caishi. When Wang Ren saw it for the first time, he was shocked by the The blood column was so shocked that he almost vomited out on the spot, and had nightmares for several days.And those female relatives are even more pitiful. The originally pampered ladies of the big family were reduced to official slaves, and they were sold on the stage. It was not bad to be bought as slaves. People's pillow, a little red lips, thousands of people have tasted it.

And after such a turmoil, those families who were on the wrong team may have to repeat this fate.Wang Ren felt even more vigilant, thinking that although he had only checked the accounts, if the members of Yizhong County's Wangyi Party found out, they would be anxious to jump the wall and want to take revenge, and he was afraid that he would be in bad luck. Wang Ren asked in a low voice: "Junhe, do outsiders know about my audit before?"

Chen Yejun also lowered his voice: "Zijing, don't worry, even if it's in the General Secretary, only Master Wu and I know about it, and we will never let it out!"

Wang Ren breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good! Junhe, let's pretend that this incident never happened!"

Chen Yejun said softly: "Zijing, no matter what, I will never let you fall into danger!" As he said this, tenderness inevitably arose, he stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around Wang Ren's flexible waist, and kissed Wang Ren's earlobe , softly said: "Looking at your appearance before, even if you tried it out at the beginning, you were not so exhausted. I thought, why did you follow the emperor's wishes and stop you! No matter what, in the future , I will never let you work so hard again!"

Wang Ren's heart moved, and he said softly: "Say something stupid, the sacred will must not be violated, unless we are not in the court as officials in the future, otherwise, how can we get rid of these things!"

Chen Yejun looked at Wang Ren's delicate and delicate face under the light, and felt a fire ignited in his lower abdomen. He hugged Wang Ren, his voice hoarse: "Zijing, we, we haven't seen each other for several months. That's it!"

Wang Ren was taken aback by this unprepared sentence. Before he could react, Chen Yejun couldn't wait to tear off the silk ribbon tied around Wang Ren's waist, and put one hand into his clothes. Wang Ren's smooth skin moved up and down, stimulating several sensitive areas on Wang Ren's body. Wang Ren's lower body soon began to look up, and he gasped weakly: "Don't, don't be here, go to the inner room!"

Chen Yejun couldn't wait to take Wang Ren in half-supported and half-embraced. Soon, the sound of gasping and groaning could be heard in the room.