After dressing as a villain, I am addicted to farming

Just a few days after the court meeting, the courtiers saw a large number of people in various clothes being led into the palace by Laifu at the gate of the palace. If anyone asked, he would answer mysteriously: "This is the palace sent The spies who went out are now coming back to report."

Everyone was shocked, and some even saw their housekeeper and nuns in charge in the team.

The spies... Needless to say, everyone already knows what the spies did.

The night of this day is destined to be a sleepless night. The officials who returned to the various mansions frantically searched in the mansion for any servants who disappeared in the mansion in the past few days. After doing so, they found that there were really few people in their mansion. ...

Apart from searching in their minds whether they had done anything corrupt and illegal over the years, they also summoned the wives and concubines in the mansion and asked them all about it.

In the imperial study room, on the floor tiles in front of Qu Zhong, there was a hill of pamphlets. These were the pamphlets handed over by the returning palace men and maids, which recorded in detail the situations they had investigated in each government.

If it weren't for being in front of Qu Zhong at this moment, Weng Yongkang really wanted to put his hand on his chin that was about to fall out of shock. In the early court, he was still thinking that this trick to intimidate the officials was just a fool's dream. In the next hour, these evidences were clearly placed in front of him. ,

But... when will these booklets be finished.

"What else is there, love?"

Just now he told the Ministry of Household Affairs to take these papers away, but Qu Zhong wondered if he didn't speak clearly enough, why the person in front of him still looked stupid.

"Your majesty... all of these...all of these?" Weng Yongkang asked with difficulty.

"Who told you to watch it now..."

He got up and went down from the desk to pick up a booklet, Qu Zhong pointed to the name on the booklet: "It has already been written which government it belongs to, and the Ministry of Household Affairs just needs to sort out these booklets, and then some officials will come and surrender themselves." , you just find the corresponding brochure and have a look.”

"This... the old minister knows what to do."

"It's good to know!"

"If there are no ministers to surrender themselves! Then these brochures will be all-purpose." Weng Yongkang is a little worried, this is related to the official duties of hundreds of subordinates in the entire household department for several months.

"There will be someone... Aiqing, go back and wait to see."

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as there is a person to start, there will be fewer and fewer people who are lucky. After all...Compared to a clear charge, knowing nothing is the scariest thing.

"Old minister, there is still one thing I don't know..."

"What's the matter."

"Isn't this under the control of the Ministry of War? Why did it become the Ministry of Households to take over?"

"Ah, this ah..."

Qu Zhong pinched his cheek with his index finger and looked at Weng Yongkang with some embarrassment. It couldn't be said that it was because Wang Jianbai was still drunk in the hunting ground after eating the fruit at the hunting meeting.

Thanks to Lai Fu who set off overnight and rushed back to the palace, he knew that Zhufeng Kingdom hadn't been able to break out of camp yet, and those courtiers who ate the fruit were all asleep. If it wasn't for the imperial doctor's diagnosis that they were all drunk, everyone would suspect The collective is poisoned.

"I think Weng Aiqing should be more comfortable handling this matter. After all...it is more practical to enrich the treasury than to catch their pigtails."

"Your Majesty, do you mean fine money?"

"Ai Qing really understands my heart very well."

This is Qu Zhongde's real purpose. Looking at the situation in Fenghe County, one can see that the streets are full of men and women wearing silk and satin. These people are more or less related to a certain official in the court. Anyone who steps on it casually on weekdays may be a relative of the emperor.

It's completely impossible to replace all the people, but if they don't change people, they have to be skinned. After all, the most important thing these people need... is money.

"The old minister knows how to do it..."

Reluctant when he came, he had a happy face when he left, which is the most suitable description for Weng Yongkang. When he thought that the national treasury would be full soon, all his unhappiness would have disappeared without a trace.

And he also knew that Qu Zhong was just trying to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys. Now... it's just the beginning, and the main event is yet to come!

***

Things didn't go as smoothly as Qu Zhong expected. For half a month, the door of the household department was so quiet that no bird flew by. The court was full of courtiers who were watching, especially when he was not present at the court meeting. When this matter was mentioned, everyone's hearts gradually relaxed.

One day after the court meeting, Weng Yongkang finally couldn't help but found the Imperial Study Room and asked how to proceed with the matter.

Qu Zhong took out a few booklets from the Long An, and asked him and Liu Xiong to follow the list in the booklet to search the houses next to each other. Since these people didn't even accept his last kindness, they had to do it themselves.

On April [-]th, Liudong Lane where the residences of officials of the third rank gather.

As soon as it was dawn, the alley began to be noisy, and the alley was surrounded by countless carriages. A white tiger slowly jumped down from one of the huge carriages, and looked at it lazily. The people around you.

It was always followed by a black-faced strong man with a flattering expression. He held a tray full of his own fruits in his hand, and while leading the tiger to one of the houses, he held an apple to the tiger's mouth.

But... the tiger ignored him at all, its golden tiger eyes just stared at the door of the house in front of it.

Weng Yongkang followed behind, looking at the one person and one tiger in front of him rather speechlessly, Liu Xiong was completely trapped by Huazi, I am afraid he never thought that most of the ministers in the court had been offended by him... Still giggling there.

But...thinking about myself...it seems that I have also boarded Qu Zhong's thief ship!

"It's so old..." Weng Yongkang slammed his head hard, and Liu Xiong asked suspiciously, "Old Weng, are you feeling unwell?"

"No, no, I'm just thinking about what to do for a while. This is the first time I've done a search."

"Don't worry, Mr. Weng, Hanako will definitely turn the mansion upside down."

Liu Xiong laughed, and confidently patted his chest to assure that when he went to search Luan Qizhi's mansion a few days ago, Huazi could even find the hidden jewels buried in the ground, let alone such a few much smaller mansions now.

"That's fine, that's fine..."

Seen by the golden tiger eyes, Weng Yongkang always felt as if he was swept away by Qu Zhong's eyes. This tiger seems to be able to read people's hearts. difference.

Apart from Jiang Zhengyuan, the only courtier who could touch its fur was the eunuch Laifu who was next to Qu Zhong. Cabinet ministers like Liu Xiong and him could only take a close look.

As for the others... It's even hard to see its figure. The palace people in the palace can only see its figure jumping easily on the roof of the palace from a distance.

Can it tell how sincere the minister is to Qu Zhong?

Thinking of this, the hairs on Weng Yongkang's neck suddenly stood on end, and he suddenly remembered Luan Qizhi's miserable state after being imprisoned. He went to see it once with Jiang Zhengyuan... It can only be described as horrible.

Luan Qizhi's limbs seemed to have been bitten off, and even his face was left with many wounds that seemed to be scratched by some sharp weapon. At that time, Jiang Zhengyuan blamed the Ministry of Punishment for using too severe punishment, but the officer in charge of the review told them very aggrieved, This wound was caused by Hanako who suddenly rushed in last night, and they hadn't had time to torture him yet.

He was taken aback at the time, thinking that a beast is always a beast, and it is its nature to hurt people with its wildness. It wasn't until Luan Qizhi immediately confessed that he was privately raising an army outside the city when he saw them that he had There was a slight sense of something wrong.

Until today, he was finally sure... this tiger has its own intelligence.

"Hurry up, Old Weng, Huazi has already smelled silver."

After walking a few steps, Liu Xiong found that Weng Yongkang was still in a daze, and the half of his body that had already entered the door withdrew back, just standing at the door and waving at him.

"I'm coming……"

Now not only his forehead, Weng Yongkang felt that his back was covered with cold sweat, he could only bear back the chill and walked towards Liu Xiong quickly.

I'm afraid...not only this tiger is not a mortal thing, even their emperor is...

In just one day, four mansions in Liudong Lane were ransacked. With Hanako, no one dared to resist. Everyone could only watch helplessly that no matter where their gold, silver and jewelry were hidden, they would be destroyed. was rummaged out.

The luck that existed in my heart a few days ago was completely shattered at this moment.

In the evening of that day, all the houses received notes from the palace, with only numbers written on them. The eunuch who sent the notes clearly told them that this was the next sequence of house raids. Since they didn’t want to hand them over by themselves If you are fined silver, you can only wait for the door to pick it up.

Only then did everyone realize that the previous few days were just a grace given to them by Qu Zhong...

Especially Zhang Meng, the left servant of the Ministry of War, who got the fifth place. The note was placed on his desk like a reminder. After struggling all night, he summoned the servants in the mansion to count most of the mansion. The belongings were brought into the palace in a carriage before dawn.

He thought that he would not only confiscate his home but also go to prison like the previous colleagues, but when he walked out of the courtyard of the household department intact, he felt a faint feeling of gratitude to Qu Zhong in his heart.

It turns out... what he said in the court was true.

After experiencing the rebirth after the catastrophe, he didn't know what he was thinking, so he went around lobbying his friends to get them to surrender. This would not only keep his official position, but also leave a small fortune like him.

With the beginning of one or two people, this matter became easier. For more than a year, the carriages at the door of the household stopped.

Weng Yongkang would report to Qu Zhong on the recent filling of the state treasury every month, and he also complained that the horse manure in many sub-household departments made the household department's mouths stink extremely.

This matter began to gradually ferment in the entire Zhufeng Kingdom. Since Qu Zhong became the throne three years ago, his reputation has been positively praised for the first time, and there are even storytelling books written by him three times in the folk storytelling library.

Until a new announcement was posted on the bulletin board outside the palace gate, all citizens of Zhufeng Kingdom can go to the county government to receive three taels of silver with their household registration documents, which will be used as seed money for next spring plowing.

As soon as the announcement came out, Qu Zhong's virtuous name began to rise in the country, and the common people had a little trust in this once absurd emperor for the first time.

While Qu Zhong in the palace listened to Lai Fu's vivid description, he just slightly raised his eyelids, and there was only a trace of happiness in his heart.

He, the emperor... just started to pass the test.