The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 60

The reason why the Zhen family was able to run rampant in the south of the Yangtze River was because, on the one hand, His Majesty had full confidence in the Zhen family, and on the other hand, it was because no one dared to impeach the Zhen family.

On the south side of the Yangtze River, there is the Zhen family sitting in town, in Beijing there is an adult prince born of the daughter of the Zhen family, and in the palace there is the Zhen family's favorite concubine, plus the Holy Majesty's closeness to the Zhen family, even if someone really wants to impeach, it is very difficult. Sad about these hurdles.

In the original book, even in the declining Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng was able to do things like posting usury purses and soliciting lawsuits. It is not uncommon for so-called servants of wealthy families to encroach on ordinary people's land and money. The final downfall of the Jia Mansion was nothing more than the result of people pushing the wall down. These charges were just an excuse, not the real reason for angering the superiors and ransacking the house.

Even the young and vigorous new emperor who is not very used to the rich and famous is like this, let alone the present who has always been very close and trusting to these people.

But closeness is closeness, and it can't stand the big basket.

Even Tang Xuanzong had to kill Concubine Yang with tears. Although Concubine Zhen was also a favorite concubine and a noble concubine, she really couldn't compare to the posture of Concubine Yang's exclusive favor.Moreover, the Holy Majesty is actually a wise gentleman. Although he favors the Zhen family, he is not really disrespectful.

Just looking at the Zhen family and the eldest prince's hard work, the position of the crown prince is still on the crown prince's head, which shows that the Holy Majesty has not spoiled the Zhen family to the point of disregarding the country and society.

As for the greediness of the Zhen family - the Zhen family was responsible for picking up the Holy Majesty when he went south to Jiangling several times, and the Zhen family had to borrow a large amount of money from the treasury for this.It can be said that the reason why the Holy Majesty gave the weaving job to the Zhen family was not because he expected the Zhen family to be clean.

If we say that the Zhen family's prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River was actually due to His Majesty's favor, even at the beginning, the Zhen family was quite restrained.However, as Concubine Zhen gave birth to princes one after another, and the eldest son became quite powerful and favored, the ambitions of the Zhen family inevitably grew...

Many things in the officialdom are concealed. The Zhen family was indeed quite arrogant in the Jiangnan area later on, but because the Zhen family had a somewhat dominant posture in the Jiangnan area, and the Zhen family first With the protection of the Holy Majesty and the support of the prince, no one would dare to talk to the Holy Majesty about many things. This allowed the Zhen family to sit on their own Jiangnan soil emperor all the time.

However, no one said it didn't mean that the matter didn't exist. The Zhen family completely annoyed the Lin family with just one transaction, and the Xue family had another unintentional violent attack, which aroused the suspicion of the Holy One.

Under normal circumstances, most of the news that can reach the palace is processed through an unknown number of times. The news that can be passed into the palace by the Zhen family usually has been beautified for an unknown number of rounds. Concubine Zhen Gui was busy in the palace, so there was no problem.

In fact, there is no great criminal evidence in the secret book of the Xue family. It can even be said that most of the crimes were picked up and put down gently by Gao Gao, but it can't stand it because Aunt Xue doesn't know what the Holy Master knows. , so I wrote some miscellaneous things, but it seems that there are more things about the Zhen family.

Although none of the matters involved directly involved Zhen Yingjia, if the members of the Zhen family and the slaves were all guilty, no one would believe that Zhen Yingjia was really innocent.

——At least if what Lin Ruhai said in his notes was true, there would be no one in the Zhen family who dared to attack the Lin family except Zhen Yingjia.

As an emperor, and an already quite old emperor, he is always suspicious by nature, and often even thinks more than the facts.For example, this time, the Zhen family actually wanted to distract Lin Ruhai temporarily because of the money, but the Holy One would never believe that the Zhen family really went to feud with the Lin family just because of a little money.

Although Lin Ruhai no longer has a title, Lin Ruhai's father is also a Marquis bestowed by the Holy Majesty. The degree of trust in working for officials is actually far more than that in Zhen's family.

——After all, if the Holy Majesty did not trust the Zhen family's ability to be an official, he would not have let the Zhen family live comfortably in Jinling with the money weaved. If you want to go back to Beijing and work hard in your official career, it is always no problem. If you can become the elder of the pavilion, then it is really a matter of honoring your ancestors.

And... the Zhen family has grown-up princes, not just one.

The most ruthless thing Lin Ruhai did was to clearly report the amount of silver in the salt class this year in all places in the Jiangnan area. Jinling, which is visible to the naked eye, is nearly [-]% less than Yangzhou. After analyzing the annual income of weaving, it is estimated that it is only a lot more than the tax of salt administration.

After all, salt and cloth are considered the necessities of life of the common people, and so is cloth.Moreover, although the tax of the Salt Administration is a bit heavier, there are not many tricks on it. It is not like weaving, but it has to be provided to the nobles. Many weaving things can be regarded as luxury goods.

Lu Buwei once said that pearls and jade win a hundred times. It can be seen that the profit of the trade that goes to the upper class has always been ten hundred times more than that of the common people. It can be seen that the tax revenue of the weaving industry can never be much worse than that of the salt government. many.

However, the money that can be paid for weaving every year is much less than that of the Yanzheng, at least [-]% to [-]% less.

Don't underestimate this seemingly small number. After all, salt administration and weaving are a large part of the national tax revenue. The big head of the country's tax revenue, so the money in the hands of the Zhen family is really not small.

Only the [-]% to [-]% missing by the Zhen family can still account for a large percentage of the national tax revenue. Even with such a generous income, the Zhen family still continues to work on the salt administration without being satisfied. This——

Compared with the predecessors who were so non-human-eating that they could still ask "why not eat minced meat", the Holy One who often runs out when he has nothing to do can be regarded as extremely human-eating, at least when he knows that he often goes out , but no one dared to play tricks like one or two silver eggs in the palace. Although the things specially provided by the royal family were more expensive than those outside, they were not so expensive.

The Holy Majesty only called the steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to inquire briefly about the expenses in the palace, and he could probably figure out the daily expenses.

Not to mention that the Zhen family has been pretending to be pitiful to show that their family's finances are difficult, even if the Zhen family is as extravagant as the expenses in the palace, it can net a few million taels of silver every year.

What is the concept of several million taels of silver... Well, the Zhen family took over five times and decorated a courtyard that is not much worse than the royal garden. They owe a total of 300 million taels of silver to the treasury. Just one year's income.

However, despite this, the Zhen family still wrote letters every year saying that their family was in a difficult situation.

It means that Lin Ruhai has the courage to write a letter to say this.

Yanzheng has always been a lucrative businessman. Ordinary people walk through it once a year, and it is not uncommon for anyone to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.And Lin Ruhai's family has accumulated a large amount of wealth for several generations, coupled with the fact that the family has a small population and does not have too much expenses, it is not that they are not concerned about making money.

For Lin Ruhai, if he could exchange hundreds of thousands of silver for a bright future, that would be his dream.

Don't look at Tanhualang who went to high school when he was in his twenties, and he is now in his forties, but the term of most official positions is still every three years, and Lin Ruhai has been delayed for several years to catch up with filial piety. But it's really not high.

Those sayings about going to the Tianzitang as a farmer at night are all exaggerated and deceptive in the story books. Lin Ruhai, who is a Jinshi and ranks in less than [-], is already considered a young talent. After becoming a Tanhualang, he was awarded the sixth rank .

The salt censor came from a fourth-rank official position, which was considered an exceptional promotion for Lin Ruhai. As usual, Lin Ruhai should be transferred to another place as an official after spending a year at the top of the salt administration. It takes a few years to stay in the official position before there is any possibility of another change.

But who made Lin Ruhai promote more than [-]% of the taxation students in Ren's salt class in the first year of his tenure? This large sum of money for more than a year also allowed Lin Ruhai to serve several more times.

In order to commend Lin Ruhai, he gave a vacant post as a doctor of Lantai Temple, starting from the second rank.In other words, according to the consistent rules, if Lin Ruhai is transferred from his current official position in the future, he can be promoted no matter what. Woolen cloth.

Just looking at this, Lin Ruhai's business is worth it, and naturally he will work harder to rectify the salt class for his confidant.

Because he is fairly clean as an official, he doesn't accept anything other than the customary ice and charcoal respect, so this time Lin Ruhai has the confidence to impeach the Zhen family in front of the Holy One.

Before Lin Ruhai entered the salt class, the income of salt administration and weaving in Lianghuai was indeed the same every year, but who made Lin Ruhai a person who only wanted to honor his ancestors and didn't care about money, even if he still cared about his predecessor's face in the first year? Excessively, after being re-elected two or three times, his annual income can basically be [-]% to [-]% more than normal years.

It’s fine if you don’t think about it. After all, the [-]% to [-]% didn’t rise in a year. It can only be said that Lin Ruhai has indeed contributed to the rectification of the salt class. If you believe Lin Ruhai’s saying that the year is good, that’s it. It is also the default rule to make some money in the salt class, and it doesn't even affect the official careers of Lin Ruhai's predecessors at all.

However, in the past, the tax revenues of salt administration and weaving were the same every year. Now that the income of salt class has increased so much, even though Lin Ruhai is indeed cautious as an official, the income of weaving is still the same as before and even slightly lower. reduce……

After being instructed in this way in vain, even if the Holy Majesty trusted the Zhen family again, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

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Calvin plus the question of being extremely busy recently...

In order to prevent me from crashing in a hurry, let's change it to an update every other day...