Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

When Li Ruolian heard this, he quickly picked up a few booklets from a few subordinates, respectfully put them in front of the prince's table, and then opened them with a general ledger book himself.

Then he said: "The current silver of these six families, calculated out, there are about 3.6 million taels of silver and 80,000 taels of gold, of which Cheng Guogong and Wei Zaode have the most family property, Cheng Guogong has 2.6 million taels of silver, 40,000 taels of gold, Wei Zaode 800,000 taels of silver, 215,000 taels of gold.

"Then, the antiques, calligraphy, paintings, jade, jewelry, and other objects of the six families are worth about one million taels of silver, as well as eighteen shops, and 300,000 stones of grain, of which 250,000 stone of grain belong to Chengguo Gong, and 3,000 hectares of fertile land (300,000 mu), of which 2,000 hectares belong to Chengguo Gong, all of which have been recorded in the register, please take a look at them. "

They didn't feel it when they counted it, but Li Ruolian felt shocked when he read it out according to the account book at the moment, good guy, these six people are really good enough to embezzle, and it is the first time in his life that he has seen so much money.

But when I think about it, I am relieved, isn't this also saving for the prince, saying that if it is not copied, it will be copied.

"Huh.

Zhu Cihong walked down, took the account book and looked at it, and was directly laughed at, now the treasury does not have so much silver.

In the original history, it was rumored that Li Zicheng broke into the capital and looted 70 million taels of silver from the homes of hundreds of officials, which is not counting real estate, so you know how greedy these civil officials are.

It is no wonder that every year there are more and more people who are in arrears of military salaries, every year they raise taxes, every year they go to famine, and every year there are more and more people who rebel.

Corruption from top to bottom, up to the Beijing Division, down to the local officials, large and small, all of them are greedy, so that the money handed over to the state treasury is simply not enough for a year's expenses, and there will be a deficit, not to mention the annual war.

Needless to say, Chengguogong's fields, silver, and grain were all eaten from the empty salaries in the Beijing camp. (For example, if there were 10,000 soldiers, but the governor reported that there were 50,000 soldiers, and asked for labor to pretend to be these 40,000 soldiers, he ate the empty wages of these 40,000 soldiers.)

He Zhu Cihong has also seen a little bit of Ming history, so he naturally remembers that the Jingying in the Chongzhen period was an empty shelf.

This is still six of them in the capital, how terrifying it is to the thirteen provinces of the capital outside, just thinking about it, Zhu Cihong will be blown up.

Zhu Cihong really got

angrier and angrier the more he thought about it! Thinking about it, he suddenly thought of something, so he said: "Li Ruolian, take someone to the hometown of these six people tomorrow and copy it again!"

"Obey the order."

Li Ruolian was slightly stunned when he heard this, and immediately responded, but he secretly exclaimed in his heart, the prince is really ruthless, in a place like his hometown, even he didn't expect to copy it again.

Some old guys will indeed transport some of the money back to their hometown, such as Qian Qianyi, most of the money is in his hometown, of course Zhu Cihong wants to copy his hometown.

There's no way, don't look at the millions of taels of silver that have been copied out of the house now, and there are 80,000 taels of gold, but there are many places to use money in the future, and a few million taels of silver are not enough at all.

It is also that there is no army now, and firearms have not been developed, otherwise he, the crown prince, would definitely kill all the corrupt officials in the world!

Fortunately, now that he has a little money, he can go to research and develop firearms, and then he will control the Beijing camp.

"Ding~ Complete the house raid and get the golden gift package!" At

this moment, a voice came out of Zhu Cihong's mind, and when he heard this prompt, he was finally in a better mood.

"Li Ruolian, take out 100,000 taels of silver from it and distribute it to the brothers who contributed this time, the last time I investigated the traitor with you, and the brothers who subdued the traitors in front of the palace in front of the palace should be more divided.

Zhu Cihong threw the account book into the box containing the silver, and said with a smile: "Then together with the guards of the palace, move these into the East Palace."

"The minister bows to thank His Royal Highness the Prince!" Li

Ruolian looked excited, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times in a row, Jinyiwei was originally low, and there was usually no way to make money, because except for Luo Yangxing's selling of officials before, basically no one would come to Jinyiwei to bribe, and he hadn't been arrested as an official for many years.

"Zhang Huaibin, leave a box like eight people, and you and the others will go to the criminal department with the palace. "

Zhu Cihong has not forgotten that the water is too cold Qian Qianyi, at this moment he is still locked up in the Criminal Department, he is one of the leaders of the Donglin Party, and there will be no shortage of oil and water.

"Li Ruolian!" Zhu

Cihong walked to the door and suddenly turned around and shouted.

"The minister is here!" Li

Ruolian just wanted to get up, and was immediately frightened, and knelt on the ground again.

"Tell me to go down, and the palace will definitely reward you for your merits, but you can't be greedy behind your back, have you heard clearly?"

"The minister is clear, and he will immediately give instructions to His Royal Highness and distribute them to all health centers across the country,"

Zhu Cihong's tone was flat, but Li Ruolian who listened to it broke out in a cold sweat, even if the prince didn't confess, he didn't dare to be greedy, and he remembered the fate of Luo Yang clearly.

......

Penal Department.

Zhu Cihong sat in the lobby, Zhang Huaibin stood on both sides with knives, and thousands of brocade guards outside.

At this moment, it was already midnight (around eight o'clock in the evening), and Feng Ying, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was having dinner at home at the moment, and suddenly received a summons from Qiu Zhizhong, the eunuch of the East Palace, so he immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks and rushed over.

"Feng Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, see His Royal Highness the Prince's Chitose!" Feng Ying

wiped the sweat from his forehead, and muttered a little in his heart, this prince just got angry in the court this morning, and he raided the homes of those six people in the afternoon, why did he come to the Ministry of Punishment again at night, don't you come to trouble him.

The prince doesn't take a break, this is too diligent!"

"Qian Qianyi, what crime are you convicted?"

Zhu Cihong looked at Feng Ying lightly.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Qian Qianyi committed corruption and perverted the law.

Feng Ying let out a long sigh of relief in her heart, it turned out that the prince was here for Qian Qianyi.

"Then according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, how to deal with corruption and perversion of the law?"

Zhu Cihong said.

"Because Qian Qianyi was not greedy for much money, he was sentenced to dismissal and revocation, and the minister was waiting for the cabinet's reply before executing.

Feng Ying said cautiously, afraid that he would find a problem with the prince and cure him.

"Don't wait for the palindrome, the palace has already rejected it, you go and bring Qian Qianyi over to see the palace.

Zhu Cihong said with a booklet in his hand.

"Yes.

Feng Ying was stunned for a moment, hurriedly retreated, rushed to the prison of the Criminal Department, and thought as he walked: Your Highness will not reuse Qian Qianyi, no, you will have a better attitude later.

"Your Excellency.

The jailers were all surprised when they saw Feng Ying go to prison, this was also the first time they saw Shang Shu coming to this messy prison, and hurriedly saluted.

"Yo, Brother Qian, what are you doing here, you don't have any eyesight, look at this environment, it's so dirty, come on, open the door quickly."

Feng Ying saw Qian Qianyi lying on the stone bed swinging, rats crawling all over the ground, it was pitch black, and there was not a single candle, so she immediately frowned and reprimanded the cell boss on the side.

"Hmph, Master Feng, don't smile with me here, if you come to see my jokes, then you have already seen it, and you can go.

Qian Qianyi snorted coldly, tidied up his messy hair, and sat up upright, after all, he was also a great writer in Jiangnan, and the necessary demeanor could not be messed up.

"Hey, Brother Qian, you really misunderstood me, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who wanted to see you, please.

"Huh?" Qian

Qianyi wondered in his heart, what did the prince do when he saw him, he had never even met before.

Feng Ying was not angry, she still greeted Qian Qianyi with a smile, and along the way, she also chatted with him and chatted happily.

Soon, the two came to the lobby of the criminal department.

"Your Highness, Qian Qianyi brought.

After Feng Ying finished speaking, he respectfully stepped aside.

"Sinner, Qian Qianyi greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose!" Qian Qianyi

knocked a few times, then looked at the prince in front of him, and was shocked, I don't know why, the prince looked at him a little strangely, but where was the strange, he couldn't say.