"Who is Mrs. Chu?"
Cheng Dabeard didn't react. When he left Chang'an, Li Xiuning had not yet given the title of Madam of Chu. He subconsciously thought that the emperor had found another lover.
This didn't seem surprising to him. He was very popular with women, and when he was still a soldier, he dared to provoke the third wife of the Jun Cheng family.
In fact, this is all said in a nice way, but the bad thing is that the guy was just a refugee at first, and then he became a groom, and he didn't know how he managed it, and then he became a soldier in Mayi County.
He must have hooked up with the queen before that, otherwise how could he be promoted so quickly?
Now that you are the emperor, is it not easy to hook up with others?
Of course, he quickly realized that the Detachment of Women was very famous. The three wives of Li Yuan's family were not inferior to men. Their stories have been spread all over the world, but the most famous one is still the dispute with the current emperor.
That’s all.
"Mrs. Chu... I haven't heard of it outside. I was asked to go into the Li Mansion before. Hey, this is a rare family in Chang'an, with such grandeur..."
"Yeah, haha, that's the good thing about our Yulin Army. When we are accompanying the troops, we can go in and visit anyone's mansion.
Old Cheng, you've been away all this time, and you haven't changed much since you came back, right? I can tell you, Chang'an looks the same every year now, and if you come back a few years later, you might not recognize where it is."
Cheng Zhijie's eyes widened, "How many years will it take you to come back? It's unlucky and unlucky, and you won't be able to feed me back."
After saying that, he picked up the wine cup and poured Tuoba Shou a glass of wine, which meant that Tuoba Shou had a good temper, otherwise he would have been annoyed.
Tuoba Shou pushed aside the playful Cheng Bearded, wiped his mouth, patted his wet clothes, and laughed nonchalantly, "Don't believe it, there are a lot of construction projects going on in the capital recently.
His Majesty is building a palace, and various families are following the trend. Although no one dares to carry out large-scale construction, there is still nothing taboo about repairing the house and garden.
By the way, Dalang, you live in a courtyard with two entrances, right? Don’t you want to repair it or move to another place to live? Now that you have made great achievements, once the reward comes, your place will seem too shabby and you cannot deserve it.
What is your identity as Lao Cheng?
Hehe, don’t worry, if you don’t have enough money, just ask, I’ve still saved some money over the years.”
Well, it was already a consensus among everyone that Cheng Dabeard had no money to spend, and they all wanted to take advantage of Cheng's lack of momentum to make a favor with money first.
Of course, this also shows in disguise that everyone is really optimistic about the outcome of this reward, otherwise who would lend money to Cheng Dabeard's flower envoy? According to Cheng Dabeard's character, it would be from a bottomless pit.
But Cheng Dabeard was not ashamed. Instead, he felt that this was a good brother who had the righteousness to make money, and it also gave him an opportunity to show off.
At this time, he rolled his eyelids and said with disdain: "Old Cheng, I need to borrow money to change my house? To tell you the truth, I brought back a lot of good things from Tubo this time.
By the way, do you know how to exchange gold and silver for silver treasures and copper treasures? Should you go to the Shaofu or the Ministry of Household Affairs? I have heard people say before that when the King of Wu came back, he brought a lot of wealth with him.
Many of them were collected by the imperial court and given to him in exchange for money. Is this true?"
Tuoba Shou nodded enviously. He was a native of Chang'an and always had better information than others. "I have also heard people say this. It should be true, but who is King Wu?
With the imperial court's concession, others don't have to count on it, but Lao Cheng, what you got is an unexpected windfall... Tell me carefully, if the tree is not big, there is no need to bother so much.
I can find someone to buy some property for you, and you can just wait at home to collect the money."
Neither of them actually realized that the most primitive money laundering operation was involved.
Officials' windfalls are nothing more than bribes, so they naturally have to be careful when dealing with them. Nowadays, they are nothing more than purchasing land, buying and selling, etc.
The role of the censors in this world is that even if there is no evidence that you are corrupt and there is no way to punish you, they can make you dare not go too far, let alone spend money.
That's why some famous officials in ancient times, in order to show that they were not greedy for power, would arbitrarily occupy land and demote themselves to the level of poor conduct to clear the king's suspicions.
Covering ambition with greed is an ancient Chinese wisdom and a phenomenon unique to the officialdom of the Central Plains. It is a manifestation of playing with people's hearts and power to the extreme.
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Cheng Dabeard finally suppressed his vanity. He still knew that wealth should not be revealed.
"It's not much, and it's definitely not comparable to King Wu's, but those things are really useless, and I had to transport them all the way back from Tubo with great difficulty.
You don’t know, Hou Junji’s guy was nagging me in my ears all the way. When I return to Chang’an, I must register it with the court, and I can only use it myself after getting permission. Otherwise, people will catch me, and the credit will be lost.
"
Tuoba Shou was a little regretful, wondering what benefits Cheng Dalang had gained from being in Tubo? It was really heart-wrenching.
It's not that he coveted Cheng Bearded's wealth. After all, he was from a noble family and knew that no matter how much money he had, he couldn't buy General Yulin. At this time, it was just curiosity.
"What he said makes sense. If you want to spend it openly, you must first let the people from the Ministry of Revenue check and file it, and then go to the Shaofu to exchange the money.
It should be like this. I will ask you some questions later... The gifts from the Tibetan people are not forced upon you, so they should be fine and can be kept in your hands.
Just when you go to the Shaofu, you have to find someone you know to do it, otherwise... as far as I know, if you go in and get 100%, you can get 30%, which is pretty good.
You don't have to count on gold and silver. The people who exchange money through the Shaofu are not ordinary people. To put it bluntly, when someone like Dalang enters someone else's door, they have the final say.
But it's a good time for you, Da Lang. I heard that the imperial court will have gold treasure next year. Before the exchange, the gold entered the young man's house. If you don't have any connections, you don't have to think about exchanging it for money, it will be withheld.
"
Cheng Dabeard was immediately blinded. He only knew that the young master's supervisor was Wei Jie, and that the young master was distributing money, but he knew nothing about the rest.
Hearing what Tuoba Shouyi said, he felt very distressed. He felt that the young master was about to catch up with the strongman who blocked the road and robbed the wealth. The Shandong gangster at that time immediately called him a black-hearted dog official in his heart.
Tuoba Shou looked at his expression and found it particularly interesting, adding more and more jealously, "I'm afraid it won't be easy for Dalang to bypass the Shaofu this time. He still holds the power of mutual trading.
Regardless of the fact that the transactions with foreign countries are all handled by Honglu Temple, people from the Ministry of Revenue are in charge, but without the signature of the Shaofu, no one on either side can move.
Therefore, the matter of Dalang still has to fall on the young master.
It's not impossible to fiddle with it yourself, but it will take some effort. If others find out and read your book, they won't mention anything about the Inspector Temple or Dali Temple. Anyway, the Young Master will definitely stick to you."
This chapter has been completed!