Li Shanchang scolded so loudly that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. Now he did not dare to blame Zhang Ximeng at all, and he was only grateful. He had heard about the great wealth of the Wang family for a long time. It was the top wealthy family in Hangzhou. They and Yuan
Ting Ye has many connections and a huge overseas trade business. It is a real behemoth.
Zhu Yuanzhang had long been eyeing the Wang family, but since there were more things to sort out and it was too late to take action against them, he could only arouse them but not take action.
But the Wang family is not an ordinary person. They may have sensed the crisis a long time ago, and then they tried to bribe senior officials of Zhu Jiajun in an attempt to save the family business.
So he found a way and delivered the tea to Li Shanchang.
This matter is definitely not as simple as it seems. How many people in the Yamen work for the Wang family, including those around Li Shanchang? Are those people reliable?
Who put the tea leaves in there?
He, Mr. Li, has become a sieve around him. Is this okay?
That is to say, Zhang Ximeng accidentally broke through. Without his intervention, Li Shanchang asked himself that he might not be able to withstand the temptation.
But once you are bribed by the Wang family and get involved with them, what will happen to you?
Li Shanchang did not dare to say that at this moment, he actually felt like he was surviving a disaster. Zhang Ximeng had saved him...Looking at Wang Huan again, this beast desperately took him into the ditch and only wished that he would not die.
Just wait, I will deal with you severely when I turn around!
Wang Huan obviously did not expect the complexity of the matter. In his opinion, the only way to deal with an old bureaucrat like Li Shanchang is to rely on beauty to hit him hard!
If he doesn't take the bait, it just means you haven't invested enough, and maybe he doesn't believe what you say.
"Li Xiang, my family and life depend on this matter, so I definitely don't dare to deceive Li Xiang. Although King Wu is not allowed to retain his position, I still have a way! I guarantee that Li Xiang can easily get hundreds of thousands of taels.
, If there is less than one tael of silver, Prime Minister Li can just kill the nine villains!" Wang Huan said eagerly.
But to Li Shanchang's ears, it's no less than a reminder. Stop talking nonsense, I will destroy your nine tribes now!
Li Shanchang shook off Wang Huan and was about to leave. At this time, the women came over and begged softly, crying and crying.
This made the half-aged Li Shanchang upset. He had no intention of thinking about this, so he could only look at Zhang Ximeng desperately.
You see, I didn't take the initiative, I didn't do anything, let's go quickly!
But despite Old Li's winks, Zhang Ximeng was like a nail, nailed to the ground, motionless.
He was also very curious. First of all, Lao Zhu had denied the matter of the job field a few days ago. With the Wang family's hands and eyes, they shouldn't have known about it.
As for the latest proposed salary plan, since it was announced just now, it is understandable that the Wang family does not know about it.
They can confidently raise the issue of employment, which means that there are still huge loopholes that have not been filled.
Compared with killing someone, Zhang Ximeng cared more about how to fill in the gaps and solve loopholes, especially matters related to finance and taxation, which Zhang Ximeng cared about the most. He winked at Li Shanchang.
Lao Li was not a fool, and he also guessed Zhang Ximeng's thoughts.
It's a pity that he is not in Zhang Ximeng's mood. Although Lao Li is in charge of finance and taxation and is Zhu Yuanzhang's chief steward, he is more concerned about this kind of thing, but now is a critical time. Master Zhang, can you put aside your curiosity?
Let's take down the Wang family and interrogate them slowly. Is there anything else we can't find out?
However, it was not Li Shanchang who had the final say in this matter. He could only bite the bullet and said: "I am honest and self-sufficient. I never take bribes and bend the law. If you disobey the king's law like you, you will be punished by heaven sooner or later!"
Wang Huan was frightened. It was true that Li Shanchang was no better than the officials he had met before, but since Li Shanchang was still willing to listen to him, it meant there was hope.
Are there people in this world who cannot be bought with money?
"Xiang Li, this matter is not the fault of Xianggong Li alone. It is actually a loophole in the rules set by King Wu. Even if Xianggong Li is not greedy or possessive, others will do it. Since everyone is like this, why should Xiang Li be different?
"
"You fart!" Li Shanchang was so angry that he cursed, "What do you think of King Wu's officials? Even though I am not talented, there is Mr. Zhang and everyone else. Are they also corrupt and perverting the law?
"
Not bad, at this time, Li Shanchang still remembered to flatter Zhang Ximeng.
But Wang Huan was full of disdain, "Xianggong Zhang is just a nerd. No matter how good his articles are, he has no knowledge of government affairs. He is not much better than Zhu Xi!"
Okay, what a big breath!
When he said this, Zhang Ximeng's eyes suddenly became stern, and then he remained silent, just staring coldly at the back of Wang Huan's head.
It's been such a long time and I haven't seen anyone so eager to die. Let me take a closer look. How far can you go?
Li Shanchang was stunned for a moment, and actually became curious. This time, it wasn't just me, but even Zhang Ximeng was despised. Li Shanchang's mood actually improved a little bit.
"What exactly do you mean? In your eyes, are all the civil and military officials under King Wu so unworthy?"
Wang Huan knelt and crawled forward for half a step. He straightened his back and seemed to be somewhat solemn.
"So that Li Xiang will know... Although the King of Wu is not allowed to have jobs and jobs, the local government still needs to operate and daily expenses are needed. In addition, the King of Wu has opened the imperial examination, and the number of local scribes and servants has increased greatly compared with before. All of this requires
It takes an astonishing amount of money, grain, and taxes to support us.”
"The villain also learned that when he was in Huaixi, the King of Wu used grain chiefs to collect local land taxes and escort them to the treasury. In addition, he also set up military camps to supplement military grains. In this way, both the army and the people would have enough money and grain. In case of war,
The soldiers fought bravely to take the lead, and the people enthusiastically transported food, which is why the King of Wu is so prosperous today!"
As expected of a wealthy family, this Wang Huan actually explained the secrets of Zhu Jiajun's finances and taxation in just a few words. But thinking about it, there is no need to be too surprised.
With the strength of the Wang family, they will definitely help Yuan Ting collect taxes, whether it is land taxes, grain, or commercial taxes. They have been exposed to them all. Anyone with a little common sense knows that Yuan Ting condones the powerful merchants. These people are all government officials and businessmen.
, understands the operation of the government, and there is nothing strange about it.
"Xiangong Li, there is a saying that if you prosper with this, you will perish with it. Using food for long marches and transporting food with civilians has indeed saved a lot of trouble and a lot of officials. It seems that the king of Wu will not be able to gain a temporary advantage.
It will be easily abolished. But the grain chief is definitely not an official, and he cannot transfer finance and taxes to the court level by level."
"As for now, I know that there are many grain chiefs in Chuzhou, Hezhou and other places. They only need to send the tax grains to Yangzhou without going through the Ministry of Household Affairs. And some of these tax grains must be retained.
For local use, as the territory of King Wu becomes more and more vast, and there are more and more people and acres of land, more and more taxes and grains will be retained for transfer... A wise person like Li Xianggong will not fail to understand how much manipulation can be done here.
Missing."
As if Wang Huan didn't think it was enough, he continued: "The King of Wu was born in poverty. How had he ever seen much money? Prime Minister Zhang was young and didn't know much about food, rice, oil and salt. His equalization of land was somewhat clever, but after equalizing the land,
, don’t we still need to collect land taxes? Since we have to collect land taxes, someone has to do it, and it involves how to distribute these land taxes..."
Wang Huan talked eloquently, after digging into Li Shanchang, he despised Zhang Ximeng, and now he still despises Zhu Yuanzhang... He successfully completed three kills and was on the way to death, sitting on a rocket and rushing madly.
He was so smug that he even came up with specific solutions.
"Prime Minister Li only needs to set aside a part of the land and count it as local government expenses. He orders the grain chief to use it exclusively for the Hangzhou government and the surrounding military officials. In this way, the imperial household department will not be able to control these acres. King Wu
There, as long as he ensures that the food delivered to Taicang is sufficient, he will not worry about other things. And how to deal with these lands and how to make money, it does not depend on the villain's methods! At that time, as long as there are more mulberry trees, more
By building tea gardens and relying on overseas trade, the money earned from barbarians is more than hundreds of thousands!"
…
"Stop talking!"
Li Shanchang suddenly shouted angrily and interrupted Wang Huan's words. His body was already trembling.
Wang Huan thought that he had been persuaded and could not control himself, so he shut his mouth obediently and waited for Lao Li to give in to his gold and silver offensive.
Don't look at me kneeling now, you are standing.
As long as you take my money and do things for me, then you, Prime Minister Li, will kneel down!
After all these years, do our Wang family still have few officials to deal with?
No one can handle this.
Li Shanchang was indeed frightened, but he understood it exactly the opposite to Wang Huan.
Zhu Jiajun has developed to this day, and the fiscal and taxation system is in urgent need of upgrading.
In the past period of time, Zhang Ximeng had not interfered with this issue. He, Li Shanchang, just pushed the car forward without going backwards, and did not take the initiative to make up for the loopholes.
As a result, the Wang family appeared and came up with ways to amass wealth.
For Lao Li, this was almost impossible to explain.
Did you, Lao Li, do it on purpose?
How greedy are you?
What other bad things have you done?
Li Shanchang's head was buzzing. If this reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, wouldn't he be cut into pieces?
"Arrogant!"
Lao Li only said these two words and walked away. Wang Huan was shocked. He didn't understand why Li Shanchang didn't take the bait when he offered such a high price?
Did you guess wrong?
"Xianggong Li, the life and death of our Wang family depends on you. I hope Xianggong Li will not abandon the villain. The villain, there are several golden Buddhas in the temple, the largest one is worth ten thousand taels of gold! The other villains are
In addition to the temple property, there are still 50,000 acres of mulberry fields, which can also be dedicated to Mr. Li! In short, as long as Mr. Li..."
"Get away!"
Li Shanchang didn't want to listen at all. There were already enough reminders, and now he just wanted to deal with the Wang family quickly.
Seeing that he could not bribe Li Shanchang no matter what, Wang Huan gritted his teeth. He actually stood up from the ground, looked at Li Shanchang fiercely, and sneered: "Prime Minister Li, do you think the Wang family is just a dog? If you kill us, these
All the property is yours too?"
Li Shanchang just snorted, too lazy to speak. Do you still want to threaten me?
Don’t overestimate your capabilities!
Wang Huan gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Li Xiang, as long as you promise to let us live, everyone can live in peace. This is the best! If you don't want to, there are people from our family around this garden now, little one."
If I don’t have the ability to do anything else, I can still do it by kidnapping Mr. Li and heading to Suzhou!"
Is this going to break your skin?
Li Shanchang looked at Zhang Ximeng, who had been silent, and said slowly: "Xiang Zhang, you have been listening for so long. When you come, I asked you to prepare manpower to avoid arresting both of us. Do you have any arrangements? "
Zhang Xiang!
Wang Huan was stunned. Only then did he notice that the young man dressed as a servant was actually Zhang Ximeng? Did he hear what he just said?
Zhang Ximeng smiled lightly, "Brother Li, I don't know who should protect us both, so I asked Zhu Ying to send a message to the Lord. I think the Lord will take action."
What?
Did Zhu Yuanzhang know?
Now not only Wang Huan, but also Li Shanchang felt that five thunders were striking... Zhang Ximeng, you don't follow martial ethics!