Although Guan Huaigong was a lowly official, in front of the Suzhou magistrate, he showed a majesty that could not be resisted.
The Jin Yiwei and the tax soldiers filed out of the Suzhou magistrate's office.
Guan Huaigong clasped his hands together.
He looked calmly at the Suzhou magistrate who was sitting on the magistrate's case.
"There is something that I don't know whether your Lord knows about."
The Suzhou magistrate raised his head blankly, met Guan Huaigong's gaze with fear in his eyes, and then immediately dodged away.
Guan Huaigong continued: "The Jinyi Guards have been expanded, and the Taxation Office has also placed many soldiers from the Northern Expedition this time."
The Suzhou magistrate's eyes showed horror.
He knew that this was Guan Huaigong's warning to him.
Even though Guan Huaigong still has to make a trip to Songjiang Prefecture, it doesn't mean that no one knows about the affairs in Suzhou Prefecture.
Jin Yiwei and the tax bureau were still watching him in Suzhou City.
Escape secretly?
Or walking up and down?
Obviously, there is no chance of another chance.
Guan Huaigong smiled and turned around. Only his slightly cold voice reached the ears of the Suzhou magistrate.
"If I were the prince of the palace, I would already be thinking about which family in Suzhou city to attack first."
Say it.
Guan Huaigong finally walked away.
Outside the Suzhou government office, a burst of hearty laughter could be heard not long after.
Fu Yali.
The Suzhou magistrate, who was still sitting upright in his seat, went limp all over and began to slide uncontrollably on his chair, finally falling to the ground with a bang.
He's finished.
He, the prefect of Suzhou, was completely finished.
Even if he recovered the one million taels of silver for the court, the court would not let him go, let alone the local people.
The priority is just that if he obeys the court's wishes and recovers the one million taels of silver obediently, maybe his family can survive.
If he didn't do it, the court would still send someone else to recover the money, and he would have to bear the guilt of being implicated.
The court gave him the last bit of dignity.
The Suzhou prefect, who fell to the ground, panted heavily, climbed up from the ground with difficulty, and sat on his seat again.
"Someone is coming!"
The prefect of Suzhou shouted in the hall.
There was silence all around.
The prefect of Suzhou stopped shouting and sat quietly.
After a long, long time, officials and servants from the government office gathered carefully from all over.
The Suzhou magistrate took a deep breath and said with a hard expression: "Here comes someone!"
The officers from the third squadron of the government office immediately responded, waiting for the prefect's order.
"Capture all the co-presidents, general judges, officials, experienced officers, governors, and supervisors of this office!"
In front of the hall, the Suzhou magistrate's face was full of murderous intent, and his expression was unchangeable.
The three squad policemen were silent for a while, wondering whether they should obey the prefect's order.
The faces of the magistrate's Yamen officials who were present indeed changed greatly.
"Fu Zun!"
"What have we committed? The Lord of the Palace wants to take advantage of me!"
"If the Master wants to do this, we will have no choice but to die."
The officials shouted angrily.
The Suzhou magistrate's face was cold, and he looked at the three police officers: "You won't listen to what I say?"
"Follow the order!"
The head catcher of the third team's arresting room trembled all over and reacted immediately.
In the blink of an eye, all the officials in the government office were captured and taken to the government office prison.
The prefect of Suzhou spoke again: "Recall the officers from outside and invite the Jinyi Guards of Suzhou Prefecture, the Tax Division of Suzhou Prefecture, and the Suzhou Guards to follow me to the Lu family to check out everything that should be hidden in the house. How many of them are secretly there?
If you tell the truth, I will kill you without mercy! Then I will send a message to the capital to execute the three clans of you!"
Even the third team of policemen who had just put the government officials in jail were surprised at this moment.
The Lu family in Suzhou Prefecture is a famous and wealthy family. It can even be said to be a wealthy family that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Suzhou Prefecture can live without government offices, but it cannot live without the Suzhou Lu family.
It’s not that the Lu family has made much contribution to Suzhou Prefecture, but that the Lu family controls more than half of the people’s livelihood industries in Suzhou Prefecture, and more than half of the shops in Suzhou City are owned by other people.
Anyone who comes to Suzhou Prefecture to be an official is not allowed to log in to his home when he takes office, and then he can enter the government office.
Everyone looked at the murderous look on Suzhou's magistrate's face, but they all hesitated.
The Suzhou magistrate looked at these hesitant officers with fierce eyes and said fiercely: "If you don't listen, I will just tell you that the three clans will be wiped out today!"
The officers shrank their heads, but at this time, no one was willing to be the first to stand up.
The chief of the third team of police officers raised his head and said, "Master Fu, the raid on the Lu family was carried out on your own initiative? Or was it the intention of the imperial court?"
The Suzhou magistrate slapped his hands heavily on the table: "I represent the imperial court! Today, I am complying with the imperial court's wishes and following the order of the governor's Yamen, I ordered you and others to search the Lu family in Suzhou!"
The chief of the third team of detectives nodded: "If the master said this, I will understand. I will take people to the Lu family now."
As he spoke, the Suzhou government office manager prepared to turn around and lead his people to the Lu family's house.
However, the Suzhou prefect snorted coldly: "Come here, capture him and put him in jail together! The deputy of the arresting house will be temporarily appointed as the chief arresting officer!"
Everyone in front of the hall was stunned again.
But the deputy of the third team of policemen reacted immediately.
Without waiting for others to react, he had already taken down the chief catcher with his cronies. In order to give the prefect a quiet office environment, he casually took a piece of smelly cloth and stuffed it in the chief catcher's mouth.
inside.
At this point, everyone can see clearly.
The prefect of Suzhou is really crazy, but whoever dares to oppose him now will seriously commit the crime of annihilating three clans.
But Suzhou Prefecture never leaked any news.
Only half an hour later, the entire city of Suzhou launched an operation to raid the merchants of the Jin gentry.
Countless families were taken away, and the Suzhou magistrate's eyes flashed green as he turned every family upside down.
The government offices don't even need to collect evidence of crime. There is no one in the government office who hasn't secretly kept a ledger. As long as he takes a second look, there are no good people in Suzhou.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Starting from Suzhou Prefecture, the entire 18th Prefecture of Zhili Road, including Yingtian Prefecture, all started a large-scale investigation campaign.
The prefect of Suzhou was so frightened that he rushed to break up his family regardless.
Other prefectures and counties have relaxed a bit, but each family counts them as one family, forcing local big businessmen and big gentry to make up for past arrears and shortfalls.
But even so.
For the first time, people truly and intuitively felt the wealth of the Jiangnan Jin gentry clan and private merchants.
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"There are 18 prefectures in Zhili Road. If each prefecture has one million taels, you can get back eighteen million taels..."
In the empty Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang clasped his hands behind his back and spoke calmly.
He walked out of the palace, and behind him were Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi.
Zhu Yuanzhang continued to ask: "How many days has it been?"
Zhu Yunxi glanced at the fat man next to him.
Zhu Gaochi understood and immediately took a half step forward and whispered: "It's been ten days since I returned to Grandpa."
"It's been ten days." Zhu Yuanzhang seemed a little surprised, and then he snorted heavily: "For ten days, there has been no news of any local unrest."
The emperor's eyes were somewhat rich, and his eyes seemed to have penetrated the palace wall, looking towards the 18th Mansion of Zhili.
Zhu Yunxi nodded slightly: "It is true that there has never been any bad news. The reason for such a good situation is that you have chosen the right person, grandpa."
He was talking about the old man's appointment of Zou Xueyu as the Governor-General of Zhili.
Zhu Yuanzhang just smiled, and then rolled his eyes at the bastard: "This is because their bones have not been broken and their blood has not been sucked dry. They still have some strength left, so they dare not cause any trouble."
Is the old man not satisfied with the 18 million taels of recovered business taxes?
Zhu Yunxi couldn't hold it.
According to the calculations of him and Zou Xueyu's gang, these eighteen million taels of silver were already an addition to the amount that should have been there.
The purpose is to let those people below remember the pain.
But except for those who do many evil things, the rest cannot be beaten to death with a stick.
After all, people's livelihood is important.
The court got the money back, those people paid the price and learned a lesson, but Ming society continued to function.
"Let's teach them a lesson."
Zhu Yuanzhang said quietly.
At this time, the three of them, grandfather and grandson, had already reached the east side of the three main halls and were still walking south.
Are you going to the cabinet? Or are you leaving the palace?
Zhu Yunxi was a little unclear, so he could only follow the old man.
"I was a little worried at first about the matter of collecting money from each other's parents. But within a few days, you came up with the Daming Bank and the Daming Company. It was a tacit cooperation." Zhu Yuanzhang walked on this majestic road with his hands behind his back. Inside Yingtianhuang City, it is like an old farmer walking on the edge of his field.
He continued: "If we just talk about collecting land and collecting money, it can be regarded as good governance. But we have all seen that as long as we let this hole go, those people in the local area can always find many ways to continue to prey on the people. So you guys
What you did this time is very good, very good. In the future, banks must strictly control the price-to-price ratio in the world, and businesses must do a good job even if they lose money, they must ensure that the prices for people's daily necessities will not be treacherous.
Chaos.”
Zhu Yunxi immediately nodded and said: "No matter how hard it is, we can't hurt the people anymore. My grandson will explain it to Yousi Yamen. The eighteen million taels of silver recovered this time, except for the money that was dismantled from the Ministry of Household Affairs at the beginning of the year,
Return it back, and the rest will be placed with banks and merchants to use it to better run our country's economy."
The three of them continued walking south.
At this moment, we have arrived at the square in front of Fengtian Hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang added: "We will wait until next year to collect money per mu. When there is an opportunity, we will push it to the area around Zhili Road first. The merchants and household departments must be prepared to store grain. They cannot reduce the number of grains just because it is convenient for the people and the court."
Loss and loss, regardless of the imperial court's military needs on the frontier."
"Returning to Grandpa, the business and the Ministry of Household Affairs are discussing how the imperial court should ensure the country's food and grass expenditure if the per-mu system of collecting money continues to be implemented. I think there will be another agreement soon."
Zhu Gaochi explained from the side.
He was a little helpless, because he was still responsible for the tax office, so he had to do the work of collecting money from his parents by himself.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "You brothers have grown up and become more stable. Our Ming Dynasty will definitely be safe and sound in your hands in the future. Grandpa is very relieved now."
Zhu Gaochi smiled implicitly: "It's all thanks to your good teaching, grandpa, the boys are still a little frivolous sometimes."
He was trying to lighten the burden on his shoulders.
Zhu Yunxi glanced at Xiaopang and said immediately: "Brother Chi is now more and more capable of taking on tasks. My grandson is already planning to hand over the business and bank affairs to him as well."
The three of them, grandfather and grandson, had already walked out of the Meridian Gate and continued walking southward under the high palace wall.
If you go further south, you will really have to leave the palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang indeed glanced at the faces of Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi: "Brother Chi is a human being, not a god descending to earth. The spread of the clan is the most important thing. Don't stay home all day, even Brother Chi will learn from it."
Same as you."
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already passed through Duanmen with his two grandsons and stood under the palace gate to the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Zhu Yunxi looked around and sighed silently in his heart.
obviously.
The old man is not dissatisfied with the eighteen million taels of silver that Zhili Road is recovering.
He was not afraid that giving Xiaopang, his fat grandson, too much power now would affect his future inheritance of the Ming Dynasty.
He is greedy and not as good as the Ming Dynasty clan's "short" population.
Zhu Gaochi was still kept in the dark and said blankly: "Are we going to find our second uncle?"
According to the information he had, Zhu Xi was currently leading a crowd of people on Zhili Road to look for someone to chop his neck, so he should not be in the Ancestral Temple.
Zhu Yunxi followed the old man, and the more he walked towards the Ancestral Temple, the more relieved he became.
He had already started to develop the clan of the Ming Dynasty, and within a short period of time after returning to Beijing, he made the grandson concubine and the concubine pregnant again.
When he thought of this, Zhu Yunxi straightened his waist a little when he walked around.
Today the old man is obviously trying to induce the little fat boy.
After all, it had been a year since he, Crown Prince Yan, got married, and he hadn't seen any movement in the Crown Princess's belly until now.
The three of them entered the Ancestral Temple.
Zhu Gaochi quickly looked around to confirm that his information was correct and that his second uncle was indeed not in the Ancestral Temple.
He looked at the old man again and became a little confused.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already offered incense to the altar mentioned in the confession.
They were all posthumously awarded to the ancestors of the Lao Zhu family after he ascended the throne.
After doing this, Zhu Yuanzhang urged his two grandsons to burn incense.
And he crossed his arms and watched the two grandsons in front of him perform incense according to his instructions.
"My ancestors, I will be placed here by you when I die. This is the incense, which means spreading." Zhu Yuanzhang spoke softly, but his eyes glanced at Zhu Gaochi, who had not moved for more than a year: "The Ming Dynasty
In the future, each prince's palace will have its own temple. When the time comes, other gods will be placed above them, but no one will offer incense, and it will be lonely underground."
Zhu Gaochi finally reacted.
Is this because I haven’t laid eggs for more than a year?