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It also marked which item it was and which company it was from.
Jia Lian had known that they would be capable of this, but he didn't expect that they would show filial piety in such a way. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he was considering it for him.
After all, these gadgets are small and not as eye-catching as real gold and silver, so they are really good choices for gifts. I am afraid that the above objects are also collected by salt merchants.
"You are now interested."
He didn't mean to refuse. Just think that these salt merchants knew the Wang family wanted to assassinate him before, but concealed the price of not paying for it. If they didn't accept it, I'm afraid they wouldn't feel at ease.
"As long as the adults like it. In addition, in addition to the gadgets above, the villain also prepared a hundred thousand taels of silver for the adults, and put them together with the silver that was brought in for atonement..."
"hehe."
Compared with the Zhao family and the Wang family who had copied it, compared with the four million atonement silver, one hundred thousand taels is really nothing.
"Do you have anything else to do?"
After Zhou Boru paid his filial piety, he had no intention of leaving. He obviously had something to say.
So when Jia Lian spoke, he immediately bowed his hands and said in a low voice: "There is indeed an unkind request that I would like to ask for your forgiveness."
"Say it."
Jia Lian, who received the benefit, seemed very reasonable.
Zhou Boru stopped beating around the bush and said directly: "Although I don't know how much wealth the Zhao family and the Wang family have, based on the evidence of their family's crimes that the adults have found out, I'm afraid they have done a lot of things."
It is a matter of misfortune and plunder.
As a result, I am afraid that their homes will have a lot of wealth.
Now you are standing up for justice and bringing them to justice. This is a matter of natural justice!
only……
Like the villains, they are all salt merchants selected by the imperial court. I am afraid that after you report the results of the raids on Wang and Zhao's homes, the guilds of the imperial court will mistakenly think that every one of our salt merchants is like that king.
The Zhao family is generally wealthy...
Therefore, the little people would like to implore the adults to properly report less of the property of the Wang and Zhao families, as a sign of consideration for other law-abiding salt merchants like me.
You adults must also know that since the imperial court implemented the new salt policy, the profits of villains are not as good as before. If the adults in the court mistakenly think that the salt industry still has huge profits, I am afraid they will have to find ways to extract profits from the salt policy.
, when the time comes, it will not only be those of us who abide by the law and never sell private salt for profit, but also the millions of salt-eating people around the world who will suffer."
Hearing Zhou Boru's words, Jia Lian felt quite eye-opening.
The salt merchants were worried that the property of the Wang family and the Zhao family were too rich, and if he reported all of them, the trump cards of these big salt merchants would be "exposed", and the princes of the court would think that they were too wealthy, and they would have the idea of killing pigs. This was very dangerous.
normal.
However, this was the first time that he heard someone use power for personal gain, take bribes and bend the law in such a high-level manner.
Judging from what he said, if he didn't underreport the Wang and Zhao family's property, he would have become a bully who persecuted law-abiding salt merchants and brought harm to the people of the world?
"Then, as you said, what should I do with the property that I have underreported? Give it to you law-abiding salt merchants as compensation?"
There is naturally a reason why Zhou Boru dared to make such remarks.
He immediately said seriously: "Sir, you are joking, how dare you have such an idea. Your Excellency, you have traveled thousands of miles south to do this for the court and the salt administration, and you have been plotted twice by villains. Therefore, the Wang and Zhao families
The wealth robbed by clever means will naturally belong to you, and the Wang and Zhao families can atone for your sins."
"Haha, isn't President Zhou letting me become a corrupt official and putting me in an unjust position?"
"grown ups……"
Zhou Boru was about to say something, but was interrupted by Jia Lian raising his hand: "Okay, I have already taken care of this matter, so I won't bother Chairman Zhou.
Chairman Zhou, on the other hand, should discuss with other salt merchants in Yangzhou how to make Jiangnan's salt administration better for the imperial court. If at the end of this year, you are still like last year, I'm afraid you will get away with it this time.
After this calamity, it will be difficult to have a good year next year."
Zhou Boru immediately did not dare to say anything more and responded to Jia Lian's words repeatedly.
But I also had some idea in my heart.
He could see that Jia Lian was not a pedantic Qingliu. As long as he spoke this time and let Jia Lian listen, his goal would be achieved.
So I immediately skipped this issue and talked about another thing.
"I once heard that Qing Yi made you unhappy that day on the Little Qinhuai River. Please forgive me. Qing Yi is not disrespectful to you, but she has always had such a cold personality since she was a child.
The villain has already sent someone to reprimand her, and please don’t get along with her..."
As Zhou Boru spoke, he noticed that Jia Lian's expression was not right, and he immediately stopped talking.
Then I heard Jia Lian say: "First, the girl in Tsing Yi did not make me unhappy. Second, although you were once her boss, now that you have given her to me, she is my own.
I'm afraid I don't need President Zhou to reprimand me. So, I don't hope that President Zhou will say such words next time."
When Zhou Boru heard this, he quickly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, please atone for your sins. I have no intention of offending you... I remember this, and I will never be disrespectful to the girl in Tsing Yi next time."
Zhou Boru regards Gu Qingyi as his trump card, which is also his biggest reliance on Jia Lian.
Therefore, when I heard that Gu Qingyi did not get Jia Lian's favor right away, but was instead upstaged by Shen Pan'er, I felt a little angry and anxious, so I mentioned this.
Although he was scolded by Jia Lian now, he felt relieved in his heart.
Judging from Jia Lian's tone, it seemed that he regarded Gu Qingyi as his own woman. His goal was achieved and he naturally did not dare to argue with Jia Lian.
"Okay, you get up. This time I am going to Yangzhou, I will keep President Zhou's care for me in mind.
It's just that I have always been very stingy. I don't like my own woman, and I have some involvement with other forces.
Therefore, if something happens to President Zhou in the future, you can send someone to come to me directly. Don’t be too smart, for example, if you ask the girl in Tsing Yi to deliver something on your behalf, it may be more costly than gain. President Zhou must understand this."
"Yes, yes, I understand. Thank you for your love. From now on, if you have any needs, please feel free to ask me. I and the entire Zhou family will do your best for you!"
Jia Lian smiled and gave Zhou Boru a cup of tea before letting him go back.
Zhou Boru is a smart man, and his power is spread throughout Jiangnan. If used well, it will be a big help, and he doesn't mind maintaining a good relationship with him.
The matters of the salt merchants have been settled one by one. Next, we only need to check the properties of all the salt merchants and corrupt officials, and then we can prepare to return to Beijing.
However, Jia Lian was stunned for a long time when his subordinates gave him the details of the confiscated homes of Wu Zhirong and other Yangzhou officials.
At the beginning, nearly 3 million taels of real gold and silver were copied from the Zhao family. Including all the Zhao family's manors, fields, and properties in major state capitals, even if they were all sold at a low price, they could collect nearly 100 taels of real gold and silver.
Ten thousand taels of silver.
Therefore, the Zhao family alone is worth nearly four million!
The Wang family's is slightly lower. Even if the Wang's Bank that sold it to the Zhou family is included, the overall value is only about three million.
The Feng family, a small salt merchant who was rich and unkind, had a total family property of nearly five hundred thousand taels.
Wu Zhirong and other government officials also had a lot of property. However, they did not belong to the salt government system, so Jia Lian only copied real gold and silver, and things that were easy to take away. As for other assets, they were added to the government treasury as usual, and finally
Reported to the imperial court by the treasury.
This was done to reduce trouble, and to give other Yangzhou local officials a little help so that they would not be too jealous when looking at the mountains of wealth in their offices.
But even so, Jia Lian still made out nearly 300,000 yuan worth of wealth. Most of it was contributed by the prefect Wu Zhirong.
In addition, there are many large and small salt officials from the Salt Transportation Department, as well as salt officials such as An Siyuan, the inspector of salt patrols...
As the censor of the Salt Patrol, An Siyuan made such a big mistake in the salt administration, and it was inevitable that he would be held responsible, and it was necessary to confiscate his property.
As for the An family, I thought that An Siyuan finally reported the crime and repented, and was poisoned by the salt dealer, so he was given a light sentence and only the house was ransacked without involving his family. It was very reasonable.
Naturally, when a house is searched, there are clean and random searches. With Jia Lian here, the results are obvious.
Although most of the officials in the salt administration system were of low grade, they could not bear to be secretly rich, so the value of the money they copied was at least one million taels. But Jia Lian disliked the fact that these small fish and shrimps were too cluttered with assets.
I was too lazy to count them one by one, so I only confiscated the real money and silver that was easy to get, and transferred all the rest to the government office for them to count and store by themselves.
So, it's about five or six hundred thousand.
In addition to the three million yuan that the salt merchants recently paid for their sins, and the one million yuan in hush money given to the courtiers, it all adds up...
More than twelve million!
call.
Jia Lian took a long breath after getting this number.
I still remember that day in the secret room of the Zhao family, I saw more than 100,000 taels of gold and one million silver piled together, a scene as dazzling as a mountain.
More than 12 million, what an exaggerated figure is this?
Even in the Wei Dynasty, when nearly 20 million people contributed to the national treasury's annual revenue, it accounted for almost one-fifth.
So, he didn’t go to Yangzhou to investigate the salt administration, but he came to help the court increase revenue?
It seems that more troops should be deployed to protect the camp, otherwise if so much money is stolen casually, the loss will be immeasurable.
…
"grown ups……"
In Jia Lian's residence, Mrs. Xu stood up from the table where she was lying, wiped her sweaty forehead, then turned around, walked to Jia Lian's side, and sat on the armrest of the Grand Master's chair.
"Are you sure you want to leave today?"
"Well, the carriage and accompanying personnel are all ready."
"Um."
Mrs. Xu is the mistress of the An family. Although An Siyuan died, the foundation of the An family in her hometown is still there, and her son still needs to return to inherit it, so she has to leave.
Although she was reluctant to let go, no matter how reluctant she was, she had to leave.
Not only for her son, but also for herself.
A chance encounter and returning to the right path is the only outcome. If they continue to be entangled, it will not be a good thing for her or Jia Lian.
"If you don't want to leave, just stay. I can support you."
Hearing what Jia Lian said, Mrs. Xu smiled and felt relieved.
She turned around and knelt in front of Jia Lian, took Jia Lian's hand and kissed it, shook her head, and did not explain anything. Because of various reasons, she had already said it clearly.
"Little girl, I'm very reluctant to leave you. She must have fallen in love with you. She even cried when she came back to say goodbye to you."
Mrs. Xu said this. The little girl she was talking about was naturally her daughter An Cai'er.
Jia Lian smiled when he heard this and didn't feel strange at all.
It is normal for a little girl to fall in love easily with her heroes when she is just starting to fall in love.
It was also Xu's fault that she always treated herself as a maid in front of him, and even brought her daughter to help him organize his housework, giving her daughter many opportunities to get in touch with him.
Especially after Jia Lian helped Xu find her son, Jia Lian could clearly feel that the little girl was very close to him.
"She is still young. In a few years, she will be fine when she grows up."
"What if it doesn't get better?"
Xu squatted on the ground and looked up at Jia Lian seriously.
Jia Lian understood that this woman had not completely given up and wanted to promise her daughter to him.
"Then you bring her to the capital to find me, and then you two will follow me."
When Jia Lian raised her chin and teased her like this, Xu rolled her eyes at Jia Lian angrily but didn't say anything else.
He glanced at Jia Lian one last time, stood up, kissed Jia Lian, and turned to leave.