The lame Song Jiang sat opposite Wu Huaiyu for a long time.
Opposite him, Wu Huaiyu had been looking at two ledgers. One was the ledger of Wei Siren, Du Wen, Wen Fu, Cao Xuan, Liu Xian, and Han Gui who led troops to search the property of the Peng family and other thieves.
Another account book given by Gu Songjiang to Huaiyu.
The two ledgers are very different.
Especially the one about the Peng family.
The property of the Peng family reported in the inspection report was much smaller than what Peng Zizi reported.
Not half a star, at least 60% less.
"Those subordinates of yours are very courageous," Song Jiang said with a smile.
"really."
Since the Peng family's share has been reduced by at least 60%, the other confiscated criminal property must also be at least this amount.
Laizi has actually been in charge of the Peng family for several years. Of course, no one knows better than him how much property the Peng family has.
Wu Huaiyu asked the cripple to go out, and then called Li Wujie, Zhao Xin, and Chen Sheng. Except for Li Dejiang, who was sending Li Sanniang back to Beijing, three of the four principals came.
"You are keeping an eye on the property search of the Peng family and other traitors, right? Did you find any problems?"
The three of them each took out a ledger and gave it to Wu Huaiyu.
This is the record of their overt and covert supervision and inspection, and they have discovered some problems to a greater or lesser extent. There were many problems when the house was searched.
The officers and soldiers raised their hands and plucked the feathers of the geese, and everyone wanted to catch some.
The evidence in the hands of the three of them is not comprehensive enough, but when put together, it is not much different from the cripple's account book.
The matter is basically clear and the evidence is sufficient.
This result was actually expected by Wu Huaiyu. Don't imagine too much. Even the soldiers from Guanzhong, and even the disciples of famous families like Wei Du Wenli, were actually the same.
Even Cao Liu wanted to step on the corpses of the Peng family and seize the opportunity to grab a few more.
"How do you plan to deal with it?"
"Family has family rules and state has laws. How do you think we should deal with it?"
"But this matter has far-reaching implications."
"Are you trying to say something without blaming the public?"
Wu Huaiyu put down his account book, took out the tea can, and started making tea.
Pour hot water into the teapot, and the fried green tea will instantly release its attractive aroma.
"First call the main officials responsible for this matter, and I will talk to them personally."
Yan Governor Shi Weisiren was the first to be invited.
"Please take a seat, Mr. Cucumber."
When Wei Siren heard Wu Huaiyu call him Cucumber Marquis, he felt something was wrong.
He got on the couch and sat upright.
Huaiyu poured him a cup of tea and said, "I've had a hard time checking this time."
"It's all within our scope."
Wei Siren was originally the governor of Yan, not an official of the governor's office. Wu Huaiyu temporarily seconded him to handle the case in a different place, and it was based on the emperor's special order.
"I just read the inspection report you handed in, Marquis Cucumber, and I found that you omitted a lot of information. I guess the clerk was too busy and made a mistake. Originally, it was just a small mistake, but I checked it and found that there were errors.
Some are too big and are underreported by 60%.”
Wei Siren was stunned for a moment.
"Drink tea."
Wei Siren looked at the tea handed to him and had no choice but to take it. He wanted to explain, but when his eyes met Huaiyu's, he couldn't say anything.
He understood it all.
Wu Huaiyu knew everything. Since he could point out the 60% difference, there was no room for him to defend himself, and his explanation was just a cover-up.
"The Marquis of Cucumber is a relative. His two sisters are deeply loved in His Majesty's palace. Jingzhao Wei is the first of the six surnames in Guanzhong. Naturally, he will not covet the stolen property. However, Marquis of Cucumber is also a bit young and is too fond of the people under him.
You don't know if you have too much trust. If you don't keep a close eye on the people below, their hands will stretch out unscrupulously, even if they want to scrape two ounces of oil off a dead person."
Wu Huaiyu took out the report he had handed in before and returned it to him, "Have Chief Lao Wei go down and check it again, make corrections, and put all the confiscated stolen property that has not yet been put into the treasury into the treasury as soon as possible."
"We are old friends who have been working together since the Shenji Camp. This time we went north to pacify Luoyi, suppress the Peng family, recover Yanzhou, and stabilize Lingzhou. Our contribution is not small. Don't let it be because of some trivial matters.
If you delay, the gain will outweigh the loss."
Wei Siren stood up and lowered his head to receive the report.
"Thank you, Lord Wu."
"You go ahead and get busy."
Wu Huaiyu summoned everyone one by one and gave everyone a clue, but he did not investigate and asked them to remedy the situation.
In front of Wu Huaiyu's detailed figures, no one dared to quibble, and all of them bowed out honestly.
"so cheap?"
"You have to give them a chance. These are our own people."
Huaiyu looked through the accurate data. There are really many slaves in these fields. Lingzhou is worthy of being blocked in the south of the Yangtze River. In recent years, relying on the Silk Road, plus border trade, and the gathering of black, white and gray, it has really made a lot of money.
people.
With such a large sum of money, everyone is really excited when they see it, and they want to get some if they have the chance.
But on the other hand, no matter whether you are a soldier or an official, no one loves money.
Inland soldiers were selected to come to the frontier in turns to garrison. They had to work for at least a year. They had to leave their hometown and stay away from their wives and children. This garrison was not only hard, but also very poor. Although they were given rations of pickles and some subsidies, but that
Only a few dollars.
If a strong laborer leaves home, the family will suffer a great loss, especially if he is just a soldier of a small landowner's family, then the family will be more difficult during the year when he is away.
It would be even more troublesome if he got injured or something while on guard duty.
Who would hesitate when there is a chance to make some money?
"Of the money confiscated this time, fields, servants, families, livestock, etc., the land was brought to officials, slaves, livestock were sold, and the money and silk were divided into four parts.
One part was kept in the governor's treasury, one part was given to the state government, one part was given to the county, and the remaining part was given to the generals and officers.
Land without officials is divided into public land, vocational land, military farmland, school land, official rented land, etc.
One tenth of the proceeds from the sale of slaves and livestock is used to reward the officials and soldiers. Everyone has worked hard."
"Isn't it appropriate to divide it like this?"
"Your Majesty asked me to temporarily take charge of the affairs of the Governor's Mansion, and also gave me the power to do things for my own convenience. What's wrong with taking out some of the confiscated money and giving it to the soldiers as rewards?"
We can't let them be greedy in secret, so we have to make some compensation openly.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to do well if you want the horse to run but also not let the horse eat grass.
Those people have already proven their choice to Wu Huaiyu with practical actions. If they don't give it to them, they will take it themselves. When everyone is taking it, it is really difficult to blame everyone.
But if you ignore it, you will break the rules and it will be difficult to do anything in the future.
There is no circle without rules.
Wu Huaiyu actually expected such a result from the beginning. He deliberately made no arrangements and just waited for them to take it first before taking action. In this way, Wei Siren and other officials who took action were all at Wu Huaiyu's fault.
Of course, Wu Huaiyu did not pursue the case and gave them the opportunity to correct themselves. Although these people had something to do with it, they were definitely not willing to eat it and spit it out. If they were to reward them at this time, even if they could not compare with the greedy ones, they would at least feel better.
Some.
In contrast, in fact, if you don't allow greed at the beginning and just reward a little bit, it may not be the best solution in terms of human nature. If you don't get it, you always want to try.
Making mistakes, then forgiving and making amends makes them both awed and grateful.
People are so mean sometimes.
People like Wei Siren and Du Wen may not be really greedy for that little money, but everyone wants to take it, so they have to take it. Besides, if they all take it, of course there will be no responsibility, and no one will take it for free.
But now that Wu Huaiyu has really brought the matter out, they are riding a tiger and are being manipulated. If Wu Huaiyu really wants to pursue the case, the falling out will probably be the result of a rift. It does show that Wu Huaiyu is incompetent and can lead the people here again in the future.
, how can you lead the team when everyone hates you?
Now it is better to lead people without revealing them, to point them out without pursuing them.
"Make arrangements for me. I will take Cao Shisanniang back to Cao's house tomorrow for a wedding visit."
"Your Majesty, do you want to talk to Lao Cao?"
"Well, the issue of selling money to cast utensils and stealing private money is now suppressed, but those workshops have stopped working, and so many craftsmen who were engaged in it before have lost their livelihood.
Talk to the Cao family and ask each family to hand over these craftsmen to the court. We can use these ready-made craftsmen to open the money supervisor and open the furnace to make money."
"It makes you high-ranking. This is a great way to draw out the salary from the bottom of the cauldron."
Lingzhou's private casting industry is very good. The most important thing is that it has a complete industrial chain, such as those who collect money, those who sell money, and those who cast privately. It is dispersed, has a clear division of labor, has many craftsmen, and the industry is mature. Only in this way can it have sufficient scale and be more powerful.
efficiency and competitiveness.
If it is just a simple ban on private casting, but a large number of these private casting craftsmen are still there, and they have no work, no matter how much the court bans it, they will take desperate risks to survive. By then, several powerful people will stop, but those scattered craftsmen will
If you do it again, it will be more difficult to manage and ban.
Now that the imperial court's money supervisors are open and these craftsmen are employed by the imperial government's official money supervisors, it is really a waste of money. If there are no private casting craftsmen outside, the private casting industry will be cut off. We want to create a mature private casting industry again.
How can the industrial chain be so easy?
"By the way, let's talk to them about opening copper mines and casting copperware,"
In fact, although privately minted copper coins are no longer allowed, imitation of Persian silver coins is still allowed. It is the main currency widely circulated in the Western Regions, Turks, Hexi and other places. It has a much larger circulation than copper coins. This is not the currency of the Tang Dynasty, so
There is no problem with casting.
We can continue to cooperate with the Cao family on this.
One more thing, most of the money currently circulating in Shuofang Lingwu is privately minted money, some of which are of better quality, and some of which are of poorer quality. There are even many old five-baht coins, as well as old bad money and white money.
The market, industrial and commercial economy here in Shuofang still has some bad effects. Take this opportunity to have a good talk with local snakes like the Cao family, and recycle and exchange these old bad money, which can be used to sell and mint new money for circulation.
For the Cao family who had surrendered, Huaiyu was still very satisfied with their knowledge of current affairs. He also needed the cooperation of local snakes who knew the current affairs. In fact, the court and he both hoped that Lingzhou would be stable, and the game between the court and the local government was always uncertain.
It will stop, but there will be periods of mutual decline and rise.
Although he has conquered several cities in a row now, he still quits when the situation is good, leaving enough room for the opponent. Otherwise, there is no way to retreat, and then they will fight to the death, which is not a good thing for anyone.
If you really want to talk about it, the imperial court would like to have all these local snakes like Cao Liu and others uprooted, but this is just a thought, and we still have to return to reality.
Wu Huaiyu has always kept this conflict within control, that is, eradicating the Peng family and others who had betrayed and abandoned Cao Liu and others. This was a joint cooperation between the imperial court and local wealthy families to jointly attack the Peng family and other people.
But it is limited to this, and it only makes a fuss about selling money to make tools and stealing private money. It does not involve other equally serious problems such as slave trading, smuggling, land occupation, soil gangs, lending, etc.
Maintaining stability and uniting the overall situation is the first priority, and stability overrides everything else.
So far, Wu Huaiyu is very satisfied with the current progress.
He returned to Houya and went to the west courtyard. Cao Sanniang was playing the piano and flute with her two half-sisters. After entering here, Sancao was nominally Wu Huaiyu's concubine, but Wu Huaiyu had never lived here.
"Put your clothes on and take you back to Cao's house later for a visit."
The three of them were very happy after hearing this and hurried to clean up.
"Your Majesty, an emergency happened. Qiu Xinggong beat Han Gui of the Han family to death in the street. He also cut him open in the street, cut out his heart and liver, roasted him in the street and drank wine."
