"The old man is not good, the old man is not good!"
Jia Zheng's confidant, Chang Sui, knelt down in front of the eldest master, crying with runny noses and tears: "The second master was taken away by officials sent from the capital!"
Zheng Lao Er is in bad luck now, I haven't taken action yet!
"Why are you panicking? I'm not dead yet. What are you talking about?"
The eldest man slapped his hand on the armrest and said angrily: "If you have something to say, don't say, 'The eldest man is not good'. If you don't know, it means that I am going to die!"
startled!
The second master's confidant, Chang Suihao, who was full of panic and came to report the news, was not embarrassed. After sorting out his thoughts, he hurriedly said: "Elder master, please save the second master. The official messengers from the capital just took the second master away!"
"What's the reason? What did the second child do that went too far?"
The elder interrupted the man's words without politeness and said directly: "Speak clearly and don't try to hide it. I am not that easy to hide!"
"this……"
Chang Sui, the confidant of Master Zheng Er, was at a loss for words for a moment, hesitating and speechless for a long time.
"Why, the second one was cheated by the people below?"
Seeing the guilty conscience of this guy at a glance, the elder said with a smile: "Sitting in the temporary government office every day as a Bodhisattva, thinking that everything will be fine just by giving instructions. How naive!"
"The great master Mingjian!"
Zheng Lao Er's confidant who came to report the news smiled bitterly, acquiescing to the elder's guess.
Lying on grass!
Although I had known for a long time that something would happen to Mr. Zheng sooner or later, I didn’t expect that the time would be so short!
"If I remember correctly, the imperial court allocated 100,000 taels to the second son as payment for the canal dredging project. In less than a month and a half, all the 100,000 taels have been lost?"
The eldest man was so angry that he glared at the kneeling second son and his confidant and said angrily: "Tell me clearly what's going on there, how much money is left in the money allocated by the court, and how far has the canal dredging project progressed?
Already?"
The servant who reported the news turned pale with fright and his body was trembling, but he did not dare to say anything.
kindness?
The old man's eyes widened, and he suddenly understood. He sneered, "You guys are so brave. You lost all one hundred thousand taels of silver in one and a half months. The court wants to take action on your second son. You servants are so cowardly."
Just wait until the old lady sends them all to the mines to stay there for the rest of your life!"
"Master, help me, master, help me, we really don't have the courage, we only got 40,000 taels of silver, and the rest were deceived by the Caogang people!"
The young man was so frightened that he was out of his wits. As a personal attendant of Jia Zheng, the second master knew very well how partial the old lady was to Zheng Zheng. Once the old lady got angry, they, their close followers and the young man would be dead.
The elder is exaggerating. Once the old lady knows that Mr. Zheng was arrested because of them, you can imagine how miserable the outcome will be.
As soon as he thought of the terrible consequences, the kneeling boy couldn't help but feel his heart tremble and his hands and feet became weak. He could no longer think about it at all, so he just kept chanting it to the end.
As for running away, I have never thought about it.
It is very easy for a high-class boy like him to obtain a new household registration document, but they are accustomed to the life of a wealthy family and simply cannot imagine how difficult it is to live independently and work hard outside.
They are simply not willing to take such risks. They have long been accustomed to a life of wealth and wealth, and asking them to live a life of hard work is no different than risking their lives.
It is true that it is easy to enjoy the shade under a big tree, but if you rely on the big tree for a long time, the flowers and plants under the tree will lose the courage to fight the wind and rain alone. No one can tell whether things in the world are good or bad.
"If you want to survive, double the money you stole and don't tell me you don't have it!"
The elder said calmly: "As for the canal gang matter, I will wait until I figure out the situation before I discuss it. First of all, what I want to know is, how far is the canal dredging project?"
It's a joke to say it. The task of dredging the Tongzhou Canal is actually quite simple. It only requires coordinating the construction in sections and using the tools well.
It may take a little more time. After all, the Tongzhou section of the canal has ships coming and going every day. It is almost impossible to carry out construction every day. It can only be done at night when there are no ships passing through. But it is only a little troublesome.
Otherwise, how difficult would it be for a good job to be snatched away by middle and low-level officials in the Ministry of Industry?
It's just that this is a matter of river affairs after all. Even as the boss of Tongzhou Prefectural Government, it is not easy for the elder to interfere too much.
There is such a strange person like Mr. Zheng, and the elder has no intention of understanding him at all.
But sitting in his position, many things in the government will naturally come to his ears. Although there is not much about the second son of the government, there are still a few key pieces of information.
One of them is that Mr. Zheng did not ask the state government for cooperation in recruiting civilian laborers. I wonder where he would get the manpower to clean up the mud under the canal at night?
Suddenly a ridiculous idea came to his mind, and the old man's face froze. It couldn't be that ridiculous, right?
Unfortunately, the words of the kneeling boy told him that they were not the most absurd, only more absurd.
"Returning to the great master, the work of dredging the canal has been going on, and it has not really started yet. Work has not started yet!"
The boy knelt down and put his head on the bluestone floor of the government office, hesitatingly speaking the truth carefully.
Tsk!
The eldest man had the urge to hit someone, and the target was definitely not the servant in the mansion who was kneeling in front of him, but the second in charge of politics who was captured by the officials in the capital.
I have seen stupid and incompetent officials, but I have never seen an official as stupid and incompetent as him. He is just like an old baby. No one is paving the road for him and he doesn't know how to go!
"Go back and make it clear to your gang of money-grabbing bastards. Pay all the money within three days, otherwise you are ready to flee!"
After waving his hand, the elder didn't even bother to look at the kneeling boy, and sneered: "Now that I know I'm afraid, what did I do when I couldn't see the factor earlier?"
He won't touch this boy. Who knows if these boys have already made up their mind to fight with each other and want to get through this by being beaten?
I really don’t doubt the boldness of the servants in the mansion. I don’t know if Jia Mu’s publicity was good, which made these servants think that the boss in heaven, the second child in the royal family, Rongfu, is the third child. Whatever happens, the mansion can do it.
Carry it down.
As a result, they developed a arrogant temperament. Don't think that the big boss doesn't know their urine.
He would still put on a show in front of an adult master in the house, but who wouldn't be a domineering master outside the house?
Most of the reputation of Rongguo Mansion was destroyed with the help of these grandsons, but Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang still worked together to protect it, saying that Rongguo Mansion is a noble family that does not easily beat and scold its servants.
What a joke. Now Zheng Lao Er must be suffering a lot!
None of the cleaners and servants around Mr. Zheng are good, and the elder doesn’t want to be relied upon by them. Who knows what these guys will say to Jia Mu?
Sometimes, the elder really can't understand why housewives like Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang trust the servants around them more than their family members.
In this case, if Jia Mu is not frightened for a while, the elder will not easily come to the rescue this time.
Of course, if he hadn't guessed that Mr. Zheng's errand this time might be what he said deliberately, the elder would not be so calm.
Zheng Lao Er was in trouble in Tongzhou. If the eldest master had not taken action, he would probably have been overwhelmed by Jia Mu's scolding. Who said the world is like this? The so-called filial piety is as great as the sky?
"Tsk tsk, these guys are really rich!"
In three days, the eldest master deliberately did not send anyone back to Beijing and pretended to be unaware. However, he sent his intelligence personnel to find out everything about Mr. Zheng.
The thing is very simple. The servants and Qingke brought out by Mr. Zheng all regard the money allocated by the court as their own. Anyway, Mr. Zheng only knows how to sit in the yamen and be a Bodhisattva. They will do all the following work. If you want
It's too easy to make money by doing anything.
As a result, you make a fortune and I make a fortune. By the time these young men realized something was wrong, the money allocated by the court had already been reduced by a full 40,000 taels.
But the canal dredging project has not yet started, and now they are a little anxious. If it turns out that the political leader is dead, they will not be able to get rid of anyone, including their family members and children.
These guys are not good at doing things. They are required to coordinate the scheduling and direct the night construction. Not only do they not have the ability, but they also cannot endure the hardship of working overtime at night.
So I don’t know which bastard suggested outsourcing the project to people from the local snake cao gang. They can solve the problem as long as they pay 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver.
As for how the Cao Gang squeezes people's power and how much public resentment they will cause, it is none of their business at all, okay?
Unfortunately, the so-called Cao Clan boss they found was also a deceiver. He was just a small-time member of the Tongzhou section of the Cao Clan. You can imagine the consequences of giving money to this guy.
Running away with money is not a proper term in modern times. Qing Ke, a young servant under the old political boss, also encountered this. Just when they were furious and ready to find the person, the official sent by the imperial court arrived.
It was that simple. The seventy thousand taels of silver actually allocated by the imperial court were all spent within a month and a half.
It is said that the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry are not a joke. They say that they will leave three layers of money and one hundred thousand taels of money to dredge the canal. Only 70% of it is actually allocated. This is still at the gateway of Gyeonggi like Tongzhou. If it is placed at other distances
A place far away from the capital should not be exploited at all levels, right?
The thing is actually that simple, once again explaining what it means to be an incompetent official and harm others and yourself!
The eldest master gave an ultimatum to the young men under Mr. Zheng to purge the guests. It turned out that these guys were really rich. In less than three days, 80,000 taels of silver notes were neatly placed on the eldest master's desk.
"You don't want to do anything else, but put up the stall to dredge the canal first, otherwise the second son of the government will be completely ruined!"
The eldest man did not play around with the money after collecting the money. He directly ordered Mr. Zheng and his servants to get busy first...
It's even later. The next chapter may be late too. Sorry.