The puppet king who was only three years old back then is now nineteen years old...a big fat man.
Tirumala Deva Raya, this unlucky guy has been unable to leave his palace since he was promoted as king. However, he was provided with delicious food and drink, and the Tianzhu Cotton Association even hired Huaiyang cooks to cook in various ways.
The little king provides delicious food.
Three words to sum it up: Be a pig!
As a result, Tirumala was successfully raised as a fat pig, and he had a good figure of 300 kilograms before he was twenty years old.
Not to mention trying to seize power, this guy needs help even when going to the toilet.
On this day, Tirumala slept until mid-morning when he was suddenly awakened by a loud noise. He called the maid loudly: "What's the noise outside?"
The maid replied: "I don't know, they seem to be moving things."
Tirumala said: "Help me up."
The maid could not help her alone, so two guards soon came in. Tirumala was helped out, but she saw that all the Han people in the palace were walking around, carrying large bags and small cannons, and seemed to be planning to leave the place.
Even the Huaiyang cooks who cooked for the king were planning to run away with their wives and children. The father and son even carried rice and meat.
Tirumala was shocked. How could he live if the cook ran away?
"Wait a minute!" Tirumala shouted in authentic Chinese, and the accent was still Jianghuai Mandarin.
Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to him, and the palace became empty in a blink of an eye, with only a few local maids and guards from Tianzhu left.
The maids and guards were at a loss, and subconsciously wanted to abandon the puppet king and run away. Before leaving, they wanted to leave with some things, but found that the palace treasury had been emptied, even the oil, salt, and sauce in the kitchen.
All the vinegar was robbed.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. The maids and guards suddenly dispersed.
Tirumala suddenly felt great fear and struggled to hold on to the wall, moving step by step towards the palace gate.
The dazzling sunlight shines in, and Tirumala stands behind the door, but never dares to step out. He has been under house arrest in the palace since he can remember. When he was young, he wanted to run out for fun, but was punished to face the wall and think about his past for three days.
During this period, he only drank two bowls of porridge, and he gave up the idea of leaving the palace.
The palace is the whole world of Tirumala.
Outside the palace, there is another world.
After hesitating for a long time, Tirumala finally took a step and gradually walked onto a main road.
The palace is an Indian building that blends Arabic style. It has a complete castle defense system and built-in gardens and other leisure facilities. Residential buildings are not allowed for two hundred meters around the castle. Tirumala is standing in the middle of the empty avenue.
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There is no joy in regaining freedom, only confusion and fear.
Finally, Tirumala turned back to the palace and sat on a stone bench in the garden to bask in the sun.
Gradually, Tirumala became hungry. He shouted that he wanted to eat, but no one answered. He could only walk to the kitchen by himself, but what he saw was a mess. Not even a piece of raw meat was left for him, and there was no food on the floor.
Carefully sprinkle a few handfuls of rice.
Tirumala did not dare to go out, so he went back to the bedroom to sleep hungry, and fell asleep in a daze.
It was already evening when Tirumala woke up because he was hungry. He shouted again, hoping for a miracle, but still no one answered. He went to the kitchen again and drank two ladles of water.
, continue to go back to his bedroom to sleep.
Awakened by hunger again in the middle of the night, Tirumala cried in fear.
He was starved for four days. During this period, Tirumala kept drinking water to satisfy his hunger. He searched every corner of the palace and found only a plate of preserves. He even ate the rice scattered on the kitchen floor raw.
The big fat man weighing 300 kilograms was starved to the point where he only weighed 280 kilograms.
When there was another noise in the castle, Tirumala used his last strength, rolled and crawled, and weakly shouted: "Help, help!"
Wang Yuan looked very unhappy. After he arrived at the royal city, he immediately received government documents and warehouses.
As a result, the granary was empty enough for rats to run away, and the money bank was empty enough to make bandits angry. All kinds of documents were still relatively intact, but the land booklet of the Tianzhu Cotton Association was missing, and Wang Yuan was in trouble even if he wanted to collect taxes.
Wang Yuan asked: "Where is the office of Tianzhu Cotton Association?"
Huang Xu said: "This is it."
"Very good, very good!" Wang Yuan laughed angrily.
Huang Xu was inexplicably surprised: "Sir, I never thought that the elders of the Tianzhu Cotton Association would be so bold."
Bao Chaozhen and Bao Chaoxiang brothers have been working with Wang Yuan for a long time. Now they are older, one is in charge of the domestic factory, and the other is the second head of the Guangyuan Association.
However, they all sent their sons to accompany them.
Bao Liangxin, the son of Bao Chaozhen, said: "Your Majesty, if you can escape, a monk cannot escape from the temple. Many major shareholders of the Tianzhu Cotton Association have business houses in Peiyang City (the capital), so we might as well take over their businesses."
Before Wang Yuan responded, Lin Zhang, the general manager of the Tianzhu Cotton Association, ran over in a panic and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, please calm down. This matter has nothing to do with me. I have just received the news."
Wang Yuan sneered: "Tell me what's going on."
Lin Zhang said: "After listening to His Majesty's teachings in Malan Port, I was afraid that I would not be able to communicate with the major shareholders, so I wrote more than ten letters and sent them back to the Ming Dynasty. Then I went to Weida Port to explain to the shop owner of Lin's firm there.
First and last. Then I hurriedly chased His Majesty. Halfway through, I received news that the palace and treasury had been looted. This, this, this... this was really not my idea."
Hearing this, Wang Yuan was no longer angry and said calmly: "The general manager of the Tianzhu Cotton Association is equivalent to the prime minister of this country. I'm afraid you, the prime minister, are to blame for such a big mess, right? Where are your subordinates?
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Lin Zhang hurriedly kowtowed: "The guilty minister deserves to die. Some of my close subordinates who stayed in the royal city have disappeared. I have brought all that I can find."
Immediately, more than ten people came forward and knelt down to beg Wang Yuan for mercy.
"Come one by one."
Wang Yuan pointed to one of them and asked: "What is your position?"
The man replied: "Secretary of the General Office, analogy...analogy to the Ming Dynasty..."
Lin Zhang helped explain: "It's analogous to the Ming Dynasty's political envoy."
Wang Yuan asked again: "Do you know where the chaos started?"
The man was sweating profusely: "No... I don't know. I heard that the Ming Dynasty Grand Master was going to be the King of Tianzhu, and he didn't accept the errands given by Tianzhu Mian. It's just a shame..."
"What?" Wang Yuan asked.
The man gritted his teeth and said: "I asked my confidants to secretly carry the money from the treasury. I didn't dare to take too much, it was only one thousand eight hundred taels. I just wanted to get some money for my own expenses. Anyway, it would be difficult to verify it if the king changed."
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Wang Yuan asked again: "You asked your confidants to move the money, then where are you?"
The man lowered his head and said, "I'm... drinking wine in a brothel. I have a sweetheart from Tianzhu. This time I plan to make money and go back to my hometown. I want to redeem the girl's life and take her to the Ming Dynasty."
Wang Yuan was so angry that he laughed: "You are an infatuated person. I didn't ask about the money in the treasury. Where did the yellow household registration book and the land fish scale book of the Tianzhu Cotton Association go!"
The man replied: "The Tianzhu Cotton Association does not have a yellow household registration register. They all immigrate voluntarily. Anyway, they do not tax Han people, so why do they need a yellow household registration register? As for the land register, it belongs to the financial management of the Tianzhu Cotton Association, and the general manager The government only sends people to check the accounts once a year."
Wang Yuan asked again: "Where is the financial position of the Tianzhu Cotton Association?"
No one responded.
After a long time, someone raised his hand and said weakly: "Jingcai's name is Li Xun, and he is a descendant of the Li family in Guangzhou. On the way here just now, I...I saw Li Xun's body, and his face had been scratched by a knife. His clothes were also stripped off, but I recognized the mole on his chest. There were two curly hairs on the mole..."
Wang Yuan was silent for a moment, waved and smiled: "It's none of your business. Let's go back. Who will take me to the palace?"
Lin Zhang was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Wang Yuan to be so easy to talk to. He reacted immediately and said: "I am willing to lead the way."
This kind of thing cannot be found out. Wang Yuan doesn't care about the emptied treasury money. Logically speaking, it belongs to the property of Tianzhu Cotton Association.
Wang Yuan was angry that the land fish scale book was missing!
The people who took the opportunity to cause trouble were obviously doing it for the land. With the manpower brought by Wang Yuan, it would take several years, or even ten or twenty years, to slowly check the land across the country.
This is not the Ming Dynasty. The people brought by Wang Yuan have no understanding of the local situation, and it will be difficult to establish an administrative system in the short term.
As long as the land fish scale register is destroyed, those shareholders who own land in Tianzhu can continue to be emperors of the land without paying taxes.
Everyone is suspected, and everyone may be innocent, and most of them are connected cases.
Even the seemingly innocent Lin Zhang was very likely to know about it, or could vaguely guess who did it.
Wang Yuan has touched the collective interests of the Tianzhu Cotton Association, and these guys must be covering up for each other. If they were to pursue it forcefully, they would probably bite them randomly. How could Wang Yuan kill them all indiscriminately?
Even if all the suspects are killed, they will only kill some of those who took the blame. The real beneficiaries are still in the Ming Dynasty.
Confiscated all the cotton trade companies in Peizhou, the royal city?
That would be tantamount to destroying the Great Wall. These chambers of commerce have been entrenched for many years, and the commercial logistics of the entire city have been divided and monopolized by the shareholders of the chambers of commerce. Once you attack the merchants in the city, it will be equivalent to cutting off the material connection with the local area, and the whole city will fall into complete chaos. In chaos.
Moreover, some shareholders may be really innocent. If Wang Yuan carries out indiscriminate attacks, he will greatly lose public support.
How many Han people are there in the whole of Tianzhu?
The Han people were unwilling to lose, and Wang Yuan did not want to fall into internal fighting.
Lin Zhang was observing Wang Yuan all the way, but he saw that Wang Yuan's expression was as usual, and he was still in the mood to joke with the attendants, as if nothing had happened. While he was impressed, he became more and more frightened, because Wang Yuan's reaction was so extreme. Weird.
Anyone who encounters this kind of thing will definitely become furious, and the domineering person will probably just raise the butcher's knife high.
Wang Yuan had been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for 20 years, how could he be so temperamental?
The calmer Wang Yuan became, the more scared Lin Zhang became.
After finally arriving outside the palace gate, Lin Zhang finally couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, this matter is important, how should we handle it?"
"What kind of big deal is this?" Wang Yuan actually smiled and said, "Since the land fish scale book has been lost, let each shareholder make up for it on his own. As long as I treat each other sincerely, I think all shareholders will reciprocate with sincerity. I will definitely do it. Provide information about their respective fields honestly. Tell me, is this true?"
Lin Zhang forced a smile: "That's right. Your Majesty is so benevolent, and all shareholders must be sincerely convinced."
Wang Yuan waved his hand and said: "Go ahead. Inform the shareholders of the Tianzhu Cotton Association, large and small, to tell me truthfully how much land each family has in Tianzhu."
"I obey." Lin Zhang carefully stepped back.
Watching Wang Yuan walk into the palace gate, Lin Zhang stood there stunned and did not dare to leave early. Until Wang Yuan's back disappeared, Lin Zhang finally came to his senses and found that his vest was soaked with sweat.
Who destroyed the Fish Scale Book, who was the mastermind, who did it, and how many conspirators were there? Are these questions important?
From Wang Yuan's point of view, those were all trivial matters, and he was not the official of the Ministry of Justice responsible for investigating the case.
As the leader of a country, who owns how much land, and who is honest and obedient? This is the information that really needs to be mastered.
Just like Wang Yuan said, since the fish scale book is lost, let the landlords make up for it by themselves, which can be used to observe the attitude of each shareholder. The more information accumulated in the future, the clearer Wang Yuan will be about who is acting in disguise.
Record everything in the account one by one. Don't blame him for turning his back when the time comes to calculate the general ledger.
Lin Zhang recalled his uncle Lin Fu's comment about Wang Yuan: "The king's talent is unparalleled in the world and can be counted throughout the ages."
Playing intrigues with such a person?
Lin Zhang rushed back to his house, quickly wrote a letter to the head of the family, and then quickly sorted out the land information of the Lin family in Putian in Tianzhu. He didn't even bother to ask the family elders for instructions, so he took it upon himself to completely obey Wang Yuan, at least to be able to achieve "the power of following the dragon"
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If Wang Yuan treats this matter with a butcher's knife held high, the shareholders of the Tianzhu Cotton Association are likely to form a group and randomly bite and attack those who obey Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan did the opposite and directly used retreat to advance. Then the Tianzhu Cotton Association would automatically split.
There are always those who are clear-headed, those who are aware of current affairs, and those who want to cling to the king. These people are willing to bear the loss of taxes, betray the collective interests of the Tianzhu Cotton Association, and seek greater benefits for their own families in Tianzhu.
What's more, Wang Yuan has follow-up supporting policies. Those who dare to conceal their land will be betrayed by their respective immigrants!
How dare you compete with the former chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty without even showing off some tricks?
The moment Wang Yuan walked into the palace, his face suddenly darkened. After all, no matter how calm he acted, he was actually very depressed inside.
Suddenly, a big fat man rolled out and cried weakly: "Help, help, I'm hungry!"
Wang Yuan didn't understand the situation and subconsciously asked: "Who is this?"