Chapter 624 Don't be afraid, brother-in-law, there is uncle here
The legal salary for a second-grade governor is 155 taels per year, and about 10,000 taels of silver for maintenance, plus other gray incomes. Calculated as a minimum, Xu Ji's annual income as a governor is between 50,000 and 80,000 taels of silver.
This is only legal income recognized by law and does not include income from corruption and bribery.
Calculated by purchasing power, the governor's legal income is about 60 million a year.
If this is the case, Xu Ji can be considered an upright official.
Cathay, the governor of Shandong next door, together with the chief envoy Yu Yijian, emptied the vassal treasury by as much as two million taels during Wang Lun's uprising alone.
It was this Shandong top leader who, together with the second top leader, squandered nearly 3 billion from the national treasury.
At the same time, in the name of the governor's yamen, he borrowed money from merchants to fill warehouses and blackmailed state and county officials, often amounting to tens of thousands.
How could Yijiang'a's Taoist friend Monk Wang suddenly become a local official in Shandong? It wasn't because Cathay sold favors to Yijiang'a, who was in charge of the Shandong Qingli Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
But there is no airtight wall in the world.
Last year, just after the Linqing Rebellion was settled, a royal official wrote to impeach Guotai and Yu Yijian, claiming that they were corrupt, perverted the law, and embezzled vassal money.
Qianlong, who had not been exposed as a paper tiger at that time, must have taken the matter seriously, so he issued an order to ask questions.
Cathay replied that due to the Wang Lun Rebellion, all states and counties had spent all their public funds on military affairs and were therefore in deficit.
He also submitted a number of expenditures to the court, including supplies of troops to quell the chaos and subsequent aftermath.
Anyway, it was clearly listed in one stroke, and more than two million taels were indeed spent.
Wang Jie, the censor of Youdu, wrote a letter that the Wang Lun Rebellion only lasted a few months from the outbreak to the end. Even if military expenditures were urgent and the money and food expenses were huge, the huge amount of two million taels would never be used. Even if two million taels were actually used.
Millions, Shandong also took the opportunity to report the truth to the imperial court. Why did it remain indifferent, ignore it, and wait until the emperor issued an order to ask questions before reimbursing the account?
Wang Zhuangyuan planned to take advantage of this incident to bring order to Cathay Pacific. After all, the civil unrest in Shandong was inseparable from Cathay Pacific's misbehavior in Shandong.
Qianlong also intended to send a censor to Shandong to investigate, but Cathay did not finish it, and he, the emperor, fell first.
When the old man took charge of the military aircraft department, someone from the Metropolitan Procuratorate tried to pursue Cathay Pacific, but he was suppressed by the old man.
If we really want to investigate Shandong's accounts, it will definitely involve the six sons of the then Prime Minister of Shandong Military Affairs, including Yijiang A, the treasured son of Yonggui, the Minister of Household Affairs.
Moreover, as the new head military minister, he also needs the support of the local governor. Even nominal obedience is what he urgently needs.
Besides, I just brought Yu Minzhong back to his hometown, so it would be awkward to treat him as a brother.
The key is that Cathay Pacific and Yu Yijian are both members of the mutual aid association. He, the rich old man, can't turn his back on the membership just because he became the foreman of the military aircraft minister.
Shaanxi Governor Le Erjin, Governor Bi Yuan and others also wrote privately to Lao Fu, hoping that he would not pursue Cathay and Yu Yijian.
Wang Danwang, the founder of the Mutual Aid Association and the Chief Envoy of Gansu Province, even sent his cronies to Beijing to mediate the matter, saying that only Fu Zhongtang in the northwest would follow suit.
Local officials in the northwest unanimously agreed that Fu Zhongtang led the Qing Dynasty, which undoubtedly consolidated Lao Fu's leadership position and strengthened his strength.
Under such circumstances, it is of course impossible for the old rich man to have a fight with the same room, and he must take action against Cathay Pacific and Yu Yijian.
In order to repay Wang Danwang, Lao Fu intends to promote him to the governor of Zhejiang next year, thus allowing the mutual aid association to expand in the southeast.
The current governor of Zhejiang, Sanbao, is also a mutual aid member, and the old man plans to transfer him to the position of governor of Huguang.
So far, the governor-level members of the Mutual Aid Association include Governor Le Erjin of Shaanxi and Gansu, Governor Li Shiyao of Guangdong and Guangxi, Governor Yade of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Governor Jia Jiashikai of Zhili. If you count Sanbao, the governor of Huguang who was appointed by the old rich, there are five people.
Former member Huguang Governor Chen Huizu defected to the enemy, which was really a great shame for the mutual aid association.
At the governor level, there are nine people including Cathay, the governor of Shandong, Min Eyuan, the governor of Anhui, Hao Shuo, the governor of Jiangxi, and Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi. If Wang Danwang is transferred to the governor of Zhejiang, then there will be ten people.
There are nine people including Hubei Chief Envoy Chen Huai, Shandong Chief Envoy Yu Yijian, Fujian Chief Envoy Wulana, and Zhili Chief Envoy Yang Jingsu.
There were 24 governors, governors, and chief ministers in total, accounting for one-third of the senior provincial officials in the Qing Dynasty.
If we include the ministers and ministers in Beijing, including the Admiral Malqin of the Nine Gates, the Admiral Wang Jintai of Guizhou, etc., the number of members reaches more than 40.
This was also the reason why the rich man dared to force the palace to be imprisoned that day and to preside over the government afterwards.
Even if the old rich man beat him to death, he would not know that his six sons and wise brothers jumped out of the Three Realms and founded a joint development association. Currently, there are two governor-level officials in the association, namely Jia Liu himself and Jia Liu's father-in-law, the governor of Sichuan.
Bo clear the amount.
One of the governors was Li Shijie, the president and governor of Sichuan.
There are two ministers, Kuni from the Ministry of Rites, and Asiha from the Ministry of Officials.
The remaining generals and several deputy generals.
The other is Yang Jingsu, a double member. Like Jia Liu, this person is both a co-progress member and a mutual aid member.
The number of high-ranking officials on the cards is not as high as that of the Mutual Aid Association, the territory is not as good as that of the Mutual Aid Association, and even the number of soldiers and horses that can be mobilized is not as good as that of the Mutual Aid Association.
The problem is that the cohesion of the Mutual Aid Association is far greater than that of the Mutual Aid Association, and its control over local governments and the military is even worse than that of the Mutual Aid Association.
Under the leadership of Jia Liu, the lifelong honorary president, the Gongjin Association took collaboration with the enemy and treason to the extreme.
At present, plans are being made to deal with Dingxi General Feng Sheng'e, preparing for another disastrous defeat for the Qing army since Wenfu's defeat.
The mutual aid association's purpose of "officials protecting each other" essentially lags behind the "common progress" of the mutual aid association, and the mutual aid association also proposed the concept of protecting property with guns for the first time, and firmly put this concept into action, and the actual control is not low.
With an army of forty thousand.
In other words, Jia Liu can start a major uprising at any time and get the support of all members of the Gongjin Association.
Do the governors, governors and chief ministers of mutual aid associations dare?
Moral support from many, scant support.
Jia Liu played it clearly.
This is also the reason why Xu Ji was offered a huge sum of three hundred thousand taels a year.
He needed Xu Ji to cooperate wholeheartedly and unconditionally with his large-scale development project in Tianjin.
Faced with the temptation of an annual dividend of 300,000 taels and a high salary after retirement, the 52-year-old governor of Tianjin suffered a heart attack on the spot. If Jia Liu had not personally given him artificial respiration, Mr. Xu would have been honored.
Jia Liu couldn't help but reflect on whether he had given too much?
When Xu Futai woke up, he pulled the governor-general who was his son. His eyes were filled with tears. He could only say one sentence in a thousand words - Brother, do it! If you don't do it, I will do it to you!
After receiving a satisfactory answer, Jia Liu happily went to Yongping for a wedding banquet. He traveled in a light and simple manner and did not have to display a guard of honor wherever he went.
In this way, a few days later, Jia Liu came to Yongping Mansion and ordered a large group of people to stay in Yongping Mansion City, otherwise it would be easy to scare the man by bringing so many people there.
Jia Liu came here sincerely to congratulate her and have a wedding banquet, not just to put on a show to scare her brother-in-law.
Just take Zhuan Zhu, Baozhu and dozens of others to Linyu for a wedding banquet, and then the team will meet at Shanhaiguan.
When the younger sister gets married, the elder brother cannot be shabby.
Jia Liu prepared a batch of gold and silver jewelry, which were all trophies presented to him by the escort officers and soldiers from Prince Xian's palace that day.
There are many good things inside that were worn by Prince Fujin.
In addition, he also withdrew 5,000 taels of cash in Tianjin.
It's not ugly for my sister to get married for five thousand taels.
After arriving in Linyu, through the address in the letter, Jia Liu and his party came to a place called Shenhe Fort where his second uncle Jia Dazhong's home was.
This place was originally the military base of the former Ming Dynasty, and was surrounded by fertile farmland. After the Eight Banners entered the Pass, all the Jingdong area was enclosed by the Eight Banners.
Jia Dazhong became a Han after he left the banner. He could not buy farmland under the banner and could only rent land from other people.
It was noon when everyone arrived, and the sun was shining fiercely. The people in the fort were all resting at home, and few people were outside.
Fortunately, there were several children swimming in the pond. Shuan Zhu gave them a piece of candy and asked where his second uncle's home was.
From a distance, you can see the small courtyard where ordinary people live. There are three brick houses with two kitchens, and two thatched roofs for storing grain and sundries.
Jia Liu couldn't help but feel guilty. He took good care of his subordinates, but he seemed not to take enough care of his family.
Dazhong is his uncle after all.
When a person attains enlightenment, how can he forget the ancestral teaching that chickens and dogs ascend to heaven?
While thinking about how to arrange an errand for my uncle, I had already arrived in front of the courtyard.
But there are no big red words of joy posted or red lanterns hung.
This is a bit abnormal.
Because even if you are marrying a daughter, your parents’ home must be decorated for celebrations.
Is it a wedding reception held in the county seat?
Jia Liu asked Shuan Zhu to call the door, but no one answered after calling several times. He couldn't help but feel even more surprised. Baozhu climbed up the wall and took a look, saying that there was no one in the yard.
"What's the date today?"
"Master, today is the eleventh."
Jia Liu thought he came early, but the day was right.
The eldest sister is getting married on the 12th day of the twelfth year, so it will be no problem for him, the elder brother-in-law, to come over for the wedding banquet on the 11th day of the twelfth year.
Baozhu said that it didn't look like a wedding was being held in the yard, which made Jia Liu and Monk Zhang Er even more confused. Even if the second uncle's family was holding a wedding banquet in the city, there was no reason why there would be no movement at home.
When everyone was wondering, someone from the neighbor's house next door pushed out the door with a hoe. Seeing a group of people gathered in front of Jia Dazhong's house, they were startled for a moment, and then asked: "Who are you looking for?"
"Fellow fellow, we are from Beijing. Jia Dazhong is my uncle. We are here for a wedding banquet."
Jia Liu's kindness to the people came from the bottom of his heart, and the smile on his face was extremely sincere.
"Wedding banquet? Are you Dazhong's nephew?"
After hearing this, the neighbor put down his hoe and put down his guard, but he shook his head and said, "We can't drink the wedding wine. Something happened to Dazhong's family."
Upon hearing that something had happened to his uncle, Jia Liu was shocked and quickly asked his neighbor what happened.
"His son-in-law committed a crime and was arrested by the government. Dazhong said a few words to the officials, but he was also arrested."
Shuan Zhu was anxious: "Fellow, do you know what the second master Jia's son-in-law did?"
"Who knows? It is said that he wrote an anti-poetry and asked people to report him. The soldiers from Guanli came and arrested him."
The neighbors didn't know much about it. After all, they only had a rough idea of the house Dazhong's son-in-law's family bought in the county, but they didn't really know the details.
"Anti-poetry?"
Jia Liu looked at Shuan Zhu, and Shuan Zhu looked at the young master.
"Master, this is your strength."
"Uh-huh?"
Jia Liu rolled his eyes at Shuan Zhu angrily, "Why are you still standing there, why don't you take advantage of others' strength?"