All my subjects want to usurp the throne

Chapter 256 Buy at a low price, rent out at a high price

As everyone knows, every move of the two of them now has fallen into Lu Fengxian's eyes.

Lu Fengxian has been following Mrs. Zhu closely these days because he wanted to see what was going on with the censor.

Looking at the increasing amount of ill-gotten wealth in his hands, he fell into a reverie for a while. Now it is estimated that even His Majesty does not know about it.

Lu Fengxian decided to investigate it himself. He knew that even if His Majesty knew about this matter, he would definitely ask him to conduct a thorough investigation again, so now he just wanted to see if there were any clues.

At that time, the censor took his wife to buy many strange gadgets in this market, just to make his wife happy.

At this time, Lu Fengxian couldn't help but sigh, this Master Zhu is indeed a maniac who dotes on his wife.

In this way, I followed it all morning and arrived without seeing anything wrong. At this time in the evening, a suspicious person appeared.

Lu Fengxian has been in the palace for so long, and he still knows a little about the ministers in the court, and the person who went to Zhu's mansion was Mr. Liu, the servant of the household department.

How could it be him?
After thinking about it, Lu Fengxian felt a little strange.

You must know that Mr. Liu has always been at odds with Mr. Zhu in the court, and he is not the only one who knows about this matter, all the civil and military officials in the court do not know about it.

But their wives are quite close, but why did Mr. Liu come to the Zhu Mansion today?
At this time, only the door creaked open.

The housekeeper poked his head out and saw that it was Mr. Liu, so he opened the door and then closed it again.

Lu Fengxian is hiding in the corner at this moment, seeing this scene in his eyes, in his opinion, there must be something tricky in it.

Mr. Zhu learned that Mr. Liu was coming today, and has been waiting for him in this attached middle school for a long time.

At this moment, he was sipping tea leisurely, and when he saw Master Liu, he didn't lift his head.

On the contrary, Master Liu usually competed with Master Zhu in the court, but when he arrived at Zhu's residence, he was waiting with his head bowed.

At this time, Lord Zhu looked up at him inadvertently, and said to him: "It turns out that Lord Liu is here, please sit down!"

Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief, and then he said to Master Zhu, "Master Zhu, I'm here to give you money today."

Counting the days, it is indeed time to collect the bill.

But when Master Liu handed him the money, Master Zhu frowned.

Pointing to Yin Liang, he said: "Master Liu, we have discussed this matter before, I will hand over the land to you, and you can only pay me the money when the time comes, but today's account seems wrong."

You must know that when Mr. Liu brought this money in the past, he brought it in boxes by boxes, but today he brought it in a bag, and it didn't matter if he weighed it. Don't even think about it.

At this time, Master Liu said with a look of embarrassment: "Master Zhu, you don't want to see what's going on now. Although I have taken so many fields from you, the common people have nothing to harvest now."

"I still collected this money from them door to door. Now I still have to do accounts for the court. If the higher ups find out about this, neither of us will be able to reap the benefits."

Although Mr. Liu said that he always listened to Mr. Zhu everywhere, but today he planned to go all out.

In order to prevent this matter from being exposed in the court these days, he deliberately pretended to be in conflict with Mr. Zhu, so as to avoid others' suspicion.

But now he has shot himself in the foot, and now it is getting harder and harder for him.

When he came to Zhu's mansion today, after thinking about it, he felt that he still had to go this way.

Now, sooner or later, Master Zhu must know about this situation. Originally, Master Liu thought he had explained this matter very clearly, but he did not expect that Master Zhu would not appreciate it at all.

I saw him slam the teacup on the table.

"Master Liu, I think you didn't talk to me like this at the beginning."

Mr. Zhu has been an official in the imperial court for generations from this mansion, so the family not only has a lot of money, but also a lot of land.

At the beginning, Master Zhu felt that it was not good to keep these lands on hold, so he finally discussed this matter with Master Liu.

Mr. Liu, the Minister of Household Department, was supposed to solve the land problem of the common people in the world, so he contracted out the land at a high price.

In this way, he only needs to give Mr. Zhu money every month, but now the common people can't harvest the crops.

So he paid a lot this year, but this time he still told the common people in the name of the court.

Now that I have calculated what I have deducted, there is so much left, so I can only give it to Master Zhu.

"Master Zhu, if I had my way, I wouldn't fool you like this. Now you have seen that the imperial court is cutting back on expenses, and so are the people in the world. How can they have money now that they don't have crops? Is it possible? Do I give you the lives of these people?”

Master Liu also spread his hands helplessly at this time, and now he is also on fire.

He was originally in charge of this matter, and His Majesty told him some time ago to let him pay more attention to the affairs of the common people.

But how should he pay attention, his ass has not been wiped clean, if His Majesty really finds out one day, I'm afraid he won't be able to keep his black hat.

"There is no way, you just think of a way! This land is mine in the first place, and it is only right and proper to collect your money. Even if I don't give it to you, I don't know how many times the silver taels I get back every year when I rent it out to others. Since you and I have worked together for many years, how could I give you so much land?"

Master Zhu feels a bit at a loss when he thinks about it now, but after all, he bowed his head and saw Master Zhan, so he started such a business with him.

But I didn't expect it now. Now this matter is getting more and more difficult. The key is that these lands are in the hands of ordinary people.

Once the common people had no food or harvest, they would not be able to get a penny out. Master Zhu thought of this, although his face turned pale and red with anger.

"Well, I won't embarrass you. I'll give you three more days, and you can quickly collect the money for me. We have already agreed before. If you insist on using these silver coins to fool me, then you It’s a breach of contract, so you have to pay liquidated damages!”

Mr. Liu felt a chill down his back when he heard this. Although Mr. Zhu is the censor in the imperial court, he has a good mind and a way of doing business.

At the beginning, he indeed signed such an agreement with Mr. Zhu. Originally, he thought that when he had the land in his hand, he would only need to rent it out to the common people, so that he would not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life. The days are getting farther and farther away.

(End of this chapter)