dream of red mansion

Ma Jun was a little shaken by Yang Xu's sincerity, and said, "Are you serious? I don't take it lightly. Don't blame me if you can't stand it."

Yang Xu smiled and said, "Naturally, I'm willing to bet and admit defeat."

Ma Jun thought for a while, he won't suffer from winning or losing this bet, so he agreed.Untie the rope for Yang Xu, and carefully "lead" him out.

At this time Jia Qing had just gotten on his horse after paying his respects to Yi Cheng, and seeing him and Yang Xu coming out "naked" one after the other, he just frowned, but said nothing, "Let's go, go back to Beijing."

Yang Xu smiled lightly, but Ma Jun couldn't help but wondered, how did this kid know that the second master would not blame him, and did the second master really want to save him?I have been standing by and listening, why didn't I hear what the second master meant?

Forget it, these scholars' stomachs are full of fools, my old horse should not talk to them in the future, or Wang Shun looks pleasing to the eye...

Wang Shun didn't know yet, but his position in someone's heart had been elevated unknowingly.

The fifth and fifth chapters ransacked the house and exiled

Emperor Zhengqing was considered a diligent emperor, and usually after he came down to court, he would go to the South Study Room to approve papers for an afternoon.

Today is no exception, but he also summoned Lin Ruhai.

"Lin Aiqing, I ordered you to check the revenue of the national treasury this year, have you checked it out?"

Lin Ruhai was the secretary of the household department he had just promoted, and he asked him to clean up the accounts in order to make Lin Ruhai familiar with government affairs as soon as possible.

"Returning to the emperor, the annual income has been cleared up in the past few years. All taxes in the country, excluding the part retained by the local government and tax bureaus for personal use, the total cash in the treasury is 740 taels."

Emperor Zhengqing frowned, and said, "So little? It's more than six million less than last year..."

Lin Ruhai explained: "This year's flood in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is worse than in previous years, and large areas of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places are affected; Zhejiang is severely drought, and the fields in 48 counties of the five prefectures in southern Zhejiang are almost devoid of crops. These places have been exempted by His Majesty. Taxes and agricultural taxes are mainly reduced by nearly two million taels in these two places. The tax revenues of other provinces and localities are stable, and the differences are complementary. The main gap comes from commercial taxes. This year, almost all types of commercial taxes have declined. The largest, this item alone is more than two million taels less than last year."

"Okay, I see."

Emperor Zhengqing felt a little unhappy.He still wants to do a lot of big things next year, but the treasury revenue is actually so much less.

"The salt tax has been reduced so much, how much has it been reduced in the two Huaihe Rivers in the middle?"

Lin Ruhai glanced at Emperor Zhengqing, and said flatly, "Half."

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Emperor Zhengqing took a few cases and scolded angrily: "This Huang Shipeng, I'm going to take his skin off!"

After Lin Ruhai left office, it was this man named Huang Shipeng who took over the Lianghuai patrol salt censor yamen.

However, Lin Ruhai said: "This minister thinks that if His Majesty convicts Master Huang because of this, Master Huang may feel wronged. Salt merchants have always been cunning, and I dare not say that I am fully familiar with their methods in the eight years in the south of the Yangtze River. It can be done slowly. Now Mr. Huang can guarantee that the salt tax collected is only less than 100 million taels less than last year. It can be seen that Mr. Huang must have been sleeping all night and exhausting his thoughts. You know, Mr. Huang The amount collected is much higher than when Wei Chen first arrived in Jiangnan."

Emperor Zhengqing thought for a while, and finally accepted Lin Ruhai's plea, and said: "I also know that he is a loyal person, that's all, he won't say anything, but the other three are unforgivable. Originally, the annual salt tax is more expensive than that." Lianghuai is much less, and dare to lose so much this year, damn it!"

Lin Ruhai did not speak for them this time, and said: "Mostly they guessed that Mr. Huang must not collect enough tax money, so they dared to slack off. The family should be less, and if they get together a few times, they will lose so much."

"Hmph, why don't I understand their thoughts, do you think the court is so easy to fool? This time I will not tolerate it! I will issue an edict to dismiss the three of them and investigate them, as a warning to others."

"Your Majesty, please think twice. I only have four salt censors in total. If three of them are cut off at once, I am afraid it will cause turmoil in the salt industry, and the salt tax collection next year will also be greatly disadvantageous. Please consider how to deal with it at your majesty's discretion. "

Emperor Zhengqing's eyes were gloomy and uncertain. Regarding this kind of dereliction of duty, he wished to kill them all.But he also knew that Lin Ruhai was right to worry.

"What Aiqing said is reasonable, but even so, I have to give a warning. Among the three families, which one has the most gaps?"

Lin Ruhai said: "Changlu."

"Okay, then I will confiscate Changlu Xunyan Yushi's house and exile."

After Emperor Zhengqing said this, he seemed to feel refreshed, and he laughed when he saw Lin Ruhai: "With Ruhai by my side, the long-standing constraints I have had in dealing with government affairs seem to have disappeared. It's like a helping hand. It seems that transferring Ruhai to the capital is something I should have done a long time ago."

Lin Ruhai knelt down and said, "Your Majesty loves me so much, but my humble minister is terrified."

"Get up."

Emperor Zhengqing only expressed his feelings for a while, seeing that Lin Ruhai didn't dare to talk to him about the friendship when he was young, he didn't force him, he just said: "From now on, I hope Aiqing will put more thought into the matter of the household department. Now the Russian Cossacks are ready to move, war It may explode at any time, and I want a sufficient treasury.

In the future, Ai Qing will try her best to reject any unnecessary expenses, and if necessary, she will also need to reduce them as appropriate.For those who are not convinced, let them just submit the letter, and I will support you. "

"Yes, Wei Chen takes orders."

Lin Ruhai bowed to accept the order, but thought in his mind: Everyone in the court guessed His Majesty's attitude towards the Cossack soldiers' accusation of Tatar, and His Majesty has never expressed his thoughts. As for the case, now it seems that His Majesty is the one who will lead the battle.

"Princess Xingyue arrives..."

As soon as the eunuch's voice came down, a crisp voice came:

"Brother Emperor!"

Emperor Zhengqing looked at Princess Xingyu who walked in, with a smile on his face.

Although Lin Ruhai hadn't been in Beijing all year round, he had heard of Princess Xingyue's great reputation, so he didn't look around and said, "If Your Majesty has no other orders, I will take my leave first."

"Well, let's go."

After Lin Ruhai bowed again, he turned around and wanted to leave, but who would have thought that Princess Xingyue who had just walked beside him actually stopped him, and said arrogantly: "You are Lin Ruhai?"

"Xingyue, don't be rude." Emperor Zhengqing said.

Lin Ruhai replied: "It's the humble minister, I don't know what the princess ordered."

Xingyue first made a face at Emperor Zhengqing, then looked at Lin Ruhai and said, "I heard that you adopted a adopted son. Stealing chickens and teasing dogs all day long, doing all kinds of bad things. This princess is very angry, and I order you to discipline him after you go back."

"Hehe..." Emperor Zhengqing smiled on it.

What is this ghostly girl thinking?

Lin Ruhai was a little surprised, wondering how this princess in the deep palace knew about his relationship with Jia Qing.But he had a clear mind. Although he couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Princess Xingyue's gourd for a while, seeing that Emperor Zhengqing didn't mind Xingyue talking to him, he said: "The wicked son is stubborn, I don't know how to offend the princess, my humble minister Make an apology to the princess on his behalf. As for discipline, I wonder how the princess wants me to be disciplined?"

"Oh, I said it all because I heard it from others. It's not because I offended me. In short, after you go back, you should discipline him well. It's best to open his ass to see if he dares to be complacent."

After finishing speaking, Princess Xingyue ignored Lin Ruhai, walked quickly to Emperor Zhengqing, and said, "Brother Emperor, why are you still here? No wonder I couldn't find you everywhere in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

Lin Ruhai shook his head behind, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, I will take my leave..."

"Remember what I told you!"

Lin Ruhai: "..."

After Lin Ruhai left, Emperor Zhengqing smiled and said, "Why, is our Xingyue still angry about what happened last time?"

"No!"

"Hehe, who told you to always bully others, so that they are afraid to come to see you."

The last time Princess Xingyue saw the blueprint of the Princess Mansion that Jia Qing planned for him, she was really overjoyed at that time, she even put aside the past "grievances" for the time being, and secretly sent her little eunuch to call Jia Qing into the palace, saying that she There are still a few ideas that I want to share with Jia Qing, so that he can re-plan the design...