My Brother-in-law is the Prince - Chapter 379

Chapter 379 They are robbing me

After hearing Zhang Anshi’s scolding, the official did not dare to show his anger.

Zhu Di stood aside, coldly silent.

At this time, Zhang Anshi said: “The land required for the railway was also calculated when the Taiping Mansion was built. In addition to the roadbed and platform, etc., although there is a lot of demand, the land that can be occupied is only 1%. Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were allocated… so how much land did you buy?”

“Not many.” The official replied: “Only 20% of the purchase…”

Twenty percent…

More than 300,000 taels…

This is only 20% for road construction.

Zhang Anshi was stunned when he heard that, and then said: “How much do you spend per mu for purchasing land?”

“This…” The official looked hesitant, and he glanced at Chen Jinye.

Chen Jinye plucked up his courage at this time and said: “If it is as little as seven or eight taels, if it is more… as much as a thousand taels of silver.”

“Hahaha…” Zhu Di laughed angrily for a moment.

He didn’t expect that this county would come directly with a reverse operation.

Over there in Taiping Mansion, the land was requisitioned, the railway was built, and it was sold to merchants for hundreds of taels of silver per mu.

But here, the land was purchased with a thousand taels of silver to build the railway…

But this is Zhu Di’s money!

Zhu Di was furious and said: “Thousand taels of silver, how much have you embezzled?”

Chen Jinye hurriedly said: “I’m an official…I’m an official… I really didn’t get any benefits. The railway is a national plan. His Majesty personally ordered the construction, and it was personally supervised by the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites. The chief envoy issued thirty-seven official documents in a row in January. , It’s all a matter of supervision, let’s not say that the lower officials are definitely not corrupt officials, even if they really have this intention, they will never dare to risk the disgrace of the world.”

This statement…but people have to believe it.

Judging from Chen Jinye’s current life, it is indeed quite simple.

The civil officials under Shan Dan’s rule dared to sacrifice their lives to intercede for him, which shows that this man is quite extraordinary.

Even for this era, people like Chen Jinye are definitely a model and role model for officials.

Needless to say, anyone who has been an official in the court also knows how much His Majesty attaches importance to this matter.

Zhu Di is not an ordinary emperor, but a real ruthless character. Who would dare to take money and break the law from the railway that such a person is staring at?

Is life too long?

I saw Chen Jinye go on to say: “Nanchang issued the official document of the chief envoy, and the subordinate officials immediately prepared for the construction of the railway. The Jiangxi Railway Department issued the railway plan, and the subordinate officials also followed the plan and began to purchase. land along the railroad.”

Zhu Di was speechless at this time, in fact, he had gradually begun to understand the whole story.

Chen Jinye continued: “Just buying land is really cumbersome. In this county alone, there are more than 200 households involved in the railway passage. The officials summoned them in person to move them with emotion and reason. Some people are willing to sell at a low price, but…but…”

“So they ask for a lot of money, and you actually accept it?”

Chen Jinye looked at the furious Zhu Di, and said, “How can an official take it by force?”

This sentence almost choked Zhu Di to death.

Zhang Anshi was on the sidelines, but he actually laughed. In fact, he expected that the Jiangxi railway might be due to technology, or because officials were corrupt.

I didn’t expect it, the only thing I didn’t expect was… none of the above is a problem.

Zhang Anshi said: “Go and get the account books. Since there are land sales, there must be accounts. Take the accounts and you will know.”

The literary official didn’t dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly went to the house to get the book, and after a while, the book was placed in front of Zhu Di and Zhang Anshi.

Zhu Di is used to looking at the accounts of the Taiping Mansion, but now looking at the accounts here, he only feels that they are dense, but he doesn’t know the point.

But Zhu Di still suppressed his anger and looked carefully. In the end, he slammed the notebook to the ground.

Zhang Anshi has been watching from the sidelines, and he probably knows it in his heart.

So he said: “The land purchased in total is only more than 700 mu, and it cost more than 300,000 taels of silver. Among them, there are more than 100 households, which are only purchased for 12 taels of silver. Most of them, It’s just three or four families, and these three or four families alone got more than 300,000 taels of silver.”

Paused, Zhang Anshi looked at Chen Jinye coldly and said, “As a county magistrate, you don’t know about this matter?”

Chen Jinye’s face was livid, and he said: “These three or four households are big households in this county.”

Zhang Anshi said coldly: “Since you know that they are big families, why did you buy their land at such a high price?”

Chen Jinye said: “The route that the railway tracks pass through is their land, and they have so much land that it is impossible to detour. The lower officials also invited them to come to the county for consultations, but they were unmoved. The price…is extremely high, but the railway department is urging to buy the land quickly…”

Zhang Anshi said sharply: “Don’t forget, you are the county magistrate.”

“The lower officials are not the county magistrates who destroy families and families!” Chen Jinye replied with great enthusiasm.

This… When I said it, I had a sense of moral superiority.

Zhang Anshi was dumbfounded once again.

On the other hand, the civil servants at the side, seeing their county magistrate, seemed to have angered the Shangguan, and immediately said: “Please be clear, Shangguan, even if my county magistrate really wants to buy it by force, he can’t buy it. These three or four families are all big families in the county. Not to mention anything else, just talking about the Wang family in this county, his family has produced two Jinshi and three Juren, among them there are court officials worshiping Shaoqing, and many of them are magistrates and county magistrates elsewhere. , are all over the local area, even if you want to buy it by force, I am afraid that just as the county lord makes up his mind, someone on the other side will teach the county magistrate to dismiss him.”

He paused for a moment, the official was obviously more tactful than Chen Jinye, and continued: “Even if there is no such thing, these are local big clans, once there is trouble, they have a large number of people, and they have been operating locally for a hundred years. My county magistrate I came here from another place to be an official for only two years, even if it is to stir up trouble, I still have to cause trouble in this county. Once there is trouble, the first person to be questioned by the imperial court is County Magistrate Chen.”

“Furthermore, these lands belong to them. How much price they ask, even if the lion opens his mouth, but logically, what price they sell the land at is their business. How can it be impossible to buy land at a fair price? The reason for shouting and shouting? The county magistrate has been thinking about this matter, and he can’t sleep well every day. Now 70 to 80% of the land needed for the railway construction has not been purchased. At this price, I am afraid that there will be another million taels Wenyin may not be able to buy all of it, and County Magistrate Chen has been unable to eat or sleep for many days in order to build this railway.”

He said it sincerely.

Zhu Di only thought it was extremely ridiculous.

And Zhang Anshi only has one capitalized word service in his heart.

Everyone said that I, Zhang Anshi, would make money, but now I realize that in terms of making money, these local snakes are the best.

Chen Jinye gritted his teeth at this time and said: “I know that I am not good at doing things, but since my superior is here today, I have to say something. The construction of this railway by the imperial court is really harming the country and the people. It is a matter of peace. It’s all right, but once the railway is repaired, not only this county, but also Nanchang and Jiujiang prefectures in Jiangxi Province, and the six counties that the railway passes through, which one is not the people complaining about it? The two prefectures have issued more than three million taels of public debt , These debts… all need to be repaid with interest, and I don’t know how many years it will take to repay it, and the government’s taxes, even a hundred years, are not enough to repay it.”

“Not to mention, in order to build this railway, they wantonly expropriated corvée. The common people have worked hard in farming, but now they have to be forcibly conscripted. It consumes people’s energy and wastes countless money and food. What is the result?”

Zhang Anshi sneered: “But why did the Taiping Mansion build a railway, but all industries are flourishing, and the soldiers and civilians live and work in peace and contentment?”

“The lower officials don’t know what happened in Taiping Mansion. The lower officials only know about this place. The railway won’t work.”

Zhang Anshi said: “Didn’t you think that this is because of your incompetence?”

Chen Jinye’s face paled suddenly, and he was speechless for a while, and he finally shook his head and lowered his head.

At this time, Zhu Di said coldly: “Check, check thoroughly what these two people said, whether there is any evidence.”

He didn’t say anything more, but sat down directly.

Zhu Di just sat in the hall silently, completely devoid of the mind to pay attention to Chen Jinye.

To some extent, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

He even vaguely hoped that Chen Jinye’s incompetence, or his corruption and breaking the law, led to today’s results.

If it is just incompetence, corruption and perverting the law, then the problem can be solved easily. If the railway cannot be built, the responsibility is that the emperor did not choose capable officials. At worst, he can choose some more capable officials to solve the problem.

What Zhu Di is afraid of is that Chen Jinye really has nothing to do, at least…he is definitely not the kind of person who is corrupt and perverts the law, because if he does, then…maybe all his money…will really be thrown into the water.

Not even a tiny bit of water splashed out.

If even a clean and honest magistrate can do things to this extent.

Then, Zhu Di’s missing 2.5 million taels of silver and the 3 million taels of public debt issued, isn’t it… all gone?

Zhu Di took a deep breath and closed his eyes wearily.

Chen Daowen, who came with him, immediately scattered away with the captains.

Only for more than an hour.

Chen Daowen returned to Zhu Di in fear.

At this moment, Zhu Di still had his eyes closed, and Chen Daowen saluted.

Zhu Di suddenly opened his eyes as if aware of it, but said directly: “How to say?”

“Return to His Majesty…”

When Chen Daowen said these four words.

Chen Jinye, who had been kneeling beside him without saying a word, suddenly shuddered. He suddenly raised his head, looked at Zhu Di in disbelief, and then…his body went limp.

He originally thought that Zhu Di was Cheng Guogong Zhu Neng, but now…he just feels cold all over his body, Your Majesty…why did he appear here?

Chen Jinye’s whole body was already depressed, and he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he couldn’t utter a single word.

Chen Daowen lowered his voice and continued: “Criminal Chen Jinye’s words…most of them are true. He is humble in the county. After asking around, he has never heard of his bad deeds. Last year, Jiujiang Prefecture was flooded. He took people to personally guard the embankment. Jiujiang All counties, because of this, only this county suffered the least damage. Other than that…”

His voice is getting lower and lower.

Zhu Di listened, but his face became more and more miserable.

Zhu Di shuddered.

Then he closed his eyes again, as if he still felt that what was happening now was hard for him to accept.

Zhu Di suddenly shouted: “Chen Jinye!”

“Chen…Chen…” Chen Jinye prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed: “The minister is here.”

Zhu Di said: “Are the railways in other counties built in the same way?”

Under the eyes full of anger, Chen Jinye tried to steady his voice and said: “Most… probably so.”

“What do you mean is probably so?” Zhu Di said viciously.

Chen Jinye said: “The railways in each county have hardly started construction. The lower officials even built a station, and other counties may not even have a station.”

Zhu Di glared at him and said, “These three or four families, since you know that they want to covet a lot of money and food, why didn’t you report it?”

“Played… played.”

Zhu Di said: “Who played it for?”

“The chief envoy…”

“How did he respond?”

“The chief envoy’s response is that the railway is His Majesty’s personal order, and it is of great importance, and we must do our best to complete it.”

Zhu Di sneered, and then said: “In this way, the Nanchang Mansion and Jiujiang Mansion, the more than five million taels of railway funds, have all fallen into the hands of the gentry in these two places?”

“This…” Chen Jinye wanted to say something, but found that he seemed to have nothing to say, so he kowtowed again: “Yes.”

Zhu Di took a deep breath, as if this was the only way he would not feel too uncomfortable, and then continued to ask Chen Jinye: “If the imperial court allocates money and food, you still want to buy land?”

Chen Jinye said with a livid face: “Yes!”

After a pause, he continued: “If you don’t buy it, there will be no way to repair this railway.”

Zhu Di curled his lips into a sneer, and said with a bit of mockery: “Then, how many more taels do you think? Is it enough to give you another one million taels?”

Chen Jinye seemed unable to understand the mockery in these words, obediently said: “It should be enough.”

“Not enough!” Zhang Anshi couldn’t bear it anymore and said coldly from the side.

Chen Jinye didn’t dare to talk back.

Zhang Anshidao: “Even if a million taels of silver are paid and 80 to 90% of the land is purchased, they will only raise the price for the last 20% of the land. Since they know that the last bit of land is related to countless Whether the railway with tens of millions of taels of silver can be built, even if the price is raised to 10,000 taels of silver per mu, or even 100,000 taels of silver per mu, it is determined that you dare not do anything to them, so… no matter how much you pay Money is also hard to fill.”

Chen Jinye glanced at Zhang Anshi with a strange gaze.

However…he seems to have no reason to refute this.

Zhu Di couldn’t help laughing out loud: “Haha, interesting… Really interesting… In this way, before the railway is built, you have to issue several million taels of public bonds first, and then you will have to borrow money from my internal funds.” How much money should I take out? Ten million taels, twenty million taels?”

He asked back, but Chen Jinye didn’t know how to answer.

Zhu Di suddenly took the case.

Zhu Di’s face was full of anger, his eyes were red, and murderous intent flashed across his eyes.

Then, Zhu Di’s hoarse voice was heard roaring: “This is robbery, they are robbing me!”

Chen Jinye was so scared out of his wits that he only kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Zhu Di took another deep breath, then looked at Zhang Anshi: “Speak.”

Zhang Anshi was also taken aback, and said: “Your Majesty, I don’t know… what to say… what to say.”

Zhu Di glared at him, and said angrily: “Someone is robbing me, you don’t know what to say?”

Zhang Anshi stammered and said: “Chen… I seem to know.”

Zhu Di said angrily: “Whoever took my money, whose hands my money passed through, and all the people involved, everyone, no one should be let go!”

Speaking of this, he seemed to have thought of something, and then said: “Qiu Song… Where is Qiu Song? This guy Qiu Song… Isn’t he out of his mind? I’m going to use him now.”

Zhang Anshi was taken aback for a moment, and then said: “I understand.”

Zhu Di sullenly said: “What do you understand?”

“I want to catch them all at once.” Under Zhu Di’s angry gaze, Zhang Anshi straightened his posture and said seriously: “Whoever is involved in this matter will not be left alone.”

Zhu Di put away his anger and said, “Just understand.”

Zhang Anshi didn’t say anything more, and was about to go out to explain.

Zhu Di suddenly said: “Come back.”

Zhang Anshi hurriedly stopped and looked back at Zhu Di.

But seeing Zhu Di with his hands behind his back and his eyes closed, he let out a long breath at this moment, as if he was desperately suppressing his anger at this moment: “No, why… When the railway was built, the whole court agreed, and no one objected. ?”

He paused, and then asked: “Why is the progress of the Jiangxi Railway so smooth?”

“And why… After the construction of the railway, Jiangxi’s chief envoy repeatedly gave reports, saying that the railway is progressing rapidly, but no one has any objections from all ministries and departments?”

He kept asking questions.

Zhang Anshi thought for a while and said, “Your Majesty, what do you mean… At the beginning, many people saw the benefits?”

Zhu Di said: “It’s not just that they saw the benefits, they made up their minds from the beginning to take this opportunity and were ready to make a fortune!”

Zhang Anshi frowned: “But…the minister dared to ask…they…are they not afraid…”

“What are you afraid of?” Zhu Di said coldly, “Not to mention anything else, but in this county alone, have you found any place where you can be accused of crime?”

Zhang Anshi’s face suddenly changed.

Yes, it can be said that the whole thing is extremely funny, and after the funny, it can’t help but make people angry.

But when I think about it carefully, it seems… everything is reasonable and reasonable. The official is a good official. Even if the price is sky-high during the process of purchasing land, but one has to be bought and the other has to be sold. There is nothing wrong with it.

If there is a question of sin, who is guilty?

Of course… there is a person…

Zhang Anshi just thought of this person.

Zhu Di said slowly: “In truth, if you say you are guilty, then only Liu Guan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, is responsible for this person’s failure in his work, so we cannot escape the blame.”

Zhang An Shidao: “Your Majesty said so.”

Zhu Di calmed down and calmed down at this time, and even his voice calmed down: “It seems that it is useless to kill a few people. I have lost so much money, and what is the use of only losing some heads?”

The calmness of these words made Zhang Anshi feel the **** storm.

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Also, it will be later. Ask for a monthly pass.

(end of this chapter)