White Moonlight is Not Easy To Do - Chapter 271

Inspecting the Salt Palace, the Imperial Palace, the inner hall.

Looking at the two boxes of account books, Sima Xuan was filled with emotion, and sighed, “Why did these officials have less salaries and fertile fields, and once they gained fame, the imperial court never treated them badly, so why is this?”

Yingchun sat on the side drinking tea, raised her eyebrows, and said, “Who would think that he has too much money?”

Standing behind Sima Xuan, Li Shuo couldn’t help but look at Yingchun curiously. He also learned that Princess Yu was actually Jia Yingchun after he returned from the dispatch of troops from Hangzhou.

When he greeted him before, Sima Xuan called him “the wife of Jia”, and he had never thought that it was her.

Li Shuo had known Sima Xuan for a long time. Knowing that he was high on the cliff, he had a gentle attitude towards the beautiful young Lolita wife who was undersized.

At that time, he felt that ancient women got married very early, and secondly, that the hobbies of ancient men were really speechless, even an exiled immortal like Sima Xuan liked this.

Li Shuo himself would never wake up to the fact that there was something wrong with his plan to marry Lin Daiyu. In fact, Lin Daiyu was only in his early ten years.

Only now did Li Shuo realize that there was absolutely a problem. Isn’t Jia Yingchun a cowardly lady who married Zhongshan Wolf? This princess is not at all cowardly, and it is said that she is extremely skilled in martial arts and excellent in medicine. How could she have learned from Rongfu at such a young age?

There is no doubt that she is a transmigrator, but if she is a modern transmigrator, how can ordinary women have excellent traditional Chinese medicine, and how can modern women have acupuncture and light exercises that even the commander of the special forces cannot know? The kung fu of the special forces is a means of killing, without the slightest bells and whistles.

Is it an ancient traveler?

Sima Xuan found that Li Shuo was looking at Yingchun for a long time, and couldn’t help being displeased, and said, “Are the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army available?”

Li Shuo returned to his senses and said, “My lord, the cavalry of the Zhejiang army is not enough, but it is enough to deter the criminals in Jiangsu.”

Yingchun smiled and said, “I’m afraid it’s not enough.”

Li Shuo asked, “Why not enough?”

Yingchun said: “Searching a house is a technical task. Can the Zhejiang army use it directly? General Li has to work out a charter for the search of a house. Also, officials at all levels should take precautionary measures to hide their belongings. They took it out like a mouse’s nest. These things are more difficult for General Li than fighting the barbarians, right? The lord tries to deal with corrupt officials, I am in charge of accounting, and General Li is in charge of managing the house, all of which are indispensable, but the most important The only thing is to transport the embezzled and short-lived money back to deal with the emperor.”

Li Shuo nodded: “What the princess said is very true.”

Lin Ruhai brought a few salt officials and the accountant, and greeted Sima Xuan again.

“You’re not in good health, so don’t be too polite, lest your wife will spend more for you.”

“Xiaguan was convicted of guilt, and Xiaguan was deeply favored by the princess, and he will never forget it.”

Yingchun said: “Sit down, uncle, you can ask some accountants to help me, and then rest on the couch. If I have any questions, you can just tell me, and you don’t need to worry about anything else. Today, Sister Lin should be back, if she sees you being ill, she will be sad, and she just thinks we have embarrassed you, am I not wronged?”

Lin Ruhai smiled and said, “Princess is serious, how can Ruhai afford it?”

Lin Ruhai felt that Yingchun didn’t look like someone from the Jia family at all. It wasn’t that the Jia family’s daughter was not good, but that her bearing and ability did not look like a daughter in a boudoir. However, Lin Ruhai didn’t want to delve into what was wrong with Yingchun’s origin, he only knew that this woman was absolutely harmless to him. In fact, the Jia family knew that her ability was suspicious and her identity was suspicious. The Jia family couldn’t move her, and she wouldn’t be so stupid. They wouldn’t be relatives and enemies with such a powerful person.

Lin Ruhai also introduced the Yanzheng Yamen and the twelve accountants in the Lin House. Yingchun nodded and said, “Very good. I just remembered that I still need some skilled and responsible maids. It’s better to be literate and help us. Grinding, proofreading, binding.”

Lin Ruhai said, “I have a few maids in my house, but I’m afraid there won’t be enough. There are also a few servants who can read.”

Yingchun said: “It’s all good, just make do. I want to print the bookkeeping format paper for me. It’s too troublesome for me to draw it temporarily. In fact, the general ledger is not difficult to manage. Pursuing and adjudicating cases are well-founded to convince people of insight in the world. Furthermore, after these accounts are sorted out, the Huaiyang salt administration can be reformed—the amount of official salt and salt introduction is appropriate at present, neither can it be Let the private salt merchants dig their roots, but also leave money for the salt merchants to earn, it is extremely important for the merchants to promote the flow of materials.”

It turned out that the Caogang account book was all sudden accounting, and who was responsible for transporting the salt from where to where, and who was in charge of it. This kind of running account is more confusing.

After everything was ready, they also requisitioned the front room. Si Qi and Pan You case managed the discipline of accounting, and Han Yong led troops to guard around to prevent people from making trouble. Yingchun also fell into it.

When the total amount of private salt was calculated, Sima Xuan wrote an expedited memorial to the capital, explaining the current basic situation, the matter was more serious than he thought, and the extent of the killing had to be given by the emperor. Also, the new emperor must send some alternate officials to dock, otherwise there will be a power vacuum in Jiangsu.

At this time, there was evidence of private salt and tainted witness Zhu Ming, he first sent Li Shuo to jail the governor of Caoyun, and Li Boyan himself was brought to Yangzhou for trial.

On the other hand, with the help of several tainted witnesses and the amount of deficit, the new emperor’s confidant, the prefect of Yangzhou, went to Jinling under the protection of the Zhejiang army to control the Zhen family and Wu family first. Zhen Yingjia and Li Rong came to Yangzhou and were placed under house arrest by Sima Xuan.

Li Boyan arrived soon after, and Sima Xuan was the first to guard him. Zhu Ming knew too many things, otherwise he wouldn’t give him the matter of killing his mouth and destroying his traces. Li Boyan’s dead man also controlled Zhu Ming’s family, and Zhu Ming was hopeful and dared not speak for a while. Sima Xuan asked Zhu Ming to explain with confidence, anyway, there is evidence of the Cao Gang, even if the specific criminal evidence of Li Boyan’s related officials cannot be dug up, thus increasing Li Boyan’s own crime, Li Boyan is also finished.

Sima Xuan brought up Li Boyan’s four sons and said to Zhu Ming: “Originally, Li Boyan’s sons were not all killed, but if you do not testify and explain the specific problems of Li Boyan and the relevant officials, I can still kill him. All the sons of his sons. When the illegal salt merchants are dealt with based on the private salt account, the salt merchants will testify against him, and then I will kill them all, which is also in line with the law.”

Li Boyan has never met such a ruthless person. People in the officialdom are all guarded by officials. How can there be such a ruthless person?

Zhu Ming said to Li Boyan: “Master, let go of my family, you let go of my family is equal to fighting for a chance for your family.”

Li Boyan said, “As long as I’m still alive, your family will be fine.” He also acquiesced that Zhu Ming would explain to Sima Xuan.

Almost none of the water transport officials headed by Li Boyan were spared, and most of his lower-level Jiangsu officials and Zhen Yingjia were involved. On the contrary, the four major families of Jinling have no real officials in Jinling, and they have not reached this level to involve the deficit of salt tax and a large amount of smuggling. They mainly have the problem of large families and many slaves.

With Li Boyan’s testimony and confession, Sima Xuan re-examined Zhen Yingjia and Wu Rong. That’s all, Wu Rong can only confess after a while, but Zhen Yingjia is talking about the expenses of the emperor’s southern tour, saying that whether it is the money earned from private salt or the misappropriation of salt tax, the money is to fill the hole.

Sima Xuan said: “The private salt and the salt tax deficit are all spent on the Southern Tour of the Emperor? Is there a detailed account book for the expenses of the Southern Tour of the Emperor?”

Zhen Yingjia said, “It’s been a long time since it happened, and it’s been burnt out for a long time.”

Sima Xuan said: “Let’s not talk about the things you like to set fire to. Even if the emperor’s southern tour spends, the private salt and salt tax are misappropriated on this, what if your Zhen family owes 2 million taels of silver to the Ministry of Households? No? Will it be the emperor’s southern tour again? Is it possible that the emperor’s southern tour can afford meals for two people alone?”

Zhen Yingjia said, “How pompous is the saint’s southern tour? The 20 million taels of silver are still tight for these few southern tours.”

Sima Xuan smiled and said, “Okay, I’m being reasonable. I won’t convict you of the crime of corruption. Zhang Zhubo, have you recorded all the confessions of Lord Zhen?”

Zhang Zhubo said: “I wrote it all down. Then let Master Zhen check the confession and let him draw it after it is accurate.”

Zhang Zhubo handed Zhen Yingjia’s trial case records to him for verification. Zhen Yingjia saw that it was all written according to his confession, and he did not convict him. At this time, let him draw the bet, and he couldn’t shirk it, so he drew the bet.

Sima Xuan took the case file and said again: “Zhang Zhubo, immediately seal the case file!”

“Yes!” As the book was written, Zhang Zhubo rolled up the file and put it in a long bamboo tube.

Sima Xuan said again: “Wang Wu, Zhao Ping, you bring this case file 800 miles to Beijing as soon as possible to send it to the emperor, and let the emperor forward it to the emperor! Just let the emperor convey it, the emperor spent so much money from the Zhen family, and now it’s still there. I owe it! Such a loyal subject like Master Zhen, this king can’t handle him. So I asked the emperor to send someone to carry the silver, and this king personally transported it to Jinling Zhen’s house as a son to treat the loyal ministers kindly. If necessary, this king will take care of him. The emperor and the Zhen family do not hesitate to apologize!”

When Zhen Yingjia heard it, she was stupid at first, but after reacting, she secretly said: I’ve been fooled!

“No!” Zhen Yingjia had never seen such a person who didn’t follow the rules of officialdom and aristocracy. He was still a prince!

Sima Xuan said: “Master Zhen, this king will not condemn you, but you don’t need to order what this king can or cannot do.”

Zhen Yingjia remembered that although the emperor was merciful in the later period of his reign, he was also an emperor of civil and martial arts. In the early years, he fought in the north and the south to pacify the chaos. If he becomes ruthless and does not recite the old feelings of the holy lady, then the Zhen family will be doomed.

At this time, Zhen Yingjia, who had been mad for a lifetime, didn’t even care about the new emperor and the prince, and finally woke up. It turned out that from the beginning to the end, their Zhen family were only royal servants. After they received grace, they had forgotten who they were. In fact, it was easy for the royal family to take them.

If the emperor was still thinking of the Zhen family’s love, neither the prince nor the new emperor would kill him or execute his family; but when the emperor was angry, the strongest barrier of the Zhen family was lost.

In his confession, it was as if everything was the fault of the emperor, as if the emperor owed them money. However, the Zhen family was originally humble, and it is because of the grace of the emperor that it is able to stand in the south of the Yangtze River today, and the family is rich and prosperous?

How could the emperor be wrong? Even if the emperor is wrong, as loyal ministers and servants, they have to stand up, because without the emperor, there would be no Zhen family. To let the Zhen family take up the position of weaving, isn’t it because the emperor’s grace gave them wealth and honor? Turn a blind eye and let them recoup their losses in these decades? But how could the emperor see that they not only got back their losses here, but also borrowed money and misappropriated the salt tax at the same time?

As long as the emperor has read the case file, then his affection for the Zhen family will vanish.

Zhen Yingjia finally kowtowed and said, “Please raise your hand high, my lord, I… I plead guilty, I confess.”

Sima Xuan said: “If your confession is different from the final account book, and the trial of other officials in this king’s trial, then I’m afraid that there will be a retrial, and then the crime will be heavier.”

Zhen Yingjia understood at this time that the other party was a ruthless man, and he couldn’t escape his grasp. He just hoped that he and his family could live, sighed softly, and nodded.

Sima Xuan found a breakthrough, and when he found one, he brought a nest. After this trial, the governor tried the governor, the governor tried the Daotai, and the Daotai tried several prefects in Jiangsu, and then some magistrates.

In addition to these officials, there were also private salt merchants who colluded with them, and they were also arrested and questioned one by one. Sima Xuan had to interrogate more than a dozen people a day, so he was very busy.

In fact, Li Shuo and Li Chong, the prefect of Yangzhou, have equally arduous work. As Yingchun said, how to raid a home to maximize the protection of assets into the state treasury is a technical job. Li Chong is a confidant of the new emperor who was born in a hidden residence. He is loyal to the new emperor. He has not read many books, and his work is very different from the current officialdom. money back to the treasury. History has also proved countless times that, as Chairman Mao said, big things are often done by the rough.

Li Shuo was also not from the imperial examinations. He was a soldier, and he was a rough man. He followed the military discipline and was very strict, but when he finished his work, he had to ask Sima Xuan for their credit.

After six days of overtime and overtime, Yingchun has basically sorted out the salt tax accounts from various dimensions.

For example, how much salt is in real circulation in the Huaiyang area in a year; which private salt merchants are the most profitable, and how much salt they smuggle; which terminals have the most salt in circulation, and what are their respective data.

These days, when she lived in the Yushi Mansion, she was with Lin Ruhai and his accountants and maids every day.

One day, I heard Butler Lin come to report and was stopped by Han Yong outside the hospital. After Han Yong came to report, he let the butler in.

The housekeeper came in to report to Lin Ruhai, “The eldest girl is back! The eldest girl and the young master Jia’s cousin have already left the gate of the mansion. Because there are guards and guards, no one can enter the mansion without orders.”

Lin Ruhai was overjoyed, but looked at Yingchun again.

Yingchun smiled slightly: “It’s Sister Lin and Brother Lian who are here. The servants of the Jia family don’t want to come into the house. Let Sister Lin and Brother Lian come in, and they won’t go out until we’re done.”

Yingchun also suspended work, let Han Yong and Pan Youan look at the documents, and went to the front flower hall with Lin Ruhai to meet.

…

Lin Ruhai and Yingchun waited in the flower hall for a while, when they saw Jia Lian accompany Daiyu into the yard. Jia Lian is a lustful person, but whenever Sister Feng is not around, he can’t hold back and wants to make trouble.

But no matter how lewd he was, he never persecuted a woman from a good family, nor did he offend the innocent cousins ​​who were in the Mood for Love. Jia Lian never offended his cousins ​​such as Daiyu, Baochai and Xiangyun, and even felt sympathy for good maids such as Xiangling and Caixia. Even when he found out that the romantic woman also sincerely gave gifts and pursued him, and asked people to follow him voluntarily, just like so many girls, even the congruent second sister You was also devoted to him. This is also a man’s ability.

He escorted Lin Daiyu all the way, but he was very at peace. The villain of the Jia family is also rare in this regard. He didn’t care much about Yingchun, but he appreciated Jia Lian more than Jia Baoyu Lingfei’s deity. She is not in the realm, and she doesn’t understand why the same romantic son is also pity for girls, Jia Baoyu is pure, Jia Lian is turbid? At least, Jia Lian can work and take care of responsibilities, and it can be considered self-supporting, but Jia Baoyu can’t.

At this time, although Lin Ruhai couldn’t live a long life, there was a genius doctor Yingchun who gave him treatment and hanged his life. It’s no surprise that he couldn’t die this year. If Yingchun took care of him well, he would be obedient, and he could have more. Live a few years.

Daiyu thought that her father could no longer get out of bed, and she was worried all the way, but she never thought that her father could still get up and wait for her in the flower hall.

At this time, she didn’t notice the girl in the room who was only wearing a royal blue arrow-sleeved homely men’s robe, with leather belts around her waist and long hair tied on top of her head. As soon as Daiyu saw her father, she knelt down to greet her, and her father and daughter held hands and wept like rain.

However, Jia Lian discovered Yingchun. Yingchun has been married for more than three months. Although Yingchun has been the same for a month, her spirit is completely different from when she was a child. Her figure is taller and her face is thinner than before. But Jia Lian also recognized her facial features. After all, when there is no Yi Rong and only wearing men’s clothes, and when the viewing angle and lighting are good, who can’t recognize who is who, even beautiful and ugly men and women? – That only happens in mentally retarded TV shows.

Although Jia Lian was surprised to see Yingchun here, she hurriedly met according to the national ceremony.

“See wangfei, wangfei Jinan!”

Yingchun smiled and said: “Being flat, brother Lian has also worked hard, sit down and rest.”

“Thank you, Princess.” Jia Lian also stood up, thinking about what Yingchun was doing here, and thinking about what Mother Jia and Madam Wang had ordered her to do, she was not sure.

Daiyu was also helped up by Lin Ruhai, looked at Yingchun, and blessed her.

Yingchun smiled and said: “Sister Lin, don’t be too polite. I shouldn’t have hindered your father and daughter gathering at this time, but now Huaiyang has a big business, and I do things in the house, so I can’t do it easily, so as to avoid trouble. Come on, don’t go out of the house until things are done.”

Jia Lian asked, “Is your lord also in Yangzhou?” Jia Lian was in a hurry, just because Jia Mu and Madam Wang ordered him to bring back the Lin family’s huge fortune, so he was afraid to take a step back. If Lin Ruhai died sooner, the Lin family would be defeated When the other clansmen came to grab it, he didn’t have time to make arrangements. So when he arrived at the Huaiyang area, he didn’t have the heart to listen to the recent folk discussions.

Yingchun said, “If he’s not here, how can I be here?”

Lin Ruhai said: “You all go and settle down, and I will let people prepare meals.”

Yingchun smiled and said, “Uncle Lin, I’ll take a break and accompany Sister Lin to her yard.”

…

Yingchun and Daiyu brought them back to her yard, Zijuan and Chunxian went to pay their respects, only Xueyan followed. Xue Yan was originally the servant girl of the Lin family, and this yard was familiar to her. When she entered the house, she saw that everything was neatly tidy up, and she was satisfied.

Yingchun, as a guest working in the Imperial Palace of the Inspector of Salt, Daiyu was not at home and had never been to her house. Only then did she discover Daiyu’s magnificent four-step bed.

Yingchun smiled and said, “Your bed is valuable…”

Because Lin Ruhai’s body was much better than her worries all the way, Daiyu felt relieved at this time, and she couldn’t help laughing when she heard what Yingchun said.

“Oh, our princess, are you still short of money?”

Yingchun smiled and said, “Look at me, I’ve been calculating money every day recently, and now I use money to measure everything I see.”

Daiyu said curiously, “Second sister came to the south with the prince, why do you have to work so hard to host the China Feeder?”

Yingchun and Daiyu went outside again, and waved at Yanxue and the maids who brought tea in from the Lin Mansion, and then sat down with Daiyu on the couch again.

Daiyu has an exquisite mind, and she waited patiently when she knew she had something to say.

Yingchun said: “I look at your complexion. You have been stronger in the past. You have achieved a small amount of internal strength. It is gratifying to congratulate me.

Daiyu said with a smile, “So it turns out that you taught me kung fu because of this person’s idea. You are obviously a big sister, but you want to be someone’s master! A teacher for one day, a father for life, if you go to this generation, how can I be? It’s not that you are like your father, but the second sister is very calculating!”

Daiyu was originally a woman with a true temperament, and now that she ranks Yingchun ahead of Baoyu, she naturally never lies in front of her.

Ling Fei also has a somewhat romantic temperament, but she never hooks up with an infatuated man who will not marry her for the rest of her life in order to satisfy a woman’s vanity. In her three views, a woman’s success is not at all in hooking up with an infatuated second man.

On the contrary, many girls are attracted by her, even girls without blood relationship are also her faithful believers, and regard her as the most important sister. In the past, An Yi, Su Rongrong, Song Tianer, Wang Haichao, Yang Bugui, Su Jinyun, Ma Chengying, Xue Ji, Cen Biqing, and Longnu were all like this, and now Lin Daiyu is like this.

Yingchun pinched the cheeks of little Lori, who has become more and more elegant, rare and beautiful, and peerless after practicing kung fu, and said, “Sister Lin’s mouth!”

Daiyu smiled, and Yingchun added, “Actually, this time Uncle Lin also saved a life at the gate of hell. It wasn’t me who bragged, but it was because he met me. At this time, if he replenishes his five internal organs with soup, medicine and food, he can save his life. But it can’t always be like this. After two years, I don’t know how he is. It’s better for my sister to practice diligently, I will continue my uncle’s life in the future.”

Then Daiyu stood up solemnly, knelt down toward Yingchun, and Yingchun supported her.

Daiyu said: “Second sister is so kind and great, Daiyu is unforgettable.”

In fact, Yingchun is not greedy for this credit, but to encourage Daiyu to practice martial arts diligently. Doing everything needs motivation, and interest is the best motivation. Yingchun was not sure that Daiyu would have a continuous interest in practicing martial arts, so she used Lin Ruhai as a guide.

At least before Daiyu and Baoyu fell in love, when Lin Ruhai was still alive, Lin Ruhai was the most important person in her heart. For the sake of her father, she was willing to study martial arts no matter how difficult it was. The potential of someone as smart as her, once taken seriously, is limitless.

Yingchun asked her to sit down and said, “I don’t have time to give you any more advice now, Huaiyang is in chaos right now.”

Daiyu said, “Is it related to the prince’s southern tour?”

Daiyu was raised as a boy since she was a child, and what she knows is not only poetry, otherwise, when “Miss coward doesn’t ask tired Jinfeng”, she would not say “Tigers and wolves are settled in the ranks, and the cause and effect are still discussed.”

This allusion originally said that Xiao Yan, the emperor of Nanliang, was obsessed with Buddhism in his later years. Lin Daiyu used this allusion to say that Yingchun was only watching “The Induction of Taishang” at the time of crisis. Although no matter what kind of temperament a woman is, she will not end well in Jia’s mansion where there is no useful man, but in Lin Daiyu’s eyes, a tiger or wolf like Yingchun always has to be dealt with.

Lin Daiyu had read many history books at a young age, and knew that there were battles in the world outside the boudoir, but it was too far away.

Yingchun explained that these things are also related to Lin Ruhai. As the censor of salt inspector, the first person to ask about the shortage of salt tax is Lin Ruhai. Lin Daiyu was really worried, so Yingchun patted her hand soothingly, and said that she hadn’t found out that Lin Ruhai had misappropriated the salt tax by herself, and every money that was missing had a place to go.

Yingchun talked about what they had seen: when they quietly arrived in Yangzhou, someone set fire to them and wanted to burn them to death, and then sent someone to assassinate them; after that, they sent someone to Cao Gang to be betrayed by spies, and they led the Cao Gang infighting to kill people and wanted to find evidence. Destroyed; Jiangsu officials resisted the investigation and tried to blow up dykes everywhere, destroy fertile fields, and cause the displacement of millions of people.

Yingchun wanted her to see that the people of the world are sinister and the people are hard. She is so sad that spring hurts the spring. The most frightening thing for people is not to encounter wind and frost, but to escape and refuse to grow when encountering wind and frost. A typical example is Baoyu.

Every time Daiyu heard a sentence, she couldn’t help frowning deeper, and sighed, “For these vulgar things, what’s the matter!”

Seeing that she was still so aloof, Yingchun couldn’t help shaking her head and said, “Have you ever thought about why you are Miss Qianjin, while Xueyan, Chunxian and the others are maids? , you still have to serve people when you are old?”

Lin Daiyu said, “Because I’m my father’s daughter, they don’t have such a father.”