area51novel Chapter 379 They Are Robbing Me
Chapter 379 They Are Robbing Me
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 10%. Several [-] taels of silver were distributed...so how much land did you buy?"
"Not much." The clerk replied: "Only [-]% of the purchase..."
[-]%...
More than 30 taels...
This is only [-]% for road construction.
Zhang Anshi was dumbfounded when he heard that, and immediately said: "How much do you spend per mu for buying land?"
"This..." The official looked hesitant, and he glanced at Chen Jinye.
At this moment, Chen Jinye plucked up his courage and said, "If it's as little as seven or eight taels, if it's 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 to a reverse operation.
On the other side of the Taiping Mansion, the land requisitioned and the railway built were sold to merchants for hundreds of taels of silver per mu.
But here, a thousand taels of silver was purchased to build the railway...
But this is Zhu Di's money!
Zhu Di was furious and said, "Thousands of 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 37 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.”
These words...but people have to believe it.
Judging from Chen Jinye's current life, it is indeed quite simple.
The civil officials under Shan Shan'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.
Not to mention, anyone who has entered the court as an official 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 corrupt the railway that such a person stares at?
Is it 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 [-] 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 asked for a lot of money, and you actually accepted 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 actually smiled. In fact, he expected that the Jiangxi railway might be due to technology, or because of officials' greed for ink.
But I didn't expect, the only thing I didn't expect was... none of the above is a problem.
Zhang Anshi then said: "Go get the account book, since there is a land sale, there must be an account, take the account and look at it."
The civil servant 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 was used to looking at the accounts of the Taiping Mansion, but now when he looked at the accounts here, he felt that they were dense, but he couldn't get 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 total amount of land acquired is only more than 30 mu, and it costs more than 20 taels of silver. Among them, there are more than 30 households, which are only purchased for [-] taels of [-] taels of silver. It was on the heads of three or four families, and these three or four families alone got more than [-] taels of silver."
After a pause, Zhang Anshi looked at Chen Jinye coldly and said, "As a county magistrate, you don't know about these things?"
Chen Jinye's face was livid, and he said in a jiffy: "These three or four households are big households in this county."
Zhang Anshi said coldly: "Since you know they are big families, why did you buy their land at such a high price?"
Chen Jinye said: "The route of the railway track passes through their land, and they have so much land that it is impossible to detour. The 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.
These words... When I said them, I actually had a sense of moral superiority.
Hearing this, Zhang Anshi was dumbfounded 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 [-] to [-]% 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 with all his heart.
Zhu Di just thought it was extremely ridiculous.
In Zhang Anshi's heart, there is only one capitalized word "serve".
It is said that I, Zhang Anshi, can make money, but only now do I realize that in terms of making money, these local snakes are the most powerful.
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 300 million taels of silver in public bonds. These debts... all need to be repaid with interest, and I don’t know how many years it will take to pay off, and the government’s taxes, even 100 years, are not enough to repay.”
"Not to mention, in order to build this railway, corvée was extensively expropriated. The people have worked hard in farming, but now they have to be forced to conscript. It wasted a lot of people's energy and wasted countless money and food. What is the result?"
Zhang Anshi sneered: "But why did Taiping Mansion build a railway, but all industries are prosperous, and the soldiers and civilians live and work in peace and contentment?"
"What happened in Taiping Mansion, the lower officials don't know, the lower officials only know here, this railway won't work."
Zhang Anshi said: "Didn't you think that this is because of your incompetence?"
Chen Jinye's face turned pale immediately, and he was speechless for a while, and finally shook his head and lowered his head.
At this time, Zhu Di said coldly: "Check, thoroughly check what these two people said, whether there is any evidence."
He didn't say anything more, but sat down directly.
Zhu Di just sat silently in the hall, 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 perverting the law, led to today's result.
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 he, the emperor, did not choose capable officials. At worst, he can choose some more capable officials to solve the problem.
What Zhu Di was afraid of was that this Chen Jinye really had a free hand, at least...he was definitely not the kind of person who corrupted the law, because if he did, then...maybe all his money...would 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.
So, the 250 million taels of silver that Zhu Di lost, and the 300 million taels of government bonds issued, wouldn't it be... all gone?
Zhu Di took a deep breath and closed his eyes wearily.
Chen Daowen, who came along, immediately scattered away with the captains.
In just over an hour.
Chen Daowen returned to Zhu Di in fear.
At this time, 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 do you say?"
"Report to Your Majesty..."
When Chen Daowen said these four words.
Chen Jinye, who had been kneeling by the side 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 Zhu Neng, the Duke of Cheng, but now...he just felt chills all over his body, Your Majesty...why did he appear here?
Chen Jinye's whole body was already languid, 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... are mostly true. He is humble in the county. After asking around, he has never heard of his bad deeds. Last year, Jiujiang Mansion was flooded. He took people to guard the embankment himself. Among the counties in Jiujiang, because of this, only this county suffered the least disaster. Besides..."
His voice is getting lower and lower.
Zhu Di listened, but his face became more and more miserable.
Zhu Di actually shuddered.
Then he closed his eyes again, as if he still felt that what happened 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 hard to keep his voice steady: "Big... 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 have even built a station, and other counties may not even have a station."
Zhu Di stared at him and said, "Those three or four families, since you know they want to spend 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 500 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 taels do you think you need? Is it enough to give you another one million taels?"
Chen Jinye seemed unable to understand the mockery in these words, and said obediently: "It should be enough."
"Not enough!" Zhang Anshi said coldly from the side, unable to bear it any longer.
Chen Jinye didn't dare to talk back.
Zhang Anshidao: "Even if a million taels of silver are paid and 1 to 10% of the land is purchased, they will only raise the price for the last [-]% 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 set to [-] taels per mu, or even [-] taels of silver per mu, it is decided that you dare not do anything to them, so... no matter how much you allocate The silver is too much to fill."
Chen Jinye glanced at Zhang Anshi with a strange gaze.
But...he seemed 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 pay for it from inside me." How much money do you take out of the money? 1000 million taels, 2000 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 there were many murderous intentions in his eyes.
Then, Zhu Di's hoarse voice was heard roaring: "This is robbery, they are robbing me!"
Chen Jinye was already scared out of his wits, and only kowtowed like 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?"
Only then did Zhang Anshi stammer: "I... I seem to know."
Zhu Di said angrily: "Whoever took my money, whose hands my money passed through, and all the people involved, each and every one of them, 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? 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?"
"Make sure 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."
Only then did 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: "No, why... when the railway was built, everyone agreed with it, and no one agreed." objection?"
He paused, then asked back, "Why is the progress of the Jiangxi Railway so smooth?"
"And why...after the construction of the railway, Jiangxi's chief envoy has repeatedly reported that the railway is progressing rapidly, but no one has any objection from all ministries and departments?"
He kept asking questions.
Zhang Anshi thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, what do you mean... from the very 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 in the process of buying land, the price is sky-high, but one wants to buy and the other to sell. There is nothing wrong with it.
If there is a question of sin, who is guilty?
Of course... one person...
Zhang Anshi just thought of this person.
But Zhu Di said slowly: "In truth, if you say he is 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 Anshi said: "Your Majesty said so."
At this moment, Zhu Di calmed down and calmed down, even his voice calmed down: "In this way, it is useless to kill a few people. I have lost so much money, so what's the use if I only lose some heads?"
The calmness of these words made Zhang Anshi feel the bloody storm.
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(End of this chapter)