Chapter 46 Salted Fish Eating Melon 18
But he said that soon an official suddenly fell ill and was about to retire. He wanted to arrange a position for his son who had no future, so he found a few people who had worked with him that day and wanted to give him a job. They helped, but as a result, those people didn't want to go here He was in troubled waters and had no intention of helping, so the official became unhappy and said that he was going to retreat. People who are barefoot will not be afraid of those who wear shoes. If they don't help him, he will expose what they did that day. Even if his family is unlucky by then, they won't be able to live well.
In fact, it was a threat, because if he said it, it would not do any good to his family.
However, their family comes from a small family. He wants to retire, and the children in the family have no future, that is, they are completely in decline.
Although the Wang family was ransacked last time and he received one to two million taels of silver, no one in the family was an official in the court. Once someone knew about the money, it would be easily taken away. .
At that time, there were so many people involved in dividing the spoils, and the news that their family was rich would spread out sooner or later. In other words, if no one in the family was an official, the money would be lost sooner or later, so there must be an official in the family to support it.
——Although they were greedy for a total of 100 million taels of silver, there were too many people involved. They were divided here and sealed there. It was considered good if he could divide one or two million taels of silver.
Besides, it’s hard to keep money, and if your children and grandchildren don’t live up to expectations, you are a prodigal, and you can lose no matter how much money you have.
On the contrary, if you become an official, even if you are incompetent, as long as you stay honest, your official position will not be lost and you will have a guarantee, so he wanted to find a position for his son.
It is also not good for him to have too high expectations for his son. He had always expected his son to make achievements in the imperial examination, so he wanted to wait until his son won the imperial examination. Even if he did not win the imperial examination, he would still win the imperial examination. , Who would have known that for so many years, his son has never passed the exam, which made him waste his time in vain.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly fell ill and could not recover, so he had to retire. At this time, he realized that he had not arranged a way out for his sons, so he hurriedly looked for help.
I thought that I had not yet become an official. Those people would help me because of my face and because I still had the leverage.
Who would have thought that they were so indifferent. They saw that he was sick, about to retire, and that his family was about to fall into disrepair, so they treated him lightly. How could he not be angry?
It is said that the tea becomes cold when people leave. This is so nice of him. The tea becomes cold before he leaves.
In this case, let’s die together.
It is going to decline anyway, so if you tell me, although it will be harmful to yourself, it will be more harmful to those families, because they have not retreated and are still serving as high-ranking officials in the government.
In fact, it is precisely because he comes from a small family. If he quits, his children will have no future, the family will be completely in decline, and other people will not want to help. If his family is a big family, how can those people dare to refuse? .
Of course, if it is a big family, there is no need to find these people who have the handle. It is estimated that just anyone can help his son arrange things. After all, the dynasty has been running for more than a hundred years. It has become more and more decadent, and it is common for people to run for office. Powerful people can easily find something for their children to do.
Those who were threatened by him did not take his words to heart at all. They felt that he was just making threats and did not dare to tell them. After all, if he said it, even if his report was meritorious, the emperor would not Punish him, but he will definitely hand over the one or two million taels of silver he took at that time, and then he will definitely lose his official position immediately, and he will not be able to wait until he becomes an official. By then, he will have no money and lose his official position. What will happen to their family in the future? How are your days? It's not something you just say casually.
The official who wanted to retire due to illness was really just planning to threaten him, because as they said, if this matter was really revealed, his money would be gone and his family’s life would be in danger. Even worse.
But at this moment, seeing everyone treating him like this, even him threatening them, they still didn't take it to heart. The anger in his heart grew higher and higher, and he really wanted to poke it out. But...he still couldn't win the battle to the death, so although seeing each team's performance made him hate it to death, he had been hesitating and had not made up his mind.
Seeing his hesitation, Linlang was ready to "help" him.
It just so happened that the money the emperor borrowed from the Wang family last time was almost spent - although it was tens of millions, the emperor was exempted from taxes for one year when he received the money. In this way, This money was used for fiscal expenditures that year.
After that, they began to build water conservancy projects on a large scale, and sent troops to deal with the Hu people who had been harassing the border before. The Hu people had been harassing the border before, but because the expenses of sending troops were huge and finances were tight, they always used The main purpose is to defend, and the border guards rarely lead soldiers to attack.
This time with money, the emperor bought a lot of horses and trained cavalry. When the barbarians came to harass the border again, he sent troops to beat the barbarians.
Because they had money, good equipment, and the fact that the Hu people were used to harassing the border, the Central Plains court would not attack. They thought it would be the same this time and lost their guard, so they successfully attacked the Hu people.
Whether it was building water conservancy projects or sending troops to fight, they all cost money, so the tens of millions were quickly spent.
Now the court is tight again, so at this time, if these people's greedy money is taken out, the court will have money again. Moreover, this time, the water conservancy has almost been repaired and the war has been fought. Unlike before where there were too many places to spend money, this time there are fewer places to spend money. This money can be used for a lot of time.
Thinking of this, Linlang did as she said.
But he said that the official who was about to retire was still hesitating, so the emperor received a secret report from Linlang.
I heard that the Wang family, which he had taken all precautions against, was ransacked, but in the end someone took away a huge sum of 100 million. Naturally, the emperor was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
He thought he was on guard well and copied out tens of millions, and was very proud of it. However, someone actually took away one hundred million, which was almost the same as what he got.
These people were greedy for so much money, so naturally the emperor was very angry.
At that time, the emperor sent people to secretly investigate and found that there was indeed something wrong with the money these people spent. He immediately understood that the anonymous report letter was true, and immediately decided to report what was said in the report letter. Several people copied it, and then severely punished these people for daring to do such a thing.
If these people got money and didn't use it for a while, the emperor might not notice it, but it's a pity that after getting so much money, who can bear to not use it at all, and once they use it, they often can't control it, because spending money is easy to become addicted. , so people will find that their expenses are completely inconsistent with their income, which is normal.
In fact, they did not dare to use it at first, for fear of being discovered, but later they wanted to use the money. After using it secretly, they found that the emperor had not moved. Obviously, the emperor did not find that their family was greedy for money, so he then As time went by, they became more and more daring to use it, and now they were discovered by the emperor.
(End of this chapter)