Yang Lian set out the next day after receiving the order.
Li Sancai lived in Tongzhou, which was only half a day's walk from the capital.
If he rode fast, he could arrive in half an hour.
The group went directly to Li Sancai's manor in Tongzhou.
The manor covered an area of about thirty acres and was surrounded by a high wall.
Li Sancai's eldest son greeted the angel respectfully at the door, and then walked back with Yang Lian and others.
After entering the gate of the manor, there are rows of houses inside.
The houses are very tall, and their pillars are five or six feet high.
Between each house group, there are rockeries or ponds, with lotus flowers blooming on the water and koi carps swimming in shallow ponds.
Li Zhen couldn't help but mutter: "This is more beautiful than the palace."
Yang Lian heard this, but could only pretend that he didn't hear it.
But I thought that the crime of attacking Li Sancai for stealing the emperor's wood to build a private property seemed to be true.
There were nine entrances to the manor house.
When he entered the seventh, Li Sancai stood in front of the door, cupped his hands to Yang Lian and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Wen Ru.
Please come in and take a rest."
He didn't even look at Li Zhen. .
Yang Lian cupped his hands and said, "Excuse me, Mr.
Daofu, please go ahead and invite me."
The two of them entered the room together, and Li Zhen followed behind, not daring to say anything.
After the guests and hosts sat down, Li Sancai said: "What kind of weekly newspaper will be published today, so that everyone in the world can slander the ministers of the imperial court?
If this continues, loyal ministers should be ordered to avoid troubles, villains will be evil, and the court will be upright during the reign of the late emperor.
No more, it’s a pity.”
He shook his head with regret on his face.
Li Zhen stood behind Yang Lian, wanting to refute but didn't dare.
Yang Lian didn't say anything either.
Li Sancai had a strange look on his face and said: "The weekly newspaper is just a piece of miscellaneous news, but I sent Wen Ru here to check it personally.
I am a veteran of three years, and I can't help but feel chilled."
Yang Lian thought to himself, you obviously asked the emperor to come to check you, what does it mean to look cold now?
He couldn't be silent anymore, so he answered: "The emperor sent Lian here at the request of Daofu, because he didn't want anyone to misunderstand Daofu."
Mr.
Daofu, I have absolutely no other intention to restore your innocence.
Please don’t worry too much, Mr.
Daofu. " Li Sancai's face brightened slightly at this moment, he held his hands solemnly for tea, put down the teacup and said, "I have asked the accountant to move the account books for the past years to a room, and I'm just waiting for Wen Ru to come and check."
Yang Lian said, "Then I'll trouble Mr.
Daofu."
With a wave of his hand, Li Zhen led several old officials from the household department and walked out.
Li Sancai's eldest son personally led the way.
Li Sancai saw this.
Although he knew that there was no problem with the accounts, he felt a little uncomfortable with Yang Lian's business-like manner.
Yang Lian wanted to avoid suspicion, so he just chatted with Li Sancai every day and did not check the accounting situation at all.
Li Sancai was even more unhappy and hinted to him twice, but Yang Lian pretended not to understand.
He gave up and wrote a letter back to Beijing, saying many bad things about Yang Lian in front of everyone in Donglin.
After five days, the account was finally checked.
Li Zhen wrote a summary of the verification situation and let Yang Lian read it first.
Yang Lian glanced at it and then signed his name.
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Li Sancai looked at it carefully, glared at Li Zhen fiercely, and looked at Yang Lian hatefully before signing his name.
The task was completed, and everyone returned to the capital after saying goodbye to Li Sancai.
In the morning of the next day, Zhu Youxiao asked the clerk to read out the verification results in front of the court: "It is recorded that there are three manors, each with thirty-five acres, twenty acres, and eighteen acres, as well as thirty pawnshops, and banks."
The forty-five shops have a total of 1,238,735 taels of silver in stock.
The total of houses and shops is about 1.75 million taels of silver.
The total of ships is about 1.80 taels of silver.
Four thousand taels, a total of approximately 4,792,735 taels."
The ministers marveled, and then waited for the following: "All this property was obtained by Li Shangshu from business.
The source is pure, and no corruption or bribery has been found."
Everyone fell silent, and some people sensitively noticed that the words "have not been found" are used instead of "no", which is a bit meaningful.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and asked: "Xu Shangshu, how much was the annual income of the imperial court last year?"
Xu Guangqi came out and said: "Your Majesty, in the first year of Taichang, the total annual income was 4,608,964 two-five cents."
Zhu Youxiao waved him away, then said nothing, but glanced at the ministers.
There was silence in the court for a while, the ministers lowered their heads and exchanged glances with each other.
Finally, someone broke the silence of the court.
Qi Shijiao, the right-hand censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the censor of Dudu, stood up.
According to the original history, the leader of the Qi Party was also arrested in March of the first year of Tianqi after his mentor Fang Congzhe was forced to retire.
Pushed home.
Now Fang Congzhe is still the chief minister, he is still in the government, and he was promoted not long ago.
"Your Majesty, the wealth of Li Shangshu's family exceeds the annual income of the imperial court.
The humble ministers are ignorant and do not understand that businessmen can be so rich.
Such a situation must not be a blessing to the imperial court."
Wu Liangsi, the official of Zhongxian, came out and said: "Your Majesty, since the businessman is so rich, I would like to ask your Majesty to re-collect the mining tax."
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
This sentence has been discussed many times in private.
Now that Wu Liangsi, the leader of the Chu Party, raised it in the court, it still shocked many people.
Zuo Guangdou was the first to object: "Your Majesty, when the late emperor ascended the throne, the world had been suffering from the mining tax for a long time.
The late emperor was kind, so he abolished the mining tax, and the world rejoiced.
Now, your majesty has been in power for less than a year, and has changed the way of the late emperor. , I am afraid that the world’s opinions will harm Your Majesty.”
Taichang Temple Shaoqing Guan Ying Zhen immediately came out.
His fate has also changed.
He should have resigned in history.
Now he is still living a happy life in the court: "The mining tax was abolished when the late emperor ascended the throne.
Can he change the Shenzong?"
If the mining tax really has such disadvantages, then how could Li Sancai accumulate so much money?"
He had always hated Li Sancai, and even called him by his first name in the court.
The court finally turned into a battlefield.
Because Zhu Youxiao did not let Fang Congzhe retire, the Zhejiang, Qi and Chu parties in the court were not as weak as in history.
However, Zhu Youxiao respected Fang Congzhe and often inquired about him.
Let all parties unite closely around Fang Congzhe, forming a faint confrontation with the Donglin Party.
Fang Congzhe has given people in the three parties a message that the emperor wants to collect mining taxes.
No matter what he thinks, he must support it together this time and give the Donglin Party a hard blow.
Because the Donglin Party members were basically from Southern Zhili, where the commerce was most developed, they were the most fiercely opposed to the mining tax, while the members of the three parties were just dissatisfied with the working style and greedy habits of the mining tax envoys.
Now the boss has spoken.
He supports the emperor in attacking the Donglin Party.
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Of course, he must go all out.
So the war between the Donglin Party and the Three Parties officially began.
The two sides must fight for every inch of land.
From the historical origins to the actual situation, from the lack of wages in Liaodong to Li Sancai's wealth, from the arrogance of the mining tax envoys to the pitiful people who have ruined their families, there is an uproar in the court.
Fortunately, the sky is full of rebellion.
Everyone exercised restraint and did not turn into a full-scale martial arts act
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