Zhu Youzhen had a headache, thinking about how to meet Fu Changzong and how to collect the clan's money.
At this moment, a group of people gathered in Li Qiyuan's mansion outside the palace, and everyone was worried.
Li Qiyuan, the former head of the household department, he has been in the position of the secretary for nearly two years, which is a long time in the late Ming Dynasty, and he has also been the head of the household department before, and he just resigned last year.
He was the former household servant Cai Dexing, this is Wei Zhongxian's person, Wei Zhongxian was imprisoned, he resigned in a panic, and has been hiding in the capital to watch the direction of the wind.
Then there is Guo Yunhou, another popular candidate for the current household department, Li Sicheng of the Ministry of Officials, Dong Kewei of the Ministry of Industry, Fang Zhuangli of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and the staff of various yamen, as long as they are qualified to enter the door, there are more than a dozen.
Cai Dexing looked at Li Qiyuan and said with a solemn face: "My lord, now that the price of salt is boiling, the people are miserable, we can't sit idly by." ” Guo Yunhou also looked worried about the country and the people, and said, "Yes, my lord, now it's not just the capital, the price of salt in the south of the Yangtze River has risen, and even the price of grain has risen. ” Li Qiyuan's face was calm, his body was thin, and he sat there with a feeling of not being angry and arrogant.
He listened to the words of the two, his brows moved slightly, and he immediately said: "I heard that King Xin has mobilized a batch of salt into Beijing......
"What's enough," Cai Dexing didn't wait for Li Qiyuan to finish speaking, and said urgently: "My lord, the key now is that the salt farms in various places are banned, and not a single grain of salt can come out, and if it goes on like this, no amount of salt is enough!"
” Guo Yunhou did the military department, in Guangzhou, East as a deputy envoy in charge of rice grain, and later Taifu Temple Shaoqing, the military department left Shilang, last year to avoid the party dispute and resigned from the office, he thought that he had the right to speak about the people's livelihood, and he approached a little and said, "My lord, Xia Yan is in front of you, if it is delayed, I am afraid that it will not be able to stop for half a year."
Now that civil unrest is raging, if we add the matter of salt politics, it will be like cooking oil on fire, and it may be difficult to curb it......"
"Yes, my lord, if you don't say a word, it will be a big mess......"
"The new emperor doesn't understand anything, he acts recklessly, and now is the time for me to help Kuang make mistakes......"
"Yes, you can't let the emperor be so nonsense anymore!"
Li Qiyuan listened to the words of a few people, pondered for a while, and said, "Okay, Ye Ge Lao has also returned to Beijing, I will visit him tomorrow." ” "Okay, it's best to have Scholar Ye to speak."
"Now we are relieved......"
"If the price of salt can be stabilized, we can return to our hometown with peace of mind......
On Yang Lian's mansion, there were also many people he couldn't refuse.
Guang and Dong according to the judges, the governors of An and Hui, and even a special envoy of the Fu Wangfu.
Most of them are Donglin Party members in Jiangnan, and they can't settle down at the moment, and they come to the door.
Almost at the same time, in Fu Changzong's mansion, a distinguished guest was also ushered in.
The cabinet is second only to Sun Chengzong's, and the third-ranked cabinet elder, Wei Guanghui.
Because there are only three cabinet elders in the cabinet at present, his position is more prominent, so Fu Changzong opened the door and invited Wei Guanghui in.
Wei Guanghui put his hands behind his back, smiled gently, looked approachable and friendly to his subordinates, looked at the mansion as he walked, and said with a smile, "Master Fu, this mansion, this is the first time that the Cabinet Department has come here." ” Fu Changzong was still speculating about Wei Guanghui's intentions, and dealt with it quietly: "Let Wei Ge Lao see it smile." ” Wei Guanghui said with a smile: "It's a lot worse than that of the Cabinet Department, if Master Fu wants to change the mansion, the Cabinet Department can introduce you to a good one, and the price is guaranteed to satisfy Lord Fu." ” Fu Changzong pondered Wei Guanghui's words, and said casually, "Where is the house that Wei Ge Lao said?"
” Wei Guanghui had a smile on his face, looked at him and said, "It's not far from Master Fu's here, three in and three out, it is said that it used to be the courtyard of Shen Ge Lao." ” Fu Changzong's brows moved slightly, and he looked at Wei Guanghui without speaking.
When it comes to Shen Ge Lao, there is only Shen Consistent in the Wanli period.
This is the leader of the Zhejiang Party, who served as an assistant for five years during the Wanli period, and his ability and means are first-class.
When he was in power, the court was almost a word of the Zhejiang party, and the Donglin party or the Chu party were all slumped, and they didn't dare to act rashly, they were really 'Zaifu'!
Although he is dead, and there is not much left of the Zhejiang Party, after all, less than seven years have passed, and if he wants to buy his house in the capital, he must not have silver.
Wei Guanghui is now an old man and has a rich family background, but if he wants to give away Shen's former house, he is afraid that he is still not qualified.
Seeing that Fu Changzong didn't speak, Wei Guanghui thought that he was hesitating, took a step closer, and whispered almost side by side, "Master Fu, if you can open the ban on the salt farm as soon as possible, there will be generous gifts." ” Fu Changzong completely understood that this Wei Ge elder should have been asked to be a lobbyist.
He thought about Zhu Xu's previous words, and said with a little hesitation: "Elder Wei Ge, the emperor has handed over this matter to King Xin to deal with, and the lower officials have been to King Xin's mansion before, and the prince's meaning is that the ban can only be lifted after there must be a result." ” Wei Guanghui's expression moved slightly, he looked up at the front with his hands behind his back, and said to himself, "There is a result......
After a long time, a sinister smile appeared on his old face, and he said, "There should be a result." ” Wei Guanghui turned his head to look at Fu Changzong, and said with a reserved smile: "Master Fu, that house is yours, in addition, you can send someone to Shengyuan Inn, just say what the cabinet said, there will be 20,000 taels of silver tickets for your lord."
In the future, I hope that Master Fu can continue to help. ” Fu Changzong took a moment to understand what Wei Guanghui meant, and a strange expression appeared on his face.
First, he didn't promise Wei Guanghui anything, and second, the 20,000 taels made him feel that he was too stingy, not to mention that he is now the 'de facto' Hubu Shangshu, just to say that a year ago, Zhu Xu passed through the silver in his hand is a million taels.
However, after figuring out Wei Guanghui's intentions, Fu Changzong also calmed down, looked at Wei Guanghui's confident and smiling old face, and pretended to groan for a while, stretching out five fingers.
Wei Guanghui frowned and said, "Fifty thousand taels?
Master Fu, you can't be insatiable, 20,000 taels, but you can't earn it after 20 years as an official. ” Fu Changzong shook his head and said, "Wei Ge Lao is wrong, what the lower official said is, 500,000 taels!"
” Wei Guanghui's face changed greatly, and he immediately said a little gloomy: "Is Master Fu joking with the Cabinet Department, or do you really want the lion to open his mouth?"
” Fu Changzong raised his head slightly, as if he had no fear: "Doesn't Wei Ge Lao know that this official also has a salt field, and his annual income is also hundreds of thousands of taels.
Those people, I don't know how much more than me, 500,000, not much at all.
If Wei Ge Lao agrees, the official can persuade the emperor to go to court as soon as possible, or he can go to the court. ” Wei Guanghui's face became more gloomy, he only received 50,000 taels, listening to Fu Changzong's words, and then thinking about the salt field in Fu Changzong's mouth, I was afraid that this salt politics still had an inside story that he didn't understand!
Don't lie!
"Let the Cabinet think about it."
Wei Guanghui's expression was ugly, he shook his hand and strode out of the Fu Mansion.