Chapter 878 0873 [The Pleasure of Counting Money for Corrupt Officials]

Chuigong Hall.

Zhu Ming sat back in his chair and listened to Pan Lianggui's review report.

Pan Lianggui had a stack of files spread out in front of him:

"Yang Deyong, the commander of the Luoyang Wucheng Bingma Division, was originally named Yang Wang and was from Daming Township, Xixiang County, Hanzhong Prefecture. The deputy commander Wu Yong was also from Daming Township."

"Yang Deyong was not directly involved, but he accepted tributes from his subordinates, and he did so when he was in office in Kaifeng. Wu Yong invested in several singing and dancing halls through his brother-in-law Han Cheng, and personally told several commanders of the Bingma Division not to disturb the normal business of those singing and dancing halls."

"Of the five commanders under the Bingma Division, only two were clean, and the other three took the money."

"The owner of the Jinghong Song Hall that was investigated this time is called Wang Kedu. His ancestor is Zhao Kuangyin's son-in-law Wang Cheng. Yan, has lived in Luoyang for more than a hundred years. The Wang family's land outside the city has been confiscated and only 800 acres are left. The Wang family was also dismantled and relocated, and only more than 20 people remained in Luoyang. No one in the family is an official in this dynasty, but one in-law is the Tongpan of Daming Prefecture, and another in-law is the Deputy Envoy of Shaanxi Province. "

"Five women in Jinghong Singing House were indeed trafficked. All of this happened after the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The main reason was that the government distributed land and reduced taxes, and strictly investigated violations of employment contracts, so there were very few families selling daughters. Jinghong Singing House took the risk and bought the deceived girls as prostitutes. "

"The rest of the singing houses in Luoyang City are under investigation."

After listening, Zhu Ming felt a little sad.

The top two leaders of the Luoyang police system all came from Daming Township, and they were all loyal ministers who followed their father and son to start a rebellion.

That Wu Yong was even a poor mountain dweller himself, and it was Zhang Guangdao who took his family out of the mountains. When we first arrived at Daming Village, the whole family didn't even have enough clothes to wear, and they were still using reeds and kudzu bark to make clothes to cover their shame and keep out the cold.

The only thing to be thankful for is that among the five commanders (division chiefs) in Luoyang, there are still two who are clean and innocent, and they are not all corrupt.

Zhu Ming said: "These people should be punished according to the law, don't worry about anything. The Ministry of Justice will issue an order to all provinces, prefectures and counties across the country, asking them to strictly investigate singing and dancing halls and human trafficking. By the way, have those bastards who trafficked people been caught now?"

Pan Lianggui said: "Only two people have been caught for the time being, but they confessed to more than 20 people. After Kaifeng cleaned up the underground drainage, Luoyang also cleaned it up. At that time, a group of people were severely beheaded and exiled. The two human traffickers caught now were all accomplices who were exempted from heavy punishment at that time. Because the crime was relatively minor, they were only sentenced to three months of hard labor, but they did not expect to become a scourge again."

"Step up the investigation." Zhu Ming instructed.

"Yes!" Pan Lianggui accepted the order.

...

Half a month later.

Outside the city, Li's house.

The servant rode a donkey from the city and ran to the study and said, "Sir, more than a dozen people have been sentenced."

"So fast?" Li Bangyan said in surprise.

The servant took out the copied notice and said, "Yang Deyong, the commander of the Luoyang Wucheng Military Department, knowingly broke the law, embezzled and abused his duties during his tenure in Kaifeng and Luoyang, accepted bribes of more than 3,000 strings of cash, and accepted two girls as maids. All his property was confiscated, and his family was exiled to Hengshan to guard the border. His descendants for three generations were not allowed to take the imperial examinations."

"Wu Yong, the deputy commander, not only accepted bribes, but also participated in the shares of many singing and dancing halls in Kaifeng and Luoyang. He accepted more than 20 girls as concubines and maids, six of whom were abducted. He also condoned his subordinates to extort merchants and disrupted the business in Kaifeng and Luoyang. I will be executed immediately and my family will be exiled to Hengshan."

"Wang Kedu, the owner of Jinghong Singing Hall, illegally operated the flesh trade, bought abducted girls and forced them into prostitution, imprisoned and abused women for a long time, and bribed and colluded with officials. One woman refused to obey and was abused and killed by the employees of the singing hall... I will be executed immediately and my family will be exiled to Hengshan."

"There are also three commanders of the military department, one of whom was sentenced to death immediately. Decisions, the two were exiled in Hengshan, and their families also flowed together. You can't get a difference with the superiors. You can't catch people. They all have to review the Ministry of Criminal. Killing. "Li Bangyan muttered:" How are the harsh. Then, he wrote down the rules as the code of conduct in the future.

First, the business must abide by the law.

Second, domestic women must not be touched, and only girls are purchased from overseas.

Third, there can be no direct interest exchanges with officials, otherwise who knows when they will be implicated.

As for the operation of "Alanruoyuan", Li Bangyan also has a new idea.

The top foreign women trained are used as a signboard for external business, which is the so-called routine of famous prostitutes.

He mainly makes money from performance fees, accommodation fees, and food fees. As for whether Pusa Man sleeps with guests or not, it is a free love between two people who are in love, and has nothing to do with Li Bangyan himself.

If there is a customer who really wants to redeem Pusa Man, Li Bangyan will collect money to terminate the employment contract, but the redemption money must be enough.

Other inferior foreign women sign private employment contracts, which are equivalent to singing and dancing girls kept at home. Private employment contracts can be resold to private individuals without going through the accounts of Alanruoyuan. As long as the price is not ridiculously low, there is no fear of being suspected of bribing officials for sending beautiful women.

Li Bangyan's ultimate business goal is to build a real Luoyang Fanlou.

When he saves enough money, he will buy land and build a large-scale project.

And it must be done formally and in full compliance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty!

…

The official residence of the Minister of Works.

The loyal servant came to the study, first observed that there was no one around, then closed the doors and windows and said: "Sir, this month's filial piety money has been delivered."

He took out a handful of Ming Dynasty treasure notes, which was more than 4,000 strings of cash.

Qin Hui put the treasure notes in his sleeves and warned: "Tell them to be more restrained recently. The emperor is building a prison again, and someone may be implicated. Go to brothels less and don't get involved with prostitutes!"

"Yes!" The loyal servant bowed and promised.

Qin Hui took out a few silver dollars and rewarded the loyal servant, saying: "Take it to buy wine, remember not to show off."

"I remember." The loyal servant said happily.

Qin Hui had long distrusted the Wang family, and many things were not easy to do personally, so he could only use the servants around him to do things.

This loyal servant was taken in by him when he was an official in Shandong. He was smart, steady and not ostentatious. The concubine who gave Qin Hui a son was the niece of this loyal servant, and the two were very close relatives.

When the loyal servant left the study, Qin Hui immediately took out the treasure notes.

He counted the money slowly one by one. Although he didn't dare to spend it out of hand, he felt a great sense of accomplishment hiding it at home.

When he retired one day, he didn't plan to stay in Beijing, but to go back to his hometown to buy land, build a house and repair the ancestral tomb. He also had to buy a lot of books and build a large library so that his descendants could take the imperial examination and become officials.

Qin Hui lost his father when he was young, and followed his mother to live with relatives. It was not easy to live under someone else's roof.

He was short of money when he was studying, so he had to work as a village school teacher to make a living.

He was still short of money after passing the imperial examination. When he was in Kaifeng, Tokyo prices were soaring. In particular, the housing prices rose particularly outrageously. With his meager salary, he was not enough to rent a slightly better courtyard. He was thrown to Shandong to be a principal for several years, and his salary was not enough for him to make friends.

For money, he suffered all the resentment from his wife Wang.

But there was no way, because he had to rely on Wang's dowry to make a living.

Therefore, he had to make money, so that he would not be in a hurry.

And he had to have power, he had to be respected by everyone!

From the capital to the local areas, Qin Hui's colleagues and friends praised him in the first ten years of his official career.

Why is this?

Because Qin Hui could do things and knew how to do things. Whenever his friends had any difficult things or difficult official business, they would ask Qin Hui to help them. In the end, it was done perfectly!

Friends admired Qin Hui's ability, but Qin Hui felt very humiliated.

He was not born to be a dog for others, and he would help people solve problems all day without getting benefits.

In order to expand his network and reputation, he had to do this!

After counting thousands of strings of Ming Dynasty treasure notes, Qin Hui counted them again for the second time.

Then, he disguised himself and went out, hiring a donkey cart halfway to go out of the city.

Among the houses outside the northern city, there was a small courtyard that even Qin Hui's loyal servant didn't know about.

There was a concubine in the courtyard, who had given birth to a daughter for Qin Hui. In addition, there were several maids and old women serving him.

There was also a study room here.

There was a pile of books next to the desk, and there was a bookcase under the books.

Qin Hui moved the bookcase and the books away, and there was a stone slab with an iron ring below.

He pulled the iron ring to move the stone slab away, and a small pit as high as his waist appeared. The pit was filled with a lot of lime and charcoal to prevent moisture, and there was a locked small box.

Opening the small box, there were two account books and a lot of treasure banknotes!

Qin Hui was in favor of the court issuing paper money, which could easily hide a lot of money.

First take out the account book and Qin Hui started to keep accounts.

He was well organized in everything he did, including embezzlement and bribery. Who gave money and where it came from, and he remembered it clearly.

One account book was full, and the second account book was just starting to be recorded.

Qin Hui was very cautious at first. It was only half a year after he was promoted to the Minister of Works that he dared to secretly make money.

At first, he made very little, but it gradually increased.

Now, he can make several thousand strings of cash every month, but he began to feel that it was too little.

Qin Hui counted all the treasures in the box and counted the money seriously. He had counted them countless times before, but he had to count them again every time, and he enjoyed the process of counting money very much.

A total of more than 83,000 strings of cash.

Compared with the powerful officials of the former Song Dynasty, what is this amount of money?

Qin Hui even felt a little unbalanced. The former important officials of the Song Dynasty could make more than this. But after he came to power, he was still very cautious when making tens of thousands of strings of cash. At first, he was even so scared that he couldn't sleep.

This is unfair!

Before putting the treasure banknotes back into the box, Qin Hui took a deep breath. The smell of ink made him feel relaxed and happy.