Speaking of timber ships, we must talk about the fire in the imperial city that caused the knocking of hundreds of officials.

After the fire, the Son of Heaven summoned craftsmen to negotiate buying wood from Jiangnan and transporting it to Beijing to build the burned temple.

At that time, wood was the world of Huizhou merchants, and Huizhou merchants had a good reputation, not shoddy, not fake as true, and not at a different price.

The Son of Heaven simply let the Hui merchants procure it and rebuild the burned palace. Why did the Hui merchants spend so much effort to undertake the repair of the temple, because there were great benefits in this matter.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli in history, it was also a fire in the imperial city, and the Son of Heaven wanted to rebuild the three major halls.

At that time, Wang Tianjun, a timber merchant in Huizhou, and other ten people were also ordered to repair the temple and ask the Ministry of Works, who was in charge of this matter, to repair Shilang Zhonghe Shengrui Zafu.

He Shengrui and Wang Tianjun agreed on five chapters of the law, one is not allowed to credit tariffs, two is not allowed to ram official boats and civilian ships, three is not allowed to oppress local states and counties, four is not allowed to clear customs without inspection, and the five official governments do not advance funds.

When the merchants heard this, they thought to themselves that they could not transport timber to Beijing unhindered, could not carry smuggled goods, could not evade taxes, and had no money to advance money, so how profitable would this matter be.

So the merchants contacted the eunuchs in the palace and treated He Shengrui, who was honest and not bribed, for the crime of 'selling materials', and then was demoted, and finally died of depression.

He Zhongshi, the son of He Shengrui, has been avenging his father's grievances, although he was ordinary in the end, but in the end the Ming Dynasty perished, and He Zhongshi and his wife committed suicide and martyrdom.

So it can be seen from this why Su Yan did not listen to Yu Dazhong's opposition, but still forcibly ordered him to lead the army to Yuxian to relieve the siege.

"The materials for the construction of the palace, as well as the timber boat of the old father-in-law, are more important than the safety of the people in a mansion, is there any reason for this?" Sun Chengzong said indignantly.

Qiu Mingshan mocked Sun Chengzong's 'too young' appearance and said: "Mr. Sun, have you read about Yan Zi's rule of Dong'a?"

In the past, Yan Zi governed Dong'e, and the king of Qi blamed Yan Zi for governing Dong'e too poorly and wanted to punish him.

Yan Zi said that the king would give me three years, and he would let Dong'a Dazhi.

As a result, in the second year, Dong'a Dazhi, King Qi Daxi asked Yanzi what he could do. Yan Zi said that in the past, when I ruled Dong'a, I did not accept bribes, did not bribe people, and no one under my rule was hungry. You blamed me at that time.

Now I am ruling Dong'a, accepting bribes, doubling taxes, bribing you with the money you get, and ruling most of the people who are cold and hungry, but you praise me. I don't know what this officer is going to do.

Qiu Mingshan cited the story of Yanzi, and Sun Chengzong was immediately speechless.

Qiu Mingshan sneered: "When Yan Zi was in the time, the officials and magnates were just lambs, but now they are tigers and wolves, if you are an official?" Or is it bullying? I still say the same sentence, the common people are fish and meat, when do you understand this sentence, you can be regarded as an official and enter the door. If I were Sufutai, I would do the same.

"What's more, this is still the wood ship of the old father-in-law of Xu Ge. Do you know who the old father-in-law of Xu Ge is? ”

Qiu Mingshan sold Sun Chengzong a pass.

Seeing Qiu Mingshan like this, Sun Chengzong snorted and didn't answer.

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Mr. Qiu still said it." ”

Qiu Mingshan said to Lin Yanchao: "Back to Dongweng, this person is a relative of Wu Shouli, a big businessman in She County. ”

Lin Yanchao asked in surprise: "It's Wu Shouli who donated 200,000 taels of silver to the imperial court." ”

Qiu Mingshan nodded and said: "Yes, last year, the Yellow River, Susong flooded, and many provinces in the north and south were hit by drought and floods, and Wu Shouli, a native of She County, took the initiative to donate 200,000 silver to help. Today, Zilongyan Dayue actually awarded two subordinate officials of Nanjing Guanglu Temple to the Wu family. And Xu Guo's father-in-law is the same township as this Wu Shouli. ”

Sun Chengzong suddenly said: "No wonder he has married his father-in-law, just like marrying Xu Ge Lao, and marrying Xu Ge Lao will marry Hui merchants in the north and south." Therefore, it is reasonable for Sufutai to send troops to rescue the timber ship that built the palace. These city fox society rats. ”

"I'm right to say that Su Yan is not Wu Yuanwai, when the country is in trouble, he can move his family to express his difficulties, which is commendable."

"What's so valuable?" Qiu Mingshan sneered, "I don't know what kind of transactions are behind this, if you look at it on the surface, you can think too simply." ”

After Sun Chengzong was run by Qiu Mingshan, he didn't talk about it.

Lin Yanchao said: "In my opinion, Su Yan is so contributing, I'm afraid that the backer behind him is Xu Ge Lao." ”

Sun Chengzong said: "Na Dong Weng, I didn't expect Su Yan's background to be so deep, wouldn't it be difficult for us to bring him down." ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "As far as this matter is concerned, if someone does not have long eyes to impeach Sufutai, he will not only offend the emperor, but also offend the internal prison, and even offend Xu Ge Lao. Although Su Yan is a fierce official, he is not a person who does not know yin and yang, and to impeach him is to startle the snake and be bitten by the snake. ”

After Qiu Mingshan finished speaking, he thought that Lin Yanchao was really cautious, if he hadn't investigated Su Yan's background first, and rashly participated in it, it would be tantamount to lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot.

Qiu Mingshan asked: "Could it be that Dong Weng really has the intention of impeaching Sufutai?" ”

Lin Yanchao smiled when he heard this: "I won't participate in the impeachment, how can I say that we will work together in the future, I still have to touch his bottom." ”

When Qiu Mingshan heard this, he thought that his Dong Weng was really a honey-bellied sword.

If Lin Yanchao didn't plan to impeach Su Yan, why bother to let Jinyi Wei spend so much effort to find out Su Yan's backer background.

But Lin Yanchao had already decided to bring down Su Yan in his heart, but that day, at the head of the city, after the horse retreated, Lin Yanchao took the initiative to give all the credit to the prefect, making the prefect have a big face, and the two of them were smiling and hating in front of the officials in the palace.

People are wearing high hats here, but they are planning to do black things over there.

However, Qiu Mingshan was happy in his heart, although such a proprietor was sometimes a little pedantic in his idea of putting the people first, but it was generally consistent with his three views.

Sun Chengzong also understands Lin Yanchao, the way of a gentleman, and has the right to have scriptures.

Sun Chengzong suggested on the side: "Dong Weng, since you can't find out the handle of Sufutai in the disaster relief matter, it is better to start with the river work instead." ”

Qiu Mingshan changed color and said: "This is not good, if the disaster relief matter is said to be a point, then the matter of the river work is a piece, I don't know how many officials are involved, if you really look into it, you may offend the entire Henan officialdom." The superintendent Yushi was killed, and he suspected that it was related to the river work, and we can't wade through this troubled water. ”

Lin Yanchao asked, "I heard that the supervision of the imperial history committed suicide while inspecting the city. ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "Yes, it's in the office of the Northern Procuratorate." ”

There are North Inspectorate and South Procuratorate in Shangqiu City, which used to be the government office when patrolling the place according to the imperial history.

The North Procuratorate is the place where the Imperial History of the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate stayed, and the Southern Procuratorate was as the name suggests, but after Shangqiu was not supervised by the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Southern Procuratorate was abolished, and now it is changed to the General's Office.

Lin Yanchao said: "The Northern Procuratorate is heavily guarded, if someone wants to murder Yushi, I'm afraid it won't be possible." ”

While he was talking, Chen Jichuan suddenly announced: "Master, I just opened the back door and found a secret letter. ”

Several people were surprised when they heard this, and Lin Yanchao took a look at the secret letter. The secret letter actually said that this time Yushi was killed.

According to the letter, it turned out that the superintendent Lu Yuchang inspected the Guide Mansion and went to the river embankment to inspect the river work, and felt that there was something greasy about it. So after returning home, he mobilized the account books to check the accounts, and found that there was serious corruption in the account books.

So when Lu Yuchang saw the tragic situation of millions of homeless people in the Yellow River, he was very angry and decided to play this matter in the recital to the Son of Heaven.

But Lu Yuchang's preparation for the performance was learned by the domestic servant Lu Xiang. So Lu Xiang took matters into his own hands, came forward on behalf of Lu Yuchang, and found one of the officials concerned to ask for a bribe.

The officials concerned decided to give Lu Xiang 5,000 taels of silver, and asked him to hand it over to Lu Yuchang to ask him to press the matter, not to play the Son of Heaven, and privately promised to share the benefits to Lu Xiang.

So Lu Xiang was overjoyed to inform Lu Yuchang of the matter.

It seems that here, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but sigh, the rules of officialdom were like this at that time. The general imperial history will take the money to settle the matter.

But Lu Yuchang refused, insisted on reporting the matter to the Son of Heaven, and also played the bribery of the officials involved.

This incident not only annoyed the officials concerned, but also provoked Lu Yuchang's servant Lu Xiang. Lu Yuchang is like this, not only can't he make money, but Lu Xiang can't make money either.

Then one night, Lu Yuchang united two domestic servants and gave Lu Xiang a bowl of poisonous tea. Lu Xiang strangled Lu Yuchang to death again, pretending to hang himself.

Then Lü Xiang and two other servants reported to Shangqiu Zhixian that Lü Yuchang committed suicide, but then the magistrate agreed with this result, and the yamen at all levels in Henan have always used Lü Yuchang's suicide as a result.

The person who wrote the letter said that he had witnessed this with his own eyes, and every sentence was true, and Lu Xiang must have been instructed by the officials, and after he collected the money, he killed his master.

The person who wrote the letter said that he was afraid that the officials would protect each other and cause death, so he did not dare to say a word lightly. Now that he knows that Lin Yanchao saved dozens of people outside the mansion, and he is not afraid of life and death to go out of the city to negotiate with Xiangma, he knows that Lin Yanchao is a good official.

So he told Lin Yanchao about the matter, hoping that Lin Yanchao could avenge Lu Yuchang, expose the case to the world, and give Lu Yuchang justice.

The letter also said that he did not know what official instigated Lu Xiang to kill Lu Yuchang, but he knew that Lu Yuchang was going to impeach a total of six officials.

The main murderer of Lu Yuchang must have been one of the six officials.

Lin Yanchao gasped when he saw the names of the six officials, these six officials have the river yamen, the political secretary, and the judge.

Among them, the name of the prefect Su Yan is impressively listed, and the official position is not the highest.

After reading the letter, Lin Yanchao felt that the authenticity was very high, because the details were very detailed, and the person who wrote the letter said that he was by Lu Yuchang's side at the time, and there was probably nothing wrong with this matter.

Lin Yanchao asked Sun Chengzong and Qiu Mingshan to step down, he didn't plan to inform the two of them about the contents of the letter.

Now for Lin Yanchao, it is a hot potato, holding it in his hands.

If you really want to tell the Son of Heaven about this matter, you will offend half of Henan officialdom, so many officials from one province, this is not something that your own five-grade officials can afford.

Now Lin Yanchao is in a dilemma, if he says, then I am afraid that he will not be able to be a staker, and he will not even be able to keep Shen Shixing, not to mention that there are people in this list who Shen Shixing wanted Lin Yanchao to protect at the beginning.

But if you don't say it, you will have the job of confessing to the secret investigation of the case.

Lin Yanchao thought about it for a while, and decided to hand over this letter to the genuine Qinchadu Yu Shi Qiu.

People are second-class members, even if there is something, there are tall people on top, and it is serious to quickly shake the pot.

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