Chapter 336: Hanzhong Mansion Big Meat Ball
A lunch made Lin Feng eat very embarrassed, and it was not bad as expected, except for a quiet meal and listening to a few women chatting, he hardly wanted to do anything, even if he interjected casually, it would attract a few dissatisfied eyes at the same time. So much so that when facing a plate of crayfish, he sandwiched two more for Invite Yue because he wanted to offer it, which attracted solemn protests from all the women, and the final result was that Lin Feng reluctantly and honestly handed over two to the plate in front of each person again, resulting in the end he could only look at the shrimp skin residues on a table, and then appreciate the different eating appearances of the women.
Maybe this is the beauty of the food? After a meal, Lin Feng really didn't eat much, and spent almost all of his time on evenly serving dishes to several people and thinking about the extremely serious problem in his heart. It seems that what the ancients said is really true, that you can be full just by looking at it without eating.
Another reason is the sudden marriage, which caused Lin Feng and Xiyan to have almost no topic at the same table, and there was an extremely subtle feeling between the two, but at the same time, it also made the two very embarrassed.
Fortunately, this embarrassment only lasted for a lunch, because after lunch, Lin Feng was completely involved in the long-standing backlog of political affairs in Hanzhong Mansion and the huge plan to 'lure the snake out of the hole' a few days later.
However, because the whole plan was also postponed for a few days again because of the marriage, because two days after the marriage was Lin Yu's birthday, Lin Feng had to put these major events in the front, but in this way, the time to prepare was much more relaxed.
Regarding the actions of the officials who stayed in Hanzhong Mansion, Lin Feng basically looked through the detailed information carefully, and in addition, the red maple who stayed in Hanzhong Mansion picked out important things and reported them to Lin Feng.
The performance of most officials is still very good, after all, Hanzhong Mansion is also everyone's hometown, and when they can do their best, everyone will not be too stingy. However, there are also individual examples, such as how many bribes a middle-level official has received, some of which are due to an errand for the son of a relative, or because the wife and concubine at home are not in harmony or have just received a concubine's room, so they have to make some extra money to get a house in the city.
Generally speaking, Lin Feng did not delve into these problems that could not be eliminated at all, after all, this is a 'traditional virtue' in China, as long as it does not cause too much harm to the interests of the people, Lin Feng still thinks that it is better to turn a blind eye.
However, there are always some officials who are not long-sighted and have a fluke mentality, such as the city order (official position) that manages the business districts of the east and west cities in the city of Hanzhong Prefecture, which is probably similar to the functions of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Price Bureau. He actually made a lot of war money in the market, and through his own internal information, he united several large caravans selling grain to 'raise' prices, although it was a coaxing, in fact, it was only a little bit higher, but the amount of grain and grass used by the Feng family army was too huge, even if it only rose by one and a half percent, it was enough for all black-hearted merchants and city orders to eat a big fat man.
However, the fate of the city order is also very tragic, even Hongfeng's people have been staring at him for half a year, he still spends a lot of money all day, and in less than half a year, he really eats a big fat man, and when he walks, he is thrown around like a big leather ball in front of him, and even the sedan chair has to be carried by two more people to be more stable.
When Lin Feng personally led someone to arrest him early one morning, when he saw the city order, Lin Feng was quite emotional, he was a person who had experienced two time and space, and it was the first time he could become such a fat person by eating and drinking normally. At that time, Lin Feng recognized it when he saw it for the first time, and at that time, he pointed to the other party from a distance and asked the person next to him, is it the guy who looks like a ball?
In front of countless traders and people in the morning market, when the other party saw that he was running in front of him in a hurry and panting and nodded, Lin Feng kicked the other party, and was rebounded and took several steps back, if it wasn't for Yuan Biao beside him who was quick to hold on to his hands at that time, maybe the unprepared Lin Feng would have fallen to the ground and made a fool of himself in public.
But the city order was even worse, and he was kicked with a dazed head, although the flesh was thick and he didn't feel the pain, but after falling on his back to the ground, he couldn't turn over and get up for a while. And the group of original henchmen around them, after seeing that the person who did it was Lin Feng, and then looked at the strong men around Lin Feng who were wearing the ruby red pentagonal maple badges, as if they had been empowered, they understood everything in an instant, and they rushed to Lin Feng to 'report' the usual corrupt acts of the city order.
From the meat ball on the ground, Lin Feng could also figure out that the other party's life was indeed good, and Lin Feng remembered that he had seen the other party when he had a meeting in Jiedu Mansion two years ago, but a normal person who was more than one meter seven and only one hundred and forty or fifty catties at most, but now the meat ball in front of him was as much as three hundred catties.
However, this was just what he saw with his eyes, and when Lin Feng heard all kinds of reports and revelations, he was really surprised. Within half a year, just from the mouths of the henchmen of those city orders, the other party at least swallowed three million taels of silver because of various price differences in the market, which was money that could feed 30,000 soldiers for a year, and this was still known by the henchmen on the surface. As for those that the city ordered him to swallow alone, Lin Feng believed that it was definitely more than three million taels, otherwise, the other party would not be able to become the meat ball he is today.
At that moment, Lin Feng ordered to divide twenty personal soldiers and two hundred guards in the Han Palace, and the mansion of the city commander was searched in half a day. At the same time, Hu Cao joined the army and Zhao Liang, the nominal treasurer of Chenlong Qianzhuang, was invited to be the supervisor, and more than a dozen elites of Chenlong Qianzhuang were also brought to review the detailed calculations.
At first, it was only from the superficial news that the city order had two mansions, one large and one small, in Hanzhong Mansion, and there were three shops in good locations in the city center. It's just that later, gradually there were reports from the people in the mansion, and finally it was found out that there were as many as six outer houses in the Hanzhong Mansion with concubines alone!
The other party seems to be very economically minded, and the banknotes of Chenlong Money Bank, which is used for currency circulation, are only 100,000 yuan, but a large amount of gold, silver, jade, jewelry and other items were found in the cellars of the two mansions.
After Zhao Liang took more than a dozen industry elites to carefully convert and count for an afternoon, he found that if converted into silver, there were as many as 11 million taels. The fate of the city order was naturally not too comfortable, and even Lin Feng didn't even give the other party a chance to parade through the streets alive, so he invited the best executioner in the city that night to kill the city order in the East Market.
But from beginning to end, the executioner almost fainted from exhaustion, after all, it was no less than 300 catties of meat balls! Almost all night, there would be a few miserable howls of the city order floating in the sky above Hanzhong Mansion from time to time.
While solving the first major corruption, although Lin Feng was very angry, he solved the problem of food and salary for nearly a year for hundreds of thousands of Feng family troops, which was enough to make the Feng family army less worried about the confrontation with the puppet Qi regime in the future.
After all, food and salary are the most important thing in the army.