Kangxi had a headache in the past two days, thinking that the rebellion in Shandong was deliberately caused by someone, who knew that it was already boiling with public resentment, and the spies around him found out that basically eighty percent of the people had no food to eat, and they could only rob the other two percent of the people who had food to eat.

If it is easy to quell the rebellion, if all these eight adults are killed, there will naturally be no rebellion, and then Shandong will be gone. If you don't kill people, you have to allocate food to relief, and then cut taxes, in the eyes of most people in the imperial court, if this matter catches up with the Taiping period, it will definitely be bloodily suppressed, and the majesty of the imperial court can not be provoked by the people? But in this situation, we can only be aggrieved and seek satisfaction, hoping that the emperor can take into account the overall situation and allocate some food to help the victims.

Kangxi also had a headache and held three court meetings, hoping that the ministers would take out their own money and food to help the Qing Dynasty get through this difficulty.

But if this is easy to be full of benevolence and morality, it will be difficult to take his own meat to fulfill benevolence and morality, Mingzhu, as Kangxi's confidant and cronie, only took out thirty percent of his family property, and there is no need to say other ministers.

It's not that he doesn't want to serve the country loyally, but at this time, if he takes out all his family property, he will become the mortal enemy of other ministers, and those ministers will definitely write to impeach, you see that we Qing officials only have these family properties, and he must be a corrupt official if he can take out so much family property, and I am afraid that the family will be ruined at that time.

After thinking about it, Kangxi felt that he must not follow in the footsteps of Emperor Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty, if it was clear that the capital had money and food, but because of the drag of money and food, the country perished, then he must be a fool who is ridiculed in the history books. The reason why these ministers are holding on to money and food, firstly, they feel that the country will not die, and secondly, the country is dead, and they can exchange it for a good future with the money and grain in their hands.

Kangxi arranged for his inner guards to quietly visit the land deed shops of various ministers, and at the same time asked Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to form a team of henchmen, the people in this team were all personally selected by Kangxi, and generally speaking, they could enter here only if they did not have deep collusion with the big family. Of course, there is nothing to collude with too deeply, as long as they are from a poor family, since these people can sell themselves to power for glory and wealth, they can naturally be used by him.

Three days later, at the court meeting, suddenly there were two three third-grade ministers and one fourth-grade minister were raided, and all the property in the family was filled into the treasury, Kangxi angrily reprimanded at the court meeting on the second day: "I asked them to donate their family property for national use, they were good, one person took out 50,000 taels, and the other two took out 30,000 taels, and now I have copied their home, how much silver do you guess in total?" ”

said that Kangxi patted the dragon case: "Converted into more than four million taels of silver!" Such disloyal and unrighteous corrupt officials, what use do I want them to do, spread my will, and behead them all over the house! ”

Saying that, he regained his calm tone: "I don't want all your family property, as long as you take out seventy or eighty percent of your family property and help the Qing Dynasty win this battle, I will not forget you, but if you want to take gold and silver treasures to join the Ming Lord, I will never give you the opportunity to take refuge and rebel like Ming Sizong!" ”

The eyelids of all the courtiers were shocked, and after retiring from the court, many people hesitated, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the two powerful ministers of the dynasty, one was the ancestor Yinmeng himself and the angry Lord Suo Etuso, and the other was the emperor's henchman in front of him, Nalan Pearl, Lord Nalan.

Basically, all the people have made up their minds, and after returning home, they will start to count the property, if the two adults hand over the family property to the treasury tomorrow, and hand it over with themselves, if the two adults can still bear it, then there are two adults on it, and what can the emperor do with himself.

But speaking of which, what the emperor is doing today is really a bit unruly, where are there officials in this court who are not greedy, and those who are not greedy for money have no chance to honor their superiors, how can they get the opportunity to be promoted if they are not filial to their superiors? Although it is said that the court is still clear, and the adults can appoint people on the basis of merit, but no one is much better than whom, when it comes to virtue, the corrupt official may not be worse than the Qing official, since who will be a clean official, there is a person named Hai Rui in the previous dynasty who is not greedy, and he can't even afford the coffin board when he dies, so what is the picture?

Of course, the nature of being greedy is not the same, the nature of being greedy for money and not being able to do things is not the same, thousands of years of officialdom development, these people have long found their own way to survive, as long as they do not arouse public anger, even if they are good officials, if they can be less greedy, it is simply a big man.

Suo Etu is also very worried, and there are already many people who have handed over the handwritten letter to the court, saying that the head of the horse is Zhan, this horse head is not so easy to be, the emperor is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and he also has his own ideas and calculations in his heart, and this expedition has fought a big victory, it is said that the army of the Ming Dynasty has been forced to retreat for dozens of miles, if he still carries it, in case he cuts himself with a knife, all the family property is lost, and there is no grave if he wants to cry at that time.

Seeing his sad appearance, his eldest son Gelfin brought over a cup of tea: "Father, why are you worried? ”

"You are not small, and you also follow the plan for your father, the emperor ordered the ministers to hand over the family property to the treasury, saying that no one wants to pay seventy or eighty percent of the family property, and the father is not reluctant to give up those family properties, but we will all rely on the emperor to hand over this property, and there will be no way to buy the courtiers in the court with silver in the future."

Gelfin sat aside: "Father, son also heard about the outside world, I heard that eighty percent of the people in Shandong have rebelled, because they have no food to eat, if they don't send them food, I'm afraid that Shandong will not be able to keep it." ”

"Dad has thought about this a long time ago, if every minister hands over seventy or eighty percent of the family property, three Shandong can also be fed, but the emperor wants seventy or eighty percent of the family property, let's hand over thirty or fifty percent, in case something happens, our family will be gone."

"My son is reading historical records these days, and I remember that Li Si, the prime minister of Great Qin, said before he died, leading the dog to the east gate, can he get it? Our family is alive and has a chance to make a comeback, and my father is now the pillar of the imperial court, if he is the first to stand up and hand over the family property, he will be able to get the holy favor, and the emperor's dissatisfaction will be put down a few days ago, which is equivalent to laying a solid foundation for our family, as for whether the emperor will take care of us to accumulate too much wealth, at this time handing over the family property shows our pure heart, if the emperor disposes of us, I am afraid that the government decree will never be able to leave the Forbidden City in the future. ”

Suo Etu looked at his son and laughed: "If you have a son like this, even if you really lead the dog Dongmen in the future, your father will have no regrets." ”

(End of chapter)