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Chapter 10 of the Immortal Master: Randomizing Households to Make a Fortune

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    Jiezhou lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the destruction of the salt pond was related to the bald donkeys on Mount Wutai. It seems that these thieves were all involved!" Wen Fei was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you very much.  Ambassador Tong told me that I will definitely be rewarded!" Tong Guan laughed and said, "I told the officials that we will win the battle, otherwise these thieves are playing dirty tricks behind my back.  The salt pond is broken. If there is no salt production, there will be no money and food. Do you want me to go to war with my brothers hungry?" Wen Fei said with a smile: "Ambassador Tong, don't worry, the salt pond will be repaired soon, absolutely.  It won't delay your entry into the war!" Tong Guan then smiled with satisfaction and said, "Then please leave it to Father Shang!" His desire for fame is as hot as fire, and whoever dares to stand in his way to achieve military success is him.  sworn enemy.  As for Wen Fei, he wished he could wipe out Xixia and Tubo as soon as possible, and then deal with the Liao Kingdom and the Jurchens.  Speaking of which, Wen Fei is still a little bit angry inside.  "In addition, the butt determines the head, he is the great immortal master and the great master.  In the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor was respected and all officials treated him with courtesy.  It can be said that it is a high-power, absolute interest class at the center of the empire. If the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.  Will those Jurchens still be so polite to me?  Therefore, Wen Fei had already stood up to protect the interests of the Northern Song Dynasty.  "What should we do with these officials?" Wen Fei asked a question.  It is easy to take down these guys, but it is difficult to explain them.  A Taoist priest or a eunuch can control the entire Jiezhou.  All the officials, big and small, including those from the Salt Bureau, were taken down.  Moreover, the charge of liaising with foreign countries made Wen Fei feel very unreliable!  Tong Guan smiled and said: "This is not easy. I don't believe that these thieves can have such clean hands. Let's ransack their homes later. Take out the stolen goods and then talk about it!" Wen Fei shrugged and wanted to leave it to future generations.  , Corruption and bribery are definitely a big killer.  No matter who you want to punish, as long as you use this big killer weapon, there will be no impediment.  But in the Northern Song Dynasty, those officials were too kind.  A first-grade official, with a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty shi.  In addition to the salary of 120,000 yuan, there will be an additional 20 bolts of silk per year.  One piece of Luo, fifty taels of cotton.  And from the ninth rank official, the monthly salary is five stones, and the salary is eight thousand copper.  Plus twelve taels per year.  This is still just the imperial salary.  In addition to the above salaries, officials in the Song Dynasty enjoyed a wide variety of welfare subsidies, including tea and wine money, cooking material money, fuel money, horse feed money, etc.  The government also pays for the food, clothing and wages of the servants employed in the official¡¯s home. Each servant costs about three thousand cash per year, and the house of a first-grade official often has hundreds of servants, which adds up to a huge expense.  Interest on public money loans and income from job fields in the Song Dynasty.  In addition to being used by department heads, most of it goes into the department's "small treasury."  It was distributed to officials every now and then and became part of their income.  When officials are on a business trip or assigned to a new post, they can live and eat free of charge in the local area, and even receive food, clothing, etc. with the "voucher" issued by the court.  The "ancestral temple system" was also established, that is, the state built palaces and temples in scenic spots for some highly respected senior officials to undergo regular recuperation.  All costs are borne by the state.  ???Just such legal and gray income is already extremely enviable.  However, corruption is still common among those officials, and the court almost doesn't care about it.  It can be said that almost no officials in the entire Northern Song Dynasty fell to corruption.  For example, Fan Zhongyan mentioned in the opening chapter of "The Story of Yueyang Tower" that "in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, Teng Zijing was relegated to Baling County."  Why was Teng Zijing demoted to Yueyang?  It was because this guy was so corrupt that when the imperial envoy came to investigate, this guy burned all the accounts in front of the imperial envoy.  It was so arrogant, but it turned out to be nothing.  At most, they can just change their official positions! Therefore, it is not easy to arrest all these officials on the charge of corruption.  So Wen Fei was a little worried.  Tong Guan smiled and said: "If this is ordinary corruption, it is not a big deal. But if these guys are richer than the official family, do you think the official family can tolerate them?" "Wealthier than the official family?" Wen  Fei took a breath. Although he thought that these people would definitely not be clean, if it was really such an exaggeration, it would be too shocking.  Tong Guan chuckled: "If you don't believe it, just wait and see!" Wen Fei was dumbfounded by the result of the house raid, although he was already mentally prepared.  But he had not yet thought about how wealthy Jieyanshi was. Not to mention anything else, the eight pillars made of rosewood in the main hall of the house were enough to open Wen Fei's eyes.  Each one is a solid piece of wood, as thick as two people hugging each other, and five to six feet high.Wen Fei was suspicious and pulled these eight pillars back to modern times.  I don¡¯t know how much it can be auctioned for!  Not to mention, the size of a house in ancient times did not depend on anything else but the size of the beams.  The house can be built as big as the beams are.  It is said that when the Ming Dynasty built the Forbidden City, the three main halls were much larger than what later generations would see.  It was just that after the fire, when it was being rebuilt, no big wood could be found to make the beams, so a shrunken version had to be rebuilt.  In the early Ming Dynasty, the Fengtian Hall was more than 90 meters wide and nearly 50 meters deep. After a fire during the Jiajing period, it shrunk to more than 60 meters wide and more than 30 meters deep.  And from Wen Fei¡¯s point of view, the main hall of Brother Hu Rong¡¯s private residence is definitely no smaller than the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City.  You can imagine how big this guy's beams are.  Moreover, these guys are still using big wood.  Fortunately, these days, there is no rule that only the royal family can use big wood.  So no matter the violation.  But from this point of view, we can see how much money Hu Rong was greedy for.  When other homes were searched, large quantities of antiques, calligraphy, paintings, gold and silver utensils were shipped out in piles.  Not even a copper plate could be seen, and people looked down on copper coins at all It took more than ten days to search and inspect the house, and then we finally came up with a rough idea. In short, this guy's net worth would not be less than 5 million yuan.  They are definitely much richer than those awesome grain merchants in Tokyo!  And Wu Yanchang, the prefect who dared to order people to be robbed, was not much better.  Two to three million dollars were also confiscated from his home.  In addition to the other officials, large and small, the amount seized was no less than tens of millions.  ¡°As Tong Guan said, if it¡¯s just a small matter of corruption, it¡¯s nothing.  But if the stolen money is so huge, it's different.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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