Anguo, Yueguo, and Yuguo are filled with sorrow!
Of course, those who cried and cried were all the relatives of the officials. As for the civil and military officials, they had no time to cry. Instead, they prepared heavy gifts - gifts that were heavier than the tributes they prepared for the emperor during festivals, just like Smelling the smell of blood, they came to the door of Lin Qi's temporary residence like a blowfly, waiting cautiously for Lin Qi's reception. Www!QUAbEn-XIAoShUo!com
The people in the three major provinces did not know what happened to their parents and officials. These things had nothing to do with the people. But for these officials, being stripped of their official positions by Lin Qi was related to the prosperity of their children and grandchildren!
At this moment, they hated Dinghai King Yingyi! Unless he wanted to give Lin Qi a blow, how could they not greet Lin Qi and Princess Qingli? But there is no need to take the medicine of regret. Faced with the huge pressure from Lin Qi and Princess Qingli, they can only pray for Lin Qi's forgiveness.
Lin Qi's temporary residence was a house in Xianqianshan, the largest merchant in Anguo Province. This garden covers an area of nearly a thousand acres. It was originally a retirement place prepared by Xianqianshan for his mother. It is a brand new house that has just been completed. Hearing that Lin Qi was coming, but Lin Qi had not yet decided on the location of his future palace and had no place to stay, he immediately offered the house.
The huge house is densely forested, and all the trees are thousand-year-old trees. Xianqianshan spent a lot of money to have the servants carefully select them from the deep mountains and old forests, and spent countless manpower and material resources to transport them to Anmin City.
Under a huge old banyan tree, Lin Qi sat on a log bench with his legs crossed and listened to the reports of several accountants.
These accounting gentlemen belong to Princess Qingli. Princess Qingli sent them to inspect the provincial treasury of three provinces and thoroughly check the account book balances over the years. The results of the investigation were surprising. All the warehouses in the three major provinces, whether provincial or local, were clean, with the largest number of warehouses in one county. Only three thousand taels of silver were left!
Not only was the money storehouse clean and there was no money left, but the arsenals of local armies in the three major provinces contained only broken weapons and less than 10,000 bows and arrows. There were more than 100 large and small granaries in the granary. There should be enough grain reserves for hundreds of millions of people in the three major provinces for more than a year, but now all the grain reserves add up to only 200,000 dans!
What made Lin Qi collapse the most was that there was no money in the warehouse, no weapons, and no food. The three major provinces actually owed two years' salary to the civil and military officials, as well as pensions for the local elderly and disabled soldiers. Hundreds of millions of gold taels of pensions, as well as money and food to build dams for river, lake, and sea projects.
The Blood Qin Empire relied on military force to establish the country, but gave preferential treatment to scholars and scholars in every province, state, prefecture, prefecture, county, etc. There are corresponding provincial schools, prefecture schools, county schools, government schools, county schools, etc. There are millions of scholars studying in the three provinces, and according to the rules of the Blood Qin Empire, these scholars are also It needs to be fully supported by the local government.
For food, clothing, housing and transportation, the wives and concubines of these scholars were even given a set of clothes and rouge and gouache every month. Provinces with excellent financial conditions even had to pay a certain salary for the maids hired by these scholars!
The three major provinces had already defaulted on paying the three-month tribute to these scholars, and this money also fell on Lin Qi's head.
What left Lin Qi even more speechless. After he was named the king of Anguo, Yueguo, and Yuguo, the large and small government offices in these three provinces began to repair the government offices at the same time, and they all spent money on wide areas. They dared to build a small county government according to the specifications of the state capital. In just half a month, these yamen have not yet been repaired, but the arrears of labor and material costs are already astronomical.
"That is to say!"
After listening to the reports of these accountants, Lin Qi said coldly: "Not only did I not get a penny from taking over the fiefdoms of these three provinces, but I had to pay at least 1.2 billion taels of gold to wipe their butts. ?”
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Several accountants looked at Lin Qi carefully, and smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, that's exactly what it is!"
A bold accountant took a step forward. He replied in a low voice: "Maybe there is more than that, because we only checked the account books for the past two years, and there are also some accounts that have been in arrears for many years. By then, the prince will inevitably be blamed!"
Lin Qi gently stroked the roots of the old banyan tree next to him, which covered more than ten acres of land and looked like a small forest. He nodded gently and said: "Okay, okay. That's really great. According to your experience, how can three second-level provinces be so poor?"
Lin Qi's question was very simple, but several accounting gentlemen looked at each other for a while, and after a long time, the bold one smiled bitterly: "What did the prince say? There are indeed places in the Blood Qin Empire that are so poor that they cry, but that This kind of thing only happens in some seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade provinces. Provinces of sixth-grade and above have a surplus every year; provinces of fifth-grade, the annual surplus is enough to support a dozen lower-grade provinces. As for fourth-grade provinces, If your character is above average, where can you find the misfortune of poverty?"
Another accountant said in a low voice: "Although the three provinces of Anguo, Yueguo, and Yuguo are ranked second-rank, they are actually as wealthy as the first-rank provinces, but they are suppressed by some people. Just prevent them from being promoted to the first level. According to common sense, there must be at least hundreds of millions of taels of gold in the warehouses of these three provinces..."
Lin Qi spread his hands: "The balance of hundreds of millions of taels of gold should be my king's money! But now the warehouse is empty and the money is gone, but the ledgers are all recorded one by one! In other words, someone took it away He took away the money that originally belonged to me, and left a mess for me to pay for myself!"
Several accountants lowered their heads, and the bold accountant at first said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty Shengming, if the account books of various government offices in these three provinces are collectively falsified, these falsifiers are not a few, and They are proficient in money and food methods and want to investigate thoroughly..."
Lin Qi waved his hand lazily: "A thorough investigation? How can I have time to chat with them? Those people waiting outside the door were all taken into prison and tortured, and I squeezed out the last copper from their families. Hu Xinzhu , Hu Xinzhu, didn’t I ask you to arrest people?”
From the big banyan tree, Hu Xinzhu jumped down. He leaned lazily on the aerial root of a big banyan tree, and sighed lazily: "Really start to do it? This is the size of hundreds of thousands of people in three provinces." Officer, are you really ruthless?"
Lin Qi glanced at him: "The money recovered will be counted as your 10% share!"
Hu Xinzhu's body suddenly stiffened. As soft as a slug, he jumped up happily, rolled up his sleeves and rushed out: "Break the bones, suck the marrow, cramp the skin, you four little bastards, come here! Brothers, light up everything Troops, catch all these bastards on the list!"
On the street outside the manor, many civil and military officials were waiting anxiously for Lin Qi's reception. Suddenly, they saw countless people wearing half-body armor and wide-brimmed iron helmets pouring out from both ends of the street. The secret spy who makes pleated war skirts. These wolf-like spies didn't want to reason with others at all. They carried short sticks made of wrought copper and beat down the heads of these officials.
One after another, officials were beaten to death and fell to the ground crying, and some were even knocked unconscious on the spot.
Before these people could get up, countless guards in silver armor swarmed over and dragged these fallen officials away like dead dogs. Suddenly there was chaos on the street. Tens of thousands of officials were screaming and running around, trying to escape. However, at least 100,000 guards surrounded the city. No matter how they ran, they could not escape pursuit.
In just half an hour, all the officials gathered in front of Lin Qi's door were captured and thrown into prison regardless of whether they were good or bad. Hu Xinzhu's old subordinates, those ferocious men who were proficient in punishment, were dispatched one after another to torture these officials. Suddenly, the miserable screams of these officials echoed over the entire Anmin City.
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Princess Qingli's private soldiers from the Qingli Kingdom continuously came to the three provinces. With these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and the large-scale secret spies controlled by Hu Xinzhu to monitor all directions, Lin Qi was not afraid of these three provinces at all. What kind of derailed things can officials do
If they dared to have an extreme reaction, Lin Qi would be happy with it! Use violence to eradicate them all, just like Ying Zheng's method, so that his three provinces will become clean and truly become his fiefdom.
After handling these matters that were not a big deal in Lin Qi's opinion, Lin Qi hugged Ji Letian and slowly came to Princess Qingli's residence.
This is a villa located halfway up a mountain, overlooking a small lake. When she entered this garden, Princess Qingli took a fancy to this place and chose it as her residence. Now Sha Xinyue and Princess Qingli are getting together. The two girls are chatting and laughing, standing on the terrace overlooking the small lake below.
As soon as Lin Qi and Ji Letian walked onto the terrace, Sha Xinyue rolled her eyes at Lin Qi, yawned and turned around to leave.
Lin Qi looked at Sha Xinyue without knowing why. Princess Qingli came to Lin Qi with a smile and straightened his slightly messy collar: "My husband has offended Xinyue so much. She and We met my husband in the Western Continent, but I have never heard of the favor of the goddess of youth."
Lin Qi rolled his eyes. Just because of this matter, Sha Xinyue looked down on him
The problem is that Lin Qi didn't know that his family still had such a thing until he was hired.
Just as she was about to say goodbye to Princess Qingli, Princess Qingli's body suddenly stiffened, and her originally soft and watery eyes became extremely hard. From the depths of her eyes, a trace of extreme fear that could not be concealed suddenly surged up.
Lin Qi's expression suddenly changed. He had seen the scene where Galina used a spell to control Princess Qingli. At that time, Princess Qingli was also stiff and unable to move! But Galina has been captured alive by Lin Po, who is here
Hugging Princess Qingli with a look of fear on her face, Lin Qi shouted slowly in his bone-chilling voice: "Where is the master here?"
A glib voice rang out: "I don't count myself as an expert, but I think I am a relative of the prince, right?"