Chapter 99 Suicide in Fear of Crime
Wait until the figure of the Empress Dowager Huayang completely disappears.
Ying Zheng then turned and returned to Zhangtai Palace, and just after he turned around, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
Return to the throne.
Yingzheng continued to deal with government affairs, but when he picked up the brush and reviewed the memorial, he said as if casually chatting: "Mr. Gai believes that the five thousand soldiers and horses privately raised by the 'Four Great Clans' in Nanjun this time are really good. Are they raised by themselves?"
Gai Nie on the side was silent for a moment, then bowed with his sword in his arms, and said, "I believe that the king already has the answer to this matter."
Ying Zheng closed his eyes slightly, put down the brush in his hand, and sighed: "Yes! I know it well, but I just don't want to believe it. After all, before this, even if they have been against the widow, but the widow feels that they are the same after all. A member of the Daqin royal family. But I didn't expect..."
Ying Zheng himself didn't know how to describe his current mood.
He once trusted him so much that he regarded his younger brother as his own who betrayed him.
His biological mother colluded with an outsider in order to rebel against her biological son.
Now, even the 'relatives from Chu State' who he thought were at least on the same side as the Qin royal family no matter what, are secretly plotting rebellion.
Could it be that he, the king, is really so incompetent?
Before that.
Ying Zheng actually trusted Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun brothers quite a lot. Even though the other party was against him in the court, he thought that the other party was just dissatisfied with him, at least he was still loyal to Qin and devoted himself to his duty.
That's why Ying Zheng chose to let Lord Changping and Lord Changwen lead the army to quell the rebellion when Lao Ai was wiped out.
Even after this incident, Yingzheng even promoted Lord Changping to be the right prime minister of Qin with the help of his "suppressing rebellion".
But later, because Mr. Mo suddenly presented the 'first-generation improved rice seed', Ying Zheng was too excited for a while, so he put the matter aside for the time being.
Not long ago, Ying Zheng remembered this incident again.
Before he could take any action, another flood occurred in Nanjun. Mo Jun took the order to return to Nanjun for disaster relief, but he didn't expect to uncover such a shocking case all at once.
"Hehe~~ The annual grain tax collected by the Qin State is only less than 8 million shi. Today, there are only 27 noble families in a remote county, and they have confiscated 800,000 shi of grain. One hundred thousand gold coins."
"No matter how I look at it, I feel that I am the king of Qin is extremely absurd."
Ying Zheng randomly opened a roll of bamboo slips, which recorded the results reported by Mo Jun and Meng Wu.
The contents of these reports, including the 200,000 gold coins retained by Mr. Mo, the business channels left by the major nobles in South County, and some real estate such as houses and fields, have not been recorded yet.
Even so, the confiscated food and gold coins alone were enough to make Ying Zheng furious and want to kill.
To know.
Now the annual grain tax of the state treasury of Qin State is only about 8 million shi.
This is still a relatively good time. If there are some natural disasters, the annual grain tax revenue may only be five or six million shi.
certainly.
Ying Zheng also knew that these grain taxes were not real taxes. After all, taxes would be added layer by layer when they were passed down to local governments, and they would be deducted layer by layer when they were reported to Xianyang.
This kind of unspoken rule that almost the entire seven countries of the Central Plains have defaulted to now, Ying Zheng is not deaf or blind, so it is impossible not to hear the wind at all.
But if you are neither deaf nor blind, you cannot be a family.
Some things are difficult to change even for Ying Zheng, so he usually turns a blind eye to some unspoken rules.
But even Ying Zheng did not expect that these local nobles would be so bold.
Only 27 noble families in one county of South County actually confiscated 800,000 shi of grain and 200,000 gold coins, which totaled almost 2.8 million shi of grain.
Such property has even exceeded one-third of the total annual grain tax of the entire Qin State.
Is this still an unspoken rule?
It's like lying on Qin's body, sucking the blood of the people of Great Qin!
After this battle.
It is naturally impossible for Yingzheng to still want to promote Lord Changping to the right prime minister.
on the contrary.
Now Ying Zheng is a little more vigilant about the entire "Chu foreign relatives lineage".
honestly.
If it weren't for the fact that this matter involved too many things, Ying Zheng would have been quite happy this time. After all, the last time he sent Mo Jun back to Nanjun, he had just sent Mo Jun to help the disaster with the idea of trying it out.
As a result, Mo Jun not only quelled the disaster in the entire South County without spending a penny from the treasury, but even sent 600,000 shi of grain and 200,000 gold coins to Ying Zhengfan.
If there were more courtiers like this, Ying Zheng felt that he would have killed all Lu Buwei and Lai Ai long ago, so why should he suffer so many years of grievances.
This is the end of the thought.
Ying Zheng suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and subconsciously sighed: "Mo Qing, you are really the humerus of the widow!"
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the other side.
After returning to the room and closing the door, before Chang Wenjun could react, a big bully slapped him on the face.
"Did you do the five thousand soldiers and horses in Nanjun?"
This big brat directly shut down Chang Wenjun's brain, until he heard his elder brother's suppressed angry questioning, Chang Wenjun covered his face and said aggrievedly: "This... I didn't expect that group of guys to be so stupid that they would raise those 5,000 people in their own home!"
"Do you still dare to quibble?"
It’s okay if you don’t mention it. When Chang Wenjun said this, Changping Jun became even more angry, and he stretched out his hand to add another big blow to the idiot in front of him.
But in the end he endured it.
no way.
After all, this is his own younger brother, and if he really wants to play good or bad, the one who feels distressed is himself.
Jun Changping had no choice but to put away his anger. After calming down, he asked in a low voice: "Why are you secretly training so many troops in Nanjun? Do you want to rebel?"
Chang Wenjun said aggrievedly: "I didn't want to rebel, I just wanted to keep a backup there."
Actually speaking, this matter really cannot be blamed on Mr. Chang Wen.
Because he was indeed the one who sent the 5,000 soldiers to Nanjun, but he was not so stupid as to put the entire 5,000 soldiers in other people's homes.
The cause of the matter can be traced back to the secret order of the Empress Dowager Huayang to let the four major clans in Nanjun prepare food and help the Chu State to start disaster relief.
After getting this secret order at first.
The four major clans quickly raised 400,000 shi of grain through their respective channels.
However, it is easy to raise food, but if you want to secretly transport so much food to Chu, you need not only secret channels, but also a lot of manpower.
After all, 400,000 shi of grain is not a small amount, and the four major clans have their own manpower, and they can't use too much at once.
But if the staff is summoned temporarily, confidentiality will become a problem again.
So at that time, someone thought of the "five thousand troops" that Chang Wenjun sent to Nanjun and let their four major clans train on their behalf.
These people are strong, large in number, and their identities are secret, and there is no problem with their loyalty. They are simply the best candidates for food transportation.
So that night, these 5,000 people did not hide in the homes of the four major clans all the time, but came to the four major clans temporarily to help carry food.
It turned out to be such a coincidence.
Jun Mo led the black armor soldiers to surround the four major clans just in time for that night.
What the four major clans didn't expect was that after the arrival of the reckless Mo Jun, he didn't even give them time to 'quibble', and directly raised his sword to slash and kill.
Cut all the way from the front door to the back door without blinking an eye.
In the end, the four major clans were forced to have no choice but to expose the 'five thousand soldiers and horses' in order to protect themselves.
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There is no more after that.
These coincidences are obviously not clear to Mr. Changping and Mr. Changwen, but after listening to Mr. Changwen's explanation, Mr. Changping really has the idea of strangling his own brother to death.
But now is not the best time, because they still have some things not cleaned up.
"Those Nanjun officials who are locked in the dungeon now probably don't know about the 'five thousand soldiers and horses', but they can't tolerate the few old foxes inside, and sooner or later they will be able to guess the truth of the matter."
"Brother, Ni means..."
Jun Changping's eyes flashed coldly, and he said coldly: "In order to avoid long nights and dreams, it is best to let them shut their mouths forever before execution tomorrow."
Chang Wenjun was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, and said in a low voice, "I'll do it now."
Jun Changping reminded: "Remember, be careful to hide yourself in this matter. You are still grounded. Be careful not to be caught by others."
Chang Wenjun nodded and said: "I understand, big brother!"
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The next morning.
In the death row.
Several prison guards, carrying food boxes and wearing prison uniforms, walked into the death row. Seeing these prison guards with unfamiliar faces, the prison guard on duty today was about to step forward to inquire, but at this moment, the leading prison guard took out a token and shook it towards the prison guard. .
The face of the jailer changed, and then he quickly stopped, and returned to his original position without squinting, as if he hadn't seen these people at all, and let the other party walk into the death row.
After a while.
Suddenly there were bursts of shrill screams in the death cell.
But this did not attract anyone's attention. After all, in a place like death row, there are dozens of screams every day, which is not worth mentioning at all.
When the screams gradually subsided, the prison guards carrying the food boxes came out again, and at this time the cell boss on duty had already left the gate temporarily because of his urgency.
So a group of people came quietly and then disappeared without a trace.
Until an hour later.
Someone came to the death row to take away the death row inmates who were to be executed today, only to find that the dozen or so treason criminals who were to be executed today had already "suicide in fear of crime"...
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(end of this chapter)