After reading only the first row of words, Xie Bole's face turned pale.
Yinreng said loudly,
"Wanyan Xie Bole, a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Revenue, went to Liancheng ten days ago with thirty thousand taels of silver to purchase disaster relief grain. He mixed twenty percent of old grain with the new grain, and, relying on his status, threatened the Liancheng grain merchants, driving the price down to ninety percent. Upon his return, he reported a ten percent increase in the price. He embezzled over seven thousand three hundred taels of silver. Today, I sentence him to immediate execution!"
After saying that, he swung the saber in his hand and cut the man's throat with one blow.
The warm blood wet the corner of Yinreng's robe and even splashed on his chin, contrasting with his cold expression, making him look like a Shura.
"Dare to lay your hands on the people's life-saving money, this is the end!"
At this moment, whether it was the officials summoned by Yinreng to watch the execution, or the people who gathered around to watch the excitement, they all felt a chill on their necks, squinted their eyes in fear, and dared not look anymore.
Yinreng returned the saber to the guard and ordered Zheng Li to collect the body and cremate it together with the dead victims.
All the officials looked at each other.
Only then did I have a clear understanding of Yinreng's cruelty and ruthlessness.
The Han people believe that the dead must be buried in peace and their bodies must be kept intact so that they can have a next life.
Cremation was actually nothing to the Manchus, but being cremated along with the disaster victims was a little hard to accept.
After all, in their eyes, Han people are all untouchables.
How could the Manchus be cremated together with the untouchables?
This is too inhumane.
In fact, if the amount of corruption by officials who went out of the city to purchase supplies was less than two hundred taels, Yinreng would not pursue the matter. After all, if you want the horse to run, you have to let it eat some grass.
If he was too demanding about innocence, it would make those people not do their jobs with all their heart.
As for those who embezzled less than a thousand taels, Yinreng would call them over and give them a beating, forcing them to voluntarily hand over the silver.
Generally, those who were called by Yinreng were too embarrassed to speak up.
So the fact that Yinreng was very observant was concealed.
Xie Bole was the first one who dared to embezzle such a large amount of money.
It will also be the last one.
By the end of March, all the snow had melted and reconstruction in the disaster area was nearing completion.
The people's livelihood in several counties has also been restored to a large extent.
It was a sunny day, and Yinzhi came to Yinreng's residence in casual clothes.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Yinreng counting the accounts.
Yinzhi sat down next to Yinreng and watched him draw strange symbols on the paper without much curiosity.
He had seen this situation frequently in the past few months.
"Second brother, shouldn't we go back to the capital?"
Yinreng continued writing and drawing without a pause.
"It's not the right time yet."
"Here we go again. I've been urging you every time for the past month, and you keep giving me the same excuse. Can you give me an exact time?"
Yinzhi was a little irritable.
It has been three months since the day he set out, and he has not seen his wife and two daughters for three months.
If he stays in Yuzhou any longer, he will go crazy!
Yinreng looked up at him and shrugged.
"If you can't wait, you can return to the capital first. The waterway is now clear, and it will only take ten days to reach the capital."
Yinzhi: “…”
Listen, listen!
Is this human language?
"If I could leave, I would have left long ago. Who would still be waiting for you here?!"
If he wasn't afraid that he would be punished by the Emperor if he went back alone, he would have slipped away long ago, okay?
I could have left for Beijing at the end of last month.
Yinreng smiled slightly.
"Then I can't do anything about it. I'm not forcing you to wait here."
Yinzhi was so angry that he stretched out his fist and shook it in front of Yinreng's eyes.
"Do you believe I'll beat you up?"
Yinreng extended his face towards her considerately.
"Come on, I promise I won't complain."
"real?"
"Of course it's true, but I don't know whether Suo Etu will complain or not."
"you……"
Yinzhi clenched his fists until they creaked, but in the end he didn't dare to swing at Yinreng's face.
After Yinreng finished calculating the accounts, he took a deep breath.
"The total surplus of disaster relief silver is 136,100 taels and 2 coins. Not bad, I can still do something else..."
This is all thanks to the officials in the counties in the disaster area. If they had not generously donated all their wealth, the 500,000 taels allocated by the court would not be enough for him.
Yinreng hung the brush on the pen holder and said to Yinzhi,
"Come on, I'll take you to see my new pet."
Yinzhi waved his hands in disdain.
"I'm not going!"
"Well, you stay here by yourself. I'll go by myself."
Half an hour later, the cavalry stopped at the gate of a farm outside the city.
There was a man in yamen uniform guarding the door. When he saw the visitor, he hurried forward to greet him.
Yinzhi dismounted before Yinreng like an angry young wife.
He did not like riding in a carriage, but Yinreng felt that riding a horse was too cold, so the two of them rode in their own carriages.
Smelling the foul smell in the air, Yinzhi's face turned even worse.
"Sometimes I really don't understand why you spend so much effort raising those dirty and smelly things."
"Of course, it's for the people's livelihood."
Yinreng walked inside, passed through the gate, and saw the whole picture of Zhuangzi.
This is the pig farm built by Yinreng and Zhao Yanmin, a kind-hearted wealthy businessman in the city.
After Zhao Yanmin's illegitimate son Zhao Tong received the news, he quickly came to Yinreng.
"Greetings to the two lords."
Yinzhi snorted with a slightly sour look on his face as a response.
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