Zeng Xiulin's death finally caused the big case to fall into the ground. Li Yanqing immediately ordered Zhao Kai to be responsible for cleaning up the property and inventories of the Zeng family. Three days later, Zhao Kai took out a property to count it. The wealth included in it was shocking and could be said to be rich enough to rival a country. Zeng Xiulin seized billions of wealth for the Zeng family within more than ten years of being the prefect of Chengdu. In just over ten years, the profits of monopolizing the three items of salt, wine and tea reached tens of millions of taels of silver.

In addition to a large amount of real estate and land, the Zeng family has thousands of shops, involving salt, tea, wine, grain, oil, cloth, silk, satin, pig iron and other essential things for people's livelihood. In addition, it also opens a large number of taverns, brothels, gambling halls, silver shops, inns, etc., as well as docks, warehouses, fleets, fleets, mining and other industries. The Zeng family is involved in the money-making industry in Chengdu Fu Road, and they are all one of the best big stores. They even have more than a dozen houses covering more than ten acres in Lin'an, the capital.

Li Yanqing shook his head while looking at the list. No wonder Fan Zhixu told himself that the Song Dynasty had financial difficulties and it was difficult to support the military expenditure of hundreds of thousands of troops. Why was the financial difficulties?

On the one hand, Zhao Ji spent uncontrollably, and on the other hand, a large number of officials like Zeng Xiulin who control local power unscrupulously used loopholes in the system to make profits for their family. There was so much money. Most of them were cut off by local officials, so they naturally gave them to the court. Of course, the people were exploited in the end.

"I didn't expect that a prefect is as rich as a country. It's so surprising."

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "This is also the road of Chengdu Prefecture has been prosperous for hundreds of years, and there is not so much oil or water in other places."

"I heard that I had copied a lot of letters?" Li Yanqing asked with a down list.

Zhao Kai handed over a thick stack of letters to Li Yanqing, "This is a letter written by the imperial ministers to Zeng Xiulin, and the main ones are here."

Li Yanqing took the letter, and the first letter was written by the left prime minister Lu Yihao to Zeng Xiulin. He nodded. There were seven letters from Lu Yihao, which lasted for three years. Li Yanqing had a little doubt that Lu Yihao's successful rise to power might be related to Zeng Xiulin's financial support.

Zeng Xiulin has been in a seat for more than ten years and has not moved, so he must have paid a lot of real money.

"What should I do if I go back to these letters?"

Li Yanqing put away the letter and continued to discuss the property on the list, "How do you think these stores should be handled better?" he asked Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai thought for a while and said, "Except for docks, warehouses, fleets, fleets and mines, these assets should be operated by the official business, and the rest of the shops are auctioned publicly. The higher the price, and the auction money is used to supplement the insufficient military expenditure. In addition, it is recommended that the property in the capital be handled by Lin'an Prefecture."

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said, "Divide the gold, silver, copper coins and auction proceeds into two, and hand over half to the court. After all, the court's military expenditure is also difficult. The other half is the military expenditure of the third northwest route. We are all open to the public, and we are not afraid that the court will send people to investigate."

"I understand, so will I start to reform the selling system?"

Li Yanqing smiled, "The reform of the quota system must be carried out, but it is best to ask the court to send officials to participate. This matter involves too much interest, so I need to write another letter to the official to gain the support of the official."

"I understand. I have been busy with auctions during this period. I will temporarily release the reform of selling."

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "That's thank you for your hard work in the Envoy Zhao!"

Three days later, Wang Gui led 10,000 cavalry to Chengdu. Li Yanqing mixed 10,000 cavalry and the newly recruited 10,000 soldiers into 20,000 troops, and asked them to station in various prefectures on Chengdu Prefecture. The garrison immediately caused a lot of discussion among the people. Everyone was speculating whether Li Yanqing would live in Chengdu for a long time in the future.

Unexpectedly, Li Yanqing's actions in Chengdu prefecture caused an uproar in the court, and various criticisms of Li Yanqing became the focus of the court's attention. Logically, Li Yanqing was the strategic envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the highest military and political chief of the three routes of Bashu. Of course, he had the right to interfere in government affairs. However, the fierce official struggle of the arrest of the prefect Zeng Xiulin was very rare, which aroused the general dissatisfaction of the court's civil servant group with Li Yanqing. Even the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji summoned the emperor Zhao Gou twice and pressured him, demanding that he issue an order to release Li Yanqing immediately and leave Bashu.

At noon, in an elegant room in Qingfeng Building, right prime minister Fan Zhixu and deputy prime minister Gaoshen sat and chatted, saying it was just chatting. In fact, Fan Zhixu wanted to touch Li Yanqing's bottom line from Gaoshen.

"Fan Xiang, I think the response to this incident is a bit weird."

Fan Zhixu smiled slightly, "What's weird? Tell me."

"Li Yanqing's appointment as the Strategic Envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi was my suggestion. I did not have the idea of ​​reducing his power. My original intention was to hope that he would also arrest the government affairs of the three routes of Bashu. The government was also in this attitude, but why did Li Yanqing only manage the military but not intervene in the end? Whose instructions is this? Fan Xiang has never mentioned it, and the government has no intention of the government?"

"This should be proposed by Mr. Lu, to alleviate Li Yanqing's affairs and make him fight against the Jin Dynasty with all his might. This is the original words of Mr. Lu, and the official also agreed in principle, but the decree was not formally formed."

"This should be Zeng Xiulin's attitude!"

Gao Shen sneered: "The Sichuan-Shaanxi Military Commission is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, and the court is out of reach. He has really become the local emperor of Bashu."

"Google Gong should not be so extreme in his view of the problem! The key is that Li Yanqing himself has no time. Judging from his performance, he seems to be more interested in government affairs on Hedong Road."

"The problem now is the attitude of the court. In such a big case, there are still many people in the court criticizing Li Yanqing at the court meeting, saying that he stretched out his hand too long, as if all the critics had forgotten that Li Yanqing is the Sichuan-Shaanxi Military Commander, Zeng Xiulin is his subordinate. Isn't it normal for superiors to investigate the responsibilities of subordinates? He has a tax of 3.8 million yuan without authorization, and he has a personal pocket. The evidence is conclusive. These people turned a blind eye to such a serious case, but they accused Li Yanqing of taking too much control. Isn't this weird? Who is supporting them?"

Gao Shen's tone was very stern, and Fan Zhixu had to smile bitterly. There was no way to explain this kind of thing, but both of them knew in their hearts who was supporting Zeng Xiulin, and who else would be besides the Supreme Emperor?

Fan Zhixu had already vaguely guessed that this matter was actually the Supreme Emperor and the official family fighting for control of Bashu. The Supreme Emperor won over Zeng Xiulin first. Li Yanqing must have been executing the instructions of the official family to overthrow Zeng Xiulin. Now that Zeng Xiulin has been arrested, the Supreme Emperor is of course angry and anxious.

Fan Zhixu pondered for a moment and said, "I guess this matter has already come to an end. If we are patient, I will wait, and the memorial of Yushi Zhang should be delivered soon."

The two of them drank a sip of tea. At this time, a follower reported at the door: "Reported to the two prime ministers, Zhizhengtang sent an urgent document, saying that there was an urgent memorial sent by Bashu, and asked the two prime ministers to go back immediately."

Fan Zhixu and Gao Shen looked at each other, and the two stood up almost at the same time, and the result of the struggle between Bashu finally came.

The atmosphere in Zhizheng Hall was solemn, and the six prime ministers sat upright. The report sent by Censor Zhang from Chengdu was in the hands of Zheng Wangzhi. He was the last person to read this report.

Of course, the Censorate is not responsible for Zhizhengtang. They submit reports directly to the emperor. However, if the subject of the report involves important officials of the court, they usually have to copy a copy to Zhizhengtang while reporting to the emperor.

"What do you think about this?"

The first thing he spoke was Fan Zhixu. He asked very well, not what he thought about this report. The report was the result of the investigation by the Censorate and should not be questioned, so Fan Zhixu just asked Zeng Xiulin about this.

Lu Yihao sighed, "I really know people but not people! I always thought that Zeng Xiulin was a honest and upright person, but I expected that he would be so alas! I wanted to apologize to the emperor, but I misread the person."

Lu Yihao's statement was very timely. Everyone knew that he was Zeng Xiulin's backstage. If he did not clear himself as soon as possible, once this matter fermented in the court, he might be involved. After all, the evidence was conclusive and the person was dead. The Supreme Emperor would not protect a dead person. Without the Supreme Emperor's strength, Zeng Xiulin's case would drown many people.

Gao Shen sneered: "There are still people criticizing Li Jingluo for meddling in other people's business today. If Li Jingluo hadn't withstood the pressure to investigate this case, I'm afraid the Zeng family would really be the richest in the world."

The profound ridicule made Lu Yihao and Fan Zongyin look very embarrassed. Fan Zhixu coughed twice and changed the topic. "The current problem is how to deal with it in the future? One is a lot of money and industry, and the other is the new magistrate of the city. The other is whether this case should be investigated in depth? These three things are what to do next. Let's express your opinion! Let me summarize it and report it to the world as the opinions of our Zhizheng Hall."
Chapter completed!