"Master Gu, Liu Dacai has invited us."
As soon as Gu Chen returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Qiu Ye hurriedly greeted him.
"Sir, those workers have received benefits, will they betray Guo Huan?"
They tried to inquire for a long time, but no worker was willing to reveal anything.
Only Liu Dacai could have turned them away.
I heard that his leader was Mr. Gu, so he was willing to come here.
"What benefit? Why did you confess to Guo Huan?"
Gu Chen glanced at him and corrected him: "Guo Huan has a warrant from the Ministry of Revenue. These workers are just following orders, but they don't know that Guo Huan is printing money privately."
So what if you know, so what if you don't know, it's just an ordinary person's act of survival.
It's enough to pin the charge of beheading on the heads of ministers and landowners. How innocent are the workers?
"Yes, Mr. Gu." Qiu Ye quickly shut up and said with some earnestness: "Did your Majesty say when can we impeach Guo Huan?"
This is a great job that only happens once in a thousand years.
"Why are you anxious?" Gu Chen walked to the back of the Yamen, but he was not anxious at all: "Yu Min and the others first proposed to investigate this matter. Naturally, they have to expose it. Do you want to rob it too?"
"To find out what's going on in your Huguang Road, just contact the local official of your road."
There is also a rest room behind the Yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Liu Dacheng was surrounded by four or five censors asking questions, which made him tremble.
"Then Liu Shanju, how much money did you print in total?"
"How much do you get paid?"
"How do you usually hide your identity from others? How many times has Guo Huan been to the Baochao Department?"
"The most important thing is, how much money did he take from the imperial court?"
"..."
Facing the chattering Master Censor, Liu Dacai's big black face turned pale with fright, but he still stubbornly repeated one sentence.
"Don't ask, don't ask, Xiaomin said it, Xiaomin only said it to Master Gu."
Gu Chen felt that the voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
He opened the door, and the censors who were excited just now immediately calmed down and saluted him respectfully.
"Master Gu."
Although they are all trolls, and when they get ruthless, they will not spare their colleagues and superiors, but who wants Master Gu to be kind?
Since Mr. Gu became their leader, their money has never been withheld, and they even received a small subsidy at the end of last year.
Of course, this is in compliance with the regulations and there is no risk at all.
Therefore, they are still convinced by Master Gu.
"You guys are all talking and asking so many questions. Which one do you want me to answer first?"
Gu Chen looked at this man's face and remembered that he was the son of the old man whose dysentery was cured by allicin. Wasn't he in the briquette factory?
"You all go down first. Qiu Ye, just stay and record."
Look at this man, he's so scared. I'm afraid he's never seen so many officials in his life, right?
You guys look at me, I look at you, they are not willing to leave, because they all want to get first-hand impeachment materials.
"Are you leaving?" Gu Chen frowned and threatened directly: "If you don't leave, if you go on a business trip in the future and your reimbursement is withheld by the Ministry of Revenue, don't come to me and cry."
For his uncle, the most difficult thing to control in the entire court is this group of trolls.
Other departments want to wash their leaders' stinky feet.
Only the clerks in the Metropolitan Procuratorate were different. If Gu Chen hadn't encouraged Biao'er to improve his money counting skills, they wouldn't be so obedient.
After the trolls left, Gu Chen handed Liu Dacai a cup of tea.
"I asked you to go to the Briquette Factory to make money. Why did you end up at the Baochao Company? Tell me, who introduced you there and what benefits did you receive?"
In that place, apart from asking for recommendations and having a lot of rules, the salary was high and the benefits were good.
I have a monthly salary, but I only have to work seven months a year, and I can go home after working three hours a day.
So no matter how troublesome it is, the big guys are eager to squeeze their heads in.
As long as Liu Dacai was recommended by someone, he would not have been so poor at the beginning.
"Master Gu, Xiaomin..."
Liu Dacai took the tea cup and didn't dare to drink it. He just held it in his hand and said.
"Thanks to my lord, I used to work in a briquette factory."
"My life was not bad at first. After saving money for three years, my family's life has become much better. I even sent my child to a private school."
Gu Chen nodded when he saw the fine cotton clothes and thick fine cotton boots he was wearing. It was indeed much better than that time.
Otherwise, men who work at home don’t need to wear such nice clothes.
Because you have to do physical work, which costs a lot of cloth.
"Xiao Min is doing a good job in the coal factory." Liu Dacai continued to talk about his own affairs and said guiltily: "But Zhang Da is the one in charge of Xiao Min's factory."
"Recommend this humble citizen and five hundred brothers to serve as servants in the Baochao Department."
"It's said that we can get four guan of money every month, and we still have food to eat. Every meal has meat. The only problem is that we work at night."
"And it's shady. On weekdays, I was secretly taken to the Treasure Bank Department and then secretly sent out. I guessed that something was wrong..."
"Snapped!"
Hearing this, Qiu Ye put down the pen in his hand and slammed the table angrily on the spot.
"You know clearly that something is wrong, so why do you still want to help others?"
Once those precious notes flow into the market, do you know how harmful it will be?
"Qiu Ye!" Gu Chen glanced at him and said softly: "Why are you so fierce? What do ordinary people know? Liu Dacai, please continue talking."
Young people are impetuous and not at all as steady and calm as themselves.
"Xiaomin knows something is wrong, but..." Liu Dacai wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and choked: "It's just that those are four notes."
"On weekdays, we work half to death in the coal factory and only earn 600 cash. But this job is not tiring and not dirty, but we can earn four kuan."
"I thought, I will stop working for a few years. By then I will have enough money to marry my daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, and I can also buy a better house..."
So even if they know something is wrong, everyone pretends not to know.
Anyway, as long as you have money, let them do whatever they want.
Who would think that they earn less?
"Isn't that reasonable?" Hearing what he said, Qiu Ye almost lost his breath and leaned over: "You can't do it for a few months, how many more years do you want to do it?"
If you let them work for a few years, can they still buy a pound of meat with their precious money?
"Qiu Ye, sit down!" Gu Chen raised his hand and asked this child who had never seen the world to sit down, and then continued to ask: "Then how long have you been working in the Baochao Department?"
Liu Dacai glanced at Qiu Ye, who was furious, and then carefully stretched out three fingers: "Sir, I have been working for three months."
Without waiting for Gu Chen to ask questions, he continued to answer honestly.
"A total of 20 million guan was printed, but... Mr. Guo, the Minister of Revenue, took away 6 million guan, and Mr. Wang, the minister, took away 4 million guan."
"Wang Tiju asked us to help move the money. I saw the signs on the waists of the people who came to pick up the money, as well as the marks of Guo and Wang's mansion on the carriage, so I'm sure there is nothing wrong."
This is thanks to His Majesty's sociology for making rude people like them literate.
Otherwise, there is really no guarantee that the emblem on the carriage will be recognized.
"Confused." Gu Chen sighed and asked, "Do you know what the consequences will be if you secretly print money for Guo Huan like this?"
Liu Dacai shook his head blankly and asked cautiously.
"Master Gu, will you behead your head?"
In fact, he could choose not to come, but Master Gu saved his old father's life many years ago, although his old father only lived for one more year.
But kindness is kindness. The Liu family can be poor, but they cannot repay kindness.
So, despite the possibility of punishment, he came anyway.
