The next day, when Zhang Yue went to the Third Division Envoy Office, he saw many officials coming in and out frequently. He piled up the old accounts of the Sansi Yamen on a dozen tables beside Lu Gongbi.
There is a scholar sitting behind each desk, calculating and reconciling the accounts.
Lu Gongbi was sitting behind a table, looking through the account books with a solemn expression. When he saw Zhang Yue, he said, "Mrs. Zhang, sit down first."
Zhang Yue and Lu Gongbi met several times, but they never had in-depth discussions.
Lu Gongbi looked at the account for a while, rubbed his eyes with his fingers, and then said: "Zhongyan often talks about Taichang's name in front of me. He says that you are the most capable and best friend among his friends."
"This is a great compliment from Shi Pu. In terms of human skills, I am not as good as Shi Pu." Zhang Yue thought about Han Zhongyan's evaluation of Lu Gongbi, his father-in-law, that he could run as far as he could in person.
Lu Gongbi said: "The officials asked me to do this because Shaanxi is short of finances. Therefore, I am now reviewing the financial declarations and audit settlements of Shaanxi No. 5 Road to see if the officials have concealed any fraud."
"However, since the Qingli period, there are a lot of books. It takes a lot of effort to check the discrepancies between the provincial accounts of the three divisions and the expenditures of local prefectures and counties to see if there is any suspicion of large deficits. After careful inspection, only one item is salt. More than a dozen people under me have been checking for three days and three nights, but they still haven't found out. The other figures are dozens of times higher than the salt solution. What year and month are we going to find out?"
Zhang Yue said: "To inform the provincial governor, I have heard a saying that if some things are not weighed on the scale, they will not be worth four taels. If they are weighed, they will not be able to stop a thousand kilograms. If we do not check carefully, I am afraid that the accounts will not be clear. ."
Lu Gongbi laughed when he heard this and said: "Zhang Taichang said it well. It is like this in the west. Qin, Feng and Yongxing, especially the two groups, have few soldiers and insufficient funds. The officials suspect that the local supervisors have tampered with the accounts. Now Xixia is invading Shaanxi. We But if we check the accounts of local civil and military officials, I'm afraid it will unsettle the morale of the military. Once I report the verification here, how many people will be dismissed from their posts in Shaanxi? Will it cause trouble to the local area?"
Zhang Yue wondered whether Lu Gongbi wanted to go against the wishes of the official family and Zhongshu.
But Zhang Yue thought about it again and realized that the Third Division was very independent and did not need to be responsible to anyone.
Historically, Wang Anshi successively recommended Xue Xiang and Zeng Bu as the third envoys. However, after Xue Xiang and Zeng Bu became the third envoys, they both fell out with Wang Anshi and had different political opinions.
During this period, there were personal reasons for Wang Anshi and also because of the independence of the third division.
This is the reason why Sansi can stand alongside Zhongshu and Privy Council.
Could it be that on the first day that Lu Gongbi took office, he would oppose the arrangements given to him by the officials? It should be noted that Lu Gongbi was only in charge of Quan San Company. Because the power of the three divisions was too great, the official Zhongshu consciously weakened the three divisions. Except for Cai Xiang, all subsequent envoys of the three divisions had to have the word "quan" in front of them.
Lu Gongbi said: "When I met with the official, I heard him talk about handing over to prison several times..."
Zhang Yue's heart trembled.
Lu Gongbi said: "The officials said that Jiaoyinjian is very rich now. I didn't know it before, but I heard that last year Jiaoyinjian received a dividend of 910,000 yuan at the end of the year. Is it possible?"
Zhang Yue said: "There are indeed so many. Last year, Jiaoyin's annual income was 3,805,000 guan, with a surplus of 1,272,000 guan, a dividend of 910,000 guan, and a dividend of 7 guan per share. Finally, There are still 362,000 strings left!"
Lu Gongbi asked: "Why is it so profitable to hand over prisoners?"
Zhang Yue said: "Reporting to the Lord of the Province, the world's livelihood is divided into three classes, the first class is food and labor, the first class is food profit, and the third class is food capital. It's like opening a wine shop and the workers sell their labor. No matter how hard they work, they can only get enough food and clothing. Even though a hotel owner employs so many workers, he still makes a profit and loses money even if he is running the business. If he is not careful, he may close down, but the landowner who rents the land to the hotel owner as a wine shop is guaranteed to make a profit and not lose any money."
"The easiest thing in the world to get started and the least easy to lose money is the kind of business where money can make money. It just so happens that handing over to jail is the kind of thing where money can make money."
Lu Gongbi said: "No wonder there are reference offices and quality warehouses everywhere in Bianjing."
Lu Gongbi said: "There are so big holes in the northwest to be plugged now. I thought it would be better to increase revenue than to think about cutting costs. Now that Jiaoyin Prison has so much money, I thought it was the duty of the Third Division to fund the military expenditures in the northwest."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, no wonder, you, Lu Gongbi, had wanted to hand me over to prison a long time ago.
Zhang Yue said: "It is not difficult for the provincial governor to give it, but there is a saying before. Among the 130,000 shares of our firm, Shaanxi Yunsi has 50,000 shares, and our company has 25,000 shares. At the end of last year, dividends were paid, and Shaanxi Yunsi The Secretary has already taken away 350,000 Guan, and I have also taken away 175,000 Guan."
"If money is diverted to the northwest this year, the dividends at the end of the year will be greatly reduced. Shaanxi Yunsi and our company will also receive less money."
"This..." Lu Gongbi said, "But it's hard not to refuse the official's wishes. Do you think there is any other way?"
Zhang Yue said: "I thought I could spend 100,000 guan as military expenditure in the northwest. If we spend more, I'm afraid the shareholders won't agree."
Hearing this, Lu Gongbi shook his head and said, "It's inappropriate, it's inappropriate."
Zhang Yue said a few more methods, and Lu Gongbi dug up the ground together. Zhang Yue thought to himself that Lu Gongbi would not do this or that, so he already understood what he meant.
Seeing that Lu Gongbi refused to tell him what he meant, Zhang Yue simply pretended to be dumbfounded.
Finally, Lu Gongbi couldn't help but said: "I heard that the official family has recently planned to build an imperial garden and the expenditure is probably not small."
Zhang Yue responded casually but did not follow Lu Gongbi's intention.
Lu Gongbi looked at Zhang Yue frequently, but Zhang Yue just pretended not to know. Lu Gongbi finally said: "Zhang Taichang will go back first, and I will think of a solution later."
Zhang Yue stood up and said, "I'm going to resign."
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel funny when he walked out of the hall. Sure enough, Lu Gongbi and Lu Gongzhu were real brothers!
It's all a routine.
At the reception banquet when Lu Gongbi took office, he told the officials that he would follow Cai Xiang and Cao Cao, and continue to maintain the independence of the three departments and not lean towards any party.
Whether it's Zhongshu or an official, we won't sell anyone else's account.
But what about today?
Lu Gongbi came to him to imply that he had given money to the officials.
If you really say one thing and do another, are all the people in the old Lu family so sinister?
But Zhang Yue thought to himself, isn't this a joke that Lu Gongbi said? If I were really willing to spend money, would I still wait until today? If Lu Gongbi really dared to force himself, Zhang Yue would immediately rebel with Jiao Yinjian and surrender to Zhongshu without saying a word.
However, Zhang Yue is still unwilling to go to this step. There is no benefit in going against the top leader.
Don't go this route unless absolutely necessary.
So what should you do?
Therefore, Zhang Yue still uses the old man's old method - hugging the thigh!
He wrote a letter to his father-in-law Wu Chong, asking him to come forward to appeal to Lu Gongbi on his behalf. Before his father-in-law returned to Beijing, he faced Lu Gongbi as much as he could.
At this time, the order for my father-in-law to return to the capital to report on his duties had arrived, and he was already on his way to the capital.
In June of the second year of Zhiping, Huainan transfer envoy Wu Chong returned to Beijing to resume his duties.
But it was said that the official family had already heard of Wu Chong's reputation before he ascended the throne. Officials told the ministers many times that when Wu Chong was a professor at the palace of Wu, he copied the Six Proverbs of the Clan many times.
After taking charge of the official family, he asked Han Qi many times about Wu Chong's current situation.
Ouyang Xiu was Wu Chong's relative and best friend, and he was willing to recommend him to officials. In the end, Wu Chong was able to enter the capital, and he was favored by the officials and entered the country one after another!
