At the same time, at the house of Yushi Liu Meicai, the master was entertaining two colleagues with good wine and food, but there were no servants to serve them.
"I asked you two, why did you come here in person in such a severe cold weather?" Liu Meicai smiled and said to the other two people, "How can I not give you a mere two hundred taels of silver?"
"Haha, Brother Liu, it's only two hundred taels? We are not as rich as you!" One of them listened and responded with a smile, "This money is only yours when it comes to your pocket, right? Haha !”
Another person took a sip of the wine, smacked his lips, and then shook his head and said, "Look, if you come here once, you can have a good drink. The wines in Jindi are the most authentic here! Yes, good!"
These two people were Liu Meicai's colleagues, the imperial censors Liao Guolin and Yang Zhiqi. These two people regarded money as life, and they could be said to be people who really fell in the eyes of money. Other censors may also follow certain big bosses to advance or retreat, but these two, as long as they are given enough money, they can do whatever they are told, without any hesitation.
Liu Meicai had previously given each of them one hundred taels of silver to impeach Dongchang at the court meeting. After the court meeting, he would give them another one hundred taels of silver as reward. Unexpectedly, before the money was sent over, the two of them came over to ask for it in person.
Listening to them talking, Liu Meicai didn't talk nonsense. She turned around and walked to the cabinet on the side. He took out four large ingots from it, two ingots per person, placed them in front of them and said: "I never break my promises when doing things. Please put them away." silver!"
When he went to get the money, the two men stared at him with greed in their eyes. At this time, as soon as he saw the two shiny big ingots, he immediately reached out to take them and hid them in his arms without feeling too panicked. Then I heard Liao Guolin say: "Brother Liu, impeachment of Dongchang is a very risky matter. If Dongchang goes crazy, I don't know if we will be bitten by them!"
"Yes, this time is really adventurous!" Yang Zhiqi immediately agreed, "Even now, I'm still a little uneasy."
For the censor, impeaching others is his job. If he acts like a good person all day long, then the censor is incompetent in his job. Under normal circumstances, Dongchang will not have trouble with the censor if he just talks about impeachment. Therefore, the purpose of what they said was actually very obvious. They just wanted to ask for more money.
Liu Meicai understood the idea and was not stingy. He immediately took out two small ingots from his sleeves, placed one ingot for each person in front of them and said: "Thank you for your hard work, but I think Eunuch Cao will be busy recently, so there should be nothing wrong. And Your Majesty, it seems that Eunuch Cao will not act recklessly!"
Hearing this, Liu Zhiqi looked envious and said: "Brother Liu, you have won the jackpot, and you can actually impeach Dongchang. Maybe you will be in trouble later!"
Liao Guolin also congratulated him after hearing this, and sighed: "You see, we work so hard to make money, just to be able to rise. You are good, you are in the eyes of the emperor, I am afraid you can save a lot of money!"
In response, Liu Meicai said sternly: "Impeaching Dongchang and correcting the moral conduct are what we should do. Now that I have the evidence, I naturally have to report it to the emperor. This is not something that the emperor ignores."
Liu Zhiqi and Liao Guolin laughed after hearing this. They didn't care about this.
In today's officialdom, no one knows who is who, and they all sound high-sounding, but in fact they are not male thieves and female prostitutes. Speaking of which, they are all a bunch of hypocrites, they might as well be real villains themselves!
However, they are not brainless people, and they do not reveal anything, they flatter each other, and enjoy the whole banquet. Then the two of them wiped their mouths and said goodbye. Before leaving, they patted their chests and said to Liu Meicai that if anything happens in the future, just take care of them.
As soon as they left, Liu Meicai's housekeeper approached him and reported, "Sir, Shopkeeper Fan has been waiting in the side hall for a long time!"
"What?" Upon hearing this, Liu Meicai hurriedly went to the side hall and said at the same time, "Why did you come to report now?"
"It was Shopkeeper Fan who told me not to report anything, saying that since he had nothing to do anyway, he would not disturb the master's visit." The butler explained and followed closely behind him.
Liu Meicai hurried to the side hall and saw Fan Fu drinking tea. She quickly clasped her fists and bowed: "I kept my benefactor waiting for a long time!"
It was Fan Fu who always came forward to deal with Liu Meicai. For Liu Meicai, money paved the way for him along the way. To be where he is today, Fan Fu is his reborn parent, and he has always been called his benefactor.
When Fan Fu saw it, he quickly put down his tea cup and smiled and said in return: "I told you that I don't want to be my benefactor. Anyway, I don't have anything to do. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!"
After some polite exchanges, the two of them sat down, and they were the only two people left in the side hall.
Fan Fu had been waiting for a long time. He was afraid that his master would be impatient, so he got straight to the point and went straight to the point: "Dongchang is currently investigating the Royal Horse Prison case. There is something unusual about the Jin Yiwei. I wonder what they are doing?"
"I don't know about that. I haven't seen anyone in the past few days." Liu Meicai also replied strangely, "But the official seems to have been replaced."
Fan Fu frowned and asked, "Then, is it possible for this factory guard to find out about Manqing's internal agents?"
"Judging from the current situation, it seems that it was just an excuse. Many colleagues in the court earlier, including the cabinet ministers, said it was just a coincidence, and the emperor did not seem to refute it." Liu Meicai said while thinking about it, "It seems that this should be the case. I won’t mention it again.”
Having said this, he looked at Fan Fu and comforted him: "Don't worry, my benefactor, let alone whether the factory guards will check. Even if they can check, they may not come to knock on the bamboo pole of our Jin Real Estate Industry. If they dare to take this in the future If it is an excuse to make money, I will join forces with other colleagues to impeach Dongchang."
As he spoke, he smiled and told Fan Fu: "Today, the emperor specially summoned me to tell me that the impeachment of Wu Dayong in Dongchang was true. It can be seen that Dongchang cannot be as unscrupulous as during the Tianqi years, so my benefactor can rest assured. yes."
After hearing this, Fan Fu nodded and felt more confident, but still said: "Factory guards often do illegal things. If they are impeached from time to time, they will probably have some scruples in doing things. What do you think?"
"Don't worry, my benefactor, this is the duty of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and you should do your best."
Fan Fu nodded, thought for a moment, and then asked: "I heard that reinforcements have arrived. Is it possible that the Manchu and Qing troops are going to flee? If that's the case, I think it's time to buy in another batch of goods. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so it's time to It’s a good time to make money.”
"I'm not benevolent!" Liu Meicai heard this and quickly dissuaded her, "I'm afraid it's just a rumor about the reinforcements. I haven't heard anything about it in the court."
Fan Fu was not surprised after hearing this. He nodded, and after getting the information he wanted, he put down another five hundred taels of silver and left.
When Emperor Chongzhen got up early the next morning and looked through the wiretapping information, he saw these conversations.
