Li Ruzhen was not arrested because he was corrupt.
In fact, the Li family's business was not small, and Li Ruzhen did not lack money at all.
He had only received a few gifts from the Golden Phoenix Country. It was purely a matter of human relations.
Their value did not exceed ten thousand taels.
The reason why he was arrested was because of his attitude, or rather, it was more appropriate to describe him as taking sides.
As one of the prominent families in Liaodong, there was only one outcome if one did not stand on Zhu Heng's side.
This lady of the Li family, who was as heroic as a man, came to their door and expressed their attitude.
In the future, they would follow his lead and choose to surrender to him.
Since that was the case, why would Zhu Heng still hold on to it?
Moreover, he had taken a fancy to this young lady of the Li family.
Of course, this wasn't in that aspect.
Even though this young lady of the Li family was very good-looking and would definitely be a goddess in the future.
However, Zhu Heng, who had received a modern education, could not do it by force.
He was interested in Li w.a.n. gshu's talent and ability.
She actually dared to come to find him alone as a weak woman.
This showed that she was bold enough and very decisive.
Moreover, she could become one of the people in charge of the Li family in this era and control the family's business.
It also meant that she was very capable in this area.
Zhu Heng was very interested in any talent.
He just happened to be lacking an assistant who could help him control the business.
This Li Wangshu was very suitable.
This way, he could also pull the Li family into his chariot.
He built this business empire into a community of interests.
When there was a common interest, they would accompany him to do the business of beheading-rebellion.
The Li family and the Zu family, the two big families in Liaodong, were the targets he was currently trying to rope in.
Soon, the aftermath of Zhu Heng's actions in Liaodong to rectify the officialdom spread to the capital.
Several ministers of the six departments and the cabinet scholars all went to find Emperor Chongzhen.
They definitely didn't come to help Zhu Heng.
They all accused Zhu Heng of using his power, disrupting Liaodong, breaking the rules, disrespecting his superiors, and so on.
Then, a large number of memorials were presented to Chongzhen.
This gave Chongzhen a headache.
This newly appointed Liaodong Military Governor clearly didn't let him worry.
However, he also knew Zhu Heng's motive for doing so.
He also agreed with Zhu Heng's method, but it was a little inappropriate.
Moreover, he did not expect the corruption in Liaodong to have reached such a level.
No wonder they were still urging for the full amount of food and salary every year. It turned out that they had all fallen into the pockets of these vermin.
This made Chongzhen furious.
"In the end, you're still young and impetuous."
Chong Zhen could not help but sigh.
Zhu Heng had suddenly risen from a hundred households to the position of Liaodong Military Governor, and he even used the military's straightforward methods in the officialdom. He indeed seemed very immature.
However, this also made Chongzhen feel more at ease.
Such a person was much easier to control than the old fox.
Faced with the impeachment of the censors, the six ministers, and the cabinet ministers, Chongzhen chose to ignore them.
After being forced into a corner, Chongzhen had no choice but to take the blame.
"This is Zhen's verbal order to him, giving him full authority to deal with the corruption case in Liaodong.”
However, even so, it could not shut these officials up.
It was obvious that Emperor Chongzhen could not deal with these officials who claimed to be clean and honest but were actually traitors of the country.
Soon, Zhu Heng gave Chongzhen a sum of money worth one million, and it was directly sent to Chongzhen's internal treasury.
With this sum of money, Chong Zhen naturally chose to stand on Zhu Heng's side and help him block the wind and rain.
After Zhu Heng had completed his control over Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen would basically be useless.
Zhu Heng had his own considerations as to why he was willing to hand over this huge sum of money worth millions instead of keeping it for himself.
Firstly, he had confiscated so much money and raided so many people's homes.
According to the usual practice, most of it had to be handed over.
Secondly, he already had two projects that could make a lot of money.
This was what he had obtained from signing in these past few days.
The two rewards were modern glass technology and salt refining technology.
Glass and table salt were definitely two profitable industries in this dynasty.
There was no need to mention salt.
Those tycoons in Jiangnan made their fortune by selling illegal salt.
Although glass was not particularly rare in this era, it was not much different.
The value was still very high.
With these two skills, Zhu Heng could make money very quickly.
Other than that, there was food.
These few days of continuous check-ins had caused the total amount of grain in his granary to reach one million tons.
This one million tons was converted to a total of two billion catties, a total of thirteen million stones.
It was now the second year of Chongzhen, which was 1629. The grain price in the Suzhou area was about one tael of silver per stone.
This one million tons was worth more than ten million taels.
Moreover, that was calculated according to the price of grain in the Suzhou government.
If it was sold to the northwest or to places with poor harvests, it could be sold for at least 20 million taels.
This was not a small sum.
Therefore, Zhu Heng immediately decided to sell five million stones.
Food, refined salt, and glass would become the best means for him to gather wealth in the early stages of his business empire.
Everything was ready except for the east wind. Now, they were just waiting for the eldest daughter of the Li family to take office.
After all, Zhu Heng had no connections in the pass.
If he did business through the Li family's channels, the initial stage would be much smoother.
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