Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, the civil and military officials all showed a look of indifference. If the Emperor knew that the Northern Garrison Commissioner of the Brocade Guard he praised actually had a large amount of gold and silver treasures hidden at home and was a true corrupt official.
His Majesty was probably in despair, right?
In the future, His Majesty would definitely not dare to use the Brocade Guard again.
Everyone knew that the Embroidered Uniform Guards 'yamen was rich. Even a small rank-seven small flag could live comfortably, let alone a rank-four Overseer like Li Changsheng.
Even if Li Changsheng had only been the Imperial Secret Service's Northern Garrison Governor for a month, it was enough for him to fish out a large sum of gold and silver.
"Your Majesty, I'm actually short of money. My parents passed away early, and all I have left is this old mansion.”
"As for Fengxin, this lowly subject has only just received it.”
Li Changsheng smiled bitterly at Zhu Houzhao's words and said calmly,""Fortunately, the Embroidered Uniform Guards can convert all their salary into silver, so this lowly official received ten taels of silver.
This is the most money I have ever had.”
Indeed, during the Ming Dynasty, officials 'salaries were notoriously low.
Li Changsheng was a Level Four Guardian of the Brocade Guard's North Guardian Division, but Yue Feng's was only around 20 dan.
One tael of silver could buy two stones of rice on the market.
This was an official of the lower fourth rank. In the entire Ming Dynasty, officials of the lower fourth rank were considered to be quasi-high officials.
One could imagine how low the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were.
This was also one of the reasons why there were so many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty.
This pot belonged to Old Zhu.
Normally speaking, the salary of an official would not be converted into cash. Basically, they would give rice, and only 30% of the rice would be given. The remaining 70% would be converted into other things. In spring and summer, it would be converted into cash, and in autumn and winter, it would be converted into sappan wood, pepper, and other things.
It was equivalent to an official's salary being even less.
Only the Embroidered Uniform Guards could convert them all into cash.
"Li Qing is truly a clean official in the Ming Dynasty!”
Upon hearing Li Changsheng's words, Zhu Houzhao was silent for a moment before he said with a sigh.
Zhu Houzhao knew that the salary of officials was low. Therefore, under normal circumstances, as long as it was not a big greed, he would not care about it at all.
All the officials in the court, who didn't know how to make some extra money?
He did not expect that Li Changsheng would actually receive a salary, and it was even in a place like the Embroidered Uniform Guards 'yamen. A person with real power in the Embroidered Uniform Guards did not receive any benefits. This was already very rare.
Many of the civil and military officials had looks of disdain on their faces. It was obvious that they felt that Li Changsheng's act was too much.
"Your Majesty, sirs, please come in.”
Li Changsheng smiled and extended his hand to invite Zhu Houzhao and the others.
Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and walked in.
The civil and military officials followed closely behind and walked in together. They had long wanted to go in and see where Li Changsheng had hidden the gold and silver treasures.
Even so, there were still a large number of civil and military officials standing at the entrance of the Li family's old mansion. Only the high-ranking officials of the Great Ming Dynasty who were Rank-3 and above entered Li Changsheng's courtyard. His courtyard was too small to accommodate so many civil and military officials.
There was no place to stand, let alone sit.
Those of slightly lower grades were not even qualified to stand at Li Changsheng's door and watch. They had long been lined up far away.
After Li Changsheng brought Zhu Houzhao and the others in, he came to Zhu Houzhao with a small stool and said respectfully,""Your Majesty, I don't have any extra chairs in my house. I only have this small stool.”
"No offense, no offense."
Upon hearing Li Changsheng's words, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and sat down on the small stool.
Xie Qian and the others 'faces darkened. However, after sizing them up, they really did not find any other chairs.
"I'm afraid I can only neglect you, sirs. In my house, there's really only a small stool.”
Li Changsheng said to Xie Qian and the others.
Seeing that Xie Qian and the others were all wearing red robes, they knew that these people were definitely important officials of the court.
"Governor Li, can we take a look at your house?”
Xie Qian asked Li Changsheng.
He had long wanted to take a good look at the Li family and search for it. Where could there be gold and silver treasures hidden?
All the officials looked at Li Changsheng. They had been waiting for this moment.
"Why not? Sirs, just look around.”
Li Changsheng nodded and said.
Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed coldly. He naturally knew what Xie Qian meant. Xie Qian was still unwilling to give up and wanted to find some gold and silver treasures from Li Changsheng's house.
Hearing this, Xie Qian and the others had already entered the living room first. After taking a look, they went in room by room and even crawled under the bed to search.
Seeing this, Li Changsheng could already guess what these people were thinking. His expression turned strange.
There was no other reason. He saw Xie Qian enter his latrine.
"Governor Li, what is this?"
Xie Qian entered Li Changsheng's latrine and saw something that looked like a stone block. There was even a lid on it. His heart stirred. He felt that there was a high possibility that something was hidden inside. Perhaps there was a tunnel inside that led to a secret room where gold and silver treasures were hidden.
At the thought of this, he turned to ask Li Changsheng, who was beside Zhu Houzhao, with a smile on his face. He opened the lid with his left hand and reached inside with his right hand.
He felt that something was wrong with his hand. It was sticky and wet. It did not feel like gold and silver at all.
Li Dongyang stood outside the latrine and stuck his head in to see if there were any treasures hidden inside.
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