But since his son Zhu Di ascended the throne, in order to return to the Beiping base, he found an excuse to guard the country's borders and moved the capital to Beijing.

He was so happy about this move, but the officials were in trouble because the rice as a salary suddenly disappeared. Zhu Yongle's mind turned around and came up with many bad ideas.

"Spring and summer break the bill, autumn and winter break the mountain and pepper."

He actually paid spices such as Sumu and pepper to officials as salary! Sumu pepper was naturally tributed by Western countries and could barely be regarded as tribute at first, but later the eunuch of Sanbao went to the West and brought a lot of them back.

These things were left there and could not be eaten or sold. The officials looked at each other in their hands, and they couldn't afford to eat. They were talking nonsense.

As for converting silver into the Ming Dynasty’s treasure banknotes, it was even more of a loss of life, because as the issuance of paper money increased, it depreciated a lot in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Hongzhi period, Yiguan (one thousand coins) treasure banknotes were "only three cents of direct silver and two cents of money"; by the Wanli period, even hundreds of treasure banknotes were "not worth dozens of cents".

Therefore, although officials still get so much salary in name, they can spend less and less. They have to listen to the emperor's bullshit scriptures of loyalty and righteousness for the country and the people all day long, which is something that even individuals can't stand.

Li Xian, the chief minister of the cabinet during the Tianshun period, once said that after receiving his salary, "the daily income will be only ten days", and a monthly salary is only enough for ten days.

Therefore, if you want to be an honest official in the Ming Dynasty, you will definitely live a very hard life.

As for Kuang Yuanle, in terms of grade, he has been a fifth-rank official. He has been a mayor-level figure since now, but in a year, he can really get a salary of twelve dans of rice and thirty-seven taels of silver.

Although he was honest as an official, he also had a wife and two concubines, including his son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, and a family of seven or eight. If he really lived on this little thing, he would only drink porridge for three meals a day.

Therefore, even if he, Kuang Yuanle, a civil official who everyone praised, had to accept filial piety money from students to barely maintain the life of the official family. He dared not mention the word "rewarding the gift".

At this moment, I suddenly saw Li Tiedan's behavior. The empty head was filled with admiration and the words were burning and hot. I still had some thoughts to treat Li Tiedan as a corrupt official?

But Master Chai was still unhappy at this moment, so he coughed and read out the gift he gave: "Bian Sanli Old Zhonggua, I gave a cart of cucumbers. The lord has received it, and I will give you two taels of silver."

After hearing this, Kuang Yuanle laughed dryly, stood up and replied, "Sir, the old man picked this car of cucumbers in a homeless land. It is worth at most one or two silver dollars. In this way, the old man has made a profit."

His words were originally a joke to avoid embarrassing, but when Li Tiedan heard this, he turned his mind and focused on the uninhabited land. Thinking of the fact that Bian Sanli and the ten rooms were empty and the fields were deserted, his heart couldn't help but feel nervous and he was stunned for a while.

"Old Zhong, then the extra one or two taels of silver is just taken as your advice just now, and I woke up my official’s reward. Don’t worry, when I wake up my official in the future, I will not let those fertile land become a homeless land."

When Kuang Yuanle heard this, he realized that the young man in his twenties was always in his twenties. He admired him even more. He regarded Li Tiedan as a kind of person and couldn't help but become serious and said seriously.

"Mr. Li, are you afraid you have always been sober? But the old man was confused and misread Lord Li. I respected him for being disrespectful just now, so I respected him with a glass."

Li Tiedan didn't care much about his changes, but just picked up the cup habitually and drank it all. Fang ordered Master Chai to continue. Master Chai snorted coldly, avoided Huang Tianci, and continued to read.

For a moment, the gentry was convinced. Seeing that the gift was more than the gifts they gave, they were both happy and ashamed, and they wanted to find a crack in the ground to turn into a flower to show their respect for Li Tiedan.

But Huang Tianci was feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles for a while, and his eyelids were even more jumping as if they were about to fall off. Looking at Li Tiedan's black eyes, he looked over from time to time, and suddenly felt a chill coming from behind, and he couldn't help but tremble.

It was not until Master Chai suddenly stopped and looked over his old but unfilthy eyes that he hurriedly sat upright, and only heard Master Chai read: "Huang Tianci, Yu Guanyin, sir, this-."

"I won't accept it!" Li Tiedan replied with great certainty.

Huang Tianci's eyelids hopped up with his heart, and his whole body suddenly softened. He had confirmed that today's banquet was not set for Li Tiedan's old father, but for him, the "Great Good Man".

However, this Hongmen Banquet was much more clever than that of Chu Bawang. Even if he, a smart man who claimed to be cautious than Sima Yi, did not notice it at all from beginning to end.

It was a cicada at this time, but it was too late. Not only was there no such powerful general as Fan Kuai who was loyal to protecting the master, but there was not even a cat or a dog. But Huang Tianci was not someone else after all, so it would be absolutely impossible for him to surrender.

At this desperate situation, he felt a sense of heroism, and suddenly stood up, bowed and asked, "Sir, this jade Guanyin is something that has been worshipped by the lowly people for many years. It is quite spiritual. Why don't you accept it?"

"It's because Zhonggua, a troublemaker, gave me a few broken cucumbers, but you're over it. Could it be that the adults look down on the villain, or do they intend to take Bo's face in front of everyone?" Even the claim changed suddenly.

All Li Tiedan did was to wait for the several banned soldiers in the inner house to use wine to support eight guards who came with Huang Tianci; and to wait for Du Chuan to return with evidence.

At this time, Chen Qi was seen walking in the yard like a flowery cat, shaking around in front of him, and knew that the eight guards had been uniformed by the banned soldiers and were imprisoned.

It was also confirmed that Huang Tianci, the bastard, was already in trouble today, but he was not anxious. He smiled and didn't want to pay attention to Huang Tianci at all, but just said to everyone.

"Everyone, having vegetables but not wine is a great regret in life. Raising a glass without saying anything is a great embarrassing thing in life. Here in this county, let me tell you a story and talk about wine. What do you think?"

At this moment, everyone could say that they first went to the snow mountain and then the grassland. Finally, they realized that they had arrived at the warm home and had become Li Tiedan's loyal fans. There was a reason to refuse, so they hurriedly replied: "Sir, please speak."

Li Tiedan took a leisurely sip of wine and said, "This is after the death of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. When he spoke, Concubine Liu and Concubine Li were both pregnant. It is obvious that whoever gave birth to a son would be the main palace."

"Concubine Liu was jealous for a long time, fearing that Concubine Li would be made queen after giving birth to a son, so she made a plan with Guo Huai, the chief manager of the palace. With the cooperation of midwife You, taking advantage of the opportunity of Concubine Li's blood and dizziness during childbirth, she peeled off the fur of a raccoon cat, and replaced the newly born prince with bloody and oily... Because Bao Zheng made great contributions in this case, he was appointed as prime minister by Renzong."
Chapter completed!