Chapter 438: Pleading
Because the incident happened in the palace of Emperor Sun and Concubine Sun, and the ingredients contained in the ice fruit of Concubine Liang were all told one by one, she, as the imperial concubine in charge of the Sixth Palace, did not investigate, so she took the crime alone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But Concubine Liang and Concubine Li were involved after all, that is, to let the imperial concubine Niangniang be responsible alone, and she really didn't want to go. So that night, Concubine Liang and Concubine Li also unloaded their hairpins and wore plain clothes. knelt outside the Jinluan Hall and pleaded guilty.
This matter is unintentional, but it is bad in the word 'skill'. It is impossible not to deal with it, not to mention how Lan Guifei is, even Lan Guifei's foreign Zhenguo General's Mansion will not do it.
Who in the court doesn't know that General Zhuo is shameless?
But the punishment can't be too heavy, after all, it's an unintentional mistake. And these three concubines also have foreign families, especially Sun Guifei, whose father is the first assistant of the cabinet of the dynasty.
When Emperor Ming Xian learned of this, he was furious. So he lowered the two ranks of Emperor Sun and his concubine, and he was a virtuous concubine. He was fined for one year and grounded for one month. Concubine Liang and Concubine Li were demoted to one level, and Concubine Liang won the number and was no longer one of the four concubines of 'virtuous, good, lady, and virtuous'. Concubine Li was demoted to Concubine Li. Each was fined half a year and grounded for one month.
This is how the matter was finalized.
Such a punishment is not heavy, it is a big crime committed by the concubines in the palace, and it is just a degrade. With such a big punishment, the Zhuo family can't say anything.
In this way, the entire palace is the largest by Concubine Lan. The matter of the six palaces was transferred from Sun Guifei to Lan Guifei, handed over to the phoenix seal, and presented in a golden book. Although she is not the queen, now Concubine Lan's status in the palace is the same as that of the queen.
From this point of view, although there is no imperial heir, Concubine Lan seems to be the biggest winner after the gunsmoke. secretly said that there was no one in the harem who made her unhappy, but suddenly overnight, Concubine Lan seemed to have changed as if she had changed. is no longer as wise and virtuous as in the past, and no longer smiles when he sees people like he did in the past.
looked cold all day long, and after a miscarriage, he was sick and no longer slept. Emperor Ming Xian spoiled her to the sky, and said that if he didn't go to bed, he really wouldn't turn over her brand. But for three days, the two ends would always go to Concubine Lan's palace to talk to her.
The soldiers who were fighting outside were still in the territory of Xiqi, and after Concubine Lan had a miscarriage in the palace, the court of the Southern Shang Dynasty was calm for a long time.
But seeing that time flows like an arrow, the days of a few months pass by like a white horse, and they pass in a blink of an eye. The summer heat gradually dissipated, and after the lotus flowers in Yingtang bloomed, the chrysanthemums bloomed again.
At the beginning of October, the tide that had just subsided in the court seemed to be fluctuating little by little.
On the same day, Su Xinyuan, the head of the household, made an excerpt and pointed directly at the first assistant of the cabinet.
Gonggong Xi took the fold handed by Su Xinyuan and presented it to Emperor Ming Xian. Emperor Ming Xian took it and looked at it, his brows became deeper and deeper. The already gloomy eyes were stained with a touch of gloom again.
"Hexi Zhizhou Seinfeld is an unkind official, exploits civilians, and bends the law for bribes. Hexi officialdom is corrupt, and the source of corruption is him. Since Seinfeld became the governor of Hexi, he began to buy and sell officials. Beginning six years ago, Seinfeld privately increased taxes in Hexi. It made the names of the people in Hexi boring. Su Xinyuan stood in the main hall, holding the wat card in both hands, looking at the board and looking at it, and said extremely indignantly.
Although embezzlement, exploitation, and perversion of the law are serious crimes, they will not lose their heads if they do not have a huge impact. It's different to increase taxes privately, and this is the bottom line that no dynasty or generation can touch. Don't say how important it is, once it is involved, it is not a matter of losing your head, but a connection.
complicity.
At this time, no one in the entire hall spoke, everyone held their breath and stared, and they didn't dare to say a word more, lest they would involve themselves.
Emperor Ming Xian put down the fold in his hand, it looked like it was the same as usual, not much, and looked at Su Xinyuan: "Su Qing's family said what taxes he had increased." ”
Su Xinyuan hung his head slightly, and replied in a kind manner: "If you go back to the emperor, the household tax will be three more stones per hectare, the Ding tax will be doubled, and the customs duties and city taxes will increase by seventy yuan and one hundred and sixty yuan respectively. ”
Su Xinyuan said slowly, but the courtiers standing in the main hall were really shocked when they listened. It's acceptable to charge an extra bucket or two or three buckets of rice. Gather armpits into furs, gather sand into towers. This little amount of money is huge in the whole Hexi combined.
The increase in this amount of money can be convicted of a felony. That's a lot of hundreds of dollars! The household tax is even more, one more than three stones! The land tax and the commercial tax are really amazing.
With so much money, I am not afraid of losing my life.
Emperor Ming Xian leaned on the dragon chair and listened to Su Xinyuan's words, and after a while, he spoke leisurely: "I have more courage than me, and I have more money than me." Then this emperor should let Seinfeld do it. Right, ladies and gentlemen?" said Emperor Ming Xian, his gaze swept across the hall.
"The ministers are panicking!" all the ministers in the hall were shocked, hurriedly lifted their robes and knelt down, and threw their bodies to the ground.
"Panic?" Emperor Ming Xian said and sneered: "But a small Zhizhou dares to be so rampant, and he actually gives taxes privately." I don't know if the official positions are even more serious, do you have general thoughts?"
The kneeling ministers all bowed their heads and replied: "The ministers never dare to !!"
It's late autumn, and the sky is getting colder, and all the adults are wearing slightly thicker official uniforms, but now their backs are wet with cold sweat.
Emperor Ming Xian's gaze swept over everyone, and finally landed on Su Xinyuan, and said in a deep voice: "The national tax is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, why can he be greedy for so many years without being discovered?"
"The emperor has been wronged!" Su Xin's already kneeling body pressed closer to the ground, and said sadly in a hoarse voice: "Although the household department has jurisdiction over national taxes, it can only manage the central tax collection. Prefecture-level areas have household directors in prefecture-level areas. But the official who transferred the general tax in Hexi is not from our household department!"
"The household official in charge of taxes is not from the household department?" Emperor Ming Xian looked at Su Xinyuan gloomily and asked slowly.
"Back to the emperor, many years ago, there was an accident with the head of the Hexi General Tax Department, and when he was transferred in the capital, it happened that the household department was extremely short of people, so he transferred an official from the Ministry of Rites who had been in charge of the household department to Hexi to the top value!"
Emperor Ming Xian looked at Su Xinyuan, raised his eyebrows in a deep voice, and said, "So this person is from the Ministry of Rites?"
"Yes......"
Su Xinyuan's word 'ah' hadn't been said yet, and Shen Boshi, who was lying on his stomach in the queue, moved his knees to the side, rushed out and said loudly: "Emperor Mingjian, back then, Weichen was not a scholar of the Ministry of Rites!"
This sentence almost didn't make Jiang Guozi, who was kneeling in front of him, laugh.
This Shen Boshi is the most dead spirit on weekdays, and he has to calculate everything. I didn't want to change it this time, but I was a little surprised. But this time it is indeed the same, not to mention what the emperor's attitude is, it is such a thing, whoever is involved will have his limbs cut off if he does not die.