Chapter 54: Wu Shilian's Despair and Hope

When Wu Shilian heard about the catastrophe in the imperial court, he was overjoyed.

He naturally had to weigh how much Da Ming had lost before he could bargain.

Wu Shilian saw the situation of disaster victims everywhere in Zhejiang, but generally speaking, Zhejiang was not deeply affected, and the really serious places were along the Yangtze River.

It's just what Wu Shilian saw, and he didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

As soon as the disaster happened, Li Xian's handling was very appropriate, exempting most of Jiangnan's money and grain, and letting Cao Nai preside over the disaster relief affairs. Wu Shilian looked at the list at the entrance of the yamen, and he could see it clearly, but how the imperial court reduced money and grain, and where to receive disaster relief food, etc.

What surprised Wu Shilian even more was that there was a Ming Pao on the list. I wrote out all kinds of Jingshi a month ago.

The biggest thing now is the disaster situation and disaster relief in various provinces, and there have been various discussions with disaster relief, and some people have even suggested that Su be admitted to the national prison again.

Naturally, there are people who oppose it unequivocally.

Wu Shilian has never seen it, it's not that he doesn't know the Di Bao, but he has never seen the Di Bao in this situation.

It is not uncommon for all kinds of postings on the walls on both sides of the yamen to be like newspapers in later generations. When Emperor Taizu was in power, it was specially stipulated.

If there is an edict in the imperial court, it must be made public, and any new decree must be made public before it can be regarded as having legal effect.

He already knew about it.

But the content of Ming Pao has just been known.

He immediately collected Ming Pao from all walks of life.

Although Ming Pao is not fixed today, it is published at least once every five days, and there have been many issues since last year. After Wu Shilian watched it overnight, he felt that his heart was half cold.

Secretly said: "The Northern Dynasty is honest and cannot compete. ”

From the middle of last year to the present, there are several hot issues, the first of which is the repair of the Daming Huidian, which won the initiative for Zhu Qizhen to change the law. The second is Xu Youzhen to clean up the backlog.

Xu Youzhen was on top of the position because of an article in Ming Pao, and he quickly understood the usage of Ming Pao, so he packaged his cleanup activities in the Criminal Department and put them all on Ming Pao.

This is also the reason why Ming Pao is a new thing, and many people don't know how to use it.

Of course, Xu Youzhen didn't do nothing, and the cleanup of the backlog of cases itself and Xu Youzhen's clean-up of the Criminal Department's control of power are mutually exclusive.

Just think about it, after Xu Youzhen has unjustly sunk the previous unjust case, how can the court not be held accountable, who handled this case and who is involved?

If yes, etc.

There are no unjust ghosts at that temple gate? Under Zhu Qizhen's behavior of cleaning up officialdom again and again, the atmosphere of Daming officialdom is still okay on the whole.

But specifically, there is no guarantee that there will be no unjust cases.

In the prison of the Criminal Department, there are naturally countless people who cry out for injustice. If you look closely, how can you not gain anything?

And what is Xu Youzhen's character, let's not talk about it for the time being, he is definitely a capable person. Under the cocoon, many cases have been reversed.

For a time, the officials who implicated the criminal department and even the localities in the case also dismounted.

The various hills of the Criminal Department naturally know what to do, and while Xu Youzhen is completely in control of the Criminal Department, he also issued more than a dozen counter-case records of unjust cases in a row, and suddenly everyone in the world regards Xu Youzhen as a contemporary Bao Qingtian.

There are even many people who feel that the people who have been wronged stop Xu Youzhen's carriage and cry out for grievances.

However, Xu Youzhen's most important thing was to propose to the imperial court to abolish the officials of the Criminal Department and establish a special criminal name school for investigating cases.

The main reason is that he can see that in fact, most of the officials in the Criminal Department are good. Under the atmosphere of officialdom, few people take the initiative to handle unjust cases.

Some of them are incapable and can't see the tricks below.

There are many more who have been deceived by the officials.

And Xu Youzhen can see that Zhu Qizhen seems to intend to replace the Xu officials with students from various schools, after all, all kinds of Xu officials in Shuntian Mansion have been serving as children who have not studied and have been serving for many years.

For so many years, Shuntianfu has gathered more people because of the industrial expansion of Shaofu and the political role of Jingshi, but Shuntianfu is still the richest government in the world, and every year in addition to Tianfu, there are about 100,000 taels of silver.

It is precisely with these 100,000 taels that Shuntianfu can do many things with its ability, such as repairing roads in the city, such as cleaning sewers, building canals outside the city, and subsidizing some water conservancy projects in Shuntianfu.

It is not that the prosperity of Shuntianfu is really comparable to Nanjing and Suzhou, but that Zhu Qizhen established this system through Yu Qian at the beginning, which already has his vitality.

Of course, the same problem is that the Shuncheon Mansion is also the government that supports the most officials, and in the establishment of the Shuncheon Mansion, there are more than 2,000 officials.

There are many people who can't understand whether this model is good or bad.

It looks very good, but not every place is Shuntianfu, and the salary of the officials alone is as much as 10,000 taels per year.

It's just that Xu Youzhen knows that he is already a person on the emperor's ship, so he naturally wants to vote for the emperor.

After Xu Youzhen, most of the courtiers knew what to do with Ming Pao, and at that time the content of Ming Pao was extremely chaotic, but at the end of last year, it focused on the Battle of Annam.

Among them, there are many articles about Annan's crimes, and I don't know how many articles are about crusading against Annan.

After Xu Youzhen, many petty officials learned to figure out the emperor's meaning, after all, the emperor's hostility towards Annan was known to outsiders at a very young age.

Naturally, they know what to say.

But soon, at the beginning of the year, the topic of Annan was drowned out by the topic of disaster relief. Until now.

After Wu Shilian finished reading it, he felt a sense of frustration.

If ordinary people may see the gap, but Ngo Shilian was a leader of Annam Shilin, a first-class university scholar, and a historian who was highly respected by later generations of Vietnamese.

I still have the ability to see the subtle things.

There were all kinds of arguments in the Ming Pao, but there was no reaction from the emperor, and it can be seen that this majesty today is generous and good at accepting advice.

Moreover, Xu Youzhen cleaned up the backlog of cases in the Criminal Department, although Wu Shilian tasted some other flavors, but it was even more obvious that this was a manifestation of the political clarity of the Ming Dynasty.

In the case of Annan, are there still fewer things committed by the children of the great nobles? How come I haven't seen anyone overturn the case, and even these cases involve a lot of people with background, Xu Youzhen is still brought to justice.

And what made Wu Shilian even more desperate was disaster relief.

Wu Shilian originally thought that a large-scale natural disaster would make Daming anxious, so he relaxed the handling of Annan. Let Annan's intention to pray for peace be fulfilled.

But seeing the disaster relief of the Ming court, the money and grain that were exempted and the disaster relief money issued.

This number is a figure that the Annan Imperial Court could not even imagine, at least more than 10 million stones.

Although the Red River Delta in Annam is a grain producing area, there is not too much grain in the hands of the Annam court. One such thing happened in history during the reign of Li Shengzong.

The Ming Dynasty had six grain ships in Guangdong, but they encountered a storm and deviated from the course, ran to Annam, and then were caught by the Annamite people.

The court of Annam consulted and discussed, and Li Shengzong finally decided to detain the six ships and turned the boatmen on the six boats into Tunting of Annam.

There are a lot of places to deal with in this way, but the history books specifically explain where the grain of these six ships went. It also solved the problem of military rations in the Later Li Dynasty at that time.

Not to mention how much grain can be carried by six ships, it is generally estimated that it is only more than 10,000 stones.

For Daming, it is a drop in the bucket, but in Annan it is a wealth that cannot be given up.

The comparison of financial and material resources between the two countries can be seen.

Wu Shilian was in the Annan court, although he did not have any real power, but he was also a high-ranking official, and he knew the inside story of Annan very well, so when he saw the amount of food used in the Ming disaster relief, the first feeling was impossible, and the second feeling was despair.

He beat his spirit and said secretly: "Even if the Northern Dynasty has such national strength, this flood will consume a lot, I want to rush to Jingshi as soon as possible, and reach an agreement with Daming first while the disaster has not passed." ”

As for Da Ming's inability to perfectly alleviate this great flood, it was something that Wu Shilian had never thought of.

It is strange that such a large amount of food is spent enough to fight a war to destroy the country, if the disaster cannot be stabilized.