Chapter 127: Yangzhou Xie's Property Case

The top priority of the imperial court is, of course, drought fighting.

Da Ming didn't know how many courtiers were on the front line of drought fighting.

Zhu Qizhen successively exempted Henan, Shandong, Fengyang, and Lianghuai, with a total of more than one million stone grain taxes. Yang Pu and Wei Ji, the secretary of the ministry, announced the assessment standard for the promotion of the ministry, that is, the performance of drought resistance as the assessment standard.

It's busy in all aspects.

But as far as Zhu Qizhen himself is concerned, he doesn't have to worry much about these things.

Because Zhu Qizhen is very clear about his work, it is more at the decision-making level. Once the political affairs enter the implementation level, he intervenes at a higher level, and the effect may not be good.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't do anything at all.

All his thoughts were on the salt law.

Yang Shiqi's last advice, Zhu Qizhen still listened to it a little. At least Zhu Qizhen decided to do the salt law, money law, and galloping road separately.

Regarding the matter of the salt law, Zhu Qizhen kept talking to people, and the people in the cabinet had talked about the salt law either alone or together. After all, if the cabinet does not have a unified opinion, it will be difficult to carry out this matter.

If anyone is resolutely opposed, although Zhu Qizhen does not want the cabinet to be turbulent, he must first adjust the personnel.

However, Zhang Fu naturally did not express his opinion on such a matter, and when Zhu Qizhen and Zhang Fu talked alone, Zhang Fu also said that he would let the people who held salt quotations among the nobles be divided into An'an.

Yang Pu already knew about this matter, so naturally he had no intention of objecting.

Yang Pu does not object, Ma Yu and Chen Xun naturally do not object.

Cao Nai will not object, after all, Cao Nai's value of Hebei water conservancy far exceeds others, which is related to his hometown, and Ningjin is near the mainland.

If the Ningjin Water Conservancy is repaired, not only will the economic conditions of the Cao family itself improve, but Cao Nai's contribution alone will be enough for the Cao family to eat for several lifetimes.

The old folks will remember the good of the Cao family.

Therefore, as long as everything is conducive to water control, Cao Nai supports it, anyway, there are very few salt merchants in Hebei, and the real place where there are salt merchants is Shanxi and Nanzhili Huizhou.

As for Wang Zhi, he actually has a slight complaint, not because of the change of the salt law, but because of the opening of the middle law, he thinks that if the transportation efficiency of the Chi Road is enough, it is not impossible to abolish the open middle law, but things cannot be done, the Chi Road should be repaired first, and then consider abolishing the open middle law.

And not the other way around.

Hu Hu still does not express his opinion.

On the whole, the Cabinet can still reach a consensus.

In addition, Zhu Qizhen also summoned many non-cabinet ministers.

For example, some people who have been in charge of salt administration and are now working in the central government, such as Wang Zuo, the head of the household department, who has presided over Changlu

Yan Zheng, and supervised grain in the northwest, and has personal experience in both the Chinese law and the salt law.

There are also Jinyi guards sent out by all parties to secretly and thoroughly investigate the actual situation of the salt works in various places. There is also a situation about the method of drying salt.

On top of such a big event, Zhu Qizhen must ponder repeatedly and summarize the news from all parties.

In short, when the imperial court had not yet announced that it was going to change the salt law, the wind was already blowing.

Anyone who should know knows this thing.

However, before the salt law, the affairs of the salt farms in various parts of the imperial court also had to be put on the agenda.

Zhu Qizhen also got the salt merchant's property analysis case in his hands.

Linchuan salt merchant Xie Jia Xie Nengbo started from scratch and laid down the Xie family's industry with one hand and one foot. The Xie family is also second to none in Yangzhou.

It is known as Xie million.

This one produces as much as one million taels.

If you just look at this, you probably decide that Xie Nengbo is a business genius. But the material from the Jinyi Guardian is wonderful.

Xie Nengbo is a native of Linchuan.

And where is Linchuan? In Jiangxi, Xie Nengbo's father funded the Ming army, which was still a rebel army at the time, when Taizu was rising. Xie Nengbo's father did not accumulate much money in his life, but he had a valuable connection.

In the last years of Hongwu, Xie Nengbo's father died of illness, and Xie Nengbo, who was still in the weak crown at that time, took over the family business, so he participated in the opening of the middle school, transporting grain from Taicang County in Nanzhili to Datong, Shanxi.

Xie Nengbo took a few companions and fought for thousands of miles, so he could be regarded as saving the first share of his belongings, and later experienced the Jingnan Rebellion, and took the initiative to donate the food transported halfway to the Jingnan army.

Just for this point, Zhu Qizhen saw the change of Xie Nengbo.

You must know that at that time, the Northern Army was short of food, and the military discipline was not very good, although there were hidden pens in various history books, but now it has only been a few decades since the beginning, and many parties are still there.

When the Northern Army was short of food and grass, how could he not give it, and directly robbed it. Instead, he made a donation, which can be regarded as a change of power.

It was this change of power that laid the foundation for the Xie family.

Later, Taizong sat in the world, and the Xie family also had a reputation as a righteous businessman, which made the Xie family's property expand rapidly, and in the more than 20 years of Yongle, the Xie family's property was as much as one million.

When Zhu Qizhen saw this, he pondered, and said secretly in his heart: "This Xie Neng fight plan is related to the nobles in the army, but I don't know who it is?" ”

After Xie Nengbo entered Xuande, he lived in Yangzhou for a long time and was no longer in business. It's just that Xie Nengbo is good at anything, but he is empty under his knees, and he only has two sons, one is called Xie Qi and the other is Xie Zhao.

Xie Qi is the eldest son, Xie Zhao is the second son, but the two sons are not the same mother, Xie Qi's mother died early, but she is the main wife, the wife of the chaff, and although Xie Zhao's mother is a stepfamily, she is the wife that Xie Nengbo married after becoming rich, and the family has a very backstage.

It seems that the Nanjing Criminal Department Shangshu Shili has something to do with it.

So this is a very simple case, and it can be fought all the way to the Beijing Criminal Department.

Xie Qi said that Xie Nengbo had a will, but the eldest son inherited all the family property. said that Xie Zhao is not the son of Xie Nengbo. But Xie Zhao said that Xie Qi killed his father.

Once it comes to filial piety, it's a big bad thing. After all, the imperial court rules the world with filial piety. I don't dare to make a decision in this matter.

Zhu Qizhen also seemed to understand a little.

He summoned Ma Yu, a university scholar, Wei Yuan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Liu Qiu, the imperial history of the left capital. Discuss the case together.

Zhu Qizhen handed over the case file, and before he could ask much, Wei Yuan spoke first and said, "Your Majesty, this case must be Xie Zhao's lie." ”

"Oh." Zhu Qizhen said: "Why is this so? ”

Wei Yuan has been a secretary of the Criminal Department for many years, and he can see the problem at a glance, and said: "It's very simple, if Xie Qizhen killed his father, this kind of big case, it is impossible to report it as a property analysis case, which means that the people below know what is going on, but they dare not make a conclusion." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Wei Qing thought that it was who made the people below dare not make up their minds. ”

Wei Yuan said: "Who else can there be, it is Shi Li." Shi Li has never been confused. It's not once or twice, it's just from Long Laochen, not guilty. Otherwise, the position of the minister should have been his. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Nanjing Criminal Department is still a scholar, but what kind of person is it? ”

Wei Yuan said: "The minister said an old thing, the late Henan prefect Li Ji, with the same name as the minister, when the imperial history, inspected the granary of the capital, and had two people stealing grain, one of them was named Gao Xiang, Li Ji on death, as a result, Gao Xiang's father said that Gao Xiang and Zhang Gui were guilty of the same crime, Gao Xiang died and Zhang Guisheng was Zhang Gui's bribe Li Ji, and Shi Li, who was the squire of the Criminal Department at that time, used the testimony of Gao Xiang's father to cause Li Ji to die. ”

"It's still Emperor Renzong, who is aware of everything, and says that the imperial history is to capture the thief, and Anken accepts bribes. ordered the ministers to review, and Li Ji was really in vain. ”

"The minister is not saying that Shi Li must be confused, but even if Li Ji really accepts bribes, it should be reviewed by the imperial court, and then talk about life and death.

"It's just that Shi Li is a thirty-year jinshi of Hongwu, and he is a native of Shuntianfu, when Taizong raised the army, he was in the army, with deep qualifications, and there was no merit and hard work, so he was assigned to the Nanjing Criminal Department Shangshu and let him retire."

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Shi Li, a criminal department scholar doesn't know if it is enough. He thought so in his heart, but asked Wei Yuan: "How deeply does Wei Qing think Shi Li is involved in it?" ”

Wei Yuan seemed to hear something extraneous, and said: "Your Majesty, although Shi Li is confused, he is also an official of the imperial court, and now he is more than seventy years old, and he is not a director many times, this matter, Shi Li is not deeply involved, otherwise Xie Zhao will not be allowed to climb around." ”