Chapter Eighty-Nine: Lu Yong's Struggle

Although it is often said that everyone is equal before the law, many things are not legal issues, but political issues.

The law does not blame the public, and it is the same in ancient and modern times.

If it were really okay to enforce the law impartially. Why did Kou Shen want to see Lu Yong.

After all, such a thing exists in a large area throughout the Jiangnan region.

Could it be that Kou Shen ploughed the local gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if Kou Shen dared to do it, the Jiangnan local government would not be able to bear such a large workload.

Not to mention anything else, tens of thousands of people are arrested, and even prisons are not enough.

Once a lot of things escalate to the political level, it's time to play the art of compromise.

But now Lu Yong's appearance seems to be inadequate. That's a bit tricky.

Kou Shen didn't have to find out. It's impossible. Even some errors in technical calculations cannot be avoided.

But at least let the authenticity of the yellow book on the Jiangnan side be referenced by the central government.

Otherwise, what is the difference from the previous yellow book, just a pile of waste paper.

In this case, Kou Shenke will not be able to communicate in front of the emperor. Kou Shen would never want to see such a situation.

Lu Yong also understood. But he rode the tiger and said: "Old and old, I can't understand what Brother Kou is saying." ”

Kou Shen said, "Okay. Then he waved his hand, called a person up, put a stack of documents in his hand on the table, and said: "Then let's talk about the Lu family, the Lu family has encroached on more than 300 acres of land in total." What should I say about this one? ”

Lu Yong is at home, but he doesn't really care too much about things.

Naturally, he has his own sons and grandsons to take care of it, but the number of acres of land in the family is still known, and there are naturally more than 300 acres of hidden fields.

In fact, this number of hidden fields is not much.

It can even be considered less.

If Lu Yong was willing to bow his head to Kou Shen, Kou Shen would not take it out to talk about this matter. But with Lu Yong's attitude, Kou Shen could only use other methods.

Lu Yong still has some confidence in his heart.

After all, he is also an official of the Ming Dynasty.

Although there are some pitfalls in the retirement system of the Ming Dynasty, after retirement, there will be no money, and only after receiving a special grace will there be a retired salary, which is probably half a salary.

And Lu Yong is obviously not among the emperors who particularly appreciate this kind of emperor.

But the political status of the official will be retained, which is why Lu Yong dared to speak so in front of Kou Shen.

He didn't think Kou Shen would dare to do anything to himself?

Lu Yong said: "This is the ignorance of juniors, I will teach a good lesson after I go back." This acre will also be reported. ”

Kou Shen sighed and said, "When I was in the Criminal Department, what should I do when I encounter a big case involving a large number of people and a lot of involvement?" ”

Kou Shen seemed to be asking Lu Yong, and as if he was asking himself, he continued: "Naturally, I grabbed the big and let go of the small. Is it that the children are not sensible, but they have to check to find out. ”

Lu Yong was stunned for a moment, and his heart felt a slight chill, but he also expected this result. said: "No need to check, I am the head of the Lu family, and I handle everything in the family, and the credit is also mine, and it is also me." ”

Kou Shen said: "Then it's offended, please Brother Lu linger here for a few days, and the documents that want to come to Beijing will arrive soon." ”

Lu Yong was silent for a while and said, "Okay." ”

Even if Lu Yong is an official of Zhishi, if Kou Shen wants to dispose of Lu Yong, he can't do it easily, and he needs to report it above.

At this point, the contradiction has already been handed in.

After Kou Shen detained Lu Yong in his own courtyard, he was not idle, and raided the Lu family on a large scale.

How so?

Any big family can find fault with it if you look at it with a magnifying glass. The Lu family was no exception, and soon some things were turned out one by one.

The Lu family's poetry and books are heirlooms, but there is no crime of killing the head, but there are many scattered crimes.

Encroachment on land, withholding of taxes, etc. What's more important is that Lu Yongnai is an official, knowing the law and breaking the law, the crime is added to the first degree.

The Lu family is a first-class wealthy family in Jiangnan.

Today's actions shocked the Jiangnan gentry, and Qingzhang's affairs were suddenly deadlocked.

Everyone is dragging to see what happens to the Lu family.

Only after seeing what happened to the Lu family did the rest of the people know what to do?

Now the key to this matter is Beijing.

Zhu Qizhen also felt a headache about this matter.

He had two dissatisfactions.

The first dissatisfaction is that he is dissatisfied with Kou Shen, an old minister.

The reason why he used this old minister was to do this thing smoothly, and Zhu Qizhen himself had no intention of raising a big case in Jiangnan.

The second dissatisfaction was that he felt strong resistance.

This resistance did not come from Jiangnan, but from the DPRK and China.

Most of the southern officials were still silent in the Qingzhang land before, but now they have written one by one, believing that the Qingzhang land is a government of inspection, which is very bad for people's hearts.

The ruling of the imperial court should be to educate the people. Instead of calculating, the people denounced each other, and the local people were very bad.

Admittedly, the following is the question. It's happening.

In ancient times, the government has always taken non-litigation as the standard of governance.

However, the issue of land is too important, and many things can be ambiguous, but the land issue can never be ambiguous.

Qingzhang land is also the land on the yellow book, and it will be the tax standard in the future.

This means that many disputed lands must have a conclusion within a period of time.

It doesn't matter if you are a permanent tenant or a split family, whether you have a mortgage loan, or something else, in short, there is only one name on the Yellow Book.

These problems are difficult to solve in the township.

So, they all went to the prefecture and county.

In the past two years, there have been a lot of local cases, and if you look at them carefully, they are all cases from the time of Qingzhang.

The reason why Xu Youzhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was able to collect many of the problems of Qingzhang was also related to these local cases on land issues.

And many times, the people have the simple malice that I am not good and others are not good, and there are really many other hidden fields who denounce them.

This again leads to a lot of contradictions.

Kill for this, not for nothing.

Therefore, it is not for nothing that there is a big bad heart from here.

Qingzhang is like a big stone, breaking the illusion of local idyll.

It's just that if you say this, you can't hide it from Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen didn't believe it at all.

Local contradictions have always existed, but they are just below the surface of the water, and now they are just smashed out by the matter of Qingzhang.

If the problem is not solved, it will only get bigger.

Of course, some of Qingzhang's side effects, Zhu Qizhen can also see them.

But on the whole, no matter how Zhu Qizhen looks at it, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Now Zhu Qizhen can also feel it, in fact, if Zhu Qizhen is in the center, or near Beijing to make some reforms and innovations, it is not too difficult.

It's also manageable.

However, once the Quartet is implemented and the interests of many people are affected, there will be widespread opposition.

It's as if he did something at the top, and the opposition was really limited to the cabinet. Of course, this is also a tacit understanding between Zhu Qizhen and Li Xian.

Many people don't know Zhu Qizhen's intentions.

"There is no turning back from the bow." Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Since I have reached this point, it is impossible for me to retreat." ”

Whether he is satisfied or not.

If we make concessions on this matter, the effect of Qingzhang will be greatly reduced, and even when other reforms are carried out in the future, it will not have any effect.

It even endangered Zhu Qizhen's prestige.

Therefore, whether Lu Yong is wronged or not, he must be severely punished.

Without further ado, Zhu Qizhen immediately convened a cabinet meeting.

For a time, all seven members of the cabinet had arrived.

Zhu Qizhen circulated this letter to everyone and said, "What do you think you should do about this matter? ”

There was silence in the Wenhua Hall for a while. A person came out and said: "Your Majesty, Jiangnan is a land of money and grain, and the imperial court is now using money, and everything related to Jiangnan is prudent, not only the household department, but even the Shaofu also has a lot of industries in Suzhou." It is necessary to be cautious when it comes to moving the whole body. Once something happens, the government and the opposition will be affected. ”

Zhu Qi calmed down and saw that the first person to come out to speak was none other than Liu Dingzhi.