Chapter 46 The Shanxi Case

Dengwen Drum was not only alarmed by Zhu Qizhen. Almost all civil and military officials should know it.

After all, the arrangement of the yamen of the Ming Dynasty is also centered on the palace and spread out.

Zhu Qizhen could hear it, and most of the officials heard it too. Even if you don't know something, someone will pass it on.

The seven members of the cabinet were very close to the Wenhua Palace, and after Zhu Qizhen ordered someone to pass the word, they soon arrived at the Wenhua Palace.

But he saw a man in rags, who looked like a beggar, being brought in.

When this person saw the smooth floor tiles of the Wenhua Palace, he didn't dare to step on it with his feet, but knelt on it.

Zhu Qizhen saw that this person was covered with dust, he could hardly see his true face clearly, and he exuded a peculiar smell all over his body, and he couldn't tell what the smell was, so that Zhu Qizhen smelled it from afar, and he felt sick to his stomach.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen knows that this kind of person is actually the appearance of most low-level people in the Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Qizhen thought of this, he immediately felt that the smell was not so unpleasant.

It is the fault of the rulers to make the people miserable in this way.

Zhu Qizhen took a few steps forward, stretched out his hand to help this person, and asked, "Old man, how old are you?" ”

Zhu Qizhen had just reviewed the folds in the Qianqing Palace, and he was not wearing a formal suit, but wearing a moon-white robe, a pair of boots waiting on his feet, and a dragon-patterned jade pendant around his waist, which could reveal his identity.

It's just that this person obviously doesn't have this ability to discriminate.

"The little Wang Huan is a native of Taiyuan Mansion, today there is a big drought in Taiyuan Mansion, the people have no harvest, the government has no relief, and the villain can't survive, so he was entrusted by his fellow villagers to ask the court to save his life." The man spoke incoherently and answered the question. But when Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately frowned and asked, "Shoufu, what's going on in Shanxi?" Have you ever reported the disaster? ”

Zhu Qizhen had the impression that Shaanxi had reported the disaster. Zhu Qizhen had just waived Shaanxi's money and grain, but Shanxi did not report it.

Hearing this person again, Zhu Qizhen was suddenly furious in his heart.

When Yang Pu heard this, he immediately knelt down and said, "The old minister is guilty. Please punish Your Majesty. ”

Zhu Qizhen ordered the eunuch to go down to settle this person, and advised: "Treat him well, ask about the situation." Only then did he come over, helped Yang Pu up, and said, "Why is this so good, the matter of Shanxi must have nothing to do with Mr." It's just that what's going on in Shanxi? I don't know a little bit about it. ”

"All disaster relief is funded by the imperial court, why does the local government conceal it and not report it?"

This is Zhu Qizhen's doubt.

But since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, no matter how tight the imperial court's finances are, then the military spending of the nine sides will be delayed first, but Zhu Qizhen has never said that he will not approve the disaster relief funds reported below.

There is even only more to give, and no less to give.

Zhu Qizhen also knew about the officials below

It may not be clean, and someone may have embezzled a sum of money in the disaster relief funds. However, while Zhu Qizhen strictly inspected the disaster relief funds, he never checked in advance, but checked after the fact.

In many cases, it may not be clear after the fact.

But Zhu Qizhen felt that the people were the most important, as long as the people received relief, even if there were a few smart moths that escaped the verification of the imperial court, just treat them as smart.

However, Zhu Qizhen assumed that the political envoy of Shanxi was a corrupt official, so why did he not report more about the disaster and more disaster relief funds, and he was corrupt, and chose to conceal the report. Not reported.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't figure out the disadvantages of this for a while.

But Yang Pu has been a veteran for many years, he sighed and said: "In the opinion of the minister, there are three reasons, the first is that the local granary is empty. ”

"The imperial court disaster relief, generally let the local government help themselves, if the local disaster is not serious, after the local relief, the imperial court exempts the local grain tax to be paid to supplement the local deficit."

Zhu Qizhen also understands this, many disasters have transported grain from other places, and the consumption is too large, and it is the grain from the local government warehouse that directly provides disaster relief.

Some of the grain taxes exempted by the imperial court were reduced or exempted for the common people, and some of them were actually written off for the grain consumed by the local government warehouses. Grain that has already been used for disaster relief does not need to be handed over to the state.

Therefore, it is all accounted for after the fact.

Zhu Qizhen didn't think about it right.

Even if he resells the grain in the local granary, at this time, he can also falsely report the disaster relief money, let the court subsidize it, and settle the account.

On top of corruption and perversion of the law, Zhu Qizhen never dared to underestimate the imagination and execution of local officials.

"The second reason is that since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has attached the most importance to the governance of magistrates, and all the first magistrates to govern will have important responsibilities, such as Yu Qian, Zhou Chen, He Wenyuan, and so on. I thought that this person wanted to whitewash the peace, but he never thought that the situation was beyond his control, and it was impossible to change it again. ”

"The third reason is that the Beijing inspection is imminent, and the Beijing inspection will be completed at the end of this year, and the external inspection will begin next year. Thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't hide from it, and wanted to suppress this matter. ”

Zhu Qizhen gritted his teeth and said, "Shameless scum." ”

Zhu Qizhen knows too well what the so-called pressing down means. Under the drought, the grain harvest is not good, and in order to whitewash the peace, this will definitely make the people pay taxes in a normal year.

This is forcing people to die.

And it's not one or two who die, it's tens of thousands.

Zhu Qizhen looked at Yang Pu and said, "Shoufu, I handed it over to Shoufu with the weight of the world, is this how Shoufu repays me?" After speaking, without waiting for Yang Pu to speak, Zhu Qizhen brushed his sleeves away.

As he walked, he said, "Pass Jin Ying, Wang Yu will come to see me." ”

Zhu Qizhen resolution, East Factory Jinyi

The Wei United dispatched to take down the political envoy from Shanxi first.

After Zhu Qizhen left.

Yang Pu knelt on the ground and didn't move, Cao Nai saw this, went to support Yang Pu and said, "Lord Yang, Lord Yang." ”

Yang Pu got up and said, "I'm not as good as Brother Dongli." ”

Many times, the gap between people will only be discovered when they encounter things.

Yang Pu has always felt that his ability is not necessarily worse than Yang Shiqi, and when Yang Shiqi is there, there is nothing to do in the world. It seems that Yang Shiqi has done nothing.

But Yang Pu knew that if Yang Shiqi was there, there would be no such thing below, so that he made a fuss about Dengwen Drum, which was a slap in the face to Yang Pu.

Let him be ashamed in front of the emperor.

Yang Pu seems to be assisting the emperor and has done a lot of things, such as the Hebei water conservancy project, such as the salt law reform, such as the ongoing Great Wall project, such as Zhou Chen's strong advocacy of the Ming Dynasty's central financial reform, and the Chidao centered on the Beijing division has slowly spread to all directions.

This is all due to his auspices.

He also felt that the atmosphere of officialdom had changed, especially after the death of the Empress Dowager, Wang Zhen became more and more arrogant, and many people's relationships went straight to Wang Zhen, which made him a little helpless.

Therefore, he made up his mind to beat Wang Zhen and then clean it up in the form of Jingcha, but he never expected that the officials below would be so shameless.

Yang Pu understood too well that when things got to this point, it was definitely not a matter of one person who was made by the Shanxi political authorities, and even the entire Shanxi Sansi was rotten.

As a result, this person even made this old man sad even more than Zhu Qizhen's angry reprimand.

What Yang Shiqi did was to slow down before it happened, and he could only make amends.

In just a moment, Yang Pu rekindled his fighting spirit, and he secretly said in his heart: "I, Yang Pu, not Yang Shiqi." Dongli Gong's style is not my style, since there are rats who dare to disrupt my Ming Dynasty, let me show you how the old man means. ”

Sometimes, Yang Pu is ruthless, which is more terrifying than Zhu Qizhen's ruthlessness.

Because Zhu Qizhen is young after all, he is angry, and he will kill a few people at most, no matter how ruthless he is, he doesn't know how to vent, but Yang Pu knows too well how to use the state machine of the Ming Dynasty.

Shanxi political envoy Cao Xi. Unbeknownst to him, his own life had entered the countdown. I don't know that many magistrates have ushered in the storm of clean government initiated by Lord Shoufu in the ten years of orthodoxy.

The provincial-level officials who were taken down were definitely not Shanxi Province. Next year's external inspection will be extremely cruel to many magistrates in the Ming Dynasty.

After Yang Pu returned to the cabinet, he immediately called all the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department, and just after Zhu Qizhen sent the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to Shanxi, the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department also came one after another.