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When Lu Chunxiao hurried to the yamen hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he was still a little strange in his heart.

What crime did Zhan Shanchang commit? Even if these imperial historians who have always been afraid of chaos in the world do not dare to express their positions at will, they still need to come forward to come up with ideas themselves?

You must know that although Lu Chunxiao is the leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have a lot of freedom, who they want to impeach and who they want to praise, they have never needed to go through Lu Chunxiao's statement, and now the imperial historians are unable to make up their minds, and it must be that Zhan Shanchang's crime is extremely serious.

But don't say that Zhan Shanchang has lost his official position now, even when he was the most glorious in the past, he was just a household servant, but he barely caught the edge of "important ministers of the court", even if such an official really wants to commit those serious serious crimes, I am afraid that he will lack some qualifications and weight.

With such doubts, Lu Chunxiao hurriedly walked into the lobby of the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Then, Lu Chunxiao saw a group of imperial historians discussing together, and everyone had solemn expressions.

"According to this official's opinion, all the incriminating evidence in this secret letter is detailed and conclusive, and there is a chance that it will not be false!"

"Lord Ge is too arbitrary, this time it's not a trivial matter like corruption and bribery, forming a party for personal gain, and it's not just Zhan Shanchang who is implicated, once there is no evidence in the end, we people will get into trouble!"

"Why don't we go to the household yamen to investigate the evidence first?"

"The household department may not cooperate! What if you startle the snake? ”

"But you can't turn a blind eye to something as serious as this, right?"

After hearing the discussions of the imperial historians, Lu Chunxiao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What are you talking about?" What exactly is the difficulty? Do you want me to come up with my own ideas? ”

After seeing Lu Chunxiao, the imperial history suddenly found the backbone and hurriedly handed over a secret letter to Lu Chunxiao for review.

After Lu Chunxiao unfolded the secret letter and glanced at it a few times, his expression suddenly became solemn.

The content of this secret letter is actually to report Zhan Shanchang's crime of colluding with the vassal king to oppress the people and tampering with the accounts and atlases of the household department without permission!

According to the statement in this secret letter, since Zhan Shanchang served as the head of the household for one year, he has colluded with many vassal kings, and secretly assisted these vassal kings to tamper with the fish scale atlas and yellow book of the household department, so as to provide assistance for these vassal kings to annex land and evade taxes!

You must know that in addition to the land granted by the emperor, the land bought by the vassal kings with silver also needs to pay field tax.

The fish scale atlas of the household department is a kind of land registration book, which arranges and draws houses, forests, ponds, fields, etc. in order to indicate the corresponding name, which can be described as a general register of folk fields, and is named because the pattern is similar to fish scales.

If there is a large-scale land change in various places, it must be registered with the household yamen, and the fish scale atlas must also be revised accordingly, but it is one of the means for the imperial court center to suppress the illegal annexation of land by the people during the Ming Dynasty, and it is also an important basis for the household department to collect land tax.

The Yellow Book of the Household Department, also known as the Yellow Book of Enlistment, is a version of the Hukou made by the central court in order to verify the household registration and levy the service, and it is also an important basis for the imperial court to send the people to levy and enlist.

Whether it is the fish scale atlas or the yellow album, it is all in five copies, which are stored in the county, the government, the political envoy department, and the household department of Nanjing and the household department of Beijing.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because of the changes in the social situation, wage labor gradually became common, the Yellow Book system was destroyed, and the fish scale atlas gradually did not conform to the actual situation. Fastest Updated Kiki /

In this secret letter, the time and evidence of Zhan Shanchang's several tampering with the fish scale atlas and the yellow album in the past year are listed in detail, under Zhan Shanchang's secret tampering, a large number of fields and properties have disappeared and been secretly annexed by the feudal kings in various places, and thousands of ordinary people have lost their fields and have been forced to become proletarians, so they can only rely on the feudal kings in various places and make a living as tenants.

After reading the contents of this secret letter, Lu Chunxiao finally understood why the imperial historians couldn't make up their minds.

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Zhan Shan often colluded with the vassal kings to secretly tamper with the account books of the household department, assist the vassal kings in annexing land, oppressing the people, evading taxes, etc., these crimes are of course extremely serious! In particular, the secret collusion of the court members with the vassal king was the biggest taboo in the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years!

But the most important thing is that this matter not only involves Zhan Shanchang, but also involves several clan kings!

Take a look at the origins of these vassal kings - King Lu, King Su, King Liao, King Zhou, King Dai, King Ji, King Ding, King Yong! They are all the most influential vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty!

Once Zhan Shanchang is to be investigated for his crimes, it means that these feudal kings will also be investigated for the crimes of illegally annexing land, oppressing the people, and evading taxes!

The stakes are high!

If the crime cannot be confirmed in the end, the imperial historians who impeached this matter will inevitably be held accountable by the imperial court, and they will also be counterattacked by the vassal kings.

The imperial historians seem to be not afraid of heaven and earth, but they also know who is a soft persimmon and who is a hard stone, at this time, they naturally dare not make a mistake and hesitate, but they just hope that Lu Chunxiao can take the lead in expressing his position.

Under the big stakes, Lu Chunxiao also didn't dare to express his position easily, and under the attention of all the imperial historians, he just checked the content of this secret letter repeatedly, and was silent for a long time.

Suddenly, Lu Chunxiao's expression moved, but he found that these vassal kings involved in the case made him have a sense of déjà vu.

King Lu, King Su, King Liao, King Zhou, King Dai, King Ji, King Ding, King Yong...... Isn't this the behind-the-scenes owner of "Eight Kings Boat Line"?

I think that at the beginning, the "Eight Kings Boat Tour" secretly colluded with the Japanese invaders to invade Suzhou and other places, and also harmed hundreds of people, but Emperor Deqing was angry!

But because the nature of this matter was too serious, Emperor Deqing did not dare to investigate it openly, so he could only endure it secretly, otherwise the prestige of the royal family would be ruined.

Because Emperor Deqing deliberately concealed it, the imperial historians did not know about this matter, but Lu Chunxiao, as a "Tai. The core members of the "sub-party" have received some news.

For these vassal kings, Emperor Deqing must have been very dissatisfied in his heart, and he has always wanted to find some suitable reasons to punish them!

And now, isn't the evidence of all the crimes in this secret letter a suitable reason for Emperor Deqing to attack these vassal kings?

Illegal annexation of land, tax evasion, and oppression of the people, these crimes are not big or small, even if Emperor Deqing can take the opportunity to find the trouble of these feudal kings, it will not affect the reputation of the royal family, it is simply tailor-made and just right!

Thinking of this, Lu Chunxiao's expression moved slightly.

During this period of time, the situation of the crown prince Zhu Heyu has become more and more bad, everyone thinks that he is about to be deposed, and the seventh prince Zhu Hejian will soon become the new crown prince.

In this case, Qingliu, who has always been a die-hard supporter of the crown prince Zhu Heyu, has a subtle attitude and does not uphold a strong opposition attitude, because Qingliu is also optimistic about the seventh prince Zhu Hejian, and does not think that Zhu Hejian will damage their interests after replacing Zhu Heyu as the crown prince.

However, Lü Chunxiao was a little different, he was a staunch supporter of Zhu and Yu, and did not want to see Zhu Heyu deposed.

Therefore, Lu Chunxiao suddenly felt that all kinds of intelligence evidence in this secret letter might be an opportunity for Prince Zhu and Yu!

The crown prince Zhu Heyu was grounded by Emperor Deqing for ten days, and it looks like it is coming to an end!

By tomorrow morning, the crown prince Zhu and Yu will be able to go to the court again to discuss politics!

At that time, if the crown prince Zhu Heyu was asked to personally impeach Zhan Shanchang and several vassal kings for their crimes, it would also conform to Emperor Deqing's desire to punish these vassal kings, and perhaps he would win the favor of Emperor Deqing and make Emperor Deqing change his mind.

At the same time, after the crown prince Zhu and Yu led the Qingliu to complete this major event, his prestige will rise again, and the Qingliu officials will also restore their support for him!

In this way, Zhu Heyu's position as the prince may be stabilized!

Thinking of this, Lu Chunxiao suddenly folded the secret letter into his arms, and instructed the imperial historians: "Colleagues, this matter is very important, even I dare not make a decision, but His Royal Highness the Prince's grounding time is full, and tomorrow morning the court can go to the court to discuss politics, I think this matter is better to be decided by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself, what do you think?" ”

After all the imperial historians glanced at each other, they all thought that this matter needed to be decided by the crown prince Zhu and Yu personally, and they all nodded in agreement.

After getting the approval of all the imperial historians, Lu Chunxiao did not delay any time, and immediately left the yamen of the Imperial Court and rushed towards the direction of the prince's East Palace.

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Just when Lu Chunxiao entered the East Palace to meet the crown prince Zhu Heyu, Zhao Junchen also received the news in time.

The secret letter received by the Metropolitan Procuratorate reporting Zhan Shanchang and the vassal kings was naturally sent secretly by Zhao Junchen.

If you want Zhan Shanchang to "commit suicide reasonably", you must find a suitable crime, which cannot implicate Zhao Junchen and the "Zhao Party", and must be extremely serious in nature, so that Emperor Deqing is completely unforgivable!

Only in this way, after Zhan Shanchang "commits suicide", will everyone not be suspicious.

So, Zhao Junchen thought of the behind-the-scenes shareholders of "Eight Kings Boat Company"!

Emperor Deqing had long hated these bold vassal kings, and if any official secretly colluded with these vassal kings, Emperor Deqing would never forgive them.

At the same time, Zhao Junchen and the "Zhao Party" did not have any connection with these vassal kings, so Zhan Shanchang's charges would not implicate them.

In fact, Zhan Shanchang secretly tampered with the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Atlas for these vassal kings, but it was not fake.

For more than a year, these feudal kings have continued to annex the land of the common people, and often give Zhao Junchen a generous gift, asking Zhao Junchen to tamper with the account books and cover up their deeds.

Since the establishment of the vassal system in the Ming Dynasty, this process has been going on for hundreds of years, and whenever the vassal kings have annexed a certain amount of land, they will collude with officials at all levels to secretly revise the account books at all levels and conceal the amount of their land.

After Zhao Junchen served as the secretary of the household department, he originally did not plan to easily break this unspoken rule and ruin the benefits of the household officials.

But Zhao Junchen also knew that if the situation of money and grain in the Ming Dynasty was to be completely reversed, it was necessary to eradicate the moths of the clan in various places!

Especially after the "Eight Kings Boat Company" colluded with the Japanese invaders was exposed, this kind of thing became more and more imperative!

Therefore, for more than a year, whenever the vassal kings sent someone to find Zhao Junchen here and asked Zhao Junchen to tamper with the household atlas for them, Zhao Junchen thought that sooner or later he would turn his face with the vassal kings, but he was unwilling to handle this matter personally, so he handed over these matters to the following household officials to deal with, and some of them were handled by Zhan Shanchang. Kiki started all over the network

It's not that Zhao Junchen has long had the idea of harming Zhan Shanchang, it's just that Zhao Junchen doesn't want to put his handle in the hands of the vassal kings, and he also thinks that he has a way to protect Zhan Shanchang and others in the future.

But this time, in order to make Zhan Shanchang "commit suicide reasonably", Zhao Junchen can take advantage of this situation.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen secretly exposed Zhan Shanchang's secret assistance to the vassal kings to tamper with the account books of the household department!

Moreover, there are actually several household officials who are responsible for tampering with the household atlas, but Zhao Junchen blamed Zhan Shanchang for all the crimes this time.

The benefits of this approach are threefold.

One is that it can create a reason for Zhan Shanchang's suicide; the second is to take the opportunity to weaken the power of the clan and further reverse the financial status quo of the imperial court; The third is to give the crown prince Zhu Heyu a chance to delay the time when the seventh prince Zhu Hejian becomes the prince of the prince!

In addition, once Emperor Deqing began to investigate the crimes of these vassal kings, the situation in the court would be even more chaotic, which would also give Zhao Junchen the opportunity to fish in troubled waters further.

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At this time, in the study of the Zhao Mansion.

When Zhao Junchen received the news and learned that Lu Chunxiao had hurried to the Prince's East Palace, he couldn't help but smile.

"This Lu Chunxiao is not a stupid person, he doesn't need our secret reminder at all, he can think of the benefits of this matter to the crown prince Zhu Heyu...... It's not in vain that I've worked so the layout! ”

On the side, Zhang Yuer also smiled: "This Lu Chunxiao can sit in today's position, at most, he is pedantic, but he will never be a stupid person!" ”

After chuckling and nodding, Zhao Junchen commanded, "Now you can start the next step...... Send someone to summon Zhan Shanchang here, and say that I have an urgent matter to discuss with him! ”

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