Chapter 12 (15) The Fourth Meeting of the Code of Discipline (I)
It seems that in order to corroborate the news that Jiang Shu said, it was just after noon the next day, and Shang Chengcheng heard the news that several Taixue students openly went to the imperial court to impeach the Ministry of Industry and Chang Xiu.
"I am deaf in both ears, and I hear the letter; The eyes are unclear, and it is difficult to distinguish the glass", this is the Ministry of Industry; The Ministry of Engineering has no eyes, and it doesn't know that it has been deceived by others; This is not bad, which means that the Ministry of Industry does not have evil intentions, but is just unaware of the blindness for a while. But he was not polite to Chang Xiu. "Spring breeze, no more articles", have you written any commendable articles after the first and first? This sentence "Pang Mei Hao hair, Pingyuan buries the urn" is extremely poisonous: you Chang Wenshi is a lot older, your hair and beard are gray, you should have learned the old man of Hanyin who "held the urn to irrigate the garden", and took a water urn to the garden to water the flowers and plants, such a life is both comfortable and leisurely; Or whether it is a book or a professor, this is not in vain as the identity of your generation of articles. But what about you? You dug up the garden one by one in the "Pingyuan Burial Urn" and buried a big urn with money in the ground, alluding to Chang Xiu's hands and feet in the glass, and he didn't know how much money he fished, and he couldn't hide it at home, so he had to quietly dig the cellar to bury the money......
The imperial court was unprepared for this sudden incident, and Shu Chen, who took the Taixue, did not give an opinion to speak, but only comforted a few students with kind words to go back to study with good students, and turned his head and sternly explained that Taixue should be strictly disciplined, and there was no follow-up.
But things can't be hidden.
Because the incident first happened in Taixue, there were a lot of insiders in Taixue, these students were openly sparse, a few stood in a row under the big archway in front of the door and recited in unison, surrounded by officials and people who watched the excitement, a spread of ten or ten to a hundred, but it spread all over the capital in half a day, and things made a fuss.
There is too many students to pave the way, Chang Xiu's backer Zhu Xuan is an old master is definitely not good at dealing with this situation, Zhang Pu is worried that the position of the left minister may not be able to free up, so one night later, Yu Shitai took the lead in attacking, "The Ministry of Wengong seized the land and mountains of Jia's land in Pingshan, Xuzhou", "The Xiaoluofang kiln collapsed in the Ministry of Wengong", "The officials of the Wengong Department were greedy for ink...... Seven or eight impeachments were directed at the Ministry of Industry and Chang Xiu. The Ministry of Industry listens to the matter of glass and does not distinguish the truth from the falsehood, Chang Xiu is stubborn and makes the wisdom faint is another case, several workshops of the Ministry of Industry cost money and grain and countless but have no achievements, and then the reprocessing department last year in various places to build liquor workshops, once purchased nearly one million stone of grain from the locality, but later did not start work in time for various reasons, resulting in part of the grain rotting in the warehouse, and finally counted out the loss of nearly 3,000 yuan, although everyone knows, this loss of liquor is not worth mentioning at all, but now the imperial historians need it, then it is one of the crimes of the Ministry of Industry. Since your workshop is not working, why don't you sell the grain on the spot in advance, but let it rot in the warehouse? Even if you reduce the price and sell miles, won't you be able to recover some losses, and at the same time allow more people to save a little more food at home? At this time, they completely forgot that just last month, the Imperial Historical Observatory also issued a special document reminding the prime ministers that all localities should prepare special funds for the purchase of grain in advance for the regular liquidation, and purchase a large amount of grain when the new grain is harvested, so as to avoid the occurrence of grain cheapness and injury to the peasants......
Yushitai became a pioneer, and others naturally had to follow suit, and three days later, the officials of the six ministries also handed over more than a dozen notes, the content of which was also to impeach the Ministry of Industry and Chang Xiu. The content of these notes is more detailed, providing that the Ministry of Industry spent nearly 340,000 yuan on the two workshops in Xiaoluoyi and Xuzhou for firing glass, and more than 200,000 yuan was spent on building a fire kiln alone. The question is, how many kilns have been built in 200,000? Seventeen in the Communist Party of China. There are seven Xiaoluoyi and ten in Xuzhou, of which there are three kilns in Xuzhou under construction. People not only have to ask, what does a 10,000-mouthed kiln look like? Could it be that this furnace is made of bronze from head to toe? There is also the land requisition of the Ministry of Industry in Xuzhou, which has caused the displacement of more than 200 and nearly 300 household households, from the foot of the two mountains bought by the Ministry of Industry to the workshop located outside the city of Xuzhou, "100 households have left their hometowns and displaced people have left their homes and the road number is crying" - how bleak and tragic is this a kind of scene, is it not that your Ministry of Industry and you Changxiu Chang Wenshi have no sense of shame and guilt at all? There is also Jia's in Xuzhou, nearly three hectares of good cooked land, and the current price is at least 16,000 yuan, but it was bought by the Ministry of Industry for less than 1,000 yuan.
It stands to reason that in such a situation, no matter whether they are right or wrong, the Ministry of Industry and Chang Xiu must stand up and speak. But things are very strange, just a few days before the students went to the sparse, Chang Xiu, who was supposed to be on the cusp, went to Xuzhou, and then the right attendant of the Ministry of Works went to Leiden to inspect the Laizhou shipyard and Dengzhou shipyard under construction; The Ministry of Industry Yamen was left alone with Shang Shu Zhai Cuo. Zhai Cuo first explained that he was in charge of Huanghuai Hydraulics, and he was not very clear about the burning of glass, but he believed that even if the Ministry of Engineering occasionally made some omissions, it was not concealed, and it could not be said that it was impossible because the firing of glass would not be effective for a while; Not to mention that Chang Xiu's articles are morally excellent, no matter what, it can't be as bad as the rumors say.
Zhai Cuo's words are like this, but there is a different meaning in the words, it seems that he is defending the Ministry of Industry and Chang Xiu, but in fact, he is saying that the content of the notes is all rumors, and the people who wrote these notes are spreading rumors and spreading rumors. His words immediately provoked a hornet's nest. In the next few days, the impeachment of the Ministry of Works and Chang Xiu was like snowflakes, and they were handed to the prime minister's office one after another. The impeachment was menacing, and it seemed that Zhai Cuo was also frightened, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu arranged the affairs in the yamen a little, and left Beijing at night to rush to Sizhou to inspect the water workers on the Huaishui. There is no doubt that his actions were immediately regarded as weak and timid, it seems that this time Chang Xiu will not be able to step this hurdle, and most of the personnel of the Ministry of Industry will also have a lot of changes......
The court was in such a chaotic scene, and the matter of which forbidden army would carry out the new drill was naturally delayed again and again, until late July, when Shang Cheng received a notice from the Ministry of War, and once again returned to the capital to participate in the fourth drill meeting.