The fat steward of the Sun family didn't know what was going on, and the two deputy masters with firearms had to escort him to the industrial marquis, could it be because he drank too much and said something he shouldn't have said two days ago.

On the way to being escorted, the fat steward never thought that it would be because of molesting the spinning woman and deducting the monthly money, in his mind, this is the right that a master like the steward should have.

A stage was temporarily set up in the fountain square, Zhu Shun sat on a Huanghuali official hat chair and drank tea slowly, and the fat steward kicked him to the ground without a rifleman, and took the initiative to kneel on the ground.

Sun Da followed him to the stage, and when he saw his cousin kneeling there, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he didn't dare to say anything.

One is an elder of the same clan, and the other is the owner who has the grace of reinvention for him, and the relationship between the cousin and uncle is relatively close, but emotionally speaking, the owner is closer.

Without the owner, there would be no good life for him, and he would become a respected grandson, but he didn't know where to run the hall.

It is inconvenient for Zhu Shun to come forward in this matter, just like the emperor directly targeted a certain official without letting go, and needed one or two doglegs to be a villain.

Cao Wenyao, the head of the integrity department, sat in a wheelchair next to him, looking tepidly at the fat steward, and the investigators of the anti-corruption department who had been placed in various steam factories had already found out the bad behavior of the fat steward.

In the past two days, he was going to report to Zhu Shun, who would have thought that this damn fat steward would be discovered by Zhu Shun in advance, so that Cao Wenyao would lose face.

Obviously, he was saying that Cao Wenyao was incompetent, and he couldn't find out that a small steward was bullying the workers, and in the end, Zhu Shun personally discovered the matter.

When the workers were completely quiet, and there was only the sound of the cold wind in late autumn in the fountain square, Cao Wenyao tepidly began to read out the accusation of the fat steward: "Sun Lao Wu, the steward of Sun's Weaving Factory, has deducted a total of 263,27 yuan from the monthly salary of the workers since March of the seventh year of Chongzhen. ”

As the words fell, the riflemen passed one by one from front to back, like a microphone.

The workers in the fountain square were also in an uproar from front to back, and even Zhu Shun, who was drinking tea calmly, glanced at the fat steward more, but he didn't expect that a small steward could be greedy for more than two hundred and sixty taels of silver.

After a little analysis, Zhu Shun found a reasonable explanation, there were hundreds of spinning women in Sun Da's weaving factory, and each of them deducted one penny of silver per month, which was more than 100 taels of silver in a year.

Looking at the deduction, a spinning woman only deducts one or two pieces of silver every year, but that is not much for the big families such as factory owners.

For ordinary people, one tael of silver can feed one more family.

Hearing that this fat steward had done such a big sin, Zhu Shun couldn't bear to stab him to death, but he still had to follow the rules and regulations of the Anti-Corruption Department.

Cao Wenyao continued to say tepidly: "In addition, Sun Lao Wu relied on himself to be in charge and forcibly insulted three textile women in the past two years. ”

Most of the workers were women, and when they heard about it, they were not in an uproar, but in the same hatred and indignation.

The stewards can insult other people's ladies today, and they can insult their ladies tomorrow.

"Dip the pig cage!"

Suddenly, a worker shouted angrily to dip in the pig cage.

"Dip the pig cage!"

"Dip the pig cage!"

It didn't take long for the sound of dipping the pig cage to resound throughout the fountain square, and the fat steward's face turned white, and he looked at Cao Wenyao on the side pleadingly.

Sun Da next to him has been in contact with a higher level over the years, and he understands in his heart that it is useless to ask anyone for this kind of thing.

In order to maintain the system of the workers' association, even Cao Wenyao's cousin kneeling here today could not escape a lynching.

After all, the fat steward is Sun Da's cousin, and watching him grow up with his uncle of the same clan, Sun Da knelt in front of Zhu Shun with a 'plop': "The owner ........"

Before he finished speaking, the patriarch of the Sun family ancestral hall came to the stage with several more prestigious elders and reprimanded: "Sun Da, go back." ”

After speaking, without looking at Zhu Shun's reaction, the patriarch of the Sun family shouted: "Give this little beast to the old man's cane." ”

It is against the laws of the Ming Dynasty to use lynching in the Ming Dynasty, but the patriarch of the ancestral hall has the right to punish the people of the same clan, so Cao Wenyao invited the patriarch of the Sun family ancestral hall.

If the fat steward is just greedy for ink and silver, at most he will be half dead, and it will be blamed that he can't control the lower half of his body, which touches the chastity that Daming values very much.

As for why the patriarch of the ancestral hall was willing to kill his nephew with a cane, Cao Wenyao did not report to Zhu Shun, and some things were not beautiful when he knew them.

Just such a high-ranking steward in the eyes of the workers was beaten to death in front of everyone.

The miserable wail touched the tense hearts of all the stewards, and there were many stewards who had received benefits on the spot, and they were so frightened that they did not dare to raise their heads.

For the first time, the Anti-Corruption Department, which had been jokingly called the 'Shimizu Yamen', showed its fangs to the members of the workers' association, and became a shadow in the hearts of the factory owners and the workers.

After a stick of incense, the fat steward was beaten to death, and Cao Wenyao, who was in a wheelchair, waved his hand and asked Patriarch Sun to lead someone to collect the body and bury it.

Cao Wenyao looked at the workers who were stretching away, and said tepidly: "Everyone encourage yourself. ”

After only saying four words, Zhu Shun also left the fountain square, and the workers returned to their respective steam factories one after another under the leadership of riflemen.

As for those stewards, some of them were so frightened that they hadn't come back to their senses, and some went directly to the Anti-Corruption Department to confess their crimes, hoping that the Anti-Corruption Department would be able to deal with them lightly.

Zhu Shun solved this matter, and finally solved a major matter that had been hanging in his heart.

Corruption.

The Industrial Revolution had just made some progress, and if bureaucracy was allowed to prevail in the steam factories, the significance of the Industrial Revolution would be lost by more than half.

However, with the supervision of the Anti-Corruption Department, the matter has been properly resolved.

After all, it's okay to be greedy for two dollars and go to jail for a few days like in later generations, but you will die.

Zhu Shun has been destroying some of the rules of the Ming Dynasty, but he will also use these rules to complete what he wants to accomplish and achieve the goal he wants to achieve.

Anti-Corruption Division.

Zhu Shun and Cao Wenyao sat on the third floor, watching a famous steward walk into the integrity office in fear, and it didn't take long for them to come out relaxed.

Zhu Shun couldn't help but laugh: "Brother Wen Yao is really a good means. ”

Cao Wenyao looked at the wooden stairs that kept coming in and out, and said tepidly: "This matter is a dereliction of duty for my brother, but Shipeng can rest assured that there will be no such thing in the future." ”

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