Lao Zhu is like a little woman, but no one cares about the wedding anniversary he cares about, after all, many of the people in the court are second marriages, and they also use the old rules to the present, so the resentment immediately turned into anger.

The officials didn't expect that in their eyes, no matter how sparse and ordinary things were, Lao Zhu would be so angry that they wanted to condemn all those who had used the empty seal, how many people would be punished, I was afraid that they would wipe out all the officials in the world, and for a while they only thought that Lao Zhu was dizzy with anger.

However, there were people in the court who knew that Lao Zhu was not joking, and it was because of this that Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong's expressions were very shocked, and of course, there was also the good nephew who knew Lao Zhu's temper better.

Li Wenzhong supervises the country's eunuch, if Lao Zhu really does this, he can't come up with so many talents to make up for the gaps, so he hurriedly persuaded: "The emperor is angry, and the emperor is invited to discuss the matter in the long run." ”

Chang Yuchun went to Beiping to replace Xu Da's class, Xu Da had not yet returned to Yingtian, Deng Yu guarded the northwest, Feng Sheng looked at Liaodong, and Li Wenzhong was the largest among Yingtian's martial arts.

Lao Zhu looked at his nephew and asked in a deep voice, "Li Wenzhong, do you think I shouldn't punish them?" ”

"Wechen only knows how to fight, and is not good at people's livelihood and government affairs. I just want to tell the emperor that if the people who use empty seals in the world are arrested and imprisoned, there will not be so many talents in the national prison to fill the vacancy. ”

Lao Zhu snorted lightly, "Siben has been really stable in the past two years. ”

Lao Zhu is obviously dissatisfied with his nephew not supporting him, but it would be really stupid for anyone to add fuel to his fire at this time, and when he found that there was no official available in Daming, he would go back and settle accounts with that person.

"Soup to you."

Tang He is one of the few people in the Hongwu Dynasty who has successfully retired, and he is small with Lao Zhu, how can he not know Lao Zhu's dog temper of turning his face and not recognizing people, and directly use Li Wenzhong's words, "Weichen only knows how to fight in battle, but he can't understand people's livelihood and government affairs, and he doesn't dare to talk nonsense." ”

"Humph! Guo Ying, you say! ”

"Weichen only knows how to fight, but he doesn't know the people's livelihood and government affairs, so he doesn't dare to put his beak."

……

"Zhao Desheng!"

"Weichen only knows how to go into battle to teach students a lesson, please forgive the emperor!"

"Mado!" Lao Zhu's tone is getting better and better, and he is almost on the verge of going berserk.

Ma Du was busy going out of class to bow down, "Weichen only knows how to fight in battle......"

He had just started talking, but Lao Zhu laughed out loud and said mockingly: "You still know how to fight?" ”

"Hmm...... Wechen also led troops in the grasslands and the East China Sea. ”

"I have the right to know how to fight, but you also know how to fight in the people's livelihood, and some time ago I was taught to replace agricultural taxes with commercial taxes, so let's talk about this empty account book."

"Hmm...... This one...... Wechen didn't know what to say. Ma Du didn't want to offend the civil officials in his heart, although they were not very powerful, they were numerous, and they could bite people to death if they had more lice, and Ma Du felt that they were really not guilty to death.

"Say!" Lao Zhu glared at Ma Du viciously with a pair of tiger eyes, "I can't say that you are ugly, you are the first to go to prison!" ”

Ma Du was extremely depressed in his heart, he was just a Hou Ye with an empty title, the Navy and the City Department were basically overturned by Lao Zhu's people, is his opinion so important? Wouldn't it be good to force Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong to be accomplices for you?

"The guards outside the palace sent Jiang Ninghou to the edict!"

Lao Zhu's words frightened Ma Du to half his life, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "The emperor is not in a hurry, Weichen was just thinking about how to speak, so let's say." ”

"Say, stand up and speak!"

"Xie Wu Huang Longen!" Ma Du got up and straightened his clothes and said: "Weichen's little shallow opinion is only for the emperor's reference, the emperor knows that there are often mistakes in the settlement of accounts in Beijing, can you know the reason?" ”

Lao Zhu said with a smile: "It's nothing more than greed!" ”

"This ...... Wechen doesn't know, but there is one thing that really can't be avoided. When he went to Ningzhi County, Jiangjiang to visit Wechen's home, he complained to Wechen that he needed to pay about 10,000 stone of money and grain to more than 20 yamen every year, and the accounts were extremely complicated......"

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is vast, and the taxes are naturally collected by the local yamen, and only a small part can be paid into Yingtian Taicang, and most of them are still in the local treasury.

In addition to the financial expenses of the yamen themselves, they also had to allocate or pay various amounts of money and grain to different yamen according to the needs of their superiors, and some prefectures and counties located in the border even had to pay money and grain to the garrisons belonging to different systems. With such a messy financial system, it is difficult to think of accounts without making mistakes.

The most important thing is that these paid money and grain, in the process of transportation loss, with ancient transportation conditions, there is a shipwreck, overturned, fire, rain is normal, of course, there is also the theft of the people, the corruption of officials.

The more times the money and grain are paid, the more losses will be lost in the middle, and the more bad debts will naturally be. What's worse is the financial accounting of the Ming Dynasty, which is from the bottom to the higher level, and the county is estimated to have no courage to tell the prefect that your accounts are not right, and quickly changed it to Lao Tzu, so he can only modify it himself, and when he handed over the account book to Yingtian, Xu has changed it several times.

Lao Zhu's attention is not unreasonable, this method of accounting is invisibly covering for corruption, and it is definitely a breeding ground for corruption.

"Xuanzhong knows it very well." Lao Zhu's yin and yang weirdness was obviously blaming him for why he didn't report to him earlier.

Ma Du smiled bitterly: "The emperor knows that Weichen is impatient with trivial matters, and a few days ago, I happened to see a final paper written by a student who was in the household department mentioning the empty seal, so I learned about it, but I didn't expect it to be ...... so soon."

When Ma Du read the paper, he immediately thought of the empty seal case, he really didn't expect Lao Zhu to find out so soon, if he knew how Lao Zhu found out, he would definitely slap his mouth.

"Humph! I found out by accident, otherwise I don't know how long I would have been hidden! ”

Ma Du persuaded: "This is a defect in the system, and it is not the fault of people!" ”

"Is Xuanzhong interceding for them?"

"Weichen doesn't dare, the matter of the empty seal is endless, and the court should take action to rectify it."

Before Lao Zhu could speak, Li Yan, the head of the household, hurriedly said: "Ma Hou didn't hear it clearly just now, the money, grain, documents, and account books are all stamped, and only half of the official seal is sealed, and a single grain can't be allocated. "Don't blame Li Yan for being in a hurry, if the court rectifies the empty seal, he will be the first to be unlucky.

"Li Shangshu Benhou has no grievances with you, it is not aimed at you, you are right, half of the official seal is indeed impossible to open in the yamen, but there is no difference when it comes to the farmers in the countryside. Li Shangshu grew up in the family of a wealthy gentry, and he was afraid that he didn't understand the feelings of the villagers and the peasants who were afraid of the officials like tigers and wolves. ”

In later generations, there were many fraudsters who pretended to be public prosecutors and lawyers, which can be said to be classic cases of fraud, taking advantage of the deep-seated fear of public power among the Chinese people.

In ancient times, not to mention, if a few officials brought documents stamped with the county lord's seal, they could definitely do whatever they wanted in the countryside.

As soon as these words came out, many civil officials showed a pale look on their faces, and Lao Zhu gritted his teeth and said: "Xuanzhong's words reveal the true meaning!" ”

Seeing that he looks like he wants to eat people, is he also a victim of fraud?