The reason why Zheng Yongji made such an arrangement naturally has his reasons.

Let's not talk about the side of it, but Zheng Yongji proposed it first.

It doesn't matter whether the criminal silver system is good or bad, but once it is implemented, there will definitely be countless officials below who oppose it.

Especially those clear streams!

It was precisely because of this that Zheng Yongji proposed to distribute all the silver owed to the ministries after the Jiangnan gentry handed over the guilty silver.

In this way, at least the officials of the six ministries will support their own criminal discussion system, and the pressure they will face in the court will be much less in the future.

Another point is that once the system is implemented, there will be countless people who will come to plead and ask for a postponement of the payment of fines.

When the time comes, in the face of the intercession of officials of all sizes, Zheng Yongji, who has always been tactful, is really difficult to wipe away his feelings and refuse them all.

However, with the support of the six ministries, it is not the case, for their own interests, the officials of the six ministries will definitely try their best to promote the implementation of the criminal silver system.

As for whether the gentry were able to pay the fines?

Hehe!

In front of your own interests, who cares whether you live or die?

If you can't pay the fine, it's very easy to do, and whatever crime you originally convicted will be dealt with according to what crime you want.

If you don't have any money, why bother talking about it?

Such a double win, only a cunning person like Zheng Yongji can think of it.

The result is naturally not what Zheng Yongji expected.

After the imperial court officially announced the system of discussing crimes, Qingliu led by Li Guangtai, the imperial history of the left capital of the Inspectorate, was strongly opposed.

Especially Li Guangtai, after asking Zhang Lingyang for silver, he somewhat had a good impression of Zheng Yongji.

But as soon as the silver system was proposed, Li Guangtai almost pointed at Zheng Yongji's nose and scolded him as the first traitor of the Great Zhou.

Some people oppose it, and naturally some people agree with it.

Not to mention the officials of the six ministries, after hearing about the system of discussing the guilt of the bank, the officials of all over the country naturally strongly agreed, and they wrote one after another, and praised the system of the guilt of the crime between the lines.

Looking at these twists and turns, Zhang Lingyang couldn't help sneering in his heart: "What do you people think in your hearts, don't I know yet?"

Since you are so in favor of the system of the Silver of Guilt, then I will let you try the 'benefits' of this system! ”

Thinking like this in his heart, Zhang Lingyang instructed Sun Sheng: "Which local officials agree with the criminal silver system, and they will all be recorded by me."

In addition, the command of the Jinyi Guard made Han Xiao enter the palace! ”

Sun Sheng did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered someone to go and deliver the decree, while he personally recorded which local officials approved of the criminal silver system.

After Han Xiao entered the palace, Zhang Lingyang took the list that Sun Sheng had recorded and threw it into Han Xiao's arms, and said, "You go and check if some of these people have done anything illegal in the local area over the years."

Remember, even after finding out, without my will, Jinyiwei must not act rashly. ”

"Wechen obeys!"

Looking at the names of the feudal officials on the list, Han Xiao was still confused at first.

Sun Sheng reminded: "These are all local officials who agree with the system of discussing crimes. ”

Han Xiao suddenly realized, said "thanks" to Sun Sheng, and hurried out of the palace......

The topic returns to the matter of the guilty silver.

Although Qingliu led by Li Guangtai strongly opposed the implementation of the criminal silver system.

But he couldn't bear the strong support of Zheng Yongji's side.

More crucially, Zhang Lingyang, as the emperor, also supported this decision.

Therefore, even with the opposition of Li Guangtai and others, the negotiable criminal silver system was finally decided.

Now that the system has been decided, it is natural that the next step is to implement it.

How is the implementation law?

Zhang Lingyang gave a standard.

For the crime of beheading, as long as you pay 150,000 taels of silver, you can be commuted to exile.

If you really have too much money to spend?

Well, pay 500,000 taels, and all the crimes on your body can be pardoned.

As for the charges against your family? Naturally, some more silver had to be handed over.

Of course, from now on, within three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, they are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

As for the gentry who were originally sentenced to exile, they could be acquitted by paying two or three hundred thousand taels of silver.

Originally, those gentry didn't say two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, even if there were more, they would still be able to make it up.

But now it's different, his home has been copied by Jinyiwei.

Under the eyes of the brocade guard, even if the silver was hidden, it was finally pulled out.

Now, where do they have the money to redeem themselves?

Even if some people understand the truth of the three holes of the cunning rabbit, they have already divided their family property into several parts and hid them before they fail.

But these people have great families and many children and grandchildren, even if you atone for your sins, what about your parents, wives and children?

Don't you have to spend money to redeem it?

In this way, the required silver is naturally insufficient.

Things are helpless, but they want to live.

So what to do?

Borrow from former colleagues, friends, and relatives!

But how could my former colleagues and friends, now that it is too late to avoid them, lend them money?

The same goes for relatives.

However, there are also some advantages to having a big family, that is, there are enough relatives.

There are always some relatives who are more righteous and will choose to pay part of the money to help them.

Naturally, no one will put their entire net worth on this.

One is not enough, two, three...... Ten, twenty, that's enough!

But these people will not have a good time in the future.

Because now even if they are released, they have no official or position, and all the properties of their families have been confiscated by the imperial court.

In the future, there is no place to go, and there is still an astronomical amount of debt.

can't enter the office, and there is no family property, these gentry are naturally down-and-out phoenixes are not as good as chickens.

What's more, they are not diligent and have no division of grain, and even if they want to go out to work to make ends meet, no one wants to hire them.

As for their situation, it is natural to imagine.

The ministers of the court will not care about their situation.

Now, the treasury has seized a lot of money.

So under the coordination of Zheng Yongji, Zhu Kaishan, the secretary of the household department, waved his pen, and the money that was originally owed to the ministries was all distributed in a lot of money.

In this way, it is natural that all parties are satisfied.

Needless to say, the Ministry of Industry has money to repair the Yellow River embankment, the Ministry of Officials has money to distribute money to the officials below, the Ministry of Officials has money to repair the Tribute Courtyard and the Temple of Heaven, and the Criminal Department has money to repair the prison of Shuntianfu.

And Tobe himself, naturally, is also very happy.

Because even though nearly five million taels of silver were allocated at once, the silver in the treasury not only did not decrease, but increased by tens of millions of taels.

With such a result, who is not satisfied with the six books?

Who isn't happy?