I told Li Qinglan to arrange the placement of Qingtianwei, and now we have embarked on the return journey, but the road is not very peaceful. Ji Wuling and Zhuo Qingluo took turns to attack and captured many people who were ready to spy on us.

Ji Wuling frowned: "Yipin, there are people who want to seek help along the way, how can you ignore it like this?" ”

"Wuling, now is not the period of local rebellion and military control, Kyoto has changed hands, I have not been recognized by Emperor Chongning, my Jieyue must be returned, and I can't interfere in local political affairs! These people are begging me now, and they are doing me harm! There is really an unjust case, they should go to the magistrate! I said.

"What if the local parents and officials are also careless about people's lives, and the officials protect each other? How do you want the people to live? Zhuo Qingluo inspired the chivalrous woman's soft intestines.

"Yipin, all the way north, there are voices shouting grievances everywhere, which shows how far local corruption has fallen! This time in Beijing, do you have any ideas to reorganize the dynasty? Li Qinglan hit the nail on the head and saw the illness in Feihong's bones.

The reason why there are so many unjust, false and wrongful cases demanded from me is because Su Yipin cleaned Jiangning Mansion with an iron fist, and even the feudal officials like the Governor of Caoyun were blatantly killed once they were involved, and the people regarded me as the prince of the world, and the living officials were afraid of me like a tiger.

The people don't ask for their parents, it's not that everyone is a corrupt official and a bad person, but Feihong's official system is complicated, many officials' responsibilities are duplicated, officials are redundant, and they shirk each other's responsibilities.

Taking Jiangning Mansion as an example, it is said that if someone kills someone in the local area kills and steals, it should be under the control of Jiangning Prefecture, but the Punishment Department of the Governor of Caoyun also has the power to detect bandits and try cases. Who is in charge?

Moreover, the salt transport envoy yamen can also try the crime of the stove household, even if the big salt merchants are traitors, they will be robbed of their own territory by the salt transport envoy for trial, and the final result Jiangning Mansion does not dare to intervene, and the salt merchants can pass the customs by paying some money to the old master salt transport envoy.

If you want to eliminate redundant officials, it is only possible to get the support of Emperor Chongning and the consent of most of the senior ministers of the six cabinets, and it is best to be the first assistant of the cabinet, otherwise it must be the second assistant or the third assistant.

This is just redundant officials, and then there are geographically blurred boundaries between prefectures and counties, and there are many gray areas where prefectures and counties intersect and do not care, this is a paradise for wicked people, they commit crimes, and the prefectures and counties shirk each other.

Just like the Dayu Mountain where the cave people are resting now, it is said to be under the management of Jiangning Mansion, but Dayu Mountain is also the junction of Jiangning Mansion, Qinning Mansion, and Guangning Mansion, and the three prefectures can manage Dayu Mountain, and they can all ignore it, and no one knows the specific dividing line.

Therefore, re-measuring the land of Feihong and clarifying the legal responsibility is also the meaning of the question, but this measurement, I don't know how many illegal things to come out of the wealthy relatives who privately swallowed the good land and oppressed the people!

If Emperor Chongning didn't have the courage himself, he wouldn't dare to offend these many people at all! King Qin and King Qi are still eyeing outside! offended the old ministers, these people can support the king of Jin, and they can re-establish the king of Qin.

And the most troublesome thing is local taxes, there are many taxes that are duplicated, there are too many redundant officials to feed their families, so they can only set up various types of taxes with all kinds of obvious ingenuity, how many people are forced to ruin their families by heavy taxes? Ji Ling once collected salt taxes privately for military spending.

And this is also the reason why hundreds of people and Qingtianwei's family want to go to my fiefdom, my fief is the golden mouth that was opened when Emperor Yongning defeated Feihong at its peak: never give more, and be exempted from giving it for three years!

Emperor Yongning is very depressed now, Emperor Chongning is his son after all, filial piety is to be seen by others, and he does not dare to openly withdraw his promise never to give more.

"But if this kind of unjust, false and wrongful case continues to ferment, Fei Hong is likely to break out again in an incident like the Red Lotus Sect Uprising, and the scale may be even grander!" Ji Wuling was worried.

"If I am a little older now, I can enter the cabinet and become a cabinet elder, maybe I can also improve the redundant officials for the Feihong Empire, re-measure the land survey boundary and set up the lower boundary monument stake, and then reform the tax problem, it's a pity!" I say.

"What a pity?" Zhuo Qingluo didn't understand.

"It's a pity that the Marquis of Yipin has made great achievements, but there is only a successful case in Fengling County to govern the place, and he is young, it is almost impossible to be a pavilion elder!"

"The old man of the civil official pavilion is different from the military general, he has no qualifications, even if the emperor appoints him, he will not be accepted by the civil official group! Entering the cabinet like that is an old papier-mâché pavilion, and he has no power at all! Li Qinglan said.

"The civilian clique has so much power? Will the emperor be afraid? Zhuo Qingluo couldn't understand.

"The civilian clique is stable in the world, they will not rebel, even if they rebel, there is no success in the soldiers, my grandfather is the secretary of the military department was defeated in an instant!"

"The emperor can sit firmly, if the civil officials make a fuss, the emperor can kill the first assistant, but the new first assistant will become the new leader of the civil officials!" Li Qinglan has been in a family in Kyoto for a long time and knows the doorway of officialdom very well.

"Seeing that Feihong is sick, and almost terminally ill, Yipin, you are so patriotic, but you are also so powerless, you are very sad!" Ji Wuling hugged me, Li Qinglan knows Su Yipin too well, Li Qinglan is so sentimental, you can imagine the desolation in the heart of the Marquis who is worried about the country and the people.

"Whew! When I return to Beijing this time, I don't want any other military exploits and land, I want to apply to the emperor and come to Jiangnan to be a prefect! I said.

"Hmph, pretending to be cold on the surface, in the end, you don't want to deal with these people's unjust cases?" Zhuo Qingluo understood.

Su Yipin didn't care about the grievances of these ordinary people, but now he has no power and can't manage it! Now that he is in charge, it would be a big loss to be sent back to the fief by the emperor on the charge of exceeding his duty, he is only twenty-one years old.

"But do we really do nothing?" Although Ji Wuling grew up in the imperial palace, due to her own suffering, she often walks around the people and is very sympathetic to the plight of ordinary people.

"Miss Lingxi, Qingluo, don't worry, someone's heart is hot! He had already asked me to write quietly to Lord Feng Tianwei and Lord Lu Tianhu, one of these two people is the chief officer of the Criminal Department, and the other is the imperial historian who is not afraid of the emperor, with them to avenge the people's grievances, what are you worried about? ”

Li Qinglan smiled, this Su Yipin is still too soft-hearted, and she has sorted out all the information about the grievances of the people and handed them over to Feng Tianwei.

"What do you say about Lord Feng and Lord Lu?" I asked.

"Lord Lu didn't say anything, Lord Feng replied, he asked you to take good care of Feng Yujiao for him! He knew the dangers of clearing up along the way, but he didn't hesitate! Li Qinglan said.

(End of chapter)