Chapter 70 Investigation Division of Military Land Occupation
Lu Xiangsheng's reputation in history is much better than that of Hong Chengchou, in the original history, Lu Xiangsheng pacified the chaos in Henan, Shaanxi, and the Ming Dynasty had the hope of completely eradicating the thieves at that time, but Liaodong was in a hurry, and in desperation, Emperor Chongzhen, who had no one to use, could only transfer Lu Xiangsheng from the internal battlefield to Liaodong, of course, this also gave the thieves a chance to breathe. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the governor's office, Li Shuo was sitting on the main seat and talking about things with Cao Dezhang, and the matter he was talking about was the case of military households selling land privately.
After Xu Mengchao and Dai Shihui got Jiang Huan's account book, they used this as evidence to summon them one by one, and all the people involved in the case were put in prison, setting off a large-scale liquidation movement in thousands of households.
"Although Jiang Huan's account book has provided many military attachés, this is only a drop in the ocean, and there are many military land sales that the government does not know, Lord Cao, what good plan do you have to recover all the land that has been occupied?" Li Shuo said softly, in fact, Li Shuo already had a charter in his heart about this matter, and asking Cao Dezhang at this time was just to see if Cao Dezhang had a different way from him and take his strengths.
"The private sale of military land, of course, is not only here, but the imperial court has set up a quartermaster department, and seeing that the grain from the east will enter my Chang'an Mansion in Shaanxi, at this critical juncture, the lower officials feel that they should be slowed down." Cao Dezhang persuaded that the matter of the Quartermaster Department was not a secret in the entire Ming Dynasty, and Cao Dezhang, as the political envoy of Shaanxi, of course got the news from Beijing at the first time.
In fact, Li Shuo and Cao Dezhang thought the same thing a few days ago, he had just come to Shaanxi, his foundation was unstable, and there were no available people, and at this juncture he forced the rich businessmen to hand over the fields and grain, but he was afraid that the people below would also be passive and slack off, and his orders would be taken as a deaf ear, but when Li Shuo learned that Zhu Youzhen had set up a quartermaster department to transport grain to Chang'an, he made up his mind to set up a case of private occupation of military land before the year, and all the grain obtained by the rich businessmen who had been embezzled for many years would be used as the official treasury.
Li Shuo is not a person who has crossed over, of course he doesn't know, in the first year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi will cause a civil uprising because of the famine, he thinks that the emperor's purpose of establishing the Quartermaster Department is to be the same as the holy decree said, dedicated to the army, he knows the emperor's difficulties, and completed the private occupation of military land before the year, on the one hand, he can solve problems for the emperor, and on the other hand, he can also prove his ability.
Therefore, after listening to Cao Dezhang's words, Li Shuo shook his head and said: "At this time, I have won many thousands of households, taking advantage of this turmoil, striking while the iron is hot, thoroughly investigating all the military fields in the territory, and the emperor set up the Quartermaster Department to raise food for the front-line soldiers, although my Shaanxi is not the same as Liaodong, but it still borders Mongolia, if one day, there is chaos, this official does not want to hear the news that there is no food in the army." Therefore, this time we must investigate to the end. ”
Cao Dezhang looked at Li Shuo so resolutely, and he couldn't say anything, pondered for a while, and said: "Since Lord Futai has made up his mind, this official will transfer out the number of acres and locations of all the military fields in my Shaanxi, and let the government officials below thoroughly investigate which fields are in the hands of thousands of households and which are in the hands of rich people, make a list, and let Lord Futai watch." ”
What Cao Dezhang said is a stupid method, and it is also the easiest way to get through the trick, who doesn't know that the local government will shelter the local rich people, if the right to investigate is handed over to them, wouldn't it give them another opportunity to bend the law for bribes.
Li Shuo nodded and said, "Lord Cao, you and I both understand one thing, which makes the officials of various prefectures and counties investigate the private occupation of military land, and the results of the investigation must be false." ”
Cao Dezhang said softly: "Although this is the case, but for a while, the lower officials can't think of any good way, so it is better to invite Lord Song and let him plan with us." At this juncture, Cao Dezhang mentioned Song Mingyi again, of course, this time it is not any bad intentions, one person is poor, Song Mingyi has been in Shaanxi for many years, and he can't put forward any different suggestions.
The cabinet's intention to reprimand Song Mingyi has reached Shaanxi, and at this time, Song Mingyi was ordered by the cabinet to be claustrophobic at home for ten days and not allowed to go out.
"Lord Song is hating this official at this time, if you want him to help this official, I'm afraid it will be difficult to go to the sky."
"Lord Futai's words are wrong, although Lord Song and Lord Futai have political disagreements on dealing with Kong Shengyi's affairs, but he is still an official of the imperial court, and doing things for the imperial court is justified, so why is it difficult?" Cao Dezhang continued, speaking of which, Cao Dezhang can't change his nature anymore, and the meaning of provocation is very obvious.
Li Shuo has never had the idea of letting Song Mingyi help him, when he came to Shaanxi, Li Shuo clearly realized that the reason why Song Mingyi sat firmly in the position of the political envoy of Shaanxi Zuobu when the eunuch party was in power was because of the local Haoqiang to help, if he wanted Song Mingyi to help him deal with the local Haoqiang, it was a bit wishful thinking.
"The official has thought about it in his heart, so he will say it and let Master Cao see if it is okay." Li Shuo didn't want to get involved too much in Song Mingyi, so he didn't follow Cao Dezhang's words.
"Lord Futai come quickly, and the lower officials will listen to you."
"This official wants Xu Mengchao Dai Shihui and the two of them, together with the criminal envoy Zhu Cheng, and the government officials to set up the military field private occupation investigation department, and then play the imperial court, by the military department, the official department, and the household department officials together into the military field private occupation investigation department, special investigation, after the wide distribution of documents and all localities, inform the rich and rich families who occupy the military land and the military households who sell the military land, and immediately go to the local government to be recorded, otherwise if it is found, it will be indispensable to a prison disaster, if you are willing to confess, deal with it lightly, issue notices and people, and call on the people to report the sale of military land, and if it is found to be true, there is a reward of five taels of silver. This official wants to clean up this stubborn disease that has plagued me in Shaanxi for many years before the year. ”
Cao Dezhang stood up and bowed and said, "The lower official is willing to help Lord Futai." ”
Li Shuo dared to make such a big move, which also meant setting an example for the whole country.
Today's Kaifeng Mansion is very different from the past, there are two or three times more soldiers at the checkpoint than in the past, and the vehicles have to be searched, and the official notice posted outside the Kaifeng City, saying that the emperor has prepared grain and grass for the front-line soldiers, and in the near future, all the grain in Kaifeng Mansion can not go out, and under the notice is also posted the cabinet of ministers on the purchase of grain.
The notice attracted a lot of people who pointed at it, and one said, "It looks like we're going to be in trouble again." ”
"That's right, the court is going to fight again, and it's us ordinary people who suffer." An old man said.
When a young man heard the old man's words, he pointed to the notice and said, "Old man, this cabinet edict is very clear, and it has nothing to do with us ordinary people to buy food from those rich and noble families." ”
The old man glanced at the young man, sighed and said: "Hey, young man, you still don't understand, the will of the court sounds good, but those rich and noble people, who is willing to sell grain to the court, in the end, if the government wants to complete the will of the above, it can only take us powerless ordinary people." ”
"But this cabinet edict clearly says that it is forbidden to buy and sell by force, if the government is persecuted, we will go to Jinyiwei to sue them, this accusation, the emperor knows about this matter."
"After this brocade guard comes down, won't he be bought by the government on our side?" After the old man finished speaking, he shook his head and walked out of the circle.
This is also a symptom of the Ming Dynasty now, the people no longer trust the government and the court, so after Li Zicheng broke out of Shaanxi, he never lacked soldiers, just because there were too many people persecuted by the government.
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