Chapter 116 Aftermath (Final)
A great court meeting ended with the courtiers being killed and frightened, plus five or six begging bones to go to work. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After walking through the Ghost Gate, Jin Bao was in awe and gratitude to the emperor, and his attitude towards Chen Bangyan's matter also changed significantly, not only did he no longer insist on impeachment, but he also blamed himself for introspection, and gave the emperor a repentance and repentance.
As the leader of the speech officials, Jin Bao took the lead in the rebellion and dealt a severe blow to the speech officials, and the small group that had gathered in a hurry in a short period of time was on the verge of collapse.
Zhu Youlang didn't expect that a small trick would make Jinbao so interesting, and he reciprocated the favor, not only exempting him from the crime of capital punishment and the crime of dishonoring himself in front of the king, but also greatly praised him, and promoted him to two levels, and promoted him to the Ministry of Rites, making up for Hong Shipeng's shortcomings.
At the same time, for the remaining die-hard officials and Qingliu who still insisted on disposing of Chen Bangyan, Zhu Youlang found several reasons for them, moved them or demoted them, and transferred them out of the center.
At this point, the officials and Qingliu who opposed Chen Bangyan's actions in China lost their vitality and the small group was torn apart.
Zhu Youlang took advantage of the situation to issue an edict, instructing all the gentry and noble clan relatives who were named in Liangguang to take the initiative to return the occupied military fields to the imperial court, and the imperial court would not be responsible for their crimes, and if they did not pay it after a month, the imperial court would severely punish them according to the law and would not be lenient.
This is the aftermath of Chen Bangyan's killing of the gentry, the edict, the court and the central government are overjoyed, with the cabinet head Zhai Shiyun as the leader of the praise of the Son of Heaven and virtue, the voice of praise in one fell swoop overwhelmed the previous crusade against Chen Bangyan, the remaining rumors of the officials who are not firm in the direction of the wind are not right, either change the court, or tighten the tail, no longer jump up and down.
After a series of combination punches, a huge storm of crusade against the Xinjiang minister Chen Bangyan was finally quelled by the emperor. The Holy Oracle did not hold the land accountable, the gentry and all the officials were appeased, and the emperor's reputation was not greatly damaged.
The king of Jingjiang, who was in Guangxi, saw that Chen Bangyan did not leave his post because he was impeached by the officials, and coupled with the emperor's edict issued not long ago to take the initiative to hand over the land to be exempted, he finally had to honestly hand over the thousands of hectares of military land he had encroached upon to the governor's yamen, and was also additionally recovered the more than 100,000 taels of silver owed, although the actual amount was far more than that.
After Chen Bangyan's vigorous and resolute rectification of the guards in various places, the hereditary generals and schools were dismissed countless times, and those hereditary commanders and thousands of households had no political status because of the decline of the guard system, and the rise of the battalion system had no political status, and there was no strong party support in the line.
In just one or two months, through arrest, torture, and seizure, Chen Bangyan obtained 93,600 taels of gold, equivalent to about 1.2 million taels of silver, and more than 2.1 million taels of silver, totaling about 3.3 million taels of silver.
In addition, there are more than 45,000 stones of fine grain, 10 guards, and 20 thousand households, and a total of more than 33,000 hectares of military land, totaling about 500,000 mu.
In fact, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court strictly forbade the use of silver by the people, and it was not until the Hongzhi Dynasty that the ban was relaxed.
The real large-scale use of silver money was after the Wanli Dynasty. It was also because of the rise of Spain, which brought large quantities of high-quality silver from South America to buy Chinese tea, porcelain, and silk, which would otherwise simply not have enough precious metals to meet the growing needs of the commodity economy.
At this time, the purchasing power of one tael of silver was about 300 yuan in later generations, and the annual silver of a county official was only 45 taels. For an ordinary family of five, the annual expenses are less than ten taels.
More than 3.3 million taels of silver is equivalent to the purchasing power of one billion yuan in the nineties of the 20th century, which is an astronomical amount in an era when the per capita annual income was generally only 1,000 yuan.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was indeed a very paradoxical situation, on the one hand, the people were rich and there was a large influx of silver, but on the other hand, the government was poor, and even the emperor had to be poor as pants.
Due to the growing gap between the rich and the poor, the wealth of society is highly concentrated in a small number of powerful bureaucrats, "three years of Qing (not referring to the Qing Dynasty, it means incorruptible) prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver." It is a true portrayal of this time, and the dirty silver stolen money confiscated by Chen Bangyan is also a powerful circumstantial evidence of this sentence.
After the statistics of the recovered gold, silver and grain were completed, in addition to the relief of the victims in Guangxi, the remaining Chen Bangyan sent 2,000 guards and troops to the center through waterways and more than 400 large and small ships to immediately transport them to the center to relieve the center's financial crisis.
The remaining remnants of the old soldiers in the local guard stations were incorporated into the Tuntian Army in situ, as the first batch of reclamation teams, and the Tuntian Army directly took grain on the spot, without consuming the central food salary, which could greatly reduce the financial burden of the center.