Wu Yan's position in the Yushitai is not the highest, in addition to the imperial envoy doctor as the chief official, there are two adjutants, that is, the imperial history of the Cheng, Wu Yan is one of them, but since Xuanzong, the imperial envoy doctor is not permanent in the imperial history platform, often granted to the border town or local festival envoy concurrently, the imperial history platform is generally presided over by the two imperial history of the Cheng. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are three subordinate institutions under the Imperial History Doctor and Zhongcheng: one is the Taiwan Academy, which has jurisdiction over the imperial history; the second is the palace, which governs the history of the palace servants; The third is the procuratorate, which has jurisdiction over and supervises the imperial history. Cases related to court officials are generally handled by the Taiwan court where the imperial history is located, and the palace where the imperial history is located is generally responsible for the loss of honor of hundreds of officials above the court; The procuratorate, where the Imperial Historian is located, is generally responsible for supervising local officials.

The successive emperors all suppressed the power of the Imperial Historical Observatory very low, and the three generations of Xuanzong, Suzong, and Daizong, out of political considerations, turned a blind eye to the impeachment of the Imperial Historical Observatory in many cases, unless they dared to risk completely angering the emperor and impeached him in front of the court.

The authority of the Imperial History Observatory has been suppressed for too long, and many of the Imperial Historians have become idle officials who have been messing around, or they have been co-opted or bought by various forces, Wu Yan finally got such an opportunity to be valued by the above, where is he willing to let go, since he was ordered by Zhao Ziliang to investigate the accounts of the household department, he summoned a group of officials in the imperial history platform at the fastest speed and stationed in the household yamen.

Since the establishment of the household yamen, this is the first time that the imperial historians of the imperial history platform are stationed in the bright to check the accounts, in the past, the imperial historians generally acted secretly to collect evidence, find witnesses, exhibits, almost no imperial history will go to the face-to-face investigation of the judges, on the one hand, it is impossible to do confidentiality, on the other hand, it is afraid that the other party will respond in time to retaliate, after all, the imperial history is not protected by armed forces, and it is not easy to be found by the other party in secret, it is not easy to be retaliated against, as long as the other party's illegal facts are verified, stabbed to the court, no matter how much the other party hated it, he didn't dare to do it again.

Wu Yan was instructed by Zhao Ziliang before the action, that is, to investigate in a righteous and bright manner, which made the other party dare not retaliate, and did not dare to stop it in the open.

Everyone knows that if you want to seriously investigate the various yamen of the imperial court, no yamen can withstand the investigation, as long as you seriously investigate, you will definitely be able to find out the problem, this time the officials of the entire household department have been taken care of, Wu Zhen vented the depression accumulated in his heart in the past few years, and carried out the investigation with the fastest and most violent means, and the upright and honest people and those who bent the law for bribes were all investigated to the bottom.

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Zhao Ziliang looked at the investigation file handed over by Wu Zheng seriously, this investigation file is full of problematic household officials, if all of them are really investigated and dealt with according to law, the entire household department must completely stop operating.

Zhao Ziliang shook his head after reading it: "Judging from this investigation file, eighty percent of the officials in the household department have more or less problems, so put this aside for the time being!" Wu Yan, this king asked you, this king asked you to check the accounts of the household department, but he didn't let you check all the officials of the household department, what do you mean by bringing this investigation file? ”

Wu Yan took out a book from his sleeve again and handed it over and said: "The king wants to check the accounts of the household department, and Weichen naturally has it here, please take a look at it!" Judging from the investigation, there are huge problems in the accounts of the four offices of the household department, and the most serious is the deficit, and there are many falsifications in the accounts! Also, there is money on the account, but the money is gone! There are still 3,260,000 guan in the accounts, but the treasury only has 120,000 guan of silver, which means that there is a deficit of 3,100,000 guan! Weichen and others have not yet carefully examined the relevant accounts in question, and if they do so, there will definitely be more than 3.26 million yuan in the accounts! Of course, this is the account before the start of the investigation five days ago, the household department has a tax revenue bank every day, and there are expenditures every day, and the five days have not been verified, due to the stationing of our imperial history platform, the household department has basically stopped operating, and although the tax money transported from all over the country has been put into the treasury and registered, it has not yet been recorded! ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the contents of this book and asked, "Did anything else happen during the period when the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory were stationed in the household department?" Is everything going well? ”

Wu Zhen shook his head and said, "It's no wonder that it can go smoothly!" The day after we entered the household department, there was an internal ghost, and the internal ghost revealed some of the information we had found! That night, the next door to Weichen's bedroom caught fire, and the storage next door to the bedroom needed to be checked with the account book, but fortunately, Weichen had a premonition that the person who was investigated would definitely not sit still, so he transferred the account book to another place in advance, which saved all the account books! In addition, on the morning of the third day of entering the household investigation, the body of Zhang Changyan, the servant of the imperial history, was found under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and the day before he also reported the progress of the investigation to Weichen, but he didn't expect that it would be separated by yin and yang after only one night! Wechen rushed over to check on the body, which had been killed. Wechen had reason to suspect that someone was trying to buy him, and he was killed when he sternly refused! ”

"Hmph, these guys are so daring! Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and was furious, picked up the recital of the investigation results of the household officials and read it quickly, and said to Wu Yan: "In the future, we must strengthen the protection of all officials in the Yushitai, and when handling cases, we must adopt centralized accommodation, unified meals, and case-handling officials are not allowed to go out at will and contact with the outside world!" It is necessary to send troops to protect the case-handling officials, arrange for soldiers to stand guard at the residences of the case-handling officials, and strictly check the identities of the people who come and go, and it is not that the case-handling officials are not allowed to enter or leave the residences of the case-handling officials; in order to prevent the leakage of case-handling news, it is forbidden for the case-handling officials to go home and have contact with outsiders during the case-handling period! ”

"Yes, Weichen must pay attention in the future, and the Yushitai will also issue some relevant regulations on handling cases, but the Yushitai has the right of judicial investigation, but there is no exclusive soldier!"

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to Wu Yan: "Later, this king will issue relevant decrees, and in the future, Yushitai will handle the case, and he has the right to let any yamen assist, such as requisitioning and transferring Kuaihe and officials from the local government, and the local government officials shall not shirk and obstruct!" ”

Wu Yan was overjoyed and arched his hand: "In this way, the ministers and others can rest assured that the case will be handled boldly in the future!" ”

Zhao Ziliang held up a piece of music written on the officials of the household department under investigation and asked, "What do you think should be done with these people?" ”

This matter is too important, no matter how loyal and upright Wu Wei is, he does not dare to casually say that he wants to deal with all the officials above, because once it is seriously investigated, eighty percent of the officials in the household department will fall off the horse, so since then, the household department will be completely abolished, what should be done with taxes? What about household registration? What about warehousing in various places? What about the treasury?

Faced with Zhao Ziliang's inquiry, Wu Yan could only say: "Everything is decided by the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang picked up the brush and annotated it on the chapter, and after writing in circles, Zhao Ziliang closed the chapter and handed it to Wu Zheng, saying: "The above names are circled by the more serious circumstances, first arrest these people and put them in prison, confiscate the family property, and then inform the people who do not have wreaths on their names to gather in the hall of the household yamen tomorrow morning, and this king wants to talk to them!" ”

Wu Yan took the chapter and flipped it over, and promised: "Yes, king!" However, Liu Yan has no obvious evidence of corruption and perversion of the law, although he is in charge of the household department, but the detailed work is done by the officials below, if he is to be arrested and imprisoned, the reason and evidence are insufficient! ”

Zhao Ziliang pointed to the two pieces and said, "Do you still need his evidence?" Isn't this evidence of his dereliction of duty? The accounts of the household department are fraudulent to such an extent, and more than eighty percent of the officials are corrupt and pervert the law, is he, the secretary of the household department, not responsible at all? Lock him up first, and don't raid the house! ”

"Yes, King!"

With Liu Yan being arrested and imprisoned, there are a large number of unlucky household officials, and most of them are the main officials of the yamen subordinate to the household department.

On the sixth day of October, Zhao Ziliang went to the household department to inspect, after the investigation of the imperial history platform these days, the door of the household department seemed to be deserted, the atmosphere of the yamen seemed a little dull and dead, and the officials were a little cautious in their walking movements, lest they make a louder noise to attract the attention of the imperial historians.

None of the four directors of the household department were spared, and they were all arrested and put in prison, and only the right attendant Zhao Ruixue was still presiding over the affairs of the household department, and Zhao Ziliang's people had not yet arrived at the household department, he had already gathered all the remaining officials and officials of the household department to wait in the household hall, and when he learned that Zhao Ziliang's frame was about to arrive at the gate of the household department, he ran to meet him.

Under the guidance of Zhao Ruixue, Zhao Ziliang and his entourage came to the household hall, and the officials and officials saluted Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang walked to the main seat and sat down, and then waved his hand and said: "Get up!" ”

"King Xie!" All the household officials stood up one after another to thank them.

Zhao Ziliang looked at the officials and said: "This king has a purpose for calling you together today, the Yushitai has been stationed in the household department for a while, these days the officials of the Yushitai should be investigated, and the ones who should not be checked have also been found out, everyone present should be very clear, have you done any illegal acts, as of yesterday night, there have been many officials in the household department have been put in prison, you all know why they were arrested in prison, and why didn't you people go to eat with them?" Because your plot is much lighter than theirs, this king has thought about it for a long time, you people are officials who handle specific affairs in the household department, and you have the ability to do this thing, so this king feels that you should be given a chance to correct yourself, after this king leaves, as long as you take the initiative to explain the process to the imperial history platform, this king can not blame the past! ”

As if they had been granted amnesty, the household officials knelt down one after another and said, "Thank you, thank you!" ”