Chapter 142: The First Trial of Cleaning Up the Salt Administration
"The ministers don't notice, the ministers are guilty, please punish the emperor!" The ministers knelt down and pleaded guilty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Most of the ministers are former ministers in the pre-emperor period, and there are many things to do, and it is basic common sense to observe words and looks, and they all know in their hearts that the emperor is probably going to open a knife on this Zhang Lin, and now I am afraid that he is ready to go.
"It's just a small Changlu salt farm, or in the vicinity of Jingshi, at the foot of me, there is already a blatant collusion between officials and businessmen, profiteering, and arrears of taxes to the national treasury, this kind of behavior is no different from the moth of the country! I will never tolerate adultery, and I will strictly investigate and punish it. Emperor Rong Jing himself was talking, and he was talking about his anger more and more, if he didn't consider insulting Sven, he would simply have to scold to vent his anger.
The poor jingle of being the emperor himself, there is no money to send troops, and the following salt merchant is corrupt a huge amount, amassing a lot of money, and the family is already corrupt and flowing oil, and deliberately defaulting on taxes to the court, which is unbearable!
"Chang Quan, pass these two folds to all the adults!" Emperor Rongjing said majestically.
The people in the court circulated in turn, occasionally nodding, shaking their heads, frowning, wiping their sweat, etc., and their reactions were different.
"Do you have any objections?" Emperor Rongjing looked around and asked questions to the ministers. The intention is obvious, if you have any opinions, hurry up and mention them, don't say it later, arrange for you to jump out one by one.
It is true that some ministers have the idea of interceding, but looking at the emperor's posture, for the sake of multiple sources of silver, it is not cost-effective to hard-top the emperor! It's a big deal to fall into the Zhang family, there will be the Li family and the Ma family, and their official hats are stable, so why worry about who will do it! Filial piety and money are naturally indispensable, and they will not be able to get ahead.
This Zhang Lin is a subordinate of the previous dynasty, and it can be seen at this time that a little dignity was given by the first emperor, and now it is also a face to the first emperor, and an identity, in the end, the foundation is still shallow, and there is no important relationship between the court and the court, and no one helps to speak!
Emperor Rong Jing saw that no one jumped out to object, and he was also satisfied, and then said, "I see that all the ministers have no objections, so the criminal department Shangshu Charqi, the capital of the Imperial Palace, Cai Ruzhong, and the Dali Temple, Feng Zhengqi. ”
The three officials who were ordered by the emperor all came out together: "The ministers are here!" ”
"The three of you are responsible for a thorough investigation of this case, and the people involved in this case must also be strictly investigated and punished, and they must not be tolerated and let go, recover the tax arrears, and confiscate the profits from the sale of illicit salt." Emperor Rong Jing gave an order to the three of them, and the tone of the matter was set at once.
"Yes, we will handle it impartially." Three people should go down.
Chang Quande was signaled by the emperor and preached, "There is a morning music, and there is no retreat!" ”
Everyone was still reminiscing about Zhang Lin, but no one responded.
Chang Quan saw that no one came out of the ranks, so he said "retreat from the dynasty"!
Emperor Rongjing left satisfied, and the reactions of the princes and ministers were mixed. It can be said that a few families are happy and a few are sad!
The most worrying thing about this matter, in addition to the Zhang family, who was pitted by his son and was about to fall, was the Changlu Salt Transport Envoy in Tianjin. The envoy and his subordinates, deputy envoys, judges, and others, these people are not greedy, but a person who is not well supervised and ruled is not strict enough for everyone to eat, not to mention that it is difficult to have an innocent person. But where can these people get the news so quickly now, naturally they don't know that disaster is coming.
And the happiest to benefit is probably the old acquaintance of Cai Yushi and Lei Zhizhou.
No matter what the starting point of the two is, in Emperor Rong Jing's view, this is interesting, knowing and understanding their own difficulties, and finding ways to solve them, such courtiers are better than old ministers who blame each other.
Emperor Rong Jing was happy in his heart, and he also had some consideration for the positions of the two.
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The three of them, including Chaerqi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Cai Ruzhong, the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Feng Zhengqi, the secretary of the Dali Temple, began to conduct a joint investigation and trial of the three divisions of the cases of Zhang Lin and Zhang Xun.
And Lei Xing's mood in Tianjin also relaxed, and it was done!
Because he also received the news of the emperor's thorough investigation of the matter, as well as the holy decree of the sealing: Tianjin Zhizhou Lei Xing is a real government for the people, upright, discerning, and straightforward, and appointed as the right of the Imperial History of the Imperial Court of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to assist in the investigation of Zhang Lin's case of illegal salt, recover the salt tax owed by Tianjin salt merchants over the years, clean up illegal salt merchants and officials, and purge Tianjin Salt Administration!
This reward and appointment is not unimportant, from the foreign appointment from the fifth grade Tianjin Zhizhou, the official to the fourth grade of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Right Tuo Du Yushi, this is not a simple promotion to three levels. Many astute officials have smelled the unusual.
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Zhang Xun, the son of the pit father, came out of Zhang's mansion and acted immediately to investigate the matter, and he must arrest the person who instigated this matter behind him, and take revenge fiercely!
"Dare to be behind the scenes, teach you to be a man first!" This is Zhang Xun's heart.
In terms of actual action, we must start from leaving the Zhang Mansion, Zhang Xun left the Zhang Mansion and did not return to Tianjin, such a thing is directly handed over to Daniel Zhang to do, and it can still be done to investigate something in Tianjin! Just look at who went to the governor to report to the official? Where are the rescued people settled? The people involved in the whole thing can figure it out, and they will definitely not be able to escape.
Zhang Xun was drunk yesterday, and was disturbed again, and then rushed back to Beijing, and now he has to find a place to rest and rest. The pleasant building of the eight alleys is good, go and see if there are any newcomers, so as to comfort it! took the next family and went straight to the Yiqing Building.
The next morning, when Emperor Rongjing was discussing the case of Zhang Lin and Zhang Xun, Zhang Xun also got the relevant people about his own affairs, which were Lin Yuzhi and Cai Mao of Yuelu Academy, and Lei Zhizhou, who begged him to go and search. Pity the forgotten housekeeper of the one-acre garden, only to be told that the master knew that he was taken away by Lei Zhizhou.
The first thing Zhang Xun thought about was naturally how to teach Lin Yuzhi and the others a lesson, and as for other things, they could be left to deal with later.
In view of the special status of Lin Yuzhi and the others, Zhang Xun also learned to be smart, did not clash with them head-on, called his henchman Daniel Zhang, and confessed in his ear: "You go find a ruffian together, give them more silver, let them keep an eye on these two people for me, seize the opportunity, and ruthlessly repair these two boys who don't know the height of the sky!" ”
"Alas, young master Takami! You have a great idea! In addition, that Zeng Dahai, young master, what to do with that guy? This is a pirate, I already know the little one, do you want to teach him a lesson? How about trying to snatch his sister back? Hey! Daniel Zhang said again, his eyes full of flattery.
Zhang Xun smiled proudly, knocked on the head of his henchman, and said confidently, "Why bother us with this person, I only poke out what this person did, then Lei Zhizhou will have to slap himself in the face and ask this bandit again." By then, his sister won't be able to catch it! ”
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