Seeing that a group of merchants were so enthusiastic about publishing their names in the Beijing newspapers, Lang Ting, the governor of Liangjiang, was naturally secretly overjoyed, and Zhenwu had a secret order for him to set up a 'Ning Bao' in Jiangning, originally he thought that this 'Ning Bao' was a money-losing business, but now it seems that it was a big mistake, and the income of the two firms could be recovered by casually publishing it, and if it was published all year round, the income would be extremely considerable, even if it was to hand over the income, it would be able to intercept a considerable amount.

After finalizing the number of donations from Yangzhou salt merchants, Lang Tingji hurried back to Jiangning, and must urge the following officials to report to Jiangning as soon as possible, of course, it is also necessary to mobilize the gentry and merchants of Liangjiang to donate money for the spring drought in the north, Jiangnan is known as the richest place in the world, if the amount of the donation is not as good as Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian and other places, it will become a joke, at least one charge of indoctrination cannot be escaped, if there is an impeachment of the imperial history, he should also take the initiative to resign.

The newly appointed governor of Jiangsu, Wan Yan Haifeng, was not idle, at the beginning of the car several rounds a day, turning in circles to accept the banquet of the local gentry and celebrities, one is familiar with the people's feelings, and the other is to take the opportunity to encourage everyone to donate, Zhenwu ascended the throne and changed the yuan to suffer from a great drought, and issued an order to avoid the northern provinces from the disaster of the whole year's money and grain, if the use of national funds is too much, even if the relief is effective, it is not immune to criticism, only to raise more disaster relief silver, in order to reduce the pressure on Zhenwu.

Although a group of salt merchants and merchants in Jiangnan are enthusiastic to donate, but a group of gentry need to be mobilized, as for reputation, Wanyan Haifeng can't scruple at all now, as long as Zhenwu consolidates the throne, there is a chance to save his reputation in the future, besides, his identity is embarrassing in the officialdom, with the reputation of a national uncle, the errand is done, that is a matter of course, the errand is done, and the comment of a straw bag uncle is ready-made. Zhenwu suddenly promoted him from the prefect of Songjiang to the governor of Jiangsu, and he was already privately discussed, and he didn't care about others talking about a few more words.

The most enthusiastic donation in the whole south of the Yangtze River is Shanghai, and Shanghai's prosperity today is entirely due to Zhenwu, the army building workshop, and the ocean-going trade fleet. The opening of the port, the monopoly of cotton cloth and the export of raw silk and other measures have made the county seat of Shanghai develop rapidly and prosperous in just a few years, and have also attracted a large number of wealthy businessmen and tycoons to gather here.

As soon as he saw the Beijing newspaper calling for donations, and that the amount of donations should be publicized in the Beijing newspapers, he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to expand Shanghai's reputation, and immediately invited Shanghai's gentry, celebrities, and wealthy businessmen together with Zha Siting, Zhang Yuanlong, Tang Degui, and others, the prefect of Songjiang. Call on everyone to donate money, not only to do good deeds but also to make a modest contribution to expanding Shanghai's reputation.

Although Shanghai is prosperous now, after all, it has not risen for a long time, and when it comes to fame, it is far inferior to Jiangning, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and even Guangzhou. Everyone understands this simple truth, so this initiative has been put forward as soon as it is proposed. The gentry, especially the wealthy businessmen, responded to this and strongly supported it.

The land of the two rivers is not only rich but also the center of the south of the Yangtze River, and this upsurge of donations soon spread to all directions, and the local feudal officials and businessmen of Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Lianghu all followed suit, and the businessmen sought fame, and the officials sought the favor of Zhenwu.

The thorough inventory of the granaries in Jingshi and Tongzhou was completed in only six days, and the deficit of grain and the shoddy grain that was basically inedible amounted to 1,120,000 stones. There were more than 300 warehouse officials and officials involved in the smuggling and fraud, and 56 grain merchants in Beijing were implicated.

Wang Luo, the minister of the upper study, the left deputy capital Yu Shitian Congdian, Li Xusheng, the waiter of the criminal department, Zhang Zhidong, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and Wang Yuanqi, the waiter of the household department, were all frightened and looked at each other when they saw the amount of money counted, and the results were reported truthfully. It will immediately cause an earthquake in the officialdom of the capital division, and I don't know how many people will be implicated. …,

According to the data on the account books of each warehouse, all the grain storage in Jingshi and Tongzhou is only more than 7.82 million stones, and the loss is 1.12 million stones, which is already close to 200 percent, and there are more than 300 warehouse officials and officials with a total of more than 400 people who engage in personal fraud.

I don't know how Zhenwu will react when he sees this statistical result, Wang Luo and the five people are a little uneasy, if Zhenwu is angry and angry, several of them report can be said to bear the brunt, but even if they know that they will suffer an unwarranted disaster, they don't have the courage to hide it, and after a little discussion, the five of them hurried into the palace.

Seeing the final results, Zhenwu was not angry, groaned slightly, and then lightly ordered: "Xuan a few ministers of the study to meet you." Then he glanced at the five people and said, "Excuse me, give a seat." ”

Seeing that Zhenwu was not expected to be angry, Wang Luo and the five people couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly sat down, but they were secretly surprised in their hearts, such a big deficit, so many officials were greedy for official food, this master was not angry at all, this cultivation is really unparalleled.

The minister of the upper study is now Zhang Pengxi, Xiao Yongzao, and Ma Qi, and Zhenwu summoned him, so he hurried over, and after entering the palace to salute, Zhenwu also gave a seat as usual, and then said: "The results of a thorough investigation of the Jingshi and Tongzhou granaries have come out, with a total loss of 1.12 million stones, more than 300 warehouse officials and officials involved in the case, and more than 50 grain merchants in Beijing. ”

As soon as I heard this huge loss and so many officials involved in the case, several ministers of the study room were nervous in their hearts, and the loss of grain fell second, but more than one million taels of silver, Zhenwu was rich, and the court was now rich, and he could afford it, but the number of warehouse officials and officials who engaged in fraud was too large, accounting for eighty percent, which was really a bit appalling, and the study also had an unshirkable responsibility for this.

Thinking slightly, Zhang Pengxi bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the top priority is to prepare for disaster relief, the grain storage in Beijing and Tongzhou is about 8 million stones, and the rice has been distributed in advance, and hundreds of thousands of stone official grain have been used to level the grain, and now there is a loss of more than 1 million stones, so the storage is more than 4 million stones.

Although the relief grain from Nanyang, Shanghai and other places can arrive at the end of the month, it means that it will go to Tianjin, and enter Beijing at least in early March, but now the number of displaced people in Beijing is doubling every day, and the more than 4 million stone grain is stored, and Weichen is worried that the people's hearts will be unstable. ”

Hearing Zhang Pengxi's words, Ma Qi couldn't help but be secretly anxious, isn't this a deliberate attempt to fan the flames, so many officials are engaged in personal fraud and embezzled official food, which is already extremely tricky, this is not enough food, isn't it even worse? At that moment, he bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the relief victims can immigrate to Su, the Tianjin Haihe River Project is huge, and the relief grain also arrives in Tianjin first, so you can organize the displaced people to go to Tianjin, which can not only work for relief but also reduce the pressure on the Beijing Division." ”

Zhang Pengxi immediately said: "Your Majesty, how can Tianjin's grain storage be compared to the capital?" Now that Tianjin is only barely supporting, how can it transfer displaced people again? ”

Xiao Yongzao continued: "Every time there is hunger, the people of Beijing are all storing grain to tide over the famine, after these few days of rushing to buy grain, the people of Beijing have already stored enough rations for one season, and a group of officials and soldiers have only distributed seasonal grain, these four million warehouses can be used to help the victims, and the slaves steal that there are four million stone grain to help the victims, and there is no problem in supporting it for a year, and there is no tension in the slightest." ”

Seeing this situation, Wang Luo also intervened, and said bluntly: "Every time there is a famine, people are panicked, and the amount of grain in the warehouse is so huge, once the news comes out, it will inevitably cause great panic among the people and the victims. ”…,

Hearing this, the house was full of silence and immediately fell into the needle, and confiscated the property of the warehouse officials and officials who engaged in fraud to recover the deficit and said that it was a bit too much, and everyone here knew in their hearts that behind these grain merchants were a group of princes and nobles, and this was a word to offend people in death.

Glancing at the four of them, Zhenwu was also silent, he also felt that Wang Zong's proposal was a bit excessive, the princes and nobles of the banners had just handed over their military power, and it was not appropriate to do too much at this time, but the deficit of grain must be made up, although the Beijing division was not short of food, but this group of grain merchants could not be easily let go, the situation of corruption in the warehouse was so serious, it was necessary to take this opportunity to carry out a thorough rectification of the official warehouse, Changping position, righteous warehouse, and community warehouse all over the country, if the rectification of the Beijing division was anticlimactic, then the place would be even more unbearable.

After pondering for a long time, Zhen Wucai said in a deep voice: "Quickly try a group of corrupt warehouse officials and officials, and those who embezzle more than 10,000 stone will be punished by the Ming Dynasty, confiscated their family property, and sent their families to Ningguta and the armored people as slaves." Those with a quantity of more than 5,000 stone will have their property confiscated and their families will be exiled to Australia, those with more than 1,000 will be dismissed from their posts, and those with less than 1,000 will be ordered to make restitution and dismissed.

The grain merchants who colluded with the warehouse officials and officials found out the illegal gains and ordered them to return three times, and the grain must be converted into silver, and the grain price must be converted according to the official grain price of Pingguang. ”

Hearing this, everyone's hearts were tight, embezzlement of tens of thousands of stones will be punished, I am afraid that dozens of heads will fall to the ground, Zhenwu has just ascended the throne and changed the yuan, this is a big bad luck, is muttering how to persuade it, Zhenwu continued: "Concurrently serve as the governor of the warehouse field squire Fu Ning'an, demoted to five levels, fined for one year, the warehouse squire Tang Desheng was dismissed, and the embezzlement was found and then convicted separately." The head of the household, Shangshu Ka Mintu, was demoted to three levels and retained. As he spoke, he glanced at the four ministers in the upper study.

Zhang Pengxi, Xiao Yongzao, Ma Qi, and Wang Luo all knew it, and quickly knelt down, and when they saw this situation, Tian Congdian and Li Xusheng dared to sit down, and immediately knelt down.

Zhenwu groaned slightly, and said: "In Gyeonggi, the warehouse is heavy, and there is such a shocking case, and the ministers in the study have nothing to investigate, and they will all be fined for one year. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )