Chapter 218: Accumulation of Wealth
Wei Liangde confessed everything he knew, explained it very clearly, and knew everything and said everything. He even has an account book, which records in detail the money he has helped Zhu Dadian take care of over the years, Zhu Dadian has a lot of trust in Wei Liangde, and almost all the black and white items go through Wei Liangde's hands.
Liu Yunsheng immediately wrote a secret letter to Liu Jun, reporting all the situation in Beijing, especially Wei Liangde's situation. The letter was originally sent to Cao Huachun's hands, and he planned to take the fast channel to the emperor's court, but Cao Huachun got Liu Jun's silver, and he didn't present it to the emperor at all, but directly transferred it to Liu Qiao, which was regarded as a return for Liu Jun.
In addition, in the letter, Liu Yunsheng also told Liu Jun that Wei Liangde's account book was in Wei Liangde's residence in Yunyang.
The secret letter was sent back quickly, but it was delivered to Liu Jun in a few days. After seeing the letter, Liu Jun was also relieved to see that the situation on the Jingshi side was fine. On the same day, he sent a few people to Wei Liangde's residence and got the important account book.
After carefully checking Wei Liangde's account book, Liu Jun was surprised to find that Zhu Dadian was known as a huge greed, and he was also greedy for the name of a rich country. According to Wei Liangde's records, Zhu Dadian has been embezzling countless people for more than 20 years.
Especially during his governor Caoyun's inspection of Fengyang Prefecture, because he was in charge of Caoyun, he was even more corrupt. Zhu Dadian not only used his hands and feet to deal with the grain that was exported from the south of the Yangtze River to the north, but also embezzled a large amount of grain by means of new exchanges, fake accounts, drifting, and robbery, but also embezzled a large amount of other materials from the south of the Yangtze River through the canal in his jurisdiction, such as silk and cloth.
Moreover, he also deducted the same military salary, and for the soldiers and horses under his jurisdiction, he directly deducted four to six silver dollars per month for each soldier. And many soldiers were paid between one and a half to two taels of silver a month, and about one-third of them were directly deducted by him. Ordnance and rations, he also has to do it.
In addition, he had to go through local taxes, grain collections, etc., and even set up many clever names to loot.
Coupled with his direct selling of officials, soliciting bribes, etc., this guy embezzled a huge amount of money in that rich place in Jiangbei, and for more than 20 years, Zhu Dadian really embezzled millions of two fortunes and bought property and land in his hometown of Zhejiang. He even took out a large amount of money to Fujian and Guangdong to do a loan business, and specially lent the money to those maritime merchants to collect huge profits.
This kind of corrupt ability really amazed Liu Jun.
What amazes Liu Jun the most is that this guy has been greedy for more than 20 years, but nothing has happened until now.
After reading the ledger, Liu Jun put it away with the materials written by Wei Liangde.
This is a trump card against Zhu Dadian, but he doesn't plan to use it for the time being. Liu Jungang added the title, and the emperor appreciated the minister's praise. Falling out with Zhu Dadian at this time didn't do him much good. What he wants is to be able to control Zhu Dadian, not to fall out with Zhu Dadian. Otherwise, Zhu Dadian would have to fall. But there must be another governor from above.
Liu Jun finally arranged some people, but secretly verified what Wei Liangde had confessed.
After arranging these, Liu Jun now feels that he is already sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai in Yunyang.
"Go to the yamen!" Liu Jun called his own soldiers and ordered them to prepare horses.
When Liu Jun came to patrol the yamen. Inspector Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin, the supervisor of the army, were busy with a group of officials in a pile of copywriting.
"Master Hou came just in time." As soon as Liu Jun sat down, Huang Daozhou put a pile of files in front of Liu Jun.
"What is this?"
"Proof!" Huang Daozhou's face was angry, "I really don't know if I don't check." I was shocked when I checked it. Not only was the more than 300,000 mu of military tun in the garrison occupied by the officers of the garrison long ago, but after they encroached on these tuntians, they had been making false accounts all these years, and only a small part of the grain that should have been handed over was handed over, and there should have been more than 200,000 stone of grain in the garrison grain depot on the books, but in fact it was all on the books, and there was not even 1,000 stone of grain in the grain depot. ”
"There are also the ordnance, mules and horses of the guard, etc., and the money pulled out by the imperial court, as well as the ordnance and mules and horses that were pulled out, are all gone."
"The guards are divided into seven fields, two are divided into city guards, and there are more than 5,000 guards in one guard, but in fact, only a small number of officers are left, and the rest have all become tenant farmers of the officers."
"It's rotten to the roots!"
Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin are both righteous officials, who have always been officials in the court, and later were demoted to the local area, so they saw the extent of local erosion, but after investigating Yunyangwei's military tun this time, they learned that what they had found before was just the tip of the iceberg.
"All these military officers should be killed, a bunch of rats!"
Liu Jun casually flipped through some files, and sure enough, the situation was extremely bad, those officers of the guard station not only made false accounts, but even didn't bother to bother to make fake accounts seriously, and if they looked at the past, they could find that there were many loopholes.
"It's time to clean up the guard." Liu Jun sighed, and then said to Yang and Huang, "I have good news for you, some time ago, I played to Your Majesty, talked about the erosion of the local military station, and proposed to rectify the pilot project in Yunyang. The emperor has officially approved and agreed that our Yunyang Town will clean up and rectify the guard, and the emperor will let Governor Zhu lead the matter, and then Huang Xun will investigate according to the main investigation, and Deputy Envoy Yang will cooperate with a certain assistance. ”
Hearing that Liu Jun had actually made a request to try to rectify and clean up the military station in Yunyang, and the emperor had already approved it, Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin couldn't help but be very pleased. In fact, the imperial court has long known that the guard is rotten, but this big sore has been allowed to rot like that for many years. If you don't pick it and don't smell it, it's not a rotten sore.
The court deceived itself and pretended not to see it, and no one in the local area was willing to pick on this rotten sore.
Now, Liu Jun, the marquis who is receiving the favor of the saint, has raised this matter, and even Emperor Chongzhen has pinned hopes on Liu Jun, hoping that he can really find some solutions in this matter.
However, when Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin heard that Zhu Dadian was the commander of this matter, they couldn't help but shake their heads, and said with disdain, "Let Governor Zhu be the commander-in-chief, I'm afraid that there will be more than enough success." ”
"If Governor Zhu reaches in, I'm afraid that he won't be able to take the opportunity to make money."
Governor Zhu's reputation for corruption is too loud, Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin have been officials in the same city as Zhu Dadian for a short time, and they have already learned how powerful this guy is at scraping the ground.
Yang Tinglin took a post from the table next to him and threw it in front of Liu Jun, "You see, I just received it, Zhu Futai is going to celebrate his sixtieth birthday, and he invited countless guests to celebrate his birthday." Not only the officials in Yunyang received the posts, but even the officials of the prefectures and counties in Qizhou, which were thousands of miles away in Chongqing, and in addition, the squires, landlords, and merchants in Yunyang also received the invitations, and it is said that 3,000 posts were posted. ”
Anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that this is Zhu Dadian who wants to make money in the name of his birthday.
"Do you know, as far as I know, Zhu Dadian is only fifty-seven this year, and he will only be fifty-eight after a while, and even according to custom, he will be fifty-nine years old and sixty years old.
Of course, there is a difference between fifty-eight and fifty-nine, fifty-eight can only be regarded as an ordinary birthday, while fifty-nine is a big birthday. For a big birthday, it must be a big gift.
Yang Tinglin was also dissatisfied, "As soon as Zhu Dadian came to Yunyang, he received a ceremony after eating the reception. Then he set up a lot of wine banquets, held two house relocation banquets, three concubine banquets, and even got sick five times, and his parents also had two birthdays, and his wife had a birthday, three engagement banquets for his grandchildren, and he gave himself two new aliases, and also held two wine banquets, and last time he also gave his grandson a table and held another banquet. ”
Yang Tinglin was extremely disgusted with Zhu Dadian's behavior of holding a banquet in various names, and then collecting gifts.
moved into the official office to live, held a relocation banquet, moved from the east chamber to the west chamber, and held a warm house banquet. Pretending to be sick, and then asking people to give gifts, waiting for two days, they said that they were well, and they would hold another banquet and receive another gift. Parents and wives and concubines and children grandchildren are born on the day of their birthdays, holding a banquet to receive gifts, and even to the grandchildren to invite Mr., also holding a banquet to receive gifts, father and son have accepted three concubines, and three banquets have received three gifts, okay, but also to change their own number, to the grandson to take the table, but also to hold a banquet to receive gifts, called congratulatory words
Zhu Dadian has not been in Yunyang for a long time, but the banquet of this patrol yamen is continuous, once every three days, once every five days, each time you have to do it, all kinds of invitations are flying all over the sky, and the people who receive the posts are all complaining, not to come, not to give gifts, and not to give less.
Now Zhu Dadian is going to celebrate his 60th birthday, and this is a big gift.
Liu Jun also saw Zhu Dadian's shameless means of collecting money, so every time he said that he was not available, or he was ill, and every time he only sent someone to send a pair of words, and it was all written by Liu Jun himself.
However, the zodiac week is even more absolute, every time he receives a post, he must go, and then every time he goes empty-handed, saying that he is temporarily owed.
And Yang Tinglin also refused, every time he went, and after he went, he sent a note, on which he wrote ten taels of gift money and made a white note.
Because Liu Jun and Huang Yang are both of high status, Zhu Dadian has no way to deal with them, but the other subordinate officials and squires and businessmen under his rule can only grit their teeth and send real money again and again.
"Don't worry, this time to clean up the guard's military camp, Zhu Dadian will never stretch his hand into it indiscriminately, let's let it go and prepare to do it." Liu Jun said confidently.
Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin will both be suspicious, such a good opportunity, will Zhu Dadian reach out? Isn't that harder than getting a dog to stop eating? But no matter what, they won't give up halfway because of this, and then it's a big deal to fight against Zhu Dadian. (To be continued......)