Chapter 88 Disposition

"Your wishful thinking is good, you can advance or retreat, and you don't lose on both sides. But have you ever thought that there will be today? Yue Su asked flatly.

"To be honest, I really didn't expect it to be today. The Ming Dynasty has reached this point, and it is really rare to have officials like adults. Fan is now losing, losing with nothing, not only to take his own life, but also the life of his family. I thought that I wouldn't lose money in the transaction, but I lost so badly, maybe this is my life. Fan Yongdou shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said: "If the adults want to know something, they don't need to be punished, just listen to me slowly, they should have recruited almost, maybe I can add a little bit." ”

At the moment, Fan Yongdou did not hesitate, and now he was entrusted by Huang Taiji to buy military supplies, and then began to explain the matter of giving gifts to officials. Should I say it or not, this person's memory is really good, his brain is like a living account book, how much money was sent to which official, and even what day it was sent, he can tell it clearly.

Yue Su secretly admired, he had never seen such a good memory, he had never seen such a skill, it was really like Zhang Song in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Zhang Song is not a good person, he sells for glory and is greedy, but this Fan Yongdou in front of him is very similar to Zhang Song, collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and being greedy. Is it true that all the people in the world who have never forgotten are like this?

Fan Yongdou began to confess in the afternoon, but there were so many things he had to say, it took a whole hour, and by the time he finished speaking, it was already too late. The content of his confession happens to be a synthesis of the previous seven people, and it seems that the boss is the boss, and he knows a lot more than others.

Let Fan Yongdou sign and detain, and then start to interrogate Cui Jingrong, the governor of Xuanda, Mi Zhihuan, the chief soldier and others, they have all been tried, and this time they came to the court, and they only went through the motions.

It was nearly evening, and the case was completely tried, Yue Su took the confession and took a sedan chair to the Forbidden City, asking to see the emperor.

Zhang Yan asked Yue Su to see the driver, and took the little emperor to the imperial study to wait first. Yue Su arrived at the imperial study, greeted first, Zhu Ciyan let Yue Su exempt him, looked at the seat, and said politely, Yue Su told the process of the trial and presented the confession.

Of course, the confession had to be seen by Zhang Yan, and after Zhang Yan read it, he said: "I didn't expect that this case of businessmen collaborating with the enemy would involve so many court officials. Yue Qing's family, what do you think this case should do? ”

"There is merit and reward, there is a punishment, and the law is enforced like a mountain, impartial." Yue Su replied.

"Well......" Zhang Yan nodded and said, "What Aiqing said is very true. All the officials involved in the case were handed over to Aiqing for examination and determination, and the officials involved in the case from other provinces were immediately sent to arrest and bring them to justice. ”

"Obey." Yue Su responded, and then arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, in addition to involving the officials of the imperial court, this case also involves many eunuchs, who are the people who serve the emperor, and it is inconvenient for the ministers to try it in person, so please ask the emperor to handle it." ”

"What Aiqing said is very true, in this way, let Zou Yi order Dongchang to go to get people and convict them." Zhang Yan said.

"Your Majesty. The hour is not early today, and if there is nothing else, the minister will retire. Yue Su got up and said.

"Okay, Aiqing go back." Zhang Yan said.

"The minister retired."

Yue Su entered the palace this time, and he didn't say much, except for explaining the case, he handed over the errand of trying the prison troops in various places openly. The case of the prison army, if he wants to try it together, it is not impossible, and the queen mother can't say anything, but he didn't do it, and directly handed it over to the queen mother. Yue Su could guess that the Queen Mother would definitely let Zou Yi do it. If it is handled by Zou Yi, there will not be much purge in the palace, and it will not make the Queen Mother too nervous.

Leaving the palace, Yue Su still did not return to the house, but still arrived at the yamen of the criminal department. All the officials of the Criminal Department were assembled, and an order was given to start taking people from now on, but all officials who made famous confessions, whether they were from Beijing or other provinces, were brought to the Criminal Department for interrogation. Eight Jin merchants, the whole family, young and old, regardless of gender, all took it, and the family property was confiscated, and the matter was handed over to the governor of Shanxi and Wu Rumeng, the general judge of Taiyuan.

Why don't you let the Taiyuan prefect, but let Wu Rumeng do it, this is because the Taiyuan prefect and the Taiyuan Tongzhi are both on the list, so you don't need to handle the case, just go to the capital to wait for trial.

In such a big case, even if the trial begins, it will take a while, and the first person to be tried must be an official in Beijing, is it close?

Lord Yue ascended to the court, I don't understand what case is tried, and if you want to quibble, can you argue with Lord Yue? As soon as the family's property was copied out, where did you get so much silver? To put it mildly, if the family property is less than 10,000 taels, Lord Yue can treat you as innocent and let you go directly, but no. But all the officials who can let Jin merchants give gifts, all of them have real power, and several officials in these positions can be honest. Raiding the family, the family fortune started with 50,000 taels of silver, these officials were irrefutable, and could only honestly confess.

A few days passed, and the case was almost tried. Yue Su entered the palace again to face the saint and ask the emperor for an order, how to deal with it. Yue Su is on the eunuch's side, and he has already given the queen mother, and he will no longer ask about it, and the queen mother will solve it by herself.

There are really a lot of officials to be killed this time, the Queen Mother asked Yue Su to make her own decision, and she also has the meaning of not offending people, and the black-faced ones will let Yue Su sing alone. Yue Su was not ambiguous, immediately received the order, and said his plan. Yue Su decided in this way, Fan Yongdou and other eight Jin merchants, Ling Chi, exterminated the nine clans. Tian Xiu, the deputy general of Zhangjiakou, was beheaded in half, because he was Tian Shenglan's nephew and belonged to the category of the nine clans, so the whole family had to be killed. Cui Jingrong, the governor of Xuanda, had a good attitude when he recited his confession, beheaded him, and confiscated his family property. Mi Zhihuan, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, was beheaded, confiscated the family property, the male in the family was filled with the army, and the female dependents were sent to the teaching department. Here, Cui Jingrong's crime should be heavier than him, but the reason why the sentence is lighter than him is that in addition to the fact that Cui Jingrong did not meet Yue Su at that time, there is another reason, that is, Cui Jingrong is a civil official.

The king of the military department was in Jin, and the Xuanfu was assigned to fill the army, and all the family property was confiscated. Liu Zongzhou, a cabinet scholar, was assigned to Datong to fill the army, and all his family property was confiscated; Bai Yu, a member of the Cabinet University, was assigned to the Xuanfu Army, and all his family property was confiscated. These three should be the most greedy among the officials in Beijing, but the Ming Dynasty system is there, and these officials in the cabinet, except for rebellion, will rarely be killed, and the crime of corruption can only be confiscated. This is already a terrible sentence, and sometimes, at most, it is dismissed and returned to the hometown.

These three officials below the adult level are not so good, and Yue Su gave them two sentences in the same class. Those with less than 100,000 taels of property shall be confiscated into the army, and those with more than 50,000 taels shall be beheaded. But in any case, the family property must be confiscated. For family members, if it is less than 50,000 taels, only men will serve in the army, and young sons will be exempted; If there are more than 100,000 taels, all the men will be recruited into the army, and the female dependents will also be sent to the education department.

To tell the truth, there are not many people with a family property of less than 50,000 taels, and if they are officials in Beijing, they will either be fat and oily, or they will be poor and die. Since he is a corrupt official, and he has been an official for so many years, who has not been greedy for tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Zhang Yan complied with all of them, and asked Yue Su to draft his own decree, and then went to Zou Yi to stamp the big seal, and then he could implement it. For a time, the treasury was filled unprecedentedly, and the heads cut off outside the noon gate could be loaded with dozens of baskets.

Those who have done so will be punished, and those who have meritorious service will be rewarded. Of course, Yue Su's merit is the first, but Lord Yue has no way to seal it, but Empress Dowager Zhang also has a way, and ordered Ruan Aoyue to be named the lady of the first grade, reward Luan Jinxia, and give 50,000 taels of silver. Feng Yuesu is the doctor of Fengyi.

What kind of official is Dr. Bong? It is a loose official nature, has no real power, is equivalent to an honorary official position, and has only five grades. But don't underestimate this official, generally speaking, you don't change a waiter, because this is the recognition of the Ming Dynasty for you, and you are given a long-term meal ticket. To put it bluntly, this official position is hereditary, and Yue Su's descendants can inherit it from generation to generation.

So why do you give a five-grade product? And Yue Su doesn't match now. But the Queen Mother thinks so, you are only in your thirties, and you have already been promoted to the position of second assistant and Taibao, and we will have to seal it slowly in the future, and we can't seal it for you all at once. When you retire, at least you have to add a princess, a hereditary official position, and give you a Zhongfeng doctor or Ronglu doctor, and that's it. You are conscientious and conscientious for the old Zhu family, and the old Zhu family will not treat you badly, so that your children and grandchildren will have official positions.

As for the rewards of other people, it will be handled together with the filling of the vacancies of the slain officials.

When everyone thought that Yue Su would give all the good vacancies to his own people, Lord Yue unexpectedly said that the officials themselves would draw them up first.

Qi Shijiao was taken aback, he never expected Lord Yue to be like this, but after thinking about it, there is still a Yang Yishan in the ministry, and Yue Su must have asked Yang Yishan to come forward and fight for the position for his own people. According to Yue Su's prestige at this moment, Qi Shijiao did not have the courage to fight with Yang Yishan, and this time they were all ready to compromise.

But everything was so unexpected, that afternoon, Yang Yishan came to the office of the officials of the Qi Shijiao and presented a list to the Qi Shijiao. In this list, the names of the officials who have been prepared, only two positions in it are empty, one is the position of the governor of Xuanda, the other is the position of the secretary of the military department, and the others have all been filled.

Qi Shijiao thought that all of them were members of the Yue Party, and he watched casually, but after only two glances, he was stupid at that time. Because of this official position, if it was from the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang in the past, it is still filled by the officials of the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang. Everyone is an official in the same dynasty, who doesn't know the details of the other party. On the list, it used to be you, Qichu, and Zhejiang, and it is still now, it used to be my Yue Party, and now let the Yue Party officials make up for it. Of course, there are also positions that are not the previous positions of the two parties, and Yang Yishan did not occupy them all, and the officials who made up for them were still officials who were not from the two parties, but they were all relatively talented. For example, the position of the left squire of the military department was given to Sun Chuanting.

After reading the list, Qi Shijiao looked at Yang Yishan again, and his face was full of surprise.

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