It was already dawn, and Zhu Youzhen, who had not slept well all night, sat on a cushion made of goose-yellow satin.

The early morning sunlight shone in, and the dust rolling in the aperture made him feel very bad, and he couldn't wait to close the red door on one side and let the dust disappear from view.

Now, Zhu Youzhen naturally knows that at this moment in the Dongchang Imperial Prison, the people in Dongchang are strictly interrogating Zuo Shilang, Dang Chongya and others.

As for how to exhaust the means and how to be ruthless and bloody, he didn't bother to think about it at this time.

He didn't want to do this, as a non-history major, he didn't have a very good impression of Dongchang Jinyiwei, and he even thought about banning this institution that overrode the judicial system when the system was sound enough in the future and the importance of the imperial dictatorship was no longer so high.

But he found that if he didn't have Dongchang now, he really didn't know how to deal with this group of officials who might affect his tax policy.

Of course, in this incident, the role played by the East Factory in the early stage does not seem to be very large.

However, Zhu Youzhen believed that in the future administrative reform, it was necessary to improve the status and participation of Dongchang in the entire imperial political system, and the army naturally could not participate in politics, which was the premise for ensuring that warlords did not appear.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is a judicial supervision body independent of the executive and also needs to be supervised, and the supervision of the administration and the entire civil official group of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can only rely on Dongchang.

Especially when the Ming and Qing dynasties basically entered a period of confrontation in the future, economic and political supervision was of greater significance than cracking down on Manchu spies.

The corruption that occurred in the process of taxation this time sounded a wake-up call for Zhu Youzhen.

He found that reform does not seem to mean that if the policy of your reform is right, it will definitely work, and if you have military power in hand, you can make drastic innovations and eliminate evils.

In fact, there will always be people who will find a way to take advantage of loopholes and make your reform taste bad, and you can't put too much trust in one group, and you have to always think about supervision and mutual checks and balances.

The city of Nanjing is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and there are still so many officials who are playing favoritism and malpractice in the tax reform.

In other areas, will there be problems from the beginning when the tax stamps were drafted, and if they impose a strict standard for the collection of taxes and silver, will it cause these officials to shift this financial burden to the hands of the low-level traders and even the ordinary peasant class?

In the end, his painstaking and lonely cause of tax reform turned into the exploitation of the common people.

Zhu Youzhen found that any good policy would seem to have changed its flavor in the hands of the bureaucracy if it was calculated in this way.

If he turns a blind eye to such a phenomenon and does not send special agencies to conduct covert investigations, especially in Daming, where the central authorities have lost control over the administrative power at the grassroots level, Zhu Youzhen cannot imagine how terrible the consequences of reform would be without the supervision of the special agencies.

However, the tax reform must continue to be implemented, even if the road ahead is difficult, we must not give up, otherwise it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to make fundamental changes.

The only thing Zhu Youzhen could do was to treat these people who challenged his rules with the strictest means, and did not set specific standards for taxation, and set up the Dongchang Survey and Statistics Bureau to comprehensively supervise the entire administrative system of the Ming Dynasty.

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At this time, the gentry of Nanjing City also began to notice that something was wrong, although the Guards were still under martial law in the city, and the people of Dongchang still appeared everywhere, but they did not start collecting taxes again.

When Yao Sunju, the deputy governor of the left capital, was arrested and put in the prison of Yingtianfu because his son was arrested by Wu Jiayin, a member of the household department, and wanted to send someone to find Qu Shiyun, the governor of Yingtianfu, to put pressure on Yingtianfu and release his son, he heard that his own people ran back, and hurriedly informed Yao Sunju of the news that Qu Shiyun, the governor of Yingtian, was detained overnight by Huang Jiamo, the imperial historian of the patrol city, and Dang Chongya, the left servant of the household department.

"What is Qu Qitian going to do, who gave him the courage to arrest the dignified household department Zuo Shilang, even if it is the imperial history of the city patrol, he can't be detained!"

Yao Sunju said, and the person who came back replied: "I heard that it was the order of the first assistant, and later there were people from Dongchang who came and put them all in the imperial prison, and captured Chen Yi, the same knowledge of Yingtianfu. ”

"Shousuke's life, Dongchang?"

Yao Sunju began to feel bad, and hurriedly rushed to the mansion of Li Qiao, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing, and found Li Qiao, and after a while, Liu Wandou, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, also rushed here: "Isn't it that the matter of tax administration is known by the people of Shoufu and Dongchang?" ”

"I'm afraid that not only the people of Shoufu and Dongchang know, but also His Majesty, how did this party department do it, didn't it say that he was foolproof, why did it happen that it was only a day later, and there was such a big change!"

Yao Sunju paced a little anxiously.

"According to the people in the palace, only Yin Chengde of Yingtianfu entered the palace last night, but as far as we know, it is the person who detained Huang Jiamo, the imperial history of the city patrol in advance, and the left servant of the household department, who should be the governor of the heavens, that is to say, the problem lies in the Yin Chengde of Yingtianfu and Qu Shiyun, Yin Chengde of Yingtianfu is the person of the Son of Heaven, we have always taken precautions, even if he notices that something is wrong, it is difficult to cross the threshold of the governor of Yingtian and the cabinet of the household, even if he enters the palace, he can't get any evidence, as long as Yingtianfu and the household are all spoken, Your Majesty can't help it even if he doubts it!

But now, the problem is that Ying Tianxun Governor Qu Shiyun is not on our side, the party department said that Ying Tianxun Governor Qu Shiyun accepted the bill, and it stands to reason that he supports us in doing so, why is he still involved in this matter, according to this official, the problem lies in this Qu Shiyun! ”

Li Qiao slapped his forehead as he spoke: "Sure enough, people's hearts are unpredictable, this Qu Shiyun really dares to offend the entire official gentry!" ”

"The problem is that he has been offended, and the current situation is that Huang Jiamo, the Zuo Shilang of the Household Department, Chongya Patrol City, and Chen Yao, the same knowledge of Ying Tianfu, were sent to the Imperial Prison, Huang Jiamo and Chen Yi are nothing, they don't know the inside story, even if they are questioned, there is a problem with the drafting of the tax stamps that year, but the Zuo Shilang of the Household Department is different, he knows who initiated this matter in the first place, and he also knows who is involved in this matter, so he can't let him survive; In addition, in any case, Your Majesty is afraid that he already knows that there was a problem when the tax stamps were drafted, and the lower officials were the governor of Yingtian, and Liu Shaoqing was the same as Yingtianfu. ”

As soon as Yao Sunju said this, Li Qiao said: "You two first find a way to abscond out of the city, go to the Qing court by sea, and let Dang Chongya shut up the matter by this official, of course, Your Majesty did not dare to set off a big case after knowing that it was so widely implicated, after all, this is a loss of the face of the entire Ming Dynasty." ”

"Master, the city gate is already under martial law, and the people from Dongchang have gone to the mansions of Yao Vice Xian and Liu Shaoqing, and they can't escape!"

At this time, a guest from Li Qiao's mansion ran in and said.

Hearing this, Yao Sunju and Liu Wandou glanced at each other, and hurriedly glanced at each other: "How is this good!" ”

"Confession! Saying that this matter is led by Dang Chongya, the left waiter of the household department, let the Zuo Shilang Dang Chongya of the household department die, and then say that it is Dang Chongya who forced you to do this, Your Majesty does not want to be widely implicated, and the most right thing is to distribute you, and I have always been not strict with the punishment of the greedy ministers! ”

As soon as Li Qiao said this, he instructed the guest: "Find a way to contact our eyeliner in Dongchang and secretly execute the left waiter of the household department, Dang Chongya." ”

(End of chapter)