Chapter 913: Work hard for the people's livelihood
In the face of the sudden scene, both the officials in the lobby and the people in the courtyard showed surprised expressions, no one would have imagined that the descendants of the Yang Yu family would appear at this time.
"Lord Wang, look at ......" After pondering for a while, Feng Yong cautiously asked Li Yuntian's opinion.
"This king is waiting in the back hall, and you will try this case as usual!" Li Yuntian bowed slightly to Feng Yong and left, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, since he was ready to leave the court, how could he return?
Hearing this, a wry smile suddenly flashed at the corner of Feng Yong's mouth, and he bowed to Li Yuntian's back, he knew that Li Yuntian was waiting for the news of his trial in the back hall, and it was not easy to get through the trick at this time.
Not to mention...... Feng Yong couldn't help but look at Li Zixi standing in the lobby, although Li Yuntian left, he left Li Zixi behind, it was obvious that Li Zixi was not so easy to deal with, otherwise he would not have stayed by Li Yuntian's side to do things.
Fujian Xingdu Division Yamen back hall.
Li Yuntian sat in the living room and sipped tea leisurely, in fact, if you pay close attention, you will find that his teacup is actually hot water, but he just elegantly poses to taste tea.
Yang Yu is going to take it no matter what, as the commander of Jianning's right guard and Yan Zhong's brother-in-law, Yang Yu has to bear the main responsibility for Shangma Village, if it weren't for his connivance at Yan Zhong, how could Yan Zhong be so arrogant?
As soon as Yang Yu was taken down, Jianning's right guard would be scattered, and Yang Yu's body would definitely be implicated in the middle and senior military attachés of Jianning's right guard encroaching on military fields and enslaving military households, and then from top to bottom, the unsightly dirty things of Jianning's right guard would be turned out.
The reason why Li Yuntian came to Jianning City was definitely not just for the sake of Shangma Village, in addition to deterring the guards in Fujian and Zhejiang, he also wanted to expose the shortcomings of the guards and the affairs of the right guard in Jianning.
In Li Yuntian's view, the military system of the Daming Guard Station is full of drawbacks, and it has reached the point where it is necessary to reform, otherwise those military households will not only be unable to shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting their homes and defending the country, but will also become a heavy burden for the imperial court.
However, before that, Li Yuntian had to solve one thing, that is, to standardize the private lending relationship of the Ming Dynasty, clarify the rights and obligations of both the borrower and the borrower in the form of law, and avoid the kind of thing that was forced to ruin by usury as much as possible.
After all, Zhao Laosan's experience is quite ordinary among the people of the Ming Dynasty, and for this kind of people at the bottom of society, only relying on the imperial court and the government can ensure their interests.
As a matter of fact, as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi had already formulated the "Qingmiao Law" in view of the excessively high private loans, and flexibly converted the grain reserves in the Changping and Guanghui warehouses into capital and lent them to peasants and urban handicraftsmen at an annual interest rate of 20 percent, so as to alleviate the phenomenon of usury and exploitation by the people, and at the same time increase the government's financial revenue, thus improving the phenomenon of "accumulation of poverty" in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Wang Anshi's measure was supposed to curb mergers and provide relief to the people at a time when there was a shortage of money, but things soon took a turn that he did not expect: local officials forced the people to borrow money from the government and arbitrarily raise interest rates, and the officials also used a variety of extortions to solicit merit, which made the people miserable.
In this way, the Qingmiao Law became a harsh policy for the local government to lend usury and collect interest, so it was abolished by the imperial court in less than 20 years.
I have to say that Wang Anshi's intentions were good, but unfortunately there was no one who could implement his Qingmiao Law, and the Qingmiao Law quickly changed after it was implemented, and became a tool for local officials to reap benefits.
But Li Yuntian is different, he naturally can't trust those local officials, but he has a huge group of officials who have come out of the martial arts hall, and he can use those officials who came from the martial arts hall to complete his plan.
It is worth mentioning that Jiangwutang has already opened banking bureaus in Jiaozhi, Guangxi and Liaodong, which is what later generations called banks, specializing in financial activities, including the loan project, the annual interest rate of the loan is 10%, which has greatly promoted the development of the local economy.
Li Yuntian was already thinking about setting up banks in various parts of Daming two years ago, and in his opinion, only the flow of funds could give Daming Chuangzào greater benefits, so he wanted to lend the funds of the lecture hall to the people.
According to Li Yuntian's assumption, the local offices of the Jiangwutang will be responsible for preparing for the establishment of the bank, but the bank is not under the jurisdiction of the local affairs offices but is directly under the jurisdiction of the Jiangwutang.
The local lecture Wutang banking bureau has been completed last year and began trial operation, to provide local merchants with an annual interest rate of 20% of the commercial loans, from this year's feedback from the results are very good, not only to promote the circulation of local commodities and almost all of the early recovery of principal and interest, welcomed by those merchants.
You must know that if those merchants borrow money from others, the interest rate must be much higher than 20%, and there are many harsh conditions, and once they can't pay it back, they will be forcibly taken away from their properties.
Li Yuntian has been waiting for the opportunity to make the new department of the Treasury Bureau public, and now the incident in Shangma Village has given him this opportunity, so that he can officially open the Treasury Bureaus in various parts of the Jiangwutang to the imperial court.
In Li Yuntian's view, with the adjustment function of the banking bureaus in various parts of Jiangwutang, it will definitely make the lending interest rates in various places controllable, otherwise the people will definitely not borrow money from people engaged in the lending industry in various places.
"Lord Wang, after the identification of the Yang Mansion's family members, those few people who came to surrender are the Yang Mansion's maids and family members who are responsible for serving Lord Yang and Mrs. Yang, and they unanimously confessed that they had seen Lord Yang and Mrs. Feng play with a precious cat's eye gem."
Just when Li Yuntian was thinking about the operation of the banking bureaus in various parts of the Wutang, a military attache walked in quickly, bowed down and told him, "According to their confessions, the reason why they left the Yang Mansion this time was not because they stole the family's belongings, but Lord Yang sent them to Hangzhou Mansion to do business. ”
"Lord Wang, not only those few people, but also some of the descendants of the Yang family have seen or heard of cat's eye gems, Lord Feng has already moved a clamp stick on Mrs. Yang's personal maid, and she has now passed out." As he spoke, the military attache bowed to Li Yuntian and asked, "Lord Feng wants to know if he can use a big punishment against the criminal. ”
"Sue Lord Feng, since this king has already handed over the case to him for trial, he will not intervene in his trial." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then replied quietly, he knew that Feng Yong had already made up his mind to put Yang Yu to death, otherwise he would definitely not want to get out of Mrs. Yang's personal maid.
The more ruthless Feng Yong is to Yang Yu, the more he will be able to get rid of the suspicion of being implicated in Yang Yu, and even if Yang Yu publicizes that Mrs. Feng accepted the cat's eye gem, he can say that Yang Yu is taking revenge on him, anyway, few people know that Mrs. Yang gave the cat's eye gem to Mrs. Feng.
After receiving Li Yuntian's instructions, the military attache bowed to Li Yuntian again, then turned around and walked away quickly.
To be honest, Li Yuntian didn't like to see bloody scenes in the court, and he didn't want to see women being tortured in front of many people.
But then again, there are some things that Li Yuntian can't control, such as the trial, he can't let every presiding judge judge the case according to fine reasoning and conclusive evidence like him, especially when Feng Yong is under huge psychological pressure, and it is impossible to let him try slowly.
Moreover, Mrs. Yang's personal maid obviously knew about the cat's eye gem and didn't say anything, so this torture was not in vain, and it could be regarded as a loyalty to Mrs. Yang.
After getting Li Yuntian's reply, Feng Yong immediately let people punish Mrs. Yang's personal maid, and beat the maid in the public court to cry and call her mother, dead and alive, and the flesh and blood on her buttocks were blurred, which made the people in the courtyard unbearable to look at directly, and also made several Yang Yu and Mrs. Yang's henchmen who knelt on the side turn pale with fright, trembling, they can be regarded as pampered on weekdays, where have they experienced this kind of formation.
Mrs. Yang didn't have to kneel down in the lobby because she had the order of the imperial court, but she was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she had to hold on to the pillar on the side to barely stand firm.
Yang Yu looked at the scene in front of him expressionlessly, because Feng Yong accepted the priceless cat's eye gem, he thought that Feng Yong was acting in this way, the purpose was to show outsiders, so his mood could still be a little calm.
In fact, Yang Yu also thought of another possibility, that is, Feng Yong wanted to occupy the cat's eye gem and at the same time kill him, but this possibility was too terrifying, and he didn't want to think about it.
"This official asks you, do you recruit or not!" When the personal maid who had passed out was woken up with a bucket of cold water, Feng Yong shouted to the personal maid in a deep voice, "If you don't recruit again, this official will let people taste the taste of the soldering iron!" ”
"Big ...... Don't, my lord...... Stop using torture, people...... The Daughters of the People Are Willing to ...... Willing to move! Hearing that Feng Yong was going to use a soldering iron, the personal maid couldn't help but shiver, with a frightened look on her face, and said in a weak voice.
The personal maid could bear the pain of flesh and skin, but the soldering iron was too terrifying for her, once the red-hot soldering iron was imprinted on her body, it would form a permanent ugly scar, which the personal maid did not want to see, and she did not want to be branded on her face or chest.
"Sue the official, did Yan Zhong give a cat's eye gem to your master?" Feng Yong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he heard this, and asked the personal maid in a deep voice, "If you give it, where is that cat's eye gem now?" ”
"Lord Commander, are you going to bend into a move?" At this time, Yang Yu, who was standing on the side, finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and said coldly to Feng Yong, his illusions had been shattered, and from the current situation, it was obvious that Feng Yong was planning to put him to death, so he could only fight hard.
Yang Yu's opening not only made the officials on the scene can't help but look at him, but also made the atmosphere at the scene suddenly become tense, everyone clearly felt Yang Yu's dissatisfaction with Feng Yong, which was completely beyond everyone's expectations, it stands to reason that Feng Yong is Yang Yu's top boss, plus Yang Yu is now trapped How dare he talk to Feng Yong in such a blunt tone?
Could it be that Yang Yu is in a daze, or is there an unknown secret in this?