The control of the Ming law over the officials has reached the point of meticulousness. In order to prevent officials from communicating with the outside world and bending the law for personal gain, the law stipulates that all county officials must live in the yamen and are not allowed to go out of the yamen without authorization. Whoever dares to live in a citizen's house in the street will be given eighty rods.

The law also stipulates the number of houses to be lived in at each level: 10 for the county, 8 for the county, 7 for the master, 7 for the horse, 6 for the canon, and 40 for the officials. Later, as the number of county officials increased, the houses would be damaged, so there was no room for so many people. Since the Wanli period, it has gradually become a trend for officials not to live in the yamen.

In fact, if an official wants to bend the law for personal gain, even if he is locked up in prison, he cannot stop it, so the crown prince does not attach much importance to this rule, and it is not required in the manual of the functions of local officials. However, this law is indeed a valid law, and according to Zhu Yuanzhang's words: it is not easy to live forever.

Wu Sunyi is not from a family of officials in the end, otherwise he would have been instructed by his seniors in the family. At this moment, when I heard that Shangguan was going to use this to rectify him, I was so angry that my hands and feet were cold, and I almost collapsed.

The punishment of the cane is the most miraculous punishment, some people have received a hundred and ten strokes, the skin is open, the flesh is open, the miserable is unbearable, and when they go home, they can fly off the ground; Some people only ate twice, but they did not see bleeding or bleeding, but they were "too weak" to be beaten to death.

With the current attitude of Kunshan County, Wu Sunjiao really didn't dare to eat this "eighty sticks".

"What you say is true!" Wu Sunyu asked.

The soap said with a bitter face: "Don't dare to deceive the third master." ”

"He ate our wine, and if it gets out, he will be ostracized by others." Lu Wei said in a low voice: "Brother Wu, I still want you to make up your mind about this matter." ”

It turned out that this soap was the most greedy cup, Lu Wei and Yang Xiang were unwilling to be excluded, so they did what they liked and lured him with wine. Who knew that he had drunk too much, and he accidentally leaked his mouth. informed Yang Xiang and Lu Wei of the plans of the eldest master and the second master. This is also the unanimous mind of the Kunshan County Ya, so the matter is not confidential, and it was leaked out without thinking.

Wu Sunyi saw that the two young men knew that they were looking for a breakthrough, and it was also a material that could be made, so he immediately had three points of confidence and said, "It is not difficult to solve this matter." As long as we move back to live in the Yali, they will not be able to settle old accounts. Go out first, and don't tell anyone else. ”

The soap was pardoned, and hurriedly ran away.

Wu Sun's probe looked outside, closed the door, and said in a low voice: "It's just that it may not be calculated in the future." ”

"Exactly." Lu Wei said in a deep voice: "They deliberately didn't arrange a place for us to stay, it turned out that they paid such attention!" ”

"Brother Wu, what to do in the future depends on you to get a note." Yang Xiang said: "I discussed with Lu Wei and went to Shangguan to talk about it. But I'm afraid that if this happens, it will seem that I can't wait to do things. ”

"That's exactly what happened." Wu Sunyi actually wanted to go to Shangguan, but Yang Xiang said that he was ahead, so he naturally didn't dare to say it again. He pondered for a moment and said, "You two haven't done anything in the past few days, have you?" ”

"They won't let the two of me see anything." Lu Wei said angrily: "The two of us said that they came to take care of the mill, but we haven't even seen the account books." ”

Wu Sunyi paced in the room, and after a few back and forth, she finally said, "There is!" ”

"Big brother, please speak!" The eyes of the two lit up at the same time.

"We can't see the books, though. But guess what, is there a shortage of food in the Jiliu warehouse? Wu Sunyi asked.

From the time of Taizu. The original purpose of setting up Jiliu warehouses in each county was to provide disaster relief and famine prevention, so each county should set up four warehouses in the four townships in the southeast, northwest, and northwest to reserve enough grain for two years' expenses. Chengzu once asked for the warehouse to be moved into the county, but later it was not done. In this world, which county can have two years of grain reserves? Even if it is a land of grain production in Huguang. Most of the grain stored in the Jiliu warehouse was also resold and embezzled by officials.

"He is unkind, and I am unjust." Wu Sunjiang said: "Simply expose this, and make as much noise as possible." We are officials from the north, what are we afraid of with the support of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! ”

"Exactly!"

Lu Wei and Yang Xiang originally came to learn with a show of talent, but they were thrown on the cold bench. Shangguan is still planning to send them down, how to make the two young men with strong blood endure it!

Although Wu Sunyi was full of confidence, he still had to act cautiously in the end, first transferred the relationship between Lu Wei and Yang Xiang from the county to his subordinates, and then pretended to customize the house number, and began to walk the streets and alleys, really like he was going to do something to make up the people together.

The magistrate failed in one move, and he was not in a hurry, anyway, according to the rules in the yamen, Cheng Wen would be required to report the progress on the 20th of the major event, and he was not afraid that he would not find a mistake and send them down at that time.

He didn't expect that Wu Sunyi had no intention of waiting for twenty days.

On February 26, the twentieth year of Chongzhen, an article exposing the complete emptiness of Jiliucang in Kunshan County appeared in "Quyuan Miscellaneous Tan".

Because this newspaper was originally a "tabloid", it was naturally full of imaginary literary stories. For example, how the local people can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes and don't warm up, and how they are looking forward to opening a warehouse to help the people, and how the county lord is lonely and cold, and looks like a businessman, but behind his back, he wantonly divides up with the grain merchants, and exchanges the old rotten grain for the new grain that should be put into the warehouse.

"Quyuan Miscellaneous Stories", which has not participated in the public opinion crusade against the crown prince, has enough pages to exaggerate this matter, and there is enough manpower to track and report, and pull out the human-machine relationship network of the county. Non-Dong Lin Ye?

The front can be said to be normal public opinion, but the last sentence is put on the brand of party contention. Qingliu, who originally wanted to turn a blind eye to this, had to turn around and write an article pointing out: This person is a scum mixed in the Qingliu team.

With this footnote, the gunners of the Donggong system naturally want to follow up, and fish in troubled waters and say: How many officials in the southeast are not Donglin identities now? Is it all the real Donglin? Aren't they all mixed in to get capital?

Many people were caught up in this unidentified remark, and they didn't expect that supporting this kind of remark itself is self-proof that Donglin has a party!

Gentlemen are not parties, since you are a party, you are a villain, and you should die if you are a villain!

I can't tell where I put this truth!

Gao Hongtu hurriedly came out to show his identity: Back then, Donglin Ke said that I was a Qi party! So don't get me wrong, although I'm not a Qi party, I'm really not Donglin.

Zhang Shenyan also had to come out to argue: At the beginning of Donglin, there were only gentlemen, and there was no party, and it was he who introduced Zhao Nanxing and others to the court, and chose gentlemen for the court. And some people use the name of their ancestors to set up their own party, this is a hypocrite! Since he is a hypocrite, he should be pulled out and knocked down and stepped on the ground. Of course, it is also necessary to prevent the eunuch villain from being framed, so the matter of Kunshan Jiliucang should be investigated in detail.

Zhu Cihong read the article published by Zhang Shenyan under his real name, and couldn't help but sigh that ginger is old and spicy. Originally, the Kunshan Jiliucang case was the first hand of the East Palace's counteroffensive, which was equivalent to stabbing a knife from the back of Qingliu and forcing a bloody opening. Introduce the war of words into the performance test, and use real evidence to overturn the previous Qingliu's so-called crown prince appointment of a private person and trust in the eunuch party.

By the way, Jiangnan Shilin can also make himself think that he "has a party", so that the East Palace can smoothly occupy the moral high ground.

Zhang Shenyan was able to grasp the fundamentals, directly break the problem of "having a party", and then lead the topic back to the case of Jiliucang in Kunshan, which can be expected: This magistrate of Kunshan is already an outcast who has been thrown out. After this outcast was eaten, it was time for some people to take advantage of the situation to make peace.

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"This must be a good thing done by those three officials from the north!" Kunshan County's red eyes, hideous expression, and trembling hands - this is because he is fantasizing in his heart about how to hold a sharp blade and cut Wu Sunhua and the other three with a thousand knives and gnaw their flesh and bones!

The county man was also haggard, and said: "They are officials of the imperial court, and they can't be tortured." ”

"I can't wait to eat its flesh and sleep its skin!" Kunshan County slammed on the bookcase: "They want me to die, and I have to pull a cushion when I die!" When the inspection of the Metropolitan Procuratorate comes, I will die with them! ”

"County honor, not yet." The county was also taken aback by this madness: corruption and dereliction of duty did not cause a major civil uprising, nor did it spare human lives, at most it was a punishment of dismissal and exile. If you kill an official of the imperial court, it is a capital crime.

"There's a way to ...... now"

"Speak quickly!" Kunshan County seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, stepped forward and buckled the pulse of the county Cheng, and suddenly the corners of his mouth grinned, and tears flowed: "You save my life, I will give you the immortal tablet in the future." ”

"County Honorable ......" The county man patted Kunshan County's hand emotionally, and said secretly in his heart: Your nails have pinched my flesh...... Oops, this is bleeding!

"County Zun, don't be in a hurry." The county Cheng pulled away Kunshan County's hand: "Look, there is no evidence in this newspaper, obviously the eunuch party framed Zhongliang!" ”

"But they're coming to see the warehouse, and now they're in the warehouse...... Woo woo, where is the food? ”

The county naturally knows that he himself is one of the links of profit sharing, and if the county is poured, he will not be able to pick it clean.

"What if they come to inspect and there is grain in the storehouse!" County Cheng Road.

"That'...... That...... Where did that food come from? Kunshan County stopped crying and asked in a low voice.

"Borrow." The county said: "There is no grain in Jiliucang, and there are no big families?" Neither do the grain merchants? If this grain is borrowed, it will be enough for ten years, let alone two years. ”

The current population has more than doubled compared to the beginning of the country, and it will not take two years for the four warehouses to be filled on the Zhilu Road in Kunshan County. However, if the four warehouses are full, others will have nothing to say, and if they insist on making a fuss about "two years", it will only appear that the political opponent is unreasonable and stirs up three points.

"However, there will be a spring famine soon, and when the price of grain rises, who will be willing to borrow?" The magistrate is not stupid, and he whispered for advice with red eyes.

Spring seems to be full of life, full of joy of labor. However, in this era, the spring famine is very cruel. The food stored in the winter is almost exhausted, but the seed grain is absolutely untouchable. At the same time, they have to face heavy farm work, and they have to add food.

At this time, not to mention tenant farmers and yeoman farmers, even some small landlords had to resort to usury.

If the government borrows grain, it will definitely not pay interest. Those grain merchants and big households, who will lose five or seven buckets if they lend a stone of grain, and they are not their own fathers and sons, who is willing to do it? (To be continued......)

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