Chapter Eighty-Four: Farewell, "Pipa Xing"

(The moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time.) There is one more chapter in the evening. )

The characteristics of officials who were born in Fengxian are that they like to get to the bottom of things, are good at finding clues, and like to handle cases. After Wei Dan became the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, the first thing he did was to audit the accounts, which in today's words is called the outgoing audit. Wei Dan is very careful, since the beginning of the Dezong Dynasty, the accounts of each province are very unclear, the richer the place, the more so, Dezong always turns a blind eye to the officials who can give him access, so Li Qi can accumulate more than several times the annual tax of the six states, and gradually has a heart of disobedience. After Wang Shuwen succeeded as the envoy of Zhenhai Festival, the first thing he did was to check the accounts, and within half a year, he asked for the dismissal of one-third of the officials in the six prefectures and recovered hundreds of thousands of official wealth. Xuanhui observed that Lutan did the same thing after he arrived. Moreover, Wei Dan was in the middle of the court, and he also heard Li Chen's intention to restore and strictly audit in various provinces, and according to Li Chen's actions over the years, it is very likely to do this, so Wei Dan is unwilling to let his predecessor's bad debts endanger him.

Therefore, Wei Dan himself brought a group of staff members from Chang'an to take up his post. Wei Dan's things were very low-key, first of all, after taking a boat to his post and passing through Huaiyin, he found that there were many salt ships on the waterway in Baoying County, and there was an official ship that capsized inexplicably. After arriving in Yangzhou, he received a report from Baoying County that a boatload of official salt was dissolved in water, and Wei Dan, who was sure that there was a ghost in it, immediately sent someone to secretly investigate. Yangzhou has always been regarded as a prosperous place of smoke willows, gentle and rich township, the so-called ten years of Yangzhou dream, won the name of Qinglou Bo Xing is also, after the arrival of Lord Wei in Yangzhou, and the people are happy, those who come do not refuse, a harmonious scene of their happiness, won the praise of Yangzhou up and down, Wei Dan received a large number of poems in less than a month, Wang Ye and others in Chang'an also put their hearts down. Of course, this up and down is a partial compound here, and it refers to the up.

What about the following? The bottom of Yangzhou was extremely disappointed with Wei Jiedu, but the bottom of Wei Jiedu did not disappoint Wei Jiedu. After grasping the abundant evidence, Wei Dan immediately wrote to secretly ask what to do. What to do? Strict investigation!

Although the water conservancy project played a great role in the drought and effectively offset part of the impact of the drought, Li Yu still issued an edict of guilt, and this time attributed the cause of the immorality to the poor governance of the officials, and since public opinion has been created, of course, it is necessary to set up a few examples and express his determination to correct himself to God, so Wang Yi's case has become a pillow encountered when he is sleepy, and a pie that falls when he is hungry.

Facts have proved that no matter whether it is ancient or modern, as long as you investigate carefully, there is no case that cannot be solved, especially a case of open corruption like this. Taking the Baoying County Order as a clue, Wei Dan, who had a large amount of evidence, suddenly launched, and Wei Danwei, who had always been smiling and seemingly harmless to people and animals, turned his face overturned, and arrested more than 100 people from the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Huainan Jiedu Embassy, and various state and county officials, officers, wealthy businessmen, underworld and even monks overnight. For a time, many wealthy businessmen closed their doors, and the historically prosperous Yangzhou suddenly became deserted, and Wei Dan also won the title of Wei's "broken city".

Then, Wei Dan used thunderous means to clear the official warehouse and official fields, and used salt as a breakthrough to find evidence of Wang Yi's corruption and reselling of official salt during his tenure as envoy to Huainan Jiedu. As soon as Chang'an was played, Qianniuwei surrounded Wang Yi's mansion. In December of the third year of Yongzhen, after the trial of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, the facts of Wang Yi's case were clear and the evidence was conclusive. After receiving the report of Yousi, Li Yu ordered to discuss the crime to Wang Yi, and all parties naturally wrote one after another, thinking that they could not kill the big people without permission, so His Majesty the Emperor was magnanimous and ordered to demote Wang Ye as the assassin of Guangzhou. Together with Yuan Zi, who was demoted to Chaozhou Assassin History a few years ago, and Pan Mengyang of Liuzhou Assassin History, Pan Mengyang was demoted because he was ordered to inspect the Jianghuai flood and took 300 slaves to play in the mountains and rivers. Lingnan was full of high-ranking officials for a time. And these degraded officials are indeed very capable of telling the truth, in order to be able to achieve political achievements and be recalled by the imperial court, they all work hard, and the development of Lingnan is also thriving under the efforts of these degraded officials.

In the imperial history, Cheng Pei Du successively wrote to impeach Liu Sheng, the envoy of Shannan West Daojiedu, and Yan Jimei, who violated the ban and entered the service, were all verified. Liu Sheng and Yan Jimei were also fined for half a year. The order of officialdom suddenly took on a new look, and although Li Yu knew that this was just an illusion that would not last long, and it would take persistent efforts to really achieve results, he was still happy about it. At least the order to fight drought and provide disaster relief is much smoother.

According to the practice of the emperor's profession, when a natural disaster comes, the measures to resist the disaster are not only to issue an edict against oneself, but also to reduce the sound of virtue, which is some measures to benefit the people. The drought that lasted for more than four months caused the prime ministers to remind the emperor to show his virtue by taking practical actions. Li Yu thought about it again and again, and asked the ministers to speak, but when he got the concerto, Li Yu was happy.

Hanlin bachelor Bai Juyi, Li Jiang said:

"If you want to benefit people, you can't reduce their taxes."

It is still the old way of the tax-free emperor. However, Li Jiang and Bai Juyi obviously came prepared this time, and the table tennis books were written one after another, such as further reducing the use of the palace, and then the customs of Lingnan, Fujian, and Qianzhong like to kidnap the children of good families and sell them as slaves, which should be strictly prohibited, etc., Li Yu accepted them one by one. In comparison, Li Yu really likes the current Bai Juyi. Zhu Xi once commented on Bai Juyi and said, people say that Bai Lotte is high, but it seems that he loves money, don't you see that when Lotte's poem writes about the official position, the saliva is flowing out? The current Bai Juyi obviously doesn't have so much twilight. Bai Juyi's transformation actually began in the eighth year of Yuan He because of the assassination of Wu Yuanheng and a request for the arrest of the murderer, and was slandered by eunuchs and conservative courtiers as overstepping his duties, and demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. That derogation brought Bai Juyi the "Pipa Xing" named after "Song of Long Hatred", which also made Bai Juyi lose his original sharpness. Now seeing that Bai Juyi is full of vitality, Li Yu's original plan to find a stubble to make Bai Juyi go to Jiangzhou to write "Pipa Xing" disappeared.

Perhaps, in this way, there is less such a great work as "Pipa Xing" in history, but there is more such a great politician as Bai Juyi, so that Xiaobai will not be old enough to write some words of "cherry fan sukou, willow *", why not?

Due to the rapid spread of water conservancy and drought-tolerant Champa rice in Lingnan, western Zhejiang, and Hunan, the losses caused by the drought were much smaller than expected. In order to seek good fortune and leave his mark in history, Li Yu, who was full of ambition, decided to change the yuan to Xingzhi next year.