Chapter 378: Succession (18)
With the noisy ministers below, Ning Yang threw down a booklet heavily.
"When the Emperor Taishang was in power, he repeatedly went to the south of the Yangtze River with great fanfare, and the cost was even more terrifying, and he was even more luxurious on weekdays, where did all this silver come from? Is there any silver left in the treasury? If the matter of discussing the crime is not agreed by the emperor, how can he be a courtier with such rights, don't you really know?
The DPRK and the Central Committee couldn't make up the money for disaster relief, and Lin Hui paid the money himself, so why didn't you write a book to impeach at that time? Isn't it true that those who took his money are corrupt and bribe-taking?! The money he gets is all from overseas business, but why don't those corrupt officials and corrupt officials read like this?! ”
Ning Yang's words directly placed the charge on the head of the emperor, and all the officials encountered this situation for the first time, and everyone was confused.
Emperor Taishang......
Are you still alive......
Even if he died, he didn't see a new emperor dare to say that his ancestors were not.
Moreover, the new emperor's words completely ripped off everyone's fig leaf.
Everyone is at fault, since they are in the book, then no one wants to run.
In addition to the fact that Lin Hui has more money in the house, it is really rare for him to accept any bribes, he has the ability to make money, so why should he take this risk to accept bribes from others.
It's just that when the emperor was in power, he did not approve of overseas trade, and even suppressed it from time to time, preferring the silver to stay in circulation at home rather than to flow the silver overseas.
I don't know what kind of thinking I have, but when I was young, I also planned to develop my ambitions and realize many ambitions in my heart, and even knew the head of various changes in some overseas countries, and it was also a lot of money to continue the political achievements of my father.
But after getting old, he was so mediocre, perhaps it was the prosperity of Daning that made Ning Xuan prefer to live in complacency.
The Emperor Taishang did not let him go, and Lin Hui could only make a small fuss, also because he could take out some silver to supplement the Emperor Taishang, so the Emperor Taishang did not pursue the matter of overseas trade.
Therefore, in the end, Lin Hui could only come up with a way to quench his thirst by drinking the guilt silver, which was quick to get money, and there was no risk to him, and he would not offend those officials in the court.
After all, there are too many people who are corrupt and take bribes, far more than Qing officials.
Honest officials will not be so extreme in their work, but corruption and bribery are different, and serious ones will kill people.
It's no surprise that Lin would do this. (Don't bring in Heshen, it's not history, it's just fiction.) )
The strange thing is that Ning Xuan actually agreed to discuss the crime silver, isn't the discussion silver just a bloodsucking worm, sucking the people's fat and people's ointment, when today's son would rather discuss the crime silver than do business overseas, what can Lin Hui do?
Ning Yang's words made Lin Hui protect him strictly, and Lin Hui was already ready to die, but he was shocked by the new emperor's words.
His eyes were full of incredible and indescribable emotion.
Everyone in this world says that he is the biggest corrupt official in the world, and everyone scolds him as the cancer of the entire Ning Dynasty, but a few people know that he just wanted to be an official and make a fortune, but he never thought of sucking people's fat and people's ointment.
He didn't have much knowledge, and the world scolded him for only slapping horses to get to where he is now.
Yes, he doesn't have much knowledge, but he just goes farther than those who are knowledgeable, is this to blame him?
Seeing that the courtiers below stopped talking, Ning Yang snorted coldly, and then looked at Qiao Shi again, and Yuan Mu was standing next to Qiao Shi, who was looking at him with a smile.
The corners of Ning Yang's mouth curled, and the people below didn't seem to have so much hatred.
However, although Lin Hui has merits, he also has great faults, and in the end, the official demoted three grades and fined him for one year to set an example.
After the next dynasty, Lin Hui stayed, but what Lin Hui didn't expect was that the new emperor ...... It seems to listen to the opinion of the Queen Mother.
This time, in addition to the matter of discussing the silver list, there are also various ways to make money.
Thinking of modern flush toilets, maybe it can be realized, and modern banks can also learn from it......
The Daning Dynasty was too poor and needed a lot of silver.
“…… The new emperor ascends the throne, and those officials who have made mistakes ...... to pay the guilty silver again, not only to pay, but also to pay double the ......"
The corners of Qiao Shi's mouth hooked up a smile, and Lin Hui only felt that his back was cold and piercing.
……
Everyone thought that the new emperor would abolish the guilty silver when he ascended the throne, but he did not expect it to become more and more intensified, and in just three days, the officials in the capital alone paid millions of guilty silver.
At the same time, the emperor sent several groups of cronies to lead a large number of people to leave the capital.
Everyone thought that it was also because of the matter of discussing the guilt of the silver, but they didn't expect that just two days later, the form changed dramatically.
The new emperor ordered the abolition of the guilty silver.
According to the charges committed, the crime was as big as the seizure of the family and the extermination of the family, and the crime was as small as the exile of the family, and for a while, the blood flowed in the capital.
"What about the families of those military attachés?"
Ning Yang looked at the letter in his hand, his brows furrowed slightly.
Now only the civil officials of the capital and some of the military attaches left behind have been disposed of.
Although the military attaches stationed in the frontier did not make mistakes, their families and relatives did make mistakes.
"First fine the silver, temporarily confined in their respective mansions, and wait for the generals stationed in the future to atone for their crimes, depending on the severity of the circumstances, the capital crime can be exempted......"
"Tut-tut, the amount of silver in the hands of these people is really huge."
Not far away, Yuan Mu couldn't help but make a sarcastic voice when he looked at the accounts in his hand.
The treasury is empty, but these people have a lot of money, and they can steal millions of taels or tens of millions of taels.
Just by copying these officials in the capital, as well as the money paid before, the treasury has confiscated more than 200 million taels of silver, which is only cash silver, not counting those jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc.......
The annual tax revenue of the state treasury is only 50 million taels of silver, and the income from these raids alone is worth four or five years of tax silver.
Yuan Mu had sarcasm on his lips, but he was sad in his heart.
I think the Great Yuan Dynasty should be the same, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, a dynasty is corrupt to the extreme, how can the people not do the opposite.
It's just that I didn't expect that it had only been a few hundred years, and the Ning Dynasty, which had come up later, would end up like this.
"Have you found all the substitute officials?"
Qiao Shi raised his head and asked Yuan Mu, Yuan Mu glanced at Ning Yang again, Ning Yang hurriedly stood up and nodded, looking at Yuan Mu nervously.
"I've compiled a list based on the information from the investigation, you can take a look."
Because of this bloodbath, two-thirds of the officials in the capital went down.
The only thing left is because he didn't make any big mistakes, and he also made some political achievements when he was in power, and he has merit, just to return double the income from corruption over the years.
Otherwise, it is really necessary to carefully investigate little by little, and I am afraid that no one in the entire capital will be spared.
Qiao Shi looked through the list, most of them were transferred from the officials with outstanding political achievements below, it is true that even if this country is rotten, there are still some good officials who serve the country and the people.
"It's very good, it will take a while to clean up outside, just watch it and guard the capital."