Chapter 162 Huge Corruption Case

After the soldiers and horses of Taozhou Wei left, Zhang Hu, who was no longer threatened, entered a no-man's land in Shaanxi, plundered all directions, and only a limited number of city strongholds were still in the hands of the imperial court. However, a large number of thieves killed people and set fire under their noses, and Gansu Governor Xi Junyu was not only not very anxious, but he was very happy in his heart. Even, I feel a little fortunate about Zhang Hu's arrival - I have made a lot of money in recent years, and after repeated scrutiny, all kinds of names and rhetoric can also be rounded, but no matter how good the reason is, it is not as convincing as "thieves entering the country"! A fire, a brain, is there anything more once and for all?

In other places, the governor of a province sits back and watches the thieves run rampant, no matter how background you have, at least the black gauze hat will definitely not be able to keep it, and it is not unusual for the unlucky ones to give away their lives. Here, though, it's different. Shaanxi Xingdu Division is a military management area, and the governor of Gansu is only responsible for civil affairs. The governor is a civil official, as long as he does not lose his land, that is, he does not lose the city of "Gansu Town" (now Zhangye) under his feet, then he can sit back and relax! When the thieves have snatched enough and leave, they can play a gorgeous and beautiful essay, what is "wearing a sword with hair", "screaming to kill the thief", "being wounded in a few places like blood"...... The silver that has been made in the past few years has been safely pocketed, and it can be commended again!

As for whether Gansu Town will be attacked by thieves, Governor Xi is not worried at all. Not to mention the high walls and deep moats, the important thing is that the Shaanxi Xingdu Sifu is also here! What does this mean? Suppose that the Xingdu Sifu reported 100,000 troops in the military headquarters, and the total number of the generals at all levels who could really fight was only 5,000 - at least 3,000 of them were in this city! That thief put the fat sheep all over the field to be slaughtered and didn't grab it here and hit the city wall, is he crazy? The report to the court is simpler, who knows what the governor will say to the saint? Can you see the twists and turns? Xingdu Sifu has already communicated there, just wait for the thief to leave, the military department will receive the "great victory" military report, the thief has been the brave and invincible Ming official army to the wolf rush, running and crying "dare not come again"!

These days, what really makes Governor Xi feel a little nerve-wracking is the "list of meritorious service" that is being drawn up - how many of his own people, how many people from the Xingdu Division, how many times he has clashed, and how many "first merits", "first merits", and "second merits" are there...... These have to be negotiated, they all have to be made up!

In the back hall of Fuya, Xi Junyu felt a little tired, put down the pen and leaned back in the chair, and Mei Ji, who was sitting on the side of the bed and serving, stepped forward and gently kneaded his shoulders for him. Master Xi is very proud: since the official position is the governor, if you want to educate the locality, you must have subordinate officials, and if you have subordinate officials, you must have the administrative framework of prefectures and counties, so that you can be regarded as an official in name only, not the kind of ornament that is hollowed out. In the past few years, after the careful arrangement of Lord Xi, especially the trick of "donating tribute", it is really wonderful: quickly cultivating his own forces, although there is no official name of this prefecture and that county, but the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division has been revitalized through this step of chess - the big and small military leaders do not know a few big characters, how can they have the qualifications to batch tribute students? As a result, the prototype of the prefectures and counties of Shaanxi Xingdu Division was quietly formed! The best thing is that there is a fact but no name: it has a real benefit, but it does not need to bear the responsibility of the thief and the land!

However, no matter how loud the wishful thinking is, Governor Xi still missed a point: the people from the East Factory have arrived!

In this era, many places are still uninhabited barren mountains and mountains. No matter how strong Zhang Hu is, he can only take the old battalion of the Chinese army as the core, and each battalion surrounds the same advance and retreat - Zhang Hu at this time was beaten by Sun Jie and Yan Minwang not long ago, and the psychological shadow is still very big, and it depends on more people to give him courage; On the other hand, there are only a limited number of trustworthy generals under him, such as Niu Youtian Fangge, and the ability of these people is still limited to slashing people with knives.

This trip to Gansu, directly ordered by the Holy Son of Heaven, of course, several people sent by Dongchang are one of the most powerful characters in a hundred, on the way more than once encountered Zhang Hu's miscellaneous soldiers, the team of people and horses are early to avoid, occasionally three or more temporary collisions are quietly killed on the spot, there is no danger.

The head of the class, Chu Jingwu, is the leader of several people, and he and the foreman Tong Jinsheng and the two fans are all Jinyiwei's people. The vast majority of people in the East Factory are not eunuchs, because many people come from Jinyiwei - the top leader of the East Factory is the eunuch who is a close confidant of the Son of Heaven, and the Jinyiwei is known as the Son of Heaven's own army, so they can all be regarded as the Son of Heaven's own people, the difference is only that the eunuch is in the big house, and the Jinyiwei is in charge of the outer court.

The head of this Dongchang * is Li Shizhong's father-in-law, and the full official title is "Governor of Qincha Dongchang Official School Office Eunuch", referred to as Admiral Eunuch. Maybe the word "eunuch" is indecent, so many people call it "factory father", but it is an outsider, and they themselves call Li Gonggong "overseer".

This trip, these people have a heavy responsibility, and the overseer Li Gonggong has personally explained again and again: the task comes directly from the Holy Son of Heaven himself! Every time he thought of this, Chu Jingwu would be excited, and secretly made up his mind: even if he went to the soup to fight the fire, he would never fail to live up to the expectations of the Son of Heaven and the trust of Gonggong Li!

However, it was much easier to find out the news than expected. When I just walked to the Nian Bo Institute (now Ledu, Qinghai), everyone hadn't changed their casual clothes, and they were either wearing Jinyiwei's red shirt flying fish suit*, or Dongchang's round hat brown shirt soap boots. Before leaving, Gonggong Li had roughly explained the reason, but under detailed investigation, the truth was really surprising to everyone! In order to confirm the authenticity of the news, several people even tied up two officials at night to "interrogate".

Of course, you won't bring torture equipment with you on a business trip, but is there anything that the factory guard's good hand can't ask? Torture is not just a question, and the credibility of such a confession is very low - the inmate will not only talk nonsense, but also understand your purpose through your question, and may even ambush you! It's a science.

Tong Jinsheng was born in charge of punishment, and his method is very unique: he doesn't ask anything, he breaks his fingers one by one as soon as he comes up, and when he breaks one hand for the other, the spirit of the interrogated person has already collapsed: I don't know what you want to do at all! At this time, as long as you start with a prompt, he will tell everything he knows! What's even worse is that while the trainee confesses, Tong Baihu's hand will not stop, he will take out a folding knife and start cutting the flesh in the most painful places on your body - only when this unlucky guy can't stand the pain and can't speak...... Then move on. Under the enormous, constant pain, no one can have a chance to think again, and the only thing they can hope for is to tell what they know and let it all end quickly.

Death is a luxury.

The two officials were arrested in different places, sixty or seventy miles apart, and their confessions were exactly the same. When the hundred households finally wiped their throats with a knife, and the interrogation was over, everyone knew that what they were telling was the truth.

Xi Junyu is corrupt, this is determined by everyone when they set off, but this guy's methods are really clever, and even make people feel incredible: first of all, he reported that he paid 100 stone of wheat beans, but he changed his operation - he refused to accept the real wheat beans, but converted them into 120 taels of cash, and then added office silver, horse material silver, miscellaneous silver and other messy names. Together, the quota of one prisoner is sold for one hundred and eighty taels! These are actually nothing, not out of the expectations of these experts, but the next step is powerful: to schedule the disaster!

Wealthy households in various places have bought prison qualifications, so theoretically they want to distribute disaster relief food to the "disaster areas", right? These tasks are then the responsibility of the appropriate officials. With this high-sounding reason, the henchmen of this gang justifiably demarcated the Shaanxi Xingdu Division into their own large and small regions, and an administrative frame without the name of the prefecture and county but with the reality of the prefecture and county was erected. In the next step, these guys will predetermine the disaster situation according to the money they collect: how many victims will be reported in your state, how many people will be affected in his prefecture, and how many people will be affected in his prefecture and several counties...... Then Xi Junyu will officially write and allocate grain in a matter-of-fact manner, of course, there will be a slight owe in the amount, and then ask the court for the difference! If you just look at the official documents that come and go, it can definitely be called leaky! In fact, less than one percent of the food actually runs in this system! The silver was all privately divided by these guys in their own pockets! The most immoral thing, in addition to his own henchmen, the officers of those important guards were also pulled into the water by Xi Junyu - important guards, there will always be peasants with civilian nationality under the governance of the office, and these senior officers will take charge of the "civil affairs" with their feet, and even Xi Junyu will help you write all kinds of documents to let the staff write, and you will wait to receive the silver with a seal!

At this point, Chu Jingwu only had the only problem left: the Holy Lord had sent the imperial history, and the household department had also sent two groups of special personnel to inspect, if it was said that everyone was dragged into the water by Xi Junyu, it was always a bit far-fetched. That...... Why did they all report seeing a warehouse full of grain?

It's not difficult to solve the mystery here: just grab Xi Junyu's descendants and ask them. However, Gansu Town closed the city gate as if it was facing a great enemy, and no one could enter without revealing their identities - if their identities were revealed, the four of them would throw themselves into the net, and no one would have anything to say about the evaporation of the world: there are more than 100,000 thieves, and it is normal to shirk the sentence "I'm afraid I will be killed by thieves"!

Unexpectedly, the answer to this question is also readily available. Zhang Hu had confronted Yan Minwang in Shandanwei for a while, and now the whole army had left and gone to the northwest, and when Chu Jingwu and his party came over, they only saw a few deserters huddled in the corner. It is also one of the places where disaster relief grain is distributed, and there is an official warehouse. A few people sneaked to the official warehouse and took a brief look inside, and immediately understood the mystery.

I don't know if it was the rebels or the hungry people who ran back had already dismantled most of the granaries to find food, and the structure inside was clear at a glance: a huge cylindrical liner was set inside each cone's official warehouse! Unless you dismantle the whole warehouse, use a grain scout to insert it from anywhere in all directions, and pull it out is the thin layer of grain outside!

*Generally speaking, the head of the East Factory is filled by the Bingbi eunuch, who ranks second in the celebrant of ceremonies, and the eunuch who ranks first is the palm seal eunuch. However, the position of palm seal eunuch is always vacant, and the eunuch is the head of each prison most of the time.

The subordinate officials of the East Factory have one member of each of the 1,000 households and the 100 households, which are respectively served by the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households and the 100 Households, and are called the criminal officers. In addition, more than 40 managers and subordinates at all levels, such as the foreman, foreman, and secretary, were allocated by Jinyiwei.

* Flying fish suits. The so-called "flying fish" is actually a four-clawed dragon shape of a fishtail, with silk, yarn, Luo, etc. as the base material, and the chest is the head of the dragon and the dragon's claws, the dragon body is around the shoulder, and the dragon's tail is thrown behind him.

The Flying Fish suit comes in three colors. Black, the wearer is the chief flag officer (is the seventh rank of martial arts), silver and white, the six grades of the hundred households wear, red, the five grades of the thousand households wear.

Ordered by the emperor to handle the case, the distance was too far, in order to get the full assistance of the government along the way, such as changing horses and guides, so until the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, Chu Jingwu and several people wore official uniforms.