In the eyes of these court officials, Lao Zhu should also accept it when he sees it. After all, these officials of the household department have already paid the price, and with them in front of them, the officials of other ministries have also reined in a lot, and they have also cooperated with the tax department to calculate how much commercial tax should be paid.

There was no previous case of the Ministry of Household deliberately concealing the file with the intention of evading taxes.

The new tax law has been implemented according to your old ideas, and the tax department has been established. Even if you try to make an example of the chickens, the chickens are now dead.

We monkeys are already trembling. It's time for you to stop and appease the officials, right? A slap and a sweet jujube, did it really overturn all the court officials, so who would work for your old Zhu family?

According to the experience of previous dynasties, Lao Zhu at this time has indeed come to appease the court officials, hello, hello, everyone. It is said that the investigation of the household department this time can be called earth-shattering, which is comparable to the time when the emperor suddenly launched and uprooted the civil officials of Huaixi a few years ago. In their opinion, Lao Zhu should come forward to maintain the stability of the DPRK and China no matter what at this time, and will not continue to toss.

However, Lao Zhu used his actions to tell them: Check! Keep checking! In our eyes, we can't rub your sand!

Just when the officials of the Manchu Dynasty thought that the dust had settled on the matter of commercial taxation, as long as there was more blood in the family for the time being and the jackal of the tax department was fed, they could maintain the status quo and continue to be in the wind and snow.

The big deal is to spend more effort to make up for this part of the deficit from the people. No big deal.

A trivial matter, which was originally insignificant, completely detonated a major case ten times more serious than the case of tax evasion by the household department.

The reason is that an official who escorted tax grain from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the household department found that the household department was paralyzed and no one was in charge, and he was summoned into the palace by the emperor when the six gods had no owner.

When he entered the palace to search, he found many blank documents with seals but no words from the sleeves of his robes.

After interrogation, it was discovered that these blank documents were used to check the amount of tax and grain with the household department. The official who transported the grain shouted that he was wronged, saying that if the grain tax was transported into Beijing from a foreign enemy, there would be losses on the way.

If you write a good document and transport it to Beijing at the time of shipment, when the officials in Beijing are right, there will be some differences, and the amount in the document does not match the physical object, resulting in the inability to enter the warehouse and run in vain.

Therefore, all the officials who are responsible for transporting taxes and grain into Beijing will have a few blank documents on their bodies that only use the seal, so that after the household department checks them, the amount will be written on top of the documents, so that there will be no situation where the physical objects and documents do not match the number and cannot be put into storage, and it will also avoid the fact that due to the shortage of taxes and grain, the levy will be imposed back and forth many times, which will be in vain and will affect the people.

In the former Yuan, such an approach was a tacit understanding in the officialdom, and he was not in vain. When the official said it, he was full of words and looked aggrieved.

Lao Zhu is furious, this is a naked deception! Immediately ordered Yu Shitai and Jinyi Wei to jointly handle the case. It didn't matter if it was checked, it was found that all the ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee all had this kind of shape that used empty seals. After all, what needs to be handed over to the Quartet is not limited to the Ministry of Households. As long as it involves internal and external communication, this kind of empty seal document has been used more or less for convenience.

Lao Zhu was furious, issued empty seal documents, and directly used the seal on the white paper, which is naked to the power of the country and the dynasty, and privately conferred and received! You must know that if a blank document with a seal falls into the hands of someone with a heart, it will be a great disaster!

Examine! Must be investigated! No matter how big or small the official position is, once it is related to the empty seal document, it will be handled!

So, above the Ming Dynasty, the pot exploded again in an instant. It's just that this time it's not just the household department that suffers, almost all the officials in the court and the central government are all within the scope of the Yushitai and Jinyiwei's inquiry.

The empty seal case has exploded!

The ministers of the court and the central government were blinded. They never thought that they were ready to pinch their noses to cooperate with His Majesty's new tax law, and acquiesce to His Majesty's slaughter, His Majesty is still so unforgiving, this is going to overturn all the tables of the Ming Dynasty Bureau directly!

But there are still people who think that the empty seal case must be thunder and rain. This case is too widely implicated, if all the officials in and outside Beijing are questioned, Your Majesty himself, is it possible to be a bare-bones emperor?

Everyone underestimated Lao Zhu's courage. Zheng Shili, a native of Ninghai, Zhejiang, organized a group of scholars and literati to jointly write to Lao Zhu after his brother Hu Guang's envoy Zheng Shiyuan was arrested.

Zheng Shili believes that the matter of empty seals has been a common rule since the pre-Yuan Dynasty, and the national law has not explicitly stopped it, so officials should not be imprisoned on a large scale for this reason; Moreover, the blank paper is stamped with a riding seal, and everything related to the coordination of transportation in Beijing and outside Beijing, it is inevitable that the numbers will be uneven. The officials used blank documents with blank seals printed on them in order not to delay the major affairs of the country and the dynasty, and it was reasonable and unsuitable for punishment.

Among the literati and students, there were many people who praised Zheng Shili for his righteous speech, believing that the empty seal was actually for the sake of the operation of the dynasty and had nothing to do with it.

"Hmph, these rotten Confucians will really jump out to set off public opinion and wash the floor for their relatives and masters who are officials in the court." After Lao Zhu received the letters from Zheng Shili and other scholars, he was not surprised. In the process of the empty seal case in history, he had already heard Zhu Su tell him.

Even in history, because of the inability to deal with this letter, and the right to speak is mostly in the hands of literati, there are really people in later generations who believe that the empty seal case is Lao Zhu's own heart, and he is idle and full of food to support this big case. It's all because Lao Zhu, the emperor, is too brutal, those officials are all innocent, and there are tears of sympathy for those officials.

However, now, Lao Zhu Ke has already prepared. He called Zhu Di, who had just been recalled to Beijing, and instructed him:

"Fourth, you go, put all the thieves you captured back in the capital in the market, and explain their crimes carefully to the people."

"Remember, I also have to pull Zheng Shili and the literati who co-signed with him. Let's see if in front of the people, can they reverse black and white and insist that we are a stupid tyrant! ”

Zhu Di took the order, and in the afternoon of the same day, he built an extremely wide platform on the most prosperous South Street in Yingtianfu. Zheng Shili and the others were also escorted to the scene by Jinyiwei, but they still looked unruly and scolded non-stop. Even some people who didn't know the truth gave a thumbs up and praised Zheng Shili for being literati.

"His Royal Highness King Yan captured me for this, because he wanted to cut me off here and abandon the city!" Zheng Shili won the praise of the people, and he held his head high. "Even if Your Highness can destroy the mouth of one of me, you don't know how to defend the people, more than to defend Sichuan! Heaven and earth have their own righteousness, and even if we die, we can't cover up this clear day! ”

"If you want to scare me and change your words, then I advise Your Highness that you should save some effort. The case of empty printing is unreasonable and ruthless. Even if it is a long knife and a neck, I will also speak up! ”

"Good! Good! "The people watching below, how have they ever seen such a scholar who is not afraid of the powerful? I just feel that this person is like those loyal ministers on the stage, righteous and stern, righteous and awe-inspiring, just listening to the lyrics, I know that it must be a good show.

"Hmph. The benefit of the tongue. Seeing that this scholar said a few words, he pushed his Jinyiwei side to the position of a traitor, Zhu Di sneered and ignored it.

This guy is high-sounding, it seems to be a faction of justice, in the final analysis, is it not trying to seek his own selfishness, so as to save his upright brother from the abyss?

"Later, there will be a time when you will be shouted and beaten by everyone." Looking at Zheng Shili's almost provocative gaze, Zhu Di thought viciously in his heart.

(End of chapter)