Xu Wenbi reminded that Zhang Juzheng also thought that the preparation of the Xishan Coal Bureau would definitely not go smoothly, and sure enough, soon, the intensive and rapid offensive began, still starting from Wang Chonggu.

The impeachment of Wang Chonggu has become intensive, and the focus of the impeachment has also changed from Wang Chonggu's coercion of the lord and usurpping the authority of the lord to impeaching Wang Chonggu for his ineffective work.

The person who usurped the authority of the lord, the Ming Emperor specially approved that he would not be held accountable, and the subject would not be investigated, and it would be redundant for the official to impeach again, and Wang Chonggu had recently belonged to the dedication faction, and the emperor had closely followed Zhang Juzheng's steps to gather prosperity.

The impeachment of Wang Chonggu was ineffective, mainly focusing on the cutting corners of the pagoda of Dalongxing Temple supervised by Wang Chonggu.

At the beginning of November, in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, businessman Zhao Deyi reported and exposed the pagoda for cutting corners, and the courtiers were in an uproar, and there were more and more public opinions questioning the wind power.

Ge Shouli and Hai Rui asked for an audience in the Wenhua Palace, and Zhu Yijun announced that the two chief constitutions were announced, and after reading their request for inspection.

"Does this have to be investigated?" Zhu Yijun looked at the two chief constitutions and asked with a frown, the little emperor knows exactly, he can't check everything, if this check finds out something, won't something happen?

Wang Chonggu fell at this time, the supervision of the woolen official factory had to be replaced, the supervision of the palace, the royal institute, and the pagoda had to be replaced, and the preparation for the construction of the Xishan Coal Bureau was just a flash in the pan.

It will take at least half a year for the imperial court to continue to implement these projects, and it is difficult to say that it will be as smooth as it is now.

Not to mention anything else, the construction of the palace will definitely not be able to catch up with the emperor's wedding.

"Your Majesty, the current wind and public opinion are too strong, and the DPRK and China are frequently criticized, if there is no inspection, it may be difficult to convince the public." Hai Rui exhaled a cloudy breath and bowed his head and said.

Emperor Ming used state funds to build a pagoda for Empress Dowager Li who did not love authority, this matter was unanimously approved by the imperial court in concept, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, it is the common cognition of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties for six hundred years, maintained inertia in this matter, the dynasty weighed the system, hung the curtain to listen to the government, only the last years of the Tartar Qing Dynasty, out of a Cixi.

Empress Dowager Li lived in the Qianqing Palace in the sixth year of Longqing, in fact, a considerable number of courtiers were very worried about Empress Dowager Li's desire for power, causing incalculable consequences.

The return of Empress Dowager Li to power is a great good deed, and few people oppose the construction of the pagoda, although the construction of the pagoda has a malicious purpose, that is, to clean up the temple's Taoist and Taoist fields.

In the specific construction process, the problem of cutting corners appeared.

Ge Shouli is also helpless, the two general constitutions have tried their best to suppress this wind, but the wind public opinion is huge, he bowed his head and said: "Dalongxing Temple Bao'en Pagoda, and Dabao'en Temple glazed pagoda specifications are the same, 23 zhang 4 feet 6 inches high, nine layers of eight sides, around 30 zhang, nine floors with 146 palace lights, the top of the tower has nine phase wheels, a total weight of 3,600 catties, the top of the tower copper plate two, with wind grinding copper casting, each weighing 900 catties, a jewel Tianpan, weighing 430 catties. ”

"Eight iron cables hang down from the phase wheel on the top floor, and copper balls are hung under the iron cables to protect against the wind."

Both towers have a large copper ball on the top floor to prevent the wind from blowing the building down, which acts as a damper to maintain the structure of the tower when the wind is howling.

Zhu Yijun looked at the two general constitutions, and said with great conviction: "It is not uncommon for Ding Jian Dagong to be built up and down, this tower will not collapse after it is built, and there will be no fish when the water is clear." ”

This is a big construction project, don't you have to leave some oil and water, otherwise this work will not be done, now the pagoda is also the same reason, the palace Ding Jian, Wang Chonggu dare not take it, the pagoda and the Ding construction of the Gewu Academy, Zhu Yijun has already acquiesced to Wang Chonggu a little oil and water.

I just want the horses to run and don't give the horses grazing, this kind of thing must not be done, Wang Chonggu doesn't take it, the general office can't take it, the general office doesn't take it, and everyone can't take it.

If you manage it, you will die, and if you let it go, it will be chaotic, it is the normal state of administration, there is no muddy water at all, there is no enthusiasm, Zhu Yijun attaches importance to the result, and he does not require everyone to be an honest courtier like Hai Rui.

But now the wind power public opinion is very noisy, from the court officials to the miscellaneous reports, this pressure has come to the threshold, and it is necessary to open the stomach to see how many bowls of noodles Wang Chonggu has eaten.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are under the orders of His Majesty, supervise and handle the killing of corruption, there are many inquiries in the court, there are too many questions in the court, this is too much to say that the big priest is cutting corners, this is checked, if it is innocent, then give everyone an explanation, if the big priest is not innocent, then you have to kill the wind of corruption." If General Hai Ruihai leads the investigation of corruption, he cannot violate his own functions.

"The big priest is also eccentric, he was impeached, and he didn't go on to show his feelings, this wind power public opinion is one-sided, alas, then check it." Zhu Yijun has tried his best, he has been holding back, but the owner directly put it up, and he refused to even go on the performance of the confession.

Zhu Yijun can only hope that Wang Chonggu will not be too greedy, otherwise it will really not end well, and Zhu Yijun can naturally move out of the ancestral system of eight disagreements and be lenient, but if Wang Chonggu makes a big corruption case of wild goose and hair, it will not be something that Zhu Yijun can forgive.

"What does Motosuke think?" Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng's opinion.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty is wise. ”

"Then Mr. will supervise this matter." Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng glanced at each other, and they both showed an emotional smile.

It's hard to do things.

What did Wang Chonggu say? Wang Chonggu didn't say a word.

Regarding the wind power public opinion in the DPRK, Da Sikou did not refute it, nor did he make a statement, just like Zhang Juzheng posted a floating ticket to all the impeachment of Yuanfu, Wang Chonggu did not refute it.

Why did businessman Zhao Deyi tear his face with Wang Chonggu? Mainly because Wang Chonggu didn't give money.

To do civil engineering for the imperial court, the imperial court directly conscripts people's husbands, which is hard labor.

However, some must be bought, buying folk bricks, stones, civil engineering and other things, but this payment cycle is really long.

Taking the imperial mausoleum of Emperor Longqing as an example, the imperial court only approved the money in December of the first year of Wanli, and then until the fourth year of Wanli, it still owed money and did not pay it off.

The system of the Ming Dynasty is seriously rigid, and a sum of money is allocated layer by layer, one by one for approval and verification, I want to take the money, and wait; In the second aspect, the disadvantages of bribery and appeasement in the Ming Dynasty have become a common practice, this silver, allocated and allocated, there is still in the account, but there is actually no more, or it is misappropriated for other purposes, or it is taken away by a hand of oil as soon as it arrives.

Businessman Zhao Deyi must have suffered this loss on weekdays and worked for the imperial court, and many businessmen had already expected to be taken by the imperial court for nothing, which was also the real situation.

I, Wang Chonggu, took your Zhao Deyi's silver money and goods for nothing, and I gave you Zhao Deyi's face, why didn't I take others for nothing? Less special to give a shameless face.

There must be someone who pries Zhao Deyi, and the public opinion of the wind power of the king in the court has always been very strong, and some people fanned the flames and refused to suffer Zhao Deyi's losses, and they told this matter without doing anything.

The time has come to slash King Chonggu's belly.

Zhang Juzheng personally received the order, and took Hai Rui, the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, two of the household department, twelve people who supervised the imperial history, Wang Guoguang, the left attendant of the household department, Bi Qiang, the eunuch Cui Min and others, and went straight to Wang Chonggu's criminal department, the Ministry of Industry and the construction site of Dalongxing Temple, and seized all the account books.

"Great Priest, I've offended a lot." Zhang Ju said with a complicated face.

Wang Chonggu held his hand and said: "It's nothing, there is always such a round, Zhang Siwei implicates me, Your Majesty will cut off a strand of my hair, it must be dissatisfied, sooner or later, there is no difference between checking now and checking in the future, you always have to weigh me, call me." ”

"Your Majesty refuses, but the wind is too strong, and Your Majesty is also very difficult." Zhang Juzheng looked left and right and said in a low voice: "The big priest will give me a secret, how much did you take, so that Your Majesty and I can prepare, we still have eight things to discuss." ”

"I said I didn't take it, do you believe it?" Wang Chonggu's face was extremely strange, and His Majesty still wanted to protect him, which was the most surprising thing for him.

The king let the minister die, and the minister had to die.

At the beginning, the forgiveness of the emperor's palace, in Wang Chonggu's view, the emperor must have held his stomach, but for the stability of the northwest, he still spared Wang Chonggu himself and his family, which was to prevent the contradiction from further intensifying.

Zhang Siwei and the twenty-four prisoners have been imprisoned, more than 700 people have been beheaded, and the three ladies have entered Beijing again to negotiate the price of horses, not only the courtiers feel that the time has come to kill him Wang Chonggu, even Wang Chonggu thinks so, and he has come to die.

"Since the big priest didn't take it, why didn't he want to play the case? If you don't say anything, how can Your Majesty be a guarantee? Zhang Juzheng heard Wang Chonggu say this, that is called a gas!

If you don't take it, you don't take it, and you can't take it, what are you afraid of?

The emperor deliberately favored him, but your old king didn't show himself, and only one party was singing, which made His Majesty very passive, and he could only listen and believe partially.

This one is chasing and fighting, and you don't say a word on that one, isn't this the result?

Zhang Juzheng soon took a large number of cases and began to take inventory, this time the inventory was very detailed, and the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu moved out of his eighty-one big abacus.

And Wang Yaozhuo, as a disciple of Zhu Zaiyu, is also in the ranks of the abacus, and the internal supervisor, the household department, and the Gewuyuan are audited by the three parties.

Zhu Yijun watched Wang Yaozhuo's hands flying on the abacus, and felt particularly wonderful, these hands can not only play the abacus, but also play the piano, which is really eye-catching.

After two days, the results of the audit were presented to the Imperial Palace, and the answer was that there were no problems with the accounts of the Gewuyuan, the pagoda, and the Imperial Palace.

There is no problem with the accounts, it does not mean that there is no problem with the project, and soon, the backfill earthwork to be dug up at the pagoda site will be dug up to see if the foundation is built according to the specifications of the glazed pagoda of Da Bao En Temple.

In mid-November, a large hole was dug into the site.

Zhu Yijun personally came to the construction site of the pagoda, the earthwork around the pagoda has been backfilled, and this time the foundation was dug to see the depth of the ground pile.

"The backfill of construction waste is that this is still a triple soil, and it will take more than ten days just to dig it up." Zhu Yijun's tone is not good, and he has a deeper understanding of cheap Confucianism.

In fact, from the time of the excavation of the Sanhe soil, some people realized that something was wrong, according to the confession of the businessman Zhao Deyi, the earthwork backfill, that is, they did it, because it is a steel-concrete structure, so it is all backfilled garbage at will, but when excavating, it was found that all are Sanhe soil backfill.

When the digging reached a depth of eleven feet, the answer was revealed, and no corners were cut.

And Zhu Yijun just came over to take a look and confirm this fact.

"Da Sikou's design is over-standard, isn't it a bit too conservative for such a thick pillar?" Zhu Yijun naturally did not go into the pit, but just looked at the piles in the pit, according to the construction specifications of the Yongle glazed pagoda, the pagoda of 23 zhang 4 feet 6 inches high, the foundation only needs three zhang is enough, and the visual inspection is more than five zhang.

Wang Chonggu said quite calmly: "Isn't this the amount of silver given by the imperial court?" If you don't take it, you can only build better. ”

500,000 taels of silver to build a pagoda, not greedy or taken, that is the quality of this building, hard, three hundred years? It won't collapse for 500 years.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Deyi is to arrange the earthwork backfill, he doesn't use the Sanhe soil, so he drove him away, the reason why the minister didn't give him money was that he backfilled, and the minister found someone else to dig it up and backfill it again." Wang Chonggu was finally willing to plead his way and said the whole story.

In fact, it's not complicated, Zhao Deyi backfilled the earthwork and cut corners, after Wang Chonggu heard about it, he immediately drove Zhao Deyi away, and replaced it with a group of people to backfill the Sanhe soil, of course Zhao Deyi couldn't get the money, and he was driven away without doing much.

The reason why Wang Chonggu resolutely used Sanhe soil to backfill was that when the emperor inspected the construction of the palace, he said that the strength of the steel-concrete structure building is extremely high, and it can be directly backfilled with garbage.

In the matter of cutting corners, His Majesty's methods are even more professional than him!

If this is cutting corners, wouldn't it be equivalent to saying that Wang Chonggu was getting an axe in the class gate?

Since the stomach was opened, Wang Chonggu really only ate a bowl of noodles, then these noisy officials have to pay a little price, but it is not easy to punish, after all, they are an important corrective force in the dynasty.

The degree of punishment of the ministers of the ears and eyes is heavier to block the way of speech, and lighter is not able to correct the atmosphere.

Zhu Yijun's brows furrowed, and then his eyes lit up, and he said to Zhang Juzheng: "I have an idea." ”

"Your Majesty, do you have an idea?" Zhang Juzheng immediately shook his head, and looked at His Majesty as if he was facing a great enemy, all vigilant, His Majesty is becoming more and more like a scholar, and his eyes rolled, it was an idea.

Zhu Yijun crossed his waist and looked at the big pit in front of him and said: "This earthwork backfill is still a troublesome matter, sir, gather all the officials who impeached the great priest Kou and the pen who created public opinion in the wind power together, let them come here and fill in the pit dug up!" ”

"It must be done by the official himself, and he cannot ask others."

"If you have nothing to do, you go to the Qinglou to listen to music, and you haven't picked out the bones in the eggs all day long, it's a shame."

Zhu Yijun asked the scholar to take off his shirt and run to the soil pit to backfill, and Zhu Yijun didn't give them the delay and loss, but the backfill of this pit, these Taoist officials and those pen squares, had to fill it back by themselves.

"Da Sikou, look at the point, and complete it with quality and quantity." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and said meaningfully.

These guys all fell into the hands of Wang Chonggu, Wang Chonggu can pick bones in the egg like the science and technology officials, this one is not good, that one is not right, but the strength, on the physical level, toss these science and road officials.

"Ahh Obey the order. Wang Chonggu's eyes widened, and he was extremely surprised, of course he heard the subtext of His Majesty.

Let the scholars take off their robes and work on the construction site, in terms of insults and physical punishments, they are definitely much stronger than the court staff, and they are useless scholars, how many officials, without the power to restrain chickens, take off their long shirts and wear short brown, and work directly in the field, which is more uncomfortable than killing them.

But you can't do it again.

The emperor's will, if you don't do it, you can only get out of the house and go home, if you want to continue to be an official in the court, you must do it.

This has been dug up, proving that Wang Chonggu did not take it, and the side that loses the struggle must be punished.

Corporal punishment is a good option.

The first round of the struggle about the Xishan Coal Bureau ended with Wang Chonggu really only eating a bowl of noodles, and as a referee, Zhu Yijun did not let go of the coaxing ministers, humiliated them fiercely, threw all their decency on the ground, kept rubbing, and smacked viciously.

The second round of struggle soon began, and this time the struggle was full of gunpowder, because the ruffians in the countryside began to exert their strength, and they warned the wood-bearers not to carry coal for the official kilns.

This matter has been brewing for a whole month, when the official kiln coal is piled up, Wang Chonggu immediately realized that someone is making waves, autumn and winter is the peak period for coal use, during this time, it is actually possible to make the coal pile in the factory can not be transported, obviously someone is deliberately creating an incident.

And Wang Chonggu, who is responsible for supervising the Xishan Coal Bureau, is the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Wang Chonggu was not accustomed to these ruffians at all, he arrested people everywhere, sent them to the coal yard to dig coal when they were caught, coerced and lured them for three years of hard labor, those who smashed the people's houses were forced to do hard labor for ten years, and those who injured people were punished and beheaded.

At the beginning of December, there were already 12 ruffians who were beheaded, and after this round of rectification, the coal from the Xishan Coal Bureau began to arrive in Xizhimen smoothly.

The timelines of the first and second rounds of the struggle around the Xishan Coal Bureau were not completely separated, but mixed, but both ended with Wang Chonggu's victory.

"It's snowing heavily today." Zhu Yijun and Wang Chonggu came to the entrance of the Xizhimen Coal Market.

Heavy snow is a solar term, the same Wanli four years, the day of heavy snowfall, the sky drifted goose feather snow, in normal years, the coal of Xishan can not reach the Beijing division smoothly, the price of coal will skyrocket several times.

"In order to let the coal arrive in Beijing smoothly, the minister specially made a coal road, and asked His Majesty to move." Wang Chonggu led His Majesty out of the Xizhi Gate and saw the coal road.

In order to alleviate the impact of wind and snow on coal prices, Wang Chonggu specially designed a coal road with sleeper wooden rails on the stone road, the stone is the roadbed, the sleepers are responsible for maintaining the horizontal height, and the wooden rails have a coal car the size of a table.

When it snowed, the firewood bearer could continue to push coal on the coal road, and the problem of the slippery road was solved, but when it encountered a downhill road, the brakes on the coal car were two iron rods inserted into the gravel road, which could effectively slow down, and Zhu Yijun was very interested in this thing.

"This sleeper can be used with lime sleeper, and this wooden rail can be replaced with a railroad rail, the rail seems to be a large investment, but the wooden rail is easy to break, long-term operation and maintenance, or the rail is cheap." Zhu Yijun studied coal cars and coal roads and put forward his own guiding opinions.

Sleepers and wooden cabinets can be replaced with more robust lime sleepers.

"Your Majesty, the wood of Jingshi is extremely expensive, and the lime road sleeper is indeed cheaper, so it can only be used in this way, and after the construction of Ding, the lime of the lime factory can be used here, and the minister will pay attention." Wang Chonggu sincerely accepted His Majesty's opinion.

Kyoshi wood is expensive.

Xishan Coal Kiln, in the orthodox years, there was a disturbance of the Imperial Tomb because of coal digging, and the Imperial Tomb seeped water, such a big thing, but the Xishan Coal Kiln was repeatedly banned, and finally the imperial court also turned a blind eye and acquiesced in the matter of Xishan coal mining.

Because the trees in Gyeonggi have long been cut down, and without coal mining, there are not many trees at all, so how can life be maintained?

This is also the common dilemma of more than a million cities in the Ming Dynasty, a city has gathered gas for a hundred years, and there are 12 cities with more than one million people in the Ming Dynasty, either coal or firewood, only coal, no firewood at all.

The price of timber is expensive, sleepers and wooden rails are indeed expensive, but at present, the production capacity of the lime plant on the bank of the Yongding River can only be used by Dingjian Dagong.

"It's not impossible for Dingjian to stop first, and it will be used for people's livelihood first." When Zhu Yijun heard that it was because of the problem of production capacity, he immediately decided to stop the construction of Dingjian and repair the road first.

Wang Chonggu immediately said: "Your Majesty, the lime factory can open a few more kilns, and the construction of Dingjian cannot be stopped." ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to stop the Dingjian project, Wang Chonggu immediately chose to increase production by eliminating all difficulties.

"Hmm." Zhu Yijun tightened the big straps on his body and said, "Then increase production." ”

Due to the limited transportation capacity of the coal road, it can only be used by official kilns, so to some extent, Wang Chonggu spent three months fulfilling part of his storytelling, which is to ensure the supply of coal to Gyeonggi.

Zhu Yijun is very optimistic about the story told by Wang Chonggu, the preparation for the construction of the Xishan Coal Bureau has been completed, and the rest is to fight with the people's kiln.

This is another battle between swords and knives, the market is the only touchstone, whether it can be done or not, we need to leave time to research.

Zhu Yijun gives himself the support he can give, whether he can do it or not, it depends on Wang Chonggu's ability, it doesn't matter if he can't do it, the contradictions have been explained one after another, and the development of all things has the law of quantitative change causing qualitative change, Wang Chonggu can't do it, then change someone else to continue to do it!

Zhu Yijun did not return to the palace immediately, but went to the first audit office jointly opened by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Gewu Academy, which was responsible for all private businessmen, and was responsible for helping to audit accounts, check books, and help major firms audit their books.

Although Zhang Siwei died, the lessons he left behind still made the proprietors shudder, and the big shopkeeper of the proprietor's trust, actually kept most of the benefits in his own hands, which made the proprietors sincerely have doubts about their own accounts.

But there are not many arithmetic talents in the Ming Dynasty, and most of them are in the hands of the imperial court.

Therefore, the establishment of the Hook Auditing Institute is to solve this dilemma.

In fact, the courtiers did not have much confidence in the establishment of the Gou Ji Office, because the merchants would not choose to check the accounts, the Gou Ji Office was the official yamen of the imperial court, and the accounts would definitely be sent to the tax audit room for tax audit.

But when Zhu Yijun's car came to the street of Goujisuo, he was somewhat confused when he saw the long queue.

"Zhang Daban, didn't Mr. say that there will be no businessmen in this hook shop? How is this so many people? Zhu Yijun's car was parked far away, and he asked Zhang Hong with a little puzzlement, is there such a big demand for auditing accounts?

"Your Majesty, Sir is not a businessman." Zhang Hong said with great confidence: "Mr.'s idea and the businessman's idea are completely different, the businessman's first consideration is profit, the tax room under the tax reminder, as long as it is paid on time, the tax room will not be too embarrassed, after all, the tax room is only responsible for the tax audit." ”

"These proprietors can settle an account, the tax of the imperial court is not very high, and the value of the hundred is six, but these shopkeepers, if they take it, it is not 6%, at least more than half, day and night, it is difficult to prevent thieves."

Zhang Juzheng looked at the problem and sat there, in his opinion, the merchants did not want their secrets to be known by the imperial court.

But for most businessmen, this is a matter of interests, and the imperial court wants 6%, but these shopkeepers who eat inside and outside are afraid that 60% will not be filled.

The Ming court once specifically checked the account books of Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu's homes, and after the news spread, the proprietors finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

"That's the car of Dingguo Gong Xu Wenbi's house, right, he's here too?" Zhu Yijun's eyes were vicious, and when he saw Xu Wenbi's car, the Guogong Mansion also needed to worry about this problem.

Xu Wenbi did not come in person, but sent his henchmen to ask him to check the book.

Zhu Yijun looked at the long queue in this row, and he didn't plan to disturb the accountants to work, he was now in the past, Ti Cai still had to clear the field, the officials had to meet him, and all the work in the hands of the accountants had to stop saluting, he used to make trouble for people.

The fees charged by the audit office are not cheap, and the audit report is charged according to the number of people used and the hours used, and the accounting and the audit office are divided into five accounts.

The most ordinary accountant, an hour is a penny of silver, and a second-class accountant is an hour of two coins of silver, if you want to invite the prince of Zheng Wang and the special appointment of the Gouji Institute, that hour must be at least one or two silver.

You must know that a Ming Jingjun can only receive eighteen taels of silver in a year, and an accountant certified by the imperial court only needs to work for three hundred and sixty hours to obtain these eighteen taels of silver.

There are only two specially hired gods, one is Zhu Zaiyu, and the other is Cheng Dawei, if you want to invite these two, it is not rich.

According to the expectations of the courtiers, when the imperial court needed to take inventory, the accountants of the Gou Audit Office were responsible for auditing, and as a result, the Gou Ji Office was extremely popular, and even the business of the household department had to queue up.

provoked Wang Guoguang very displeased, the yamen set up by the household department! If you want to use it yourself, you have to queue up!

And there is no royal law anymore!

Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!

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