novelraw Chapter 541
Chapter 541
Immediately, the hall was like a boiling pot, whispering to each other, and the noise became louder and louder.
In a court without a saint, the supervisory censor watched the regent smilingly watching the courtiers discussing, and did not make a sound to stop it.Hao Shangshu was a little bit embarrassed. This Dajing Dynasty was under the regent and he was himself. Although it was expected that a proposal was opposed by so many people, it was somewhat incompetent to accept it.
Finally, he cleared his throat and signaled to the supervisory censor. After the court quieted down, Hao Shangshu began to ask questions by name.
"Qi Shangshu, can you tell me whether corruption and bribery should be prohibited by national law?"
Seeing that Shoufu asked himself on such an occasion, Qi Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites could only say that it should be done.But he cleverly added, "Hao Shangshu, what is the specific amount of bribery, should we discuss it together?"
The voice disappeared, and the court hall became noisy again.
After Jia Amnesty waited for a while, he lowered his hands to stop the commotion in the hall.He has long realized one thing, the Great Court Meeting is not a place to discuss politics, it is only suitable for spreading out the things to be done so that the courtiers know what to do first.To discuss something and make a final decision, it is only at the Xiaochao meeting attended by the six nine ministers and the dozen or so princes and state officials.
After blowing the news that the imperial court wanted to deal with corruption and accepting bribes to the ears of the directly related fifth-rank courtiers, Jia Amnesty decisively announced the end of the Great Court.Those who are qualified to participate in the small court will follow Jia She to Wenyuan Pavilion regardless of fatigue.This is the meeting place of the Xiaochaohui.
As for the Qianqing Palace, which belonged to the saints, Jia She had never dealt with government affairs there since he took over as the regent.The Hall of Mental Cultivation, which the Supreme Emperor used to like to use, was also closed like the Qianqing Palace.
Jia Amnesty followed his mother's wishes and chose Wenyuan Pavilion. Anyway, he didn't want to seize the throne, and it was the same to deal with political affairs there.The courtiers also understood Jia Amnesty's avoidance of the throne when he chose Wenyuan Pavilion and avoided the Hall of Mental Cultivation and the Palace of Qianqing.
Except for the King of Nan'an, everyone felt good about Jia She not taking that step forward.As it is at present, there is no saint who needs everyone to prostrate three times and nine times, and everyone thinks it is very good.
After everyone was seated, Jia Amnesty took Hao Shangshu's notebook in his hand and began to express his position.
"The account books of the Ministry of Accounts for the past five years have basically been audited. Li Shangshu, can you tell us the results of the audit?"
Li Shangshu stood up in shame, and spread out the notebooks he had prepared. Huang Shilang from the household department looked at Li Shangshu's embarrassed look, stepped forward to accept the notebooks, and read them carefully.
This excerpt was written jointly by Li Shangshu and his two household assistants.
After reading the scriptures, Jia Amnesty asked, "Your Ministry of Households has accused the generals of the Ministry of War for emptying their salaries many times, but why did the Ministry of Households deduct [-]% of the soldiers' salaries granted to the Ministry of War by Emperor Zhuang Wu? This example is from Where did it come from? Where did the deducted money go? If there is no spare salary to support it, the soldiers will actually lose [-]% of their monthly salary."
Jia Amnesty paused and continued, "If you returned the [-]% of the military salary that you withheld to the imperial court, you would accuse the Ministry of War of emptying the salary for public interest. But Li Shangshu, tell me about the [-]% that has been withheld for various items in the past five years. , Where is the nearly one million silver?"
Everyone knows that the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs live a comfortable life, and they have to deduct [-]% or more as a rule, no matter it is the appropriation of funds.Now the regent asked about their heads, and he opened his mouth to say that he had accumulated millions of taels of silver. Rao, these people from the household department have a lot of money, so they dare not declare that they can return all the silver allocated to them in their pockets.
Everyone knows that the Household Department is a collective corruption, and everyone knows that the Household Department has been corrupted for more than a hundred years, and it is a secret kept secret by the imperial court. The whole group is ashamed to say nothing, how to solve this matter is the real problem.
Twenty or thirty important ministers all pursed their mouths tightly, and no one said a word.
Jia She asked Li Shangshu, "What are you going to explain to the imperial court and Tu Ming for this million taels of silver? If it is acceptable, the account books of your household department will no longer be reviewed."
This is also the method that his mother repeatedly explained to him.Pursuing five years forward is acceptable to Li Shangshu.If in the past ten years, counting from the time he accepted the Minister of the Household Department, what was consumed by his house, he has not come out, so what if he is forced to death?Corrupt officials are caused by the system. Whoever becomes the minister of the household department will not change the system, and any funds allocated will still be peeled off, and all household officials will be rewarded according to their official positions.
The important thing is to take this opportunity to recover a sum, and then change the practice of "skinning" by the Ministry of Households, and establish a new appropriation and review system.
Li Shangshu murmured in his heart, God knows where your precious grandson Tu Ming is.But Jia Amnesty's confession, he could not and did not dare to delay.
The regent chooses to expose this matter in Xiaochaohui to save face for him and all the officials in their household department.If he opened it at the Dachao meeting, he would be ashamed and die immediately.In five years, if you don't check, you don't know. The household department he manages has received millions of taels of cash that shouldn't be distributed.
He never thought that since he entered the household department, the money he received according to the rules was corruption and stolen money.
If he hit the pillar and died on the spot now, the stigma would follow him for the rest of his life.
Li Shangshu blushed and stood up to answer Jia Amnesty's question.
"Prince Regent, the Ministry of Households has a detailed account of the profits that everyone has received over the years. The officials will recover the silver taels according to the accounts and hand them back to the court." Li Shangshu looked at everyone's faces and added, "These silver taels will be sent to the court." Return it to the national treasury before the Yuan Festival. If there are people who cannot return the silver taels, they will be borrowed from the imperial court and make up the IOU."
Jia Amnesty nodded, walked around, and asked everyone if they agreed with this approach.
No one objected, and everyone could see that Jia Amnesty wanted to reform the practice of the Ministry of Household Affairs and make big and trivial matters smaller.
Jia amnesty achieved his goal, and he immediately withdrew his cold face towards Li Shangshu from the household department.He always kept his mother's instructions in mind, that a small court meeting would discuss at most three things, focus on solving one matter, and leave the other two for the courtiers to consider, and leave it to the next small court meeting to pick the key issues.
"Hao Shangshu's proposal, this king thinks it is very good. Only when the officials are clear and clear can we and our descendants be in the position of superiors forever. When Hao Shangshu told this king and the first emperor the reason for the collapse of the previous dynasty, The focus is on officials governing corruption, and officials are corrupt and extorting bribes. Now this dynasty has been in existence for a hundred years, if we don’t try to revive it, no matter how hard our descendants work hard in a hundred years, it will be difficult to save the ruined country.”
Jia She's words made everyone look awe-inspiring.It is the Ministry of War and Wu Xun. In this position, they can't read the Four Books and Five Classics as well as the Scholars, but no one has read the history books less, and they all know that Jia She's words are not false or alarmist.Not to mention the second list Jinshi who were born in Qingliu like the Six Departments and Nine Ministers.
Seeing that everyone listened to his advice, Jia She continued slowly: "We all inherit the grace of our ancestors and eat the meals rewarded by our ancestors. Therefore, we also want our children and grandchildren to eat what we left behind. All of you here are qualified for Enyin's first son or even second son to be an official. If the Dajing court collapses, we will be the first to be unlucky. Don't you think so?"
After everyone agreed, Jia Amnesty continued: "Hao Shangshu's proposal, during the Chinese New Year, everyone has time to think about it. Courtesy is a courtesy to others, and you must ask for it. Those who can give us 1000 taels, they What I asked for, I got more than 1000 taels in the end. If we dare to accept one thousand, the officials below will dare to accept five hundred. In the end, the Dajing court will be destroyed, and the road of grace for our descendants will be broken. The wealth and glory of the descendants."
Xiao Chao will end, Jia She goes to the East Palace, he has to discuss with his mother about the New Year.Alas, I dare not let Lian'er and Yaoguang out of the palace, if there is no mother to protect them, I am afraid that they will be reincarnated for a long time.
In the past few years, Yaoguang has encountered more dangers than Jia Lian.Every night when Yaoguang went back to Kunning Palace, Jia Mu took Jia Lian to see him off.Jia Lian's rapid progress in martial arts is not only because he is smart and practiced early, but also because he worked hard and knew early on that only his own strength can protect him and Yaoguang.
Such Jia Lian will be 14 years old, and his height will soon be close to that of his father.A few years ago, Jia Hu was no match for his younger brother, but now, Jia Lian can easily defeat his father, who is in his prime.
Sometimes Jia Amnesty would think this way, if he hadn't engaged his second son, it wouldn't be difficult for his second son to be a marquis because of his good martial arts skills.Now his son has a whole body of talent, but he has to stay in the palace and cannot spread his wings to fly. In the final analysis, he has wronged his son.
"Father." Jia Lian first noticed Jia She entered the courtyard, he dropped the snow ball in his hand, and saluted Jia She first with a smile.
Jia Amnesty looked at the sunny boy, who looked like his wife's son, and was filled with joy.Princess Yaoguang, who was building a snowman with Jia Lian, turned around and saw the Prince Regent striding over.
Against the warm winter sun, the shadow on the regent's face made Princess Yaoguang feel that he was more dignified than Rong Enhou ten years ago.She heard a lot of old stories about her father and the regent from her mother, and sometimes she couldn't help thinking, if the father was alive, would the regent still look like this?
The queen mother laughed at her whimsy.But as she grew up, the queen mother still said that if the first emperor was alive, Marquis Rong Enhou's rights would become smaller and smaller.The emperor has never been someone who can really trust any courtier wholeheartedly.
Another sentence the queen mother said, "Yao Guang, if your father and emperor hadn't arranged for you to marry Jia Lian, the Tu family would have disappeared, and you would not have such a good life."
Yaoguang knew it all, and the queen mother often told herself to get along well with Jia Lian, put aside her status as a royal princess, listen to the regent queen mother, and be a filial granddaughter-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Jia Amnesty followed the national etiquette and wanted to greet Princess Yaoguang. Yaoguang hurriedly said "excuse me", and then after Jia Amnesty saluted Jia's mother, he greeted his father-in-law according to family etiquette.
Seeing Jia Amnesty's expression, Jia's mother knew that he had achieved his goal.She turned around to greet her grandson and grandson-in-law, "I've been playing for a while, and I'm going back to the house for some ginger soup."
Smiling, Jia Lian picked up the thrown snow ball, knocked it down on the snowman's nose, patted his frozen red hands, responded, followed her grandmother and father, and went to the study side by side with Yao Guang.
Jia's mother and Jia She never avoided discussing state affairs. According to Jia She, "Lian'er, there is no man in Rongguo Mansion who has lived past 60 years old. You must learn these things. When you grow up, you and Yaoguang have to teach Tu Ming how to guard the country."