Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Chapter 770 The Carpenter Emperor 25

Yao Zongwen did not expect that the punishment from the emperor would be so fast, so relentless, and kill them all.Xue Sansheng, the head of the Ministry of Officials Examination and Purification Department, is half a grade lower than him, so he went directly to the Ministry of Officials, took out the number of hidden fields and households he filled out, and asked him to return the illegal income from it up to now .

Yao Zongwen didn't vomit blood on the spot.

He has been a censor for many years, and his family relies on these to make a living.After he arrived in Liaodong, why he and Xiong Tingbi got into an endless situation, apart from Xiong Tingbi's refusal to recommend him for an official position, there is another reason that cannot be said.

Xiong Tingbi held the military and political power in Liaodong, and he pretended to be "clean" with him.Not a single penny of silver was leaked out, and he refused to share half of his benefits.It would be fine if everyone was clean and honest together when they were censors.Seeing that Xiong Tingbi has power in his hands, fame and fortune, he can't bear it.

Hu Ke had the right to do so, and Fang Congzhe sent him to Liaodong, but he didn't mean to repay the generous gifts he sent.However, Xiong Tingbi's practice of not giving him any leeway made him unable to get back what he had invested in running Qifu over the years.

Liu Guojin made up with him immediately because Yao Zongwen deliberately expressed his dissatisfaction with Xiong Tingbi.

Now Xue Sansheng came forward to ask him, which is different from the Ministry of Household Affairs.The Department of Examination and Clean-up of Officials is directly in charge of the daily assessment of officials, which determines his future and destiny.

But he couldn't afford it.

Seeing Yao Zongwen, Xue Sansheng said on the spot that he could not pay the compensation, and took the lottery to send him to the Ministry of Punishment.

"My lord Yao, it's not that I'm an official to embarrass you, but that the national law is there. It is said that when you were a juren, you took over hidden fields and closed households. Your character cannot be hired as an official by the court."

Xue Sansheng scribbled down his opinions on how to deal with it, and how to do it is a matter for the Ministry of Punishment.But if the Ministry of Punishment dared to break the law, he would not only write a letter to impeach the Ministry of Punishment, but even knock him down.He has long been dissatisfied with the embezzlement of taxes by these moths after Zhongju and becoming an official.

Yao Zongwen's face was grim, he knew what would happen to him if he fell to the Ministry of Criminal Justice.Yuzi struggled to ask Xue Sansheng.

"You don't have the fields and households to donate?"

Xue Sansheng smiled proudly, "I have never been an official. The laws of the country are there. Haven't you learned them since you became a scholar? Knowing the law and breaking the law, you used to be a censor. Why do you have the face to impeach others?"

"All the officials in the court, all the Juren in the world, how many people have not accepted the land offering and the households they have taken refuge in? Why, why are you persecuting me, and you have trouble with me?"

"Forcing you? I have been lecturing in the East Palace for many years, and I have always followed the rules. I have never forced anyone. But the imperial court let me take the position of the Kaogong Division. If the court pays taxes, the lower officials will send a letter to collect it for the court, which is the first step to correct the mistake. Then record it in the file, which is also the right thing to do."

Yao Zongwen immediately understood that the record on file meant that he would be removed from office and reduced to a civilian.

Xue Sanxing's voice remained unchanged, "Those who cannot afford compensation will be handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, which is also stipulated by the law."

"Are you going to make an enemy of all the scholars in the world?"

Xue Sansheng sneered, "Do you still have the face to call yourself a scholar by embezzling the court's taxes? Don't tarnish the word scholar."

Xue Sansheng was only transferred to the Ministry of Officials yesterday to be the head of the Department of Examination and Clearance of Officials.

Zhou Jiamo, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was very troubled by this position. Only talents and learning can be respected by all officials. Those who are lucky will inevitably be looked down upon by others; After he was elected, he did not accept Hidden Hidden who took refuge in him.

Zhou Jiamo almost sifted through all the Ming officials he knew, and sifted for gold in thousands of dustbins, only to single out Xue Sansheng.

This is also the plan he made up his mind to decide after many times of deliberation.If the Minister of the Ministry of Officials is asked to do this, it may easily attract the attention of officials in the DPRK and China.Not only is it very likely to trigger a violent backlash, but it is also very likely that because the ministers are all officials who have been in office for many years, they have traveled in many places and experienced many people and things. .

How can one be righteous if one's own body is not righteous?

However, if he started from the Department of Examination and Purification of Officials, he would be able to complete Yintian's investigation and punishment very well if the head of the department was in step with himself.

After becoming an official, Xue Sansheng, who lectured in the East Palace with his talent, simple experience as an official, upright, and capable, all met Zhou Jiamo's requirements, so he entered Zhou Jiamo's eyes and became the most powerful head of the official department.

Zhou Jiamo hasn't been idle these few days. From accepting the Yintian Yinhu form issued by Xinjun to be filled out by officials, his fighting spirit has been ignited.He repeatedly deduced it several times. Although he didn't know what step Xinjun would take, he decided to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to follow Xinjun to do a hidden land investigation comparable to Zhang Taiyue, so that Daming could pay taxes. Collect, so that Taicang has surplus silver to pay for Jiubian's food and relief for the victims of disasters.

He wants to make contributions, to make a name in history, to clear up the administration of officials, and to bring to justice all the officials who embezzled taxes.Xinjun's inspection of the officials' wealth is his best opportunity to act as the minister of the Ministry of officials.

Even if she was pointed out by her ex-husband and reviled by Wan Shi afterwards.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to discuss secretly with Shenzong and Guangzong's last "Minister of Consolidation", Huang Kezuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, how to do it without affecting the court's handling of political affairs and angering scholars and officials all over the world. Under such circumstances, recovering the taxes due to the court will also make the world no longer dare to be opportunistic and greedy to take advantage of loopholes in the law.

Huang Kezuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, was very pleased with the actions of the new king's Cha Yintian Yinhu.Let the officials self-report first, and then go to their hometown to check the official letter, or send a special person to check the changes in the fields registered in the yellow book before and after the election.Comparing the hatchback, it is no longer possible for officials Yintian and Yinhu.

Why Taicang puts less and less taxes into the treasury is really the viciousness of those "gluttonous" scholars who regard the national law as nothing and start embezzling the taxes due to the court since they were elected.

His initial idea was to order the officials to first refund the taxes and make up for the part of the corvee that was paid in silver, and then divide the fines into several grades depending on the number of hidden households in the hidden fields.

However, the penalty for this matter must also be reflected in the assessment of the Ministry of Officials. The performance is excellent and downgraded to medium, and the middle is downgraded to low.

For the silver that cannot be made up on its own initiative, it can only be handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for ransacking the house.Exile or decapitation depends on the amount.

For those households who were willing to take refuge in Juren to avoid corvee, they were simply accepted as official slaves.As for those who took refuge in offering land, they either paid twice to five times the tax, or directly collected the land as public land.

The two bosses geared up and prepared for the next step in secret, waiting for the new king to speak and start immediately.Unexpectedly, Xinjun used a rogue method to coerce Sun Ruyou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, to go to the Ministry of Officials to set fire.

The first batch of officials to be rectified were those who impeached Xiong Tingbi.

After Xue Sansheng sent Yao Zongwen to the Ministry of Criminal Justice as the number one, Huang Kezuan didn't care whether the new king wanted to kill chickens or scare monkeys.He immediately signed the official document, turned around and went to the Ministry of Officials to find Zhou Jiamo to go to the Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor together.

How to punish the officials involved in Yintian, we must set a specific and enforceable standard of measurement, and we must not leave Yu Shi with the opportunity to impeach himself.

Huang Kezuan really wanted to make this happen. If Taicang could get several million taels of silver every year, he would like to cast a few more cannons, so that Liaodong could have more chances of winning, turn the tide from danger, save the court from decline, and show his full-fledged skills , The true colors of scholars.

Xue Sansheng was very busy that day, and those who were officials in Beijing who were on the list of ministers who had to be handed over to him by the Ministry of Officials were called to talk to the Ministry of Officials one by one in order.Some wiser people immediately said that they would pay all the taxes back.Xue Sansheng wrote down his name, issued an official letter, and asked him to go to the household department to make up the payment of the silver, and also sent the receipt from the household department back to him for registration.As for the handling of the land offering households, it will have to wait for the official handling of the court.

The officials Xue Sansheng asked to talk to, whether it was Yushi—Yao Zongwen's old colleague, or Yushizhong—Yao Zongwen's new colleague, all looked ashen and dejected.

The yamen servants of the Ministry of Officials sent a dozen people to the Ministry of Punishment for custody one time at a time, and finally those yamen servants heard Xue Sansheng's summons and dared not look him in the eye.

The ferocity of this tusk should not be underestimated.

He took down so many officials from Yushitai and the Sixth Division? !

too frightening.

However, those who went to the household department to pay back the tax and silver encountered troubles in the household department.

Hubu Shangshu was called to Qianqing Palace.None of the remaining officials knew what standard should be charged, but so few people asked, immediately set off a huge wave among the officials of the household department.Before the Qianqing Palace could set the standards for supplementary payment, the pressure from the Ministry of Officials to examine meritorious officials and the wave of fear of the assessment had already flooded almost all the officials in Beijing.

Just like what Yao Zongwen said, who didn't accept the donation of land and take refuge in households after the Zhongju?

People from the household department first came to the official department to ask, and then other officials in Beijing also came to the official department to find Xue Sansheng.An endless stream of officials with anxious faces made the Ministry of Officials more lively than a temple fair in a short moment.

Xue Sansheng had no choice but to hang a card on the door of his private room, "During work, please do not inquire."

But the number of people guarding outside his door did not decrease at all.

Hearing that the eunuch came in and reported that the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment had come to the Qianqing Palace to seek an audience, Zhu Youxiao knew in his heart that it was Sun Ruyou who had accomplished the task.He hurriedly let the eunuch Chuan and the two come in, and ordered Liu Shimin to immediately send the Minister of the Household Department, the cabinet members, and Zhang Wenda, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to come to the Qing Palace to discuss matters.

According to the responsibilities of officials, all six subjects must also participate in such court discussions.

Liu Shimin carefully reminded his emperor.

Zhu Youxiao was stunned, "Then invite the Ministry of War, Minister of Rites, and Duke Ying and Duke Ding of the Governor's Mansion."

The author has something to say: In 1620 of the Ming Dynasty, there were still some civil servants who had to be admired.

Xue Sansheng (1558～1634), whose style name is Uncle Lu, and another name is Tiangu, was born in Dinghai (now Zhenhai) county in Ming Dynasty, and is the younger brother of Xue Sancai.

In 1601 (the 29th year of Wanli), he was a Jinshi in the middle school, and he was a good scholar. He was awarded a review and became a lecturer in the East Palace.

After 1623 (the third year of Tianqi), he successively served as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor's degree attendant, the lecturer of Jingyan, the vice president of "Shenzong Veritable Records", the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the left minister of the Ministry of Officials.

At that time, eunuch Wei Zhongxian's power was growing day by day, and he was advised to visit him, but he sternly refused.

Later, when he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Rites, he made a few comments on the lack of political affairs, which angered Wei Zhongxian even more, so he begged for a rest.

In the morning, Shangshu has been approved, and he will go out of Beijing in heavy snow today. Wei Zhongxian sent the inner supervisor to stop the road and search for the suitcases. He only has a collar of fur and a little medicine bait.

In 1628 (the first year of Chongzhen), he was awarded the Nanjing Ministry of Rites and a Bachelor of Hanlin, but he refused to leave.Living at home for 10 years, studying behind closed doors, he is very frugal, so as to benefit his hometown. In 1634 (the seventh year of Chongzhen), he was summoned again, and he had died for more than a month. He was posthumously named Wenjie and presented it to the prince Taibao.He is the author of "Yi Li", "Spring and Autumn Discrimination", "Tiangu Shanren Poetry Collection", "Collected Works" and so on.

Xue Sancai (1555-1619), styled Zhongru, also styled Qinglei, was born in Dinghai (now Zhenhai) county in Ming Dynasty.

In 1586 (the 14th year of Wanli), he became a Jinshi and awarded Shu Jishi.He has successively served as Shizhong of Rites, Zuoge of Huke, and Duge of Military Affairs. He has discussed politics several times, and his words are harsh. He was once deprived of his salary for one year because of his affairs.Later, he served as Huguangyou to participate in politics, guarding Jingxi Road separately, supporting integrity for officials, not afraid of powerful people, and almost caused disasters.

In 1609 (the 37th year of Wanli), he was promoted to the right deputy capital censor, and the governor of Xuanfu. He rode alone and refused to welcome him.During his term of office, he rectified military discipline and had a good strategy for controlling the imperial system. He was promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of war and the governor of Jiliao border affairs.All the big officials who belong to him are instructed to visit once within a hundred miles, and those who are far away are exempted.

Only one handbook is prepared for the visit, and gifts are not allowed, and festivals are no exception.After being promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, he got rid of the bad habit of falsely pretending to be the number of soldiers in the imperial army. He took office on the 20th day and cleared up the 8-month-old case.The posthumous posthumous title of Gongmin was given to the crown prince Taibao.

The Governor of Jiliao Frontier Affairs is an extremely powerful position, which cannot be obtained without trustworthy ministers and capable ministers.

Jiliao is a geographical concept, which refers to today's Beijing, the area from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou to Liaohe.