Chapter 144 War Reparations (1)
After entering the hall, Li Jinglong was suddenly stunned.
Because there are not only emperors, but others.
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Zhu Yunyu was wearing apricot yellow round neck dress and sat cross-legged on the Arhat bed beside the window, next to him, Zhang Hun, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Minister of the Independent Yuan Ducha Censor Bao Zhao, sitting on a stool.
The king and his ministers were holding documents in their hands, and they were obviously talking about something just now.
"My teacher, Li Jinglong..."
"Get a stool for Duke Cao!" Zhu Yunxiu said, "Sit down and talk!"
"Abide by the order!" Li Jinglong sat down with his waist, and his butt was just touched by the stool. He couldn't help but lift it up immediately, and a neighed almost indescribable.
Zhu Yunxi put down the documents in his hand and turned to look at Li Jinglong, "Thank you for your hard work!"
"I dare not! It's all my duty. I can't bear to be like this. I'm afraid!" Li Jinglong immediately stood up and said, "Long live to kill the empress!"
Although Li Jinglong was obedient in the past, he was definitely not like this.
Zhu Yunyu knew why he was like this. In fact, it was not just Li Jinglong, but most of the ministers who met in the Ganqing Palace these days were like this. They were all trembling as if they were walking on thin ice. Even the old iron-headed Ling Han was in a proper manner and did not dare to show off his qualifications.
"What's going well?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
Li Jinglong looked at the other two first before speaking, "Go back to the emperor, everything is done!"
"Zhang Feng and Bao Zhao are not outsiders, you don't need to be vague, just say it!" Zhu Yunfeng smiled.
"When I returned to the emperor, everything went well. When I arrived in Kaifeng, His Highness of the King of Zhou was not in the city but went to see his tomb. I led my troops to arrive. Xiaoming Dayi admitted his pros and cons. King Qiansui of Zhou also bowed down and admitted his mistakes, and set off from Kaifeng to Fengyang. The prince of Zhou and others were accompanied. In addition, I was afraid that there would be no one to serve the King of Zhou on the road, so I chose Qiansui's concubine from the palace to follow. The inner house of the palace will be temporarily controlled by the Prince Zhou, and the inner ministers and the guards and vassals will be handed over to the Chief Secretary!"
What he said was short, but in fact, the meaning of the words was huge.
Especially the sentence, "Those who lead troops there will be a good idea and frank statement of pros and cons."
In other words, he used both soft and hard work, and the King of Zhou did not obey.
Thinking about this, Zhu Yunxiu frowned slightly.
Among the kings, the King of Zhou was actually a soft persimmon. If it were other vassal kings, it would be not so easy to be obedient.
"There is another crime!" Bao Zhao sneered and said, "As a vassal king, he is not in the fiefdom, so he leaves the fiefdom city without authorization, hum!" As he said that, he stood up and bowed, "Your Majesty, I ask the Central Plains governor for his crime of inadvertent supervision!"
"Okay!" Zhu Yunxiu pondered for a moment and said, "I will be fined for one year and I will be retained for the third level to see the future."
Although the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty had great power, they were in their fiefdoms. Local officials also had the responsibility to supervise the vassal kings. They were not allowed to leave their fiefdoms without war.
However, the old man's sons have a big temper. In recent years, local officials have done more things and done less. As long as the vassal kings are not out of order, they will pretend that they have not seen it.
But now, the emperor has always been rules.
This unintentional disaster for the Central Plains governor Pan Boyong is the emperor's warning to local officials.
Zhu Yunxi looked at Li Jinglong again, "What else did he say? Have you ever cried on the road?"
"Zhou Qiansui has always said that the court had treacherous ministers, provoking the family affection of the Tian family, and slandered the emperor. He also kept saying that he wanted to see the Supreme Emperor, and he didn't say anything else!" Although Li Jinglong said quickly, his mind turned faster. "I respectfully invited Qiansui to get on the carriage at the site of King Qiansui's mausoleum, and did not let Qiansui see any outsiders again. So these words were just the King of Zhou himself!"
"Hmph!" Bao Zhao said again, "The court has treacherous ministers? Who is the treacherous minister?"
Zhu Yunxiu also smiled, "I, the fifth uncle, haven't understood it yet when I was old. He still doesn't think he was wrong, and he doesn't think he was wrong!"
As he said that, he sighed, "The punishment is severe. Others say that I do not care about family affection. The punishment is mild, and it is difficult to explain to the people of the world!"
Upon hearing this, Li Jinglong and Zhang Feng both kept silent.
Only Bao Zhao stood up and said, "Emperor, if you don't punish him seriously, what is the law of the country?"
Zhu Yunxi nodded frequently, but his face was full of entanglement.
"I have seen someone who is a gun, but I have never seen you as a gun like this. The emperor has no energy. Just fight forward and you will be fucking at the vital point!"
Li Jinglong cursed in his heart, "From the distance from Bao Zhao in the future, I don't know how this kid died on that day!"
"What you said about Bao's love!" Zhu Yunxiu spoke, then looked at Li Jinglong, "The matter of the fifth uncle involves Sheng Hengda Money House, you also know about Sheng Hengda. So, you also follow the staff and advisers!"
"I don't want to follow the staff officer. I can't hide yet, why did I pull it in in a blink of an eye?"
Li Jinglong complained in his heart, wishing to give himself a mouth, "If I had known this happened, why would I have come to the palace to do? Wouldn't I have to take a break before I came home? Isn't this a hit on the tip of the gun?"
Thinking in his heart, Yu Guang glanced at the turtle who was standing at the door and secretly hated him, "You old dog is so strict, and you didn't say that there are people around the emperor along the way!"
But now that things have come to this point, he cannot refuse, so he can only say, "Yes!"
"I know, you have always been a few people who like to avoid the most important things. Those who don't listen are just avoiding the most powerful things!" Zhu Yunxiu still looked at Li Jinglong, "Fifth uncle was sent to Fengyang. He is a relative of the royal clan Wang Daming. It is not enough to deal with him. You are a royal relative, a noble family on the list of imperial ancestors."
"Your identity is here, and you can come in. One can show the fairness and justice of the court. Two, it is also convincing, do you understand?"
Li Jinglong couldn't sit still anymore and stood up and said in panic, "The emperor has done his best. How dare I hide my selfishness!"
"That's the best!" Zhu Yunhuang nodded.
"It's so fucking scary!" Li Jinglong's back sweated coldly, "The emperor seems to have changed his own person, and now every word he says is heartbroken!"
At this time, Zhu Yunxiu picked up the documents on the imperial case and shook, "Everything is illegal, shocking and shocking!" As he said, he sneered, "Zhang Yu, tell me!"
"Yes!" Zhang Feng spoke slowly, "I thought Zhou Fan misappropriated military pay and granted loans to Sheng Hengda to the merchants. Later, the ministers and others reviewed the questionnaire account book in detail and found that a lot of money was directly given to the Central Peasant House."
"Hmm?" Li Jinglong was shocked again, "Have you touched the common people?"
Zhang Yu continued, "There are 180,000 taels of them, which were distributed to the people before spring plowing, and used to buy farm tools and livestock by the government. The loan documents did not use land to mortgage them, but some were used for food. But in fact, they required real money and silver. Some people could not repay after the expiration, or could not raise money, and they directly seized their land, which led to the displaced people!"
"At present, I will take a brief look at it. There are three prefectures and eight counties involved, and there are 42 officials in charge, and countless officials!"
"Damn it, a shocking case!" Li Jinglong was so shocked that he almost bit off his tongue.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to appease the people, ownerless fields were granted permission to build houses and reclaim wasteland. Because iron is a national specialty, the government has to provide agricultural tools, cattle and horses and other livestock.
In some densely populated developed areas, people want to buy iron and livestock from the government, and the government needs to make a low price and cannot make profits from it. However, some people cannot afford to pay, and the court allows temporary credit.
This is all moral politics, but under the planning of those unscrupulous businessmen and officials, it turned into loans!
You should know that the people work hard all year round, and even if they are middle-aged farmers, they don’t see much money. Most of the people are bartering, and the people can only sell grain at a low price to repay the loan.
This is also a good year. If you catch up with a bad year, what will the people sell?
People who have no food to sell can only take away the land.
Li Jinglong understood all these things, and he quietly looked at Zhu Yunxi's side face.
The emperor sat upright at the window, expressionless.
"In addition to lending, there are also low-collecting and high-collecting!" Zhang Yu continued in a deep voice, "In the prefectures and counties involved, monopoly matters are only collected by them, and they set prices. The low-cost is collected from the people and then sold to the official warehouse at a high price. The people's hard work and farming earn less than 10% or 20%, and the court has paid a lot of extra money for vain, making people profit for extra profit!"
"Sheng Hengda was the leader of Zhou Fan. He once used a carriage containing grain in Luoyang official warehouse three times. The grain and beans sold were mostly mixed with sand, gravel and soil to fill the amount."
Zhang Jue said, pausing for a moment, "I have read through the historical books all over the world!"
Bao Zhao gritted his teeth, "How could the word "kill" relieve the hatred in his heart?"
At this time, the turtlema quietly walked to Zhu Yunxiu, "Long live the emperor, Jinyiwei..."
Chapter completed!