Your Majesty killed someone!

Before the people returned to the capital, the news of killing more than 200 officials and civilians by the Yellow River spread all over the world. After the river governor who was inspecting the construction site learned the news, he hung his beam in panic to commit suicide.

After the news reached Nanjing, Song Xuezhu and others were all waiting for the emperor's anger with concern, especially when they learned that their relatives were involved, they were extremely frightened.

At the same time, the newspaper revealed the inside story of the collusion between officials and businessmen in the river yamen. Once the news of cutting corners from Qianli River Embankment was published, the world was in an uproar, and all the gentry and people were full of anger. Especially the gentry and people on both sides of the river embankment were even more shocked and angry. After all, once a flood occurred and the levee was not protected, they were the first to die!

Millions of people became the mouths of fish and turtles. Thinking of this scene, how could they not be annoyed? The world was in an uproar and there were constant calls for the court to thoroughly investigate the case. Some local gentry even took the initiative to hire engineers to inspect the completed river embankments in the local area to ensure that everyone would not become food for fish and turtles during floods.

If you don’t check it, it’s not necessary. After this check, there are problems in many places. Yellow mud caulking, stone specifications, cement is expensive? You can add more sand. There is more sand on the inside, and the outer layer is normal. The profit is not enough? Then just fill the caulking caulking directly. Not enough? Then replace the stone.

In a word, even the most kind contractors will cut corners for profit.

The news came out and was known to everyone.

And then there will naturally be a huge anger!

A thorough investigation and the voices of accountability rose and fell.

It was at this time that Emperor Qian Sheng, who had been on a tour in a close month, returned to Nanjing. Although when the Emperor returned to Nanjing, the news that the Emperor "received a Hu girl as a concubine on this trip, it was spread, but now the public opinion is raging, who still cares about this?

For the people, this incident interprets the truth that the emperor is good and the officials are corrupt officials.

How great is the emperor!

He took out tens of millions of taels of silver a year to let the local government build river embankments and water conservancy to benefit the people, but what about those corrupt officials? They actually colluded with profiteers and cut corners, which was to kill them.

The emperor killed the right one, the best one, the best one!

Corrupt officials should be killed, and profiteers should be killed even more!

"Look, once the emperor returns to Nanjing, he will definitely kill all the corrupt officials in the world."

As soon as the man returned to Nanjing, Zhu Guoqiang issued an order to meet with the cabinet and the six ministries, the Censorate, and the Dali Temple.

"All people are here?"

After walking into the imperial study room, Zhu Guoqiang asked directly, following the eunuch Wang Xi. Now, except for the few eunuchs who followed Prince De's mansion back then, the eunuchs have faded out of the palace.

All the ministers saluted one after another.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Zhang Kuang and said:

"I believe you all know that the dam of the old Yellow River road is cut corners, which is really shocking. I have personally dealt with this matter. The officials and profiteers have already been punished, but this matter cannot be done. The Ministry of Justice recovered the river money, not only should they chase the money they earned, but they also had to recover the money they earned with dirty money. In addition, according to the contract, a fine of ten times or a hundred times was imposed. They were dead, but their son was not dead, and I was greedy and my son enjoyed it. There is no such reason in the world. Even if they are exiled, they have to pay back the money. The son has not paid off, and the grandson has returned. They want to be treacherous and profitable and enjoy wealth. Not only do they not enjoy wealth, but they have not enjoyed wealth for generations!"

On the way back, Zhu Guoqiang thought a lot, and finally he decided one thing, which was to crack down on collusion between officials and businessmen. He not only had to start from the formulation, but also scared them. They wanted to make money by cutting corners and collusion between officials and businessmen. Then they would fundamentally eliminate such thoughts, and even make them dare not even come out of such thoughts. Otherwise, they would come out in a few years.

If they want wealth, let them be poor for generations! When I die, my son pays off his debts, when my son dies, my grandson pays off his grandson! When my grandson dies, my great-grandson pays off his great-grandson.

In short, when will the account be paid off? When will this matter be settled?

Some people in the province were still muttering that when their heads were cut off, they were still saying that it was okay, even if I was dead, their descendants could be rich and prosperous for life because of me. Now they just want to tell them that their wishful thinking was wrong, at least they were never so sensible again in the Ming Dynasty. They had to find even a penny of corruption and bribery.

"Your Majesty's wise!"

At this time, no one dared to object.

"Your Majesty, I am guilty!"

Zhang Kuang apologizes.

"This case has lasted for several years. As the Left Chief Envoy of the Censorate, I have been guilty of being in absent-minded. Please punish Your Majesty."

"I am guilty!"

The ministers who had just bent down and bowed to the ground, bowed directly.

Faced with their apology, Zhu Guoqiang sat there, just pretending that he didn't hear it.

This incident involves too many people. Just the memorial from the Censorate, there are no less than a thousand officials involved. How did they involve it?

The most common phenomenon is to say hello, such as saying hello to the local officials and saying, "The tribe members are doing business at home, please take care of them." There are countless things like this. Also, they turn a blind eye to their relatives in their own name. Some people even know whether they know or say it, just like Song Xuezhu, as the chief minister, how could they take on projects for their relatives and say hello in person?

He is not so irrelevant.

If he retired because of this, he would seem to be strict.

How did this come about?

Along the way, Zhu Guoqiang was reflecting. While reflecting, he even went to the Yellow River embankment in Huaian area to take a look. There were many stone river embankments there in the early years. Although it had been a hundred years, they were still intact.

Perhaps, those stone embankments did not stabilize the stone foundation with cement caulking, but one thing is certain that the project quality is very good. Why, on the contrary, many long embankments that use new technology have been repaired into civilian tofu shit.

"I don't want to kill anyone!"

Zhu Guoqiang said coldly:

"If I want to cure your sins, I can just issue an order directly. What am I thinking about? This has led to such a great cause that has become a tofu. You are all ministers who govern the world. Tell me, how did this mess come about?"

Facing His Majesty’s question, everyone was stunned. Why?

In fact, they are also reflecting.

Li Jiantai stood up and replied:

"Your Majesty, in fact, this matter has a direct relationship with the way we contracted the labor."

"Oh? You said!"

"In the past, the imperial court took out the silver for the construction of river affairs. Most of these silvers were used to buy raw materials. The prefectures and counties along the river provided labor service to be responsible for the construction. The river yamen was only responsible for providing raw materials, inspections, and supervision. In addition to organizing labor service, local governments also supervised whether the raw materials provided by the river yamen were qualified and sufficient. At the same time, during labor service, in addition to the river yamen, local gentry participated, in addition to the river yamen's organization, they often donated some money and grain and were responsible for supervising the construction. They were more responsible and active than the officials, because their land was on both sides of the river."

They are directly influencing people!

The Yellow River broke the ridge and the people suffered a disaster, and the gentry could not escape.

The flood is ruthless. When it is unlucky, everyone will be unlucky together. For those gentry whose families have thousands of acres of fertile land, they are of course more active, fearing that the river embankment will not be built strongly. In the end, when the river embankment collapses, destroying the family business for a hundred years. The interests in it are not clear, and no one will be so idiot that for a little money in front of him, he will destroy the river embankment and destroy the family business for a large amount of money, and turn a blind eye to the river embankment at the door of his home.

Even the river embankments and river embankments in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and the most powerful areas built must be that there are more gentry and more powerful people in that place. Why? Spending the money from the court to protect your own land is such a cost-effective transaction, who won’t fight?

Why did the imperial court spend more than 100,000 taels of silver to build the Jingzhou embankment?

The chief minister Zhang Juzheng is from Jingzhou.

"After Your Majesty ascended the throne, the world was peaceful and the national treasury was sufficient. Your Majesty built river embankments for the welfare of the people of the world. He took out millions of taels every year to work with the Ministry of Works and local construction. However, the engineering method has been changed to the old rules and the Ministry of Works to draw drawings and uniformly contracted. The local government only needs to cooperate and provide manpower, and local governments are happy to be relaxed. Even if local people want to supervise, they have no way to supervise, or they do not understand the new rules and regulations, and do not know how to supervise, which has led many people to take advantage of loopholes..."

The question now is who will take the blame?
Chapter completed!