Chapter seven hundred and eighty full dynasty shaking
"To report to Your Majesty, I have been ordered to inspect Taicang. Today has been completed, and I came here to report to Your Majesty." After Zhu Pingan stood up, he took out a memorial from his sleeves and held it respectfully on his head with both hands.
Huang Jin walked down from Emperor Jiajing, took the memorial from Zhu Pingan's hand, and handed it to Emperor Jiajing with both hands.
Emperor Jiajing took the memorial, did not open it, and placed it on the dragon case in front of him. He looked at Zhu Pingan and said, "Tell me what the results of the inspection are."
"Reporting to your Majesty, I was ordered to inspect Taicang. I focused on inspecting Taicang's account books for the past three years and taking inventory of the gold and silver in the bank. Taicang's books recorded a deposit of 2,127,200 taels of silver.
The total amount of gold was 720,000 taels. However, the minister checked the account books for several days and found that there was a deficit of 367,543 taels of silver on paper. The accounts were false and could not be reconciled. Another review
Chen Panku, the Taicang Bank only has 1,237,250 taels of silver and 316,500 taels of gold, of which there are 903,800 taels of silver.
It is not pure silver, there are one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred taels of gold that is not pure gold." Zhu Pingan stood respectfully in front of the hall and reported back with a straight face.
"How much?" Emperor Jiajing's expression suddenly changed, he stood up from the dragon chair, looked at Zhu Pingan angrily and asked.
Hearing the numbers Zhu Pingan said, Emperor Jiajing almost suspected that his ears had heard wrongly. He pressed Pingan's words and found that half of the Taicang was empty!!!!
This kind of deficit has never happened thousands of years ago in so many dynasties from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties!
If it is true, it would be the biggest case of all time in history!
Emperor Jiajing thought he was a wise king, but he didn't expect to be so fooled by his subordinates that he emptied half of the treasury!
This was a bolt from the blue for Emperor Jiajing.
One of the biggest problems he faces in power now is that finances are tight. With the Northern and Southern Japanese invaders, natural and man-made disasters, money is needed everywhere. In recent years, money has been flowing like water. This has made Emperor Jiajing even frugal in practicing Taoism and refining elixirs.
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You can imagine how devastated Emperor Jiajing was when he heard that half of his treasury had been depleted. How could Emperor Jiajing endure this?
Emperor Jiajing's rage was unexpected by Zhu Ping'an.
However, even though he had expected Emperor Jiajing's anger, and although he also knew that Emperor Jiajing's anger was not directed at him, Zhu Ping'an still couldn't help but feel a chill down his back when he faced the emperor's anger. The emperor's anger left millions dead and bleeding.
Lu, this is no joke.
"Back to the Holy Father, Taicang's accounts are in deficit. The false accounts include 367,543 taels of silver. There are 889,950 taels of silver in the Taicang warehouse. There is a deficit of 400,000 taels of gold. In addition,
There are 903,800 taels of silver that are not pure silver, and there are 125,500 taels of gold that are not pure gold..." After calming down, Zhu Pingan repeated again.
"Are you sure? How come the account is in deficit?" Emperor Jiajing's voice came out from between his teeth, and his face was gloomy, like the sky before a violent storm.
"Wei Chen is sure that it can be guaranteed by the head on the item. For example, the salary received by the Ministry of War recorded in Taicang's account book is an obvious one. The salary received by the Ministry of War the year before last was one hundred and eight thousand taels, plus the reward of 32,000 taels, it was not much more.
140,000 taels, but last year Taicang's account showed that the Ministry of War had withdrawn 199,000 taels of salary, which was almost double the amount. According to my investigation, last year the Ministry of War only had three new vacancies for officials. How could this be done?
The salary was nearly doubled. It is so false and there are still many shortcomings. This is a record reviewed by Wei Chen, and the falsehoods and shortcomings have been recorded."
Zhu Pingan raised his head and replied eloquently, and then gave an example of false accounting. After speaking, he took out a roll of thick rice paper sewn with needlework from his sleeve, and raised his hands respectfully above his head.
This stack of rice paper is exactly the Taicang Bank's account books that Zhu Pingan re-calculated using the re-examination accounting table. It is a thick stack, densely packed with tables and small characters. Zhu Pingan also specially marked out the deficiencies and falsehoods.
After hearing the example given by Zhu Pingan, Emperor Jiajing suddenly became angry and clouded over. However, this false account resulted in a loss of more than 90,000 silver! More than 90,000 silver was enough to relieve drought and flood disasters in Shufu!
Huang Jin came down and took the double-entry accounting form from Zhu Pingan's hand, and handed it to Emperor Jiajing respectfully with both hands.
Emperor Jiajing opened a page and saw a completely different accounting method from today's. He was startled when he first saw it. However, Emperor Jiajing was also a person whose talent determines his intelligence. He understood Zhu Ping'an's re-examination accounting form after just a moment.
Then I discovered the advantages of this kind of re-examination accounting form, in which the false accounts and shortcomings were very obvious.
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Shocked and frightened, Emperor Jiajing's face grew darker and darker as he looked at it, and the temperature around him dropped again and again, all the way down to below zero. Within a three-meter radius, it felt like he was in an ice cellar.
After reading it, Emperor Jiajing suddenly kicked over the cases in front of him and said with murderous intent: "I'm so angry! I'm so angry! These rats! Silverfish! They are eating inside and outside! They are stealing! It's a waste of my trust! Come here!"
, pass on my decree, escort all Taicang officials to the Criminal Department, and be under strict supervision with the help of factory guards!"
"According to the decree."
A chamberlain serving in the main hall responded to the order and hurried outside the hall to announce the order.
"Huang Ban, draft the decree. Since I came to the throne, all the ministers in charge of the treasury and the ministers who have been dispatched to the king of the treasury are all close and trusted officials. They have also followed the lead and followed the rules without realizing it. No one can find out his treachery, and they are not responsible for the commission.
.I wonder if all the kings and ministers feel guilty. I blame myself for being ignorant and deeply regretful. I have submitted them to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to check their job titles and strictly discuss the case. The case was written by Yan Song, a scholar from Huagaidian University, and Xu Xu, a scholar from Wenyuan Pavilion.
Li Mo, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and He Ao, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, jointly tried the case of Taicang's bank deficit. The factory guards and other government offices were all dispatched to verify and investigate the case. All Taicang's successive treasurer clerks, the censor of the bank, and Ding Shu
, the Ku soldiers are waiting to find out in detail, and all officials involved, regardless of their rank or merit, will be severely punished. All officials of third rank or above in Beijing should attend the trial. All officials from the Ministry of Revenue below the Minister of Finance shall evade in accordance with the law and shall not
Participate, and if there is any violation, you will be punished as a member of the same party involved in the case."
After issuing the oral edict, Emperor Jiajing ordered Huang Jin to draft an imperial edict and submit it to Wuyi Hall for distribution to various government agencies.
The imperial edict was transmitted to Wuyi Hall, and all the ministers in the hall were shocked. The impact was comparable to that of a great ceremony, and soon the entire government and the public were shaken.
So far
The biggest treasury deficit case in history has begun.
The rut of history has also been deflected here. Originally, there was no such case of treasury deficit in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, treasury deficit must have existed, and it must have been so serious, but this lid has never been covered by all parties, and it has never been
But now, Zhu Ping'an has flapped his butterfly wings and lifted the lid, exposing this major case to the world.
perhaps
After this case, the Ming Dynasty's treasury deficit will be curbed, and the treasury will be richer than in history.
perhaps
When there were natural or man-made disasters, the Ming Dynasty had the financial resources to provide disaster relief; when foreign enemies invaded, the Ming Dynasty had the financial resources to organize its army to defend against the enemy.
perhaps
Emperor Chongzhen did not need to hang himself on Meishan, but instead became the master of ZTE.
Of course, who can say for sure in the future?
In fact, when Zhu Pingan heard Emperor Jiajing dictate the imperial edict to His Highness, he felt somewhat unwilling to do so.
Zhu Pingan also knew that he was not qualified to hear the case, but when he heard that Emperor Jiajing handed the case over to Yan Song for trial, Zhu Pingan still felt a little helpless.
Emperor Jiajing still trusted Yan Song in his heart.
However, in Zhu Ping'an's view, this case has a lot to do with the Yan Party, and this is certainly the case. But if Yan Song presides over the trial, it is destined to not get to the root of it.
Fortunately, Xu Jie, Li Mo and others participated in the presiding trial. Although the root cause could not be found, some big fish could not escape.