Zhao Renben walked into Yushitai Yamen in the morning and opened his apartment.
Wu Huaiyu, the censor who governs the book, gave him a task, which was to sort out and seal the government's money account books and clean up the company's capital.
Although the Yushitai was filled with complaints as soon as the news came out, it still had to be carried out.
As soon as I sat down, I saw a folding page on the table.
He picked it up and flipped through it, and found that the golden page inside was actually gold. After checking it, he found that there was the mark of An Jiu of Anjia Gold Store in Xishi on it, which said ten gold.
Under the outer cover of this ordinary album are gold leaves worth twelve ounces of gold.
This is worth 80,000 yuan. At the current price of food, it can be exchanged for more than 200 shi of rice.
The sudden appearance of the gold leaf made Zhao Renben understand that someone had paid a bribe. Looking through it again, he found a note in the foldout, "I offer you ten taels of gold and ask not to pursue it."
A bit mindless.
Twelve taels of gold is very attractive to a seventh-rank official. A year's salary is only eighty shi, and the monthly salary is only 2,100 yuan. In total, ten taels of gold can equal the three-year salary of a seventh-rank palace official.
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However, Zhao Ren is not a person who has never seen money, especially since he was born in the Zhao family of Tianshui. His father once served as Huaizhou Sihu, and his official position was not high. However, starting from his grandfather and going up several generations, he was at least a governor, a prefect, and a county duke.
Bit.
The family is also from a famous noble family.
When he admired Ma Zhou's talent and asked Ma Zhou to go to Chang'an to seek an official position, he paid a large sum of money for it.
He went directly to see Wu Huaiyu and handed over the money and note.
"I guess it may have something to do with the company's money. I guess there are some problems in the accounts." Zhao Renben said bluntly.
"I guess so. I just offered 80,000 yuan. It seems like this is a big problem. You must check the accounts carefully. I will register the gold leaf for you. I will put it here first and wait until the investigation is clear." Wu Huaiyu explained.
This is simply self-inflicted. Just when the accounts were audited, someone offered a bribe.
A money-catcher usually only catches 50,000 yuan, but this time he gave a gift of 80,000 yuan, which shows that it is definitely ten times a hundred times the amount of 80,000 yuan.
Since I was exposed first, I need to get to the bottom of it.
After some explanation, Wu Huaiyu, Xiao Yu and Gao Jifu continued to discuss the rectification of Yushitai.
“In the previous dynasty, in addition to the Yushitai, there were also Sili and Yezhe stations to coordinate and cooperate. The Yushitai was responsible for supervising all officials in the capital, and the Sili Taiwan was responsible for supervising the capital and its surrounding areas as well as various counties and counties.
The local officials carried out pickets, and the Yezhetai sent envoys to counties and counties in accordance with the imperial edict to carry out inspections in a strict manner."
"Our dynasty does not have a secretary. There are two platforms for visitors. All relevant duties are performed by the Yushitai. The Yushitai is young and has heavy responsibilities. After Your Majesty succeeded to the throne, he paid more attention to the Yushitai. The imperial censors were given the title of Prime Minister.
Three people.”
Xiao Yu, the censor doctor, usually works in the political affairs hall of Menxia Province. There are few people coming to the censor station. In the past, there were frequent personnel transfers. Huaiyu was the only deputy chief of the censor, but he was also very good.
Come on less, this will inevitably make the Yushitai a bit chaotic.
Now that the Chen Shihe incident has occurred, the emperor demanded rectification.
Wu Huaiyu didn't tell them about bribery at the meeting, it was not urgent.
"Xiao Xiang, I think some of the responsibilities of the Yushitai are still not clear enough today," he made a suggestion. Since the Yushitai of the Tang Dynasty was merged from the three tai of the Sui Dynasty, it would be better to divide the powers and work accordingly.
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He proposed that the Yushitai should be divided into three courtyards.
"Taiyuan, Dianyuan, Chaoyuan."
Gao Jifu had just been transferred from Zhongshusheren to Zhongshusheren, but his rank was the same. Even in terms of authority, Zhongshusheren was also very important. He was known as the Prime Minister, but the Yushi doctor was the prime minister, and the other Zhongshusheshi was a part-time official.
, then if he actually presides over the affairs of Yushitai, it can still be regarded as reuse.
The Censor, who was a Censor, was in his thirties. He was in the prime of life and wanted to do something great, especially since he was the younger brother of the former Prime Minister Gao Shilian, but he was not from the same clan. He was also considered the Queen's distant uncle.
"How specific?" he asked.
"The imperial censor of the Taiyuan is in charge of inspecting all the central officials and pushing for prison cases. The censor of the imperial palace is in charge of the ceremonies of worship in the palace, responsible for the supervision of officials in the Gyeonggi region, and accompanying the emperor on tours to various places. The chief of the imperial censorship
Responsible for local inspections and supervising officials of the Six Ministries when in Beijing.
For matters within the scope of their duties, the three houses can directly impeach illegal officials without consulting the chief executive, the censor, or the deputy chief, the censor."
Gao Feng and Gao Jifu felt that with Wu Huaiyu's proposal, the censors were still the censors, and their main responsibilities had not changed, but the division of labor was clearer, with everyone taking charge of their own affairs and ignoring those who were not within their responsibilities.
"I suggest that the number of supervisory censors in the Procuratorate be increased. Now that His Majesty has divided the world into ten provinces, each province should have two supervisory censors. One is in Beijing and the other is on patrol. They should be rotated every one to two years to strengthen local inspections and supervision.
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"I also suggest that the Yushitai should reset the east and west prisons to control impeachment by itself, so that the Yushitai should also have the power to prohibit cases and combine supervisory power with judicial power."
Xiao Yu said, "In the previous dynasty, there was a Tai Prison in the Yushitai. During the Wude Dynasty, we established it and then stopped it. Now our Yushitai is also one of the three law divisions. There is also the re-establishment of the Taiwan Prison proposed by Yi Guogong.
necessary."
In each of the three courts, the most senior censor is responsible for the affairs of the court.
The Yushitai has very important judicial power. When the cases are serious or involve officials of the fifth rank or above, the three divisions, namely the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Yushitai are jointly responsible for the trial. They are called the judges of the three divisions and the Yushitai.
, the Minister of Punishment, and the Minister of Dali Temple jointly tried the case.
In addition, there are three directors with slightly lower status: Shi Yushi, Xingbu Langzhong, Dali Si Zhi, Ge Shizhong, Zhongshu Sheren and Zhaotang.
At a lower level, there are three judges, Shi Yushi, criminal department member Wai Lang, and Dali Temple judge who go to interrogation.
Gao Feng also suggested that the Taiwan Academy divide the interrogation work of Baisi and various states in the capital into east and west parts, each with a censor responsible for it, and they are called east push and west push. In addition, one censor is responsible for each.
Knowing the east side, one person knows the west side and interrogates the case together.
The prisoners interrogated in East and West Tui Prisons are divided into East and West Taiwan Prisons.
There are six palace attendants and censors in the palace, and the division of labor is that one person supervises the cashier in Taicang. One supervises the left and hides the cashier, two of them serve as food envoys in the corridor, and two of them patrol the right and right.
The Procuratorate mainly patrols local prefectures and counties, and when in Beijing, it supervises six ministries.
Generally speaking, the Taiyuan will be mainly responsible for judicial interrogation in the future, while the Palace Yuan will be mainly responsible for the ceremony of worshiping in the palace, the etiquette of hundreds of officials, maintaining the royal dignity, and the Procuratorate will be responsible for patrolling the local areas and supervising the six ministries.
Each of the three courtyards has a senior censor to preside over the affairs of the courtyard, which can also strengthen the management of the censor and subordinate officials.
After discussing for a long time, they finally wrote a rectification memorial to the emperor, hoping to increase the number of ten supervisory censors and even two or three more censors in the palace.
At noon, I had a working meal at the Yushitai canteen, and then went to work overtime at the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Zhao Renben was temporarily assigned to preside over the affairs of the palace, and was fully responsible for cleaning up the money accounts of the public house. All the people who were working on the temporary money-catching order, more than 70 people, were summoned, and a meeting was held to explain the situation and let them take charge.
Hand over the account and the money.
Zhao Renben also led the scribes to start a comprehensive inventory of the accounts of Yushitai Gong's money in these years. They must be checked, and then the money accounts should be cleared and sealed.
There are many ledgers.
Upon inspection, many problems were discovered. For example, even the public money released by Yushitai actually had bad debts.
Zhao Renben thought there was a problem here. After all, the public money in Yushitai was good, and even private loans were making a lot of money. He had never heard of any problems, but now there were actually many bad debts on the account.
There's obviously something fishy going on.
Early the next morning, Zhao Renben found another foldable book on his desk, this time it had become two.
There is still a note, "I offer you 160,000 yuan, please stop investigating."
He took it directly to Wu Huaiyu.
"Twenty taels of gold?"
"It seems that the public money problem is more serious than I thought. Would you like me to send some scribes from the Ministry of Civil Affairs or Yongzhou to assist in the investigation?"
Zhao Ren said, "Please rest assured, Duke Yi, I will definitely investigate thoroughly."
"Of course I trust you, but I'm afraid there are many people involved in this matter now. The Yushitai is self-inspecting, and the scribes who are checking the accounts together may not all be reliable."
"Then please ask Duke Yi to second a group of experienced officials from the Civil Affairs Bureau to check the accounts."
The Du Branch is in charge of finance, and the level of auditing is naturally very high. Moreover, he is seconded from another government office and has little interest in the company, so it will definitely be more efficient.
Huaiyu pointed to the one or two folders on the table, "If you keep checking, will there be more books tomorrow?"
"It shouldn't be possible, this is twenty taels of gold,"
The capital of the public house is 3.8 million yuan, which is only 4.75 taels of gold.
"I think you will receive gold tomorrow." Huaiyu said with a smile.
"This time we not only have to check the public money, but also the public land, and even the public chef at Yushitai have to be checked. If it is checked once and for all, everyone will be innocent in the future. If there is corruption and perversion of the law, then
Find it out at once."
Wu Huaiyu reported this matter directly to the Emperor of Heaven when he was going to be a saint in the afternoon.
Li Shimin was also surprised, "Ten taels were given the first day, and twenty taels were given the next day. They are all gold? Just to avoid checking the public money?"
How much does it cost to give away so much?
"It seems that the problem of public money is indeed serious. I agree that you will send people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to go to the Yushitai to check the accounts, check, and conduct a thorough investigation. The Yushitai is the court's supervisory organ. If there is chaos in your own nest first, then
How else to monitor others?”
The emperor was very angry.
It's dark under the lamp.
I originally thought that the officials were working very hard and always complained that the public funds were not enough. Unexpectedly, they not only freed up their private funds and confiscated public funds to make money in the name of the court, but there were even moths who dared to openly embezzle the public funds and use false accounts and bad debts.
"It is true that all the officials in the imperial court should not be allowed to lend money and make money. You are right. The imperial government's finances are insufficient. Even if it wants to make profits, it should still set up a special yamen and have dedicated people responsible for it, instead of each yamen doing its own thing.
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"Your Majesty, it is difficult to put an end to corruption and perversion of the law. Even if various branch offices are established, there will definitely still be greedy people. We can only strengthen supervision and establish a more effective supervision system without giving them a chance.
Rather than expecting everyone to be loyal and honest."
Li Shimin nodded, "You will dispatch people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to check the accounts, and then I will ask the Criminal Department to also send people to secretly investigate the money-catching officials in Yushitai and find out their details."
The emperor was already murderous.
Yushitai has nine formal money-catching orders, but there are also 66 supernumerary money-catching orders. The book capital of the public house is 3.8 million, and it is said that the private money is twice that.
I don’t know how many borers there are.
Now that the government's finances are short of money, a thorough investigation will be carried out to wipe out all the moths.
Make them greedy, make them vomit it all out, and even confiscate their homes.
Wu Huaiyu also saw the emperor's thoughts. Was he going to take advantage of others?
Or is it that the pigs are fattened and then killed?
At that time, we can borrow the heads of these corrupt and money-grabbing officials to intimidate corrupt officials, and even transfer all the conflicts and grievances caused by the previous loan of public money to them, and then the emperor and the court can be able to make a clear decision.
, a good reputation for justice?
It's quite scary. It's definitely not on the same level.
Pigs that have been raised for ten years are already very fat and can indeed be killed.
