Late at night, in the same inconspicuous house in Yanzhou City, the two people met again last time.
The person with a Beijing accent said: "It was really dangerous today. I almost got locked up in the Yamen. Fortunately, I came out today, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to finish it. His Highness might have noticed some clues."
After a pause, he complained again: "I really didn't expect His Highness to order someone to be arrested on the first day he arrived in Yanzhou City. What an oversight."
The person with Shan Se accent said: "Who would have thought? Even if Qitai and Pushan arrived in Yanzhou City one day in advance, they should have just noticed the problem, how could they dare to take people for it?"
The person with a capital accent said: "The matter has come to this, and it is useless to say more. It's just that your Yanzhou Prefecture only involves the promotion of officials, and those government servants who take bribes are not included. Will it make His Highness suspicious?"
The person with a Shanseli accent said: "That's unthinkable. If I come forward and someone goes into the water in Yanzhou Prefecture, won't I be exposed once the case is revealed? You have been in contact for more than a year, and you have only
That’s it.”
The person with a Beijing accent said: "Tell your family members to hide them. Be careful and you won't make any big mistakes."
The person with the Shanseli accent asked: "I have always wanted to know, has another Shanseren person in our Yanzhou Prefecture been dragged into the trap by you?"
The person with a Jingcheng accent said, "What do you think?" and then laughed.
Three days later, Guo Zhen came to Yunxi with the confessions of the officials of the three guards of King Lu.
Yunxi looked through their confessions and asked, "How many officials were involved?"
Guo Zhen replied: "Your Highness, King Lu has three guards, two commanders, four commanders, ten commanders, five guards and governors, nine Qianhu and nine deputy Qianhu, a total of officials above the fifth rank.
Of the thirty-nine people, only He Yu has never received money, while the other officials have all accepted money."
The standard one guard in the Ming Dynasty was one commander, two commanders and colleagues, four commanders, two guards and governors, and five thousand households. Now the King of Lu's three guards are incomplete.
"The main culprits were Zhu Wan and Zhang Qin. From Zhu Wan's house, they confiscated two thousand taels of gold, two thousand taels of silver, as well as a large amount of treasure banknotes, grain and jewelry. Although the things copied from Zhang Qin's house were not as good as those from Zhu Wan's house, they were still the same.
There is a lot of wealth."
Yun He said bitterly: "These two must follow Grandpa Huang's method and peel off the skin to make grass."
Guo Zhen continued: "There are also commanders such as Xiao Fengming and others. They also have a lot of money and things in their homes. The money alone is more than 5,000 guan. The money received by several town governors, Qianhu and others is quite large.
There are many, but there are differences. According to the experience of handling and other accounts, in the past two years, one thousand households in Zhongwei received more than 3,000 guan of money."
"Thousand-household Yang Ben recommended by He Yu as governor, and Cao Yu as governor did not accept much money. They should have only received three or four hundred guan. If there were thousands more households, the deputy 1,000-household would only accept four or five hundred guan."
Yunxi flipped through the statistics about the collection of property that everyone had roughly calculated, thought about it again, and said: "It is limited to 600 guan, and those below 600 guan will be demoted. Your Majesty, I will explain it to you; 600 guan
Those with more than three thousand guan will be given a piece of white training, so as not to implicate their family; those with more than 3,000 guan will be beheaded, and those whose family members are not involved will be sent to Fengyang to farm, and those who are involved will be exiled to the border; Zhu Wan and Zhang Qin will be stripped of their skins and planted with grass.
Those whose family members were involved were put to death, while those who were not involved were exiled to the border."
"Make a list of the cleared houses and land and hand it over to the Yanzhou Prefecture, so that it can be returned to the people. The houses and land of these officials confiscated this time, except for the government's property, will all be sold; let's forget it.
, let the new commander appointed by the emperor handle it. The money will be collected and handed over to the Yanzhou government, who will send it to the capital along with this year's autumn grain."
After giving instructions on the disposal of the property, Yunxi asked again: "Besides Zou Ji, are there any officials from Yanzhou Prefecture and Ziyang County who are involved?"
Guo Zhen replied: "Many officials from Ziyang County and Yanzhou Prefecture are involved. Among the officials, there is a recommendation official from Yanzhou Prefecture and a chief clerk from Ziyang County. There are no other officials involved."
"Huh?" Yunxi was confused: Ziyang County is a lower-level government, but there are two officials involved. Yanzhou Prefecture is a higher-level government, but only recommended officials are involved. This is not normal.
Yunxi said, "Go down and send someone to call Qitai and Qin Song." Guo Zhen agreed and went down.
After a while, Qin Song and Qi Tai came. Qi Tai asked: "Why did Your Highness call us here?"
Yunxi said: "Guo Zhen has almost finished the trial of the case. These are confessions and other things; and I plan to limit it to six hundred guan... to be exiled to the border without being involved. You can draw up one
The memorial to the capital, how to explain this matter to the capital; I guess the letter sent to Grandpa Huang three days ago has arrived, so we need to fully investigate the matter as soon as possible."
Qitai agreed. Then he looked at the things and said, "Your Highness, is Yanzhou Prefecture only involved in promoting officials?"
Yunxi said: "I am also confused, but since these three guards have already confessed, why should they deliberately leave one person behind without confessing? Or is it an official from the Yanzhou Prefecture? This is unreasonable."
Qi Tai thought about it and felt it was very unreasonable, but could not think of any other situation. Yunxi knew that Qi Tai was very busy acting as the magistrate of Ziyang County now, and Lao Zhu allowed that there were too few officials in each county government, so
Yunxi said, "Qitai, please go back and take care of the county affairs first. I'll talk about it here." Qitai then left.
Yunxi turned to Qin Song and said, "What do you think?" Although Qin Song was smart, he was very lazy. Yunxi usually didn't talk unless he asked, so Yunxi asked.
Qin Song said: "Listening to what His Highness just said, either the Yanzhou Prefecture is really only involved in the promotion of officials, and other officials turned a blind eye to it because the previous petition from the prefect Lin Jun had no results; or, there is a big fish among the three guards.
Not caught.”
Yunxi straightened up while leaning on the back of his chair, and asked doubtfully: "Is there any big fish among the three guards?"
Qin Song said: "I just inferred based on common sense. Maybe it is indeed the official of Yanzhou Prefecture who is the only one involved in the case."
Yunxi stood up and walked around. All the senior officials of King Lu's three guards had been taken down. If there was still a 'big fish', it was definitely not with his own ability, but with the help of bigger figures.
Zhu Wan and Zhang Qin did not dare to reveal anything; and the officials involved in the Yanzhou Prefecture were not exposed because they were personally contacted by this person. Only one recommendation official was involved, and a thorough investigation of the entire Yanzhou Prefecture was too far-fetched, and since the other party
Being so cautious, even if the government officials conduct a thorough investigation, they may not gain anything.
