Zhu Houzhao has not been sick for half a year. He is eating well, sleeping well, and feels refreshed. He seems to be able to live another five hundred years.
"Why is it another big disaster?" Zhu Houzhao was very unhappy, "Ten thousand rifled muskets have been built, and the new Leopard Fang army will conduct drills every three days. I am also planning to go to Mongolia in the autumn."
Wang Yuan shook his head: "There is definitely no way to fight. In order to save food, all kinds of celebrations and banquets this year cannot be held. In a while, it will be the Wanshou Festival (the emperor's birthday). Your Majesty, please cancel the celebrations and banquets."
Zhu Houzhao was too lazy to go back to the city and said impatiently: "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it."
Wang Yuan also said: "In order to save expenses, the cabinet ministers discussed that new temples and temples in Beijing should be banned within twenty years, regardless of Buddhism, Taoism and green religion, and all temple properties should be confiscated. Monks who are willing to leave Beijing can do whatever they want.
If they don't leave in the capital, they will all be ordered to return to secular life and be sent to the army. They will either be exiled to the army or sent to Jizhou to build the railway."
"It's so serious that you are thinking of becoming a monk?" Zhu Houzhao asked in surprise.
Wang Yuan said: "Eight provinces are suffering from drought, including major grain-producing provinces, and two of them even have locust plagues. Your Majesty, if it is not handled properly, chaos may spread. Let alone attacking Mongolia, we will be busy quelling the chaos in the next few years."
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Zhu Houzhao said quickly: "There can be no civil unrest. I still have to fight Mongolia."
Wang Yuan said: "Then the summer grain for eight provinces will be exempted this year, and the imperial court will have to live frugally. The cabinet not only wants to inspect the temple property, but also plans to inspect the private fields occupied by the powerful in the suburbs of Beijing. The Baofang monks and Guanglu Temple will no longer be provided.
Food rations, they will leave after they are hungry. This matter will be borne by me alone and will not bring disgrace to His Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao's interest kept rising. He was now addicted to weapons research and didn't care about the life or death of those monks. He immediately smiled and said: "As long as we can ensure that there is no civil unrest and don't hinder my fight with Mongolia, you can do whatever you want. As for that,
Monks in the Leopard Room, get rid of them all. Do I need your help to save face? Face is of no use! I recruit monks into the Leopard Room to promote them. Who dares to complain if we drive them away together?"
Wang Yuan hit the snake with a stick and said with a shy smile: "In that case, why not drive away all the people from Baofang Shopping Street? If Your Majesty doesn't live in Baofang, who will show those who are doing tricks? Show them to the prince.
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"Yes, we can't show it to the prince. In the future, Huner will be a wise king. I will drive away all the idle people in the leopard room!" Zhu Houzhao followed his kindness.
This was to drive away tens of thousands of people at once. The main emperor agreed, and it was up to Wang Yuan to decide how to deal with it.
Some of them were sent to the frontiers to serve as troops, and the newly established Daning Dusi was always short of population; some were sent to Jizhou to build railways, or sent to Zunhua for mining; a small number were transported to Yinzhou for colonization, where men farmed and women weaved.
Wang Yuan left Haoshanyuan and told the cabinet the news, and Yang Tinghe issued the order in the name of the cabinet.
Cleaning up the miscellaneous items in the Leopard House and the temples in the capital was something that the civil servants had long wanted to do. Once the cabinet issued an order, the civil servants of the entire court applauded, and the Yang Party also boasted about Yang Tinghe's political achievements.
Yang Tingping gained great fame in vain, so of course he wanted to reciprocate the favor and urged officials to strictly implement Wang Yuan's tax reform.
Tax reform is a major event, and the details must be perfected as much as possible. Wang Yuan cannot make the decision alone. Civil and military officials throughout the court can provide suggestions and suggestions. More than ten court discussions will be held to try to come up with a plan before winter comes. Next New Year's Day
Officially promulgated and implemented.
Next, there was a lot of chaos, and Zhang Yong's brother and nephew were all arrested and imprisoned.
There is no need for further investigation and interrogation. They have countless crimes and have been impeached by officials countless times.
Wang Yuan didn't want to get to the bottom of it, but the civil servants couldn't hold back and traced all the way to Zhang Yong's hometown. Even Zhang Yong's dead brother and his son-in-law's family were exiled by the entire clan and exiled to the army. A total of four clansmen's homes were confiscated and confiscated.
, not all at once, but all of them had done something outrageous. The four tribes confiscated a total of one million taels of silver, and also confiscated properties, fields, shops, grain, and countless treasures.
When Gu Dayong learned about this in his hometown, he immediately donated another 5,000 silver dollars to the School of Physics, hoping that Wang Yuan would help him to let him go, for fear that the Gu family would follow Zhang Yong's footsteps.
Wang Yuan asked the School of Physics to accept the donation, and wrote to Gu Dayong, saying that there was a severe drought in the south and that money and food relief were urgently needed.
Although Gu Dayong's heart was bleeding, he still had to spend money to solve the problem. He sent his confidants to transport 10,000 silver dollars to Beijing, and donated all of them to Taicang for disaster relief.
Yang Tinghe was very satisfied with this and wrote an article to praise him. This article was the life-saving talisman of the Gu family. Anyone who pursues the Gu family in the future will lose Yang Tinghe's face.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Yuan organized a charity game. All the tickets for the game were used for disaster relief, and he called on players and fans to donate money. For organizations and individuals who donated money, a monument would be set up at the entrance of the stadium to record their names, and donations were received one after another.
More than eight thousand taels.
In the blink of an eye, October came, and famine broke out completely in various parts of the south. The victims left their homes in droves to beg, forming countless large and small waves of refugees.
Disciples of physics and psychology, as long as they were local officials, all received private messages from Wang Yuan.
As a result, salt smuggling cases continued to break out in the south. Officials and governors from the third local department, who were eager to solve the problems of the victims, had the courage to attack the local tycoons. To put it bluntly, robbing the rich and giving to the poor would kill three birds with one stone. One could obtain a huge amount of money by cracking the smuggling salt case.
Political achievements, secondly, they can borrow money and grain to help the people, and thirdly, they can scare the rich into donating money and grain.
After they had money and food, they started to work-for-relief, organizing the refugees to build water conservancy projects, repair official roads, and build bridges.
Whoever does well will be promoted quickly, and Wang Yuan has it all written down in his little notebook.
In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of local officials, Wang Yuan even sent a group of letters to local officials above the prefecture level in the name of the Minister of Rites. Do you want to be promoted? Work hard, I will keep an eye on it. Many of the censors are my people.
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A severe drought that spread across eight southern provinces became a powerful weapon for Wang Yuan to implement the new salt law and crack down on illegal salt. It also promoted the construction of local infrastructure, took the opportunity to select hard-working officials, and promoted tax reform. It seemed that bad things turned into good things.
Already.
However, people will definitely die and many victims will starve to death.
In the three provinces of South Zhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, the price of rice has risen to thirty liang and one stone, and countless businessmen are still hoarding it.
This phenomenon cannot be imposed forcefully. Forcibly setting the official price of grain will only force merchants to stop shipping, causing more people to be unable to buy grain. You can inspect one or two companies, but can you also put all the merchants in jail? That only
Can completely disrupt the market.
Moreover, disasters hit all parts of the country, and it was very difficult to transport grain from other provinces. The grain in Changping warehouses had to be used to keep the price of rice down.
Ever since, the fire dragon began to get busy, burning warehouses everywhere in the south.
Wang Yuan sent documents to all provinces in advance. Once Changpingcang is burned, the warehouse ambassador and deputy envoys will not be interrogated. The ambassador will be executed and the deputy envoys will be exiled to the far east. If there is a warehouse envoy who commits suicide, the whole family will be confiscated and exiled to that place.
Changpingcang will be designated as a key target for investigation! The burned Changpingcang, as well as the superior officials, will all be retained in their posts. After the disaster, the culprits will be slowly judged, and those who can provide relief can atone for their crimes.
These actions of Wang Yuan were purely ultra vires, but the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty did not dare to say anything. First, Wang Yuan's power was already evident, and second, Wang Yuan was dedicated to serving the public good. He jumped out to impeach Wang Yuan. Not only did he lose his reputation, but he also lost his reputation.
Wang Yuan will be jealous in his heart.
In the southern provinces, as many as 43 officials were executed, 105 were exiled, and hundreds of officials were demoted or dismissed due to the Chang Pingcang and Salt Smuggling Cases.
The local officials were suppressed, and Wang Yuan finally took the title of "official slaughter".
Weng Wanda, who was secretly sent to Huizhou, also went crazy with an iron sword. Two of the eight major clans in Huizhou had been exiled before, and Weng Wanda, a small general judge, exterminated another clan only three months after taking office.
This guy has the law enforcement power of the Huizhou government. He summoned refugees and specially trained a "capture team" of 500 people. He ate and slept with the capture team members every day. He constantly searched for evidence of the crimes of Huizhou's wealthy families and arrested hundreds of corrupt people.
Those who violated the law finally forced one of the tribes to violently resist the law.
Weng Wanda took advantage of the situation and led people to overstep his authority and ransack the house. All the money and grain they looted were thrown to the prefect for disaster relief.
The prefect of Huizhou was so frightened that he did not dare to offend local prominent families, nor did he dare to offend Weng Wanda. He could only bite the bullet and provide disaster relief. He was so incorruptible that he was unwilling to embezzle even half a tael of disaster relief money.
In early winter, Weng Wanda was attacked by bandits for no apparent reason. He raised his sword and shouted, and rushed forward to kill him himself. He was injured in many places on his body, and five hundred arresting team members scrambled to fight for their lives.
Throughout the winter, Weng Wanda was busy killing bandits.
Due to nearly half a year of selfless disaster relief, Weng Wanda's reputation as an upright official has spread throughout Huizhou. During the process of suppressing mountain bandits, two groups of bandits actually respected his character and took the initiative to lead the crowd to surrender and help Weng Wanda to destroy other mountain bandits.
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The memorial to impeach Weng Wanda floated to the capital like snowflakes, and he could be dismissed from office to the end with just one charge of overstepping his authority and confiscating his house.
However, the imperial court turned a blind eye and allowed Weng Wanda to fool around in Huizhou.
The gentry and powerful people in Huizhou were completely overawed. After the spring, Weng Wanda did whatever he wanted, and the local noble families tried their best to cooperate. While they cooperated, they sent people to the official department to send money, just to quickly get this murderous god promoted and transferred.