Wanli Xinming

Chapter 82
Zhang Juzheng saw Zhu Yijun's instructions, and praised Zhu Yijun in his heart, knowing that the emperor finally understood what he meant, and he had more confidence in the future reforms.

His point of view is completely different from that of Zhu Yijun. In his heart, he wished to slaughter Yu Maoxue, who had alienated the ruler and his ministers and corrupted the affairs of the state, thinking that he would be abstained from chaos.

However, as the head of the civil service and a Confucian disciple, Zhang Juzheng must adhere to the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty - freedom of speech for the censors and sciences.

On the other hand, as the emperor, Zhu Yijun didn't want to catch Yu Maoxue in his heart. Although his heart was punishable, the way to check and balance was also on this "punishable heart".

No matter what the emperor and the first assistant thought in their hearts, the speechless reality was that they wanted to kill Yu Maoxue's book and wanted to protect him; those who wanted to let Yu Maoxue go lightly, they sent Jin Yiwei to arrest him from Nanjing and put him into Beizhen. Fusi's prison.This is the paradox of politics.

The first person to be dealt with was Wang Zhuoyu, who "accepted bribes and slandered the government".In less than two hours after Jin Yiwei was tortured, Wang Zhuoyu was like pouring beans in a bamboo tube, explaining the fact that the two Huai salt merchants bribed the two Huai salt merchants with huge sums of money and bought memorials to obstruct the method of drying salt.

To be honest, Wang Zhuoyu never dreamed that Zhu Yijun knew clearly that the method of drying salt would be the mainstream in the future.His thinking was similar to that of all the courtiers. It should be a middle official who wanted to be courteous and told the emperor about the benefits of the salt drying method.

Since it can be moved by words, it will also be reversed by words.Wang Zhuoyu took great pains in the memorial, saying that he visited the old salt worker and "smiled for it".Heart said that with the age of the emperor, is he not annoyed if he is ridiculed?As long as they are angry, they will send staff to check, and then it is time to take action - what the salt merchants want is nothing more than an imperial envoy sent by the imperial court.

It's a pity that this book worth 3000 taels has planted myself in it.Jin Yiwei followed the vine and snatched out all the salt merchants who bribed the censor, and took them all to Beijing for trial.

Zhu Yijun did not act like Emperor Wuzong. He often did not reason with courtiers when he was not stingy.What he is best at is the essentials of our army to break through the enemy in later generations: to break through a point with all his strength, then lead the way with a point, and then surround him in a roundabout way—occasionally, when the conditions are ripe, there will be a central flowering feast and so on.The salt administration and the revolution in Beijing camp can best reflect his political characteristics.

This time, the opening of Wang Zhuoyu's body, if it is not too much digging, how can it be worthy of the emperor's skin on himself.

Salt administration officials and businessmen colluded, Zhu Yijun thought about it with his toes, and he knew that it was a chronic illness.When the reform of the salt administration is about to be launched, there is no need to revive the revolution if the salt administration official is not put in order.

How could the arrested salt merchants bear Jin Yiwei, who was personally trained and instructed by Zhu Yijun, and did not leave any trauma.

A salt merchant Jin explained that the Lianghuai Salt Company smuggled more than [-] kilograms of surplus salt every year, which was more than two and a half times the normal salt output of dozens of salt farms in Lianghuai—all of which were mixed with the normal salt sold by their salt merchants. , the joints such as the banknotes along the way have already been opened up by them.

The explosion of this thunder made Wang Tong, who had become a fellow acquaintance of Jinyiwei, overjoyed, and immediately played Zhu Yijun in secret.

The profit of the surplus salt of more than 1 million catties per year is divided up by officials, businessmen and local officials along the way.Although Zhu Yijun had expected the corruption of the Daming Salt Administration, he did not expect them to do so unrestrainedly, so he ordered Wang Tong to continue digging in secret.

Later, Wang Gongyu, a salt merchant, bit out that Wailang, a member of the Salt Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and others knew about the sale of private salt in Lianghuai, but did not report it. The thing is, Wang Gongyu is a private person in the pocket of Wang Guoguang, a new scholar, so there is no need to say much about it.

After Wang Tong obtained the confession and checked the basic integrity of the evidence chain, he received the secret decree. Nearly half of the Jinyiwei were dispatched to transfer the Lianghuai capital to the salt transport envoy to Si Yamen and Nanzhili, Anhui, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Yingtianfu Sheyan. Almost half of the officials, including the Ministry of Household Salt Department and other officials, were taken into the Nanyuan Project Camp to be with the salt merchants.

Although the operation could not be kept as secret as later generations, under the constraints of Jin Yiwei's strict family law in recent years, only a dozen or so officials at the grass-roots level who should be arrested—the senior officials did not escape, and the rest were all arrested.

This thunderous action of Jinyiwei commanded by the emperor stunned all the officials below the court cabinet.In order to achieve the suddenness of the action, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng had a secret discussion, and no one inside or outside the palace knew about it.

Almost all the salt officials under the jurisdiction of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River were wiped out—the number of people involved in the case soon exceeded 800 people.Although Zhang Juzheng knew it in advance, the scale was still beyond his expectation.

He didn't care about rescuing Yu Maoxue to change his reputation. He held a small meeting with the Ministry of Officials, and urgently dispatched the imperial inspector of Yanyan over the years as an imperial envoy. The transport division dispatched manpower to fill the vacancy, and he was busy wiping Zhu Yijun's ass for a while.

When the big case first broke out, all the other chief officials of the salt transportation department in the country were so frightened that they hurried to withdraw money from the account. He looked haggard and nervous.Later, seeing that the emperor did not intend to expand the attack surface, he temporarily put his heart in his stomach.

When Zhang Juzheng and the Ministry of Personnel urgently dispatched staff to Lianghuai, they celebrated each other with each other. Since the establishment of the salt transportation department in various places, it is the first time that this official has less than the position, and all of them are like a dream.

In order to prevent the unrest in the two Huaihe Rivers, Zhu Yijun ordered He Kuan, the imperial censor of Cao Jiang, and Yang Cheng, the imperial censor of the Yingtian governor, to bring [-] Cao soldiers and [-] Nanjing garrisoners to camp in Hangzhou, so that they could be pressed nearby.

Later, Yu Dayou, who was dismissed from office, was urgently reinstated for the promotion of the Lianghuai Inspection and Salt, and the Prime Minister of the Lianghuai Salt Department.Responsible for appeasing the army, training the salt patrolling soldiers, and slaughtering the troubled salt owls.

In fact, the imperial court has made great fanfare and struck a thunderbolt. Unless the big and small Yan Xiao want to rebel, who would dare to speak up?The so-called hero of the green forest is better than a monkey when glued to the hair, how much water can he put into his brain to give these corrupt officials a head start?All of them died down, disbanded the gang, and hid at home.

Jin Yiwei then mobilized his capable forces and continued to dig deep into these officials.Zhu Yijun has always been in charge of the overall situation in the inner palace, and has to listen to the report of the "special task force" once a day.

At the same time, he ordered Jin Yiwei to test more interrogation methods on these silverfish, to analyze and organize data, and to form torture teaching materials as soon as possible to train Jin Yiwei's torture experts in large quantities.

Later, the salt merchants and officials could not say anything new, but the testimonies they provided could be used as corroboration. Finally, Zhu Yijun outlined a complete corruption network centered on the Lianghuai Salt Division, with a complete chain of evidence and all kinds of circumstantial evidence.Zhu Yijun pretended to be furious, and sent the report to Fu Tingyi, ordering the three judicial divisions to conduct a joint trial.

While waiting for the judicial trial, the souls tortured by Jin Yiwei were sublimated, and the salt merchants and officials who had changed their minds were all scrambling for each other.Since Zhu Yijun came to power, a major case in the real sense, the Lianghuai Yuyan case, broke through from a memorial written by Wang Zhuoyu, shaking the court and the opposition.

It can be said that one wave has not been settled, and another wave has arisen, but the latter wave came because of the previous wave, and the incident of Wang Zhuoyu and Yu Mao's schooling in prison disappeared without a trace. .

All the officials put all their energy on the "Lianghuai Yu Salt Case". The fourth grade and above included the Censor Department Taoist officials, each of whom had a movable type printed "Liang Huai Yu Salt Case Officials and Traders Warning Records", the content was shocking.

With the dissemination and copying of the "Warning Record", the various bribery methods in it have opened the eyes of new officials in the officialdom and yearned for it.However, thinking about so many elegant bribery, vulgar bribery, sex bribery, real estate bribery, congratulations bribery, personal servant bribery, pawn bribery, dry stock bribery, IOU bribery, retirement rebate bribery, etc., they have all been tortured. Net, everyone is worried, how to develop new species of bribery.

(End of this chapter)