Can you live forever

Chapter 60 Qianzhuang exploded, all the people wailed

"Prince Huai's mansion illegally occupied 6712 acres of land, and forcibly seized and merged 11756 acres of land."

"37 times of robbing civilian women, 581 times of slavery and wounding, 24 related murder cases."

"In the first year of Jiajing's first year of salt shortage in Huguang, salt merchants in Huaiwang Mansion and Raozhou hoarded salt. Regardless of the government's policy of suppressing salt prices, they used power to cover up salt merchants, retaliated against salt merchants who dared to sell at low prices, and made profits through monopoly sales. Millions of taels..."

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Summarizing the information of those plaintiffs, judging from the content of the complaint, Duke Huai's mansion is simply heinous.

People's homes are only a few acres of land, and if nearly [-] acres of land are seized by force, how many people will be displaced?Not to mention the things that rob people's daughters by force, slavery and hurt people these days.

If these crimes are true, even if the current Duke Huai did not do it, Zhang Zhixiang feels that there is no problem in finding Duke Huai's residence.

You can’t just enjoy rights without obligations, can you?
Xu Pengju looked at the documents over and over for a while, sighed, and said, "Zhu Youzhen may indeed have ordered the people in the mansion to return these things, and maybe they will be compensated."

"But he is a concubine who succeeds to the throne after all. The noble slaves in the mansion will not be so obedient, and the aunt above will not let him 'play around'."

"Pity."

As the Xu family of the two kingdoms, the top nobleman in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Pengju is very clear about these dirty things in the rich family, and there are many things about slaves bullying their masters.

In some mansions, the slaves have more money than the master.

As for those cases, there would be no surprises if you do these things normally. If you make a big fuss, you will be reprimanded in front of the emperor, and you can just change it when the time comes. Fan.

But now as a pawn, it is very bad.

"Will Prince Huai be made an iron case?"

"I can't run away. The method of framing people out of thin air is too low-level. The cases they dare to report are probably true. This time, there should be those real plaintiffs who followed Duke Huai to Ying Tianfu. These people are very smart. , They did not say that they were witnesses, they only said that they were friends and distant relatives, but when describing the case, which village and that family were able to say clearly."

"what should we do?"

Zhang Zhixiang has no intention of helping Duke Huai to cleanse his crimes, but this is not just a matter that affects Duke Huai. If Yang Tinghe succeeds, he will go straight to Jiajing. He has become a de facto puppet, and he is also an emperor who was condemned by Taizu's spirit for "not being right and speaking".

Zhang Zhixiang and the others want to centralize power, and then reform Ming Dynasty to deal with the Little Ice River disaster, the plan will be completely bankrupt.

Rather, it will go bankrupt from now on.

The lineage of Zhengde has been extinct. If Jiajing's throne name is not correct, then all subsequent emperors will lose his due authority, and the emperor will become an existence in name only in Daming!

It's not that the world necessarily needs an emperor, but that the current Ming Dynasty is already diversified enough, and there is only one choice to achieve the required centralization.

Before the arrival of the little glacier, and have an important impact.

Top-down reforms are the best. When times are not chaotic, bottom-up revolutions are not very successful. When it comes to rebellious times, it’s hard to say how many people will die, but it will take at least 50 to [-] years. .

"We can't wait any longer. We must start with Chen Tao's case as soon as possible."

"When Duke Huai was taken to Yingtian Mansion, he was completely passive. The influence of a prince is not comparable to that of a censor. The people are fanatical about judging dignitaries, and they are top dignitaries."

"Those people will deliberately incite public opinion."

"At that time, Manying Tianfu will be calling for Duke Huai to be executed."

Xu Pengju could see the danger, so he immediately opened Chen Tao's case. When the government servant brought Chen Tao's wife, concubine and servant, the witnesses who exposed Chen Tao also appeared.

The case gradually became clear.

Chen Tao, the censor of patrolling the city, colluded with Hou Jie, the commander of the army and horses in Xicheng, and monopolized bulk commodities by blocking the entry and exit of goods from various workshops in Xicheng. After printing banknotes privately, he linked the monopolized goods to banknotes. banknotes.

After getting used to banknotes in the market, they lend money with banknotes.

In just two years, banknotes began to spread to other urban areas of Yingtianfu, and even opened banks to absorb depositors' funds, and then only gave banknotes when withdrawing money, but because of the interest, many people began to deposit in banks...

Using the method of empty hands and white wolves, to make huge profits!

Everyone is familiar with paper money. There was Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty also did it, and the Ming Dynasty also made banknotes during the Hongwu period, but without exception, credit collapsed due to excessive currency issuance.

The banknotes made by Chen Tao and the others seem to have summed up the experience of the predecessors. They are trying their best to control the excessive issuance of currency, and they have used monopoly materials as anchors for the banknotes from the very beginning.

Wait until the banknotes are in circulation and gain enough trust.

They directly print banknotes and use them for acquisitions and annexations. Its biggest role is to enlarge the principal and expand wantonly...

None of the above is the scariest.

The most frightening thing is that they absorbed a large amount of gold and silver with banknotes. If the dealer runs away, all those banknotes will become waste paper, and the scale of wealth that the dealer can take away is at least tens of millions of taels!
Those witnesses and evidence showed that the principal of Chen Tao's bank had been fully emptied, and there was almost no money or materials to exchange!

"Financial scam."

This was Zhang Zhixiang's first impression after reading the case, but he thought it was absurd. Wouldn't it be better to run a credible currency than to make a fortune and leave?

Then, he understood again.

This was originally done by a group of corrupt officials in private to make money. All the procedures are illegal. How dare they continue to operate for a long time? The best choice is to make a fortune and run away.

however.

Such a big case can be done by a patrolling censor and the commander of Xicheng soldiers and horses?How many officials are involved in this?How can the deceived people and merchants let it go without making a fuss?
As expected of the original team of Xichang, this move is really ruthless.

The Qixin on the side of the Nanjing court is used to deal with the capital and the emperor. Within the group, all parties must be pushing for their own interests. I am afraid that Yang Tinghe did not expect that this matter would explode so much...

of course.

Normally, when there is a thunderstorm, the censor Chen Tao and the commander of Xicheng soldiers and horses, Hou Jie, are thrown out. After Caishikou beheaded, and then the people are comforted, the matter is almost resolved.

It's different now, there are enemies staring and biting...

"Immediately notify the whole city! Seal up all Datong Banks, let people who hold banknotes go to the government office to register, and tell them that the confiscated silver will be paid to those who register first!"

"Xu Lang! You take the two teams of servants directly to the Xicheng Bingma Division and tie Hou Jie to me!"

"The yamen servants over there drove away all the people who sued King Huai. Why are they staying here after the case has been registered? King Huai didn't come to court, and now I want to try the case of Datong Bank!"

(End of this chapter)