Jingming

Chapter 43

This article impeached a total of ten people, all of whom belonged to Jiang Bin's party.

Wei Bin was paralyzed, and sighed weakly: "Your Majesty has given you a lesson from my servant's injustice. Jiang Bin is going to jail, and my servant still has the merit of entrapment..."

Every day during the past few days, His Majesty would read some memorials to impeach them for Wei Bin to listen to.

But isn't he here for business today?

He understood His Majesty's meaning that night: Check the accounts, if you want to check the internal treasury, of course you have to find something.

Listen to check accounts, write as accounts!
The inner carrier warehouse is a warehouse managed by the courtiers for the emperor, so of course something must be scraped from the courtiers who will be cleaned this time.

Although the foreign ministers will definitely argue: Why aren't these stuffed into the warehouse?
Then His Majesty can say: This is what the emperor saved in the inner treasury before, and it was not confiscated by Wei Bin and the others.

Isn't that the thing?

I read it every day, there is really not much left, and he almost wiped out the family fortunes of several people.

"These are... An Bian Bo Zhu Tai, Zuo Dudu Zhu Hui, Zhu Hong, Zhu An, and Zhu Fu, the governor and acquaintance, please resign and beg to restore your true nature..."

Zhu Houcong is still talking about the next memorial, which is the son of Zhu Houzhao bestowing the surname, and everyone is in danger at this moment.

That's because Shangshu, the Ji Gong official of the Chenhao Rebellion, impeached An Bian Bo Zhu Tai, Ping Ru Bo Zhu Bin, Zuo Dudu Zhu Hui, eunuch Zhang Zhong, and Zhang Yong for their meritorious service: this rebellion was put down by Wang Shouren, In theory, which one has half the credit for recruiting the entourage?

Since the army moved, it was still discussed before.

Now that Zhu Houzhao has gone, these people still want to be rewarded for nothing?

At the same time, some people also requested that Wang Xianyin, the son of Wang Shouren, be appointed as the Deputy Qianhu of the Jinyiwei, which is a little reward first.

There is also Shang Shu who said that the loyal ministers who were suppressed and imprisoned because of disobedience to Jiang Bin should be released and restored to their posts.

Zhu Houcong can see it: At present, it is basically making a fuss around the Qian Ning, Jiang Bin case and the Chenhao Rebellion, trying to involve more internal and external officials.

Picking up another memorial, Zhu Houcong's eyes narrowed slightly.

This is the memorandum of the big figures in the court: Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Tongzheng Shisi, and Dali Temple, the top leaders of these nine departments are now collectively known as Jiuqing.

And this Chen Jin is the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The memorial from the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is about money, and it is also related to the Qian Ning and Jiang Bin cases.

Qian Ning confiscated more than 1000 million taels of silver property. Although Jiang Bin's family wealth was not counted, the amount was not small.On the other hand, it is said that many border towns have been exhausted for a long time, and the poor and poor people around Gyeonggi started to steal.In a word, there is no money for military pay and disaster relief.

Chen Jin requested that for the family property copied by Qian Ning and Jiang Bin, each border town would be given 50 taels, of which Xuanfu would give 100 million taels, and the prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi would also give some, and the rest would be distributed to the provinces.

Zhu Houcong frowned tightly.

Wei Bin knelt down and heard that Zhu Houcong was silent, but when he looked up, he saw that his face was covered with clouds.

Obviously he was only a child under 15 years old, but Wei Bin was stunned to see a gloomy and cruel expression that only middle-aged people can show.

This weird contrast made him feel even more frightened, wondering what kind of memorial this was.

Zhu Houcong silently put down Chen Jin's memorial, and then looked at what Wei Bin had presented before.

The folded paper is not an official document.

After opening it, you will see a few lines of "sincerity" listed above:
——6205 million taels of silver.

——[-] hectares of fields.

——There are 47 stores in Beijing and other places.

——There are 370 five houses in the two capitals.

——The person who has a relative who has an outside job is expelled.

——A list of more than 12 officials and eunuchs impersonated and suppressed in Beijing.

There is also a list of abolition and punishment they listed below.

Today they listed a little more numbers than yesterday.

Zhu Houcong raised his head and looked at Wei Bin: "Qian Ning ransacked the house, do you know the exact number?"

"...Reporting to Your Majesty, this slave will remember." Wei Bin gritted his teeth, "One hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold, 5000 million taels of silver, other broken gold and silver, gold and silver artifacts, jade belt jewelry..."

After he finished speaking fluently, he said: "The total amount of converted silver is tens of millions of taels. Your Majesty, the servants dare not hide it. The servants have left some silver and land for the elderly, but they are not like Qian Ning who ransacked the house." I can't find out what fields, houses and shops he has hidden. The servants kowtow to ask His Majesty for mercy, and let the servants atone for their sins."

Zhu Houcong laughed: "So, even you people combined can't compare to Qian Ningzhi's greed? The numbers you gave me are just a coincidence."

It's not just the three of Wei Bin, there are other big pengs who can't escape this time.

"Your Majesty's lesson! If Your Majesty really wants to abandon the servants, you should search out more of them. I also know that the servants really only left some pension money..."

The memorials to impeach Wei Bin and Zhang Yong have already come, and Gu Dayi has long used them.

As long as the emperor "crosses the river and demolishes the bridge", isn't it a matter of saying that they really want to send someone to steal their home?Although temporarily there will be dangers of unstable control of the ministers, factory guards, and Tengxiang four guards, but for the emperor, it will only be a little later and a little more troublesome if he really insists on controlling it.

Wei Bin now understands Xinjun's temper a little bit, it's best not to be cautious in front of him.

To put it bluntly, there are some selfish things that have been reserved. Since the emperor wants to use them to play some residual heat, I am afraid it is acceptable.

Zhu Houcong didn't make a decision right away, he waved his hand: "Since you are clever and know to hand over what you have earned in the past in the name of another secret storehouse set up by the emperor brother, then I can speak in front of foreign ministers."

If outsiders come to investigate, it will naturally be difficult.But they will be able to come up with the lists within Jin Yiwei and the eunuchs soon.Not exact numbers, but not too far off.

These three remnants of the "Eight Tigers" have prepared themselves for a way out over the years.

Zhu Houzhao's reuse of eunuchs and adopted sons is indeed too much. What is the concept of Qian Ning's family wealth of tens of millions of taels of silver being stolen?
If Daming’s fiscal revenue is based on the later statistical caliber, including various outputs such as land tax, salt tax, and industrial and commercial tax, the total will actually be about 2000 million taels per year.

Of course, if you only look at the collected silver, it will only be three or four million taels a year.

Liu Jin, Qian Ning, Jiang Bin, and Wei Bin, if you look at how much wealth they collected in a short period of time, you will know that they deserve what they deserve.

It's just that Zhu Houcong has a different perspective now, and he has to think about how to straighten out the problems in front of him.

Zhu Houcong did not reject the reform direction proposed by the civil servants, but they had only one sentence to abolish the matter.

It can save money and food if it is abolished, and then what?Send it to every side of the town for people from top to bottom to corrupt?Can the border defense work?

Sent to the provinces for disaster relief?Zhu Houcong laughed thinking about the many disaster relief efforts today.

He looked at these memorials: this is the center of Ming Dynasty, the core of power surrounding the emperor.

How natural and rough memorials are they all?

Because Jiang Bin is bad, those who opposed him must be good.

Because there are victims of disasters in the border areas, the copied money can be used to solve the problem.

Even Zhu Houcong, who has never been an official, knows how many implementation links need to be considered in order to implement a measure, so they can talk freely so habitually, pointing out the direction and it's over.

Is it because of this that they are at this level, or is this the core of power?

Because the implementation process depends on the people below, so here is just the right to speak and money.

As for the details, what do you need to know so much about, Emperor?
Zhu Houcong developed a sense of sight of "keying the country", and he understood that the wrong one must not be the world, but the wrong one should be himself.

Still too naive, to be easily provoked by the contents of a few memorials.

There is nothing more exercising than facing something. After Zhu Houcong finished his reflection, he calmed down.

The vast majority of what he has to face are "key politicians" with one mouth and one pen.The difference is that they really understand the current political rules, and every suggestion and decision they make will really affect reality.

So it's not that they don't understand, it's just that they don't want to arrange things more carefully first, so how can there be room for change in the future?
If Zhu Houcong had any ideas, they would definitely have a blast with Zhu Houcong's plan from all angles and details.

That's the end of Wei Bin's business, anyway, they still have errands behind them.

If there are still problems in the future, it is not that there is no way to deal with them again.

The cold eyes belonging to the emperor returned to the previous memorials, and Zhu Houcong continued to give his opinions.

He first gave his own opinions as much as possible, because the response of his subordinates to his opinions would be the most precious growth nourishment for him.

Those on the side of impeaching the eunuchs should stay in the middle school first, and the adopted sons will resign from their titles, and those Zhongliang who are not Afu Jiangbin and sent to prison should be recovered.

The few memorials to discuss the merits of the rebellion with King Ning all have the same opinion: Wang Shouren will go to Beijing, and the decision will be made after discussing the merits.

But giving opinions does not mean that all of them should be sent out now.

Zhu Houcong wants to create an occasion and atmosphere again, and achieve his goal in the battlefield and fighter he preset: This time, Zhu Houcong's court meeting must establish rules, and he must completely end the debate about the ceremony, and keep Some people who act as checks and balances on Yang Ting and them.

(End of this chapter)