Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 289 Brother Wang Zha, Bleeding for April

brag!
Gao Kui and the others immediately looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling suspicious in their hearts.

You know, Chen Shou was assigned to the remote Jingshan County in Anlu, Huguang, and the household department only subsidized 250 cloth tickets, and the five of them added up to [-].

Not to mention that Zhang Sui was excluded this time, and Liaodong and the capital are only a few hundred miles away, how could the Ministry of Households give him a full [-] cloth tickets?

Do not believe!

Although Xu Hong has always believed in Zhang Sui's character, when he heard Zhang Sui give such a ridiculous answer, although the first thought in his mind was not the other party's bragging, he didn't believe it in his heart.

After all, this guy has braised the grass carp in brown sauce. Since he was released by the imperial court to serve as the supervisory censor in Liaodong, the ticket subsidy given by the Ministry of Households will only be low rather than high.

Not to mention that the number of distributing tickets is staggering, and it is impossible for them to have such a big gap in ticket compensation, so this must not be the truth of the matter.

Xu Hong felt that Zhang Sui was deliberately making excuses to evade his intentions, so he still firmly pushed over the twenty cloth tickets: "We brothers, don't be polite. If I am in trouble in the future, I will still count on you!"

Gao Kui and the others nodded silently, agreeing that Zhang Sui was actually lying, and now Zhang Sui is the one who needs the most love and help among the six of them.

"I really didn't lie to you, five hundred cloth tickets are here, you believe them now, right?" Seeing that everyone didn't believe what he said, Zhang Sui simply took out all the cloth tickets in his arms and said .

Under the light, a large stack of thick cloth tickets was displayed as if it was worthless, and the twenty cloth tickets that were also stacked on the table looked so insignificant at this moment.

Shopkeeper Zhang, who happened to be delivering peanuts, saw such a thick stack of cloth tickets, his whole body trembled, and he couldn't help swallowing and spitting secretly.

Although a flash of greed flashed across his eyes, just giving him a hundred guts, he didn't dare to seek money and kill the majestic court officials.

what?
how come?
Is it true?
After Hai Kuan and the others saw the thick stack of cloth tickets, although it was unbelievable, the facts were already in front of them. Zhang Sui really had a total of [-] tickets.

Originally thought that Zhang Sui was the one who needed the most care and assistance among the six of them, but a total of [-] cloth tickets directly shattered this conclusion, and things were completely different from what they had guessed.

For a moment, everyone's breathing became rapid.

After Zhang Sui put the thick cloth ticket on the table, he was taken aback for a moment, and then hurriedly folded back the envelope he took out with him.

Huh?
Xu Hong and Gao Kui's eyes were sharp, and after just a glance, they could not help but look at each other.

The faces of both of them were full of shock, and some even couldn't believe their eyes.Just now, the two of them clearly saw that the title of the secret cover was "Zhang Qing". Who else in the world could use this title?
Thinking of this, the two of them were seven or eight points sober. This news was really too explosive.

Now the personnel power of the Ming court has fallen into the hands of the emperor, like the teacher Wang Yue they couldn't ask for was originally a criminal subject who lived in exile, but in just one and a half years, Wang Yue has become the superior Zuo Du Censor.

Liu Zhong, Governor of Huguang, Chen Kun, Governor of Xuanda, and Yin Songcheng of Shuntian Prefecture were all promoted from official positions. The current imperial court no longer pays attention to the so-called seniority and virtuous name, but the ability of the officials themselves and their relatives.

Among the [-] new scholars in their current class, since Liu Chengye, Qian Fu, and Jin Gui applied for admission to the Imperial Academy because they were afraid of hard work, they knew that it would be difficult for these three people to get holy relatives.

In other words, among their current class of Jinshi, the people with the highest achievements in the future must not be the three first-class Jinshi who entered the Imperial Academy, but will be born among their 590 eight Jinshi.

That's why, 590 of them, eight Xinke Scholars, worked hard to express themselves in this assisted mission, and strive to become the No.1 of Enke in the second year of Hongzhi.

But now it seems that their 590 eight new subjects may not be able to win or lose, but the one who is at the forefront is probably the unknown Zhang Sui.

Obviously, they all guessed wrong just now, and they were wrong too much.

Although Liaodong is located in the borderlands, the supervisory censor is far less popular than the six main departments, but if it is accompanied by the holy family, then things are naturally a different matter.

The entire front hall suddenly became quiet, as if a needle could be heard.

The brothers in front of them are not the ones to be cared for and helped. They are clearly ahead of everyone, but they are the ones they need to look up to.

Embarrassment, really capitalized embarrassment!
Hai Kuan blushed instantly when he thought that he wanted to sympathize with others even though he was a little county magistrate.

Gao Kui once fancied that he would get ahead and give a little charity to the other party and give him a hand, but he felt a hot feeling of being slapped in the face.

Seeing that he was ranked ahead of the opponent, Xu Hong just saw the insurmountable gap between the two, so he immediately wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in.

"Come on, let's continue to drink, and we won't go home if we don't get drunk tonight!" Zhang Sui knew that it would be difficult to get together again after this separation, and he didn't even have a chance to get together again, so he raised his wine glass and yelled without thinking.

"Okay, don't go home tonight if you don't get drunk!"

Hai Kuan and the others thought that everyone was about to separate, and they no longer entangled in the embarrassing things that happened just now, they all raised their wine glasses to the ground and responded.

Shopkeeper Zhang brought over a plate of pork head meat, looking very flattering and authentic: "This is a small dish presented by the shop, and I hope you masters will come here often if you have the opportunity!"

Hai Kuan and the others wiped the wine stains from the corners of their mouths. Although the thick stack of cloth tickets on the table was conspicuous, no one mentioned the issue of ticket replacement.

There is no love for no reason in this world, and now Zhang Sui has received [-] tickets, which is enough to prove that Zhang Sui was not abandoned by the court, and even reused by the court.

Now that everyone is in the officialdom, and they have a vague guess that the matter is related to the person in the Forbidden City, so no one does the stupid thing of breaking the casserole and asking the bottom line.

Next, Weng Peng continued to play Chaoshan ditties with chopsticks, while Haikuan sang Qiongzhou folk songs, and the atmosphere became lively again.

Although everyone was about to separate, and Zhang Sui carried everyone on his back and hugged the thickest thigh in the world, everyone still seemed very happy at this moment.

They studied hard for ten years in the cold window, just to become officials, and now it can be said that their wish has been fulfilled, especially they all seem very satisfied with their whereabouts.

It's not that everyone is eager to be appointed as a marquis and prime minister, especially after seeing what Wang Yue has done, they feel that it is better to do practical things in a down-to-earth manner than Wan'an and Liu Ji and others.

In fact, Xu Hong was the most entangled one. He wanted to ask Zhang Sui the reason for the emperor's family several times, but he stopped talking in the end.

The examination questions about grass carp became a lingering mystery for him at this time.

Liu Cunye and the other three chose to raise grass carp with them, so they got the most beautiful champion, second place and top flower; they chose to welcome Miss Qian and settled the grass carp in the pool of Qian Zhai, so they were arranged to enter the Ministry of War.

Just Zhang Sui?
He obviously has no place to raise fish!
How did he dispose of that grass carp to get the Holy Family?
It was speculated earlier that Zhang Sui steamed or braised the grass carp. Since Zhang Sui was not suppressed by the court, this guess is naturally untenable, but what is the truth?

That night, Xu Hong also didn't go home, because he drank too much wine and fell drunk at the table, so he was arranged to stay at Dongsheng Inn for the night.

Zhang Sui was the only one who was sober. It wasn't that he didn't want to get drunk, but that the four of them could drink too much.After settling the four of them, he asked Hai Kuan, who was also from a military household, to continue drinking under the moon together.

In fact, there are quite a few similar situations. The Shinke Scholars who have worked hard for a month have been assigned jobs. When they are about to go their separate ways, they also call their friends and choose to get drunk.

No matter how reluctant they were, the sun rose as usual the next day.

It's just that they are like the 590 seeds newly cultivated by the Ming court. After nearly a month of tempering, they sprinkled on the land of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, hoping that a few pillars will emerge from them.

As the new subjects go their separate ways, the capital is obviously not as lively as before, and the days seem to return to calm all of a sudden, and everyone is busy step by step.

Originally, the life of residents in this era was usually unchanged. Merchants, workers, and farmers were already deeply entrenched, and these roles rarely changed.

Ever since the emperor planted a cotton seed at the Plowing Ceremony, things seemed to be going the other way.

Due to the constant hunger and thirst for Huaxia's cotton cloth overseas, the Royal Weaving Factory chose to continue to expand production, causing more and more people to invest in this production chain.

Those who understand textiles will naturally become weavers, and those who understand printing and dyeing can become masters of printing and dyeing. Even if they don't know anything, they can become porters on the Tonghui River Wharf.

With the increase of the overall income of Beijing residents, the business of the stores is getting better and better, the streets around the Gulou are becoming more and more lively, and goods from other places are constantly pouring into the city of Beijing.

Beijing City is still the same Beijing City, but it has become more and more prosperous, showing a thriving scene.

It's just that this is a feudal society after all, economic prosperity alone is not desirable, the most important thing is political clarity.Now under the leadership of Emperor Hongzhi, each yamen seems to be operating in an orderly manner.

In April of the second year of Hongzhi, this was destined to cause a massacre.

Things are becoming more and more serious. Originally, the court only searched the ledgers of a hundred financial stores, but the ledgers contained more than a hundred murder cases.

When the imperial court issued an order to raid the Ye Mansion, a shocking event occurred.

Although Ye Qi's ancestor was Ye Heng, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, by Ye Qi's generation, the Ye family had already declined, and Ye Qi's father was just a scholar.

When Ye Mansion was searched this time because of Ye Rongtian, Tan Conggui accidentally discovered that Ye Mansion's kiln silver was as high as one million taels, and Ye Qi's budget for building the Humble Administrator's Garden reached 30 taels.

This huge fortune of unknown origin, if Ye Qi hadn't been greedy for money during his official career, how could the Ye family have obtained so much money from the kiln?
Although it is very profitable to operate private finance, it is impossible to earn as much as 100 million taels, not to mention the profit of Ye's bank is already clear at a glance.

Just like that, after Tan Conggui copied such a huge sum of property from Ye Mansion, it was not only Ye Rongtian who had trouble, but also Ye Qi, who was in his 60s and still wanted to take concubines.

After this incident was exposed, Emperor Hongzhi was furious and ordered Tan Conggui to escort him to Beijing immediately, while Ye Qi, who went to Beijing after a bumpy journey, seemed in a panic.

Wang Yue personally presided over the interrogation of Ye Qi, seeming to be straight to the point: "Ye Shilang, it's useless for you to find anyone now? If you still don't take the initiative to explain the origin of these properties, I will also ask the procuratorate to kill you, and at the same time According to the law, your three clans will be implicated!"

"You threatened the old man?" Ye Qi was already disheveled, and immediately said angrily.

Wang Yue snorted with disdain, and said very seriously: "So what if you threaten you? You should know that my eyes can't tolerate sand, and I'm not a good man or woman! Do you want the three clans to be buried with you, or do you want to be honest and honest?" Confess the facts of the crime, maybe there will be a delay?"

Ye Qi knew that Wang Yue was different from other officials. Other officials usually showed a little sympathy, but this Wang Yue beheaded him without showing any sympathy at all.

Facing the threats from the Yi tribe, he finally chose to confess the facts of the crime, or part of the facts.

The person who worked hand in hand with him was none other than Li Min, the first corrupt official of Ming Dynasty, former Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

He and Li Minben were good friends in the same year. When Li Min went to Huai'an to serve as the Governor of Water Transport, he was working in the Ministry of Household Affairs.Since Huai'an is his hometown, he and Li Min soon cooperated for profit.

Other departments might not be able to get so much money, but the Governor's Office of Water Transport is in charge of water transport, and also serves as the governor of rivers, so the annual project funds are astronomical.

With the fall of Wang Zhi, the eunuchs such as Wynn seemed very easy to deal with, so the two of them started with project funds and other funds, thus embezzling a large amount of project silver.

Xiyuan, Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Zhu Youtang, who was wearing a dragon robe, looked at Ye Qi's confession. Although he had already guessed about this matter, when he saw the truth in front of him, he couldn't help feeling angry and helpless.

From salt administration to water transportation, as well as those unpredictable river projects, all of them exposed the various ills of the Ming court.

Zhu Youtang is like peeling a sugarcane now, thinking that he can continue to eat after peeling off a part of the moth in front, but when he peels it, he finds that it is all rotten.

There are not many officials in Ming Dynasty who are not greedy. Even if they are not greedy this month, they may be greedy next month.Even if you have no power or power, you will not be greedy now, but when you have power and power, you will be greedy.

The reason why Qingliu has always dared to flaunt himself with incorruptibility is that most of the money from the imperial court will not flow to the Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites at all, and they will have no chance if they want to be greedy.

As for the cold silver, charcoal silver, and special silver that they collected, in their self-deceiving concept, they don't think that this kind of behavior is considered corruption.

"Order the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be fully responsible for the investigation of the Water Transport Yamen. All officials in the Water Transport Office must not be delayed. If not, they will be imprisoned!" After Zhu Youtang saw that Ye Qi had handed over a list of personnel in the Water Transport Governor's Yamen, he shouted. With a flick of the pen, it was agreed that the Metropolitan Procuratorate would thoroughly investigate the corruption of the Water Transport Yamen.

The good news is that the current Metropolitan Procuratorate is like a knife in its own hand.Although the Ming court exposed more and more insect eyes under the scrambling, but as long as he swung his knife down, he would definitely make those people bleed into rivers.

April [-]th, execution day.

Since the beginning of April, executions seem to have become a common occurrence, and a group of people are executed every few days, so that many people who like to eat melons are not as active as before.

It's just that today's situation is different. The common people surrounded the execution platform three times inside and outside three times, and they all wanted to witness this unique beheading with their own eyes.

(End of this chapter)