I'm really not doing business

Chapter 214 Corporal punishment is a good choice
Xu Wenbi reminded that Zhang Juzheng also believed that the preparation of the Xishan Coal Bureau would definitely not go smoothly. Sure enough, the intensive and rapid offensive began soon, and it still started from Wang Chonggu.

The impeachment of Wang Chonggu has become intensive, and the focus of the impeachment has changed from Wang Chonggu's intimidation of the Lord and usurping the authority of the Lord to the impeachment of Wang Chonggu for his ineffectiveness.

The person who usurped the authority of the lord, the emperor of Ming Dynasty gave a special reply and did not pursue it, and the person did not pursue it. It would be superfluous for the officials to impeach him. Moreover, Wang Chonggu has recently belonged to the dedication school. He dedicated himself to the emperor and closely followed Zhang Juzheng's Pace, gather interest.

The impeachment of Wang Chonggu's ineffectiveness mainly focused on the jerry-building of the Dalongxing Temple Pagoda supervised by Wang Chonggu.

At the beginning of November, in Shuntian Prefecture Yamen, businessman Zhao Deyi reported that the pagoda was cutting corners, and the courtiers were in an uproar, and more and more people questioned it.

Ge Shouli and Hai Rui asked for an audience at the Wenhua Palace, and Zhu Yijun announced the meeting with the two chief constitutions, and read their memorabilia asking for an inspection.

"Does this matter need to be investigated?" Zhu Yijun looked at the two presidents and asked with a frown. The little emperor knew exactly that everything should not be investigated. If something is found out in this investigation, wouldn't something happen? ?
Wang Chonggu collapsed at this time. The supervisor of the woolen official factory had to be replaced, and the supervisors of the palace, the Royal Gewuyuan, and the pagoda had to be replaced. The preparation of the Xishan Coal Bureau was just a dream.

If he falls, it will take at least half a year for the court to continue to implement these projects, and it is hard to say that it will be as smooth as it is now.

Among other things, the construction of the imperial palace will definitely not be able to keep up with the emperor's wedding.

"Your Majesty, the public opinion is too strong at the moment, and there are frequent criticisms from the government. If there is no inspection, it may be difficult to convince the public." Hai Rui let out a foul breath, bowed his head and said.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty used state funds to build the Pagoda of Repaying Grace for Empress Dowager Li who was not in love with power. This matter was unanimously approved by the court in terms of conception. In this matter, the inertia was maintained, and the court called the system and listened to the government behind the curtain. Only in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a Empress Dowager Cixi.

Empress Dowager Li lived in the Qianqing Palace in the sixth year of Longqing. In fact, a considerable number of courtiers were very worried that Empress Dowager Li's lust for power would cause incalculable consequences.

Empress Dowager Li's return to power was a great act of kindness. Few people objected to the construction of the pagoda, although the construction of the pagoda had a malicious purpose, which was to clean up the temples and Taoist temples.

In the specific construction process, the problem of cutting corners and materials appeared.

Ge Shouli also showed helplessness. The two presidents had tried their best to suppress the wind, but the wind and public opinion were huge. He bowed his head and said: "The pagoda of Dalongxing Temple and the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple are of the same size. It is consistent, 23 feet, 146 feet and 430 inches high, with nine floors and eight sides, and a circumference of [-] feet. There are [-] palace lanterns on the ninth floor. Two mouths, made of wind-milled copper, each weighing [-] jin, and one orb-shaped disc, weighing [-] jin."

"Eight iron cables hang down from the phase wheel on the top floor, and copper balls are hung under the iron cables to prevent wind."

Both towers have a large copper ball on the top floor to prevent the building from being blown down by strong winds. This thing is a damper that maintains the structure of the tower when the wind is howling.

Zhu Yijun looked at the two presidents and said with great conviction: "It's not uncommon for the construction of the tripod to be done. It's not uncommon for the tower to not collapse after it's built. When the water is clear, there will be no fish."

The construction of the tripod, is it necessary to save some oil and water, otherwise the work will be procrastinated, and the same is true for the pagoda now. Wang Chonggu did not dare to take the construction of the imperial palace, and the construction of the pagoda and Gewuyuan, Zhu Yijun It has been tacitly accepted that Wang Chonggu is a little oily.

If you just want the horse to run and don’t feed the horse, you can’t do this kind of thing. If Wang Chonggu doesn’t take it, then the boss can’t take it. If the boss doesn’t take it, everyone can’t take it.

It is the normal state of administration that there is no muddy water, and there is no enthusiasm. Zhu Yijun attaches great importance to results, and he does not require everyone to be a clean and honest minister like Hai Rui.

But now the wind power and public opinion are very noisy. From the performance of the court officials to the long reports of miscellaneous newspapers, the pressure has reached the threshold. It is necessary to dig open the belly to see how many bowls of noodles Wang Chonggu has eaten.

"Your Majesty, under the command of His Majesty to supervise the killing of corruption, there have been many inquiries in the court. There are too many claims about this big boss cutting corners. Check it out. If it is innocent, I will give you an explanation. If the big boss is not innocent, then the corruption will have to be killed." Hai Ruihai, the constitutional leader of the investigation of corruption, cannot violate his own duties.

"The big Sikou is also weird. He was impeached, and he didn't make a statement. The public opinion is one-sided. Alas, let's investigate." Zhu Yijun has tried his best, and he has been stopping him. Feng Chenqing's memorials were not accepted.

Zhu Yijun can only hope that Wang Chonggu will not be greedy too much, otherwise it will not end well, and Zhu Yijun can naturally move out of the ancestral system of the Eight Disciplines and Eight Discussions, and forgive one or two, but if Wang Chonggu makes the wild goose leave the hair If the big corruption case comes, it is not something that Zhu Yijun can forgive.

"What does Yuan Fu think?" Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng for his opinion.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

"Then sir, let's supervise this matter." Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other, and they both showed emotional smiles.

Doing things is hard.

What did Wang Chonggu say?Wang Chonggu said nothing.

Regarding the wind and public opinion in the DPRK, Da Sikou did not refute or make a statement, just like Zhang Juzheng posted floating votes on all memorials to impeach Yuanfu, Wang Chonggu did not refute.

Why did businessman Zhao Deyi tear himself apart with Wang Chonggu?The main reason is that Wang Chonggu did not give money.

To do civil work for the imperial court, the imperial court directly recruits civilian husbands, which is hard labor.

But some have to rush to buy, buy folk bricks, stones, civil engineering and other things, but the payment cycle is really long.

Taking Emperor Longqing's imperial mausoleum as an example, the imperial court approved the payment in December of the first year of Wanli, and then until the fourth year of Wanli, it still owed money and did not pay it off.

Daming’s system is severely rigid, a sum of money is transferred down layer by layer, and approved and verified one by one. There is still in the account, but in fact it is no longer there, or it is used for other purposes, or it is stolen once it is stolen.

Merchant Zhao Deyi must have suffered from this dull loss on weekdays, working for the imperial court. Many merchants had already expected that they would be taken for nothing by the imperial court. This is also the real situation.

I, Wang Chonggu, took Zhao Deyi's money and goods for nothing, to show you Zhao Deyi's face, why don't I take others for nothing?Don't be so shameless.

There must be someone who pushed Zhao Deyi, and the power of public opinion to overthrow the king has always been very strong.

The time to shave Wang Chonggu's stomach has come.

Zhang Juzheng took the order personally, and brought with him Hai Rui, the Chief Procuratorate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, two members of the Household Division, twelve supervisory censors, Wang Guoguang, Minister of the Household Department, Bi Qiang, Zuo Shilang of the Household Department, Cui Min, the eunuch of internal funds, and others. , went straight to Wang Chonggu's Ministry of Punishment, Ministry of Industry and the construction site of Dalongxing Temple, and seized all the ledgers.

"Big Sikou, you must have offended me." Zhang Ju said with a complicated expression.

Wang Chonggu put his hands up and said: "It's nothing. After such a round, Zhang Siwei implicated me, and His Majesty cut off a strand of my hair. He must be dissatisfied. It's okay to check now and later. The difference, always weigh me up, weigh me.”

"Your Majesty refuses, but the wind and public opinion are too strong, and His Majesty is also very embarrassed." Zhang Juzheng looked around and said in a low voice: "Great Sikou, tell me how much you got, so that Your Majesty and I can prepare for it." , we still have eight proposals."

"I said I didn't take it, do you believe it?" Wang Chonggu's face was particularly strange, and his majesty wanted to protect him, which was the most unexpected thing for him.

The king let the minister die, and the minister had to die.

In the view of Wang Chonggu, the emperor must have held back his anger at the forgiveness in the Huangji Palace back then, but for the sake of stability in the Northwest, Wang Chonggu himself and his family were spared to prevent further intensification of the conflict.

Zhang Siwei and the 24 Xie Jie prisoners have been imprisoned, and more than [-] people have been beheaded. The three ladies went to Beijing again to discuss the horse price and silver. Not only the courtiers thought it was time to kill Wang Chonggu, but even Wang Chonggu thought so. It's time to be damned.

"Since Da Si Kou didn't take it, why didn't he want to make a statement? You don't say anything, how can your Majesty protect you?" Zhang Juzheng was so angry when he heard Wang Chonggu say this!

If you don't take it, you don't take it, and those officials are so angry, what are you afraid of?

The emperor intentionally took sides, but you, the old king, don't tell yourself, so only one side is singing, which makes your majesty very passive, and you can only listen and believe.

This end is chasing fiercely, and you are silent on the other end, isn't that the result?

Zhang Juzheng quickly started to make accounts with a lot of papers, this time the accounts were very detailed, the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu brought out his 81 big abacus.

And Wang Yaozhuo, as Zhu Zaiyu's disciple, was also in the ranks of the abacus, audited by the internal supervision, the Ministry of Households, and the Gewuyuan.

Zhu Yijun watched Wang Yaozhuo's hands flying on the abacus, and felt very strange. These hands can not only play the abacus, but also play the piano, which is really eye-catching.

In two days, the results of the audit were submitted to the imperial court. The answer was that there was no problem with the accounts of the Gewuyuan, the pagoda, and the construction of the imperial palace.

There is no problem with the accounts, but it does not mean that there is no problem with the project. Soon, the backfill earthwork required for the pagoda construction site will be excavated to check whether the foundation is built according to the original specifications of the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple.

In mid-November, the construction site was dug into a big hole.

Zhu Yijun came to the construction site of the pagoda in person. The earth around the pagoda has been backfilled. The purpose of digging the foundation this time is to see the depth of the piles.

"The construction waste is backfilled. It's still made of concrete. It will take more than ten days just to dig it out." Zhu Yijun's tone was not kind, and he had a deeper understanding of the mistakes of lowly Confucianism.

In fact, some people realized something was wrong when excavating the concrete. According to merchant Zhao Deyi's confession, they were the ones who did the backfilling of the earthwork. Because it is a steel-concrete structure, it was all garbage backfilled at will, but after the excavation At that time, it was found that all of them were backfilled with composite soil.

When the digging reached a depth of eleven feet, the answer was revealed, and no corners were cut.

And Zhu Yijun just came to take a look to confirm this fact.

"Da Sikou's design exceeds the standard. Isn't such a thick pillar a bit too conservative?" Zhu Yijun naturally didn't go down the pit, but just looked at the piles in the pit. For a tall pagoda, only three feet is enough for the foundation, and it exceeds five feet by visual inspection.

Wang Chonggu said calmly: "Isn't this a lot of money from the court? If you don't take it, you can only build better."

50 taels of silver to build a pagoda, if you don’t get greedy or take it, that is the quality of the building, hard and hard, 300 years? It won't collapse for 500 years.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Deyi arranged the backfilling of the earthwork. He didn't use Sanhe soil, so he was driven away. The reason why I didn't give him money was because he backfilled it. I asked someone else to dig it up and backfill it again." Wang Chonggu was finally willing to express his feelings, telling the whole story of this matter.

In fact, it is not complicated. Zhao Deyi cut corners and materials when backfilling the earthwork. After Wang Chonggu heard about it, he immediately drove Zhao Deyi away and replaced it with a group of people who used the compound soil for backfilling.

The reason why Wang Chonggu insisted on backfilling with composite soil was that when the emperor inspected the construction of the imperial palace, he said that the steel-concrete structure was extremely strong and could be backfilled directly with garbage.

In the matter of cutting corners, His Majesty is more professional than him!
If this is cutting corners, wouldn't it mean that Wang Chonggu is playing tricks in the class?
Now that his stomach was cut open, Wang Chonggu really only ate a bowl of noodles, so these officials who make noise will have to pay a little price, but it is not easy to punish them. After all, they are an important correction force of the country.

The speed of punishing the ministers of eyes and ears will block the way of speech if it is severe, and cannot correct the atmosphere if it is light.

Zhu Yijun frowned, then his eyes lit up, and he said to Zhang Juzheng, "I have an idea."

"Your Majesty, do you have another idea?" Zhang Juzheng immediately shuddered, looking at His Majesty as if facing a formidable enemy, full of vigilance, Your Majesty is becoming more and more like a scholar, and when he rolled his eyes, it was an idea.

Zhu Yijun looked at the big pit in front of him with his arms crossed and said, "It's still troublesome to backfill the earthwork. Sir, call all the officials who impeached the chief minister and the pens who created the wind and public opinion this time, and let them Come here, fill in the hole you dug for me!"

"It must be done by the speaker himself, and cannot be entrusted to others."

"If you have nothing to do, go to the brothel to listen to music. It's a shame to pick and choose all day long."

Zhu Yijun asked the scholars to take off their gowns and go to the pit to backfill them. Zhu Yijun would not pay them for the delayed construction period and losses, but for the backfilling of this pit, these officials and those pens must be filled in by themselves. .

"Big Sikou, pay close attention to the quality and quantity." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and said meaningfully.

These guys have all fallen into the hands of Wang Chonggu. Wang Chonggu can be as nitpicking as the Kodao officials. This one is not good, and that one is wrong, but it is hard to beat these Kodao officials on the physical level. .

"Ah... the minister obeys the order." Wang Chonggu's eyes widened, he was extremely surprised. Of course he heard the subtext of His Majesty.

Let the scholar-bureaucrats take off their long gowns and go to work on the construction site. In terms of insult and physical punishment, they are definitely much stronger than the imperial staff. They are useless scholars. How many officials are powerless to take off their long gowns Wearing short brown and going directly to work in the fields is more uncomfortable than killing them.

But I have to do it.

According to the emperor's will, if you don't do it, you can only go home. If you want to continue to be an official in the court, you must do it.

This has been dug up, which proves that Wang Chonggu did not take it, and the party that loses the struggle must be punished.

Corporal punishment is a good choice.

In the first round of the struggle about the Xishan Coal Bureau, Wang Chonggu really only ate a bowl of noodles, and as the referee, Zhu Yijun did not let go of the booing ministers, humiliated them severely, and threw all their dignity The ground kept rubbing, and even spat viciously.

The second round of struggle soon began, and this time the struggle was full of gunpowder. Because of the rural ruffians, they began to exert their strength. They warned the firewood bearers not to carry coal for the official kiln among the firewood bearers.

This matter has been brewing for a whole month. When coal mining in official kilns piled up, Wang Chonggu immediately realized that someone was making trouble. Autumn and winter are the peak seasons of coal consumption. If it cannot be transported out, it is obvious that someone is deliberately causing trouble.

And Wang Chonggu, who is in charge of supervising the Xishan Coal Bureau, is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Wang Chonggu is not used to these ruffians at all, arresting people everywhere, sending them to the coal yard to dig coal, coercing and luring them for three years of hard labor, those who smashed the houses of the people for ten years of hard labor, and those who hurt others will be punished Cut, for a while, the public security environment in Xishan has been greatly improved.

At the beginning of December, there were already twelve celebrities and ruffians beheaded with great intensity. After this round of rectification, coal from Xishan Coal Bureau began to be smoothly transported to Xizhimen.

The timelines of the first round of struggle and the second round of struggle surrounding the Xishan Coal Bureau were not completely separated, but mixed, but both ended with Wang Chonggu winning.

"It's snowing heavily today." Wearing a cloak, Zhu Yijun and Wang Chonggu came to Xizhimen Meishikou.

Heavy snow is a solar term, and also in the fourth year of Wanli, on the day of heavy snow, there was heavy snow in the sky. In normal years, coal from Xishan could not reach the capital smoothly, and the price of coal would skyrocket several times.

"In order for the coal to reach the capital smoothly, I made a special coal road, and please move your majesty." Wang Chonggu led his majesty, walked out of Xizhimen, and saw the coal road.

In order to reduce the impact of wind and snow on coal prices, Wang Chonggu specially designed a coal road with stone roads and wooden rails.

When it snows, the woodcarrier can continue to push coal on the coal road, and the problem of slippery roads has been solved. When encountering a downhill road, the brakes on the coal car are two iron rods inserted into the gravel road, which can be effective. Slow down, Zhu Yijun is very interested in this thing.

"The sleepers can use lime road sleepers, and the wooden rails can be replaced with rails. The rails seem to be expensive, but the wooden rails are easy to break. Long-term operation and maintenance, the rails are cheaper." Zhu Yijun studied the coal car coal road and proposed his own instructions.

Sleepers and wooden cabinets can be replaced with stronger lime road sleepers.

"Your Majesty, the wood in the capital is extremely expensive, and lime road pillows are indeed cheaper. We can only make do with it first. After the construction of the tripod, the lime from the lime factory can be used here. I will pay attention." Wang Chonggu sincerely accepted His Majesty's offer. Views.

Wood in the capital is expensive.

During the orthodox years, the Xishan Coal Kiln made troubles because of digging coal to disturb the imperial mausoleum, and the imperial mausoleum seeped water. Such a big incident, but the Xishan Coal Kiln was banned repeatedly. The matter of coal mining in Xishan.

Because the trees in Gyeonggi have been cut down a long time ago. Without coal mining, there are not many trees. How can we maintain our daily life?
This is also the common dilemma of cities with more than a million people in the Ming Dynasty. One city has accumulated energy for a hundred years, and there are twelve cities in the Ming Dynasty with a population of more than one million people.

Timber is expensive, and sleepers and wooden rails are indeed expensive, but the capacity of the lime factory along the Yongding River can only be used by Dingjian Dagong.

"It's not impossible for Dingjian to stop for a while, first for the people's livelihood." Zhu Yijun heard that it was because of production capacity problems, and immediately decided to stop Dingjian for a while, and repair the road first.

Wang Chonggu immediately said: "Your Majesty, the lime factory can open a few more kilns, and the construction of the tripod cannot be stopped."

As soon as he heard that Dingjian Dagong was going to be stopped, Wang Chonggu immediately chose to increase production despite all difficulties. Dingjian Dagong must never stop.

"En." Zhu Yijun tightened the cloak on his body, and said, "Then increase production."

Due to the limited transportation capacity, the coal road can only be used by official kilns at present, so to a certain extent, it took Wang Chonggu three months to realize part of his storytelling, which is to ensure the coal supply of Gyeonggi.

Zhu Yijun is very optimistic about the story told by Wang Chonggu. The preparation of the Xishan Coal Bureau has been completed, and the rest is to fight with the folk kilns.

This is another fierce battle, and the market is the only touchstone. Whether it can be done or not needs to be tested in time.

Zhu Yijun gives himself the support he can, and whether it can be done depends on Wang Chonggu's ability. It doesn't matter if he can't do it. manage!
Zhu Yijun didn't go back to the palace right away, but went to the first audit office jointly established by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Gewuyuan. Audit ledger.

Although Zhang Siwei is dead, the lessons he left behind still make the bosses shudder. The big shopkeeper of the boss who the bosses trust actually keeps most of the benefits in their own hands. Accounts, there is a sincere doubt.

However, there were not many mathematics talents in Ming Dynasty, and most of them were controlled by the imperial court.

Therefore, the establishment of the Gouji Office is to solve this dilemma.

In fact, the courtiers did not have much confidence in the establishment of the Gouji Office, because merchants would definitely not choose the Gouji Office to audit their accounts. If you come to the Gouji Office, isn't that a dead end?

But when Zhu Yijun's car came to the street of Goujisuo, he was somewhat confused when he saw the long queue.

"Zhang Daban, sir, didn't you say that there will be no merchants coming to the Gouji Office? Why are there so many people here?" Zhu Yijun's car was parked far away, and he asked Zhang Hong in a little puzzlement. The demand for auditing accounts is so great. of it?

"Your Majesty, Mister is not a merchant." Zhang Hong said with great conviction: "Mr.'s thinking is completely different from that of merchants. Merchants first consider profits. If you pay the tax bills under the tax inspection, as long as you pay them on time, The tax office will not be too embarrassed, after all, the tax office is only responsible for tax collection."

"These bosses can settle their accounts. The court's tax is not very high, and the value is 6%. But these shopkeepers, if they take it, it's not [-]%, at least it's more than half of it. Day defense and night defense , house thieves are hard to guard against."

Zhang Juzheng looked at the problem by looking at his butt sitting there. In his opinion, merchants did not want their secrets to be known by the court.

But for most merchants, this is a matter of interest. The imperial court wants 6%, but these shopkeepers who eat inside and outside are afraid that 60% will not be enough.

The Ming court once specifically checked the account books of Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu's family. After the news spread, the owners finally realized the seriousness of this problem.

"That's the car from Duke Ding Xu Wenbi's house, right? He's here too?" Zhu Yijun's eyes were venomous. When he saw the car from Xu Wenbi's house, the Duke's mansion also needed to worry about this issue.

Xu Wenbi did not come in person, but sent his confidants to ask Gouji to make a copy of the records.

Zhu Yijun looked at the long queue, and didn't intend to disturb the accountants' work. Now that he was passing, Ti Qi had to clear the field, the officials had to meet with them, and all the accountants had to stop their work to salute. People make trouble.

The fees charged by the audit office are not cheap. The audit and report are charged according to the time spent by the number of people used. The accountant and the audit office are divided equally.

The most common accountant is worth one penny per hour, while a second-class accountant is worth two pennies per hour. If you want to hire Prince Zheng and Gouji's special fortune teller, you need at least one tael per hour.

You must know that a Ming Jingjun can only get 18 taels of silver a year, and an accountant certified by the court only needs to work for 360 hours to get the 18 taels of silver.

There are only two specially hired divine fortune tellers, one is Zhu Zaiyu and the other is Cheng Dawei. If you want to hire these two, you don't have to be rich.

According to the expectations of the courtiers, when the court needed to make accounts, the accountants of the Gouji Office were asked to be in charge of auditing. As a result, the Gouji Office was extremely popular, and even the business of the household department had to be queued.

Wang Guoguang was very displeased, the yamen set up by the household department!If you want to use it yourself, you have to queue up!

Is there any law left!
　Ask for a monthly ticket, woohoo! ! ! ! ! ! !
　　
　
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