Wanli 1592

Chapter 690 The Uninvited Guest
No one knows Yuan Huang's worries, maybe someone has the same worries, but in the face of the general trend of the world, one person's power is extremely limited.

In the capital, the Jingchao storm and the house raiding storm are still going on, this time the Jingchao is very different from the past few times.

In the past, everyone maintained the most basic restraint. Although they were demoted and resigned, their families were not harmed. Except for a few abandoned children who were abandoned by everyone, most of them were not injured.

This time it was different, a considerable number of people were injured, and many were directly destroyed by humanity.

A big boss like Hubu Shangshu, if he said it was taken down, he would take it down, if he said it was confiscated, he would ransack it, if he said that the male family members were exiled into the army, he would be exiled, and if he said that the female family members were sold into slavery, he would be sold into slavery.

Some good-natured people who knew the targets of the Beijing inspection and knew that they were very safe went to the Jiaofang Division immediately, and they really saw Yang Junmin's female relatives.

Under Shen Yiguan's persuasion, Zhu Yijun still stayed on the line, allowing Yang Junmin's wife, Mrs. Yang, to commit suicide instead of going to the Jiaofang Division to suffer humiliation, which was treated extrajudicially.

But the other female relatives did not have such a good opportunity, they were taken to Jiaofang Division by Jin Yiwei without even the right to commit suicide.

Everyone knows what kind of place the Jiaofang Division is.

To put it simply, it is a brothel opened by the government to face princes, nobles and high-ranking officials. The women in it are the female relatives of criminal officials. They have been pampered and well-educated since childhood. The seductive woman is very different.

It is also true that the Secretary of Jiaofang is not open to the people, but to the upper class.

The female family members of these criminal families who have failed in political struggles are specially allowed to come in, receive some education in court music etiquette, and polish off all pride and self-esteem, and then sell them to princes, nobles and high-ranking officials who fancy them.

That was a lot of money, and most of this money went into the king's internal coffers.

Being bought is still the best end, which means that you can regain your freedom and don't have to continue to suffer humiliation and abuse in the Jiaofang Division. Some of them can only stay in the Jiaofang Division for the rest of their lives. They are old It will also be released, of course it is discarded, and it does not matter whether it is life or death.

All in all, the fate of these prisoners' wives is bleak.

The imperial court is not holding back, and it is going to kill the Jin faction. It is the unanimous decision of the entire imperial court. The attack directly overturned the Jin family.

Since the beginning of the Beijing inspection in early April, until now, half a month has passed, 21 officials from the Jin Dynasty have been investigated and punished, they have been sentenced to death, and their homes have been ransacked. It is estimated that the end is the same.

In contrast, of the other foreign bureaucrats, only two officials from the Jiangxi faction and two officials from the Jiangsu-Zhejiang faction were taken down because of their poor reputation, but they were not killed. Instead, their property in the capital was confiscated and they were demoted to common people , Make it leave the capital and never use it.

Compared with the bureaucrats of the Jin Dynasty who were ransacked and wiped out, this end can really be regarded as a good end.

But as long as you compare the crimes, you will know that this approach is not a deliberate care.

An official of the household department of the fifth-rank Jin family found a total of 3 taels of silver in his home, 1 taels of cash silver and 5000 taels of gold were found in the cellar of his home, and a large number of gold, silver, pearl and jade objects were found, totaling 3 taels of silver. There are two original works by Mi Fu and three original works by Huang Tingjian. Nearly one hundred bronze, gold and silver antique objects were found, totaling 7 taels of silver.

In addition, after being severely tortured, the family members vomited the fact that there were more than 20 mu of land and a large number of houses in their hometown in Shanxi, which was worth almost [-] taels of silver. In addition, this person also confessed that he participated in the bow and arrow trade with the northern captives. fact.

Needless to say, capital crimes, but the family property of a fifth-rank bureaucrat has reached more than 42 taels of silver. It is conceivable how this guy with a legitimate income of only [-] taels of silver per meter twelve stones got so much money Money.

Smuggling, embezzlement, gift-giving, trading, hoarding, enclosing and grabbing land, all kinds of methods are just a small microcosm of the corruption of the civil and military bureaucrats of the Manchu Dynasty.

The silver taels obtained by the Ming Dynasty since the opening and closing of Longqing became the private collections of a very small number of people under such circumstances, and the emperor above was so poor that he couldn't even pay the army's silver, and the people below were so poor that they rebelled, and the Ming Empire collapsed .

To be honest, Luo Sigong felt that he had seen and understood these officials thoroughly, had mastered a lot of things, and had basically figured out the routines of these guys, but when he saw the reports from his subordinates, he still couldn't help trembling .

How did these people manage to gather so much money?

A five-rank bureaucrat has a net worth of more than 30 taels. What kind of concept is this?This is one-tenth of the annual revenue of the Ming Dynasty treasury!This is the basic military expenditure of the tens of thousands of Zhennan troops under Xiao Ruxun for a year!
The homes of 21 officials were ransacked. This guy was neither the least nor the most, but the sum of the family property of these 21 people was worth the sum of the four years' financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty.

When Luo Sigong saw these reports, his hands were trembling. He felt that it was the same as when he killed someone for the first time. He was frightened and trembling. He couldn't imagine that if he submitted these reports to the emperor, what would the emperor do? what kind of reaction.

If the emperor finds out about this kind of thing, if the emperor finds out about it, will the emperor only blame the Jin family?
Jin bureaucrats do this, what about other bureaucrats?Wouldn't the emperor continue to diverge his thinking like this, draw inferences from one instance, and then conduct a large-scale family raid of the entire court?

Luo Sigong wiped the sweat off his brow.

It was clearly April, and Luo Sigong felt that his whole body was drenched with sweat.

Can this report really be submitted to the emperor?
Luo Sigong was thinking like this.

While he was sweating coldly while thinking, an unexpected visitor came to his official office, and all the idlers and others were dismissed, and he brought a sumptuous lunch, twelve dishes, and a jug of good wine. It's the food of a famous restaurant in the capital, and behind it is a certain nobleman.

This table of top-notch dishes, the luxurious materials used are unimaginable for ordinary people, just this table, Luo Sigong is sure that it is no less than 100 taels of silver.

This is one-half of the official annual salary of a first-rank official of the Ming Dynasty after deducting various benefits and income in kind.

"What's the important thing for Mr. Shen Ge to come here?"

Luo Sigong looked at Shen Yiguan who was sitting in front of him, with an uncertain expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)