The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 349 Li Guang's Downfall
In mid-August, before the scorching heat of midsummer dissipated, a bad news came.

The Yellow River burst its banks.

Emperor Hongzhi was furious, and ordered Zhang Qian, the deputy capital envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to go to Shaanxi for inspection.

This incident also caused an uproar in the ruling and opposition parties. It is not uncommon for the Yellow River to break its embankment.Since the Yellow River was diverted during the Chenghua period, it has ravaged the people along the coast like a beast.

The effect of building dams is good and sometimes bad. If God is not happy, the Yellow River will burst.

For this matter, the emperor summoned all the officials to inquire about the solution, but they did not reach a consensus.

The tenth year of Hongzhi was a year of many disasters.

Earthquakes, locust plagues, droughts, military troubles, dike bursts
In addition, the little princess died early, and the Qingning Palace was on fire again, which is a very ominous omen. There is really someone who is not afraid of death and bluntly wrote a letter, thinking that it was caused by a crafty sycophant who deceived the emperor.Ask the emperor to punish the traitor Li Guang and others to thank the world.

The representatives of this are Ye Shen and Yu Shi Zhang Jin.

Although Emperor Hongzhi had a good temper, this time he directly dismissed the petition.

In his opinion, there are two people who cannot move, one is Shouning Hou Zhang Heling, and the other is Li Guang.

The former is the queen's younger brother, and the latter is the confidant of Emperor Hongzhi.

But the stronger the pressure from the sky, the more people appealed, and in the end it turned into a massive joint action.

Nearly a hundred officials jointly signed the petition, and pointed their finger at Li Guang.

Now Emperor Hongzhi was terrified.

He didn't have the courage to pull a hundred ministers down from the imperial staff, so he had to ask someone to do a fortune-telling first. When he learned that the result of the fortune-telling was that Li Guang had violated a taboo in the Yuxiu Pavilion on Longevity Mountain, he breathed a sigh of relief and told the hundred officials The official uniform was soft and ordered to search Li Guang's mansion.

Upon hearing the news, Li Guang committed suicide directly.

It doesn't matter after this investigation, a mountain of gold and silver was found in Li Guang's mansion.

Someone found a thick account book in a box in Li Guang's study.The name of the officials who presented the gift is recorded in detail in the ledger.It's just that the amount of gold and silver is replaced by yellow and white rice.

Emperor Hongzhi asked Zuo Zuo why Li Guang had collected so much rice grain, and Zuo Zuo replied that it was just a cryptic statement about gold and silver.

The emperor was furious and ordered Li Guang's mansion to be searched and fined and confiscated into the treasury.

In addition to gold and silver, it was also found that Li Guang's mansion had land deeds of nearly [-] mu of land in Shuntian Mansion, most of which he bought by force at a very low price, or simply seized it.

Emperor Hongzhi ordered the land occupied by Li Guangqiang to be returned to the people, which won the praise of the people in the capital.

The incident of Li Guang's suicide triggered many chain reactions.

Because Emperor Hongzhi held the name of bribing officials, those civil officials who bribed Li Guang were in panic all day long, and some simply wrote to resign.

Because there are too many officials involved in bribery, Emperor Hongzhi is not easy to get angry, otherwise he is the emperor who is shameless.

Therefore, he simply granted the request of these officials to resign.

In August of the tenth year of Hongzhi, there was a wave of resignation.

When a group of officials left at once, new officials would naturally have to fill them up.

Emperor Hongzhi transferred many local officials to Beijing to fill the vacancies, and this was considered to calm the storm of resignation.

Li Guang fell down and Hongzhi was full.

This is a ballad made up by folk children. Although it is simple and vulgar, it is not without reason.

The gold and silver found in the inspection of Li Guang's mansion alone is enough to earn the Ming treasury for a year.

It is not an exaggeration to describe Eunuch Li as rich and powerful.

On this day, Xie Shen, Wang Shouwen, and Xie Pi had wine together in the mansion to celebrate the downfall of the traitor.

"Jinxiu, can you rest assured now? No one will trouble you anymore when Eunuch Li is down."

Wang Shouwen said with a smile while throwing the grapes into his mouth.

Xie Shen rolled his eyes at him and said: "Brother Ziwen's words are biased. Without Eunuch Li, there would be Eunuch Zhang and Eunuch Wang. When one eunuch falls, thousands of eunuchs will stand up."

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Wang Shouwen laughed out loud.

"When one eunuch falls down, tens of thousands of eunuchs stand up. Be careful, what you said is really interesting."

Xie Shen stretched his waist, and said lightly, "Why, isn't this in line with the mainstream civil servant values?"

Xie Shen can always come up with one or two words that Wang Shouwen doesn't understand, he has long been used to it.

But he still asked subconsciously: "What are values?"

Xie Shen smiled helplessly: "Values ​​are people's views, views on the world, and views on people in the world."

Li Guang's downfall was indeed beyond Xie Shen's expectation.Mainly because it was a full year ahead of schedule.

According to the established development of history, Li Guang will not fall until the 11th year of Hongzhi.

Unexpectedly, Xie Shen's butterfly effect was so obvious that it caused Li Guang's downfall to happen earlier.

Of course, this does not mean that everything will change accordingly. History has a strong self-healing ability and will always deflect on the right track.

It was the upsurge of resignations that caught Xie Shen's attention.It is really cheap for these officials to pay bribes and embezzle and end up retreating all over the body.

"Not all eunuchs are treacherous, and not all civil servants are loyal."

Xie Pi at the side took a sip of Nurhong and said leisurely.

"Let's say that Li Guang ransacked his house this time, and found the names of officials who bribed him in his mansion, most of them were civil servants."

Xie Shen nodded and said: "What I said is right, you can't judge whether you are a traitor or not."

Wang Shouwen felt a little bored, and muttered, "I won't talk about that anymore. I heard that brother Jinxiu bought shares in a bank in Shanxi. He must be making money every day, right?"

Xie Shen shook his head and said, "The bank is not as profitable as you imagined."

Wang Shouwen sneered and said, "I will believe it?"

"I'm not going to lie to you. Although there are many rich merchants in the capital, most of them have their own stable channels, and it is not difficult to turn over money. In comparison, it is the small merchants who deposit and exchange more silver."

This is the problem.

The biggest problem faced by banks in developing into bank accounts is how to absorb money.

Shanxi merchants need a large amount of silver in circulation, so they may deposit silver in exchange for silver.

But these merchants in the capital are different.They all have more or less official backgrounds, and they don't really need money to circulate.

In this case, it is necessary to find another way to make Ji Shengchang's brand popular in the capital.

"Then suck money from small merchants."

Wang Shouwen was puzzled.

"Small merchants have a small amount of silver deposits, and the cashing time is uncertain. If they encounter a run and can't get the money out, wouldn't they smash their own signs?"

If a bank or a bank wants to make money, it cannot let the deposits lie in the treasury, but must let the money circulate.

The easiest way is to lend money.

The cashing time of big merchants is relatively fixed, and it is easy to arrange lending.

But it is difficult for small merchants to control this aspect.In case of leaking the wind and encountering a run, it will really smash the signboard and lose money.

(End of this chapter)