Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 372

Time passed quickly, and at dusk, they arrived at the Huangming Guard Hall. Wang Guangyang asked several times to prepare a guard of honor on the road, but Zhu Biao refused.

"This time I came from the capital, and I didn't inform the officials of the prefecture and county all the way. I just didn't want to disturb the people. Besides, when I put on a robe and got off, what I saw was a whitewashed peace. Wang Guangyang, you can do whatever you have, and you don't have to keep talking about it." Back and forth."

Wang Guangyang knew that Yang Xian didn't come, so he needed to follow. He heard that there was a vacancy in Nanjing. If he could enter Beijing this time, he wouldn't have to stay in the north.

He is also old now, and this time he followed the crown prince to eradicate the White Lotus Sect, which is definitely a great achievement.

Zhu Biao ignored Wang Guangyang, and directly signaled Du Wei and several Jin Yiwei to follow, and entered the Huangming Guard Hall in Xi'an Mansion.

Wang Guangyang wiped the sweat from his forehead, motioned to drive the carriage away, and whispered to the servants behind him: "Send more people to follow. Although there are guards here this time, His Royal Highness represents His Majesty, and no mistakes can be made. Go back Let Yang Qin send a message to entertain His Royal Highness King Zhou. Hurry up!"

The second floor of the Huangming Guard Hall is a place where case files of clans and villages from all over the country are kept and visitors from the court are received. Even Wang Guangyang can only wait for Zhu Biao on the first floor and cannot go up to the second floor.

Guards from all over the country went directly to Beijing to meet the emperor, and officials from various prefectures and counties had no right to intervene.This is the rule, and no one can break the rule.

Zhu Biao threw a commander's sign on the table, and several librarians looked at each other, and immediately stepped forward respectfully: "Jin Yiwei of the Xi'an Branch, I have seen His Royal Highness."

For a long time, all the librarians did not dare to take a breath, and the air was quiet.

"Well, let's talk about it casually, post office, elementary school, middle school, government school?"

The librarian Tian Liuyao cheered up and stepped forward, and the other four librarians immediately retreated to the sides to wait.

Someone had already removed the tea on the table, cleared the table, and put the population, fields, clan, and primary school lists of 31 counties in the six states.

"Returning to Your Highness, this is the 31 counties of the six prefectures. The Weiguan and the Xiangliweiguan sent up the annual statistics of the population and land. There are Chang'an County, Xianning County, Xianyang County, Xingping County, Lintong County and Lantian...etc. 31 The counties are all here."

Then there was another stack of books, which were the vouchers for their collection and sale of grain.

Zhu Biao sat with a serious expression on his face. If he didn't speak, no one would dare to speak casually. If he made a wrong sentence, he would lose his head.

Tian Liuyao, who is in charge, has fair skin, a round face with big ears, delicate features, and a well-trimmed beard. He used to be in charge of Jiangxi and Huguang, but now he is serving in Xi'an.

"Find out the names of the gentry who have paid for food in Xi'an Mansion in the past two years, and show them to the two of them." Zhu Biao gestured to Du Dongting and Wei Shouzheng with his eyes.

"This……"

Tian Liuyao was in a bit of a dilemma, saying that the roster of autumn grain in the fourth year of Hongwu was lost, and the others could be found.

"Who lost it?"

"The treasury...official staff." Tian Liuyao said with a trembling voice.

"It's very difficult to implement the gentry's payment of food as a whole. At the beginning, I reminded you to store the list separately, and you must have it every year and every month. No matter it is an excuse of running out of water or losing it, you will be killed."

Tian Liuyao nodded, and the gentry made a special list in order to carry out the payment. If any family missed it, they would resist the order.Once the descendants find out that they are officials, they will be investigated and dismissed immediately.

"Bring the official." Zhu Biao said with a cold face: "You have listened well today, and also conveyed it to the county health office below. You must keep these rosters every year. It may be ten years later, or it may be Next year, maybe every year, I will check at any time.

The ink is not clear, it’s missing, you have to find a way, when the year-end inspection team comes down, it’s missing a lot, you all don’t want to be officials, go home to farm and raise your children. "

If you don't warn once, so many prefectures and counties will come down later, if you lack this and lose that, who knows if it's a fake or it's really lost.

It is appropriate to treat the ministers of the DPRK and China loosely, but it is necessary to deal strictly with the local officials below, otherwise they will not be able to exploit the common people.

The official who lost the roster of autumn payment was quickly brought back, kneeling on the second floor in cold sweat, his legs trembling: "Li Sanyuan, an official in the warehouse of the Huangming General Library of Xi'an Prefecture, has seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"It's you? It's a coincidence that you lost it. In the four years of Hongwu, there are 31 counties in six states. The amount of autumn grain is so huge that you can lose the collection list. You really will lose it. Why don't you lose yourself?"

Zhu Biao stepped forward: "Who else is there in the family?"

Before Li Sanyuan could answer, Tian Liuyao immediately stepped forward: "Li Sanyuan often goes to the gambling house, and his wife and children are mortgaged."

Du Dongting was strict in his work, and when he heard this kind of thing, he couldn't even look up to Li Sanbao, his eyes were full of disgust.

"Then it's easy to handle. It won't hurt my parents, wife and children. Pull it down and die." Zhu Biao said without any emotion: "You don't accept it!"

Li Sanyuan's face was ashen ashes: "I beg Your Highness the Prince to spare your life, please spare your life."

"Pull it down." Tian Liuyao ordered people to set up Li Sanyuan.

After a stick of incense, Tian Liuyao came in and reported truthfully: "His Royal Highness, I'm out of breath."

"Tian Liuyao, you have to remember the matter of Li Sanyuan alone, there will be no next time, tell those county government that whoever should pay the grain will have to pay.

The imperial court does not want one more grain, but one less grain is not acceptable. Here are the rules.This matter is not the fault of Li Sanyuan alone, and those county magistrates cannot escape this responsibility. "

Tian Liuyao nodded, and then brought up a box of things, all of which were the deeds of officials from 31 counties in six prefectures.

"Gu is sitting here today, summoning the officials and magistrates of the 31 counties in the six prefectures. Let them all arrive before dawn. If anyone can't come, bring back the black gauze hat and official uniform."

In the middle of the night, the rain stopped and the clouds opened to see the moon.

The county guards and magistrates of the counties received the news, and they arrived at the Huangming General Library in Xi'an Prefecture out of breath at dawn.

Zhu Biao sat in the middle, Du Dongting and Wei Shouzheng sat in the lower seats, and everyone stayed up all night.

Tian Liuyao carefully put the tea on the coffee table, looked at Zhu Biao out of the corner of his eyes, and dared not speak for a while.

At the corner of the second floor, under the white cloth was Li Sanyuan, an official from the warehouse. All the officials who came up were terrified and immediately pondered their own affairs in their hearts.

"His Royal Highness sits here and waits for you all night, everyone sit down." Tian Liuyao arranged for the magistrates to sit down.

The affairs of the County Huangmingwei Museum were invited to the side building next door, and it was Zhu Biao who wanted to summon him alone.

The magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture stood downstairs and looked at Wang Guangyang, who had been standing in the night breeze all night, and then looked at the second floor of the Weiguan, standing there quietly.

Only a dozen voices came from inside: "The magistrate of Chang'an County has seen His Highness the Crown Prince, Lantian...the magistrate of Lintong County has seen His Highness the Crown Prince..."

The worst among all magistrates in the county are people from Jinshi background, and they don't even look down on Tian Liuyao, who is spreading the word there, but today they all have to rely on Tian Liuyao, who can directly go to Beijing.

Everyone is ups and downs in the officialdom, sophistication and human relationships are all right, you have to put on whatever smiley face you should put on.

Zhu Biao scanned around, and those magistrates moved their bodies uncomfortably.

"Last year's autumn grain, why did the gentry pay the grain list disappear? You all explain. Did the imperial court give you too much salary?"

"It's just right." The magistrate of Chang'an immediately replied to the second half of Zhu Biao's sentence.

"Then why are you still buying real estate? The Zhuangzi by the moat is very wealthy. I heard that you still drink the national wine Wuliang Xuequ.

It’s true, it’s a straight road now, from Xi’an Mansion to Nanjing, it’s only two days and two nights on a fast horse, you can go through caves and bridges, whoever built it, the common people built it for your convenience.

But you gave convenience to these gentry clans, your asses are crooked, don't forget who gave you food, it was the common people, it was the Ming court.Think about it carefully. "

Zhongzhi County lowered his head and did not speak.

"Li Sanyuan outside the door took this matter for everyone, and you all burn incense for him when you go out.

Li Sanyuan is in charge of managing the roster. If the roster is lost, Gu will take him as an excuse. If you continue to act recklessly, you will hand it over to the emperor.You are responsible to Your Majesty. "

Zhu Biao asked Du Dongting and Wei Shouzheng to take the physical evidence in the box and start to read:

"In January of the fourth year of Hongwu, the magistrate of Chang'an County and the gentry of Bahe Village drank in a restaurant, accompanied by several women and a pair of jade horses!"

"In the fourth year of Hongwu, in May. The magistrate of Lintong did not collect summer grain during the wheat harvest season..."

The more the magistrates listened, the more paralyzed they became, and the air they had just now faded little by little.Psychology is also starting to break down.

"Forgive me, you county magistrates are all rubbish. The contents of this box have to be tracked down. No one is clean."

　Ask for a monthly pass.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)