The rise of the poor

Chapter 784
"Report to the Holy Majesty, I have ordered the inspection of Taicang. Today is over, and I am here to report to the Holy Majesty." After getting up, Zhu Pingan took out a memorial from his sleeve, and put his hands on the top of his head respectfully.

Huang Jin walked down from Emperor Jiajing, took the memorial from Zhu Ping'an, and turned his hands to Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing took the memorial, did not open it, and placed it on the dragon case in front of him, looked at Zhu Ping'an and said, "Tell me about the results of the inspection."

"Reporting to the Holy Majesty, I was ordered to inspect Taicang. I focused on inspecting the books and books of Taicang for the past three years, and took stock of the gold and silver in the treasury. On the books of Taicang, it is recorded that there are 210 taels of silver and 200 taels of gold. But after checking the account books for several days, I found that there were 72 taels of silver in the account books, and there were deficits and false accounts. 36 taels, 540 taels of actual gold, and 120 taels of silver are not pure silver, and 250 taels of gold are not pure gold." Zhu Pingan respectfully stood at In front of the hall, he replied seriously.

"How much?" Emperor Jiajing's face changed suddenly, he got up suddenly from the dragon chair, looked at Zhu Ping angrily and asked.

Hearing the number Zhu Pingan said, Emperor Jiajing almost suspected that his ears had heard it wrong. Press and hold what Pingan said, and half of Taicang was empty! ! ! ! !

This kind of deficit has never happened thousands of years ago, from Shang Zhou to Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties!

If it is true, it will be the biggest case ever hitherto unknown!
Emperor Jiajing considered himself a wise ruler, but he was so fooled by his subordinates that he even emptied half of the national treasury!
This was a bolt from the blue for Emperor Jiajing.

One of the biggest problems he faces now in his administration is financial constraints. Captives in the north and Japanese in the south, natural disasters and man-made disasters, money is needed everywhere. In recent years, money has been spent like water. This made Emperor Jiajing frugal even in practicing Taoism and alchemy. .

It is conceivable that when Emperor Jiajing heard that his treasury was half-emptied by someone, he was in such a trough, how could Emperor Jiajing bear it.

Emperor Jiajing's fury was within Zhu Pingan's expectation.

However, although he had expected Emperor Jiajing's anger for a long time, and although he also knew that Emperor Jiajing's anger was not aimed at him, Zhu Pingan still couldn't help but feel a chill down his back when facing the emperor's anger.The wrath of the emperor, laying down millions of corpses, bleeding and drifting, this is not a joke.

"Returning to the Holy Lord, there are 36 taels of silver in Taicang's shortfall and false accounts. There is a shortfall of 540 taels of silver and 88 taels of gold in Taicang, and another 950 taels of silver are not Pure silver, there is 40 taels of gold that is not pure gold..." After calming down, Zhu Pingan repeated again.

"Are you sure? How did the account fall short?" Emperor Jiajing's voice escaped through his teeth, his face was gloomy, like the sky before the storm.

"We are sure, and you can use the head of the item as a guarantee. For example, it is obvious that the Ministry of War received salaries recorded in the account books of Taicang. The salary received by the Ministry of War in the previous year was 8000 taels, plus 3 taels of favors, it was only 14 19 taels, but last year in Taicang’s account it was recorded that the Ministry of War had withdrawn 9000 taels of silver, which was almost twice as much. According to my investigation, last year the Ministry of War had only added three new officials, so how could it have withdrawn nearly [-] taels more? Double the salary. There are still many falsehoods and deficiencies like this. This is the review record of Weichen, and the falsehoods and deficiencies have been recorded."

Zhu Pingan raised his head, replied in a convincing manner, and then gave an example of a fake account. After speaking, he took out a roll of thick rice paper sewn with needlework from his sleeve, and raised his hands above his head respectfully.

This stack of rice paper is exactly the Taicang bank account book that Zhu Pingan re-stated with the re-examination accounting form. It is a thick stack full of forms and small characters.

Emperor Jiajing heard Zhu Pingan's example, and his face was full of anger in an instant, and the clouds were overcast, but this false account was short of more than 9 silver! ! More than 9 silver is enough to relieve drought and flood disasters in several prefectures!
Huang Jin came down and took the double-entry accounting form from Zhu Ping'an, and handed it to Emperor Jiajing respectfully with both hands.

Emperor Jiajing turned a page casually and saw a completely different bookkeeping method from today's. He was taken aback at first glance, but Emperor Jiajing was also a person whose talent determined his intelligence. After reading it for a while, he understood Zhu Pingan's re-examination accounting form Then I discovered the advantages of this re-examination accounting form, in which false accounts and deficits are very obvious.

Everywhere
at a glance
Shocking, Emperor Jiajing's face became darker the more he looked at it, and the temperature around him dropped again and again, all dropping below zero, as if he was in an ice cellar within a radius of three meters.

After reading it, Emperor Jiajing suddenly kicked over the cases in front of him, and said murderously: "I'm so angry! I'm so angry! This group of rats! Silverfish! Eat inside and out! Guard yourself and steal! It's a waste of my trust! Come on!" , I have passed on my order to escort all the officials from Taicang to the Ministry of Punishment, and let the factory guards assist them to guard them strictly!"

"According to the order."

An internal servant serving in the main hall answered the order and hurried to the outside of the hall to announce the order.

"Huang Ban, draw up the decree. Since I came to the throne, all the ministers who have been in charge of treasury and the ministers who have been dispatched to check the treasury are all trusted officials. I don't know if the kings and ministers are ashamed. I blame myself for being ignorant and deeply ashamed. I have handed over to the Ministry of Officials to check the titles and strictly discuss them. This case is written by Yan Song, a scholar of Huagaidian, and Xu, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion. Li Mo, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and He Ao, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, jointly tried the case of the deficit of the Taicang bank. All the officials involved in the case, regardless of their rank or meritorious service, will be punished strictly. All senior officials above the third rank in Beijing should attend side trial. All officials below the Minister of the Ministry of Households shall avoid according to the law and shall not Participation, if there is any violation, it will be punished as the same party involved in the case.”

After issuing the oral order, Emperor Jiajing ordered Huang Jin to draft an imperial decree, hand it over to Wuyi Hall, and distribute it to all government offices.

When the imperial decree was passed to the Wuyi Hall, all the ministers in the hall were shocked, and the impact was comparable to that of a great ceremony, and soon the entire government and the public were shaken.

So far
In history, the biggest treasury deficit case has been unveiled.

The rut of history has also deflected here. There was no such case of treasury deficit in the history of Ming Dynasty. was untied.However, now Zhu Pingan has fanned the wings of the butterfly, lifted the cover, and exposed this big case to the world.

perhaps
After this case, the deficit of the treasury of the Ming Dynasty will be curbed, and the treasury will be more abundant than in history.

perhaps
When natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred, Daming had the financial resources to provide disaster relief; when foreign enemies invaded, Daming had the financial resources to organize an army to defend against the enemy.

perhaps
Emperor Chongzhen didn't have to hang Meishan, but became the master of ZTE.
Of course, who can tell in the future.

In fact, when His Highness Zhu Pingan heard the imperial decree dictated by Emperor Jiajing, he felt somewhat unwilling.

Zhu Pingan also knew that he was not qualified to interrogate the case, but Zhu Pingan still felt a little helpless when he heard that Emperor Jiajing handed over the case to Yan Song for trial.

Emperor Jiajing still trusted Yan Song in his heart.

But in Zhu Pingan's view, this case has a lot to do with the strict party, and it must be the case.But if Yan Song presides over the trial, it is doomed not to find out the root cause.

But fortunately, Xu Jie, Li Mo and others participated in the presiding trial together, so although the root cause cannot be found, some big fish can't escape.

(End of this chapter)