The rise of the poor

Chapter 791
"The lower officials are wronged."

"I was wronged."

As soon as Yan Song's words fell, the Taicang officials who were interrogated in the lobby, the imperial censor of the library, and the Ku soldiers, accountants, cooks and others who were kneeling on the ground shouted their injustice.

“冤枉？！你们还有脸喊冤枉！真是气煞老夫了！照太仓大账上记载来看，现在太仓银库应该有存银210二万七千200两整，存金72万两整；为什么昨日盘库时，太仓银库仅存银120三万七千250两，存金31万六千500两。怎么存银、存金和大账对不上了？那88万九千950两银子、40万两金子跑哪里去了？！不是你们，难道说是它们自己长腿跑了？！”

Yan Song's face was ashen, with a stern face, and he stared directly at the officials in the hall with angry eyes. human heart.

"That's Zhu Ping'an's deliberate small amount of gold and silver to frame us." Taicang Zhao Langzhong said, poking his neck.

"Mr. Ge clearly sees that it was Zhu Ping'an who framed us." Several people in the hall echoed closely.

"Presumptuous!" Yan Song became even more angry when he heard the words, and furious, pointed at Zhao Langzhong and the others and scolded angrily, "I still want to sophistry when it comes to this! I really don't know what to do! At that time, not only did Zhu Pingan, the inspector, take inventory The officials of Ru Taicang, and the people from Dongchang are on the sidelines to monitor. Every box of gold and silver has been verified and recorded. When the final statistics are made, your accountant in Taicang also participated in the statistics. Such facts , how could it be Erxin's eloquence!"

"Elder Pavilion calm down."

Zhao Langzhong and the others knelt on the ground and kowtowed as if they heard thunder.

"Please calm down, old man. There may be something hidden in this inventory. Please give the next official a day. The next official will ask someone to check again immediately. I believe we can find out the reason." Zhang Guanku in Taicang lifted his official trousers Kneeling on the ground, he cupped his hands and begged.

"Why did you go there so early?! The warehouse was finished yesterday, and the evidence of the deficit is conclusive. There is no need for you to take off your pants and fart." Yan Song glanced at Zhang Guanku, and sneered ironically.

"The lower officials are terrified." Zhang Guanku and others bowed their heads.

"Fear?! Oh, you should be terrified, you cannot escape the blame! Thinking of me, Ming, how difficult these years have been, natural and man-made disasters, continuous, floods in the south today, drought in the north tomorrow, and the barbarians from the north the day after tomorrow. On my border, the Japanese pirates from the southeast of the day after tomorrow jumped and attacked again. One by one, they helped the people, resisted the Hulu, and wiped out the Japanese pirates. It didn’t cost money! My Ming Dynasty, how can there be any big things in these years? Your income has long been stretched and you can’t make ends meet, relying on the family property accumulated in Taicang over the years. In the end, you are lucky, and ruined the family property that my Daming used to save my life! Even if you have ten heads, it is not enough to chop!!!” Yan Song pointed at Zhang Guanku and the others in the hall, gritted his teeth and said in pain.

Zhang Guanku and others knelt on the ground with their heads down, without saying a word.

"Not only that, but the remaining gold and silver in Taicang. Among them, 90 taels of silver are not pure silver, and 800 taels of gold are not pure gold. The craftsman who built the silver building has extracted 12 taels of silver from it. The 500 taels of gold have been inspected. Most of them contain less than 1000% silver and 1000% gold, and the remaining 10% are either lead or copper. In this way, nearly 1 taels of silver and [-] taels of gold have disappeared! How dare you! But it's really big!" Yan Song was so angry that his whole body trembled.

"My lord, calm down!"

Zhang Guanku and others knelt on the ground, lowered their heads and said.

"How do you let the old man calm down!" Yan Song almost spat at them, and then reached out and nodded Liu Yushi in the hall and asked, "Liu Yushi, the interrogation of the Taicang Bank is carried out once a year. Last year When the old man remembered that you were in charge of checking Taicang, why? Could it be that you didn’t check Liu Yushi? Why didn’t you find out that the bank was short of money?”

Liu Yushi knelt on the ground and looked up at Yan Song, as if he was looking at Yan Song's words, but he didn't get what he wanted to see on Yan Song's face, only anger and accountability, so he quickly lowered his head and said in reply: : "My lord, when the next official took stock of the treasury, he actually found a deficit."

"It's nonsense, since you discovered the deficit, why didn't you report it to the court?" Yan Song asked.

"That's right. Although the lower officials discovered the deficit, the deficit is not big, it's just a small one. Moreover, Zhang Guanku has been looking for the reason. It's the lower officials who didn't report it." Liu Yushi bowed his head and replied.

"Hehe, a small loss? In one year, a small loss has turned into a huge loss? In addition, how do you explain the shortfall and false accounts in the Taicang account? This is not a year or two, but a full three years, every year. !" Yan Song patted the table vigorously and questioned loudly.

Liu Yushi, who was kneeling on the ground, almost dropped his head to the ground.

"As a censor, your crime is especially serious! My Ming Dynasty has a law first, 'Any censor commits a crime, the crime will be added to the third class, and the crime will be punished'. You should know this law, Liu Yushi, right?" Yan Song looked directly at Liu Yushi asked in a cold voice.

"Your official understands." Liu Yushi knocked his head on the ground.

"Huh, it's good to understand. You are too. "Shangshu·Kang Hao": There is a serious crime, not the end, but the green disaster, suitable for Er, since the way is extremely innocent, the time must not be killed. My "Law of the Ming Dynasty" - "Famous It is also stipulated in the "Regulations" that "anyone who surrenders before committing a crime will be exempted from the crime, and he will send someone to take the place of the leader. If he is compatible with the law, the leader and the relative will listen to the law as a sinner who surrenders." If rebellion, rebellion, or treason has not been committed, if relatives first sue or arrest officials, the principal offenders will all surrender themselves and be exonerated. If they do it themselves, the principal offenders will not be avoided. The matter has come to this, you should surrender yourself quickly and return the coveted gold and silver, and I will also ask the Holy One to give you a lighter sentence." Yan Song snorted coldly, and his eyes wandered around the people in the hall Once again, and then sighed, as if he had aged several decades, "As the chief assistant, the old man did not find out the problem in time. The old man is also responsible. The old man is ashamed of his majesty. After this case, the old man will report to you." Your Majesty, please resign from the position of chief assistant."

"The old man can't do it."

"My lord can't."

As soon as Yan Song's words fell, many civil and military officials who were watching stood up one after another, persuading them hard.

Xu Jie beside Yan Song was even more emotionally "excited" and pulled Yan Song's sleeve, earnestly and persuasively, "Master Yan, why are you bothering, this is not your old fault. Do you always have to take responsibility for the procuratorate, the Hanlin Academy, or the local government? In our Daming, you are the only one who can always help the Holy Majesty to support the court. If you keep resigning, don’t you just add to the trouble of the Holy Majesty.”

Li Mo on the presiding judge's seat listened to Yan Song's resignation, and glanced at Yan Song with a sarcasm, at Xu Jie with a look of contempt, and with contempt at the many observers who got up, and said disdainfully. made a nasal sound.

(End of this chapter)