I am the king of the dead

"Governor Li, I don't understand something, I would like to ask Governor Li to clarify." Chen Zongqing held back for a day, and finally said it on the way back.

Li Binyan nodded and said, "Just ask."

"Governor Li didn't plan to return to Beijing to take up duties before?" Chen Zongqing asked this question after sorting out his own words. He was actually asking, after returning to Beijing to report on his duties, did Li Binyan change so much before and after? This reason.

Li Binyan said with a smile: "Yes, Your Majesty's family, the courtiers must be heartbroken. The Songjiang Mansion is already on the right track. I wanted to go to the West, but I couldn't."

Li Binyan has been conscientious since he arrived in Songjiang Mansion, in order to be worthy of His Majesty's holy family. After taking care of Songjiang Mansion, he plans to go to the horizon. This is his long-cherished wish, which can also explain some of the reasons why he did not leave any room for things before. .

Li Binyan was really tired of this dirty officialdom.

After returning to Beijing to report on his work, Li Binyan knew clearly that if he couldn't go to the end of the world, then this official would continue to be an official, so Li Binyan became more sophisticated, which is understandable.

"That's it, the next official is clear." Chen Zongqing suddenly realized that his superior official didn't know how to be flexible. Everything goes well?
Li Binyan sat upright, and said quite seriously: "As you can see today, this Wuta Song family is so luxurious and rich, but it owes money to the Baoyuan Bureau. You have to wait and not pay back."

"What I got today was far beyond the expectations of the lower officials. This is a discounted purchase, and a few of them are worth 200 million silver coins. Since they are so extravagant, why are they unwilling to pay back the money?" Chen Zongqing said full of doubts.

Today, Li Binyan presided over the search of the house, and copied 150 hectares of Shangtian from the Wuta Song family. According to the land price of the Wuta, the [-] hectares of land exceeded [-] million silver coins.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Xinli army was reformed, and the land was empty with few people. The rate of going to the field was only one gold per mu, that is, one tael of silver in cash; in the eighth year of Jingtai, the people were subdued and domesticated, labor was light and cost-effective, physiological breeding, and the field or mu was hardware. , that is, one mu of land rose to five taels of silver or five silver coins.

The price per mu can objectively reflect the local population density.

For example, from Shunzhi to the last years of Kangxi, the land price in Jiangnan has always ranged from one tael to one tael per mu, and it did not rise to three taels until the end of Yongzheng.

The value of these three thousand hectares of land exceeds 150 million silver coins, and this is only the land deed. Among the confiscated property, there are more than [-] taels of cash in cash. The value of this place is more than [-] silver coins, various gold and silver colored coins, tens of thousands of coils of silk cloth, and various Nanyang and Western treasures. It is difficult to measure the value of these real objects.

The key point is that nearly 30 actors were also arrested. These actors were specially raised by Wu Ta Song's family for funerals and weddings.

But Wuta Song's debt to Baoyuan Bureau is only 20 silver coins.

Li Binyan sneered and said: "Governor Yingtian Li Xian and I have a bad reputation. Everyone in the south of the Yangtze River calls us cruel officials, but under the rule of such cruel officials, he is still so bold, and not only Wu Tasong This family, this incident involved more than a dozen luxurious families."

"Why are you so bold?"

Li Binyan said what Chen Zongqing wanted to say but didn't dare to say it. Shuangli is notorious, and everyone knows the craftsmanship of copying houses. Under such cruel officials, this Wuta Song family is so extravagant, but they dare to be so bold. , To pull a tooth out of the tiger's mouth.

Chen Zongqing couldn't figure it out, this was actually his second puzzle.

"Young Master Hu taught you the lesson." Li Binyan said with emotion: "Young Master Hu once asked me, what is the imperial court? In fact, in the eyes of the common people, we officials are the imperial court."

"When you were in the capital, what did His Majesty call you?"

"Chen Qingtian." Chen Zongqing was a little reserved, but said with a bit of pride. The name may be wrong, but the nickname is generally not wrong.

He was visiting various places in the capital, hoping to have an unimpeded official career, but he has not been able to get through this road, at least he has been an official so far, and he is worthy of His Majesty calling him Chen Qingtian.

Li Binyan looked at Chen Zongqing for a while before continuing: "Qingtian, in the eyes of the people of Songjiang Mansion, you are the Lord Qingtian, the God above their heads, this is what Young Master Hu said: the imperial court, in the eyes of the people, we are the officials." Son."

"In the past, the officials and the gentry were colluding, venting their anger from one nostril. Take the Wuta Song family as an example. They wanted to spread the loss of the fried food on the court because they had been doing this before. After all, the loss was If you use some money from the public house, you can report a famine and fool around."

"After the investigation by the imperial court, the governor covered it up for the magistrate, the magistrate covered it up for the county magistrate, and the county magistrate covered it up for the wealthy and luxurious family. This cover-up is a muddled bad account. In the end, it can't be sorted out, it can't be understood, and it can't be resolved."

"It's always been like this, so Xiao Guicao followed suit, became reasonable, and then became confident, and when it came time to investigate and deal with it, he gritted his teeth with hatred. Look at the Song family, they want to eat my meat and drink my meat." They were willing to give up because of their blood, but they never thought about it. This matter was wrong. They borrowed money from the Baoyuan Bureau, but they refused to use it in the declaration channel, embezzled it for other purposes, and refused to repay the debt.”

Has it always been this way?

Obviously not.

But Li Binyan and Li Xian have gained the reputation of being cruel officials.

"Governor Li, there is still one thing that I don't understand. Why did Governor Li ransack the house and seize people, but left a few behind?" Chen Zongqing asked rather puzzled.

Today, at the Song family's house in Wuta, they didn't finish taking people. They only took a few and left a bunch of people behind. This matter made Chen Zongqing a little puzzled.

Li Binyan squinted his eyes slightly and said: "If they have resentment in their hearts, they will make a fuss. It's good to make a fuss. The bigger the fuss, the better. It's best to make the fuss known to everyone, and everyone in the south of the Yangtze River will talk about it, and finally make a fuss. Let’s make a deal, if we kill chickens and monkeys at this time, such things will not happen in the future.”

Chen Zongqing shivered subconsciously, and then he remembered that Li Binyan was also a scholar, and this sinister trick was hard to guard against.

This is obviously an attempt to use these people from Wuta Song's family as bait, and set up a game of killing chickens to scare monkeys.

Li Binyan is the governor of Ming Dynasty. He is an out-and-out nobleman. Everything is complicated. He can't take someone to search his house every time something happens. If you want to do it, you have to do it effectively, until no one breaks the law in the future.

The bigger the disturbance, the greater the effect of deterrence when it ends.

This is the rule.

From Chen Zongqing's point of view, Li Binyan's reputation as a cruel official in Jiangnan is really worthy of the name, and it is indeed ruthless.

As Li Binyan expected, this matter soon became widely discussed in the Jiangnan area. The Song family of Wuta was confiscated, but the connections are still there, and the in-laws of this wealthy family also have sympathies. Well, the death of the rabbit and the death of the fox hurt its kind. Naturally, some people spent a little money to make the writers of the Jiangnan Poetry Club start to stir up trouble everywhere.

The fire got hotter and hotter, and even the storyteller in the teahouse began to talk about this passage, but they used the past to refer to the present, and lied Li Bin's words to Qin Hui of the Southern Song Dynasty, spreading the case upside down.

The reasoning became more and more clear, and the voice of covering up the extravagant households was louder, but the facts were the facts. The magistrates and magistrates made announcements to explain the whole story clearly, and the direction of the wind changed immediately.

People don't suffer from inequality. An ordinary middle-class family runs around for more than a dozen silver coins a year. This extravagant family is already extravagant, but they can dismantle so many silver coins from the Baoyuan Bureau. Fried food is simply an unforgivable crime.

Who will suffer in the end when food prices are raised?It can't be that Governor Li and Chen Qingtian who eat imperial food can't afford to eat, so they are hungry.

The pens of the extravagant households are naturally unwilling to be weak, and all kinds of fallacies carry the direction of the wind. For a while, the two winds are quite tit for tat.

In the end, the emperor sent an imperial decree to Songjiang Mansion, and this matter was considered to have come to an end.

In the imperial decree of the emperor, he was furious and furious, and demanded that the governors of Songjiang and Yingtian, together with the governors of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fengyang, the magistrates and county yamen, strictly investigate the prefectures and counties. No forgiveness, but anyone who drives up the price of food will be killed without mercy.

In the imperial edict of Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been such a word as killing without amnesty. This kind of indiscriminate and one-size-fits-all word is taboo for the current emperor. The emperor who always pays attention to specific issues and specific treatment uses such words. This time I was really angry.

All of a sudden, the penholders immediately fell silent, and the patrons behind them might not be able to escape this disaster.

Li Binyan recalled that year, at the end of October in the 14th year of Zhengtong, when Daming defeated Wala in the battle of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, everyone in the capital was rejoicing, thankful that the Ming Dynasty still had Yu Shaobao, and His Majesty.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty presided over the court meeting. In addition to rewards, he executed a group of merchants who raised grain prices and hoarded goods from August to October. In Fengtian Hall, they were called profiteers. (eighty chapters)
During the Battle of the Capital, His Majesty once clearly stated: During the war, those who hoarded goods, raised grain prices, sold short, and collected money and land, causing the people to live in poverty, did not deserve to live, and profiteers who resold grain should be beheaded immediately to show the public!I demand, immediately, immediately!

Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty is actually a very talkative person. If you fry other things, the emperor will not hesitate to take care of them. The market rules, and he is willing to gamble and admit defeat. After discussing and issuing edicts over and over again, if the fortune cannot be made, he will make a move.

But frying grain is not good, if it is not good, it is not good, and there is no discussion.

"The Song family paid back the money, what else is there to do? If the rest of the Song family didn't make a fuss, they made such a big fuss and alarmed His Majesty, how could they cause such a catastrophe? Li Binyan looked at the imperial decree in the brocade box and could only shake his head.

"Governor Li is really good at predicting things." Chen Zongqing was convinced, and the development of the matter was as Li Binyan expected.

However, Li Binyan shook his head and said: "If I know that His Majesty is so angry, I will definitely arrest the Song family. Your Majesty is a man of temperament, and his imperial edicts are worded like this. It can be seen that His Majesty is very angry. His Majesty will be angry with me. Angry, angry to Your Majesty, it is a subject who should not have lost his obedience."

Li Binyan did not expect that His Majesty would be angry. If he had expected it, he would never let such a thing happen. It happened more than ten years ago, and Li Binyan only remembered that His Majesty was against the merchants who raised the price of grain after receiving the edict. What an outrage.

Hu Wei once told Li Binyan that the first thing to be an official is to have a heart of obedience, and Li Binyan kept it in mind.

"The matter has come to this, and we can only find a way to make His Majesty calm down." Li Binyan's whole body changed, and he turned into that cruel official that everyone feared. His Majesty ordered him to supervise the case, so he naturally wanted to It can be done, and His Majesty can do it only if His Majesty is in a good mood.

This case has been handled for more than a month. After all, a list was submitted to the capital. All criminals will be escorted to the capital and sent to the prison of the Criminal Department. Finally, the three divisions will interrogate and deal with it. Your Majesty said that there is no pardon, so the process must also be followed. , The death penalty is repeated three times, and it has to be passed layer by layer.

The reason why this case was settled within a month was that the big ship arrived at the port. Although there was a short-term fluctuation in food prices, it did not cause social harm. Upside down.

There are a total of four counties that have really caused a certain impact, including Wuta. The list is very short. There are only four families in total.

Li Binyan handled this case, and even wrote a letter to Yingtian Mansion, because there was a family there, and it seemed that Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong was behind it.

As soon as Xu Chengzong heard about this, he immediately said that this family had nothing to do with him. The misunderstanding in the misunderstanding was completely caused by the other party's random clinging.

Although Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong played a role of applause in the battle of Annan in the county, but no matter how you say it, Xu Chengzong is one of the nobles who have been conscripted by His Majesty. , to keep his few reward cards.

Xu Chengzong had a submissive heart. His Majesty felt that the fifth floor of the Yanyun Building could see the Nanjing Imperial Palace trespassing. He asked Xu Chengzong to demolish the fifth floor of the Yanyun Building. Xu Chengzong directly demolished the Yanyun Building, and the famous Yanyun Building disappeared.

Your Majesty went to Guangzhou in person for the sake of Annan County. Xu Chengzong really didn’t dare to make this money later. Some money can be earned, such as opening a gold mine in Borneo, such as going to Japan to do business. Some money, Xu Chengzong would not even look at it. glance.

The case was full of turmoil, and it was not considered closed until the middle of June. Only seven members of Wuta Song's family were on the beheading list, and the final disposition of the other three families was to be exiled to Jilong Island.

The reason why they dealt with it in this way is that these four fried grains not only did not make money, but also lost money. The emperor of Ming Dynasty shook his head when he saw it, and made the emperor laugh.

It did not cause bad social impact, and Zhu Qiyu did not use non-punishment justice, and directly ordered to beheaded, but let the three justices deal with it.

The reason why the seven members of the Wuta Song family were beheaded was not because they hoarded goods and speculated on food prices, but because they got involved with the Japanese.

Although Tongwo was a frame in Ming Dynasty, all kinds of crimes could be included in it, but this time the Wuta Song family's Tongwo was indeed true, and the evidence is conclusive.

Originally, Jin Yiwei checked where the grain hoarded by the Wuta Song family was sold to stop the loss. This investigation found out that the Wuta Song family had colluded with several Ming Dynasty from the Japanese country, and the Wu Ta Song family had raised a group of Japanese pirates overseas as thugs. In the sixth year of Jingtai, it once invaded the Daming sea area, and was repelled by the Daming Navy and the Inspection Department.

San Fasi just wanted to show mercy, but there was no way to show mercy, so he could only be sentenced to death.