Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1369
Shen Yuanfu and Wang Ge are always waiting for Gao Yushi to make a move, but Gao Yushi is also waiting for others.

He is waiting for Hai Rui.

The benefits of sacrificing Haigangfeng, a big killer, are obvious, that is, gods can block and kill gods, and Buddhas can block and destroy Buddhas, and no one can stop him.But the disadvantages are not small, that is, no one should expect him to be obedient.

Gao Yushi could only speculate and guide Hai Rui's plan in accordance with his usual style, but only Hai Rui knew whether he would do what he wanted.

Hai Rui has been very busy these days. Maybe there are "righteous people" among Jiangnan officials, or maybe it's just that the party struggle is getting more intense. In short, Hai Rui has received a lot of anonymous interviews during this period (the interview list was introduced before. Passed, dedicated to Jingcha).

It stands to reason that anonymous interview forms are not allowed, and anonymous interview forms are legally invalid. However, many systems these days have long been lip service, and the issue of anonymous interview forms has been banned without any effect. It was actually made semi-public—meaning that the chief inspector knew that it had no legal effect, but he would still make open and unannounced visits based on the circumstances mentioned in the interview list.

Of course, only responsible chief inspectors would do this, and many chief inspectors simply ignored it out of the attitude that more things are worse than less things.

Hai Rui is obviously responsible, and extremely responsible. All anonymous interview forms are recorded by him. Although there is no basis for legal nature, he requires detailed investigation and evidence collection for all the situations mentioned in it. Nothing can be missed.

This approach obviously increased the workload of Nanchao. The censors of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate were all busy during this period of time, and they even started to "voluntarily work overtime". All the value rooms in the courtyard were lit at night, so a lot of candles and lamp oil were actually burned.

It's not that they really love their jobs so much, it's that no one dares to be lazy or even complain under the personal control of Youdu Censor Hai Qingtian.Of course, they are also embarrassed.

Mr. Hai is seventy-four this year, and he is still ill. These days, he has been sticking to the front line, and he doesn’t even go home very often. He often sleeps in the valet room after making a bunk?
The boss at the head is so old and sick that he has done his best so hard, what else can they say as subordinates?It's only two or three months if you work hard, let's do it.

Under such an atmosphere, the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate has been working extremely efficiently recently. It has identified 73 illegal incidents, involving 94 officials, and the severity of the cases varies.

However, if someone makes detailed statistics, they will find that most of the cases involved in these officials are related to money.This "relevant" does not necessarily mean corruption or taking bribes, nor does it necessarily mean extortion. In fact, there are quite a few officials whose crimes should be counted as "inaction".

The crime of inaction is usually classified as "not careful" among the Jingcha of the Ming Dynasty, and if it is serious, it is classified as "dismissing softness", that is, there is a lack of virtue.

What kind of inaction would be classified as irresponsible?For example, knowing that someone has committed a crime and not paying attention to it, even if the crime is within the jurisdiction of one's own jurisdiction but letting it go, this is not being cautious as an official.

If the crime committed by the other party is very serious and the impact is extremely bad, but the official still pretends not to see it, or even simply covers it up, then it is "letting go soft", and it is obviously a lack of virtue.

Among the officials investigated by Nancha this time, at least half of them were charged with these two crimes, and the nature of them was "inaction"-knowing that someone was evading taxes, being in the fish and meat village, stealing by stealth, bullying the market, etc. But you just acted like you didn't see it, and even officials and officials protected each other. If you are not cautious, who is not?You are not relentless, who is relentless?

If these statistics are more accurate, it will also be found that among the cases investigated by Hai Rui, the yamen with the most officials involved belongs to the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry (both directed to Beijing).

The Ministry of Household Affairs has the most cases and the most officials involved.Among them, bribe-takers accounted for about half of them. There were two doctors and four principals, and there were as many as 11 ambassadors and deputy envoys in each warehouse under Nanjing's management.The other half was due to inaction, and a similar number of people were involved.

The number of people and cases involved in the Ministry of Industry is much smaller than that of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but most of them are related to the same case, that is, the Wusong River Embankment Project Malpractice Case.

This project itself refers to the renovation project of the imperial court in the lower reaches of the Wusong River. The river section is actually the so-called Suzhou Creek in later generations, that is, the Shanghai section of the Wusong River.

Due to the consistently weak financial center of Ming Dynasty, in fact, seldom did this type of project, let alone the imperial court took the initiative to do it.

The reason why this project was paid attention to is largely because the development of Shanghai Private Port has driven almost the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and even affected Jiading County and Taicang Prefecture in Suzhou Prefecture (the administrative division at this time is different from that of later generations).

At this time, Songjiang Mansion was very wealthy, and it was known as "inexhaustible Songjiang cloth". However, Shanghai County was not doing well in Songjiang Mansion, and did not have many characteristics.Now Jinghua and Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants are building private ports there, especially Jinghua Shanghai Private Port has undertaken various commodities from Japan, North Korea, Liaodong, Tianjin and even southern Xinjiang, so that Shanghai County has flourished in just a few years Become a trading center.

The chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not to be outdone. They also know the crowd effect, and many private ports are not far from Jinghua private port. This makes Shanghai's position even more important.

The Wusong River is another important waterway in Shanghai County besides the Yangtze River. Therefore, the problem of river flood prevention has become urgent, so this project was born.

The Ministry of Industry in Nanjing is a place where the School of Mind gathers together, especially there are many local officials in the south of the Yangtze River.The township party naturally has to take care of the hometown officials, so this big business is handed over to its own people.

As a result, this project was originally just a small project estimated to cost 6000 taels of silver. After working on it, almost everyone said that this amount of money would not make a name for themselves, and that more funds should be allocated.The Nanjing Ministry of Industry "follows goodness like a stream", so the budget has been increased again and again. In the end, more than 8 taels of silver were spent, and the project has not yet been completed.

Hai Rui had been dissatisfied with this matter for a long time, and this time, he took advantage of the east wind of Jingcha to investigate and found many problems.The biggest problem is that this project cost a lot of money, but the Songjiang section of the Wusong River only slightly reinforced the places that were considered the worst in the past. splashed.

Then I continued to investigate, and it turned out to be a nest case, and many officials from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry were implicated in it.Even better, many officials from the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs were also involved in the case. The Ministry of Industry had reported the budget, and the Ministry of Household Affairs had to agree to pay the money before it counted, and some officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs were still waiting for the Ministry of Industry to speak.

Why?Because their own family or relatives and friends have undertaken many of the projects in the river section, and they have allocated funds to make money themselves. What a good deal.The court's money becomes your own as soon as it changes hands. Isn't this the true meaning of being an official?

The officials of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry are not jealous either. Firstly, the aristocratic chaebols who will undertake the project will definitely take care of them, and secondly, there will be people from the Ministry of Household Affairs to help them with activities. They took part of their family's land tax and recovered a lot of losses for them through "another method".

This nest case, which was formed by the collusion of some officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, has become the focus of Hai Rui's attention. Although the Nancha itself was not initiated and carried out for the purpose of investigating the case, it has now become the focus of Hai Rui's eyes. Typically, the officials involved in the two parts naturally became the first birds.

At this time, the dust in Nancha has not yet been settled. Hai Rui, as the censor of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, is not in charge of handling the case alone. People in Nanjing were in panic, especially the officials of these two ministries, many of whom felt that disaster was imminent and precarious.

Wait a minute, since there is no trial and the result of Nancha has not come out, how did this news get out?
Well... It's true that Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate has Hai Rui in charge, but that doesn't mean that everyone in the yamen is Hai Rui. It's completely normal for someone to leak information in advance intentionally or unintentionally.

Letters are no better than phone calls. When Wang Xijue knew that the situation in Nanjing began to become clear, and everyone found out that Mr. Hai had already set his sights on the Wusong River embankment project, it was already a few days later.

In other words, when the Nanjing side reported the incident to him, it was later than when he sent a letter in the capital asking the relevant parties in Nanjing and his own family to settle the accounts quickly.

In the midst of winter, Wang Xijue broke out in a cold sweat.

After all, Hai Rui is Hai Rui, if you don't move, you will have hundreds of people.However, Wang Xijue had expected that Hai Rui would not listen to his persuasion. He even took the initiative to provoke Hai Rui, hoping that Hai Rui would expand the scope of attack, so that Nanjing Xinxue officials could unite and jointly resist Hai Rui's "suppression".

This goal has now been achieved. Hai Rui's attack area is indeed not small, but Wang Xijue vaguely feels that something is wrong.

Is it because Nanjing is not united enough?It does not seem to be the case. If the officials of the School of Mind in Nanjing were not united, the officials of the School of Mind in the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate would not have leaked this matter, and it would have made the whole of Nanjing panic.

Leaking the news could be carried out quietly. The reason why everyone knows about it is that they obeyed Wang Xijue's previous order and purposely exaggerated the matter.It can be seen that his colleagues in Nanjing still listen to what Wang Ge said.

"Gao Yushi, Beicha, Nancha, Nanjing, Liaodong..." Wang Xijue calculated the connection between these things in his heart, and whispered in his mouth.When he said "Liaodong", he suddenly opened his eyes and blurted out: "Oops!"

What's wrong?Shen Shixing has already decided to protect Li Chengliang, and even intends to suffer some losses in the Jingcha for this reason, but Shen Shihang has nothing to do with the Wusong River embankment project, and it will not be his turn to suffer the losses. I am afraid that most of the unlucky ones are related to this related people etc.

But he, Wang Xijue, can't suffer from this!

Wusong River, known as Songjiang or Wujiang in ancient times, also known as Songling River and Lize River, originates from the Guajingkou of Taihu Lake in the south of Songling Town, Suzhou. Dongjiang and Loujiang are also known as "Three Rivers of Taihu Lake".

This river is only tens of miles away from Wang Xijue's hometown Taicang, Suzhou. It is conceivable that with his family's influence, it is impossible not to participate in the Wusong River embankment project.Not only did he participate, but even the decision maker who participated in this matter was Wang Xijue himself who was still in Suzhou at that time and had never returned to Beijing!
In other words, if Shen Shixing really used the Wusong River embankment project to make a deal with Gao Yushi in exchange for Gao Yushi's slack on Li Chengliang's gunpowder sales and illegal private transactions with Chahar, then Wang Xijue himself would It is possible to be implicated in this case.

This is too much!
That's right, it was he, Wang Xijue, who advocated forcing Hai Rui to expand his attack area. As the richest man in Suzhou, he was also willing to lead the officials of Jiangnan Psychology to fight Hai Rui, the "evil force" to the end.But this doesn't mean that he wants to act as a dead ghost in a case where the evidence can be checked at any time!
Such things as accounts can indeed be "balanced". As the richest man in Suzhou for many years, his Wang family can't have a group of talents who are good at accounting?But the accounts are easy to balance, but the truth is hard to explain: whatever you say, Hai Rui can be invincible as long as he grasps a key contradiction.

The embankment project of the Wusong River far exceeded the budget, but it took so much money to accomplish such a small thing. Where did the rest of the money go?Did you pour money directly to strengthen the embankment?

There is no way to explain this problem. After thinking about it, Wang Xijue has only one way to fix it, that is, to directly say that the project is not yet completed, and only a few key places have been reinforced before. It is relatively slow, but in fact the money is still there, and the repair can be continued as soon as it is repaired, so as to ensure that the repair can be completed according to the standard promised before.

Doing this can indeed bring things back to a certain extent, but there is a big problem: it is not just Wang and his family who are making money in this project.Now he wants to let the cooked duck go. He Wang Xijue thinks that money is not as important as the future, and he is willing to spend money to buy peace, but other people may not think so. Some people just want money before their lives. What can you do to him?

If Wang Xijue himself hadn't been implicated in it, or if it happened before he returned to Beijing, Wang Xijue would definitely strongly urge Shen Shihang to give up Li Chengliang and protect Jiangnan's basic position, because at that time he was only the richest man in Suzhou and the official of the Jiangnan chaebol. Representative, whether Li Chengliang lives or dies has nothing to do with him, Mr. Wang?

But it's different now, Wang Xijue also knows what keeping Li Chengliang means to the School of Mind.If Li Chengliang does not fall, he will definitely be able to contribute to the decisive battle against Chahar in the future, and judging from Li Chengliang's historical performance, it is probably a great contribution.

With almost all the towns in northern Xinjiang under the control of the Real School, Li Chengliang is almost the only card of their Heart School in military affairs, and also the only reliable meritorious service point of the Heart School in the battle against Chahar. Did you just give up?
Wang Xijue fell into a deep embarrassment.
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