Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2041 Zhengguoben ([-]) Love of Licking Calf
Zhao Zhigao took the initiative to look for Shen Yiguan, with two meanings: first, high pragmatism is unstoppable, and instead of doing nothing on this matter, it is better to use your energy to do something within your ability; second, Zheng Huang The imperial concubine will not fall, and the fact that she will not fall can be used now, even to save Shen Yiguan from the current trouble.

These two layers of meaning can be further refined one or two times. For example, the first layer of meaning: high pragmatism can't be defeated, so what is the meaning of the mind school should transfer its energy to?In addition, should the national struggle continue?
The first question might as well be ignored for the time being, but the answer to the second question may be a bit unexpected, the answer is: yes.However, this "to" is not so simple.

After Zhao Zhigao came out of the palace, he set out to return to the mansion. He had just got off his green nun sedan chair when a housekeeper reported that Section Chief Zhong had been waiting for him for a long time.

"En." Zhao Zhigao didn't know if he was really tired, or if he always cherished words like gold at home, but he didn't say much, and went straight to the study.

As soon as he entered the study room, Zhong Zhaodou, who was in charge of the engineering department, immediately got up to greet him: "Student Zhaodou, I have met Master Xiang."

After the "teacher" is able to pick up the "adult", after all, as the old saying goes, a teacher for one day will be a father for life.

"You're here, okay, okay, sit down and talk." Although Zhao Zhigao said so, Zhong Zhaodou naturally wouldn't sit down now, but stepped forward to help the master sit down first, and then sat down respectfully on his own position.

Zhao Zhigao coughed lightly twice, and then asked, "How's the inquiry going?"

Zhong Zhaodou sighed, shook his head slightly, and said in a serious tone: "Master, the situation may not be very good, the student will ask first..."

"Let's make a long story short, I'm a little tired." Zhao Zhigao waved his hand slightly.

"Uh...yes." Zhong Zhaodou was temporarily interrupted, organized his language a little bit, and then continued: "The general situation is that only the Ministry of Punishment is relatively sure, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has too many people in Gao Rixin. Not to mention Dali Temple, the current Zhengqing Wang Liantang is not only the same year as Gao Rixin, but also one of his eldest sons, Gao Yuan Xixi."

Zhao Zhigao didn't answer right away, the study was silent, only the breathing of Zhao Ge's teacher and his disciples came and went.

After a while, Zhao Zhigao said, "What's your opinion?"

Zhong Zhaodou seemed to have expected this question from his master for a long time, and immediately said: "Brother's actions are not for his own selfishness. Now that he is being questioned, how can I turn a blind eye to my school of thought? We have to take measures to help. Therefore, even if there is an exchange with Gao Rixin, the students think it is reasonable."

It turned out that what the two of them were talking about had nothing to do with the emperor coughing up blood or the dispute over the country, but the impeachment of Zhao Fengwei, the son of Zhao Zhigao.What happened to Zhao Fengwei?He collected more than [-] taels of salt tax in Huai'an, but it was not recorded and reported.

Zhao Fengwei was the Deputy Transport Envoy of Lianghuai at that time, and belonged to the Salt Transport Envoy of the Lianghuai Capital.The department is in charge of the Lianghuai Salt Administration, and has three branches under its jurisdiction: Taizhou, Huai'an, and Tongzhou.Set up the capital to transfer envoys, from the third rank; Tongzhi, from the fourth rank; deputy envoys, from the fifth rank, each with one person.There are also judges below, from the sixth rank, no quota.The other is the experience department, the governor, the salt department, the salt warehouse, the ambassador and deputy envoy of the inspection institute.

There are two "deputy envoys" here, but the latter one is not popular, and it is generally said to be the "deputy envoy of Yanyuan experience".Zhao Zhigao's son, Zhao Fengwei, was not this one, but the previous one, equivalent to the third in command of the transfer salt department of the Huaihe River Capital.

Generally speaking, the position of the third-in-command in the unit is rather embarrassing, but Yanyuan is different.Huai'an is the largest, strongest, and richest among the three sub-divisions under the Transshipment Salt Envoy Division of both Huaihe Rivers and Huaihe Rivers. This is actually a good judgment. Of the three sub-divisions, Taizhou and Tongzhou are prefectures, while Huai'an is the prefecture. The land alone is much bigger.

Because of the importance of Huai'an, the deputy envoys of the Salt Institute are generally not stationed in Yangzhou, where the Salt Institute is located, but in Huai'an, which creates opportunities for the deputy envoys to cover the sky in Huai'an.

As for the 7 taels of silver, Zhong Zhaodou said that Zhao Fengwei's "brother's actions were not for his own selfishness." This really does not excuse Zhao Fengwei's guilt, because although he did collect an additional 7 taels, he personally paid back the money. Really didn't take any money, and gave it all to the Heart School for "public use".

Not long ago, the 7 taels provided by Zhao Fengwei included the huge sum of money transferred to the capital by the "folk people" of the Mind School, but it was put under the names of other people.

However, Zhao Fengwei is not completely wronged, because although the money he provided is not for personal pockets, it is a political investment.Once the plan set by the Heart School at that time can be successful, he will definitely be credited in the end.

If it is an ordinary person, if political investment fails, it must be the responsibility of what he did.However, Zhao Fengwei is not an ordinary person, although he himself is only a mere fifth-rank, but he can't stand the fact that he has a father who is an old man!How could Zhao Zhigao watch his son fall because of "private collection of salt tax"?
So, on the afternoon of the day when the emperor coughed up blood, after Wang Jiaping told the story to his face, Zhao Zhigao immediately started looking for a solution.

If this kind of thing doesn't become a big deal, with Zhao Zhigao's status, he has every chance to find a way to solve it in private.But if it has become a big problem, or even so big that the impeachment in the censor's history is sparse, and the impeachment is sent to the chief assistant, it will be difficult to eliminate it invisible through secret methods, and can only be resolved through formal procedures.

Such a case is of course as serious as someone's "intent to kill the king", and there is no need to bother Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but it is still quite complicated in terms of process, and each of the three judicial departments needs to intervene in part.

Of course, according to what Zhong Zhaodou just said, the biggest problem facing Zhao Zhigao is obviously in Dali Temple—after all, the Zhengqing of Dali Temple is Wang Tingzhuan, who was the same year as Gao Yushi.He was ranked No. [-] at the time, only after No. [-] scholar Gao Yushi and No. [-] Xiao Liangyou.

Dali Temple has long been a judicial institution. It was called Tingwei in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was officially renamed Dali Temple in the Northern Qi Dynasty.Dali Temple has different functions in different periods. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was equivalent to the Supreme People's Court of later generations. It was responsible for the cases of central officials and affecting national politics, and also had the right to retry local cases.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, Dali Temple had no judicial power and was only responsible for the review of cases.

As mentioned before when introducing Tingtui, the "Nine Ministers" of the Ming Dynasty refers to the top leaders of the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Department of General Affairs and Dali Temple. It can be seen that the status of Dali Temple is not bad.As for the division of labor among the three judicial divisions, the Ministry of Punishment has the power of trial, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the power of picketing, and the Dali Temple has the power of review.

"The Ministry of Sanju, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple. The Criminal Department receives the name of punishment from all over the world. The Metropolitan Procuratorate picks it up, and the Dali Temple refutes it."

Generally speaking, the Ministry of Punishment sentences civil cases, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is full-time impeachment officials, but both must send the case after the judgment to Dali Temple for review by Dali Temple.According to the size of the case, Dali Temple also has different powers.

For example, in a simple civil case, the local magistrate sentenced Xiaomin to spanking.In such cases, the buttocks have already been beaten first, and then the magistrate will report it to the superior such as the magistrate, and then report it level by level, and finally gather it to Dali Temple.For such cases, Dali Temple only keeps files as a case record, and will not interfere in idleness;
The other category is apprenticeship, exile, emigration, and exile.That is to say, the local people are sentenced to exile, imprisonment, or exile. Such judgments must be reported to the Ministry of Punishment for approval before they can be executed.And Dali Temple will analyze and judge whether it is reasonable and whether the evidence is sufficient after the event, and based on this, the case can be sent back to the local area for retrial-but it should be noted that Dali Temple cannot overturn the verdict, and can only call it back to the original department;
Then came the death penalty.In such cases, as long as the Dali Temple does not nod, the death penalty cannot be carried out. Of course, the final decision on the death penalty is the emperor. stop.

As for the general death penalty, Dali Temple will analyze the testimony and analyze whether the official's judgment is reasonable. If it is reasonable, it will be reported to the cabinet, and the cabinet vote will be proposed to the emperor. In this way, the following can be executed.

If the Dali Temple feels that the case is suspicious, it will call back to the original judgment site and order the officials to retry.Of course, most of the original judges will continue to maintain their verdicts.This second time, if Dali Temple still feels that the judgment is wrong, it will designate another institution (or official) of the same level to try the case, usually an institution of the same level, such as the magistrate of Linxian County, the magistrate of Linxian County, etc.

The judgment of the death penalty in the Ming Dynasty was generally "five times", that is, if the county magistrate sentenced Xiaomin to death and reported it to the report, the superior would be sent back for a retrial five times, and there were often times when the county magistrate at the same level and the superior's The magistrate, the procuratorate, and even the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Punishment sent people to retrial.

Of course, death row inmates will also be sent to provincial prisons, or prisons of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and in most cases these death row inmates will die in prison—er, this is because the Ming Dynasty was very cautious about the death penalty, even a little too cautious, leading to the death penalty The judgment will be long.Often when Dali Temple really figured out the death penalty case and reported it, they would encounter Liuzhong, that is, the emperor accepted the memorial, but there was no response, and then the prisoner died because of long-term imprisonment.

As for the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple generally has less control.Because of the officials impeached by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, small officials really can't control them, but if they are high-ranking officials, they will have to go to all three courts.Sometimes depending on the circumstances of the case itself, Jin Yiwei and even Dongchang may also be added.

And if it is a big official, or a major case that shocks the whole country, the emperor will let all six departments and nine ministers come in - this is called round trial, which is basically the highest level.

Zhao Fengwei's salt tax case of 7 taels of silver was obviously not yet to the point of needing a full trial, but 7 taels of silver was by no means a small amount in Daming, and even though the rank of the Lianghuai deputy envoy was not high, his position was important. There is a high probability that the case will need to be heard by the three divisions.

Shen Yiguan is in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, and although Sun Piyang, the current minister of the Ministry of Punishment, is from Fuping, Shaanxi, he is one of the few high-ranking officials with real power who are not from the real school.This means that the Ministry of Justice is the territory of the School of Mind and is not too affected by high pragmatism.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is a special yamen. Although its top leader, Zuo Du Yushi, leads the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate, all the censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are only under the leadership of Zuo Du Yushi, but they do not need to be responsible to Zuo Du Yushi— — They are directly responsible to the emperor.

what does that mean?It means that Zuodu Yushi often cannot represent the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate in a specific case, and each Yushi can express his opinions according to his own ideas.

Therefore, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not be completely controlled by a certain force. Most of the time, various factions will be formed to fill the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and eventually several factional circles will be formed in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It takes a long time for the war of words within the procuratorate.

Of course, now that the School of Reality is gaining momentum, and there are more censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate who stand on the side of high pragmatism, the School of Mind is at a disadvantage.Moreover, under the current circumstances, Xiao Daheng, the censor of Zuodu, who was born in Shandong, has always stood on the side of high pragmatism, which made it even more difficult for the School of Mind to rely on the Metropolitan Procuratorate for key events.

Therefore, under the current circumstances, Zhao Zhigao judged that such a situation is very likely to occur:
Wang Jiaping was impeached, and the vote was to approve the investigation, and Zhu approved it.Soon after, the Ministry of Criminal Justice believed that the evidence of Zhao Fengwei's corruption was insufficient, so he reported the evidence and demanded that the investigation be withdrawn.Then, the Metropolitan Procuratorate believed that the Ministry of Punishment was purely farting, and asked the Ministry of Punishment to continue to investigate, and asked the local governor and press to participate in the investigation and form a "joint investigation team" with the Ministry of Punishment.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Criminal Justice insisted on the original point of view, but the Metropolitan Procuratorate firmly denied it. Nanjing (Huai'an Salt Affairs is under the management of Nanjing) and the local governor realized that the matter was of great importance, so their stance was ambiguous.

As a result, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs couldn't settle down, and they each sent the case to Dali Temple, and Dali Temple judged whether an in-depth investigation was needed before a trial.

Therefore, whether this matter needs to be tried in the end, except that the emperor couldn't hold back and took the initiative to intervene in advance, there is a high probability that the judgment of Dali Temple will be used to decide whether to close the case.

That is to say, the person who can really decide whether Zhao Fengwei's private collection of salt tax of 7 taels is true is actually Wang Tingzhuan—of course, that is equivalent to high pragmatism.

In addition, there is a very critical issue.Zhao Zhigao is very clear that Gao Yushi can not only decide "the case is established", he even has the ability to conclude "the case is not established".

Why is this?Because on the day Wang Jiaping mentioned this matter, Zhao Zhigao said on the spot: "The Lianghuai Transportation Department is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the dog is no more than a deputy envoy. How can such a thing be done under the supervision of the Ministry of Household Affairs?"

In other words, as long as the Ministry of Accounting jumps out and says: The additional collection of this amount of money was agreed in advance by the Ministry of Accounting.Then, the whole matter was completely reversed, and all of Zhao Fengwei's actions were endorsed and became reasonable and legal.

But the question is, why should Gao Wushi help?You know, Hubu jumped out to take over the pot at this time, and the pot was a bit hot. It didn't mean that Hubu would be able to take over the pot without changing his face or beating his heart.

If Gao Pragmatism wants to take over this pot, he will definitely be able to do it, but he will definitely find another way.For example, it suddenly stated that the Ministry of Finance had previously given the Lianghuai Transport Envoy a certain amount of "free taxation quota" because of the possibility of an expedition to Japan after the Korean War. The purpose was to meet the possible demand for Japanese conscripts.

Obviously, later, because the emperor recalled Gao Yushi to the capital, the conquest of the Japanese was not a failure, at least it was delayed. However, the envoys of the Huaihe River and Huaihe Rivers did not receive the news, or they did not realize that this meant that the conquest of the Japanese was cancelled.Therefore, Zhao Fengwei, who was actively worrying about state affairs, still carried out the instruction of increasing the levy, and levied an additional salt tax of 7 taels in Huai'an.

The whole thing is fully handled at this point.What, you said, take a look at the instructions of the Ministry of Finance?
Please, Gao Wushi is the elder of the cabinet. He said a long time ago that the way elders interfere in administration is often not to issue official letters, but to directly send private letters to relevant officials.

It's a private letter, it's not an official letter, I, Zhao, didn't check it for a while, and lost it, but is this also a crime?Even if he is guilty, at most he does not show enough respect for Mr. Gao Ge. Is it okay for me to apologize to Mr. Gao Ge?

You see, here's where things froze.At this moment, unless the emperor insists that Gao Yushi lied, saying that he must have not given such instructions, there is no evidence to overturn Gao Yushi's rescue.

In this way, Zhao Zhigao knew very well that whether his son could survive this time would ultimately depend on a highly pragmatic attitude.That being the case, how can it be done without something in exchange?
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