Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 414 A family member, a family member again! ! !

Things about the boundaries of Shandong are actually very clear today.That is, the magistrates of the counties in Shandong borrow new ones and repay old ones every year, and resell grain and grass from them.However, due to the disaster this year, food prices have soared, so this has revealed its flaws.

Li Mu was in Shandong for disaster relief, and the day of distributing relief food had arrived in a blink of an eye. Under the desperate situation, the magistrates of various counties used this method one after another.

Unforgivable!
Simply an unforgivable sin.

Under Li Mu's nose, corruption has been carried out over the years. If there is no such disaster, it would be difficult to find them moths.

Li Mu's attitude towards moths has always been zero tolerance. Once any moths and moths are found, Li Mu must bring them to justice.

"Tang Bi, let me ask you, do you know about the county magistrate buying and selling grain in the treasury?" Li Mu asked Tang Bi in a loud voice.

Just when Tang Bi was about to bite the bullet and say that he didn't know, he looked up and found Li Mu looking at him with piercing eyes.

Li Mu's eyes were full of anger, which made Tang Bi's heart tremble for a while.At this moment, Tang Bi suddenly felt that if he told a lie, he might die.At this moment, Tang Bi put out the idea of ​​talking panic in his heart?
"The last general, the last general has heard the people below mention it once or twice!" Tang Bi said bravely.

"Why didn't you stop it?" Li Mu asked again.

"This"

"At the end of the day, the general feels that although these methods of selling high and buying low can make the officials below profit, the food in the treasury has not decreased, so he didn't care about it."

"The last general never expected that this matter would develop into what it is today!" Tang Bi said in a deep voice.

As the saying goes, cats have cat ways, and rats have mouse ways.This big official has a way for a big official to get money, and a small official also has a way for a small official to get money.

This kind of grain is sold to the treasury at a high price when it is lean and yellow, and then bought back at a low price when the harvest is good.This method is obviously the way for small officials to get money.

This kind of thing, if it is according to the laws of the Sui Dynasty, it is naturally impossible to allow.However, if you stop it, wouldn't it be a way for the people below to come in for money.In this way, how can the people below give you the same heart.

Moreover, this kind of behavior is nothing more than a bug in Da Sui's law. As long as there are no mistakes, it will not cause any substantial losses to Da Sui.

It was precisely because of this kind of thinking that Tang Biming knew that this kind of thing happened in Shandong official circles, and he didn't care about it.

It's just because of this year's disaster, and the fact that the powerful family is playing tricks on it.This will lead to the situation that the counties in Shandong cannot make up for the food treasury.

"You didn't expect that since you, Tang Bi, are sitting in this position, you shouldn't just say that you didn't expect it to be so simple."

"When you discover the lesion, you should uproot it. If you had uprooted the lesion that day, what happened today would not have happened!" Li Mu said solemnly.

Being reprimanded by Li Mu, Tang Bi didn't dare to say more, and he didn't even dare to explain more.

In this case, a mistake is a mistake, just admit your mistake obediently, and then stand at attention and get beaten.

In such a situation where you make mistakes, you still have the opportunity to be reprimanded by your superiors. What does this mean? It means that your superiors have not given up on you.

If at this time, Li Mu neither beats nor scolds himself, then Tang Bi should be flustered!

"General, the last general made a mistake, and the last general will naturally admit it, but there is a ghost in it!"

"I'm afraid that there are people from a powerful family behind him who will expand the situation in secret!" Tang Bi said convincingly, very sure of his own judgment.

"But what did you find?" Li Mu asked Tang Bi.

Tang Bi nodded and explained: "General, these counties are buying and selling grain in the government treasury. This is really not what our Shandong family did. It is almost the same in the entire Sui Dynasty. In this way, isn't the government The old grain in the warehouse is replaced with new grain, isn't it!"

"General, I didn't say this to defend the officials in Shandong. I wanted to say, why has this kind of normalized incident never happened before, but why did it happen this year?"

"It is true that locust plagues occurred in various counties in Shandong this year, but you are not slow to extinguish the plague, General. The degree of food damage caused by locust plagues is generally only [-]%. Even in the most serious places, it is only [-]%. .”

"Our Shandong was hit by a disaster, but the nearby prefectures and counties were not affected. Why can't the grain from the neighboring prefectures and counties come into Shandong? Why did the grain suddenly rise from [-] to [-] percent higher than the market price to two or three times higher than the market price."

"The most important thing is that something like food has become something that is priceless in the market. Only aristocratic families can control the price of food like this."

It has to be said that Tang Bi's analysis makes sense.The mere locust plague on the border of Shandong is not enough to increase the price of food several times.

The aristocratic family seized a loophole in the territory of Shandong, and after some manipulation, they forced Li Mu to cut off his own arm.

If Li Mu, an official in Shandong, is dealt with according to the law, all of them will die.Once these people are killed, Li Mu's control over the Shandong territory will inevitably decrease in a short period of time.

Even, if the newly promoted officials cannot quickly stabilize the local people's livelihood, other disturbances are likely to occur.

However, if Li Mu does not punish, or helps to cover up, the ministers of the powerful family will immediately impeach Li Mu.

Li Mu nodded, and replied, "I'll deal with this matter myself, but it's not the reason for the officials in Shandong to be exonerated."

"If you do something wrong, you have to be punished. Naturally, the laws of the Sui Dynasty have the final say on how to punish."

"Come here, imprison Tang Bi for me first, and punish him after the matter is known!" Li Mu ordered.

After taking Tang Bi down, Li Mu began to ponder how to break the situation, and now there are different priorities at noon.The first thing is to track down the mastermind behind the whole thing controlled by the powerful family.The second thing is to deal with the officials who committed these crimes.

Li Mu would not protect these officials, there are no rules, everything is governed by the laws of the Sui Dynasty.

Those under Li Mu's subordinates must be rewarded heavily for meritorious deeds, and severely punished for demerits.

It's okay to reach out within the bottom line, but if you reach out beyond the bottom line, your claws will be cut off.

"Come here, pass my order. Order Wei Zheng to patrol the counties alone, select new acting officials, and let Xu Maogong come back first!" Li Mu ordered.

Xu Maogong holds Li Mu's intelligence power in his hands, and he must let Xu Maogong go to find out who the whole powerful family controls the Shandong territory.

(End of this chapter)