Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 635 Sin Plus One Class

Pearl Spring, where the pearls are jumping and splashing snow, is the third most famous spring in Jinan.

The new governor's office was located here. After the Qing soldiers occupied Jinan, the Prince De's Mansion, which occupied Pearl Spring, was also destroyed by war.Anyway, Yang Jie slaughtered the whole city and robbed the outer city, which further damaged the whole city that was built to occupy the Prince De's mansion.

Dewang Mansion was originally built by Zhang Rong, Duke of Jinan in the Yuan Dynasty.

However, the rain always blows away. The original Fuyuan was burned down in the southwest corner. The emperor decreed that the remaining useful bricks, stones and wood in the Dewang Mansion were simply demolished to repair the city, and a new Fuyuan was built in Pearl Spring. hospital.

After a simple repair, the official office will start.

The Shandong patrol office sent people to move books to Fuyuan early in the morning, and today they are coming to discuss important matters with Futai and other officials.

Governor Huang Zongxi did not dare to neglect this emperor's imperial envoy, and asked the experience department to notify the officials of the various yamen to come to discuss matters.

When Qi Lisun came to the Governor's Yamen in Pearl Spring on horseback, the officials from the Experience Department were already waiting.

"Huang Fuyuan and several Fantai, Standard Taiwan, Daotai, and Futai have all arrived."

"Is Yao Zhi County here?"

"It came early, too."

Qi Lisun handed over the horse to his attendants, shook his official robes and entered the yamen.

At this time, the Fuyuan was still very simple. It had set aside a piece of land in Yuande Prince's Mansion and simply repaired a few courtyards.

But the officials and so on are complete.

The official from the Experience Department even talked along the way.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were governors and governors, but at the beginning they were only imperial envoys, so there were no officials, not even officials.

Later, it gradually became a local resident, and there were also yamen and subordinate officials, but there were still no subordinate officials. The entire governor's yamen was governed by only one official.

However, the Shaotian Dynasty re-established the official system, officially designated the governor and governor as local officials, the governor was officially established as a high-ranking official, and the chief minister and the inspector were officially his subordinate officials.

In addition, officials were also added to the governor's yamen. For example, like the chief secretary's yamen, three institutions were added: the Experience Department, the Zhaomosuo, and the Liwensuo.

The governor is now actually equivalent to a provincial secretary and senior official.

The experience department is responsible for official documents and administrative affairs. It is actually equivalent to the office of a senior official, and the experience is the director.The Zhaomo Institute is responsible for administrative efficiency and supervision of local officials, which is equivalent to the Supervision Bureau, Personnel Bureau, and Audit Bureau.

The Liwen Office is responsible for reviewing judicial and prison cases, which is equivalent to the Department of Justice and prison management.

It turned out that the governor did not have these subordinate officials, but he was given the power to recruit subordinate officials, and even handled affairs mainly by the masters.

But now the emperor has made the governor's yamen sound. He not only has the Experience Department, Zhaomo Office, and Liwen Office under him, but also has several chief case chiefs such as Criminal Name and Qiangu.

In addition, six special halls were added under the Governor's Yamen, including the Tixue Hall, the Titing Hall, the Grain Hall, the Water Conservancy Hall, the Post Office, and the Taxation Hall, which were reorganized from the former professional roads.

They are all directly subordinate to the governor's yamen, and each is in charge of one area.

For example, the Tixue Office is in charge of education, schools, imperial examinations, and students in the province, and even has the right to supervise, examine, and assist in investigations when cases involving well-known scholars are involved.

Improving punishment is responsible for judicial punishment and prison, not to mention food, water conservancy, post office and taxation, each is responsible for one piece.

The directors of the department are all officials of the fourth grade, and the secretary is the sixth grade.

It turns out that the chief envoy was originally a high-ranking official of a province, but now he is actually only a standing high-ranking official in charge of money, taxes, and civil affairs. However, he has his own chief envoy, Si Yamen, and under him there are three subordinate organizations of the Si Zhaomosuo Liwensuo , In addition, there are warehouse ambassadors and tax ambassadors. Cang ambassadors manage finances and cashiers, and tax ambassadors are in charge of tax collection.

Now the emperor has also assigned him a general case to abolish the private staff master and change it to a public position.

According to the procuratorate, it is equivalent to a deputy secretary and a senior political and legal official. He is mainly responsible for judicial, criminal and prison matters.

He is also in charge of the management of post office affairs in the province.

In the year of evaluating foreign officials, he should also act as an inspector, and in the year of rural examination, he should also serve as a supervisor.

Therefore, in addition to the judiciary, the inspector is mainly responsible for the supervision, and even has the post of director of the transportation department.

Nowadays, just like the chief envoy, they are all deputy posts of the governor. Of course, they are not all deputy posts, because Zhu Yihai also stipulates that the governor, governor, cloth, and press have the right to supervise each other. Obligation to report.

In addition, major affairs in a province, whether it is military administration, civil administration, or judicial finance, etc., must be discussed with the governor's council, the governor's office, and the inspectorate.

Similar to the Provincial Standing Committee meeting, although the governor is the squad leader, he does not have the final say on everything. Of course he makes up his mind in the end, but he has to fully consider the opinions of other people.

In a province with a governor, the governor is usually the governor of the province.

This time, inspector Qi Lisun sent a letter to the governor Huang Zongxi, saying that now Shandong has discovered an important problem in the field, and all the chief officials in the province need to discuss and agree. Even sub-inspectors, magistrates, etc.

He also called Yao Qisheng, the magistrate of Licheng County, named by Qi Lisun.

The inspector is not a local official, but an imperial envoy of the emperor. He found important problems, and the governor dared not be careless. Besides, Huang Zongxi is also busy with this matter recently. There are many land problems in Shandong, and the more you investigate, the more problems there will be.

When Qi Lisun stepped into the governor's conference hall, Huang Zongxi, who had just been added the title of governor, stood up quickly, and the cloth, press, sub-inspectors, and directors also stood up to greet him.

"Huang Butang is being polite."

Now the governor is an official local official and no longer holds the title of the Ministry, but everyone is still used to call the Governor’s Ministry and the Governor’s Ministry. Qiandu Yushi and so on.

Of course, sometimes people are used to calling the Governor-General as Zatai or General System. It is said that the name of the General System originated from Emperor Zhengde, who claimed to be the Governor-General of Military Affairs, the mighty General, the Chief Military Officer, Taishi Town, and the Duke of Zhu Shou. I think the name of the Governor-General is not domineering. It was renamed the general system.Later, Jiajing Rang resumed the title of governor, not the general system, but in private, everyone still likes to call it the general system, or the system.

Now the governor of the Ming Dynasty does not need to add concurrent titles, and directly states in the powers and powers such as the governor of the military and horses, the governor of the place, and the management of food and pay.

"Yesterday, when I came back from Tai'an patrol, I found many prisoners in Dongchang shackles at the gate of the city. They were all criminals who destroyed silver coins. They were very rampant. I was negligent and dereliction of duty before. I will have to take care of this in the future." stand up."

Huang Zongxi greeted everyone to sit down, and then said, "East Factory has also notified us of this matter. It is true that we did not do enough. We have ordered the formation of a special case team to handle this matter on a case-by-case basis."

Qi Lisun and Huang Zongxi are actually about the same age. They used to be friends of the Fushe Society. They are both young talents in Shaoxing with promising ambitions. Now they work together in the same province. There is only one local governor and governor, and the other is an imperial envoy of the emperor.

"I came back yesterday. At the gate of the city, I met a Zengguang student from Licheng County named Luo Ji who filed a lawsuit and even directly sued Yaozhi County in Licheng. I took him back to the patrol office and investigated carefully. It's amazing."

Yao Qisheng stood up wearing the silver scarf bestowed by the emperor.

"My lord, this matter is not done well enough by the lower officials. Please allow me to report the situation here in detail to Huang Yantai, Huang Zhitai, and all the vassals, seniors, Taoists, and directors."

"Then it's up to Yao magistrate." Qi Lisun nodded.

Yao Qisheng also came prepared and did a lot of homework. When he arrived, he explained the cause and effect of the matter in detail, and used Luo Ji's case to talk about the current matter of clearing up the property.

"Luo Ji is not alone. In fact, during the rectification process of the land clearing, it was discovered that most of the official properties of the vassal land were occupied by the Tartars during the years when the Tartars occupied Shandong. , reporting famine, or using false land purchase contracts to occupy all the feudal land and official land.

Now that we need to clean up and rectify, many people have started to file lawsuits, producing various price purchase contracts, or wasteland reporting documents, and fake land purchase contracts.Although some investigations have found out the facts clearly, they are still entangled. "

Wait for him to finish introducing.

Huang Zongxi sat there and spoke slowly, "This is indeed a serious problem. In the past, when we recovered Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan and other places, we did not encounter such a serious problem of land property. The main reason is that although some of those places were occupied by Tartars, But the occupation didn’t last long, and they were restored soon, so the property wasn’t involved much.”

"Nowadays in Shandong, the Tartars have occupied it for several years, and even sent many Eight Banners to garrison, wantonly enclosing the land, and selling it for a long time. Moreover, there are more gentry in Shandong who belonged to the Tartars before, which has caused the complexity of the land property problem today. Seriousness."

"However, no matter how complicated the specifics are, we are serving as officials in Shandong, and we cannot be muddled officials. There are a few red lines that must be emphasized first. This is fundamental.

First, the original Huangzhuang Wangtian, including the official land, must be taken back, even if someone bought it from the Tartars at a lower price.The land must be taken back first, and then the specific process must be carefully investigated. If it can be verified that the subscription was indeed paid for by changing the price, and it is found that the money has been handed over to the government treasury, and the land silver is in the same amount, the changed price silver can be returned. A large mu of good land, Is it normal to sell a good land of more than ten mu for a tael of silver when it is normally three acres?

Such a good land can yield seven to eight hundred catties a year for one mu, and at the current grain price, it can be sold for six or seven taels of silver.

The land is only worth two or three dollars?The grain harvested in a year is worth six or seven taels?Isn't the problem serious enough here?They all thought that the imperial court was easy to deceive, and they joined forces to deceive the upper and lower. In the past, the Tartars were allowed to deceive them, but our Shaotian Dynasty could not do it.

In the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is no cheap land, and the official houses of the gentry are only a few thousand mu at most.In Chongzhen, Su Song’s fertile land is worth more than ten mu per mu. Shanghai has a lot of saline-alkali land near the sea, and the land is barren.

Even if Shandong is affected by war and famine, it is impossible for top-quality fertile land to be worth only a few cents or even a penny. According to the investigation of the headquarters, the price of most of the price-changing fields is less than one-tenth of the normal price. "

Some good irrigated land, especially the good land that will not suffer from floods and droughts, is usually worth more than ten taels per mu, but now they have reduced the land price to one or two coins per mu, which is tantamount to a cheap sale hundred times.They find all kinds of reasons, such as the tenants fleeing, and the fields are barren and uncultivated.

It is also like a field being devastated by a disaster.

The people have no money to subscribe, etc., and even sell the big mu as a small mu.

This kind of crazy behavior has been staged everywhere in Shandong in the past two years. Almost all the gentry and powerful officials have participated in it. Many prominent families have increased their real estate tenfold and hundreds of times in a few years.

For example, the Wang family in Xincheng was only a small landlord three generations ago, but now they have 30 hectares of land, which is [-] mu.

For example, the Kong family, a famous family for thousands of years, has also taken the opportunity to occupy hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in the past few years.

In fact, it is easy to check the real land price. You only need to find some private land sales contracts during the Wanli or Chongzhen years. Many of these contracts were filed with the government, and they all have detailed prices.

Even if the price of land drops due to the impact of war, it will not drop too much.

What's more, now that the Ming Dynasty is back, affected by the reduction of land tax, and the price of grain is still relatively high, it may actually be more expensive to buy land now than in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Huang Zongxi also knew that there were lawsuits over real estate everywhere.

Therefore, the province must show its attitude, and there must be a standard for how to deal with it everywhere.

He suggested that all the original official land should be taken back, and those that should be sold should be sold, and those that should be rented should be rented, and then the property rights lawsuit will be cleared slowly.Those who bought at a low price, if it can be found out that they were bought with silver, the money will be refunded.

It is impossible to sell and embezzle state-owned assets at a low price.

A large hectare of land, [-] mu, good fertile land, originally worth ten or two mu, at least four or five taels per mu, but you only paid a few cents per mu or one or two yuan per mu and embezzled it at a low price. Well, one hectare of land can embezzle thousands of taels of silver.

So even if it is proved that they were bought, the court will judge them to be illegal at such a low price.

And the kind that even the contract is fake, such as making fake accounts and setting up fake deeds, and directly grabbing it, and now using the fake deeds to ask the court for land and land, and even to go to court. If the people are not involved, it is not only necessary to take back the fields, but also to punish them for their crimes and give them severe punishment.

If you confess honestly and voluntarily return the land, you don't need to be held accountable, but someone like Luo Ji must be severely punished.

Except in the process of changing prices and discounting, colluding with officials and buying at low prices.

Others, such as directly reporting official land and vassal land as wasteland, are directly invalid.

Those who engage in private trading of fake contracts will not take the initiative to report and withdraw, and will be severely punished after being found out.

"We found out that none of them was fined ten, and those with more than a hundred mu will be directly ransacked and exiled." Huang Zongxi believes that a heavy punishment is necessary to stop the current unhealthy trend.

"I suggest that it is best to start the investigation directly from the first year of the Tianqi Dynasty. Since the beginning of the Tianqi Dynasty, local turmoil and official corruption have occurred. This kind of thing that encroached on official land and farmland has long existed." Qi Lisun said bluntly.

Xu Fanglie, the chief envoy, said, "The sage has sent special personnel to clean up the original army garrison. All those involved in the army garrison will be thoroughly investigated and cleaned up. It is not limited to recent years. The occupation of the royal residence, or the occupation by the relatives, no matter whether it is the occupation of local gentry, no matter how long the occupation has been, or even whether it was privately sold by military households in the past, they will be taken back now. There is no price to talk about. Our local cooperation it is good."

He was born in Xuangong. Back then, he joined Yu Ying and others in Shaoxing to raise troops to help defend the banks of the Qiantang River. After Zhu Yihai supervised the country, he called him as a member of Zhongshushe. Now he is a senior official of Shandong Province.

According to the inspector, Laiji is also from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang. He was a Jinshi in Chongzhen for 13 years. He was once the head of the military department.

"The matter of land must not be relaxed. It must be strictly controlled and there must be no mistakes. Not only these vassal fields and military settlements must be taken back, but also all other official lands must not be less than an acre.

Those who occupy the seeds and report the famine indiscriminately must be dismissed, and we cannot be polite to those powerful gentry.Anyone who wants to fish in troubled waters will be fined ten for a false one. "

In the hall, these senior provincial officials were basically from Zhejiang. They were the first to raise the flag in the uprising, some even before Zhu Yihai raised his troops.

Some used to be scholars, some used to be officials in the township, but they have been in the dragon for several years, and now they are all staunch Shaotian courtiers. They are not used to these gentry in Shandong. It is a shameful thing to go to the middle of Shandong.

Now that Luo Ji is waiting for these people to make trouble, it means that the emperor is too lenient to them.

Since they want to make trouble, whoever bumps into them will do it.

You're welcome.

"That Luo Ji confiscated his family property and exiled him to Taiwan."

"I suggest that it is better to be strict with Luo Ji, set an example, kill chickens to make an example of monkeys, and directly behead this person in public trial, and even kill a few of the original Yazhong officials, Wangzhuang stewards, and the Kong family who were involved. , and publish the details in a newspaper. Then the whole family will be exiled to Taiwan!" Lai Jizhi said with a murderous look on his face.

"The Confucian family is indeed not honest. Your Majesty has special orders to deal with the Confucian family, but up to now, they have not cooperated very much. Compared with the southern sect of the Confucian family in Quzhou, their performance is far worse.

I think, we can set up a task force to be stationed in Qufu to supervise the special case of the Confucian family. If they still defy the obstruction, they can directly catch some models, cut a few, and sell a batch. "

Everyone was born in the books of sages and sages. Naturally, they respect Confucius very much, but they are not satisfied with the performance of the descendants of the Kong family.

If you don’t get in touch, you don’t know. It’s scary to investigate carefully.

The Kong family even dared to occupy the land of King Lu's mansion everywhere. It is reasonable to say that they occupied King Lu's land when the Tartars were there a few years ago, but the problem is that now that the emperor is back, the Kong family still dares to continue to occupy it With these lands, it would be very bold.

"There are tens of thousands of Confucian men, and Qufu is full of Kongfu villages. There are fifty or sixty sects, and they have great influence."

"It's a big deal. The emperor can't stand it anymore. Can we still back down? I suggest that we should take this opportunity to clean up and rectify it. It is best to move the [-] Kong family to Taiwan to reclaim wasteland. Now Taiwan is short of people to farm and reclaim wasteland.”

Qi Lisun coughed twice and reminded the directors of the Taoist platform, "I think the master of Taiwan made a good point just now. Let's send a special task force to the Confucius family in Qufu to clean up and rectify the Kong family. His Majesty has previously ordered to leave them [-] mu of land will be given to the sacrificial officer and the doctor of the Five Classics, and another [-] mu of permanent land will be given to each Ding, and the rest will be taken back to the government. , but they were ashamed of their status as holy descendants and the Ming dynasty, and they surrendered to the Qing, and now it is only natural to take them back."

"Anyone who obstructs the decree will be exiled to Taiwan!"

The governor and governor Huang Zongxi nodded, "That's it. Next, everyone organizes the yamen to take full responsibility for this matter. I suggest that everyone here contract another government or station in a county, go deep into the grassroots, and earnestly implement the sages." According to the decree, complete the land clearing work in Shandong as soon as possible.”

"I would like to say hello to everyone in advance. There will definitely be many people who will come to intercede with you and give you gifts. In front of these hundreds of thousands of acres of land, those people may be able to send gold and silver mountains, so everyone must Be firm and don’t be fooled by a moment of wealth.” Qi Lisun, the inspector, solemnly reminded everyone.

Most of the senior officials in the hall are Conglong heroes from the east of Zhejiang. Although many of them are in their 40s or 20s, or even in their [-]s, they all smiled and said, "Don't worry, we can fight all the way here from the east of Zhejiang. If you are corrupted by them, whoever dares to bribe you will be caught, and the crime will be added!"

(End of this chapter)