The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 343 The Fate of Corrupt Officials

After the Lantern Festival, the group of salt officials in Jiangnan who were on Li Zhao's blacklist, as well as the officials from the Six Departments of Nanjing, were all escorted back to Beijing by Ning Yuan.

After the celebration of the New Year's Eve, it's time for the emperor to settle accounts.

This gang of corrupt people has never had an accident before, but it was because of the mutual protection of officials.

Now that the emperor and the courtiers are in charge, the protective umbrellas of these Jiangnan officials have fallen by themselves, and no one will help them cover up. Naturally, they can find out their crap.

It didn't even take the officials of the Sanju Judiciary to investigate so hard, just what Li Zhao handed out from Wang Shengtao's account was enough to convict them.

Although the crimes are serious crimes, the cabinet ministers headed by Song Jianming all suggested that the emperor should not kill too hard.

After all, it is the first year of the apocalypse, and other emperors are in their first year, and it is too late to amnesty the world, let alone mass killings?
Count the list and count the number of people. If the three tribes are exiled, there will be more than 3 people in total!
It was comparable to Taizu's killing corrupt officials at that time.

In later generations, what is written in this history book, Song Jianming doesn't need to say, Li Da can think of it himself.

Originally, Li Da didn't mind those false names.

Even if the history books call him a tyrant who seeks to usurp the throne, it doesn't matter.

Zhao'er once told him that what is written in the history books is the same thing, the price of food, the size of the population, the amount of cultivated land, and whether the people live happily, these are not things that can be faked by one or two literati.

If he wants to be a sage king, he can't be as hypocritical as his father. In the end, he just lied to himself to get those names, and everyone below knows what's going on.

Very boring.

But Song Jianming's suggestion does have some truth.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Eunuch Wang hurriedly called Li Zhao to the palace to discuss matters.

Li Zhao stayed in the mansion for the past few days and was talking about love with Song Qingyue vigorously. During the Chinese New Year, it was similar to the "honeymoon" Yue'er said, as if he was soaked in a honeypot.

Li Zhao got on the soft sedan chair to enter the palace with a full face of reluctance. He propped his chin, thinking whether he could ask his father to give him more holidays.It is not incomprehensible to say that in the history books there is a king who has lost his head and spends all day in the gentle village, forgetting the country and the country.

His son is not a son, but the emperor's father's cattle and horses!
Only after arriving at the palace did I realize that it was my father who had made trouble in dealing with the huge corruption in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Look at the money they have been greedy for and what they have done. It is more than enough to wipe out all three of their clans." Holding the defeated bergamot tea in his hand, the emperor still couldn't suppress his anger: "Song Jianming said that it is not appropriate to kill in the first year of the apocalypse." Heavy, what does Zhaoer think?"

Li Zhao thought about it carefully, and then slowly said: "Some officials are greedy on their own initiative, but some officials are forced to be greedy. As for greed, there are probably not a few people who are really clean-fingered. Most of them are For the sake of fame, the emperor killed those in Jiangnan, what about those in other places?"

The emperor raised his eyebrows: "You mean the law does not punish the public?"

Li Zhao smiled and said, "No, let them choose."

The group of corrupt officials who were locked in the prison thought they could not keep their heads.

Unexpectedly, the emperor actually let them choose.

There are two options. First, beheading. All the men of the father, brother, and son clans will be beheaded, and the female relatives will be distributed to the frontier and military households.

The second option can guarantee the heads of men from the three tribes including their own heads, but the three tribes must also add five tribes including the wives and mothers. The men serve 20 years of hard labor and confiscate their family wealth. He was disqualified from the imperial examination, and the crime was published in the Dibao to inform Quan Dazhou.

It’s nothing to do hard labor, nothing to confiscate family wealth, and the disqualification of the imperial examination qualifications within the five generations is the most frightening thing. This is the day when you can live, but the whole family will not be able to stand up.

But if you don't choose this way, all of your family will lose their lives, and there will be no one who will continue the incense in the future.

Still bring his wife's family and mother's family to suffer together.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Jiang Yuanchao went to the prison for interrogation.

"My lords, are you ready?"

"Master Jiang, we are the ones who do things alone! Your Majesty is forcing us to be family sinners!"

Jiang Yuanchao sneered: "Your Majesty said, you can feel sorry for the people, the court, and the emperor with peace of mind, but you can't be sorry for the family alone. What's the reason?"

The ministers fell silent for a moment.

"My lords, make plans early. Your Majesty's patience is only until the end of the first month. If you don't make a decision after the first month, you will be punished."

As soon as the first month passed, just when the people in the capital thought that the emperor was going to start killing those corrupt officials, there was no movement at Caishikou.

After all, people are selfish. How can a group of people who have no burden to deceive the people would rather die than protect their wives and mothers?
Around the capital, there are a group of fair-skinned, well-fitting men with mournful faces. Under the supervision of Jin Yiwei, they build roads, build city walls, and haul goods; Pee.

There are even more places to employ people outside the capital.

Digging coal, mining, building roads, transporting grain and grass, building bunkers, even building ships, repairing ports...

There are too many places to employ people now, it is a pity to kill them.

The common people looked at the former high-ranking officials who were now lying on the concrete pavement and shoveling horse shit, some pointed and some laughed.

Faced with such ridicule and insults, some brother-in-laws and brother-in-laws fought on the spot, and uncles and nephews fought on the spot.

The people watched it more happily.

did you see?
The fate of corrupt officials!
I don't know how much the damage was, but it was extremely insulting.

The female relatives of prisoners were all converted into military households and sent directly to the guards for marriage.

Difficulties in marrying military households have always been a big problem. Li Zhao also discussed the disadvantages of the military household system with his father before.

But at this stage, there is no way to abolish the military household system immediately.

After the soldiers in the firearms battalion mature in the future, the number of troops can be reduced, and the military household system can be gradually changed to the battalion soldier system.

As for the ransacking of the house this time, the emperor actually obtained more than 700 million taels of silver and took back tens of thousands of hectares of land, which is simply appalling.

The emperor was so happy that he rewarded the fifth child with 20 taels of silver!

After that, he gave the fifth and sixth sons the authority to inspect the censors, and asked the two boys to go out of the capital to have a look.

By the way, they inspected local affairs and said that if they found out any major cases and made great contributions, they would be promoted to the title of county king. A prince is the master, and they go to the local inspection with them.

The sixth child is in charge of Shandong and Liaodong, and the fifth child is in charge of Hebei and Henan.

The fifth child was kidnapped for a while and suffered a lot, so he didn't want to go out to investigate the case again.But under the huge temptation of being promoted to the title, he still asked the servants around him to pack his luggage and prepare to set off with high spirits!
The eldest daughter of the third son, Li Bin, is almost one year old. She was born when Song Qingyue was a nun. She is the first granddaughter of His Majesty the current emperor.

In addition, during the New Year, the imperial physician found out that a Dianyi was also pregnant. He wanted that Dianyi to beat the child, and wait for Guo Yun'er to give birth to the eldest son before asking the concubines to conceive.

But Guo Yun'er did not agree, and tried her best to keep the heir, and said that the prince's children were all her children.She is the aunt's mother, so it doesn't make sense for her to ask the prince to hurt her son.

The third child is very satisfied with his concubine and beauty in the back house, longing for peace in his heart, longing to be a salted fish!
As for the title, he thinks the county king is fine, he has no higher pursuit, and he doesn't want to offend anyone.

He didn't want to be like the five and six idiots, thinking that he was the prince, and the officials below would not dare to do anything to them.

The waters of officialdom are deep, sometimes deep enough to make a person do heinous things.

Isn't Xiaowu's incident an example?
He was the county king in the first place, and the palace didn't need a lot of grandeur, as long as it was enough to live in.

Princess Guo Yuner has no objection to this.

Now the new house has almost been selected. There are 15 taels from the father, 1 taels from the grandparents, 20 taels from the Guo family, and [-] taels from his own savings, adding up to [-] taels. Ten thousand taels is enough to buy a nice house outside the imperial city.

It's just that the money for the renovation is gone.

The youngest, Li Bin, was determined to show his loyalty to his eldest brother with the cheeky face, and by the way, make some connections.

The fourth brother, Li Min, is ambitious, and he is even more unwilling to be just a bullshit king.

Think back when his maternal grandfather was the Minister of the Household Department, his mother and concubine and himself had very high status and treatment in the palace.

But since Song Jianming came to Beijing, and since his sister-in-law Song Qingyue married into the palace, everything has changed.

After the concubine Song Qingyue's 16th birthday banquet, he fell from a high platform, and all the cats and dogs in the house dared to bully him!

The scenery belongs to the eldest brother and sister-in-law, why? !

Now that there is a rift between the eldest brother and his father, he has to show his talents to his father with all his strength.

He didn't catch the uncle's handle, and he didn't dare to investigate, but two months ago, he found an uncle - Ouyang Sheng, Princess Jinyang's son-in-law, who was doing smuggling business on the northern border.

But if it’s just some tea, salt, grain, cloth, etc., the key point is that Ouyang’s son-in-law also smuggled a lot of pig iron, this problem is very serious!

Princess Jinyang was born of a concubine Liu who was very favored in the past. When the first emperor was alive, Princess Jinyang was also considered a princess who was very popular.

It's a pity that the current His Majesty has no relationship with Princess Jinyang.

According to his seniority, Jin Yang should have been conferred the title of eldest princess, but His Majesty did not.

The princess's daily living expenses are quite extravagant, and she also owns a large area of ​​fertile land in the Zhili area.

In fact, when the new emperor didn't make her the eldest princess, she should have known that she should restrain herself, but instead of restraining her usual extravagant life style, this princess became even more extravagant.

The son-in-law himself is also used to extravagance.

In order to maintain their expenses, the couple could only continue the smuggling business. They thought that the new emperor would turn a blind eye like the old emperor.

But the emperor learned that the son-in-law was engaged in smuggling business in the north, and even involved ironware. Of course, he would not let them go, so he immediately arrested the son-in-law, and asked Jiang Yuanchao to intervene in the investigation, and finally confirmed the statement of the fourth prince Li Min.

The emperor personally decreed that Consort Ouyang and Princess Jinyang should reconcile, and sentenced Ouyang Consort Qiuhou, and also copied Princess Jinyang's Princess Mansion, demoting the princess of Jinyang to the title of princess, and let this fellow The half-sister lived with Concubine Liu in the palace with her children.

The place where the concubines live in the palace is much smaller than her original princess mansion, but Jinyang dared not speak out, and she herself participated in the smuggling. It is already a lenient for the emperor to let her live .

They copied the Jinyang Princess Mansion, took out nearly 80 taels of silver, and confiscated nearly 6 mu of fertile land in the Zhili area. The fourth prince, Li Min, made his Prince Bei's residence, and rewarded the fourth son with another [-] taels of silver.

Li Min was overjoyed, with this money, he could make a good deal of the bride price for the side concubine.

However, he hasn't told Fang Liu about his plan yet.

In contrast, the second prince Li Yi was the most useless.

At the beginning, he didn't want to offend anyone, so he deliberately didn't investigate, but later, seeing his brothers receiving awards from his father one after another, he couldn't sit still.

He thought that the cases of corruption and land occupation were easy to investigate, as long as he did his own investigation, but after so many days, after the murder of His Highness Fourth, His Highness Fifth, and His Highness Sixth, the gang of officials in the court, including the royal clan, Honey, I started tidying up for myself early on.

When Li Yi started to move, he had already whitewashed the peace, so how could it be so easy for him to grasp the evidence enough to make him ransack the house?
But he found other ways to make money.

Although it is not easy to find substantive evidence, there are always some things that can be caught on the wind and shadows, and it is enough to use these things to knock people off!
Now the officials and clansmen are scared out of their wits by the princes who are the censors. Whose family has not done anything dirty?

His Highness the Second Highness held two Bodhi beads in his hands, and came to the door with a smile to tell some rumors. The wise man immediately took out the gold ingots and silver coins to ward off the disaster.

That's it, Li Yi finally got some pocket money, and Meng Yuyan was finally able to start looking at the house in Beijing.

(End of this chapter)