I just want to make money

Chapter 229 Destroying Cai Jing, Prime Minister Lin

In February, Lin Yi was very busy.

Manage the Royal Bank, sort out the army, sort out the officialdom, learn medical skills, learn Taoism, occasionally go to have an affair with Li Shishi, and stay in the harem every three to five nights.

But he enjoyed it.

Sometimes when the position is reached, many things are just a matter of one sentence, so someone will naturally do it.

Time flies to March.

When Lin Yi checked the information, he saw a news that the Jurchen officially founded the country, the country name was 'Dajin', and the year name was 'Tianfu'.

Lin Yi calculated the time, and now it is 1117, so it is not the time when Da Jin formally founded the country. According to the historical trajectory, in the next few years, the Jin country chased and beat the Liao country, and finally destroyed the Liao country in 1125.

After that, the Kingdom of Jin began to attack the Song Dynasty, and Jingkang shame occurred in 1127.

Ten years at most.

Or only 8 years.

Lin Yi felt that he had to speed up. He took out a memorial and looked at it, then stuffed it into his sleeve, and met someone that night.

The next day.

At the meeting.

Yushi Zhongcheng Wang Zongyi went out to hand over the book and said loudly: "Servant Yushi He Li, impeachment of Cai Jing's fourteen major crimes, please review and investigate strictly."

He Li is Lin Yi's fellow Tanhua Lang, who was transferred to Yushitai last year. Lin Yi is already a young master, and he is still a seventh-rank servant of Yushi.

Song Huizong frowned.

Cai Jing, however, was very calm, his obese body did not move, his eyes were squinting as if he was about to fall asleep.

As for the other officials, Cai Jing's family was nervous, while the others were just watching the show.

Cai Jing was not impeached once or twice. In the past, Song Huizong's handling method was to let the eunuchs accept the memorial papers, and then there was no more. Cai Jing was as stable as Mount Tai, but this time, Song Huizong said:
"Read it out and I'll listen."

Cai Jing's originally stable body shook slightly.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Censor Zhongcheng Wang Zonglin opened the playing book and read it aloud.

"Cai Jing has been in charge for 12 years, blasphemed God, disregarded his father, married Austrian aid, despised nobles, expanded expenses, reformed laws, presumptuously made, liked to guide and flatter, clamped down on admonishment, devoted to the party, long-running, worshiped the old, poor Civil engineering, far away..."

To put it simply, it means selling officials and nobles, controlling the government, corrupting the law, lavishing extravagance, exploiting the common people, etc., they do all sorts of evil.

Behind these fourteen deadly sins.

Each article has examples, such as selling officials to sell nobles, there are dozens of articles in the memorial, involving dozens of court officials and local officials.

"Guanzi said, if you sell an official rank, the country will perish in ten years. Those who study hard for more than ten years will have no way out. The rich can immediately get a sixth-rank or even fifth-rank official position with a few thousand coins. If things go on like this, the common people will be chilled." , Cai Jing’s move is to destroy the foundation of our Great Song Dynasty, and to destroy the country of Your Majesty.”

"Cai Jing is in power, wantonly selling officials and nobles, embezzling and accepting bribes, forming cliques for private interests, causing the entire officialdom to climb the dragon and the phoenix, flattery, vying for power and position, and ungrateful for profit. Such an officialdom is running for their own promotion and for their own self-interest, which makes treacherous officials No scruples, even more complacent, chilling loyal ministers, Your Majesty."

Speaking of the Cai family, "The whole family of the Cai family is full of red and purple clothes. Cai Jing's sons Cai You, Cai Yun, and Cai Sui all went to university scholars, and Cai's family became Jinshi No. 20. How many of them have cheated in the imperial examinations?" .”

Speaking of Cai Jing’s extravagance and lust, Cai Jing spends thousands of dollars for a meal, quail soup, made with quail tongues, and hundreds of quails are killed for a meal, and crab roe buns, which only use the best essence of crabs For crab roe, Cai Jing also likes to eat a kind of 'salted soy sauce', which is pickled with the gizzard of the oriole.

When it comes to Cai Jing's forced occupation of land, Cai Jing owns a large area of ​​land in the capital and his hometown, covering as much as 50 mu.

This is only Cai Jing alone. There are more than a dozen members of the Cai family's direct lineage, dozens of collateral members, and countless Goulian officials. How much land these people have seized is several million acres.

In court,
Only Yushi Zhongcheng Wang Zonglian recited it aloud.

Song Huizong listened indifferently.

The other officials were silent and did not dare to make a sound.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Cai Jing's head.

He looked at Song Huizong who was unusually calm on the stage, and then took a peek at Lin Yi who was standing beside him like a pine without shaking or making a sound. Cai Jing felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere today, very wrong.

But now he can only pretend to be calm.

at last,

The long impeachment memorial is finished.

Everyone looked at Song Huizong on the stage. Cai Jing had already turned [-] times in his mind, waiting for Song Huizong to ask him if these were true, so he could justify himself.

Needle drop can be heard in the hall.

After about 1 minutes or so.

Song Huizong finally spoke.

"Now, Lin Yi presided over the joint trial of the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The contents of the memorial will be strictly investigated. If there is no evidence in the investigation, Cai Xiang will be innocent. If there is evidence, he will be severely punished."

Song Huizong's words sounded like thunder to Cai Jing's ears.

The trembling old man's head was blinded and his body trembled.

its not right,
He ordered a thorough investigation without even asking. This, who can resist the investigation, he just wanted to speak, Lin Yi stepped out of the class before him.

"The minister leads the order."

The three chief officials of the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Three Judicial Departments of the Metropolitan Procuratorate also all came out to lead the order.

Song Huizong nodded, got up and left the hall, and the court meeting ended.

Cai Jing looked at Song Huizong's disappearing back foolishly.

Lin Yi walked up to Cai Jing, smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Cai Xiang, please come to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a cup of tea."

Cai Jing's body visibly trembled.

Many ministers in the court saw this scene.

My heart was surging.

this day,

I'm afraid it's about to change!
In the afternoon,

Cai Jing was invited to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and dozens of officials from the immediate and collateral lines of the Cai family, as well as dozens of court ministers, were also invited to interrogate.

Lin Yicai won't play with them and take his time.

All he wants is lightning action,
Cut the mess with a quick knife.

At the same time, the three law divisions wrote together, and dispatched the forbidden army to take the imperial decree to control and search the residences of all the local officials involved in the case, and escort them to Beijing.

Chaotang earthquake,
The last time the Song Dynasty made such a big move was when Cai Jing was working on the Yuanyou Party case. It was only more than ten years ago. That time more than [-] people were involved, including Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, and Su Shi. many.

Lin Yi was not afraid of crowds, so he made room for those ministers he liked, so that Da Song could get on the right track quickly.

The courtier is a creature,

Killing one batch will naturally grow another batch.

Don't be afraid that no one will be available.

The next day.

The news that Cai Jing's officials were investigated began to fly all over Bianjing.

The people were discussing,

"Cai Jing has been investigated. It's really heart-warming. Cai Jing has done so many evil things during his reign. He has corrupted the law and sold officials and nobles. There are fourteen major crimes. Cai Jing's crimes are so serious."

"I heard that Cai Bian, Cai You, and the descendants and officials of the Cai family have all been imprisoned. There are seven to eighty people."

"Not only, but more than that. There are many local officials, and some who are not deeply involved, but they have also been warned and are writing self-examination papers at home. I heard that Mr. Lin ordered that if they can't check themselves, they will He was confessed and the punishment was increased."

"Do you think Cai Jing will stand up again?"

"There should be no chance. Lin Xiangguo presided over the punishment of Cai Jing this time. Lin Xiangcai is the jade pillar of the Song Dynasty. From now on, Lin Xiangguo will definitely preside over the overall situation."

Inside Dali Temple,

The files are being processed in an intensive manner.

There are always people who cannot withstand the pressure and will say that when a thread is pulled out, a rope will be pulled out, and finally a cow will be pulled out.

Passed through layer by layer.

More and more things were found. They had done too many things in these years, one pile after another, and the files filled the entire warehouse.

To avoid problems.

After Lin Yi read these files, all income space.

He was not given the chance to be destroyed by others.

Lin Yi didn't want to set fire to the TV dramas in the past, and burn files to make the protagonist more difficult. Lin Yi didn't want it to happen to him.

in the prison.

Wearing dirty underwear, Wang Fu looked at the officials escorting in one by one, and laughed like crazy.

"Cai Bian, Cai You, Lan Fu, Wang Si. You are all here. Finally, I am not the only one suffering here. I knew a long time ago, I knew a long time ago that none of you can escape, and you will all be defeated by that In Lin Yi's hands, hahahaha."

Cai Bian, Cai You and others gave Wang Fu a hard look, and were immediately pushed away by the jailer.

Cai Jing was not imprisoned.

After all, he is an old man, and he has worked so hard for the emperor for so many years. There is hard work without credit. Lin Yi and Cai Jing are sitting side by side, drinking tea and chatting.

At this time Cai Jing had already changed into plain clothes.

He is no longer the prime minister.

"Congratulations to Prime Minister Lin. After the old man leaves, the position of prime minister must belong to Prime Minister Lin. Prime Minister Lin is only [-] years old and has become an extremely human minister. It is rare in the world to be congratulated." Cai Jing said in a low voice.

"From my understanding, the prime minister is only a position that can better benefit the people. Even if you sit on the prime minister, there is nothing to be too happy about." Lin Yi said lightly.

Cai Jing raised his drooping eyelids and looked at Lin Yi strangely. To be honest, although he had a shrewd mind, he still felt that Lin Yi and Lin Dongyang in front of him made him very difficult to see through.

this young man,
I did Shaozai before I was 30 years old,

Nor did they wantonly cultivate their own people.

He also sent someone to investigate. Lin Yi manages the royal firm, but he doesn't see how much money he makes for himself. Now he still lives in the house that His Majesty first gave him.

At the beginning, it was a favor, which was much larger than the seventh-rank official residence.

But now that Lin Yi has become the Grand Tutor and the Duke of Chu, the size of the house is obviously far from enough, and he never thought of changing it.

Wang Fu's confiscated house was used by him to build the Treasure Pavilion.

There is no big deal.

There was no aggressive acquisition of land.

Want to talk about women?
It is true that Cui Niannu, the flower chief, has been accepted. It is said that there is a little rumor with Li Shishi. There are several maidservants in the family, but this is far from being lustful to outsiders. There are many officials with more women than Lin Yi.

And people are useless.

At most it's windy.

This is considered elegant in Song Dynasty.

So clean and self-conscious, Cai Jing really doesn't know what he is going to do, is he really dedicated to serving the country?

Lin Yi put down the tea bowl, did not look at Cai Jing, but looked at the light at the door and said: "Cai Xiang, Your Majesty told me that if you plead guilty, you will be saved from death. As for the Cai family, the whole family will not be implicated."

Cai Jing's body trembled violently.

"If you don't implicate the nine clans, then there are many others who will be implicated?" Cai Jing said.

"I can leave a lineage for your Cai family."

Cai Jing's hands trembled violently, and his heart was bleeding. The Cai family used to be so beautiful, but now it has come to such a fate.

half a month later.

Palace Hall.

There are significantly fewer officials in the palace than before.

Lin Yi took out a memorial to Song Huizong to report the investigation of Cai Jing's case. Cai Jing pleaded guilty and obeyed the law. The involved officials, big and small, involved three provinces, six ministries, 24 divisions, local prefects, general judges, county magistrates, and even military personnel, a total of 350. Six people, most of which involve selling officials to buy titles, promotion through bribery, etc.

Moreover, most of these officials themselves have problems.

Song Huizong asked: "Is there any evidence?"

Lin Yi replied: "The evidence is solid."

Song Huizong said: "Then punish him according to the law."

Many people think that the Song Dynasty did not kill scholar-bureaucrats or literati. In fact, this is a wrong perception. The law stipulates that beheadings abound. Zhu Yazhou, who embezzled more than 20 taels of silver, was beheaded.

No killing, but some emperors often pardoned beheadings as exile in order to pursue the reputation of benevolence, so as to appease the hearts of other civil servants.

But Lin Yi knew.

The nicer some people are to her, the more squeamish she becomes. Sometimes killing a group of people can actually have a greater deterrent effect.

Now Lin Yi feels that it is better to kill a group than to keep a reputation of benevolence.

The death of these officials is estimated to have deterred the officialdom of the Song Dynasty for 20 years. With this effect, Lin Yi felt that their death was worth it.

Another half month later,

The court outside Bianjing.

Hundreds of officials were dragged here. When they saw the executioner, the ghost knife and the guillotine, they screamed one by one. They didn't expect to be beheaded, and they were all frightened.

some of,
Several bachelors.

Several Shangshu,

The rest are all famous and official.

"My Great Song Dynasty never kills civil servants, don't kill civil servants, let me go, I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor."

The shouting was endless.

The executioner doesn't care about this.

"It's noon, behead!"

With one command,
The heads of the first batch of dozens of officials were chopped off, and now many of them were scared to pee or even paralyzed and passed out.

Just now, there were still some people who had their last illusions. The emperor just frightened them, and then gave them another pardon in the execution ground.

With Quanrende.

But now some people have been beheaded, especially those from the Cai family. They know that there is no room for turning around this matter.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm Minister of the Ministry of Officials, I've devoted myself to the court for decades, the emperor don't kill me."

It's too late to say that now.

"Cut~!"

click,

Dozens of heads fell to the ground again.

More than 300 ministers were killed,

Shocked the whole Da Song.

It also shocked the people of Song Dynasty.

And Cai Jing,
He was pardoned by the emperor and exempted from the death penalty, and he was sent back to his hometown for retirement in vain. As for the family property, all his property was confiscated.

When Cai Jing left,

He only brought two servants and his youngest son, Cai Xiu.

They originally wanted to go back by boat, but no one on the boat at Bianjing Wharf was willing to take them. Cai Jing's reputation was too bad, and Da Song was made into a mess by him. Those who saw him off were all cursed by the people of Bianjing.

Cai Jing and his son hit the road.

but on the way,
No matter if it was an inn or a restaurant, none of them received them, nor did they sell them any food. All the food they brought when they went out was eaten up, and finally they were very hungry.

so neat and tidy,

Of course it was Lin Yi's handwriting.

How could he let the old fox continue to live, the dead Cai Jing is the good Cai Jing.

At last,
Cai Jing died of freezing and starving in a ruined temple. Even his youngest son died. It is said that he was about to die by wolves. The last two servants of Cai Jing abandoned their master and fled.

As for Cai Jing's bones,
After the local government asked the court for instructions,

Buried in cemetery.

A generation of powerful ministers,
Cai Jing, who had dominated the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, finally died of cold and hunger, and died as a guest and was buried in a thin coffin in a foreign country.

Even the graves of the ancestors cannot be entered after death.

Since then,

The Cai Jing faction of the Great Song Dynasty was completely eradicated.

Ashes.

Not even the scum.

As for the family properties of those corrupt officials, all of them were confiscated. There were more than 300 officials, and all of them were officials with real power. , that is really rich.

Cai Jing’s son-in-law like Liang Zhongshu gave 10 guan as a birthday gift at a time. Can their money be less?

Finally, someone reported to Lin Yi after counting,
More than 300 officials confiscated more than 6000 million yuan in cash, thousands of houses, millions of acres of land, 50 acres in Caijing alone, tens of thousands of shops and businesses across the country, and countless treasures such as gold, silver and jade.

Count it all down,

The total assets exceed [-] million crowns.

It is said that the gold belt of murder and arson, Lin Yixin said, those are just small troubles, which is faster than raiding the official's house.

As for these properties.

Hand over everything to Treasure Pavilion.

All should be purchased for Zhenbao Pavilion.

And on the day Cai Jing left Beijing, Song Huizong decreed that Lin Yi was promoted to prime minister, and the three provinces of Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxia were in charge.

A new generation replaces the old.

Since then,

The days when Lin Yi led the Great Song Dynasty Hall began.

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