A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 424 I Will Shot

Wu Huaiyu didn't know Pang Xiangshou and had no contact with him.

But Qin Qiong and Pang Xiangshou are very familiar, they are both old colleagues in the Qin Palace, and they fought side by side on the battlefield and went through life and death, so they also have some feelings.

But they are not from the same mountain.

Strictly speaking, Pang Xiangshou is on the same hill as Yuchi Laohei.

Don't look at Lao Hei, who seems to have joined halfway, from Liu Wuzhou's camp, but he also has his own hilltop in the Qin Palace, such as Xunxiang, Liang Jianfang, Gao Zhensheng, Pang Xiangtai and many others, all belong to this hilltop.

Not all of these people came from Liu Wuzhou's side, but when they were in Prince Qin's mansion, these people had a close relationship.

What kind of generals there are what kind of soldiers.

Yuchi Old Hei has a bad temper, although he is unparalleled in bravery, he has no brains, and this guy likes to show off extravagantly, and almost all the people under him are like this.

Wu Huaiyu went to Qin Qiong's house first, drank a pot of tea to find out the details of Pang Xiangshou, and then told Qin Qiong that something was going to happen to this guy.

"Sooner or later, this day will come," Qin Qiong was not surprised at all.

There are not many military generals who do not love money, whether it is really greedy for money, or it is a little tricky to say that the credit is so high.

But Pang Xiangshou went too far.

"If you don't know how to restrain yourself, you will be to blame."

Qin Qiong said bluntly.

After leaving the Duke of Qi's mansion, Wu Huaiyu went directly back to Yongyefang, first went home to see Lao Wu and Liu Shi, and then went to the greenhouse to get two big handfuls of spinach and celery to find Lao Wei next door.

Cold celery, plus fried peanuts, drink with a pot of sake.

After drinking almost, Huaiyu showed him the materials of Pang Xiangshou's nephew.

After Wei Zheng finished watching, he didn't feel drunk at all.

"A small history of arresting money involves such a huge amount of corruption?"

"There is evidence."

"Erlang wants me to come forward and report?"

"No, I will present these to His Majesty tomorrow and show them to Xiang Wei, just because Pang Xiangshou is an old servant of His Majesty, I guess His Majesty will miss the past and refuse to deal with it, and then Xiang Wei will have to come forward to persuade him."

Wei Zheng didn't hesitate, "Don't worry, I will make a move."

"I didn't expect there to be such a big mouse in Yushitai." Wei Zheng sighed.

"Actually, what's the difference?"

A censor of Yushitai who caught money and made a loan with [-] guan in the face, but in fact it involved tens of thousands of guan. , have to mortgage the house to mortgage the books, and have to write epitaphs for merchants to earn money.

So annoying.

The next day.

Facing the interrogation report submitted by Wu Huaiyu, there is also a joint signature of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. A history of arresting money is so huge, and what is even more frightening is that a small history of arresting money can cause such a big thing.

Fifty pennies, he can release tens of thousands of pennies.

And this case also implicated Pang Xiangshou.

This is an old subordinate who has rescued him several times.

Wei Zheng said bluntly, "Your Majesty, I request a thorough investigation of Pang Xiangshou."

Li Shimin really hesitated.

But Wei Zheng was determined not to give in. In the face of the evidence that had been shown, Li Shimin finally had no choice but to agree to a thorough investigation.

There is no suspense at all.

Just waiting for the emperor's will.

Yushitai, Dali Temple, Criminal Department, and the six gates were dispatched together with Yongzhou for a joint investigation. Pang Xiangshou was still in Beijing and had not returned to his place. Now he was directly controlled and brought back to Yushitai for interrogation by the three divisions.

It's unbelievable that the case went smoothly, with all the witnesses and material evidence, and Pang Xiangshou couldn't quibble.

"I want to meet His Majesty."

Pang Xiangshou finally made a request.

After hearing this, Li Shimin asked him to enter the palace to face the saint.

But the emperor didn't see him alone, several prime ministers and people from Sanfa were there.

The emperor must personally ask.

Facing the emperor's interrogation, Pang Xiangshou did not deny it, but he only said one sentence. When he was in the Qin Palace, he followed His Majesty's emperor Yuan Cong. Still have those scars.

He was corrupt, but compared to these credits, he felt nothing.

He hoped that the emperor could remember his old love and achievements in the past, and forgive him this time. He was willing to return the spoils, but he hoped that the emperor could keep his official title, which he fought for with his life.

After speaking, he took off his clothes, revealing scars all over his body.

It's really shocking.

Seeing this, Li Shimin's eyes were moist, and he felt extremely sad.

My heart softened.

So he planned to let Pang Xiangshou go, let him return the stolen goods and dismiss him, but still retain the scattered officials and noble officers, just like Yuchi Laohei, reflect at home carefully, and use them for other purposes in the future.

Wu Huaiyu had expected all this.

However, he was already prepared and had visited Wei Zheng long ago, and today he was asked to charge the front line, but he himself did not intend to go.

Wei Zheng did not back down as expected.

Advise directly.

"Your Majesty, the former members of the Prince Qin's Mansion are now all over the government and the public. If your Majesty takes sides with every old member of the Prince Qin's Mansion if they make mistakes, then this is undoubtedly unfair to other officials with good conduct and disrespect for the laws of the country."

"This is not a personal matter, but the majesty of national law."

Li Shimin thought for a while, and his mind also regained some composure.

That's right, if every old part of Qin Wang's mansion can be forgiven for messing around like this, wouldn't it be a mess in the future?
This will instead pamper them and eventually harm them.

Qiu Xinggong, Wei Chigong, Lu Zushang, and now Pang Xiangshou, one after another.

"What Wei Xiang said is very reasonable. I used to be the king of Qin, and I was the lord of a mansion. Now I am in a big position, and I am the lord of the world. I should not be alone with my old friends."

"The state owns the state law, and the family has family rules. How can we follow the law privately?"

"Pang Xiangshou, as a former servant of the hidden mansion, should be more law-abiding, but he is lawless, corrupt and perverting the law, and the gold, silver, and silk in his family are piled up like mountains. He bullies the people in any place, invades the fields, and has a notorious record. He can't discipline the children in the family. , leading to ostentation, fraud and oppression, extortion, and even corruption..."

The emperor became more and more angry.

"Zhongshu ordered Wen Xiangshou to draw up the decree. Pang Xiangshou cut his title, seized his position, expelled his nationality as a citizen, confiscated his family property, remembered his past achievements, saved him from death, and exiled him in Lingnan."

Pang Xiangshou's nephew, Pang Yongye, was not so lucky. The emperor ordered his family property and population to be confiscated, handed over to Yongzhou, and died in the Yamen!

Pang Xiangshou was deprived of the Jinxian crown and purple robe goldfish bag by the hall.

The Pang family's uncles and nephews confiscated all their original ancestral property, salaries, properties obtained from business operations, rewards, and income from corruption and illegal business operations.

The Yongzhou Yamen is responsible for the inspection.

The property seized is still astonishing. There are a lot of fields. There are a lot of land in Gyeonggi, Puzhou, Puzhou and other places. In addition, there are many shops and many illegal industries seized.

A lot of money was also copied.

There is also a large population of servants and concubines.

Anyway, this time the emperor was furious. Although Pang Xiangshou forgives his death, he can only take his wife, concubines with children, and children to exile in Lingnan.

All his family property, including the jewelry of his wife and concubines, are gone.

Everyone is given a suit of clothes to go on the road.

And it must be on the road immediately without delay.

Fortunately, the emperor remembered the old love, and before they set off, he sent eunuchs over and gave them [-] yuan, which was considered to be an expense for the journey, and it was used for resettlement after they arrived on Danzhou Island in the south of Lingnan.

This incident still caused a great shock in the court.

I thought that Pang Xiangshou, the former minister of the emperor, also committed the crime of corruption, and there should be no severe punishment. After all, there are many ministers who committed corruption crimes. Before, there were many ministers such as Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji, Yu Chigong, Li Daozong, Li Xiaogong, Li Shentong, etc. Ministers have problems with corruption.

Even generals such as the emperor's confidant Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Gongjin, Zhang Lianghou Junji, etc. were often reported for illegal acts of encroaching on people's fields in the local area.

In the face of these problems, the previous treatment was generally a reprimand, a light suspension of salary and a fine of copper, and a serious dismissal of officials and suspension, most of which were temporary.

Even Chen Wanfu, the general of the right guard, on his way to Beijing, in order to hurry, took a few stones of wheat bran to feed his horses. He was impeached and violated the law. , and then rewarded him in front of all officials, and asked him to carry it home.

The emperor also dealt with the corruption case of grandson Shunde in the same way. He placed dozens of pieces of silk that he had accepted as a bribe in the hall, rewarded him in public, and asked him to carry it back in front of all officials.

Although such a punishment is more embarrassing, the consequences are not serious.

I thought that Pang Xiangshou would be treated in the same way this time, and at most he would be dismissed from his post and reflect at home.

Who knew that the family would be ransacked and exiled to Lingnan.

People in the Tang Dynasty in Lingnan were afraid when they heard it. Before Lu Zu was unwilling to go to Jiaozhou to be the governor, he was killed because of this.

This treatment is not generally severe.

Yu Shitai made a windfall.

For only one Pang Yongye, tens of thousands of money was copied out for him. Although it was said that it would be confiscated, part of it, Wu Huaiyu said, was embezzled from Yushitai's public office, so now it is found out that it will be returned.

These uncles and nephews are quite capable of corruption, and they are not ordinary people who take bribes. What makes them more powerful is that they are very good at making money.

It's not just about receiving gifts and encroaching on others, they have already played with the capital market, absorbing savings, and then lending money, and then operating pawn shops, gold and silver shops, etc. after making money, and then buying land and land to open grain shops, this Pang Yongye is crazy, but This money-making brain works very well.

Of course, his industry is not healthy.

For example, he has been using high interest rates to defraud the people of their capital to enter the game, but he has collected the money through various channels, and cannot really fulfill his promise, so every transaction is a pig-killing transaction, and the money from these small transactions is finally gathered into his large transaction house.

Behind are countless people who have been cheated, and even some business landlords. This kid can dismantle the property, so ordinary people who don't have a solid relationship can't do anything about him.

The other is the money he got, the interest rate is very high, especially like to lend short-term loans, this kind of short-term usury is often difficult to recover, he relies on illegal and violent collection, and even sells his wife and daughter if he has no money to repay the debt slave,

Relying on these methods of eating people without spitting out bones, they quickly squeezed a lot of money.

It's just that he fattened himself by killing pigs, and in the end he also turned into a big fat pig and was killed.

Although Wu Huaiyu also asked the emperor to do a good job in liquidation and aftermath, the funds absorbed by Pang Yongye's uncle and nephew through various channels must be returned, but the court also refunded the principal at most, and the interest will not be paid, so in the end the cheapest is still the court. earned.

Even many families were ruined, and the money could no longer be refunded, and it still belonged to the court.

Pang Yongan and Pang Xiangshou's nephew fell down.

There are more than 600 people in Chang'an's history of arresting money, and there are more than [-] people who have not made it up.

Refund what should be refunded, make up what should be made up, and be honest.

Of course, some guys who are too much can't escape the fate of being slaughtered like Pang Yongan.

Wu Huaiyu, who was judged to support, was originally full of deficits in the country's general financial ledger. This sum of money came in, but it continued to accumulate into a very considerable amount of money.

(End of this chapter)