The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 167 The Food of the Confucian Family is Worthy for Scholars, but Unworthy for Common People ([-]-character chapter)
Governor Nie thought he had the capital to be tough in front of Jin Yiwei.

Not only because he is one of the great masters of Neo-Confucianism in Ming Dynasty, and he has a backer in the cabinet.

Also because he is honest.

Lao Tzu is not greedy for money, not lustful, and not profit-seeking.I only strive for a clear reputation in my life.What can Jin Yiwei do to me?

Besides, which dynasty and which generation of the Yellow River will not die?Those who died were only illiterate common people, and no gentry or scholars died.

People, oh, what are the people?People who cannot read or read are not worthy of being human at all in my eyes.

Governor Nie's thinking is just like Lao Tzu said, the world is not benevolent, and everything is a humble dog.The sage is not benevolent, and treats the common people as straw dogs.

Although Governor Nie is not a saint, he claims to be a student of the saint.

Liu Daxia said, "To control the flood, save the people first."

Governor Nie disagreed: "The emperor asked two imperial envoys to control the flood. Disaster relief is the business of my Shandong government!"

"Don't forget, I'm also an imperial envoy!"

Governor Nie is really an imperial envoy.

In the Ming Dynasty, local officials at the provincial level consisted of only three divisions, namely, the chief envoy, the inspector envoy, and the commander-in-chief envoy.

Although the governor is in fact a feudal official, in name he is an imperial envoy sent by the emperor to the place.

Chang Feng became a little impatient: "Who is the magistrate of Yanggu County? Get out!"

An acquaintance came to Chang Feng!

The county magistrate turned out to be the same year as Chang Feng, and Huang Zhongren, the Yayuan of the Beizhili Township Examination!The younger brother of the upright official Huang Boren!
Chang Feng was dumbfounded: "Huang Zhongren? Is it you?"

Huang Zhongren said cautiously: "Ah, Brother Chang Nian. At the Lu Ming Banquet in Shuntian Mansion, the officials didn't know the identity of Brother Chang Nian, so he bumped into Brother Chang Nian. I will regret it later."

Chang Feng was a little strange: "I remember the two exams, and your name was not on the apricot list. A Juren, in just a few years, became the county magistrate?"

The selection of officials in the Ming Dynasty was extremely important.Usually, people participate in the big election and are awarded the positions of county magistrate, master book, and pawn.It takes ten or 20 years of work to be promoted to a county hall.

And this also requires the candidate to have a background, a family, and be able to handle affairs.

Huang Zhongren lowered his voice: "Brother Changnian. The next official's godfather is Li Guang, the supervisor of ceremonies."

Chang Feng suddenly realized!It turned out to be hugging Li Guang's thick leg.

Among the three giants of the Rites and Supervisors, Li Guang is the most indiscreet.

Relying on Empress Zhang's favor, he has placed cronies everywhere in the past few years.The officials have repeatedly participated in the impeachment.

But the biggest problem of Emperor Hongzhi is that he spoils his wife and loves his house and birds.

Emperor Hongzhi turned a blind eye to all impeachment papers involving Li Guang.

Chang Feng sneered: "Back then you prided yourself on being a talented person. How do you think eunuchs are gods?"

Governor Nie can't do things, but he can be an official.One of the secrets of being an official is to protect the calf in front of outsiders and win the support of subordinates.

Although Huang Zhongren's official position is low, he is a local official in Shandong.Governor Nie naturally wanted to protect him.

Huang Zhongren said nothing.

Governor Nie spoke for him: "The deputy imperial envoy said this. As far as I know, you recognized Eunuch Wynn as a godfather in the 23rd year of Chenghua."

"You are belittling Huangzhi County by saying this now. Don't you only allow state officials to set fires and not allow people to light lamps?"

Chang Feng said: "Okay! Let's not talk about recognizing the relatives. There are thousands of victims in Ping'an Township. You only allocated ten stones of relief food for a month. Is there such a thing?"

Huang Zhongren panicked: "Here, this. The official storehouse in Yanggu County is empty, and the flood is imminent. I have no choice but to."

Chang Feng said: "Fart! In the third year of Hongzhi, the emperor ordered local states and counties to stockpile grain to deal with the disaster year. All the official warehouses in the world are full. Why do you say that the official warehouses are empty after two years and four months?"

Huang Zhongren said: "The next official has only been in office for a year and a half. When he took office, the official position was empty. This is the shortfall left by the predecessor!"

There is an unspoken rule in officialdom: the current official does not seek the back of the former official.Everyone has a day when they leave their posts.The deficit left by the government is taken over by the common people.Why bother to find a later account?

But at this moment, Butcher Chang of Jinyiwei has his eyes on Huang Zhongren.Huang Zhongren panicked and could only blame his predecessor.

In fact, there are five thousand shi of grain stored in the official warehouse of Yanggu County.Before Huang Zhongren took office, the former magistrate embezzled two thousand shi.

The remaining three thousand stones were sold out by Huang Zhongren within a year and a half and replaced with silver coins.While he is fat and selfish, he spends half of his money to honor his godfather Li Guang.

As Huang Zhongren's elder brother Huang Boren said at the beginning: The original intention of the emperor ordering the local stockpiling of grain was good.But in a disaster year, the stored food cannot be eaten by the victims!

Chang Feng witnessed with his own eyes that the common people changed their sons to eat, and was angered by Governor Nie, a rotten scholar.He has already moved to kill, wanting to kill to gain power.

Only with the prestige of imperial envoys, the local officials in Shandong will fear them and help them save the people and control the water with all their heart.

Chang Feng said angrily: "Huang Zhongren, the people in Yanggu changed their sons to eat. The imperial envoys, deputy envoys and entourages saw it with their own eyes. Such a sensational thing happened under your rule. What crime should I punish you for?"

After saying this, Chang Feng winked at Qian Ning.

Over the years, Channing has already tasted it.He knew in his heart that Chang Feng regarded him as a murderous knife.

But Channing didn't care.Killing can gain power.He wished Chang Feng could use him as a swordsman!

Qian Ning answered: "Master Chang, Huang Zhongren deserves to be punished for his crime!"

Huang Zhongren was dumbfounded: "My godfather is Li Guang, Eunuch Li, and I don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face."

Qian Ning said angrily, "Do you know who I am?"

Huang Zhongren asked: "You are?"

Qian Ning said: "Remember! I am Jinyiwei inspecting thousands of households, Qian Ning! My godfather is Qian Neng, chief of the Rites Supervisor!"

After speaking, Qian Ning drew out his waist knife.

Governor Nie became impatient: "How can the imperial court order an official to kill without authorization? Come on, please ask the king to order the flag card!"

The local governor has a king's order flag issued by the emperor, which is similar to the Shangfang sword in the opera.It can act cheaply in the local area on behalf of the emperor.Can kill and save people.

Governor Nie wanted to use the Wang Ming flag to protect Huang Zhongren's life.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Qian Ning's knife had already pierced Huang Zhongren's neck.

"Shhhhhh!" Huang Zhongren's blood spattered all over the floor.

Governor Nie was stunned.

Qian Ning shouted at the top of his voice: "Whoever doesn't take the common people seriously, this is the end!"

"A seventh-rank official is an egg! Even if Jin Yiwei kills a third-rank or fourth-rank official, it is still as easy as shaking an egg to yolk!"

"Remember, my name is Qian Ning! Who dares to disobey Liu Duyuan and Lord Chang's orders, I, Qian Ning, will be the first to give up! Huang Zhongren will end!"

Governor Nie is a corrupt scholar, where has he seen such a bloody scene?

He was startled and angry, and he stuttered: "Chen Ning, I want to participate in your indiscriminate killing of local officials!"

Qian Ning sneered: "Oh, just participate! You don't think I have done enough meritorious service in front of the emperor, so help me repay the meritorious service!"

Governor Nie looked at Liu Daxia: "Liu Daxia, Qian Ning is your entourage. Don't you care if he kills innocent people indiscriminately?"

Liu Daxia smiled slightly: "Only the Governor of Jinyiwei can take care of them."

Chang Feng and Liu Daxia sang a double reed: "Eunuch Qian's adoptive son Ganer, only Eunuch Qian can take care of him."

Governor Nie said angrily: "Okay! Okay! I heard you clearly, you killed the local officials as soon as you arrived in Shandong. I will join you!"

"Besides, I'm not in the company of bloody butchers! The Shandong government only cares about disaster relief! You can handle the flood control by yourself!"

After finishing speaking, Governor Nie shouted: "The officials of the third department will follow me back to Jinan!"

Governor Nie is tantamount to expressing his position: Don't think that our Shandong government will help you control the water.

After Governor Nie left, Liu Daxia said: "Let's go. I don't expect a corrupt scholar to help me save the people and control the water."

Chang Feng echoed: "He wants to join us. I want to join him too!"

Everyone entered the Yanggu County Government Office.The Yanggu county government office was regarded as an imperial envoy.

Chang Feng immediately wrote a notebook and a letter.

The excerpt was for Emperor Hongzhi, who participated in the impeachment of Nie Cheng, the governor of Shandong.

At the end of the book, Chang Feng wrote two sentences.These two sentences are like two knives: "Eat by changing children, it should not appear in the prosperous age of Hongzhi."

"Under the prosperous age, Luxi was starving and dying all over the country. It was the fault of Nie Cheng, the pastoral herdsman!"

The letter was written to Huang Boren, the magistrate of Laizhou, Shandong.After all, Chang Feng has a personal relationship with Huang Boren.Killing someone's younger brother requires an explanation.

The next day, Chang Feng dispatched Lishi and accountants to thirteen counties along the river to count the number of victims and estimate the amount of relief food needed for disaster relief.

Two days later, the rough estimate of the number was completed.It needs 25 shi of grain.

However, the official warehouses in the prefectures and counties of Luxi are all empty.

That guy Nie Cheng got angry with Chang Feng and Liu Daxia, and in the name of preventing the Japanese pirates from stockpiling military rations, he ordered not to allocate a grain of grain from the feudal officials and the official warehouses of Ludong Prefecture to the disaster-stricken counties.

Inside the lobby of Yanggu County.

Chang Feng discussed with Liu Daxia: "The disaster is like a fire. You have to find food first to save the lives of the victims. You can let go of the flood control."

Liu Daxia said: "Yes. We must search for food in Shandong as soon as possible. Who has food?"

Chang Feng said: "Naturally a gentry. The biggest gentry in Shandong is Kong Hongtai, Duke Yansheng. We are close friends with him, so I will write to him and persuade him to donate food and ship it to Luxi!"

After Chang Feng wrote the loan letter, he sent Shi Wenyi to Qufu on a fast horse.

After Kong Hongtai received the letter, he readily agreed. The Kong family, which owns millions of acres of land, is indeed rich and powerful.Can take out one hundred thousand stones of grain.

However, this batch of food was burned!

Those who set the fire were thousands of members of the Kong family!
The Kong family objected to Kong Hongtai's donation of food.The reason is very good: the land given by the royal family in the past dynasties is the school field.It is used by scholars in Shandong to study.

The food of our Confucian family is worthy of eating by scholars, but not by ordinary people.

Kong Hongtai, the head of the family, had a fierce conflict with thousands of people.

The clansmen thought: You are the head of the Kong family.But food is not your own.belong to the whole family.

The clansmen kept on doing nothing, and set fire to the granary where the grain was stored.

Even if it is burned, the food of the Kong family will not be eaten by those mud legs!
Sixteen million catties of grain caught fire.The fire burned for two days and one night.

These filial sons and virtuous grandchildren of the sages of Confucius dared to burn the Confucian temples that enshrined the ancestral tablets (Hongzhi 12th year), let alone food?
Yanggu County lobby.

Shi Wenyi hurried in and reported the news to Liu Daxia and Chang Feng.

Chang Feng was surprised at first when he heard the words: "Burn? Are the Kong family members cold-blooded beasts? Have all their books been read into the stomach of a dog?"

Shi Wenyi said: "The big warehouse of the Kong family was completely burned down. Duke Yan Sheng has nothing to do."

Fatty Xu interrupted: "Damn! If you dare to burn the life-saving food of ordinary people, I will take people to Qufu and arrest hundreds of people."

But Liu Daxia waved his hand: "What they burn is their own private food, not official food. And this is an internal strife in the Kong family. Although Jin Yiwei is the emperor's servant, he cannot interfere in the affairs of the Kong family."

Chang Feng fell into confusion: "Liu Duyuan. How did things turn out like this?"

"Local officials in Shandong treat ordinary people like cattle and horses. They are left to fend for themselves."

"The descendants of Confucius and Saints also treated the common people as cattle and horses. They would rather burn the food than give it to the victims."

"Shandong's gentry are like iron roosters. Taking advantage of the low price during the disaster year, they bought the victims' fields as private property, and bought the victims' daughters as playthings. They just refused to donate."

"This damn thing happened in the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, the land of etiquette!"

"What's the use of reading the books of Confucius and Mencius? What should be burned is not food, but the Four Books and Five Classics!"

"The Ming Dynasty shouldn't be like this!"

Liu Daxia comforted Chang Feng: "There are always some officials and scholars who have not lost their conscience. They can't be generalized."

At this moment, Qian Ning ran in in a hurry: "Master Chang, Huang Boren, the prefect of Laizhou, has entered Yanggu County!"

Chang Feng asked: "Is he here to collect the body of his younger brother Huang Zhongren? Return the body to him. I have always had some friendship with him."

However, Qian Ning said: "Master Chang, Huang Boren is here to deliver food! The convoy for transporting food has been exhausted for two miles! He also brought over a hundred trucks of sea salt!"

Chang Feng was surprised: "Let's go. Let's meet him at the gate of the city!"

Everyone came to the gate of the city.

Chang Feng saw Huang Boren, who was fat and out of breath.

Huang Boren was not wearing an official uniform, but a commoner.

Chang Feng held Huang Boren's hand: "Brother Huang!"

Huang Boren said: "On a mission, this time Laizhou Prefecture brought [-] shi of official grain and [-] shi of official salt to help the victims in Luxi."

"In addition, I discussed it with Gao Feng, the eunuch who supervises the gold mine. Last month, the Jiaojia and Jincheng gold mines in Laizhou produced 600 taels of gold, which will not be handed over to the court for the time being. They will also be brought to the disaster victims."

Laizhou is a land of fish and rice, and it also has the benefits of fishing and salt. It is rich in gold and is a famous rich mansion in Shandong.

During his tenure, Huang Boren was an upright and honest official, and he managed Laizhou Mansion to be full of vitality and everything to flourish.

Laizhou Prefecture is full of grain and salt.It has the ability to relieve the disaster area in Luxi.

However, Nie Cheng, the governor of Shandong, strictly ordered the governments in eastern Shandong not to transfer grain to western Shandong.Governor Nie is Huang Boren's immediate boss.Huang Boren will lose his face for doing this.

The Daming Gold Mine has extremely strict supervision.Huang Boren and the eunuch Gao Feng will lose their heads for misappropriating gold from gold mines.

In order to help the victims who were starving for food, the fat man Huang Boren went all out!

Huang Boren was naturally timid, and when he saw Jin Yiwei, he was immediately frightened by chest pain.

But this time for the common people, he gave birth to the courage to swallow the sky!

Liu Daxia sighed: "Prefect Huang, you are trading your own life for the survival of the victims!"

Huang Boren's answer was deafening: "It is the duty of an official to save the people from the water and fire, and to relieve the people from the upside down. What regrets do you have even if you are beheaded or Ling Chi?"

Chang Feng sighed with emotion: "If the officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty were as broad-minded as Brother Huang, why would the world worry about instability! How could there be a tragedy of changing sons and eating them?"

Qian Ning on the side felt a little guilty: "Prefect Huang. I killed your second brother."

Huang Boren waved his hand: "Don't mention this matter! It's his own fault. I don't have a younger brother like him!"

"I heard that the governor of Shandong and the three divisions jointly impeached Jin Yiwei for indiscriminate killing. This letter can clear your charges."

After speaking, Huang Boren took out a letter.

This letter was written to him by his younger brother Huang Zhongren.

The content of the letter is that when the younger brother ridiculed the elder brother for being pedantic.Guard the affluent land of Laizhou to live a hard life.

Huang Zhongren quite proudly taught his brother how to make money.

Taxes are divided into imperial court taxes and local miscellaneous donations.Similar to the national tax and land tax of later generations.

Huang Zhongren said that in Yanggu County, he opened bucket boat donations, chestnut donations, county donations, mountain goods donations, school donations, leather goods donations, medicine donations, theater donations, animal slaughter donations, oil extraction donations, charcoal scale donations, and manure donations. , Urine donation. A full 38 minutes of miscellaneous donations.Earn a lot of money.

He asked his elder brother to learn from him and earn tens of thousands of taels of silver from him as the magistrate of Laizhou.

Chang Feng took the letter and looked at it roughly.

Huang Boren said: "Help the letter that that beast wrote to me to the imperial court, and it will prove that he deserves to be killed! Jin Yiwei can be exonerated from the crime of indiscriminately killing local officials."

Chang Tu, who was famous in Jinghua, was moved to tears at this moment.

Killing relatives with righteousness, being honest and self-defense, he spared his life to save the people.It would be great if there were more officials like this!
Everyone entered the hall of Yanggu County.

Liu Daxia said: "Although Laizhou brought 18 shi of official food, there is still a shortfall of [-] shi for disaster relief food."

"It will take time for the imperial government to dispatch food relief. I think this is the case. First, take 15 taels from the special fund for flood control and buy food in neighboring provinces."

Huang Boren answered: "The 600 taels of gold I brought will also be used to buy grain!"

Qian Ning raised an objection: "Lord Liu, as far as I know, the imperial court's appropriations have always been earmarked for special purposes. I'm afraid the earmarked funds for water control have been embezzled for disaster relief."

Liu Daxia said: "The official who did not hesitate to lose his head to save the victims is not only Huang Zhifu! And I, Liu Daxia!"

Chang Feng said seriously: "There's me!"

The robes of Jin Yiwei echoed one after another: "There are more!"

Liu Daxia wrote a brochure explaining the reasons for misappropriating the special funds for water control, and Chang Feng, Fatty Xu, Qian Ning, Shi Wenyi and a group of guards in brocade clothes all signed their names on the brochure.

After hundreds of signatures were written, Chang Feng said: "Everyone, this time for disaster relief and flood control, we will advance and retreat together, and share weal and woe!"

"People in the imperial court say that Jin Yiwei is a group of butchers who only know how to kill people. This time, we have to show them that the butchers of Jin Yiwei have more conscience than them who are full of benevolence and morality!"

Everyone took action that day.

The accountants of Jinyiwei's newly established [-]-account office were arranged by Chang Feng to go to various provinces to buy grain.

On the other hand, Chang Feng dispatched Laizhou official food to various porridge fields in the disaster area.Cook porridge that is thick and can be inserted into chopsticks to help the victims.

The wrestlers patrolled the porridge fields.As long as grain chiefs, shed chiefs, and grain servants are found to be greedy for ink, they will be beheaded immediately.

The main hall of Qianqing Palace.

In front of the elders of the three cabinets, Emperor Hongzhi read the two memorials sent by Chang Feng and others.

After reading it, Emperor Hongzhi Longyan was furious.Directly smashed the copper to the ground hard!
This time it's not a fall, but a smash!
"Chasing children to eat should not appear in the prosperous age of Hongzhi."

"Under the prosperous age, Luxi was starving and dying all over the country. It was the fault of Nie Cheng, the pastoral herdsman!"

These two lines were like two knives, pierced into Emperor Hongzhi's heart.

Emperor Hongzhi threw the two memorials to the ground: "Take a look!"

Xu Pu, Liu Jian, and Qiu Jun picked up the notebook and circulated it.

Qiu Jun stammered: "This, this. Your Majesty, Chang Feng dared to write a rebellious statement at the end of the script. He should be punished for the crime!"

"Liu Daxia's misappropriation of special funds for water control should also be dismissed and investigated."

Emperor Hongzhi was furious: "Fart! What is Chang and Liu guilty of? Nie Cheng is to blame!"

"Qiu Jun, is this the Shandong governor you recommended to me?"

"The cabinet drafted an order. The governor of Shandong, Nie Cheng, regards the people of Li as worthless. The failure of disaster relief has led to starvation everywhere, and the decision will be made!"

"Fortunately, there is still a good official in Shandong! Order Huang Boren, the magistrate of Laizhou, to act as governor! Take the title of Minister of the Ministry of War!"

"Everyone says that I am a benevolent king! I will kill this time!"

"Pass down my oral instructions to Chang Feng. This time, anyone who obstructs disaster relief, flood control, greedy ink, food relief, and river workers' silver, from the third department to the officials, Chang Feng can kill first and then play!"

"Order the household department to immediately allocate money and food to the disaster-stricken areas in Luxi!"

　The advantage of being lazy for three days at the end of the month.But 28 words have been updated this month.Barely counts as hardworking.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)