Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 329: There is an unexpected gain
Zhong Niu then brought in the sorted news.

Wang Buli took a closer look in the candlelight and thought that he was the owner of a newly opened shop in Jiangning County. He made a lot of money by trading with the imperial court and Goryeo.

According to the investigation, life was not very satisfactory in the past.

"Has the whole family been arrested?"

"They are all waiting in the prison."

Wang Buli put down the letter in his hand and said, "Tell them that as long as they tell the truth and report other White Lotus sect members, the government will not implicate them.

If the other White Lotus sect members cannot be caught, they are just the remnants. Tell Lao Tian not to go too far with them.

There are quite a few Christians hiding in Nanjing, and we will try our best to find them all.”

"Yes."

Zhong Niu responded and left the room.

When the jailer Tian Liugen got the exact information, he went there immediately.

Anyway, they are all victims. If they help to conceal the infighting among the White Lotus Sect, it would be extremely foolish.

Wang Buli was thinking that many people joined the White Lotus just to survive or to help out.

Nowadays, some people have become wealthy due to the court's policies and are not so enthusiastic about the White Lotus Sect.

Obviously some senior officials will not allow this to happen, and they must use tough measures to clean up the mess.

This is to warn others.

Under such high-pressure rule, problems are very likely to arise.

"Forget it."

Wang Buli lay down again, too lazy to pay attention to this matter.

Let’s talk about it tomorrow. What we should be most worried about now is the murderer.

Zhu Yuanzhang himself encouraged informing on others, and he was willing to support not only the censors but also the ordinary people.

So Tian Liugen didn't have to spend too much effort. He brought many White Lotus members and suspected White Lotus members to the prison overnight through mutual accusations.

When Wang Buli finished his breakfast and entered the cell, he saw that the originally empty cell was suddenly more than half full.

"Old Tian, ​​the effect is remarkable!"

Tian Liugen's eyes were red, he had stayed up all night.

At this time, I can't help feeling a little proud:
"It is all thanks to the Prince Consort's decisive orders that I was able to achieve such great results in a short period of time."

"Ah."

Wang Buli nodded slightly to indicate that he understood.

As he appeared, many people began to cry out for justice through the fence.

After all, they were all wronged.

"Whether you have been wrongly accused or not needs further investigation, but the fact that your whole family is here means something must have happened."

Wang Buli looked around and saw Old Zhang, who was selling noodles at the gate of the yamen, also appeared here, with his brows slightly raised.

"Are you also a member of the White Lotus sect?"

Last time, we happened to be eating noodles there and that beggar came looking for us. Was he looking for Lao Zhang?
Did I just happen to be eating noodles at his stall?

"Reply to the Prince Consort's question." Old Zhang looked ashamed: "Tiantou said my mother was a member of the White Lotus Sect, I really didn't know!"

If the White Lotus scriptures had not been found in the house, Old Zhang would have shouted at the top of his voice at night, "I know the Prince Consort."

If you dare to arrest people at will, the Prince Consort will certainly deal with it impartially.

As a result, as soon as the scripture came out, Lao Zhang collapsed to the ground.

He never thought that the incense his mother had been burning was not for his father, but for the scriptures.

Wang Buli glanced at the family in the single room.

"After the matter is investigated, you will be cleared of all charges. If you don't know anything, I won't make things difficult for you."

Old Zhang hugged the pillar, not knowing what to say.

All in all, this matter is like mud falling into your crotch, it's shit if not shit.

Wang Buli just said it once and didn't wait for Lao Zhang's reply.

Who can tell whether this is true or false?

At least I didn't drug myself when I ate at his noodle stall.

Of course, Wang Buli was horrified when he recalled that he brought Zhu Yuanzhang to eat at his stall.

Fortunately, no one knew Zhu Yuanzhang very well.

motherfucker.

Wang Buli now somewhat understood the reason behind Zhu Yuanzhang's high sensitivity.

Everyone had long been caught in a chain of suspicion. There were so many members of the White Lotus Sect in the capital, and no one dared to eat outside easily.

Even if the truth was found out, Wang Buli felt that it was impossible for someone like Zhang Ge to stay in the capital, and the best outcome would be to be exiled to guard the border.

No one in the family, young or old, can ever come back.

Wang Buli has already planned to arrange them all around Peking. When the time comes for the Fourth Brother to purge the court and recruit soldiers, these people may be of help.

It doesn't matter where you guard the border!

After strolling around, Wang Buli discovered that the influence of the White Lotus Sect was quite large.

The White Lotus Sect was also involved in the great uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and did a lot to spread its teachings.

Why can't women join the White Lotus Sect?

Wang Buli sighed. When the fourth brother came to power, the leader of the White Lotus Uprising in Shandong was also a woman.

"My Lord, the list is still growing."

Tian Liugen stood aside and whispered, "The next thing is about the people involved in Shangyuan County."

"Bullhead, come here."

Wang Buli shouted.

Tell Zhong Niu to take his warrant and go directly to Shangyuan County to arrest the person, and also say hello to Ding Haidong and ask him to cooperate.

Zhong Niu took Wang Buli's order and the new list given by Tian Liugen, and called a group of people to leave.

There were more soldiers patrolling the streets, and Lan Yu directly dispatched troops to patrol back and forth.

In particular, we conducted a dragnet search in the area where no trace of the person was found by the dog yesterday.

Even if the tunnel is not found, we still have to knock on the door carefully and ask those people if they have found the murderer.

This murderer is extremely cruel. If you tell him that there is any clue about him, you will be rewarded.

So far, no effective clues have been received.

According to Wang Buli's request, some people have already rushed to the Imperial College to check the information to see if the person is a student there.

Ding Haidong, the magistrate of Shangyuan County, looked at the list provided by Wang Buli and thought that the first person to be arrested would be the officials.

"Zhong Niu, are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"

"Are you questioning the Prince Consort?"

"Don't dare."

Zhong Niu looked at the newly built house and nodded:
"This is the family. Arrest all of them. No one is allowed to escape."

"Yes." When the bailiffs rushed in, they were resisted by the family members, who shouted, "Who dares to arrest me?"

In short, it is very rampant.

Zhong Niu looked at Ding Haidong with dissatisfaction. Are the people under him so useless?
Or is he unwilling to help in capturing their people in his territory of Shangyuan County?

"If someone escapes, you, Ding Haidong, will be one of the remnants of the White Lotus Sect. No one has pleaded for you in this matter, and you are so ignorant of the seriousness of the matter. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

Hearing this, Ding Haidong shuddered.

Although Wang Buli was usually very polite, he was never polite to prisoners.

This kid is definitely a living devil.

Ding Haidong immediately went up and slapped the prisoner twice:

"Even if the gods come, they can't save you. If one of the Wu family escapes, you will all die. Lock them up!"

"Yes."

With a clang, all the iron chains were set up.

Wang Buli looked at the testimonies of the arrested people in Shangyuan County, and as he listened, he felt that these people began to blame Wu Qingfu without any prior agreement.

He was a patrol clerk in Shangyuan County, a grassroots staff member responsible for the specific tax collection.

These White Lotus followers joined the White Lotus because of him.

Wu Qingfu bought two cows from the villager Cheng Bao's family to use on the farm and demanded a tax of 26 strings of cash.

The common people Cheng Bao did not dare to resist, so he gave in.

The family built a house and used all the wood from the local mountains. Wu Qingfu demanded eighty strings of cash as tax.

Customers selling dried fish who come to this town are required to pay taxes and are allowed to buy 30 kilograms of dried fish.

"Your motherfucker."

Wang Buli originally thought that the policy was well formulated, but it was implemented incorrectly in Shangyuan County.

The people living in the mountains built houses using trees grown in their own fields, but Wu Qingfu actually collected 80 strings of cash as a timber tax from them.

The two oxen of the common people were bought from merchants. At that time, they had already been "officially deeded", which means that the taxes had been paid by the merchants. However, Wu Qingfu went to collect 26 strings of cash in taxes from the farmers.

Those small vendors selling dried fish, those with strong strength carry over 100 kilograms each time, those with medium strength carry 80 kilograms, and those with weak strength carry 60 kilograms.

Wu Qingfu actually wanted to collect 30 kilograms of dried fish from them as tax deduction.

Moreover, "everywhere in the countryside, regardless of whether they have a store or not, all door stalls are taxed." Regardless of whether rural residents have opened a store to do business or not, all are subject to "door stall tax"!
The original target of this tax was small merchants who set up stalls on the streets of the city to sell goods.

These small businessmen have limited capital and are unable to purchase fixed shops, so they have to find an empty space on the street, set up stalls in the morning and close them in the evening.

Wu Qingfu went down to the countryside and collected "door tax" from house to house.

Wang Buli originally made plans for these small vendors in Jiangning County, asking them to pay some stall taxes to encourage their business.

Wow, when he got to the neighboring Shangyuan County, he really dared to collect taxes!
"What does the magistrate of Shangyuan County do for a living? How could he be fooled like this?"

Wang Buli passed the news to the county magistrate Wu Wei: "County Magistrate Wu, you should handle this matter first. It's too late to catch rabbits while raking grass."

After Wu Wei took it, he looked at it carefully and couldn't help but exclaimed:
"I don't believe that a clerk like him would dare to do this without someone above him.

We can investigate it carefully. I will collect some information and send it to the Ministry of Justice."

Wang Buli nodded. It seemed that many people in Shangyuan County joined the White Lotus Sect, and they were completely forced to do so.

Wherever there is oppression, there are signs of White Lotus activity.

Wang Buli also knew why the White Lotus Sect could not be completely eliminated.

Even in the counties of the Ming Dynasty capital there are corrupt officials who dare to act like this, let alone the prefectures and counties far away.

How rampant were those officials and clerks?
It would be too much of a chore for Old Zhu to handle this alone.

Zhu Yuanzhang worked so hard just to make the Ming Dynasty last longer.

Those corrupt officials work so hard to put money into their own pockets, also for the purpose of allowing their family to survive for a long time.

How can you get rich, accumulate initial capital, and become bigger and stronger if you are not greedy or take advantage of others?
According to Lao Zhu, patrolling the railings was an unpaid labor imposed on the people by the government.

Zhu Yuanzhang's policy was "to only select the wealthy urban households and not to select the peasants."

When the government assigned patrols, they could only choose the wealthy people in the towns.

This was a common method used during the Hongwu era to crack down on the wealthy.

Rich people who worked as patrolmen received no salary, and if they failed to complete their tax collection tasks they would be punished and had to use their own property to make up the shortfall.

Moreover, because patrolmen are the lowest-level staff in the system, they are generally exploited by their superiors.

Although there is no salary, Wang Buli has included patrol officers in the scope of those who can receive subsidies.

Subsidies are given out every month based on his tax collection.

"Damn it, this guy is really ruining our reputation. For the same product, not only does he tax the seller, he also taxes the buyer, taking advantage of both ends."

Wang Buli stood up and was a little angry:
"Why didn't anyone report him? Did he protect everyone in Shangyuan County?"

Tian Liugen thought that only because you are in the position of Dianshi, you can be fair and just, and none of your brothers dare to take more than they deserve.

They had also heard some rumors in Shangyuan County.

But Wang Buli had not been on duty at the county government office recently, so he had not heard of these things.

That group of people didn't understand what long-term planning meant. When they saw that the court had finally given them an easing in Shangyuan County, they no longer had to drool over the treatment of the yamen runners in Jiangning County.

He was making money happily, fearing that he wouldn't get enough.

"But since there is a possibility of widespread corruption." Wang Buli did not wait for Jiang Huan to answer him, and continued:

"This time, the news was spread based on the affairs of the White Lotus remnants, so it won't leak out.

Then wait and see. After we find out, there will definitely be a lot of vacancies in Shangyuan County."

Wang Buli put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "It's time for my subordinates to get promoted."

When Jiang Huan heard this, he felt that Wang Buli was overthinking.

Everyone knows the treatment in Jiangning County Government nowadays. Who would be willing to give up the goose that lays golden eggs and Wang Buli's big thick leg for the sake of promotion?
Wu Wei's memorial was quickly sent to the Ministry of Justice.

When the Minister of Justice Qian Tang saw this, he was immediately shocked. He did not dare to delay and immediately asked the emperor for instructions.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished reading it, he shouted, "Oh my God!"

He really didn't expect that a low-level clerk would dare to be so rampant under his nose!

"No need to interrogate him, just let him be tortured to death immediately."

Zhu Yuanzhang still felt unsatisfied: "All his brothers and sons who assisted him in his evil deeds should be beheaded and displayed to the public. From now on, the standard punishment for patrolling and harming the people is death by slicing."

Zhu Biao also finished reading it silently, and then advised:
"Dad, we've already caught him. We shouldn't rush to execute him. We should still interrogate him thoroughly.

According to the records retrieved from the Ministry of Personnel, it was Wu Qingfu who took the initiative to ask to be the patrol officer.

I guess he must be seeking benefits, so considering what he did, it would be hard not to bribe him a bit!"

"Ah."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, but in his heart he had already sentenced the magistrate of Shangyuan County to death.

In the two county yamen in the capital, no new human skins have appeared to warn others for a long time!

In the face of such a heinous incident, killing is not enough to quell Lao Zhu's inner anger.

"Qian Tang, you go to the trial yourself and tell our son-in-law to arrest more corrupt officials. I will punish them severely!"

(End of this chapter)