Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

This time the imperial court sent a large team to Cangzhou, including a Xuanzhi eunuch, two Jinyiwei General Banners, and a seventh-rank official from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple.

It can be said that the five powerful departments of the Three Law Departments and the Factory Guard of the Ming Dynasty were all alarmed by this major case involving 200 million taels of silver.

The main purpose of this group of people coming to Cangzhou was to proclaim the decree and escort the relevant criminals back to Beijing.

When the angel arrived, two imperial envoys successively, and the surviving officials of the Yan Division who were not involved in the ink corruption case also stood in the lobby together, crowding the inside tightly.

There are two decrees in one, one is for Yang Tinghe, ordering him to collect enough evidence, and then he will go back to the capital together with the others to interrogate the chief Lu Yansi corruption case.

In fact, the case has now been conclusively proved.

Yang Tinghe had already sealed the silver treasury of the Changlu Salt Transport Capital Command Division. Up to now, there are only more than 5000 taels of silver left in the treasury. Such a large vacancy is enough to explain everything.

In the real history, although Yang Tinghe Ben served as the chief assistant of the cabinet during the Jiajing Dynasty, this person was upright and strong, and he made Jiajing unable to get down in the matter of great etiquette.Such a character does not have the temperament of a paper painter or a prime minister who can hold a boat in his belly.

After taking down Liu Konghe and Yang Zilie, he immediately started to question the case.

Helpless, these three people knew that their crimes were serious, so they simply kept silent, since a dead pig would not be afraid of being scalded by boiling water.

They didn't talk, and Yang Tinghe wasn't afraid, so he simply looked for a breakthrough in other officials of the Yan Division.

After five days and five nights of interrogation without sleep, his face turned pale.

In this trial, even he was frightened.A total of 34 officials were involved in the case. It can be said that the entire Salt Transport Command was uprooted from top to bottom.

It is conceivable that if this case gets out, it will immediately shake the world.

The people below have recruited, and Tanmo's payment has also been verified.

But the whereabouts of so much silver is a mystery. After all, it is more than 100 million taels of silver. If it is transported by ship, it will have to use more than a dozen large ships. As long as you check from this, you can always find clues.

Therefore, Yang Tingheyou arrested all the boatmen and sailors who transported the money back then and tortured them.

I thought that the money must have been transported back to my hometown by these three moths, but when I asked, the boatman said that so much money was sent to the capital.

Seeing these confessions, Yang Tinghe breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, and it might involve some important figures in the court.

When the person sent by the imperial court to escort the prisoner arrived, he kicked the testimony.

After reading the confession, everyone broke out in a cold sweat. If I'm not mistaken, this should be the biggest case of the Zhengde dynasty.

He kept saying that it would be better to bring the prisoner back as soon as possible, as the night grows longer, there will be more dreams, and he must find out the person behind the scenes as soon as possible, otherwise, he doesn't know what kind of chaos the situation will turn into.

Therefore, everyone gathered together to discuss, without further ado, the prisoners will be released tomorrow and set off.

In addition to the three first offenders, the Yan Division also had 34 accomplices, plus the book office, clerks, men, boatmen, and sailors, and the total number was hundreds of people.

Evil is rewarded with evil, and the law of heaven reincarnates.

But in this way, the command department of the Changlu Salt Transport Capital was almost wiped out. In addition, the post of transfer envoy, commander and acquaintance, and deputy envoy were vacant, and the group had no leader. It was basically shut down.

Ordinarily, most of the officials of the Yan Division were shot down. In order to maintain the normal transfer of the Yamen, someone should be sent to fill the vacancy as soon as possible.

But so many official positions were vacated all of a sudden, and the Ministry of Officials did not have so many people to send. According to Liu Jian and Liu Ge's opinion: after all, we have to wait until the end of the general examination next year and the admission of new Jinshi before moving to other places to transfer. people come over.

Let's leave it at that for now!

Everyone understands the meaning of Mr. Liu Ge, Changlu Salt Division is the first-class vacancies in the world, and there are countless pairs of eyes staring at any official position.Who to let go and who not to let go must be carefully considered, otherwise it will be a big disturbance.

After all, it is necessary to balance the forces of all parties in the court, and it is necessary to satisfy everyone.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it will take time to find a balance, and the shortage of the salt department will not be filled.

First ask someone to temporarily take the post of transfer envoy, and use the rest of the original team to temporarily maintain it.

Therefore, there is a second edict.

Su Mu, the eunuch who declared the decree, also knew that it was the old man from the East Palace, surnamed Lin and named Sen, who was just a small person in Xiyuan before.Later, Emperor Zhengde succeeded Dabao. This person seemed to be a young prisoner in the palace, and he could be regarded as a management sign.

When he was in the capital, Su Mu also paid attention to the placement of the old people in the East Palace, and when he heard that Lin Sen suddenly became a steward, he scratched his head for a long time.Only then did he remember that this person was one of the Eight Tigers around Emperor Zhengde, and his name was also left in the history books.

It's just that this person is low-key, and even later, he doesn't seem to have done anything. Among the Eight Tigers, he is just a soy sauce.

After the first imperial decree was announced, Lin Sen coughed and said in a sharp voice: "Since the criminal has been arrested, the evidence has also been collected. Please, my lords, escort the relevant people back to Beijing tomorrow to hand over the decree!"

Yang Tinghe, as the most honored person among the officials, said, "Observe the order."

Lin Sen continued: "His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress Dowager have said again that the Office of Salt is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, so it has to be maintained for the time being, and someone has to be temporarily replaced for a few months."

After saying this, everyone's eyes fell on Yang Tinghe.

Mr. Yang is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, regardless of his grade or prestige, he is sufficient for this position.Indeed, only this person can shock the scene.

Yang Tinghe also thought that he might stay in Cangzhou, so he frowned unconsciously.To be honest, he was somewhat unwilling in his heart.

As a person who aspires to join the cabinet, staying in a place like the Imperial Academy is the best choice.Even if you want to go down to a place, you have to go to a remote place.Entering a place like the Salt Division involves too many areas, and there are large sums of cash coming in and out. If you don't pay attention, the devil knows what will go wrong.If the speech officials seized the handle and attacked them in groups, and their reputation was damaged, how would they join the cabinet in the future?

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty seems to have an unwritten unspoken rule in the officialdom. Once an important person like Yang Tinghe who was in charge of the central government was sent to a local government to serve as a Zhengyin official, especially in a well-oiled yamen, it meant an upward path. has been blocked.As compensation, let them go to a good place to retire and make a fortune. ,

Speaking of it, it's really a bit like the officials of later generations, when they reach their age, before they retire, they are sent to a large state-owned enterprise as the chairman, and they retire after receiving a few million annual salary.

Su Mu also thought that Yang Tinghe was going to be left behind, and he was surprised: No, this Yang Tinghe, as an imperial servant, can be regarded as the old man of Emperor Zhengde's East Palace, at least in name.After Liu Jian and the others were kicked out of the cabinet by Liu Jin, they became cabinet ministers. They have been doing this for more than ten years. In the Jiajing Dynasty, they were Yuanfu who were under one person and above ten thousand people.Moreover, Lao Yang has made such a great contribution and his reputation is right, so why was he dismissed?