"Father, do you really want to go to Zhejiang?" Huang Yunfang whispered: "It's good to go to Zhejiang. It has beautiful mountains and clear waters, and is rich and prosperous. When you get old, you can also express your love for the mountains and rivers and write more articles and poems."
Huang Guan was a little moved just now, but when he heard the next words, he simply rolled his eyes. You are my dear girl, otherwise I will slap you!
At this time, Xu Xianzhong was very happy when he heard that his grandfather was leaving.
"Go away, go away, and never come back!"
The little bastard clapped his hands happily, and Huang Guan almost fell down in anger. Why did he meet such a little bastard? He has no conscience!
"My father is here to inspect Zhejiang for Your Majesty to clean up the accumulated abuses. I'm afraid I will have to go for a while. You must take care of yourselves in the capital. Okay, I'm leaving."
After saying that, Huang Guan got up and walked outside.
My daughter and grandson didn't say anything, and the little boy was even more applauded. When he arrived at the door, he happened to run into Xu Jingchang.
"Father-in-law, you don't need to go out. The Ministry of Rites is in a special situation. I can think of some way to let you stay."
The son-in-law still had some conscience, Huang Guan sighed deeply, "Okay, I can't make it difficult for you. This time, all six ministers will be released. I also want to go to places to see if I can eradicate evil or implement the new system."
Whatever... I don’t want to stay in the capital forever and be a waste waiting to die."
Then Huang Guan said again: "You should also be careful. A big tree attracts the wind, and those who succeed us may not be good people. In short, people's hearts are separated from each other, so don't capsize in the gutter."
Xu Jingchang nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, father-in-law, I won't get involved in too many specific government affairs. Let them do everything. How can I go wrong?"
“It’s not bad not to do it!”
Huang Guan laughed loudly, "You have reminded me, if I am in Zhejiang and do nothing, will I be able to return to the DPRK smoothly?"
Xu Jingchang smiled and said: "Isn't it easy? After all, I am still in court!"
Huang Guan raised his eyebrows and thought in his mind that Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji and others were also ordered to patrol the area. But they lacked a good son-in-law. If they wanted to return to the court smoothly, they had to make a big splash, otherwise they would not be able to come back at all.
With the methods of these people, they went to a place that was really lively.
Thinking of this, Huang Guan's mood improved. This was so much fun.
After turning around, Huang Guan left Yingtian and headed for Hangzhou with a good mood.
He did not choose the land route, but took the water route. He took a boat out of the Yangtze River Estuary, went straight to Hangzhou Bay, and landed at sea. As soon as Huang Guan arrived in Hangzhou, he heard the news that a barbarian merchant had bought a singing girl and planned to take it back to his home country.
After the singer realized that she was about to go to sea, she jumped into the sea in anger and died.
This incident quickly detonated the city of Hangzhou. Everyone said anything, and people argued with each other and became very noisy...
Huang Guan called the officials from Zhejiang to learn about the matter personally.
Xu Xilong, the inspector-general, bowed and said: "Uncle Zong, my subordinates have already investigated this matter in detail. It is indeed difficult to handle."
"Why is it so difficult?"
Xu Xilong said: "The imperial court cleaned up the brothels and painted boats in Yingtian. We are aware of this matter. Zhejiang has also carried out rectification and strictly prohibited forcing good girls into prostitution. If any brothel has anything to do with people's lives, we will strictly investigate and punish hundreds of them.
The cases have all been reported to the Ministry of Justice... Now for this matter, please invite the singer to come over. She is a musician herself, so there is no problem. She sang on the boat, and the barbarian merchants also spent money. What happened next is what you and I wanted.
There was a dispute and she committed suicide by jumping off the ship. During this period, the barbarian merchant was not on the ship, but went to the Shipping Department to purchase 200,000 pieces of silk. During this time, she committed suicide. It is true that the barbarian merchant was blamed."
Huang Guan listened carefully, and then said: "Then how will this case be settled? How will you conclude the case when you are sent to the Procuratorate for Punishment?"
"We...we plan to count it as a slip and fall into the water, and unfortunately drowned. We will order the barbarian merchants to compensate one thousand taels, which will be used for burial expenses."
Huang Guan nodded when he heard this, "You guys are really well-intentioned, it's not easy!"
Xu Xilong was overjoyed and said, "Uncle Da Zong can understand our difficulties. It is really a blessing for me. I would like to thank Uncle Da Zong for understanding everything..."
Snapped!
Before Xu Xilong could finish speaking, Huang Guan slammed the table and stood up in a rage.
"I don't want to curse, but you have really embarrassed Ming Dynasty! Do you think you can deceive me with such ridiculous means?"
Xu Xilong was greatly surprised and said quickly: "I don't understand what Uncle Da Zong means. I don't dare to deceive him!"
"Someone, take him down!"
Huang Guan gave the order, and someone rushed forward, directly holding Xu Xilong's shoulders and knocking him to the ground.
Huang Guan didn't even bother to look at him and just asked someone to drag this guy down.
Then he took a deep breath and looked at the other trembling Zhejiang officials.
"Do you think I am unreasonable and unreasonable in taking people for no reason?"
Huang Guan sneered, "Although I don't care about the punishment, I can understand this method. First, let's say that the singer is a member of the music industry, not a member of a good family. It is reasonable and reasonable to invite her over...Then he said that the barbarian merchants were not present when he jumped into the sea.
, so there is no direct fault, just some compensation."
"But have you ever thought about it? If the barbarian merchant hadn't invited him, how could the singer get on his ship? No one wanted to take her overseas, so how could she jump into the sea and die? She just likes to commit suicide when she has nothing to do, right?"
Huang Guan slapped the table and said angrily: "This is one thing. After you opened it, you wanted to exonerate the barbarian merchants... How much did he give you? Don't worry, I will find out. I definitely won't.
Let any Ming citizen die in vain!"
Huang Guan's words were very resounding.
Although Le Ji was considered a pariah, no matter what, he was still a common person officially recognized by the Ming Dynasty.
Since we are citizens of the Ming Dynasty, we cannot die in vain.
In one fell swoop, Huang Guan captured the entire officials of the Prosecution and Prosecution Department, and then the officials of the Municipal Shipping Department.
He is really unscrupulous and shows no mercy.
Huang Guan soon found out what the case was like... He was directly defined in the case file as an attempt to rob and traffic the people of the Ming Dynasty, but he failed and forced people to die!
Once this result came out, it caused huge waves.
Because the people of the Ming Dynasty were kidnapped, sold and robbed, according to the current laws of the Ming Dynasty, they would be cut into pieces with a thousand cuts, and there would be absolutely no room for mercy.
Huang Guan was not polite and later wrote a long article to explain the matter.
Later, this article also spread to the capital, and everyone, including Xu Jingchang, saw the masterpiece of his old father-in-law... I have to say that Huang Guan really got into it and analyzed it clearly.
First of all, a large number of barbarian merchants came to the Ming Dynasty to do business, including people from the Japanese state. During the Song Dynasty, the Japanese people came to the Song Dynasty to borrow seeds.
However, as the Yuan Dynasty failed to conquer the Japanese country, the Japanese people became arrogant again and began to look down on the Ming Dynasty. Japanese pirates continued to harass the sea areas.
In the past few years, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty has been restored, the maritime fleet has been unimpeded, and Japanese businessmen have come to the Ming Dynasty to do business, and even Japanese women have come to the Ming Dynasty to borrow seeds.
There are so many things like this, so naturally some people are thinking about whether they can get the women of the Ming Dynasty to go overseas, so that the children born in this way may be better.
Therefore, some people are willing to spend a lot of money and want to pay a betrothal gift, marry the matchmaker, or buy a concubine.
Unfortunately, these plans rarely succeed.
Han women are not willing to deal with overseas barbarians at all. Even if someone is occasionally willing to do so, they will immediately shake their heads when they hear that they want to live overseas.
Our Ming Dynasty is so good and has everything. Why is it that our country is in heaven, so why should we degenerate and go overseas to suffer hardships?
It is beneficial for men to go overseas. They can make a lot of money and honor their ancestors. Why do women go overseas?
Isn’t this nonsense!
With this kind of thinking, there is no way it will work.
Even if the woman is willing, the family is not willing... Even if the family is willing, there are so many relatives and friends, but they will not agree.
On the contrary, if a man married a Yi woman, the Ming Dynasty was relatively tolerant. As long as he did not act as the head wife, it was even encouraged.
If a mixed-race baby is born, there won't be much of a problem... As long as he can speak Chinese fluently, everyone will be very tolerant and loving, and he will enroll in school and there will be no problems.
Since formal methods don't work, some people have come up with crooked ideas.
Moreover, Huang Guan also found out that some barbarian merchants admitted that in addition to admiring the products of the Ming Dynasty, the powerful people in their country were also particularly obsessed with everything about the Ming Dynasty.
Take those porcelains for example. The characters painted on them are so lifelike that they often attract admiration.
Many powerful people dreamed of getting Ming Dynasty women to use as wives and concubines to show off in front of other nobles. How glorious would that be?
Therefore, some people offered exorbitant prices just to get a Ming Dynasty woman.
Someone makes an offer, and someone dares to take the risk.
He coaxed the singing girl to board the ship and bribed him into a brothel.
As long as the money is enough, what does a lowly woman mean?
After all, it’s all about making money. As long as you have money, what’s the difficulty in finding a few women?
Therefore, the people from the brothel did not allow the woman to get off the boat, forcing her to have no choice but to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
When things got to this point, officials were involved.
When human lives are at stake, why are officials unwilling to act impartially and want to excuse the barbarian merchants?
In addition to the money spent by the barbarian merchants, there is another thing. In the eyes of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the singers are not considered human beings. Of course, the barbarian merchants are not considered human beings, but the barbarian merchants are rich!
If the case is handled impartially and the matter is dealt with, the barbarian merchants will be frightened away and business will not continue, and the local officials will have to bear the consequences.
Huang Guan peeled off the cocoon and explained the matter clearly and clearly.
"You can see the big from the small, and you can see the whole leopard at a glance. This article by Huang Shangshu is worth thousands of gold, every word is precious!" Zhu Di sighed: "General Affairs Secretary, immediately promulgate it to the world, let everyone see it, the seventh grade
When you become an official, you must hand over your experience."
Naturally, Xu Jingchang would not refuse, "Your Majesty is wise, I believe that based on this case, several orders must be issued."
Zhu Di said: "Tell me, what are the orders?"
"Your Majesty, for the first item, can we completely abolish the low status?" Xu Jingchang said: "As long as the low status is still there, you will inevitably despise life. If you are a singer with a music status today, you may not be a good family girl tomorrow. After all, as long as you have a low status, you will inevitably despise life.
If there are loopholes, someone will exploit them!"
Zhu Di paused, nodded and said: "Yes, but we must proceed step by step, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to be bought or sold to outsiders. This is the most important thing. As for the matter of low status, after all, there are some nobles in the clan, and they have many concubines.
How to calculate it still needs to be calculated."
Xu Jingchang nodded, "Your Majesty is more thoughtful, I will make arrangements now."
Zhu Di asked again: "You just mentioned a few decrees, are there any others?"
"Yes." Xu Jingchang said: "In view of the increasing number of barbarian merchants, management must be strengthened. It must be clear that when they come to the Ming Dynasty, what they can and cannot do must be decided by the Ming Dynasty. Anyone who dares to violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty
Yes, we must severely punish them without mercy. I propose to set up a special law enforcement agency."
"Okay!" Zhu Di agreed decisively.
"One more point, if some barbarian merchants leave because of the severe punishment of the Ming Dynasty and are unwilling to do business with the Ming Dynasty, I think the Ming Dynasty needs to take the initiative to send fleets to the other country and open the country! Dare not to do business with the Ming Dynasty,
It’s totally outrageous!”
When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately clapped his hands and said, "Very good, very good! That's it."
Xu Jingchang then returned to the General Administration Department and immediately ordered to summon ministers from all ministries to come.
This time people are different.
Yang Shiqi, the Minister of Official Affairs, Yang Rong, the Minister of Hubu, Yang Pu, the Minister of War, Hu Guang, the Minister of Works, Huang Huai, the Minister of Rites, and Jin Youzi, the Minister of Punishments.
All are new faces, but not new faces.
The ministers of the cabinet are officially in charge of the six ministries. This can be regarded as a daughter-in-law who has become a mother-in-law after many years.
But what is worth pondering is that Yang Rong was obviously more familiar with the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, but he was assigned to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Yang Shiqi, who knew more about the Ministry of Rites, was assigned to the Ministry of Personnel. However, Yang Pu, who was recognized as a financial expert, was placed in the Ministry of War...
It's hard to say which genius' method it is.
Xu Jingchang looked at them and said with a smile: "We are all old friends and we work together, so let's not talk nonsense. This matter in Zhejiang is not trivial. It is not just targeted at Yi merchants, but also at Hu merchants from all over the world.
, merchants in the southwest and other places must inform all officials that they must maintain the national dignity of the Ming Dynasty. If they harm the national dignity, they must be severely punished!"
Jin Youzi, the Minister of Punishment, said: "Dingguo Gong, in this case, how to calculate the case in Hangzhou?"
"According to national law!" Xu Jingchang said: "This is a very serious situation, and the Ministry of Punishment should have a firm attitude."
It is true that this was said, but it is not much different from not saying it.
Jin Youzi couldn't say anything else. It seemed that the head of the Zhejiang governor could not be saved, and the other officials must also be severely punished. Huang Shangshu went to Zhejiang, and when he arrived, he sacrificed a third-rank official and more than a dozen heads to the flag. It was really shocking.
!
After saying this, Yang Shiqi coughed slightly and said, "Dong Guogong, there is news from Jian Shangshu. He wants to impeach officials and generals from nine sides. He is implicated in corruption, perversion of the law, smuggling and fraud. There are so many crimes that it is difficult to write down."
Xu Jingchang said: "Then we will investigate and punish the crime according to the law."
Yang Rong also said: "Ding Guo Gong, Xia Shangshu also wrote a letter of impeachment. In Henan and other places, there are too many people, officials are derelict in their duties, and there are also people who pretend to receive salaries and are greedy and wasteful."
Xu Jingchang laughed loudly, "This is a good thing. All officials in the imperial court are working together to eradicate bad governance. As long as it is verified, they will be severely punished."
