In the eyes of these court officials, Lao Zhu should just accept it as soon as he sees fit. After all, these officials in the Ministry of Revenue have already paid the price. With them leading the way, officials in other ministries have also restrained themselves a lot. How much should they pay?
We also cooperated well with the tax department in calculating our business taxes.
There is no case of the Ministry of Revenue deliberately hiding files with the intention of tax evasion.
The new tax law has been implemented according to your old ideas, and the tax department has been established. Even if you want to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, the chicken is dead now.
We monkeys are already trembling with fear. You should stop calming down and appease the officials, right? You have to give a sweet date to a slap in the face. Are all the officials really overthrown? Who will do it?
Working for your old Zhu family?
According to the experience of past dynasties, it is indeed time for Lao Zhu to appease the court officials at this time and say hello to me and hello to everyone. Speaking of which, this investigation of the Household Department is already earth-shattering. Compared with the emperor's previous years,
When they launched a sudden move to remove Huaixi civil servants, in their view, Lao Zhu should step forward to maintain the stability of the DPRK and China no matter what at this time, and would not continue to torment.
However, Lao Zhu told them with his actions: Investigate! Keep investigating! We can't stand you idiots in our eyes!
Just when all the officials in the dynasty thought that the matter of commercial taxation had been settled, as long as the family temporarily shed more blood and fed the tax department's wolf, they could maintain the status quo and continue their romance.
The big deal is just to spend more time and find some way to make up for this shortfall from the people. It's not a big deal.
A trivial incident completely detonated a major case that was ten times more serious than the tax evasion case at the Ministry of Revenue.
The cause was an official who was escorting tax grains from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the Ministry of Household Affairs. He found that the Ministry of Household Affairs was paralyzed and there was no one in charge. He was called into the palace by the emperor at the time when the six gods were without a leader.
When they entered the palace for inspection, they found many blank documents with seals but no words in them from his sleeves.
However, now, Lao Zhu was already prepared. He called Zhu Di, who had just been recalled to the capital, and told him:
"Fourth Brother, go and take all the thieves you captured back to the capital and put them in the market. Explain their crimes to the common people in detail."
Therefore, all officials responsible for transporting taxes, grains and other goods into Beijing will keep a few blank documents with only seals on them. Fortunately, after the Ministry of Household Affairs checks them, they can then write the amount on the document. In this way, there will be no problems.
The situation where the physical objects and documents do not match the numbers and cannot be stored in the warehouse also avoids the situation of repeated tax increases due to insufficient tax and grain, which is a waste of effort and burdens the people.
"His Royal Highness, King Yan, captured me for this purpose. He wanted to kill me here and abandon the market!" Zheng Shili was praised by the people, and he held his head high. "Your Highness, even if you can kill me, you don't know how to defend the people."
Mouth is better than Fangchuan! Heaven and earth have their own righteousness, and even if we die, we cannot cover up this clear sky!"
In the BC Yuan Dynasty, this approach was a tacit understanding in officialdom, and it was not illegal. The official said it plausibly and looked aggrieved.
The empty seal case broke out!
The ministers in the court were all confused. They never expected that they were going to hold their noses and cooperate with His Majesty's new tax law, tacitly agreeing that His Majesty would kill them. His Majesty was still so unreasonable. This was to destroy the Ming Dynasty.
All the tables in the bureau were overturned!
But there are still some people who think that the empty seal case must be a big deal. This case has too many implications. If so many officials inside and outside the capital are questioned, His Majesty himself will probably become a bachelor.
The emperor?
Everyone underestimated Lao Zhu's courage. Zheng Shili, a native of Ninghai, Zhejiang, organized a group of scholars and literati after his brother Zheng Shiyuan, the inspector general of Huguang, was arrested, and jointly signed a letter to Lao Zhu, lamenting the harm caused by the Kongyin case.
Lao Zhu was furious and issued documents with blank seals and stamped them directly on the white paper. This was a naked use of the power of the state and the dynasty to give and receive privately! You know, if a blank document with a seal falls into the hands of a caring person,
There is a great danger!
"If you want to scare me into changing my mind, then I advise you, Your Highness, to save some effort. It is unreasonable and ruthless to seal the case in vain. Even if it is a long knife to the neck, I will still speak out!"
If the documents are written and transported to the capital at the beginning of the shipment, there will definitely be discrepancies when the officials in the capital check them. The amount in the document does not match the actual object, resulting in the inability to put it into the warehouse, and the trip is in vain.
of.
After interrogation, it was discovered that these blank documents were used to reconcile the amount of tax and grain with the Ministry of Household Affairs. The official who transported the grain shouted that he was wronged and said that there must be losses on the road when grain and tax were transported to Beijing from foreign enemies.
Zheng Shili believes that the matter of empty seals has been a common rule since the Yuan Dynasty, and the national law has not expressly prohibited it. Officials should not be imprisoned for this; moreover, the paper of the empty seal is stamped with a seal, and everything involves Beijing.
Due to the coordination of external transportation, it is inevitable that the figures will vary. Officials use blank documents with blank seals in order not to delay important affairs of the country and the government, and they are reasonable and should not be punished.
This statement actually aroused a chorus of praise among the scholars. Among the scholars, many people praised Zheng Shili for speaking up, and believed that the empty seal was actually for the sake of the smooth running of the country, and it did not have much to do with it.
"Remember, we must also drag Zheng Shili and the literati who co-signed with him. We want to see if they can confuse right and wrong in front of the people and insist that I am a foolish tyrant!"
Investigate! We must get to the bottom of it! No matter how big or small the official position is, if there is anything related to empty-printed documents, they will be dealt with!
As a result, another explosion broke out in the Ming Dynasty Hall in an instant. However, this time it was not just the Household Department that suffered, almost all officials in the court were within the scope of the Yushitai and Jinyiwei's inquiries.
Lao Zhu was furious, this was a naked deception! He immediately ordered Yushitai and Jinyiwei to jointly handle the case. This investigation did not matter, it was actually found that all the ministries in the court had this kind of use of blank-seal documents.
shape. After all, it is not just the Household Department that needs to communicate with the four parties. As long as it involves China Unicom and outside, more or less, for the convenience of doing things, this kind of blank document has been used.
"Humph, these rotten scholars will indeed jump out to stir up public opinion and clear the ground for their relatives and masters who are officials in the court." After Lao Zhu received the letter from Zheng Shili and other scholars, he was not surprised. The process of empty printing in history
, he had heard Zhu Su tell him a long time ago.
Zhu Di took the order and left, and in the afternoon of that day, he built an extremely wide platform on the most prosperous South Street of Yingtian Mansion. Zheng Shili and others were also escorted to the scene by Jin Yiwei, but they still looked unruly and kept shouting and scolding. Even
Some people who didn't know the truth also gave thumbs up after seeing it, praising people like Zheng Shili for being such literary men.
Even in history, due to the inability to respond to this letter, and the power of speech was mostly controlled by the literati, some people in later generations actually believed that the Kongyin case was caused by Lao Zhu's own overthinking, and he had enough time to support it.
This was a major case. It was all because the emperor Lao Zhu was too cruel. All the officials were innocent, and some even shed tears of sympathy for those officials.
"Okay! Okay!" The people watching below have never seen such a scholar who is not afraid of the powerful. They just feel that this man is just like those loyal ministers on the stage, righteous and stern, and upright. Just listening to the lyrics can tell
It must be a good show.
"Hmph. Words are good." Seeing the few words of this Wen Sheng, he pushed his Jinyiwei side to the position of a treacherous minister. Zhu Di sneered and ignored it.
What this guy said was high-sounding and seemed to be righteous. In the final analysis, wasn't he just trying to pursue his own selfish interests in order to save his upright brother from the abyss?
"Later, when everyone shouts and beats you up." Looking at Zheng Shili's almost provocative gaze, Zhu Di thought viciously in his heart.