Ming Dynasty: Huddle in Beiping as Magistrate County Text Volume Chapter 144 Open the lidLatest URL:At the same time.
After receiving the news, Tongzhou Guard Commander Qiu Pei, Qianshi Fang Sheng and others also quickly took their own guards and hurriedly ran into Tongzhou City from outside the city.
"The last general Qiu Pei meets His Highness!"
"Get up."
Zhu Di was quite impressed with the generals of Tongzhou Guard. He waved his hand casually and asked a little tiredly: "I wonder what Commander Qiu is here for?"
Qiu Pei was speechless. You brought a thousand soldiers in armor and stormed into Tongzhou City early in the morning. What else do you want to ask?
"The general heard that His Highness led troops to Tongzhou and came here to pay his respects."
"I am just here to catch a few thieves and gentry who use my name to exploit and harm the people. There is no need to make such a fuss."
At this moment, Zhu Di also realized something and explained casually.
Qiu Pei looked slightly relaxed.
At this moment, I also noticed that under the court, a group of Tongzhou officials and several famous gentry in Tongzhou were paralyzed, and a look of surprise flashed in their eyes.
However, I didn’t pay much attention to it.
Even, there is some gloating in my heart.
These civil servants and gentry looked down upon him and others, and naturally he and his colleagues were happy to see these civil servants and gentry suffer misfortune.
Zhu Di was tired after a long night and didn't pay much attention to Qiu Pei. He gave instructions to the officials in the courtroom and went directly to rest.
At this time, I felt sorry for Guo An and the officials of Prince Yan's palace, Shi Si, as well as the governor of Peiping, Yu Rentian, the officials responsible for the inspection and envoys, and the officials responsible for the administration.
Zhu Di can rest, but they can't. The interrogation must continue.
Almost all officials in Tongzhou were caught in one fell swoop. Regardless of whether they made mistakes on their own initiative or not, from the superior officials to the officials, they all more or less shared some money.
Under the interrogation of Jin Yiwei and officials from the Procuratorate and Envoys Department, they basically confessed happily.
In fact, these officials did not make much of a mistake. Most of those who committed the most heinous crimes were killed a year ago.
The most troublesome thing is He Ji and other four gentry families. These gentry have all read books, and their hearts are darker and more cunning. Even if they are re-interrogated, they will still keep complaining.
However, the name Jin Yiwei did not come for nothing.
To make King Yan so disgusted, every Jin Yiwei showed no mercy or scruples when interrogating these gentry.
So, basically by the afternoon, these people were all talking about it.
At the same time.
Zhu Di also walked out of the backyard in high spirits.
Seeing this, Guo An, Pu Sanji and others, holding a pile of money and food books in their hands, quickly stepped forward to report.
"Your Majesty, I have found out some land thieves and arrested a few gentry."
"How many acres have they hidden?"
Zhu Di said with some expectation.
Pu Sanji said: "Currently, there are fifteen field thieves who have hidden acres of land, and the number of hidden acres is 46,000 acres."
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Di was immediately shocked.
You should know that the number of acres of land registered in Tongzhou's Yellow Register is only over 105,000 acres.
After only one day of investigation, half of the hidden acres were discovered.
Zhu Di took the book and looked at it. They were all great gentry and country sages who had more than 2,000 acres of land.
There was murderous intent in his eyes, "I have given all these land thieves who deceived the emperor and their superiors to me. To be able to hide so many acres, they must be land thieves like He Ji who exploited and oppressed the people.
As for the field thieves hiding under a hundred acres, I will register them one by one and let them make up for the taxes they have owed for so many years.
If someone doesn't want to pay, then their farmland will be confiscated."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Pu Sanji responded and walked away murderously.
At this time, half of the entire Beiping Prefecture's Jinyi Guards have arrived in Tongzhou.
As for the Beiping government office, the Chief Envoy and the Inspector General also received the news and rushed to Tongzhou one by one.
Also coming at the same time were the five hundred households in Yanshanwei.
The entire Beiping Mansion began to shake.
Especially the magistrates and county magistrates under the rule of Beiping Prefecture, as well as the great gentry and country wise men.
Hiding their fields is their instinct engraved in their bones.
Originally, all this was tacit common sense among all the officials, gentry, and sages of the Ming Dynasty from top to bottom.
However, who would have thought that a few gentry and country sages in Tongzhou who were as smart as pigs would dare to make plans for King Yan just because of a mere 500 acres of land.
Moreover, it directly lifted the lid on the hidden fields.
If this matter spread to Yingtian and the emperor who was born as a cowherd boy knew about it, wouldn't something big happen?
At the same time, many gentry, sages, and even officials were writing letters one after another with anxious faces, and then hurriedly sent them out.
However, before them, two memorials had already been sent to Yingtian City in the name of Beiping Mansion Jinyi Guards Station and Yanwang Mansion respectively.
Two days later.
Lao Zhu, who was far away in Yingtian City, received memorials from Jin Yiwei and Prince Yan's Mansion at the same time.
"How dare these land thieves hide so many acres of land and exploit and bully the people in this way? Are they really trying to bully us?"
Your Highness, Prince Zhu Biao also read the two memorials and looked angry.
"How dare these gentry and wise men in Tongzhou do this? Don't they know that this is deceiving the emperor and ignoring their superiors?"
Lao Zhu coldly snorted: "We never believe that these country sages and gentry can be kind. They used to talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but they are just like a few crows, spitting excrement and croaking non-stop..."
"Biao'er, we are going to kill someone this time, and you are not allowed to stop us. If we don't kill chickens to scare monkeys, if things go on like this, these country sages will turn our Ming Dynasty into a miserable scene like the late Yuan Dynasty again.