In the teahouse of Qidong County, the newspaper reader took the day's notice from Dali Temple and read it aloud: "For the past six years, the magistrate of Qidong County, Wang Siyong, has been trying to gain fame by neither collecting land taxes from the gentry nor collecting land taxes from the poor. This move ostensibly won him
"Mantangcai won the lottery, and everyone applauded it, but it actually put the entire Qidong County into trouble."
"Qidong County is almost financially bankrupt. No one has repaired the roads. The official roads are full of potholes like quagmire. Even if there is a little rain, it will be impossible to walk for several days. Vendors who come and go have to transport goods. It takes a day to walk in Qidong County.
Two or three days. Some fragile goods such as ceramics will be damaged a lot on the road, which directly leads to high prices in the county."
Teagoers in the teahouse had always regarded Wang Siyong as a rare and good official, but they did not expect that the Dali Temple announcement actually started to attack Wang Siyong. And as soon as it came up, it went straight to the point and hit Wang Siyong's weak spot.
Wang Siyong has been the county magistrate for six years. Although he has won praise from the gentry and the people for his benevolent governance, it is obvious to all that Qidong County is deteriorating day by day. The abandoned post station, potholed roads, broken towers, and clogged sewers
, are what the common people see every day. Normally, no one talks about these matters because of Wang Siyong’s reputation as an upright official, but the decline of Qidong County has indeed made people’s lives more and more difficult. At this time, the Dali Temple announcement pointed out,
It makes people feel deafening.
"Wang Siyong's corpse was a vegetarian, and he was obsessed with fishing for fame. After Qidong County paid taxes, there was basically no money left in the finance, and the county government did not do anything that it should do. The wharf on the Daqing River was dilapidated and unusable, the golden waterway of the Daqing River was completely abandoned, and the cost of commodity transportation soared
The special products of Qidong County cannot be exported, and goods from outside the county have to be transported in by horse-drawn carriages, which further increases prices and makes people's lives difficult."
Prices in Qidong County are indeed relatively high, and they have been getting higher and higher in recent years. In other places, a piece of cotton cloth only costs one or two silver, but in Qidong County this year it has risen to one or two silver. The people did not know why before.
We can only bear it silently. At this time, when people read the newspaper, everyone realized that this was the reason why the waterway was cut off and the land road was difficult to travel.
It turns out that Wang Siyong, who is not greedy and is known as the great upright official, has caused such a big problem. The tea guests looked at each other with surprise in their eyes. But the headlines that followed were the most shocking.
It was shocking. After all, this is Qidong County, and Wang Siyong is the parent official of this county. The newspaper reader never dared to read today's front page headlines. It was not until he had read all the other news and comments that he turned over the newspaper with some helplessness.
I went back to the first page and started reading the headlines.
"Qidong County Magistrate Wang Siyong deceived the world and stole his reputation, killing sixty-two innocent people." The newspaper reader read this, his voice became smaller and smaller, and he could not be heard. In the teahouse, a middle-aged businessman who was making plates sat in front of him.
The businessman stood in row, but could no longer hear the newspaper reader's words clearly. The businessman slammed the table angrily and shouted: "Louder!"
The newspaper reader was so frightened that he trembled and read aloud. "The embankment of the Daqing River has been in disrepair for a long time, and it will cause a disaster if it encounters a flood. The people along the river have long known about this, and some local gentry reported it directly.
Wang Siyong, speaking out about the dilapidation of the river embankment."
"But how could Wang Siyong have the money to repair the river embankment because he was famous for fishing but did not receive land tax? After receiving the report, he only re-rammed the soil in a few of the most conspicuous places. He ignored all other dangerous parts, which eventually led to the third evil.
The tragedy of the Daqing River bursting its banks every year. Sixty-two people on the river were buried in the belly of the fish." "In order to defraud his personal reputation, Wang Siyong ignored the lives of the people along the river. His ugly behavior under the surface is outrageous.
."
Upon hearing the news, the tea drinkers in the teahouse were a little overwhelmed. It turned out that the 62 lives that were drowned when the Daqing River burst its banks a few years ago should be attributed to Wang Siyong. Wang Siyong was a frivolous person.
The honest officials who are neither greedy nor lustful are famous all over Shandong, but they have such a result.
The businessman sitting in the front row, who had suffered from the soaring freight rates over the years, slammed the table angrily and shouted: "Hypocrite!" The patrons in the teahouse looked at each other. But the most lethal thing was the last sentence of the headline.
talk:
"Due to lack of funds, the Daqing River embankment has not been repaired so far. As long as there is another flood, the Daqing River embankment may burst again at any time. The lives of tens of thousands of people on both sides of the river bank are in danger."
For more than ten days in a row, the Dali Temple Announcement devoted a lot of space to reporting on the incident of Wang Siyong, the magistrate of Qidong County. Wang Siyong killed sixty-two people by the river for his personal honor, which was shocking. As the newspaper gradually spread,
Wang Siyong's reputation as a great upright official was gradually ruined, and he became a typical example of civil servants seeking fame and reputation regardless of the lives of ordinary people.
The gentry could no longer be as proud as before when they mentioned Wang Siyong, who took the lead in opposing the court. Wang Siyong's appeal in Shandong had disappeared after more than ten days of attacks by the Dali Temple announcement.
The Dali Temple Announcement even organized reporters to conduct several on-site inspections of the dilapidated Daqing River embankment, and published the results of the inspections in newspapers, which caused an uproar throughout Shandong Province. On August 23,
Wang Siyong came back from outside the county seat in a sedan, looking frowning in the sedan.
In the past ten days, the Dali Temple Announcement has openly attacked Wang Siyong. The reputation he accumulated over the past few decades has collapsed overnight.
Hua Jieyu caught it, but he didn't expect Hua Jieyu to be so powerful. He just put the responsibility for the Daqing River bursting on his head.
Stand up and challenge yourself because, what will happen to you in the end? Wang Siyong was thinking about it in the sedan chair, but the sedan suddenly stopped on the road. There was a noise from the front. "Master Qingtian, we can't watch the Daqing River burst its banks again.
Ah!" "Parents, please allocate funds to repair the Daqing River embankment!" "Master Qingtian, the Daqing River embankment cannot be repaired anymore!"
When Wang Siyong heard the noisy shouting, his heart trembled. He opened the window of the sedan chair and looked forward. Sure enough, he saw hundreds of people kneeling in front of the county government office. The people were obviously overwhelmed.
I was frightened by the facts reported in the Dali Temple announcement. I didn't want to be drowned by the flood, so I stopped the sedan chair and asked Wang Siyong to repair the embankment.
Where does Wang Siyong have the money to build river embankments? The key to his good reputation accumulated over decades as an official is to exempt the gentry and poor people from land taxes. Qidong County's financial balance is in a mess. He can provide monthly money to the government officials to maintain order in the county.
, which is already considered a careful calculation.
In the past, people thought that the bursting of the embankment was a natural and man-made disaster, and even the few people who knew the inside story would not tell it everywhere. Wang Siyong fooled it. Now that the Dali Temple announcement has reported it so wildly, how will this matter end? Wang Siyong looked at those people
The people who knelt down and kowtowed knew that this matter would never get better. He waved his hand and said to the bearers: "How many people will be drowned before the embankment of the Daqing River can be repaired?
A tall man suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "You slanderous dog official, you drowned my parents last year, and if you don't build the embankment this year, I will fight with you!" On the third day of September, in Shandong Province
All prefectures, states, and counties, and the "Dali Temple Court" have all begun operations.
At the end of August, with the continuous attacks on Dali Temple's announcement, Qidong County Magistrate Wang Siyong was attacked from both sides. Not only was his reputation ruined, he was scolded by people everywhere in Shandong and became a joke after dinner, and the administration of Qidong County was also unable to
It started again. Tens of thousands of people along the Daqing River surrounded the Qidong County government office and demanded that Wang Siyong repair the river embankment, which was a matter of life and death. However, Wang Siyong simply could not afford the money to do this. In the end, Wang Siyong was blocked in the county government office for five days.
He escaped from the county government office in the middle of the night and resigned from office.
As soon as Wang Siyong escaped, the morale of the gentry in Shandong plummeted. Officials from various places were afraid of Dali Temple's announcement and the army and did not dare to come forward. The gentry was even more afraid of King Yan's bloody methods. In the end, thousands of horses and horses were gathered together, and no one dared to stand up to oppose
Hua Jieyu holds court in Shandong.
Hua Jieyu sent court personnel to various places, put up signs in the houses he had bought long ago, and opened the courts. These courtyards used as courts must be in prominent locations in the county, and the land must also be of a certain size.
In order to accommodate the court office staff. In addition to various equipment and decorations, these office spaces cost Tianjing New City more than 100,000 taels of silver. The local court in each county is equipped with five judges, 30 clerks, and bailiffs.
Fifty people. These personnel were all hired by Hua Jieyu from Tianjing New City. Especially the judges, all outstanding talents selected by King Yan from among industrial workers and soldiers, took more than a year of legal training before taking up their posts.
The number of judicial police is not large, but fifty people are enough to deal with ordinary families or forces. If there is a larger force armed to resist the law, Yang Peng's soldiers from the Huben Division stationed in Shandong will be dispatched to suppress the resisters. Although the officials have repeatedly ordered Yang to
Peng withdrew his troops from Shandong to Hebei, but Yang Peng never listened. Now Yang Peng has nine thousand troops stationed in Shandong, which is enough to intimidate the entire province. The laws of the Song Dynasty include "Song Xingtong", whose full name is "The Collection of Song Laws"
"Supplementary Regulations" is a code formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao. This code established the various orders of the Ming Dynasty and is a highly regarded law in the history of law. Yang Peng is now a minister of the Song Dynasty, and the implementation of the law is different from that of the "Song Punishment"
The law of "Unification" will not only make officials suspicious, but also make the people confused. Therefore, the law used by Yang Peng's court is still "Song Xingtong" for the time being.
With the development of Yang Peng's power in the future, if the people's lifestyle and culture change under Yang Peng's management in the future, Yang Peng will naturally modify the Song Dynasty laws and develop his own set of new laws. Throughout Shandong, Yang Peng
Peng's court system employs nearly 10,000 people. The bailiffs and clerks are paid two to five yuan a month, including three meals a day, and the judges' salary is higher. These personnel consume a lot of Yang Peng's money every month, and they are also a
Not a small expense.
Yang Peng plans to make up for this expense from the future commercial taxes and land taxes in Shandong. Of course, you have to eat one bite at a time. The matters of commercial taxes and land taxes directly affect the interests of various groups in Shandong and face greater resistance. Judicial justice must be carried out in court.
Only after the power is under control can we advance step by step.
On the third day of September, newly decorated courts in various places put up huge signs and began to accept lawsuits. After experiencing so many difficulties, the Dali Temple Court in Shandong finally opened. From then on, the judicial system in Shandong Province was controlled by Huajieyu
At hand, this is considered a big event. Tianhua Jieyu rushed to Shandong specifically to check the operation of courts in various places. The first stop was, of course, the local court in Jinan.
In Tieren Alley in the east of Jinan City, a large flag several stories high stands outside a large courtyard with four entrances. The big flag has the words "Jinan City Dali Temple Local Court" written on it, fluttering in the wind. Hua Jieyu carries
The guards were lightly dressed and rode to the front of the court. When they arrived at the entrance of the alley, Hua Jieyu found that people who had come to file a lawsuit were already lining up in a long queue outside the court. There were at least a hundred people waiting in the queue, waiting.
Enter the court compound to register and accept the case.
Obviously, after several months of publicity of the Dali Temple announcement, the people of Jinan are looking forward to the Dali Temple Court. People who are bullied by powerful people in the city and treated unfairly by local officials all come to the court to litigate. Hua
Jie Yu was riding towards the gate of the court when he saw a short, middle-aged man dressed as a farmer walking out of the court happily with a few relatives, friends and village elders. It is a bit inaccurate to say that he walked out, he
In fact, he jumped out of excitement.
Behind him, a fat middle-aged man wearing a cocoon round collar with a pale face walked out with two servants. The middle-aged man glared at the farmer in front of him, and then walked quickly out of the alley.
Go. Hua Jieyu saw this posture and knew that the plaintiff and defendant had finished the lawsuit. Hua Jieyu smiled, rode up to the farmer, and said to him: "Farmer man, what kind of lawsuit are you here to fight?"
Hua Jieyu didn't wear an official robe today, and it was impossible to tell what kind of official he was from his appearance. The farmer looked at Hua Jieyu's horse in surprise. He didn't know who Hua Jieyu was. He thought for a moment and said, "This big man
Miss, my family’s 13 acres of dry farmland are beside the Zhaojia River outside the city. Last year, the Zhaojia River flooded and flooded my family’s farmland. After the flood receded, the powerful Lu family in the village occupied my family’s farmland in the name of terra nullius.
."
"The Lu family has some friendship with the officials in the government office. Those officials helped him without conscience and insisted that my family's dry land was terra incognita. I had no way to complain and could only watch the fertile land being occupied by others." "Fortunately.
The court of King Yan's Dali Temple made the decision for me and other common people. The master in the court, no, the judge only took a few glances at my home's land deed, and listened to a few fair words from the three old men in the village, and then he took my
The land was returned to me. The judge also said that the Lu family had occupied 13 acres of land for one year and would have to compensate me for thirty-two taels of silver and a fine of sixty-four taels. The judge only let them go after the Lu family paid the money.
Walk."
Hua Jieyu nodded, said no more, and was about to ride forward. Li Han, who was beside Hua Jieyu, said: "That man, you have a minister of Dali Temple in front of you, why don't you thank Mr. Hua for giving you
To uphold justice?" The farmer was stunned for a moment, his face became panicked, and he knelt down in front of Hua Jieyu's horse with a bang, shouting loudly: "The little people don't know that the adults are the adults! Thanks to the kindness of the adults, the little people will become cows in the future.
Be a horse and repay the favor!”
Relatives, friends and village elders behind the farmers also quickly knelt on the ground one by one. Hua Jieyu smiled and said: "Get up, everyone. Since I hold the Dalian Teacher's Court in Shandong, I will naturally make decisions for the people on what to do.
A cow or a horse?"
The farmer and the relatives, friends and village elders behind him got up from the ground. Li Han said loudly: "That man, remember clearly, if the Lu family causes trouble for you in the future, you will go to the Dali Temple court to sue him.
.Don’t let these little bastards think you are weak and can be bullied.”
The farmer nodded and replied: "I know that from now on I will rely on the protection of the court for my future life." On the ninth day of September, in the morning of the Emperor's Palace, the ministers were furious. The news from Shandong had reached the capital yesterday, and Yang
Sure enough, Peng secretly set up the Dali Temple Court in Shandong and controlled the judiciary in Shandong Province. The people welcomed King Yan's court very much, and people came to sue one after another. This place was always favored by local officials in lawsuits.
The gentry lost their power in the Dali Temple court of King Yan and were sued by the poor people who made unjust statements. Nine out of ten cases were lost.
The King of Yan expanded his power again. Not only did he control Hebei, he also extended his tentacles of power to Shandong. This is what the princes in the court did not want to see. If the judicial power of Shandong is taken away by the King of Yan, Shandong's
What is left for the civil servants? They can only concentrate on construction? Are they still considered officials? The civil servants in the court are the most powerful group in the Ming Dynasty. How can they watch the power system of the Ming Dynasty collapse under the attack of King Yan?
?
Moreover, once the King of Yan controls the judiciary, he will have the real power in Shandong. With such power, any subsequent commercial taxes and land taxes will be imposed on Shandong without any suspense. Such consequences are intolerable to the civil servants.
On the tenth day of October, Wang Yongji, the envoy of Shandong Xuanwei, was sitting in the Yamen of the Qingzhou Prefecture, looking at the Shandong civil servants and military generals gathered together, smiling and stroking their beards. The officials mobilized soldiers and horses to station troops in Xianghe County, more than a hundred miles north of Cangzhou.
The 130,000 border troops shocked the government and the public. This time, the officials only asked the troops to gather in Xianghe County, but did not explain what to do next. The border soldiers were stationed in Xianghe to set up camps and build strongholds. Anyway, they were paid.
It doesn't matter. But outside, the purpose of this troop deployment has been hyped up.
Xianghe and Cangzhou are so close. Most of the civil servants looked at the map and thought that this action was aimed at Yang Peng. Yang Peng had just violated the imperial edict and invaded Shandong. The officials mobilized such a large army to go south. The civil servants were very excited.
.These days, wars are fought every six months or a year, and it is common for the army to stay in a certain place for a period of time before the decisive battle. Rumors that the officials want to get rid of Yang Peng's cancer spread rapidly in the north and south of the country.
The civil servants celebrated each other and kept urging the officials to use troops quickly in the court. They all said that they would fight quickly before Yang Peng's defense in Hebei was complete. In response to this huge change, Yang Peng's response was to gather troops and horses in Cangzhou.
For defense, they hoarded grain and grass in Tianjing New City and seemed ready to abandon other places in Cangzhou at any time. In Shandong, Yang Peng's five thousand soldiers and horses that were originally scattered in various places were all concentrated in Jinan City, assuming a defensive posture.
The literati and gentry in Shandong were very excited when they heard the news. They lamented that the officials finally woke up and stopped protecting Yang Peng and rushed to tell each other. When Wang Yongji, the envoy of Xuanwei in Shandong, heard the news, he was so excited that he didn't sleep all night. The next day.
Early in the morning, he took the seal, family members and servants out of the city in batches, quickly left Jinan City controlled by Yang Peng, and rushed to Qingzhou Mansion where there was no Huben division.
In Qingzhou Prefecture, Wang Yongji urgently contacted Liang Fengchun, the Denglai Xuanwei envoy, and summoned generals from all over Shandong to take advantage of this good situation to recapture Jinan City by force and drive Yang Peng out of Shandong. There were two Xuanwei envoys in Shandong, and they returned to the east.
The governor of Denglai was in charge, and the west was under the governor of Shandong. Liang Fengchun, the envoy of Xuanwei in Denglai, also hated Yang Peng. After receiving Wang Yongji's letter, he rushed to Qingzhou to join Wang Yongji as soon as possible. The two summoned soldiers from all over Shandong.
Soon all the generals from Shandong gathered in Qingzhou.
Nowadays, there are rumors everywhere that officials are attacking Yang Peng, and Yang Peng has become a hairless phoenix. At this time, two Xuanwei envoys jointly mobilized Shandong soldiers and horses to attack Yang Peng. Which military general dares not to listen? There is a Dengzhou camp in Shandong.
, Laizhou Camp and other battalion troops. In only fifteen days, Wang Yongji gathered a force of more than 30,000 troops.
In the lobby of the Qingzhou Prefecture magistrate's office, Wang Yongji and Denglai Xuanwei's envoy Liang Fengchun were sitting at the top, with more than 20 generals standing below. Although the Shandong Military and Horse Superintendent and the Denglai Military and Horse Superintendent were noble soldiers and horses,
Du Jian, but in an inland province like Shandong, the general soldier has little status and can only stand in front of the Xuanwei envoy.
Wang Yongji stroked his beard and smiled and said loudly: "Everyone, the Yang thieves first surrounded the capital and then moved to Shandong. The rebellion is clearly exposed. The officials have been furious and have vowed to kill Yang Peng and his party. The scholars in Shandong can't
Regain the clear sky."
In order to incite the generals to attack Yang Peng together, Wang Yongji told a big lie. However, the generals were not as well informed as Xuanwei Envoy, and rumors were flying all over the sky at this time. How could the generals tell the truth of Wang Yongji's words? The generals
When Wang Yongji heard that Yang Peng was about to be destroyed, they all quickly curried favor with Master Xuanwei, fearing that they would be left behind at this critical moment.
"What Mr. Xuanwei said is absolutely true. A few years ago, I heard that the Yang thieves were exploiting the gentry in Hebei, and I knew that the Yang thieves would be destroyed." "We are willing to follow the Xuanwei envoy and drive Yang Peng's forces out of Shandong.
Wang Yongji laughed loudly and said: "There are only 5,000 thieves in Jinan City. I have 30,000 people to lay siege to the city and attack it fiercely. I believe we can capture it in a few months. At that time, my troops from Shandong will march north and join hundreds of thousands of border troops."
Let's attack Cangzhou together. Once the low wall of Tianjing New City is breached, you will all be great contributors to suppressing the rebellion."
After listening to Wang Yongji's words, the generals bowed down one by one and shouted loudly: "It's all up to Xuanwei to make the decision."
On October 15th, Yang Peng received a report from Han Jinxin in Yanjing and learned that Wang Yongji, the envoy of Shandong Xuanwei, had mobilized troops to attack Jinan. Now the official Chen Bingxianghe County, hundreds of thousands of troops are eyeing Cangzhou. Yang Peng
Although he still lives in Yanjing, he is always paying attention to the reports from Xianghe. As long as Xianghe's border troops approach further south, Yang Peng will be ready to retreat into Tianjing New City to defend.
At this time, Yang Peng was very angry when he heard the news that Shandong Xuanwei sent Wang Yongji to fish in troubled waters. Yang Peng's men gathered in the prince's mansion to discuss countermeasures. Zhou Dayong was still a little afraid of the imperial power and was very nervous these days. At this time, he was sitting on a chair
, his face was not very good, probably because he had not fallen asleep at night. He looked at Yang Peng, raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, if we really wait for 130,000 border troops to besiege Tianjing New City, things will be irreversible. Why not take advantage of Shandong's troops?"
The court of Dali Temple has been withdrawn. Let’s talk to the housekeeper. After all, we are the heroes of the Shanxi War. As long as the court of Dali Temple is withdrawn, the housekeeper will definitely withdraw his troops.”
Ye Qi Hanyu glared at Zhou Dayong and said: "Zhou Dayong, don't talk nonsense. How can there be any reason to spit out what King Yan has eaten?" Zhou Dayong looked at Ye Qi Hanyu and then at Yang Peng,
He swallowed what he wanted to say and stopped talking. Han Jinxin said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the housekeeper is just showing off and will not really attack Tianjing New City."
Lin Qing'er became interested when she heard this, raised her head and said: "Han Jinxin, please tell me why the housekeeper won't really fight." Han Jinxin said: "It's very simple, the housekeeper can't fight this battle. We have accumulated a lot of experience in Hebei now.
With enough food and supplies to fight for two years, how can the government's army of 130,000 fight us for two years? If we only need to fight for one year, the government will have no money to pay for the army."
Hearing Han Jinxin's words, the generals under Yang Peng laughed heartily. Everyone had always found the poverty and embarrassment of the Song Dynasty court very ridiculous. Seeing how happy everyone was laughing, Zhou Dayong also laughed a few times. Han Jinxin waved his hand and said:
"I don't think it will take more than two months for the officials to feel sorry for the money and order the withdrawal of troops."
Yang Peng nodded and said: "Han Jinxin is right. The government has no determination to fight a protracted war with us. I am not worried about the border troops in Xianghe." The conversation changed and Yang Peng said again: "But this
Wang Yongji, the envoy of Xuanwei in Shandong, made me unbearable." "It was Wang Yongji who took the lead in making the announcement of Dali Temple. I had already spared his life, but I didn't expect that he would go further and now dare to mobilize troops to attack Jinan."
If I hadn't killed Wang Yongji, everyone in the world would have thought that I, Yang Peng, was weak and could be bullied!"
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.