On this day, there were fifty-one officials like Zhu Pingan who received orders, and except for Zhu Pingan, the others were all officials of fourth rank or above.
At the same time, there are more than 200 officials below the fourth rank who have not received the imperial edict, but have received official documents jointly issued by the Cabinet, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In addition, there were as many as 500 Ku soldiers, police officers and slaves who had their homes confiscated and were imprisoned without receiving the imperial edict or official documents.
Without exception, all of them were punished because of the Taicang Bank Case. The lighter ones were fined taels of silver, the more serious ones were imprisoned, and the more serious ones were exiled or beheaded. Those who were fined taels of silver were fined from tens to hundreds of dollars.
It ranges from two to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands taels.
It is worth noting that in this case, Yan Shifan, the son of Mr. Yan Song and Yan Ge, was also fined 12,000 taels of silver for failing to inspect the treasury twice.
In addition, Zhu Ping'an's adviser, the current cabinet minister Xu Jie, was also fined 6,000 taels of silver because of an oversight in the treasury.
For a time, the capital city was filled with the figures of factory guards roaring back and forth, as if...
After a certain minister accepted the imperial edict and was fined 8,000 taels of silver, he sent the eunuch who announced the edict away with a smile. After the eunuch left, the minister respectfully held the edict in his hands and placed it on the incense table to offer it. Then he turned around and cursed: "Zhu
Peace, you loser star"
An official's house was ransacked by factory guards, and his family, including his wife, concubines, and children were exiled to Yunnan, a smog-infested country. The family, accustomed to being pampered and pampered, was forced by the wolf-like and tiger-like guards. The family looked haggard and looked back at the house with tears streaming down their faces.
The desperate housewife only remembered her husband's complaint before leaving, "If it weren't for Zhu Ping'an's search, nothing like this would have happened today."
So, on the road to exile, the desperate housewife gnashed her teeth and cursed Zhu Ping'an, the instigator of all this, all the time, and taught her young children to remember: "UuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuThachless"
It’s because of a person named Zhu Ping’an.”
The majestic and splendid Yan Mansion.
The delicate bodies of four naked concubines and maids were lying on the couch, and they were linked together like a soft and boneless chair to form a gentle chair. The one-eyed fat man Yan Shifan sat down on the gentle chair, holding a girl with only an inch of hair in his arms.
The maid who was hiding her shame rubbed and pinched the maid's body with one big hand without mercy. Her big fat face seemed to be smiling, but not smiling, or angry. She laughed and joked with her little brother Luo Longwen at the banquet: "My Yan Mansion has always been there.
Money is coming in, but it’s new today, and money is starting to be taken out.”
After receiving the imperial edict, Zhu Pingan kept sneezing from time to time. After sneezing again, Zhu Pingan touched his nose with a confused look. Could it be that he had a cold?
On this day, the Taicang Bank Case, the largest major case in the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years, came to an end.
The number of officials involved set a new record for the Jiajing Dynasty; the amount of fines and compensation also set a new record for the Jiajing Dynasty.
Although the amount of silver fined to Zhu Pingan can be said to be the smallest, Zhu Pingan's family is poor. The fine compensation of 160 taels of silver suddenly made Zhu Pingan bankrupt. In the end, with the help of Li Shu's donation, Zhu Pingan was
Ping An then paid the fine of one hundred and sixty taels to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Zhu Pingan was not the first to pay the fine. The first person to pay the fine was Yan Shifan. When Zhu Pingan went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, he heard that Yan Shifan had already paid the fine and had returned to the Yan Mansion for a long time.
It turned out that not long after Yan Shifan received the imperial edict, he sold off several old items in the house with great fanfare, and even sold off Yan Song's most beloved ancient inkstone. Finally, he collected twelve thousand taels of silver and handed it over as soon as possible.
Household Department.
Yan Shifan's active behavior in paying the fine was approved by Emperor Jiajing, who passed a note in praise.
Under Yan Shifan's example, a group of officials with strict party backgrounds came to the Ministry of Revenue to pay fines, whether they were willing or not.
When Zhu Pingan went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, he met several officials from the strict party who also paid the fine. However, none of these officials looked good on Zhu Pingan, and Zhu Pingan was full of ridicules.
After paying the fine, Zhu Ping'an went to Xu Jie's house to plead guilty. After all, it was because he had lifted the lid on Taicang's shady story that the Taicang theft case was exposed to the world, and it was because of an oversight in the Taicang bank that Xu Jie
I was fined 6,000 taels of silver. Strictly speaking, it had a big reason to do with myself.
Of course, in Zhu Pingan's opinion, his mentor Xu Jie probably didn't have a very clean butt either.
The huge deficit in Taicang couldn't be more obvious. If you check the warehouse carefully, you can't find it.
However, when his mentor Xu Jie was the censor of Chaku in his early years, he did not report Taicang's deficit.
Of course, there are many reasons for not reporting the matter, which does not prove that Xu Jie was complicit in taking bribes, but failing to report it is an oversight.
When Zhu Ping'an entered the Xu Mansion, the Xu Mansion was also counting their belongings, selling off their property in full swing to collect a fine of 6,000 taels of silver.
On the way to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, Zhu Pingan had already heard the news that the Yan Mansion had sold off their property to collect the fine. Now seeing the scene of the Xu Mansion counting the property and selling off the property, Zhu Pingan was not surprised at all.
Twelve thousand taels of silver, theoretically speaking, is definitely not enough based on the normal salary of Yan Song and Yan Shifan. Even if rewards and other rewards are added, it will still have to be exhausted to get it.
Of course, six thousand taels of silver, theoretically speaking, would definitely be taxing for the Xu Mansion.
If you can easily and casually take out the fines without selling your property, wouldn't that prove that you are an uncorrupt official and will not admit to yourself that you made personal gains when you inspected Taicang?
Therefore, it is necessary to sell off the property, not only to sell it, but also to sell it at a special price, so that everyone in the capital knows about it.
"You guys, please be careful. This is my dad's favorite bathtub. It was passed down from my grandfather. Once you've lifted it up, spin it three times along the streets ahead for me.
I shouted loudly, and I wouldn’t sell it until I had three hundred taels of silver.”
Xu Fan, the eldest son of the Xu Mansion, was in his early twenties, with a burly body like a bull, but also a dashing appearance. He stood on a table in the courtyard, reaching out and directing the servants to collect the items and arrange the sale.
"Brother, is my mentor here?"
This was what Zhu Ping'an saw when he entered the house. He stepped forward and bowed his hands to greet Xu Fan. Xu Fan was Xu Jie's eldest son. Zhu Ping'an had visited Xu Jie at his house several times, so he naturally knew Xu Fan.
"Hey, it's Zihou here. Haha, come on, come on, my old man was talking about you just now. He said that when you first came to the capital, you were fined another one hundred and sixty taels of silver. I was worried that if you couldn't get it together, you would be fined again.
The Holy Spirit is punishing you by asking me to sell his most cherished bathtub and give him a hundred and ten taels of silver for you to use."
When Xu Fan saw Zhu Pingan entering the house, his face was full of smiles. He jumped down from the table with agility, put his arm enthusiastically on Zhu Pingan's shoulders, and walked into the house while holding Zhu Pingan in his arms.