Ji Zi Volume Chapter 111: Surgery (first update, please vote for me!)
Ended in vain.
Qi Yongtai stopped talking about Feng Ziying's recklessness, and just sent a letter to Feng Ziying, asking him to act cautiously, but he did not need to be conservative, and there was no problem in doing whatever was appropriate.
Feng Ziying understood this and wrote in his reply, saying beware of tigers and smell the roses carefully. Qi Yongtai was amazed and also agreed.
Feng Ziying's letter to her father said to let the arrow fly for a while and see what happens.
After receiving letters from Qi Yongtai and Qiao Yingjia respectively, Feng Ziying felt reassured. In fact, he never thought that this group of Lulong gentry could stir up much trouble.
The reason is also very simple. You have to make up your own mind. The Qing army is originally responsible for the same knowledge. The long-term existence of military households and garrison hidden fields does not mean that this kind of thing is reasonable and legal. Maybe there are some such and such in the local government.
question, but that doesn’t mean it can be a fait accompli.
Coupled with the bad impression of Yongping Mansion in the court, even many civil servants in the court who came from northern scholars were very dissatisfied. They shouted all day long to ask Jiangnan and Huguang to send more military supplies and wages to the border areas. Look at the Northland itself.
His performance, right under the nose of the capital, is so embarrassing that it makes people feel so embarrassed.
Cleaning up military households by yourself starts with the military craftsmen. Even the military in Jizhen has actively cooperated. How can your local gentry be above the court's regulations?
Do you really regard Yongping Mansion as an independent kingdom for a bunch of guys who sit behind closed doors and watch the sky?
Once the virtuous cycle of co-prosperity between officials and gentry is broken, it will never be local officials who suffer the consequences, and the consequences will eventually come back to bite the gentry. Everyone knows this, but the gentry in Yongping Prefecture are constrained by their immediate interests and deliberately
Indifference is nothing more than covering one's ears and stealing the bell.
Now it is my turn to teach them a lesson and let them understand the principle of national law.
Of course, this will take some time, don't rush, just take your time.
"Song San, have the records of military households been cleared out?" Feng Ziying sipped her tea leisurely and looked at the military officer with a gloomy and uneasy face.
"Is it really that difficult? Your magistrate said that it is not that difficult in fact. The focus of these wealthy families is not on military households, right? I have already taken away the chess pieces for you to clean up the hidden fields of the garrison.
Get up and help you relieve the pressure. Why, you are still restless, so why not resign? I believe there will be people who will be happy to serve the imperial court."
Song San's heart trembled when he heard Feng Ziying mentioning the officials under his command.
He has been sitting in the position of clerk for more than ten years, and the pressure on his two clerks is breathless. The relationship between the two parties is also very delicate.
Neither of these two people are ordinary people. When they finally waited for this opportunity, they stared at it with wide eyes. If they themselves were not worthy of the judgment of Xiao Feng Tongzhi and showed the intention of replacing him, these two people would pounce on him.
Come up.
Song San also knew that what Xiao Feng Tongzhi said was right. After the news of the plan to clean up the hidden fields of the garrison came out, the pressure that originally weighed on him suddenly eased.
The wealthy gentry all went to look for the poor man who lived in the household. That was the key point.
For these big families, the hermit households are only two to three thousand households, and what they are escaping from is not labor. And the big gentry families just come out to deal with the county to let these hermit households attached to their names.
The households only share the farmland for farming.
"Sir, everything has been cleared up and the military households involved have been notified one by one..." Song San said with difficulty.
"Oh? Have you come to register for reporting?" Feng Ziying asked calmly.
"It has reached more than 70%, but they are all old, weak, sick and disabled..." Song San sighed, "There is still more than 10% yet,..."
"Does the military department know the whereabouts of these people?" Feng Ziying didn't believe that Song San dared to fool herself on this issue. This was the responsibility of the military department. If he didn't grasp the situation, then he, as a clerk, would be in trouble.
"About 20% of them have fled to Daning and Ningyuan outside the customs, and a few are in remote mountainous areas..." Song San's heart was pounding, and he knew that his words might cause unpredictable risks.
"Oh? I have written a letter to Daning and Ningyuan, asking the local guards to order these military households to return. If the women and children are inconvenienced, Ding must return, and you must do an inventory and verification." Feng Ziying said calmly: "Then the rest
There are probably dozens of households left, right? The county's third-class government officials and the people in our mansion are all starving to death, right? Isn't this their chance?"
Song San felt bitter in his mouth. Of course he knew that Feng Ziying's words were definitely not directed at the dozens of bitter households, but naturally pointed at the few big households who thought they could hide or escape. He had already informed them.
, but these families wanted to resist stubbornly because of their connections, and they didn’t even think about whether this little Feng Tongzhi would be a good person?
"Sir, in view of my humble duty, I can inform you again..."
"It's not necessary. Give me the list and I'll take a look..."
Taking the list, Feng Ziying smiled half-heartedly, held a red pen in her hand, and gently clicked on the name of the first of the three households.
It’s interesting to note that Liao Fude was a gentry in Beizhuang, Lulong. He was born as a scholar, but his nephew was a civil servant. Now he is an official in Zhangde Mansion. Not only does he own nearly 3,000 acres of good farmland in Beizhuang, but he also has as many registered households under his name.
There are more than sixty households, and there are also several tenant serfs, ranking seventh or eighth among the Lulong gentry group.
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A perfect target, Feng Ziying thought to herself, Wu Yaoqing had already investigated this person's situation in advance, and his nephew was actually a dragster brought by his widowed sister-in-law. As a result, his brother also passed away a few years after they got married, and his nephew had no relationship with him.
Although he is very close, it is understood that his nephew has not returned to his hometown for six years.
"Okay, Song San, this matter has nothing to do with you anymore. This is still a matter for the execution room and the third class of government officials." Feng Ziying smiled, waved her hand, "You go ahead."
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When Zhu Zhiren received the news, it was still bright and bright. When he learned that his servants had come to report the news, he almost rolled off the bed in a hurry. It was the concubine beside him who held him up, which prevented the master from rolling off the bed.
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Angrily, he shouted to his concubine to get some clothes. Zhu Zhiren paced back and forth in the room, "This Feng Ziying is so bold. Is this trying to stir up a hornet's nest? It's just a hidden military household. What a big deal?"
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Seeing that the master was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, the concubine had even put on her clothes and only had a bellyband and came to dress the master together with the maid. If you were to look at the sight of this newly-naked concubine with her lustrous flesh, you would definitely be very upset.
After a while of training, I finally gave up after being satisfied with my hand. But today, I had no interest in it at all. I just had to hurry up and get dressed and comb my hair.
As soon as Zhu Zhiren stepped out, his entourage had already come to greet him, "I heard that Lord Tongzhi went to the Military Preparation Road, and the Supervisor asked the Military Preparation Road to borrow two hundred troops from Ji Town, and ordered all the government officials in the government to raid Beizhuang. Liao
Thirty-two members of the family were taken into custody..."
"Crazy, is Feng Ziying crazy? Take the whole family?" Zhu Zhiren's feet went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground, with a frightened and pale face, "Is he treating a hidden military household as a case of rebellion?"
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Chang Sui was also full of fear, "None of the three groups of government officials in the government office received any news. They just asked everyone to prepare all kinds of documents and shackles at noon, and waited until the evening to set off. They didn't know where they were going, so they just
I followed and found out that there were also border troops cooperating..."
The presence of the Yongping Military Preparation Road in Yongping Prefecture is very low, because there are border troops from Ji Town to the north and west of Yongping Prefecture. In addition, after the three guards were abolished twenty years ago, there are few garrison troops in Yongping Prefecture except the border troops.
Recently disappeared, Bingbei Road is more like an empty shell of a government office. Bingbei Road bears the name of a Qianshi from Shandong. That guy is also known as Dezhou Bingbei Road, so he rarely comes here. I don’t know Feng Ziying
But how did he get involved with that side?
The frontier troops cannot enter the areas not under the jurisdiction of the Zhenjun before they have obtained the military preparations. This is an iron rule. But with the military preparations, it means that the legal procedures are in place. Zhu Zhiren knows the way here very well. Feng Ziying has planned this for a long time.
, I am afraid that these gentry will have to be attacked a long time ago.
It’s just that the matter of hiding military households, even if it is the occupation of farmland, is not a big case, it is just a fine of silver and a cane, and the laws of the Zhou Dynasty have been weakened a lot on the basis of the laws of the Ming Dynasty, especially for the gentry.
The preferential treatment is even worse.
Crimes such as embezzlement and concealment of land, taxes and servitude were punished leniently for gentry. Unless there were other special circumstances, they were mainly fined with silver and deprived of their title, supplemented by whipping with a cane.
Feng Ziying suddenly brought his whole family back in chains. This was treated as a major rebellion case. Didn't this guy learn the laws of Dazhou before coming here?
According to regulations, those who hold official positions such as the Ministry of Justice, Tongzhi, and Recommended Officers must learn the laws of Dazhou before taking up their posts. Feng Ziying, who is known as a political expert, does not understand this?
After putting on his clothes and rushing out of the backyard, Zhu Zhiren was about to go straight to Tongzhi Gong's house, but he saw that Feng Ziying had already rushed there.
He almost gritted his teeth and scolded the other party angrily, but Zhu Zhiren managed to say one sentence after a thousand words: "Ziying, you are so confused, how could you do this?"
"Don't worry, sir. If you are not completely sure, how can a subordinate dare to be so presumptuous?" Feng Ziying quickly said a word of relief. Zhu Zhiren looked at him suspiciously: "Seriously?"
"How can I dare to speak nonsense in front of the Lord of the Palace? I am here to report." Feng Ziying smiled.
Zhu Zhiren was a little relieved. It seemed that the other party had achieved something, but he didn't know where it came from.
"Well, go to my place first." Zhu Zhiren was determined in his heart, and returned to his usual calm and composed appearance. He took one step at a time, "Ziying, you should say hello to me first."
Borrowing border troops, even though your Majesty is the governor of Jiliao, borrowing troops from the border is extremely risky."
Borrowing troops from the border is a violation of the law unless it involves several major cases, and both the local government and the army must bear responsibility.
