As the dust of the Lianghuai Salt Case has settled, officials from the Inspectorate, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment once again felt the long-lost joy of working overtime. A group of business backbones who had been trained during the "hard crackdown" were like assembly lines. According to the transfer of Jinyiwei
The materials were compiled into files, the prisoners were interrogated and judgments were made. The six subjects were reprimanded by the emperor, and they were no longer "obstructed", and the review was also very fast. Ge Shouli, Li Youzi and Wang Zhigao all received commendations and rewards from the emperor.
Although Zhu Yijun knew that the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department and Nanjing Wei Guogong's government had been colluding for many years, it was not appropriate to expand the scope of the Lianghuai Salt Administration this time.
After discussing with Zhang Juzheng and asking Empress Dowager Li for her opinion, an order was finally issued to warn other salt transportation departments and strictly prohibit the abuse of residual salt. At the same time, an order was issued to reprimand Xu Bangrui, who succeeded the Duke of Wei in the sixth year of Longqing.
Xu Bangrui, an unlucky child, had always been raised as a picked-up child by his own father, the old Duke Xu Pengju. His father used to dig holes in the house and wanted to depose the eldest son and establish a young son, and make his youngest son Xu Bangning the heir apparent.
But Xu Pengju was too stupid. He asked two people to handle the same thing. The second person in charge was also stupid. He asked around, and finally the first one found out. Jiang Bao, the first official of the Ministry of Etiquette who was entrusted by him, didn't realize what was going on.
Secret, I read a copy of Xu Pengju's book with my backhand, which is a surrender and a report.
Xu Pengju was severely warned and fined by the court. The imperial concubine of Xu Bangning's biological mother Zheng's wife, Wei Guogong, was stripped of her royal title by the court, and Xu Bangning was convicted.
Xu Bangrui's face was torn when he saw it. He was afraid of being plotted against, so he stayed in Beijing as an intern at the Ministry of War, and waited until Xu Pengju could no longer go home before returning home.
After finally overcoming his father, Xu Bangrui inherited the title of Duke of Wei in the sixth year of Longqing. This had only lasted less than three years, but a stern edict almost scared him to death.
The most important sentence in the imperial edict is: "The Duke of Wei has received the country's favor without thinking of repaying it, protected rats, corrupted the salt administration, and regarded the court's strict laws as nothing. Does your family regard my sword as harmful?"
Although the imperial edict was still raised high and gently put down just like the previous emperors did to Wei Guogong's family in the end, he just let Wei Guogong deal with his family by himself, shut himself up for a month, and fined him a year's salary as punishment.
But the murderous sentence in the imperial edict still made Xu Bangrui cry in front of Wei Chao, the official who delivered the edict.
After all, Yang Bing, Li Huan and other pickled heads had just passed through Nanjing. Xu Bangrui, as the boss of the Nanjing military at that time, took everyone to observe and gave a brief "alarm bells ringing" report.
Although he was too cowardly in front of the Wei Dynasty, Xu Bangrui turned around and put a bucket of shit on his relatives and younger brother who had been fighting with him over the family property in the past few years, and pushed the collusion with the Lianghuai Salt Division on them.
It's all tidied up.
This was not entirely an injustice to them, because Xu Bangrui had been an intern at the Ministry of Military Affairs of the capital for many years in order to avoid his father's murderous plot. It was true that he did not start these silly things, and almost everyone had a share in being dealt with.
The Wei Dynasty who was delivering the imperial edict was on a business trip for the first time, and he earned the entire family's expenses for two lifetimes. He was close to the emperor, so Xu Bangrui must know how to get into trouble. Thousands of taels of gold were suddenly thrown away, and the Wei Dynasty was in a daze.
Jia returned to the capital in fear.
Only after asking his godfather Zhang Jing did he know what to do about this matter - eight thousand taels were dedicated to the emperor, and half of the one thousand taels, five hundred taels, were used to buy gifts for the empress dowagers of the two palaces, and the other half were given to Zhang Jing's faction in the palace.
The remaining one thousand taels belong to the Wei Dynasty.
Originally, the Wei Dynasty wanted to give Zhang Jing five hundred taels, but at this time, Zhang Jing couldn't care less about this small amount of money. The only way to win over his godson, who was by the emperor's side, was to win over him. He smiled and said to him, "You
Tell the emperor how much the Duke of Wei has given?"
Wei Chaodao: "How dare I say anything before asking my godfather?"
Zhang Jing nodded and said, "Then how much can you say?"
Wei Chao thought for a while and said: "My son will tell the emperor that it is ten thousand taels." Zhang Jing clapped his hands and laughed and said: "Well, my good son, you have just left the army."
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Xu Guogong escaped the disaster, but Zhang Bangli, a third-rank official and envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Transport Department, did not have such a good life. He was sentenced to hanging for embezzlement, his house was confiscated, and all his property was confiscated. Zhu Yijun still showed mercy outside the law, and his family members did not receive education.
manage.
The remaining more than 800 officials and salt merchants had their homes raided and sentenced according to the law to beheaded, hanged, exiled, exempted from family background, dismissed from office, or demoted.
Because there was a severe shortage of officials familiar with the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department, under Zhang Juzheng's suggestion, the first batch of civil servants in the Wanli Dynasty who committed crimes and sought merit were born - more than a dozen criminal officials, including Huang Qing, the director of the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department, were forced to
For accepting bribes, he was sentenced to Dai Liu for seeking merit, his rank was reduced by three levels, and he remained in his original position.
With this precedent, Wang Guoguang, who was in the cabinet, was also given the title of "despite his crimes and strives for merit". He did not appear in the Fengyue venue in the capital for more than a month in a row, and he was a bit disgraced.
Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng both felt that they could live a prosperous year after this raid. The wholesale price of hundreds of millions of kilograms of surplus salt every year is four official yuan per kilogram. Before this salt reaches the hands of salt merchants, there are about 550,000 yuan in the front-end chain every year.
The two profits were shared privately by officials of the Salt Administration Department.
Salt merchants sell surplus salt in nearly six provinces of Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers. The price ranges from ten cents per catty to thirty cents, with an average price of about fifteen cents per catty. These more than one million taels of silver every year provide local officials and salt merchants with
carve up.
After Zhu Yijun settled the accounts for Zhu Xixiao and others, Jin Yiwei went to check. Although a lot of money was exchanged for fields and antiques, a lot was squandered. However, 4.6 million taels of cash were still found - for the first year of Wanli
One and a half times the silver of Taicang.
Zhu Yijun now somewhat believes the historical rumor that Li Zicheng could scrape out 30 million taels of silver by torturing officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty in Beijing - the Ming Dynasty was full of fat pigs, and he could kill a lot of them in bad years.
Of course, I can only think about this matter in my heart, and after getting tired of it - is this anti-corruption? We also need to solve the problem from the system. Besides, there is no rush to confiscate the houses. When the new army is trained, the inner court and the outer court will take further steps.
Let's talk about it after straightening it out.
Zhu Yijun's instructions to Jin Yiwei were that not one tael of stolen money should be withheld, and all stolen money should be put into the inner treasury as a rule. However, he could not withstand Zhang Juzheng's insinuations, from constant hints to outright inquiries. In the end, Zhu Yijun was finally annoyed by him.
In desperation, he returned 500,000 taels of case-handling funds to Jin Yiwei, and the remaining more than 4 million taels were kept in the internal treasury, and the imperial court added 50,000 taels on a daily basis. When Zhang Juzheng heard that the emperor said that he would give 2 million taels to the imperial court, he was so excited that his beard trembled.
With tears in his eyes, he reported: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, since the founding of our dynasty, the imperial court has been replenishing the internal treasury. The emperor's actions today will be praised by eternity. - The imperial court can control the river."
Zhu Yijun's two million yuan didn't even keep warm in his pocket for a few days before Zhang Jing took it away.
Because, as the dust of the Lianghuai surplus salt case has settled, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will auction the license for the salt field in Tianxia - according to Zhu Yijun's plan, the royal family will occupy 50%. This move is not only intended to prevent the salt field from being monopolized by big capital in the future, but also
It is also of great significance for greater reforms in the future.
Zhu Yijun was ripped off by Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Jing, and his hands were empty again. He said fiercely in his heart: "The landlord's family has no food left - you can kill me. Well, I'd better go to Nanyuan, beat up some martial arts students, and disperse them."