Chapter 43 The key to politics is the sense of sight
This bullet impeached a total of ten people, all of whom were labeled as Jiang Bin's party.
Wei Bin was already numb and sighed feebly: "I have been wronged. I hope Your Majesty will tell you clearly. If Jiang Bin is jailed, I still have the ability to trap..."
Every day over the past few days, His Majesty would read some memorials to impeach them to Wei Bin.
But isn’t he here on a mission today?
That night he understood what His Majesty meant: to check the accounts, if you want to check the internal treasury, of course you have to find something.
Listen to "do checking" and write "do accounting"!
The inner transport warehouse is a storehouse managed by the ministers on behalf of the emperor, so of course something must be scraped out from the ministers who will be purged this time.
Although the foreign ministers will definitely argue: Why don't these be put into the warehouse?
Then His Majesty can say: This is what the imperial brother had saved in the inner treasury before, and it was not confiscated by Wei Bin and others.
Isn't that all there is to it?
I think about it every day, there really isn’t much left, and he’s almost wiped out a few people’s wealth.
"These are... Anbianbo Zhu Tai, left governor Zhu Hui, Zhu Hong, Zhu An, and fellow governor Zhu Fu please resign and beg to return to their true nature..."
Zhu Houcong is still talking about the next memorial, which is the adopted son given by Zhu Houzhao. At this moment, everyone is in danger.
That's because the officials of the Chenhao Rebellion, Shangshu, impeached Anbian Bo Zhu Tai, Ping Lu Bo Zhu Bin, Left Governor Zhu Hui, and eunuchs Zhang Zhong and Zhang Yong for pretending to be rewarded. This rebellion was put down by Wang Shouren's leadership.
In theory, who would get half the credit for personally recruiting the entourage?
After the army moved, it was still time to discuss merits.
Now that Zhu Houzhao has gone, these people still want to be rewarded for their meritless work?
At the same time, some people petitioned to appoint Wang Xianyin, Wang Shouren's son, as the Deputy Qianhu of the Imperial Guard, as a small reward first.
There is also Shangshu who said that those loyal ministers who were suppressed and imprisoned for not following Jiang Bin should be released and reinstated.
Zhu Houcong saw it: At present, they are basically making a fuss around the Qian Ning, Jiang Bin cases and the Chen Hao Rebellion, trying to involve more internal and external ministers.
Picking up another memorial, Zhu Houcong's eyes narrowed slightly.
This is a memorial written by a big shot in the court: Zuo Du Yushi of the Du Cha Yuan is in charge of the affairs of the Du Cha Yuan.
The top leaders of these nine departments are the six departments of officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and works, the Metropolitan Inspectorate, the General Affairs Department, and the Dali Temple. They are collectively known as Jiuqing today.
And this Chen Jin is the top leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
This memorial from the top leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate talks about money, and is also related to the cases of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin.
Qian Ning ransacked his house and found more than 10 million taels of silver. Although Jiang Bin's wealth has not been calculated, the amount is not small. On the other hand, many border towns have been exhausted for a long time, and people near Gyeonggi are starting to steal.
There is no money left for words, military pay, or disaster relief.
Chen Jin requested that each border town be given 500,000 taels of the family wealth copied by Qian Ning and Jiang Bin, of which Xuanfu would be given 1 million taels, and all the prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi would also be given, and the rest would be distributed to the provinces.
Zhu Houcong's brows furrowed tightly.
Wei Bin knelt down and listened to Zhu Houcong's silence. When he looked up, he saw that his face was filled with clouds.
He was obviously just a child under the age of fifteen, but Wei Bin suddenly saw a hint of gloom and ruthlessness that only middle-aged people could show.
This strange contrast made him feel even more frightened, wondering what kind of memorial this was.
Zhu Houcong silently put down Chen Jin's memorial, and then looked at what Wei Bin had presented before.
The folded paper is not a formal document.
After opening it, I saw a few lines of "sincerity" concisely listed above:
——Six million two hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver.
——One thousand two hundred hectares of land.
——Forty-seven stores in Beijing and other places.
——There are 1,375 residences in the two capitals.
——A member of the family who works outside the family will be dismissed.
——A list of more than 120,000 officers, soldiers, flag schools, and eunuchs in Beijing were listed.
There is also a list of dismissals and punishments listed below.
They listed more numbers today than yesterday.
Zhu Houcong raised his head and looked at Wei Bin: "Qian Ning's house was ransacked. Do you know the specific amount that was confiscated?"
"...Return to Your Majesty, I remember." Wei Bin gritted his teeth, "One hundred and five thousand taels of gold, 4,980,000 taels of silver, other broken gold and silver, gold and silver utensils, jade belts and jewelry..."
After he finished speaking fluently, he said: "The total amount of broken silver is tens of millions. Your Majesty, the slaves dare not hide it. The slaves have left some money and fields for their retirement, but they are not like Qian Ning, who ransacked their homes.
I can't find out which other fields, houses and shops he has hidden. I would like to ask Your Majesty to show mercy and allow you to atone for your sins."
Zhu Houcong laughed: "So, even you people together can't compare to Qian Ningzhi's greed? The number you gave me is a coincidence."
These are not just the three of Wei Bin, but also some other big people who cannot escape this time.
"Your Majesty is aware of this! If Your Majesty really wants to let go of the slaves and maids, he will ransack his house and find more. He also knows that the slaves really only left some money for their retirement..."
Zhang Yong's memorial to impeach Wei Bin has arrived, and Gu Day has already used it.
As long as the emperor "crosses the river and burns the bridge", isn't it just a matter of words to send people to raid their homes? Although there will be the danger of unstable control of the ministers, factory guards and Tengxiang Four Guards for the time being, for the emperor, he really has to insist
It's just a little later and a little more troublesome to master it.
Wei Bin now somewhat understands Xinjun's temperament, and it's best not to be petty in front of him.
Frankly speaking, they have some selfish motives. Since the emperor wants to use them to exert some residual heat, I'm afraid it is acceptable.
Zhu Houcong did not make a decision immediately. He waved his hand and said, "Since you are smart and know how to hand over what you have made in the past in the name of the emperor's other secret treasury, then it will be easier for me to speak in front of the foreign ministers."
It would naturally be very difficult for outsiders to check. But they could quickly come up with the list within the Jinyiwei and the eunuchs. Although it is not an accurate number, it will not be too different.
These three remnants of the "Eight Tigers" have prepared a way out for themselves over the years.
Zhu Houzhao's reuse of eunuchs and adopted sons was indeed a bit too much. What is the concept of Qian Ning's family fortune of tens of millions of taels of silver being stolen?
If Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue is calculated according to later statistics, including land tax, salt tax, industrial and commercial tax and other various outputs, the total would actually be about 20 million taels per year.
Of course, if we only look at the silver collected, it would only be three to four million taels a year.
Liu Jin, Qian Ning, Jiang Bin, and Wei Bin, if you look at how much wealth they have amassed in a short period of time, you will know that they deserve it.
It's just that Zhu Houcong's perspective is different now, and he has to start thinking about how to sort out the problems at hand.
Zhu Houcong did not reject the reform direction proposed by the civil servants, but they only dismissed it with one sentence.
If we abolish the system, we can save money and food, but what next? Send it to the border towns and let people at higher and lower levels embezzle it? Can border defense be good?
Distributed to various provinces for disaster relief? Zhu Houcong smiled when he thought about the many disaster relief projects today.
He looked at these memorials: This is the center of the Ming Dynasty, the core of power surrounding the emperor.
How natural and crude are these memorials?
Because Jiang Bin is bad, those who have opposed him must be good.
Because there are victims of disasters in border areas, the problem can be solved by spreading the money.
Even Zhu Houcong, who has never been an official, knows how many implementation aspects need to be considered in order to implement a measure. They can just talk and point in the direction so habitually.
Is it because they are at this level, or is this the core of power?
Because the implementation depends on the people below, here we just divide the right to speak and the money.
As for the details, why do you want to know so much, Emperor?
Zhu Houcong had a sense of imminent vision of the "key political country", and he understood that it was not the world that was wrong, but himself.
I was still too naive to be easily aroused by the contents of a few memorials.
Nothing can train a person more than actually facing something. Zhu Houcong calmed down after reflecting.
Most of the people he has to face are "political bosses" who have only one mouth and one pen. The difference is that they really understand the current political rules, and every suggestion and decision they make will really affect reality.
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So it’s not that they don’t understand, it’s just that they don’t want to arrange things more carefully first. In that case, how can they have room for change in the future?
If Zhu Houcong had any ideas, they would definitely challenge Zhu Houcong's plan from every angle and detail.
Wei Bin and the others will stop here, since they still have errands to do later.
If something happens again in the future, it's not like there are no ways to deal with them again.
The cold gaze belonging to the emperor returned to the previous memorials, and Zhu Houcong continued to give his opinions.
He first gives his own opinions as much as possible, because his subordinates' reactions to their opinions will be the most valuable growth nourishment for him.
Those who impeached the eunuchs should be detained first, the adopted sons should resign, and those so-called Zhongliang who did not follow Jiang Bin and be imprisoned should be rehabilitated.
The several memorials written with Prince Ning to discuss the merits of the rebellion all have the same opinion: Wang Shouren went to Beijing to discuss the merits and then make a decision.
But giving opinions does not mean that all of them should be sent out now.
Zhu Houcong once again wanted to create an occasion and atmosphere, and achieve his goal in the battlefield and fighter plane he had preset: this time, he Zhu Houcong must establish rules in his court meeting, completely end the debate about the gift, and leave
Some figures who acted as checks and balances on Yang Ting and them.