Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 247 Want to add a crime
"call--"

Taking a long sigh of relief, King Yu's whole body trembled, and he immediately felt a little dull.

Groping the high mountains, he thought about it for a while, and said rather coldly: "You have a good rest, don't get sick."

"Hmm~" A whiny and delicate voice sounded, joyful yet exhausted, immature yet hoarse.

A pair of jade hands wrapped around the neck, pink and close to the body: "Brother-in-law, we are like this, how can sister explain?"

All I saw was a small round and fair face, the small mouth was pursed, the upturned nose was slightly wrinkled, and Yichen Yixi's beautiful eyes were full of fear.

how could I know?

Zhu Yixi touched her small face and said with a sigh of relief: "Damnie, you are too out of bounds."

"I can't bear to part with my brother-in-law!"

The blackness of that night appeared in front of the damselfly, and she said pitifully, "Brother-in-law, who made you look so handsome and handsome?"

"Go on, don't stop!"

"Stop what? Come again?"

The damselfly was taken aback.

"No, it's Junyi who waited for the truth."

Zhu Yixi said softly, feeling a little relieved in her heart, and began to say solemnly:

"Of course, you're not young anymore. Now that you're in chaos, if you marry out of town, your family is worried. If you marry someone you don't like, you're also afraid of being bullied, and half your life will be ruined..."

"Yes, brother-in-law is the best!"

Xiao Nizi's eyes were shining, and she was grinding behind her back.

"Have a good rest!"

Zhu Yixi couldn't help getting up, looked at Bai Nen involuntarily, and turned around with difficulty: "Remember, don't let your sister find out."

"Oh--"

With a dragging tone, Damselfly dressed as if nothing had happened, and muttered: "Brother-in-law, you have to explain to sister as soon as possible, I'm afraid of being scolded!"

"I'm afraid too!"

Zhu Yixi said unhappily: "You seduced me, you have the nerve to say that,"

After being speechless for a while, His Royal Highness Prince Yu left this relatively remote underground secret room in an orderly manner, taking three steps at a time.

"Squeak-"

The bed board was opened, Zhu Yixi moved a bit, rubbed his eyes, and said wearily:
"Is Section Chief Sun here?"

"Your Highness, Chief Sun has been waiting for a long time."

Thirteen replied crisply.

"Let him in!"

Immediately, Sun Changzhou, Chief Sun of the Search Section, full of excitement and dust, couldn't wait to enter:
"I have seen His Highness in a humble position."

With a stack of documents between them, Sun Changzhou's etiquette was not compromised at all.

"Get up!"

King Yu yawned, turned his gaze to the man, and asked, "Is the thing there?"

"Yes!" Sun Changzhou handed it over quickly.

Seeing King Yu flipping through the file, suppressing his excitement, he explained softly:

"His Highness, besides those chieftains, Huguang has fifteen prefectures, two Zhili prefectures, and 97 counties."

"Since you expelled the intruders and thieves last year until now, you have ignored the previous suspicions and restored the officials to their posts. It can be said that you are magnanimous, which is rare in ancient times."

"But these people not only colluded with each other in private, but also flirted with Qin Muchu and the Nanjing court, and even often secretly colluded with He Tengjiao of Jiujiang, exchanging letters."

"He, he even tried to overthrow the shogunate in his letters..."

Speaking of this, Sun Changzhou was filled with righteous indignation: "They are still plotting something unbearable—"

"It's nothing more than using my head to make meritorious service and contribute to the court!"

King Yu sneered, flipping through the large stack of files casually, his mind spinning.

In fact, when he turned to the first page, there were actually 98 people in the 60 counties who were not right-minded and colluded with the court.

This still has to remove the twenty or so counties he appointed.

In other words, there are only a dozen or so people who really love him, or are neutral.

Not to mention the state level, that is [-]%.

"My salary was fed to the dogs!"

Zhu Yixi was filled with emotion.

Hearing this, Sun Changzhou hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "Your Highness, although the officials in the country don't have much salary, they have a lot of money in private. The filial piety of Beijing officials is not just here."

"Why, what else is there besides fire consumption?"

Zhu Yixi wondered.

He was at the bottom before, and later joined the army, so he really doesn't know much about magistrates.

Seeing this, Sun Changzhou, the spy, began to reveal how greedy the local officials are.

In addition to the filial piety of subordinates, officials and businessmen, such as the county magistrate, there is a prescribed income - apportionment.

That is, according to the wealth of each county, showdown silver ranging from 30 taels to a hundred taels per li (one hundred and ten households is one li).

The original intention of this is that the local people hope to exchange money for magistrates without tossing, but it has become a practice instead.

No matter how I mess around, you have to give me the money first anyway.

For this item alone, the average county earns at least one thousand taels of silver a year.

In addition, such as state affairs corruption (disaster relief, embankment repair, etc.), miscellaneous taxes (water foot money, food money, treasury money), bully corruption (litigation takes both sides), etc., emerge in endlessly.

Therefore, the ancient times paid attention to not tossing, which is the truth.

Once something happens, the officials will do their best to turn a good thing into a bad thing.

"Assessment, miscellaneous taxes..."

Zhu Yixi understood that adding dozens of silver coins every month was just scratching an itch for these Bailihou.

Letting them give up corruption is no less than throwing watermelons for sesame seeds, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Naturally, instead of being grateful, they were resentful.

"Take them all!"

King Yu directly dropped the file and said softly.

"What's the crime?"

Sun Changzhou frowned and said, "Your Highness, without a proper excuse, I'm afraid it will cause trouble."

"Corruption is of course useless."

Zhu Yixi chuckled and said: "The world is as black as a crow, if you point to it and say it is black, you will jump over the wall in a hurry."

"In this way, those in the south of Dongting Lake will be accused of colluding with thieves and intending to rebel. All their homes will be confiscated and their jobs will be demoted, and they will be imprisoned and sent to work on farms."

"Those north of Dongting Lake are said to be colluding with trespassers, half-hearted, ill-intentioned, subverting the imperial court, copying their homes and demoting their jobs, and going to farms to reform."

King Yu made up excuses casually.

As the saying goes, if you want to commit a crime, there is nothing to worry about.

Those in positions of power can come up with a few excuses casually.

Sun Changzhou lowered his head with a serious face.

This is power, King Yu's power determines the life and death of millions of people in Huguang, even the county magistrate can only crush an ant to death.

"However, compared with rebellion, this king only sent them to the farm for reformation, which is indeed magnanimous."

Zhu Yixi laughed softly: "As for the prefecture and the prefectural level, the influence is too great, so follow the method of Governor Sun and pick a second official to ransack the house! Shock the mountain and shake the tiger!"

In order to control corruption, Sun Chuanting, the supervisor of Shaanxi, directly killed all the second officials of the magistrate, such as the county magistrate, which effectively deterred the whole of Shaanxi, and the collection of taxes was extremely smooth.

"As ordered!"

Sun Changzhou felt his heart beating continuously. This was excitement. Jin Yiwei was really about to recover.

"However, the Department of Courtesy will follow the review!"

King Yu finally added.

This is to put a dog leash on the search department to prevent it from jumping off.

(End of this chapter)