take the system to escape

Chapter 79
What happened in the Jinxiu Palace quickly reached Fang Yuan's ears. He just sent one more imperial doctor there. He knew that Mrs. Li was still alive, but he couldn't jump out and show his claws for a while. His mentality was still there. A little excited.

Afterwards, the news that Ran Yue went to Penglai Pavilion was also sent. He, the emperor, knew very well what kind of place Penglai Pavilion was. Why did the queen mother of a country go to Penglai Pavilion, which was listed as a forbidden place?This is not important, because Fang Yuan knows that Ran Yue only stayed in Penglai Pavilion for a quarter of an hour, what is this time enough for?

With the absence of Concubine Li making noises in the palace, Fang Yuan's ears are much quieter, and the things he has planned for a long time can also see the results in the near future.

The next morning, the court hall was very lively again.

The results of the Criminal Department of the Yongxinghou case have come out. The Yongxinghou's mansion was copied, and the Yongxinghou couple were sentenced to exile in Linzhou, eight thousand miles away. The crime is reduced by one class.

If it is really done according to the law, the crimes committed by the Marquis of Yongxing are enough to confiscate the family and exterminate the family. Did not really affect the rule of the dynasty.

As for this group of courtiers who knew the result of the case of the Marquis of Yongxing, some felt that the sentence was too severe and planned to intercede for the troubled Marquis Yongxing; Head, and some people try to muddy the water.

Fang Yuan sat on the dragon chair and waited coldly. The case of the Marquis of Yongxing had come to an end. No matter who interceded or put pressure on it, it was impossible to change it.This time, he made up his mind to rectify the Xungui group. Looking at the situation below, he can just ascertain who is on his side and who has ulterior motives.

Fang Yuan listened for a long time, and not only did the ministers not stop, but they became louder and louder. He had to interrupt the ministers, "Okay, my ministers will only quarrel in the court. Do you want to give some practical advice? Is there nothing else going on in the court except the case of Marquis Yongxing?"

The emperor spoke, and those ministers of course stopped their quarrel and confessed their crimes in unison.

"Start playing if there is something to do, and leave the court if there is nothing to do." The eunuch beside the emperor shouted loudly.

Suddenly a minister, who was the hard-core royalist figure, Hubu Shangshu Yao Chuan, stood up, took out a memorial from his cuff, held it above his head with both hands, and said, "I have something to announce."

Seeing this behavior, the clever ministers guessed what the emperor was planning to do, otherwise, it would be impossible for his confidant to jump out.

"What is there to play?"

"Weichen only took over the Ministry of Accounts this year. When we cleaned up the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts, we found that many nobles had borrowed money from the treasury, but they had not repaid them for many years. The accumulated amount of these loans has reached 8000 million taels. Now the court There are so many places where money is used up and down, and the household department has no money, so please ask the emperor to order to recover the loan."

"8000 million taels? There are so many?"

"Exactly, what Weichen has in hand is the list of loans kept on file in the household department."

"Submit it, I want to see who actually dare to borrow money from the treasury and refuse to pay it back!"

Seeing the furious emperor Long Yan and the serious Yao Chuan, the ministers present didn't know they were acting.The emperor couldn't scold him, so naturally a mere minister of household affairs could scold him. If looks could kill, Yao Chuan would have been cut into pieces by the eye knives of the ministers, and he would have died several times.

The founding emperor of the Kangyuan Dynasty was just a commoner, and by chance he became the emperor who dominated the world.In the previous dynasty, he had no background and was not exploited by officials. Therefore, after the establishment of the Kangyuan Dynasty, he paid close attention to officialdom and vigorously promoted clean government.In the first few decades of the founding of the country, the life of the officials of the Kangyuan Dynasty was very difficult. The various welfare benefits themselves were quite poor, and various regulatory agencies emerged in endlessly. It is a capital crime. If it exceeds 10 taels, the whole family will die together.

However, this kind of coercion only worked for a while. It was okay when the founding emperor was in power. Later, when the emperor changed, those officials became presumptuous. Corruption became common from top to bottom. After picking up a batch, I feel that corrupt officials are like weeds after spring, which cannot be completely removed.

When Fang Yuan's grandfather Hongdi was in power, the court was relatively clear, and most of the high-ranking officials in the temple were capable ministers and generals, and there were few sycophants and corrupt people.

One New Year's Eve, Emperor Hong went to visit the ministers in micro-clothes, but was shocked by the few ministers who lived in poverty because of their incorruptibility. He never thought that Kang Yuan's high-ranking officials would not be able to afford meat during the Chinese New Year.

Later, Emperor Hong learned that the current salary standard for ministers was still set when the country was founded. More than 100 years later, the Kangyuan Dynasty developed rapidly, and the level at that time was completely different from the current one. After the incorruptible minister rented a house, he couldn't even eat enough to eat, let alone eat meat.

At that time, it was not appropriate to raise the salary of officials, so Emperor Hong came up with an idea. He allowed ministers to borrow money from the treasury to tide over the difficulties.In Hongdi's opinion, there were not many people who would be willing to borrow money from the treasury, and there was no way they would have the nerve to default on borrowing money from the treasury for too long.

Unexpectedly, decades later, when Fang Yuan became emperor, the unpaid loan amounted to 8000 million taels.

Before Yao Chuan posted it, Fang Yuan had already read the list, and the ones who borrowed the most money on it turned out to be those nobles. Of the 8000 million taels, more than 5000 million taels were borrowed by these nobles, and 2000 million taels were already borrowed by these nobles. The debt is dead, the person who owed the money and his family have long since vanished. About less than 1000 million taels were borrowed by those clan relatives, but the courtiers rarely borrowed money from the treasury. In addition, after mastering the power, all kinds of filial piety are indispensable, and there is really no one who is really living a hard life haha.

So Fang Yuan was very envious of his grandfather when he was in power, there was still a minister who fainted at the court meeting because of hunger, why didn't he meet such a clean and honest minister.

Fang Yuan casually flipped through the memorial and then became furious and said: "Yao Chuan, I will give you three months, and you must collect the debts owed by the Ministry of Revenue. I will give you a sword of Shang Fang, whether it is an important official of the court or a The emperor’s relatives can all be killed!”

Asking for money was a hard job, and Yao Chuan had discussed it with Fang Yuan beforehand. It was too difficult to ask for money from those nobles, so His Majesty the Emperor had to give more support.

(End of this chapter)