Chapter 140 First Voice
(Recommended a late Ming novel with a similar type as a wealthy life. The title is very bad and the introduction is very second. It is just a means for the author to attract some novices. The content of the text is rigorous and reasonable, with strong logic, and worth reading.)
In the restaurant by the Bian River, Master Liu was drinking tea leisurely. He said to Zhu Zheng, Zhou Gui and Li Fengji who were standing in front of him: "This time, you have to suffer a little, and you can't go to Shamen Island. But don't worry, I will take care of my family's affairs, and there will definitely be no mistakes. Even on Shamen Island, there are officials who are familiar with me. When I go, I will bring a letter of my book and spend a few years there. When the court amnesty is here, I will return to Kaifeng well. By that time, I will have the money you have now to make a book and our help. Isn't it easy to get wealth and honor?"
Zhu Zheng and his friends bowed together: "But with the instructions of the Grand Master, we will definitely do the things well!"
"Okay, okay!" Master Liu waved his hand to let the few people relax. "In the past two years, you are just a back-up in the Sansi. I have worked hard for a lot of hard work, and I have not been able to take care of you. It will be fine in the future. When I come back, I will buy a house in the capital and marry a few more beautiful wives and concubines. What kind of good life can't be enjoyed? In this year, all the officials and the officials are weak, and having money is real. If you have enough money, you can live more comfortable than the emperor. Do you think so?"
"What the Grand Master said is! Although the emperor has no worries about food and drink, he still has so many major national affairs every day. How can he be like us? He only eats, drinks and enjoys everything else, and ignores everything else!"
"Yes, it's good for you to know. This time, I got the things done well. No matter who asked me, you all said that I had received the news and was unwilling to slap it in a daze, so I went to the prime minister and the censor to ask for an explanation. This is not a serious crime of treason. It's a great sentence to be exiled to Shaman Island. You can come back in a few years, and it will be a good life in the future!"
I remember that I would never have to be called to drink again. I would eat braised vegetables every day, and I could live in a big house like those whom I envy every day, hugging the pretty little lady on my face, and light was shining on my face.
At this moment, a middle-aged man came in from outside, came to Master Liu, and whispered: "Master, the news just came from outside that the people from the Salt and Iron Army soldier case were taking the wing army and arresting the people who made trouble yesterday!"
"Here, here," Grand Master Liu looked at the people and spread his hands. "As he said this, they began to arrest people everywhere! Xu Ping is indeed different from the others, and is much more decisive than we originally expected. He thought it was Kaifeng Prefecture to arrest people, but he didn't expect the Yantioxue to take action first."
Zhu Zheng and his men didn't know what it meant, whether it was a good or a bad thing, so they looked at each other and dared not speak.
Master Liu smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's better for the Sansi to arrest people? Except for those who followed you on the street yesterday, now the Sansi are all my subordinates, so what are you afraid of! I say a word, you can't even eat a board!"
After hearing what Master Liu said, several people felt relieved and smiled on their faces.
After the dispersal of the court, the Secretariat, the Privy Council, the Sansi Envoy Kou and others went to the back hall to discuss major affairs of the court. Xu Ping naturally did not have the qualifications and went straight to the Sansi Organ.
As soon as he entered the Salt and Iron Department, Liu Han came forward and bowed and bowed: "The deputy envoy is back."
Xu Ping nodded and asked, "How are you? How many people have you caught back?"
"It went smoothly. Yesterday we found out the name and arrested more than 60 people. The lower officials had already brought them with the public officials to interrogate them, saying that Zhu Zheng and Zhou Gui had acted more than a dozen three officials and agreed late last night. Early this morning, these officials and officials came to Zhouqiao to meet."
Seeing Liu Han's face full of excitement, Xu Ping said: "Don't just listen to what they said. Be careful that they had colluded and fell into the trap of these people! When they came back, they should not be in a hurry to interrogate and detain them separately. Let the Xiang army guard them, and they are not allowed to talk to each other and communicate with each other. Not long after, the Censorate and Kaifeng Prefecture will send people to interrogate us and wait for them."
"Why are there people from Kaifeng Prefecture and the Censorate involved? Do you don't believe in our Sansi?"
Liu Heng was a little anxious when he heard this. He had just taken over Judge Yan Tie and encountered such a major case. He was trying to show off his skills. He didn't expect that there were people from other yamen who would get involved.
Xu Ping sighed: "Crashing the two prime ministers' offices and insulting the Censor General. Those who cause trouble are all from our three departments. No one doubts us, and it would be nice to let us not intervene. How could we handle the case alone?"
Liu Han sighed and stopped talking. On the surface, it seemed that the Sansi should actually bear a lot of responsibility, just because the minor officials said bluntly that it was because the Censor Han Yi suggested laying off talents and causing trouble, and no one involved the Sansi.
Xu Ping said again: "Didn't Wang's name beside the troublemaker yesterday? He will send someone to us later. With the list, we just keep following the person."
Liu Heng said anxiously: "Deputy envoy, I was also present yesterday. Wang Xianggong's list was recorded by people. To be honest, some people simply reported false names, and I also reported Liu Sanshui's name to write down. What's more hateful is that some people reported the names of their enemies in the Sansi. There are also some people who are obviously not public officials, but they reported their names casually. I asked the Sansi officials who were present at the time, and those people reported that they were indeed in the Sansi."
Speaking of this, Liu Han shook his head: "I am afraid that there are many mistakes on Wang Xianggong's list and cannot be used as evidence. And yesterday I saw Wang Xianggong's intention, one was to calm down the matter, and the other was to write it down, and it really meant to argue with the minor officials. I didn't expect that someone would take him to the Imperial Palace later, making things uncontrollable and wasted his efforts."
"No matter how many of the list is true or how many are fake, they are the ones who are making trouble now have the clearest records of the people who are causing trouble. They can only take the people according to the list first. When they are caught back to the yamen, they will be interrogated carefully."
After hearing Xu Ping's words, Liu Han had to bow down and say yes.
After saying that, Xu Ping turned around and returned to his chief official hall, took a few steps, suddenly remembered something, turned around and said to Liu Ying: "There are many doubts this time. You must be very cautious when dealing with it, and you must not be deceived."
"I understand!" Liu Han bowed and agreed.
Xu Ping said again: "Justice just now, Grandpa Lu wanted to directly cut off these people according to the list in Grandpa Wang's hand. It should be distributed and removed from the list. I insisted repeatedly that I must check the whole story of the matter clearly before I stopped the case again. Grandpa Lu was quite unhappy in this matter, and you know what was going on!"
Liu Heng was stunned for a moment and bowed to Xu Ping: "Don't worry, deputy envoy, I will definitely find out the case and will never leave any handle for others!"
Xu Ping nodded: "Catch people first, please be optimistic. Remember not to let them collude. After the people from the Censorate and Kaifeng Prefecture arrive, they will be questioned. Don't rush to this moment."
After leaving Liu Han, Xu Ping returned to his chief's hall and asked the military general to bring a cup of tea, close the door, and guarded the door tightly outside the door, and did not allow idle people to come in. If there is any important thing outside the door, wait for instructions.
Putting the tea on the miscellaneous table, Xu Ping sat down on the chair, leaned against the back of the chair, and looked up at the tightness of the house.
Whenever there is a big event, Xu Ping always needs to be quiet like this and carefully sort out the context of the matter. He must consider the matter carefully and not make big mistakes because of his own temporary negligence.
After the tea method was changed, something happened immediately after the goods were filed. Then the officials of the three companies attacked the Prime Minister's Office, causing a big news. One by one, one by one, Xu Ping didn't know what would happen next time if he had been with Ximian again.
Xu Ping never believed that these things were not related. Several times they were connected, and a vague shadow was drawn. I remembered what Xu Chang said before, what Master Liu, the kids of the powerful families in various capitals, and the public officials in various yamen, because of the interests of the interests, if they really unite, this force would be really too great to fear people.
Who came in the past few years? Just a custody of the corruption and theft of public officials in which custody was strictly investigated, and their annual income increased several times. If all the custody affairs of the three departments were like this, this would be an underground court!
Xu Ping always hesitated when he was against such a force. If there was no support from the ministers in the court, he would be afraid that the lid would not be lifted up and his future would be brought in first.
But now there is no choice. After yesterday's incident, if I give in, I will become a puppet puppet and can only be at the mercy of others. Not to mention what else I want to do, it is not easy to be able to take a safe position.
After breathing a long sigh, Xu Ping straightened up and looked through the case files on the case table.
This was recorded by him after talking to Gao Chengduan for an afternoon yesterday, some secrets of Sansi that are difficult for outsiders to know.
Gao Chengduan has been an official for generations. He has been in the Sansi for nearly twenty years and has not even become a chief official. This is a bit abnormal. In this case, not to mention becoming the highest-level official, he should at least be a chief official.
Gao Chengduan admitted that the reason for this is that he does not integrate into his colleagues around him.
The Gao family had saved a lot of money in the last few generations of work in the Sansi, and was a large family in Xiangyi County, his hometown. By the time of Gao Chengduan, he had a higher pursuit than money and was determined to become an official and change his family.
Xu Ping was in charge of the Salt and Iron Department, especially the Three Departments Regulation Editing Office, which gave Gao Chengduan the opportunity and took the initiative to present the classics he had kept, hoping to gain a background.
According to Gao Chengduan, the public officials of the Three Divisions all formed several groups and colluded with each other to turn the money in each treasury into their own money. Although most of this process was inevitably distributed to various yamen and senior officials and powerful officials, the public officials of the Three Divisions made a fortune by drinking some soup. Many officials who have been officials for generations are richer than kings and princes.
This generation of Sansi officials were even more powerful. An elderly and retired public official united these small groups to form a huge organization. This organization was as firmly separated from the big tree of Sansi, like a parasitic plant, and continued to absorb nutrients and grow stronger and stronger. From kings, princes and prime ministers to chief clerks of various yamen, many of them shared the profits from them.
It is extremely difficult to select and promote people, and many of them are wandering around the various yamen. Over time, it is easier to collude with these minor officials. Instead, those low-level officials in the Beijing court were caught in the middle and were fooled.
This old husband with great powers was named Liu. Because he had the title of Taishi of the Procuratorate, everyone was called Liu Taishi.
The prosecutors of the Public Officials’ yamen school have their own system, which is meaningless except for having a false title. It is just that the public officials use it as a beautiful title. However, this Master Liu made this false title like a real title, which is really an extraordinary person.
Chapter completed!