After the words fell, under the instruction of Emperor Yong, Li Yunlan repeated the story he had told under the big locust tree these past few days.
Everyone in the hall had different expressions as they listened to what Li Yunlan was talking about.
Emperor Yong sat at the top with a serious face. No one knew what he was thinking. However, Jiang Xiang, who was under Emperor Yong, just acted like it had nothing to do with him when he heard the story.
When Gao Yizhong heard this story, he closed his eyes and meditated.
Other officials who did not express their opinions also looked uneasy and guilty.
However, Chen Fuyin and the Minister of Justice, who were kneeling on the ground, were obviously trembling after hearing this and didn't know what to do.
When the story was finished, Li Yunlan only added a special sentence, "This is the experience of the grassroots over the years, and the experience of the grassroots for more than ten days. The grassroots have no other wishes, they just want to implore His Majesty to uphold justice for the people and give us a piece of justice." sunny."
"Your Highness, things have reached this point. It might not be appropriate for us to ignore it anymore!" At this time, Gao Yizhong only stood up and said.
Emperor Yong still didn't speak. He just looked at Li Yunlan silently and said, "Is what you said really your true experience?"
Seeing that Emperor Yong seemed to be questioning his authenticity, Li Yunlan immediately pointed to the sky and swore, "Everything the grassroots said is true, and not a single word is a lie! If the grassroots tell a lie, let the grassroots strike with five thunderbolts!" If the poison gathers in your body, you will not die well!"
Upon hearing Li Yunlan's oath, Emperor Yong said expressionlessly, "I don't believe this. You don't have to swear to me. You just need to show evidence and I will believe you."
Seeing that Emperor Yong only interrogated Li Yunlan but did not question them, Chen Fuyin and the Minister of Punishment secretly wiped the sweat from their foreheads.
What they thought was that no one could prove it, but Li Yunlan whispered, "I certainly have evidence about the Yunzhou Prefect. After all, I have been painstakingly collecting evidence of his crime for so many years, just so that one day I can prove it." He was brought to justice. So I do have evidence of Yunzhou Prefect’s guilt.”
"Then quickly bring out the evidence of your crime!" The eunuch beside Emperor Yong immediately spoke up after hearing this.
When Li Yunlan heard this, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the people around him.
Prince Zhao Chengyuan could only say suddenly at this moment, "Father, this account book is here."
Hearing this, Emperor Yong couldn't help but have a flash of suspicion in his eyes. What on earth is this big boy doing? He never said why the account book was with him.
Zhao Chengyuan didn't know that his father was doubting him. He just presented the account book to Emperor Yong respectfully.
Emperor Yong did not accept the account book. He just said to the prince who had tried so hard to help him up, "Why is this account book with you? Don't you know Li Yunlan?"
Facing his father's accusation, Zhao Chengyuan also realized that something was wrong with what he did.
At that moment, he only said, "Er Chen has indeed never seen this person before, but when he heard him talk about this, Er Chen also remembered that he had received a letter from the direction of Yunzhou before. I have recorded in detail the evidence and records of Yunzhou Prefect forming cliques for personal gain, so I wanted to show these to my father."
After Emperor Yong heard what Zhao Chengyuan said, he silently took the memorial from his son and began to read it.
After just watching for a moment, his face became more and more gloomy. Although he had always known and heard that the Yunzhou Prefect was not an honest person, the Yunzhou Prefect did have some abilities. He thought he could see the other side well. Just give it up, but now it seems that he thought of this person too simply. This account has long exceeded what he can tolerate, and Yunzhou is not a wealthy place to begin with. Perennial floods and droughts require funding from the court. Moreover, Yunzhou’s geographical location is special, so it’s not enough if we don’t allocate funds.
Therefore, over the years, Emperor Yong has always focused on responding to disaster relief in Yunzhou.
However, now we see that the Yunzhou prefect actually divided up all the disaster relief funds. How can we provide disaster relief without disaster relief funds? Then we can only falsely report disasters. However, this kind of disaster is not just nonsense, that is, it is bound to collude with the people above.
Moreover, Yunzhou is a disaster-prone place. Since ancient times, the taxes received from the imperial court here have been more than twice as low as those collected by other states. In a disaster year, the imperial court will even waive taxes for this year and provide free grain. .
The purpose of their doing this is to allow them to reduce the burden on the people and prevent the people in this city from fleeing and rebelling.
Not only did the people in the border towns receive preferential treatment, but the small government officials in the border towns also received preferential treatment. Not to mention the annual allocation from the court, even if they only exempted the people's taxes by 10%, he would choose to ignore it. Let them keep this 10% tax.
After all, Yunzhou borders the Qiang Desert, and almost all of the pressure from border defense lies on Yunzhou.
Although the imperial court has troops stationed at the front line, the pressure on their border cities is still very high, and the Qiangmo people do not have martial ethics, and there will be temporary raids from time to time. Faced with temporary raids, the imperial court has no time to organize people to resist , so many times, the small officials in these border cities need to organize their own personnel to retreat or resist.
In order to cope with the pressure of border defense every year, almost half of the revenue from the treasury is invested in Yunzhou.
And the taxes Yunzhou paid were not even as much as what he invested.
That is to say, King Jin disrupted the situation in Qiangmo. Now that Qiangmo is fighting for the throne and has no time to care about anything else, the pressure on border defense can be reduced a lot.
But even so, Yunzhou's petition for crying out for poverty is still being presented. In the past, everyone said nothing because Yunzhou was shouldering the pressure of border defense. However, in the past few months, the pressure on Yunzhou's border defense has decreased, and Yunzhou's money has been reduced. Still being asked for. In fact, there are already great opinions in various places.
However, now that this booklet is published, what does it mean and what does it prove?
Almost half of the income in the treasury went into the pockets of the Zhu family.
His own annual expenses are not as much as those of Zhu's family. Isn't this just spending money to work for others?
Which emperor could stand this? They had said before that there were many bandits in Yunzhou, and the Qiangmo gang could even break into inland cities.
There are many bandits in Yunzhou, and now it seems that most of the bandits here are ordinary people who have turned into bandits.
After all, they deceived and lied about the disaster, and most of the money fell into the hands of their own people, while the people who were really affected by the disaster got a small amount of money.
Some of them even sell the grains distributed to the people for free to major shops to drive up prices.
On the other hand, although the imperial court gave Yunzhou preferential treatment, their taxes were much lower than other places. Their original intention of doing this was to allow these people to save some food on weekdays. In small disaster years, they could not rely on Or rely less on the court to help you get through it.
However, because the Yunzhou government has certain rights to set taxes, although the court clearly stipulates that the tax cannot exceed 10% of the normal tax price, these people do not care about this at all. They fool the people below, and the tax increase of this group of people Pay taxes to the court. The actual taxes paid by the people of Yunzhou are even much higher than those of other states and counties.
Even in good years, small farmers go bankrupt and end up selling their land.
Therefore, the Yunzhou ballad also says: I would rather be a beggar in a foreign land than a farmer in Yunzhou.
In disaster years, such small farming families will be even more miserable. Basically no one can escape the consequences of selling their land and their children.
After all, year-round high taxes only keep the people in a state of having nothing to hide all year round.
In disaster years, although the court exempted people from taxes, they also distributed relief grains and even distributed free grain crops.
If these measures are implemented properly, many people may be saved.
However, even at this time, they did not stop. The court did not accept it, so they continued to collect it. They collected normal taxes. They put the money and grain into their pockets, but they told the people below that the court wanted to collect taxes. They had no choice. They had already Try your best to exempt them from the taxes that should be paid to them.
In the end, they benefited, and the court took the blame.
The people had no income, sold their sons and daughters, and land annexation was serious.
In this case, either they themselves will be integrated into the powerful land as supplies, or they will be defeated and become bandits.
In this kind of environment, we don't want them to live. We want them to die.
Now it seems that the Zhu family has done nothing serious at all and is only thinking about how to make money.
Although he wanted someone to help him keep an eye on the portal, he also really wanted someone to help him keep an eye on the Chen brothers, lest these three people have any objections.
However, the premise of all this is that this person is loyal and reliable, must stick to the one-third of an acre of land designated by him, and must act in accordance with his policies.
But now it seems that the Zhu family is actually a scam.
After getting such a result and seeing these data, how could Emperor Yong not become murderous?
With the unfortunate incident of Governor Yunzhou, and looking at the Minister of Punishment and the Yin of the Shangjing Prefecture who prevented Li Yunlan from filing a complaint, these two people seemed to be a bit unscrupulous.
He didn't even ask Li Yunlan to prove it.
After all, the matter of the Governor of Yunzhou was enough to annoy him, and they actually deceived him like this, making him think that this was the current situation in Yunzhou.
Not to mention these two unlucky guys, if possible, he would even want to deal with those who were related to the Zhu family.
He stared coldly at the Minister of Punishment and the Yin of the Shangjing Prefecture: "You said you didn't know about this! You've never done this. I don't know the truth. There's a lot of trouble in the city outside, so I believe that all this is not groundless!" And this person also presented his evidence, proving that he really came to sue Yunzhou Prefect. If there is a way for him to report, I believe he does not need to go to such an extreme! You should also respond to the complaint normally, and I also We wouldn’t have found out until things got to this point!”
"You said you don't know? Do you really don't know, or do you just don't want to know! You don't dare to know! Or maybe you are colluding with the Yunzhou prefect!" biquiu
Emperor Yong's words were very serious. It was obvious that Emperor Yong was really angry about Zhu Ibis Zhi. Anyone who had anything to do with the Zhu family at this time would be in bad luck.
