On this day, there were fifty-one officials like Zhu Pingan who received orders. Except for Zhu Pingan, the others were all officials of fourth rank or above.
At the same time, there are more than 200 officials below the fourth rank who have not received the imperial edict, but have received official documents jointly issued by the Cabinet, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In addition, there were as many as 500 soldiers, police officers and slaves who had their homes confiscated and were imprisoned without receiving any imperial edict or official documents.
Without exception, they were all punished because of the Taicang Bank Case. The lighter cases were fined taels of silver, the worst cases were jailed, and the worst cases were exiled or beheaded. For those who are fined taels of silver, the amount of fines and compensation ranges from tens or hundreds of taels to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands taels.
It is worth noting that in this case, Yan Shifan, the son of Mr. Yan Song and Yan Ge, was also fined 12,000 taels of silver for failing to inspect the treasury twice.
In addition, Zhu Ping'an's advisor, the current cabinet minister Xu Jie, was also fined 6,000 taels of silver because of an oversight in the treasury.
For a time, the capital city was filled with figures of factory guards roaring back and forth, as if.
After a certain minister accepted the imperial edict and was fined 8,000 taels of silver, he sent the eunuch who announced the edict away with a smile. After the eunuch left, the minister respectfully held the edict in his hands and placed it on the incense table to offer it. Then he turned around and cursed: "Zhu Peace, you loser star..."
An official's house was ransacked by factory guards, and his family, including his wife, concubines, and children were exiled to Yunnan, a smog-infested country. The family, accustomed to being pampered and pampered, was forced by police officers who were like wolves and tigers. The family looked back at the house with a haggard look and tears streaming down their faces. In the mansion, the desperate housewife only remembered her husband’s complaint before leaving, “If it weren’t for Zhu Ping’an’s check in the library, this would not have happened...”
So, on the road to exile, the desperate housewife gnashed her teeth and cursed Zhu Ping'an, the initiator of all this, all the time, and taught her young children to remember: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuthuth" , all because of a person named Zhu Pingan..."
The majestic Yan Mansion.
The delicate bodies of four naked concubines and maidservants were lying on the recliners. They were linked together like a soft and boneless chair, forming the shape of a gentle chair. The one-eyed fat man Yan Shifan sat down on the gentle chair, holding a girl with only an inch of hair in his arms. The maid who was hiding her shame rubbed and pinched the maid's body with one big hand without mercy, and with a big fat face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, or angry or angry, she laughed and joked with her brother Luo Longwen at the banquet: "My Yan Mansion has always been inward. Bringing in money is new today, I’m starting to take money out..."
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After receiving the imperial edict, Zhu Pingan kept sneezing from time to time. After sneezing again, Zhu Pingan touched his nose with a confused look. Could it be that he had a cold?
On this day, the Taicang Bank Case, the largest major case in the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years, came to an end.
The number of officials involved set a new record for the Jiajing Dynasty; the amount of fines and monetary compensation also set a new record for the Jiajing Dynasty.
Although the amount of silver fined to Zhu Pingan was the smallest, Zhu Pingan's family was poor. The fine of 160 taels of silver suddenly made Zhu Pingan bankrupt. In the end, with the help of Li Shu, Zhu Pingan Only then did he pay the fine of one hundred and sixty taels to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Zhu Ping'an was not the first to pay the fine. The first to pay the fine was Yan Shifan. When Zhu Ping'an went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, he heard that Yan Shifan had already paid the fine and had returned to Yan's Mansion for a long time.
It turned out that not long after Yan Shifan received the imperial edict, he sold off several old items in the house with great fanfare, and even Yan Song's most beloved ancient inkstone. Finally, he collected twelve thousand taels of silver and handed it over as soon as possible. Household Department.
Yan Shifan's active payment of fines was approved by Emperor Jiajing, who passed a note in praise.
Under Yan Shifan's example, a group of officials with strict party backgrounds came to the Ministry of Revenue to pay fines, whether they were willing or not.
When Zhu Pingan went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, he met several officials from the strict party who also paid the fine. However, none of these officials looked good on Zhu Pingan, and Zhu Pingan was full of ridicules. ...
After paying the fine, Zhu Ping'an went to Xu Jie's house to plead guilty. After all, it was because he lifted the lid on Taicang's shady story that the Taicang theft case was exposed, and Xu Jie was arrested because of an oversight in the Taicang bank. He was fined 6,000 taels of silver. Strictly speaking, there is a big reason for this.
Of course, in Zhu Pingan's opinion, his mentor Xu Jie probably didn't have a very clean butt either.
The huge deficit in Taicang couldn't be more obvious. If you check the warehouse carefully, it is impossible not to discover it.
However, when his mentor Xu Jie was the censor of Chaku in his early years, he did not report Taicang's deficit...
Of course, there were many reasons for not reporting the matter, which does not prove that Xu Jie was complicit in taking bribes, but failing to report it was an oversight.
When Zhu Ping'an entered the Xu Mansion, the Xu Mansion was also counting its belongings. They were selling off their property in a hurry to collect a fine of 6,000 taels of silver.
On the way to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, Zhu Pingan had already heard the news about Yan's family selling off their property to collect the fine. Now seeing the scene of Xu's family counting their belongings and selling off their property, Zhu Pingan was not surprised at all.
Twelve thousand taels of silver, theoretically speaking, is definitely not enough based on the normal salary of Yan Song and Yan Shifan. Even if rewards and other rewards are added, it will still have to be exhausted to get it.
Of course, six thousand taels of silver, theoretically speaking, would definitely be taxing for Xu Mansion.
If you can easily and casually take out the fines without selling your property, wouldn't that prove that you are an uncorrupt official, and that you will admit that you made personal gains when you inspected Taicang?
Therefore, it is necessary to sell off the property, not only to sell it, but also to sell it at a special price, so that everyone in the capital knows about it.
"You guys should be careful. This is my dad's favorite bathtub. It was passed down from my grandfather. Lift it up and spin it three times along the streets in front of me. Give it to me. Shouting loudly, no one will sell unless they have three hundred taels of silver."
The eldest son of the Xu Mansion, Xu Fan, was in his early twenties. He was as tall and strong as an ox, but he also had a dashing look. He stood on a table in the courtyard and directed the servants to collect the items and arrange the sale.
"Brother, is your mentor here?"
This was what Zhu Ping'an saw when he entered the house. He stepped forward and bowed his hands to greet Xu Fan. Xu Fan is Xu Jie's eldest son. Zhu Ping'an has visited Xu Jie's house several times, so he naturally knows Xu Fan.
"Hey, it's Zihou who's here. Haha, come on, come on, my old man was talking about you just now. When you first came to the capital, you were fined another one hundred and sixty taels of silver. I'm worried that if you don't get it together, you'll be punished by the Holy Spirit again. As punishment, let me sell his most cherished bathtub and give you a hundred and ten taels of silver."
When Xu Fan saw Zhu Pingan entering the house, his face was full of smiles. He jumped down from the table with agility, put his arm on Zhu Pingan's shoulders enthusiastically, and walked into the house with Zhu Pingan in his arms, smiling heartily. road.
