In ancient large ships, the cabin is actually just a few rooms. When you enter the cabin, you can see that even though it is in the cabin, it is elegantly decorated. The floors are all paved with red pine paneling and there is no dust. The bulkhead screens are all carved with insects, fish, flowers and birds. The layout is Very elegant.
There is an inner room separated by a bead curtain on the opposite side. At a glance, you can see a wooden frame with an embroidered dragon bag on it, holding a sword and a small green flag. This is the so-called "Shang Fang Sword" ” and “Wang Ming Qipai”.
The window of the cabin was small and dark. After interviewing them one by one, Su Ziji seemed not to see the slightly disappointed look in the exiting county magistrate's eyes. He coughed lightly, calmly picked up the tea bowl, used the bowl lid to poke the floating tea and took a sip.
These county magistrates think too beautifully. Just by discussing the overall situation, they try to force themselves to take action, but they still deceive themselves because they are young.
After all, only if you don't end up will you have the greatest deterrence and benefit. However, these county magistrates may really be punished, dismissed from their posts, or even executed.
If you don't offer reciprocal benefits, why should you help them?
At this time, there were faint voices, discussions, and even a little argument next door. Su Ziji ignored it. After a while, someone rushed towards him. They were also from the Prince's Mansion. As soon as they came in, there was no obstruction. When he came to Su Ziji, he knelt down on one knee and reported: "Your Highness, this is information from Yu Lu and Fang Xi. Please review it."
Su Ziji took it and looked at it, his expression unchanged: "I understand."
After the visitor left, he read through it carefully: "This Shang scholar is quite interesting. He plays the role of a loyal bandit and a righteous thief very well."
Just as he was thinking about it, another person hurriedly entered and handed over new information. This information was about Zhang Dai.
Different from the information reported to Fang Xiyulu before, the information about Zhang Dai is obviously more important.
Su Ziji only read it once, then his face changed slightly and he smiled.
"The imperial envoy mobilized 7,000 troops to blockade the seven warehouses. Is Zhang Dai really crazy?"
This is seven thousand people, not seven hundred people, let alone seventy people!
The military has been the most careful and sensitive area in the past. In the past, generals only had the power to command troops and did not have the power to mobilize troops. Those who mobilized more than 50 troops out of the country were required to hold tiger talismans.
Now, if we are a little more generous, it is limited to 100 people.
Moving troops privately is a capital offense.
Imperial envoys represent the emperor. Although they have certain rights to mobilize troops, they are basically limited to a hundred people and can serve as guards or temporary envoys.
This is the mobilization of 7,000 people. If it is not an important matter, it will be a death penalty. Even if there is a reasonable reason, the imperial envoy has been mobilized now, and he will have to go back without food!
What did Zhang Dai think?
Even if they already knew and saw the intelligence, Su Ziji was speechless by the intelligence. However, the two of them had only received the intelligence back. Whether the intelligence was true or not, and what the specific situation was, needed to be further determined.
"Papa"
At this time, there was a knock on the window. Su Ziji opened the window, and the fox came in. It was the big fox who came back to report the news.
The big fox pointed at the dictionary with his paw, looking a little anxious.
When Su Ziji passed by, the big fox had already opened the dictionary and pointed at the words on each page to form the information it wanted to report.
Su Ziji had already received the information about Zhang Dai. Even though the big fox flipped through the dictionary a little fast and the content expressed was very brief, he still quickly understood its meaning.
"You actually act like this?" Su Ziji murmured.
Is Zhang Dai really crazy?
He touched the big fox's head, then put it on his forehead and meditated, and said for a long time: "Send the fox to follow Zhang Dai, and check his luggage when no one is around. I suspect that he got some kind of promise when he met the emperor. Otherwise, how could he Will this happen?"
"嘤嘤" the fox barked, and just as he walked out, he heard the sound of the door opening of the cabin next door and the sound of voices. Soon, Wen Xunpeng came over.
"How about these four county magistrates?"
"It's not that great. Except for Yu Ming, who is still a sensible person, His Highness Ying Nuowei is destined to live. The remaining three people are all trying to talk nonsense and let His Highness charge into the battle. Their intentions are to be killed." Wen Xunpeng's mouth was filled with laughter. He said with a hint of evil smile.
"One of the four is pretty good." Su Ziji was not in a hurry.
"Your Highness, has Zhang Dai's matter been verified?" Su Ziji was not in a hurry, but Wen Xunpeng's face was a bit ugly. After a while, he asked in a low voice.
Su Ziji nodded and said solemnly: "What happened about Zhang Dai is true."
it is true?
"He actually mobilized seven thousand troops... Lord, this is not good!" Even Wen Xunpeng found it difficult. He lowered his head and reminded softly: "Even if you have broken off the relationship with Zhang Dai, this does not matter. It’s of no great use.”
"Um?"
"You are the principal imperial envoy, and Zhang Dai is the deputy imperial envoy. In Jielu Mansion, some officials may know that the disagreement between you and Zhang Dai is due to Zhang Dai's own initiative."
"But once you get to other counties, states, or provinces, no one will know about it. They only know that Zhang Dai is your deputy and everything will follow your instructions."
"Especially when the Emperor has this intention, you have no way to argue."
A few words explained that breaking off the relationship with Zhang Dai was of some use, but it was enough to cause trouble if the emperor mistook a deer for a horse.
The investigation team are all members of the emperor, so is there any point in debating?
This dynasty stipulates that anyone who embezzles more than 60 taels will die.
You are an upright official, not greedy for a penny, but you can even count the New Year gifts for visiting relatives. One relative gives you a basket of apples and a chicken, and if you have more than a dozen relatives, you can collect 5 taels. During the New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, even twice, that’s it. 10 taels.
Then if you have been an official for 10 years and you have embezzled 100 taels, you can be beheaded.
Of course Su Ziji understood this. His eyes flashed, he breathed silently, his eyebrows twitched imperceptibly, and he sneered: "Don't worry, I'm not that naive yet."
As he spoke, he stood up, thoughtfully, and said in a blink of an eye, "Do you know the true purpose of Granary Eucalyptus?"
"I don't know, little minister." Wen Xunpeng was so shrewd that he had already figured out that this was the time when his lord was about to confess, and he bowed and said.
"The first level of granary eucalyptus is very simple. How much money you lose is to check which official is corrupt."
"Then I really checked it out, and I immediately discovered that it was so complicated that not just one or two, but hundreds of officials, and even different yamen were involved."
"My lord, what you said is true!" Wen Xunpeng's eyes flashed faintly, which was why the obstruction was so great. But when Su Ziji sneered, stood up, and said meaningfully: "But if we stay at this level, it's... The view of mediocrity.”
"Can beheading a few people clarify the administration of officials?"
When Wen Xunpeng heard this, he suddenly had a premonition that something big was going on. He quickly suppressed the shock he showed for a moment, bowed and listened to Su Ziji's talk: "If you investigate further, you will find that, There’s a gap here.”
"It's private corruption and public corruption."
"Private corruption is very simple, it means personal corruption of officials. In fact, no matter how involved or how many people die, you can kill this kind of thing."
"The consequences are just that whoever has no disciples, old officials, relatives or close friends, so he offended a group of people, and was criticized by people, saying that I or Zhang Dai are ungrateful and do not dare to get close to each other." Su Ziji said mediocrely. As he spoke, there was a disdainful sneer on his lips.
"Actually, the affordability of this is the limit that little people can imagine, but they don't know that the gap is even deeper - what if it is public corruption?"
When Wen Xunpeng heard this, he felt dizzy and his heart was pounding, as if he had sensed an abyss.
"Mr. Wen, let me give you an analogy. Suppose you investigate and find that Yu Ming embezzled 10,000 dan, and you are about to arrest him and kill him. However, upon investigation, you find that he did not embezzle 10,000 dan and spent all of it on official business. This is How do you handle it?"
"If we go further and continue to investigate, we find that although the imperial court, provinces, and counties stipulate that they must pay salaries to the police, provide scholarships to scholars, and provide pensions to martyrs, they have not actually allocated money or food. Now these 10,000 shi , just to fill this financial gap, how do you deal with it?"
"Kill Yu Ming, cut off this source of wealth, and then let the police, officials, scholars, and family members of those who died for the country all starve to death?"
"If you go one step further and discover that the imperial court has embezzled money from the local government, it will not give it to you. However, the local government needs to operate and maintain, so it has to share the revenue from the granary. What will you do?"
"Just kill them, destroy all the livelihood opportunities of the place and the army, and wait for millions of soldiers and civilians to surge in, and the people who hate you will be like a sea and a mountain?"
These few sentences, every word of encouragement, made Wen Xunpeng speechless, and he suddenly understood the gist of it.
Yes, private corruption can be killed, but if it is public corruption or state corruption, how to deal with it?
The emperor's desire is for his grandson to become the only man who is pointed out by thousands of people and fights against the government (organization)!
As soon as he understood this, Wen Xunpeng felt a chill rising up, and his teeth began to chatter slightly.
