The adults in the Yushitai have always been famous for their uprightness, especially Jiao Hong, the imperial censor, who can be said to be a model of public speaking.
Over the years, there have been only two people who dared to serve the Emperor in front of him.
One is almost twenty years ago, when the rebels besieged the imperial city, the then rebel leader Wei Dingcong.
Later, this man died miserably. He was the only person who was given Shuang Lingchi to be executed since the founding of Dayu.
In fact, it was not just Dayu. Looking at the past and present, he was the only one who died twice as late as Lingchi.
Wei Ding knew that he would die badly after the rebels were defeated by Tuoba Lie, but he did not expect that even Ling Chi could cut him twice as many times as others.
Besides Wei Dingcong, the second person who dared to do this was Du Yushi Jiao Hong.
This old man is nearly seventy years old and has been an official in the court for more than forty years. After carefully counting all the civil and military officials in the court, no one is older than him.
At this moment, looking at these things in his hand, Jiao Hong had to frown.
Early in the morning, someone dropped a package outside his house. The person put the stuff down and ran away.
This thing was picked up by a servant and brought to him. He didn't want to see it, so he just had it delivered directly to the Geling Mansion Yamen, but the two words on the package made him hesitate.
I don’t know if it was written in blood or something like red paint on the package. I don’t know if it was written with two words... evidence of guilt.
Jiao Hong hesitated again and again, but opened the package and took a look.
There was a letter inside, detailing various crimes committed by General Lin Ye, who had just been transferred to Jingzhou.
One of them is to use commercial banks to bribe officials of Geling Prefecture.
There were so many charges, but this one was the only one Jiao Hong didn't believe. Lin Ye had only come to Geling not long ago, and Geling didn't have Lin Ye's property at all. He said that with Lin Ye's current status, he still needed to bribe the people of Geling Mansion. Those petty officials?
But the more he didn't believe it, the more he attracted Jiao Hong's attention.
The letter clearly stated that Dafu Zao was the trading company founded by Lin Ye in Yunzhou. It was a business that Lin Ye started before he became an official.
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Later, Lin Ye used the money earned from Dafu to bribe local officials in Yunzhou and gather forces in the world.
After Lin Ye heard that he might be transferred to Geling as an official, he sent people from Dafuzao to bribe the officials of Geling Mansion.
Therefore, Dafu, a foreign trading firm that had just arrived in Goling, successfully got the job of cleaning Goling Street.
The letter also said that Lin Ye was not interested in business, but that he could arrange manpower at will to inquire about information in Geling City.
The letter even convicted Lin Ye of an even more heinous crime...rebellion.
This letter explained that the reason why Lin Ye wanted to get such a small business was just to facilitate his people to walk around the streets and alleys of Geling with a reasonable and legal identity, draw maps, and prepare for future rebellion.
To be honest, Jiao Hong felt it was a bit ridiculous when he saw this, but as the censor of the capital, he really couldn't pretend to turn a blind eye to this matter.
Dayu's Yushitai is somewhat different from that of previous dynasties. In the previous dynasty, officials at the Yushitai could hear about the events, which resulted in panic among the people.
After the founding of Dayu, Emperor Taizu added another authority office to the Yushitai, called Shangfengtai, in order to make the Yushitai's reports more accurate and to prevent people from the Yushitai from framing others.
The person on the Shangfengtai is responsible for confirming the rumors for the adults on the Yushitai.
Only when there is sufficient evidence can the people at Yushitai report to the emperor.
The rank of people in Shangfengtai is very low. The highest-ranking official is Fengwen Xiaowei, which is only a sixth-grade official.
But the special thing about Shangfengtai is that it acts independently.
Even if the adults in various ministries have great power, no one can command them.
Even as a subordinate office of the Yushitai, all the censors, even the censors
, and cannot give orders to them, but work through consultation.
I heard that the captain also had a privilege, which was to record all the imperial censor's memorials.
No matter which censor wants to ask someone from Shangfengtai to verify whether the memorial he wants to participate in is true, a copy of the memorial must be left at Shangfengtai.
This is a small place that even the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would ignore, so small that no one would take them seriously.
Most of the people have never heard of the existence of this yamen. They only know about Yushitai but not Shangfengtai.
Moreover, it is said that the school captain is only of the sixth rank, and his official position is really low, so he is even more inconspicuous.
Since the founding of Dayu, for more than two hundred years, Shangfeng Tower has been just a decoration for most of the time.
Even if those imperial censors want to participate in something, they don't bother to come to Shangfengtai to talk nonsense. Most of them just send someone to file a record.
Jiao Hong had to be cautious at this time, because Lin Ye was too special.
The newly transferred Jingzhou Army General did not have such an official title before Lin Ye.
When Lin Ye was in Yunzhou, he was the general of the Sanbei Protectorate. Before that, Yunzhou didn't have such an official title at all.
A person is so special that the emperor twice set up a separate official position for him. Who dares to offend such a person casually?
"Here comes someone."
Jiao Hong ordered outside: "Go and ask Colonel Nie, the captain of the school, to come to my place. Tell him that I have something important to discuss with him."
I heard that the school captain Nie Lingshan had a very leisurely life. Every day he came to the Yamen on time to order his meal, and then found a place to sleep.
He knows the adults at the Yushitai very well. Those people dare not make random reports without real evidence. After more than two hundred years of evolution, the current Yusheng adults are not as glorious and flamboyant as they were in the previous dynasty.
They will only submit a memorial if they have evidence. If they don't have it, they will just sit there and they won't just invite people from Shangfengtai to investigate.
Because it is easy to offend people.
No one can guarantee that all these idle people in Shangfengtai will be able to live happily. Although this is really a Qingshui Yamen, no one will be boring enough to bribe them.
But what if? Before anyone participates in the performance, go to the upper stage to prepare the performance, and then ask the people at the upper stage to check it out.
If the people at Shangfengtai leaked the news before the memorial was presented, wouldn't the censor who was preparing to present the memorial be silenced?
Jiao Hong has been in this position for fifteen years. He was a high-spirited twenty-year-old boy when he came, and now he is a greasy, lazy, and somewhat fat middle-aged man.
In this place called Geling, the sixth-grade official really couldn't do anything, nor could he say anything.
It would be fine if he was in a government office with real power, such as the Ministry of Revenue or the Ministry of Personnel. If he had a low official position but was in charge of a very important job, he would still be taken seriously and he would be fat.
As a sixth-grade captain, his monthly salary was only eight taels of silver. He had been an official in Geling for fifteen years, and he didn't even dare to go to Qingyu River. He couldn't afford it.
This eighty taels of silver is quite a lot for ordinary people, but after all, he is an official and always has to be more decent. He can take care of his subordinates on weekdays, but the money is not enough.
For example, if someone in this subordinate's family is sick and asks him to borrow some money, can he lend him half a tael of silver at a time? Give me one or two taels. As the chief official of this big yamen, if his subordinates don't take the initiative to return it, he will be embarrassed to ask for it directly.
Therefore, what he does as a sixth-grade official can only be said to lead a more leisurely life than ordinary people, but he is really not that rich.
Until now, he has not dared to buy good tea. He asked his subordinates to buy broken tea. He also had to make it clear to his subordinates that this was not bought for our captain, but for us to drink.
Originally, Shangfengtai was supposed to be a very important government office, but nothing could withstand the ravages of time. When Dayu Gang was founded, Emperor Taizu was there to support him, so the upper stage was really awesome for a while.
Over time, more than two hundred years later, this has become a place where no one cares and no one cares about it.
Nie Lingshan was happy to have some leisure time. After noon every morning, he would rest in his elegant-looking tea room and make a pot of tea.
Then I squinted in the rocking chair, drank some tea when I woke up, and continued to sleep when I felt sleepy.
This tea room looks nice, but in fact, nothing is valuable. A set of tea sets and tea sets that look like mahogany are actually made by him himself. They are just ordinary wood dyed.
So even after so many years, when you enter his tea room, the tea table still smells faint of soy sauce.
As soon as Nie Lingshan brewed the tea, his subordinates came to report that it was the Imperial Censor who invited him to come and talk.
He was confused. It had been fifteen years since he had been the captain of the Fengwen School, and the imperial censor had only visited him a handful of times.
There are really only a handful of people. Just one finger is enough, and this time again. so
Nie Lingshan quickly tidied up, put on his sixth-grade school lieutenant uniform, arranged it, and hurried to the location of Lord Censor.
I have to say that everyone still thinks that the study of Mr. Censor looks elegant.
At first glance, Cha Hai is really good at wood, much better than
"Master Nie, please sit down quickly."
Jiao Hong came up to him with a smile and turned his head to order his men to bring him his good tea.
Jiao Hong and Nie Lingshan sat down respectively as guest and host. After the tea was served, Jiao Hong personally cooked tea for Nie Lingshan.
Nie Lingshan was a little flattered and thanked him repeatedly.
"I invite Master Nie to come here this time. I have two things to discuss with Master Nie."
Jiao Hong said while making tea: "First of all, I checked the files of Yushitai two days ago and found out that there has been no mention of salary in Shangfengtai for decades?"
When Nie Lingshan heard this, his hopes, which had been extinguished by fifteen years of idle life, were suddenly ignited. In just a moment, he had tears in his eyes.
"Yes, sir, the salary of Shangfengtai is still based on the old calendar decades ago. It is indeed... It should be mentioned."
Jiao Hong nodded: "When Da Yucai founded the country, Emperor Taizu said that people in Shangfengtai must uphold integrity, resist temptation, and resist bribery, so the salary cannot be set too low."
"At that time, I heard that the salary of a captain was sixty taels of silver per month. At that time, it was indeed not low. At that time, the monthly salary of a third-rank officer was the same sixty taels."
"But when the time comes, people will be poor. Everyone from top to bottom will be poor, so six taels of silver seems to be a lot. Later, when Dayu's country became powerful, it was raised once a few decades ago, and the salary was raised from six taels to eight taels."
Jiao Hong sighed: "It's too low, it's still too low. According to Emperor Taizu's wishes, I heard that the captain has to resist the temptation. How can he resist the temptation with a monthly salary of eight taels of silver."
Nie Lingshan really cried.
Jiao Hong said: "I think so. When I go to court tomorrow, I will talk about this matter carefully in the court and ask Your Majesty to make a decision. In my opinion, it is said that the position of the captain is special and important, and the monthly salary should not be less than fifty." Two, no, it shouldn’t be less than eighty taels.”
Nie Lingshan's eyes were round, as big as eggs.
Just as he was about to stand up and thank him, Jiao Hong pulled him back with a benevolent smile.
"Master Nie, there is no need to be so polite. You and I are both members of Yushitai. As colleagues, we should be of the same mind."
Seeing Nie Lingshan's excited look, he smiled and asked someone to bring over things related to Lin Ye.
Jiao Hong said gently: "As I said just now, I heard that the captain is special. This specialness is not what I said. It was decided by Emperor Taizu."
He handed the package to Nie Lingshan: "Master Nie, would you like to take it back for a look first?"
