This large-scale propaganda activity has been completely launched in and around the capital! Basically everyone involved has been notified. Some of the people who were notified were worried, some were disdainful, some were furious, in short there were various reactions!
Liu Haojia remained unmoved after receiving everyone's feedback and continued to promote the progress of things one by one. Moreover, he gave Magistrate Zhang and General Sun Shen a written report every day, which would clearly state how many gangs had merged today, which gangs had disbanded, which gangs had moved, and where? Which casino owners were interviewed today, how many streets were preached to, and how many merchants were notified in total!
This detailed reporting method was refreshing to Magistrate Zhang and the people behind them, and the daily progress seemed clear at a glance. So although they were eager to get the money, they could endure it when they saw that things were progressing step by step according to plan.
In the morning after seven or eight days of the incident, several pavilion elders came to the room on duty after finishing the morning. They were eating snacks, drinking tea, and chatting in a relaxed manner.
Because the morning service is too early, everyone generally cannot have breakfast and can only eat some snacks at home. Therefore, after the morning court, the eunuchs in the duty room would arrange snacks and tea for the elders to replenish their physical strength. Moreover, this period of time was also a rare time for them to chat, otherwise the overwhelming volume of memorials would have overwhelmed their entire day after a while.
Zhang Han took a nice sip of tea, rinsed the snack residue from his mouth and said, "I heard that the Jin Yiwei and the officers below have actually cooperated to clean up the gangs in the past few days, and they have done a pretty good job!"
Hearing this, Zhang Siwei put down his teacup and said, "Really? Aren't they always incompatible? How could they join forces to investigate the case? How was the investigation?"
Several other pavilion elders have their own sources of information, and in fact they all know these things. When Zhang Han mentioned this matter, everyone just had one more thing to talk about. Zhang Han naturally knew it, but he still said: "Don't tell me, they cooperated really well! In just the past few days, a large number of gang members were arrested, and many former escapees were also arrested along the way. We are a wanted criminal and have settled many old cases! The Ministry of Punishment should have filed a paperwork, right?"
Shen Shixing was in charge of the documents reported by the Ministry of Punishment. After thinking about it, he said: "That's true! In the past few days, the Ministry of Punishment has reported a lot of closed cases, and more than 20 people were sentenced to beheading! But it's strange Yes, in the past, these criminals were sentenced to exile in the army, but this time they were all sentenced to exile! But I didn’t delve into it."
At this time, Zhang Siwei said meaningfully: "Ru Mo, are you afraid that there will be a lot of reports like this these days?"
After thinking about it for a while, Shen Shixing said: "It's a lot! But I specially checked a few case files. The evidence is conclusive and the confessions are consistent, so I approved them all! Why, is there anything else in this that I can't say?"
Zhang Siwei said with a smile: "There are indeed some problems, but there is nothing wrong with these arrested people themselves!"
Shen Shixing became interested after hearing this and said: "Brother Ziwei, you know that I never know what happens below the hall, so there are some things I really don't know! Why don't you tell me!"
Of course Zhang Siwei doesn’t believe this! It's a joke to be a pavilion elder without eyes and ears! It's just that Shen Shixing really doesn't pay attention to low-level things, but at most he only receives the news a few days late. So Zhang Siwei did not hide anything and said directly: "In the past few days, the guards of Jinyiwei and Shuntian Mansion are planning to join forces to collect money from the merchants on Jie Street! Maybe they feel embarrassed to only collect money and not do anything, so they clean up these gangs I did it again! This is just a front line to collect money!"
Shen Shixing said: "The matter of collecting money has always been there. Is there anything different this time? They actually clean up the gang in a big way?"
Zhang Han rushed to say: "In the past, these people only collected money to extort some small merchants, and they did not dare to touch merchants with backgrounds! But now they have united and actually want to collect money from all merchants in the capital! I heard that they Standards have also been set, and the amount of money collected by different merchants is different!”
After Zhang Han said this, there was silence in the check-in room. In fact, everyone here has long known that the way Jin Yiwei and the others collect money is already a disguised business tax. Now everyone is speaking out just to test other people's thoughts on this matter.
But the people here are all accomplished old demons in cultivation, how could anyone be willing to reveal this idea! Therefore, the room seemed extremely quiet! But at this moment, there was a knock on the check-in door, and everyone was freed from my unspeakable silence!
Shen Shixing breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "Come in!"
Then the door was pushed open, and a row of eunuchs walked in each carrying a tray of memorials, which they skillfully placed on the table of each pavilion elder. And just when all the pavilion elders opened the memorial and were about to study it carefully, they suddenly heard Zhang Juzheng say in a confused way: "Let's take a look!"
After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Zhang Juzheng acquiesced to this matter. In fact, they also knew that Zhang Juzheng must know about this! Because officials at all levels share the profits when it comes to collecting money, who can forget about the cabinet ministers?
The idea of Emperor Wanli's share of the money going into the inner treasury was decided by Zhang Siwei, and he also got the tacit approval of several pavilion elders. Otherwise, according to Liu Haojia's budget, how could such a large sum of money have given away Emperor Wanli in vain!
Just when the elders were about to start reading, Zhang Siwei found that the eunuch responsible for presenting the memorial was still in the room and did not go out, so he asked strangely: "What do you want to do today?"
The eunuch smiled apologetically and said: "Mr. Zhang Ge, I really have something that I don't know how to deal with. So I would like to ask some of the elders!"
Zhang Siwei knew that there must be something wrong with the memorial. Because this eunuch is specialized in receiving, transmitting and storing memorials, other matters cannot involve him. So he put down his pen and said: "Just tell me what is going on!"
The eunuch bowed and said: "I received a batch of memorials today, 30 in total. They were all signed by one person and signed by a general of Jinyiwei."
Zhang Siwei said: "Nonsense! How can a general flag have any qualifications to submit a memorial? Just throw it out!"
The eunuch got the idea and was about to leave, but Shen Shixing said: "Wait a minute, don't deal with the memorial yet!"
Then he turned around and said: "Brother Ziwei, Jin Yiwei also has the authority to submit memorials! It's just that their memorials should be submitted directly to His Majesty!"
