Shen Yuanfu and Wang Ge were always waiting for Gao Jingshi to make a move, but Gao Jingshi was also waiting for others.
He is waiting for Hai Rui.
The advantage of sacrificing the great murderous weapon of Haigang Peak is obvious, that is, if a god stands in the way, he will kill a god, and if a Buddha stands in the way, he will destroy a Buddha. No one can stop him. But the disadvantage is also not small, that is, no one can expect him to be obedient.
What exactly Hai Rui plans to do and what step he will take, Gao Pragmatic can only speculate and guide according to his usual style. However, only Hai Rui himself knows whether they will do what he wants.
Hai Rui has been very busy during this period. Maybe there are "righteous people" among Jiangnan officials, or maybe it's just that the party struggle has become more intense. In short, Hai Rui has received a large number of anonymous interview orders during this period (I introduced this thing before) After passing, it is reserved for Beijing Police only).
It stands to reason that anonymous interviews are not allowed. Anonymous interviews are legally invalid. However, many systems these days have only paid lip service to the issue. The issue of anonymous interviews is even more prohibitive and ineffective. Until now, It is actually semi-public - meaning that the investigating officer knows that it has no legal effect, but will still conduct overt and covert investigations based on the circumstances mentioned in the interview form.
Of course, only responsible inspection officials would do this. There are also many inspection officials who simply ignore it with the attitude that more things are worse than less things.
Hai Rui is obviously responsible, and extremely responsible. All anonymous interviews have been recorded by him. Although there is no legal basis, he has requested detailed investigation and evidence collection for the situations mentioned in them. Nothing can be missed.
This approach has obviously increased the workload of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate. The censors of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate have all been busy during this period, and have even begun to "volunteer work overtime." All the duty rooms in the courtyard yamen were lit with lamps late at night, and a lot of candles and lamp oil were actually burned.
It's not that they are all so dedicated to their work. In fact, no one dares to be lazy or even complain under the personal control of Hai Qingtian, the censor of the right capital. Of course, they were embarrassed.
Mr. Hai Lao, who is already in his seventies this year and is still ill, has been sticking to the front line these days. He doesn't even go home very often. He often makes a bunk bed in the duty room and sleeps?
The immediate boss is so old and sick and is doing his best, what else can they, the subordinates, say? It only takes two or three months to work hard, so go ahead.
In such an atmosphere, the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate has been extremely efficient in its recent work. It has identified 73 illegal incidents, implicating 94 officials, and the severity of the cases varies.
However, if someone makes detailed statistics, they will find that most of the cases involving these officials are related to money. This "relevance" does not necessarily mean corruption or bribery, nor does it necessarily mean robbery. In fact, the charges of many officials should be counted as "inaction."
Among the imperial policemen of the Ming Dynasty, this crime of omission was usually classified as "imprudent", and if it was serious in nature, it was classified as "soft", that is, lacking in virtue.
What kind of inaction would be classified as imprudent? For example, knowing that someone has committed a crime but not paying attention to it, or even letting it go unchecked even if the crime is within one's jurisdiction, this is disrespectful officialdom.
If the crime committed by the other party is very serious and the impact is extremely bad, but the official still pretends not to have seen it, or even covers it up, then he is "soft" and his moral character is obviously lacking.
Among the officials investigated by the Southern Investigation this time, at least half of them were charged with these two crimes, and the nature was "inaction" - knowingly knowing that someone was evading taxes, living in a fish and meat village, taking advantage of others, bullying and dominating the market, etc. But you just pretended not to see it, and even the officials protected each other. If you are not careless, who is? If you're not a softie, who is?
If these statistics were more accurate, we would also find that among the cases identified by Hai Rui, the yamen with the most involved officials belonged to the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry (both Nanjing).
The Ministry of Household Affairs is involved in the most cases and has the most officials involved. Among them, about half were corrupt and took bribes, including two doctors, four chiefs, and as many as eleven ambassadors and deputy envoys in various warehouses in Nanjing. The other half were due to inaction, and a similar number of people were involved.
The number of people and cases involved in the Ministry of Industry is much smaller than that of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but most of them involve the same case, the Wusong River embankment project fraud case.
This project itself refers to the imperial court's renovation project in the lower reaches of the Wusong River. The river section is actually what later generations called the Suzhou River, which is the Shanghai section of the Wusong River.
Due to the weak central finance of the Ming Dynasty, this type of project was rarely undertaken, let alone undertaken by the imperial court on its own initiative.
The reason why this project is taken seriously is largely because the development of Shanghai Private Port has driven almost the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and even affected Jiading County and Taicang Prefecture of Suzhou Prefecture (the administrative divisions at this time are different from those of later generations).
At this time, Songjiang Prefecture was very wealthy and was known as "the endless supply of Songjiang cloth". However, Shanghai County originally performed generally in Songjiang Prefecture and did not have many characteristics. Now, because merchants from Jinghua and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are building private ports there, especially the Jinghua Shanghai Private Port, which handles various commodities from Japan, North Korea, Liaodong, Tianjin and even southern Xinjiang, Shanghai County has flourished in just a few years. Become a trading center.
The Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols are not to be outdone. They also know the cluster effect. Many private ports are not far from the Beijing Private Port. This makes Shanghai's position even more important.
The Wusong River is another important waterway in Shanghai County besides the Yangtze River. Therefore, the issue of river flood prevention has become urgent, so this project was launched.
The Ministry of Industry in Nanjing is a place where the spiritual school gathers together, especially in Jiangnan, where there are many local officials. The township party naturally had to take care of hometown officials, so this big deal was left to its own people.
As a result, this project was originally a small project that was expected to cost 26,000 taels of silver. However, almost everyone said that it would not be successful with this amount of money and that more funding would be needed. The Nanjing Ministry of Industry "follows good deeds", so the budget increased again and again. In the end, more than 80,000 taels of silver were spent, and the project was not completed.
Hai Rui had been dissatisfied with this matter for a long time. This time he took advantage of Jingcha's opportunity to investigate and found many problems. The biggest problem is that although this project cost a lot of money, the Songjiang section of the Wusong River has only been slightly strengthened in a few places that were considered the worst in the past. All other urgent matters mentioned in the memorial have disappeared, and only money has been paid. Splashed.
Then we continued the investigation and found that it was indeed a nest case, and many officials from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry were implicated in it. What's even better is that many officials from the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs are also involved in the case - the Ministry of Works has reported the budget, and the Ministry of Household Affairs has to agree to pay before it can be counted, but some officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs are still waiting for the Ministry of Works to speak.
Why? Because their families or their relatives and friends have undertaken many projects in the river sections, and they allocate their own funds to earn money. What a good deal. The court's money becomes your own as soon as it changes hands. Isn't this the true meaning of being an official?
Officials from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry are not jealous either. Firstly, the family chaebols who undertook the project will definitely help them take care of things. Secondly, there will also be people from the Ministry of Household Affairs to help them with their activities. For example, they took advantage of the typhoon disaster last year to reduce the tax. They lost part of their family's land and recovered a lot of losses through "another means."
This case, which was caused by the collusion between some officials from the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, has become the focus of Hai Rui's attention. Although the Nanjing Investigation itself was not initiated and carried out for the purpose of investigating the case, this matter has now become a concern in Hai Rui's eyes. Typical, the officials involved in the two films naturally became the standouts.
At this time, the situation in Nanjing was still unsolved. As the censor of the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hai Rui was not responsible for trying the case alone. However, a large number of charges and evidence related to the case were continuously collected into Hai Rui's hands, which was enough for him to People in Nanjing were panic-stricken, especially the officials in these two departments. Many of them felt that a disaster was imminent and the situation was precarious.
Wait a minute, since there is no trial and the results of the Southern Investigation have not been released, why did this news get out?
Well...it's true that Hai Rui is in charge of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, but that doesn't mean that everyone in the yamen is Hai Rui. Someone intentionally or unintentionally leaked the news in advance. This kind of thing is completely normal.
Letters are no better than phone calls. By the time Wang Xijue learned that the situation in Nanjing began to become clearer and everyone discovered that Mr. Hai had set his sights on the Wusong River embankment project, it was already a few days later.
In other words, when Nanjing reported this matter to him, it was later than the time when he sent a letter in the capital, asking relevant parties in Nanjing and his own family to quickly settle the accounts.
In the middle of winter, Wang Xijue actually broke out in a cold sweat.
After all, Hai Rui was Hai Rui. If he didn't move, he would be alone. If he moved, he would be surrounded by nearly a hundred people. However, Wang Xijue had long expected that Hai Rui would not listen. He even took the initiative to anger Hai Rui, hoping that Hai Rui would expand the scope of his attack so that Nanjing Xinxue officials could unite to resist Hai Rui's "suppression."
This goal has now been achieved. Hai Rui's attack surface is indeed not small, but Wang Xijue vaguely feels that something is wrong.
Is it because Nanjing is not united enough? It doesn't seem to be the case. If the officials of the Xin School in Nanjing were not united, then the officials of the Xin School in the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate would not have leaked this matter, and it would have caused panic among the people of Nanjing.
The news could be leaked quietly. The reason why it was made known to everyone was that he followed Wang Xijue's previous instructions and deliberately made the matter bigger. This shows that the comrades in Nanjing still listened to what Mr. Wang Ge said.
"Gao pragmatism, Northern Cha, Southern Cha, Nanjing, Liaodong..." Wang Xijue thought about the connection between these things in his mind, and muttered softly. When he said "Liaodong", he suddenly opened his eyes and blurted out: "Oh no!"
What's wrong? Shen Shixing has decided to protect Li Chengliang to the death, and even plans to suffer some losses during the Beijing inspection. However, Shen Shixing has nothing to do with the Wusong River embankment project, and it will not be his turn to suffer the losses. I am afraid that most of the unlucky ones are related to this. Relevant people etc.
However, Wang Xijue cannot suffer this loss!
Wusong River, also known as Songjiang or Wujiang in ancient times, also known as Songling River and Lize River, originates from the Guajing Mouth of Taihu Lake south of Songling Town, Suzhou. It runs from west to east, passes through the Jiangnan Canal, and joins the Huangpu River from north to east in Shanghai County, where it merges with the Huangpu River. Dongjiang River and Loujiang River are collectively known as the "Three Rivers of Taihu".
This river is only a few dozen miles away from Wang Xijue's hometown of Taicang, Suzhou. It is conceivable that with the power of his family, it is impossible not to participate in the Wusong River embankment project. Not only was he involved, but the decision-maker involved in this matter was none other than Wang Xijue himself, who was still in Suzhou at the time and had yet to return to Beijing!
In other words, if Shen Shixing really used the Wusong River embankment project case to make a deal with Gao Pragmatic in exchange for Gao Pragmatic being open-minded about Li Chengliang's gunpowder sales and illegal private transactions with Chahar, then Wang Xijue himself would not It is possible that he will be implicated in this case.
This is too much!
Yes, it was Wang Xijue who advocated forcing Hai Rui to expand the scope of his attack. As the richest man in Suzhou, he was also willing to lead Jiangnan Xinxue officials to fight Hai Rui, the "evil force", to the end. But this doesn't mean that he has to be a fugitive in a case where the evidence can be checked at any time!
Things like accounts can indeed be "balanced". As the richest man in Suzhou for many years, the Wang family doesn't have a group of talents who are good at keeping accounts. However, the accounts are easy to balance, but the truth is not easy to explain: no matter what you say, Hai Rui can be in an invincible position as long as he grasps one key contradiction.
The Wusong River embankment project far exceeded the budget, but so much money was spent to accomplish so much. Where did the rest of the money go? Did you just use money to strengthen the river embankment?
There is no way to explain this problem at all. After much deliberation, Wang Xijue has only one way to remedy the situation, which is to directly say that the project is not yet completed. Previously, only a few key places were reinforced. That was just because everyone knew that the matter was very important, so the progress of the project It's relatively slow. In fact, the money is still there. If you want to repair it, you can continue repairing it immediately. It is guaranteed to be completed according to the standards promised before.
This can indeed bring things back to a certain extent, but there is a big problem: it is not just Wang and his family who are making money in this project. Now let the cooked duck go. He, Wang Xijue, believes that money is not as important as his future and is willing to spend money to buy peace. However, others may not feel the same way. Some people just want money rather than their lives. What can you do to them?
If Wang Xijue himself was not involved, or if this incident happened before he returned to Beijing, Wang Xijue would definitely strongly demand Shen Shixing to give up Li Chengliang and protect Jiangnan's basic base, because at that time he was only the richest man in Suzhou and an official of the Jiangnan chaebol. Representative, what does it have to do with Mr. Wang whether Li Chengliang lives or dies?
But things are different now. Wang Xijue also knows what keeping Li Chengliang means to the Xin School. If Li Chengliang is not defeated, he will definitely be able to make a contribution in the decisive battle against Chahar in the future, and judging from Li Chengliang's past performance, it will probably be a great contribution.
With almost all the towns in northern Xinjiang being controlled by the Real School, Li Chengliang was almost their Xin School’s only stronghold in military affairs. He was also the Xin School’s only reliable contributor in the battle against Chahar. How could this be true? Just give up when you say you give up?
Wang Xijue was in deep trouble.
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