"yes!"
Han Huang stood up and picked up a stack of notes from the table on one side.
"Your Majesty, after investigation by my ministers, it was found that Datong Governor Zhang Yiming, Datong Commander-in-Chief Qu Jiazhen, and Datong Magistrate Chen Yuanqing were all colluding with the eight major locust merchants.
Qu Jiazhen made a request to the governor Zhang Yiming on the grounds that Datong Town's weapons were old. Zhang Yiming used his powers as governor to transfer Shanxi Wuye's iron mines to Datong Town.
In fact, all the old and damaged weapons were given to the Jin family, and were transported by the Jin family to the Jiannu and Mongolian tribes in the two mutual markets of Deshengbao and Xinpingbao.
Nearly 20% of the salt, iron, tea, etc. transported by the eight major locust merchants to the Mongolian tribes were mobilized from Shanxi by three people who took advantage of their authority.
Another 30% were provided by other gentry and wealthy merchants in Shanxi, totaling 67 companies.
After a thorough investigation, I found that twenty-four of these gentry and wealthy merchant families knew that the eight major locust merchants had delivered these supplies to the Mongolian tribes, but they still provided supplies to the eight families. "
"Where are the people?"
"I'm being held in the Datong Town Army!"
Chongzhen put down the tea cup and said calmly: "Since Zhang Yiming and others like to provide iron ore, then let's confiscate their homes and send them to the iron mine to dig iron ore for the rest of their lives!"
"The heads of the other twenty-four families were taken out and chopped down, their homes ransacked, and their families were forced to do hard labor for ten years!"
"The rest...don't worry about it for now!"
Knowing where the goods are going and not knowing where they are going are two different things. After all, no merchant knows everyone and knows what the goods are for.
But since you know it is for the enemy, if you still sell it to him, you are endorsing the enemy and you will never tolerate it!
"How is the trial of the eight major locust traders and nine tribes going?"
"Back to Your Majesty, 80% of the work has been completed and the case will be concluded by the end of this month at the latest!"
"Eighty percent? The case will be closed by the end of the month?"
This time, not only Chongzhen was confused, but Yuan Keli, Cao Bianjiao and others were also confused.
There are 16,000 to 7,000 people in the eight major locust merchant tribes. In addition to all three tribes and more than 2,000 direct descendants of the nine tribes, there are still 14,000 to 5,000 people.
Even if the Ministry of Punishment, Jin Yiwei, and the Supervisory Office came with people from the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial College, they couldn't be so fast!
With Han Huang's calmness and fairness, he would never take a one-size-fits-all approach.
"Is there anything fishy?"
"Your Majesty, because there are a large number of people, we have adopted the method of reporting and sitting together.
If someone who knows the family situation reports other people, and the number of reports reaches ten, the death penalty can be changed to thirty years' imprisonment, and if the number of reports reaches twenty, it can be changed to twenty-five years' imprisonment...
If they sit together and fail to report what they know, ten people from the three clans will be immediately selected to be executed directly!
Mutual verification of testimonies can basically determine who knows and who does not know, and then focus on interrogating the group of people who know, and then follow the clues!
No one is afraid of Jin Yiwei’s methods! "
hiss……
Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji took a breath of cold air, and Chongzhen also sighed in his heart.
It's so cruel, this is simply playing with human nature.
If you report others, you can survive. If you don't report, you may be implicated by the person who is hiding it and be randomly pulled out and executed. In this case, you can only report like crazy.
As for whether there were accidental killings or accidental injuries, there must have been, but there was nothing that could be done about it.
"What's the specific situation?"
Han Huang did not speak, but took out a stack of official paper in his hand and presented it to Chongzhen. Chongzhen looked through it slowly: "You report yours!"
"Your Majesty, based on the current situation, nearly 10% will be punished by death, and 30% will be punished with hard labor.
There is basically no problem with the rest. This part is mainly the female dependents, children and distant relatives of the nine tribes of the eight major locust merchants..."
Han Huang reported for half a quarter of an hour before it was over. Chongzhen just finished reading it and returned the information to Han Huang.
Facing such huge killings and hard labor, although there was unbearability in his eyes, it only took a moment to calm down.
"This is how the case of the eight major locust merchants will be handled. Before the case is concluded, the case information will be summarized and submitted to me. I will approve it before executing it!"
"I understand!"
"Well, you continue to report!"
"Your Majesty, nearly 80% of Shanxi officials have been reported for corruption, bribery, dereliction of duty, power monopoly, power and sex trading, etc.
Nearly 10% of the officials are related to the eight major locust merchants, and the evidence of the crime has now been basically collected. "
This time, everyone was silent.
Everyone has long been aware of the corruption in the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom, but there is nothing they can do about it.
This is not formed in a day or two, but is the result of accumulation over time.
"All the officials related to the eight major locust merchants were beheaded and their homes were ransacked!"
“The rest of the officials were asked to donate the farmland they had embezzled from their families, and they were not blamed, but if it involved human lives, they were cut off directly.
Those who are in positions of power and sex will be dismissed, investigated and never hired!
Tax evasion will be recovered tenfold in ten years! "
"The vacancies of the fourth rank and above are recommended by the Ministry of Personnel. The vacancies below the fourth rank and the sixth rank and above are filled by deputies. If there are no deputies, they are filled by subordinates.
Half of the vacancies below the sixth rank are filled by the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial College, and the other half are filled by lower-level officials. "
"I understand that I will send the required quota to the staff, and when ready, I will dispose of it with the power of thunder to reduce the shock caused by the vacancy!"
Han Huang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the emperor would kill all the corrupt officials in a rage.
Chongzhen is very calm now. This move is half compromise and half helplessness.
Shanxi has jurisdiction over four prefectures, twenty states, and seventy-seven counties. Each county has six qualified officials, namely, the county magistrate, the county magistrate, the chief registrar, the edict, the historian, and the patrol inspector.
There are no six-room clerks, three-class government servants, and handymen (masters, assistants, medical officers, etc.) who are not qualified.
A county involves all aspects. A small county may have hundreds of people, while a large county may have hundreds or thousands of people.
Youdao is that the King of Hell likes to make trouble for little devils, but it is the people at the bottom who really deal with the common people.
How do you kill so many people? Who do you want to kill?
He was sure that 90% of the officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty were corrupt. There were many problems.
If you kill Shanxi officials, you can transfer people from other provinces, but what about other provinces?
During the Taizu period, the Ming Dynasty law stipulated that anyone who embezzled sixty taels would be skinned, hauled away, and executed. However, there were still people who were corrupt.
This is human nature, no matter what kind of system you make, it still exists.
It can only be said that the officials of this generation have been decommissioned. When schools are established, the people who come out will also be greedy, but there will be much less. This is enough.
Asking them to hand over their farmland now will not only allow the court to control the farmland, but also reduce conflicts between the court and officials when the farmland is sold later.
Including the cultivated land of the Eight Major Locust Merchants and the Jin Palace, at least 30% of the cultivated land in the entire Shanxi Province is already in the hands of the imperial court.
Since then, there is only one opportunity left for Shanxi to return cultivated land to the people. This opportunity may be Shaanxi's promotion of cultivated land, or it may be a war, etc.
After thinking about it, Chongzhen suddenly said: "Did the eight major locust merchants, intelligence lines, and the Prince's Palace get involved?"
Everyone was shocked. The first King of Qin in the Ming Dynasty and the second King of Jin were killed. Will King Dai also be killed now?
Facing Chongzhen's inquiry, Han Huang's eyes had a strange look.
