Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1523, first rectify the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River
"Don't they understand that the fate of an individual is closely related to the fate of the country? When the country prospers, individuals can live a good life. When the country declines, even the gentry can't live a good life."

"Every time there is a change of dynasty, there is a famine and a turbulent year. Even the rich gentry cannot escape the disaster."

"My Ming Dynasty was able to have the prosperity it has today. The country is strong and the people are rich. Doesn't it just prove this point?"

"In the past, the treasury of the imperial court was empty, the frontier army was poor, and the combat power was low. Every year, the Tartars went south to plunder, the pirates ran rampant along the southeast coast, the Jurchens in Liaodong District dared to plunder our border people wantonly, and the southwestern chieftain was capricious."

"The people in the country are struggling to survive. If there is a slight famine, the land will be full of hunger and starvation, and they will have to eat their own children. They will also make a fortune in the country. The whole Ming Dynasty will eventually become rich like a group of moths like them."

"Every one of them is so rich that they don't know how much gold and silver are buried in the soil and turned into iron lumps. They are not satisfied with this, and they even want to control the entire Ming Dynasty, but they have no heart for family, country and world. Only for my own selfish desires."

The more Wang Shouren spoke, the more excited he became, and the more distressed he appeared.

"well said!"

Liu Jin clapped his hands.

I have to admire Wang Shouren, a great man, who can always see problems and things clearly, and immediately exposed the faces of these gentry and wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River.

They are nothing more than a bunch of moths who only know how to eat away at the whole country for their own benefit.

"Liu Jin, I actually admire you very much."

"Looking at what you have done over the years, even though you have managed a huge industry for yourself, even though you are equally rich."

"But you are fundamentally different from them. While you are earning wealth, you have led more people to become rich, and the wealth you created has nourished the entire Ming Dynasty. You are not only rich yourself, but also the entire Ming Dynasty. .”

"Because of you, the Ming Dynasty became stronger, swept all directions, expanded its territory, and this is how it has a vast territory today. There are granaries in Liaodong and Hezhong, pastures and grasslands, Western Regions and Central Asia, and gold mines. Gold Island, with Australia, also has the beautiful Nanyang, "

"Because of you, countless poor Daming people have been reborn. They have their own vast land and their own wealth."

"Because of you, our Ming Dynasty can truly be proud of the world, look at the world, and carry forward the past."

Wang Shouren looked at Liu Jin with admiration, and he really admired Liu Jin.

"Haha, it's my honor to be able to admire you, Old Wang."

When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help laughing happily.

Who is Lao Wang? He claims to be the last sage, the neighbor that everyone fears in future generations.

It is undoubtedly a very proud thing to be able to make Lao Wang admire.

"Really, I didn't mean to flatter you."

Wang Shouren said very seriously.

"It's useless to flatter me, let's first talk about how to rectify Jiangnan."

"You know what His Majesty means, so let me tell you what you think."

Liu Jin didn't continue to chat with Lao Wang, and returned the topic to the current Jiangnan.

"If you want to govern Jiangnan, the first thing you need to do is to organize the officialdom in Jiangnan."

"The matter in Nanjing this time, they figured it out when I left Nanjing. The officials who stayed in Nanjing are inextricably linked with them."

"Even though I am the chief envoy of Nanzhili, I am often constrained by the officials below. If there is anything, they will know immediately."

"If the Jiangnan officialdom is not severely punished, there will be no secrets about our actions at all, and they will be able to deal with us easily at that time."

"It was actually a small matter. As long as the officials in Nanjing at that time gave these workers justice, let the factory owner distribute the money, and then imprisoned the local hooligans, the matter would not become a major issue."

"However, these officials and those people are in the same group, and they are colluding with each other to help the evildoers, so that it caused the unrest of hundreds of thousands of workers, which almost turned into a catastrophe."

"These officials cannot escape the blame!"

Wang Shouren replied without thinking.

"Then I will leave this matter to you~"

Liu Jin nodded, thought for a while and said, "It's okay to change the entire Jiangnan officialdom."

"Other things are easy to handle, but Nanjing No. [-] is not easy to handle. Many people have much higher official positions and ranks than me, and they are on the same level as you."

"And I don't know how many former students and former officials there are. It can be said that they are all over the officialdom of Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid there will be huge pressure to suppress them."

Wang Shouren nodded, and then said in difficulty.

"I'm under pressure. I can't bear it anymore, and your Majesty, just let go and do it."

"Those who should be dismissed from office, those who should be dismissed from office, those who should be killed, those who should be exiled, the scholars in Jiangnan have already sorted out it several times, and now they can't afford to make any fuss."

Liu Jin said very confidently that Jiangnan Shilin was very powerful in the past, but after several blows, Jiangnan's power in the court has been greatly weakened.

"With your words, I feel relieved~"

Wang Shouren laughed immediately. Thinking about it carefully, Liu Jin has been impeached and criticized by many people for what he has been doing all along, but it is not because the Emperor Hongzhi behind him has always supported him, trusted him, and supported him. He was on top of it, and he just let go and did it.

……

In the mansion of the Nanzhili chief envoy, many officials from the Nanzhili prefectures and yamen have arrived at this moment, and everyone has imperceptible dissatisfaction and a trace of anxiety and fear on their faces.

"It's a big New Year's Eve. It's time for the annual leave. I don't know why the chief minister called me here."

Jiangnan Hedao Censor Luo Xi said to his colleagues with some dissatisfaction.

It is rare to have annual leave once a year. Officials like them can also take a good rest and rest. Although they don't have much to do usually, this kind of rest that can be justified is naturally liked by everyone.

Luo Xi, who was originally drunk and dreaming in the flower boat on the Qinhuai River, had been planning to spend years on the flower boat, but now he was brought into this cold yamen by Wang Shouren's order, and he was very upset.

Although Luo Xi, who is in charge of the river, is not of high grade, he is a real vacancy. The entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the southern section of the canal are under his jurisdiction, as well as the ports and wharfs of Nanjing, Songhu and other cities along the river and along the river. are also under his jurisdiction.

Considering the degree of development of the shipping industry in the Ming Dynasty today, the interests involved in it are enormous. Even if he, the river censor, spends a lot of money on a flower boat all year round, he doesn't need to spend a penny. Naturally, someone wrapped it for him, and also gave him money.

"Yeah, it's a big Chinese New Year, a good Chinese New Year, but I have to call everyone here at this time."

Li Zhixue, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture, also said that for this matter, he hastily rode over from Suzhou, and his nose was so cold in winter.

"It's not for this matter in Nanjing."

"It's all over, so just do what you need to do. You have to call everyone over to do something."

"Yeah, yeah, it's all over, and there's no need to continue the trouble."

"This matter is so big that even the emperor was furious. How can it be so easy to pass, and it is necessary to find a few people to come out as scapegoats."

Everyone talked with each other, but Yin Zhouwei of Yingtian Mansion was silent at this moment.

With such a huge incident happening in Nanjing, he, the prefect, cannot escape his responsibilities. Of course, he is also one of the accomplices. When some workers went to complain, he was the one who ordered them to be beaten back.

Now things did not develop as originally expected. Wang Shouren directly cooperated with the local garrison, arrested Zhang Yuanting, Zeng Qing, Jiang Cheng and others, and quickly took out enough money to pay these workers, calming down the disturbance.

And the imperial court has never followed up. It was originally said that even if Wang Shouren could settle the matter, Wushamao would definitely not be able to keep it, and he, the prefect, could easily shirk responsibility.

But now, Wang Shouren has not been punished in any way, even though there has been news from the capital that the memorials to impeach Wang Shouren can fill Emperor Hongzhi's study room.

But Emperor Hongzhi didn't mean to convict Wang Shouren, and it seemed that he wanted to hand over the full power to Liu Jin. It was over now, and Wang Shouren was definitely the first to take the knife on himself.

Although Zhou Wei is a member of the third grade, Wang Shouren is one level higher than him, and has no right to dispose of himself, but there is another Liu Jin above him, and he still has the franchise right to behead him first, and he will kill him later. fine.

Other officials were complaining about coming to the meeting during the Chinese New Year, but he, the prefect, lived like a year, suffering all the time, waiting for his own fate.

Everyone didn't wait too long, and Liu Jin and Wang Shouren walked over with cold faces in crimson robes.

"Duke Liu, prince~"

Seeing Liu Jin and Wang Shouren, everyone shouted in unison.

"Sit down~"

With a cold face, Liu Jin glanced around and saw that everyone was here, even people from the farthest state capital rushed over starry night, and many people could still see the wind and snow on their bodies, and their faces were so cold light.

"Ying Tian Mansion Yin Zhou Wei~"

When Liu Jin saw everyone sitting down, he immediately pointed out one person.

"Ah~ The officer is here~"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, the other party had just sat down, and immediately stood up and said as a conditioned reflex.

Liu Jin looked at the other party. He was already very old, in his fifties, and his hair and beard had started to turn white.

"The emperor made repeated orders, and the imperial court has repeatedly emphasized that during the Chinese New Year, local governments must ensure that factories, workshops, and commercial firms pay workers' wages in full, so that workers can go home happily for the New Year."

"Hundreds of thousands of workers here in Nanjing were deliberately not paid wages, and even hired hooligans to beat workers who asked for money. When workers went to the yamen to report to the government, not only did they not get justice from the government, but they were also beaten by government servants and officials. "

"What do you, Yingtian Fu Yin, do for food?"

"Where were you then?"

Liu Jin asked coldly.

"Xiaguan, Xiaguan had already taken a bath at that time and was preparing to go home for the New Year, so, so I didn't pay attention to this matter."

Zhou Wei replied tremblingly.

"Have taken a bath, ready to go home for the New Year?"

"Humph~"

"I think you are planning to celebrate the New Year in the prison."

"Come here, you should have a vegetarian meal in the corpse of Yin Zhouwei of the Tianfu Mansion, dereliction of duty and inaction, disrespect the will of the emperor, order by the court, and ignore the life and death of the people."

"Take off his official hat, take off his official uniform, and put him in prison to await trial!"

Liu Jin snorted coldly, counted his crimes, and immediately dismissed him for investigation.

"Ah~"

"Liu Jin, I am also a dignified official of the third rank. Even if you are the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, you have no right to deal with me directly."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhou Wei shouted excitedly.

"This time, I came to Nanjing under the order of the emperor, and I have the right to kill you first, and then to play. Do you believe that I will kill you now?"

Liu Jin's eyes were like torches, and he said lightly.

Hearing this, Zhou Wei was immediately discouraged, and the other officials were even more afraid to express their anger.

(End of this chapter)