Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 965, business is difficult
"Sell newspaper~sell newspaper!"

"Yesterday at the debriefing meeting, the emperor dismissed [-] political envoys and governors on the spot, imprisoned [-] people, demoted and punished [-] people, and dispatched [-] people from Huangjinzhou and Australia to watch~"

On the second day in the capital, as the shouts of newspaper boys continued to ring out in the streets and alleys of the capital, all the young and old in the capital were immediately shocked by the news on the headlines of the morning newspaper.

Almost in the blink of an eye, all the Ming Morning Posts in the hands of the newsboys were sold out. Everyone took the newspapers and read them carefully.

"Oh my god~"

"This Jiangxi governor Zhang Tianyu actually embezzled [-] taels of silver, and almost all the one million taels allocated by the court went into his own pocket. He is really daring. It's all right now, and his head must be moved."

"There is also the governor of Gannan, who is really the ancestor of the Yuyu world. He was originally responsible for suppressing bandits, but he hasn't been out of Ganzhou City for a year, and he was directly dismissed and demoted to a commoner."

"Isn't it? The banditry in southern Gansu is very serious. The emperor attaches great importance to the governor of southern Jiangxi who specially set up a bandit suppression department, but he didn't expect that Lu Zongxue would be so negligent in his administration. The emperor is too kind. He should be dispatched directly. Go to Golden Island."

"Ye Xian from South Zhili was demoted directly to Huangjinzhou. This South Zhili has always been a place of taxation for my Ming Dynasty. Last year, the tax money of North Zhili increased by ten million taels of silver, but this South Zhili Zhili has only increased by one million taels a year, and it is said that it is because the government offices of the prefectures in southern Zhili not only do not cooperate with tax collection, but also obstruct tax collection."

"This tax still needs to be levied, otherwise the court would have no money. If the court had no money, how would there be money to build bridges, roads, reservoirs, river lifts, etc."

"Yes, yes, the merchants in Jiangnan have never liked to pay taxes. In the past, if anyone in the court said that they wanted to levy merchant taxes, they would definitely be killed by officials from Jiangnan."

"The merchants in Jiangnan are real merchants. Unlike our people in Beizhili, who are all capitalists, we in Beizhili are all active in paying taxes."

"Yes, yes, they are businessmen, we are different from them."

"Tsk tsk, look at this list, everyone is a second-rank official, a feudal official, and now dozens of people have been demoted or demoted."

"The imperial court is going to attack those officials who are negligent, do nothing, and have a vegetarian diet!"

"Isn't that right? It's time to take these officials into action. They live a very comfortable life."

In the streets and alleys of the capital, the old and the young are constantly talking about it.

This is the biggest thing that happened in Daming recently.

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What happened in the capital also spread to all parts of Daming at an extremely frightening speed.

Tianjin is the closest to the capital, and the news is the most well-informed. If there is any disturbance in the capital, Tianjin is almost the first to know about it, and it is also the fastest to pass it on.

Tianjin government office, the former Tianjin county government office, has been upgraded to Tianjin government government office as Tianjin has become more and more prosperous, larger and more populous in recent years, and its level has been directly raised by one level.

Guo Zizhang, the prefect of Tianjin Prefecture, was drinking his morning tea slowly. When he saw the headlines in the Ming Morning Post, his expression changed drastically. The man ordered: "Let the magistrates of all districts and counties come to report on their duties immediately."

Guo Zizhang didn't pay much attention to this examination system and debriefing system at first. There are policies above and countermeasures under, which has almost become the norm in officialdom.

The decree of the imperial court is basically a dead letter when it comes out of the capital, and no one will pay attention to it when it comes to the bottom. No one will pay attention to these things.

The examination system and the debriefing system were formulated by Liu Jin. At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it. The inspection system is better, and it still depends on performance. But the debriefing system, they, the local officials, didn't care about it at all. .

It's all right now, the big officials from all over Xinjiang came to Beijing to report on their duties, and a lot of them were demoted, demoted, and distributed to Huangjinzhou, which shows that the above is not a joke but a real one.

When this level of suppression is suppressed, when the time comes, these state-level officials will go to the chief envoy and governor to report their duties. Maybe they will be the same as these people, one by one will be demoted, downgraded, and even May be relegated to common people.

This is related to his own black hat and his own fame, so Guo Zizhang has to pay attention to it, so he hurriedly summoned officials from various districts and counties under his jurisdiction to come to him to report on his work first, and first give the basic situation of his districts and counties to him. If you master it, you will have confidence when you report to your superiors.

"Playing with the dead, I was dismissed and demoted dozens of feudal officials at once, who would dare to fish after that."

Guo Zizhang wiped the sweat from his forehead. Being in Tianjin, the oil and water are very rich, but because it is close to the capital, there are many dignitaries here, so you have to be careful in everything you do.

Not only the Tianjin government, but the news spread throughout Daming.

The state government offices and officials at all levels in various places were deeply shocked by this news, and dozens of officials in the frontier were dismissed and demoted at once. This was something that had never happened in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

It can even be said that such a thing has never happened in the entire Ming Dynasty. Even the few major cases in the Hongwu Dynasty, which involved a lot of people, did not implicate dozens of second-rank officials in the frontier at once.

However, this time, Emperor Hongzhi directly dismissed and demoted dozens of second-rank officials in the frontier, sending an extremely strong signal to the whole world.

Emperor Hongzhi absolutely fully supported the reform of the administration of officials. Any officials who are dead and do nothing will have a bad life in the future.

Yangzhou, fireworks in Yangzhou in March.

Since ancient times, Yangzhou has been synonymous with luxury and gold fans. Here, rich people from all over the south of the Yangtze River gather. The flower boats parked on the Qinhuai River are gold-selling caves. No matter how much money is poured into it, it will disappear.

In the past, the big bosses of the entire Jiangnan officialdom gathered here. The six ministers and ministers of Nanjing were frequent visitors here. The chief envoys and governors in charge of various places often came here to drink and have fun. A luxurious life.

On the banks of the Qinhuai River, at night, fancy-decorated and luxurious flower boats will berth on the shore. When the gold master boards the boat, they will immediately disappear into the Qinhuai River, like moving palaces. The lights are bright, and the sounds of extravagance and the fragrance of pink and daisy paint the entire Qinhuai River.

However, in the past few days, the business of flower boats on the Qinhuai River has suddenly slowed down. The bustards of these flower boats are looking at the carriages on the bank eagerly.

"What exactly is going on?"

"Where did all those noble people go? All of them disappeared."

An old bustard sighed, in the past, every evening, luxury carriages would come to the shore, and then dignitaries and dignitaries would come down from above to charter their flower boats. After serving these masters, thousands of taels of silver in one night can't be escaped casually. If you meet a rich master, you can have tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But now, the horses are on the concrete road by the bank, the four-wheeled carriages are gone, and the girls on the flower boats have nothing to do, they can only look forward to each other.

"Yeah, I haven't opened for three days. If this continues, I'm going to drink the northwest wind."

There was a bustard who immediately replied.

"I heard that those officials and masters have gone back to various places."

Someone who knew something said.

"Why do you go back to various places?"

"Can brothels and Chu pavilions in various places compare with our flower boats in Yangzhou?"

"That's right, that's right, where are the girls in the country? Our girls can serve people and are versatile."

A bustard immediately followed and replied.

"What's more, those officials and lords put the yamen on our Qinhuai River one by one. What are you going to do now?"

"Eating, drinking and drinking here, isn't it good to have a good time?"

"You probably don't know this, don't you read the latest Ming Morning Post?"

"Not long ago, officials from all over Xinjiang came to Beijing to report on their duties. As a result, dozens of them were directly demoted and dismissed by the emperor. Our Lord Ye from Nanzhili was sent to Huangjinzhou."

"Now the entire Ming Dynasty's officialdom is shaken. From the top officials in the frontiers to the prefects in various prefectures, everyone is working hard and going back to their respective places to do business."

"This black gauze hat may not be able to keep, how can they have the heart to show off on your flower boat?"

"Master Ye was dispatched to the Golden Continent?"

"Isn't that right, because the tax money collected in Nanzhili is too little, Mr. Ye was directly demoted to three ranks and assigned to Huang Jinzhou as an official."

"Your good times are almost coming to an end. In the future, not only will there be far fewer guests on this flower boat, but it is estimated that you will not lose a penny in your taxes."

"My God, how will you live in the future!"

When a bustard heard this, she couldn't help but shouted in panic.

The news kept spreading throughout Daming. The officials of Ming Dynasty who used to drink tea and read newspapers were much more diligent. Those who tried the case and had no case to try should quickly organize local gentry and country gentry. Let’s discuss it. Whether it is to raise funds to build cement roads, repair bridges and pave roads, etc., after all, this is also a kind of political achievement.

The local governments who were procrastinating and unwilling to actively cooperate with tax collection in the past also immediately approached the taxation offices in various places on their own initiative, expressing their willingness to cooperate with them to find those hard bones to collect taxes. After all, taxation is also related to their political achievements.

The officials who used to fish, eat, drink and have fun every day have become extremely diligent, and the business of brothels and Chu houses in various places has declined a lot.

(End of this chapter)