Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 33 The Empty Seal!
The news of Chen Yunfu's transformation into Zhaomo's Zhaomo caused a sensation in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and also caused a sensation in the Bei Sanjia where he lived.

Shao Zhi sent Shao Ziheng to invite Chen Yunfu into his home overnight.

Please!
Shao Zhi couldn't help but think about it now.

Could it be Zhu Yuanzhang's instruction?

But letting a 14-year-old child be a court official is simply too nonsense.

Although Chen Yunfu's sudden promotion was far inferior to Zeng Tai's ascension to become Minister of the Household Department, the two were not the same thing.

Zeng Tai was only selected to be a mud-bodied bodhisattva to fool Guo Huan, and he was not in charge of the specific matters of the household department. To put it bluntly, it was just a display.

However, Chen Yunfu's work was done in a down-to-earth manner.

Yes, the photo mill is the archives room, and there is nothing serious to do, but it does not mean that it is not important.

The file room of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has stored all the major and important cases of the Ming Dynasty from the founding of the country to the present 16 years. If an important confidential file is lost, how many people will be killed!
And he, Shao Zhi, has been following and supervising the Zhejiang Weng Junbo case, and many important files are also sealed in the Zhaomo Institute!
"Nephew, you have to find out with this old man, what is going on here?"

Shao Zhi couldn't sit still, so he asked Chen Yunfu straight to the point.

The latter did not hide, and spoke out what was in his heart.

"My nephew thinks it should be His Royal Highness?"

"His Royal Highness?"

Hearing that Zhu Biao was involved in this matter, Shao Zhi became even more confused. What did Chen Yunfu's sudden promotion have to do with Zhu Biao.

That day when Zhu Biao inspected the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Shao Zhi was not with him. He was busy supervising Weng Junbo's case at the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

This case has been handled for almost a year and a half without any real progress, and Shao Zhi has almost exhausted his efforts.

"That day the Crown Prince came to inspect the Metropolitan Procuratorate"

Chen Yunfu told the truth, told Shao Zhi what happened when Zhu Biao came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and finally concluded.

"It's probably like this, but my nephew can't figure it out, but it's just a quilt, can I promote my nephew to skip the inspection school and go straight to the mill?"

If this is the case, then the court and the officialdom are too childish.

Chen Yunfu himself didn't believe it and thought it was too unbelievable.

After understanding the cause and effect, Shao Zhi also frowned.

Like Chen Yunfu, he was also at a loss when he heard it, and it took him a long time before he decided to speak.

"It's definitely not related to making the quilt, it's something else."

"Then uncle thinks, what's the reason?"

"The old man doesn't know either." Shao Zhi spread his hands flatly, he just didn't understand what he didn't understand, he could only say that he really couldn't figure out the brain circuit of the superior.

Chen Yunfu sighed, he still expected Shao Zhi to analyze it for him.

Don't think about it if you can't figure it out, don't waste your energy, Chen Yunfu muttered.

"Forget it, promotion is a good thing anyway."

Shao Zhile made a sound.

"What you said is the truth. Everyone is looking forward to a higher salary, but you are still shaking your head and sighing because you have been promoted to four levels. If the news spreads, I don't know how many people will scold you for being cheap and being a good boy."

Smiling, Chen Yunfu stopped worrying about this matter, and started chatting with Shao Zhi about other things.

"Since you have done the photo grinding now, there are some things that I can really talk to you about."

Shao Zhi frowned, and sighed tiredly: "Recently, this old man has been busy supervising the Zhejiang Weng Junbo case in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. It's difficult."

"Is the Weng Junbo that my uncle mentioned, the former Zhejiang chief envoy, the right counselor?"

"Yes."

Chen Yunfu nodded and said: "My nephew has been working in the Zhaomo Institute of the Metropolitan Procuratorate for more than half a year. I know a little about the case, but not too deep. I only heard that Weng Junbo and the local prefecture and county officials, The food chiefs colluded to embezzle food and taxes."

"Well, that's right. The reason why this case happened was reported by Yan Zhenzhi, the chief grain officer of Zhejiang Province."

Shao Zhi pinched his brows, with a haggard look on his face: "Every year when grain and tax are collected, households in local prefectures and counties will first escort the grain and tax into the granary of the chief envoy, and the commissioner of the chief envoy together with the chief of grain of the provincial road will audit it together. .

If the number is correct, it will be printed and kept, and will be escorted to Beijing and into the national treasury after all the numbers in the province have been collected.If there is a discrepancy in the number, then whichever government is short of the amount, the food chief of that government will bear the shortfall. In short, the amount sent to the treasury must be accurate.

The local provinces press taxes and enter the central treasury, and the provinces under the Ministry of Household Affairs will conduct audits, and if there are no mistakes, they will be printed and stored in the treasury.

This is the charter of the grain chief system and the annual audit of the Ministry of Households.

But a few years ago, when Yan Zhenzhi took office as the head of highways and food in Zhejiang Province, a strange thing happened in Zhejiang.

Yan Zhen directly reported that in Zhejiang, when the two taxes are paid every year, there is no shortage of food in any prefecture or county!
This is simply incredible.

Later, Yan Zhenzhi sent people to pay attention, and found that the officials of households in various prefectures and counties would wait one or half a month in advance before collecting the two taxes with the blank official document of tax payment, and wait in the chief envoy.

And these official documents were all stamped with the seals of local governments, states, and counties in advance!
In this way, no matter how much grain and taxes they received, they would fill in the official documents, and Weng Junbo, the right councilor who supervised the grain road, directly printed the receipt and received it all.

As many prefectures, prefectures, and counties transported to Hangzhou, as much as Zhejiang Provincial Highway transported to the central government, Yan Zhen always suspected that the local government embezzled a large amount of food and taxes, so at the beginning of the 15th year of Hongwu, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs arrested Weng Junbo , Unfortunately, until now the case has not progressed. "

Shao Zhi was still introducing the situation of Weng Junbo's case, but Chen Yunfu, who was sitting opposite him, felt his head exploded.

Empty print case!
Isn't this an empty seal case!

The four Hongwu cases are Hu Weiyong case (Huaixi case), Kongyin case, Guo Huan case and Lanyu case.

These four major cases have been verified by later generations, and at least 10 people were killed!

You must know that these 10 people are not ordinary people or big soldiers who died unjustly in the war, but serious dignitaries, landlords, tyrants and other propertied classes who control the means of production and cultural knowledge.

So that after the end of the four major cases, from the 26th year of Hongwu to the 31st year of Hongwu, in the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty, the six departments were empty and the three laws were empty.

The five central temples (Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, Taipu Temple, and Guanglu Temple) could not find a hundred cadres together, and no one was in charge for years.

Zhu Yuanzhang alone promoted several Baishen to fill the positions of the Six Departments and Nine Ministers. (such as Zheng Yi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites in the 28th year of Hongwu)
Among the four major cases, the Dukongyin case is controversial.

One said that the empty seal case occurred in the ninth year of Hongwu, and the other said that the empty seal case occurred in the fifteenth year of Hongwu.

Now the fog has cleared.

Hongwu 15 years!
The Zhejiang Weng Junbo case was the fuse of the Kongyin case!
Yes, yes.

Chen Yunfu understood everything. First, the Kongyin case happened, and then followed the clues to find out the big corrupt member Guo Huan, the servant of the household department.

The Kongyin case and the Guo Huan case are fundamentally the same case!
(End of this chapter)