Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 508 Zhaowu Empress Punishes Xungui, Youdu Censor Takes the Blame

"Qizou Your Majesty, this conspiracy to frame Commissioner Qingzhang and hinder the land tax reform has involved a total of [-] nobles including Wei Guogong, Anyuan Marquis Liu Zuochang, and Ancheng Bo Zhang Guocai.

There are also 39 big landlords in Yingtianfu involved in the case.

However, the one most deeply involved in the case is not Wei Guogong Xu Wenjue, but Anyuan Hou Liu Zuochang, Linhuai Hou Li Zushu, Longping Hou Zhang Gongri, Ancheng Bo Zhang Guocai, Nanhe Bofang Yiyuan and five people..."

In the Hall of Martial Ying, Zhu Yuxi was sitting high on the dragon chair, watching the relevant memorials presented by Li Zhenwu, while Jiang Yueguang was reporting the results of the interrogation below.

In fact, Jiang Yueguang also submitted a memorial.

By reading Li Zhenwu's memorial and listening to Jiang Yueguang's report, Auntie Zhu will be able to learn all the results of the trial as soon as possible through two aspects, ensuring that the two of them will not hide anything.

If Nanzhen Fusi wants to conspire with the Metropolitan Procuratorate to conceal or lie about something, he has to be careful not to be known by the Dongchang people.

Now the people in Dongchang don't do anything, they just focus on several intelligence agencies under Aimee Zhu.

Even Li Zhenwu, Gao Shengqi, Bai Xiaosheng, and Liu Xiaolian didn't know who their subordinates were from Dongchang.

Jin Yiwei was watching from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he also didn't dare to play tricks.

Therefore, the result of this trial must be true and relatively "fair".

The memorials of both of them showed that Xu Wenjue was not deeply involved in these cases of conspiracy to frame Commissioner Qingzhang, and it is okay to say that it has nothing to do with it.

However, Xu Changfu, Xu Wenjue's big housekeeper, was deeply involved in the case, but Xu Changfu did not confess Xu Wenjue.

Or, Xu Wenjue really didn't know about some things Xu Changfu did.

The role played by Xu Wenjue is the middleman who contacts the nobles and big landlords on the surface.

After listening to Jiang Yueguang and finishing the report, Aunt Zhu fell into deep thought.

It's easy for others to say, she was thinking about what to do with Wei Guogong Xu Wenjue.

Today, Duke Wei is the only Duke in Nanjing, and he can even be said to be the biggest nobleman in Ming Dynasty.

As for those in the capital, most of them have been demoted to the pseudo-shun, and even the pseudo-qing.Now even if the capital is recovered, those people are still alive, or there are descendants, it is impossible to seize the title again.

Even, the imperial court will hold them accountable and punish them for their crimes of submission and surrender.

Speaking of which, those nobles in the capital also understood this point, so they were used by the Qing captives in the first place, trying to pass Juyongguan and escape from Yanqing Prefecture to outside the pass.

As a result, most of them were caught up by Ma Bao, and they are still locked up in the capital as prisoners.

Auntie Zhu has already gone to the imperial edict to tell Du Yinxi not to keep those people in vain, and let them go through labor reform first, and then deal with it when she has time.

Among these people, some take the initiative to cater to the hypocrites and puppets, while some are just acquiescing. Moreover, the nature of surrendering and surrendering is different on Aimee Zhu's side, so there must be a certain difference in punishment.

The same is true for Nanjing Xungui this time, and one size fits all.

Of course Auntie Zhu wanted to confiscate all the old honored nobles, but if she did so, what would Li Yan, Zeng Ying and other new nobles think?
In any case, these veteran sons and noble ancestors have indeed made contributions to Daming.

They can be punished for crimes, but they cannot be killed arbitrarily.

To kill someone, one must punish one's heart, and killing others to obey is the way of a king.

After thinking for a while, Aunt Zhu said, "Mr. Ju Zhi thinks how Duke Wei should be punished?"

"This···"

Jiang Yueguang didn't expect that Aimee Zhu would ask his opinion. After all, Aimee Zhu used to be dictatorial in punishing people.

As a civil servant, he was born on the opposite side of the nobles, and it is reasonable to hope that these nobles will be severely punished.

The problem is that these nobles are charged with obstructing the land tax reform. As far as Jiang Riguang knows, many gentry are also involved.

And in the future, as the land tax reform is promoted to the whole of Nanzhili and even the whole country, there will definitely be more criminal gentry and landlords.

Although he was a civil servant, he was also a gentry and a landlord, and most of his relatives and friends were also gentry and landlords.

If he suggested severely punishing Xungui today, how would he know that people related to him would not be severely punished tomorrow?

What's more, this time there are already people related to him involved in the case...
Thinking of this, Jiang Yueguang said: "Your Majesty, after all, the ancestor of Wei Guogong made great contributions to Daming, and this time Xu Wenjue was not deeply involved in the case. I think that appropriate punishment is enough, and it is not easy to be too harsh. Otherwise, I may hurt the noble heart. , damaging His Majesty's reputation."

Hearing what Jiang Yueguang said, Auntie Zhu couldn't help but took a deep look at him, then smiled and said: "Forget it, since Mr. Juzhi suggested so, then let's demote him to Marquis of Chengshu.

In addition, its Fengtian was cut, and only 50 mu were reserved.Another fine of [-] taels of silver, so forget it. "

As soon as these words came out, the Jiang Riguang people below were all dumbfounded.

I thought to myself: Your Majesty, I suggest that you should be punished lightly. What do you mean by being light-hearted?

There have been more than a dozen emperors in the Ming Dynasty, but none of the emperors has lowered the title of Wei Guogong, and Wei Guogong has always been in Nanjing.

How did you become so ruthless here, Your Majesty?

Not to mention the demotion, even reduced its Fengtian to [-] mu.

In the past, Jiang Riguang didn't know how many fields the Duke of Wei's mansion had, but after this case, he did know a little bit.

The Fengtian awarded to Wei Guogong by successive Ming emperors has reached 10,000+ mu.

Because it is Fengtian (juetian) rewarded by the emperor, these fields are tax-free.

Only now the total land owned by Duke Wei's mansion is about 60 mu.

Those illegally obtained fields must be confiscated as official land or returned to the common people after passing through Qingzhang Tianmu.

In this way, Fengtian becomes very important.

In the end, it was directly reduced to [-] mu by Aunt Zhu...
'If news of what happened in the Hall of Martial Arts today gets out, what will other people think?I will definitely think that the old man suggested His Majesty to do this... Even if the old man explained, no one would believe it. '

Thinking of this, Jiang Riguang couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

But there is no way.

Seeing Auntie Zhu looking at him with a smile, he immediately understood that this was probably Auntie Zhu's punishment for him.

Who let him and Gao Hongtu be used by others to persuade Zhu Yu to suspend the land tax reform?

After thinking it over, Jiang Riguang could only smile wryly.

At this time, Zhu Wei continued: "Liu Zuochang and other five nobles who were in charge, as well as a dozen other big landlords who were deeply involved in the case, all ransacked their homes and exiled them.

The rest of the nobles will be demoted to two levels of nobility, all Fengtian will be cut off, the marquis will be fined [-] yuan in silver, and the earl will be fined [-] yuan in silver.

Those of their subordinates who were directly involved in the framing of Commissioner Qingzhang should be decapitated, and should be exiled.

Then deal with it according to what I said, and how to punish the crime, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will write another memorial and submit it. "

Hearing this, Jiang Yueguang knew that Zhu Wei had made up his mind to let the Metropolitan Procuratorate be the executioner to punish the veteran son Xungui.

But he still had no choice but to respond with a bitter face: "Observe the order."

"The matter of ransacking the house will be jointly handled by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Nanzhen Fusi, and the Second Town of the Imperial Guard Army. After the house raid is completed, Nanzhen Fusi will write a memorial and submit the results."

Li Zhenwu immediately cupped his fists and said, "Observe the order!"

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)