The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 166 To Control the Floods, Save the People First ([-]-character chapter)
Before leaving Beijing, Chang Feng had done enough preparatory work.

This time he went out of Beijing, he selected [-] elite robes from Beizhen Fusi to accompany him.

He also found Bai Ang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, to give lectures to him and Sanbai Paoze.

Bai Ang, 59 years old, is a famous flood control expert in Ming Dynasty.

Bai Ang was a Jinshi in the first year of Tianshun, and he had successively served as a doctor in the Rites and a doctor in the Ministry of Industry.Later, he made great achievements in suppressing the rebellion, and was promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of War.He was also transferred to the Ministry of household affairs to inspect rivers and rivers, and made quite a lot of political achievements.

Last year, he was promoted to Zuodu Censor.This year, he replaced Peng Shao and was transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

In the words of later generations, he is a typical all-round technical bureaucrat.He not only knows how to control water, but also knows how to fight, and is an expert in law.

This person is clean and self-confident.In Jin Yiwei's private files, his biggest scandal was that he accepted a 100 taels of respect from his school friend, a certain magistrate in Nanzhili.

In Hongzhi's three years, he did an earth-shattering thing.

At that time, he supervised the construction of the imperial mausoleum in Fengyang and gave a memorial to Emperor Hongzhi.

The general content of this memorial is: just mess around with the matter of repairing the grave of the great grandfather.Wouldn't it be nice to use the extra money for grave repairs to help the victims?
Grandpa Tai has a spirit in the sky, and he will praise the emperor that you are a filial grandson who cares about the people!
Please keep in mind that the hunger and cold of the common people are more important than the graves of the emperor's house!
This excerpt is typical disrespect.

Emperor Hongzhi read the memorial, not only was not angry, but even praised Bai Ang as a good minister, approved his memorial, and transferred him back to Beijing to entrust him with important tasks.

Although Bai Ang is not yet sixty years old, his health is not very good.Years of patrolling the rivers caused his bones to suffer from moisture and he suffered from bone pain.This is why Emperor Hongzhi didn't send him to Shandong to control the river.

Emperor Hongzhi was a lenient and benevolent king, and he couldn't do the thing of using it to death if it is easy to use.

Chang Feng respectfully supported Bai Ang, and entered the Beizhen Fusi lobby.

Bai Ang sat down at the head.

Chang Feng gave an order: "Everyone in robes, bow down to Mister!"

Chang Feng is now in Fusi of Beizhen with a lot of promises.At the command of Jun, all the people in robes fell to their knees like pushing a golden mountain and falling jade pillars: "See you, sir!"

Bai Ang stroked his beard.He has a sense of humor: "Hurry up, please. Be a gentleman to a group of Jin Yiwei who arrest, punish and kill people all day long. This is the first time for me."

"If you don't speak well, don't take me into prison. If you want to kill me, please leave a whole body."

Chang Feng smiled and said, "Mr. is funny."

Bai Ang said: "Then shall we start?"

Chang Feng nodded: "Please teach me, sir."

Bai Ang cleared his throat, and said something surprising: "Yesterday morning, Chang Zhenfu envoy said that every tael of Heyin will be used for practical purposes. I almost laughed to death."

Chang Feng was taken aback: "Dare to ask sir, why are you laughing?"

Bai Ang said: "Let's put it this way. If [-]% of the treatment of Heyin is actually used, it will be rare."

"If [-]% of it is used in practice, the imperial court should confer an earl on Changzhen Fushi! Because you have done something that no one has been able to do since the founding of the country."

Next, Bai Ang explained to everyone the tricks of the Daming Water Conservancy Project.

Civil officials are in charge of water conservancy projects at all levels.Below is the military officer who leads the civilian men to repair the embankment.

There has always been a saying among civil and military officials in the river that "civilian officials eat grass, and military officials eat dirt".

The main method of Daming in the Ming Dynasty was "Dong Gong".

"Yun" is an engineering component made of straw, branches, earth and rocks, wrapped with straw mats.

The building formed by connecting multiple dong is called "donggong".

The dam can be used not only as a revetment dam, but also as a barrier for breaches.It is the most important flood control tool.

A one-foot-wide scorpion is made of "wood three grass seven".It takes five taels of silver.

The civil officials are in charge of the materials, and either make false quotations; or cut corners and change wood three grass seven into wood one grass nine.This is called "eating grass".

The military officer is in charge of the construction of the civilian husband.Falsely reporting the amount of earth and stone excavated, taking the opportunity to defraud the earth, stone and silver, this is called "eating earth".

Bai Ang's teacher Xu Youzhen is a powerful minister.This Xu Shoufu has a low character, is good at making money, and is narrow-minded.Yu Qian was killed.

But people are not black and white.On the other hand, Xu Youzhen is proficient in water conservancy and has greatly benefited the common people.

Xu Youzhen once said to Bai Ang before his death: "Hewu buys grass, trees, bamboo, stone, hemp and iron, and works with the people's husbands. Everything is used for public use, and the cost is two or three tenths of the money."

Bai Ang was still young at that time.He was puzzled, and asked Xu Youzhen: "Sir, what about the remaining seven or eight?"

Xu Youzhen smiled wryly, and explained: "Civil and military officials are extravagant, large and small yamen eat and drink, and receiving officials is like carp crossing a river. Food is two or three."

"The remaining five or six are up to the main hall of the river, to the supervisory eunuch, and down to the chief of the civil servants. You share a little, and I share a little. The wild goose plucks the hair, pinches the tip and drops the money."

"The imperial court allocates ten taels of river silver, and at most two or three taels can be used on the river dam."

Bai Ang talked to Chang Feng and others for three hours.From noon to dusk.

Chang Feng and Pao Ze were very attentive.From time to time, use a pen to write down on the paper what Bai Ang said about the tricks of the river.

Chang Feng asked Bai Ang: "Sir, our Jinyiwei people are not good at checking accounts. I plan to send a hundred account clerks from the Ministry of Accounts to accompany me to check the accounts of Shandong River. What do you think?"

Bai Ang waved his hands again and again: "It's absolutely impossible. I used to be the servant of the household department. I know who the group of scribes are."

"The scribes have a complicated relationship with the local government. If you use them to check the river account, you can't even find out. It's fattening these scribes and giving them a chance to get gag money."

"You need someone who understands accounts. I suggest you hire a group of accountants from the small folk shops in Beizhili."

Chang Feng cupped his hands: "Thank you sir for your enlightenment."

All the guards in brocade clothes bowed to Bai Ang one after another: "Mr. Xie, enlighten me."

Bai Ang joked: "You don't need to say thank you. It's common for the officials of the Six Departments to commit crimes in the hands of your Jinyiwei. If I am thrown into prison one day, and you show mercy to me, I will be grateful."

Fatty Xu said: "Look at what Mr. said. How can it be?"

Fatty Xu, who is in charge of elephant taming, also followed Chang Feng to Shandong this time.

After sending Bai Ang away, Chang Feng discussed with Fatty Xu, Qian Ning and Shi Wenyi.

Chang Feng said: "I had an idea a long time ago. In the past, Jin Yiwei used to borrow people from the Ministry of Accounts for tasks related to checking accounts. It was very inconvenient."

"I plan to recruit a group of accountants who are proficient in accounting figures and set up an accounting office in the North Division. They will be in charge of checking accounts."

Chang Feng said that the Accounting Office has functions similar to the economic crime investigation office of later generations.

Shi Wenyi said: "To set up a new office, it seems that you have to report to Commander Zhu, and then Commander Zhu will report to the emperor."

Qian Ning interjected: "Commander Zhu is away from Jinyiwei for [-] out of [-] days now, and he has long since ignored his affairs. I heard from my godfather that the emperor intends to choose another commander."

"Why do you report this to him? Master Chang just handed over the booklet to the emperor."

Zhu Ji didn't understand when he was an official.People below don't support it, and people above don't want to see it.In addition, he is old and sick.In the past two years, he has simply become a hands-off shopkeeper.

In any case, Chang Feng, the governor of the North Town, and Wang Miaoxin, the governor of the South Town, are both shrewd and capable people.The specific affairs of Jin Yiwei are left to the two of them to take care of them so nothing can go wrong.

Fatty Xu said: "Let me tell you, there is now a vacancy for the Commander. The Commander Tongzhi is also the uncle of the two small countries. If Commander Zhu retires, there is a high probability that our Lord Chang will take over."

Chang Feng coughed, "Stop talking nonsense. It's better to get down to business. Qian Ning, you are limited to find [-] accountants of private shops within three days. Please come to Jinyiwei."

Qian Ning cupped his hands: "Of order."

As night fell, Chang Feng returned home.

The father-in-law Liu Bingyi brought a jar of good wine for Chang Feng to practice.

As soon as Chang Feng entered the front yard, he saw a paper-made mourning crane in the yard.

Chang Feng frowned: "What is this unlucky thing doing in the yard? Xiaoyan, which noble family died, and our family is going to mourn?"

Liu Xiaoyan explained: "Where is it? These days, Tangtang has been making paper bundles with Huang Yuanxue from Qingsong Coffin Shop."

Chang Feng was a little unhappy: "The majestic Princess Wanping actually likes such an unlucky thing."

Liu Xiaoyan smiled sweetly and lowered her voice: "I think Tangtang is a drunkard who doesn't care about drinking. She doesn't look right at Huang Yuan."

Chang Feng was stunned: "You mean?"

Liu Xiaoyan said: "How can you not be pregnant with the cardamom years? It's just that Huang Yuan's background doesn't match Tangtang."

Chang Feng was very appreciative: "Your words seem to come from your father's mouth. Why is there no birth? I was a good match with you before?"

"Besides, I have met that kid Huang Yuan. He is a motivated scholar. Maybe he will be named on the gold list in the future."

"Tangtang's sweetheart, it's actually a good thing that there are no senior officials in the family."

"If a high-ranking official's son marries our Chang family, it is because of our Chang family's current power."

Liu Xiaoyan said: "That's right. My father is here to practice it for you. Go to the dining room quickly."

Chang Feng came to the dining room and the family sat down.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Liu Bingyi said, "You are going to Shandong this time, and you are going to kill again."

Chang Feng asked: "Why did Lao Taishan say that?"

Liu Bingyi said: "I used to be a political envoy. I supervised the river affairs of the six major rivers in Beizhili. How can a river official not be greedy?"

"Da Qinghe, do you know?"

Chang Feng said: "I know, the source of the Daqing River is in Laiyuan. It is a quiet river, and floods rarely occur."

Liu Bingyi took a sip of his wine: "That's right. Without floods, there would be no income for the Daqing River's river yamen."

"In the 20th year of Chenghua, in order to allow the imperial court to regulate Heyin, the river officials colluded with the supervising young supervisors to open the embankment of the Daqing River and artificially create floods."

"The Ministry of Industry sent a doctor to investigate, but nothing happened in the end."

Chang Feng was shocked: "How dare they create floods in order to have money to covet? Isn't this trading people's lives for money?"

Liu Bingyi said: "He Dao officials have a saying, how to say it, civilian officials eat it."

Chang Feng answered: "Civilian officials eat grass, military officials eat dirt."

Liu Bingyi was surprised: "You also know this?"

Chang Feng replied: "Bai Butang told me today."

Liu Bingyi said: "Anyway. With your temperament, if you go to Shandong, you will definitely kill people."

This reminded Chang Feng.This trip to Shandong, must bring Qian Ning.Let him do the killing to show off.

Channing is very neat.Two days later, more than 100 accountants came to Beizhen Fusi.

All of these people beamed with joy.Qian Ning has already told them to let them work in Jinyiwei.

Chang Feng met these people in the duty room.

Chang Feng said: "Everyone, I am going to set up an accounting office in Beisi. However, the robes of Jinyiwei are experts at playing knives, but they are amateurs at dialing abacus beads."

"That's why I invited you here. The palace has not yet approved the posts in the Accounting Office. You follow me to Shandong on business. Everyone will receive the school captain's salary."

All the accounting gentlemen rejoiced.

At this moment, imperial envoy Liu Daxia walked in.

Chang Feng asked a group of accountants to go down, and asked someone to serve tea to Liu Daxia.

Liu Daxia asked: "How are you preparing? How about we leave Beijing tomorrow?"

Chang Feng immediately agreed: "Okay. This time, I will ask Liu Duyuan to take care of me."

When Liu Daxia went to Shandong, he was given the title of the right deputy capital censor.Therefore, Changfeng called him "Liu Duyuan".

Liu Daxia said: "It's you who take good care of me. If you can hold on to the 50 taels allocated by the imperial court to control the river, the river governance will be half successful!"

Chang Feng asked: "The court allocated 50 taels this time?"

Liu Daxia nodded: "Your Majesty attaches great importance to water conservancy. I met you at the Qing Palace yesterday, and the Emperor said that it is not enough, so I can hand over some more."

Chang Feng said: "Don't worry Liu Duyuan. I will definitely take care of Heyin for you and the court."

The next day, the imperial envoy drove out of Beijing.Flood control in ancient times was a lot like fighting a war.Therefore, when people go out of Beijing, they go through the Andingmen Gate, hoping for auspiciousness.

Traveling all the way south, after ten days, everyone arrived at the Yellow River breach, in Yanggu County, Dongchang Prefecture.

Zhang Qiudi is located in Yanggu County.

Liu Daxia discussed with Chang Feng, first changed into casual clothes, and inspected the water conditions.Save the local government only showing them what they want them to see.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a private visit.Chang Feng and Liu Daxia were dumbfounded after a private interview on Weibo!

This time their imperial mission to Lu was to control the river, not provide disaster relief.

Disaster relief is the responsibility of the local government.

Two years and four months ago, Emperor Hongzhi ordered the local government to hoard grain.In order to deal with this kind of famine.

It stands to reason that the magistrates exploited the common people severely that year, and at the same time, the official positions were filled to the brim.

Yanggu County should have sufficient food for disaster relief.

However, Chang Feng and Liu Daxia inspected all the way, and saw starvation everywhere, with wild dogs gnawing on corpses.

In the fields of Anle Township, Yanggu County, Chang Feng saw more than a dozen victims gathered around a cauldron.

Everyone walked over.

Chang Feng asked the victims: "What is cooked in this pot?"

Chang Feng was shocked by the victim's answer: "Boiled rice and meat. If you want to eat it, you have to exchange it for grain."

Chang Feng lifted the lid of the pot.

The victims hurriedly said: "Cover it quickly! I finally found some dry firewood to cook the meat, don't let the heat run away!"

Liu Daxia and others also vomited after watching it.

Chang Feng and the others are all paid officials in the capital, and they have never been hungry.

But the victims of the disaster are already doing X as usual.

Chang Feng said angrily: "Da Ming Law, cut it up! We belong to the government! Come on, take them all for me!"

The victims actually said confidently, "Why do you take me?"

Chang Feng had only seen it in books before.This time I actually saw it with my own eyes.

Liu Daxia ordered: "Don't take them. They also want to find a way to survive. Otherwise, his son will be exchanged for nothing."

Liu Daxia asked the victims: "Didn't the government open a porridge shed to help you after the disaster?"

The victim replied: "There are six porridge sheds in the county seat. They all cook delicious wheat rice. But the government doesn't allow victims from outside the city to enter the city at all!"

Chang Feng interjected: "What about the villages outside the city? Are there no porridge sheds?"

The victim replied: "There are three porridge sheds in Anle Township. Just go and see them!"

Chang Feng and others came to the township office in Anle Township.

Sure enough, there were three porridge sheds in the township government office, and each porridge shed supported two large pots.The cauldron was bubbling and steaming.

However, there are thousands of people waiting in line with broken bowls in their hands for the porridge!

Chang Feng and the accompanying wrestlers are always in good health.Forcibly squeezed the weak people away and came to the porridge shed.

I saw a farmer from the village grabbing a handful of wheat with his hands and throwing it into a cauldron.

A handful of wheat boils a big pot!Where is the porridge?It is clearly water!
Chang Feng grabbed Liang Ding's hand: "Can this pot of water save lives?"

Liang Ding was furious: "Who are you? How dare you cause trouble in the porridge market?"

Chang Feng showed his waist card: "I am the deputy imperial envoy, let the food chief in charge of the porridge shed in Anle Township get over here!"

Not long after, the food chief of Anle Township rushed to Chang Feng and the others in a hurry.

The grain chief knelt and kowtowed: "The little one kowtows to the imperial envoys."

"Boom!" Chang Feng kicked him in the face!

Liang Chang grinned his teeth in pain, but still got up, knelt in front of Chang Feng and kowtowed.

Chang Feng said angrily: "You just cook this kind of food that is so clear that you can see people's shadows clearly? Believe it or not, I will strip you naked and throw it into the pot, and cook it into rice meat for the victims to eat?"

The head of grain said: "I report to the imperial envoy. The county distributed ten shi of wheat to our village!"

Liu Daxia interjected: "Ten stone grains are more than 600 catties. Although it is not much to make porridge, it can also hang more than 2000 victims."

What the food chief said next left everyone dumbfounded: "The ten shi wheat is not a day's food relief, but a month's food relief!"

Chang Feng was furious: "It takes more than 50 catties a day? More than 50 catties of food to help thousands of victims?"

The head of food hurriedly shirked his responsibility: "The imperial envoy is going to ask our county lord. The amount is set by him."

In fact, the food chief is not clean.When the ten shi was allocated, he took three shi himself.Distributed to five grain Ding three stones.The food relief in Anle Township is only four stones left.

He also took twenty catties of wheat and bought a 12-year-old girl as a concubine.

That's right, a living person is only worth twenty catties of wheat.

Chang Feng said: "Liu Duyuan, let's go to Yanggu County. I'll pick the head of the county magistrate!"

Everyone was about to leave the porridge shed and head for the county seat.But they saw that the victims had already stoned their horses to death, and were scrambling to grab and eat the horse meat alive.

Qian Ning said angrily, "I have to kill some of these daring bastards!"

Chang Feng stopped him: "Forget it. Twenty horses can save many lives. Let's go to the county seat on foot!"

The imperial envoy went to Yanggu County to control the water.Shandong Governor, Dusi, Feudal Secretary, Standard Division, Dongchang Magistrate and other leaders and brains have gathered in Yanggu County to meet the imperial envoy.

Nie Cheng, governor of Shandong, is a close friend of Ge Laoqiu Jun.Birds of a feather flock together.This Governor Nie is also a corrupt Confucian.

Chang Feng and others came to the Yanggu County Government Office.

Governor Nie and others knelt down together: "I respectfully invite Sheng An."

Liu Daxia said: "Sheng Gong'an. Get up!"

Everyone got up.Chang Feng questioned Governor Nie: "There is a tragedy of changing sons and eating in Yanggu County. Does Nie Futai know?"

Governor Nie has Qiu Jun as his backer, and he is also a big official in Shandong.He is not very afraid of Chang Feng.

Governor Nie said: "Is the deputy imperial envoy's words exaggerated? In Hongzhi's heyday, how could it be possible to change sons and eat?"

"I have inspected the porridge farm in Yanggu County. They cook delicious wheat rice. Every victim can receive a catty of wheat rice every day!"

Chang Feng said angrily: "You didn't go out to inspect when you entered Yanggu County, did you? The wheat rice you mentioned is from the porridge market in the city!"

"That's just for show! The Yanggu government doesn't let the victims enter the city at all! In the porridge market outside the city, ten stones of rice are given to thousands of victims for a month!"

"Boil a handful of wheat in a big pot!"

Governor Nie is a member of Qiu Jun, and he is a political enemy with Chang Feng.

He responded tit for tat: "Your emperor's mission is to control the floods. Disaster relief is the business of our local government in Shandong."

"Where am I going to inspect the porridge market? It seems that you shouldn't worry about it!"

Liu Daxia couldn't stand it anymore: "To control the water, save the people first! The people are all dead, so what's the use of us to control the water?"

　That's right.Another lazy day at the end of the month.Today's chapter is [-] words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)