Jingtai Fenghua

Chapter 243 Zhu Ji returns to Beijing, Zhu Qiyu has a headache

Empress Dowager Wu talked about the affairs of Wang Quan's family. After hearing this, Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "The empress is right, it should have been dealt with earlier, but in the past few months, the war has continued, and Lin'er is pregnant, so I have not been able to do it." However, I didn't expect that they would become even more arrogant.

Wang Quan even intervened in the appointment of officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He was so courageous! In addition, it is unknown how much land has been occupied by the common people. It is currently estimated that it will be no less than 100,000 acres! Seriously ruined the Queen's reputation!

But, eh, let’s wait until Lin’er gives birth to the baby! "

Zhu Qiyu had long wanted to deal with Wang Quan's family, but because Wang Meilin was pregnant, he was afraid that something would happen to Wang Meilin, so he kept silent.

"Well, it's good that Your Majesty knows. It's not that simple in this palace. The queen is managing well now, so don't make any more trouble!" Empress Dowager Wu nodded and said with a smile.

"No!" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

"You don't have to come here every day if you have nothing to do in the future. There is nothing to do with the Queen Mother. There are servants who can take care of her. Even if something happens, they will report it to Your Majesty!" The Empress Dowager continued to talk to Zhu Qiyu.

Zhu Qiyu just smiled and nodded, continued chatting with Wu for a while, and then returned to Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, Zhu Ji is back!" Cheng Jing came in from outside and said to Zhu Qiyu who was reading the memorial in the study.

Zhu Qiyu looked up at Cheng Jing and said, "He's back, okay, let him in!"

Cheng Jing cupped his hands and said yes, and then went out. After a while, Cheng Jing came in with Zhu Ji who was tired of travel!

"Your Majesty, I will command you to serve Zhu Ji and pay homage to Your Majesty!" Zhu Ji arrived at the Imperial Study Room, and when he saw Zhu Qiyu, he immediately raised his hands and said.

"Well, thank you for your hard work. It's been more than two months, right?" Zhu Qiyu greeted Zhu Ji with a smile.

"Yes, your majesty, for two months and seven days, I was investigating in the south. I heard that your majesty won a great victory in Hequ. On the way back, I heard that Lulingbo had won a great victory in Shanhaiguan. I was very happy. Congratulations to your majesty!" Zhu Ji stood and said to him Zhu Qiyu said with a smile and cupped his hands.

"Well, a lot has indeed happened in the past two months. Sit down! Cheng Jing, make tea for Zhu Ji!" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile, and Cheng Jing immediately went to make tea.

At this moment, Zhu Ji also opened the package he was carrying, which contained many notebooks.

Zhu Ji took out these notebooks, held them in his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I will lead the 400 Jinyiwei captains to Zhejiang and Jiangxi to conduct a secret investigation. We will conduct a secret investigation on all officials in Zhejiang and Jiangxi. We will listen to the opinions of the people. If we learn that the officials are corrupt, I will also secretly send people to investigate your behavior, Your Majesty, these are all the investigation materials of officials from these two provinces!"

"Well, touched them all again?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Zhu Ji and asked.

"We roughly checked them all. Because we were investigating secretly and did not dare to reveal our identities, we could only learn about the corruption and registered it. We also checked the families of some officials and found that some officials lived extravagantly. Some officials have poor families!" Zhu Ji continued.

Zhu Qiyu glanced at Cheng Jing, who immediately put down his tea cup and went to get the information in Zhu Ji's hand.

First, he checked each book one by one to make sure there was no hidden weapon or poison, and then he placed it in front of Zhu Qiyu’s desk!

Zhu Qiyu did not look at the information, but asked Zhu Ji: "Tell me, I can be mentally prepared for the general situation of these two provincial officials!"

After hearing this, Zhu Ji hesitated for a while.

"Sit down and talk. Cheng Jing will make some tea and serve it to you. It's late at night, so I won't make tea. There are so many memorials these days that I don't even have time to drink tea!" Zhu Qiyu said to Zhu Ji with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, don't overwork yourself! Now the situation in our Ming Dynasty is very good. Lulingbo won a great victory at Shanhaiguan. Although I don't understand military affairs, I also know that it is almost difficult for Wala to conquer the border again. Got it!" Zhu Ji immediately raised his hands to Zhu Qiyu and said.

Zhu Qiyu also smiled!

Zhu Ji went to the chair next to him, first cupped his hands to Zhu Qiyu, and then sat down, but he also sat upright, and then said: "Your Majesty, I will inspect the chief envoys of the two provinces, and the officials under the chief envoys, there are still places Officials, I found that some county magistrates, prefects, prefects, magistrates, etc. are indeed good, but some are already seriously corrupt! According to my estimate, about 50% of the officials in Zhejiang Province have problems, and the higher the position, the more corrupt they are. , the bigger the problem is, the county magistrates and officials are about 30% corrupt, and the prefects, basically more than 50%, maybe even 70%. The problem in Jiangxi Province is even more serious. Jiangxi Province has always had many Jinshi, and local officials Collaborating with each other, 50% of the county magistrates have problems, and more than 70% of the prefects and prefectures have problems. Moreover, the officials of the three envoys have even greater problems. They are corrupt.

Local officials are exorbitant in taxes, and extortionate levies and miscellaneous taxes emerge one after another. Moreover, there is a county in Jiangxi that levies taxes on chickens and eggs. Because the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the local county magistrate is simply a local emperor!

The local people were barely clothed and had no food to eat, but those officials had thousands of acres of fertile land in their homes, hordes of slaves, and extremely luxurious mansions!

I have personally met a county magistrate. This person was scolded as a land grabber in the local area. However, every time he went to see Shangguan, he changed into tattered official uniforms and his carriage was also in tatters! Call yourself an upright official! But I saw with my own eyes that he was corrupt and donated food, exchanging poor food for good food, adding water to the food to increase its weight, and then weighing it and giving it to the people! "Zhu Ji sat there and sighed.

When Zhu Qiyu heard what Zhu Ji said, everyone was already furious!

Can you still do this?

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and knew that he could not blame himself for this matter. Until now, he had only transferred some local officials normally, and very few of them. Most of the officials were transferred by Zhu Qizhen!

"The inspector is completely unaware?" Zhu Qiyu calmed down and stared at Zhu Ji and asked, while continuing: "Even if the inspector was not aware, then the local people did not respond, the local prefect was not aware, and the chief envoy was do not know anything?"

"Your Majesty, that county is located in a remote place. I estimate that the prefect and the people from the Prosecution and Envoy Department may have never been there in their lives. Moreover, the questions that the people responded to were sent back by the local prefect. Are there any other matters? , I don’t know about it, and I was conducting a secret investigation and did not dare to reveal my identity. Several times, I was discovered by people during secret investigations, and they sent local gangsters or local government officials to hunt us down!" Zhu Ji faced Zhu Ji. Ji said while cupping his hands.

Zhu Ji closed his eyes, feeling very angry in his heart, but anger could not solve the problem. After a while, he calmed down and said to Zhu Ji: "Is everything recorded?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I clicked on the records again. The first one is the general chapter. It contains the list of officials who have problems in the two provinces and the main things. There are some things that I have not investigated clearly. I dare not write them randomly. I just put them in the last one. I mentioned those officials, what's the problem, but there is no evidence!" Zhu Ji stood up and answered with his hands raised to Zhu Qiyu.

"Are you the only one who has read this information?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

Zhu Ji cupped his hands and said: "Yes, only I have read all the information, and it was written by me. Some of the information was written by the school captains. I divided the five of them into a group and made an unannounced visit to the place. In a place, we will make an unannounced visit to half of the place." For months, each group went to four places, and only then did they complete the secret visits to two provinces!"

"Well done. Don't tell anyone about this yet. I still need to take a closer look and think about it carefully!" Zhu Qiyu told Zhu Ji.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please rest assured, I won't tell anyone, including my father-in-law!" Zhu Ji responded again.

"Okay, you go down first. I won't give you the reward now. Cheng Jing, go to the queen and get five thousand taels of silver, give it to Zhu Qianshi, and let Zhu Qianshi give it to the people below! Zhu Qianshi , tell the people below that thank you for your hard work, the reward will not be so fast, so they are not allowed to talk nonsense to the outside world!" Zhu Qiyu ordered!

Cheng Jing and Zhu Ji quickly said yes, and then Zhu Ji went out!

Zhu Qiyu looked at the pile of information in front of him, rubbed his head with a headache, and asked Zhu Ji to investigate Zhejiang. The situation of officials in Jiangxi and Jiangxi provinces was before the Battle of Hequ. Originally, Zhu Ji wanted to start rectifying the officialdom, and asked the following officials Officials come and get a feel for it, so that they can have a clear idea!

Now, the investigation results are back, and Zhu Qiyu has another headache!

Before, he thought about letting the Ministry of Personnel handle the matter, but now, there is a problem with the Ministry of Personnel. Naturally, he cannot leave it to the Ministry of Personnel, and he needs to send someone there!

None of these are urgent, what is urgent now is Liaodong Town!

If there are no problems in Liaodong Town, then the problem of court officials can be rectified slowly by yourself!

Zhu Qiyu collected and put away the things written by Zhu Ji! He didn't plan to watch these things tonight, fearing that he would be unable to sleep. There were already enough things going on. Zhu Qilai said, "More than 50% of the officials in the two provinces have problems. How can you let Zhu Qiyu sleep?"

Early the next morning, after Zhu Qiyu woke up, he finished his morning court session. At this moment, Wang Zhi came to see Zhu Qiyu again!

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said to Cheng Jing who came to report: "Let him come in!"

It's not okay to not see it. We still need to be stable now. After all, the news from Liaodong Town has not come back yet. Moreover, even if Liaodong Town wins, we must not rectify the officialdom. Moreover, the area to be rectified still needs to send troops. Go and hold it down!

Soon, Wang Zhi came in. After saluting Zhu Qiyu, Zhu Qiyu asked him to sit down first and make tea first.

Wang Zhi sat down carefully.

"What's going on? You're so anxious to find me. Yesterday I asked Cheng Jing to send a message to you. I trust you regarding the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel. However, the Ministry of Personnel has been a little sloppy in doing things recently. The Ministry of Personnel is related to our affairs. The selection of officials is related to the stability of the people, so don't be hasty!" Zhu Qiyu looked at Wang Zhi with a smile and asked.

When Wang Zhi heard what Zhu Qiyu said, he quickly stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I am guilty. I have been managing the civil service for many years. I have indeed made many oversights. Please punish me!"

Wang Zhi also knew in his heart that Zhu Qiyu was very dissatisfied with the officials.

(End of this chapter)