Chapter 166: Pepper Oil Money

What is pepper oil money?

Pepper is Sichuan pepper, and pepper oil is Sichuan pepper oil. As the name suggests, this is the cost of food.

Is there a problem with this food fee?

How to put it.

When Zhou Chen was reforming the finances, he received all the revenues of the major departments into the Taicang treasury, such as the bamboo and wood branches in various parts of the Ministry of Industry, which were merged into the banknotes of the Ministry of Households. And the fine silver of the Criminal Department is also included in the Taicang treasury.

But this food fee can't be collected in full.

This account is too detailed, and the household department doesn't care about this thing.

It stands to reason that you should be self-supporting.

It's just that according to the above accounts, there are 1.49 million dollars missing.

Is 1,490,000 a lot of money?

When converted into silver, it is only about 1,490 taels.

One thousand four hundred and ninety taels is not a small amount for a person. This amount, placed in any city in the Ming Dynasty, can exist as a wealthy household.

But for a yamen, even the Qingshui yamen of the imperial court is not a big number.

Moreover, these accounts were not accumulated in one day, they were a gap of 1,490 taels accumulated in the previous years, and even when Zhou Hongmo was in Guozijian, he had them.

Li Bing carefully looked at these accounts, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Niu Yu didn't get used to him, his tone was slow and reasonable, but he pressed step by step inside, and said, "What do you think adults should do?" ”

To be honest, if there weren't so many yamen here, if Li Bing found out about this matter himself, he would have let this matter pass.

Because it's too small.

Even if this thousand four hundred and ninety taels was really embezzled, Li Bing didn't believe that it was done by the officials of Guozijian, and it might even be the procurement officials.

It's all clean.

But he knew that Dongchang would probably make a big fuss about this matter. But you can't say no.

He sighed slightly and said, "Call Supervisor Chen over." ”

This one of the country's eunuchs is Chen's eunuch. Naturally, he was also a Jinshi, quite personable, and one of the members who opposed the New Deal.

The personal relationship with Li Bing is also good.

It's just that he came over at this moment, and at a glance he knew that the situation was wrong.

Because the officials department, the criminal department, the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Jinyi Guard, and the people from the East Factory were all listed, and they looked at him seriously one by one, looking at him in a very serious atmosphere.

Li Bing's face was as pale as ice.

As soon as he sat down, the book was handed to him.

Supervisor Chen didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly flipped through and turned a few pages, but saw that they were all fragmentary food expenses and running accounts. He looked up, his eyes full of doubt, not knowing what it meant to let him come and show him this.

Ma Shiquan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, said lightly: "Lord Chen is impatient

If you are annoyed, you can watch the end. ”

Chen Jian immediately turned to the end, and immediately saw the conclusion, there was a shortage of 1,490 taels, and he didn't know where to go. Supervisor Chen was naturally not a fool, and said, "You think I am corrupt? ”

Ma Shiquan said: "Isn't it? ”

Supervisor Chen said: "Naturally not, I also read the books of sages, how can I be stigmatized because of this money." Naturally, these things should be done by the people below. ”

Ma Shiquan said: "Then Lord Chen, who is in charge of this matter?" Is it the Guozijian Division, or is it some other teaching? ”

Supervisor Chen said without thinking: "Such a trivial matter is not the responsibility of the Confucian ministers, and it is naturally done by the people below. ”

Ma Shiquan said: "In other words, you don't know anything about this matter, and it's all managed by the officials below." Is it from you, that's it. ”

Supervisor Chen said: "Exactly. One old habit has not been changed. ”

Ma Shiquan hurriedly wrote down something in the booklet and said, "Master Li, do you have anything to ask?" ”

Li Bing's gaze swept over what Ma Shiquan had written down, his eyes were slightly stunned, and it took a while to turn around, looking at Jian Chen with complicated eyes.

At this moment, Supervisor Chen couldn't immediately Li Bing's complicated gaze.

He soon found out, though.

Li Bing's tone was faint as if there was nothing, and said, "No." ”

After a few moments, everyone else dispersed. Li Bing stayed alone to watch Supervisor Chen.

Supervisor Chen said: "Brother Li is fine, isn't it just a thousand taels of silver?" ”

In Eunuch Chen's mind, the Guozi Supervisor has little power to sacrifice wine, but he is also a high-ranking official, so he can't do it because of more than a thousand taels, right?

Li Bing said: "If Brother Li had confessed it just now, it would have been a matter of 1,490 taels, but now it is not." ”

Supervisor Chen was a little puzzled and said, "Brother Li, what's wrong?" ”

Li Bing said: "Do you know, what was Secretary Ma Shang of the Criminal Department just now? Li Bing didn't wait for Eunuch Chen to speak, so he said: "The prince of the country sacrifices wine to Eunuch Chen, who pretends to be innocent, is played with by the officials in the applause, and is deceived by others, not ashamed, but proud." ”

When Supervisor Chen heard this, he only felt a buzz in his brain. In my brain, there seemed to be an unknown number of gongs and drums sounding at once.

Eunuch Chen is naturally politically sensitive, what will happen to him for just a thousand handfuls of silver? Not only is it unreasonable, it's not convincing.

But the crime drawn up by Ma Shiquan was enough for him to dismiss his office.

Of the two charges of corruption and incompetence, which one is more serious, it's really hard to say.

The officials themselves have the responsibility of supervising the officials, that is, Supervisor Chen is the chief official of the Guozijian. He himself had the responsibility to supervise the officials to prevent them from making mistakes.

Plus his political leanings.

In fact, the reform of the Xu officials in the center of the Ming Dynasty was the first to be launched, and this reform could be carried out as early as Yu Qian in Shuntianfu

Some parts have begun to reform one after another.

But Guozijian has never had it, and the reason is very simple.

Students from Guozijian are in competition with students from various schools.

Generally speaking, the reforming officials have to appoint students from the school, but Guozijian naturally didn't want these people to serve, so they all refused.

Guozijian said that it was important and important, and it was not important to say that it was not important, and Zhu Qizhen did not urge it. After all, there isn't much to do in Guozijian.

The officials of the Guozijian also had no oil or water.

This one thing was delayed.

But now it is Zhu Qizhen's new account and old account together.

Supervisor Chen naturally felt that something was wrong, and immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Brother Li save me." ”

Li Bing sighed and said: "Now, where can I manage this matter, I always have to say it in front of the emperor, I can only say that I try my best." ”

Li Bing's prediction was accurate.

At the subsequent meeting, Li Bing suggested that Supervisor Chen be punished lightly, and Ma Shiquan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, strongly opposed it, and Dongchang Niu Yu directly said that this matter should be reported to His Majesty.

Li Bing did not have the slightest control over this matter.

The case of Guozi Jian went straight to the inner part of the country. For Li Bing and Supervisor Chen, the rest can only wait.

Zhu Qizhen did not immediately criticize these recitals.

He's been busy lately.

He had just hooked up more than 470 people.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, it is all autumn decision. And today, regardless of the season, the person who wants to kill is naturally not an ordinary person, or a man and a rebellious leader.

Wu Jin brewed for about a month, and when the cannon arrived, he attacked it with cannons, and personally pressed the formation, urging the troops of Man Jun's troops to attack.

Retreat and unwind.

Many of the old troops who followed Manjun in Juyan were captured, and under the watchful eyes of the Ming army, they attacked the city with artillery as the lead, and still suffered heavy casualties.

Under the stone fort, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, almost piled up into a slope, and it took seven days in a row, killing and capturing nearly 10,000 people, and only then did the road into the city be opened.

It's just that the red eyes are killed, and out of more than 10,000 people in the city, only a few thousand survived.

For the rest of the people, all the officers picked out, that is, these four hundred and seventy people, and they were all killed, and the rest of the thousands were sent to serve in front of the Western Regions Army.

It is also unknown how many people will survive.

This kind of brutal execution was not ordered by Zhu Qizhen, but drafted by the cabinet.

For the rebels, the Ming civil officials never hesitated to kill.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen really has no reason to pardon, after all, what Man Jun did, how many people died, let's not say, just say that the strategic dilemma he led to Daming, no matter how many times he killed him, it can't be reversed.

Fortunately, the Manjun Rebellion was finally resolved, and it was only six months before and after. It's fast.