How many imperial histories did the Ming Dynasty have?

Thirteen provinces supervise the imperial history, a total of 110 people, including 10 people in the imperial history of Henan Province.

The Taoist Imperial History supervised the two capitals in Beijing, and supervised the localities outside.

Although the official position of Dao Yushi is only the seventh grade, the power is so great that it is eye-catching. Moreover, after the expiration of the term of the Taoist Imperial History, the official can be released from the fourth grade.

Promoted five levels in a row, there is a sour taste from a green robe to a scarlet robe, which can only be compared with the same official.

Lin Yanchao thought of the killing of the supervising imperial history, and couldn't help but think that the Son of Heaven might send himself to replace the unlucky and tragic Dao imperial history who was killed, and by the way, check the truth about his killing.

How did the Son of Heaven know that he had the ability to deal with criminal names? Could it be that the Son of Heaven knew that when he was in the Hou Guan, the 'Yan Kevahe' case that came out for the prisoner, and the 'Liyi first' who overturned the case for Yu Dayou? '。

By the way, it must be a matter of clearing the grievances of the Ryukyu boat people, when the Son of Heaven listened to the words of the Ryukyu tribute envoy at the Jinluan Palace, so he left an impression on himself, thinking that he was a master of solving cases.

But he is only good at criminal names, but he is not so good at judging cases.

Let yourself suddenly transform from a Hanlin official to a blue sky master.

In the future, don't you have to imitate Di Renjie's detective case, if you know that this is the case of Di Gong, you will read a few more copies of the Bao Gong case, as well as Yuan Fang, Zhan Guard.

Thinking of this, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but think of Zhan Ming, who was driving a carriage for himself outside.

I was really prescient!

If the Son of Heaven asked Lin Yanchao to be the superintendent of the imperial history, although the grade was reduced from the sixth grade to the seventh grade, the grade was reduced by two levels, but for Lin Yanchao, who is currently offended by the Queen Mother, this result is undoubtedly acceptable, and it will be convenient to transfer in the future.

Therefore, Lin Yanchao must be willing to serve as the superintendent of the imperial history, but if you think about it carefully, this is not right.

The meaning of the Son of Heaven and Shen Shixing is to let themselves be appointed as pro-people officials, and pro-people officials are turbidity.

But Yushi is not a pro-people official.

Among the officials of Qingliu, the first Hanlin, the second Yushi, and the third Cao. From Hanlin to Yushi, he is still in the clear stream.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven definitely did not let himself supervise the imperial history. So what does the Son of Heaven mean by saying this to himself?

But seeing the Son of Heaven continued: "When the imperial history of Henan Province came to Henan, in addition to inspecting the relief of the victims, he actually gave me a secret decree. ”

As soon as he heard the secret decree, Lin Yanchao finished his heart.

Henan Provincial Imperial History 'was committed', Lin Yanchao's first reaction was that it was possible that the disaster relief funds or disaster relief grains in the imperial court's relief of the victims were embezzled by the magistrates, and then the Taoist Imperial History was killed after finding out the truth.

But seriously, embezzlement of disaster relief funds is already the default unspoken rule for officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as you don't go too far, the court won't take you too seriously.

Then this Henan Provincial Imperial History was killed, there must be another truth, and the truth is......

But seeing that the Son of Heaven was a little angry and said: "His secret order is to inspect the river work, and the new construction of the embankment in Defu has only been two years, and this time it has burst the embankment, flooding dozens of prefectures and counties in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and consuming the imperial court to relieve the disaster and how many thousands of tons of rice and grain." ”

"And tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, millions of people were homeless, and there was no food to survive the winter, how can I tolerate this matter? I remember that when you first went to the court, you were trying to avenge the people of Henan. ”

Lin Yanchao said in his heart, this time it's not good.

The matter of this river worker is a big hole, and it is never clear.

It is no secret that officials embezzle public funds for river repair, but in addition to corruption, there is at least one bottom line, that is, you must not be sloppy in the matter of river work, at least the river embankment must be properly repaired, and there can be no major event such as the embankment bursting and flooding for 3,000 miles.

If there is no accident with the river worker, the imperial court will turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, no matter what you do in the place, but now that the river worker has an accident, then the people will ask the imperial court where the imperial court takes so much money to govern the river every year?

Therefore, the Son of Heaven sent Henan Province Yushi this time to find out the truth, and arrested a few corrupt officials and corrupt officials to kill them, although it cannot play a role in curing the root cause, but at least it can calm the people's anger.

But this time, Lord Yushi Lu of Henan Province was tragically committed, this is no longer a matter of corruption, this is the contempt of Henan officialdom, or the entire river to the Son of Heaven and the authority of the imperial court.

You've even killed the supervising imperial history, isn't the next step to pull the flag and rebel?

But here's the problem, even the supervision of the imperial history is killed, so what else is there that they can't do.

If it involves disaster relief funds, then it is only one or two prefects, at most it is only a matter of one prefect, and the matter is small, and the Yushitai can afford this responsibility.

However, the matter of river work has always been hugely implicated, and there are related to the Henan Governor Yamen (Zheng Sanpin Beijing Job), Henan Buzheng Si Yamen (from the second product), Henan according to the inspection of the Yamen (Zheng Sanpin), and even the River Yamen (Zheng Erpin Beijing Job), Caoyun Yamen (Zheng Erpin Beijing Job), and the original responsible for the supervision of the patrol press imperial history.

If it is really investigated, it is to pull up the radish and carry the mud, and this matter involves countless people.

If you really want to do it, how many people will lose their heads, how many officials will take off their black hats, who has the ability and who has the courage to handle this case?

Lin Yanchao has the courage to admonish, because it is not only to ask for the people's life, but also a good opportunity to gain fame, but if he wants to go against the local officialdom and the entire bureaucracy, he does not have the ability, even Zhang Juzheng does not dare to do it.

This end is definitely death.

But the Son of Heaven targeted himself because of his request for the lives of the people of Henan Province and the cheating theory. The Son of Heaven is definitely taking revenge for himself, and he wants to kill himself.

The Son of Heaven looked at Lin Yanchao and asked, "Why is your face so ugly?" ”

It's better for the grass people to go home and plant sweet potatoes. Lin Yanchao's words turned around from his stomach.

But when he saw Shen Shixing, he said: "The emperor has just discussed with me, and it is the duty of the imperial historian to supervise and impeach other." The imperial court was already preparing to send a new inspector of the imperial history, as well as the minister of the Qin Mission, to Henan to inquire about the matter. ”

Lin Yanchao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart, this is good, then this matter should not be a big problem. After all, Lin Yanchao knew that there had never been such a big case of corruption in officialdom in the history of Wanli years, and even if there were, it was only on a small scale, catching a few small shrimps and killing them, and the real big fish would not be caught.

Shen Shixing said again: "But the officialdom in Henan has always been monolithic, the water can't be splashed, the fire can't be burned through, and it is not enough to track down this matter by relying on the Yushitai alone, so Your Majesty wants you to go to Henan as a magistrate to assist Qin Cha in investigating this case." ”

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he suddenly understood, it turned out that after a long time, he was not the main force, but an internal response. Nominally, it was a demotion to the official, but in fact it was to send a Beijing official, who was also a person close to the Son of Heaven, to break into the enemy's army.

In this way, the responsibility is much smaller, how to cooperate with the Qin Cha, that is his own business, mainly in the local experience, as a pro-people official.

Then if he enters the enemy's army, then this official must not be small, if he is appointed as a magistrate, he knows too little about things, and it is not enough to act as the imperial historian.