Chapter 375: Persecuting Wu Sangui
Bian Sanyuan honestly doesn't like Zhu Guozhi, this person wants money to the extreme, in order to scrape the people's anointment and fat, it can be said that he racked his brains and did all the bad things. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the Wailing Temple case was originally because Zhu Guozhi stole and sold official food, filled his private pockets, and increased the burden on the people in Jiangnan, but as a result, Jin Shengxi came forward for the people and pointed the finger at Zhu Guozhi, which led to the tragedy of the Crying Temple case.
As for the Jiangnan sales case, it was because the gentry class still thought that they were in the previous dynasty, and they didn't have to pay taxes if they had fame. How do you know that the Qing court doesn't eat this set at all.
The Qing court learned the lesson of the Ming Dynasty and had long intended to abolish the privilege of the gentry not to pay taxes. Although the landlord class still had certain privileges over the peasants during the Qing Dynasty, the regulations formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang during the Ming Dynasty that the Son of Heaven and scholars ruled the world together were naturally abolished. If this is not abolished, how will the imperial court be able to collect taxes? Appropriate exemptions and exemptions should be given to people with meritorious reputations, such as exempting talents from hard labor, reducing certain taxes for lifting people, etc., and they should be completely exempted? That's not to think about.
The Qing court collected taxes from the gentry class, which was naturally resisted by the gentry class, so the gentry class tried every means to use their former power to communicate with the government, bribe scribes, and hide and default on money and grain.
But the Qing court is not a soft-hearted Ming, since you want to resist, that's good! The fame of the scholar is not given to you by the imperial court? Since you can be given fame, you can also be deprived of fame!
So Zhu Guozhi, a loyal lackey of the imperial court, made a report. According to the list, the Qing court dismissed those who owed grain, regardless of whether they were senior officials or not, and regardless of the number of arrears, the registered gentry were deposed according to their names, showing talents, lifting people, and jinshi, and those who did not finish their money and grain were all removed from their meritorious backgrounds; The incumbent officials have been demoted by two levels, totaling more than 130 million people. Many of them were arrested and sent to the Penal Department. A certain Tanhua Ye Fang Wei owed a penny and was also deposed, so there is a folk saying that Tanhua is not worth a penny.
The two major cases presided over by Zhu Guozhi filled their pockets and made a lot of profits for themselves, and many of them were just implicated for no reason because Zhu Guozhi took a fancy to their family property, and as a result, they were dismissed, or imprisoned, or sent to Ningguta, and some even lost their heads.
In fact, Aobai handled things fairly and fairly, Zhu Guozhi and others, Aobai was very disgusted with them, but Zhu Guozhi was loyal to the Qing court, and Aobai was still subject to Suke Saha and Bumu Butai back then, so he demoted Zhu Guozhi five levels in a row and gave him an empty official position with no real vacancy to let him go home.
But Kangxi likes Zhu Guozhi very much, it doesn't matter if the Qing court officials are greedy, the most important thing is to be loyal to the court. Kangxi, who was already good at the emperor's mental tricks at a young age, on the one hand, erected Qing officials like Wang Xi and used them to show the people, as if the court treated Qing officials well and set an example; On the other hand, it reuses a group of people who are insatiable but loyal to the court.
Qing officials can only be set up as an example for others to see, the court really has to rely on those Qing officials, Kangxi is not at ease, because in his eyes, Qing officials ask for the lives of the people all day long, it seems that some do not take the flag people in their eyes, and those Qing officials can even treat the crimes of the flag people for the sake of the Han people! How can such a person be reliable?
You must know that the foundation of the Qing Dynasty is the banner people, and the banner people who live in the capital are raised as hardcore crops, and these flag people in the capital can't make any trouble. But when the flag people are outside, there are always people who bully men and women and do some bad things.
But it's normal for the banner people to bully men and women, and to kill bad things, they are the heroes who have made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, they are the masters of the Qing Empire, what can they do if they do something bad? However, those Qing officials always have trouble with those banner people in this regard, and they have to talk about the justice of national law and bring those banner people to justice.
This is also the reason why Kangxi does not like Qing officials. But no matter how much you don't like it, these people still have to use it, you have to set a few examples for the Han people to see, so that the people can see that there is still a blue sky in this world, and there is still hope for the wronged people, so they will not rise up to resist.
And corrupt officials can mix well with the flag people, even if they make a little mistake and bully men and women, the corrupt officials can handle their relationship very well.
From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, corrupt officials were the mainstream of officialdom, although there are still few shameless characters like Zhu Guozhi, such people offend people in the officialdom, but such people are the most loyal. This kind of person offended most people, and even Ao Bai hated him, but Kangxi reused this person, so this person must be particularly loyal to Kangxi.
Seeing Zhu Guozhi, although Bian Sanyuan didn't like it in his heart, he still had to give face on the surface, compared to Zhu Guozhi's visit to Yunnan this time, he must be the minister of the Qincha.
"Lord Zhu, please inside!" Bian Sanyuan made a gesture of please.
After walking into the living room, Bian Sanyuan asked, "I don't know why Master Zhu came to my barren land in Guizhou?" ”
Zhu Guozhi said: "Bian Zhitai, the officials came to Yungui to be entrusted by the imperial court to urge Wu Sangui to send troops!" Now that the thieves are attacking Huguang, Wuchang is already in danger! If Huguang is lost, my Yungui will become an enclave, and the political orders of the imperial court will not be able to be sent here, and the food and salary will not be delivered, and I will be the first in the Qing Dynasty to be unable to respond! ”
Bian Sanyuan smiled bitterly: "If Wu Sangui really wanted to send troops, he would have sent troops a long time ago!" The first two times Qin sent to Kunming, and the holy decree sent to Yunnan was rejected by Wu Sangui! In this world, the official thinks that Wu Sangui will definitely not see it clearly! How could he not know that once Huguang was lost, Yungui's connection with the imperial court would be cut off by thieves? This person is the first rat at both ends, and he has long been planning to join the thief! But he can't rebel openly, after all, his son is still in the capital. ”
Zhu Guozhi nodded and said, "It is precisely because Wu Sangui's son is still in the capital that Xia Guan went to Kunming." The emperor has already spoken in the holy decree, if Wu Sangui does not send troops again, it will be regarded as a rebellion! At that time, his son will not want to live! ”
Bian Sanyuan was taken aback: "The emperor persecuted Wu Sangui so much, didn't he force Wu Sangui to pull the flag and rebel?" If it weren't for such a holy decree, Wu Sangui would not have openly rebelled. With this holy decree, Wu Sangui will be opposed! This person is a hero, and the emperor thinks that he can use his son's life to hold him, and he takes it for granted. ”
Zhu Guozhi said: "After all, Wu Sangui's son is in our hands, whether this old thief wants to send troops or not, he will definitely think about it!" In fact, there is no difference between him rebelling and not rebelling, if he doesn't rebel, in the end he doesn't take refuge in the pseudo-Ming? Make a fuss about his son, as long as Wu Sangui is willing to send troops to attack the back road of the Pseudo-Ming Dynasty, we will earn it! He rebelled, and we didn't suffer. ”
Bian Sanyuan's face changed greatly: "But if Wu Sangui doesn't rebel, we can still live." If Wu Sangui is forced to rebel, this official, Lord Zhu, as well as Yuan Futai in Kunming, and the Yunnan magistrates who are loyal to the imperial court, will not want to live! (To be continued.) )