Wanli Youming

Chapter 455 After the Reformation

Chapter 455 After the Reformation

After Jin Yiwei said this, Zhang Maoxiu hurriedly glanced at Zhang Jingxiu.

Zhang Jingxiu said to Jin Yiwei: "Understood, you go down first."

Jin Yiwei said yes, and left the Zhang residence.

As soon as Jin Yiwei left, Zhang Maoxiu said to Zhang Jingxiu: "Sure enough, brother, you are right! They are afraid that we will find them, so they killed their own mouths?"

"if not?"

"Apart from our own people, who else can make a Tangtang Qianxian disappear without anyone noticing?"

Zhang Jingxiu smiled coldly, and after responding to Zhang Maoxiu's words, he said:

"I have to go to the palace and report this to His Majesty immediately!"

"Missing a censor in the capital is not a trivial matter. You should immediately go back to Beizhen Fusi and inform Yu Bai Tishuai to investigate this matter seriously!"

"No matter how you say it, if a royal censor is missing, I, Jin Yiwei, need to find out who is behind it!"

"it is good!"

So, Zhang Jingxiu entered the palace, and Zhang Maoxiu went to Beizhen Fusi.

After Zhu Yijun learned about this from Zhang Jingxiu, he sent people to see Shen Shixing, and when Shen Shixing came, he asked:

"Shen Zimu, the censor of the capital, disappeared after he came out of the chief assistant's mansion. Why did he come to see the master?"

After Shen Shixing heard what Zhu Yijun said, he was slightly taken aback, then cupped his hands and said:

"Returning to Your Majesty, Shen Qianxian came to the courtier to persuade the minister to ask His Majesty to stop cleaning up the Buddhist temple. He said that the bottom line was too strict, which led to the sudden death of a large number of monks and nuns, so that people were panicked. The case of carrying out the New Deal and wanting to confiscate the family and exterminate the family, to urge the ministers to think more about the future."

"How did the master answer?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Shen Shixing told Zhu Yijun what he said.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said nothing, and only said: "Chen Jingbang should hand over this matter to the San Judicial Division, and let's clarify the official punishment."

Shen Shixing bowed his hands and said yes, and after leaving the palace, he met Shuhua, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Shu Hua said to Shen Shixing, "Does Yuanfu know about Shen Qianxian?"

Shen Shixing nodded.

"But Yuanfu knows that there have been rumors in the market that the public is dissatisfied with Chen Su'an and Shen Yuyang's slander in the matter of cleaning up Buddhist temples, so they colluded with a certain commander-in-chief to punish Chen Benbing first, and then harm Shen Qianxian, to exclude dissidents;"

"Those who understand will naturally not believe this, but there are also those who are confused, and they are gearing up to impeach public power too much."

Shu Hua continued to whisper to Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing said with a smile: "It's okay, let gossip and gossip go!"

"I still say the same thing, as long as I am still in this position, and I am willing to benefit the people, share the benefits of the world, and increase the wealth of the world while the emperor is trying to rule, I will try my best to win as much foreign interest as possible for the scholars and people of the world. Increase the wealth of the world to feed the country."

After Shen Shixing said this, Shu Hua didn't say any more, just looked at Shen Shixing's back, his eyes gradually became gloomy.

"The Ministry of Criminal Justice directly discusses Chen Jingbang's death penalty, and then transfers it to Wendu Procuratorate and Dali Temple for review."

After returning to the Ministry of Punishment, Shu Hua gave an order to Yang Menggao, the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment.

When Yang Menggao heard the string song, he only thought about it elegantly. He knew that Shuhua was saying that Shen Shixing refused to end the administration of cleaning up Buddhist temples because of rumors, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice could only enforce the law on Chen Jingbang impartially. Otherwise, Shen Shixing should pardon Chen Jingbang's death penalty. This is a way to express to the outside world that he is afraid of people's words and intends to end this policy.

Therefore, Yang Menggao asked, "What did Shenwu County say?"

"What he means is that no matter how people in the world slander him and impeach him, as long as he is in this position, he will win more profits for his Shen family."

Shu Hua said.

After hearing this, Yang Menggao said, "Then do we really want to impeach?"

After asking, Yang Menggao continued: "Originally, according to our intention, it is not only to develop external interests, but not to clean up Buddhist temples, so that both the government and the people are convenient, and both inside and outside are at peace! But he applied to Wu County because of his Shen family and the entire Xinli One party gets the most subscription tickets, and they don't hesitate to use up their money!"

Shu Hua waved his hand: "If you want to impeach, we don't need to do it! This government to clean up the Buddhist temple is causing anger and resentment, and there will be problems. He Shenwu County is a shallow person, greedy for profit, how can he know the real truth!"

There is indeed a problem of over-execution in the policy of cleaning up Buddhist temples.

"Shave!"

In Fengyang Mansion, there was an official who was so serious that he forcibly ordered the officials to shave his hair, and reported to Fengyang prefect Gong Ruole that a number of monks and nuns who did not have a certificate were seized, and a number of private temples and nunneries were destroyed. The higher-ups liked it, and didn't bother to ask so many questions, so they reported it directly, but Zheng Chengcheng and his subordinate officials just robbed a group of people's property without guilt, and made a lot of money in a short time.

Zhang Wenxi, the imperial censor of Fengyang, heard that he had to impeach Gong Ruole, and he was the first to ask the court to stop cleaning up Buddhist temples in time on the grounds that subordinate officials were too strict and disturbed the people.

at the same time.

In Fengxiang Mansion, because of the severe drought and hunger, many refugees went out to work in the local temples and nunneries to feed themselves. Shen Zigeng, the prefect of Fengxiang, ignored the status quo and did not provide disaster relief. He forcibly destroyed the temples and nunneries. Ants gathered directly to besiege Fucheng, but fled to other prefectures and counties because they were not captured, and even more refugees were brought into chaos by this.

The governor of the three sides, Xiao Daheng, only found out the inside story after he heard that a large number of refugees were in trouble, so he sent someone to report to the court to know.

At the same time that Xiao Daheng reported the matter, Guangxi Dao Yushi actually reported the matter to Zhu Yijun in advance, and directly went to Shu Shen to impeach Shen Shixing and said:

"Yuanfu Shenshi acted to accumulate wealth in private parties, did not think about relief, did not allow local officials to report their worries, but only ordered them to practice tyranny, so that they offended the Bodhisattva, and there was a severe drought. First, there was famine in Guangxi, and then there was an earthquake in Huaiyang. People in the county are homeless, now Fengxiang is very hungry, last winter there was also rain and snow in Beijing, and disasters happened frequently, this is the fault."

"Therefore, please Your Majesty stop his tyrannical government, resign from his post, and order the ministers to give relief early, and extinguish the wrath of heaven!"

And Zhang Yue, the censor of the left deputy capital, also explained to Zhu Yijun the problem of excessive execution by many local officials, and said:

"Shi Wei, the magistrate of Yan'an Prefecture, forcibly destroyed the temple and nunnery, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. The change has caused Zhenning to be occupied by thieves and bandits, but Yousi dare not act, for fear that the powerful officials will not like it!"

Zhu Yijun sent these chapters directly to the cabinet, and asked Shen Shixing to draft them himself.

Therefore, Shen Shixing specially invited Li Zhe, a native of Fengxiang who was the secretary of Guanglu Temple at the time, to ask: "When the severe drought just started in Fengxiang last year, the servant drafted an order to order the local area to prepare for the disaster. Relief, why are you still so hungry now?"

Li Zhe said: "Enfu is from the south. Although he is also a family of officials, he is a country official who lives in a town. He doesn't know the real situation in our north. In our north, disaster relief depends entirely on the local gentry, because most officials live in cities and are housed by traitors." However, unless the ancestral system that officials are not allowed to go to the countryside is really disobeyed, local catastrophes can only be resolved by the gentry.”

"What's more, most officials don't want to go to the countryside to inquire about people's sentiments. They are only active in pursuing and flattering people. The better ones are just pursuing quietness and doing nothing. They neither flatter people nor inquire about people's sentiments."

"So, on the surface, the Great Hunger appeared to be caused by local officials' lack of compassion for the people, but in fact it was caused by local gentry deliberately embarrassing the government."

"They don't send out food relief first, but they hoard it in advance, and they collude with the subordinates to burn down the Changping warehouse, so the government has disaster victims even near the city wall. When they know the catastrophe, they can't do anything if they want to relief, and the squires don't give relief to the villagers. It will instigate the common people living in temples to rebel!"

"All these are natural disasters on the surface, but in fact they are man-made disasters, and this man-made disaster is aimed at your government to clean up Buddhist temples."

After Li Zhe said that, Shen Shixing sighed: "I still think of reform as simple!"

(End of this chapter)