Chapter 717 : Kneel down and beg for mercy
Xiao Yun remembered that when he was a child, he heard a story about Zhu Yuanzhang punishing corrupt officials. He heard a story about corruption called Guo Heng. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, when the Ministry of Revenue collected grain nationwide, he could collect the capital of grain or the discount. For example, if rice was not produced in this place, I could convert it into other things to pay taxes, or I would call the money to pay taxes. At that time, I called money to pay taxes. It was said that Guo Heng, as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, colluded with the Six Ministry and local officials when collecting grain. When the Six Ministry and others collected taxes, they would pay the money to two jin of rice, and two jin of money. However, in addition to the two jin of money, he asked the common people for a lot of money:
100 yuan of water feet is transported by ship.
The money for water; the money for car is 300 yuan, and it is said that the ship has to be transported by car, and another 300 yuan is added;
The minus food cost 100 yuan, saying that the person who eats and feeds the horse must have something to eat, and add 100 yuan;
The kuzi money costs 100 yuan, in charge of the warehouse, and when looking at the warehouse, I have to show you. No one can do it, add 100 yuan;
The money for the tula basket is 100 yuan. The grain has to be packed into a bag, packed, and added 100 yuan; the money for the bamboo basket is 100 yuan, and the basket weaved by bamboo is 100 yuan, and the basket we have to hand over to Yanjiang.
The money for gods and Buddhas is 100. If the people transport it, they walk on the river. They are afraid that the big sailboat will capsize and want to make it safe. They have to worship gods and Buddhas along the way. So how much does it cost to add to the money? These taxes are added to the people, just to establish their reputation and increase taxes. But in order to embezzle more money, Guo Huan and others were brave enough to add water to the grain, put the wet into the warehouse, and add the beans to the warehouse. In the end, the grain in the warehouse rots a large amount of it, and even cannot be dealt with. The warehouse was demolished and the grain was buried in large quantities.
Such corruption naturally alarmed Zhu Yuanzhang. Long Yan was furious and immediately started to conduct food statistics. The final result was that Guo Huan's direct corruption was 7 million stones, plus all the various discounts and banknotes, a total of 24 million stones. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the six ministries to be implicated, and the officials, prefectures and county officials and landlords were more than 80,000. When the old man was telling the story, his expression was so beautiful that Xiao Yun still remembered it now.
After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, it was a big deal to rectify corrupt officials. In order to target the corruption of officials, Zhu Yuanzhang established a set of legal systems composed of "Ming Law", "Great Edict", "Iron List" and some edicts other than the law and text, and a single document was formed. The "Criminal Law" is the main part of the "Ming Ming Law". It set up a special "stolen goods" door, which stipulates that "abuse the law", "eighty stolen goods", and "one hundred and twenty stolen officials, and the officials" were "two stolen goods," and "one hundred and twenty stolen goods," and "one hundred and twenty stolen goods," and one hundred and thousands of miles of crimes. At the same time, it stipulates: "Anyone who supervises the supervisor seeks to borrow property from the department with his power, and the stolen goods are also considered as "not stolen goods", and the money is given to the owner."
.If "Fengxian officials" such as law enforcement censors and governors commit stolen goods, they will be punished with second-class crimes. The officials who commit stolen goods will be removed from office and dismissed from service and will never be used. As for the corruption of the supervisors who steal money and grain in the warehouse, Ming Law stipulates that "the crime of stolen goods" is considered, and the criminals stabbed the word "theft of official money (grain)" on the right forty-shamed of his life, and the stolen goods will be executed for 40 stolen goods. Ming Law also stipulates that the official's bribery is punished severely for officials who are responsible for supervision. In addition, Ming Law also stipulates that the Censors who are responsible for supervision shall be subject to increased punishment for those who are corrupt and abused by the law. This is absent from the deduction of food and grass and made wine. If Zhu Yuanzhang knows about this, what will happen? Xiao Yun can imagine it.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yun's face changed a little, and he said in a deep voice: "Mr. Wu, you are very brave. You dare to ignore the lord's ban and sell wine privately for such a major event. Aren't you afraid of destroying the family or raiding the house? Sorry, it would be fine if Xiao didn't know about this kind of master. Today he actually knew that Xiao would return to the Grand Marshal's Mansion immediately and report to the lord. Such a major event still needs to be decided by the lord."
Wu Renjie's face changed drastically when he heard this. He left immediately without any chance. Because of his greed, he could not withstand Hu Sanshe's temptation. With Wang Qiang being fueled by the fire, he got on the pirate ship and boldly deducted the food and grass of soldiers and sold them to Hu Sanshe for wine. This incident has actually been under his heart. Now Xiao Yun has caught the handle on this matter. If he had told Zhu Yuanzhang, how could he spare him with Zhu Yuanzhang's methods? Thinking of Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction if he knew about the reaction of this matter and the terrible consequences of the family confiscation and extermination of the clan, he couldn't help but kneel down to the ground and kowtow to Xiao Yun repeatedly. The arrogance and confident look just now disappeared. Only the "dongdongdongdongdong" sounds were heard, and blood was pouring on his snow-white forehead in an instant.
Xiao Yun felt unbearable, thinking that if it were him today, he might not have the share of begging for mercy. So although he felt a little unbearable, this matter was not trivial. From later generations, he learned that Zhu Yuanzhang killed heroes and the means of rectifying corrupt officials. Xiao Yun knew that even if he was like Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang would be ruthless in the face of this matter. He could kill Xu Da, who accompanied him to fight the country and fight the country with his close friends, because of the words "I am old, I die, you will do it yourself." Li Shanchang's family was killed by more than 70 people, and only for his daughter and son-in-law were spared. Such a cruel and ruthless person, even if he trusted him, would not know that he knew such a major corruption and let him go, so Xiao Yun ignored Wu Renjie's begging.
Kowtow was like a chicken pounding rice. Soon, Wu Renjie's forehead was bleeding. Seeing that Xiao Yun was unmoved, this arrogant and rude man suddenly stepped forward and pulled Xiao Yun's thigh with tears and sniffles. He said with a sob: "Grandmaster Xiao, please spare me, please spare me, I was bewitched by Wang Qiang for a while, and then I made a big mistake. Killing Beiyi is not a pity to die. But the sixty-year-old and young people in Beiyi's family are innocent people. If I were killed because of Beiyi's greed for a while, I was killed... Beiyi...?"
Xiao Yun sighed and said, "Mr. Wu, what kind of consequences a man has to bear when he does something, and some consequences cannot be escaped?"
Chapter completed!