Chapter 889 The prince manages state affairs, and the empire controls the ferocious beasts

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 889 The prince manages state affairs, and the empire controls the ferocious beasts

"Look at this memorial again."

Zhu Yuluo personally took a copy of the memorial and put it on the desk.

Zhu Hechen took a look and saw that it was a memorial sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Chen Tingjing, the political supervisor of the Jinhua Prefecture in Zhejiang Province.

Regarding the workers' riot at Luo's Spinning Factory in Wuyi County, Jinhua Prefecture, Chen Tingjing believed that the handling of the cases by the Wuyi County and Jinhua government offices and the courts was biased, and was suspected of shielding unscrupulous businessmen and exploiting the workers, so he petitioned the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Check this matter.

The memorial is accompanied by the Metropolitan Procuratorate's plan for handling the matter.

The Political Supervision Department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate believed that although hundreds of spinning workers were involved, no one was killed or seriously injured in the whole incident. It was just that the spinning mill lost a lot of property and it was not a major accident, so it was handed over to the local department. Just deal with it, there is no need to set up a special task force to investigate.

However, Yu Chenglong, the imperial envoy of Zuo Qiandu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, believed that although this matter was not serious, it reflected the possibility of collusion between government and businessmen in Jinhua Mansion, and a special task force should be set up to investigate strictly.

After reading it, Zhu Hechen frowned deeply.

He knew that this matter did not seem to be a big deal, but it involved many issues, and it was much more difficult to deal with than the governor of Heilongjiang.

He looked up and saw that the Queen Mother had already sat down to review the memorial, as if she was waiting patiently for him. His aunt Zhu Auntie was sitting aside, watching with a smile on her face, her expression intriguing.

Zhu Hechen stood up and went to the side of the hall, in front of many erected steel cabinets, and found one of the Jinyiwei Nanzhen Fusi Zhejiang branch cabinets.

He took the key and opened it, and found out the recent secret documents of Wuyi County and even the entire Jinhua Mansion. Looking at the documents, it turned out that several of them involved the workers' riot at Luo's Spinning Mill.

He first read the secret report of Fusi Jinyiwei in Nanzhen, Wuyi County.

It said that the mobster Liu had a grudge against the nephew of Luo Wei, the owner of Luo's Spinning Factory. Although he was quite prestigious among the workers in the factory, he was not promoted by the boss Luo Wei, so he had a grudge.

In addition, Luo's Spinning Factory was newly established, and the wages were slightly lower than other spinning factories in Jinhuafu. Moreover, due to the lack of capital turnover, one month's wages were owed.

Therefore, Liu took the opportunity to encourage workers to gather in crowds to force Roche. The conflict between the two sides eventually got out of hand, resulting in dozens of injuries to people on both sides. Many machines and other facilities in the Roche spinning mill were smashed, resulting in tens of thousands of yuan in property losses.

Although Zhu Hechen is young, it can be seen that he has a lot of knowledge.

In the past, he not only often read some copies of imperial memorials and various newspapers, but also read some ancient news reports brought by Zhu Auntie from the other side.

This secret letter from Wuyi County Jinyiwei gave him a strange feeling. It seemed to be describing the workers' riots in Luo's spinning mill, but the words always seemed to be biased towards Luo's, the manufacturer.

After thinking for a while, he read several other related Jinyiwei secret reports.

Today, the Ming Dynasty has at least two Fusi Jinyiwei in the southern town of each county, and they do not know each other's identities. In this way, it can effectively avoid the collective corruption of the Jinyiwei in a certain place.

Of course, it can only be effectively avoided but cannot be eliminated.

Therefore, Jinyiwei Nan Town Fusi also has people who specialize in patrolling various places. For example, in Jinhua Mansion, there are several Jinyiwei who patrol various counties from time to time, and even secretly investigate and conspire.

Regarding the matter of Luo's Spinning Mill, Jin Yiwei, the Jinhua Prefecture inspector, went to investigate secretly and made a secret report.

Yan Luo's spinning factory's working environment, workers' living environment, and safety measures did not meet the standards stipulated by the imperial court.

In addition, although workers' wages were below the minimum wage standard set by the imperial court for spinning workers, a large fee was charged when recruiting workers, and at the same time, clever names were created in the factory to withhold workers' wages.

Liu, a worker with great authority, negotiated with Roche several times on behalf of the workers and asked Roche to make corrections, but to no avail.

Later, Roche used the excuse of needing working capital and defaulted on workers' wages. Liu gathered a crowd to demand wages from Roche, and then had a conflict with Roche. In the end, 9 workers were seriously injured, 3 workers at Roche Nursing Home were seriously injured, and 78 others were slightly injured.

After the Wuyi County patrol police arrived, they arrested all those involved in the conflict. Later, the Wuyi County Judicial Agency detained and fined the workers involved in the conflict for causing trouble and destroying other people's property, and required Liu and others to compensate Luo's Spinning Factory for 50% of the price. loss.

Liu and others were dissatisfied and appealed to the Jinhua Court. After trial, Liu and others were still sentenced to provoke trouble and destroy other people's finances, and the verdict was changed to compensate the manufacturer for 30% of its losses.

After reading the secret report of inspecting the Jinyi Guards, Zhu Hechen frowned even more.

The inspection Jin Yiwei's secret report is obviously biased towards the workers, and there seems to be a problem. Because according to Jin Yiwei's requirements, the secret report must be fair and impartial, and it only needs to state the facts, and must not favor any party.

However, even if you are just stating something, you can change your perspective and rhetoric to form a perception that favors a certain side.

Zhu Hechen thought about it, but felt that it was impossible for a group of workers to bribe the patrolling Jinyiwei, and they might not even know each other. So the patrolling Jinyiwei favored the workers, probably for personal reasons.

Combining this information and weighing it up, Zhu Hechen returned to the desk and said: "Mother, I think there may be problems with the Jinhua government, law and even the patrol yamen. Therefore, although the Luo's Spinning Mill matter is not serious, it should be dealt with To set up a special task force to investigate, it is best for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to dispatch envoys from other provinces."

The current special task force of the Ming Empire can be established by the Provincial Supervisory Office or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is the center of the imperial court.

Generally speaking, the Provincial Supervisory Office dispatches envoys from Beppu to investigate such "minor matters" in the county.

However, Zhu Hechen was worried that Jinhua Prefecture was not the only one to have problems with Zhejiang's officialdom, so he suggested that the Metropolitan Procuratorate transfer people from other provinces.

Zhu Yuyao said: "Your idea is probably correct, but you did not look at it from the perspective of an emperor and handle this matter."

"I don't understand, so I asked my mother to give me some advice." Zhu Hechen really didn't know why Zhu Auao said this.

Zhu Yuyao once again walked to the map of the territory of the Ming Empire, turned her back to everyone, and said leisurely: "As an emperor, since you think that Wuyi, Jinhua's political, legal, and patrol agencies may have problems, and even other governments in Zhejiang may have problems. question, then you should not just want to find out about Roche Spinning Mill.

What you should be thinking about is how to use this incident to check whether there is really something wrong with the entire Zhejiang officialdom.

Your father once said that this officialdom is like the ground. Over time, it will become dusty and even dirty, so it needs to be cleaned every once in a while. Only in this way can it be kept as clean as possible.

Therefore, you can first ask the Zhejiang Provincial Supervisory Office to send an envoy to investigate and see if the power of corrupt officials and profiteers has touched the provincial government.

It's fine if it's not touched, but if it is, you can clean up the entire Zhejiang officialdom."

After hearing these words, Zhu Hechen frowned and thought for a while, then gradually relaxed his brows and said: "My son, I understand that as an emperor, your mind should not be limited to one thing, but you need to take into account the entire country at all times. "

"That's it." Zhu Yuyao showed a slight expression of approval, and then said: "This issue between workers and businessmen, or the working class and capitalists, will be the main social issue faced by the Ming Empire after you ascend the throne.

Therefore, you should keep an eye on this matter in person, carefully understand every link and every detail, and see if you gain anything in the end."

"yes."

Zhu Hechen knew that factories were springing up all over the Ming Empire like mushrooms after a rain.

Although the mother empress learned from the events of later generations and used the experience of later generations to establish many relevant regulations in advance to restrict capital, the Ming royal family was the largest capital party in the empire, which was enough to influence all aspects of the empire.

However, the gluttonous "vicious beast" of capital still needs to be tightly controlled by the court in order to control it and prevent it from having too many negative impacts on the empire.

Thinking of this, and seeing that the Queen Mother did not bring any other memorials, Zhu Hechen simply looked for memorials related to industry and commerce among the other memorials that the Queen Mother had reviewed.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuluo and Zhu Yushan looked at each other and both showed satisfied smiles.
Chapter completed!