My Daming New Empire

When it was the turn of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to discuss matters, Gu Zuo, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, came to the hall, faced Zhu Zhanji and Jian Yi, and directly reported the results of the major Shandong case jointly tried by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and the Third Division of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Regarding this result, Zhu Zhanji already knew it yesterday, but he was actually not very satisfied.

Not a single official was sentenced to death, and more than [-] officials were demoted and transferred to other posts, and made meritorious deeds.More than a dozen of them were dismissed from office and sent three thousand miles.There are more than a dozen of them who are neither serious nor serious, but they just lost their official positions, and they don't even need to be assigned, and they even retain the Wenxun rank.

The result of this kind of treatment is a bit too light, and it can't even play the role of punishment.

However, this case was contrary to the official evaluation procedures of the imperial court. Even if Gu Zuo was a member of Zhu Zhanji, he thought that it was not appropriate to punish him too severely.

On the one hand, the imperial court wants more people to be born in various places and to collect more taxes; on the other hand, it strongly encourages immigration and suppresses food prices.

It is also difficult for local officials...

As for the Kong family's mischief in it, and Zhu Gaochi was involved, the lid of this case cannot be lifted casually.

What's more, the Kong family is not stupid people, they just took advantage of this loophole, if they want to say big evil, they are indeed destroying the foundation of the imperial court.

But they did this very cleverly, and there is no evidence of their participation at all.

Of course, the six major grain merchants who actually participated in it cannot be exonerated, but they have now been arrested and their property has been seized.As a result, the imperial court confiscated more than 100 million shi of grain and nearly 10 taels of silver, and distributed them for three thousand miles.

What else could it be?

You can't kill them all!

On the contrary, the Confucian family used the imperial labor to build water conservancy for their own family, and used natural disasters to occupy land. This is the guilt that the Confucian family cannot shirk.

But this crime can be big or small, no matter how big it is, it can't hurt the foundation of the Kong family

Because according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a crime to use natural disasters and the suffering of the victims to buy the world.Occupying court labor is only a fine.

There is also the fact that the Kong family planed the ancestral grave, which has no direct relationship with the head of the Kong family.

Kong Yanjin and the others did not do this by themselves, but Yan Shutong, the magistrate of Qufu County, was more responsible for this matter.

The labor was collected by the government, and the digging of the ancestral graves was also done by labor. At most the Kong family had a butler who came forward, and they also gave the rest of the Ma family two taels of silver as compensation.

This matter can be publicized to suppress the reputation of the Kong family, but speaking of it, the Kong family is not directly responsible.

Therefore, the final result of the joint trial of the three divisions was only a fine for the Kong family, and the Ministry of Household Affairs checked their [-] hectares of land in various parts of Shandong, and if there was any seizure, it would be confiscated.

Apparently, a consensus had been formed in the civil service system in this case, the Kong family was not guilty at fault, and fined.

When the results were reported, Zhu Zhanji said: "I think that this matter, the case of grain corruption in Shandong and the case of officials' refusal of grain can be turned into one case. But the Confucian family forcibly occupied good land, expropriated labor, and dug people's ancestral graves, which should be dealt with separately. Therefore , The Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple should distinguish the facts and not confuse them."

Baiguan immediately understood that Zhu Zhanji was still chasing after him and refused to let it go.

But think about it, Zhu Gaochi is still unconscious now, if Zhu Zhanji doesn't hate the Kong family, he will be a son of man in vain.

However, even if it is dealt with in another case, the following matters are not considered major matters. They have done their best to drag the Kong family out of the suspicion of rebellion.

Therefore, after re-negotiation, they made a conclusion to close the Shandong case, but the Kong family's other faults were dealt with in a separate case.

Only then did Zhu Zhanji agree, and according to the results of their discussions, let the cabinet begin to write the imperial edict.

Officials with northern origins were exiled in Mobei. The nearest ones were all in Beihai, and the farthest went to Siberia in later generations.

Most of the southern officials were exiled to Luzon, Star City, and Old Port.

After all officials are exiled, their official status will not be revoked, but they will be lowered by three levels and retained.As for some low-level officials, when they arrived in Nanyang or Mobei, they all became academic officials and taught the local people to read and write.

Then, it was the Ministry of Industry's turn.Zhu Zhanji originally thought that the affairs of the Ministry of Industry are now on the right track, whether it is repairing cement roads, repairing canals, or preventing floods, these affairs are now on the road of a virtuous circle.

But when Wu Zhong proposed that additional funds be allocated for the construction of Baoen Temple Pagoda, Zhu Zhanji suddenly remembered this most difficult project in Ming Dynasty.

Since Yongle, there have been many major projects in the Ming Dynasty. In terms of cost, the first is of course the construction of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. The funds spent on the Great Wall in recent years have exceeded tens of millions of taels of silver.

It was not until the 14th year of Yongle, when Mahamu and his sons were arrested, and Wala, like the Tatars, belonged to Ming Dynasty, that the construction of the Great Wall stopped.

In the original history, the construction of Beiping City was also a big project, but in this era, because the capital was not moved, the cost of building Beiping City was not as much as that of Wudang Taoist Temple.

The construction of Wudang Taoist Temple cost 300 million taels and 20 laborers were recruited, but it was a complex of 33 buildings, including a golden roof of an all-copper building.

As for the Pagoda of Baoen Temple, this tall pagoda costs more than 100 million taels now, but it is still far away from being fully completed.

In later generations, Zhu Zhanji also heard about this tower, which is said to be a typical representative of oriental architecture. It was once hailed as the seven wonders of the architectural world, and it is as famous as the Great Wall.

However, this high tower has long been in ruins in later generations. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, in order to prevent the Qing army from bombarding Jinling with the help of the high tower, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom blew up the high tower.

The reason why this tower is expensive is not because of its difficult construction, but because of Zhu Di's request.

Because Zhu Di required the tower to be built with bricks except for the main structure, and all the outer layers should be decorated with colored glaze, and he personally determined the style of the tower.

In the tenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di ordered the construction of the Baoen Temple outside the Jubao Gate in the south of Yingtianfu, on the ruins of the Changgan Temple and the Ashoka Tower originally built in the third year of Chiwu (240) in the state of Wu.

The construction of Dabaoen Temple is extremely sophisticated, and it is built in full accordance with the standards of the imperial palace.The foundation is first nailed with thick wooden piles, and then set fire to turn them into charcoal, which is then rolled and tamped with iron wheel rolling stones, and a layer of cinnabar is added on the charcoal to prevent moisture and kill insects.There are more than 20 halls, 118 galleries and 38 scripture rooms in the temple.

Because of the invention of cement, the construction of this temple has become extremely smooth, and most of the buildings have already been completed.

But the pagoda of Baoen Temple, the most important part of this temple, is now encountering great difficulties.

This is mainly because Zhu Di requested that the entire pagoda should not be made of inches of wood, and that the inside and outside of the pagoda should be connected with various colored glazed components.

The tower is octagonal, with nine floors and a total height of 78.02 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 26-story building.

Almost every piece of glazed components used in the glazed pagoda is different in shape, size, color and decoration, so it is extremely difficult to make and fire.

Not to mention this era, even in later generations, one can imagine how difficult it is to build such a high tower with glazed components, and even the handrails of the stairs are glazed with matching patterns.

Zhu Zhanji is a pragmatist. Although he knows that this tower represents more than just a building, he actually does not agree with such a waste of money.

A gymnasium with 10 people costs only 20 taels, and the cost can be recovered in a few years.

And this tall tower has now cost more than 100 million taels, and its completion is still far away.It is also impossible for this kind of royal building to collect tickets for people to visit like later generations. Let alone recover the cost after completion, the maintenance alone will cost countless dollars every year.

But this is Zhu Di's request, and he can only cooperate with it.

The difficulty still lies in the firing of the components. The color of each piece of glaze that is fired has requirements. There are hundreds of thousands of glazed components in total. The difficulty of this project is very huge.

Hearing that the funds for firing colored glaze had been spent again, Zhu Zhanji sighed, and could only allocate another 20 taels of silver to let the craftsmen continue firing.

This matter cannot be stopped. This is a political task. If you are willing to do it, you must still do it if you are not willing.

The turbulent court meeting finally came to an end at 11:30 noon, which is [-]:[-] in later generations.

After nearly five hours of long discussions, everyone looked a little tired.

Zhu Zhanji is fine, he can still sit, and everyone else can only stand. Those ministers in their 70s and [-]s stood for nearly five hours at once, and many of them looked very painful.