great mandate

When Shen Wuji saw Luo Jinyu again, he was in prison.

Hearing a familiar voice, he hurriedly got up to look, and said joyfully, "Jin Yu!"

The jailer opened the lock, and Luo Jinyu walked in.

Shen Wuji was anxious to go up and hug her, when he came before him, he took two steps back and sighed: "Although our family also washes and washes in here, it's not as good as outside, your body is not clean, so I dare not touch you."

Having said that, he said while looking at people eagerly, as if he was unwilling and aggrieved, waiting for Luo Jinyu to hug him, which was a bit pretentious.

Luo Jinyu also got along with him for a while, so how could he not understand his cautious demeanor, so she could only sigh slightly, and said: "I wanted to visit you earlier, but you are involved in an important case, so I am not allowed in .”

"Our family understands." Shen Wuji hurriedly said, "Today——"

"I came here today as the presiding judge of your case to ask you about the circumstances of the case, so it is inconvenient for me to be intimate with you." Luo Jinyu said solemnly, "I am here this time because of your special status." , and the involvement is also extensive, and I am afraid that it is not easy to tell the outside world about the insider relationship."

Shen Wuji: "..."

Hey, what can I do!When this man talked about business, he was so rigid that he couldn't change it.

Shen Wuji didn't make trouble here, so he said immediately after hearing the words: "Alright, let me ask Mr. Luo."

Luo Jinyu was not in a hurry, she stepped aside first, and asked someone outside to bring in a table and chair. The clerk placed a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, sat down to write, and made a record.

Luo Jinyu asked questions one by one, and Shen Wuji answered them one by one.

Luo Jinyu's questions are all about the various issues that Shen Wuji was sued against, such as greed for food and money for drought relief in Henan, the collapse of embankments built by officials in the Yellow River for no reason, and the huge greed in a certain place. ...

"Our family took the Henan disaster relief food and silver, and didn't keep a cent. It was all given to Cao Guozhong." Shen Wuji said.

Luo Jinyu frowned slightly: "Why did you take it?"

"The disaster relief was organized by Cao Guozhong, and our family was working under him at the time." Shen Wuji said, "Cao Guozhong clearly ordered our family to take profits from it, and the money would not go into his designated bank for a day, and the supervisor would not seal the food for a day. The matter was urgent, and if it dragged on for a day, thousands of hungry people died in Henan, so I had to listen to his orders."

Luo Jinyu asked: "Afterwards, you didn't report this matter to the court?"

"At that time, Cao Guozhong was covering the sky with his hands, and our family was unwilling to hit a stone with an egg." Shen Wuji said, "May I ask why the Metropolitan Procuratorate impeached Cao Guozhong before Cao Guozhong was overthrown by our family?"

Luo Jinyu asked about other things.

Shen Wuji continued: "The official embankment of the Yellow River is built, and our family is the supervisor, but the official embankment has always been dispatched by the Ministry of Industry to do it. Why don't those people from the Ministry of Industry be counted?"

"Just tell the people involved in the case one by one, and I will ask them one by one, but you are the supervisor of the official construction, and you are also unshirkable responsibility for the collapse of the embankment due to cutting corners." Luo Jinyu said.

"Our family didn't evade responsibility." Shen Wuji said, "When the incident happened, our family immediately apologized, but you dared to ask the Ministry of Industry one by one, those people didn't dare at that time, the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry was an old student of Yu Ge, Shang Shu's daughter married Master Xiao Yu. So they didn't dare to get to the bottom of it. They wanted to kill our family alone, but Cao Guozhong didn't dare to do it because of Cao Guozhong's face. This matter has been detained for a year. For the annual salary, we beat our family twenty family sticks, and nothing happened."

"But no matter what, if you raise this matter again, you can't get rid of it." Luo Jinyu said.

Shen Wuji was very arrogant, and said: "Okay, our family is afraid that this matter cannot be brought up again, because someone has blamed others for nothing, and if the twenty court sticks are replaced by those with weaker bones, their lives will be gone long ago. Our family is lying on the hospital bed I haven’t been in the field for the past two months! Let’s bring it up again, it’s best to file a case for a big trial, and ask those in charge of the Ministry of Industry to come and beat twenty court sticks!”

Luo Jinyu hurriedly stopped him: "You are a supervisor, you don't need to just shift the responsibility to the Ministry of Industry. They are certainly at fault, but you are also negligent in your supervision."

"Our family..." Shen Wuji hesitated for a while, and sighed, "Hey, our family is negligent in duty. We are willing to admit this crime. But none of the others can escape. It is the first time that our family supervises embankment repairs by ourselves. It is really difficult to tell the depth of the muddy water for a while to carry such a big burden from Beijing, and only when we get there do we realize that there is a lot to be said for building an embankment.”

The collapse of the embankment of the Yellow River caused hundreds of deaths and injuries of innocent people on both sides of the bank, and thousands of displaced people really made Shen Wuji feel guilty. Otherwise, with his personality, how could he take the initiative to write a letter to plead guilty.

This is subtly different from disaster relief. After all, the drought was not caused by him, but the embankment was built under his personal supervision.

When it could be built, Shen Wuji was really helpless.

Before that, he had been working as a spy in Dongchang, or doing some arrests, and he really didn't know what he was good at because of the depth of his officialdom.

Cao Guozhong intended to promote him, and let him enter the supervisor of ceremonies in the future, so that he could do a good job, so he was taken out of the East Factory and let him try to be on his own.

Besides, before Shen Wuji left, he thought it was very simple to repair the embankment: Isn't it just hiring coolies locally, buying materials, and then repairing the embankment?what else?

Oh, he also knows that there must be some corruption and bribery. For example, it actually cost 3 taels to hire coolies, 30 to the court, 30 for materials purchase, and 100 million to reimburse.

What he didn't expect was that things were far more complicated than he thought.

The Ministry of Industry reported 30 taels of silver to the imperial court to hire coolies, and 3 taels to the local yamen, and the local yamen hired them.

The yamen was not specialized in this matter, so they deducted 5000 taels, and took the remaining 5000 taels to local and nearby merchants who specialize in building houses and city walls to hire coolies.

In order to win this project, the merchants are not allowed to invite the officials and yamen to eat and give gifts?The old man can get a profit from it again.

It was so easy, the big businessman settled down.

The businessman did things quickly, took 5000 taels, and immediately organized the coolies to go to work.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the meeting, the businessman suddenly turned his face and tried his best to default on the wages of the coolies. The agreed three meals a day were changed to two meals. Pot of soup.

The coolies naturally quit, so they went on strike and went to the government office.

The officials ignored it.

After the coolies deliberated, they first eliminated Shen Wuji, the eunuch sent by Cao Guozhong who must be a bad guy, and took the officials from the Ministry of Industry as the masters of Qingtian, and went to appeal.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry rushed to return to Beijing to announce the good news. Seeing that the project had been stopped for some reason, they couldn't help being furious and scolded the officials.

The government office is obedient here, and the businessman is called over there to yell at them.

Seeing that those coolies don't know what is good or bad, and don't know how to be grateful when they have food, they dare to complain in front of the Beijing official.

He rolled his eyes, thought about it, divided these coolies, and promised to some people, let them drive away those leaders who made trouble, then, those people would be given the money they originally deserved.

As the saying goes, "Under a heavy reward, there must be a brave man." The businessman's plan was successful, and he let out this bad breath.

He gave the remaining half of the workers as much wages and benefits as they should have, and asked them to continue to build the river embankment within the time limit urged by the Ministry of Works.

When Shen Wuji heard about this, he was a little worried, so he specially went to the Ministry of Industry to discuss whether to slow down the construction period, or recruit more coolies to do the work, otherwise, the quality might not be good in such a haste.

The Ministry of Industry refused in every possible way.

As far as the Ministry of Industry is concerned, the construction period must not be delayed, otherwise the emperor will see it and say they are incompetent.

The time for the Ministry of Officials' annual review and evaluation of the merits of hundreds of officials is coming. If such a great achievement cannot be completed before then, at least, the Ministry of Industry will not be able to hold its head up for the next year, and at worst, it may even punish everyone in the Ministry of Industry. Monthly salary, annual bonus, and even demotion.

As for purchasing materials, the same is true.

It is not known what kind of gadgets were purchased in the end.

On the contrary, the businessmen who cooperated in purchasing, everyone knows each other, either relatives of this one, or friends of that one.

Among them, Shen Wuji was even more speechless, even though he was still struggling to purchase embankment materials with the money he had missed, some people proposed to build beautiful environments such as willow-lined roads and flower gardens on both sides of the embankment...

A beautiful environment is fine, but it has to be when money is abundant.

These people mentioned this matter at this time, simply because their relatives and friends did not sell materials for repairing dikes, but things for repairing flower gardens and avenues.

What surprised Shen Wuji the most was that the embankment hadn't been repaired yet, but the willow avenue beside the embankment had been repaired.Not to mention, before the embankment was repaired, someone in the government office said that the flowers in the willow avenue and flower garden were not suitable for the local climate, so they pulled out all the good flowers and trees and replaced them with new ones.

——Naturally, both batches of money were settled early.

How can the government owe merchants money?

The author has something to say: The Ministry of Industry is considering burning down the Metropolitan Procuratorate.