[Red Mansion] The occupation of Huangsang!

Because of the sudden hailstorm at night, Shui Lan, who was afraid of a disaster, urgently called Sangong, the cabinet, and officials from the six ministries to the palace for discussion.In the Dayong Dynasty, there were three officials, cabinets, five temples, six ministries and six departments.There are also the Metropolitan Procuratorate, General Administration Department, Imperial Academy, Guozijian, Qintianjian, Wucheng Bingma Commanding Department, Shuntianfu and Jiaofangsi.In addition, there are a series of ministers who are directly appointed by the emperor without the approval of the six ministries of the cabinet. , five temples, two prisons, two courtyards, and one government.

Among them, Sangong has already been mentioned in the previous article, which is the collective name of Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao. As for the cabinet, the number of cabinet assistants ranges from one to seven.The Grand Scholars of the Cabinet only have the status of advisors, the emperor has the final decision-making power, and the Grand Scholars rarely have the opportunity to participate in the decision. Generally, only Jane who is in the heart of the Emperor will be conferred the status of a Grand Scholar, so it can only be regarded as an honorary status .

The summoned officials hurried into the palace at the risk of being smashed into their heads by hailstones.At this time, the officials from various departments gathered in the Hall of Mental Cultivation stood in a row according to their respective departments, with solemn expressions on their faces. Even when Shui Lan and Yan Yuese asked them to sit and answer, they still did not change their expressions.

"Did you notice it when you came here, the hailstorm is so fierce!" Shui Lan couldn't help sighing while glancing at the black and blue forehead hit by the big hailstone falling from the sky. "My dear ministers, do you have any regulations to deal with this disaster?"

The pissing behavior of the officials of the Dayong Dynasty came out again. When Shui Lan asked, all the officials who had been talking in a low voice before were all speechless and muffled.This time, Shui Lan became angry, and he didn't care that most of these officials were left to him by the emperor's father, so he called them by name.

"Mr. Cheng Ge, what kind of regulations do you think should be used to deal with this disaster?"

About 50 years old, Cheng Ge, with gray hair and beard, took a look at Shui Lan, then cupped his hands and said seriously. "The old minister has two plans. One is to ask the emperor to punish himself, and the other is to ask the emperor to order the ministers of Dali Temple, the officials of the Ministry of War, and the commanding divisions of the five cities to maintain order inside and outside the capital... The old minister is afraid of a catastrophe. People took the opportunity to make trouble..."

After the catastrophe, it is certain that someone will take the opportunity to make trouble, but Mr. Cheng Ge, you seem to have misunderstood the focus. What is needed now is disaster relief... Shui Lan patted her cheek in boredom, and said helplessly. "Maintaining law and order can be done by the officials of the Ministry of Rites. The first thing we need to do is..."

"I'm guilty..." Mr. Cheng Ge continued with a face of approval.

Let your mother punish you!

The fiery Shui Lan burst into flames. "Natural disasters have little to do with the king, but the * is definitely the king's own evil. Now that the natural disaster has just started, I ordered you to find a way to prevent the * from happening, but I couldn't come up with a good plan. I have issued an edict of guilt, ah, Mr. Cheng Ge, Mr. Cheng Ge, who has been an official for so many years, you are so stupid, and you don’t want to share your worries for the king, I think you are also a person who eats vegetarian meals!"

Shui Lan's words were so poisonous that it filled the old Cheng Ge, who regarded his reputation as his life, with righteous indignation. Which emperor in the past dynasties did not immediately issue an edict when a natural disaster occurred, but the emperor he was serving now It's different, if you talk to him humanly, he will listen to it as nonsense instead.Feeling extremely wronged and aggrieved, Cheng Ge's old donkey became angry.Cheng Ge twisted his neck and said firmly.

"The emperor insists on this, the old minister has only one death certificate to prove his innocence."

After all, as soon as Cheng Ge closed his eyes, he slammed into the pillar beside him.Fortunately, the few officials standing next to him were quick-eyed and pulled him out, otherwise Cheng Ge would really splatter on the spot.

Nima, you actually threatened me with death!

Shui Lan, who started to burst into blood vessels, became angry, and he sneered again and again, spraying out his mouth full of cynicism and merciless sarcasm. "Old Cheng Ge really deserves to be a celebrity, he even did such a thing of threatening the king with death, I don't know if the sage Kong will expel you from the school if he has a spirit in heaven."

Cheng Ge was trembling with anger, but the violent Shui Lan didn't intend to let him go.Shui Lan didn't feel that she was bullying the old man by doing this, and she kept talking about it.

"Old Cheng Ge's performance has really refreshed my world view. I thought that the useless scholar was a scholar, and most of the scholars who are stupid and stupid in their studies are free, but I didn't expect that there would be such a cheeky existence. Cheng Ge If you do this, does your still-existing Gaotang know, Master of Heaven and Earth, Mr. Cheng Ge, please tell me what you have achieved..."

After finally venting her anger, Shui Lan let out a breath, and then asked the little eunuch who was waiting outside the door to help Mr. Cheng Ge down to rest.

After Cheng Ge, who was already pale and silent, was taken down to rest by the eunuch guarding the gate, Shui Lan sighed again, resigned to his fate and did not call the other officials to find a way, but directly issued an order.

"Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry hastened to make some equipment as soon as possible. I expect that after the hailstorm stops, many common people and their rulers will be damaged. How about this, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, let your officials draw some house designs For the picture, the Ministry of Households will withdraw the silver taels, and together with the Jingwei Commander and Envoy, help the common people to renovate their houses."

Hearing Shui Lan's order, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Account Management came out with a troubled face and said. "Your Majesty, there is not much silver left in the household department."

"Not much..." Shui Lan raised her eyebrows meaningfully, "I remember that the salt tax in Lianghuai and Jiangnan has already been collected this year, why not much."

"Your Majesty, this year's tax revenue is three levels lower than in previous years, and the Jinling area is short of grain this year..."

"The harvest in the area of ​​Jinling is short of harvest..." Shui Lan interrupted the words of the Deputy Minister of the Household Department, and said in a calm tone. "You said that the harvest in the Jinling area is not harvested, so the harvest is in short supply...Why didn't I get any news in the palace...And if the harvest in the Jinling area is really bad, then Li Wei in the Jiangnan area would have already sent a letter You have notified me, heh, if you give me this trick now, you will really treat me as a vegetarian."

The acting household secretary Nuonuo didn't dare to speak, and returned to the queue he was in in a desperate manner.

Looking at this group of officials who are full of fat, who are in official positions but only want to make a few extra money, Shui Lan smiled coldly.I wanted to treat some of them leniently for the sake of the Supreme Emperor, but now...it is my kindness not to take their entire family to justice.

Shui Li winked at Jia Heng, the commander of the dark guards in brocade who was standing next to Jia Jing. The understanding Jia Heng came out, took out a list from his sleeve, and read it in front of all the officials present discussing state affairs.

"Mu Xiuyong was a Jinshi in 19 years, and he was the county magistrate of Jiuping County for the first time. During his tenure, he received a total of 27 taels of bribes, three concubines, and a mansion. Zhizhou, during his tenure as Zhizhou, still wanted to solicit money, received a total of 10 taels of bribes, and had countless fertile land and mansions..."

"Shen Yiyonghe was a Jinshi in the 22nd year. He was first appointed as a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and later he was sent to be the prefect of Tongzhou. During his tenure, he also took a lot of money. He received a total of 37 taels of bribes, calligraphy and painting treasures... fertile land... luxury houses... It can be equivalent to 100 million taels of silver."

"Zhuo Ren..."

"Zhao Jin..."

As Jia Heng read out the names of the people on the list and the circumstances of corruption and bribery one by one, all the officials on the list, including those who were not on the list, couldn't help but shudder.When did the young emperor secretly investigate what they did, even the late emperor's secret guards failed to do so...

Moreover, since the young emperor found out about their secret behavior, he still kept it secret. If it weren't for the officials in Jinling area who were greedy this time and wanted to embezzle the taxes and money in Jinling area, the young emperor probably wouldn't have erupted. ...

The young emperor's scheming is really gloomy and powerful...

These officials thought about it, but they still had a bit of luck.They thought that Shui Lan would not kill people easily in the past, so this time it should be the same.These officials who wanted to grab money in private were right. Shui Lan did not want their lives. He just ransacked their homes, filled the treasury with their property, and demoted them all to common people. Three generations of descendants cannot participate in scientific examinations, and cannot pursue official careers and economics.

In this world where fame and fame are obtained and officials honor their ancestors, if the three generations of descendants fail to make official careers, it means cutting off the possibility of becoming an aristocratic family at the root, and they can only be annihilated in the world in the end.This trick, which was more insidious than killing them, cleared up the atmosphere in the entire officialdom. Not to mention that all officials were more serious about governing than before, and the behavior of wantonly collecting property in private has also restrained a lot.

Although it is normal to be an official for thousands of miles just to seek money, usually relying on the height of the mountains, the emperor is far away, and the emperor will not know about his private arrogance, but damn, the current emperor has set up a special agency called Jinyiwei. It is said that even you They can find out exactly what underwear they wore that day, what they ate, and where their wives and concubines slept. They didn't believe it before, but now...

qaq, Emperor, you have to trust us, the money was given to us by others, not what we want to receive!

Regarding the thoughts of officials of various departments in the capital, Shui Lan said, "You guys treat me like a fucking fool!"

Thinking of the famous allusion that a deer is a horse, and the famous sentence of the Northern Jin emperor, "Why don't you eat minced meat", Shui Lan always laughed at them before becoming emperor, but through the behavior of these officials who treated him like a fool, Shui Lan understood It's not that the emperors themselves are stupid, it's just that the methods of his officials are so superb that the deceived Qin Er Shi believed that the deer that Zhao Gao said was a horse...

As for Emperor Jin Hui, um, he might be really stupid, but no official told him about the people's livelihood and the people's attitudes, and he had never walked out of the palace. How could Emperor Jin Hui know that minced meat is not a food that ordinary people can eat, so when When the minister reported that there was a disaster and the people had no food to eat, he would sigh, "The people have no corn to satisfy their hunger, why don't they eat minced meat?"... So after all, it is still the group of officials who do not make decisions for the people, but only for the sake of The fault of the rich officials.

Heh, I'm so kind that I didn't take their lives.Looking at the dark sky, Shui Lan felt her conscience and sighed.