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Text Chapter 503 Independent Commission Against Corruption

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    When Yue Yang entered the palace in a hurry, he was taken to Nuanxiang Pavilion by the eunuch.  ¡ñ¡Ð ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yueyang has been to Nuanxiang Pavilion several times, so he also knows that this is actually the place where Chongzhen works on weekdays. To put it bluntly, it is his imperial study room, where he spends nearly half of his day.  , but when Yue Yang came to Nuanxiang Pavilion, he found that there were quite a lot of people present today. In addition to the four cabinet ministers, the six ministers and several ministers he did not know were all there. Even Cao Huachun and a man wearing a flying fish suit were there.  The middle-aged man was also in the queue, while Chongzhen was sitting behind the dragon case with an expressionless face.  "What happened today? Why did you put on such a formation?" Yue Yang was very puzzled. He murmured in his heart and strode forward to Chongzhen who was sitting behind the dragon chair and bowed: "Chen Zhongyong  Hou Yueyang meets my emperor, long live my emperor!" Seeing Yue Yang's arrival, Chongzhen nodded: "Ai Qing is here, please give me a seat!" "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Soon a eunuch arrived.  The brocade stool was placed under Chongzhen's right head, and Yue Yang sat down without hesitation.  After Yue Yang sat down, he did not politely greet Chongzhen. He directly raised his hand and asked, "I wonder why your Majesty has urgently summoned me to come here?" "This" Seeing Yue Yang asking, Chongzhen hesitated and did not answer. Instead, he turned his gaze to  He turned to the chief assistant Zhou Tingru.  After Zhou Tingru saw Comrade Xiao Zhu's gesture, he hesitated for a moment and then coughed lightly and said: "Master Yue, it's like this. Since Master Yue didn't go to court this morning, he doesn't know much about some things. Now I  Let me tell you something again. " "You tell me I'll listen!" Yue Yang looked attentively.  Under Zhou Tingru¡¯s slow tone, it took Yue Yang a while to understand what he meant.  It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong, who had been entrenched in Sichuan just half a month ago, was finally wiped out by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting. Since Zhang Xianzhong, all the bandit leaders have been killed, and Sichuan has finally been re-entered into the arms of the imperial court.  It was a good thing that Zhang Xianzhong was executed, and everyone in the court was happy, but what happened next was embarrassing.  After eliminating the rogue bandits entrenched in Sichuan, the imperial court was supposed to reward the officers and soldiers who participated in the suppression of the bandits.  The local people must also be subsidized. The government must distribute food, seeds, farm tools and other things to the people who have returned to their homes, and encourage them to rebuild their homes.  But the biggest problem now is that after years of war, Sichuan has transformed from a land of abundance into a poor place where people cannot make a living. How can the government still have the ability to help the people?  The Sichuan government did not have this ability, so they naturally turned their attention to the imperial court. When Chongzhen found out, he ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to prepare funds for disaster relief. However, the answer from the Ministry of Household Affairs shocked Chongzhen. Although the Ministry of Household Affairs still had some money, there was no food.  there is none left.  This time, General Chongzhen jumped.  Under Chongzhen¡¯s questioning, Li Daiwen, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, told him hesitantly that the granary of the Ministry of Finance was out of food. This shocked Chongzhen and he quickly asked the reason.  Li Daiwen¡¯s explanation is this: Although the tax revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs has increased in the past two years, due to the continuous droughts and raging bandits in recent years, Daming¡¯s grain output has not recovered much.  In addition, this year, large amounts of disaster relief food have been allocated several times to Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei and other places where the disaster is more serious. In addition, it is almost the end of the year.  Therefore, there was not much food left in the imperial court's major granaries, and there was really no way to provide relief to Sichuan.  Ordinarily there is nothing wrong with such an answer, but Chongzhen was more cautious. He immediately asked someone to bring over the account book of the disaster relief grain distributed this year.  Who knew that something was wrong with just one look.  It turns out that the Ministry of Household Affairs has allocated food and disaster relief money several times since this year, but now the local government is still asking the court to continue to allocate money and food for disaster relief.  Seeing this, Chongzhen could no longer bear it and became furious on the spot.  After retreating from the court, he called all the important ministers to Nuanxiang Pavilion to continue the discussion. However, after discussing for a long time, these people were all stunned and could not come up with an effective method.  Someone suggested that since Zhongyong Hou was also in the capital.  Why not invite him to come over to discuss matters? This led to Yueyang's trip to the palace.  Hearing this, Yue Yang's brows were already furrowed. He turned to Li Daiwen behind him and said: "Li Shangshu, there is something I don't understand. The Ministry of Revenue should have made an estimate when allocating the money.  Yes, how come the money and food allocated several times in a row are not enough, but continue to reach out to the court, what is the problem here? " Li Daiwen smiled bitterly, hesitated, and finally could only say vaguely:  "Well I'm afraid the local government has miscalculated the number of local disaster victims, so it has made several offers in succession to ask the court to allocate disaster relief funds." Yue Yang continued to ask: "Then this year the court will provide relief funds to Henan, Shaanxi, and Shaanxi respectively.  How much money have been distributed by the three places in Hubei?""One million taels of silver and 700,000 dans of grain have been allocated." Li Daiwen answered honestly.  "Huh" After hearing this, if Yue Yang still doesn't understand what's going on, he's in vain.  He took a long breath and turned to Chongzhen and sneered: "In that case, why did the emperor call Wei Chen to come? The court can't do anything about this matter, what can Wei Chen do?" "This" Chongzhen was also a little dumbfounded.  He really couldn't talk about this kind of thing.  In the end, Li Daiwen coughed lightly and said: "The emperor and the ministers want to ask if there is still food in Shanxi and Shandong, and whether they can allocate another batch to Sichuan to solve the urgent need." "Haha  " As soon as Li Daiwen said this, Yue Yang was immediately angry. He smiled half-heartedly at Li Daiwen and said, "Allocate a batch, how much is it?" Li Daiwen didn't notice the tone in Yue Yang's words.  He quickly said: "It's not a lot, only three hundred thousand taels of silver and four hundred thousand dans of grain are enough!" "Hahaha" Yue Yang couldn't help but burst out laughing on the spot.  Looking at Yue Yang who was laughing so hard, Chongzhen frowned, Li Daiwen looked embarrassed, and several other ministers showed a trace of anger on their faces.  Chen Yan said displeased on the spot: "Master Yue, your Majesty and the ministers are discussing matters here, why are you laughing so loudly?" Yue Yang, who stopped laughing, looked at Chen Yan with a look on his face.  With a deep sense of ridicule, "Master Chen, do I really look like a fool? Or are you just a fool yourself?" Before Chen Yan could answer, Yue Yang continued: "Everyone in the local government knows the tricks.  Furthermore, in what name should Shanxi allocate money to the court? This year's taxes have been paid to Shanxi and Shandong, and so many refugees flock to Shanxi every year. The Shanxi government itself is overwhelmed, so how can it still have spare time?  Allocate more money? Besides, if you want to get rich, Jiangnan is the most important place. Why doesn¡¯t Mr. Chen allocate money and food from Jiangnan? " Yueyang¡¯s words left Chen Yan speechless. In fact, what the ministers were thinking was.  Everyone can see that they are treating Yue Yang as a scapegoat. If today's Ming Dynasty says who is the richest person and Yue Yang says that he is second, no one will dare to recognize the first.  Such wealth has caused countless people to suffer from red eyes, but people also know Yueyang's strength and ruthlessness. No one dares to put their hands into his pockets, but if they hit him in the name of the imperial court, there will be many autumn winds.  What people are happy to do.  This thing has been the same since ancient times. Just one sentence in the name of the country can stop the mouths of the world.  But Yue Yang is not an easy person to deal with. He said sternly to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, in fact, in the past two years, the court has not been burdened by Liao's salary. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been wiped out, and the court's expenses have also been huge.  However, the corruption of officials in various places has also increased. Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei even reached out to the imperial court after taking one million taels of silver and 700,000 dans of grain.  Isn't the imperial court treating it as an inexhaustible cornucopia? I can conclude that if the imperial court continues to indulge them, they will not be satisfied even if you give them 10 million taels of silver. Is this what I think?  We must not understand it easily, it¡¯s time to conduct a thorough investigation!¡± Yue Yang¡¯s words were full of murderous intent, and everyone couldn¡¯t help but tremble in their hearts.  Yue Yang continued to say to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I often hear that if the imperial court allocates disaster relief money to local areas, officials in the capital usually reduce it by 20% before distributing it to the local area. After arriving in the state capital, the local government will cut off 20% as usual.  The county scraped off another 20%, and if only 40% was left in the hands of the people, it would be considered conscientious of the local officials. What's more, when the disaster relief money allocated by the court arrived, not only did the people not get a tael, but the local officials also received it.  We have to continue to plunder the land, so what¡¯s the use of the government allocating more money for disaster relief? If this behavior is not severely punished, our country will be destroyed sooner or later at the hands of those moths!¡± Hearing this, the officials in the hall said  Their expressions became ugly. Yue Yang's words were tantamount to opening up the scar and exposing all the problems. This made them who were used to living in peace and harmony very uncomfortable. After hearing this, Chongzhen's face also changed.  It became dark. As an emperor, he was well aware of the corruption of local officials. However, in recent years, his thoughts had been focused on how to resist foreigners and eliminate bandits. He had always turned a blind eye to the corruption of officials.  Yiyan, now that such a big thing has happened, he also thinks it is time to deal with this kind of thing.  After a long time, Chongzhen opened his eyes and gritted his teeth and said, "Yue Aiqing, what good plan do you have?" Yue Yang said word by word: "I think there is only one way for the present, and that is a thorough investigation. Start with the officials in the capital.  , keep investigating the place, kill those who deserve to be killed, and confiscate the homes of those who deserve it, and finally set up a specialThere is a department directly under the emperor that is responsible for this kind of thing. Let¡¯s call this department the Independent Commission Against Corruption!  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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