Chapter 1454 Xin Zi Scroll Sale

  Feng Ziying came out of Qiao Yingjia's mansion, and the night was already dark.

  Qiao Yingjia left a meal.

  Feng Ziying will not be polite either.

  Different from Qi Yongtai's light and simple diet, Qiao Yingjia's family pays attention to food, especially the dinner is extraordinarily delicate and exquisite, with extraordinary taste.

  According to Feng Ziying's observation, although Qiao Yingjia is not the kind of pedantic person, he still pays attention to character.

Scholars in Shanxi have some livelihoods at home. Qiao Yingjia is very particular about food, but he doesn't care much about other things. Like his mansion, it is an old mansion with few wives and concubines. One wife and two concubines are more standard for scholars. , this point is the same as Qi Yongtai, which can be called a model.

  During this period, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Criminal Justice have been making a big splash, even overshadowing the original Tongcang case.

  The Jingcang case is more filthy than the Tongcang case, and it is even less particular. The four ambassadors and deputy envoys of Jingcang are really accurate.

  Under the skilled interrogation and torture by those veteran officials of the Criminal Ministry, it collapsed quickly, and because of the shock of the Tongcang case, they unified their caliber first, and collapsed even faster.

They obviously underestimated the evil of human nature, they were captured by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they scrambled to confess other people's problems, and even revealed all the details of the previous collusion in order to protect themselves. net.

  In just three days, the number of criminals arrested in the Jingcang case surpassed that of the Tongcang case. This is also the result that the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Criminal Justice wanted, to overwhelm the Tongcang case led by the Shuntian government office.

Both "Today's News" and "Internal Reference" published special issues to introduce the major cases of Jingtong Second Warehouse. Although subjective speculation, speculation, and speculation are inevitable, this is the characteristic of news newspapers, so this has become the case. In one or two months, the people inside and outside the capital city are the most popular topic of conversation after dinner.

  The emperor is wise and the court is powerful. These have become the most commonly used words in "Today's News" on this case. It is nothing more than to show that the court's laws and regulations are inviolable. If you stretch your hand, you will be caught. All in all, everyone is happy.

  The biggest beneficiary of everyone's happiness is the imperial court, which not only cleans up the law and discipline, but also gains a lot.

  Especially when the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs entered the substantive preparation stage for the establishment of Huaiyang Town of the Ministry of War, and the huge cost required was stretched, the sudden outbreak of the Jingtong Liangcang case ushered in huge benefits.

  After several debates in the court, it was finally decided to recover the money collected in the two cases as soon as possible to supplement the shortage of the national treasury.

It is required that the first batch of one million taels of stolen money be recovered before the end of June, of which 600,000 taels must be handed over to the Shuntian government office, and 400,000 taels must be handed over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Criminal Justice. The stolen money is also one million taels, and the Shuntian government office, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Criminal Ministry each have 500,000 taels, and the rest of the stolen money will be handed over before the end of the year after being sold.

Since many of the stolen money that needs to be handed over exists in the form of property, houses, shops, and fields, it takes a lot of energy to sell and realize these things. Therefore, under Feng Ziying's suggestion, all inspectors The court, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Shuntian Mansion also formed a sales committee, and Qiao Yingjia, Wang Yongguang, and Feng Ziying were responsible for organizing the sale of the seized goods.

  Feng Ziying went to Qiao Yingjia's house this time to discuss with Qiao Yingjia how to handle this matter well.

Qiao Yingjia also didn't like such vulgar affairs similar to the style of a merchant, and the household department only wanted to put the one million taels of silver into the warehouse as soon as possible. The Shuntian Mansion took care of it. Of course, Qiao Yingjia also specially instructed Feng Ziying that this matter should be done as soon as possible, but it should not be handed down to others. It must be done meticulously and steadily.

Feng Ziying had already guessed that this group of people would leave this matter to herself, and as expected, they really left it all to herself, and the time was urgent, and they would sell it for 200 yuan before September. Ten thousand taels of silver will be handed over.

Based on current calculations, the equivalent of gold and silver is only about 800,000 taels, and most of them exist in the form of various pearls and jade jewelry, furs, precious medicinal materials, shops, farms, and houses, and the number of houses is as many as There are nearly a hundred places, mainly in the capital city, but there are also a lot of places like Yangzhou, Jinling, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Ningbo. There are also farms, which are also located in the north and south, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. A lot of energy is spent on counting and calculating before it can be said to be sold.

Fortunately, these things in this era are not as sophisticated and professional as later generations, especially the government operations, which are more brutal and direct. Find a few insiders to roughly estimate the price, and in order to sell as soon as possible, most of them have a low base price, and strive to sell as soon as possible. , and there will not be too much haggling.

  Having been in this world for seven or eight years, Feng Ziying has come to understand more and more deeply that the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not bad in theory, but there is a big gap in actual operation and implementation.

   In other words, there are many people with high eyesight and low hands.

Or it's because they disdain to do things that many of them are operated by officials, or because they lack experience in this area, or because they don't like to do such things, and they prefer to talk about morality and study scriptures. , This has created the inefficiency and procrastination and prevarication of the court's government affairs.

  Although not all officials are like this, but many officials Feng Ziying comes into contact with have this tendency, even Qi Yongtai and Qiao Yingjia are like this.

To be honest, Feng Ziying also felt the same way in the Shuntian government office. Fu Shi was pretty good, but it was still jerky to use, and many things needed to be reminded by the officials, and Feng Ziying was also thinking that if he left these officials Officials are used as crutches, can these officials still do things?

In contrast, officials like Situ Nan, Li Wenzheng, and Li Jianxing, who was about to succeed Li Wenzheng as the criminal house secretary, had been immersed in various trades for many years. They were familiar with these matters and could do them with ease. It is their integrity, that is, professional ethics.

   But then again, are these officials much better than the officials in terms of integrity and conduct? Feng Ziying thinks this is not necessarily the case, and it is still a matter of institutional supervision.

   As soon as the carriage entered Fengcheng Hutong, Baoxiang came out to greet him, "Master, the grand master of Rongguo Mansion is here, and he is at the gate of the mansion."

  Feng Ziying frowned, Jia Amnesty came again? This fellow is simply lingering, do you think you can eat yourself?

   Hate to meet this guy, but so what? This fellow has nothing to do all day long, so he just comes to pester him. How can I have so much energy to tear him apart? You can't even go home because this guy is at the door, right?

Feng Ziying couldn't explain her emotions clearly either. First, she wanted to take Yingchun as a concubine. Second, because of Wang Xifeng's matter, Wang Xifeng was also his daughter-in-law. He has not yet left home, and in a sense he is still regarded as a member of the family, but he has made his stomach bigger by himself. This is somewhat awkward when facing each other, just like when Jia Lian comes back in the future, Feng Ziying will definitely feel uncomfortable when she sees Jia Lian. It would be awkward, um, embarrassing.

   He had a rough idea of ​​Jia Amnesty's reason for coming, it was nothing more than who he was speaking for.

With the advancement of the Tongcang case, some people who are not deeply involved in the case, especially those involved in the group of grain merchants, have begun to be dealt with one after another. The prison cells in Daxing, Wanping and Shuntianfu can no longer fit, and some need to be dealt with as soon as possible. Unimportant people commit.

   This is also the happiest time for the jailer and his gang. Even if they have decided to release people, they will use various methods and procedures to hinder and delay them, and then reap benefits.

  Even Feng Ziying can't completely stop this situation. This is an unspoken rule that has been formed for thousands of years, and no official can completely get rid of it all at once.

  This is also the reason why Feng Ziying wants to take the secretary of the official house into his hands. At least use his own people, and he must be more at ease in his heart and be able to draw a bottom line for them.

  Although the prison secretary is an official, many of the people working under him are officials.

During this period of time, the prison secretary was the one who worked the most frequently here. With Situ Nan taking the initiative to resign, Li Wenzheng officially took over as the secretary of the official house. Li Wenzheng's deputy, Li Jianxing, acted as the secretary of the prison room, which caused great damage to the entire Shuntian government office. Great shock.

  Who is Situ Nan, an old man who has worked as an official for nearly ten years, and is only in his early fifties, and in good health, why did he suddenly resign and go home?

  But when Li Wenzheng was appointed as the secretary of the official house and Li Jianxing acted as the secretary of the criminal house, everyone understood that this was an omen.

Even people like Mei Zhiye, Fu Shi, and Song Xian have been greatly touched. Although Feng Ziying has no power to move them, these high-quality officials, they still rely on the people below them to do things. If Feng Ziying changes and adjusts them as he pleases If they can't stop the people under their hands, then they will definitely lose their prestige, and they may even be ostracized.

For the officials, it is even more like sitting on pins and needles. Many people have tried their best to come in. The adjustment of the officials' room means that the three shifts of the entire Shuntian government office have to be reshuffled. There are more than 400 officers and assistants. All the assistants and assistants also have to shuffle the cards, including a group of jailers and prisoners under the prison secretary.

  So during this period of time, Hu Mingchan, the jailer, also came to Feng Ziying to report frequently, and his purpose was self-evident.

  Jia Amnesty seemed to have sensed the "business opportunities" here, and even dared to contact Hu Mingchan. Fortunately, Hu Mingchan was not so brainless. It was all hypocrisy. Without Feng Ziying's words, he would naturally ignore him.

  (end of this chapter)