The Jiangning Governor's Yamen in Suzhou has been changed to the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen, and as the first governor of Jiangsu, Jiang Guozhu can not be said to be unsatisfied.
With the assistance of the Sixth Town, which was stationed in Suzhou, in just a few months, Jiang Guozhu pacified the Changji Prefecture of Susong Town, and greatly stabilized the civil order.
After the Lantern Festival, Jiang Guozhu was busy with a major event, which was very important, if he did a good job, it would not be difficult to enter the cabinet in the future.
It's just that this matter is very tricky to start, after all, it is an enemy of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and Jiang Guozhu is afraid that he will be bitten by wolves if he fights wolves.
And there are rumors in the south that the emperor wants to open Enke.
As soon as Enke opened, it was obvious that most of the gentry in Jiangnan would be in the court, and at that time, how long could he Jiang Guozhu survive in the face of public opinion oppression and counterattacks from the gentry in Jiangnan.
I wanted to do it, but I didn't dare to do it, Jiang Guozhu was really distressed.
On this day, Yan Shaoqing, the prefect of Suzhou, reported an incident that made him even bigger.
Yan Shaoqing was originally the prefect of Shanghai, and when Zhang Mingzhen's army came, he would rather die than surrender, so he was favored by Jiang Guozhu and guaranteed him to the Qing court as the prefect of Suzhou.
After Jiang Guozhu descended to the Ming Dynasty, this Yan Shaoqing also descended with him, and he was still the prefect of Suzhou.
Yan Shaoqing said that this matter was that under his rule, Ren Weichu, the county commander of Wu County, was ordered by the government to clear the arrears and enrich the treasury, and as a result, there was a Weng Shuyuan in the county, and his family owed as much as a thousand gold over the years, but when the officials went to urge the levy, the two Weng Shuyuan and his wife, together with their two daughters and his old mother, wept desperately, saying that there was only one bowl of rice at home, and they had to be mixed with rice bran when they wanted to eat, so they could barely be starved to death.
The cause of poverty is this, and how can there be money and food.
However, the Weng family is a large family in the territory, with hundreds of acres of good land, although his reputation has been revoked, and the officials also know that he is lying, but they dare not him.
But the county government was in a hurry, and the officials could only go to his house every day to collect.
This Weng Shuyuan was so angry that he wanted to commit suicide, and his wife and daughter guarded him every day to prevent him from committing suicide.
The officials had no choice but to return to the county order.
When Ren Wei first heard about this, in order to show himself to the officials, he actually asked the officials to give the Weng family a little power, but after several strong uses, the Weng family paid 100 gold, but it was much worse than the arrears.
Ren Weichu killed the chicken and monkey, and killed the Weng family with a cane, which frightened the Wuzhong family, so Xiucai Jin Shengxian and others were sympathetic to the Weng family and Wu Zhong were urged to recruit the gentry.
"On the ninth day of the second month of the first year of Dingwu, Jiangnan was born as Wu Chong as the beginning of Weichu, bold, deceived the world and destroyed the ancestors, openly broke the rules of thousands of years, ignored the benevolent government of the Holy Dynasty, sneaked to Chang Ping, and teamed up with Cao Wu to steal the rat nest and dogs, and steal and sell public grain.
The crime was outrageous, and the people's sentiment was boiling.
Those who read should take the four dimensions and eight virtues as their rituals.
Unexpectedly, he came out of the well-dressed beasts, such as Ren Weichu's generation, the students were ashamed, and the grandmaster was dishonored, so he went to the Temple of Literature to cry" After reading the crying temple text of Jin Shengxian and others, Jiang Guozhu was angry, because this article not only wanted the court to punish Ren Weichu, but also aimed at him Jiang Guozhu, saying that he Jiang Guozhu used to be the eagle dog of the Qing court, and he was ruthless as a Ming Dynasty official today, completely ignoring the life and death of the people of Suzhou, and collecting the money, only for political achievements, regardless of the hardships of the people.
Yan Shaoqing talked about another incident, he said: "Now that the Wailing Temple is becoming more and more prosperous, there is a gentry named Shao Changxuan who sold half of his family's more than 800 acres of land.
But it's said to be for sale, but it's actually for giving. ” Jiang Guozhu was stunned when he heard this: "This person is stupid, how can he give away his family property" Yan Shaoqing explained: "My lord doesn't know, this Shao Changxuan gave away the land left by his ancestors, not to be stupid, but to avoid taxes, the so-called sale is just to cover people's eyes, and the person who took over actually colluded with him for a long time." ” "I see."
Jiang Guozhu nodded, and he already knew in his heart that he had been an official for so many years, and he didn't know how the rich could avoid taxes.
Thinking of the intricate network of relationships between the gentry in Jiangnan, he sighed, knowing that if he wanted to complete the mission assigned by King Qi and turn the four prefectures in Jiangnan into a heavy place for the Taiping Army, it could be said that there was a long way to go, and even if he was not careful, he was very likely to trap himself.
After all, there are many officials from Jiangnan in the court of the southern capital, and Taifu Qian Qianyi is the head of the gentry in Jiangnan.
As soon as he was demoted, his energy was limited.
"These Xiucai are dissatisfied with grievances, and they go directly to the yamen to complain, why gather people to cry the temple As for the matter of clearing the arrears in various counties, it is not negotiable, and it can be cleared after a long time, but in recent years, they should always pay the money and grain taxes.
This gathering of people together to make trouble, what is it, isn't this embarrassing to the government?"
Jiang Guozhu's tone softened, he didn't really want to offend the gentry in Jiangnan, and the king of Qi did not have a clear request, as long as the money and grain collected could get by, I am afraid that the king of Qi might not be angry.
Adults don't know that this "crying temple" is a long-standing custom in Suzhou.
Before the Chongzhen Dynasty, whenever the government had illegal things and improper acts, the scholars would gather in the Temple of Literature every time, make scrolls, cry to the ancestor Confucius Sage, and even call the people to report to the government. ” "What is illegality, paying grain and taxes to the state is for illegality, and paying off the arrears of grain is a major matter for the imperial court, if everyone does not pay, how can the imperial court operate?"
"The lower officials know this truth, but these people don't know."
Yan Shaoqing was also very embarrassed, and he asked, "My lord, is this matter reported?"
Jiang Guozhu thought for a while, nodded and said, "It's okay, Benfu will report it, and the King of Qi will decide this matter." ” Zhou Shixiang, who had just decided to send troops to Zhejiang from the sixth town, couldn't help laughing after receiving Jiang Guozhu's report, and then said to the left and right: "Jiang Guozhu is cowardly, afraid of taking responsibility, and wants me, the king of Qi, to take charge of him first, and arrest those troublesome Xiucai first, as for the arrears, Lonely's attitude is very clear, those who have money and grain will hand it over, and those who have no money and grain will clear their fields and collect them from the government." ” Later, Zhou Shixiang wrote to Jiang Guozhu's report and replied: "Money and grain are urgently needed by the military, and all officials in charge of them must be supervised and urged to complete the solution on time, which is competent."
A closer look at Fengzuo shows that the money and grain of the various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River are in arrears, and there is very little solution, either because of the accumulation of former officials, and the accumulation of later officials, or because of the encroachment of official servants, under the pretext of arrears of the people.
There has always been arrears of money and grain, and there are divisions that participate in the punishment and stop the promotion, although there are arrears of money and grain above the prefect, they still have to be promoted.
As a result, the officials refused to do their best to supervise, and some officials were negligent in the competition, and the branches shirked the blame, and the period of relief was completed.
In the future, all officials in charge of money and food, regardless of their size, will be suspended from promotion if they are in arrears and punished.
It must wait until the money and food are solved and there is no arrears, and then the question is allowed to be opened and re-promoted.
Then you will work with the various temples to determine the number of years and order the completion of the solution; If the money and food are not exhausted within the time limit, they should be dismissed from their posts, or they should be demoted, and they should be discussed and implemented; If the official who has not paid the money and food is promoted, the official shall be punished for the crime of cheating. ” Zhou Shixiang's reply has only one main point, Jiangsu must strictly enforce the urging of the collection of arrears, and anyone, whether it is a citizen or an official, but if there is a debt, all will be repaid, otherwise, they will be deprived of their fame and punished by imprisonment at worst.
After receiving Zhou Shixiang's approval, Jiang Guozhu's attitude hardened, and he immediately ordered Yan Shaoqing to arrest Ni Yongbin, Shen Yue, Gu Weiye, Zhang Han, Ye Qi and other talents who participated in the Weeping Temple case. oshow7 t1706231537: