Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Anyone who cheats to make books and increase or decrease will be killed.

That is to say, according to the statistical regulations on account books in the Daming Law, Luo Zhong and others are all capital offenses.

As for those other people, such as those like Han Xufeng who have made some running accounts, if it is severe enough, it is enough to be executed for treason, and if it is light, it is also a hundred sticks.

As for the life or death after the one hundred sticks are beaten, it can only depend on one's chance.

If the higher-ups don't want these people to die, it's really nothing to be hit with a hundred sticks.

If it is said that the higher authorities want these people to die, they will not be breathing after thirty or forty sticks.

This is why it is said that it is easy to practice in the Yamen.

If you don't want to suffer and don't want to die, you often have to pay more for your life.And the one thing to pay attention to in practice is the law of wealth and companionship. Isn't it easy to practice when you have money.

But Kou Shen didn't feel that it was easy for him to practice, but felt extremely tormented.

Looking at Kou Shen's expression, Liu Jingzhou knew that Kou Shen was struggling, so he smiled and said, "Master Kou's heart softened?"

Kou Shen, who was wandering in the sky, was awakened by Liu Jingzhou's words. After recovering, he said: "Fourteen people, not fourteen chickens. And if you kill these fourteen, will there be more?"

But Liu Jingzhou said indifferently: "Kill the chickens to scare the monkeys, if not, even kill the monkeys together.

As for whether there are any in the future, kill them again until there are no more. "

Kou Shen felt that he had no way to communicate with this dead eunuch. Although the two of them had been cooperating happily, the dead eunuch was too murderous, and he only knew how to kill simply and rudely, and never thought of other methods. .

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. Can killing alone solve the problem?Didn't you see that even His Majesty the Emperor has softened so much now, no longer blindly killing?

In line with the idea of ​​not arguing or being awkward if you can cooperate happily, Kou Shen still explained: "If the problem can be solved by killing alone, Emperor Gaozu killed many people back then, but he didn't stop. .”

Liu Jingzhou smiled and said, "Master Kou thinks our family doesn't know about this problem? In fact, before our family left, the emperor had already explained it to us, don't worry."

After finishing speaking, Liu Jingzhou changed his tone again, and said solemnly: "The emperor actually didn't want to kill so many people, but since the time when Emperor Tianqi was around, this Daming business has never stopped.

Whether it's a natural disaster or those slaves, if one is not careful, the country will be destroyed.But what kind of faces are those people from the Donglin Party and the Fushe? You Mr. Kou have been in Suzhou Mansion for so many years, you know it well, right? "

Kou Shen nodded and said: "Of course I know something, but I'm not afraid of Eunuch Liu's jokes. I've been in a daze for so many years, but it's actually the result of being suppressed by the people who restored the society.

In the entire Suzhou Prefecture, there are many people who don't know their own officials, but there are not many people who don't know about Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, from high-ranking officials and dignitaries to traffickers and pawns. "

Liu Jingzhou clapped his hands and said: "Ah, these people are acting recklessly, they have no king and no country, if you still think about compromising with them at this time, it is tantamount to seeking skins from tigers, the only way to do it is to cut the mess quickly and take advantage of the general trend of the world to get rid of them.

Lord Kou think about it, if His Majesty hadn't eliminated those bastards from Donglin Party and Fushe, what would the southeast land look like now?You, Mr. Kou, were born in Shaanxi. Last year, there was a severe drought. How many people died of starvation in Shaanxi?

If His Majesty did not kill those people, how much would Shaanxi starve to death?It is true that tiger wolf medicine cannot be used in severe cases, but sometimes, it is really impossible not to use strong medicine. "

Kou Shen nodded.

Kou Shen agreed with Liu Jingzhou's words in some respects.For example, the situation during the severe drought in Shaanxi.

His hometown is in Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, and there are several relatives who have fled the disaster and have come to seek refuge. Therefore, Kou Shen has a deeper understanding of the disaster situation in Shaanxi than other officials from the news in the mansion newspaper.

If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't purchased a large amount of grain, and if Emperor Chongzhen hadn't dealt with so many corrupt officials first, the number of people who starved to death in Shaanxi would definitely not have been as small as he thought from the mansion newspaper.

At least there are only a few thousand people on the mansion report. If there is no timely disposal, the number may roll upwards.

tens of thousands? 10,000+?

Kou Shen didn't even have any interest in thinking about it any further.

After deliberating for a while, Kou Shencai said: "Then I will sentence all 14 people to be beheaded according to the law of the Ming Dynasty? Wait until after autumn to execute them?"

Liu Jingzhou laughed and said: "Our family is just a tax envoy and eunuch. Except for tax collection, other matters have nothing to do with our family. Mr. Kou will deal with it according to the law of the Ming Dynasty."

Kou Shen nodded, also very satisfied with Liu Jingzhou's attitude.

At the very least, during the period when Liu Jingzhou, a dead eunuch, was promoted to be the eunuch of the tax envoy, he didn't have to worry too much about whether the eunuch would intervene in the affairs of the government.

Kou Shen and Liu Jingzhou were drinking tea and chatting happily in the back office of Suzhou Mansion. The 14 people who were arrested and the homes of [-] people were blown up.

Chaos is the best way to describe the situation in these fourteen people's homes.

It's just that most of those close friends and close friends in the past have disappeared at this time, and it's even useless to go to the prison with money.

The jailer, who used to not look directly at him, was so superior at this moment that he almost looked at people with his nostrils.

No matter how much good words are said, how much money is stuffed, it should be useless or useless-the good words are just accepted, and the money is weighed in such a small pocket of one or two dollars, what is left is what is left.

Anyway, if you want to go in and visit, there is no possibility at all.

But the situation is very weird.

Because normally, these fourteen people are capital crimes, even if the family members are not implicated, those who should have ransacked the house at this time should have ransacked the house long ago, let alone the account books.

But now there is no movement at all, as if the fourteen people were arrested and forgotten in the prison.

Chapter 4 and Six

In fact, there is no vassal king in Suzhou Prefecture.

Not to mention Suzhou Mansion, even the whole of Zhejiang and Fujian combined, there is no vassal king here.

This creates a very fucking situation - there is no vassal in the entire southeastern region.

If there are vassal kings, the vassal kings will unconsciously suppress the literati secretly, and then support businessmen to make profits for themselves.

But without the vassal king, the literati would have no bottom line when they waved, and began the process of letting themselves go.

In fact, at the very beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang named his fifth son, Zhu Huan, King Wu, and the fief was in Qiantang Mansion, Zhejiang.

However, the king of Wu who was canonized in the third year of Hongwu never formally visited his Qiantang fief. In the 11th year of Hongwu, he was changed to King Zhou, and the fief was changed from Qiantang to Kaifeng.

What happened in the middle of this led to the replacement of the title and the replacement of the fief, and there is no way to go further.

However, it is an indisputable fact that during the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, the royal family did not have a vassal king in Fujian and Zhejiang.

Even if it is a nominal vassal.

In Emperor Chongzhen's view, there are nothing more than two possible reasons.

The first one is the south of the Yangtze River, especially the area around Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, which is a real heavy taxation area. Therefore, in order to directly control it in the palm of the hand, the imperial court did not entrust the vassal kings.

The second reason is that the literati were powerful, so a kind of compromise was a last resort, which led to the fact that there were no vassal kings in Zhejiang and Fujian.

But no matter what the reason is, the final result is actually the same—Zhejiang and Fujian, especially Zhejiang, have simply become the nest of the Donglin Party and a paradise for literati.

Still taking the tea tax as an example, a 14 tael and a 12 tael are the reciprocal No. 1 and No. 2 of the tea tax in Ming Dynasty. It is obvious how fucked up it is, like a lice on a bald man's head.