Chapter 803 Zhu Pingan, you loser
On this day, there were fifty-one officials like Zhu Pingan who received orders, and except for Zhu Pingan, the others were all officials of fourth grade or above.
At the same time, there are more than 200 officials below the fourth rank who have not received the imperial edict, but have received official documents jointly issued by the Cabinet, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In addition, there were as many as 500 Ku soldiers, officers and slaves who had their homes confiscated and imprisoned without receiving any imperial edict or official document.
Without exception, they were all punished because of the Taicang Bank Case. The lighter cases were fined two taels of silver, the worst cases were jailed, and the worst cases were exiled or beheaded. For those who are fined taels of silver, the amount of fines and compensation ranges from tens or hundreds of taels to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands taels.
It is worth noting that in this case, Yan Shifan, the son of Mr. Yan Song and Yan Ge, was also fined 12,000 taels of silver for failing to inspect the treasury twice.
In addition, Zhu Ping'an's advisor, the current cabinet minister Xu Jie, was also fined 6,000 taels of silver because of an oversight in the warehouse.
For a time, the capital was filled with figures of factory guards roaring back and forth, as if.
After a certain minister accepted the imperial edict and was fined 8,000 taels of silver, he sent away the eunuch who announced the edict with a smile. After the eunuch left, the minister respectfully held the edict in his hands and placed it on the incense table to offer it, and then turned around He started yelling: "Zhu Ping'an, you are a loser"
An official's home was ransacked by factory guards The door was broken, and the family, including the wife, concubines, and children were exiled to Yunnan, a smog-stricken country. The family, accustomed to being pampered and pampered, was forced by the wolf-like guards. The family looked back at the mansion with a haggard look and tears streaming down their faces. The desperate housewife only remembered The husband complained before leaving, "If it weren't for Zhu Ping'an's search, this would not have happened today"
So, on the road to exile, the desperate housewife gnashed her teeth and cursed Zhu Ping'an, the initiator of all this, all the time, and taught her young children to remember: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuthuth" , all because of a man named Zhu Pingan."
The majestic Yan Mansion.
The delicate bodies of four naked concubines and maidservants were lying on the lounge chairs. They were linked together like a soft and boneless chair, forming the shape of a gentle chair. The one-eyed fat man Yan Shifan sat down on the gentle chair with his arms around him. A maidservant wearing only a thin veil to cover her shame, a big hand rubbing and pinching the maidservant without mercy, a big fat face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, but also angry but not angry He and his little brother Luo Longwen at the banquet laughed and joked: "My Yan Mansion has always put money in, but now it is new and I have started to take money out."
After receiving the imperial edict, Zhu Pingan kept sneezing from time to time. After sneezing again, Zhu Pingan touched his nose with a confused look. Could it be that he had a cold?
On this day, the Taicang Bank Case, the largest major case in the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years, came to an end.
The number of officials involved set a new record for the Jiajing Dynasty; the amount of fines and monetary compensation also set a new record for the Jiajing Dynasty.
Although the amount of silver fined to Zhu Pingan can be said to be the smallest, Zhu Pingan's family is poor. The fine of 160 taels of silver compensation suddenly made Zhu Pingan bankrupt. In the end, he was still in Li With the help of Shu Jiebang, Zhu Pingan paid the fine of 160 taels to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Zhu Pingan was not the first to pay the fine. The first to pay the fine was Yan Shifan. When Zhu Ping'an went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, he heard that Yan Shifan had already paid the fine and had returned to Yan's Mansion for a long time.
It turns out that not long after Yan Shifan received the imperial edict, he sold off several old items in the house with great fanfare, including Yan Song's most beloved ancient inkstone, and finally collected twelve thousand taels of silver. , and handed it over to the Ministry of Finance as soon as possible.
Yan Shifan's active payment of fines was approved by Emperor Jiajing, who passed a note as a sign of praise.
Under Yan Shifan's example, a group of officials with strict party backgrounds came to the Ministry of Revenue to pay fines, whether they were willing or not.
When Zhu Pingan went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, he met several officials from the strict party who also paid the fine. However, none of these officials looked good on Zhu Pingan, and Zhu Pingan was full of food. Full of ridicule and criticism.
After paying the fine, Zhu Ping'an went to Xu Jie's house to plead guilty. After all, it was because he lifted the lid on Taicang's shady story that the Taicang theft case was exposed to the world, and Xu Jie was investigating the Taicang bank. One oversight was fined 6,000 taels of silver. Strictly speaking, there is a big reason for this.
Of course, in Zhu Pingan's opinion, it is estimated that his mentor Xu Jie's butt is not very clean.
The huge deficit in Taicang cannot be more obvious. If you check the warehouse carefully, it is impossible not to discover it.
However, when his mentor Xu Jie was the censor of Chaku in his early years, he did not report Taicang's deficit.
Of course, there are many reasons for not reporting it, and it does not prove that Xu Jie was complicit in taking bribes, but he did not report it. , it was just an oversight.
When Zhu Ping'an entered the Xu Mansion, the Xu Mansion was also counting its belongings, selling off the property in full swing to collect a fine of six thousand taels of silver.
On the way to the Ministry of Household Affairs to pay the fine, Zhu Ping'an had already heard the news that the Yan Mansion had sold off the property to collect the fine. Now seeing the scene of the Xu Mansion counting the property and selling off the property, Zhu Ping'an was a little bit more worried. Not surprised either.
Twelve thousand taels of silver, theoretically speaking, is definitely not enough based on the normal salary of Yan Song and Yan Shifan. Even if you add rewards or something, it will still take a lot of effort to get it. come out.
Of course, six thousand taels of silver, theoretically speaking, would definitely be taxing for the Xu family.
If you don't sell your property and you can easily take out the fines at will, wouldn't it prove that you are an uncorrupt official and will admit that you made personal gains when you inspected Taicang?
Therefore, it is necessary to sell off the property, not only to sell it, but also to sell it at a special price, so that everyone in the capital knows about it.
"You guys, please be careful. This is my dad's favorite bathtub. It was passed down from my grandfather. Lift it up and carry it to me along the streets ahead. I went around three times and they all yelled at me to sell. If I don’t have three hundred taels of silver, I won’t sell. "
Xu Fan, the eldest son of Xu Mansion, was in his early twenties. He was as tall and strong as an ox, but he also had a suave appearance. He stood on a table in the courtyard and directed the servants to gather. Objects and arrangements for sale.
"Brother, is my mentor here?"
This is what Zhu Ping'an saw when he entered the house. He stepped forward and bowed his hands to greet Xu Fan. Xu Fan is Xu Jie's eldest son. Zhu Ping'an has visited Xu Jie's house several times, so he naturally knows Xu Fan.
"Hey, Zi Hou is here, haha, come on, come on, my old man was talking about you just now. He said that you were fined one hundred and sixty taels of silver when you first came to the capital. I am worried about you. If he fails to get it together, he will be punished by the Holy Spirit. No, let me sell his most cherished bathtub. I’ll give you a hundred and ten taels of silver.”
Seeing Zhu Ping’an enter the house, Xu Fan’s face was full of smiles, and he jumped down from the table with great agility, and put his arms around him enthusiastically. On Zhu Pingan's shoulders, he held Zhu Pingan and walked towards the house while saying with a hearty smile. (End of this chapter)