Chapter 54 Wu Shilian's Despair and Hope

After Wu Shilian heard about the great disaster in the court, he was extremely happy.

He naturally had to measure how much loss the Ming Dynasty had in order to bargain.

Wu Shilian saw the situation of disaster victims everywhere in Zhejiang, but overall, Zhejiang was not deeply affected. The real serious areas are along the Yangtze River.

But what Wu Shilian saw, he didn’t know whether to be happy or sad.

As soon as the disaster occurred, Li Xian handled it appropriately, exempting most of the money and grain in Jiangnan and asking Cao Nai to take charge of disaster relief affairs. Wu Shilian looked at the list at the yamen, and saw clearly how the court reduced money and grain, and where to receive disaster relief grain, etc.

What surprised Wu Shilian even more was that there was a Ming Pao on the list. He wrote down all the things that the capital had been written a month ago.

The biggest thing now is the disaster situation and disaster relief in various provinces. There have been various discussions with disaster relief. Some people even suggest that they take grain to the Imperial College again.

Naturally, some people have a clear stand against it.

Wu Shilian had never seen it before. It was not that he didn't know about the diary, but he had never seen the diary in this situation.

Various list documents were posted on the walls on both sides of the yamen, just like the newspaper columns in later generations. This was not a rare thing. When Emperor Taizu was the emperor, he made special regulations.

When the imperial court has an imperial edict, it must be made public. Any new laws must be made public before they can be considered legally effective.

He had known this a long time ago.

But I just found out the contents of Ming Pao.

He immediately collected Mingbao from all walks of life.

Although Ming Pao is not fixed, it is only available for every five days, and there are many publications since last year. After reading it overnight, Wu Shilian felt a little cold.

He said secretly: "The Northern Dynasty is truly unmatched."

There are several hot issues from mid-year to the present. The first is the repair of the Ming Dynasty Congregation, which competed for the initiative in reform for Zhu Qizhen. The second is Xu Youzhen cleared the accumulated cases.

Because Xu Youzhen was promoted to the post of Ming Pao, he quickly understood the usage of Ming Pao, so he packaged his cleaning activities of the Ministry of Justice and put them all on Ming Pao.

This is also the reason why many people don’t know how to use it.

Of course, Xu Youzhen did not do nothing. The cleanup of cases itself and Xu Youzhen's behavior of clearing the Ministry of Justice's control are mutually exaggerated.

Just think about it, how could the court not hold the case accountable after Xu Youzhen extinguished the previous unjust case? Who handled the case and who involved it?

So, so on.

There are no unjust dead ghosts in that temple gate? Under Zhu Qizhen's repeated actions of cleaning up the officialdom, the overall atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty is still OK.

But specifically, there is no guarantee that there is no unjust case.

There are naturally countless people who are calling for justice in the prison of the Ministry of Justice. If you keep a careful investigation, how can you not gain anything?

As for Xu Youzhen's character, let's not talk about it for now, he is definitely a capable person. After peeling off his own tricks, he turned many cases back.

For a time, officials who implicated the Ministry of Justice and even the places in the case also dismissed one after another.

The various hills of the Ministry of Justice naturally knew what to do. While Xu Youzhen was completely in charge of the Ministry of Justice, he also issued more than a dozen counter-case records of unjust cases. Suddenly, everyone in the world regarded Xu Youzhen as the contemporary Bao Qingtian.

Many people even think that there are wronged people, stop Xu Youzhen's carriage and call for justice.

However, the most important thing for Xu Youzhen was to propose to the court to abolish the clerks of the Ministry of Justice and establish a special criminal school to investigate cases.

The main reason is that he realized that most of the officials in the Ministry of Justice are actually good. Under the official atmosphere, few people take the initiative to deal with unjust cases.

Some of them are lacking in ability and cannot see the following tricks.

There are more people who are deceived by clerks.

Moreover, Xu Youzhen could see that Zhu Qizhen seemed to be intentional about using students from various schools to replace clerks. After all, all the clerks in Shuntian Prefecture are all childless students, and they have been serving as children for many years.

Over the years, Shuntian Prefecture has gathered more people due to the industrial expansion of the Shaofu and the political role of the capital. However, Shuntian Prefecture is still the richest government office in the world. In addition to land taxes, the silver price is about 100,000 taels.

It is precisely because of this 100,000 taels that Shuntian Mansion can do many things with its ability, such as repairing roads in the city, cleaning sewers, building canals outside the city, and subsidizing some water conservancy projects in Shuntian Mansion.

It is not the prosperity of Shuntian Prefecture, it is really comparable to Nanjing and Suzhou, but the system established by Zhu Qizhen through Yu Qian has already had his vitality.

Of course, the same problem is that Shuntian Prefecture is also the government office that feeds the most officials. In the establishment of Shuntian Prefecture, there are more than 2,000 officials who receive salaries.

Many people don’t understand whether this pattern is good or bad.

It looks good, but not every place is from Shuntian Prefecture. The salary of the officials alone is as much as 10,000 or 20,000 taels per year.

But Xu Youzhen knew that he had already been on the emperor's ship, so he naturally had to go to the emperor's favor.

After Xu Youzhen, most court officials knew how to use Ming Pao. At that time, the content on Ming Pao was extremely chaotic, but at the end of last year, it focused on the Battle of Annan.

Among them, there are many articles that have been punished by Annan and I don’t know how many articles are there to attack Annan.

After Xu Youzhen, many small officials learned to figure out the emperor's meaning. After all, the emperor's hostility towards Annan was discovered by outsiders when they were very young.

They naturally know what to say.

But soon, at the beginning of this year, the topic of Annan was overwhelmed by the topic of disaster relief. Until now.

After reading it, Wu Shilian felt a sense of frustration.

If ordinary people may see the gap, but Wu Shilian was the leader of Annan Shilin, a first-class expert, and a historian highly praised by Vietnamese in later generations.

There are still some skills to know the difference.

There are all kinds of arguments in Ming Pao, but no response from the emperor, you can see that His Majesty is now generous and good at accepting advice.

Moreover, although Wu Shilian tasted some other tastes about Xu Youzhen's resolving the accumulated cases of the Ministry of Justice, he could see that this was a manifestation of the Ming Dynasty's political clarity.

In Annan's situation, are there still few things committed by the children of the great nobles? Why have you never seen anyone overturn the case? These cases even involve many people with backstages, and Xu Youzhen still brought it to justice.

What made Wu Shilian even more desperate was disaster relief.

Wu Shilian originally thought that large-scale natural disasters would make the Ming Dynasty anxious and relax the treatment of Annan. Annan's intention to pray for peace could be achieved.

But I saw the Ming Dynasty's relief funds and the money and funds distributed for disaster relief.

This number is a number that the Annan court dared not imagine, at least it exceeded tens of millions of stones.

Although the Red River Delta in Annan is a grain production place, the Annan court did not have much food in its hands. This happened in history during the reign of Li Shengzong.

There were six grain transport ships in Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty. They encountered a storm and deviated from the route. They ran to Annan, and were then caught by the Annan people.

After discussing the matter, Li Shengzong finally decided to detain the six ships and turn the boatman on the six ships into Annan's Tunding.

There are many such treatments here, but the historical books specifically explain the food locations of these six ships. It also solves the problem of military rations in the later Li Dynasty at that time.

Not to mention how much grain can be reproduced on the six ships, generally speaking, it is only more than ten thousand stones.

For the Ming Dynasty, it was a drop in the bucket, but in Annan it was an unforgivable wealth.

The financial and material resources of the two countries can be seen in comparison.

Although Wu Shilian had no real power in the Annan court, he was also a high-ranking official and knew very well about Annan's internal situation. Therefore, when he saw the amount of food used for disaster relief in the Ming Dynasty, his first feeling was that it was impossible, and the second feeling was that it was despair.

He forced himself to make a fuse and said intimately: "Even if the Northern Dynasties have such national strength, this flood will consume a lot. I will quickly arrive at the capital and reach an agreement with the Ming Dynasty before the disaster has passed."

As for the Ming Dynasty's inability to perfectly provide relief to this flood, it was something Wu Shilian had never thought about.

It would be strange if the cost was so much that it would be enough to fight a war to destroy the country.
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