The Ming Dynasty's law has reached a meticulous level of control over officials. In order to prevent officials from communicating with the outside world and betraying the law, the law stipulates that all county officials must live in the yamen and must not leave the yamen without authorization. Anyone who dares to live in the houses of the streets will be 80 stole.

The law also stipulates the number of houses to be lived in at all levels: ten magistrates, eight county magistrates, seven magistrates, seven magistrates, six magistrates, and forty magistrates. Later, as more officials in each county became more and more officials, the houses would be damaged, so there was no way to live in so many people. Since the Wanli period, it has become a trend for officials not to live in the yamen.

In fact, if officials want to bend their own interests, they cannot stop them even if they are imprisoned. Therefore, the crown prince does not attach much importance to this rule and does not require it in the local official function manual. However, this law is indeed a valid law, and according to what Zhu Yuanzhang said: It will not be easy forever.

Wu Sunchang was not from a family of officials, otherwise there would have been a senior in his family to give him guidance. At this moment, he heard that Shangguan wanted to use this to cure him, so he was so angry that his hands and feet were cold and almost collapsed.

The punishment of whipping is the most magical punishment. Some people suffered a hundred blows, and their skin was blooming and they were terrible. They could go to the ground to run when they got home; some people only ate twice, but they did not see any bleeding in the skin, but were "weak" and were beaten to death.

With the current attitude of Kunshan County, Wu Sunchang really dared not take this "eighty stick" forcefully.

"What you said is true!" Wu Sunchang asked.

The Zaoli said with a bitter face: "I dare not deceive the third master."

"He ate our wine, and if it is spread, he will be excluded by others." Lu Wei whispered: "Brother Wu, you still have to make an idea about this matter."

It turned out that this Zao Li was the most greedy person. Lu Wei and Yang Xiang were unwilling to be excluded, so they chose their preferences and used wine to attract him. Unexpectedly, he accidentally leaked his mouth and informed Yang Xiang and Lu Wei of the plan of the eldest and second masters. This was also the wholeheartedness of the Kunshan County Government, so the matter was not confidential, and unexpectedly, it was leaked.

Seeing that the two young people knew to find a breakthrough, they were also a material that could be made. Wu Sunchang immediately became confident and said, "It is not difficult to solve this matter. As long as we move back to the yamen, they can't get the old accounts. You go out first, don't tell others."

The Zaoli ran away quickly after receiving a general amnesty.

Wu Sunchang leaned out and looked out. He closed the door and lowered his voice, "But he may not be plotted against by others in the future."

"That's right." Lu Wei said in a deep voice: "They deliberately did not arrange a lodging for us. It turned out that they were calling so careful!"

"Brother Wu, what to do in the future is up to you to get a note." Yang Xiang said: "I discussed with Lu Wei and went to Shangguan to talk, but I was afraid that this would happen. Instead, I would not be able to do anything."

"That's the reason." Wu Sunchang actually wanted to find Shangguan, but Yang Xiang said it in front of him, so he naturally didn't dare to say it again. He pondered for a moment and said, "You two have nothing to do these days, right?"

"They didn't let me see anything." Lu Wei said angrily: "I said I was going to take the opportunity to take the exam, but I never even saw the account book."

Wu Sunchang paced in the room, and after a few rounds, he finally said, "I have it!"

"Brother, please tell me!" The two of them had their eyes lit up at the same time.

"Although we can't see the account books, guess whether the Jiliu warehouse is short of food?" Wu Sunchang asked.

Since the reign of Taizu, each county established Jiliu Warehouse. The initial purpose was to provide disaster relief and famine prevention. Therefore, each county had to set up four townships in the southeast, west and northeast to reserve enough grain for two years. Chengzu once asked to move the warehouse into the county, but it was left alone. In this world, which county can have two years of reserve grain? Even in Huguang, the grain stored in Jiliu Warehouse was mostly resold and embezzled by officials.

"He is unkind, I am unrighteous." Wu Sunchang said: "Just expose this. The more the noise, the better. We are the officials from the north, so what are you afraid of with the support of His Royal Highness behind the crown prince!"

“That’s right!”

Lu Wei and Yang Xiang were originally learning with Yi Zhancai, but they were thrown on the bench. Shangguan was still deliberately trying to make them suffer, so how can the two young men with strong energy be able to bear it!

Although Wu Sunchang was full of confidence, he still had to act cautiously. He first transferred the relationship between Lu Wei and Yang Xiang from the county to his subordinates, then pretended to customize the house number, and then started walking around the streets. It seemed like he wanted to do the job of registering households and alleys.

The magistrate failed in one move, and he was not in a hurry. Anyway, according to the rules in the yamen, Cheng Wen would take to report the progress of the major events in 20 days, so that he would not be afraid of not finding any mistakes and making them wrong.

However, he did not expect that Wu Sunchang had no intention of waiting for twenty days.

On February 26, the 20th year of Chongzhen, an article revealing the complete lack of Jiliu Cang, Kunshan County appeared in "Quyuan Zatan".

Because this newspaper was originally a "tabble", it was naturally full of imaginary literary stories. For example, how the local people were unable to eat enough and not wear warm, and were eager to open a warehouse to help the people, and how the magistrate looked lonely and cold, but behind it, he divided it up with grain merchants, exchanging old grain for new grain that should be put into the warehouse.

"Quyuan Zatan", which has never participated in public opinion to attack the crown prince, has sufficient layout to exaggerate the matter, and has enough manpower to track and report it, pulling out the magistrate's human-machine relationship network, and finally using a full page space, only one sentence was printed: This gentle and scum is a sinner who is Donglinye! Not Donglinye?

It can be said that it was normal public opinion, but the last sentence was put on the sign of party struggles. Qingliu, who originally wanted to turn a blind eye to this, had to look back and write an article pointing out that this person is a scum who is hiding in the Qingliu team.

With this footnote, the gunmen of the Donggong system naturally have to follow up. He flew into the waters and said: How many officials in the southeast are not Donglin? Are they all real Donglin? Are they all sneaking in to get capital?

Many people were trapped in this unidentified remark. Unexpectedly, supporting such remarks is self-provement that Donglin has a party!

A gentleman is a group but not a party. Since you form a party, you are a villain. If you are a villain, you should die!

This principle can’t be explained anywhere!

Gao Hongtu hurriedly came out to express his identity: Donglin said that I was a Qi Party! So don’t get me wrong. Although I am not a Qi Party, I am really not a Donglin.

Zhang Shenyan had to come out to argue: At the beginning of Donglin, there were only gentlemen, but no party. He introduced Zhao Nanxing and others to the court to choose gentlemen for the court. Some people used the name of their ancestors to establish their own party. This is a hypocrite! Since they were hypocrites, they should be caught and beaten to the ground and kicked. Of course, they should also prevent the false accusations of eunuchsmen, so the matter of Jiliu Cang in Kunshan should be investigated in detail.

After reading the article published by Zhang Shenyan under his real name, Zhu Cilang couldn't help but sigh that Jiang was the old man's spoil. Originally, the case of Jiliu Cang in Kunshan was the first move of the Eastern Palace to counterattack, which was equivalent to stabbing a knife from Qingliu's back and making a bloody mouth. He introduced the war of saliva into the political performance and used solid evidence to overthrow Qingliu's so-called "Crown Prince to appoint private individuals and trust the eunuch party" before.

By the way, Jiangnan Shilin can also claim to be "a party" so that the East Palace can successfully occupy the moral commanding heights.

However, Zhang Shenyan was able to grasp the root cause and directly break the problem of "having a party" and then lead the topic back to the case of Jiliu Cang in Kunshan. It can be expected that this Kunshan magistrate has already been abandoned. After this abandoned child was beaten and eaten, some people should also seek peace.

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"This must be the good thing that the three officials from the north did!" Kunshan County had red eyes, ferocious expressions, and tremble hands - this was because he was fantasizing about how to hold a sharp blade in his hand, cut Wu Sunchang and three others into pieces, and eat their flesh and blood!

The county magistrate was also haggard and said, "They were appointed officials of the court and could not be punished."

"I wish I could eat my flesh and sleep with my skin!" Kunshan County pounded heavily on the desk: "They want me to die, and I will bring a cushion even if I die! When the Censorate Procuratorate comes, I will die with them!"

"The county magistrate, it's not enough." The county magistrate was also shocked by the madness: corruption and dereliction of duty did not cause major civil rebellion, nor did he spare human lives. At most, it would be a punishment for dismissal. If he killed the imperial court official, it would be a death sentence.

"There is another way now..."

"Speak quickly!" Kunshan County seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and stepped forward and grabbed the county magistrate's pulse. Suddenly, the corner of his mouth was grinning, and tears flowed: "Save my life, I will give you the tablet of immortality in the future."

"County Master..." The county magistrate patted Kunshan County's hand in emotion and said to himself: Your nails have pinched my flesh... Oh my, it's all bleeding!

"County Master, don't worry." The county magistrate pulled Kunshan County's hand: "You see, there is no evidence in this newspaper. It is obviously a falsification of the eunuch party accusing the loyal and the good guys!"

"But they want to see the warehouse. Now in the warehouse... Wuwuwu, where is there any food?"

The county magistrate naturally knew that he was one of the links of sharing the money, and if the magistrate fell, he would not be able to remove it completely.

"If they come to inspect the warehouse, so what if there is grain in the warehouse!" said the county magistrate.

"Then...where...where...where did that come from the grain?" Kunshan County stopped crying and asked in a low voice.

"Jiebei." said the county magistrate: "There is no grain in Jiliu Warehouse, and are there no grain merchants? There is no grain merchant? If these grains are borrowed, not to mention two years of use, it will be enough for ten years."

The current population has more than doubled compared to the country at the beginning. Kunshan County knows that filling four warehouses cannot last for two years. However, if the four warehouses are full, others have nothing to say. If they insist on "two years" to make a fuss, it will only make the political enemy unreasonable and disrupt the problem.

"But, the spring famine is coming soon. When the food price rises, who will still borrow it?" The magistrate was not stupid, and he asked for advice in a low voice with red eyes.

Spring seems full of vitality and is filled with the joy of labor everywhere. However, in this era, the spring famine is very cruel. The food stored in winter is almost finished, but the seeds and grains must not be moved. At the same time, it has to face heavy farm work and must add more food.

At this time, let alone tenant farmers and self-cultivated farmers, even some small landlords have to go out to borrow usury.

If the government borrows grain, it will definitely not pay interest. Those grain merchants and big farmers will lose five or seven dou after lending one stone of grain. They are not their own fathers, who is willing to do it?
Chapter completed!