Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Three
On that day, Luo Kecheng moored his boat and rushed back to Luo Gongming's mansion. Only the sailors and boatmen were left on board. When they arrived in the prosperous Kaifeng, most of these boatmen and sailors also went ashore to enjoy themselves, and only one old helmsman was left on board.
But that night, when several "married soldiers" of Wu Desi went to the pier to inspect an official ship that had been reported for smuggling, they found that there were a few vague figures on the ship, acting very sneakily. When they noticed, The figure on the boat seemed to be aware of it, and immediately disappeared in ambush.
Several relatives found out that the ship was the deputy envoy of Southeast Dongdao Transshipment, so they didn't dare to act rashly, so they reported the matter to their superior "Gan Dang Guan".The Department of Wu De was later the Department of the Imperial City, which directly belonged to the government. Its function was equivalent to that of the Jin Yiwei in the Ming Dynasty, but it did not have such a huge energy, and its main function was limited to the vicinity of Kaifeng.It was their job to inspect the officials in Beijing. The "official official" felt a little strange when he heard it. He ordered these "relatives" to secretly monitor the ship, and the next morning they sent the ship to the police station. The matter was reported to Zhao Kuangyin.
Zhao Kuangyin heard that the boat belonged to the son of Luo Gongming, the deputy envoy of the third division, and he didn't want to make a big move against such an important official in the court, but Luo Kecheng was a transit envoy.The financial power of the imperial court is in the hands of the three envoys, the financial power of the road is in the hands of the transshipment envoys, and the financial power of a state is in the hands of the state judges. They are all the gods of wealth of the imperial court. If they really do something that follows the law...
Zhao Kuangyin then ordered the "official officer" to find a way to search for the ship in Kecheng.The official went away according to the order, ordered a relative to pretend to be a fugitive and fled to the ship, and then took the opportunity to lead people across the ship to search for the "fugitive down". Unexpectedly, a large amount of spices and medicinal materials were found in the bilge , furs, etc., as well as a box of gems and northern beads.
After returning to Da Nei, Zhao Kuangyin was furious. He did not object to the officials asking for money, and encouraged them to buy land and fields, and raise prostitutes. However, a gentleman loves money and obtains it in a proper way. tolerated.The transshipment envoy is responsible for the finances along the way, and the taxes collected may be paid in kind, and the officials will collect points when passing through the customs.The main exports of the Song Dynasty were ceramics, silk, and tea, and the main imports were spices, grain, medicinal materials, fur, and jewelry.
The property stored on Luo Kecheng's ship is clearly the import goods that were intercepted privately during the tax collection. If the officials of the Wu De Department hadn't accidentally discovered it, they would have to wait until Luo Kecheng returned home and then delivered the official business to Yousi. There is no evidence to sell these properties in shops.
Moreover, there was a box of jewels on his boat, and it was not known which officials they were used to make friends with. The beads and fur... only came from the North Kingdom... What if this is not an ordinary smuggling?
Not long ago, Fu Tinghan, the military governor of Dizhou, and Mo Yan, the governor, were lured by spies and sentenced to flee to the North. Zhou Wei, the magistrate of Dizhou and You Zanshan doctor, found out in time, captured Fu Tinghan, and escorted him to Beijing. It was just two days ago He was convicted and executed, but Tiju Mo Yan managed to escape to the Northland, forcing him to make major adjustments to his military deployment near Dizhou.Luo Kecheng is the deputy envoy of Southeast Dongdao Transshipment, and Dizhou is under his jurisdiction. If Luo Kecheng also colludes with the Beiren...
The Luo family was a family of officials and eunuchs in the court. The eldest son, Luo Kecheng, served in the local government. As a general in the Imperial Army, and with the fact that the two daughters were also married to officials in the court, the power of the Luo family can be described as intricate. Although it is not obvious, it should not be underestimated.
Such a prominent family, logically speaking, has no reason to be willing to take risks to associate with the northerners, but there are signs, and the lessons learned by Fu Tinghan and Mo Yan, Zhao Kuangyin did not dare to be careless, and immediately ordered Luo Kecheng to be detained in Yushi Prison for investigation At the same time, he ordered the Imperial City Division to closely monitor all Luo Gongming's actions.
Luo Gongming is a high-ranking official who manages the finances of the imperial court. His son manages the finances of Dongnan East Road. Now his son is not only suspected of corruption, but also shows signs of having an affair with a northerner. Luo Gongming's position immediately becomes embarrassing.On the day Luo Kecheng was detained in Yushi Prison, Luo Gongming reported his illness and recuperated behind closed doors. Some well-known official colleagues believed that this was an unjust prison, so they came to visit without avoiding suspicion. No, let them all shut the door and go back.
For a while, rumors spread, and the entire imperial court was shaken...
Yang Hao knew nothing about it.He was so busy these two days that he rarely even went to "Ruxuefang".Zhao Guangyi invited the imperial decree to come back, and the fire watch towers and fire shops began to be built everywhere. Officials were selected from the Kaifeng mansion, and young, strong and flexible people were selected from the Xiang army to serve as shop soldiers. They purchased and built axes, saws, ropes, and water bags. , Waterwheel, these things he has to worry about. Moreover, Cheng Dexuan also ran into troublemakers. Those who refused to demolish illegal buildings were high-ranking officials. Cheng Dexuan was not stupid. No matter how loud the people scolded him, as long as he pleased the superiors, he would be happy and have a bright future. If he offended these high-ranking officials But there was no good fruit for him to eat. He immediately changed from a vanguard of demolition to a turtle with a shrinking head. He followed Yang Hao's butt every day to vomit bitterness and complain about grievances, and the progress of demolition stopped. Yang Hao didn't care about that, the more court officials he offended, the safer he would be, so he wasn't afraid that many of those dignitaries could go straight to heaven and speak ill of him.The more bad things he said, the softer the handle of the knife hanging over his head became, and he couldn't wish for it.Immediately, Yang Hao excitedly held the imperial decree that Zhao Guangyi invited back, rolled up his arms and sleeves and went into battle in person. Those dignitaries actually don't care much about the illegal construction and expansion of the firewood houses and garbage sheds that occupy the road. They just feel that their status is respected, and it is too shameful to be manipulated by others, so they want to make this tone. Now Cheng Dexuan is gone. But a Yang Hao came here. This Yang Hao brazenly tampered with the "Teacher's List" in front of the Golden Palace that day. He was arrogant and grandiose. He knows little about things in officialdom. But in the face of these tricky nail households, when the smart people can't do anything, the method that this big stick came up with is more effective than anyone else. Everywhere he goes, he directly confesses the imperial decree, and then directs people to pull firewood, Pushing the garbage house, the manager of your house is determined not to give face. If you surrender your status and come forward in person, you will act both hard and soft, and before you say anything that is neither yin nor yang, he will put the imperial decree on his head, making these officials Angry and funny. Who is willing to fight against such a scumbag, and this stunned young man will not give face no matter whether you are a high official or a small official, so the officials who were demolished in the first house are still furious, and then watch him demolish the second house. He is bigger than his own official, and he doesn't give face, but he is calm. Unexpectedly, Yang Hao has a great reputation among the people this time.Even those people who were ordered to rebuild their stoves or demolish the firewood sheds outside their small dwellings only scolded Cheng Dexuan and had a good impression of Yang Haoda.Originally, out of hatred for the rich, they felt relieved when they saw those high-ranking officials and dignitaries making their heads look ashamed in front of Yang Hao. In addition, their own sheds were demolished. Convinced? Cheng Dexuan has a prestige to these powerless ordinary people. At this time..., look, tsk tsk tsk, he still has to be stunned... especially this stunned man who took over the illegally built shack of the former prime minister Wang Pu's house They were all dismantled, no matter whether it was officials or civilians, who is still not convinced? Wang Pu was the founding prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and he was highly regarded by Zhao Kuangyin. At the beginning, he was offended by an idiot named Wang Yansheng, who was the founding general of the Song Dynasty.After Chen Qiao's mutiny, he was the first to go back to the city and killed Han Tong, the deputy commander of the guards and pro-army who was loyal to Emperor Zhou, and the patrol inspector in Beijing, and the great hero who prevented the armed resistance. But this scumbag killed Han Tong's whole family in one go, which violated Zhao Kuangyin's order of "no offense at all".That is to say, no matter how much he is an official, he will not be promoted to the position of Jiedushi. But in any case, he is one of Zhao Kuangyin's most trusted generals after all, and he is still reused. He was appointed as the commander of the left wing of the iron cavalry, and also inspected the capital to maintain law and order in the capital.As a result, one night after finishing the city tour, he ran to Wang Xianggong's house. Wang Pu was puzzled, and hurriedly got up to greet him. When he asked why, he said, "It's too hard to patrol the city. Someone came here to ask for a glass of wine." In fact, he came to ask for bribes, because Wang Pu was the prime minister in the Zhou Dynasty, and his relationship was incomparable. He is such a military general who has made great achievements.But Wang Pu just didn't understand, so he sent him out after drinking a few glasses of wine with him, and reported the matter to the emperor the next morning. Zhao Kuangyin was furious, and dismissed him from the post of patrol inspector in the capital, and dismissed him from the military post of commander of the left wing of the iron cavalry. He was released as an official and demoted to the governor of Tangzhou. Wang Pu's respect.In the past two years, Wang Yansheng has just been promoted again after hard work. He has become the defense envoy of Yuanzhou and border patrol, and is the general of the northwest frontier defense.However, his official promotion has come to the end, because Zhao Kuangyin has said that in this life, he will never be promoted to a high-ranking military commander in the Jiedushi. It is such a prime minister who is highly valued by the officials, Yang Hao is not polite, and he dismantles what should be dismantled.When Cheng Dexuan went back and said it, even Zhao Guangyi broke into a cold sweat for him.However, I don't know that this Prime Minister Wang felt that he could pull a boat in his belly, so he was ashamed to be as knowledgeable as a little shrimp like him, but the next day Prime Minister Wang didn't even go to the court to find the emperor to sue him.Zhao Kuangyin was not ignorant of what Yang Hao did to Yang Hao through Wu Desi, but Zhao Kuangyin pretended to be confused if Wang Pu didn't come. As a result, everyone thought that Yang Hao had stabbed a hornet's nest this time, and he would have to peel off his skin if he didn't die. But the next morning, he was still wandering around the city of Tokyo, holding an imperial decree in his left hand and a brush in his right. If you write the word "demolition" on the place you touch, you will be ordered to demolish it without delay. This kind of integrity without fear of power made the civil servants and scholars who looked down on him look at him with admiration. For a while, "there was a strong order in ancient times, but today Yang was forcibly demolished" became a good talk in Bianliang.
Yang Hao knew nothing about it.He was so busy these two days that he rarely even went to "Ruxuefang".Zhao Guangyi invited the imperial decree to come back, and the fire watch towers and fire shops began to be built everywhere. Officials were selected from the Kaifeng mansion, and young, strong and flexible people were selected from the Xiang army to serve as shop soldiers. They purchased and built axes, saws, ropes, and water bags. , Waterwheel, these things he has to worry about. Moreover, Cheng Dexuan also ran into troublemakers. Those who refused to demolish illegal buildings were high-ranking officials. Cheng Dexuan was not stupid. No matter how loud the people scolded him, as long as he pleased the superiors, he would be happy and have a bright future. If he offended these high-ranking officials But there was no good fruit for him to eat. He immediately changed from a vanguard of demolition to a turtle with a shrinking head. He followed Yang Hao's butt every day to vomit bitterness and complain about grievances, and the progress of demolition stopped. Yang Hao didn't care about that, the more court officials he offended, the safer he would be, so he wasn't afraid that many of those dignitaries could go straight to heaven and speak ill of him.The more bad things he said, the softer the handle of the knife hanging over his head became, and he couldn't wish for it.Immediately, Yang Hao excitedly held the imperial decree that Zhao Guangyi invited back, rolled up his arms and sleeves and went into battle in person. Those dignitaries actually don't care much about the illegal construction and expansion of the firewood houses and garbage sheds that occupy the road. They just feel that their status is respected, and it is too shameful to be manipulated by others, so they want to make this tone. Now Cheng Dexuan is gone. But a Yang Hao came here. This Yang Hao brazenly tampered with the "Teacher's List" in front of the Golden Palace that day. He was arrogant and grandiose. He knows little about things in officialdom. But in the face of these tricky nail households, when the smart people can't do anything, the method that this big stick came up with is more effective than anyone else. Everywhere he goes, he directly confesses the imperial decree, and then directs people to pull firewood, Pushing the garbage house, the manager of your house is determined not to give face. If you surrender your status and come forward in person, you will act both hard and soft, and before you say anything that is neither yin nor yang, he will put the imperial decree on his head, making these officials Angry and funny. Who is willing to fight against such a scumbag, and this stunned young man will not give face no matter whether you are a high official or a small official, so the officials who were demolished in the first house are still furious, and then watch him demolish the second house. He is bigger than his own official, and he doesn't give face, but he is calm. Unexpectedly, Yang Hao has a great reputation among the people this time.Even those people who were ordered to rebuild their stoves or demolish the firewood sheds outside their small dwellings only scolded Cheng Dexuan and had a good impression of Yang Haoda.Originally, out of hatred for the rich, they felt relieved when they saw those high-ranking officials and dignitaries making their heads look ashamed in front of Yang Hao. In addition, their own sheds were demolished. Convinced? Cheng Dexuan has a prestige to these powerless ordinary people. At this time..., look, tsk tsk tsk, he still has to be stunned... especially this stunned man who took over the illegally built shack of the former prime minister Wang Pu's house They were all dismantled, no matter whether it was officials or civilians, who is still not convinced? Wang Pu was the founding prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and he was highly regarded by Zhao Kuangyin. At the beginning, he was offended by an idiot named Wang Yansheng, who was the founding general of the Song Dynasty.After Chen Qiao's mutiny, he was the first to go back to the city and killed Han Tong, the deputy commander of the guards and pro-army who was loyal to Emperor Zhou, and the patrol inspector in Beijing, and the great hero who prevented the armed resistance. But this scumbag killed Han Tong's whole family in one go, which violated Zhao Kuangyin's order of "no offense at all".That is to say, no matter how much he is an official, he will not be promoted to the position of Jiedushi. But in any case, he is one of Zhao Kuangyin's most trusted generals after all, and he is still reused. He was appointed as the commander of the left wing of the iron cavalry, and also inspected the capital to maintain law and order in the capital.As a result, one night after finishing the city tour, he ran to Wang Xianggong's house. Wang Pu was puzzled, and hurriedly got up to greet him. When he asked why, he said, "It's too hard to patrol the city. Someone came here to ask for a glass of wine." In fact, he came to ask for bribes, because Wang Pu was the prime minister in the Zhou Dynasty, and his relationship was incomparable. He is such a military general who has made great achievements.But Wang Pu just didn't understand, so he sent him out after drinking a few glasses of wine with him, and reported the matter to the emperor the next morning. Zhao Kuangyin was furious, and dismissed him from the post of patrol inspector in the capital, and dismissed him from the military post of commander of the left wing of the iron cavalry. He was released as an official and demoted to the governor of Tangzhou. Wang Pu's respect.In the past two years, Wang Yansheng has just been promoted again after hard work. He has become the defense envoy of Yuanzhou and border patrol, and is the general of the northwest frontier defense.However, his official promotion has come to the end, because Zhao Kuangyin has said that in this life, he will never be promoted to a high-ranking military commander in the Jiedushi. It is such a prime minister who is highly valued by the officials, Yang Hao is not polite, and he dismantles what should be dismantled.When Cheng Dexuan went back and said it, even Zhao Guangyi broke into a cold sweat for him.However, I don't know that this Prime Minister Wang felt that he could pull a boat in his belly, so he was ashamed to be as knowledgeable as a little shrimp like him, but the next day Prime Minister Wang didn't even go to the court to find the emperor to sue him.Zhao Kuangyin was not ignorant of what Yang Hao did to Yang Hao through Wu Desi, but Zhao Kuangyin pretended to be confused if Wang Pu didn't come. As a result, everyone thought that Yang Hao had stabbed a hornet's nest this time, and he would have to peel off his skin if he didn't die. But the next morning, he was still wandering around the city of Tokyo, holding an imperial decree in his left hand and a brush in his right. If you write the word "demolition" on the place you touch, you will be ordered to demolish it without delay. This kind of integrity without fear of power made the civil servants and scholars who looked down on him look at him with admiration. For a while, "there was a strong order in ancient times, but today Yang was forcibly demolished" became a good talk in Bianliang.