Chapter 180 Grace is added
"For those profiteers who made money from the country and hoarded food to raise food prices maliciously during the food shortage, and even profiteers who sold mixed soil, mold and bran, all shops and warehouses were confiscated, their properties were confiscated, and all these profiteers were exiled to Lingnan. "
"For those hamsters who dare to guard themselves or steal food in collusion with outside thieves, they will all be exiled and their property will be confiscated!"
"For those scoundrels who steal and rob, kidnap and extort, and force people into prostitution, all property will be confiscated and exiled!"
In various prisons, there are more than 10,000 detainees. Qin Lang demands that these people be tried and sentenced quickly and dealt with strictly. However, in the end, he proposed to be exiled in the process of beheading many newspapers.
One beheaded head is gone, life is gone, and there is no chance like before.
Instead of being exiled, it also gave them a chance to reform themselves. On the other hand, in this era, people are also precious resources, killing and wasting.
During three days, tens of thousands of people in the Zhen Fu Division worked overtime and stayed up all night for quick trials. Those who were arrested were almost tried.
After the trial, there was another round of ransacking and confiscation. This time, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and countless money and silk were confiscated.
The money, silk and food confiscated by the Fusi of the town were piled up in countless warehouses.
The recorded case files are piled up like a mountain.
Qin Lang has been urging to speed up. He doesn't know how efficient Baiqi is, and he doesn't know how many days he can be a town care envoy, but he hopes that he can handle this case to a similar degree before he leaves office.
These days, many people come to Qin Lang every day, including princes and nobles, wealthy businessmen, and even relatives of the emperor, but Qin Lang never sees them.
He knew that many of the people he arrested were lackeys of those people, working for them, and many of the food and supplies he seized belonged to them.
But Qin Lang did not hesitate to offend others.
Chang'an is now a city on top of a volcano that is about to erupt. Food may run out at any time, and a famine may occur. If we really want to reach that point, I don't know how many people will starve to death.
At this time, you can't just think about making money.
You can’t make money against your conscience.
He suggested that Li Shimin start to evacuate those poor people in advance, those who have no food reserves to leave Beijing, and even suggested to Li Shimin to withdraw some soldiers who had entered Beijing to return to their hometowns to reduce the population of Chang'an.
Suggest Li Shimin and the court to go to Luoyang.
But until now, I haven't seen any movement.
He was supposed to be busy leaving Guanzhong for food, but the emperor was busy asking him to clean up the rebellious party, and busy adjusting Chang'an's security forces at this time.
Qin Lang didn't understand why Li Shimin made such a choice, and he couldn't change him, he could only do what he could.
Take some food from the tiger's mouth, as much as you can.
Once taken out, it will not be returned.
He privately distributes food to his subordinates, one is self-defilement, and the other is that these 30,000 people are the most important security force in Chang'an City. Famine threatens so they can exert their strength.
Wei Chang, Liu Jiu, Wu Guang and others all suggested that those culprits should be beheaded.
Not beheading is not enough to deter people.
But Qin Lang still insisted on sentencing them to exile.
Although more than 10,000 people were arrested, Qin Lang insisted not to kill any of them, and exiled them all for three thousand miles, exiled to Lingnan, Dunhuang, or Western Liaoning.
On the other hand, although these people were not killed, they were very ruthless towards their family members. The more serious criminals all confiscated their property, even if it was only a few serious crimes, Qin Lang issued a severe fine.
Qin Lang played to the emperor, requesting the enlistment of yamen servants, or Fan Shangfu soldiers to **** these prisoners to exile.
Eastern Palace.
The atmosphere of today's court meeting is a little tense.
The emperor kept a gloomy face, and the prime ministers and political participants all felt the emperor's anger.
"I can't imagine that the most benevolent place under the feet of the emperor is now a place where filth is hidden. It is full of snakes, rats, insects and ants. The people of Chang'an are crying for food shortages every day. The price of food is increasing day by day. There is no market for food. We tried our best to transfer grain to Beijing from all over the place, but every time the grain entered Beijing, it was like a mud cow entering a river.”
"I only now know that there are so many rats stealing food, and so many unscrupulous businessmen making disaster fortunes. Qin Lang took some mouse nests and copied hundreds of thousands of grains!"
"What a staggering number!"
Investigating the case of the second king's treason, found tens of thousands of stones of grain, this is not enough to drive Li Shimin crazy, after all, many princes and nobles were seized, so it is understandable to copy some stored grain.
But now Qin Lang took advantage of the situation and made great strides. He investigated the underground black market, investigated hamster profiteers, and found hundreds of thousands of stone grains in a few days. This is too much.
Not to mention, so many thieves and rioters who committed crimes have been found out.
The whole of Chang'an seems to be full of traitors and villains.
"I have never seen such a brazen person!"
Secretary supervisor, admonishment doctor, counselor Wei Zhengjuhu.
"Your Majesty, I impeached Qin Lang, the governor of the town, and privately distributed more than 30,000 shi of the country's grain. It is a bold and heinous crime!"
Li Shimin was angry, and stared at Wei Zheng's impeachment angrily, "I'm talking about those rats now, but you're here to impeach my royal cat?"
"Your Majesty, merit is merit and demerit is demerit. It is true that Qin Lang has contributed to the investigation of the case, but he took advantage of his position to privately distribute the country's food. This is a demerit. This is corruption and dereliction of duty!"
Pingzhang Shi Qin Qiong stepped forward, "I have no way to teach my son, please forgive me!"
Li Shimin's tone softened a bit, "Shubao, get up first, this matter has nothing to do with you."
Qin Lang privately distributed and seized food, this is nothing new, even if he did not report himself to Baiqi anonymously, the food distribution operation involving more than 30,000 people would definitely not be concealed.
At this moment, food is an incomparably precious material, and no one will keep an eye on it.
Zhen Fusi copied hundreds of thousands of shi grains at a time, no one is jealous, everyone pays attention to it, at this time Qin Lang privately distributed tens of thousands of shi grains to his subordinates, others are both envious and jealous.
It's just that although some people are envious, they are afraid of Qin Lang's favor, so they didn't impeach him immediately.
Baiqi was the first to secretly report to the emperor, but when Li Shimin found out, he just sent Baiqi to investigate secretly, and did not make any noise. Only Wei Zheng, a king like Wei Zheng, didn't care about Qin Lang's help to him, and directly staged an impeachment in the palace up.
Li Shimin doesn't want to talk about Qin Lang's corruption and dereliction of duty now, what he cares about now is why there doesn't seem to be a good person in Chang'an City?
The clan generals rebelled before, and now Qin Lang has arrested tens of thousands of people from Chang'an.
But Wei Zheng is not forgiving.
I want a statement today.
He also said that food is not just as simple as food. It is an important material that is related to the stability of Chang'an and the support of the people. Therefore, anything related to food is a major national event.
"I request that Qin Lang be investigated for his crimes, and immediately strengthen control over the grain in Chang'an. For the grain in the warehouses of the grain merchants, the government should buy rice and then sell it to the people at a fair price to solve the current food shortage problem. For the grain merchants who do not buy when the market is closed , especially the unscrupulous grain merchants who deliberately stockpile, will be dealt with severely..."
Qin Qiong begged again.
"I have no way to teach my son. The dog has failed His Majesty's trust. I request to remove the dog from his post and let him go home to punish the crime. I also ask you to resign from the title of Pingzhang Shi and go home to punish the crime!"
Li Shimin said with some dissatisfaction, "This matter is not as serious as what Wei Zheng said. Huailiang is my son-in-law, and he is also a hero of Jingchao. Sometimes he doesn't know how to do things, this is also the lesson he didn't read, what's more, I heard that Qin Lang only gave himself two stones of grain, not much, can two stones of grain be called corruption?"
"In the year of the catastrophe this year, Qin Lang not only voluntarily waived the rent adjustment of 1,000 households, but also handed over a lot of money to the court. Therefore, it is unreasonable for Wei Zheng to impeach Qin Lang for corruption. As for malfeasance ?Qin Lang uncovered the treason case of Li Youliang and Li Xiaochang in a short period of time. Could it be dereliction of duty? Now that so many rats, profiteers and rogues have been found out, is this dereliction of duty? If this is also dereliction of duty, then the entire imperial court is dereliction of duty. No one has looked into this before."
"I heard that in order to investigate the case, more than 30,000 people from Qin Lang and the Zhenfu Division worked day and night without sleep. Everyone stayed up all night to investigate the case. Is it too much?"
After talking for a long time, Li Shimin defended Qin Lang in every possible way, thinking that Qin Lang was not guilty, it was just some minor flaws in his work, not subjective intentional corruption and dereliction of duty.
"I now decree that for the Zhen Fusi who worked hard to handle the case, officials of the fifth rank and above will be rewarded with 20 shi of food, each of the officials below the fifth rank will be rewarded with 10 shi, and the 7th and above will be rewarded with 10 shi. The rest of the people will each be rewarded with two stones. For the governor Qin Lang, I will reward him with a hundred stones of food and a thousand bolts of silk."
Wei Zheng retorted to the emperor unconvinced.
"Whether Qin Lang did it intentionally or not, his actions violated the legal system. His Majesty did not punish him according to the system, but rewarded him instead. Is this to connive at other courtiers who will also dereliction of duty and break the law in the future?"
"People are spiritual. I gave Qin Lang this silk food, which is better than punishment for him. When he receives this food, he will be ashamed, and he will understand the mistakes he made. In the future, he will know how to avoid mistakes. These mistakes."
"I cannot agree with your Majesty's words!" Wei Zheng said.
Li Shimin glared at Wei Zheng, "Wei Zheng, I always believe that those loyal ministers who are serious about their affairs should be encouraged and tolerant. Qin Lang is loyal and diligent, so he should be treated differently."
"But what if Qin Lang didn't feel ashamed, but instead was indulged?" Wei Zheng asked.
"If Qin Lang doesn't feel ashamed and doesn't know how to criticize, then he is no different from a beast, and it's useless if you kill him!"
Facing the emperor's deliberate protection, Wei Zheng jumped angrily, but there was nothing he could do.
"Qin Lang made great contributions and made small mistakes, the court should reward his contributions and forgive his mistakes. If everyone is like Wei Zheng who blindly stares at his ministers' mistakes but does not reward them, then who will dare to work for the court in the future?" Li Shimin made a final decision.
(end of this chapter)