Chapter 57 No matter how greedy Guo Huan is, it is not as profitable as Zhu Yuanzhang!
After saying this, as if to express how much doubt he had about this matter, Chen Han did not allow others to interrupt and said directly: "It is said that one day at the beginning of the 18th year of Hongwu's reign, I don't know whether Zhu Yuanzhang opened his eyes or was informed by the Jin Yiwei. Anyway, he felt that Li Yu and Zhao Quande, who were then the envoys of Chengxuan and Provincial Envoys of Beiping, and Zhao Quande, who had just been demoted to Guo Huan, the Minister of Household Affairs, was not a good person, so he issued an edict to investigate thoroughly.
In March of that year, Yu Min and Ding Ting, the censors, came to report - Your Majesty, you are really wise and powerful. As expected, Guo Huan colluded with Li Yu, Zhao Quande and others to commit corruption. The amount was huge and the circumstances were egregious. It can be said that it was the worst case since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The number one economic case.
So how big and bad is it?According to the investigation by Yu Min and others, Guo Huan mainly did the following bad things:
[-]. Privately embezzling the taxes of Taiping Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion and other mansions to reduce court taxation.
450. Privately embezzling the autumn grain in western Zhejiang. The autumn grain in western Zhejiang should have been handed over 200 million shi, but Guo Huan only handed in more than [-] million shi.
[-]. When collecting taxes, cleverly set up a name to collect various taxes such as water foot money, food money, treasury money, gods and Buddha money, etc., to fill private pockets.
After arduous calculations by Yu Min and others, they finally came to the conclusion that the total amount of corruption and bribery committed by Guo Huan amounted to 400 million shi of grain:
According to the record in "Da Gao·Guo Huan's Crime No. 40": "The grain he stole from the warehouse was said by the military guards that the three years' accumulation was sold short. If you want to list everything on the former list, I am afraid that the people will not believe it, but I will omit it. Write 700 million stone ears... converted into rice, the waste will be 400 million stone grains."
What is the concept of twenty-four million stone grain? In the year when Guo Huan's case occurred, the Ming Dynasty's annual official food income was only 80 million shi.
According to the records in the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Guo Huan was able to embezzle such huge amounts of money while serving as the Minister of Household Affairs for only eight months. Isn't it really incredible? Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Wu Yong, who was in charge of the interrogation department, to punish the criminal. At this time, it didn't matter whether it was true or random, he just pulled up the radish and brought up the mud.
Including Zhao Mao, the Minister of Rites, Wang Huidi, the Minister of Punishments, Wang Zhi, the Minister of War, and Mai Zhide, the Minister of Works, ranging from the six central ministries, to the chief envoys throughout the twelve provinces across the country, and down to the various prefectures and counties. A total of tens of thousands of officials were involved, and more than 1 of them were officials.
Zhu Yuanzhang also thought it was reasonable, so with a stroke of his pen, he not only beheaded tens of thousands of people, including the culprit Guo Huan, but also ordered the recovery of the stolen grain.
However, because he killed too many people and pursued them too hard, which caused a commotion in the world, Lao Zhu turned around and killed Wu Yong, the presiding judge of the case. As a result, the world was at peace and everyone was happy.
In fact, the Guo Huan case gives people a ridiculous and unreal feeling from beginning to end. Why? "
Just because the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was not only a sensible man, but also the most ruthless man in history.
Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a mere Guo Huan dared to commit such a major case under Lao Zhu's nose.
It can be said that during the Hongwu period, the entire world was under Lao Zhu's overlooking and monitoring all the might be overlooked that someone was doing some trivial tricks under his nose, but if Guo Huan really committed such a big death, and the eagle-eyed Lao Zhu actually found out three years after the incident, no matter the village chief, you Believe it or not, I don’t believe it anyway. "
Ling Han didn't believe it either.
At first, so many people thought there was a problem, but they couldn't resist Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife being too sharp.
No one dares to say more.
Today Chen Han is here to analyze, and he is lucky enough to hear it.
Chen Han's words seemed to have grown springs and he continued: "Guo Huan's political experience has not been recorded in history books, and his personal information is difficult to find out. But what can be confirmed is that in February of the fifth year of Hongwu, Guo Huan Huan was appointed as the fifth-rank Shanxi criminal prosecutor, Si Qianshi. He served as Shanxi's judicial officer for 12 years.
It was not until May of the 17th year of Hongwu that he was summoned to the capital by Lao Zhu Yizhi, and he became the Minister of the Ministry of of all, 12 years of experience as a judicial officer means that even if Guo Huan had been a people-friendly official and had contact with financial and economic affairs before, when he was transferred to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he would inevitably be unfamiliar with the business and unfamiliar with related affairs.
Therefore, it is hard to imagine that under such circumstances, Guo Huan could skillfully mobilize various resources and commit such huge corruption in just eight months. Even an old official who has been working in the Ministry of Revenue all his life could not It's hard to do.
Secondly, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the three-division system in the local area. At the same time, in order to weaken the local power, Lao Zhu also repeatedly issued edicts strictly prohibiting the collusion of the three envoys and divisions. It is best to only manage their own business and never interact with each other until death. OK
In this case, Guo Huan, who has been a judicial officer for 12 years, may be quite familiar with his colleagues in other provinces and the central Ministry of Justice, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other institutions, but he wants to establish contacts and establish relationships in the financial and economic fields early. It's basically impossible.
This also means that when this guy wants to commit corruption, it is very difficult to find even a few trustworthy accomplices or helpers.
Finally, and the most important point is that it is true that the Ministry of Household Affairs is very important and the Minister of Household Affairs has a high position, but how much authority can the leader who comes from the air have to do?How many subordinate officials will obey orders honestly?
After all, Lao Zhu stipulates that anyone who embezzles more than 60 taels will be beheaded.
The previous Hu Weiyong case was the same as before. When the smell of blood among officials in the world can still be smelled, who dares to follow a parachuted leader to do such a big thing? Official position is important, money is tempting, but life is more precious.
If Guo Huan engaged in unscrupulous large-scale corruption under such circumstances, the first person to report it might be his subordinates in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who had no prestige in the first place, was able to collude with tens of thousands of people to embezzle the official grain of the Ming Dynasty for a year-if this is true, I can only think that Guo Huan is a god.
To sum up, Guo Huan may have financial problems and his hands and feet are not very clean, but he wants to embezzle a year's official grain of the Ming Dynasty under the nose of Lao Zhu, the most ruthless person in history. There is basically nothing he can do. sex.
If he really did this and succeeded, there is only one possibility: Lao Zhu was fishing.
So why did Lao Zhu concoct a "Guo Huan case"? "
Ling Han was fascinated by what he heard. This analysis seemed to make sense.
They were all surprised at first. Guo Huan was really a great man. He united with so many people to embezzle the country's grain tax for a year. Even if he died, he would still be considered a great man.
But now listening to Chen Han's analysis, he also feels that it is full of funny and illogical things.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face looked calm, but his heart was really turbulent.
It is estimated that in the end, an idea will form in the head - this guy knows so much, what kind of knife should we use to chop him into pieces.
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