The subordinate officer is wronged.”
“We and others are unjustly accused.”
Yan Song’s words just fell, the hall under the trial of Taicang successive officials, check the library royal historian as well as kneeling on the ground of the treasury soldiers, accountants, cooks and other people have shouted in vain.
“Injustice? You guys still have the face to cry injustice! Really angry old man! According to the Taicang account, the Taicang silver storehouse should have 2,127,200 taels of silver and 720,000 taels of gold; why was it that when the storehouse was inventoried yesterday, the Taicang silver storehouse only had 1,237,250 taels of silver and 3,066,500 taels of gold? How to deposit silver, gold and big account can not match? Where did the eight hundred and eighty-nine thousand nine hundred and fifty taels of silver and four hundred thousand taels of gold go? Not you guys, does it mean that they ran away by their own long legs?!”
Yan Song’s face was blue, his face was grim, and he looked angrily straight at the officials under the hall, a heavier majesty, and his voice was cold and oozing, and every word seemed to be transformed into a hilt of flying daggers with cold light, and it was straightly inserted into the hearts of the people under the hall who were being interrogated.
“That is Zhu Pingan deliberately few gold and silver, framing us.”Taicang Zhao Langzhong stalked his neck and said.
“Pavilion Elder clearly sees that it was Zhu Pingan who framed us.”Several people under the hall followed closely and chimed in.
“How dare you!”Yan Song’s anger intensified at his words, lashing out, reaching out and pointing at Bone Shopper Zhao and the others, he angrily rebuked, “You still want to argue when it comes to this! Really don’t know how to live! At that time followed the inspector Zhu Pingan together with the inventory, not only have Ru Taicang officials, in addition to the East Chamber of the people on the side of the monitoring, each box of gold and silver are verified, recorded. The final statistics, is also by your warehouse accountant to participate in the statistics. These facts, how is it that you can believe in the mouth!”
“Pavilion Elder, calm your anger.”
Zhao Langzhong and the others were like hearing a thunderclap, and with a plop, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
“Please cabinet boss rest your anger, this inventory is afraid of hidden reasons, please give the next official a day time, the next official immediately with people to check again, I believe that will be able to find out the reason.”Taicang Zhang tube library a lift official trouser hem kneeling on the ground, arching hand request.
“What did you do earlier? Yesterday has finished the inventory, the deficit has been proved, no need for you and others to take off their trousers and fart more than necessary.”Yan Song swept a glance at the Zhang tube library, sneered sarcastically.
“My officials are terrified.”Zhang Guancu and the others bowed their heads and said.
“Terrified? Heh, you guys should be terrified, you can’t escape this! Think of my Ming, these years is how not easy, natural and man-made disasters, unceasing, today the southern floods, tomorrow the northern drought, the day after tomorrow the north of the hu captives came to violate my borders, the day after tomorrow the southeast of the Japanese invaders jumped feet to attack, this pile of a piece of work, relief of disasters and relief of the people, to resist the hu captives, to exterminate the Japanese invaders, that is not the same is not to use the money! My Ming, these years which there is what big income, has long been stretched to the limit, not enough to make ends meet, relying on all the years accumulated in the Taicang family background. As a result, you are good, my Ming life-saving home base are spoiled! You are ten heads long, but also not enough to cut!!!”Yan Song pointed at Zhang Guancu and the others under the hall, gritted his teeth and said in pain.
Zhang Guancu and others lowered their heads and knelt on the ground, not saying a word.
“Not only this, is the Taicang still existing gold and silver, of which there are nine hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred silver is not full silver, there are one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred gold is not full gold. I have been in the silver building of the craftsmen from the extraction of one thousand two silver one thousand two gold surveyed, roughly containing silver, containing gold less than ninety per cent, the remaining ten per cent is either lead or copper, so that calculation, there are nearly 100,000 two silver, 10,000 two gold has disappeared! Your guts are really big!”Yan Song was shaking with anger.
“Your Excellency calm your anger!”
Zhang Guancu and the others knelt on the ground and bowed their heads.
“How do you all let old me rest my anger!”Yan Song almost want to spit in their face, said this and reached out to point at the hall under the Liu Royal Secretary asked, “Liu Royal Secretary, inventory of the Taicang silver warehouse, once a year. Last year, I remember that you are responsible for the inventory of Taicang, how? Could it be that you didn’t do the inventory, Royal Historian Liu? How is it that you didn’t find the silver treasury in deficit?”
Liu imperial historian knelt on the ground, raised his head to look at Yan Song, seemed to be checking his words, but did not get what he wanted to see on Yan Song’s face, only saw blooming anger and accountability, so he quickly lowered his head again and reported back, “Reporting back to your lordship, when my humble servant took an inventory of the silver storehouse, he actually found a shortfall.”
“Nonsense, since you discovered the deficit, then why didn’t you report it to the court?”Yan Song asked.
“It’s ……It’s like this, although my humble servant discovered the shortfall, but the shortfall is not big, it’s just a small loss, and Zhang Guanku has been looking for the cause, that’s why my humble servant didn’t report it.”Liu imperial historian bowed his head and said back.
“Hehe, small loss? In a year’s time, a small loss has turned into a huge loss? In addition, how do you explain the deficit and false accounts on Taicang’s books, this is not a year or two, three whole years, every year!”Yan Song slapped the table hard and questioned loudly.
Kneeling on the ground, Liu imperial historian, his head is almost hanging to the ground.
“As an Imperial Historian, you are even more guilty! My Ming has a law in the first ‘Where the imperial historian commits a crime, the crime is increased by three grades, and there are stolen goods from the heavier theory’, Liu Royal Historian, you should know about this law, right?”Yan Song looks straight at Liu Royal Historian and asks in a cold voice.
“My humble servant understands.”Liu Royal Historian’s head kowtowed to the ground.
“Hmph, it’s good to understand. You all do as well. “Shangshu – Kang Hao”: there is a great crime, not the end, but only the green disaster, appropriate, both the Road extremely Turku, when it is not killable. My “Daming Laws” – “Named Example Laws” also has a provision that ‘Anyone who surrenders himself before the offence is committed is exempted from the offence, and he sends someone to take the place of the head, if he is in the law to get compatible with the hidden person. Those who are the leaders and those who report to each other are to be listened to in the same way as those who commit offences and turn themselves in. If the plotting, rebellion or treason is not yet carried out, and if the relatives report it to the police or arrest and send it to the officials, all the prisoners will be exempted from the crime by the same law of self-surrender. If you do, the main culprits are not exempted, and the rest of the people who should sit on the edge are also exempted from the same law of surrender’. The matter has come to this, you or quickly turn yourself in, return the gold and silver for the top, this official will also request the saint, you and other lighter sentencing.”Yan Song snorted coldly, his eyes in the hall of the people balked once, then sighed and said, as if all of a sudden pale dozens of years old, “old man as the first minister, did not find the problem in time ……I also have responsibility ……I am ashamed of the saint ah, after this case, I will ask the saint to resign from the position of this first minister.”
“Pavilion elder must not.”
“Your Honour must not.”
Yan Song’s words just fell, many of the civil and military officials who were listening rose one after another, and bitterly persuaded.
Yan Song side of the Xu step is more emotional “excitement” pulling Yan Song’s sleeve, bitter, bitter persuasion, “Yan, why are you so bitter, it’s not your old man’s fault. Our Ming six departments, six sections, the Academy, Hanlin Academy, local which do not do well, you old man have to take the blame? In our Ming Dynasty, you are the only one who can help His Majesty to support the dynasty. If you resign, won’t you add to his worries.”
Li Mo on the main judge’s seat heard Yan Song’s words of resignation, swept Yan Song with a face of irony, swept Xu Shi with a face of contempt, and swept many of the bystander officials who got up with a disdainful face, and sent out a snort of disdain.
