Chapter 142 Deng Wen Drum
Beijing.
Since the empire's capital moved south to Shenjing, Beijing's political status has declined a lot. However, its economic status has jumped up, especially after the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. The convenient transportation, large population and abundant resources have made Beijing jumped up and become the largest heavy industry center in the empire, especially the construction of railways, which has made Beijing well-connected transportation.
There are gains and losses. What Beijing gains is economic development and improvements in people's lives, but what it loses is the environment.
The city is increasingly covered by dark smoke, especially when winter starts to keep warm, the streets and alleys are full of coal ash.
"Your Highness, you seem a little unhappy."
On the welcome building next to the train station, Little William looked at Li Zhaoji and asked in a low voice.
"Today I went to meet my uncle. He was also the emperor and the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty." Li Zhaoji said.
William Little has obviously heard of this history, and he said: "I know about this incident. His Majesty the Supreme Emperor unified the Eastern Continent and destroyed two dynasties, one was the Ming Dynasty and the other was the Tatars, which is what you call the Manchurian Dynasty. And I also heard that your grandmother was also the princess of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
This shocked me, but after hearing some things, I couldn't believe it. The Tatar emperor and the Ming emperor did not die, but eventually became good friends."
"Yes, the Tatar Emperor you mentioned is dead, and all the etiquette after his death was cooked by my uncle for him. Today... have you seen that train? It was a train to Shenyang. The ashes of the Tatar Emperor were there and would be escorted to his hometown for burial." Li Zhaoji said.
Only then did William understand why Li Zhaoji came here. He originally thought that he was here to welcome King Abunai, Chahar, but he never thought that there was such a thing.
Li Zhaoji took out a blue cloth bag from his arms and said, "Before my uncle boarded the train, I gave this to me, saying that it was entrusted by the Tatar emperor before his death."
Little William reached out to take it, and when he touched it, he knew it was a book. After opening it, he looked at it and found that it was a Buddhist scripture. He turned on a few pages and found that it was an ordinary Buddhist scripture. There was nothing special about it, and Li Zhaoji only opened the first page, and wrote four big characters with a brush, and never added fu.
"Uncle said, don't let Uncle Third watch it, and leave it to his father after returning to Beijing. I'm hesitating why there are things that Uncle Third cannot see. There has never been such a rule in our family." Li Zhaoji said to William.
Little William scratched his head: "Then let His Highness Yu show it. Anyway, the things are in your hands, so you should follow your rules."
Li Zhaoji thought about it. In his young heart, there was his beloved third uncle on one side and his strange uncle on the other, and there seemed to be no difficulty in making any choices.
"Look, King Chahar is here." Li Zhaocheng ran up with several telescopes.
A few children came here just to see what King Abunai of Chahar looked like.
"Oh, it's just an ordinary fat old man."
"This is what the descendants of God's Whip look like."
"Look, he is still picking his nose, oh yo, it's so disgusting..."
"It's even more disgusting. He picked his nose and didn't wash his hands, so he shook hands with his father." Li Zhaocheng shouted in.
When Li Junwei saw Abunai, he talked to him warmly. The two looked so intimate that they greatly satisfied Abunai's vanity. Li Junwei asked him to relax his vigilance and go south to Shinkyung and enter the condom he had already set up.
Abunai only stopped at the Beijing station and transferred here because Li Junwei handed over the royal carriage to Abunai for use. Even so, Abunai still showed greed.
In today's empire, the most developed railway system is the north, because many engineering technologies are difficult to solve. For example, so far, the empire has not built a bridge across the Yangtze River. The result is that north-south railway transportation is still relatively dependent on sea ships. The railway bureau built a railway bridge across the Yellow River, which also borrowed the light from the Yellow River diverted to dig the new river in Shandong.
At that time, it was said that it was to build a bridge on the river, rather than digging a river channel under the bridge, so that the railway could cross the Yellow River in Shandong.
The Beijing-Grassland railway has been built to the junction of Datong province and the vassal state. Because the negotiations between the Lifanyuan and the cabinet have been arguing, construction has not yet started to be built to Yunzhongcheng (Hohhot).
Abnay finally met Li Junwei. Even if the two of them had just chatted for a while, he mentioned this matter and hoped to intervene in the construction of this railway. Li Junwei was just a fool and dealt with it casually. Anyway, it was still a little bit whether Abnay could come back alive this time. He would definitely not count whatever he promised.
"How about it, are Genghis Khan's descendants good-looking?" After greeting Abnay, Li Junwei came to Yingbin Building and reached out to touch the little heads of several children, but was avoided by these guys.
"Uncle San, uncle and his friends have already started the train. Do you still go and take a look?" Li Zhaoji pointed to the train heading to Shenyang and said.
Li Junwei shook his head: "I won't go anymore, your uncle doesn't like me."
"Why?" This is an answer that puzzled Li Zhaoji.
Li Junwei said: "In their era, princes like me and the emperor's brothers were all enfeoffed to various places and raised like pigs. And I was proud of the spring breeze and had great power. He couldn't understand it, nor did he want to understand it."
"Zhaoji, if you become the emperor in the future, you are not allowed to put me in the pigpen." Li Zhaocheng said.
Li Zhaoji immediately promised not to do so. He took out the dilapidated Diamond Sutra and handed it to Li Junwei. Li Junwei read the four words and muttered, "This old guy is really the same as on TV."
"Uncle San, what did you say?" Li Zhaoji was puzzled.
Li Junwei shook his head: "I didn't say anything. These four words make sense, but they actually make no sense. The butt determines the head. Shunzhi was the emperor of the feudal dynasty in the first half of his life, and was an ordinary citizen in the second half of his life. How could he know the secret of the way of taxation? Tax is essentially the redistribution of social wealth. He knows about eggplant. Taxation......"
Li Junwei said a lot in popular language, but he could not defeat his son Li Zhaocheng's words: "Dad means that taxes are to kill the rich and help the poor."
"Zhaoji, don't regard never adding taxes as a creed. Believe in the third uncle. When the empire develops to a certain level, let alone adding taxes, even the agricultural tax that has been implemented for thousands of years will be abolished. If you become an emperor, you must aim for this. Do you know?" Li Junwei finally said to the young Li Zhaoji.
"Then will this book be read to the emperor?"
"Of course, but don't look at your grandfather. Your grandfather will definitely curse you after seeing it." Li Junwei wrapped it up again with cloth, handed it back to Li Zhaoji, and still mentioned it.
Li Zhaoji was young until he was not clear about the reason, but said that he would do it as Li Junwei ordered.
Shen Jing, Imperial Study Room.
The security director Li Zhaorui sat in front of the emperor, while Li Junhua looked at a report. Li Zhaorui said: "...... The group of slaves led by Bagel boarded the coal ship Dayun on October 27. There were 31 people in total, most of them were men, many of whom were disabled..."
After listening to Li Zhaorui's report, Li Junhua asked in detail, just like the content of the report. "You know very much, why? There are people from the Security Bureau in this group?"
Li Zhaorui nodded: "Yes."
"who?"
Li Zhaorui said: "It's Naya, he is a dangerous person who does not return to slaves."
Li Junhua knew that this person was mentioned in both the report and the letter from King Yu. Li Junhua thought for a while: "Naya is an informant of the Security Bureau, is this a coincidence?"
"No." Li Zhaorui said honestly: "I originally thought it was a coincidence, but after careful investigation, it was Lin Zefei from Liaoning Station who recruited Naya more than a month ago. At that time, King Yu had asked the Lifan Academy and the Security Bureau for information about returning slaves several times. In addition, Lin Zefei was an old person who accompanied Uncle Yu during the Western Expedition, so... this might have been arranged by Uncle Yu."
"Don't just count on Naya. Zhaorui, the two kinds of people in this world are the most terrifying. One is a scholar with faith, and the other is a slave who picks up a knife. Bagher belongs to the former, and Naya belongs to the latter. So you have to have more arrangements." Li Junhua ordered.
Li Zhaorui nodded repeatedly, but in fact he was already making arrangements. Li Junhua asked again: "What is that title of Lin Zefei?"
"He works in the confidential office of the Liaoning Station of the Bureau of Secretariat, with a military rank major." Li Zhaorui did his homework early, so he answered very clearly.
Li Junhua said: "How old is it?"
"Thirty-four years old."
"At this age, he was a meritorious during the Western Expedition, so the major director was a little lower. He asked him to come to Shenjing headquarters immediately and contact the Buguinu Organization directly, he would do the matter." Li Junhua said.
Li Zhaorui nodded, looked at Lin Junhong next to him, Lin Junhong nodded slightly, and he went out.
Both of them knew that the emperor's intention was to show that they were not very concerned about King Yu's intervention in the Security Bureau.
After Li Zhaorui left, Li Junhua sighed and said, "The third guy, this guy, has this trick again. When do you think he will really trust me? I even gave him the only son to him."
Lin Junhong smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you will definitely never wait for this day."
"Why?"
"Because the third brother does not trust you, but respects you. He respects you as his brother and the emperor. You can let him do whatever he wants, but he won't really do that." Lin Junhong explained with a smile.
"I hope this is the case." Li Junhua was still helpless. He always hoped that his brothers could be more honest, but since he became emperor, this was a luxury.
Lin Junhong also took out a folder and handed it on the table in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty, this is the file you want."
"It looks a little thinner." Li Junhua sighed.
Lin Junhong said: "Yes, but every one is very important."
Those files were Li Junhua ascended the throne and established all the cases handled twenty years after Dengwengu, but the number was very small, only eight cases.
The Dengwen Drum was established by Li Junwei. At that time, Li Junhua was a first-class treasure and hoped that Li Junwei could help him like Lin Junhong, but Li Junwei refused. He left Shenjing, indulged in the mountains and rivers, and traveled to Jiangnan and Yunnan and Guizhou for several years. His only gain during this period was to successfully marry a favorite princess.
Li Junwei suggested that the emperor set up a Dengwen Gu, and his original intention was to hope that this emperor who was extremely responsible for his work and liked to do everything himself to understand the people's sentiments. He would not be deceived by the people below, but in the past few years of implementation, although there have been few cases, he has made great contributions to the stability of the imperial power.
The Dengwen Drum Hall was set up at the right gate of Chang'an outside the imperial city. It originally only sent a team of guards and a small central government official to guard the situation. As soon as the first was set up, it immediately caused an uproar. Not only did the people who believed that they had been wronged and wronged organized to go to Shenjing to file a lawsuit, but the imperial bureaucracy also showed signs of rebounding.
Although the empire did not implement the separation of three powers, it has implemented the independence of three powers. Legislation, judicial and administrative powers are separated and are all responsible to the emperor. However, in real practice, both houses, imperial courts and cabinets have yamen for judicial activities. After the establishment of Dengwengu, the bureaucrats believed that the emperor intended to directly participate in the judiciary, but in fact it was wrong.
Dengwen Drum Hall soon became a department in the central government. This department has a lot of staff, but it does not accept complaints from everyone. Dengwen Drum Hall does not accept any economic disputes and criminal cases.
Moreover, there are rules in the Dengwen Drum Hall, and no matter what case is, it must be investigated to the end. For example, the first case accepted by the Dengwen Drum Hall was the case of a civil lawsuit against the official, which triggered a great social reaction at that time. Not only was the civil lawsuit successful, but the plaintiff also was investigated and eventually ended up in jail. Therefore, there were rumors among the people that only two types of people would go to the Dengwen Drum Hall to complain. One was a perfect person, and he was right in the case, and he had never made any other mistakes. The other was a person who was wronged and had to be the kind of person who was so sad that he had already died in June.
This is why both Bagher and Naya believe that the final result of complaining against the emperor is death.
Dengwen Drum has been opened for so many years, most of the only eight cases accepted. The so-called Dengwen Drum Hall is actually like a distribution agency, which accepts complaints and letters on the spot, but they all have to be based on real-name. After the staff understand the case, they will hand it over to other judicial institutions according to their categories.
Chapter completed!