Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 430, the government and the opposition shake

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian's expressions changed drastically.

Emperor Hongzhi has always been very generous and kind. He can forgive even his mortal enemies before he ascended the throne. From this, we can know that Emperor Hongzhi is really a good man.

But now, Emperor Hongzhi has thrown Zhou Jing, Shangshu of the Household Department, and Ma Wensheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, into prison at once, which shows how angry Emperor Hongzhi is.

"Your Majesty~ absolutely impossible, please think twice~"

Liu Jian bit the bullet and remonstrated: "This matter has not been investigated yet, how can we so hastily put the important officials of the court into the prison."

"Find out?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Jian, and said coldly: "Investigate, of course we must investigate, and we must investigate clearly and clearly."

"Xiao Jing~"

"in~"

When Xiao Jing heard Emperor Hongzhi calling him, he immediately understood that he had something to do, and he had a big job to do.

"You let Dongchang and Jinyiwei thoroughly investigate this matter, and let me investigate the matter clearly, so that everyone in the world can see and see how the important ministers of our Ming Dynasty reported to the king and ruled the people. "

When Emperor Hongzhi mentioned "the important ministers of the country", he spoke very slowly and loudly. There is no doubt that he was talking ironically. Didn't you say that these are the important ministers of the country?

Okay, just check it out, let the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei investigate whether he is an important minister of the country, and everything will naturally come to light.

"Yes~"

Xiao Jing listened carefully to Emperor Hongzhi's words, and had followed Emperor Hongzhi for many years. He knew that Emperor Hongzhi was really angry this time, and he also knew clearly that Emperor Hongzhi wanted to take advantage of this incident to take back the military power. into the hands of the emperor.

Don't you want to limit the imperial power?

Then I want to strengthen the imperial power, and military power is the most important thing.

Now if Emperor Hongzhi wants to dispatch troops, he needs to obtain the approval of the Ministry of War. Without the approval of the Ministry of War, Emperor Hongzhi cannot transfer a single soldier.

This was accomplished during the Tumu Fortress Change. At that time, Ming Yingzong was defeated and captured, and the ruling and opposition groups had no leader. Yu Qian withstood the huge pressure and dispatched troops to defend the capital. From then on, the military power has come to civil officials Group hands.

Hearing that Emperor Hongzhi asked Xiao Jing to use Dongchang and Jinyiwei to investigate the matter, the faces of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng, and Zhou Jing became even uglier.

Let’s not talk about the things about Dongchang and Jinyiwei that made people change their faces. Just because Emperor Hongzhi asked the factory guards to investigate this matter is enough to show that Emperor Hongzhi no longer trusts them, the civil official group.

This is where it really kills.

Although the factory guards are scary, what is really scary is that the civil official group lost the trust and support of the emperor. Just like in the previous dynasty, during the Ming Xianzong period, the emperor reused the factory guards, and they would never have a good life as officials.

They finally welcomed Emperor Hongzhi, a good old man, to be the emperor. In the past ten years or so, the factory guards have basically been abolished, and everyone has lived a good life.

In the past, if something happened, Emperor Hongzhi would not use the factory guards to investigate. He would just ask them to investigate by themselves. When the time came, they would just make a few scapegoats and the matter would be over.

Sometimes, you don't even need to check, you just make up an excuse, and everyone fools around. Emperor Hongzhi, a good old man, and with his incomparable trust in them, can't make waves in anything.

Well now, the Guancang theft case and the Li Guang case have not yet ended, and another even bigger and shocking case has emerged. The key is that Emperor Hongzhi asked the factory guard to investigate this matter.

Not to mention that the butt itself is not clean, there are a lot of things, and there are many kinds of problems. Even if there is nothing wrong, if the factory guard checks it, it can make things for you.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian looked at each other, and they all saw fear in each other's eyes, and they all realized that a storm was coming.

"Guangchangwei went to investigate, you will definitely not be convinced."

"Well, you go and check it out. Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Zhang Mao, the four of you take the lead in the investigation. I want to see what you can find out."

"Humph!"

"I took out [-] million taels of silver from my internal funds, as well as appropriations over the years. I really want to see that all the silver has gone into the pockets of those people,"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the faces of several people, and he knew what they were thinking without thinking, so he smiled and said.

His move is very clever. On the one hand, he asked Xiao Jing to investigate, and on the other hand, he asked you to investigate by yourself to see what you can find out.

"The minister follows the order~"

When Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others heard this, they immediately felt that their heads were getting bigger. If you only let us investigate, then this matter can be brought under control. At that time, a group of people will be handed over to Emperor Hongzhi for an explanation. .

But you asked the factory guards to investigate and asked us to investigate. This is definitely a hot potato. If we strictly investigate, it will definitely involve a lot of people. I don’t know how many ministers of the court and China will be involved.

At that time, how will these people gain a foothold in the court?
However, with such a lack of strict investigation and casual perfunctory of Emperor Hongzhi's words, Emperor Hongzhi would know what Emperor Hongzhi would think and how he would look at them. Maybe he would be involved too. If he was not careful, his own head move place.

But Emperor Hongzhi had already spoken, so it would be impossible not to investigate, and there must be a strict investigation, an explanation must be given to Emperor Hongzhi, and an explanation to Daming.

The things in the palace also quickly spread out of the palace, and then quickly spread in the capital.

All of a sudden, the entire capital set off monstrous waves.

Zhou Jing, Minister of the Household Department, and Ma Wensheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, were thrown into prison by Emperor Hongzhi at the same time.

Why were the two ministers sent to prison at the same time?
This has never happened in the Hongzhi Dynasty. Although the official storehouse theft case and the Li Guang case were widely involved, and many ministers were imprisoned, there were never six ministers at the ministerial level who were implicated, let alone one There are two ministers.

The well-informed people in the capital naturally figured out this matter quickly.

The relevant officials suddenly felt insecure, as if they were going to lose their concubine, and some even killed themselves in fright.

As for those who didn't know the inside story, they began to speculate about what happened, so that Emperor Hongzhi was so angry that he sent two ministers into prison at the same time. You must know that not long ago, Daming defeated the grassland people. The whole country is celebrating.

At this time, it is absolutely unusual for such a major event to occur.

But soon, the entire capital knew the cause of the incident. Early the next morning, the Ming Morning Post introduced the incident in detail in the form of headlines.

Immediately, the entire ruling and opposition parties were shocked!
In a teahouse in the capital, people gathered together, reading newspapers and talking about state affairs.

"Bang~"

"It should be killed, everyone should be killed~"

"I asked why our Daming army never dared to fight the Tartars in the past. It turns out that the problem lies here."

"The cotton armor is as thin as summer clothes, and the weapons are actually made of iron sheets. The food for the soldiers is old moldy rice. Even this kind of rice is not enough."

"Eat empty pay, drink soldiers' blood, the soldiers don't get a penny of military pay all year round, and the children in the family have no money to watch them die when they are sick~"

"Reselling military supplies, privately setting up a horse market, privately selling ironware, salt, killing good men, etc. to the prairie Tartars..."

"Everyone take a look, everyone take a look, what kind of combat power can such an army have, can it defend the country?"

The common people of Ming Dynasty were outraged. They have always wondered why the Ming army, which was able to sweep across the desert during Taizu and Chengzu's time, dared not even go out of the city to fight.

The Tartars went south every year, but they could only guard in the city every year, watching the Tartars wantonly burning, killing and looting in the Central Plains.

Everyone hated these soldiers, and they were angry with them, and they have often scolded them in the past.

But now, everyone finally understands that some things cannot be entirely blamed on them.

Anyone who can't eat enough and has nothing to do, dare not go out to fight the Tartars.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are also human beings, they also have to eat, they also have to support their families, they also have to be afraid, they are also fathers, husbands, and sons.

You can't say let them fight the Tartars with bare hands and hungry stomachs.

"This time, His Majesty took [-] million taels of silver from the internal funds to fight the war, plus the materials allocated by the treasury, etc., the weapons and armor distributed to the front line were not even used. These corrupt officials , all should be damned, all should be punished by the Nine Clans."

"If it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who organized everyone to donate money and materials to support the front line, and if there were not companies like Miyun Iron Works supporting armor, weapons, cannons, etc., maybe we would have really lost this time."

"It's also fortunate that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally supervised the use of the money we donated, so all the money was in the hands of the frontline soldiers. Otherwise, if it was handed over to the corrupt officials of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War to arrange, the tens of millions Most of the two silver coins will go into the pockets of corrupt officials like them."

"Good catch~"

"This case must be investigated strictly. The Ming Dynasty's army is the Great Wall that protects our peace. If there is something wrong with the Great Wall, we will never have peace. These moths should be punished."

"Yes, we must check, check carefully."

In the streets and alleys of the capital, the common people are discussing this matter fiercely, and almost everyone supports Emperor Hongzhi to investigate this case properly.

Some people even think that these corrupt officials should be punished by the nine tribes. When it comes to the Ming army, these corrupt officials are simply unscrupulous, directly destroying the Ming army, and making Daming repeatedly bullied by the grassland people. There are too many souls who die under the scimitar of the prairie people every year.

(End of this chapter)