Lu Ming

Chapter 473 Impeachment
The emperor gave Cao Zongbing the title of Uncle Zhongyong, which invisibly pushed him towards the Xungui Group.

The Xungui Group is a military aristocrat, an aristocratic group that started with military exploits and passed down from generation to generation.

Although the Earl of Cao Zongbing is not yet hereditary, everyone knows that as long as someone can act like a cat and a tiger again, the emperor will definitely make him a marquis and allow hereditary.Once it is hereditary, it means that the member has officially become a member of the Xungui Group.

In the most ideal state, if Cao Zongbing can go straight to Huanglong and completely wipe out the Tartars in the years to come, then he can become a prince, or even a king after his death.Then the descendants can be hereditary in a big city like Wei Guogong Xu Da, enjoy the glory and wealth, and live with the country.

This road is basically the optimal solution that the warriors of the Ming Dynasty could choose.But it is a pity that the further back the line, the more superb political wisdom is actually needed.So even in the early Ming Dynasty when it was easy to be knighted, except for a few people such as Xu Da who could have the last laugh, everyone else fell halfway.

But in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a major turning point in the political structure of the Ming Dynasty - the Tumu Fortress Change, and the core strength of the Xungui Generals Group died overnight.

After the Tumu Fort, the civil servants represented by Yu Qian reorganized the regiment battalion, seized the opportunity to push the Ministry of War to issue orders, and dealt a blow to the military commander's office of the five armies, which had lost all branches, and completely changed the military command rules of the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, honorable military generals have been completely suppressed, the front line has begun to fix the military supervision system, and the number of civilians leading troops has increased day by day.

Later, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the military aristocrats and the hereditary guard system had decayed, and the strength of the entire group became weaker, and the power of the major forces in the imperial court had disappeared.

In this way, the civil official group will not give up the rights it has acquired—even Qi Jiguang, who has outstanding military exploits, failed to get a title until his death under the obstruction of the civil official.

The Earl that General Cao obtained this time is not as valuable as in the early Ming Dynasty, but for most Ming generals, the title of Earl of Zhongyong is still an orange equipment that is elusive.

In fact, General Cao's success in conferring the title this time was not resisted, but in fact he was still in the favor of the Tartars.After all, Grandpa Qi's opponent was the Japanese pirates, and the Japanese pirates would not send out a large army to besiege the capital, form a system to destroy the Ming army's field troops, and scare the emperor and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to wake up in the middle of the night, secretly preparing for the funeral.

But having said that, Uncle Zhongyong's current position is actually a bit embarrassing.

Call it Xungui, but it doesn't count as officially entering that circle; call it Minister of the Ministry of War, it's just a false title, and it doesn't fit in with civil servants at all.

So in the end, Uncle Zhongyong is still a general, the kind commonly known as Qiu Ba.When he was in court, he had to stand among the generals, and his position was relatively low, because there were cabinet ministers and relatives of the emperor with higher qualifications.

Speaking of going to court, Cao Zongbing officially started this ancient morning shift after resting in the gift house for a day.

After Chongzhen held the state banquet that day, it was rare for the industrious emperor to give his ministers a holiday the next day, so that everyone didn't have to go to the Emperor's Palace to engage in formalism.

The emperor himself went to the ancestral temple to offer sacrifices to the ancestors on the same day: such a great victory, should we not tell Comrade Zhu Baba?
After the day passed, and in the early morning of the next day, Uncle Zhongyong had to get up from the warm quilt and prepare to go to court.

In theory, as long as they are officials in the capital, or officials from other provinces who are on business trips in the capital, they have the right to go to court.

The rule of going to court every day was established by Zhu Yuanzhang, a model worker of the older generation of Ming Dynasty.

Lao Zhu was born as a farmer. Later, after the abolition of the prime minister, he was worried about being deceived by others, so he formulated the rules of the early court for the officials.After that, several emperors followed the morning court every day as a ancestral system, the most powerful of which was the new generation of model workers Chongzhen.

According to the records of the Great Ming Huidian: In the early court, the minister had to get up at midnight, cross half of the capital, and then wait outside the Meridian Gate at 3:[-] in the morning.

So in the cold wind in the early morning of early April in the north during the Little Ice Age, Uncle Zhongyong had no choice but to mix in the dark crowd with full of resentment, waiting in front of the Meridian Gate to drink the wind.

"This fucking doesn't treat employees as human beings. Is it because Daming doesn't have labor arbitration?"

Zhang Dongdong, who came from a later generation, couldn’t stand this anti-human way of working. Thinking that this kind of pain would continue for a while, Uncle Zhongyong became murderous: “No wonder we want to overthrow the old society. Gotta do it!"

After fantasizing about seven or eight plans to arrest the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and then plunder the family property, it finally arrived at 5 o'clock in the morning. The drums sounded from the Meridian Gate tower, and the palace gate opened.

At this time, the courtiers should line up and enter one by one, and form a team in the square after crossing the Jinshui Bridge.When everything was ready and the sky turned pale, the emperor arrived at Huangji Gate surrounded by a large number of eunuchs and guards.

Zhang Dongdong, who was mixed in the queue, could only go forward and back with the class honestly, followed the master of ceremonies' singing, and knelt down and kowtowed three times with all the officials.

At this point, Uncle Zhongyong has completed the full set of procedures of the Ming Dynasty's formalism.Next, he just needs to make a human background board like those generals around him.If he's lucky, it won't take long for the court to leave, and he can go back to the mansion to make up for the sleep.

Uncle Zhongyong really didn't have anything to do in today's early court, because everyone knew that the emperor had only one agenda: to send all the kings and soldiers from all walks of life.

Since this change of Jisi was the first time that the Hou Jin entered the customs, almost all of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, including the nine borders and the chieftains of the frontiers, dispatched King Qin's soldiers and horses.

Now that the northern captives have retreated and all the key border passes have been recovered, it is time to send the soldiers and horses of the provinces back to their original places.After all, with so many troops gathered in the outskirts of Beijing, the logistical pressure was huge, and the emperor was a poor man who couldn't afford it.

So in the following time, more and more people, such as the lieutenant generals of various provinces, stepped forward to accept the seal.Whenever a military general finished receiving the rewards from the emperor, he also bid farewell to Chongzhen by the way.

It is worth mentioning that the ogre ancestor Dashou today is the same as in history. He was afraid that the emperor would turn his back on him and take him down, so he still did not appear in the capital. The representative of the Guan Ning army was Cao Wenzhao.

In this plane, due to the appearance of the traversers, the situation of the Guan Ning army is even worse than in history.

This time King Qin, apart from the 300 Tartar heads left behind in Zunhua, the Guan Ning army did not get more credit.Although Chongzhen gave Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong the credit for recovering the four cities, everyone knew who won the four cities.

And the most important thing is that Chongzhen is not like in history, he can't live without the Guanning Army-the emperor now has Zhongyong Bo.

So it was the right choice for Zu Dashou not to come.With Chongzhen's pissing nature, maybe after seeing him, there is a real chance of turning his face and throwing him into prison.

The long and complicated awarding process is very difficult.When Uncle Zhongyong was bored, he could only half-close his eyes, standing half awake in the queue, half bowing his head in a pious gesture.

When the time came to nine o'clock in the morning, the long reward activity finally came to an end.At this time, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had already stood on the square in front of the Huangji Hall for three full hours. It can be seen that it was not easy to be an official in the Ming Dynasty. No matter how old you are, get up in the early morning, stand in the winter and stand in the summer. Abuse of staff is real.

When the eunuch on duty took a step forward and yelled out the classic line in a high-pitched voice as usual: "Play early if there is something to do, and leave the court if there is nothing to do", all the employees on the square breathed a sigh of relief.

Now you only need to hold on for a few more seconds, and after the eunuch shouts the word "retire from the court", the comrades can leave the venue and go back to drink tea.

Just at this moment, a loud voice came out from the queue: "I have this to play!"

The next moment, under the angry eyes of thousands of employees, a small official wearing a seventh-grade green robe stood out of the queue, held up the memorial with both hands, and walked all the way to the white marble steps without squinting, and knelt down firmly: " Minister Gongke gave Wei Xu a letter to impeach the loyal and brave Bo Cao Chuan for abusing the people, exceeding the system, and conspiracy for a total of twelve major crimes."

With a "crash", the originally sleepy officials were all in an uproar after hearing such explosive bullet content, and there was a buzzing sound in the square.

At the same time, Uncle Zhongyong, who had been drowsy, opened his eyes with surprise on his face: "I'm going, someone really impeached me? Didn't it mean that now is the honeymoon period, and no one will come looking for trouble?"

After feeling the warm eyes projected from all around, Zhang Dongdong's heartbeat quickened, and adrenaline began to secrete a lot: "This is forcing me to perfect the character design, okay, okay, want to play, right? Then play!"

At the same time that Uncle Zhongyong's eyes were showing fierceness and his face was full of murderous intent, Emperor Chongzhen who was sitting on the top of the three-story majesty's platform was also pale.

After picking up a piece of paperweight on the table and smashing it down, the emperor said angrily, "Show off the crowd, come, take off this jumping-beam hat, and take him down for interrogation!"

No wonder the emperor went mad.

Cao Zongbing, a good melon farmer who just participated in the prisoner offering meeting and sent melons to the capital, is a super advanced model according to later generations.

Not to mention that Chongzhen planned to have a good talk with Cao Zongbing about the Northern Prisoner. Even if he wanted to impeach him, he should wait for a while, after the heat had passed?How can it be played on such a special ceremonial occasion today?

At this juncture, there is such a clown who doesn't know the overall situation jumping out to be disgusting. This is Chi Guoguo slapping Chongzhen in the face.

So the young emperor became furious, and not only threw out the paperweight in an extremely rude manner, but also ordered Wei Xu's official position to be seized on the spot, planning to send the clown to prison first.

However, this world belongs to the scholar-bureaucrat group after all, and the emperor does not have the final say on everything.

The next moment, a high-ranking minister in a red robe stood up.After this person came out, he said loudly: "Your Majesty, the ancestral system, the court will not be a sinner because of words. What's more, Wei Xu is a minister, and it is his job to load bullets. How can he be convicted for this? I hope His Majesty will take it back." Fate!"

(End of this chapter)