Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chengqian Palace.

"Your Highness, those two have recruited."

After receiving the good news, Li Wen immediately came to Zhao Ming to report the good news.

Zhao Ming immediately showed joy when he heard it, and hurriedly asked, "Where's the list? Have you got it?"

Li Wen smiled and took out two booklets from his pocket, and handed them up respectfully.

"Your Highness, the servants went to get the list as soon as they got the news. Now that there are all the witnesses and evidences, we can let those scholars drink a pot!"

Zhao Ming took the list, and hurriedly opened it to read it, but the smile on his face just now gradually faded away after he had gone through both lists.

Li Wen was puzzled and said, "Your Highness, is there any problem with this list?"

Zhao Ming shook his head, then asked, "Have you read this list?"

Li Wen shook his head: "The servant girl brought it to you as soon as she got it, and I haven't opened it to read it."

Zhao Ming nodded, then sighed and said: "The list is true, who took how much money, when, and where, is clearly recorded on this list, as long as you do a little research, you will be inseparable." [-] to catch the evidence.

But the problem is, the fish are too small! "

"The fish is too small?" Li Wen wondered.

Zhao Mingdao: "There are quite a few civil servants in this list. It can be said that everyone in the six ministries has a share, but there is only one thing. It is absolutely impossible for Prime Minister Zhang He not to intervene in this matter, but he is not included in this list. .

Even among the three ministers whose heart belongs to the fifth son, there is only one minister of rites, Wu Yuan, who has just taken over, on this list.

But the ministers of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment were also absent.

This is tantamount to our making a big deal, and finally only caught a big fish, Minister of Rites.

Still a useless big fish! "

Zhao Ming sighed, and Li Wen showed an angry look on his face.

"Your Highness, could it be that those two people still concealed things and didn't give us the most important list? I will go to interrogate them now, and I will definitely get the list of the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Industry and Zhang He!"

Zhao Ming waved his hand and said:

"Okay, don't waste your time in vain, I'm afraid this list is already complete.

As for Zhang He and the others, how could that group of old and cunning things allow themselves to be held in the hands of others.

I also took it for granted, old treacherous ministers like them who can stand in court for many years must be cautious enough.

Otherwise, they would have fallen a long time ago, and it is indeed whimsical to want to drag them into the water based on this matter alone. "

"Then... what should we do now?"

Li Wen felt a little numb.

Zhao Ming threw the sheet in his hand on the ground with a slap, and said coldly:

"Catch people! Small fish are also fish, since they have eaten my bait, they will give up their lives.

If I can't get the big fish, I will remove the small fish around the big fish first, so that when I catch the big fish next time, there won't be so many miscellaneous fish blocking the way. "

Li Wen was stunned, and immediately nodded heavily: "The servant understands Your Highness!"

After finishing speaking, Li Wendang turned around and left.

Soon, the Imperial City Division was ordered by the Crown Prince of the Supervisory Kingdom to arrest the Hedong army's salary corruption case, and the whole capital was full of turmoil.

Nearly a hundred officials were involved in the six ministries and departments of the imperial court. These days, the Imperial City Division has been arresting people non-stop, and soon the Huangcheng Division's dungeon was full, and even used the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

Originally, Li Wen thought it would be more troublesome to borrow a prison from the Ministry of Criminal Justice. After all, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice belonged to the Fifth Prince.

But when the Imperial City Division passed by, the Ministry of Punishment only checked the official documents to confirm that all procedures were complete, and then directly lent out the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

When I came to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the Imperial City Division also arrested more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice and put them in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

In just four days, the 130 and seven officials involved in the case, from Wu Yuan, the new minister of the Ministry of Rites, to an ordinary official in a certain ministry, were all arrested and brought to justice.

On the morning of the next day, Zhao Ming directly read the crimes of these people in public, and there were all the witnesses and material evidence.

These officials who were involved in the case of the Hedong military salary corruption case were sentenced to be dismissed from office, ransacked their homes, and exiled the three clans to the northwest for thousands of miles.

The perpetrators themselves were all beheaded.

Wu Yuan, the Minister of Rites with the largest official position, was directly punished because of his official position.

Not only was he dismissed from office and beheaded, but his family members were directly exiled from the three clans. All members of the nine clans outside the three clans were deprived of all honors and were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination within three generations.

It can be said that this Minister of Rites, who had just taken office not long ago, ruined the future of the entire family by himself.

Before he had time to live a good life with his new Shangshu, he was implicated in the blink of an eye.

Other than Wu Yuan's three clans, when they heard the news, other than grief and indignation, the rest were just special emotions that were hard to describe like a dead dog.

The imperial court's big action directly led to vacancies in many departments of the six departments, which directly affected the operation of the imperial court. Naturally, this is not acceptable.

But in this world, everything is missing, that is, there is no shortage of people who want to be officials. After three days of arguing with the prince and a group of civil servants headed by Prime Minister Zhang He, the vacant positions were taken by the two with [-]% shares each. To carve up.

The prince's influence in the court has once again increased on a large scale.

However, it is still at a disadvantage.

This loss of manpower is nothing more than a temporary labor pain for Zhang He, who has been in the ups and downs of officialdom for decades.

Now the position is given out, but it is hard to say whether those people can sit firmly under the buttocks.

In this court, as long as he doesn't get together for a day, it's just a matter of spending some effort to have as many followers as he wants.

After the various departments gradually resumed operation, an urgent and important matter was placed on everyone's desk.

The frontier soldiers in Hedong are still arguing about their salaries.

More than ten days have passed since the news was received in the secret realm.

Those generals who want to come to Hedong have been surrounded by Datou Ai and you for at least half a month.

If it is not resolved, I am afraid that I will starve to death in my mansion!
In the end, after deliberation, the imperial court sent Li Wen as an imperial envoy, and ordered the Imperial City Department of War to send [-] imperial troops to escort the new army along the way to the border to appease the border soldiers.

As for where the new military salary comes from, we have to ask more than 100 officials whose homes were ransacked.

Many of these officials were born in the southeast, and their family property was quite rich. In addition to the half of the military salary, Zhao Ming found that after taking out the new military salary, he still had more than 100 million taels of silver left. into your purse.

Of course, on the surface, it was charged into the emperor's internal funds, because a large part of the military salary was lent to the treasury by the emperor's internal funds.

Now the money stolen by these people and ransacked houses will naturally be returned to the internal funds. At first, all the officials did not agree, especially the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs.

But when Zhao Ming took out the paperwork of the money borrowed from the Ministry of Households over the years, everyone shut up.

Today, the emperor's internal funds are the largest creditors of the household department.

If it weren't for the emperor's internal funds to support it, how could the tax in the Great Song Dynasty be reduced year by year to support such a large country.

And the most affected by the salary disturbance this time is not only the civil servants, but all the frontier soldiers, and the Ding family's side is the same. Many of the Ding family, who are mostly generals, have been surrounded.

Some of them were even directly killed by the angry soldiers, but it is not known whether these soldiers were really that angry.

The loss of the Ding family is also not small this time.

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(End of this chapter)