Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 174
The emperor's attitude has been very clear.Liu Shi's accusations of impeaching Li Buqi are all speculation except for "self-stealing", so naturally there is no need to investigate at this point.Then Li Buqi submitted a memorial requesting that the military workshop be separated from the Third Division, and it was reported that Zaizhi, the Sixth Ministry, and the Privy Council were mostly in favor, and the emperor also had this intention.Knowing that this was the result, Liu Shi was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He stayed at home and asked to work outside.

Wang Gongchen was also vomiting blood with anger, to some extent he was more depressed than Liu Shi.Liu Shi doesn't need to express his opinion on whether the public officials of the world should be paid salaries, but as the third envoy, he must express his opinion clearly.

Although there was no major war in the Song Dynasty in the past two years, Beibian never dared to relax. In addition, there were many natural disasters in various places, and the Qingli reform was abandoned halfway. It has been unable to make ends meet. Although there are two new sources of income, sugar and glass, Compared with the huge expenditure of the country, it is just a drop in the bucket.In short, there is no money in the treasury, and neither the prime minister nor the third envoy would dare to open the mouth to pay the petty officials.There are good reasons for this matter, but people's feelings often don't care for any reason or no reason. Whoever opposes the payment of salary to small officials will definitely offend all the small officials in the world.

The emperor and the prime minister didn't want to take this responsibility, so they asked the third division to think the same way, saying that Li Buqi might have given a way to increase the tax burden, and as long as your third division is successful, you will have money to pay the small officials.But the problem is that Li Buqi wrote more than 20 pages of eloquent memorials on promoting trade and opening up maritime trade. There are ten major measures and more than 30 small ones.

The more terrible problem is that he, Wang Gongchen, could catch Li Buqi's errands and let Li Buqi go to work. If he does a good job as the third division envoy, he can share the credit. that is.However, after this impeachment incident, Li Buqi may not be able to stay in the third division from the perspective of momentum, and it is impossible for Wang Gongchen to arrest Li Buqi.Wang Gongchen found that he was definitely going to be the scapegoat thrown out by the chief executives to be scolded by the petty officials.

There have never been permanent allies in politics, only permanent interests.When Wang Gongchen and Liu Shi jumped out to impeach Li Buqi, a group of civil officials could still fight against the enemy, but this was a loose alliance. When they found that things were not as they imagined, many people began to think about how to Get the most out of this matter, even if it means tearing a piece of meat off your ally.

Song Taizu and Taizong brothers let the three divisions take over the power of the world, not only seized the power of the prime minister, but also seized the power of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the Privy Council. character of.So in fact, many people in the court have the ambition to get back their own rights, but when there is no chance, everyone just thinks about it.

But Li Buqi did provide them with an opportunity this time. Although it seems that the separation of arms production from the third division does not seem to do much harm to the third division, the old fox knows that the wind started at the end of Qingping.Once there is a precedent this time, who knows what will happen in the future?

This time Li Buqi said that the third division will not engage in arms production and should divest it.So the officials of the third division know how to repair the canal?Should the responsibility of repairing and protecting the canals be stripped off and handed over to the Ministry of Industry?Does the third division know how to march and fight?Should the responsibility for feeding the army be left to the Privy Council?With the precedent of divesting arms production, it will not seem abrupt to raise these demands once another opportunity arises.

In fact, if Wang Gongchen himself were the prime minister, he would also hope to hand over the financial plan to the Ministry of Finance, because the Ministry of Finance is in charge of the prime minister, so the prime minister would be a lot tougher when he was fighting with the emperor while holding on to the financial power, so he actually I understand those officials who overwhelmingly support Li Buqi.But who told him to be the envoy of the third division now? If the arms workshop was separated from the third division in this way during his tenure, he would be too shameless.

And now there are already complaints among the three divisions, saying how could the three divisions have suffered such a loss if they hadn't been full to provoke Li Buqi.

Therefore, under the pressure, the third division envoy fell ill, and the deputy third division envoy who watched the excitement presided over the work cheerfully.However, the deputy envoy can't be the master in some matters. When it comes to discussing the divestiture of military weapons supervision and the payment of salaries to small officials, he puts on a posture of "it's none of my business, you can just find a planner".Although Wang Gongchen was lying on the hospital bed, he could still feel the feeling of being roasted on the fire.

When Li Buqi was spitting like rain in the court over Li Buqi's letter, Li Buqi huddled in the case and became a good baby. He spent every day in the workshop, pretending to keep his ears shut.But he didn't need to inquire about the news, someone would naturally report it to him.

Cheng Jun sneaked into Li Buqi's office again, with a smirk on his face: "Pan Li, just got the news from the Dali Temple, the Dali Temple has closed the case, and those guys who framed the officials have been convicted. Sentenced to be dispatched to Qiongzhou, he will not be pardoned, but he is not going to track down the mastermind behind the scenes."

The emperor has always liked to make peace with each other, so this is the expected result.Li Buqi looked at the door, and saw that the Xiang army outside the door was standing far away, apparently under the arrangement of Cheng Jun.He laughed and said, "I heard that Cheng Duguan is capable. He really is a good planner and a good planner."

Cheng Jun quickly said: "Judge Li is absurd. Those people don't understand these things at all, and they will believe them if they are fooled a little bit. In addition, Judge Li's official document asking to buy a lathe forced Deputy Envoy Liu to do it. There is no time to check the authenticity, this matter is actually not difficult."

Li Buqi asked with a sneer: "It's not difficult to fool a few people. The difficult thing is that everyone plays a tricky trick. If it weren't for the bloody letter left by the old craftsman who committed suicide, and the officials who confessed to be in collusion with them, they wouldn't be so difficult." Would it be so easy to play with the imperial court between applause and applause?"

With cold sweat dripping from the tip of Cheng Jun's nose, he said cautiously: "It's true that too many people knew about the piracy before. It has to be more intense, and there will be no future troubles."

Li Buqi asked: "No future troubles? What about the dead old craftsman and the official who committed the crime?"

"The artisan's only son owed a gambling debt, and we have paid it off for him. Only he knows about it. Even if someone traces it, he can only trace it to the few people who framed Judge Li. That official was involved in the robbery. , was selected by lottery, and this time he was sentenced to exile in Cangzhou. We will take care of it from top to bottom, and when he comes back, I will follow the agreement to ensure that he is not short of wealth."

Li Buqi said: "Get up. I didn't want to ask about your past at all, but if this can establish a military weapons supervision, I want to recommend some of you to be officials, so I don't want to have any hidden dangers. You want Remember, do things under my command, don't think about doing those things before, or I won't be able to spare you."

Now Cheng Jun was very grateful, and immediately said: "Don't worry, Li Pan, you think highly of us, and I can't repay you. If you don't listen to Li Pan, the sky will be thundered."

Li Buqi said: "Okay, just remember what you said today."

Looking at Cheng Jun's back, Li Buqi couldn't help but sigh.If someone is available, he doesn't want to use the gang of petty officials with a record, but the armory workshop is huge and complicated, and it's really not easy for someone to take over.So these people had no choice but to use it first, and ride a donkey to find a horse.

PS: In order to express my gratitude for the humorous rewards, today is the third update.

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