Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 150 (Part [-]) Evil
In the back hall of Zhenyuanhou's Mansion, a middle-aged man in his thirties knelt down straight on the ground, with his head deeply buried on the ground.

Sitting on the chair behind was a 40-year-old man in brocade clothes, with a majestic and angry face.

"Say, what's going on?"

Gu Zhaoji couldn't help but get angry. Xiong Mingyu, Minister of the Nanjing Military Department, had a banquet with him at night, but the banquet was not a good one. The purpose of the banquet has been clearly stated in the letter.

Admiral Caojiang's yamen suppressed a general's military merits in the water battalion.

He couldn't stand the investigation at all, and it was his brother-in-law Cui Wei who operated these things.

Cui Wei's younger sister, Cui Lan, is his concubine, and she has always been loved and trusted, so I also took care of this brother-in-law. My brother-in-law's family was originally the hereditary commander of the left guard of the navy. After I became the admiral of Caojiang, I promoted him several times. Let him achieve the post of deputy general of the Yanziji Water Camp, and he was promoted to the position of the governor.

But this little brother-in-law has often caused trouble for himself, his hands and feet are very dirty, and he often does some sneaky things.

It's fine to bring a battalion of sailors to do no good, to run transportation on the river, to sell smuggled salt, to collude with pirates to smuggle, but to pretend to be a river bandit to block the river and plunder.

These things couldn't stand the investigation at all, and his brother-in-law didn't deny it, he readily admitted it, and then knelt down in front of him to beg for mercy.

Gu Zhaoji couldn't help being furious.

He said that Xiong Mingyu would like to invite him to do something. Xiong Mingyu's banquet was not so delicious.

Nanjing's power organization is described as a troika, with only three people having real power, the Secretary of the Ministry of War is the first, the guarding eunuch is the second, and the admiral Cao Jiang is the third.

Because the Minister of the Ministry of War is in charge of dispatching troops to control the overall situation, the chief eunuch guarding Nanjing Chengma infantry is in charge of city defense, and Admiral Cao Jiang is in charge of the water army and is in charge of Jiang defense matters.

Xiong Mingyu is a civil servant, and he is a nobleman, and he has never had any close friends. The last time Xiong Mingyu approached him, he wanted to be responsible for cleaning up the Jiang bandits. The battle formation is sparse, and the salary shortage is serious, which is unbearable.

Gu Zhaoji also knew the ills in the navy, so he believed it to be true, and asked Xiong Mingyu to supplement it on the grounds of salary, weapons, etc., but Xiong Mingyu couldn't afford the money, so he didn't send troops in the end. The overall situation is the most important thing, but the water army is strictly ordered to ensure the safety of the water transportation, but the brother-in-law fully agrees that the water transportation will be preserved.

During this period of time, although there were frequent news of river bandits robbing merchant ships, there was no case of water grain ships being robbed. Gu Zhaoji thought that his brother-in-law was serious in his work, and planned to promote him again, but he did not expect that he was the leader of the bandits , The Jiang bandits are the navy.

This made Gu Zhaoji very angry.

What's even more annoying is that Xiong Mingyu came to him and held a private banquet. Maybe Xiong Mingyu would find out the truth.

What is Xiong Ming's plan, Gu Zhaoji really doesn't know, is he forcing himself to hand over someone, or is he planning to settle it in private?
Maybe it was the case of the latter, otherwise there would be no need to entertain him, but the two of them had a mediocre friendship, so it would be impossible for him to hide this matter without paying a price.

"Brother-in-law, thousands of mistakes are all my fault, I am incompetent!"

Cui Wei looked up at his brother-in-law who was still furious, then wept bitterly and began to slap himself left and right, each slap blooded, there was no falsehood, unexpectedly there were fingerprints on Da's face, and his nose was also bleeding from the slap.

And kept shouting: "Damn me, I caused trouble for my brother-in-law."

Gu Zhaoji grew up in the Marquis Mansion since he was a child. He was well-clothed and well-fed. He has never suffered any hardships and has always been soft-hearted. Seeing his brother-in-law like this, he couldn't help but feel pity in his heart, and his anger was more than half lost.

"enough!"

Gu Zhaoji snorted coldly.

Cui Wei stopped immediately: "Brother-in-law, help me!"

Gu Zhaoji snorted coldly: "How do you want me to save you?"

Cui Wei immediately said: "Brother-in-law, don't worry, I will take care of the matter. After today, the little guy will definitely be scared out of his wits."

Gu Zhaoji frowned and said, "What did you do again?"

Cui Wei said: "Don't worry about my brother-in-law. Anyway, after today, the young man will probably be successful. He must have no elite soldiers left. When the time comes, we will accuse him of privately dispatching troops and dismiss him." .”

Gu Zhaoji stood up involuntarily: "You are so bold!"

Gu Zhaoji understood that this little brother-in-law acted recklessly like this. He wanted to send someone to kill all the people in the main team.

Cui Wei kowtowed again and again, and knelt down in front of Gu Zhaoji, hugging Gu Zhaoji's thigh and weeping bitterly.

"Brother-in-law, if he doesn't die, I have to die. Brother-in-law, you can't watch me die. His death is better than mine. If I die, how sad my sister will be, we are the only ones left in this world The siblings are dependent on each other. My poor sister, woo woo woo~~"

The brother-in-law cried for a while, and Gu Zhaoji's heart softened.

He sighed for a long time, and then said: "Things should be cleaned up."

Cui Wei suddenly turned from worry to joy: "Definitely!"

Cui Wei left Zhenyuanhou's mansion and went straight to the admiral's yamen in Caojiang.

In the yamen, he is a person who calls the wind and rain and speaks for himself, because his brother-in-law is the admiral of Cao Jiang, and he is a powerful official.

He himself is also in a high position, not to mention that he is the deputy general of the water camp, and he is also the governor's job, and he also has real power in the admiral's yamen.

Immediately, someone sent an official document to the Ministry of War to sue Yang Chao, the general of the Zuo Division in the middle of the Xinjiangkou Water Battalion, for three crimes of "secretly mobilizing troops, killing good men and taking meritorious service, and destroying troops and destroying generals".

With Gu Zhaoji's power, killing a small boss is not easy.

……

After Xiong Mingyu received the official letter from Admiral Caojiang's yamen, he immediately had a headache, and the headache was not the content of the complaint.

It was the attitude of the Admiral Cao Jiang's yamen, to be precise, the attitude of Gu Zhaoji.

In this official letter, there is conclusive evidence listing Yang Chao’s illegal acts, needless to say, privately dispatching troops. Who is not like this, everyone who has a boat in the water camp is probably like this.

But this further showed Gu Zhaoji's determination to kill Yang Chao.

Xiong Mingyu disagreed as for killing the good and taking the meritorious deeds, who could tell the difference between the bandits and the good people, except for the admiral's yamen in Caojiang, everyone in Xinjiangkou said that Yang Chao was the one who suppressed the bandits.However, the official letter clearly listed a series of identities. Among the people Yang Chao killed, most of them were military households of the Right Guard of the Navy.In this way, Yang Chao is indeed suspected of murdering good men and taking meritorious service, or to prove the opposite thing, that is, the military households of these navy right guards are all Jiang bandits.

In the past few years, banditry has been serious. Not only there are river bandits on the river, but also bandits on the mountain. Many of them come from military households who fled. The military households live a hard life, far better than ordinary people, and they know how to march and fight. As well as martial arts, most of the people who fall into bandits are military households, and it is not uncommon for Jiang Bandits to have some navy households.

As for the third article of losing soldiers and losing generals, this is the most deadly. Over the years, it is because of the soldiers under their command that the arrogance of the military leaders has become arrogant. Elite soldiers, when the imperial court is using them, they dare not kill generals, even small officials like General Ba, because soldiers are private soldiers, especially elite soldiers, most of them come from the servants of the officers.

When the officers are moved, these family members often rebel with the officers. They may not dare to attack the city, but it is not new to turn grass into bandits.

Xiong Mingyu thought about it, if he really wanted to deal with Yang Chao, he could only be the most powerful general, and the other two might not be able to move him.

Besides, Xiong Mingyu also knows that Yang Chao has some weight in Nanjing. If Yang Chao is to be moved, there may be many civil servants who will defend him. Jin is even closer to this Yang Chao, and will protect him if not done.

He was not easy to move at first, and with these people protecting him, Xiong Mingyu really couldn't move him in this turbulent period, but the attitude of Admiral Caojiang's Yamen seemed very firm, what kind of enmity should this be, Xiong Ming Yu faintly felt that there was something involved in it, which he probably didn't know at all.

He couldn't figure it out for a while, and Xiong Mingyu couldn't figure out what to do, so he could only talk about it during the night banquet with Gu Zhaoji.

"Xiong San, you go to the water camp and ask Yang Chao to explain what happened to the loss of troops?"

(End of this chapter)