Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

"What did you say?! Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakoubao were copied by Xichang?"

When Zhang Gui led a group of officials from Xichang and his family back to Beijing with the confiscated money and grain of Shanxi merchants, Wang Ji, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, also learned the news of the confiscated Shanxi merchants from Zhu Sheng Li Yifu.

After hearing this, Wang Ji felt as if he had been punched heavily in the chest, and he couldn't breathe for a long time.

He couldn't help thinking: "At this moment, doesn't it mean that His Majesty has internal money again, and our wishful thinking of letting His Majesty have no money for military training is in vain?"

"Would you dare to satisfy you lately? You'll know when you go to Chongwenmen every now and then! Now there are still people from Xichang organizing civilian husbands to transport food there. In addition, the Fan family and others have also been taken to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. You can go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and ask."

Li Yifu replied.

"This West Factory is going to cut off the wealth of the world!"

Boom!

Zhang Wenda, Minister of the Ministry of Officials who was also here, slapped his palm on the case and said with trembling teeth.

"You're right, he has cut off a lot of people's money. The key is that now, the military rations we sent to Zhangjiakou Fort were lost, and now they have become the imperial court's rations. The money from the Shanxi merchants has also gone into the internal treasury!"

Hou Xun, who was also here, spoke distressedly.

Li Yifu said anxiously: "Guys, why don't you tell me what to do?"

Wang Ji smiled wryly: "Is there any other way, is it possible to ask His Majesty to return all the properties of Shanxi merchants copied from Xichang, so that His Majesty can forgive them for their innocence?"

"Why not!"

"Many border town governors and general soldiers also have shares with Shanxi merchants. They also cut off the wealth of many border town governors and general soldiers. Isn't your majesty even afraid of this?!"

Li Yifu asked.

Hou Xun waved his hand and said, "Some things don't weigh four or two if they are not on the scale, but if they are on the scale, they can't weigh a thousand catties! It's okay for everyone to secretly sell some grain and people to Jiannu, but if you really want to force the king openly, it still won't work. Yes, not everyone is willing to gamble the lives of the Nine Clans for a little money, and lose the loyalty of their ancestors for several lifetimes!"

"That's right, this loss can only be suffered, but it can't be lost in vain! The West Factory will never be allowed to stay!"

Wang Ji said.

"There shouldn't have been!"

Hou Xun said a word, and then said: "If it weren't for the treacherous official Han Yu who controlled the cabinet, and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and his eunuch members such as Huo Weihua and others who controlled the court, the establishment of the Xichang was ordered by His Majesty. It must be refuted!"

"It's no wonder that the emperor let Uncle Zhang Guo, a military official, take charge of the West Factory. Now that I think about it, how can I copy Shanxi merchants without military officials directly using well-trained soldiers and horses?"

Wang Ji sneered.

"In any case, as the Lord said just now, the West Factory cannot be kept, it has to be sent to the Shu, please the emperor remove the West Factory!"

Hou Xun said.

Wang Jidao: "I'm afraid the Son of Heaven will not agree."

"This matter cannot be left to the Son of Heaven!"

"Uncle Guo's move has aroused public anger. Even if we don't go to the shuffle, other people will go to the shuffle. How many people are involved behind the Shanxi merchants, I don't know, unless the emperor really wants to kill all the ministers who speak normally. Otherwise, if the Son of Heaven does not withdraw the West Factory for a day, the voices of the courtiers asking for the withdrawal of the West Factory will continue for a day!"

Hou Xun said.

Wang Ji nodded.

At this time, Wei Dazhong came over, and hurriedly said to Wang Ji and Hou Xun: "Your Majesty decreed that the crime of traitors should be committed, and the traitors who were copied will all be barbarians, and kneeling statues will be cast at the gates of closed cities everywhere in the world. He kneels like a urinal and builds public toilets everywhere, so as to leave his stigma forever! In addition, the emperor wants to discuss the new policy of Yuan Keli in the Qinzheng Hall at noon tomorrow."

"What?!"

Wang Ji was shocked when he heard this.

Hou Xun also couldn't help sighing: "Why are you so vicious!"

"It is urgent to withdraw the West Factory. Tomorrow noon, I will be the king of advice!"

Wang Ji said hurriedly.

Hou Xun nodded.

...

Apocalypse did decide to hold an afternoon court meeting in the Hall of Qinzheng the next day.

In name, after Yuan Keli's Shangshu suggested that the court reformed and implemented the New Deal, the court discussed how to implement the New Deal.

In fact, it was because Tianqi got a memorial from Mao Wenlong from Wei Zhongxian. In the memorial, Mao Wenlong stated that he only received 10% of his military salary, which was far from the amount stated in the imperial decree.

It is already a common phenomenon in Daming that the generals in border towns receive insufficient military pay.

Under normal circumstances, the generals of the border town would not report this matter to Shu Zou, after all, this involved the black hats of many people.

Now Mao Wenlong chooses to report this matter, the reason is very simple, that is, Wei Zhongxian supports him and intends to make a big deal.

Tianqi also decided to reveal the matter in the court after learning about it, and took this as an opportunity to start a large-scale campaign to purge officials.

Because before any new deal is implemented, the administration of officials must be rectified, otherwise any measures of the new deal will not be able to be implemented.

Apocalypse is also well aware of this, and will naturally do the same.

...

"Qizou Your Majesty, the establishment of the West Factory violated the ancestral system. Even if it was established at the time of the Constitutional Temple, it was followed by the words of the virtuous ministers, and the West Factory was abolished and the law was lenient. Now the imperial court has re-established the West Factory. It is intentional to revive the tyranny, so that Your Majesty's benevolence will not be tarnished by it, I request you to withdraw the Xichang and abolish the regulations on the crime of traitors, this is not the way of lenient punishment to govern the country, nor the way of a saint!"

What Tianqi didn't expect was that Hou Xun took advantage of this afternoon to attack the West Factory first and asked the emperor to withdraw the West Factory.

"Qi Zou Your Majesty, although the West Factory has dealt with big cases of profiteers and collusion with the enemy as soon as it was established, the West Factory has too much power, runs amok, destroys families at every turn, and disregards human lives. If it continues like this, it may disturb the world. I also ask Your Majesty to decree to abolish the West Factory." , and can no longer move Tai A to the subordinates, so that the powerful ministers will breed!"

Then, even Wang Ji, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, couldn't help standing up and reporting.

"Qizou Your Majesty, if there is Xichang, there will be chaos in the court, and if there is Xichang, the world will be uneasy. Especially this time, the blatant confiscation of the wealthy merchants in the border town will inevitably involve the border ministers. I am afraid that it will cause instability in the border defense. The minister believes that in order to make the world stable. , stop setting up the West Factory!"

Immediately, Zhang Wenda, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, also asked the emperor to remove Xichang.

"Your Majesty, please dismantle the West Factory!"

"Your Majesty, please dismantle the West Factory!"

"Your Majesty, please dismantle the West Factory!"

...

Immediately after more and more civil servants began to go to court, Tianqi was asked to withdraw and set up the West Factory.

Apparently, Xichang really angered the public.

Some civil servants belonging to the Shanxi Merchants Party denounced Xichang tearfully.

Tian Qi's face gradually darkened. He wanted to take advantage of this morning to attack the corrupt officials of the Manchu Dynasty, but he didn't expect these people to attack Xichang first.

And these civil servants didn't mean to end because of this. It seemed that if Tianqi didn't express his position, they wouldn't give up.

During the incident, Wei Dazhong prepared to stand up from the court at this time, and took out a joint letter from dozens of gentry and landlords denouncing Xichang that he had received before going to court, and deliberately asked the emperor to remove Xichang. The remonstrance pushed to a climax.

But how could Zhang Gui tolerate these people slandering Xichang in order to collect protection fees from all over the world in the future, so before Wei Dazhong spoke, he went out of court and said: "Your Majesty! I think Xichang does not violate the ancestral system, because although Taizu did not Once the West Factory was established, it was only said that the prime minister system should no longer be established, and it was never said that the West Factory should not be established.”

After speaking, Zhang Gui asked Hou Geshi: "May I ask Mr. Hou, is it true or not?"

Hou Xun was furious, and after a while, he finally choked out a word: "Yes!"

"Is that against the ancestral system?"

Zhang Gui asked.

Hou Xun didn't expect Zhang Gui to catch such a short board, and he didn't dare to argue with his words in front of the imperial court, so he could only say: "It doesn't count!"

After saying that, Hou Xun bowed to Tian Qi: "Your Majesty, please punish me for my slip of the tongue!"

Then, Zhang Gui said again: "Your Majesty, I believe that what Da Sima said was wrong. Xichang has only handled one case until now, and that is that the Fan family and other profiteers colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country! No other cases have been handled yet, so why just say I am running amok in the West Factory, is it a waste of human life?! We dealt with profiteers such as the Fan family, but the evidence is convincing, and even His Majesty has read all the physical evidence. Da Sima still beat him up like this, because he is with the profiteers, or is he deliberately mocking His Majesty? It's a faint king, don't you know right from wrong?!"

"Your Majesty, Da Sima is using something that hasn't happened to our Xichang head. This is planting, this is framing. I ask your Majesty to punish him for the crime of lying, and even the crime of deceiving the emperor!"

"you!"

Wang Ji subconsciously held the elephant wat and pointed at Zhang Gui. He was so angry that he couldn't say the next thing, so he had to follow suit and confessed: "I made a mistake!"

"In addition, Your Majesty, Otsuka threatened the court not to set up the West Factory with the ministers of the border. He obviously intended to say that all the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are treacherous ministers collaborating with the enemy and traitors, not loyal ministers. He is trying to provoke the relationship between the ministers and the court and deliberately disrupt our Ming Dynasty. Jiangshan! Therefore, I ask Your Majesty to imprison him and ask him what his intentions are?!"

Zhang Gui said again.

Zhang Wenda didn't expect Zhang Gui to be so eloquent, so he hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, I have no such intention!"

At this time, Tianqi saw these civil servants deflated, and was really happy, so he said: "Since the Xichang has not violated the ancestral system, violated the national law, and has not brought chaos to the world, there is no need to withdraw. What I want to talk about now is that it involves military pay. As for the issue of distribution, according to Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of Phi Island, he received less than 10% of the military salary under his command this year, so I asked Dongchang to check."

As he spoke, Tian Qi ordered: "Bring people up!"

Wang Ji and other military officials couldn't help feeling flustered, and secretly said, "What does this Mao Wenlong mean?!"

Soon, Wei Zhongxian asked Jin Yiwei to bring up a man in shackles.

The man's name was Wang Wenyan, and he was an active political broker in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Ji became nervous when he saw Wang Wenyan.

At this time, Tian Qi ordered Wang Wenyan: "Tell me everything you know."

"yes!"

Wang Wenyan agreed and said: "All the money lost by the Ministry of War was organized by the criminals into account books, and now the account books have been handed over to Eunuch Wei, and there are detailed amounts of military salaries lost by officials at all levels of the Ministry of War, among which the Northern Army Chief Sima divided 180. One hundred thousand taels!"

"Your Majesty, floating is not an old practice! I am not a minister who is greedy for ink, please learn from Your Majesty!"

At this time, Wang Ji hurriedly argued, meaning that civil servants stealing military salaries can be called greedy?

"Your Majesty, although drifting away is an old rule, it is not considered an ancestral system, and it is also greedy for ink! And the minister recently reviewed the "Da Gao" issued by the Taizu: only those who have more than sixty taels of greedy ink, thin leather last grass! The minister thinks that since you want to Talking about the ancestral system, please restore this ancestral system, so as to rectify the government of the world!"

As Zhang Gui said, he took out the "Great Patent" that he had been keeping in his sleeves and was ready to scare the ministers who opposed him at any time.

Seeing this, the ministers present were all shocked in place.

You must know that the courtiers have been deliberately keeping this book from being known after Zhu Yuanzhang's death.

So many people are unfamiliar with this book.

But Zhang Gui brought it up.

Even Sun Chengzong, the emperor's teacher, was very surprised: "Why did you Zhang Guofu take out the "Da Gao"? As the emperor's teacher, I didn't dare to mention this book to your majesty. The uncle of this country is so cruel, because some ministers They used the ancestral system to target him in Xichang, so he took this opportunity to release the "Da Gao"!"

"I have also heard of Taizu's "Da Gao", but it is a pity that I don't know why it is hard to find now. I have asked my masters to look for this book many times, but they say they have not found it."

Seeing such a magic weapon, Tian Qi hurriedly said excitedly: "Submit the "Da Gao" up, and I will take a closer look!"

At this time, Tian Qi found out that Wei Dazhong was still standing outside the court, and asked, "You also want to ask for the withdrawal of the West Factory?"

Wei Dazhong was a little afraid to confront Uncle Zhang Gui now, so he hurriedly said: "Return to Your Majesty, I am not, I just want to say that it is actually very good to have Xichang."