Number of People

  Chapter 2165 Guizi scroll mystery, mystery

  Feng Ziying is indeed not satisfied with the current situation, especially Lu Chuan and Sun Yijie.

He already knew the situation on Xie Zhenye's side. Although Xie Zhenye was incompetent, he had a correct attitude and reported the situation of the guards under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division early on, which gave him a real understanding, but the performance of Lu Chuan and Sun Yijie It's hard to let go.

  It was announced that the Political and Envoy Division is one of the three divisions, but it actually assumed the duties of the remaining five ministries of the seven ministries except the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment.

Of course, in the Ministry of Officials, the chief minister has more power to recommend and evaluate, and has no right to make decisions, but only one Xi'an prefecture manages six prefectures and thirty-three counties. The chief executive from the prefect to the second rank makes hundreds of officials evaluate and even promote?

It can be said that in addition to officials above the fourth rank, officials below the fourth rank mainly rely on the officials of the chief minister to evaluate and recommend these officials. When local officials below the fourth rank report to the Ministry of Officials, unless there is a special report or an official who is valued by the court, they will basically be dealt with according to the opinions of the chief envoy.

  In addition to the power of the Ministry of Officials, the powers of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Rites were relatively complete, and they were all in the hands of the chief envoy. His power to guide the lower prefectures was even more unquestionable.

According to the Procuratorate Division, it mainly assumes the power of the Ministry of Punishment, and at the same time also takes into account part of the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Afterwards, he took over automatically, but just because of this origin, the power of the procuratorate was extraordinary, and it had the weight to compete with the chief envoy.

  The Dusi takes over the responsibilities of the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but part of the area under the jurisdiction of the border towns has to be divided, so it is relatively weak, but it still has the right to make decisions on the guards in the inland areas.

Lu Chuan had monopolized power before, but when the situation was out of control, he shifted all the responsibilities to the inspector and the capital, accusing the inspector of being stupid and ignorant, and failing to grasp and discover the movements of the rioters and mobs in time, which led to the failure of the government to intervene in time. After the situation deteriorated, he accused the capital of ineffective training of the guards and was unable to cope with the rapid deterioration of the situation, leading to loss of control.

  Feng Ziying is particularly dissatisfied that Xi'an Prefecture will become an active area for the rebellion.

If the rebellious army in Yan'an, Qingyang and Pingliang were out of control, he felt it was justifiable. It is true that the land in these three prefectures is barren, and the drought has lasted for many years. In addition, the gentry are powerful and harsh, and it is difficult for the people to rise up for a living. .

   But in Xi'an, which is the most benevolent place in Shaanxi and the richest area in the Guanzhong Plain, how could it be reduced to the same riot area as Yan'an, Qingyang, and Pingyang? It is even incomprehensible that the chaos army is stronger than the three prefectures in northern Shaanxi.

  The Xi'an government has a lot of responsibility, but Lu Chuan cannot escape the responsibility either.

"The situation in the Four Guards in Xi'an is very bad, even worse than I imagined." Feng Ziying said in a cold tone, "Xie Zhenye gave the details, including some leftover problems left by Yun Guang when he was still the governor of Shaanxi, There are also the faults of Lu Chuan and Xie Zhenye in the past few years. In theory, the Four Guards should have twelve battalions of more than 40,000 guards, but in fact the shortage is as high as more than 40%, and there are only ten battalions that are incomplete, less than 20,000. Five thousand people, that's all, the key is that the combat effectiveness is extremely poor, the armor is not repaired, and the training is blank. They are almost the soldiers in the Guanzhong Plain. They can't be sent to the battlefield if they want to fight, and they may even be worse than Minzhuang. "

   "But because of the Four Guards of Xi'an in Xi'an Prefecture, the Minzhuang mechanism has not been established at all. Unlike other prefectures and prefectures, they can quickly recruit Minzhuang. Isn't this a failure at both ends?" Wu Yaoqing also felt that this matter was embarrassing.

"Huh, the cost of the capital is not short every year. Xie Zhenye admits that there are some problems with him, but both the chief envoy and the Xi'an government have listed 15,000 people's support funds, but they are all paid by the capital. ,..." Feng Ziying squeezed out the words word by word from between her teeth.

   "What?!" Wu Yaoqing was shocked, "How dare they be so bold? They are really not afraid of the Metropolitan Procuratorate..."

"The sky is high and the emperor is far away. These are bad debts accumulated for more than ten years. Many of them are blamed on Yunguang. Anyway, Yunguang has been executed, and many accounts are unclear..." Feng Ziying said with a cold smile: "In the past few years, they have made all kinds of clever names. The two counties of Xianning and Chang'an are just under their noses. It is not easy to cheat, so they just list the counties of the surrounding counties, such as Zhen'an, Sanshui, Hancheng, and Heyang. In the counties of Shanyang, Shanyang, and Shangnan, randomly find 30 or 50 people to make a show, and then falsely report that there are 500 strong people. They didn't expect that the chaos caused by the severe drought this time would cause the rebel army to have an accident in Heyang, Hancheng Damn, with the current situation, Xie Zhenye felt that he couldn't hide it, so he came to me to confess."

   "What about Master Lu?" This is the key.

  If Lu Chuan can put on a good posture, Feng Ziying may not have to feel sorry for him. Wu Yaoqing is aware of Feng Ziying's attitude all the time, but if Lu Chuan still resists, then Feng Ziying will definitely not get used to it.

"Hmph, I'm just looking at when he plans to explain to me. Whether he wants to delay or pretend to be deaf and dumb, I will let him go. I just follow my path. In the end, I will Let's see how long he can hold out, and what will he say when this spreads out." Feng Ziying's eyes became a little sharper.

Shaanxi is a mess. Feng Ziying already knew that when Ningxia quelled the rebellion, he came to Shaanxi. Later, Shaanxi governor Yunguang was involved. Take Yunguang down and it's over.

But after so many years, the imperial court did not set up a governor again. Lu Chuan is actually the number one figure in Shaanxi. He must have made a lot of money by working hard. However, Lu Chuan is not particularly greedy in terms of money, and he values ​​it more. Powerful, and extremely powerful, but even so, Feng Ziying roughly estimated that in the past few years when Lu Chuan served as the Zuo Buzheng, it should be no problem to earn two to three hundred thousand taels.

Digging ditches, building post roads, repairing cities, and raising donations. In addition, Shaanxi has always been the area with the most serious land annexation. The government has great power in adjudicating these land annexation lawsuits. Who would not agree to a casual greeting from the Zuo Chief Envoy, whether it be from the prefectures or prefectures below, or even from the Procuratorate?

  Even Wang Xifeng was able to use Yunguang to matchmaking and lobby the government to take advantage of the lawsuit, let alone Lu Chuan, who is more in power now?

"My lord, I'm afraid this is not a good time to break up with Lord Lu." Wu Yaoqing pondered for a while and suggested, "He is indeed a little panicked now, but after all he has been operating in Shaanxi for many years. My lord is new here, and he is also very enthusiastic. If my lord strikes at him rashly, I'm afraid it will attract fear and alienation from the provincial officials. I think it's not appropriate to break faces with him before the chaos is completely pacified, and my subordinates think that this is actually a temptation and test. Look at him Are you willing to accept your lord's approach and opinions, take the initiative to straighten things out here, and show your sincerity to your lord..."

  Feng Ziying let out a chuckle, "Lu Chuan has been arrogant for so many years, do you think he will easily bow his head to me?"

"Times have changed, so I'm afraid he can't help himself." Wu Yaoqing thought it was normal, "Master Lu in the chief envoy is certainly strong, and the chief envoy to the right is vacant, but the few participating in the political council are not good at it, Lu Your Excellency is holding on to the power and oil and water of the chief envoy and will not let go, but the political councilors must be dissatisfied, and they will inevitably take advantage of various opportunities to attack him. When your lord comes, these people must feel even more. With the backbone, it is natural to use the attack on Lord Lu to show favor to you, and you can completely consider the pros and cons in it, choose the most powerful for us,..."

"Yaoqing, do you want me to provoke the masses to fight against the masses?" Feng Ziying laughed heartily, but his heart moved, using these officials to compete with Lu Chuan, the scale is controllable, and he can stand slowly in it Get a firm foothold, and then infiltrate it, so that the situation will develop in a direction that is beneficial to you.

"My lord, even without us, Lord Lu's character is too strong and lacks tolerance, so there must be a lot of conflicts here, plus constraints, so this matter can definitely be properly resolved in the hands of my lord. "Wu Yaoqing was also analyzing for Feng Ziying, "My lord should proceed step by step for the opinions of my subordinates. First, we should calm down the rebellious army step by step, and then we can consider making a fuss about building water conservancy. After this severe drought, the people of Shaanxi have also been confused. Looking forward to it, building water conservancy projects at this time will definitely win the support of the people. Those landlords are certainly dissatisfied, but looking at the tragic situation of the refugees and hungry people and the momentum of the rebellion, I am afraid they should also It’s good to weigh it.”

"Yaoqing, you think too highly of these gentry and landlords. Their vision is only so long. They only stare at the petty profits in front of them. They would rather be hanged by the rebellious army than give up money. The situation in northern Shaanxi You should have seen it, so I had no choice but to take a slant." At this point, Feng Ziying seemed to think of something, "By the way, how is Qiu Zixiong's progress?"

"Soon, Yanchuan and Yanchang were all taken down by him, and the rhythm was well grasped. Jing Zhizhong also followed suit, but the tacit understanding was too good, and it was easy to attract the suspicion of the gentry and landlords, so Qiu Zixiong and I I have sent a letter, suggesting that he should not think too much about Jing Zhizhong in the follow-up progress, and he might as well make random punches, so as to avoid giving others blame."

  Feng Ziying was very satisfied with Wu Yaoqing's suggestion, "Very well, Yaoqing, your opinion is very pertinent, Qiu Zixiong should understand the mystery,..."

  (end of this chapter)