When the two faced the emperor, they could only secretly feel sorry for Huang Guoguang and Wang Mian's families.

The emperor looked at the song, and the brows that had been locked were actually slightly relaxed, which made a few people see it, and they all knew that this song was written on the emperor's heart.

"Say you're guilty," the emperor said, "Xia Yuanji, Jin Zhong, say you're guilty, have you heard?"

Xia Yuanji and Jin Zhong took off their official hats and knelt on the ground, and both said, "The minister is indeed guilty." ”

Xia Yuanji said: "The minister's sin is not redeemed by death, the minister's manager is exhausted, exhausted, and unable to pay the salary, so that the military camp mutiny, and the sacred heart is worried, all of which are the fault of the minister." ”

And Jin Zhong also said: "The crimes of the ministers are also monstrous, I don't know that the three thousand battalions are full of grievances, and the corruption in the army is rampant, and it is also the fault of the ministers' lax supervision, please ask the emperor to condemn the ministers and calm the anger." ”

The emperor looked at them and said, "Xia Yuanji, you are in charge of the country's treasury for me, how can I not know that the military salary is difficult to sustain because of financial constraints." And Jin Zhong, in the past year or so, there have been great changes in the personnel of the army, all for today's Northern Expedition, you have rectified military affairs, can you still control corruption and pervert the law? You have taken all the blame for the crime, but the really guilty people have not been harmed, is this the original intention of my investigation?"

The emperor didn't blame Xia Yuanji and Jin Zhong at all, Yang Rong was stunned in his heart, he thought that the emperor would blame these two people, so he could say a little for the dead Huang Guoguang and Wang Mian, such as "These two people are loyal and honest officials, they are rare officials, but their working methods are inappropriate, which intensifies the contradictions" and the like, but now it seems that it is not good.

"The army has no food, but my army was brought out by me from the time of Jingjing, not to mention that there was no food for seventeen days, or two or three months without food, and there was no problem at all. If there is no one in the army to incite and provoke, I do not believe it. ”

The emperor said: "Who is most afraid of lack of salary, I don't think it is a soldier, among the people who handle the food and salary, there are always people who want to be corrupt and deducted, they will incite it, they will make a noise, these people, really damn it." ”

It seems that many of the middle and high-ranking officers mentioned in the song must have to bear the emperor's wrath. Yang Rong, Hu Guang, Jin Youzi did not care about the life or death of these people, but on the surface, he still had to say: "Originally, the livelihood of junior officers and soldiers was already very difficult, if the middle and senior officers could share weal and sorrow with them, everyone could support each other to tide over the difficulties and avoid a mutiny." ”

The emperor waved his hand: "Don't excuse them, make a decree now, the three thousand battalions must be rectified from top to bottom, it is not as simple as demotion, punishment and punishment, I will punish him heavily!"

The officers of the 3,000 battalion were naturally punished severely, and the sons of the nobles who stayed in Nanjing were also demoted for the crime of negligence. And Xia Yuanji and Jin Zhong applied for punishment, and they were also demoted by two ranks, and even other military camps and border troops who had already made up for the arrears were rewarded twice as much because they did not follow the rebels to make a rebellion - only the two dead squires were really shameless, and they couldn't save their reputation, not only were they designated as the culprits, but their families were also exiled.

These dispositions were quickly prepared, and the emperor ordered them to be sent to Nanjing without looking at them.

In fact, the emperor was very interested in the suggestion in the recital, "divide the power of the five military governors' offices to drill and send people to drill the barracks", and he said to the people: "What do you think?"

"The minister thinks it is feasible," Yang Rong took the lead in agreeing: "And the minister proposed that people can be selected from the military department and sent to the military camp for training, this training method has always been the training method set by Hongwu for ten years, and whether it is suitable for fighting now and in the future, the minister does not dare to speculate." ”

The Ministry of War seems to be the world of military attachés, but in fact, it is actually a civilian official wearing the skin of a military attaché, just like Jin Zhong, because the Ministry of War only has the right to transfer troops and has no right to command the army, and there is no direct contact with the army, and because of the example of Qi Tai during the establishment of the text, the emperor does not seem to like the management model of Wenchen commanding military generals, and many of the will of the army will bypass the military department and issue it directly to the governor's office, which often makes Jin Zhong very helpless.

But if the Ministry of War is given the right to drill the barracks, then everything will be different, which is naturally what Yang Rong is willing to promote.

The emperor was about to speak, but suddenly a rush of footsteps sounded, and a eunuch walked quickly towards the emperor's curtain.

The officials looked at the sweaty eunuch, and there was only one situation when the conversation between the emperor and the minister would be interrupted by the eunuch - that is, a hundred thousand urgent military intelligence!

"Urgent military situation!" The eunuch knelt in front of the emperor, Li Xing stepped forward, took the letter and checked the seam, and the other chamberlains who were accustomed to observing words and expressions had already presented the small folding knife. The emperor cut open the envelope and picked up the letter inside, his face suddenly turned red and white, the wrinkles on his face trembled twice, and the anger in his eyes was even more uncontrollable: "Qiu Fu deserves death!

On this urgent military report, it was written that Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qiguo, attacked lightly and attacked the enemy, and died in an ambush, so that 100,000 elite cavalry were wiped out!

Yang Shiqi, Hu Guang, Jin Zhong, Xia Yuanji, and a few others were all sweating with fright, and they couldn't say a word for a while. And the emperor only felt a burst of qi and blood surging, his lips couldn't help but tremble, and the green tendons on his forehead were rising: "Qiu Fu - before he left, I also told him to be cautious in military affairs. After arriving north of Kaiping, even if he could not see the trace of the enemy, he should be prepared to face the enemy at all times, and he should not be stubborn, but he took my words as a deaf ear! He also caused Wang Cong, Huo Zhen, Wang Zhong, and Li Yuan to die! I have 100,000 elite horsemen, and none of them have survived-even if I execute Qiu Fu Lingchi and exterminate the Nine Clans, I can't withstand his sins!"

Just when Beijing was in chaos because of Qiu Fu's defeat, in the palace city of Nanjing, Zhang Zhaohua had an interview with Chen Ying.

"Lord Chen," Zhang Zhaohua said: "This time the mutiny, your Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is very close to the household department, also suffered from the pond fish, and I heard that it almost broke through the gate. ”

"The 3,000 battalions have attacked the household department," Chen Ying said: "I have been gathering there, and the only people who attacked the Duchayuan were some stragglers, and I waited to hold on to the gate for two days, but it was not difficult." ”

Chen Ying's Imperial Court escaped by luck, in fact, the group of nobles had the greatest resentment against Chen Ying, this person impeached I don't know how many nobles, even Zhang Xin, the Marquis of Longping, who saved the emperor's life, dared to impeach, these people originally planned to instigate the rebels to besiege the Imperial Procuratorate.

"Then has Master Chen's recital been prepared?" Zhang Zhaohua said.

Chen Ying was surprised: "I heard that the six ministries and the nine secretaries and the cabinet have submitted a report, bluntly saying that the culprits of this mutiny, Xia Yuanji and Jin Zhongju were offended, and the lords were also demoted and retained, could it be that there are other people behind the scenes?"

"These people are just people who have been pushed to the front of the stage," Zhang Zhaohua said, "The real mastermind is still at large." ”

Chen Ying's brows furrowed together, he felt that the identity of the mastermind Zhang Zhaohua said should be unusual, "Who does Niangniang want me to impeach?"

"Don't worry," Zhang Zhaohua soothed him: "Impeaching this person will not embarrass you, and this person is also on your list as early as the adult, and he was impeached once before, but it didn't work, and now this time, I promise to put him to death." ”