After finishing the painting, Xu Jirong was eager to pretend to be forced, so after the painting, he strongly asked Guo Dan to publish a wedding painting.

Guo Dan not only agreed, but also suggested that from next year, the Ma Bao would be separated from the five guns and become a special newspaper that would only publish the Ma Bao.

And the five guns will continue to publish albums.

After all, Gojo Gun was born in art, and it also has a group of loyal fans, but now Marseille is in the limelight, and everyone doesn't care about it for the time being, but over time, everyone will definitely miss the original Three Musketeers.

Art is the foundation of the five guns, and the horse newspaper belongs to Marseille, and it is a foul smell.

After sending them away, Guo Dan drove a night train with Liu Xinmou and Chen Ping, and now there are too many things to prepare, and the time is very urgent, Guo Dan doesn't want to delay it for too long.

Since time is pressing, the first step is naturally to recruit people, and now everything depends on people, and without manpower, there is nothing to talk about.

This is also the largest commercial and industrial recruitment in history.

Refugee?

Is there such a treasure in this world?

You must know that in the British enclosure movement, the government did everything possible to drive the peasants to the city to work.

And there turned out to be ready-made here.

It's incredible.

Almost in one day, all the displaced people on the outskirts of the city disappeared without a trace, even the women did not let go.

Women can also sew and mend, cook or do light work.

Not only that, Guo Dan also posted lists everywhere, offered sky-high prices, and recruited talents related to horse breeding.

Nowadays, the treatment of technical talents is still the highest given by the imperial court, and Guo Dan directly offers three times the salary without blinking an eye.

This treatment is almost the same as the regular income of Jiupin officials.

This move almost didn't let Guo Dan replace Xu Jirong and become the king of the new generation of losers.

It's just a horse, don't you?

Have money and nowhere to spend?

Although many people from the Imperial Horse Supervisor and Taifu Temple left, they chose to join Guo Dan's team.

But no one said anything about it, everyone just wanted to have fun and look at the jokes.

There is really no shortage of this kind of talent in the imperial court, because such talents can only work in the imperial court, where will other people raise so many horses, or use such a large warehouse to hoard forage, for the imperial court, you dig some up, I will raise some less, why not.

But Wanli felt extremely unhappy, with the treatment of nearly nine officials, to invite a groom, or a forage watcher, you really don't treat my money as money, and when he got this news, he immediately summoned Guo Dan.

After Guo Dan finished saluting, Wanli asked: "Let me ask you, have you been posting lists everywhere recently, spending a lot of money to hire some grooms and watch forage." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed something to do."

Guo Dan nodded.

Wanli said: "What are you thinking about, can this groom also be speculated?" ”

"Your Majesty, I did this just to help the court raise good horses."

"It doesn't cost so much either."

Wanli is really distressed!

As the emperor, he still thinks that there are too many people who eat money, so he does not fill many vacancies, which is actually a way to reduce the treasury.

Guo said lightly: "Your Majesty, I think this money is indispensable." ”

Wanli frowned and said, "How do you say this?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Your Majesty should also know that many people in the DPRK and China are still against Marseille and against contracting the pasture to the lowly ones, if this horse is not well raised, then they will definitely use this as an excuse to take back the pasture and close the Marseille, so no matter what, five thousand good horses are not one less."

Moreover, if the lowly job is well managed here, His Majesty can also take advantage of this in the future to contract the pastures in the south of the Yangtze River to the lowly post and open Marseille in Nanjing, which is nothing compared to the profits obtained by Marseille. ”

Wanli nodded slightly and said, "That's right." ”

Thinking that he would be able to open Marseille again in Nanjing one day, he smiled again.

At this moment, Li Gui suddenly said, "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister is here." ”

Wanli looked back and saw Zhang Cheng standing in front of the garden gate, looking eagerly, he was slightly stunned, and said, "Let him come in." As he spoke, he said to Guo Dan: "You go back first." ”

"Yes."

Guo Dan got a salute, and at the same time Zhang Cheng entered the park.

Guo Dan hurriedly saluted and said, "I have seen the prime minister in my humble position." ”

But Zhang Cheng didn't look at him at all, and hurriedly walked to Wanli's side.

Guo Dan looked at Zhang Cheng suspiciously, thinking, what is going on? I hope it has nothing to do with me.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong."

When Zhang Cheng came to Wanli, he didn't care about saluting, so he said directly.

Wanli was curious: "What's wrong?" ”

Zhang Cheng said: "Yesterday, the military department returned to Beijing from his inspection, and today he handed over a piece of music, saying that earlier this year, the cotton armor transported to Liaodong cut corners, causing hundreds of soldiers to suffer frostbite and twelve soldiers to freeze to death. ”

After hearing this, Wanli asked with a deep eyebrow: "Is this serious?" ”

Zhang Cheng said: "The military department Shangshu has just returned from the Liaodong region, and the minister should not be false in this matter." ”

After hearing this, Wanli couldn't help but be furious, and said: "It's really unreasonable, this matter must be thoroughly investigated to the end, I want to see who is so bold." ”

Zhang Cheng looked at Wanli with an embarrassed face, and stopped talking.

Wanli felt that something was wrong and asked, "Do you know who did it?" ”

Zhang Cheng sneered: "Your Majesty, this matter... This matter seems to be related to the imperial concubine's father, Dr. Zheng. ”

Wanli's expression froze, and after a while, he asked in a low voice, "Who knows about this?" ”

Zhang Cheng was very embarrassed and said: "Everyone knows. ”

Wanli couldn't help but rub his forehead and said, "Quickly summon the factory minister." ”

Half an hour later, Zhang Whale quickly entered the palace.

"Wechen see Your Majesty."

"No courtesy."

Wanli asked, "Minister, do you know why I am in a hurry to summon you to the palace?" ”

Zhang Whale glanced at Zhang Cheng, and then said: "According to the news that the minister just learned, today there is a chapter in the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, which exposes a corruption case related to Liaodong, which also involves the father of the imperial concubine, Dr. Zheng. ”

Wanli asked, "Then is this matter related to Dr. Zheng?" ”

Zhang Whale glanced at Wanli, pondered for a moment, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the evidence obtained by our East Factory, it is very likely that Dr. Zheng is innocent, because Dr. Zheng is not engaged in the production of cotton nails, he is cooperating with a businessman in Huai'an to produce them, and the minister estimates that the businessman should cut corners from it, but because Dr. Zheng does not know much about this cotton armor, he did not find out." ”

Wanli said: "I want not to be possible, but to have a definite result, you immediately order someone to investigate." ”

Zhang Whale comprehended: "Weichen obeys." ”

......

And while they were talking, dozens of pieces had already arrived in the cabinet, all of which were impeached by Zheng Chengxian, the father of the imperial concubine, who was corrupt and bent the law, withheld military salaries, and shoddy, resulting in the border soldiers being frozen to death.

The ministers of the DPRK and China were originally very dissatisfied with Zheng Guifei's promotion to imperial concubine, but now your father is still corrupt and perverts the law, and caused a human life, which they must not bear.

Including Shen Shixing, who has always been with the mud, he also immediately asked the imperial court to investigate the matter thoroughly.

It is a matter of military and political affairs, and it is a book of the Ministry of War, so no one dares to be careless.

And Wanli also directly ordered Dongchang, Jinyiwei and the Criminal Department to jointly investigate the case.

......

The official had no intention of hiding this matter, and soon the news of the case spread.

Kou's tooth shop.

"No, it won't."

Guo Dan looked at Kou Yi in surprise and said, "Cotton armor worth fifteen taels, but the other party only uses less than four taels of cotton to produce?" ”

Kou Yi nodded and said, "This matter is true, and now people outside are talking about it." ”

"Wow... This is the production of cotton armor or autumn pants, no wonder it will freeze to death. Guo Dan asked anxiously: "How many sets are there?" ”

"A total of 10,000 sets."

"One set will earn eleven taels, and twenty thousand sets will be eleven thousand taels, and finally there will be a more profitable business than my Marseille, and whoever will be jealous of me Marseille next time, I will take this as an example." Guo Dan shook his head and sighed.

"Husband, don't always think about making money, now you're freezing to death."

Kou Zhuan Sha reproached.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's purely a professional habit, and I have no ill will." Guo said lightly.

Kou Yi said again: "Uncle, eldest lady, I also heard that this matter is related to the father of the imperial concubine, Lord Zheng. ”

Guo Dan's eyes widened, and he remembered the expression on Zhang Cheng's face yesterday, and immediately smiled with a hint of irony: "It seems that my Daming is going to add more than ten unjust souls!" ”

Although he is not very good at playing politics, he can still understand this matter, Wanli must protect Zheng Chengxian, if he does not protect it, the status of the imperial concubine will be in jeopardy, your father killed someone, and you are still the imperial concubine, wouldn't it chill the hearts of the soldiers of the three armies.

Under the joint investigation of Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and the Criminal Department, in less than seven days, a "revelation was revealed".

It was said that a cotton merchant in Huai'an cut corners, and also copied more than 8,000 taels of silver from his home.

Wanli directly sentenced the businessman's entire family to be beheaded, and sentenced Zheng Chengxian to be derelict in his duties and demoted by one level.

The speed at which cases are solved cannot even be matched by the information age.

This matter must not be delayed, and it must be resolved quickly, because Wanli will not allow the slightest mistake in this matter, and this case will have too much impact on him, directly affecting the harem and even the establishment of the prince.

But no one is stupid.

This goes straight to the fryer.

The officials and imperial historians collectively played a concert, asking the emperor to avoid justice and let the criminal department independently review the case, which is tantamount to directly scolding the emperor.

But it is also reasonable, because according to the ancestral system, Dongchang and Jinyiwei do not have the right to judge, because Dongchang and Jinyiwei are directly subordinate to the emperor, not to state institutions, and you are using private police to interfere in the country's justice.

This should be the power of the Criminal Department, but in this case, the Criminal Department is to fight soy sauce, from the investigation to the trial, it was all completed by Jinyiwei and Dongchang, which is also blamed on the Criminal Department's investigation procedures are too cumbersome, everything has to be applied, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang are the emperor's will, so when the officials of the Criminal Department ran over, the businessman was already beaten into a human shape, and all of them were recognized, and the confession was written without leakage.

That's why the ministers can't say they've made a mistake, and they can only ask for an independent investigation by the Criminal Department.

Wanli is a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, he is not angry, and he does not order a new investigation, the emperor is personally judged, how can he re-investigate, I don't want to lose face.