Shen Fu.

The second watch.

Shen Shixing, who has been relatively idle recently, usually sleeps early, but tonight he was just lying in bed and was about to rest when a sharp knock on the door pulled him up again.

"Is there an accident in Shandong?"

When he got out, Shen Shixing asked nervously.

The only thing he is worried about now is Cao Ke's actions in Shandong, this midnight trick, he subconsciously thought that something had happened in Shandong, and he was panicked.

The person who came said: "My lord, it's not Shandong that has an accident, but Liaodong." ”

Shen Shixing was slightly stunned, and said in great surprise: "Liaodong? Is there a war? ”

"No, in the evening, someone exposed that Guo Dan colluded with the generals of Liaodong, Jizhou, and Datong to plot a rebellion."

"Again... Impeachment of Guo Dan for rebellion? ”

Shen Shixing was angry when he heard this, and sneered: "They are idle and have nothing to do, and they want to get some moths out, but they are really not tired, so they don't need to pay attention to it." ”

"But my lord, they came up with some evidence."

"What evidence?" Shen Shixing was surprised.

"The sons of many generals got shares in the Grand Canyon for free, and also helped the Grand Canyon to lobby other border armies and ask the imperial court to purchase armaments from the Grand Canyon."

Shen Shixing immediately heard it and said: "I'm afraid that Your Majesty knows this matter better than us, so you can send all those recitals to the celebrant supervisor, and we don't have to worry about it." ”

Speaking of the back, he waved his hand again and again.

Regarding the matter of shares, he has a lot of confidence in his heart, from Li Chengliang, he has already seen Wanli's intentions, so Guo Dan took the shares of the Grand Canyon to envelop the border generals, in his opinion, it is also reasonable.

Sure enough, these exposed pieces went up to the celebrant and then sank into the sea.

As Shen Shixing expected, the cabinet did not take this seriously.

However, what they never expected was that the matter did not end there.

This revelation is more and more twisted, and it not only involves Guo Dan's share transactions with them, but also involves those generals who plundered the people's land, deducted military salaries, and privately supported their family soldiers.

Originally, this court had been swallowed up by Kaifeng Mansion, but this time it was pulled back, and everyone focused their attention on this matter.

Shen Shixing suddenly realized that something seemed wrong with this situation!

How did it get to this?

"This evidence can be ascertained."

Shen Shixing asked Xu Guo in a low voice.

Xu Guo shook his head and said: "It hasn't been found out yet, but this kind of thing often happens at the border, and everyone knows it. ”

Shen Shixing frowned and said: "It seems that they impeached the share bribery before, just to use this matter to link those generals with Guo Dan, and then borrow the crime of those generals to support their family soldiers to give Guo Dan the crime of rebellion." ”

"I think it's the same."

Xu Guodao: "At the beginning, Li Chengliang was also involved in these things, His Majesty let him come back, although His Majesty still gave Li Chengliang good treatment, but did not let him go back to Liaodong, it can be seen that this kind of thing, Your Majesty is still very concerned." ”

"Yes! This matter is indeed sensitive. Shen Shixing pondered a little and said, "Let's not act rashly, and wait and see, I always feel that this matter is not so simple!" ”

......

Wuqing Houfu.

"Uncle Pingjiang, what the hell is going on? I heard that this matter was exposed by the Cao Yun officials, so why did they make their own decisions without consulting me in advance. ”

Li Gao said to Chen Yinzhao with a slight dissatisfaction.

Chen Yinzhao hurriedly explained: "Master Hou, this matter really has nothing to do with me, I didn't know in advance, I also just learned that it was all the Caoyun officials in Taiyuan who were dissatisfied with the merchants who ran to Ningxia to do business, and it happened that Qin Haijiang, the son of Qin Deyi, the general of Liaodong, went to Taiyuan to lobby the local general to request the imperial court to purchase the armaments of the Grand Canyon, so this matter was exposed, and the first impeachment was also about the shares of the Grand Canyon, and I didn't expect that the general would privately raise his family soldiers. ”

Li Gao asked, "Really?" ”

Chen Yinzhao said excitedly: "I will not lie to anyone, Master Hou!" ”

Mo Ruoyou said: "Master Hou, I think that this kind of thing will happen sooner or later, and this is to blame Guo Dan for being too greedy, and he is not satisfied with taking the armaments of Liaodong, and he still wants to monopolize the armaments of the nine towns of the border army, which will of course cause dissatisfaction among many people." ”

Li Gao glanced at Mo Ruoyou, was silent for a while, and asked, "What are your plans?" ”

Chen Yinzhao said timidly: "This matter involves many generals of the border army, especially the Liaodong Army. ”

Mo Ruoyou said: "I think that it is precisely because of this that Your Majesty does not dare to favor Guo Dan too much, anyway, there are so many people in the DPRK and China, let's follow behind and coax, in case it happens, at least we can prevent the rest of the border troops from interacting with Guo Dan." ”

Li Gao frowned and groaned, and after a while, he nodded slightly, and said: "It's okay to follow behind and coax, but what Ping Jiangbo said is not unreasonable, for the time being, let's not take any action, this matter can be big or small, this will lead to death." ”

......

However, Guo Dan, who is now in Weihui Mansion, is still busy with coinage and the shareholding system of the bank, and he wants to wait for the first batch of Yinuo coins to be released before returning to the capital.

I never thought that the letter from the capital came first.

"They can really toss!"

Guo Dan took the letter that had just come from the capital, and couldn't help laughing.

Aunt Xu said, "Who?" ”

"Who else can there be, isn't it those officials?" Guo Dan said: "They began to take the shares I gave to the border army generals again, and impeached me for plotting rebellion with the border army generals. ”

Aunt Xu frowned slightly when she heard this, and said, "Show it to me." ”

Guo Dan handed the letter to Aunt Xu, and said with a smile: "Sometimes I really admire the will of these people, it is really their unyielding, repeated defeats and battles, but their IQ is a little worrisome, they don't use their brains to think about it, if I don't have His Majesty's permission, do I dare to do this, I see that they all know in their hearts, just to see that I have been more beautiful recently, and they want to find me a little unhappy, this is their thrashing struggle." ”

Aunt Xu didn't look at it, but looked at the letter carefully, and suddenly asked, "Isn't this something you discussed with Your Majesty?" ”

"Of course not."

Guo Dan shook his head, and said with a little curiosity: "Why do you ask like this?" ”

Aunt Xu frowned slightly, shook her head lightly, and said, "Things may not be as simple as you think." ”

Guo Dan couldn't help frowning, and hurriedly asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Aunt Xu said: "If it's just the matter of impeaching you for bribing the general with shares, then you don't have to care, but it also involves the border army general's private support of the soldiers, so you can't care less." ”

Guo Dan was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Regarding the matter of the border army generals raising family soldiers privately, I also know very well that Ningxia has raised a lot of family soldiers, but isn't this allowed by the imperial court, what is there to say." ”

Aunt Xu shook her head and said: "The imperial court did not allow this kind of thing, this is just a helpless move, that is, because the treasury is empty, and the military salary is often in arrears, so when there is a war, the border army generals and some local big landowners pay out of their own pockets to recruit soldiers to deal with the war, and over time these soldiers will become their family soldiers, but most of the soldiers are still raised by the imperial court, otherwise, how can Your Majesty control the border army." ”

Guo Dan nodded and said: "That's what I mean, of course the imperial court will not openly allow generals to privately raise family soldiers, but in fact, the imperial court acquiesces." ”

"The problem is that the imperial court cannot openly allow generals to privately support their soldiers."

Aunt Xu said: "Under normal circumstances, everyone knows in their hearts, as long as those generals don't have many private soldiers, the ministers won't say anything, and Your Majesty will let them go, but this time they obviously want to deal with you with this matter." But once this matter becomes a big problem, His Majesty must come forward to give an explanation, so will His Majesty allow it, and will it not allow it? ”

Guo Dan blinked, suddenly realizing the seriousness of this matter.

Now those hereditary generals of the border army are raising family soldiers, and Li Chengliang has raised thousands, all because of the collapse of the guard system, but it has not been completely abandoned, although the recruitment system has risen in recent years, but it is not said that the whole country has adopted the recruitment system, and this military system has become extremely chaotic.

In the event of a war, the general had to recruit troops on his own.

In fact, once the military system of successive dynasties was destroyed and there was no complete system to replace it, then this situation would occur.

But once this kind of thing is put on the table, it will be said.

The emperor was embarrassed.

Because it is impossible for the emperor to openly allow generals to privately raise family soldiers, but the emperor also understands in his heart that those generals are actually helpless, and it is no wonder that those generals, your court can't come up with money, so I can only pay for it myself, so of course this soldier will become my family soldiers, and I have been paying to support them.

Of course, this will lead to the generals having to plunder the land, eat a lot of empty salaries, and use the power and money given by the court to support their own soldiers.

Otherwise, where can the general afford to raise thousands of soldiers?

But at present, the imperial court still controls this aspect very well, and the total army of Li Chengliang's size is just to raise a few thousand, usually hundreds, thousands, and they are still under the control of the emperor for the time being.

Guo Dan couldn't help but worry: "Will this really pull me into the water?" ”

Aunt Xu muttered: "I don't think that's right, after all, you were discussed by Your Majesty before, but if they are allowed to succeed, our whale devouring plan may be stillborn." ”

Speaking of this, she sighed softly: "We did ignore this problem before, almost none of those generals in the border town are innocent, but everyone had a tacit understanding before, but now you are already breaking the rules, so no matter who cooperates with you, they will attack whomever they want, they have no shortage of handles, then who will dare to cooperate with you at that time." ”

Guo Dan frowned and said, "It seems that we have to go back to Beijing in advance." ”