Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian's faces suddenly changed greatly.

Emperor Hongzhi has always been very generous and benevolent, even if he was a sworn enemy before he ascended the throne, he can forgive, from here you can know that Emperor Hongzhi is really a good man.

But now, Emperor Hongzhi actually threw Zhou Jing, the secretary of the household department, and Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, into the prison at once, which shows how angry Emperor Hongzhi is.

"Your Majesty~ Never, please think twice~"

Liu Jian stubbornly admonished: "This matter has not yet been investigated, how can you send the important ministers of the court to heaven in such a hasty manner." ”

"Clear?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Jian and said coldly: "Check, of course you have to check, and you have to check it clearly, clearly." ”

"Xiao Jing~"

"In~"

When Xiao Jing heard Emperor Hongzhi shouting to himself, he immediately understood that he had something to do and came to work.

"You here, let Dongchang and Jinyiwei investigate this matter thoroughly, and make the matter clear to me, so that everyone in the world can see how our important ministers of the Ming Dynasty reported to the king and ruled the people."

When Emperor Hongzhi said 'the important ministers of the country', he spoke very slowly, and his voice was very loud, there is no doubt that this is the opposite, didn't you say that these are the important ministers of the country?

Okay, just check it out, whether it is an important minister of the country or not, let the people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei investigate, and everything will naturally come to light.

"Yes~"

Xiao Jing listened carefully to Emperor Hongzhi's words, and followed Emperor Hongzhi for many years, he knew that this time Emperor Hongzhi was really angry, and he also clearly knew that Emperor Hongzhi wanted to use this matter to play, so as to bring the military power into the hands of the emperor.

Aren't you trying to limit the imperial power?

Then I want to strengthen the imperial power, and the military power is the most important thing.

Now if Emperor Hongzhi wants to transfer troops and send generals, it needs to be approved by the Ministry of War, and without the approval of the Ministry of War, Emperor Hongzhi can't transfer a single soldier.

This point was made during the Tumubao Change, when Ming Yingzong was defeated and captured, and the government and the opposition were leaderless, Yu Qian withstood the huge pressure and dispatched troops to defend the capital, and from that time on, this military power was in the hands of the civilian group.

Hearing that Emperor Hongzhi asked Xiao Jing to use Dongchang and Jinyiwei to investigate the matter, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng, and Zhou Jing's faces became even more ugly.

Let's not talk about the things that Dongchang and Jinyiwei have changed people's appearance, just from the fact that Emperor Hongzhi asked the factory guard to investigate this matter is enough to show that Emperor Hongzhi no longer trusts these civil official groups.

That's where the hell comes in.

Although the factory guards are terrible, what is really terrible is that the civil official group loses the trust and support of the emperor, just like in the previous dynasty, during the period of Ming Xianzong, the emperor reused the factory guards, and they had absolutely no good life as officials.

They finally ushered in Emperor Hongzhi, a good old man, to be the emperor, and in the past ten years, the factory guard has basically been abolished, and everyone has lived a good life.

In the past, if something happened, Emperor Hongzhi would not use the factory guards to investigate, and let them check it themselves, and then get a few scapegoats out, and the matter would pass.

Sometimes, you don't even need to check, just find an excuse casually, and everyone will fool around casually, Emperor Hongzhi, a good old man, coupled with his incomparable trust in them, can't set off any storms.

Well, now, the case of the theft of the official warehouse and the case of Li Guang have not been completed until now, and a bigger shocking case has come out, the key is that Emperor Hongzhi asked the factory guard to investigate this matter.

Not to mention that the butt itself is not clean, there are a lot of things, and there are many problems of all kinds, even if there is no matter, if the factory guard goes to check, it can also make things happen for you.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian looked at each other, and they all saw fear in each other's eyes, and they all realized that a storm was coming.

"If you go to investigate, you will definitely not be convinced."

"In this way, you go and check, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and Zhang Mao, the four of you take the lead in the investigation, I want to see what you can find out."

"Humph!"

"I took out 1,500,000 taels of silver from my inner pocket, as well as the appropriations for the past years, and I want to see that all this silver goes into the pockets of those people,"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the appearance of several people, and he knew what they were thinking without thinking about it, so he smiled and said.

His trick is very clever, on the one hand, let Xiao Jing check here, and on the other hand, let you check it yourself, and see what you can find out.

"Obey the order~"

When Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others heard this, they immediately felt that their heads were big, if you just let us investigate, then this matter can be controlled, and when the time comes, a group of people will be handed over and an explanation will be given to Emperor Hongzhi.

However, you asked the factory guard to investigate, and asked us to investigate, this is definitely a hot potato, if we strictly investigate, it will definitely be widely implicated at that time, and I don't know how many ministers of the DPRK and China will be implicated.

When the time comes, how will these people gain a foothold in the DPRK and China?

But if you don't investigate it strictly, and casually perfunctory Emperor Hongzhi's words, Emperor Hongzhi will also know, and when the time comes, what Emperor Hongzhi will think and how he will look at them, maybe he will also be implicated, and if he is not careful, his head will be moved.

But Emperor Hongzhi has already spoken, this will definitely not work if it is not investigated, and it must be strictly investigated, and Emperor Hongzhi must be given an explanation, and an explanation must be given to the Ming Dynasty.

The news in the palace also spread out of the palace very quickly, and then quickly spread in the capital.

All of a sudden, the entire capital set off monstrous waves.

Zhou Jing, the secretary of the household department, and Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, were actually put into the prison at the same time by Emperor Hongzhi.

Why were the two Shangshu put in prison at the same time?

This has never happened in the Hongzhi Dynasty, although the theft of the official warehouse and the Li Guang case are widely implicated, and there are many ministers who have been imprisoned, but there have never been six ministers at the level of Shangshu who have been implicated, not to mention that there are still two Shangshu at once.

The well-informed people in the capital naturally figured out this matter quickly.

Some relevant officials immediately put themselves in danger, such as mourning, and some people even broke themselves off in fright.

As for those who don't know the inside story, they began to speculate about what happened, so that Emperor Hongzhi was so angry that he actually put two Shangshu into the prison at the same time, you must know that not long ago, the Ming Dynasty also defeated the grassland people, and the whole country was celebrating.

At this time, it is absolutely unusual for such a big event to occur.

However, soon, the whole capital knew the cause of the incident, and the next morning, the Ming Morning Post introduced the matter in detail in the form of a headline.

Suddenly, the entire government and the opposition were shocked!

In a teahouse in the capital, people gathered together to read newspapers and talk about national affairs.

"Bang~"

"Kill, all should be killed~"

"I said why our Ming army always didn't dare to fight hard with the Tartars in the past, it turns out that the problem is here."

"The cotton armor is as thin as a summer coat, the weapon is made of iron sheets, and the food for the soldiers is old and moldy rice, and they can't even eat enough of such food."

"Eat empty salary, drink soldier blood, soldiers don't get a penny of military pay at the end of the year, and the children in the family have no money to see them die when they are sick~"

"Reselling military supplies, setting up a horse market privately, and selling ironware, salt, killing good and meritorious, etc., to the steppe Tartars ..... privately"

"Let's see, let's see, what kind of combat effectiveness can such an army have, and what kind of combat power can it defend the country?"

The people of the Ming Dynasty were angry, they had always understood why the Ming army, which could sweep the desert during the Taizu and Chengzu periods, did not even dare to go out of the city to fight.

The Tartars went south every year, but they could only guard the city every year, watching the Tartars wantonly burn and loot in the Central Plains.

Everyone hated these soldiers, was angry with them, and scolded them in the past.

But now, everyone finally understands that there are some things that they can't blame all of them.

Whoever doesn't have enough to eat, doesn't have anything to do with his hands, and doesn't dare to go out and fight with the Tartars.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are also people, they also have to eat, they also have to support their families, they will also be afraid, they are also fathers, husbands, and sons.

You can't say let them fight the Tartars with their bare hands and hungry.

"This time, Your Majesty took out 1.5 million taels of silver from the treasury to fight the war, plus the materials allocated by the treasury, etc., the weapons and armor that were distributed to the front line were not even used, these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, all of them should be punished."

"If it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince this time, organizing everyone to donate silver and materials to support the front line, if it weren't for a company like Miyun Iron Factory to support armor, weapons, cannons, etc., maybe we would really lose this time."

"Fortunately, the silver we donated was personally supervised and used by His Royal Highness the Prince, so all this silver went to the hands of the front-line soldiers, otherwise if it was handed over to these corrupt officials of the household department and the military department to arrange, most of these tens of millions of taels of silver would go into the pockets of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials."

"It's a good catch~"

"This case must be strictly investigated, the army of the Ming Dynasty is the Great Wall that guards our tranquility, if something goes wrong with the Great Wall, we will never have peace, and these moths should be punished by the Nine Clans."

"Yes, it must be checked, and it must be checked."

In the streets and alleys of the capital, the common people are discussing this matter fiercely, and almost everyone supports Emperor Hongzhi to investigate this case well.

Even some people think that these corrupt officials should be punished by the nine clans, in matters involving the Ming army, these corrupt officials are simply unscrupulous, directly destroyed the Ming army, so that the Ming Dynasty has been repeatedly bullied by the grassland people, and there are too many souls who die under the scimitar of the grassland people every year.