The talks between Ding Liqiu and Wang Yuanzai and Bo on that day were fruitful. Not only did the two sides unify their thoughts, but it was also possible to get an internal response from Lin 100,000 bandits, which can be said to be drowsy and met a pillow.

Coincidentally, on the night of Ding Liqiu's drinking, Wei Yuan was also eating in the military camp of the Tianhou Temple outside the city.

In the barracks, there is not so much attention to eating and drinking, and the canteen next to the kitchen can find a table at random, and then put the wine and food on the table.

Who are the guests? Ma Rulin, a local Jinyi Wei hundred households, Ma Jigong and his son.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyi guards went up to the commander and down to the small banner, which was mostly hereditary military households. And the father and son who are sitting in the canteen eating wine today are the hereditary guards of the Baihu Office in Longyan County.

Ma Rulin, the current hundred-hundred-household, is in his forties this year, with a sturdy body, a red and hard face, and wears an indigo muslin robe.

This situation is not uncommon, especially in remote areas, not all Jinyi guards are shrewd and tricky, "speaking the language of the Beijing master" city people.

His son Ma Jigong is 20 years old this year, with a square face and thick eyebrows, and he looks very calm. This has already made up for the captain of the Jinyi Guard, and as long as he retires, he can cover the shortage of hundreds of households.

In a remote and small county like Longyan, the biggest official is just a seven-grade county order, and there are usually few official gentry at home, so the biggest responsibility of the local Jinyi Guard: the function of supervising the public opinion of the gentry has basically been abolished.

And today's father and son, who are also regarded as the "last Jinyi Guard" in history, Ma Jigong was the incumbent Jinyi Guard when the Qing soldiers entered Longyan.

The brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty are still relatively important.

Although this department has a variety of responsibilities, such as the use of force by the imperial court in Korea during the Wanli period, Jinyiwei provided a lot of information about Japan, and these uncles occasionally caught a Jiangyang thief or something.

However, the purpose of Zhu's establishment of Jinyiwei was to check and balance Jinyiwei, which was a tool used by the imperial power to fight against the gentry.

The ancients were sometimes very direct. As the emperor monitors and suppresses the eyes and ears of the gentry, in a metropolis like Beijing, all officials with a slightly higher grade have a fan in their families who "sit and listen" all year round.

This is equivalent to the discipline supervisor appointing a person to stay in the living room of the leader's house to work all the year round, and the ancient leader's house is big, well, the ancients are so direct, and it feels very cute.

Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu Division is responsible for internal supervision and does not talk about it, Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division has an edict dedicated to the emperor, which is in charge of cases approved by the emperor, and can arrest, torture, and execute officials and gentry on their own without going through ordinary judicial institutions.

This application is the fundamental reason for the existence of Jinyiwei, which is the core function of deterring officials, suppressing the gentry, and maintaining the dynamic balance of the court.

Once the senior civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty committed a crime, they always couldn't get out of the "edict and prison" once, and the root was here, and the Jinyi Wei did not need to go through legal procedures to deal with the officials, and acted completely in accordance with the emperor's wishes. You must know that if a case goes through the three law divisions, it will be done according to the wishes of the Wenchen, and the difference between them is decisive.

The many emperors of the Ming Dynasty before Chongzhen dealt with the issue of Jinyiwei relatively "balanced", in short, the court was generally in a smooth transition.

The Chongzhen dismissal of Jinyiwei that was circulated in later generations was actually rumored to be in the Ming generation, and Jinyiwei has always existed. It was not until 1661 that the commander of the Jinyi Guard of the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty made Ma Jixiang be killed in the curse of the water, which can be said to officially end the 290-year history of the Jinyi Guard.

However, Chongzhen, who ate dead chickens and came to power, was different.

At this time in 162, Chongzhen is about to do something stupid: he will reduce the core rights of Jinyiwei. What are core rights? Supervision, suppression of the gentry.

The factory and health system, which lost its core application, was not abolished, but soon became half-dead, and then the evil consequences were naturally borne by Chongzhen himself.

This is the natural weakness of the emperor who eats dead chickens and comes to power: without systematic imperial education, he does not know where his ass is.

For a qualified emperor, the officials of the outer dynasty and the eunuchs of the inner dynasty are in a dynamic balance: whichever side begins to be arrogant, he must support the other party to suppress and bite, and he himself will sit firmly. The emperor's ass will always sit on the weak side.

In this process, the factory guard system is the core fulcrum used by the emperor to cut peaks and fill valleys and maintain triangular balance.

However, under the flickering of civil officials, Chongzhen crippled Jinyiwei himself, just like he abolished the post station system that didn't cost much silver a year.

The consequences of the matter soon became apparent. The gentry class at the end of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most crazy era in all dynasties: forming associations, fighting against differences, interfering in administration, controlling the township, entering and exiting the public gate, and embezzling people's property.

These scholars who took off the reins during the Ming and Qing dynasties completely destroyed the entire administrative system, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the source of the disaster: when Qi Biaojia was appointed as Su Song's patrol in the early years of Chongzhen, Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, went to meet him, that is, "the sleeves are revealed." It is the various subordinates of Suzhou, and the cloud is a celebrity", and asked to be taken care of.

The scholars were extravagant and lascivious, drunk and dreamed of death, and the low-level students were no less impressive: they were in charge of lawsuits, leaking money and food, they were insane, they gathered crowds to make trouble, and there were cases of the students besieging local officials everywhere.

This kind of crazy behavior of destroying the country and destroying the government caused people in the Ming and Qing dynasties to talk about the Jiangnan gentry at that time, and almost unanimously hated it. It was not until a series of "Wailing Temple Cases" and "Money and Grain Cases" in the early Qing Dynasty that the gentry class was completely broken by the Qing court, and the ability of this class to disrupt the administration and evade taxes was abolished.

How to put it, it's a bit embarrassing: because the minorities are not used to those problems, the gentry began to honestly return to the whip country and obey the people. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the gentry did not interfere with administrative operations.

Ten permanent servants in the late Han Dynasty, warlords in the late Tang Dynasty, and official gentry in the late Ming Dynasty. The internal, external, and military systems of an NN must be balanced, and any of them is a sign of the country's demise.

In short, Chongzhen, a non-professional emperor, reduced the factory guards, resulting in the complete loss of restraint by the official gentry class, which was undoubtedly one of the important reasons for the death of the Ming Dynasty.

Straight to the point.

Ma Rulin, father and son, who are far away in the remote county of Longyan, naturally can't afford such a big pot as Ming Dynasty.

In fact, as mentioned above, this kind of Jinyi guard in a small county town in the mountains, just like the village police station in later generations, has not so many officials and gentry to monitor, and there are not so many oil and water to fish back and forth, just a few big households, and it is not easy to fabricate charges.

Coupled with the fact that after several generations of taking root in the local area, the Ma family has become a local native, that is, a middle-class family. So today I was invited by Wei Yuan to come to the barracks for a "drink", to be honest, the Ma family father and son were a little flattered.

Even if Jin Yiwei has no main business, the side business of supervising the local military and civilian social conditions is still there, so the news of the Ma family father and son is usually relatively well-informed. They know Wei Yuan's identity very well: he wiped out the giant in the sea overnight, Xinke became a popular fried chicken, and the subordinates of Cao Chuan, a powerful general who commanded more than 10,000 troops.

Although it is said that it has not yet reached the erosive moment of the army everywhere at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is an indisputable fact that with the smoke of the Ming Dynasty everywhere, the status of the warriors is gradually rising.

So Ma Baihu came respectfully today: he is different from those fools who can't figure out the situation, he knows very well that this group of short-haired people has a monstrous background, if he really angers the other party, people will kill a brocade guard Baihu on the spot, and the court will not blink.

Unlike the Baihu adults who were a little panicked, Wei Yuan admired the father and son very much. Ma Rulin is calm and heavy, Ma Jigong is young and old, the two of them do not have that disgusting officialdom habits, in fact, the local reputation of Ma's father and son is also good, and those messy things are rarely mixed with old horses.

All of this information was gathered in advance by the Traversal. The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, more than a month before the Red Gun Battalion was stationed in Longyan, the intelligence department of the crossing public had already secretly laid out in this small county town, which was also the confidence of Wei Yuan to invite the Ma family and his son to drink today.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Wei Yuan saw that the heat was almost over, so he said the meaning of today's visit: "Master Ma is the head snake of the land, my department is new to the country, I am not familiar with the place, and I still have to rely on adults to help me in the future!" ”

When Ma Rulin heard this, he hurriedly clasped his fists with both hands: "Don't dare, don't dare, General Wei is a battlefield general, so polite, he will be killed." ”

After saying this, Ma Rulin thought for a while and then said: "The general is summoned today, and I know a little bit about the meaning. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Rulin turned his head and glanced at his son. After Ma Jigong saw the signal, he reached out and took out a stack of light bamboo paper from his arms: "This is the military intelligence of the thirteen bandits of the local area, and the inside affairs of the big households that are all bandits and bandits." ”

"Also." When Ma Jigong said this, he smiled and took away the palm that was pressed on the paper: "There is still a list of twenty-six old bandits who have been at home for many years. ”

"Ho ho ho" Wei Yuan heard this, smiled and shook his head: "If you really don't need a heavy hammer to sound the drum, Ma Rulin is loyal to the country, and Wu Qianhu in Zhangzhou will not deceive me!" ”

When Ma Baihu heard Wei Yuan's words, the big stone in his heart was really put down, and sure enough, his boss had already leaked his own foundation.

After Wei Yuan finished praising the old horse, he nodded, then stretched out his finger and flicked the kerosene lamp on the table: "How does Lord Ma look at this thing?" ”

"This thing is exquisite, and I'm afraid it's not vegetable oil inside, so it's precious." Ma Rulin, who has studied the kerosene lamp for a long time from the beginning, will not know what Wei Yuan means, so he can only answer honestly.

"In Hangzhou, this lamp costs 500 taels of silver, and the lamp oil sells twice."

"This lamp is from the workshop opened by my general, so my general is rich and rivals the country."

"Whoever cooperates with us, there is no one who will not get rich." When Wei Yuan said this, he looked at Lao Ma with a smile: "Master Ma, when you stop the bandits here, you won't do this Jinyi Guard's errand." ”

After selling it, Wei Yuan said slowly: "Wouldn't it be beautiful to unload the position to the old brother Jigong early, and then go to the mine to be a shareholder?" ”