Chapter 1277: Red Flags
A banquet was eaten from the middle of the hour to the beginning of the day, the bustling and lively street had been curfew and slowly quieted down, Li Xin, Sun Shujiong and Yuan Kun were drunk and put each other's hands on their shoulders and came out of the restaurant, and a group of stewards and servants of the restaurant around them, as well as the guards and servants of Li Xin's mansion, were all carefully taken care of from front to back.
Drinking here, Li Xin's horse naturally can't ride, although Daqin has not yet drunk the decree, but after drinking like this, he can't even climb up on horseback, so the director of the Eight Immortals Pavilion arranged a four-wheeled carriage to send Li Xin and Yuan Kun back first, and Sun Shujiong has his own carriage, and the three of them pulled and pulled on the street at the entrance of the Eight Immortals Pavilion to make an appointment for the next time to drink, and then they dispersed.
"If Qinghe Marquis really said so, it seems that brother-in-law doesn't have to worry about it this time!" On the way back, Yuan Kun, who was burping and red-eared, sat in the carriage and was excited.
"Hiccup~, this drunken eight immortals are really powerful, indeed the wine is as its name suggests, even the immortals can get drunk, and the three of us only drink two catties......" Li Xin leaned back in the chair, and was already dizzy and almost unable to sit down at this time.
"It's so strange, how did Qinghe Hou know that when his brother-in-law came back, he would inevitably ask people to go around to inquire about enamel?" Although he was already drunk at this time, the so-called drunken heart was clear, and Yuan Kun was still muttering something that he hadn't figured out in his heart.
Li Xin sat up slightly when he heard this, and the drunken state on his face instantly calmed down, looking at his uncle sitting opposite, he sighed slightly in his heart and said: "Uncle brother has lived in Beijing for a long time, you should know that Qinghe Hou is not an ordinary person, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a last resort, although I am also a marquis, but I have been leading troops to fight outside all the year round, unlike Mengshi and Jiang who have people as officials in the court, so I am not clear about many things that happened in the court, not to mention that the Western Army has been selling enamel for several months, and Qinghe Hou must have discussed it with His Majesty because of this matter, I must also know His Majesty's thoughts......"
"The Marquis of Qinghe knows my situation well, so I guessed that what I did after returning to Beijing was very strange, Sun Shujiong and my uncle were both on a mission in the Academy of Sciences, and it was reasonable for him to contact you and me to tell Sun Shujiong about it......
"Alas, I want to be the Marquis of Li Xinfeng for fighting for His Majesty and Daqin for half a lifetime, not to mention the merits, the hard work is not less, but this time the Manchu Dynasty civil and military ministers are all blind and alienated from me, only the Marquis of Qinghe still remembers us martial artists, even if they return to their hometowns to visit relatives, they still remember to leave a message to comfort me......"
"In this life, if I, Li Xin, can still be a minister and a general, I will only serve the Marquis of Qinghe......" Li Xin slammed his fist on the seat, and the spacious four-wheeled carriage shook violently.
"Shhh Yuan Kun's frightened face was distorted, and he glanced out the window and found that the guards and servants who followed him around did not move, and a wild heart slowly calmed down.
The so-called drunken spit out the truth, if Li Xin's words are spread, he will inevitably be used by people with intentions, and it is possible to be charged with a big rebellion.
Things are just like Sun Shujiong said, the next few days the court was calm, Li Xin did not ask Meng Yi in private, about the Western Army's resale of enamel equipment, Montessori must have his own plans, he will definitely not get too accurate information if he asks Meng Yi, and even Montessori may not know the plans of the first emperor.
During this period, Li Xin twice asked to enter the palace to meet the First Emperor, but the First Emperor refused, neither rewarded nor reprimanded, and even the Manchu civil and military forces were a little confused and did not know the final attitude of the First Emperor.
In mid-May, Marquis Jingwu returned to Beijing.
The first thing Meng Tian did when he returned to Beijing was to enter the palace to ask for guilt, and after playing with the first emperor for an hour, he left the palace without seeing joy, anger and sorrow on his face.
On the second day, there was a supervision of the first emperor in the imperial history, requesting a thorough investigation of the theft and sale of enamel equipment by the Western Army, and the impeachment of Jingwu Marquis was not strict in his control, resulting in a huge loss of enamel equipment, and at the same time impeached the chief generals of the two armies of the Western Army, Di Daohou Li Xin and Yinshan Hou Jianghu, as well as dozens of large and small generals and long history supervisors, almost including all the middle and high-level of the two armies of the Western Army, and also affected several officials of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and the whole court was in an uproar in an instant.
In the face of this unprecedented turmoil, the First Emperor was silent for a long time and then rejected all the impeachment papers, and only said that he would discuss them later.
"Your Majesty, the Western Army's resale of enamel equipment has been clear, the three generals of Jingwu Marquis, Di Daohou and Yinshan Marquis are unforgivable, my Great Qin has strict laws, and I will take the knight and remove him from his post according to the law, and all the dozens of generals and officials involved must be dealt with according to the law, and Your Majesty cannot indulge them!" Seeing that the First Emperor seemed to want to delay as much as he disposed of Wang Li, Cheng Feng Zheng couldn't help but stand up in the imperial history.
Feng Zai, Feng Quji's brother, Zhongcheng in the imperial history, the second rank of the official position, the commander of the imperial history and the imperial history of the county supervisors, although the land is under Meng Yi, but he has his own independent supervision authority, and can command the imperial history to impeach any official.
Seeing that the second-in-command of the real power of the supervision province jumped out, the seven or eight people who were familiar with Feng Zheng or his subordinates immediately stood up with seven or eight of them, all of whom were the chief officials of the third and fourth grades with great power in each government, and they played together to demand the punishment of Meng Tian, Li Xin, Jiang Hu and others, so as to uphold the law of the country.
The last time the First Emperor was indecisive and muddy on the Yanmen Pass incident, it actually aroused the dissatisfaction of many officials and legal scholars.
Great Qin is stronger than magic, all kinds of laws are almost comprehensive, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and the people of Great Qin have long been familiar with this ubiquitous legal environment, although many people do not like or even oppose too strict laws, but no matter what happens, the first thing that comes to mind is whether the matter is illegal or not, or what punishment should be punished for violating the law, etc.
The impact of hundreds of years of magic rule is that the spirit of law and legal awareness have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Daqin.
Whether you like it or not, these laws are all there, there is no joy or sorrow, just wait for you to accidentally bump into it, and then someone will bring you to justice according to the law, cut off your head and heart...... Well, it's too cruel, it's usually a car cracked oil cooking feet, etc., and the five punishments are waiting for you to know the end of the crime.
Although the Yanmen Pass Incident has come to an end, ending with the death of the Marquis of Tongwu and the removal of the Marquis of Wucheng, the impact of that incident has not ended.
After all, Li Mu is the enemy of Daqin, and many people of Daqin also think that the temples of hostile generals like Li Mu should all be destroyed, this is a pure and narrow patriot, whether they are trolls or keyboard warriors, they just think that Daqin is the most awesome, invincible in the world, and the three heroes of the Wang family are also the greatest heroes of Daqin, no one can replace them, and Wang Li should not be punished in any way.
Of course, there are also staunch Legalist disciples and many people who sympathize with the people of Zhao Di who demand that Wang Li be severely punished, and that he should be removed from office, but also to take the title.
However, the theft and sale of enamel equipment by the Western Army this time is much more serious than the Yanmen Pass incident.
The Yanmen Pass incident, to put it bluntly, was due to Wang Li's personal reasons, and the conflict occurred due to insufficient personal inspection, and then the lack of timely handling led to the expansion of the situation.
But this time the Western Army's reselling of enamel equipment can be said to be a collective case from top to bottom, up to Li Xin and Jiang Heng such leading generals, down to ordinary soldiers are involved, reselling armaments for millions of dollars, if this kind of matter is not serious for the emperor, I am afraid that it will cause more serious incidents in the future.
Because Meng Tian was involved, Meng Yi would avoid suspicion, so Feng Zai, as the second-in-command of the Supervision Province, should stand up and express the duties of the supervision officials, and he also received the support of many officials.
"Your Majesty, Xi Han Feiyan: The law is not expensive, and the rope is not bent. With the addition of the law, the wise can resign, and the brave dare to fight. The punishment does not avoid the minister, and the reward is not spared. Clarify its laws and prohibitions, and observe its schemes. If the law is clear, there will be no danger of chaos in it; If you have it, there will be no death or captivity. Therefore, those who survive the country are not benevolent and righteous. The theft and sale of enamel equipment by the Western Army this time was caused by the Western Army's disregard for the military law and order, and the wanton trampling on the military law of our Great Qin. Right Prime Minister Feng Qu stood up expressionlessly and gave up his hand.
Now that Chen Xu is not here, the three Shangqing are headed by him.
Meng Yi is unlikely to get involved in this matter because he wants to avoid suspicion, so Feng Quji has a very good chance to persuade the First Emperor to investigate this matter, the dismissal of the official who should be dismissed, and the seizure of the knighthood, must arrange this matter properly as soon as possible, otherwise the longer it drags on, the more detrimental it will be to the stability of the army's morale.
The First Emperor sat on the dragon couch, although his face was calm and unwavering, but he secretly glanced at Chen Xu's action of the empty huge Taishi chair next to him, which still betrayed the apprehension in his heart, and even a trace of anxiety and uneasiness could be seen in his slightly serious eyes.
If you dismiss Jingwu Marquis Meng Yi and Di Daohou Li Xinyin Mountain Hou Jianghu, then almost all the generals he relied on to stabilize the Great Qin Jiangshan Sheji will not be left.
This was an extremely dangerous sign in the eyes of the First Emperor.
Even if this kind of thing can be delayed, but the so-called drag on for a while, Qinghe Hou has just left after returning to his hometown and province, to say the least, it will take three or five months to return to Beijing, and the matter will definitely not drag on for so long, because the Longxi military camp and the two-way army stationed in the Western Regions will inevitably be shaken because of this matter, and if it cannot be appeased in time, it may cause a huge disaster.
If the Western Army is unstable, the Western Regions of the Liang Kingdom will inevitably be in chaos.
The Western Regions are in turmoil, the Central Plains will also be turbulent, and the nobles of the six countries will inevitably be ready to move, I heard that there are now countless people from the former six countries gathered in the East China Sea, and there is news from Yingzhou, there are former Wei Prime Minister Gongsun Yan's descendants Gongsun Beiyan, who has erected the banner of restoring Wei in Yingzhou, and opened a dynasty to build a government to try to restore Wei.
The First Emperor sat on the dragon couch and hesitated, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty continued to get up and ask to punish Meng Tian, Li Xin and others, and after more than ten minutes, the voice above the court gradually subsided, and then became a dead silence.
"All of you Aiqing are reasonable, reward and punish is the law of Changye, Jingwu Hou and other control is not strict, the Western Army soldiers stealing and selling enamel equipment has indeed violated the military law, I am not not punished, but the two Western Army are thousands of miles away from Xianyang, once the loss of the main general will inevitably be unstable, not to mention that all the Aiqing will be almost completely impeached by the generals and colonels of the Western Army, if the edict is punished, how can the Western Army be governed, Liangguo and the Western Regions are the channels for my Great Qin to plot against the Western countries in the future, there must be no mistakes and turmoil, I need time to deal with it properly, Today's court discussion is over, please Feng Xiang, Feng Zhongcheng, and Meng Dafu go to Zichen Hall with me to discuss countermeasures and disperse the court! ”
The first emperor stood up, his eyes swept the entire hall majestically, and then his sleeves waved away, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty could only leave the court with eyebrows and eyes, Feng Quji, Meng Yi, and Feng Zheng looked at each other and followed the palace people to the palace with serious faces.