"Please... Beg your lord to spare his life. ”

"He's gone, he'll send the news out, and we'll all have to die then.

It's not that I'm ruthless, I have to think about these sergeants, their families, and everything now.

Yu Zhong, look at it, is the life of these people better now than when you were a guard in Shouyang?

In this way, I promise not to move his family, and when the time comes, tell his wife that Ma Fu died in battle, what do you think? ”

Wang Zezhi only needs Ma Fu's life, and he is already very merciful if he does not punish Ma Fu's family.

Because Ma Fu's wife was already pregnant, he couldn't do it.

"The subordinates obey the order, and the subordinates will definitely bring his head back with their own hands." Yu Zhong shed tears, kowtowed, and chased Ma Fu.

In Yu Zhong's view, Wang Zezhi's family has done his best.

Ma Fu is an officer and soldier, he has the courage to rebel with the loaches, and he can't bear the poison of his hometown and the courage to sell the loaches.

Ma Fu became a thief in order to save his life, and was later rebelled by Yu Zhong.

That's because Ma Fu's heart is loyal to the imperial court.

Yu Zhong is different, he has seen too much, and he has understood too much.

When his comrades slashed and killed the corpses of his companions, and he resolutely defected to Wang Zezhi, he could know that Yu Zhong was a person with his own ideas.

Yu Zhong and Ma Fu are completely different.

"Report, Ma Fu led one hundred and seventy-six light horsemen to defect." As soon as Yu Zhong left, Xiao Liuzi came to report.

Ma Fu is good at making friends, as long as he has money in his hand, he will find his subordinates to drink wine and eat meat together, so he has a good relationship with his subordinates.

As a result, he also has some henchmen.

"Got it, Xiao Liuzi, if Yu Zhong comes back with Ma Fu's head, you only need to be responsible for spying on the military intelligence in the future."

"Understood."

Compared with Yu Zhong, Xiao Liuzi is more talented in spying on military intelligence.

Yu Zhong is more talented in internal infiltration, one inside and one outside, very good.

If Yu Zhong didn't come back, it would be more convenient.

"Where are those cavalrymen?"

Wang Zezhi is talking about Yanghewei, Gaoshanwei, Tianchengwei, and the three guards, as well as the border cavalry around them, which is composed of a team of more than 2,000 people.

"They didn't go into the mouth of the tiger, they went to Xuanfu from outside the gate."

"Xuanfu, this is to go to the governor of Xuanfu.

Is there news of the Right Wing and Lin Dan Khan? ”

Wang Zezhi asked about the news of the right-wing northern expedition and Lin Dan Khan's eastern expedition.

When the right wing marched north, Wang Zezhi provided a large amount of tea, salt and grain.

He very much wanted to know whether these people really went to the north to go on an expedition, or if they were trying to cheat supplies.

"The right-wing troops marched north to annihilate the more than 13,000 people left by Lin Dan Khan in the Khalkha garrison, and captured countless women, cattle and sheep.

Lin Dan Khan's expedition to the east of the Alu Department, which is thousands of miles away, has not yet received any news. ”

This is good news, the right-wing departments copied the rear of Lin Dan Khan, and when Lin Dan Khan returns, a bloody revenge is inevitable.

When the time comes, he can take advantage of these contradictions.

The Alu Department is indeed too far away, and it is estimated that there will be news almost after the year.

"Got it."

Xiao Liuzi bowed and retreated.

Wang Ze stayed here alone.

He didn't want to rebel, originally he still wanted to help Chongzhen revitalize this era together.

It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty has been suffering for a long time and has become terminally ill.

The decay of the Ming Dynasty has gone deep into the bone marrow.

Chongzhen didn't know about this situation, he also knew. god

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, he said that he wanted to do a good job as an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he must do "military generals do not spare their lives, and civil officials do not love money".

What Chongzhen meant when he said this - the officials of the Ming Dynasty love money too much.

It's not that the officials of the Ming Dynasty love money too much, but because after becoming the official of the Ming Dynasty, a person who didn't love money had to love money - if he didn't love money and didn't want to find a way to hold the money, he wouldn't be able to survive in the Ming officialdom.

Han Yiliang once told Chongzhen that in Daming, every official position is clearly priced.

The office of a governor is five or six thousand taels of silver; The beauty of a Taoist prefect costs two or three thousand taels of silver; and the official positions of the yamen in the following states and counties also have their own prices; Even if you raise people and prisoners, you have to bribe to make a deal.

There are also the selection of the science and technology hall among the Beijing officials, all of whom have to pay money with one hand and an official hat with the other.

Now the corruption in the Ming officialdom is first of all because the state and county officials are not honest, in fact, the state and county officials are also bitter and can't say it.

The salary given by the imperial court is not high, but money is needed in all aspects.

The top boss will have to pay a recommendation fee for patrolling according to the recommendation, and the official will have to pay a reception fee for crossing the border, and the cost of going to Beijing to report on his work at the end of his term of office will be even greater, and if he does not have three or four thousand taels of silver, he will not want to be an official again.

In such an ecological chain of officialdom, it is unrealistic to expect state and county officials to be honest. If state and county officials are not honest, corruption will be rampant.

As soon as Chongzhen ascended the throne, he saw a real Ming Empire, where everyone saw each other with money, all of them with bloody fangs!

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Chongzhen did not rectify the king, so he put his target on the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

Chongzhen returned the letters of the ministers who collaborated with the enemy, which does not mean that Chongzhen will let them go.

Chongzhen can't hold the ministers accountable for collaborating with the enemy, but he can pursue other things.

It just so happened that Han Yiliang said in "Persuading Honesty and Punishing Corruption" that corruption in officialdom is very popular.

On the eleventh day of the lunar month, Chongzhen appointed Han Yiliang as the imperial history of the right capital, telling him to charge into battle and vigorously rectify corruption.

If Han Yiliang is asked to be indignant and say some political evils, he is still willing to open this mouth, but if he wants to pick up the axe and fight his life to kill a bloody way for Daming, he doesn't have the courage, because this has to pay a price, a heavy price!

The officialdom corruption that Han Yiliang faced was not a specific person, but an unspoken rule.

Rules are systems, and unspoken rules are unspoken systems.

The latent system is more powerful than the system.

The system can not be implemented, but the latent system must be implemented.

This is a kind of game rule, the one who enters the game lives, and the one who goes out dies.

The latent system is a kind of state apparatus, and it is also a zero-sum game.

Han Yiliang's trouble soon came, and the trouble came from the ministry, because he touched the fundamental interests of the ministry.

This is also the reason why Chongzhen appointed Han Yiliang to fight corruption, because Chongzhen knows very well that relying on those bastards in the Ministry to fight corruption, corruption can only be more and more anti-corruption.

But Han Yiliang was afraid, because he had to face not one person or two people, but officials all over the world.

So he knelt down and begged the emperor to take back his fate.

Chongzhen squinted his eyes and said, "Are you saying that I used you wrong?" Am I not in a good head? ”

Han Yiliang was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "It's my own bad brain, I'm a pig's brain." ”

Chongzhen was disappointed, he sighed lightly and said, "You are not a pig brain, you are a fox brain." ”

After Chongzhen said this, he didn't want to let Han Yiliang go like this, since he raised the matter of anti-corruption, he definitely couldn't end up like this, because he was the emperor.

Chongzhen said reluctantly: "Let's say, say by name, who is the corrupt?" ”

Han Yiliang thought for a while and made an excuse: "Your Majesty, regarding the matter of accepting bribes, the word "rumor" has been written on my recital, and I really don't know who the corrupt elements are. ”

Chongzhen was angry: "Within five days, you must report the list, otherwise you will be derelict in your duties and deceitful to the king." ”

Five days later, Han Yiliang reported the list.

Han Yiliang pointedly pointed out to Chongzhen that there are four kinds of people who are high-risk elements of corruption: those who have participated in the impeachment of the lower part of the punishment and have yet to report; Those who have material hopes and do not return to steal and hold power; Those who have the resources to enter the important places suddenly; There are those who plan to accompany the camp to seek the inside point.

Chongzhen looked at the four kinds of people that Han Yiliang ordered, and felt that he was really talented, and told him everything that everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew about this son of heaven, but who was the corrupt?

Han Yiliang seemed to have said everything, and he didn't seem to have said anything.

This is Han Yiliang's way of being an official!

Chongzhen threw the list back to Han Yiliang, called Jinyiwei with a gloomy face, and didn't say a word again.

Han Yiliang understood that if he didn't write a specific name, he would be punished by Chongzhen.

Han Yiliang gritted his teeth and wrote down the names of several important ministers: Zhou Yingqiu, Yan Mingtai, Zhang Yiming, etc., and reported to Chongzhen.