In the second year of Chongzhen, the tenth day of August.

Yang Yingchao, the corpse of the veteran, and the gold, silver and jewelry that Yang Yingchao had obtained were escorted to Beijing.

Wang Ze reprimanded Yang Yingchao for embezzling military salaries, and he suspected that Yang Yingchao began to embezzle military salaries when Chen Qiyu was the governor of the five provinces, otherwise he would not have a wealth worth more than 180,000 taels.

As soon as this incident came out, everyone was shocked.

Shuji Shi Zhuang Ao Shangshu presented the "Taiping Twelve Strategies" and asked Chongzhen to remove the eunuch from his position as a military supervisor.

As a student of the Hanlin Academy, Zhuang Ao discussed the government in vain, which made Chongzhen very unhappy, so he was demoted to outside the capital.

Originally, Chongzhen thought that this matter would pass like this, and with Zhuang Ao's previous experience, the ministers would definitely not dare to say this matter again.

What he didn't expect was that his approach directly stabbed the hornet's nest.

The ministers began to scramble to impeach the local prison guards.

The Sichuan political envoy was the right to participate in politics and guarded the western Sichuan Daohe Zijing, and Shangshu impeached Sun Maolin, the eunuch who supervised military affairs, for selfish interests and let the thieves go.

At the same time, Wang Kun, the eunuch of the Xuanfu Supervision Army, also went to Emperor Chongzhen, and the eunuch Sun who supervised military affairs did commit a crime.

Emperor Chongzhen panicked, and hurriedly sent Jinyi guards to investigate, and the result was indeed as He Zijing said, the eunuch who supervised the army made a big mistake.

The courtiers broke out, and they took the opportunity to impeach the eunuchs in various places for corruption, autocracy and other scandalous things.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the local army continued to grow, and the authority of the imperial court was increasingly reduced, especially in the Chongzhen Dynasty, due to the natural disasters for many years, the local army was seriously affected, and the local army salary supply was insufficient, so some warlords took advantage of the situation to fend for themselves and relied on the collection of local taxes to directly raise soldiers.

Emperor Chongzhen, faced with the external troubles in eastern Liaodong and the rebound of local forces inside, felt that it was necessary to send trusted people to supervise military affairs in order to curb this tendency of separation.

Local officials have formed cliques for personal gain, engaged in favoritism and irregularities, and have not been sympathetic to the hardships of the people.

Honest officials are often too pedantic and not good at implementing government affairs.

The Houjin in the northeast entered the customs several times during the Chongzhen period, but the Manchu courtiers were helpless, which made Chongzhen feel that the scholars and doctors had failed the royal kindness and could not solve the problem of political stability.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to use the policy of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di to let the eunuchs supervise the army.

Since Han Yiliang's anti-corruption storm incident, Emperor Chongzhen felt even more that he had no ministers to trust, and only the eunuchs around him could be trusted.

Therefore, Chongzhen still believed in the eunuchs of the prison army, and he didn't want to remove them like this.

The ministers knew that it was useless to just talk, so they united with the generals from all over the country to find out the salaries that the eunuchs in charge of the army had embezzled.

Under the fact that everyone has stolen goods, Emperor Chongzhen can't stand it.

Emperor Chongzhen issued a decree denouncing the corruption of the eunuchs and announcing the abolition of the eunuch system.

As for Yang Yingchao, who was escorted back, he was executed by Chongzhen Ling Chi.

Ling Chi, also known as the punishment of the ring, was originally divided in ancient times to live livestock to sacrifice to the gods.

Later, it was used for the human body, commonly known as "a thousand knives", which was first seen in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, and was explicitly included in the code in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was listed alongside beheading and hanging, and was the most tragic torture for people.

The criminal law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that Ling Chi is only used for rebellion or rebellion.

Chongzhen only ordered Ling Chi to execute Yang Yingchao, because the monarch forced him to remove the eunuch army, and the cause of the incident was Yang Yingchao.

At this critical moment when he had just approved Song Tongyin's investigation of corruption, the eunuchs he trusted the most were corrupt.

It was like a big slap in the face that hit Chongzhen hard.

If he didn't execute Yang Yingchao at Ling Chi, it would be difficult to understand the hatred in his heart.

Yang Yingchao was cut one by one, dripping with blood, wailing in pain, his facial features moved, and his sound shook the capital, wailing from day to night.

By the end of the night, all that remained of the execution site was a bloody skeleton.

However, the remnants of Yang Yingchao's wailing still lingered in the execution ground.

Chongzhen's most trusted eunuchs were all removed from their posts as military supervisors, and he was very unhappy.

So, he decided to start a vigorous anti-corruption campaign.

Chongzhen ordered to transfer 3,000 forbidden troops to Han Yi, let him be the Qin Mission, and give Shang Fang a sword, which can be cut first and then played, and ordered him to inspect the border army, rectify corrupt officials and corrupt officials, strictly check the whereabouts of military salaries, and check the real soldiers and horses.

With the first assistant of the cabinet as the envoy, he inspected the border army, which shocked the government and the opposition for a while.

The Manchu ministers and border generals were frightened and trembling.

After the fright, it's action, and you know, these people are not clean.

If they are really found out by the court, they will not be able to eat and walk around.

Therefore, they checked their ancestral hometowns, looked for old examples, and went all out to oppose the decision to appoint the head of the cabinet as the chief minister.

Their reason is that as soon as the head and assistant of the cabinet leave, who will exercise the cabinet's voting power, and also have the right to refute.

The most important point is that they felt extremely frightened of Han Yi's behavior by the Chongzhen Forbidden Army.

The emperor sent the forbidden army to Qincha, what does this mean?

This shows that the emperor does not trust his courtiers, he only trusts his own soldiers and horses.

He wants to use his soldiers and horses as a deterrent to those who do not determine.

If you really let the court go to the border with 3,000 forbidden troops to investigate corruption and eat empty salaries, there is a chance that the problem will be found.

The military general will be tougher in the face of a Qincha without soldiers, and if he faces the Qincha who came with 3,000 forbidden troops, he may not be able to get hard.

The military generals of the Ming Dynasty were called generals, but they were actually balanced by the forces of all sides.

Just talking about the position of the general army, the Ming Dynasty had a general army of a government and a general army of a province, these powers seem to be very large, but what the general army can actually control is only a limited number of general army standard battalions, if you want to mobilize other armies in the jurisdiction, you also need to cooperate with the governor and the county garrison.

In addition, military generals are also held hostage by civilian officials.

Let's talk about Shaanxi first, Shaanxi has three permanent governors, namely the governor of Shaanxi, the governor of Yansui and the governor of Gansu, which are controlled by the governors of the three sides and are civil officials.

These civilian bureaucratic systems also held hostage the military attache systems such as the general army of Yansui, Guyuan, Gansu and other towns.

To put it mildly, it is the Shaanxi General Army, which can nominally oversee the entire military affairs of Shaanxi, but in fact it is quite complicated to deal with.

He first had to react to the civilian system of his superiors, the governors, the governors then reacted to the governors, and the governors then sent imperial edicts to the governors, and the governors then wore the edicts to the commanders of the towns, so that they would really listen to the dispatch of the commanders of Shaanxi.

Yang He, the governor of the five provinces, was faced with the complicated situation of not being able to actually control the army in his jurisdiction when he took office.

In the name of the governors of the five provinces, he ordered the general soldiers of the provinces to suppress the thieves, and the general soldiers of the provinces then ordered the general soldiers of each town to suppress the thieves.

As a result, due to the shortage of food.

The general soldiers of the towns did not listen to the dispatch and returned to their hometowns on their own.

The general army of the provinces could not mobilize the general army of the towns, and the standard battalion soldiers and horses in their hands could not defeat the large number of hungry people and thieves.

As a result, the commanders of the provinces did not listen to the dispatch.

Yang He watched his soldiers and horses ignore his orders, but he was helpless.

If Han Yi really led the 3,000 forbidden troops, took Shang Fang's sword, and inspected the border army in the name of Qincha, the standard battalion soldiers and horses in the hands of the general soldiers guarding the border would not have an advantage in numbers.

Unless they can mobilize the whole province, it's pretty much the same.

In the case of a small difference in strength, they did not dare to make a mistake, so they could only cooperate with Han Yi to investigate corruption and clear the soldiers.

This was something that the courtiers did not want to see, so the courtiers and the emperor came to a fierce confrontation and did not give in.

This confrontation involves the future of officials and generals at all levels, and they dare not slack off.

This is a war without gunpowder, and he is more fierce than the battle of open guns and knives.

It was so intense that no one took care of the government anymore, and this situation lasted until October.

It was only at this time that the emperor and courtiers suddenly realized that this internal conflict had made the entire Ming Dynasty suddenly precarious.