Long Tai's face changed slightly, he looked at Lu Xiao, the squire of the military department, and said in a deep voice: "Lu Xiao, is there such a thing?" ”

Lu Xiao hurriedly came out and said: "Back to the emperor, the minister also wants to pay the general's salary, but ..... The minister has no silver in his hand, and he can't allocate it if he wants to. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Dou Kui immediately said: "Lord Lu, last month, the household department allocated the salary to the military department, and I can't complain about this matter. ”

"Lord Dou, you did allocate silver taels to the Ministry of War last month, but ...... That little bit of silver is far from enough for all the soldiers and horses to receive military salaries. Lu Xiao said: "The Qinhuai Legion on the front line naturally can't delay the salary, and the East China Sea Division is naturally in arrears, and now that it's almost summer, they always have to change their uniforms." The armament purchase of the Qinhuai Army and the East China Sea Division has been delayed for a long time, and it cannot but be resolved. ”

Dou Kui said: "Lord Lu, how many families do the household have, don't say that you don't know at all, here to shrink clothes and diet, cut various expenses, the silver allocated to your military department every year is the largest expenditure, and now the household department is already stretched, and the yamen of the various ministries go to the household department every day to ask for silver, and I am already anxious." ”

Lu Xiao said: "Lord Dou, the lower official only has to take the silver to do things, so if you have a lot of silver in the household department, the lower official is a squire in the military department, and he can't control your household department." How much money there is, how many things can be done, and only the most urgent things can be done. Turning to Longtai, he said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the military salary of the Black Scale Battalion has always been in my heart, and I also sent people to the household department to ask for it at the end of three days, but ...... Hey, the household department may really have difficulties, and this matter can only be discussed in the long run. ”

"Think long-term?" Qi Ning said with a smile: "Lord Lu, Ben Hou asked you, can the salary of the Black Knife Battalion be allocated?" ”

Lu Xiao was stunned, glanced at Zhen Guogong, nodded slightly, and Qi Ning asked again: "What about Xuanwu win?" What about the Shenwu Battalion? And what about the Royal Feather Grove Battalion? The Black Scale Battalion does not compare with the Qinhuai Legion, nor with the East China Sea Division, these soldiers and horses are inside and outside the capital, if their salaries are also in arrears and have not been allocated, Ben Hou will not say anything more today, but among these soldiers and horses, as long as one of them receives the salary, today in this court, you have to make things clear. ”

Jin Daohou didn't seem to hear it, and still sat motionless in his chair.

Many officials were a little surprised in their hearts, secretly thinking that the young man was still too reckless, and wanted to ask Lu Xiao for military salaries, when could not, but he was in a hurry today, this golden knife waited for 800 years without going out, and today he finally came to the court, and Jinyi Hou went directly to the military department, wouldn't it break the face of the old marquis, although the military department is now in charge of Lu Xiao, but the old marquis is still the secretary of the military department after all, and he is still the secretary of the military department, that is, the old marquis.

Lu Xiao has a golden sword behind him, and he himself is also from the army, but he is also stubborn, and sneered: "The soldiers and horses that Hou Ye said did receive soldiers' salaries, but when they arrived at the Black Scale Camp, the silver was exhausted, and the lower officials couldn't change the silver. ”

Dou Kui shook his head and said: "Master Lu, you are now the knife holder on the neck of the official, and the official can't take out a tael of silver to send it to your military department, and the household department is in charge of the country's finances, but it is not only your military department that has to spend silver." ”

"Lord Lu, you have considered changing your military uniforms and ordnance, but you didn't think of allocating military salaries to the Black Scale Battalion?" Qi Ning smiled and clapped his hands and said: "Okay, Ben Hou doesn't say much, since the emperor handed over the Black Scale Camp to Ben Hou, if Ben Hou can't even guarantee that they will eat, if you lose the emperor's grace and the soldiers of the Black Scale Camp, Ben Hou will give you two days, and within two days, if the Black Scale Camp has not received the military salary, Ben Hou can only take them to find it himself." ”

Lu Xiao frowned and said, "Master Hou, what do you mean by this?" Do you want to condone the looting of officers and soldiers? ”

"Not really." Qi Ning smiled: "Lord Lu, if you don't allocate the money for a long time, do you want to force them to loot and let the Black Scale Camp be ruined?" ”

Lu Xiao's face changed drastically, and he said sharply: "Master Hou, above the court, please be cautious." ”

"Less nonsense, nothing to be cautious about." Qi Ning said coldly: "Don't worry, the Black Scale Battalion is a soldier of the imperial court, abiding by military regulations and national laws, and will never loot wantonly, so wouldn't it become a rogue?" Ben Hou just wants to take them to the military headquarters to find you, Master Lu, since they can't even eat, this training naturally doesn't need to be mentioned, let's go to your military headquarters to eat their stomachs first. ”

Lu Xiao's face was ugly, and he turned to Longtai: "Your Majesty, Jinyi is waiting for a threat, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have heard it, and please ask the emperor to learn from it." ”

"Your Majesty, it is the emperor's will to rebuild the Black Scale Camp." Qi Ning immediately said: "Lu Xiao doesn't allocate salaries, that is, he doesn't want the Black Scale Camp to be rebuilt, and he disobeys the emperor's will, and the minister asks the emperor to send someone to investigate thoroughly, what does Lord Lu want?" The Black Scale Battalion is only a thousand people, among the various soldiers and horses, the number of troops is the least, and it stands to reason that the military salary is the easiest to solve. ”

Long Tai said lightly: "Lu Xiao, rebuilding the Black Scale Camp is what I mean, since your military department cannot allocate military salaries, from now on, the military salaries of the Black Scale Battalion will be directly allocated by the household department every month. ”

Lu Xiao hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this ......!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, Long Tai had already said: "Since the military salary is not allocated by your military department, the military department will not have the right to mobilize the Black Scale Battalion from now on." ”

At this time, the ministers all understood that this little emperor was indeed furious.

This means that from now on, the Black Scale Battalion bypasses the military headquarters and will be directly commanded by the emperor.

Lu Xiao glanced at Taihuang, and saw that Taihuang was silent, so he could only say, "Minister..... Obey the order! ”

"That's the end of today's court meeting." The little emperor got up, didn't say much, turned around and left, hung a cadre of ministers in the court, and the ministers looked at each other, it seems that what the military department has done has made the emperor very dissatisfied.

The eunuchs of the ruling hall shouted to disperse the court, and the ministers finished their salutes, and then they withdrew from the Fengtian Hall in order, and just out of the main hall, a eunuch came over by Qi Ning, and said softly: "Hou Ye, the emperor has a decree, and he ordered Hou Ye to go to the imperial study and explain something." ”

Qi Ning was not verbose, followed behind the eunuch, went straight to the imperial study, after the ceremony, entered the imperial study, only to see Long Tai sitting behind the imperial desk, saw Qi Ning coming, beckoned, and waited for Qi Ning to get closer, Long Tai said: "You Jinyi Hou Mansion, can there be a traitor?" ”

Qi Ning might as well open his mouth Longtai is this sentence, frowned and said, "Why does the emperor ask like this?" ”

"Don't you see that?" Long Tai sneered: "Feng Ruohai's dog thing, it's not a pity to die, but the Sima family knows everything about his incrimination, don't you know it?" ”

Qi Ning nodded slightly, and said: "Feng Ruohai is participating in the impeachment of Sima Changshen in the court today, and before the court meeting, Sima Lan has already grasped it clearly. ”

"Feng Ruohai was naturally instigated by the King of Huainan." Long Tai said: "Of course, the people of the King of Huainan have also spent their thoughts, that is, they are preparing to bring down Sima Changshen at today's court meeting, they must have done this extremely secretively, and they will never leak the slightest rumor in advance, that is to catch the Sima family off guard, but ...... How could Sima Lan be so clear about their affairs? ”

"The emperor is saying that among the people of King Huainan, there are Sima Lan's eyes and ears?" Qi Ning frowned.

Longtai said: "Other than that, I can't think of any other possibility. ”

"It is not uncommon for the King of Huainan and Sima Lan to fight openly and secretly, and the two sides send each other's internal subordinates and even buy each other's people as internal traitors." Qi Ning's expression was solemn, "The most surprising thing is that the Sima family actually has so many powerful incriminating evidence against Feng Ruohai. Your Majesty, Feng Ruohai concealed the cultivation of the fields, twisted the law for personal gain, and bent the law for personal gain, these things must be very secretive, a matter of life and death, Feng Ruohai could never be negligent, the Sima family wanted to get so much evidence, it was definitely not possible to do it in ten days and half a month. ”

Long Tai clenched his fists and said: "You mean, these incriminating evidence, the Sima family has long been in their hands?" ”

Qi Ning nodded and said, "I think this must be the case, and the Sima family will never have only Feng Ruohai's incriminating evidence in their hands." After a pause, his face was solemn, and then he said: "Sima Lan is the founding marquis, this man is scheming, if ..... If he had secretly collected evidence of officials' crimes very early, this Manchu Dynasty civil and military, I was afraid that there would not be a few clean ones, and there would naturally be not a few evidence in his hands. ”

"If Feng Ruohai didn't come out this time, Sima Lan wouldn't have taken out the incriminating evidence." Long Tai said: "Since Sima Lan knew in advance that Feng Ruohai was going to impeach Sima Changshen, let Hu Geng prepare the evidence of the crime a long time ago, and just above the court meeting, he counterattacked and put Feng Ruohai to death." ”

Qi Ning said: "That's it. Feng Ruohai is the squire of the household department, and he can be regarded as a high power, and today the Sima family made a move and immediately cut off this person, which is equivalent to slashing the king of Huainan from the body. In order to get closer, he said softly: "The Sima family's hand today can be said to be a few birds with one stone. ”

"How do you kill one stone?"

Qi Ning said: "King Huainan's gang is naturally not stupid, and they haven't found out that there are traitors around them until now, so after today's incident, King Huainan's gang will definitely investigate who the traitors around them are." Your Majesty, think about it, in this way, King Huainan and the people around him will inevitably have a heart of suspicion, as long as the heart of suspicion is together, it is not a monolith. ”

"Not bad." Longtai said: "Although the King of Huainan has a lot of power in the court, it is not as good as the Sima family, once the people of the King of Huainan are suspicious of each other, this is even more beneficial to the Sima family." ”

"Second, Feng Ruohai participated in the impeachment of Sima Changshen at the court meeting today, but in the blink of an eye, he was counterattacked, and now he is sent to the prison of the Criminal Department, this person is already like a dead person, and the end is miserable." Qi Ning said: "The Manchu Dynasty civil and military saw it with their own eyes, Sima Lan did this, in fact, it was also a warning to the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, if anyone was the enemy of him Sima Price, this would be the end, the ministers looked at it in their eyes, who could not be afraid?" In the future, whoever wants to impeach the Sima family in the court must first weigh whether he has two heads. ”

Long Tai said coldly: "That's what I'm most worried about, after today, I'm afraid that no one will dare to impeach the Sima family in the court." ”

"Third, Sima Lan took out Feng Ruohai's incriminating evidence in the court, and it was the head of Feng Mansion and the women around him who proved Feng Ruohai's guilt, how could everyone not be afraid of such a method?" Qi Ning said: "No one is a fool, they can see that Feng Ruohai's criminal evidence is prepared, as I just said, Sima Lan may have arrested a lot of people's criminal evidence, in such a situation, those ambiguous officials are likely to defect to the Sima family's door because of this, even if it is the henchmen of the King of Huainan, I am afraid they will also consider whether to follow the King of Huainan." ”

Long Tai said: "You mean, those officials are worried that the Sima family will come up with their own incriminating evidence at any time, so in order to protect themselves, they defected to the Sima family, so they have become the lackeys of the Sima family, and the Sima family will naturally not do anything to him?" ”

"No one knows how much incriminating evidence there is in Sima Lan's hands, and after the dispersal of the dynasty today, the dignitaries and nobles in the court are all worried." Qi Ning sneered: "Feng Ruohai poisoned the clan uncle and occupied the aunt, such a secret matter has been found out, everyone is worried that their unknown things have been in the hands of Sima Lan, in order not to take risks, defecting to Sima Lan is of course the best choice." ”

"Bang!"

Long Tai slammed his fist on the imperial desk, and his voice was low and cold: "This Sima Lan has caught so many people's evidence, is he really trying to form a party and rebel?" ”