Chapter 148: Reprimand
Soon Zhang Xueyan's information was taken, and Zhu Yijun looked through it. After watching some of them, Zhu Yijun sighed, in fact, this Zhang Xueyan is really a capable official, no wonder Zhang Juzheng values him.
Zhang Xueyan is not from a Qingliu background, he has never been a word minister, nor has he ordered Hanlin, he has always been a practical official.
With such a background, to be the head of the Ming Dynasty, it shows his ability.
In the thirty-second year of Jiajing, he was admitted to the engineering department from Quwozhi County, and his background was not good compared to Shen Shixing. In the Ming Dynasty, non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet, and being able to do six books is already the top.
Regarding the intersection of Zhang Xueyan and Li Chengliang, there are also detailed records in the materials.
That was when Zhang Xueyan was recommended by Gao Gong as the governor of Liaodong, the border of Liaodong border town is more than 2,000 miles long, 120 walled cities, adjacent to the enemy on three sides, and there are 72,000 officers and soldiers.
Each person is provided with one stone of rice per month, which is converted into two silver and five cents, and the horses are fodded in winter and spring, which is equivalent to two and eight cents of silver per month, even if the year is good, it is not enough to last for a few days. Since the great famine in Jiajing, two-thirds of the soldiers and horses have fled.
The former governors Wang Zhihe and Wei Xuexue were appeased and arrested one after another, but they did not reach half of their heyday, and experienced drought, and people died of starvation everywhere.
Zhang Xueyan first asked for relief and pensions, enriching the army, recruiting displaced people, manufacturing weapons, buying war horses, and clarifying rewards and punishments.
Several cowardly generals were deposed, Pingyang Fort was built to communicate the two rivers, and guerrilla troops were mobilized to Zheng'an Fort to defend the town.
Li Chengliang was in Zhang Xueyan's eyes at that time, compared with other generals, Li Chengliang dared to go deep into the enemy formation to fight bravely, but Zhang Xueyan took contraction and preservation as a strategy, the enemy came and he had no loss, the enemy retreated and defended himself as before, both public and private were preserved, and gradually restored the old power.
The Ming Dynasty can have today's strength in Liaodong, Wen Lai Zhang Xueyan, Wu Lai Li Chengliang.
Zhang Xueyan actually did a good job in the post of governor of Liaodong, stabilizing the situation in Liaodong, so that the Ming army not only had the strength to defend, but also could counterattack at the same time, and it was also because of this credit that Zhang Xueyan fell into Zhang Juzheng's eyes.
This impeachment is actually about this time. Accepting bribes and falsely reporting Li Chengliang's merits is erasing Zhang Xueyan's merits in Liaodong. Zhang Xueyan was promoted because of Liaodong's merits, and these people attacked Zhang Xueyan's merits in Liaodong.
Zhu Yijun put down the information in his hand, turned his head to look at Zhang Whale, and said with a smile: "Do you think Zhang Xueyan accepted bribes?" Can Li Chengliang falsely report his merits? ”
Listening to Zhu Yijun's question, Zhang Whale hurriedly spoke: "Dongchang has not found any evidence, and the old slave does not dare to say nonsense." ”
Zhu Yijun smiled, Zhang Juzheng uses energy in all of his employment, and he doesn't care much about the private morality of officials. The general environment at that time was also the same, everyone was corrupt, and if they could do things for the court, they didn't desperately ask for money, and spent most of the money on doing things, instead of taking it back to their own homes, then they were already good officials.
The Donglin Party is not greedy and upright, that's because they have money in their family!
The one who opens the mine, the one who does the business, who is short of the little money that is embezzled.
Even Qi Jiguang once falsely reported the number of soldiers and ate empty salaries, otherwise where did Qi Jiguang's money come from? Who in the world doesn't know that Qi Jiajun never defaults on salaries, and the rewards are all paid in full, if he doesn't eat empty salaries, Qi Jiguang has no money to bribe.
"This example can't be opened!" Zhu Yijun sighed helplessly.
In fact, what kind of virtue are the officials of the imperial court, Zhu Yijun doesn't know? Of course he does.
Not to mention the rest, which of these cabinet scholars and his six books has confiscated the money? Not a single one. It's really going to be churned, these people have to be driven home, and who will do things for themselves when the time comes? Donglin Party?
Zhang Xueyan's matter in Liaodong is almost the same, not to mention Chen Sesame and rotten grain, as for Li Chengliang's false achievements, who wouldn't do that?
Not to mention, this time in the Battle of the Northwest, Qi Jiguang's battle report also falsely reported a lot of heads, and the number of people on the battlefield was rolling, how could he count them? It's not a rough report, as long as the battle is won, the court is happy to give a reward.
After so many years, I have been like this, and this time I don't recognize the reward of the northwest.
If Zhang Xueyan and Li Chengliang are really punished because of this incident, it will not only hurt the civilian officials, but also the military generals. If you get more and more measures, and don't do it well, then it's bad.
"Only those who are not pragmatic can talk about it!" Zhu Yijun sighed again.
Zhang Xueyan spent a lot of effort in Liaodong to clean up the mess in Liaodong, and a mouth cannon here was wiped out.
"What is the name of the imperial envoy who impeached Zhang Xueyan?" Zhu Yijun turned his head to look at Zhang Whale and asked lightly.
"Back to the emperor, it's called Wu Yan!" Zhang Whale said respectfully.
Zhu Yijun nodded, knocked on the table and said, "Let him go to the household department to be a langzhong!" ”
It's very simple to clean up this Wu Yan, but what Zhu Yijun wants to do is to appease Zhang Xueyan, and even appease Zhang Xueyan. It's just right to let Wu Yan go to the household department, anyway, Zhang Xueyan is the head of the household department, how to learn from each other, let Zhang Xueyan watch it himself!
Zhu Yijun thought of the imperial envoy's rumors, this has to be changed, and now the Donglin Party has realized that the use of the imperial envoy to make waves really makes them make trouble, and there will be no way to clean it up when the time comes.
Although Zhu Yijun has long wanted to change the Ming Dynasty's monitoring system, he always feels that the time has not come, but at this point, I am afraid that it will not work if he does not change.
In addition, this time the imperial envoys impeached Shen Shixing and them, and they wanted to rectify the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is estimated that they will get their support. However, if you want to reform the Metropolitan Procuratorate, one person has to move out, and this person is Chen Wei.
Chen Wei is the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is also a member of the Cabinet, if he is not moved, it is impossible to move the Metropolitan Procuratorate! This Chen Wei is his own dog, and now it seems that this dog can't be leashed.
"Emperor, Shen Ge is here!" When Zhu Yijun was thinking about how to rectify the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhang Whale got the little eunuch's advice and hurriedly came over to report.
Shen Shixing is coming?
Zhu Yijun immediately laughed, it is estimated that Shen Shixing can't sit still!
"Let him in!" Zhu Yijun restrained his smile, and then put on an angry black face, at this time, he couldn't give Shen Shixing a good face, calculate himself, he was too bold, he should clean up.
Shen Shixing walked into the Wenhua Palace, bowed down to salute Zhu Yijun, and only then did he stand up after hearing the "no courtesy".
Although he was prepared in his heart, when he saw Zhu Yijun's face, Shen Shixing's heart still chuckled.
"Elder Shen Ge, this is an impeachment of Zhang Xueyan for forming a party for personal gain, accepting bribes from Li Chengliang, and falsely reporting his merits." Saying that, Zhu Yijun picked up another note: "This is a note to impeach you for forming a party for personal gain." ”
"This one is better, saying that you impeached the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the benefit of the northwest, but is it true?"
Shen Shixing hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty Mingjian, there is no such thing!" The impeachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs by the minister is purely public, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is getting bigger and bigger, mastering the salt administration, and now he is in charge of the textile affairs in the northwest, and a large amount of money is gathered in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”
"This money is in the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the minister is really not at ease!"
Zhu Yijun looked at Shen Shixing and said with a mocking smile: "So you want to move all this money back to your home?" ”
Hearing Zhu Yijun's words, Shen Shixing knelt down with a plop, and said with his head pestle: "Your Majesty, how can the minister have such courage?" The money of the Internal Affairs Office is huge, and the imperial court is in short supply of money and grain, so the minister just wants to put the money and grain of the Internal Affairs Office in the treasury! ”
"The imperial court needs to raise the border army, and it needs to repair water conservancy, all of which require money, and the treasury has more than four million taels of silver, if this money goes into the treasury, it should be able to solve a big problem! The minister is dedicated to His Majesty, for the Ming Dynasty, and please ask Your Majesty to learn clearly! ”
Looking at Shen Shixing, who was kneeling on the ground, Zhu Yijun sighed.
Speaking of which, Shen Shixing has been carrying the black pot for himself in the past two years, and things have been done very well, although this time the matter is to calculate himself, he is just thinking about taking the money from the Internal Affairs Office to the treasury, which can be regarded as thinking about the country.
Looking at Shen Shixing's rickety back, Zhu Yijun still relented.
Compared with the Donglin Party, Shen Shixing's heart is rare, thinking of this, Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "Okay, get up and say!" Saying that, Zhu Yijun turned his head to Zhang Whale and said, "Move a stool for Shen Ge Lao, at such an age, kneeling around, your body should be unbearable." ”
Hearing Zhu Yijun's words, Shen Shixing hurriedly spoke: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”
When Shen Shixing sat down, Zhu Yijun looked at Shen Shixing and said, "Since you think so, why don't you talk to me?" Do you have to do something like this? Could it be that in your heart, I am very mediocre, right? ”
"Is it that I make you feel reluctant to make money, and make you think that you only know how to accumulate money? Shen Shixing, are you maliciously speculating on the holy will? ”
Although his heart softened, he still had to give what he should give, and he couldn't open his mouth, Zhu Yijun had already walked down from behind the dragon book case at this time, looked at Shen Shixing, and asked angrily.
In fact, Shen Shixing really thinks so, the emperor has not been short of money over the years!
Although everyone doesn't say it on weekdays, everyone sees it, and the money that went into the emperor's treasury has never been taken out, and it has all been saved by the emperor. Shen Shixing was really afraid that the emperor would save the money from the Internal Affairs Office, and the emperor who slammed the door was not nothing.
But this kind of thinking can be forgotten if you think about it, and it is absolutely impossible to say it.
"The minister is guilty!" Shen Shixing knelt on the ground again and said with his head on the ground.
Zhu Yijun pointed at Shen Shixing, sprayed again for a while, and felt that it was almost over, so he said a little irritably: "Okay, get up!" For the first and last time, I don't want anything like this again. ”
Shen Shixing instantly understood that his own affairs had already been seen through by His Majesty, and he could only smile bitterly in his heart.
"The minister is guilty!" Shen Shixing hurriedly bowed down and said, "Please ask the emperor to punish the crime!" ”