Li Wenxi finished reciting the recital and then retreated, and then the entire Fengtian Temple Square became a pot of porridge. Although many officials have been grassroots officials and know how deep the water is at the grassroots level, most young officials do not yet know the unspoken rules of officialdom. They were young and became Jinshi, and when they were studying, the idea that it was better to go home and sell sweet potatoes was still engraved in their minds. Now that I heard that there was such a big deficit in Henan Province, I immediately stood up and spoke up in the middle of the matter from the imperial history and Kedao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Your Majesty, this matter must be strictly investigated to the end, why can't the state allocate so much money? Where did all the money go? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the governor of Henan and the political envoy should be strictly investigated! As the governor of a province, they made such a mistake, how can they be worthy of the people of Henan if they are not severely punished! ”

Zhu Hongsan was also very angry when he heard that Henan was rotten like this, he knew what virtues these officials were, and he also knew that the silver dollars allocated by the imperial court were intercepted and corrupted by officials at all levels, but when the water was clear, there were no fish, and he hoped that the officials would be as honest as Hai Rui, who would still work? Therefore, Zhu Hongsan always thought that two-thirds of his allocation could be implemented.

But listening to Li Wenxi say this today, let alone two-thirds, it would be good to be able to use one-third of it in practice. Li Wenxi found out that there was a deficit of more than 3.7 million, so what about what he didn't find out? Not to mention the means of making false accounts, over-reporting and under-use, and collecting bribes in the project.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Wang Yunchang and Chen Zilong, who were standing at the bottom of the steps, one of them was a cabinet elder in charge of finance, and the other was a secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and this matter was directly related to them.

Wang Yunchang saw the emperor looking at him, and quickly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Finance is only responsible for allocating funds, and as for how to renovate the river, it is a matter for the Ministry of Construction!" ”

Li Zhi, the elder of the pavilion in charge of infrastructure construction such as rivers, heard that Wang Yunchang was shaking the pot here, and quickly stood up angrily and said: "Your Majesty, although the Ministry of Construction is in charge of the national engineering construction, the main party is still the local government, and the affairs of Henan are still in charge of the governor of Henan and the political envoys!" ”

Ma Mingyuan was stunned when he heard Li Zhi say this, and at the same time he had some ominous feelings in his heart, everyone knew that Wu Peichang, the governor of Henan, was his own person, but Zhang Jiayu, the political envoy, was a member of your Guangdong Party, what did Li Zhi want to do now when he said this? Do you want to lose the car to protect the handsome?

Ma Mingyuan is very politically sensitive, and now he has realized that this is unusual today, but now he realizes that it is over.

As soon as Li Zhi finished speaking, a Wupin Langzhong stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Tang Yuanji of the Ministry of Construction!" ”

Tang Yuanji is the same year as Zhang Jiayu, both of whom are Jinshi in Chongzhen's sixteenth year, Tang Yuanji wrote a letter to impeach Ma Jiyuan, the first assistant at that time, in the fifth year of Shenwu, and he was a little famous in the imperial court, but then he was driven out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate by Ma Mingyuan's secret descendation, and became a seven-grade county in the local area. In the ninth year of Shenwu, Li implanted in the pavilion, and only then transferred this guy from the locality, and became a lang in the Water Department of the Ministry of Construction, responsible for the government decrees of the world's Sichuan and Pichi, channeling ditches, and damming rivers.

"Your Majesty, the minister and the political envoy of Henan Zhang Jiayu are the same year, and now Zhang Jiayu has an excerpt to ask the minister to play Your Majesty!"

Before Tang Yuanji's words were finished, Ma Mingyuan, who knew that things were not good, hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the official has to go through the General Administration Department and the Cabinet, so there is a reason to write directly to Your Majesty. ”

What Ma Mingyuan said is very reasonable, and it is also in line with the law of the imperial court, hundreds of thousands of officials across the country in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to chat with the emperor, you can go to the book by yourself, then the emperor should not do anything else every day. It was the most diligent emperor Yongzheng in later generations, who reviewed tens of millions of words in more than ten years, and the recitals he accepted were also selected, and only the officials who were granted the power of secret folding by the emperor had the right to write directly to the emperor. But in this way, Yongzheng has to approve hundreds of twists and turns every day, and it is common to work until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Zhu Hongsan naturally doesn't want to be tired to die or live, so according to the degree of diligence, Zhu Hongsan should not say that compared with Yongzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and other diligent emperors, even the last emperor Chongzhen is not comparable, probably a little stronger than Wanli, at least Zhu Hongsan is still in the court.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the performance of officials below the fourth rank should be handed over to the General Administration Department, and they were responsible for the preliminary selection, and some small things such as asking for money, collecting money, or impeaching an official were directly transferred to the ministries. The folds of high-ranking officials above the fourth grade are directly sent to the cabinet of the Cabinet Zhaoma Division, which is also classified according to the urgency of the matter, and then handed over to the ministries for handling, and those beyond the scope of authority of the ministries are handled by the cabinet elders, and if they are not successful, they will be handed over to the emperor. In this way, Zhu Hongsan has to deal with fifty or sixty twists and turns every day, so being an emperor is not a good errand.

As soon as Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, Tang Yuanji said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Jiayu's twist and turn is a big matter, Zhang Jiayu said that the traitor party in the DPRK and China is entrenched, if the cabinet is afraid that someone in the court will drown this twist, so you must let the minister hand it over to the emperor!" ”

Ma Mingyuan heard Tang Yuanji say this and said angrily: "Tang Yuanji, what do you mean by this? Who is the traitor in the DPRK and China? Who in the cabinet can drown your folds? ”

Now that the Yue Party and the Chu Party are tearing their faces, Li Zhi is no longer standing behind, and directly stands up and says: "Lord Shoufu, don't you know who it is?" ”

Zhu Hongsan saw that these stinky old nine under his command were about to do it again, he was already unwell, and he insisted on coming to the court today, and now there is such a thing in Henan, and the angry Zhu Hongsan almost didn't return to his position.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said to Tang Yuanji: "Tang Yuanji, you read Zhang Jiayu's excerpt out loud!" ”

Tang Yuanji was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, and hurriedly opened the fold and read aloud: "My emperor Longen, the minister Henan Cheng announced that the political envoy Zhang Jiayu kowtowed, and the minister from Shenwu in the sixth year of His Majesty's Hongen pointed to the province of Henan, and the minister thought about how to repay the emperor's Hongen every day, so he worked day and night!" ”

In the first paragraph of the recital, Zhang Jiayu first talked about the situation in Henan, how the population is sparse in various places, how dilapidated the roads are, etc., and the only few big cities such as Kaifeng and Luoyang are also dilapidated. In the second paragraph, he talked about his work in the past few years, and he traveled to 61 counties in eight provinces in Henan Province and mastered first-hand information at the grassroots level. In the third paragraph, he scolded Wu Peichang, the governor of Henan, Yang Qiongfang, and Wei Qing, the commander, and scolded these three people for being a vegetarian in the corpse position, and they were all a bunch of waste.

The first three paragraphs of Zhang Jiayu are similar to ordinary impeachment excerpts, but the last paragraph is a bit dry. The last paragraph lists in detail how many silver dollars the governor Wu Peichang embezzled, and how many lives Yang Qiongfang took according to the inspection, and the most powerful was Wei Qing. Wu Peichang because of the tyrannical expropriation, made the people of Henan angry and resentful, in the tenth year of Shenwu, there was a riot in Kaifeng City, and finally Wei Qing led the officers and soldiers of Henan Wei to suppress the rebellion.

Zhu Hongsan originally thought that Henan was just a problem of corruption by some officials, but now he was surprised when he heard Tang Yuanji say this, but he didn't expect that Henan had rotted into such a situation and actually started a riot. It has only been a few years since the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Henan is not now a sharp land contradiction, so it can be seen what the officials in Henan have done.

At this time, Ma Mingyuan realized that today it turned out that the Donglin Party and the Guangdong Party had premeditated, and this was no longer a battle of individual officials, but a general battle between the two political forces.

At the same time, Ma Mingyuan glared angrily at Fang Fengnian, looking at Fang Fengnian's appearance, he should also fall to the Donglin Party. You must know that Ma Mingyuan is not bad at the other party, how to say that it is also the same year as his eldest brother, but now he didn't expect Fang Fengnian to shoot him in the back.

Fang Fengnian didn't expect to be like this today, originally Fang Fengnian just wanted to get Ma Mingyuan, so the things he picked were all trivial things, what encroachment on land, not being a good person, accepting bribes, etc., as long as you Ma Mingyuan got it, it was not that he wanted to kill the entire Chu Party.

However, the Donglin Party and the Guangdong Party are different, the Donglin Party's methods are vicious, and the time to find it is just right, and it just waited until he impeached Ma Mingyuan before making trouble, which made all the ministers think that the Chu Party is similar to Ma Mingyuan. Fang Fengnian really regrets it in his heart now, he knew that he could make such a scene today, and he would not have stood up to impeach Ma Mingyuan.

Qu Shiyun was really proud to see that all his calculations had been implemented step by step. Today's effect is really good to twelve points, Qu Shiyun didn't expect that Fang Fengnian, who is the Chu Party, could stand up and shoot the first shot at Ma Mingyuan, with the rebellion of their own Chu Party, it seems that the Chu Party is a group of people, it is really twice the result with half the effort!

As soon as Tang Yuanji's words fell, all the officials of the Donglin Party and the Guangdong Party took over, asking the emperor to issue a holy decree to severely punish the officials involved in the case in Henan.

Although the officials of the Donglin Party and the Guangdong Party are not high, they are all at the level of five or six grades, but these officials have one thing in common, that is, they are young, have good physical strength and have a loud voice, and for a time the entire Fengtiandian Square seems to have become a vegetable market.

There are people in the Donglin Party and the Guangdong Party, and the Chu Party is not ambiguous, and a large number of Chu Party officials stood up to shout grievances for Wu Peichang, the governor of Henan, saying that Wu Peichang was framed by Zhang Jiayu at all, and Zhang Jiayu, as a political envoy, is an official in charge of money and people's livelihood. This matter is simply Zhang Jiayu's nonsense.

The Chu Party had a large number of people, and the Donglin Party was young, and for a time the whole square was full of scolding, and a few hot-tempered officials were about to start a group beating. If these officials started a group fight, it could set a record for the brawl of officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the last time a multi-person brawl was traced back to the Tumubao Revolution in the Yingzong period, and only sixty or seventy people participated in that brawl. At present, there are five or six hundred officials in the entire square, and there are more than 400 Chinese officials.