Besides, he said: "Of course it's not enough, if the evidence is conclusive, I would have arrested the criminal directly, but now there is only one clue, if you don't stare at this clue and dig it up, you will be completely unable to find out what happened to the rich people." What do you think you should do? ”

Cao Delin and Gavin Hu glanced at each other and said with a smile: "It's all up to Lord Qincha to decide." ”

"Okay, now I'll explain the situation to the two adults, just now this Vice General Liao has already given me a soft nail, and it is possible to give me a hard nail when I go back, and then if I encounter the thorn of the border army, do the two adults think we should touch it or not?"

Gavin Hu groaned: "The whereabouts of the two adults are the most important now, even if they touch the thorn of the border army, there is no way, but is it sure to deal with these arrogant generals?" ”

Besides, he spread his hands: "I'm just not sure, so I came to you to discuss." ”

Cao Delin and Gavin Tiger are all stunned, I'm not sure what else you will touch?

"The border army is powerful here, and this is their world, but I don't believe that hundreds of thousands of border troops will rebel with a few generals. I'll bet on that. Besides.

"It's not enough to rebel, but it's inevitable to make noise, can Lord Qincha suppress it?" Gavin Tiger asked.

"I also have 10,000 horses, and I still have the ability to deal with some rebels who are making trouble."

"It's not a matter of a small number of people, the Tatars are now outside the gate, if we fight with the border army first, wouldn't it give the Tatars a chance to take advantage of?"

"It's really possible, so the border army will never be able to move? can only raise a group of proud soldiers. The country relies on these arrogant soldiers to defend the border, and it is useless to throw any amount of silver here in the end. Besides, he said angrily.

Both of them sighed in their hearts, and what they said was not reasonable, but the actual situation was that many border troops had formed such a situation that could not be moved, and the imperial court could only coax them and rely on their strength to guard the border passes.

It's not that these arrogant soldiers have the intention of rebellion, this is true, they just gradually formed a force, as long as their own interests are involved, they are united with the outside world, even against the imperial court.

Some people of insight in the court are also worried that there will be disasters in the Tang Dynasty in the long run.

However, these border troops generally obeyed the will of the imperial court, as long as their vital interests were not touched. Military salaries are increasing year by year, but only a small part of them fall to the construction of border passes, and most of them are filled by middle- and high-ranking generals.

Besides, when I arrived at Liao's Mansion and saw the magnificent General's Mansion, I was also shocked, it was just the official residence of a deputy general at the level of a thousand households, and it was almost built like the governor's yamen, so you can imagine how arrogant the generals above were. I don't know how much of the imperial court's military expenses have been used by them to build mansions and gardens.

Cao Delin and Gavin Tiger were silent, and they both weighed the seriousness of this matter in their hearts.

From their point of view, of course, they will not tolerate the border army generals overriding the court law, if this is the capital, then there is nothing to say, but this is the border pass, it is the territory of the border army, how to deal with it, they also have to have some concerns.

But if they let it go, they were reluctant in their hearts, not because they really had a deep relationship with the two missing officials, but because their faces were too bad.

"What are you going to do? We're fully cooperative. Cao Delin made up his mind.

Besides, he smiled: "No, it's not the two adults who cooperate with me, but I who cooperate with the two adults." ”

Both of them listened in a daze, not knowing what he meant.

Besides, he didn't explain, he just looked at them with a smile.

Gavin Hu suddenly said: "My lord originally wanted to have a three-hall trial? ”

"Exactly, this time, in addition to the two adults representing the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the officials of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple also came, and they happened to come to the three-hall trial, and the provincial border army generals made excuses to say that my Jinyiwei was tortured to extract confessions, and the three-hall trial was the most fair."

Cao Delin and the others suddenly felt a little numb in their scalps, and Lord Qincha was pushing the problem to them.

However, this is indeed a good idea, Jinyiwei has always been notorious, and the three sessions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple still enjoy the highest reputation, and are considered to be the most fair and strict, and they are also necessary for the trial of major cases.

At this time, Ji Chang came in and whispered, "My lord, that Vice General Liao has brought." ”

Besides, he waved his hand and said: "Let him wait, send someone to watch, don't abuse him and scare him, but don't let him run away." ”

"Yes." Ji Chang agreed, turned around and went out.

Moreover, he sent people to find Zhou Dingcheng and the officials of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple.

Now the negotiation mission includes officials from the three provincial temples and six ministries, except that there is no imperial cabinet, it can almost be said to be a small court.

Besides, I can't figure it out now, what did the officials of the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department talk about with the Tatars? Do you want to exchange their knowledge of jurisprudence? Or help the Tatars to build a society governed by the rule of law? It's just weird.

If the most indispensable is the Dahonglu Temple, which specializes in managing foreign affairs and is equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Taifu Temple also said that it was reasonable to negotiate with the Tatars about the price of the horses, the procedures for the payment of the silver for the horses, etc., but there were still too many people who should not have participated in the negotiations, but they all came, and they all carried some confidential documents with them.

Zhou Dingcheng arrived first, and said with a smile: "Zhou joins the army, and in a while, the two Duyu Shi will join the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to have a three-hall trial to interrogate the suspect Liao Bingxun, you can be a clerk if you are wronged, and write every sentence of the interrogation process on paper, and then form a dossier after being signed by several presiding judges." ”

Zhou Dingcheng was still a little confused, so he had to keep his voice down.

Not long after, two officials from the Criminal Department and two officials from Dali Temple came, and after inviting them to take a seat, they explained the situation.

When these four people heard this, it was like eating a dead child, how uncomfortable and uncomfortable it was.

Interrogating a general of the border army in this place, isn't that throwing torches into the * barrel?

But they can't shirk it, at the beginning, they united to put pressure on the two missing officials, asking them to do their best to find the two missing officials, and now they have found a clue with all their might, but they need to interrogate the whereabouts of the two missing officials, if they can't do this, it shows that they are just verbal heroes, in fact, they can't do anything.

According to what the main person said, this matter is indeed enough to open a case for investigation, if it is not a joint investigation by their three provincial temples, then it will have to be handed over to Jinyiwei.

"According to the opinion of the lower officials, it is better to send the prisoners to the capital and interrogate them there than to try the border army case here and stab the hornet's nest." Cui Zhongyong, the prudent punishment division of the Criminal Department, said.

"Master Cui is right, but there are two troubles here, the first two missing adults don't know whether they are dead or alive now, but they may still be alive, if they delay for time, the possibility of these two adults alive will decrease day by day, and the final result I don't say that everyone knows it. The second is that if the interrogation here is afraid of stabbing the hornet's nest of the border army, then if the prisoners are sent to the capital, can those generals of the border army be willing? I can say that people can't bring Datong City out of the city at all. "Besides, one by one.

Gavin Hu nodded and sighed: "What Lord Qincha said is reasonable, if you can't be tried here, then you don't need to be tried, and the prisoner can't be taken away at all." ”

Several people began to talk to each other, whispering.

Besides, looking at them and sneering in their hearts, these people are all eloquent and impassioned when they say others, and when it is their turn, they will immediately become turtles with shrunken heads, but besides, they will not let them come to terms with each other, everyone always has to make a choice.

If this matter is resolved smoothly, everything will be fine, if it is a big trouble, it is difficult to say how big the matter will be, and besides, he is willing to do so, some corrupt generals of the border army control the tumor of the border army He has long been unaccustomed to it, if there is a chance to cut it off with his own hands, he will never raise a carbuncle and leave a legacy.

He is not a pure novice in some things in the army, his senior brother is the son of Zhongshan Wangfu, his home in Nanjing is the Wucheng Marquis Mansion, all of them are raising generals, and his brother Wucheng Marquis is the Zuo Du Governor of the Nanjing Metropolitan Mansion, and he naturally knows a lot about all kinds of shortcomings in the army.

Originally, he was the quickest and most effective in direct interrogation, but if this matter caused a big problem, he didn't want to bear it alone, so he simply let everyone intervene, since it was dirty work, no one's hands should be clean, they were all muddy.

In the end, even if there is really any * annoyance, it is the collective responsibility of all officials, and there is no need for him to carry it alone. It's not that he's afraid of anything, but he's most worried that these officials will bite him back later, which would be too disgusting.

"Lord Qincha, if a general takes the opportunity to make trouble or even mutiny, do you have a good plan to suppress it?" Choi asked.

"Yes, that is repression, resolutely and ruthlessly." Besides, he said resolutely.

"Is your 10,000 horses enough? The border army is more than 100,000 people. Gavin Tiger frowned.

"There are more than 100,000 people in the border army, but everyone understands that this 100,000 is too watery, and there are many deserters and many who do not report their deaths, and many generals rely on this to eat empty salaries. According to the statistics of the Ministry of War, these vacancies account for about 40 percent. Besides.

"So many?" Cui Zhongyong was a little unconvinced.

Besides, he said with a smile: "The auditor of the military department is also here, if you have any questions, you might as well ask him." Besides, the Imperial Court has a history of Qing Gou, so it shouldn't be unfamiliar with this number, right? ”

Cao Delin nodded, it is true that there is a serious problem of empty salaries in all the officers and soldiers, and the number of troops is not enough at all, and the good ones must have a vacancy of 20%, and the worst ones have almost 60%, which means that the number of personnel in the officers and troops on the surface does not match the reality. In fact, the salaries of soldiers who do not exist are naturally divided among the tops, and this is the empty salary system.

This is the glorious history of the Chinese army for thousands of years, not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the Tang and Song dynasties, and it was even more serious in the era when warlords were everywhere in the Republic of China.