Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 5: Lying on the salary and tasting the guts

Chapter 1: Training Anmin Town Tongzhou

Section 8 Combating Corruption (6)

Late that night, after Yuan Mingxuan and Huang Jiashan came out of Fang's mansion together, they hurried back to Huang Jiashan's mansion, and Li Linbin had been waiting for a long time at this time. After learning that Li Ruhua had agreed to support the anti-corruption campaign, Yuan Mingxuan was overjoyed and said, "Now we can do great things." ”

After that, Yuan Mingxuan went out of the city overnight under the arrangement of Huang Jiashan, and under the escort of a team of Hanwei Army iron cavalry soldiers, he rode all the way back to the Hanwei Army camp outside the city.

At this time, Liu Yunwei was still checking the evidence of corrupt officials sent by the soldiers of various ministries in the big tent, and suddenly heard that Yuan Mingxuan had returned, so he hurriedly invited Yuan Mingxuan to the big tent.

"Lord Yuan, how are things going?" Liu Yunwei asked anxiously.

Yuan Mingxuan sat down a little tiredly and said, "Don't worry, little general, everything has been done." Fang Ge Lao and Li Ruhua Shangshu have already expressed their full support for this anti-corruption campaign, and the stolen money obtained by the corrupt officials will also be disposed of in accordance with the plan we discussed in advance. ”

Liu Yunwei couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said, "Okay! Now we have no worries, we can let it go! ”

Yuan Mingxuan said with a serious face: "Little General, the top priority now is to end the anti-corruption as soon as possible, and we can't expand the scope of the anti-corruption anymore." ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "Don't worry, Lord Yuan, I know that the stakes are very high, and I won't mess around, but I will cheapen those corrupt officials who have not yet been dug up." ”

After Yuan Mingxuan persuaded a few words, he said, "Little General, how do you plan to act next?" ”

Liu Yunwei pointed to the mountains of evidence on the case, and said: "These are the latest ironclad evidence sent by the soldiers of various ministries, involving more than 100 corrupt officials, distributed in various states and counties in Beizhili!" My plan is to arrest all these people as the end of this anti-corruption campaign. ”

Yuan Mingxuan walked to the bookcase, looked through the incriminating evidence, and said: "Little general, these people are too widely distributed, we can only use iron horses to arrest them, but the soldiers of the Changshui Department are not busy at all." I see that these corrupt officials are greedy for the new army's money and food, do we set a limit, and all corrupt officials who reach the limit will be arrested and brought to justice, and the small fish and shrimp that have not reached the limit will be released first? ”

Liu Yunwei said bluntly: "No! Don't let any of them go! Which of those earth-shattering greed didn't change from small fish and shrimp? No man is content! If you don't catch them all now, they will all be things that will bring disaster to the country and the people in the future! It doesn't matter if the soldiers of the Changshui Department are too busy, I immediately ordered the soldiers of the Long Xiang Iron Cavalry to arrest the criminals together! ”

Yuan Mingxuan sighed slightly, and said secretly in his heart: "The little general is still a little young, since ancient times, corrupt officials have been killed and investigated, this time the anti-corruption has achieved its goal, it should be ended as soon as possible to ensure the stability of all parts of Gyeonggi." However, Yuan Mingxuan didn't say anything, because he knew that those corrupt officials had completely angered Liu Yunwei, and there would never be any fish that slipped through the net; All Yuan Mingxuan can do now is to try to help Liu Yunwei end this anti-corruption campaign smoothly.

So, Yuan Mingxuan said: "Little general, without further ado, I think we might as well lead the army back to the Tongzhou camp early tomorrow morning, and at the same time mobilize the iron cavalry of Longxiang and the iron cavalry of the Changshui Department to speed up the arrest and raid of the house, and end this anti-corruption in the shortest possible time, after all, the land of Gyeonggi cannot be chaotic!" ”

Of course, Liu Yunwei also knew this truth, and said: "Don't worry, Lord Yuan, I know it in my heart." We'll go back to Tongzhou early tomorrow morning. ”

Early the next morning, Liu Yunwei led the army of the Hanwei Army all the way east to return to the camp of the Tongzhou New Army, and at the same time, the Longxiang Iron Cavalry also joined the operation to arrest the criminals.

In the next half a month, the Hanwei Army Iron Cavalry could be seen everywhere in Beizhili arresting people, and for a while, there was a lot of noise, and the officials everywhere were all panicked. However, it is very strange that the garrisons everywhere seem to have all become blind, and they are familiar with the iron cavalry of the Han Wei army that is rampant everywhere, and do not stop them at all; And the twists and turns of officials from all over the country who wrote to the imperial court to impeach Liu Yunwei for arson and rebellion were like stones sinking into the sea, and there was no trace of them.

Now the matter is serious, and officials everywhere are beginning to realize that the anti-corruption operation launched by the Han Weijun without authorization has been tacitly approved by the imperial court, and even some kind of agreement has been reached between the two sides. Now not only is the Han Wei Army going to raise a butcher's knife against the corrupt officials in Beizhili, but even the imperial court may be sharpening its knives. For a time, officials everywhere were fluctuating. Some weak-minded corrupt officials tried to flee with their families, but within a few days they were captured by the Han Wei Army's iron cavalry; And the corrupt officials who are less courageous have even committed suicide in fear of crime.

At the beginning of March of the forty-eighth year of Wanli (the fifth year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven), the new army camp in Tongzhou.

After half a month of arrest, basically all the corrupt officials involved in the evidence in Liu Yunwei's possession have been brought to justice. Looking at the mountains of incriminating evidence in the big tent and the hundreds of criminals imprisoned in the big camp (including some relatives of corrupt officials involved in the case), Liu Yunwei's heart was full of anger, why is the state affairs difficult? Is it just because of the construction of slave Koubian? Just because of natural disasters? If all the civil officials in the world are honest and self-disciplined, dedicated to the people, and all the military generals in the world are not afraid of death and are proficient in military affairs, then what kind of Tartars can't win? What kind of disaster can't be overcome? All the affairs of the state are corrupted by these miscellaneous things!

The more Liu Yunwei thought about it, the more angry he became, but reason still prevailed over emotion, Liu Yunwei knew in his heart that this time the anti-corruption could only be carried out here, and it was time to end it.

So, Liu Yunwei wrote to the imperial court and sent all the evidence and documents of this anti-corruption campaign to the capital. However, Liu Yunwei still kept a hand, and all the prisoners and the stolen money seized were not sent to the capital, but continued to stay in the New Army camp.

Two days later, Fang Congzhe, Huang Jiashan, Li Ruhua, Li Linbin and others, who had already been impatient, finally received the evidence of corrupt officials sent by Liu Yunwei. Everyone was shocked and angry when they saw more than a dozen carts loaded with papers. After that, everyone sorted out all the incriminating evidence day and night. A few days later, Fang Congzhe, Huang Jiashan, and Li Ruhua finally sorted out all the incriminating evidence, so they sent Li Linbin to the Hanwei camp in Tongzhou, asking Liu Yunwei to hand over all the criminals and all the stolen money to the imperial court. As for the thirty percent of the stolen money promised to be distributed to the Han Wei army in advance, it is necessary to wait for His Majesty's consent before transferring.

When Li Linbin came to the New Army camp in Tongzhou, Liu Yunwei was speaking to the 100,000 displaced people under his care.

In the process of cracking down on corruption, Liu Yunwei confiscated a large amount of farmland that was previously occupied by corrupt officials, and now nearly half of the farmland in Tongzhou is controlled by Liu Yunwei, so Liu Yunwei is ready to distribute the farmland in his hands to the 100,000 displaced people for cultivation, and turn all the displaced people into military households. Now that spring ploughing is imminent, Liu Yunwei ordered Master Chen to check the number of acres and the number of displaced households, and on the other hand, he gathered all the displaced people and announced the matter of dividing the fields and turning them into military households in public.

Li Linbin waited quietly on the side, looking at Liu Yunwei, who made a generous speech on the stage, and the 100,000 excited homeless people present, his heart was full of new joy: "The little general is really a young hero, worthy of the name of the unicorn tiger, he did this great thing at a young age, not only swept away the corrupt officials and corrupt officials who threatened the new army, received a huge amount of money and food for military training, but also conveniently settled 100,000 homeless people, this is really killing three birds with one stone." ”

At this moment, Li Linbin only heard the surrounding homeless people shouting hard and shouting loudly. It turned out that Liu Yunwei had already announced on the spot that all the people would be able to get farmland, and all the people would be able to eat enough after becoming military households. At this time, the eyes of these 100,000 homeless people looking at Liu Yunwei were full of awe and love, and they were full of gratitude to Liu Yunwei.

Liu Yunwei stood on the stage and looked at the cheering crowd, his heart was also very excited, he was constantly waving to the crowd, and suddenly saw Li Linbin looking at himself in the crowd, so he hurriedly sent someone to lead Li Linbin to the stage.

"Master Li is here, is there something wrong?"

Li Linbin first praised Liu Yunwei's division of the field, and then said: "Elder Fang Ge asked me to bring back the stolen money and prisoners in the camp. Then, Li Linbin said Fang Congzhe's order.

Liu Yunwei shook his head and said, "Master Li can only take seventy percent of the stolen money, and the remaining thirty percent must be left, which is also what we have discussed in advance; As for the offenders, Lord Li can take them away. After speaking, Liu Yunwei didn't care whether Li Linbin agreed or not, so he directly asked someone to bring out all the corrupt officials and relatives.

The 100,000 displaced people present all became extremely angry when they saw the hundreds of corrupt officials and corrupt officials. It's no wonder that ordinary people hate corrupt officials the most, let alone the homeless people who have broken their homes because of disasters? If it weren't for the many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, maybe these people would not have become homeless!

In the face of the agitated homeless people, the soldiers who escorted the corrupt officials struggled to squeeze a way out of the crowd, but there were still countless homeless people around who were angry and cursed, as if they wanted to strangle all these corrupt officials to death.

Seeing this, Li Linbin vaguely felt that something was wrong, and was just about to ask Liu Yunwei to send troops to maintain order, when he heard someone shouting: "Kill these corrupt officials!" Kill them! ”

Immediately afterwards, 100,000 displaced people blew up their nests, and all of them rushed towards the hundreds of corrupt officials and their relatives, and the soldiers in charge of escorting them suddenly dispersed without a trace, leaving only the panicked corrupt officials stunned in place. Almost in the blink of an eye, these criminals were overwhelmed by the tide of angry homeless people, countless waving fists fell on the corrupt officials, and countless pairs of feet trampled on the corrupt officials, directly turning the hundreds of criminals into scarlet rotten meat.

"Liu Yunwei! You! You've gone too far! Li Linbin was so angry that he was almost speechless, this is obviously Liu Yunwei wants to put these corrupt officials to death, but Li Linbin doesn't have any evidence, he can't arrest all these 100,000 homeless people, right?

Liu Yunwei looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and said coldly: "Taizu once said: Anyone who is corrupt and perverts the law can be arrested and killed!" Today, these people have practiced the legacy of Taizu. ”