Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 5 Lying on the Salary and Tasting the Courage

Chapter 1 Training Anmin Town Tongzhou

Section 3: Combating Corruption (1)

In a remote corner of the New Army camp in Tongzhou, an inconspicuous room resounded from time to time with an unusually miserable wail, the door of the house was tightly locked, and even the windows of the room were sealed with thick wooden boards, and a huge coffin was escaped; The surroundings of this room were tightly guarded by the soldiers of the Hanwei Army, and no one was allowed to approach them at will.

At this time, a small candle lamp was burning in the room, and the faint light of the fire was constantly swinging, illuminating the whole room like hell, and Yuan Mingxuan's cheeks were also reflected in the gloomy light.

"I advise you to say, don't carry it anymore, who are the big and small officials and gentry from all sides in Tongzhou who are involved in embezzling the new army's food and salary? Who are your backers in the court? If you say it, you will suffer less! Yuan Mingxuan said coldly.

Just opposite Yuan Mingxuan, there were six people who were hung on six large wooden stakes by five flowers, and I saw that these six people were all covered in blood, their clothes were already broken, and they all looked half-dead with their heads drooping.

Then there was a faint firelight, and I saw that these six people were Wang Zuhe of Qianhu, as well as the five local gentry in Tongzhou, and the gentry leader who had loudly reprimanded Liu Yunwei before was also among them.

Wang Zuhe smiled weakly and said in a low voice, "What else are you asking?" We don't know anything! Also, don't blame me for not warning you in advance, but we have a backer in the court. Either you will kill us now, and then we will be killed by our backers; Either let us go quickly, and then obediently take out a million taels of silver to heal the grandfathers' injuries! ”

"Haha!" After listening to this, Yuan Mingxuan seemed to have heard some joke, and said, "Okay, should I send some more silver to your backer?" Then tell me, who are your so-called backers? I'll send them money." ”

Wang Zuhe didn't answer, just glared at Yuan Mingxuan fiercely, and then bowed his head and said nothing.

And the gentry leader next to him shouted: "You bastard! Let us go, I'm from the East Forest! If you don't release us as soon as possible, our backers will take all of you despicable warriors and put you all in prison, so that all of you miscellaneous people will be worse off than dead! ”

"Haha!" Yuan Mingxuan laughed again, but this time there was more coldness in his eyes.

"How are your backers going to arrest us? Do you want to capture the general of the unified army among the hundreds of thousands of troops? This is the land of Gyeonggi! Who dares to mess around? I think you're in a bad head, do you think you're an important player? Are you worth the fight from the backers? By the way, you just said that you were going to put us in prison, right? I might as well tell you that I was the commander of the Beizhen Fusi back then, and many of the methods in the edict were still set by me. Since you mentioned the edict, I should revisit the interrogation methods in the edict! After speaking, Yuan Mingxuan walked to the torture tool rack next to him with a hideous face, and concentrated on picking up the torture tool in his hand.

When Wang Zuhe heard this, he was in fear and despair, and shouted loudly: "You used to be the commander of the Beizhen Fusi? So how did you end up here? Could it be that you are the one who abandoned the official position and left......"

"That's me." Yuan Mingxuan said without looking back while selecting the torture tools.

"You are Yuan Mingxuan? Smell the wind Yama Yuan Mingxuan! Wang Zuhe exclaimed, and then trembling and exclaiming: "I said, I said everything!" Help me! ”

A desperate cry came from the house, but the soldiers who were guarding outside looked around vigilantly as if they hadn't heard anything.

An hour later, Yuan Mingxuan walked out of the room a little tired, and he already had a thick confession in his hand.

"Dispose of all these people in the house." Yuan Mingxuan said to a general manager who was guarding the side, and then went straight to Liu Yunwei's big tent.

After seeing Liu Yunwei, Yuan Mingxuan said bluntly: "Little general, the matter is basically asked. Now the little general tells me, are you ready to be the enemy of the entire court? ”

Liu Yunwei was stunned when he heard this, and then he fell silent and sat behind the bookcase and thought about it.

After a long while, Liu Yunwei raised his head, and a surge of fighting spirit suddenly erupted on his body, and he said with a firm face: "If I don't make enemies with the bigwigs behind these corrupt officials and continue to obediently give over the grain and grass of the new army, can we train the army with peace of mind?" No! Sooner or later, one day, we will be like Mr. Xu Guangqi, and go away with hatred! The new army of the imperial court will eventually die halfway, and will be completely buried by these moths! ”

Yuan Mingxuan looked at Liu Yunwei, who seemed to be a fighter in front of him, and trembled in his heart: "The little general is no longer the child when he first arrived in Liaodong, he is already a general on the side of the unified army, and he can already defend the dynasty and defend China with his own strength!" Old general, if you have a spirit in the sky, don't worry, the little general will definitely be able to defeat Jiannu! ”

"And what is the little general going to do?"

Liu Yunwei said word by word: "I~want~Su~ greedy!" Carry out a thorough anti-corruption campaign in the land of Gyeonggi! None of the scum on this list will be spared! I want to clean up the filth of the court and prepare for the future expedition outside the border! I don't want the story of Yue Wumu's twelve gold medals to be repeated in me and the soldiers of the Hanwei Army; I don't want to be dragged down by corrupt officials and traitors in the DPRK and China, thus ruining the great opportunity to defeat Jiannu! ”

Although Yuan Mingxuan was infected by Liu Yunwei's pride, his rich experience told him that if he continued to do it according to Liu Yunwei's method, everyone would die without a place to be buried!

So, Yuan Mingxuan said with some hesitation: "Little General, if there is a mistake in this matter, we will all be doomed, is it appropriate to control the scope and depth of corruption?" ”

"Humph!" Liu Yunwei snorted coldly and said, "What's the use of just killing some shrimp soldiers and crabs?" If we don't crack down on corruption from the root and knock all those bigwigs to the ground, we will never be able to train with peace of mind, and we will never be able to go north to Liaodong with peace of mind! ”

Yuan Mingxuan still wanted to persuade Liu Yunwei to think about it carefully, but was stopped by Liu Yunwei waving his hand.

Liu Yunwei continued: "Besides, now that there are continuous natural disasters in various parts of the country, and the tragic situation of the people in Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places is still fresh in my memory, the treasury will definitely not be rich for a period of time in the future, and even be ready to suppress the riots of the displaced people at any time." Lord Yuan, what will we do with our new army then? Once the imperial treasury is unable to make ends meet and cut off the supply of food and salaries to us, what should we do? What are we going to do with these hundreds of thousands of people? Are they all disbanded on the spot? ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Mingxuan's face showed ecstasy, and then he showed a look of shock, and said, "Little general! You can't eat the money of those corrupt officials! ”

"I know that we Hanwei Army alone can't eat the dirty money of these corrupt officials, but we can pull others to eat together!"

"What!" Yuan Mingxuan was even more shocked at this time, as if he didn't know Liu Yunwei, and kept looking up and down at the impassioned general in front of him.

"Does Lord Yuan think I've changed? Think I'm starting to look for a backer in the court like that crumb? Liu Yunwei said with a wry smile: "I can't help it!" When Lord Yuan was interrogating those miscellaneous pieces, I myself was here thinking about how to deal with this matter. But after thinking about it, I only thought of one way, that is, to pull the DPRK and China to work with our closer bigwigs, and everyone shared the seized stolen money. I only thought of this way, the only way. ”

Yuan Mingxuan shook his head and said, "Little General, you misunderstood, I think your method is very good." Blindly sticking to morality, only knowing empty slogans and no achievements, that is a corrupt style! And you are the general of the country, the general of the unified army who defends one side, you are not a rotten Confucian who has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures! All you have to do is to reorganize your armament, conquer the Tartars, and defend your country! As for the means and methods to achieve these, it is not important, as long as we have the Ming and Huaxia in our hearts, as long as what we do does not violate the law of the Ming Dynasty, then let it go! After finishing speaking, Yuan Mingxuan handed over the confession in his hand to Liu Yunwei.

Liu Yunwei bowed down to be taught, bowed to Yuan Mingxuan, and said, "Thank you Lord Yuan for your teachings, after I read this confession, I will immediately send an iron horse to arrest him!" At the same time, I also want to invite Lord Yuan to go to Jingshi. ”

Yuan Mingxuan said with a smile: "The little general wants to pull Huang Jiashan, the secretary of the military department, to do it together, right?" I think Lord Huang will hate you to death by then. ”

Liu Yunwei laughed when he heard this, and then said, "It's not just Lord Huang! Pulling Lord Huang is just a talisman for us, just to ensure that the court will not remove me from my post because of corruption; In addition, I also want to pull up Li Ruhua, the head of the household! Li Ruhua was originally from Donglin, and he was already worried about the emptiness of the treasury, if Master Li knew that there was a huge amount of food and salary income from the treasury, he would definitely mobilize all his connections to support us. In this case, we will definitely have much less resistance to corruption! ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded, his eyes were full of admiration, and said: "The little general is very thoughtful, without further ado, I will set off immediately and rush to the capital today." ”

Liu Yunwei said: "Don't worry, I think it's better for Lord Yuan to wait a few days, and after the iron cavalry soldiers who arrested corrupt officials and law-breaking gentry set off, it will not be too late for Lord Yuan to go to Beijing." ”

Yuan Mingxuan was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "Haha, the little general is a good means, now Huang Shangshu and Li Shangshu can't agree to it." ”