"Why don't you let Ben look it up?" After a long silence, Zhang Ru suddenly asked.

Compared with Yu Zijun's unpublicized family ugliness, he was more interested in why Yu Zijun would stop himself from investigating. He instinctively felt that behind this, there was an ulterior secret.

"Does the Governor really want to know?" Yu Zijun's eyes were deep.

Zhang Ru nodded: "Do you think Ben will want to know about your parents' shortcomings?" If you don't want to know why you don't let Ben Jiang investigate, Ben will be full of food and support, and he will listen to you say such a lot of nonsense. Your family affairs are your family affairs, and as long as they are not involved in state affairs, they have no right to intervene. However, Ben will patrol the nine sides from the capital with the royal flag, so it is his responsibility to find out some problems. If you are innocent, the general will give you innocence, you are not innocent, and according to the seriousness of the problem, the general will consider whether to sacrifice your head to the flag. ”

Yu Zijun squinted his eyes and said: "If this matter is mixed with King De, King Chong, King Ji, King Hui, as well as Wu Jin, Duke of Liangguo, Sun Zhong, Duke of Anguo, Zhu Yong, Duke of Baoguo, Zhou Neng and other nobles, Yu Zijun, the governor of Shaanxi and the chief soldier of Yansui, is just their person who catches the knife, can the commander dare to investigate?" ”

"What are you talking about?" Zhang Ru asked.

He remained silent, trying his best to hide the horror in his heart.

When he was in the capital, those nobles really didn't pay much attention to him, because except for Zhu Yong, the prince of the country, none of the others had any military power in their hands.

Moreover, these nobles also know the relationship between him Zhang Ru and the crown prince Zhu Youjiao, and they have never troubled him, and both sides have always maintained the situation that the well water does not interfere with the river water.

Hearing Yu Zijun say a large list of people who could crush him to death with a single one, the horror in Zhang Ru's heart had reached the point of no return.

Yu Zijun said: "Even if the last general doesn't say it, the person who oversees the commander should be able to find out." No matter which one of the nine border towns is, there are many problems, the most serious of which are the people who smuggle people to and from the border and the people who sell military rations.

The Lu rice of my Ming Dynasty military attache from the ninth grade is 60 stones, and the money is 30 stones, and the people who can enjoy this kind of treatment in the millions of border troops are a minority after all. More ordinary sergeants can't enjoy such good treatment, and many of them can't even support themselves.

The best-paid Ma Jun leads the army with a salary of 24 stones every year, and those with a small family can receive 24 catties of salt, and those who do not have a small family only receive 12 catties of salt. The poorest-treated tunfu was nominally in the realm of the frontier army, but in fact he did not receive even ten stone of rice every year. Not to mention feeding a family, even supporting oneself is a problem.

The imperial court allocates a large amount of grain and grass to the important towns of the nine borders every year, but the money and grain that really goes to the hands of those soldiers is far less than the amount allocated by the imperial court.

When the silver comes out of the household department, it will be removed from 20% when it changes hands with the military department, and then it will be removed from the hands of the local governor or governor. At the end of the distribution, it was already very good for the soldiers to receive ten stones.

Of course, those of us with high-ranking officials will naturally not go too far, after all, we still need those big soldiers to do things.

On the premise of ensuring that these soldiers do not make any trouble, we try our best to squeeze the salaries of the soldiers, and the incidents of eating empty salaries have occurred from time to time.

The emperor has a lot of opportunities, is it possible that he will come to the nine-sided town to inspect it? Isn't it that the emperor will personally go to the granary to see how much grain is stored?

Whether it is the military department or the household department, the adults who can speak can not take our benefits. After taking the benefits, who dares to speak?

Although it is not the Hongwu period, there is no such severe punishment, but His Majesty is the one who is kept in the dark after all, if you let Your Majesty know that his country has been eroded, you will be furious again, and finally kill a person with a head.

The Governor is responsible for inspecting the nine sides, and no one has ever dared to give gifts to the Governor, and more people choose to embarrass the Governor, hoping that the Governor will retreat. Why?

Because the Governor is the grandfather's brother in the East Palace, has a big enough backstage, and has the trust of His Majesty, no one thinks that the Governor is a greedy person for money, and when it comes to the silver in his pocket, who wants to spit it out like this?

The last general kindly asked the commander not to investigate, and the real reason is this. ”

If it is really the same as what Yu Zijun said, this kind of thing is tacitly understood by everyone, and so many people and things are involved, then even if he holds the Jinyi Wei Nanbei Zhenfu Division, if he wants to clean up this matter, I am afraid that it will be extremely difficult.

Not to mention how many people are involved in the case below, just the series of names reported by Yu Zijun is enough for him to stop.

Although the emperor supports him to rectify the nine sides, but there must be a degree, if this country is all let Zhang Ru rectify it, Zhu Jianshen is not a fool, and it is absolutely impossible to support it as always.

Turning the entire court upside down? Mo said that Zhu Jianshen didn't have the courage, even if he went back to the past hundred years and was in the hands of Hong Wuye, he was afraid that he would not be able to overturn the entire court.

Corrupt officials have their own ability to be corrupt officials, and it takes half a month or even several years to train a qualified official. Don't say that hundreds or thousands of officials can't be cultivated for a while, even if they can be cultivated, they don't have that time.

"The human heart is not enough, and the snake swallows the elephant." Zhang Ru sighed.

Yu Zijun also sighed: "It is said that contentment is always happy, but in the face of this world of flowers, who can be truly content." ”

Zhang Ru nodded and said, "Thank you General Yu for your advice, but the general still decided to investigate." Ben will be responsible for the nine-sided town for one day. The greed for military salaries cannot be eradicated, but it must also be reduced. ”

Yu Zijun was stunned for a moment: "The commander really plans to make enemies of the entire Ming officialdom with his own strength?" ”

Zhang Ru shook his head and said: "I don't want to be an enemy of the entire Ming officialdom, nor do I want to be an enemy of those nobles. The big husband has something to do and something not to do, since he is the general who supervises the soldiers of the nine sides, he must set an example. If you can have one less corrupt official and seek a benefit for the Ming border army, then do what you can. ”

"Please be the first to check the general." Yu Zijun suddenly stood up and knelt on one knee.

Zhang Ru looked at Yu Zijun, whose temples were slightly white, and his heart turned over like a river and a sea, this general soldier of Yansui, who looked weak and incompetent, wanted to use his own life to protect those people behind his body?

As soon as this idea appeared, it was immediately rejected. If he really wanted to use his life to protect the people behind him, he would never tell himself this. Since he told himself this, it was tantamount to selling all the people behind him, and Yu Zijun had no need to take these responsibilities himself.

Zhang Ru stood up and walked towards his courtyard, ignoring Yu Zijun who was kneeling on the ground.

After two days, the Jinyi Wei Biaoyun Rider sent the things found to Zhang Ru's case, and before seeing these things, Zhang Ru believed in the people of the Biaoyun Rider very much. But after seeing these things, the trust in his heart for the Soaring Cloud Rider has disappeared.

Even Yu Zijun, the general soldier of Yansui, admitted that there was a matter of embezzlement of military salaries, but there was no mention of it in the file of Jinyiwei's investigation.

The self-proclaimed clever Soaring Cloud Rider Baihu also added a sentence to the file: All kinds of chaos are all false accusations.

Climbing? He Zhang Ru will strictly investigate Yulin City because of his untargeted words, could it be that the achievement is to slander the general army of Eyansui, who has a good attitude?

Just casually swept the file, Zhang Ru's face sank: "Wang Zhou, who is in charge of investigating this matter, you call someone over." ”

Wang Zhou didn't know why, and asked, "My lord, but what's the problem?" ”

Zhang Ru said lightly: "You can just call someone over and find out." ”

It didn't take long for the Soaring Cloud Rider Baihu, who was responsible for investigating Yu Zijun's bottom detail, to be led in by Wang Zhou, maybe Wang Zhou asked him something, and as soon as these Baihu saw Zhang Ru, they flinched and didn't dare to step forward.

Zhang Ru, who was already suspicious of these hundred households, couldn't help but deepen his suspicions about him, and Wang Zhou, who had no doubts about the people under his command, couldn't help but shout angrily: "Stand up straight, you can answer whatever the adults ask." ”

Zhang Ru waved his hand and said to the hundred households and Yan Yuese: "The dossier you investigated will be read, dozens of people have invested in it, and after a few days of secret investigation, Yu Zijun's ass is really clean?" ”

At this point, the hundred households could only bite the bullet and say: "The last general is incompetent, according to the current intelligence, General Yu is clean." ”

Zhang Ru smiled: "Tell me, whose benefits have you received, and how many benefits have you received?" ”

The hundred households were stunned: "The last general doesn't know what the adults mean." ”

Wang Zhou's face changed greatly, and because of Zhang Ru's presence, he didn't get mad. Seeing that his subordinates had been suspected by the adults, and the subordinates still looked innocent, he couldn't help but get angry from his heart, and raised his feet to kick the hundred households to the ground: "The adults are asking who you have received and how many benefits you have received!" ”

The hundred households stiffened their necks and said, "The last general really doesn't know what the adults mean. ”

Zhang Ru stood up and stared at Baihu with his eyes: "Ben Jiang has always believed in the brother of Biao Yun Qi, how did you repay Ben Jiang's trust?" Yu Zijun himself admitted that there was a private warehouse in this Yulin City, you took dozens of people out and came back to tell Ben Jiang that there was no private warehouse in this city? Are you stupid or think you are smart, if you don't know something, you will conclude that you have received a benefit! ”

The matter has come to this point, if you still don't admit it, I'm afraid it's useless.

Baihu raised his head and glanced at Wang Zhou, and saw that the eyes of the Qianhu adults were about to erupt with fire, and their momentum was three points shorter for no reason. He straightened his clothes, bowed his head and muttered, "The last general will know his mistake!" ”

Hearing his own people admit to taking bribes, Wang Zhou was angry and kicked over the hundred households that had not yet gotten up again. The outstretched fingers trembled and pointed at Baihu's nose, and scolded angrily: "You." You. ”

Zhang Ru stood up and walked to Wang Zhou's side, grabbed the angry Wang Zhou, and then turned around and looked at the hundred households quietly: "Why? ”