Chapter Seventy-Nine: Preference

After the ministers quietly listened to Xie Xiangcun's statement, it was very obvious that the soldiers were clamoring not because they hated Tuntian, but because they hated the oppression and cruelty of the commanders.

After Xie Xiangcun finished playing, Qian Hongzuo asked, "I don't know how Aiqing wants to deal with this matter?" ”

Xie Xiangcun said: "Weichen impeached Meng Zhihuan for corruption and perversion of the law, and it is not good for governing the army, I hope that the Criminal Department will try it according to the law." ”

Qian Hongzuo immediately agreed: "Quasi-play." The matter was handed over to Li Jishen, a waiter of the Criminal Department, for trial, and if it was indeed as Xie Aiqing said, Meng Zhihuan should be dismissed and questioned. ”

Li Jishen came out of the class and said: "Weichen leads the order." ”

Xie Xiangcun said again: "During the investigation and handling of Meng Zhihuan's dismissal, I also asked the Holy Grace to allow the military department to stay in the army and temporarily take the command of the Wenzhou garrison. If something like this happens to the Wenzhou garrison, the soldiers and horses of other states may also happen, and while the situation is not strict now, Weichen wants to try to remedy it with Ju Daren. ”

Qian Hongzuo asked: "I don't know what Aiqing's good plan is?" ”

Xie Xiangcun said: "The fundamental reason why Meng Zhihuan was able to bend the law for bribes was that the accounts were chaotic and it was difficult to verify the income from Tuntian, so that he could take advantage of the chaos to encroach and arouse public anger. Weichen's initial idea was to send a supervising army directly under the Ministry of War to the soldiers and horses of various states. The income of the garrisons in each state should be kept in detail by them, and the amount of income and how it should be spent must be clear. These superintendents cannot interfere with military commands, but the commanders of various states cannot intervene in the official documents they submit to the military department, so as to strengthen supervision and control, so that no one will regard the tuntian as an opportunity for self-enrichment. Specifically, the Ju people will take the Wenzhou garrison noise incident as an example and carefully consider it in order to put forward feasible countermeasures for supervising the army. ”

Qian Hongzuo comforted: "Tuntian is a major military event, and there is no system that can be used for reference in the past, as long as it is improved day by day." Those ideas that hope for overnight success and perfection are all foolish dreams. The more people don't do practical things, the more they complain and talk strangely, and there are very few people who can do concrete things. Xie Aiqing, you and Lord Ju are both capable ministers, and King Gu believes that you can find loopholes and improve the method of Tuntian. ”

Qian Hongzuo's words were half to comfort Xie Xiangcun, and half were to the ministers who slandered Xie Xiangcun in the DPRK and China, with the intention of beating them not to slander and slander.

Xie Xiangcun knelt down and said: "Thank you for your compassion, Weichen and Lord Ju, I will definitely do my best to improve the strategy of Tuntian." ”

Qian Hongzuo said to Wu Dezhang, the head of the chamberlain beside him: "Help Lord Xie for the lonely king." ”

Wu Dezhang hurriedly walked down the jade steps and helped Xie Xiangcun up.

Qian Hongzuo said: "Aiqing took the risk alone, went to the Wenzhou garrison to investigate the truth of the noise incident, and made the first contribution to the quelling of the incident, this courage is commendable. Today's safe return, gratifying and congratulating, the lonely king held a banquet in the palace tonight, and together with all the Qing families, he picked up the wind and washed the dust for Xie Aiqing. ”

That night, Qian Hongzuo set up a banquet in the palace and feasted the ministers. Because Xie Xiangcun cherished his voice, he only replaced wine with tea, and staggered with the ministers. The other ministers drank all wine, and soon some were half drunk.

An official from the former dynasty Jinshi was named Wang Jinjia, who was recommended by Dai Yun to come to Wu Yue Kingdom as an official. Out of gratitude to Dai Yun, he secretly said a lot of bad things about Xie Xiangcun. In addition, he was born as a scholar, but he has been an official for many years, but he is not allowed to reuse, and he is not used to Xie Xiangcun's prominent status at a young age. Qian Hongzuo set up a banquet for Xie Xiangcun this time to wash the dust, which made him even more annoyed. In his opinion, there is a problem in Tuntian, and Qian Hongzuo should reprimand Xie Xiangcun, but now not only does he not blame him, but he drinks to comfort him, which is unreasonable.

The more he drank the wine, the more unhappy he became, Wang Jinjia finally became angry, and got up and said to Xie Xiangcun with the strength of the wine: "I heard that Master Xie was born in a pear orchard and can sing and dance, especially this dance is even more charming and fascinating. Today, the Holy Lord specially set up a banquet for Lord Xie to wash the dust, what an honor! Lord Xie refuses to drink, which is a disappointment, so it is better for Lord Xie to dance for us, and then he should be punished for drinking, what do you say? ”

Most of the ministers were half drunk and half awake, and wanted to watch the singing and dancing to cheer up, and they all echoed it, Xie Xiangcun had been instructed by Qian Hongzuo not to perform singing and dancing in public as a servant, so it was a little difficult, but everyone coaxed it, and it was difficult to shirk.

Just as Xie Xiangcun was thinking about how to refuse Wang Jinjia so as not to hurt his face, Qian Hongzuo suddenly said loudly: "Bring a drum to King Gu." ”

The two chamberlains hurriedly went to bring Qian Hongzuo a medium-sized drum.

Qian Hongzuo said: "Lone King can't play other musical instruments, but he can beat drums, and today is specially for Lord Xie to wash the dust, it should be someone else's show, let him enjoy it." Wang Jinjia, you dance, and the lonely king will accompany you. ”

Wang Jinjia said with a difficult face: "Weichen can't dance." ”

Qian Hongzuo pretended to be drunk and scolded: "You don't know how to dance, but you dance for King Gu and Lord Xie, it seems that you are sincere, and you can also have fun for Zhongqing, why not?" If you don't jump, you don't respect the king's order, you don't respect Lord Xie, and you don't take other Aiqing in your eyes. Jump! The Lone King gives you the drumming accompaniment. "After that, he began to beat the drums.

Wang Jinjia couldn't, so he had to dance to the beat of the drum, dancing like Wang Ba playing in the water, kicking all fours. During the banquet, the ministers had never seen this kind of 'cramp-like dance', and they immediately leaned forward and backwards, and they were overjoyed and laughed.

Xie Xiangcun suddenly realized that Qian Hongzuo was annoyed with Wang Jinjia and ridiculed him for being born in a pear orchard, and deliberately made Wang Jinjia look ugly. Although the banquet is a relatively relaxed occasion, it is insulting to Sven like this, after all, it is inappropriate, not to mention that Wang Jinjia is an old minister, but Wang Jinjia is already jumping around there, and he can't say anything.

At the next court meeting, Wang Jinjia did not appear in the court, but a resignation, asking to return to his hometown, suffering such a great humiliation, if he could not be kept by the lord of the country, how could he continue to gain a foothold in the Wuyue court?

Qian Hongzuo didn't even look at the resignation letter, and threw it aside, as if there was no such thing at all.

A month later, Meng Zhihuan was beheaded by the Criminal Department, and he was withdrawn from the Military Department to continue to serve as a squire, and the new Wenzhou garrison commander took office. Two or three months later, in order to prevent the generals from embezzling the income of their soldiers, the military supervision law**. The supervising army directly under the Ministry of War was sent to garrison the states, the management of Tuntian was refined, and the imperial court's control over the soldiers and horses in each state was further strengthened.

Xie Xiangcun started a new round of inspections among the soldiers and horses in various states, Xie Xiangcun respected the commanders of the states, but when it should be severe, he would never condone it, among which there was a certain commander who had a lot of complaints about the matter of supervising the army, not only was impeached by Xie Xiangcun, but also quickly carried out an account check. According to Xie Xiangcun's words: If you do it right, why are you afraid of the prison army? If there is a particular dislike for the prison guards, it means that the accounts do not stand up to inspection. With the support of Qian Hongzuo, this commander finally ended up in dismissal. The military discipline of the soldiers and horses in various states was not only not lax because of the tuntian, but became more rigorous.

Although Xie Xiangcun is young, his reputation for ruthlessness is far and wide, and in his concept, there is no such thing as 'officials protecting each other', and all those who commit corruption and violate the law will be severely punished. According to the common saying of officialdom, that is, Xie Xiangcun has no human feelings, under his iron fist, even the old qualified commanders can only be cautious and cautious, and the officials of the military department are even more respectful to him, and the phrase "mercy is not in charge of the army" is particularly fully reflected in Xie Xiangcun.