Jiang Wenbin's two notes, one impeaching Zhou Shangshu of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the other impeaching Li Xiang, are extremely detailed. However, Zhou Shangshu is actually not a corrupt official, and Li Xiang's family is from a family, and his family has his own children and experience in affairs, and he is not short of money, so these two letters are not impeached for corruption.

The first letter impeached Zhou Shangshu for dereliction of duty and laziness.

The second letter impeached Li Xiang for forming a party and taking power.

There are only two impeachments, but they are not small.

The first thing was that Qin Fenglu's military salary was in deficit.

Jiang Wenbin got a love letter, which was written by a small loyal military captain at Jueyun Pass on Qinfeng Road. It was written in the letter that at the end of the year before last, the army of Jueyun Pass had been in arrears for five months in a row, and the rice and grain that were distributed were also mixed with sand and gravel.

The defenders of Jueyun Pass had a hard time, and they couldn't see the New Year's Pass, so Zhonglang who was stationed at Jueyun Pass went to Fengzhou Mansion to ask Qin Fenglu to appease Cui Wenju and ask him to pay his military salary as soon as possible.

Who knew that the military salary did not wait, but General Zhonglang was detained on charges of corruption and deficit.

The family of the Zhonglang general was not convinced, and went to Beijing to seek justice. However, when they arrived in the capital, they didn't know where to complain, so they inquired about the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, and stopped Zhou Shangshu's sedan chair at the gate of the Shangshu Mansion.

Qin Fenglu appeased Cui Wenju is the brother-in-law of Zhongfeng doctor Wen Chengping, and the sophisticated Zhou Shangshu promised to thoroughly investigate the military salary deficit case in order not to offend Li Xiang, but in private he gave Wen Chengping the news.

General Zhonglang's family is still in Beijing, Cui Wenju has already received the news, and he immediately concluded the trial of the general's salary deficit overnight, and all the charges were given to the Zhonglang general in prison, and he was hurriedly beheaded.

What's even more strange is that the family of General Zhonglang also disappeared soon after, and there was no one to cry out for the young general who had died.

Maybe the sky has eyes, when Jiang Wenbin got this love letter, the loyal military captain had also been killed, but this love letter was transferred to Jiang Wenbin several times, becoming one of the important evidences for Jiang Wenbin's impeachment of Zhou Shangshu.

The second thing Jiang Wenbin participated in was even greater.

Three years ago, the head of the treasury department of the military department was called Zhao Zhiliang, who was a student of Li Xiang.

Zhao Zhiliang was not from a big family, and after winning the Jinshi, he spent a lot of effort to entrust people to go through Li Xiang's path and worship under Li Xiang's door. He is an average person, but he is very good at greeting, but Li Xiangma is the first to look forward. As a willing chess piece, he is very popular among Li Xiang's students.

Back then, Li Xiang put him in the position of the head of the military department, but in fact, he was also eyeing the lack of the six squires, just to let Director Zhao make a short transition in the position of head and find a reason to push him up.

Zhao Zhiliang knew that his position as the head of the treasury was only a transition. is careless, but the political achievements on paper are beautiful. During his tenure for several years, the loss of the Treasury Department was reported to be extremely low every year, and the accounts were very beautiful, and the Ministry of War even won the praise of the Holy Lord.

However, Director Zhao did not seriously liquidate the losses every year like other directors of the treasury, but only maintained the brilliance of the errand on the surface. He even sent people to sort out the grain depot and armory, put the newly stored ordnance and grain on the outermost, stuffed the moldy materials in the innermost, and put some intact materials on top to cover up.

Originally, Zhao Zhiliang did this, and there was no big mistake, according to the rules of the Ministry of War, the inventory was rough every year, and the fine point library was only once in a few years, and he hid the mildew materials very well, and it was no problem to mix the inventory of promotion and handover.

He only cares about his beautiful accounts and outstanding political achievements in office, so he will not bother to think about how to explain to the emperor when the next head of the treasury counts these moldy materials that have accumulated for many years. Director Zhao thought very well, and there was no problem during the handover, so naturally he couldn't settle the account when there was a problem in the future.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, three years ago, Shuobei general Mu Chengde and Rong Di went to war, forcibly seized the long-lost Shuozhou, Mu Jing slightly guarded Yanzhou and could not move, Zhenbei general Mu Chengxin did not dare to transfer all the military supplies in his hands to Shuozhou, after all, Youzhou is also the front line of the enemy, and it is easy to move.

Therefore, An Guogong was in a hurry and asked the military department to dig out the family's funds. This time, Director Zhao panicked and urgently begged Li Xiang for help. Although Li Xiang was angry, the chess pieces that had been planted for a long time could not be scrapped, so he found Zhou Shangshu and set up a "robber" bureau on the way to escort the military supplies.

This matter was very big at that time, Shuozhou was in a hurry to wait for materials, but the materials escorted by the military department were looted, the escort officers and soldiers were killed, and forty percent of the food and ordnance were lost.

The matter was out of the Jueyu Mountain before entering the northern border, no one was responsible for the three areas, and the Qin sent them over, and there was no result in checking and checking, and finally came to the conclusion that the Rongdi people secretly crossed the border and plundered.

In this way, Li Xiang and Zhou Shangshu joined forces to cover up the past, and Director Zhao not only did not lose his official position, but because of his outstanding achievements as the head of the Treasury Department for several years, he was recommended by Li Xiang to go to the Ministry of Rites as a waiter, and last year he was released to Zhending Mansion as a government Yin, but he was promoted step by step.

However, Mu Jingluo was reprimanded by the emperor because of the fact that the Rong Di people crossed the border and sneaked into Jueyu Mountain.

"Wen Bin got the treasury list for the transfer of military quarters from the north," Xie Changjing told Xie Xiang: "There are also confessions from two treasury officials. He was very careful when he investigated the matter, and did not alarm others. ”

"What do you think," Xie Xiang pondered for a moment, and then did not express his opinion immediately, but asked his son: "You have been in the Yushitai for a long time, let me listen to your thoughts."

"It's not easy to bring down Zhou Shangshu and Li Xiang at once." Xie Changjing replied: "If it is really Wen Bin himself who comes forward to impeach, it is very likely that not only will he not be able to bring down Li Xiang and Zhou Shangshu, but he will be compensated himself."

Xie was noncommittal about his son's opinion, but asked again: "What if all our people in Yushitai are moved?" If three or four or more imperial historians unite to impeach, the Holy One must attach great importance to it. If so, what do you think? ”

"The difficulty is that the main responsibility for these two cases is not Zhou Shangshu and Li Xiang," Xie Changjing replied: "Zhou Shangshu dereliction of duty and Li Xiang's formation of a party are all crimes that the emperor cannot tolerate, which is true." But the emperor is not a faint king, and if there is no evidence, he will not casually send out his important ministers with just an impeachment note. ”

"The son thought that after the emperor received the note, he would definitely order a re-investigation of the Qin Fenglu military salary case and the northern materials of the year, but these two cases could not be handled in the capital. Qin Fenglu's pacification envoy was far away in Fengzhou, and the head of the treasury department back then was now Zhending Mansion Yin. Even if the emperor immediately sent Yu Shi Qin to Fengzhou and Zhending Mansion, the journey was far away, and it would take a lot of time to come and go. How could Li Xiang and Zhou Shangshu not prepare to deal with it in advance? ”