"Ridiculous!" The emperor slapped his palm heavily on the imperial case, "The laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty clearly prohibit the private possession of weapons, and ordinary people are not allowed to hold swords without the permission of the government, and those who violate the law are regarded as complicity and rebellion." Such strict laws prohibit the smuggling of weapons? I would like to ask you how these humerus in the middle of the court are on errands? Are you worthy of the black hat on your head? Is it worth the monthly payment? How many people need to work hard to pay taxes to be able to afford a first-class person? Cadaver vegetarian meal!"

"Your Majesty is angry......" Lin Xiang opened his mouth, and before he finished half a sentence, he was interrupted by the angry emperor.

"The book of the military department! The three divisions of the internal guard! Commander of the Imperial Guard!" The emperor directly stretched out his hand and pointed to several courtiers standing in the main hall, "I want to ask you, the imperial court ordnance management is so strict, from casting, warehousing to scrapping, and destruction, there are strict regulations, why is there still an ordnance smuggling!" Such a big thing, it was the Chunzhou Mansion that copied the ordnance from the robbers' den, and I got the news. What do I want you for?!"

Zhou Shangshu of the Ministry of War immediately knelt down with two second-grade officials wearing military attache uniforms, and did not even dare to gasp, this matter was too sudden, they were completely unprepared, and they did not dare to reply at will, so they could only kneel honestly, as if they had swallowed Coptis chinensis alive, and their hearts and mouths were bitter.

The military department was under the jurisdiction of Li Xiang, and he frowned at the time, but he did not speak casually. And Xie Xiang lowered his eyelids slightly, hiding his eyes.

Scholar Gu saw that the emperor was angry, and the atmosphere in the court became more and more solemn, theoretically speaking, it is best not to open his mouth at this time, and protect himself wisely, so as not to spread the fire on him and suffer a wrongful life.

But Scholar Gu thought about it for a while, and finally spoke up and expressed his opinion: "Your Majesty, the stakes are very high for private criminals, but because of this, we should not make a hasty conclusion. In Yichen's view, as His Majesty just said, the imperial court is very strict in the management of armaments, and if there is a large amount of ordnance outflow in such a situation, it proves that this is not an accidental event, and smuggling must have a correspondingly mature source of goods, transportation and sales channels, and so on. ”

"In this way, the minister believes that it is necessary to consider not only whether there are many people who dare to openly violate the law for personal gain, but also whether there are regulatory omissions in the current ordnance management system of the imperial court."

Scholar Gu's words were very reasonable, but they calmed the emperor down a lot. But his face was still not good, he raised his eyes and looked at Scholar Gu, and did not say a word, but turned his gaze, and stared sharply at the military department Shangshu, the three divisions of the internal guard, and the commander of the Imperial Forest Army who were kneeling in the middle.

Seeing that the emperor was no longer angry, Lin Xiang seized the opportunity to open his mouth and threw out a set of rhetoric prepared in advance.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the most important thing at the moment is to thoroughly investigate the case of illegal ordnance in two steps. First, from top to bottom, the Ministry of War took the lead in the warehouse, from the Imperial Forest Army, the Forbidden Army, the Internal Guard, the defenders from all over the country and the government soldiers to the yamen, and the sword equipment in the yamen was checked one by one. Find out where the smuggled goods come from. ”

"Second, the ordnance case was revealed, mainly because Yin of Chunzhou Mansion was cautious, and when he tried the Tiantongshan bandit case, he did not let go of the suspicious places easily, but carefully investigated the facts, and then he went down the vine and pulled out the ordnance case. The minister suggested that the Chunzhou bandits should continue to start, and the Chunzhou Mansion Yin should continue to touch upwards along this line, and the bandits' ordnance sources, suppliers, supply channels, and transportation channels should be touched from bottom to top. ”

In addition, the minister also suggested that the northern garrison should not be left out when taking inventory. The highest consumption of ordnance in our Great Zhou Dynasty is the northern garrison, and the most newly minted weapons are put into storage every year, and the amount of scrap is also the largest. Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty to send a messenger to the north to personally check the inventory. ”

These were all planned by Lin Xiang in advance. He has three main purposes. First, the ordnance case has been expanded, so that this case is no longer a case of the Chunzhou Mansion family, but involves the whole country. If only the Chunzhou Mansion was involved in the arms smuggling case, the Chunzhou Mansion Yin would naturally not be able to get out of the matter, but if the smuggling behavior was rampant throughout the country, and the Chunzhou Mansion Yin was the first to discover it, then the Chunzhou Mansion Yin was not only not negligent, but meritorious.

Second, throw the black pot to the Ministry of War, no matter what the final investigation of the ordnance case is, in the end, the Ministry of War will not be able to get rid of the involvement of poor supervision, if you are lucky, you can find a lot of trouble for Li Xiang, and you can also clear out a few important posts in the Ministry of War, and take the opportunity to install your own people.

Third, by the way, find some trouble for An Guogong, who hid in the north. Lin Xiangju has been in the phase for many years, and he is very stubborn and self-serving, and he claims to be the head of the ministers. If anyone dares to challenge his authority, he will have a vengeance.

An Guogong gave Lin Xiang a lot of trouble because of the affairs in the north, and Lin Xiang had already held a bad breath in his heart. However, the Mu clan has heavy troops and is very trusted by the emperor, and it is obviously irrational to want to find them.

Therefore, although Lin Xiang has always been dissatisfied with An Guogong, he did not rush to find himself uncomfortable and find the fault of the Mu family. The current ordnance case has given Lin Xiang a ready-made opportunity to play on the topic and add some trouble to the Mu generals in the north.

The emperor stared at Lin Xiang and did not speak immediately. After a moment of silence, he suddenly smiled.

He stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Lin Xiang, and said to the ministers, "See, learn a little, if you talk about the old man and the country, it has to be Lin Xiang." ”

"Your Majesty has praised it." Lin Xiang immediately bent down and expressed his modesty in a routine manner.

"Lin Xiang doesn't have to be too humble," the emperor replied with a smile, "You can afford such a compliment." The previous suggestion was very reasonable, so I did what Lin Xiang said, and the Ministry of War took the lead, tracing back to the source, and Yin of Chunzhou Mansion touched it upside down from the bottom up. But ......"

The emperor tapped his finger lightly on the imperial case, looked at Lin Xiang, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and then continued after a pause, "Lin Xiang proposed to thoroughly investigate the northern border, but it surprised me. How? Does Lin Xiang think that General Mu may be involved in the ordnance case? ”

"Of course not." Lin Xiang lowered his head and replied respectfully, "An Guogong is strict in governing the army and loyal to the saint, there is no doubt about this matter. It's just that the minister thinks that since the Ministry of War takes the lead in inventory, the army of the whole country must be checked, and the newly cast ordnance of our Great Zhou every year is supplied to the northern border, so a large amount, it should really be inventoried, so as not to have omissions. ”

"Besides, General Mu is loyal, but the pressure on the defense of the northern border is extremely heavy, and the main energy of An Guogong and Mu Jingluo is on Rong Di, as for the trivial matter of ordnance storage and scrapping, it is understandable if there is any omission. The minister suggested that the Holy Lord send someone to check the northern ordnance, just in case, if there is nothing to do, it is fine, if there is something to deal with in time, it will also avoid future incidents. ”

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