After Tang Tong said, Zhang Gui asked: "What is the situation of the three outer rooms you raised, what is the situation of your mother's family, can there be officials in the court?" ”

Tang Tong replied: "The commander is wise! Their fathers and brothers were all officials in the court. ”

Zhang Gui's heart tightened after hearing this, and asked: "Who are the people, tell the truth one by one!" ”

Tang Tong didn't dare to hide it, so he told Zhang Gui everything he knew: "There is a soldier Zhang Fengxiang who married his niece and granddaughter to a lowly office as an outer room; There is also a royal history Yuan Yaoran who married his niece in a lowly position as an outer room......"

Zhang Gui nodded and instructed the civilian official school of the inner factory that made the record: "This must be written down!" ”

Then, Zhang Gui asked Tang Tong again: "Did they ask you to do anything?" ”

"Nope! Don't dare to lie! ”

Tang Tong replied.

Zhang Guiliang Tang Tong, as a guerrilla general of the Guards, would not willingly follow the orders of these scholars, after all, the guerrillas of the Guards have a higher status than the general soldiers in the battalion.

The Ming military system is divided into the guard system and the battalion system.

The system of guards has long existed in name only.

This is what everybody knows.

In the battalion system, the military attache with the most status is the chief soldier.

However, due to the empty salary, many of the general soldiers actually did not have many soldiers to command.

Although Tang Tong is just a guerrilla, he is the elite of thousands of guards who command real battles, and his incorruptible silver is not low, and the key is still promising; If he is willing to be a lackey for the nobles, it can only be a problem with his brain.

But Zhang Gui had to admit that although these scholars did not let Tang Tong be their lackey, they were already corrupting the entire Guards by sending women to marry, so that the internal official schools of the Guards began to have a relationship with them, which can be regarded as a kind of moisturizing and silent corruption.

It is conceivable that in a few years, I am afraid that many middle and high-ranking generals of the Guards will become their relatives, and their interests will be protected.

Next, Zhang Gui investigated other suspected high-ranking officers of the Guards.

Most of them were more cooperative, and answered their situation truthfully.

What makes Zhang Gui feel fortunate is that the internal investigation of the Guards is still timely, and not many people have been corrupted, most of them have just had an in-law relationship with some scholars, but they have not truthfully reported to the above, strictly speaking, it is not a serious disciplinary violation.

Even so, these men were transferred out of the inner circle of the Guards in the next place.

or be sent to southern Liaoning to make meritorious contributions.

or be transferred to a local office.

In any case, the interior of the Guards must be pure enough that the ideas and family conditions of any one person must be clearly understood, and nothing must be concealed, and even not only clearly understood, but also ensured that there is no involvement with the big bureaucrats and big landlords.

After all, this is the basis for the implementation of the New Deal.

At the same time that Zhang Gui was carrying out a purge of the internal Guards, Wei Zhongxian was also ordered to carry out a purge of the foreign courtiers.

Liu Ruozai and Wei Guangwei, the ministers who forced the empress to hand over the crown prince because they mistakenly thought that the emperor had fallen into the water, had been imprisoned.

In addition, because of the lockdown of the city, they did not even have a chance to escape.

After Liu Ruozai was sent to prison, he met his nephew Liu Yumo.

Liu Ruozai asked Liu Yumo angrily: "What is the situation, Ye Chengxue, didn't you say that you have let Zhu Youxiao successfully fall into the water?" Why did he Zhu Youxiao suddenly return to Beijing again?! ”

Liu Yumo said: "Uncle, Ye Chengxue is a fine work of the West Factory!" You, I and Wang Yongguang were all deceived by him! ”

"What?!"

Liu Ruozai sat on the straw pile in horror, looked at the dark dungeon, and was silent for a long time.

Then, Liu Ruozai cried and said, "Then it's over!" The Nine Clans won't be able to keep it! ”

Seeing this, Wei Guangwei, who was also in the cell, couldn't help but roar angrily: "What are you crying about! The one who should cry should be a servant, and a servant should not believe your Liu Yinping's words! Believe that Your Majesty has indeed fallen into the water! As a result, it will also end up with the Nine Clans. ”

Liu Yumo said at this time: "At that time, I thought it was foolproof, but no one expected that his Uncle Zhang Guo had already prepared for this!" Now we can't even let Your Majesty fall into the water, and we gentry are completely hopeless. ”

"At least there is no hope for those of us."

Wei Guangwei sighed helplessly.

The entire emperor fell into the water, and there is indeed nothing to judge, because Liu Yumo took the initiative to explain everything, Liu Ruozai and Liu Yumo naturally wanted the nine clans to be destroyed, and Wei Guangwei and others who participated in the forced palace could not escape the death penalty.

The men, after they were found to be right, were taken to the execution ground and then executed.

For the scholars, this was a failed attempt.

But what made many scholars feel even more defeated was that they had placed informants in the Guards, and even became relatives and friends with the Guards officers, and in this way realized the plan of gradually assimilating the Guards into their own interests, they were also destroyed by Zhang Gui because of this matter.

So, they had to deal with it.

However, Zhang Gui has already taken action first.

After he presented the results of the investigation of the Guards to the Apocalypse, he suggested to the Apocalypse: "Your Majesty, the minister believes that all the civil officials and noble families who have begun to marry the Guards officers should no longer serve in the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, especially the Ministry of War!" In this way, it can be ensured that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court will not become the private soldiers of several families. ”

Tianqi nodded: "You have to do this, for example, Zhang Fengxiang, the secretary of the military department, actually married his niece and granddaughter to Tang Tong as an outer room, it is difficult not to guarantee that there is no other thought in this!" ”

As a result, Zhang Gui began to prepare to instruct the official to impeach Zhang Fengxiang.

But when Zhang Gui just returned to his Hou Mansion, he saw Zhou Neng coming over with a solemn expression: "Master Hou! Someone lost a head in our Hou Mansion, and this head is a student of my Xilin Academy, named Lu Cheng! ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui was stunned for a long time, and then lowered his face and said: "This is a provocation!" ”

"If Uncle Guo really thinks so, then it can be regarded as a provocation. But in fact, this can only be regarded as a reminder. ”

At this time, a red-robed man walked out of a sedan chair and touched his beard under his chin without anger.

Zhang Gui looked back, his anger was full, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "What did you do?" ”

"How could it be the old man who did it."

This red-robed officer is Zhang Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Because Yuan Keli was promoted to the secretary of the ministry, Zhang Fengxiang also served as the secretary of the military department.

And because Zhang Gui asked, Zhang Fengxiang also replied with a smile.

Then, Zhang Fengxiang said: "The old man is here to ask to see Uncle Guo, if Uncle Guo wants to protect the thousands of students of your Xilin Academy from being slaughtered by the Jiangnan mob." You should invite the old man to your house for a cup of tea. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui asked with a cold face: "You actually secretly organized private soldiers to slaughter my Xilin?" ”

"Uncle Guo, we are also forced by you to be helpless, you are doing this in the Guards, isn't it not that our years of hard work have been wasted?"

"Reincarnation Paradise"

After Zhang Fengxiang returned, he said: "As long as Uncle Guo agrees not to transfer Tang Tong, the official schools that are married to us, from the Praetorian Guard Battalion or the main battalions of the Guards, Xilin Academy will be safe!" ”

"Everyone knows that Xilin Academy is the place where Uncle Guo cultivates new policy officials, and the imperial court will first need a lot of officials who support the reform of the law if the imperial court wants to implement the new policy across the country, and these officials basically have to rely on Xilin Academy to cultivate, so presumably the thousands of teachers and students of Xilin Academy are very important to Uncle Guo, right?"