Chapter 26: Turning the Tables
The imperial court was very concerned about this matter, and Wanli instructed the first assistant Fang Congzhe to deal with it immediately.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, the Military Department, and the six section officials organized people to investigate the matter, and ordered Jizhen to temporarily control the order and not let the weapons fight infighting.
Yao Zongwen, the official of the bureaucracy, was one of the initiators of the incident. The situation was a little beyond his expectations, and it affected the Zhejiang soldiers who wanted to promote the alliance. But because of this, he must participate in it, lead the direction of the situation, point the finger at Xiong Tingbi, Sichuan Bing and Shizhu Tusi Bing, and wash away the "responsibility" of the Zhejiang soldiers.
Prepared, he quickly found out that the Sichuan army was very high-profile before the fight.
Especially that Zhou Dunji, he even held a martial arts competition, and he must kill this person's majesty.
However, as a powerful character who can bring down Xiong Tingbi, Yao Zongwen is not only good at eloquence, but also has some brains.
At this time, it was a little beyond his expectations, and now he definitely can't contact Wang Xueshu in the center of the whirlpool, but he can ask Gao Xueru what the situation is.
The housekeeper rushed to Tongzhou Zhongcang overnight to see Gao Xueru.
Gao Xueru thought that the situation was completely under his control, and he didn't know whether the infighting was fake. His heart is like "watching the fire", and his confidence is "as stable as Mount Tai", and he said to Yao Zongwen's housekeeper:
Zhou Dunji did this in order to create an alibi, and he was competing on the day of the infighting, so as to clear his responsibility. The real commander of the Sichuan soldiers is Zhang Shenwu! ”
"Zhang Shenwu!?"
"That's right, it's him, the commander of Wu Zhuangyuan and Sichuan back then, and now he is also a guerrilla aid to Liao, in fact, he has secretly arrived in Tongzhou, and he has a private conflict with Zhang Mingshi of the Zhejiang soldiers."
Gao Xueru and Yao Zongwen's detailed work in the Zhejiang soldiers fed back to them the details of the conflict between the two sides before Zhang Shenwu single-handedly entered the camp to provoke Zhang Mingshi.
It's a pity that they only know the first half~
Yao Zongwen and Gao Xueru are on the second layer, but Wang Hongyu doesn't know where he is higher than them.
Yao Zongwen found the target, and turned out Zhang Shenwu's old account of what he did to the luxury family, and the upper score pointed out that this person has always liked infighting, and he is a cancer in a cancer.
Gao Xueru followed the recital, saying that Zhang Shenwu, Zhou Dunji and other Sichuan soldiers and Tusi soldiers opened a martial arts gambling game to seek money because they had no money. And Zhang Shenwu clashed with the Zhejiang soldiers, so he slandered them for smuggling, and it was he who promoted this large-scale infighting.
The above performance also comes with the "testimony" of the spies among the Zhejiang soldiers and Shizhu soldiers.
This hand caused an uproar in the imperial court, and originally only a group of people in the bureau were paying attention to this matter, but this time all the Beijing officials were paying attention.
......
Boy.
Originally, the white pole soldiers and Zhejiang weapons battles in history really became a big event under their own "fueling the fire".
Great, it's just to make a big incident to find out that those guys are making bad things behind it~
Wang Hongyu is now waiting for a signal and is ready to launch a comprehensive turnaround.
Xu Guangqi, who went back to devote himself to geographical research for 3 days, found out that such a thing happened.
That's a real combat exercise, not infighting at all?
Considering that the scholars were now strongly resisting the Western missionaries, it was certainly impossible to say the whole story of this state of affairs, and after quickly sorting out their thoughts, they immediately wrote a letter to the imperial court.
"The minister is keen on firearms, and he heard that the Zhejiang soldier Zhang Mingshi is well versed in this, so he went to Tongzhou to watch the actual combat drills, and the Zhejiang soldiers and the white pole soldiers cooperated in the exercises, and the whole formation in the mountains, the firearms were drilled, and the cannons were test-fired, and the morale of the two armies was high. This is actually a drill in the teaching field, and it is suspected that outsiders mistakenly think that it is a weapon fight, but the minister has seen it with his own eyes, and every sentence is true......"
Before he played, he didn't forget to send someone to inform the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers overnight.
Wang Hongyu, of course, proposed to start acting immediately.
Qin Liangyu played first:
“...... The soldiers arrived in Liao from Sichuan, and they were all charged, but only four taels per person. In addition, the two Anjiayin are Anjia, and they are actually equipped with equipment with each soldier to defend against the enemy. The soldiers traveled thousands of miles, and if it weren't for the decay of the equipment, how could they dare to chatter and plead...... The number of soldiers under the minister's command is limited to 3,000 and 30 members, and it is a class of its own, and the voice of the army is not very loud, so please increase the number of stone pillars and native soldiers by 3,000......"
This part was originally what she said in May after the fight, and it was clearly recorded in the "Records of the Myojin Sect". Of course, it can be written now, but this time it will work differently.
She didn't mention the unwarranted weapon fight, but directly pointed out that the stone pillar white pole soldiers were isolated and did not give money, food and grass. This shows that the white pole soldiers were really isolated, detained, and slandered in this matter.
Zhang Shenwu and Zhou Dunji followed suit, showing that the Sichuan soldiers and Shizhu soldiers were deducted from food, so that they complained. But the soldiers and horses made money in the ring competition, so that they earned only a hundred taels of silver, and there was really no such thing as fighting with weapons.
These two letters can be regarded as self-defense, but they cannot solve the problem.
Then, Wang Xueshu, who set off a huge wave at the beginning, followed and played again.
This time, he directly said that he had been misled by traitors before, and that someone in the Zhejiang soldiers had accepted bribes to cover smuggling for Langzhong High School Confucianism in the Tongzhou Grain Department, and was discovered by his colleagues in the Zhejiang soldiers, and was caught up by the Sichuan soldiers when he fled...... All the dirty goods were arrested, but the people fled to Jizhen, and rumors were falsely accused. That's it......
Lore.
The matter was a misunderstanding.
The white pole soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers did not fight at all, and of course they would not be punished, but through this incident, the defendant became "killed".
Wang Xueshu was both stolen and captured, and his life was held in the hands of Wang Hongyu and others, and he was finally killed, and at most he was demoted and fined by the imperial court.
Yao Zongwen's ambition was not realized, but he was not in the middle of the whirlpool, and he was not pursued more.
We all have a "bright" future.
Only Gao Xueru, who has lost all room for maneuver, has put himself to a dead end.
The matter was basically clear, but it alarmed the sick Wanli Emperor, and made everyone in the court pay attention to it, of course, it would not end there, so he immediately ordered the cabinet to arrest Gao Xueru and thoroughly investigate the whole matter.
The first assistant party Congzhe, carefully selected and balanced all parties, and selected 3 people to go to Tongzhou with the cooperation of Jinyiwei to deal with this matter.
They arrived in Tongzhou at a gallop, and immediately sent Jinyiwei to completely take over the warehouses in Tongzhou, and sent Jinyiwei to arrest Gao Xueru.
The three of them came to Sichuan, Zhejiang, Baipolebing and Jizhen camps, and Wang Hongyu followed the generals to greet them.
The first person who came forward directly to pay a visit was Yao Zongwen, who was proficient in eloquence, the initiator, and seemed to be in good spirits.
Hehe, it's quite pretty.
The second among the people who came, facing the generals of Sichuan and Zhejiang, did not hide his smile at all, because he was an acquaintance who had just been separated for a few days, Zhan Shifu Zuo Zanshan and Xu Guangqi.
3rd place......
Wang Hongyu looked at it a few times and found that this person was quite young, but his eyes were deep, neither humble nor arrogant...... It's not a simple guy.
He also seemed to be aware of the gaze that observed him, and after Yao Zongwen and Xu Guangqi introduced him, he stepped forward steadily and introduced:
"A certain is the director of the Jiangxi Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department, Hong Chengchou ......"