The sudden outbreak of the pension money embezzlement case and the escalating situation were not expected by anyone.

During dinner, Lin Ruhai, Jia Zheng, Jia Lian, and Jia Cong tacitly did not mention the matter too much, and after the ladies went back, the four gathered in Jia Zheng's study to discuss the response to the matter.

Don't look at the case now, it seems that it has nothing to do with the Jia and Lin families, but even the relatively dull political master has noticed that something is wrong.

The military department has completely fallen, and the household department has also been implicated.

The military department is ready to write to the people, how long can Lin Ruhai, the secretary of the household department, last?

Regardless of whether the emperor approves it or not, the attitude must be shown first. Yes, you Lin Ruhai is as incorruptible as water, and you did not participate in the ink corruption case.

What about the sin of negligence? The court and the people discuss right and wrong, and someone has to come out to memorize it, how can a military department book be enough?

Jia Zheng expressed his worries, Lin Ruhai expressed his position frankly, the gentleman was frank, he would write a letter to ask for guilt, as for what the result would be, the emperor would be in charge.

And Jia Lian reminded vigilantly: "Second uncle, uncle, I always feel that the outbreak of this case is too coincidental, it is Zhou Ge Lao himself who is in charge of the trial, and the investigation of this case is too fast." It's like someone is sending evidence to Zhou Gelao, and he will check it accurately. ”

Jia Zheng subconsciously replied: "It's quite strange, but in the end, it is the first assistant of the dynasty, and with the assistance of His Majesty's dragon guards, it is expected that the investigation will be fast......"

"Actually...... This case has only started today, and the real thunder has not yet broken out. ”

Jia Cong walked to the window, and the probe instructed his soldiers to guard the courtyard and not allow anyone to approach. Then he returned to the house and carefully told the three of them what Zhang Yue had told him.

Things are more complicated than everyone imagined, the ink corruption case seems to be very big, but even if you really count it, how many people can be implicated among the officials of the DPRK?

It's just a matter of finding a back-handed man to calm down the discussion, is it really that the household department and the military department have really withdrawn the book?

But where is this case of embezzlement of ink, the goal of the people is not one or two six books, the real target is the first assistant of the national dynasty.

"That's not right! According to the old man, someone started the layout a year ago......"

Lin Ruhai suddenly slapped his thigh: "Fortunately, fortunately, it broke out today, fortunately, an old man noticed it in advance and erased the threat for Zhou Gelao." Otherwise, this matter will be troublesome, and all these years of hard work will be wasted. ”

Well?

Jia Zheng, Jia Lian, and Jia Cong are all confused, is this still a good thing today?

"Think about it, if the case of the pension silver embezzlement had not been revealed in advance today, and it would have been delayed for another year or two, how many people would be dissatisfied with the imperial court? Especially in the Gyeongyeong, you must know that most of the sources of the soldiers in the Gyeongyeongyeong camp are from the Gyeonggi Liangjia. ”

Lin Ruhai added quietly: "The longer the backlog, the greater the power when it erupts, and when the time comes, not to mention the domination of the dynasty, even the emperor will have to make an edict against himself." ”

Jia Cong was the first to react, and suddenly exclaimed: "Someone is plotting against Jingying!" ”

The other two also widened their eyes in shock, so daring, they dared to bury such a big thunder under the nose of the Son of Heaven.

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "It should be more than that, their plans should be bigger." It seems to be a case of embezzlement of money, but there must be one ring after another behind it, but it hasn't been revealed yet......"

There are some things that Lin Ruhai still can't understand, and the information he knows now is still too little, and he just intuitively feels that something is not quite right.

"Uncle, do you think someone is playing Zhou Ge Lao's position?"

Hearing Jia Cong's inquiry, Lin Ruhai nodded: "It's not impossible...... Hey? Cabinet Minister...... Who could it be? I've got to think about it, and it doesn't feel right! ”

This matter was so complicated that the four people of Rongguo Mansion sat in the study and discussed it until midnight without sorting out the situation.

In fact, not only Rongguo Mansion, but everyone who went to the court early in the morning of the second day had dark circles under their eyes.

However, the British Duke Zhang Yue was in good spirits, and it seemed that the old man did not have the slightest worry about this, which made Jia Cong very curious.

The fierce quarrel at the court meeting did not affect Jia Cong, don't look at him as a high lord, but the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including the one sitting on the dragon chair, did not treat him as an adult.

This kind of big event, which is about to shake the prestige of the entire center, no one will let a child get involved.

Jia Cong was also happy and relaxed, and secretly moved to Zhang Yue's side: "Old man, ...... ask you something?"

Zhang Yue, who closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, raised his eyelids slightly: "Huh? If it was yesterday, I'll talk about it next day. ”

"Oh!"

Jia Cong understood, it was not appropriate to talk about this here.

"Now that Gyeonggi is boiling, the people are discussing right and wrong, and the military is unstable, and the minister thinks that the first assistant is the central ruler and should be responsible for this......"

"What's the responsibility? How to be responsible? Isn't the prime minister already investigating? Do you want to let the prime minister abdicate and make way for Xian, so that you, an old bastard? Do you deserve it too? ”

"This official is discussing state affairs with the princes, what does it have to do with you?"

"Heh, just you? They also deliberate on state affairs. Is it true that Lao Tzu can't hear your thoughts? Phew, shameless! ”

"Vulgar, this official doesn't care about you vulgar people......"

"Old Zamao, you dare to stare at me? Lao Tzu beat you to death, you sour Confucian! ”

"Vulgar martial artist, come on, the old man is afraid that you won't succeed!"

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang......

Sure enough, don't expect too much from the great dynasty of the country.

The major affairs of the dynasty are basically solved by the small dynasty of the Qinzheng Palace, similar to the kind of Standing Committee in the previous life, the emperor summoned the cabinet, the chief officials of the six ministries and five temples to discuss politics in the Qinzheng Palace, which was much more useful than the great dynasty.

What does the Great Dynasty do? Dry frame, dry frame, fucking dry frame.

At most, the emperor used it to see the direction of the wind in the court, to see the attitude of officials towards something, so as to make a simple decision on the direction.

Today's wind direction is very strange, and the attitude of the civilian officials towards Zhou Jiong is cold and even opposed, and there is a great tendency to force the cabinet chief assistant to step down.

On the contrary, the attitude of the military generals was diametrically opposite to that of the previous few days, and when someone on the Wenchen side proposed that Zhou Jiong be responsible for this, someone on the military general's side immediately stood up to defend it.

even found a strange reason, fought a lot, disrupted the court, and let that person's plan die before it officially began.

The emperor brushed his sleeves away, and ordered the central ministers to discuss matters in the Qinzheng Palace.

Zhang Yue opened his eyes at this time, and said to Jia Cong leisurely: "The play is over, let's go." ”

……

In the side hall on the side of the Qinzheng Palace, Zhang Yue said bluntly: "The ancestors and grandchildren were escorted to the capital by the old man, and the old man asked them to guide them in blocking the door." ”

"After I went back yesterday, I was puzzled, just when General Zhang came out, I guessed one or two."

Jia Cong raised his hand and gave a thumbs up, and said with a smile: "Old man, your trick is amazing!" ”

Zhang Yue shook his head and said with a smile: "It's just a last resort, if it drags on any longer, no one will be happy." ”

"Tell me more about it, is it someone's idea to fight the Beijing camp or is it ......?"

Zhang Yue looked at Jia Cong in surprise, yes, I guessed it.

"Oh? Did you guess it? ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "I'm not sure, last night my uncle said that it shouldn't just be for Jingying, I'm afraid the plot of the people behind it is bigger than this." ”

"Lin Ruhai is really good, your grandfather's vision is really good!"

Zhang Yue praised and continued: "You try to string together the people and things involved now, ponder carefully, and see what the connection is. ”

After such a reminder, Jia Cong fell into deep thought.

The beginning of this case is very clear, some people are greedy for the pension money of the soldiers, and the amount is huge, which has the potential to shake the morale of the army.

But as the number of people involved increased, local officials, gentry, and even former cabinet ministers who had already become officials were involved......

"Former Cabinet Minister, Local Government...... So many people have fallen in, is this someone who wants to make the court lose its prestige and want the people to stop believing in the court? Hiss! ”

Zhang Yue's face also showed a trace of solemnity, he could find out that this matter was still by chance when he inspected the Beijing camp, and heard people say that the pension was too small this time.

After a check, pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, the matter of greedy ink and silver had already appeared as early as the second year of Yuan You.

At that time, Wei Qinghe was still in charge, and although there were many things to be greedy for ink, there were not many.

After all, Wei Qinghe's prestige is too high, and the power in his hands is even more outrageous, no one dares to attack Jingying under his nose, and the matter of greedy ink is mainly in the three provincial health centers of Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan.

But after Wei Qinghe died of illness, Zhou Jiong took over as his first assistant. After someone tried it once or twice, they found that Zhou Jiong's control of the center was inferior to Wei Qinghe and Yuan, and his prestige was just like that.

As a result, Jingying's pension silver also fell on the leech and began to suck blood.

Especially when Zhou Jiong, who seems to be relatively conservative, gradually reveals his political ambitions after ascending to a high position, many people can't sit still.

"No one expected that compared to the mild-mannered old man Wei, Zhou Jiong was the real reformer. The reform of land and taxation in the past two years has touched the interests of too many people, and the compulsory education proposed by you and the Lin family girl a few days ago is simply digging their ancestral graves. ”

Zhang Yue smiled: "They felt that they had been deceived by Zhou Jiong, so they began to fight back, and even after your teacher Xu Jin went south, the north and the south colluded and began to attack the entire center." Jia Xiaosan, the real war is about to begin! ”

The old man is the head of the generals, the face of the generals.

He told Jia Cong about this because Jia Cong is the pillar of the next generation of generals.

"The civil and military disputes are unavoidable in all dynasties, and as long as it is within a reasonable range, the king is also happy to see it."

Zhang Yue explained the deep meaning to Jia Cong in detail, and earnestly taught: "Remember, in the struggle for the sake of the struggle, no one will be allowed to use this to destroy the prestige of Your Majesty and the imperial court. Our martial artists are different from the family, they can continue to be officials of the new dynasty without Great Xia, but Wuxun can't, understand? ”

"Understood!"

Jia Cong knows this truth too well, Wuxun is a natural partner of the royal family, if Daxia is gone, the first unlucky ones are these Wuxun nobles, most, most of the Wuxun will be buried for Daxia.

Zhou Jiong is right to suppress the generals, but he is also taking the road of open and honest fighting, and everyone can fight in a position.

But Zhou Jiong now represents the prestige of the imperial court, and if he falls under this kind of conspiracy and calculation, it will damage the entire dynasty.

The people no longer trust the imperial court, the army's morale is unstable, and there is still any reform to talk about, it would be good to stabilize the rule of the imperial court.

It is not unheard of in the history of prosperity and decline, when the center loses its prestige and the feudal town rises again, the people behind this calculation will laugh.

This is not an overnight calculation, people have already started to lay out, whether it will be used or not, from the center to the place, a shadow has long been laid out, and it can be used at any time.

"The family has never been extinct, it's just a change of name for a group of people!"

The old man was invited by the emperor to discuss things, and Jia Cong digested the secrets he heard today, and walked slowly towards the yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

Before he left the palace, he was secretly invited back to the side hall, and the person who invited him was none other than Zhou Jiong, the first assistant who had just come out of the Qinzheng Palace.

Zhou Jiong did not speak politely to Jia Cong, and said straight to the point: "Uncle Yongfeng, you should also see that someone is calculating the old man." ”

Jia Cong nodded, the scene in the early court today, it is estimated that many people saw that something was wrong.

I saw Zhou Jiong looking at Jia Cong with a complicated expression, and finally sighed: "The old man is now betrayed and left, and no one is available, so he can only ask you, or rather, your martial arts......"

……

"The edict said, the general died in a hundred battles, the strong man returned in ten years, and the country's pension is the foundation of the army's heart, and it is not allowed to be infected by moths...... He ordered Yongfeng Bo Jia Cong to supervise the soldiers, horses, and military quarters of the National Dynasty and inspect the guards of Gyeonggi. ”

It is said that for such a big event, the British Gong Zhang Yue is the most suitable candidate.

However, the inspection of military quarters is just a pretense, and the main purpose of Jia Cong's inspection in Beijing is actually to secretly investigate and remove the secrets that have been buried in the guards and prefectures of Gyeonggi.

The old man's goal is too big, Zhou Jiong doesn't dare to trust others easily, Xu Jin is trapped in Nanzhili and can't come back for a while, only Jia Cong, the lubricant between civil and military, is the most suitable.

High status, great power, and young age are easy for people to relax their vigilance, which is the most suitable.

It seems that the emperor has plans to give up Zhou Jiong and let Jia Cong go to inspect Gyeonggi and investigate the ink corruption case. No one would have thought that Jia Cong, the martial artist of the dynasty, actually went to help Zhou Jiong.

The emperor's secret decree to Jia Cong was murderous, and the imperial pen wrote a big killing word. Xia Shouzhong, the great eunuch who passed the decree, even conveyed the emperor's edict, no matter who was behind the ghost, there was no need to report it, and he would be cut directly with a quick battle.

This kind of thing in the family, if you dare to have the slightest possibility of raising your head, you must quickly cut through the chaos and eradicate it, which is a lesson that has been exchanged for blood by all dynasties.

Now that Great Xia is in its heyday, there is such a sign, and of course the emperor will not let his guard down.

Jia Cong inspected the front line of Beizhili and Xuanda, and at the same time ordered Xia Lingxing, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, to inspect Shandong, the governor of the right army and the Marquis of Jiyang, Hanyang, to inspect Henan, and Feng Tang, the general of Shenwu, to inspect Shanxi.

After this series of edicts, some people in the DPRK and China began to secretly laugh.

Although Zhou Jiong was not brought down at the court meeting, the emperor obviously didn't trust him much. Look, except for the summer trip, the four great Qincha are all martial arts.

Xia Lingxing is afraid that he will go out to gild, and when he comes back, he will be able to take over Zhou Jiong's first assistant position......

When the time comes, under the chaos of the center, won't the opportunity come?

……

Yingchun and Daiyu packed up for Jia Cong, and they will go out of the city tomorrow to inspect, and they will soon enter winter, and they will go to the bitter cold place of Xuanda, and the thick robes must be prepared in advance.

Jia Cong wrote a letter and asked his soldiers to send it to Jinling as soon as possible, reminding his teacher of the beginning of the war between Xu and Jin.

Unlike Old Man Wei's methods, Zhou Jiong's temperament was a little too anxious.

He probably wanted to prove himself too much, and he didn't have the prestige of Old Man Wei and the silent means of moisturizing things, so he provoked a fierce counterattack from the local family before it officially began.

If it weren't for Zhang Yue's accidental detection, it is estimated that it would not be long before it attracted an explosive verbal criticism.

"The harm of the new law is like the ...... of locusts"

"All kinds of mistakes come out with new laws. The first assistant Zhou Jiong, should be the first crime......"

Jia Cong didn't have to guess to think of the impending catastrophe of the Fa-changers when their interests were touched.

The conflict of interests is also your life and death!

Killing without seeing blood is much more tragic than fighting with the enemy.

You must take good precautions, and you must not be calculated and do not know.

Jia Cong pondered and pondered, but still felt a little uneasy. So he walked out of the house and said to Jia Shiyi: "Uncle Eleven, gather the soldiers in the house, I have something to order!" ”

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