The new scholars in the second, third and fourth grades have to wait for the imperial examination and official appointment.
Therefore, as the top one in the Three Tripods, he has completely entered the most leisure time before his career.
Xu He was originally very interested in walking around Beijing and outside the city. Xu Song even sent someone to follow him to Shanhaiguan.
However, when Xu He returned to Beijing, he felt uncomfortable when he was used to being busy.
Recently, the court is dealing with the mutiny in Datong Town.
Xu He learned from his uncle that the imperial court had exactly the same idea as himself regarding the treatment of Datong Town.
With Datong's left guard on the road, Feng Puyu quickly suppressed the mutiny and took 400,000 taels from the silver rewarded to the vassal king and sent it to Datong Town to appease the morale of the army.
In addition, the imperial court urgently sent messengers to other towns in Jiubian.
If there is another mutiny, the leaders will be executed, and the leading generals will be dismissed from office, stripped of their hereditary military positions, and imprisoned for questioning.
If the civilian officials on the nine sides cannot control the military situation, they will be dismissed from office and will never be used again.
These orders were sent to Jiubian. They were originally waiting for Datong Town to eat meat, but they also followed the other towns where they drank Laokou Soup. They were suddenly shocked and did not dare to cause trouble again.
The imperial court allocated another 800,000 taels of silver to be sent to the Jiangxi army.
On the one hand, it was to reward the soldiers who fought in the Battle of Hefei, and on the other hand, it was also to reissue the salaries that had been owed since the beginning of this spring to the various guards in Jiangxi.
The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. This is the time when the lives of the soldiers are needed, and no one dares to dig out that little money.
There is more good news for the Haiphong Battalion.
Qin Lie and Zhou Bi were awarded the hereditary title of Deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, while Daozi, Xiaoer, Shisanyigan and others were awarded the title of Hundreds of Jinyiwei.
Compared with Qin Lie and Zhou Bi, although their hundred households are not hereditary, they are still considered to be in the system and eat the royal food.
Even Xu Dai, the nominal officer of the coastal defense camp, was allowed to go to prison to study because of this incident.
This made Xu Dai very happy.
He originally regretted that his son was not a good student.
Unexpectedly, it was a pie in the sky, and in his own name, his son became a prison student.
Being a supervisor is equivalent to a scholar's diploma. With this status, although it can't change the fact that Xu Luan is a waste, at least he has an identity.
Even if he leaves in the future, his son will not have to shrink back when he sees the county magistrate!
However, while everyone is happy, there are also worries and worries.
I don't know who spread the news that the salary to be sent to Jiubian was withdrawn from the vassal king's reward at Xu Song's suggestion.
Seeing that the vassal kings were about to send people to Beijing to pay tribute.
If they knew that their annual salary bonuses had been misappropriated, you can imagine how angry these feudal kings would be.
"Although these people are pigs raised in captivity, pigs will bite when they go crazy! Mr. Ge, you'd better think of countermeasures in this matter so as not to be passive!" Xie Kun looked serious, obviously, This matter was also a difficult one for him.
Xu Song was silent.
This kind of thing was originally his idea. If he were to quibble, it would be useless, and it would make people think that he was a dignified minister without any responsibility.
But if this fire really burns on my head, it will be really uncomfortable.
These vassal kings were surrounded by connections. They could not influence civil officials or military commanders.
But they are relatives of the emperor. If the three of them don't come and go to the palace to tell a small story, even if Emperor Zhizheng knows that they are greedy, he will ignore them. What will the people of the world say about him as an emperor?
"The emperor is mean and unkind and treats his relatives harshly!"
If such rumors really spread, then Xu Song would no longer be an official. He should just submit his resignation and go home!
Xu Song had not yet come up with a response to this matter, but the situation took a turn for the worse.
It turns out that King Ru, a brother of Emperor Wuzong and the brother-in-law of the current emperor, whose fiefdom is in Weihui, first wrote a letter to impeach the cabinet minister for treating his Majesty's family members poorly.
Originally, Emperor Zhizheng didn't pay much attention to this matter.
During the recent period, three or four vassal kings have all gone to court to lament their poverty, saying how difficult their lives would be without the rewards from the court.
Although King Ru is different from these vassal kings and is his biological uncle, he has been enfeoffed after all. Emperor Zhengzheng and this uncle, to put it bluntly, do not have much affection.
But soon, your king came to the court to tell you that your king was dead.
How did he die? It must not have been starvation.
But no matter how he died, something happened to your king at this juncture, which was not a big or small trouble for Emperor Zhizheng.
It's not impossible to ignore and act according to the rules.
But this uncle had just asked for money from the emperor and scolded the cabinet minister Xu Song for encouraging the Zheng Emperor to treat the royal relatives poorly.
Now within two days, this man died.
People outside who don’t know why don’t know how to spread it.
If you take care of it, it's nothing more than two-handed operation.
One is to give money to make up for the situation.
The second is to deal with Xu Song and block the mouths of vassal kings everywhere.
Now that the news has come out, Emperor Zhizheng has not yet made a decision.
But this matter has already broken out in the court.
"Council Minister Xu, everyone knows that money is needed to fight a war, but you can't tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall. The expenses of the court cannot be reduced. It's not easy to scrape together hundreds of thousands of taels." Song? Why have you trapped Your Majesty in a ungrateful and mean situation?"
"First of all, we have to silence everyone in the world about this matter. For now, we can only drive away Mr. Xu Ge. Mr. Xu Ge is loyal to the country, all for the sake of the imperial court. What a pity!"
"No, it's time for the imperial court to use troops. Mr. Xu Ge is familiar with military matters. Without him in the cabinet, who will coordinate the suppression of the rebels in the south?"
"Yes, Mr. Xu Ge is right. These vassals eat and live in the imperial court. They have three festivals and two birthdays. How can they not make a lot of money? Now the country needs money, so let's embezzle some for the time being. Is this going to punish the ministers? Doesn’t this chill the hearts of loyal ministers and embarrass martyrs?”
"You can't say that. Who in the world is left behind? The sun will still rise as usual the next day. What's wrong? Without Xu Song, the rebels can't be suppressed?"
"That's right, isn't Xu Song a loyal minister? If he doesn't show up and impeach himself at this time, where will this put the king and father? Where will this put the clan? Lord of the vassal! That is the barrier of the country, which makes the vassal kings miserable. After all, is this world still called Tianxia? Is this Great Wei still Great Wei?"
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Xu Mansion.
Xu Song did not expect that things would take a turn for the worse and develop to this point.
Originally, he planned to wait for the money to be withdrawn and immediately reveal that it was the chief assistant's idea. In this way, the finger could be pointed at Qin Yan.
This chief assistant was in charge of the official and household departments, and also interacted with the vassal kings a lot.
If they fall on him, the vassal kings will not make much noise.
However, Qin Yan, the old fox, thought of going together with Xu Song.
"Uncle, this matter happened because of me!" Xu He sighed.
Xu Song waved his hand and said: "It has happened. Don't think about how it happened. Think about how to solve it!"
