Xu He was talking to Luo Qingxiao here, but Zhang E hurried out and said: "Consort, people from the palace have been here several times!"
Xu He nodded when he heard this and said to Luo Qingxiao on the side: "You don't have to worry, I will handle your matter first when it comes to matters here!"
Luo Qingxiao looked at Xu He with dull eyes, no expression on his face.
Xu He knew that his family was in trouble, and saw the mortgaged fields disappear. This meant that the efforts of several generations of the Luo family since the founding of the Wei Dynasty were all in vain.
But Xu He couldn't help it. The governor's mansion was burned down, so where could he get the paperwork for him?
At this time, Zhang E urged again: "Consort, the palace is in a hurry. Look..."
Xu He wanted to comfort Luo Qingxiao, but in the end he did not speak. He just said to Zhang E: "Give this strong man Luo some money!"
After saying that, the coachman turned the horse's head and headed towards the palace.
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As soon as he arrived at Wanshou Palace, Xu He felt that the atmosphere here was wrong. Wang Ji, who was always smiling, was waiting outside the palace without breathing.
Seeing Xu He, he whispered: "Consort, your Majesty is in a bad mood today. We must not make him angry for a while."
Xu He nodded.
Not long after, I heard Zhizheng Emperor inside: "Isn't Xu He here yet?"
Wang Ji quickly nodded to Xu He, and then replied: "Your Majesty, the consort has been waiting for a while!"
"Tell him to come in!"
As soon as Xu He entered the Longevity Palace, Emperor Zhizheng frowned and said, "Were you injured last night?"
Xu He quickly knelt down and replied: "Replying to your majesty, I am not injured. Fortunately, before I went out, the princess was worried and sent some people to follow me, so that I could avoid being succeeded by the villain."
Emperor Zhizheng heard from his words that the princess was in harmony with him, which was good news after all.
So his expression softened and he said: "Heng'er has been doted on by her mother since she was a child. I didn't expect that after becoming a woman, she will be able to sympathize with you and become considerate. I am relieved!"
After finishing the gossip, Emperor Zhizheng asked directly: "A fire will destroy all the documents of the experienced divisions. If we want to investigate the situation of the various divisions under the former military governor's mansion, we can only obtain the documents from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel!"
"Just hurry up these days!"
Xu He was a little confused when he heard this: "Your Majesty, if we go to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel to read the documents now, I'm afraid there won't be enough time."
Not enough time, what time?
Emperor Zhizheng certainly understood that the time Xu He referred to was the time when the rebels were about to launch in Huguang.
"Then what do you think we should do now?"
Xu He thought for a moment and did not directly answer Zhi Zheng Emperor's question. Instead, he told him what he had seen about the Yongzhou Guard.
"It can be seen that the Yongzhou Guard is most likely to be seriously lacking in three aspects, and the guards will not be able to use them at all."
"Furthermore, this situation is true for the Yongzhou Guard, and it must be the same for other guards in Huguang, and the governor of Huguang must also know it!"
"If there is no thief, we can investigate and put things in order. But if we investigate now, if the news is leaked and spreads to Huguang, people's hearts may be unstable..."
"Then don't care about anything? Let them do whatever they want?" Emperor Zhizheng stared at Xu He angrily.
Xu He knew that the anger was not directed at him, so he was not afraid: "It's not that we don't investigate, it's that... we don't investigate on the surface!"
Emperor Zhizheng frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
"Your Majesty, the top priority now is to prevent a recurrence of the Huguang incident."
"The thieves from Sichuan have returned to Huguang. There must be something fishy in them!"
Emperor Zhizheng looked at Xu He and said: "Everyone knows that something is fishy. The key question now is, what can I do to deal with these rebels? I don't even know how many people there are in Huguang!"
Xu He complained in his heart, not to mention Huguang, there is no health center in the world that does not eat empty wages, but currently, it seems that the situation in Huguang is the most serious.
"Your Majesty, you don't need to worry too much. The Huguang Guards House is useless, but the generals and colonels of the Huguang Guards House are quite useful!"
"What do you mean?" Emperor Zhizheng frowned.
"It's still the Yongzhou Guard. If I'm right, these people have used all the powerful and powerful among the hereditary military households as their own soldiers. Therefore, the guard is not without soldiers, but all the guards have become The guards’ high-level personal soldiers!”
Personal soldiers are also private soldiers. Under normal circumstances, such soldiers are selected from their own servants.
Even if you are the commander of the Huguang Xingdu Division, you are awesome and your family is spread across the country, but when you reported the last report, more than a thousand of your servants reported their merits. So how big is your [family]?
By turning the military households in the garrison into householders, you can reduce taxes on the military garrison and receive part of the battle rewards from the state.
What made Emperor Zhizheng hate the most was that in order to prevent the loss of military households, the imperial court issued many policies. Not only the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, but also the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Inspectorate all had regulations specifically addressing this matter. , once discovered, it will be a major case that shakes the sky.
But these people don't care at all. It can be said that from the local government to the imperial court, this group of people has turned this matter into a blatant case.
So, how can Emperor Zheng not get angry?
This is no longer an act of anger, I feel like if I give him a knife now, he can come out of the palace and kill all those people.
But getting angry can't solve any problem. Emperor Zhizheng said with a gloomy face: "You mean to let these people take their servants to guard against rebels?"
Xu He nodded: "The servants are the private soldiers of the guards officers. These private soldiers are better than the guards soldiers in terms of training and weapons and equipment!"
"These people were built by the officers of the guard station with a lot of money!"
"That's my money, the court's money!" Emperor Zhizheng emphasized, glaring at Xu He.
Xu He swallowed and nodded: "Yes, but these people think that these private soldiers are their private property, and they will not use their private property to fight against the rebels. Unless..."
"Unless the imperial court's reward makes them think it's a good deal!" Emperor Zhizheng said leisurely as he looked at the palace door.
Xu He said nothing and stood with his head bowed.
Emperor Zhizheng said: "So, what you mean is that there must be brave men who receive heavy rewards. Not only do these so-called private soldiers not have to pay the taxes of the military camp, but they can also get rewards from the court! I still have to pretend not to know this. Something!"
"Yes, we are hiring people now, so we can't disrupt the morale of the troops at the front!"
"However, at the imperial court, Your Majesty, we can conduct a secret investigation first!"
"What do you mean? Investigation? If something happens in Huguang, even if you find something out of the investigation, you can't act rashly."
Xu He cupped his hands and said, "It used to be like this, but after the fire last night, it was different."
"Oh?" Emperor Zhizheng looked at Xu He doubtfully.
Xu He said: "If the rebels in Sichuan do not return to Huguang, then we can investigate and handle the affairs in Huguang with great fanfare."
"Now that rebels from Sichuan have arrived in Huguang, we cannot act rashly."
"But the fire last night allowed us to attack the former Army Governor's Mansion instead of the Ministry of War and Staff."
"Official officers at all levels in Huguang saw that we did not touch the staff and military departments, but only the burned-out former military governor's mansion. They must know that even if problems are found, there is no way to pursue them! Therefore, they will definitely feel at ease!"
"But regarding the issue of the former Military Governor's Mansion, we take this opportunity to unplug it. Although the former Military Governor's Mansion is now only responsible for uploading and distributing information, this is also the most important link. After cleaning up, the future former Military Governor's Mansion will The Experience Department is still the place for uploading and distributing information, but the review function must be strengthened!”
"The people below are breaking the law, stop here!"
"The people above are covering up, stop it from here!"
"As long as it's a military matter, this is an iron gate!"
"First, we used the former Military Governor's Mansion as a pilot project. The effect was good. We will extend it to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion!"
