The three cabinet ministers remained silent.
The Ministry of War's control of the world's military power is an important symbol of civilian officials' control of the world's military power.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty is now noble in civil and military affairs is because the civilian officials of the Ministry of War are in charge of the selection of military attachés, the money and food of the armies in the world, and even the dispatch and command of the military. Therefore, the military attachés have to submit to the civilian officials.
The three cabinet ministers naturally knew that once the Ministry of War really gave up the power of command and selection of military attachés to the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies, it would mean that the world would no longer be civilized and military, but would instead have civil and military checks and balances.
Undoubtedly, it would be more conducive for the emperor to control civil and military officials and not conducive for scholar-bureaucrats to control the emperor.
Therefore, the three cabinet ministers did not dare to express their stance immediately.
"Draft the decree immediately!"
Zhu Youxiao looked at the three cabinet ministers who had been silent and said something.
He just wanted to take this opportunity to reduce the power of the Ministry of War to prepare for preventing foreign civil servant groups from interfering with his army.
"I obey the decree!"
Fang Congzhe replied first. He had been labeled as the "Emperor's lackey" by many civil servants. Being loyal to the Emperor was the only way he could survive now. Therefore, he had no intention of antagonizing His Majesty the Emperor for the benefit of the civil service group. the meaning of.
Han Xu and Wang Xiangqian glanced at Fang Congzhe.
Because Fang Congzhe had already agreed, it meant that it would be meaningless for the two of them to give advice if they didn't agree.
Therefore, Han Xu and Wang Xiangqian both replied: "I obey the order!"
"There was such a big case of corruption in the Ministry of War, but the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the military officer of the Sixth Section were not aware of it at all. What a dereliction of duty!
I see that they usually like to show off, but why haven't they discovered anything about a real major case right in front of them? Is there some collusion?
I see that the imperial censor and military department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are completely ruined!
Plan! Both the Zuo Du Yushi and the military department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate failed to investigate the officials involved in the incident and should be severely punished. They should be charged with dereliction of duty and have their homes confiscated and serve the people!
The remaining local governor-general censors and patrol censors involved in the corruption case at the Ministry of War, as well as the Bingke Yanguan responsible for auditing the Ministry of War affairs, were all dismissed, and new censors and Bingke Yanguan were selected from local prefecture and county officials. "
"The Metropolitan Procuratorate was not even aware of such a major case of corruption. It made me realize that the Metropolitan Procuratorate also needs someone to supervise it. Then we drafted a decree that each of the two capitals and thirteen provinces would set up an anti-corruption department. , is a permanent resident of the Yamen, and can set up anti-corruption inspection offices at various key passes to investigate corruption at any time!
If a case is investigated by the Dongchang Anti-Corruption Department but not by the Inspector General and the Inspector General, it means that the Inspector General and the Inspector General of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have failed in their duties. If the Anti-Corruption Department failed to investigate, then the Anti-Corruption Department of Dongchang has failed in its duties! "
Zhu Youxiao continued.
But the three cabinet ministers were horrified after hearing Zhu Youxiao's order.
Because they all know that although Zhu Yuanzhang's original purpose of establishing the Metropolitan Procuratorate was indeed to investigate corrupt officials and illegal activities.
But now most of the censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate only use their supervisory powers to attack political opponents or use their supervisory powers to blackmail officials. No one will investigate their colleagues.
After all, we are all civil servants.
But now His Majesty the Emperor wants to put a tight spell on the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and let the Dongchang Supervisor Metropolitan Procuratorate investigate his own civil servants.
This made Fang Congzhe and other cabinet ministers want to dissuade His Majesty the Emperor from doing this, but they didn't know how to dissuade him.
After all, it is impossible to say that individual civil servants are incorruptible and upright, but the confession of collective corruption in the Ministry of War is still before our eyes.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate did indeed neglect its duties and failed to investigate such a major corruption case.
"According to the order!"
Therefore, Fang Congzhe could only take the lead in compromising.
Han Xu and Wang Xiangqian could only compromise and obey Zhu Youxiao's orders obediently.
Therefore, Fang Congzhe and other cabinet ministers are now really just playing the role of the emperor's secretary.
And the major corruption case is not over yet.
In the capital, next, Wei Zhongxian began to arrange people to arrest and interrogate officials from the Ministry of Works.
Outside the capital, the confiscation of Shanxi merchants also began.
Xu Xianchun was ordered to come to see Qi Jin and his Zhejiang soldiers with the imperial edict.
When the Zhejiang soldiers who were about to be transferred to Liaodong again heard the imperial edict saying that the Ministry of War had embezzled their military pay, and that they would use it to buy grain for Shanxi merchants and sell it to the Donglu for profit, they were all very angry and very active. He and the people from Dongchang took a detour to Zhangjiakou Fort.
Xu Xianchun then rushed to Shanhaiguan, where he stopped Qin Liangyu's white soldiers, and informed these white soldiers that the Ministry of War embezzled their military pay and reward money and gave it to Shanxi merchants to buy grain and gunpowder for the Donglu. Pole soldier.
These white-pole soldiers became even more angry after hearing this. After all, they had just fought a battle with the Donglu and killed many of their brothers. Their hatred for the Donglu was still high. At this time, they heard that the Shanxi merchants wanted to sacrifice their lives in exchange for He used the money to buy food and gunpowder for his enemies to deal with him. Naturally, he was so angry that he wanted to eat the Shanxi merchants alive immediately.
In addition, the emperor issued an imperial edict for them to go to Zhangjiakou Fort to help capture the Shanxi merchants. Therefore, these white-pole soldiers, like the Zhejiang soldiers, came to Zhangjiakou Fort actively, and they did not have time because they had just finished a fierce battle. Rest and complain.
In fact, the Baigan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers were more active than the factory guards. A grumpy military attaché forced the factory guards to speed up to Zhangjiakou Fort with a gun, and did not allow these factory guards to rest along the way.
Xu Xianchun himself was scolded by Qin Minping for wanting to rest for a night at the inn. In the end, it was Qin Liangyu who apologized in person and prevented Xu Xianchun from reporting the incident.
Of course, Xu Xianchun was also a little afraid of these arrogant soldiers with murderous aura, so he had to understand that these officers and soldiers were eager to get back their hard-earned money and traveled all night, changing horses but not people along the way.
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At this time, Zhangjiakou Fort was still very peaceful.
Zhangjiakou Fort, which prospered due to border trade, gathered many large Shanxi merchants who specialized in doing business with Jurchens and Mongols.
The Fan family is the largest Shanxi merchant among these Shanxi merchants.
The current head of the Fan family is Fan Ming.
Fan Ming has a fairly cautious personality, but because of this, even though he was doing business with his enemies, he never made any mistakes.
But because Wang Huazhen, the right councilor of Liaodong, was convicted some time ago, and Fan Yuqing, who was sent by his Fan family to serve as an aide to Wang Huazhen and also to contact officials from the DPRK for the family, was convicted, Fan Ming has been uneasy about this matter.
Fan Ming's son Fan Yongdou saw his father's worries, so he persuaded him: "Father, there is no need to be so worried. We have bribed people in the Ministry of Punishment to tell you that Yu Qing has long been punished by Ming Zhengdian, and he has also been punished." Fan Yuqing was not found to be a member of our clan, but was found to be a member of the Fan clan in Shenyang. It seems that Yuqing is quite smart and knows how to protect his family. We in Liaodong also brought back news that the Fan clan in Shenyang was indeed raped because of this. All the Jin Yiwei were arrested and brought to the capital, and among them, Fan Wencheng, a member of the clan, was sentenced to death because he had a reputation but did not know loyalty, so the imperial court now does not know what our Fan clan has done."
Fan Ming nodded.
At this time, Fan Ming's younger brother Fan Cheng came in and said: "Brother, the money that the Ministry of War has lost this time has reached 670,000 taels. Zhang Butang asked me to tell you that this time I will make money from selling grain to Donglu. The profits will still be divided according to the old rules, but the governor of Liaodong does not need to divide the sum, and I think we also know the reason."
"Okay, then we will arrange for someone to use the money that should have been allocated to the governor of Liaodong to bribe the new governor of Liaodong."
Fan Ming nodded and gave instructions.
Fan Yongdou laughed and said: "Now I am going to make a fortune! It is said that this is because the new emperor is generous, but he would never have thought that the money he appropriated from the internal funds not only did not reach the hands of the soldiers and the people , but it fell into the hands of people like us."
Fan Cheng smiled because of this: "This emperor is just stupid! How can he know these things when he lives in a deep palace?"
But as soon as Fan Cheng finished speaking, another of Fan Ming's younger brothers, Fan Yu, hurriedly ran in: "Oh no, brother, there are a large number of people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei outside! It looks like something bad is going to happen. .”
