Can you get away with it by kneeling down and apologizing easily?
The price the emperor offered to Pang Ban before was "explained with his head", which would cost Pang Ban his life. Was it so easy when you became a civil servant?
Of course this is impossible.
The emperor was even willing to pay the price of beheading his own personal soldier, the Xuanqing Guards, and the equivalent civil servants had to pay a corresponding price to bear the failure. Because they can't be punished, at least the civil servants don't have to worry about losing their heads, but in other aspects they still have to pay for it with something.
Compensate it to Xuan Qingwei? Of course not. Haven't you heard the "Wuliangye" mentioned by Emperor Yang Jian before? Do you really think that the emperor just said it casually? On the one hand, it can serve as an example for the civil servants to compare with the following words, and block their excuses such as "Qin Wenhe has worked hard for the country and made great contributions", because does the Qin family's business really dare to be put on the table like Wuliangye? Can't?
In addition, asking Pang Ban to say "Xuanqing Guard is His Majesty's Xuanqing Guard" to express loyalty will now be effective when it comes to compensation: what is compensated to Xuanqing Guard is compensated to the emperor, because Xuanqing The guards all belong to the emperor.
Makes sense, doesn't it?
So the emperor stretched out his hand. The name Zhao Kai was brought up.
In the past, Yang Yansi was suppressed because of his self-respect for raising bandits, and Xu Hong, the left minister of the Ministry of War, was directly exterminated, and his position was replaced by Wen Mingju who was present. Now that the Ministry of War is led by Wen Mingju, it is actually controlled by the emperor. This is different from the past. The situation is quite different when the emperor controls the ministers and the ministers control the six departments.
The minister is loyal to the emperor, but first of all, the minister is not a die-hard confidant of the emperor like Wen Mingju, and his behavior will inevitably change when selfishness arises. For example, when Yang Yansi and others showed respect to the bandits before, it was selfishness.
Now Zhao Kai, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, was singled out by the emperor on this occasion. The purpose is self-evident: Aren't you going to use the Xuanqing Guard to attack my right to speak in the court? Since you lose, then pay the same price!
As long as Zhao Kai presides over the execution of the Qin family, most of such a huge reputation will fall on his head. After that, the emperor will find someone to casually mention it or write a note asking for credit, give him a hand, and transfer the right minister to him. It is natural to become Zuo Shilang. After that, Zhao Kai will definitely take away at least 30 to 40% of the right to speak in the Ministry of Justice, which in disguise will weaken Ma Xuanlin's words.
This is the price, but it is by no means the only thing.
What was not mentioned was Qin Wenhe, who had been ignored by everyone. The right minister of Tobe is now in purgatory, suffering from physical and psychological torture, waiting for death to come. But who will take over the position vacated after Qin Wenhe's disaster? Or should Bai Changqing, the Minister of Household Affairs, decide? Of course it's impossible.
The Qin family is now finished, and the position of the right minister of household affairs is also part of the price, and it is part of the part that has been taken away long ago.
Ma Xuanlin was mentally miserable, and Bai Changqing was equally miserable. Because the emperor's voice is the smallest in the household department, and the left and right ministers were originally from the civil service group, but now that Qin Wenhe was killed, a replacement would definitely disrupt the original situation in the household department. This made Bai Changqing feel... My chest felt clogged.
"Very good. Both you civil servants and Xuanqing guards must live in harmony, supervise each other and help each other. Pang Ban, are you having trouble handing over the person?" Yang Jian finally asked Pang Ban. In fact, he was just here After going through the motions, in his eyes, Xuan Qingwei was different from the civil servants. The difference between pro-military and foreign ministers.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. Xuanqing Guard will always obey your will." Pang Ban still looked expressionless. He had already heard the emperor mention this before. And he never thought about the price he would pay the civil servants. As long as he watched these guys steal chickens and lose rice, he felt happy.
Cut a little bit at a time, but if you add up more times, one day these guys will be scraped into skeleton sticks.
But this time Pang Ban was not entirely right. The emperor did not ignore Xuan Qingwei's feelings, but took another path.
"In addition, compared to Xuan Qingwei's criticism of his work outside the law, the civil servants seem to lack supervision and always like to stick together. This has been common in the past two years, and it seems difficult to have the ability to conduct self-examination. According to me It seems that we still need to rely on external forces to be effective.”
Everyone thought that the emperor invited everyone to have a drink today was over, but then this sentence was thrown out and everyone was confused again.
What does it mean?
But quick-thinking people like Pang Ban and Ye Lansheng quickly turned their attention to Wen Mingju, who had been "stupidly" sitting at the table watching the excitement from the beginning.
Wen Mingju felt keenly that several eyes were piercing him one after another, and his heart trembled: What, what is going on? What are you looking at me for?
At the same time, Wen Mingju quickly came back to his senses and guessed: Is the next thing your Majesty said related to me? !
"Nowadays, the country is tight both internally and externally. We can still control the internal affairs, but we still need to work together externally. From the south, Zuo Yuliang has been here for three consecutive days. The pre-war note described the current situation outside the customs, which is not optimistic. He used the words "when "Use all your strength to annihilate the invading enemy." However, in my opinion, whether he can do his best is still limited by others.
Previously, the position of military supervisor was set up in the military, which has great power to supervise the decisions, trends, and personnel of the middle and high-level military personnel. It can be said that it has great power. "
The emperor mentioned the south, mentioned the army, and directly named the "supervising army", which meant that people's hearts beat faster.
After waving his hand to stop Ye Lansheng and others who wanted to speak, the emperor continued: "In view of the deep-seated old diseases in the civil service system, it is no longer possible to rely solely on self-consciousness. The situation in the south is tense again. If something goes wrong again, I am afraid it will be a disaster. It is difficult to recover after a defeat. So I believe that the supervisory army supervises and supervises the army, and the supervisory army itself also needs supervision and supervision."
As he said that, the emperor glanced at Pang Ban and said: "Pang Ban, don't you Xuanqing Guards also have supervisors in the army? Recently I heard that some rectification work was done in the south, and the results were good. And I heard that you The inspector is a bit insincere, but do you dare to take over the new business I just mentioned?"
Pang Ban didn't hesitate at all. He stood up, bowed and said loudly: "My lord, I will definitely live up to your majesty's trust!"
It is indeed a great trust. The army needs to monitor the control of the army. This has been fully confirmed in the previous incident of Yang Yansi raising the self-respect of the bandits. But the supervisory army itself also needs supervision. This is not only the possibility of "problems", but also the alternation of voice.
"Your Majesty, this must not be done!"
"It's not possible? Ye Aiqing, do you think it's not possible? Then how should the supervisory army in the south supervise it? Or should we rely on the consciousness of the civil servants? Haha."
The emperor's last whisper did not hide the sarcasm, but the implication was: If your civil servants were reliable, they wouldn't have been exposed to so many dirty things in the past two years. It's not that I don't trust you, but that you really don't deserve my trust, and necessary supervision cannot be less.
