Snapped!
A memorial hit the ground. The strong force caused the memorial to unfold and the paper tore slightly.
Tie Xuan and Lu Yuan were so frightened that they knelt down and did not dare to speak.
Zhu Yunwen had a gloomy face and suppressed his anger: "This is the report from the Supervisory Censor Zhang Zizhen. Please read it carefully."
Tie Xuan was a little confused. He had just been summoned to the Wuying Hall and was criticized before the salute was finished. What happened to make the emperor so angry with the Ministry of War?
Picking up the memorial on the ground, Tie Xuan glanced at it quickly and couldn't help but feel a little shocked. He closed the memorial and placed it on the ground, saying: "Your Majesty, I have neglected my duty."
Zhu Yunwen snorted coldly: "Dereliction of duty? I think your Ministry of War is just a corpse! Tie Xuan, Liu Jun, Lu Yuan, I will give you seven days. If the investigation of this matter is not clear, each officer will be demoted to the third rank!"
Tie Xuan swallowed nervously. There is a difference between being demoted to the third rank and being demoted to the third rank. If you drop from the second rank to the third rank, you will become the fifth rank official. If you drop the third rank, you will become the third rank official. This will be dealt with. Dozens of Hasn’t the year been in vain?
Liu Jun was even more uncomfortable. Master Shangshu could still be a doctor if he fell. If he fell, he would become the boss. Among the masters in Beijing, who is the boss? Officer...
But having said that, this matter is indeed the responsibility of the Ministry of War.
The supervisory censor Zhang Zizhen reported ten crimes to Taipu Temple.
First, Xia Yunzhong, the minister of Taipus Temple, Zhang Yongxiu, the young minister of Taipus Temple, and Wang Dong, the prime minister of the temple, conspired to embezzle more than 20,000 acres of people's farmland in Chuzhou in the name of raising horses, causing nearly 1,800 households to lose their farmland and become homeless. for tenants.
Second, Xia Yunzhong, the minister of Taipusi, Wangdong, and Liao En, the prime ministers of Taipusi, conspired to forcibly assign people to raise horses. Originally, five households in Jiangbei raised one horse, but now three households have one horse.
Third, Taipu Temple falsely reported the number of war horses, and the generals' horses were resold to merchants for personal gain.
Fourth, Taipu Temple...
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Tenth, Taipu Temple embezzled the finances for raising horses, and seventy-eight percent of the money allocated by the Ministry of Revenue went into the hands of Taipusi ministers, Shaoqings, Sicheng and others.
Seeing Zhang Zizhen's desperate posture, Tie Xuan and Lu Yuanyu had to be nervous. Taipu Temple was affiliated to the Ministry of War. Their problem was the problem of the Ministry of War. At least it was a crime of unclear governance and negligence, and they had to bear the leadership responsibility.
Tie Xuan felt some pain in his back molars. Chuzhou, a place "encircled by the Chuji Mountains", had limited fields. With Taipu Temple encroaching on it, how much land could be left to grow crops?
If the crops cannot be harvested, the local government needs to collect taxes according to the yellow book. If there is no food, then give money. If there is no money, then don't care and figure out your own solution.
If this continues, the people will become refugees sooner or later.
In order to keep his official position, Tie Xuan sent Lu Yuan, Wang Tan and others to Chuzhou to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The Taipu Temple of the Ming Dynasty was not located in the capital, but in Chuzhou.
Before Shandanyuan Horse Temple, Taipu Temple in Chuzhou was in charge of horse administration across the country. After the establishment of Shandanyuan Horse Temple, the horse administration of Qilian Mountain and Xijiang Province were placed under the management of Shandanyuan Horse Temple, but Taipu Temple in Chuzhou was still responsible for the horse administration of other places in the Ming Dynasty.
After Xia Yunzhong, Zhang Yongxiu, Wang Dong, Liao En and others were impeached by the censor, various impeachments about Taipus Temple began to fly everywhere. Various ministries and the censor of the Ducha Yuan asked for rectification of Taipus Temple, and conducted ten investigations. Year, let’s see who is corrupting and bending the law, and who is harming the Ming Dynasty’s political affairs.
Yuan Yue, who was in the elementary school, was also involved in the impeachment storm.
During the incident, Wu Zhai impeached Yuan Yue and sent war horses from Shandan Racecourse to the capital. They disturbed the people along the way, especially because the horses were disobedient and ate people's crops and grass.
Xuan Qingshu looked at Yuan Yue, who had a wonderful face, and said with a smile: "This time Taipu Temple is in big trouble, Shandan Yuanma Temple will probably be rectified as well, so you have to be careful."
Yuan Yue spat, stood up and cursed: "Wu Zhai, an old man, sent his war horses to Beijing. The county government provided horse food along the way. This is the imperial regulation. As for the dozen horses that ran out and gnawed half an acre of the people's crops, we We have already paid the compensation according to the price, and the people have nothing to say, so Wu Zhai is just making a fuss!"
Xuan Qingshu shrugged: "The city gate is on fire, which affects the fish in the pond. There is such a big problem in Taipu Temple in Chuzhou. Who knows if there is a problem in Shandanyuan Masi Temple? If we don't make the matter bigger and drag down a group of people, what will happen?" Arrange for new people to go in. Although the court is calm right now, the water underneath is deep."
Yuan Yue felt that there was something in Xuan Qingshu's words, so he couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "But what happened in the court?"
Xuan Qingshu smiled, waved his hand and said: "It's not a big change, but since the Jianwen Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has sent censors to inspect places where there have been mistakes and omissions. There were so many problems, and the Security Bureau was the first to expose them, so much so that officials in the DPRK and China called the Metropolitan Procuratorate "Full-belly."
"Why is a round belly?"
Yuan Yue was puzzled.
Xuan Qingshu patted his belly: "Some people made up the story that the Metropolitan Procuratorate has a round belly, can't run, and is so fat that there are slits in the eyes. Of course, this is also related to the collusion between some censors and local corruption."
Yuan Yue suddenly realized.
Although the Metropolitan Procuratorate has done a lot of practical things in these years and made great contributions to rectifying officialdom, it can be said that there are very few influential cases that it can take action on.
Now that the supervisory censor Zhang Zizhen is impeaching Taipu Temple, everyone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate thinks this is a great opportunity. To wipe out the title of "round belly", they will naturally make this matter a big deal.
The greatness of Ma Zheng was related to the safety of the Ming Dynasty, implicated all administrative regions of the Ming Dynasty, and was related to the vital interests of countless people.
This thing is big enough.
If the Metropolitan Procuratorate wants to establish its authority and clear its name, the whole world will be shaken.
As Xuan Qingshu said, the Metropolitan Procuratorate indeed regarded the matter of Ma Zheng as its top priority. The Metropolitan Procuratorate wrote about its affairs and experiences, and the left and right deputy governors wrote to the censors. Later, Dai Deyi, the censor of the left capital, and Dai Deyi, the censor of the right capital, wrote. Shi Lianzining even went so far as to personally demand a comprehensive review of the entire Ma Zheng and investigate the Ministry of War's dereliction of duty.
Tie Xuan was under pressure, bitter and unable to refute.
The facts are ascertained. Xia Yunzhong, the minister of Taipu Temple, Zhang Yongxiu, the minister of the temple, and Wang Dong, the minister of the temple, are indeed guilty of numerous crimes as the imperial censor Zhang Zizhen said. Among the ten crimes, not one of them was wronged against them.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is on fire and is planning to take this opportunity to recruit a group of people to prove that Yan Guan is not a vegetarian. But just when Dai Deyi and Lian Zining were rolling up their sleeves, Gu Jinghai, a student at the Imperial College, wrote a memorial, causing huge waves.
Gu Jinghai, a member of the Kaifeng Prefecture, was one of the first batch of graduates to be promoted directly to the Imperial College from the Prefecture. Before that, he was not a scholar, but just a student, that is, a scholar.
Gu Jinghai, who was only twenty-nine years old, entered the Imperial College with the first place in the Henan Prefecture School and the fifth place in the Imperial College Unified Examination, and took elective courses in the Agricultural College and the Military College.
The content of Gu Jinghai's memorial was very simple and sharp.
In his eyes, the reason why the Metropolitan Procuratorate made such a fuss and wrote letters was to cover up their shame. The so-called "doing their best to cover up their incompetence will show their contribution to the world." The Ministry of War was silent and did not dare to speak. It was because they were afraid of taking responsibility. The so-called "dare not to say a word" "As the emperor, I am afraid that the official title will change." If Taipusi corrupts and perverts the law, bullies and disturbs the people, it is courting death.
The sharp-edged memorial made all the officials uneasy. It was rare to see such a scolding guy.
The Procuratorate hates him, the Ministry of War also has a headache, and they all want to deal with this stupid young man. But the cabinet supported Gu Jinghai. To be precise, it was Yang Shiqi who supported Gu Jinghai.
Yang Shiqi had no grudge against the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of War, and he was not someone who would just watch the excitement and add insult to injury. It was just because Gu Jinghai wrote a solution after scolding people.
Gu Jinghai believed that the horse administration during the Hongwu period was too harmful to the people, especially when people were directly assigned to raise horses based on acres of land and number of households, which put great pressure on the people. Taipu Temple's ability to take advantage of loopholes is not the result of loopholes in the horse administration. It is time to abolish the horse administration during the Hongwu period, change the policy of forcibly assigning people to raise horses, and switch to a policy of government and animal husbandry as the mainstay and civilian animal husbandry as the supplement.
After careful consideration, Yang Shiqi stood up to support Gu Jinghai and wrote a memorial proposing to reform Ma Zheng.
???????????????Morning morning.
Zhu Yunwen sat in the Fengtian Hall, took out Yang Shiqi's memorial, and asked the officials: "Yang Ge proposed that the civil affairs be returned to the imperial court, without involving the people, and without apportioning horses. What do you think?"
Before Xu Huizu could stand up, Tie Xuan stepped out first: "I object."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Tie Xuan and said calmly: "Even if you object, just say it."
Tie Xuan said solemnly: "Your Majesty, war horses are related to the combat power of the garrison, the Ming Dynasty's border defense and the safety of the country. It can only be strengthened, not weakened. Once the policy of civilian herding is cancelled, the pressure on the people will be reduced, but the pressure on the border defense will be heavy. Wala Although they have surrendered, they still have wolfish ambitions. The Tatars are not honest, they haunt the Hetao area, and they may invade the border at any time. There is a huge gap in war horses at the border, and now is far from the time to cancel the herdsmen."
Xu Huizu stood up and seconded Tie Xuan: "There are still many people in Tatar and Oara who advocate the restoration of the Yuan Dynasty and go south to attack the Ming Dynasty. I believe that the guards and border officials should be on guard and be on guard. While taking precautions, they should also actively plan for the Northern Expedition. Once the imperial court needs the Northern Expedition, it must use a large number of war horses. Without war horses, how can the sergeants fight against the Oara and Tatars?"
"It should be noted that Oara and Tatar are not Timur. When Timur attacked, he had no strategic depth and no possibility of retreat. He could only choose to fight the main force of the Ming Dynasty. Oara and Tatar can retreat and move at any time. If there are not enough war horses, , with two legs, how can we catch up with the enemy? If I advance, the enemy retreats, and if I retreat, the enemy harasses me, how can I achieve victory?"
Zhu Yunwen knew that the people were under great pressure, and he also knew that there were many unreasonable aspects of the people's animal husbandry, but he had not touched this area over the years. It was not that he had forgotten it, but that he could not touch it.
War horses are related to Ming Dynasty’s border defense and military strength.
In the early days of Jianwen, the entire Ming army had less than 50,000 war horses, and the Beijing army had less than 5,000 war horses. The pitiful numbers are sad. If civilian herding is abolished and only official herding is relied on, when will the number of Ming war horses increase?
In the Battle of Qamdo, the Beijing army sent out 10,000 cavalry, more than half of which were from civilian herdsmen. Without these pressure-bearing people, it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to build a decent cavalry!
In exchange for wronging the people, the number of war horses increased and military strength increased. Now in the ninth year of Jianwen, will the court continue to wrong these people?
