Chapter 16 Three major cases

Zhou Mengchen heard the implicit voice and said, "This is a bit incredible."

Yang Bo said: "Yes. Since this year, the three major cases of Xu Ge Lao have been more beautiful than the other. From the Ruan E case, the Guanglu Temple case, and now the Liaodong case, each case is more beautiful than the other."

Zhou Mengchen became more and more sure that Yang Bo had something in his words.

He felt that the situation in Liaodong was caused by the joint cause of the Xu Party and the Yan Party.

If you want to understand Yang Bo's idea, you must know the three major cases he mentioned.

The Ruan E case also mentioned in the previous article. Zhou Mengchen prepared evidence, and then Xu Jie and his faction dug out the case from the court, pointing directly at Yan Shifan, accusing Yan Shifan of being connected with the Japanese.

This case has been going on for several months.

It is said that Yan Song knelt in front of Jiajing for a long time and sweared to the sky that he would not be able to communicate with the Japanese. Yan Song was considered to have passed the test.

The Guanglu Temple case has a certain relationship with Zhou Mengchen, but the relationship is not too big.

Guanglu Temple is the yamen in charge of imperial food, a cold yamen. Those who come here are all officials with no hope of promotion, and even officials with Yinpu. The yamen is in the imperial city. Unfortunately, Yan Shifan has been Shang Baoqing for a long time. Many things in the palace are the treasury.

So after Yan Shifan learned about the oil and water of Guanglu Temple, he found a way to insert it. It was also normal.

Originally, Yan Shifan could not get much money, about 300,000 taels. Although more than 300,000 taels were given to Fang Dun, Fang Du could sleep well. However, this money was really nothing to Yan Shifan.

It just said that Fang Dun controls the money and food of the court. But in Yan Shifan's eyes, he has never seen anyone on the market.

What really made Yan Shifan pay attention to Guanglu Temple was that Zhou Mengchen named Datong’s canned industry under Guanglu Temple. Although Yan Shifan seemed to be unceremonious when talking about Zhou Mengchen, he still felt a lot of fear of Zhou Mengchen.

When Zhou Mengchen was in Datong and in Beijing, he did not dare to do it easily. When Zhou Mengchen was no longer in Beijing, he dared to do it. So the money that was corrupt from Guanglu Temple was recorded was as much as one or two million taels.

As for the number of records or those that have not been found out, I don’t know how many are there.

Xu Jie took out this matter and Jiajing was even more furious. He almost killed Yan Shifan. The reason was very simple. It would be fine if Yan Shifan embezzled other money. The money in the canned industry in Datong was the money of Danei, and Jiajing's own money. Yan Shifan dared to get money from it. In Jiajing's opinion, he was stealing his money. What's the point of being such a big rat?

However, Jiajing is not willing to break the balance of the court now. Although he didn't deal with it, Yan Song knew that Jiajing had consumed almost all his affection for him. So he retreated to Xu Jie in the court and took the initiative to give up the power of the Beijing Chase.

Several years have passed since the last Beijing inspection.

The matter of Beijing inspection is once every five or six years, and most of the time it is once every six years. Of course, if the emperor wants to do it, time can move forward and backward, and it is not fixed.

But Xu Jie and Yan Song are simply two different styles.

Yan Song, the Beijing Procuratorate, almost turned the court into a one-man show of the Yan Party, and there was no one who dared to say anything against it. However, Xu Jie claimed to be impartial and selfless. He handled it in accordance with the rules and regulations of the court, without showing favoritism. He vigorously refreshed the administration of the government. Although many people from the Yan Party were defeated, many of the unfilial people in the Xu Party were defeated.

All the qualified talents below were selected, and there was no special attention to who was who.

A large number of people who have no background but are capable.

In this way, Xu Jie's reputation was many times better than Yan Song. Everyone in the world regarded Xu Jie as a virtuous prime minister. In fact, Zhou Mengchen had seen the list of the Beijing Office. He knew that Xu Jie had done some tricks and had some care for him.

However, compared to Yan Song's domineering and arrogant behavior that our party does not need. Xu Jie's little moves made him look so good in terms of food.

Xu Jie also achieved the same effect as Yan Song.

Yan Song or Yan Shifan's idea was to fight off all dissidents, thinking that the rest of the people were their own people. Xu Jie did a better job. He did not specifically say that he would promote his own people, but that the capable ones among the subordinates must not be Xu Jie's people. After all, Xu Jie's people had already been promoted. Instead, he thought that the court had gained talents and promoted these people. However, these people were promoted by Xu Jie and knew that without Xu Jie's promotion, they would not be today, let alone that the court had fierce fighting, so it would be difficult for people from the bottom to not take sides.

So whoever team they are on is naturally Xu Jie's.

Similarly, even among these people, some people really adhere to the idea of ​​being loyal to Your Majesty and not forming cliques for personal gain. They also have a good impression of Xu Jie. This kind of favorability is very useful at critical moments.

It can be said that Xu Jie actually did it. The whole court was full of his own situation. However, the stay and departure of the six ministers of the ministers still need to be considered.

If the first two major cases were directed at the core of the Yan Party, Yan Song and Yan Shifan. The Liaodong case was directed at the Minister of War Yang Shun; the facts were also very smooth. Zhou Mengchen just received the news of Yang Shun's dismissal.

Zheng Xiao became the Minister of War. Zheng Xiao was also a Jinshi in the second year of Jiajing, and was the same year as Xu Jie. Yang Bo was also helpless to defeat this old man.

However, he didn't know the inside story. It was only when Yang Bo told him that he knew the inside story.

Yang Bo's implication is easy to understand, and Zhou Mengchen also understood that corruption in the army has become accustomed to it. It cannot even be said that it is intentional corruption in the military, but the inevitable behavior of the generals in the army, just like when Zhou Shangwen was there, he used the power of Datong Town to raise tens of thousands of elite cavalry.

It can be said that there are all kinds of money, including gray and white. If corruption is used to hold Zhou Shangwen accountable, it will be accurate. The decision is no problem. Other generals do not have the prestige of Zhou Shangwen, so they can avoid civil servants. If you want to do things properly, you must prepare a piece of filial piety and make some money from top to bottom.

This is all convention.

This is why Zhou Mengchen reformed the military system. After all, good systems make greedy people dare not embezzle, while bad systems make innocent people have to embezzle.

However, this is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, and many things are measured. Yang Shun is not someone else. He also promoted step by step from the border ministers. It is no problem to say that Yang Shun can’t fight and does not understand border affairs. But it is nonsense to say that Yang Shun does not know how to be an official, does not understand the unspoken rules of the officialdom, and does not understand what can and cannot do in the officialdom, that is nonsense.

If Yang Shun didn’t know these, how could he be promoted step by step?

Then the question is, why is the Liaodong case so resolute and without any room? This is not something that a mature, experienced and corrupt official can do. After all, corruption has always been a long-lasting business. You must learn to flow carefully and get a good deal by yourself. You cannot let the affairs of the court be too bad, otherwise you will not have the chance to embezzle in the future.

Zhou Mengchen thought that either Yang Shun became the Minister of War, or Yan Shifan asked him to do this. Or it was someone else setting up a trap, whether it was to follow the flow or lead the king into the trap.

All of them have encouraged Yang Shun's crimes to be exacerbated. As for why he did this, he naturally hammered Yang Shun to death with one hammer. Otherwise, the evidence would not be enough and Yang Shun escaped, and things would be difficult to deal with.

Which of these two possibilities is more likely?

Of course it is the latter.

In politics, it is best not to preset the downline. You don’t know what these people can’t do. In order to severely attack Yan Song, knock out Yang Shun. Some people are not afraid to watch the situation in Liaodong, and develop in a famine or mutiny.

Zhou Mengchen only felt that in the Ming Dynasty cabinet, with the six ministers, everyone was intimate, and probably more than half were black. Even Zhou Mengchen sometimes asked himself, but suddenly he didn't know what color his heart was.

Sure enough, the dirtiest place in the world is not the prostitute-house but the officialdom.

Zhou Mengchen thought about these things and said helplessly: "Brother Yang, are you here to find me for this million stone of food?"
Chapter completed!