Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 650 Jin Shangshu's Determination
In the Hall of Martial Arts, watching the emperor speak the softest words in the most ruthless tone, the elders couldn't help being speechless for a while.

Well, their worry just now is really unnecessary.

Even if you don't talk about the emperor's love for Qian all the time, from the perspective of the court situation, it is impossible for the emperor to really replace the minister of the Ministry of War at this time.

It is not an easy task to rectify the army, because it involves all aspects of the relationship, so if you want to really implement it, the person in charge must not only have the ability to take care of the overall situation, but also have sufficient prestige. In addition, you must have the courage to touch vested interest groups and the integrity of integrity.

Without any one of these four, this matter will be difficult to accomplish.

From the rumors of rectifying the military settlements in the middle of the court, to now there is a complete and detailed charter, and it has passed the court meeting smoothly, and it can be implemented. Although there is an impetus from the emperor behind it, Yu Qian's role is absolutely indelible.

If he really wants to be replaced, the turmoil in the government and the opposition is the second. The most difficult thing is to find someone who can really succeed Yu Qian at this juncture.

In the final analysis, the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven after all, and the events of the past should have made them understand that the current Holy Majesty is frighteningly rational.

From the Civil War to the present, the old man has lost his temper. However, no matter how critical the situation is or how emotionally agitated, the emperor is almost never really influenced by his emotions and makes any decisions. This kind of decision will immediately cause the court to shake if it is spread out.

So starting from the root, I am afraid that the emperor just wants to subdue Yu Qian, and has no intention of actually suspending him, let alone dismissing him.

But who would have thought that Yu Qian, a stunned young man, would not even say a word of refutation, but would instead be angry with the emperor. I really don't know what this guy is thinking.

Yu Qian is the only one who can let the emperor find a step for himself, and the whole court is full!

As a result, everyone couldn't help looking at Yu Qian, and gave him the same wink.

The emperor has already talked about this, Yu Shaobao, please stop making trouble...

Fortunately, Yu Qian was not ignorant of praise after all. After hearing what the emperor said, he was silent for a moment, then finally raised his head, and said with a complicated expression.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, I will repay you with death!"

Having said that, the strange thing is that on Yu Qian's face neither the situation of the rest of his life after the catastrophe nor the relief that the matter has been resolved satisfactorily can be seen on Yu Qian's face.

On the contrary, for some reason, the elders always feel that in Yu Qian's expression, apart from being grateful for the grace, there are also slight worries and almost indiscernible disappointments.

However, such a look was only fleeting, and soon, Yu Qian regained his composure, and no one could see happiness or anger on his clear face.

This made everyone present look at each other in blank dismay.

This dismissal incident, probably, should, almost, is over?

Logically speaking, the Son of Heaven has said everything well, let Yu Qian stay in office, and Yu Qian didn't refuse, so this matter is over.

However, almost everyone present had a strange feeling in their hearts, as if there was something unfinished, as if some details had been overlooked by them, but they couldn't tell what it was.

However, in any case, for the elders, it is always a good thing to be able to end this turmoil as soon as possible.

Although the matter was resolved, the scene was unavoidably a little embarrassing.

The Ninth Five-Year Son of Heaven was so angry with Yu Qian, if he was still expected to ease the atmosphere, the group of people present would be too disrespectful.

So, the bosses looked at each other, stepped forward one after another, and said.

"Your Majesty is holy, broad-minded, and has the world in mind. This is the image of a sincere sage."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, after this incident, Yu Shangshu will definitely do his best to serve the court."

"Your Majesty is worthy of all people, and the ministers and others admire him very much."

With a bunch of compliments, the emperor finally looked a little better.

Seeing this situation, the elders hurriedly changed the subject, so Jin Lian, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, coughed lightly and stepped forward to speak.

"Don't dare to lie to Your Majesty. I really don't understand one thing. Even though Marquis Ning Yuan was involved in the case of the military settlement, he has made a lot of military exploits. As a Marquis, even if the imperial court wants to rectify the military settlement, he will be punished and he will not die Why did he take the risk and commit an assassination after he learned that Yu Shaobao was secretly investigating the military settlement?"

"At the court meeting just now, Your Majesty said that Jin Yiwei had secrets to submit, and I dared to ask if His Majesty could hand over the secrets and the testimonies and witnesses presented by Marquis Changping to the Ministry of Punishment, so that they can be investigated clearly and repeated as soon as possible. .”

Sure enough, when he brought up the business, the emperor's face finally returned to normal.

However, after hearing Jin Lian's request, the emperor seemed to hesitate for some reason, and after a while, he flipped through it from his hand, and then took out two copies of the memorial, and handed them to the servant.

So, the servant took it respectfully, then walked down the imperial steps, and handed the memorial to Jin Lian.

Elder Jin took it over and took a look, the two memorials, one was submitted by Yang Hong, a letter from Yang Xin's family, and the other was the secret letter from Jin Yiwei that he had just requested.

He didn't rush to open it, but looked at the emperor with doubts. If he remembered correctly, besides these, Yang Hong's memorabilia and Yang Neng's self-report were also very important physical evidence in this case. ...

"Mr. Jin will take these two things back first. As for Yang Hou's memoir and Yang Neng's self-report, I will keep them here. What Mr. Jin wants to know is mentioned in the Jinyiwei's secret document, but , The time since I learned about this matter is too short, so what Jin Yiwei has found is limited, but there is always a direction."

Before Jin Lian could ask, the voice of the Son of Heaven sounded.

So, Mr. Jin had no choice but to swallow the words that came to his lips. As smart as he was, he naturally understood that there must be reasons why the emperor refused to give him some things.

Even if you want to ask, you have to ask in private.

After hesitating for a moment, Jin Lian bowed his hands towards the emperor, then raised his hand and opened Yang Xin's family letter and Jin Yiwei's secrets, and looked at it carefully.

The former was nothing unexpected. As mentioned in the court meeting, Yang Xin wrote in the letter the ins and outs of Yu Qian's assassination, as well as some of the evidence he obtained during the interrogation.

These things were already made clear during the court discussion, so Jin Lian glanced at it briefly, and then turned to Jin Yiwei's secrets.

It has to be said that this closeness did not disappoint him, but... it did not meet his expectations either.

After reading the whole article, many doubts in Jin Lian's heart suddenly had direction, and at the same time, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Sure enough, his feeling in the side hall was right.

Just before the court meeting, the emperor was simply cheating on his appointment!

In this secret document, there is indeed a possibility of the reason why Ren Li plotted to assassinate Yu Qian, but, as the emperor said, the time is too short, and even the Jin Yiwei can find only limited things.

Just judging from the content presented in the secret, it can only be said that there is a general direction and a relatively reasonable explanation, but the specific evidence and corresponding details have not yet been grasped.

So, if Ren Li's own defenses hadn't been breached, and Zhu Xungui had his own ghosts, I'm afraid this matter would not be so easy to solve.

However, no matter what, the court meeting was over, and Ren Li was thrown into the Imperial Prison.

Regardless of whether it is cheating or what, what the emperor should do has already been done.

However, in this way, the pressure on the Criminal Department will be great!

In fact, there was only one thing mentioned in Jin Yiwei's secret letter, and, as everyone expected, it was related to Ren Li's invasion and occupation of military settlements during his garrison of Gansu.

Of course, just as Jin Lian and others wondered, it is impossible to explain why Ren Li took such a risk to assassinate important officials of the court just by occupying the military base.

The reason why he did this was because there was a more serious event hidden behind the occupation of the military settlement!

This matter has to start from the orthodox eight years.

At that time, Ren Li was still guarding Gansu. In June of that year, he gave a memorial to the court, suggesting that the generals should reduce the taxes paid to the court by reclaiming wasteland to encourage border defense.

According to the previous regulations, if the border generals led their servants to reclaim wasteland, they would have to send twelve shi of grain to the imperial court per hectare. This figure was much higher than that of ordinary civilian farms, and was almost similar to the amount of grain received by military farms.

After the memorial was handed over to the center, it actually caused controversy in the court at that time.

Those in favor believe that this move can strengthen the border defense and make the border generals more attentive when defending. After all, only those who have permanent property have perseverance, and the border generals will put their property in the border town, and they will be more responsible when defending against captives.

Opponents believed that this move would make private land reclamation intensify in border towns. With this decree, border generals would inevitably become more unscrupulous, enlisting soldiers to reclaim private land and fill their pockets. In the long run, the loss outweighs the gain.

This matter was debated in the court for a while, but in the end, it passed smoothly.

The most important reason is that the emperor at that time, that is, the current Supreme Emperor, had just been in power not long ago, and he attached great importance to Ren Li, who had defeated Adai Khan.

At the same time, although he has not been in power for a long time, since then, the Supreme Emperor has intended to take action against Wala.

Although in the long run, Ren Li's suggestion will aggravate the dismantling of the army.

However, in a short period of time, it is indeed good for border defense, and it can prepare for the subsequent mobilization of troops against Oala.

Therefore, since then, the frontier generals will reclaim wasteland, and they only need to pay eight shi to the imperial court, and they can justifiably register in the Ministry of Households and classify it as private land.

It should be said that after this proposal was passed, Ren Li's prestige in the army rose rapidly, and Gansu's frontier defense did have a temporary and obvious improvement.

Regarding this point, in fact, many people in the court were quite critical, thinking that Ren Li was trying to win people's hearts, so they published this memorial.

Of course, no matter what the DPRK and China are talking about, this matter is following a normal process after all, and there is no violation of any regulations.

The reason why it was brought up at this time is because Jin Yiwei noticed the inside story hidden behind this memorial.

You must know that it was not the first year for Ren Li to guard Gansu. As early as the first year of Zhengtong, he was ordered by General Peiping Qiang to leave Gansu as the deputy commander. Big and small fought several times, until after the victory of Adai Khan in the orthodox three-year expedition, he returned to Beijing and was granted the title of Uncle Ning Yuan.

However, after staying in Beijing for less than half a year, he returned to Gansu and was promoted to the chief military officer.

Until the eighth year of Zhengtong, when Ren Li handed over this memorial, he had been guarding Gansu for at least seven years.

Thus, a question arose, what kind of opportunity led Ren Li to submit such a memorial to the court after guarding Gansu for seven years?

At that time, no one studied this matter deeply, but when the news of Ren Li's assassination of Yu Qian came, Zhu Qiyu naturally thought of the military commander.

So, he ordered people to find out the memorials of the year, and asked Jin Yiwei to go to Gansu to investigate in detail.

As a result, I found something.

When Emperor Taizong marched north, he subdued the entire northern desert with gold and iron horses. All the soldiers bowed their heads, including many Mongolian tribes at that time.

In the later period of Yongle, Emperor Taizong selected seven Mongolian tribes who surrendered to Ming Dynasty outside Jiayuguan, and set up the Seven Guards of Guanxi.

The Seven Guards of Kansai are located between Oala and the Western Regions, backed by Gansu. Their most important role is to block the connection between Oara and the Western Regions, isolate Oara, and force them to submit to Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, between Kansai Seven Guards and Wala, it can be said to be old enemies.

However, after becoming a grand master first, Oirat became stronger and stronger, and the Kansai Seven Guards gradually fell into a disadvantage in the confrontation with Oara.

Therefore, at the beginning of the eighth year of Zhengtong, after another defeat in another war, Qie Wang Shijia, the governor of the Chijin Mongolian Guard among the Seven Guards of Kansai, decided to move some of his tribe to Yeluobra near Suzhou. There was strong opposition from Ren Li, then General Military Officer of Gansu Province.

Later, Qie Wang Shijia made a concession, requesting that only temples be built in Yelobura, and some herdsmen be stationed, as a temporary refuge after the defeat in the future war.

However, even such a request was still rejected by Ren Li.

Not long after that, he first asked Qiewang Shijia to marry him but was rejected, the two sides fought again, Chijin Mongol Guards retreated every day, and had to retreat to a corner, temporarily giving up the passage to the Western Regions.

And first, after getting rid of the restraint of the Kansai Seven Guards, they obtained a large amount of supplies from the Western Regions, and within a few short years, they began to attack Daming.

What was written in the dense book, so far, did not explain the matter too clearly.

However, the outline of things has gradually become clear.

Jin Lian, who has been adjudicating cases all the year round, sorted out several important doubts almost immediately after reading the secrets.

First of all, although the Chijin Mongolian Guard occasionally intercepted and killed envoys from the Western Regions, they were always very submissive to Daming, and they were sworn enemies with Wala.

According to Emperor Taizong's vision, the relationship between Suzhou and Chijin Mongol Guards was one of mutual help and mutual assistance. Therefore, Ren Li had no reason to refuse Wang Shijia's request to relocate some tribesmen.

Secondly, Ren Li's attitude on this matter was too tough. Moreover, less than a month after Qie Wang Shijia proposed to move, Ren Li proposed to cut taxes on the frontier generals' land reclamation.

If there is no connection between the two, it would be hard to believe.

Of course, my intuition told Jin Lian that apart from these obvious doubts, there must be a deeper secret hidden behind this incident...

After closing the memorial, Jin Lian frowned, as if he was struggling with something.

After a while, he sighed softly, without any hesitation in his expression, he stepped forward and cupped his hands.

"Your Majesty, this matter is very important, and it has been a long time. It may not be easy to thoroughly investigate it. I request your order to go to Gansu to investigate this case in person. Your Majesty asks for your permission."

(End of this chapter)