Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 180 Jin Yiwei Takes People!
Hongwu 11th year, February, night.

Wu Shang is the newly appointed Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Although Wu Shang is not from Huaixi, since he entered the officialdom, he has always followed Li Shanchang, and he has many opportunities to deal with Hu Weiyong.

Over time, this Wu Shang became Hu Weiyong's right-hand man.

This time, the officialdom was in turmoil, and Hu Weiyong took advantage of the opportunity of the vacant Minister of the Ministry of Officials to give Wu Shang to fill the vacancy.

This Wu Shang had just taken the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and not long ago, he had already started to help Hu Weiyong with his work.

The first is to select the right candidate and send it to Liaodong. Originally, Ma Yun was going to be brought back from Liaodong, and then replaced with an obedient and honorable general.

After all, it is better for an obedient and honorable general to earn military merit than Ma Yun, the Liao royal party, to earn military merit.

But their wishful thinking had just begun, and His Royal Highness King Liao had already taken the initiative to withdraw Ma Yun from the front line.

Not only that, but Wang Chuanqi was also removed.

At first everyone thought it was His Royal Highness Liao taking the initiative to give in, but it turned out that this was a wonderful move by His Royal Highness Liao!

First of all, Wang Chuanqi who was removed was not dismissed, but was directly transferred to the customs department by His Royal Highness King Liao.

This customs department is also something that has just been established recently, and it is completely independent of the six departments of the three provinces.

Like Jinyiwei, it is a department directly under His Majesty the Emperor.

Everyone has already seen the ability of Jin Yiwei. Half of the civil and military officials in the Manchu dynasty have been wiped out by Jin Yiwei.

But for any official, when he heard the word Jin Yiwei, his calf would go limp.

Although this customs department, everyone still doesn't know what it does.

I haven't dealt with them much, and I heard that they only collect taxes in the frontier.

But this is a department directly under His Majesty the Emperor. After Wang Chuanqi was transferred to this department, it would be a bit difficult for the rest of the people to impeach him.

When you impeach Wang Chuanqi, you are telling the emperor that you are not good at employing people!

In addition, Ma Yun, who was originally defending in Liaodong, was also replaced and went to Tianjin Wei to lead the Daming Navy.

Good guy, who doesn't know that the Daming Navy is now invincible?

Since the Battle of Bohai Sea, when His Royal Highness King Liao beat Bei Yuan to pieces, the Daming Navy has been invincible. On the ocean, it is walking sideways!

It goes without saying that Ma Yun has gone to lead the Daming Navy, unless Ma Yun himself rebelled and scuttled the ship, otherwise there would be no clues or loopholes that could be exploited.

It is basically invincible.

The only advantage is that Ma Yun's position has been reduced a bit.

But at least the general who kept Ma Yun was still nailed to the front line like a nail.

Even after Wu Shang heard about this incident, he shouted that His Royal Highness King Liao is really amazing.

To be able to think of a way to dismantle the move in such a short period of time, and to deal with it so perfectly.

If you want to change to another prince, you really may not be able to make such an arrangement.

The Huaixi Group on my side was preparing to deal with the two Liao royal parties, Ma Yun and Wang Chuanqi. Unexpectedly, it was discovered by the Liao king immediately, and then resolved in this way.

But in Wu Shang's view, it is not without any loss, at least the position of Ma Yun has been reduced a lot, and the role of the Great Ming Navy must not be too great!

Wu Shang thought it was so, but he didn't know that in the near future, Daming Navy would be a rising superstar.

After all, in the future, whoever controls the ocean will control the world.

But these civil servants naturally did not have the foresight like Zhu Qi. Zhu Qi also took advantage of this opportunity to let the generals he was familiar with control the navy, so that he could use the navy to do "business" outside in the future.

I, Ming Dynasty, have always convinced people with virtue, and this big ship and sharp guns have to do business with us, if anyone refuses to accept it, then let's compare.

Of course, these are all for later.

Wu Shang was in his mansion right now, entertaining many fellow officials.

And these fellow officials naturally came to celebrate Wu Shang's successful appointment as Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

If you go one step further, don't you want to be the official of the Six Ministers?
What's more, the prime minister Hu Weiyong is following, as long as you follow Hu Weiyong's footsteps, you will definitely be able to rise to the top!
Those officials congratulated Wu Shang one after another, and Wu Shang also had a grinning expression on his face.

As for the gifts they sent, Wu Shang naturally would not refuse, and all accepted them with a smile.

Anyway, it wasn't anything valuable. Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for these officials to give valuables blatantly.

If this is discovered, it will be headed to the ground!

And after reaching Wu Shang's position, he no longer needs to ask other officials for gifts to make money.

Naturally, there are various businessmen and interest groups behind him, who come to him and take the initiative to find him. Even if they do some activities, such as promotion, they can get a lot of money into their accounts.

Only those who are stupid will find someone to collect money at the banquet.

And when these officials were chatting here and flattering Prime Minister Hu Weiyong by the way, a large number of people had already come outside.

The leader of the team was none other than Gao Jin, the former personal guard of His Royal Highness the Liao King.

But now Gao Jin has a new identity, that is, the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei.

Although Gao Jin has become the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei, Gao Jin is still loyal to His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

At this moment, he brought these brocade guards to carry out a task specially announced by His Royal Highness King Liao.

Strictly investigate Wu Shang!

Hu Wenyong sent his own people to Liaodong to become the chief executive. As Wu Shang is the servant of the Ministry of officials, it must have something to do with him!
This official is not based on talent, but on the relationship of interests, so there must be something wrong with being a servant of the Ministry of officials.

As long as Wu Shang is strictly investigated, clues will definitely be found.

After all, it is impossible for a person who abuses his power to do it only once. If there is the first time, there will be a second time, and there will be countless times for the third time.

It's like a person who takes bribes and takes money once, then he will always collect money in the future.

In fact, just as Zhu Qi thought, the Jinyi guards focused their attention on Wu Shang, and soon discovered Wu Shang's various stains.

Needless to say, bribery, although the amount was not very large, did not meet the criteria for conviction.

But other kinds of cloth and satin are enough to imprison him.

Not to mention that many businessmen communicated frequently with Wu Shang recently.

Considering that most of the officials the businessman came into contact with were not clean, Wu Shang was probably the same.

If you want to expect pure friendship between businessmen and officials, you might as well hope that the man's "I'll rub it" is the truth.

It is 99% sure that there is something wrong with Wu Shang, so there is no need to talk nonsense, just bring someone over to search.

These days, when Jin Yiwei went to search officials' homes, they didn't need any search warrants or other messy permits.

Just relying on a Jinyiwei's waist card, it can be unimpeded.

His Majesty wants to search you, don't you dare to say anything?

Naturally, the door guard didn't know Jin Yiwei, but he saw a lot of people clattering to the door with weapons.

The guard hurried to the mansion, and then went to report the matter to Master Wu Shang.

Wu Shang was leading a group of officials to drink and have fun. At this time, he heard the guard say that a group of people came to the door of the house with knives.

It was a frown, in a displeased mood.

And an official next to him flattered and said:
"Where did this group of scumbags come from? They dared to make trouble at the door of our Wu Shilang."

Naturally, it is impossible for these officials to come out alone, and they will always be accompanied by one or two entourages.

And the martial arts of these entourages, of course, needless to say, although they are not top-notch masters, they can usually beat some small hooligans.

With so many officials added together, there are seven NO.80 people in the entourage alone.

At this time, we are eating in the next room.

And those officials didn't talk nonsense as soon as they slapped the table, and immediately went to the side to gather their followers.

Then he took the servants of Wu Shang's family to the door to see what was going on?

Good guy, today let's see which bastards don't have eyes.

A group of officials led people to the door excitedly. The leader just rolled up his sleeves, and then he was completely dumbfounded.

The group of people outside is not too many, about twenty or so, but all of them are wearing flying fish suits, with embroidered spring knives on their waists.

If you want to say that the common people don't know Jinyiwei, it's fine, but how could these officials not know these Jinyiwei?
These Jin Yiwei went to the government office in broad daylight to arrest people directly!

Those officials who were taken away all looked ashen. They either shouted for help or begged for mercy. It was heard that few of them could come back alive after entering Jinyiwei's prison.

Even those who survived by chance were mostly sentenced to treason. They were either executed or exiled to the frontier to do coolies.

This Jin Yiwei ran to the door, so what good could happen?
Everyone's first reaction is that they are here to arrest me, right?
And the second reaction was to realize that this is the door of Wu Shilang's house, so he must be here to arrest him.

But if we really come to arrest him, we officials have a close relationship with Wu Shang, so if we are still here to get close to him, wouldn't it be counted as an accomplice?

Immediately someone shouted:
"I, I'm just passing by!"

"I am me too!"

All kinds of thoughts came out of the heads of a group of people, and those Jinyi guards were also happy when they saw the scene in front of them.

Good guy, this is a critical juncture, these people are still drinking and having fun together, so needless to say, they are all suspected of being partisans, arrest them all and go back and ask!

Gao Jin was thinking that he would have no chance to clean up all the civil servants who offended His Highness Liao Wang, but he didn't expect to hit his face directly, so he didn't say anything, waved his hand, and shouted at Jin Yiwei behind him:

"Arrest all these people and take them back to Jinyiwei Prison!"

"Yes--!"

(End of this chapter)