Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 429 Forcing the Palace
Wen Anzhi was very calm because he trusted Zhang Shipeng and others.

This belief is not because they are the sons of court ministers such as Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian, Shen Tingyang, etc., nor does it mean that Zhang Shipeng and the others are from the imperial camp, or they are students of the martial arts hall where the emperor personally serves as the principal.

This trust comes from a relatively complete monitoring system.

Although the capital supervisor Shen Yuantai came from Jiangnan, Wen Anzhi personally appointed him to this position. Not only that, the supervisor in charge of military law in the camp's supervision office was Wen Anzhi's man, and he was originally his standard general.

Wen Anzhi was very concerned about the dispatch of troops this time. This was a troop he had worked so hard to pull together. It can be said that the future of the entire Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan Province rests on this troop.

So after the troops were dispatched here, Wen Anzhi has been paying attention to them and kept in touch with the camp. He can roughly grasp the movement of the camp.

He knew in advance the harvest of the camp's march, but he was still a little surprised by the specific report numbers just now.

Surprised, but still believe them.

Ma Gan didn't believe it, Zeng Ying didn't believe it, Wang Yingxiong didn't believe it, Wang Xiang didn't believe it, Fan Yiheng didn't believe it, it can be said that except for him and Qin Liangyu, most people didn't believe it.

Even patrolling Zhang Dai and the garrison officer Zhao Jing had serious expressions, obviously feeling that the matter was difficult.

"Check it, check it carefully!"

After Wen Anzhi made a statement, the next step is the specific verification. It is not difficult to really investigate, after all, Zhang Shipeng's report is very detailed, as long as the authenticity of these verifications is enough.

All officers were investigated separately, and even the soldiers below were investigated.

Then they sent people to various battlefields to check on the spot, and even dig out the buried corpses of the thieves. According to Zhang Shipeng's report, they went to find the people who were rescued and resettled, and even some people who were escorted back. captives, as well as some of the thieves who were released and placed on the spot, etc.

As long as you check, you are not afraid of not being able to find out.

Ma Gan looked at Zhang Shipeng coldly, with dissatisfaction with these sons and brothers in his eyes. He came from the imperial court and was an admiral at a young age. Dare to act like this, how can these local officials tolerate it?

Others are concerned about the faces of Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian, Shen Tingyang, etc., but he is not afraid of Ma Gan.

And Wang Yingxiong, Fan Yiheng, etc. from other factions in central Sichuan, who had been fighting among themselves, also stood up at the same time to attack the imperial camp together.

However, when Wen Anzhi stated without hesitation that he wanted to conduct a thorough investigation, Wang Yingxiong and the others were somewhat surprised.

I thought this camp was created by Wen An, it was his direct descendant, and he would definitely maintain it, and then everyone would suppress it again, and then let this matter be reduced to a minor one, of course, we must ask Wen Anzhi for it You need something to go back.

But now Wen Anzhi's reaction was beyond their expectations.

But if they say that the merits of the imperial camp are all right, they will never believe it.

That means Wen Anzhi is going to favor the camp?
This aroused serious dissatisfaction among the people. It was almost fine, but now if you have to touch it, then come on.

Wen Anzhi has never been an official in Sichuan, and he is not from Sichuan. His family is in Yiling, Jingjiang, and he used to have a low official position, but now he directly manages the five provinces. Recently, he has frequently spread imperial edicts to suppress people with imperial edicts. Well, people like Ma Gan, Wang Yingxiong, and Fan Yiheng are all higher than Wen An in terms of qualifications.

And they all think that they have contributed to stabilizing Sichuan and Guizhou, so why does Wen'an come from behind?

Not to mention that Wen Anzhi recruited troops from various ministries, forcibly collected taxes and other things, in their view, they were robbing their resources to establish their own lineage.

Although everyone respects the Nanjing court, the premise is that the Nanjing court must also protect their interests. Now that Wen Anzhi is so aggressive and aggressive, almost everyone is dissatisfied.

This time, taking advantage of this opportunity, we must ruthlessly kill his prestige. As long as Wen An's prestige is wiped out, he will no longer be able to order everyone like this in the future.

"In order to ensure justice, I hope everyone can participate in the investigation and make it public," Wang Yingxiong said.

Fan Yiheng immediately agreed.

"Eunuch Zhao?"

Zhao Jing sat in the tent and kept silent. Although he would come to every important military meeting, he seldom opened his mouth every time. However, he had a special status and no one dared to ignore him.

This is the guarding eunuch who came to Sichuan by order. After the emperor Nanjing ascended the throne, he sent this eunuch to Sichuan. His official job was to watch the army, but in fact he was to supervise the army.

However, it is different from the eunuchs and supervisors of the imperial court in the past. The emperor asked him to come, mainly to act as an eye and an eye, and report what he saw and heard to the emperor.

On the Sichuan side, the leader is Wen Anzhi, the governor of the five provinces. This is the head of the civil officials in the five provinces, and he is in charge of military affairs with full power.

Below him are the governors and governors of the provinces.

In addition, there are provincial inspections.

After the emperor proclaimed himself emperor, he reformed the official system of the imperial court. For example, the governors and governors were originally Beijing officials, and they belonged to the central officials who were dispatched temporarily. However, after Zhu Yihai became emperor, he changed the governors and governors into official local officials. No longer a central mission.

The only real officials appointed by the Central Committee are the inspector censors or higher strategists and supervisors.

The inspector censor is still the supervisory censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is selected and dispatched from among them. The governor inspector, although the grade is still only the seventh rank, but following the old practice, the power is extremely great, and he can sit on an equal footing with the governor-general. He represents It is the central government, and it belongs to the commissioner of the central government.

As a seventh-rank official, he still has military command power, and even has a standard battalion directly under him.

In addition, they can intervene in local military and political affairs, especially in personnel affairs, where they have greater power.

Even after the governor-general became a local official, the inspector was appointed by the central government, and his power was strengthened.

Of course, Jinglue Wen Anzhi also belonged to the special mission, and he was also specially dispatched by the emperor, especially because he was also specially dispatched to manage the five provinces with the title of a bachelor.

But Zhao Jing, the eunuch, was quite low-key, but as the emperor's servant, he not only came to observe the military appearance, but actually also had the task of monitoring the economic strategy, patrolling, supervising, sub-patroling, and dispatching high-ranking officials.

He doesn't speak, but he will write down what others say and report it to the emperor at any time.

If he spoke, it would represent the emperor's order.

After Zhu Yihai proclaimed himself emperor, many voices in the court wanted to suppress eunuchs, and even abolish the chief inspectors and factory guards. However, although Zhu Yihai set up another House of Internal Affairs, he distributed some of the powers of the original eunuchs, and even used them against eunuchs. He was also very cautious, but he did not abolish the eunuch system all at once.

After all, as a special existence, eunuchs have always been people around the emperor, even servants. This particularity makes eunuchs often the emperor's trustworthy people, and they only serve the emperor, not the emperor. court country.

The eunuchs exercised only part of the imperial power, an extension of the emperor's will.

As soon as Chongzhen came to power, it is not wise to punish the eunuchs first regardless of the three sevens and twenty ones.Although Chongzhen engaged in Wei Zhongxian, the main reason was that Wei Zhongxian was not his slave but his brother's slave, but since he inherited the throne, it is completely possible to change Wei Zhongxian's allegiance to him, or replace Wei Zhongxian with another eunuch instead of taking Wei Zhongxian with him The entire eunuch system was almost destroyed at once.

After destroying this most reliable system, the emperor was actually half blind and half deaf.

"My lords, don't call our family. Before our family left Beijing, His Majesty has repeatedly explained that military and political affairs are all under the command of the governor, governor, admiral, and general soldiers. Our family came here to study by His Majesty's order."

Zhao Jing is very responsible, and he has been in Sichuan for a long time, but he half-closed his eyes every day, as if dozing off, so he got the nickname Laomao.

"Zhang Press Courtyard?"

Xun Press Zhang Dai’s family ancestors have been officials of Lu Wang’s Mansion in Yanzhou, Shandong Province for several generations, and Zhang Dai’s father was also an official in Lu Wang’s Mansion, so Zhang Dai used to often go in and out of Lu Wang’s Mansion, and he is very familiar with Lu Wang’s Mansion.

His hometown is East Zhejiang, and his second assistant, Qi Biaojia, is his good friend and relative-in-law.

With such a strong relationship, Zhang Dai's tour of Sichuan is no ordinary tour.

Zhang Dai is a well-known literary master in the world, but after entering Sichuan, he was also very good as an inspector. He cooperated well with Wen Anzhi, and even had a good relationship with Wang Yingxiong, Ma Gan and other governors.

Zhang Dai looked left and right, feeling a little uncertain.

He is very clear about what this imperial camp means in Sichuan. This is a tentacles extended by the imperial court to Sichuan. He is clear about the status quo of several hills in Sichuan and even semi-separatist regimes. It is very difficult to break through. The imperial camp is a key step. .

He previously felt that Wen Anzhi acted too aggressively, which meant that it would inevitably lead to a counterattack from the leaders of the Central Sichuan Army.

And this time the imperial camp wanted to show off, no doubt going too far.

He also didn't believe in the military merits of the imperial camp, and he didn't believe that it was killing the good and pretending to be meritorious. Instead, he felt that there was a suspicion of false reporting and exaggeration.

"According to the court, Governor Wang's proposal is very good. It is true that it must be open, fair and just. In my opinion, each of us here has his own standard battalion, so we should directly draw officers, scribes, pacesetters, etc. from their respective standard battalions. Form a joint investigation team together and investigate together, so that it will be clear, open and fair." Wen Anzhi said directly.

Zhang Dai hesitated, thinking that if things continued like this, there would be no room for turning things around, and he couldn't handle it at that time, what should he do?
The tall Qin Liangyu coughed twice, "I agree!"

"Zhao Guanjun?" Wen Anzhi asked Zhao Jing who seemed to be dozing off again.

Zhao Jing immediately opened his eyes, "Since Wen Xianggong said so, let's do it this way. I will send a few little yellow men from the Guanjunyuan to follow." Zhao Jing can ignore the governor's words, but Wen Anzhi's words , he will definitely come back.

Zhang Shipeng remained silent.

At this time, the interview was almost done, so I stood up and glanced at the governors and generals, "I, Zhang Shipeng, am very grateful to Wen Xianggong for upholding justice for our camp. When this investigation is launched, I and all the officers and soldiers of the camp will fully cooperate with the investigation." .

However, I also have something to say here, just ask you gentlemen.

If the investigation is over and it proves that I, Zhang Shipeng, and Xingying did not mess around, and that these achievements are real, then what will we say then? "

The two deputy admirals, Zeng Ying and Wang Xiang, snorted in disdain almost at the same time.

"Wenxiang?"

Wen Anzhi answered, "If the investigation is over and it proves that the merits of the camp are not fake, then it will be rewarded according to the merits. Of course, Governor Ma and Deputy Admiral Zeng slandered the murder without evidence, which is a serious crime. The Jingluehui will report the truth to the imperial court and ask the saint to punish him!"

Ma Gan said bluntly, "I have no problem, but if it is found out that the murder is false, or the false report is exaggerated, then I will also ask Wen Xiang to deal with it fairly!"

The two sides put down their cruel words and broke up unhappy!

Qin Liangyu looked at the people who were leaving, "Today, it's official."

Wen An's eyes were full of determination, "This will be a brand new beginning, take this opportunity to make a thorough rectification, there is no need to hesitate any longer."

(End of this chapter)