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Chapter 651: The violence did not get out of control, so it was not a mutiny

Some people, after hearing too much flattery, will think that they are different from ordinary mortals.

I am different from Fan Shu. This is the fundamental motivation behind some people's judgment on Zhu Qizhen's decision to "stop at Your Majesty and prepare for a decisive battle" in the Battle of Tumu.

I don't know anything about military affairs, but I just feel that what I am doing is right, so I will do it.

Eventually he was captured by the Oirat people, the Ming army in Beijing was defeated, and 52 senior civil servants and 16 military generals of the Ming Dynasty were killed, including Duke of Yingguo Zhang Fu, Minister of Revenue Wang Zuo, Minister of War Kuang Ye, and Chief Minister of the Cabinet Cao Nai, all of whom died for their country.

The Battle of Tumu was a tragedy caused by Zhu Qizhen's personal wrong decision. This tragedy spread to the entire Ming Dynasty and had endless consequences.

Because of the real existence of the emperor, Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi did not dare to discuss too much about the alienation of power to people, but instead dispersed it to religion and money. However, they still told the emperor that the final result of alienation was: I think that I am a special existence compared to ordinary people.

When Zhu Yijun was seriously ill and dying due to an inflammatory storm, he thought about having himself dissected by the dissection department to make sure that the emperor was the same as everyone else and there was nothing special about him.

"Ma Wenying is a real man and he has never thought of evading his responsibilities." Zhu Yijun noticed that Ma Wenying and his four captains were all real men!

When judging a person, you cannot just look at what he says. All the officials in the Ming Dynasty were scholars and officials. They all spoke nicely and had a lot of great principles. They shouted loudly that the people are the foundation of the country. But what they did was not nice. When judging a person, you must look at what he is doing.

From beginning to end, Ma Wenying never evaded his responsibility even once, whether he tied himself up at Yongchang Gate, hanged himself in the cell, or opened the city gate to surrender, Ma Wenying left the city alone.

These were all done by Ma Wenying. Zhu Yijun admired him as a tough man.

It’s no use talking nicely; what matters is doing things in an attractive way.

"It's better to give them a symbolic punishment, after all, they are causing trouble for the military pay." Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment and said, "Why not exile them to Japan?"

"Are you sure it's a punishment?" Wang Chonggu immediately said, "Ma Wenying was exiled to Japan? He was eager to run to the Nagasaki Governor's Office to kill Japanese pirates..."

If Ma Wenying, or all the soldiers of the nine battalions in Zhejiang, were asked to choose between patrolling to fight floods or going to Nagasaki to destroy the Japanese pirates, 90% of the soldiers would choose the latter. Zhang Juzheng's partiality was too obvious.

"Then Wang Ci Fu, find a way. You can't just start a mutiny without any punishment." Zhang Juzheng spread his hands and said, "Then Wang Ci Fu, give me a punishment?"

"It seems that there is nothing to punish him, so let's just exile him to the Nagasaki Governor's Office as a soldier." Wang Chonggu thought about it and agreed with Zhang Juzheng's suggestion.

As the main culprit, Ma Wenying can no longer stay in Zhejiang. The reason is very simple. He is the leader of the mutiny. His existence will always make the possibility of mutiny exist in Zhejiang. For the sake of local stability, Ma Wenying must also leave.

"How about this, we select 4,500 soldiers from these nine battalions to be transferred to the Nagasaki Governor's Office to supplement the Nagasaki military strength. This will also verify what the Governor-General of the Coast Guard Wang Zongmu and the Minister of Personnel Liang Menglong said about ensuring overseas supplies." Wang Chonggu made a suggestion.

The 4.5 men in the nine battalions of Zhejiang are not all young and strong, some are old and weak. After all, Zhejiang's resistance against Japanese pirates happened forty years ago in the Jiajing period. Selecting 4500 men and sending them to the Nagasaki Governor's Office is to train the team bit by bit and enhance the Ming Dynasty's overseas deployment capabilities.

"Okay." Zhu Yijun agreed with this idea very much. This further increased the stability of the local area, and at the same time gave these elite soldiers a place to use their talents. Dying before fulfilling their ambitions might be the biggest regret of these soldiers. It could also effectively reduce conspiracy theories.

The four captains Ma Wenying, Yang Tingyong, Zhang Wenyuan and Yang Zhi went to Nagasaki alone. It is easy for writers who like to talk nonsense to write that the emperor wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, using the Japanese pirates to kill the captains who disobeyed discipline and caused a mutiny.

But the generals took 4500 people with them, so it is not certain who killed whom, and writers cannot make such conspiracy theories.

After looking at the whole incident, Wang Chonggu couldn't bring himself to behead Ma Wenying in public.

It is natural for people to be murderous when they are armed with sharp weapons. 4.5 soldiers from the Nine Battalions silently endured exploitation for so many years. The imperial court initially thought that only the two battalions stationed in Hangzhou were exploited, but after investigation by Yan Shixuan, it was found that the entire Nine Battalions were being exploited.

Wanli Tongbao coins could not be circulated in Zhejiang because the court had no policy support and the coins were insufficient, resulting in the inability to buy any goods in Zhejiang with the coins. Wu Shanyan controlled the business of buying and selling the coins in Songjiang Prefecture.

If Wu Shanyan had not been so greedy that he used pay cuts to force the soldiers to leave and embezzled the money, I'm afraid this kind of exploitation would have continued.

I have to say that Wu Shanyan was really bold. He even dared to take the soldiers' money.

"Who should Zhejiang send?" Zhu Yijun talked about the selection of the Governor of Zhejiang.

"Let Shen Shixing take charge for a while. After the situation stabilizes for a while, we can send the governor." Wang Chonggu gave a compromise suggestion.

Shen Shixing is a more suitable candidate. He is close to the place and will not be delayed by the affairs of Songjiang Prefecture. Secondly, Shen Shixing is a person from heaven and is in charge on behalf of the local people. He will not speak for the local gentry, powerful people and wealthy people, or cover up for them. The problems can be exposed more clearly.

"This time the Ninth Battalion entered the city to wipe out the bandits and arrested more than 5,400 gang members in total." Zhu Yijun talked about the battle results of the Ninth Battalion in Zhejiang. Now that the thorny issue of characterization has been clarified, it is time to talk about specific issues.

That is, there are bandits sitting in the city. Bandits sitting in the city are relative to roving bandits.

There are roving bandits outside the city and sedentary bandits inside the city. These sedentary bandits are all running dogs raised by Wu Shanyan, the advisor, and local counties and prefectures. They are also the group of people that the Ninth Battalion hates the most. After entering the city, they began to clear out the sedentary bandits.

"No, Your Majesty, this has turned into entering the city to suppress bandits? It's clearly a mutiny." Wang Chonggu keenly noticed the Emperor's characterization of the incident, from a mutiny to entering the city to eliminate the bandits. Once the rhetoric changed, the nature of such a vicious incident as a mutiny completely changed.

"How else?" Zhu Yijun said confidently, "How about killing all the 45,000 anti-Japanese volunteers in Zhejiang? Otherwise, how could there be such a vague definition as rioting for military pay?"

If you can't change the facts, change the definition. This is the usual routine used by the cheap Confucian scholars. Zhu Yijun knows the cheap Confucian scholars very well and knows their methods in detail, so he can naturally learn and apply them flexibly.

The bad news is that Your Majesty has learned the tricks of the lowly Confucian scholars. The good news is that you have learned them all.

"Well, Your Majesty is wise!" Wang Chonggu said indifferently.

Demanding pay is also a mutiny, but the Ming Dynasty had its own definition of demanding pay, which was to prevent conflicts from escalating further. If they were all mutinies, they would have to be suppressed. If conflicts further intensified, no one would be able to live decently. Things had gotten to such a point, and changing the nature of the situation and easing things down was a compromise.

“Your Majesty, a mutiny should be considered as violence out of control. I think that this time the nine Zhejiang battalions entered the city to suppress the bandits, it was not violence out of control, there was no malicious harm to the people, no harm to innocent people. Although they occupied the government offices of prefectures, states, and counties, they did not directly interfere in government affairs, nor did they kill court officials. This is not a mutiny.” Zhang Juzheng fully supported the emperor’s definition.

Wu Shanyan is still alive, so this can't be considered a mutiny.

Moreover, Zhang Juzheng further clarified why it was not considered a mutiny, because from beginning to end, the violence had never gotten out of control, and the desperate soldiers still adhered to the eight words: report to the emperor and save the people.

Reporting to the emperor is easy to understand under the concept of ruler-ruler and subject-subject for thousands of years, but the four words "saving the people" are the first time they have appeared in thousands of years.

The Jiuying Battalion in Zhejiang Province has adhered to these eight words very well.

These eight words are indeed the military soul of the Beijing Camp Army proposed by Qi Jiguang, but these eight words are also the experience summarized from the long-term anti-Japanese struggle.

Relying on the people is equivalent to having countless pairs of eyes on the battlefield, which will enable you to win the victory against the Japanese pirates. Without the people, you will not be able to win.

"Sir, you have made a very good point. I will take your advice." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and agreed with his definition of mutiny.

The violence never got out of control.

The 45,000 soldiers of the Ninth Battalion captured a total of 5,400 people, and killed those who resisted, killing a total of more than 3,000 people.

These bandits are not just gangs in the city, there are also some powerful and wealthy people, evil gentry from the homes of local celebrities and gentry, the evil gentry's servants, litigants, swindling brokers and compradors. This group of people also suck the blood of soldiers. The soldiers' main goal is to eliminate the human trafficking in all prefectures, counties and cities in Zhejiang.

Those human trafficking shops that bought and sold human beings, especially girls aged five or six, were all eliminated by the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion. They were really eliminated. All the human traffickers in the human trafficking shops were executed on the spot.

Because of the siege, none of the people involved in the human trafficking business escaped, and with the cooperation of the people in the city, the soldiers of the nine battalions uprooted all the human trafficking businesses.

Zhu Yijun learned a horrifying fact from Yan Shixuan's memorial and the more than 100 charges against Wu Shanyan, that is, many children of the families of the Nine Battalions of soldiers who went out to fight floods in March every year and returned to the camp in September were abducted by these human trafficking gangs.

Whenever the Ninth Battalion went on patrol, the barracks were short of able-bodied men, so these hired guns liked to run to the families of the Ninth Battalion on the day of the patrol to embrace, rob, snatch, or cheat children.

The Ninth Battalion demanded pay, rioted, and mutinied, and a comprehensive and thorough liquidation of the human rights industry was carried out!

The boss, manager, clerk, broker, and pawnbroker behind the human trafficking business were all beheaded in public.

The reason why Shen Shixing brought Chen Tiande with him was to let Chen Tiande and other coastal defense inspectors conduct a comprehensive investigation of those who were beheaded in public, mainly to see if there were any wronged people. If a mutiny broke out, the court would have to appease their families to some extent.

As a result, Chen Tiande took the Songjiang Prefecture's coastal defense inspectors to investigate the case in a different place. It took him fifteen days to interrogate all those who were beheaded in the mutiny and found that none of them were wrongly accused.

The soldiers of the Ninth Battalion chose to detain anyone who had the slightest possibility of being wrongly accused or had some suspicious points, so they arrested 5,400 people.

This is the most direct manifestation that violence has not gotten out of control.

The soldiers who have already mutinied can easily find themselves with sharp swords in the process of reciprocal retaliation. When they are seeking revenge, they become bloodthirsty and revenge, driven by greed for money, turns into looting, and then looting turns into burning, killing and plundering, and finally turns into a massacre.

This is a gradual process, the evil of human nature is constantly magnified, and finally turns into a massacre.

The nine battalions of Zhejiang had surrounded all the prefectures and the situation was about to get out of control, but the grassroots officers, captains, thousand-householders and centurions restrained the soldiers and did not let the violence get out of control.

Therefore, it cannot be characterized as a mutiny.

"Among the 5,400 people arrested, including evil gentry, about 1,200 will be beheaded." Wang Chonggu reported the specific situation.

The thing Shen Shixing did most in Hangzhou Prefecture was to investigate cases. He investigated all those who were arrested in the mutiny. There were 1,200 people who were sentenced to beheading. These beasts had the blood of the people on their hands. There were as many as 600 corrupt officials in the government offices alone who committed evil.

"Kill! Leave no one alive." Zhu Yijun said confidently, "Investigate and rectify the case quickly. Try to give an explanation to the people of Zhejiang before the end of the year. Behead them outside Yongchang Gate in Hangzhou, Zhejiang!"

"This mutiny at least pushed the pace of Wanli's reform forward by ten years!"

Zhu Yijun was not joking. The very direct impact was that the clouds in Zhejiang Province had finally cleared and the sun had risen. With the death of these beasts, the people in Zhejiang Province could at least breathe a sigh of relief, and this breath of relief could last for at least five or six years.

But its invisible and far-reaching impact is the most terrifying.

Inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, the power from the bottom up was felt very directly. No one would question the correctness of the theory of contradiction anymore. The fundamental purpose of the theory of contradiction was to explain the power from the bottom up. Whether it was the division of classes or the discussion of distribution, it was based on the extremely terrifying power from the bottom up.

This helped the reform of the Ming Dynasty's political system. No official in the Ming Dynasty dared to ignore the poor and laboring people, thinking that they could do nothing about them, because the Nine Battalions of Zhejiang had set an example. When people were pushed into a corner, they attacked the prefectures, counties, and trampled these high-ranking masters under their feet.

The inner treasury was burned to ashes, and the streets were trampled with bones of officials. These are no longer poems, but reality. After Wu Shanyan was beheaded in public, his death was greater than his lifelong contribution.

When the news of Zhang Juzheng's mutiny reached the capital, he made it very clear that this would not shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule.

If the Ming Dynasty is to fall, it will only fall at the hands of the people. As long as the people can survive, the Ming court can survive. The Ming Dynasty has no stage for rebellion by local gentry, powerful local gentry, and elected officials. They can do nothing except engage in some conspiracies and intrigues.

The emperor who was born a beggar has passed away, but the emperor's beggars are still protecting the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Juzheng's statement meant that the emperor could build as many as he wanted without any hesitation.

In fact, as an emperor, Zhu Yijun should not accept this view. It is difficult for poor laborers to attack Beijing, but these powerful and wealthy people can really take the emperor's life.

In this situation, the emperor should choose to stand with the powerful and wealthy and exploit the people together, just like Wu Shanyan, so that he would be safe.

Emperors Xianzong, Wuzong and Sejong all confirmed this with bloody lessons.

But Zhu Yijun refused. He insisted on being the emperor while standing.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing. During the army's campaign to suppress the bandits, seventy-three people died in battle." Wang Chonggu said with an embarrassed look on his face, "According to the regulations, we should build a temple for the loyal and brave and provide them with compensation. Should we do that?"

"Here." Zhu Yijun said with certainty: "Build the Temple of Loyalty and Bravery in front of Yongchang Gate. After Wu Shanyan dies, bury his head inside for sacrifice."

Before meeting Ma Wenying, Yang Tingyong, Zhang Wenyuan and Yang Zhi, Zhu Yijun conducted a comprehensive assessment of the incident in the imperial study of Tonghe Palace with the first and second assistant ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Qi Jiguang, who was supposed to be in the Imperial Study, was actually in Beidaying.

Qi Jiguang was preparing for war. If the Southern Ya Navy could not quickly stabilize the situation, the Beijing Camp would go south along the Chidao Road to Mizhou and take a boat to Shuangyu Port.

Qi Jiguang did not plan to bring too many people. He would bring his own 3,000 "Qi Family Army", which were the 3,000 foreign soldiers recruited in Yiwu, Zhejiang. His return to Zhejiang would be like returning home. If Chen Lin could not handle it, he would handle it himself.

Qi Jiguang didn't believe it. He didn't believe that the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion would harm him or the Yiwu soldiers.

Qi Jiguang would not leave the Beijing camp until there was a clear signal that the Zhejiang mutiny would not cause any greater chaos.

Qi Jiguang, the ballast of the empire.

Luo Muying had sent four captains to enter the city to suppress the bandits. They were about to go to Beijing on the fast sailing ship Youlong.

The speed of Youlong is second only to that of a hydrofoil sailboat, and it is safe and stable. Every October before the Bohai Bay freezes over, Youlong cruises to Tianjin and leaves at the end of October.

"Fuck, if we had this thing back then, the Japanese pirates would not have been able to land. I'll kill them all! Damn it, we'll sink them all at sea! And then use the harpoon to name them one by one!" After Zhang Wenyuan got on the boat, he kept his mouth shut, stunned.

Youlong, a dragon swimming on the sea.

"The Japanese ship's small dinghies were smashed to pieces!" Yang Zhi jumped up and down like a monkey, climbed up the mast to the watchtower, and then slid down from the mast, saying excitedly, "What a good thing! What a good thing!"

"Iron!" Yang Ting smashed the mast with his fist as big as a casserole, grinning. He was a human being, and punching iron made him shake his hand in pain even if he didn't use much force.

It really hurts, and I am really happy. No wonder the Japanese pirates don't come.

Only Ma Wenying did not speak, but stood at the bow and looked into the distance.

"What is Third Master looking at?" Li Yougong asked curiously.

"Your Excellency is too kind. Just call me Ma Wenying. I'm watching the sunrise." Ma Wenying knew that the man in front of him was a powerful figure in the court and was His Majesty's walking figure among the people. He didn't dare to call himself the Third Master.

"What are you thinking about, Third Master?" Li Yougong did not change his address. Ma Wenying was able to kill twenty-two Japanese pirates with his own hands, so he deserved the honorific title of Third Master.

"Look at the ships on the sea, thousands of them passing by, it's great, every extra glance is a gain." Ma Wenying pointed to the sea and said, "The future of the Ming Dynasty lies on the sea. This is what Hu Butang told us back then. Hu Butang said that without the ocean, there would be no peace in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty."

"Hu Butang told us at that time that the significance of the existence of Zhejiang Ninth Battalion was that we would be able to go out to sea one day."

"Third Master, is this the reason why Minister Hu must die, and why Xu Jie is willing to risk the world's taboo and let Minister Hu die in prison?" Li Yougong clearly felt his heartbeat quicken. He had never expected that he would discover the reason why Hu Zongxian had to die during an unintentional conversation.

Hu Zongxian wanted to open up the sea and stabilize the southeast above the waves, which was exactly the same as the ideas of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou.

"I don't know. The government is so high, how can we, the common people, understand these things..." Ma Wenying shook his head and said, "In my opinion, the imperial court was in financial difficulties at that time. Yan Song and Yan Shifan had no money, so they turned their attention to maritime trade. The hole was too big to be filled."

Yan Song and Yan Shifan did not understand the significance of opening the sea to the Ming Dynasty. The reason they supported Hu Zongxian was that they were actually crazy with poverty and had to find money everywhere.

Ma Wenying did not understand the power of the government and the schemes of the wise officials, but he knew Hu Zongxian and knew that without the support of the Yan father and son, Hu Zongxian could not even defeat the Japanese pirates.

In fact, Li Yougong could never understand why Xu Jie had to kill Hu Zongxian, who was already unemployed and harmless at home. Li Yougong originally thought that Xu Jie was worried that Hu Zongxian would rise again and threaten him, Xu Jie.

It now seems that Hu Zongxian ultimately sacrificed himself in his efforts to suppress the Japanese invaders.

The production capacity of fast sailing ships has increased to seven ships per year, but as the first fast sailing ship to go to sea, Youlong has great symbolic significance. It is roughly equivalent to the status of Fengzhou, that is, the emperor's royal boat. For example, ships passing by will wave flags to show respect.

The Youlong was very fast. Even though there was a headwind, the hard sails could handle the wind from all directions, so the Youlong arrived at Tianjin smoothly after three days.

After getting off the boat and resting for a day, Ma Wenying boarded the Shengping No. 2 iron horse-drawn carriage to Beijing. When the whistle sounded, it scared Ma Wenying and others. It was not until the vehicle moved slowly forward that Ma Wenying calmed down, looked around, and laughed.

Yang Tingyong, who was fearless, held the handrail tightly, with fear written all over his face. It was the first time for Yang Tingyong to see a fast track and an iron horse. Such a huge monster-like thing, roaring forward, really made Yang Tingyong a little at a loss.

If he gets hit like this, he will definitely die.

After the car drove out of the station, every time we passed a branch office at the exit of the highway, we saw rows of houses, all built around the caravan, and it was extremely lively. Ma Wenying felt that his eyes were not enough. He thought that the changes in the south would be greater than those in the north, because the south was opening up to the sea and the development was changing with each passing day. However, he never expected that the changes in the north would be so earth-shaking.

Before reaching Tongzhou, endless houses began to appear in front of Ma Wenying. Hangzhou is a big city with a population of millions and is very prosperous. The houses in the suburbs also stretch for miles, but it is far less shocking than the scene before him. After walking for a long time, Ma Wenying did not see the city wall.

When they stopped in Tongzhou, Ma Wenying thought they had arrived, but when he asked, he found out that they were still 24 miles away from the capital.

"It's only in the past ten years or so that there have been such great changes. When I was a child, the area outside Chaoyang Gate was barren, without even a tree." Li Yougong arranged for Ma Wenying to stay at Huitongguan Inn in Tongzhou and talked about the changes.

Ma Wenying and the others were surprised, and Li Yougong was also surprised. Every time he went out and returned to Beijing, he felt like he didn't know the way.

As a super important city in the north, the capital is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Wang Xiyuan, the Chancellor of Shuntian Prefecture, is so busy that he is going bald, and the pressure is no less than that of Shen Shixing.

The capital city was undergoing changes in all aspects. As the number of residential buildings increased, they had to be managed. The originally randomly built residential buildings in the suburbs had to be demolished and rebuilt for road planning. Sanitation, public pharmacies, schools, water supply and so on, everything was changing every moment. The refined management of the city was a science, and a great one at that.

The emperor issued an edict to summon the four captains. The meeting place was not in the Wenhua Hall or the Huangji Hall, but in the Wuying Tower of the Beidaying.

Wuying Tower was expanded on the basis of Beitucheng. It used to be an adobe enclosure with a circumference of no more than five miles. Now it has been expanded to a huge scale because Shiwang City and Daming Royal Polytechnic Institute are also here. The Polytechnic Institute has started the third phase of construction, and Beidaying will also be expanded.

Its size has made it the fifth city of the capital.

There are four cities in the capital: East City, West City, Outer City and Forbidden City, and now the North City has taken shape.

"Tonghe Gate?" Ma Wenying looked at the five gates of the Northern Earth City and was a little surprised. This is an earth city? What is the difference between the gate construction and the Desheng Gate not far away?
Li Yougong said calmly: "Well, it should have started with Governor Pan Jixun. All the city gates facing Tonghe Palace are called this name. When it comes to flattery, who can rival these scholars!"

The job of slandering and flattering was supposed to be done by the eunuchs, but it was snatched away by the civil servants!
After the carriage slowly entered the city gate, Li Yougong pointed to the west and said, "That's the Ten Kings City, a city within a city, where the princes who moved to the capital live. On the right is the Royal Institute of Technology. To the north, there are 33 blocks built around Wuying Tower, but there are no walls. They are divided into four areas by roads, and the four directions of east, west, south and north are Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise and Vermillion Bird."

Li Yougong introduced the construction of Beitu City to Ma Wenying in detail. It can be said that the entire Beitu City was built by Wang Chonggu alone.

At that time, Wang Chonggu was the governor of the military affairs of the Beijing Camp. He worked for less than a year before returning to Xuanfu and Datong to plug the holes in the construction of the Great Wall. Later, Wang Chonggu could no longer get involved in the Beijing Camp, but he was obviously obsessed with the Beijing Camp. Although he could not be the governor of military affairs, he planned the entire Beitucheng in an orderly manner.

The reason why Wang Chonggu worked so hard was that he felt he was involved.

Wang Chonggu's greatest achievements in his life were all his contributions to military affairs. Later, when he could no longer be involved in military affairs, he started a government-run factory.

The three enclosures represent Wuying Tower, Ten Kings City, and Royal Institute of Technology; the four symbols represent military camps, where military families are also located; and the seven stars represent seven government offices.

It includes the Beijing Camp Pacification Office, which is the legal department responsible for all cases in the Beijing Camp; the Bell and Drum Tower is responsible for night watchmen patrolling the streets and firefighters putting out fires; the East and West Markets buy and sell goods and commodities; the Armory Office stores gunpowder and armaments; the Garrison Commander's Mansion is where the commanders hold meetings; the Household and Experience Office is responsible for the calculation and distribution of military pay; and the Education Office is responsible for all matters related to the Beijing Camp schools.

Ma Wenying looked at the government offices that the carriage passed by and asked blankly, "Does the Beijing camp have a special household department to manage military pay?"

"Isn't there any in the Ninth Battalion of Zhejiang?" Li Yougong asked doubtfully.

"No."

"This Wu Shanyan! He is a bastard who deceives his superiors and subordinates and deserves to be cut into pieces!" Li Yougong cursed viciously.

In the ninth year of the Wanli reign, the emperor issued an imperial decree to set up a fifth-rank official in each capital. This was part of Zhenwu, and was the office responsible for calculating the payment of military pay. It was directly under the management of the Ministry of Revenue. Wu Shanyan reported this to the court and the establishment was completed.

Now it seems that they are deceiving their superiors and concealing the truth from their subordinates. I'm afraid that the person in charge of the Zhejiang Military Headquarters is most likely Wu Shanyan's lackey. No wonder all the pay was paid out of the warehouse, but six cents of pay was missing out of thin air!

Now Wu Shanyan has another crime, deceiving the emperor.

Yan Shixuan thought that Wu Shanyan was just exploiting his subordinates, and when he was investigating, he didn't even think about the matter of deceiving God. Wu Shanyan really thought that he was different from ordinary people and even dared to deceive the emperor.

"That's the Wuying Tower." The carriage moved slowly forward and stopped in front of the Wuying Tower, waiting for the imperial edict to be announced.

(End of this chapter)