81 Severe punishment
The Grand Tutor and the commander of the Jinyiwei, Luo Feiyu, had his rectification of the Beijing camp, shocked the entire court and the country at once.
On the first day, 18 generals and officials from the three camps in the capital were attacked and all of them were thrown into the imperial prison, and they were taken to the prison.
The only assistant who was not involved in the imperial prison was promoted to deputy general and was responsible for training soldiers.
Every day, drums and trumpets sounded and the shouts of killing sounded loudly on the other side of the university. The people of the capital had not heard of such a noisy scene for many years.
The joint verification of the Ministry of War, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Justice and the four departments was very significant. The first effect was that all soldiers occupied by nobles and generals and officers at all levels were returned to the camp. The second effect was to eliminate the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and streamline the organization. The third effect was to clean up and take down the mistake. However, the amount was huge and needed to be verified one by one. This effect would take some time to see.
To occupy the vocational service means that the nobles and generals at all levels mobilize soldiers from the Beijing camp to work for private sectors, farm, work, repair houses, and use these young and strong soldiers as free labor.
Therefore, the number of young and strong soldiers who joined the training ranks every day was increasing. But in the end, there were less than 10,000 people.
The three camps of the capital with 146,660 people were able to train in the battle, and there were only less than 10,000 people left! When this number was summarized, four cabinet masters, six ministries, nine ministers, left and right ministers, and Jiandu Censors gathered in the six ministries and looked at each other speechlessly.
"Corrupt officials and trash the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty! Grand Master! The case of such a nest in the Beijing camp must be severely punished!" A voice was very angry and shouted loudly.
The person who spoke was Li Kuilong, the left deputy censor of the Censorate. He looked angry and waved his hands with great momentum.
"Well," Luo Feiyu said, "The Beijing camp is in a state of rectification, and it is urgent to be delayed. The 18 people held in the prison have already told all kinds of illegal things. They are just front-line pawns, and behind them are noble families. Those who have been clearly involved include Liang Shixun, Xiangcheng Bo Li Shouqi, Yangwu Hou Xue Lian, Zhenyuan Hou Gu Zhaoji. If you continue to dig deeper, there are more noble families involved. It is easy to punish these front-line pawns, but what is the difficult attitude of these noble families. What are your attitudes?"
All the dukes here are all elites. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, they were disciples of Wei Zhongxian. Now they are the young Grand Tutor and the commander of the Jinyiwei, and they are very clear in their hearts that Li Kuilong, the left deputy chief censor of the Censorate just now, were the Grand Tutor's opinion.
Cao Sicheng, the right censor of the Censorate, coughed lightly and said, "The case of the Beijing camp is shocking! These nobles, who have inherited the protection of their ancestors, do not want to serve the emperor, be polite to the people, have a lot of fertile land at home, but are still so corruption and destroying the three major camps of the capital. They are simply crazy! According to the Ming Dynasty law, they should be severely punished to serve as a warning to others!"
This is setting the tone.
Everyone spoke out, echoing Cao Sicheng and Li Kuilong's proposal and demanding severe punishment.
Luo Feiyu was very satisfied.
Last night, he set the tone with his close friends in his study in his house. Today, this expanded court meeting is to unify the opinions of important officials in the court, follow a formal procedure, and start to take heavy measures in the name of the court.
He nodded and praised: "Okay! It's rare for everyone to be so consistent! The Beijing camp is related to the safety of the important areas of the capital, but now it has been ruined by the scum among these nobles, which is heartbreaking! The Beijing camp case, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Justice, and the Jinyiwei, is still under intense investigation. No matter which nobles are involved, they will be severely punished!"
The so-called severe punishment is not negligent, so it is naturally to kill people or search the house, and not let anyone go.
Luo Feiyu is generous to the court officials who depend on Wei Zhongxian. Giving them a chance to choose does not mean that he will do this to everyone.
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Huang Zongxi was disappointed after visiting the Grand Tutor Luo Feiyu in the capital. He originally thought that the young Grand Tutor would kill Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch party, and then he would rectify the court and wipe out the filthy wind in the court.
But he stayed in the capital for more than ten days, but nothing he saw changed.
Those who controlled the court were still those flatterers under Wei Zhongxian. None of the dismissed Donglin Party members returned to the capital and returned to the court!
Huang Zongxi was filled with anger and left the capital in anger and returned to Shaoxing Prefecture.
On this day, he was packing his luggage in the inn and preparing to set off to return to his hometown Yuyao. Suddenly, outside the window, there were gongs and drums and drums, and bursts of noise.
He couldn't help but go out, and just saw the servant Huang Ren running back in a hurry, shouting as he ran: "Young Master! Go and see! Something big happened in the capital!"
"What a big deal?" Huang Zongxi was shocked and asked anxiously, "What a big deal?"
The servant Huang Ren was panting, running out of breath, and stammered, answering: "The capital...the capital..."
Huang Zongxi took his foot and left, unable to wait for this unreliable servant to retell.
In front of the government office, there were already a crowd of people, surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside, which was even more lively than a temple fair.
Huang Zongxi was even more anxious to know what was going on, but there were people everywhere in front of him and he couldn't squeeze in.
In the end, Huang Ren dragged him, squeezed his head full of sweat, and finally squeezed in front of him.
The screen wall in front of the entire government office was covered with huge cubes of 1 meter square, with large characters written on it.
"Young Master, what is written on it is a big event that happened in the capital!" asked the servant Huang Ren.
Huang Zongxi couldn't help but feel silent. It turned out that this man didn't know what was going on in the capital just now?!
He just glanced at it and couldn't help but frown. Who wrote something? Why is this so unliterate?
"It says... Forget it, I'll read it to you directly. As long as you know literacy, you can understand such a...thing!" Huang Zongxi said.
He read the text directly according to the script and read it word by word.
There are six large pieces of paper in total, which are written about several things, which are like a storytelling, telling how the Grand Master Luo Feiyu believed in the order of King Zhu Youjian, set fire to the Jinyiwei case library, destroyed the evidence of the treasure ship case, and how he was killed by King Xin to silence him, how he escaped, how he entered the palace alone, killed Wei Zhongxian, and controlled the Jinyiwei, and how he encountered the Later Jin assassin in King Xin Zhu Youjian's mansion when he announced the order, how he silenced the eunuchs in the forbidden palace.
The whole process was written in a simple and easy-to-understand manner, with ups and downs. When Huang Zongxi was reciting, he was often nervous, and the people around him couldn't help but exclaim and looked nervous.
The more Huang Zongxi read, the more shocked he became. He finally understood that this thing was not written for scholars like him, but for people who didn’t know a single word!
That's why it's so easy to understand, it's simply plain language, without any literary talent! It's so fascinating, just like those words!
On the last piece of paper, there was finally a major event that happened in the capital. The investigation of the Jingying case has ended. Three governors of the Jingying, Liang Shixun, Hou Baoding, Xue Lian, Hou Yangwu, and Gu Zhaoji, Hou Zhenyuan, have been imprisoned for firing food and wages, beheading, deprived of titles, removed from the title, and confiscated their homes.
Li Shouqi, the lord of Xiangcheng, intervened in the generals of the Beijing camp, mistook food and wages, occupied labor, and was punished for death. His title was removed and most of his property was confiscated.
In these nobles' mansions, all the slaves who had named the capital's food and wages were sent to the border troops for their service.
Their family members were expelled from their mansion after being confiscated and made a living.
After reading this from the beginning to the end, Huang Zongxi couldn't help but feel dry. He was a smart man and immediately discovered a few unusual things.
The three nobles who were asked to beheaded were not sent to the Jiaofangsi after the property was confiscated. What's going on? Has the court become kind and be extra kind?
The young Grand Tutor is vigorously rectifying the Jingying and taking charge of the position of Rongzheng, the governor of the Jingying. Is he taking military power?
Also, is the Grand Master starting to use swords to noble families?
He is not worried about the counterattack of noble families?
Crushing out of the crowd and returning to the inn, Huang Zongxi was still thinking about these things.
Suddenly, he heard Huang Ren ask, "Young Master, the diary said that if you spend ten taels of silver a month, you can just be like the magistrate. When you see the diary next month, do you think someone will be so stupid as to spend this money?"
Chapter completed!