Chapter 11 Military System Reform (III)

Andingmen, Lingchunfang, and Shuntian Prefecture are located here. The lobby of the yamen is open, and the inside is very strict. In the past, the Shuntian Prefecture yamen was crowded with people coming and going, and officials at all levels came to do business, visit, and those who came to give gifts could not be driven away. However, in the past four or five days, the front of the yamen has become obviously quiet. It turns out that so many officials are rushing to go in. The yamen guarding the gate looked at the officials begging for themselves in a low voice, feeling very embarrassed. Now, there are no compliments from the past, and people have become depressed and listless.

A blue official sedan galloped over from a distance, and the two yamen runners standing at the door suddenly became energetic. They hurriedly raised their backs and felt refreshed.

"Drop the sedan chair, drop the sedan chair..." Before the sedan chair arrived, I heard the urgent voice of the person in the sedan chair.

The sedan chairmen naturally stopped hearing this. They saw that the person in the sedan chair could not wait. Before the sedan chair could land smoothly, they lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and almost jumped out of the sedan chair, lifted the collar of the clothes, and rushed to the lobby of the Shuntian Prefecture Government like a flying.

"Master Wei!" The two yamen runners naturally recognized that this person was Wei Xuelian, the new Taipu Temple Shaoqing, and also his best friend, so they naturally did not come forward to stop him.

"Where is your Lord Shi?" Wei Xuelian asked with an anxious look on his face.

"Our adult is in the back hall, so why don't you tell me?" The smarter yamen runner said quickly.

"No, I'll go by myself..." Wei Xuelian waved his hand anxiously and ran inside.

In the backyard, Shi Kefa was teasing his baby daughter at this moment. His wife Zihe was lying on the rattan chair on the side, smiling at the father and daughter. After giving birth, Zihe became more charming and attractive, and her thin body became plump.

"Gee..." The girl became very playful and actually grabbed Shi Kefa's beard that had just been growing for a while. Her hands kept dancing. Shi Kefa grinned in pain. The little girl was still laughing happily, and Zihe was also laughing so hard that she was so naughty that she was trembling.

The family was laughing and having fun, an uninvited guest suddenly rushed in.

The person who came was Wei Xuelian.

Seeing that Wei Xuelian was anxious and rushed in without a notice, Shi Kefa was shocked. This was the first time he had seen such a situation. He knew that Wei Xuelian would not have been able to break into the inner courtyard without urgent matters, especially when the female family members were in the situation.

Zihe immediately smiled calmly and carried her daughter from her husband's arms and said softly: "The master has a guest, so I'll avoid it first."

"Brother Shi, do you know that you are in trouble now!" When Shi Kefa welcomed Wei Xuelian into the study, Wei Xuelian said to the beginning.

"What a disaster is coming?" Shi Kefa was stunned and puzzled.

"Don't you know, Brother Shi?" Wei Xuelian was a little surprised.

"What do you know? You might as well say anything." Shi Kefa saw Wei Xuelian's solemn look on his face, and knew that something must have happened.

"Does Brother Shi remember a case three months ago? And has Brother Shi submitted a secret copy recently?" Wei Xuelian asked.

"Three months ago?" Shi Kefa lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said blankly, "I have written a secret letter, but not many people seem to know about this. How could you know about Brother Wei?" When the secret letter was signed, Wei Xuelian was newly transferred to Taipu Temple, so he did not call him, so he was very surprised how Wei Xuelian knew about this?

"Did Brother Shi ask the court to abolish the title and feudal system and the inheritance system?" Wei Xuelian asked anxiously.

"Yes, there are too many lords and nobles. These people are not only unable to share the worries and problems for the court. While exploiting the people, sucking bones and marrow, they constantly reach out to ask the court for money, food, and even land. The money and food used by the court on these people every year are enough to support an army of 500,000. Not only that, these people are also insatiable. The court should have cut off the offerings of these people long ago." Shi Kefa said with hatred. The memorial was not instructed by Zhu Yinglong himself, but Shi Kefa himself realized that these people were like the internal cancer of the Ming Dynasty. If he did not make up his mind to cut him off, the country would never be healthy.

After hearing Shi Kefa's explanation, Wei Xuelian sighed helplessly, thinking that he didn't know, but it was not easy to abolish the established laws that had been passed down for thousands of years. Looking at the reforms over the past thousand years, no reform had ever destroyed the rights and interests of these people. Speaking of which, after all, the ancestors made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. They offended all these lords and cut off their interests. These people either held real power or were deeply rooted in the court. Shi Kefa stepped in and was probably trapped in, saying: "Brother Shi, you are afraid that you will be poked a hole in the sky this time, and I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to protect you!"

Shi Kefa was silent for a while. Although he had not been in the officialdom for a short time, he knew the sinisterness of the officialdom and the struggle of all forces. He knew very well how many people were really for the court and for the country. In terms of overall strength, the faction of support for the emperor's reform occupied the dominance of the court, and they all had certain real power, and even had the highest power. However, middle and lower-level officials obviously put their own interests first. Although after several blood exchanges, it is difficult to form a force in the short term. Unless the emperor uses violence to clean up the officialdom, doing so may lose the hearts of the people and even push the country into a more collapsed situation, which will make it cheaper to eye the enemy. This secret letter is too urgent.

"Also, Brother Shi, do you know the case of the Wang family land dispute you handled three months ago?" Wei Dazhong suddenly asked.

"What does that case have to do with this matter?" Shi Kefa was very puzzled. These two things were completely incompatible, so how could they be linked together?

"The old man of the Wang family died, and Wang Yuanye, the eldest son of the Wang family, released the Jiangxi Censor. Because you awarded the thirty acres of land to the Li family, the old man of the Wang family could not afford to take ill and died in less than seven days. Now Wang Yuanye has joined forces with several censors to impeach you and sentence your case to unfairly, forcing his old father to death. The memorial to impeach you was suppressed by the cabinet, but there is news that Wang Yuanye has a deep relationship in the capital. Although the memorial to impeach you was suppressed, someone in the great dynasty tomorrow will take this opportunity to attack you, and the cabinet may be affected by this." Wei Xueyan said.
Chapter completed!