Chapter 195 Could it be that they want to target our entire Ministry of Industry?
Chapter 195 Could it be that he wants to target our entire Ministry of Industry? (Second update)
Author: sunny
Chapter 195 Could it be that he wants to target our entire Ministry of Industry? (Second update)
Early the next morning, the ministers and ministers entered the palace one after another to attend the court meeting, heading towards Chui Gong Hall in small groups.
It's just that everyone's expressions looked very ugly and very worried.
"You guys have heard that yesterday, the workshop contracted for ordnance forging was vandalized..."
"Haha, I have already expected this kind of thing, after all, it is an unknown small workshop.
If you want to steal food from the iron guild, it's not like making people angry or something. It's normal for things to happen..."
"Those thugs from the Iron Guild not only smashed up the small workshop, but also beat up Cai Liulang from Cai Xiang's family and Tong Dalang from Tong Zhongguan's family."
"What?!"
"Are they crazy? How dare they attack those two people?"
"My dear mother, you can't do this if you eat the heart of a bear or the courage of a leopard, right?"
"Even they were beaten. No wonder I just saw Mr. Cai with a grimace and murderous intent. I'm afraid today..."
"Don't you see how ugly the faces of the people from the Ministry of Industry over there are?
I heard that Zhao Fujin, the man who made the outfit, is the father-in-law of a doctor in their Ministry of Industry..."
A group of ministers and workers were talking quietly, and many people turned their attention to the bosses from the Ministry of Industry with very ugly faces.
Cai Jing, on the other hand, had a dark face and paid no attention to anyone. The powerful low pressure made all the ministers dare not approach the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty.
Fortunately, as the door of Chui Gong Hall was slowly pushed open, all the officials stopped guessing and making assumptions, and cheered up to prepare for today's court meeting.
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Zhao Ji, an official with a not very pretty face, stood behind the imperial case and asked the saluting ministers to stand up.
As soon as they sat down, an official was about to go out to announce something. Just as he raised his leg and took two steps forward, he heard a cough not far away.
Turning his head, it was Cai Jing who stepped out of the formation and glanced at him with cold eyes.
This official was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he quickly bowed and returned to his shift with a smile on his face.
"The official family, I have something to report to you."
Cai Jing glanced at the ministers and workers, and finally took a deep look at the Minister of Works and the Minister of Works before looking away.
Just this look directly made the faces of the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Industry become extremely ugly, and they looked at each other in confusion.
"Shang Shu, is it possible that Prime Minister Cai wants to target our entire Ministry of Industry?"
"It's all my fault that damn Doctor Xu, why did he go crazy and actually touch Cai Liulang..."
"No matter how much you say these words, what's the use?" The gray-haired minister of the Ministry of Industry had a frustrated look on his face.
After yesterday's incident, he didn't rest all night. He knew very well that Cai Liulang and Tong Dalang were beaten severely.
The revenge in this matter will definitely not stop at the doctor Xu who caused the trouble.
The foreign-world workshop that the government intended to carry out armaments reform was actually smashed. Isn't this a slap in the government's face?
If it was just this, that would be fine, but they actually beat up Cai Laoliu and Tong Zhisheng.
These idiots are not necessarily tying the official family to the same side as those two ruthless, evil and powerful eunuchs.
Over there, Cai Jing was already making impassioned speeches. Following the inaction of the Ministry of Industry over the years, and all kinds of old accounts of old grain and bad things, all were revealed.
The most important thing is that Doctor Xu of the Ministry of Industry secretly instructed his father-in-law, a leader of the Tokyo Ironworks Guild, to lead people to smash the Kaifeng Metal Workshop, which had become an arms contractor of the Song Dynasty.
This kind of behavior is simply a betrayal of the official family and the current policy program of reform and reform of the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, how could he, a small-time doctor from the Ministry of Industry, dare to be so bold? There must be someone behind this, or even secretly giving instructions.
What's more, in the past, the entire Ministry of Industry made a lot of money from arms manufacturing.
Now, it is a doctor from the Ministry of Industry who takes action. Who can guarantee that this is not a collusion among officials from the Ministry of Industry?
Unable to calm down, the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Industry stood up to defend themselves, but the question is, who are their opponents?
However, Cai Jing, the treacherous Prime Minister who held great power in both the government and the public, and those Cai Jing's followers came out one after another to support and attack the officials of the Ministry of Industry.
As for Zhao Ji, an official of the Song Dynasty, he was sitting quietly behind the imperial case with a cold expression on his face.
Seeing this scene, Wu Zhizhong frowned and was about to stand up, but was stopped by Chen Shilang beside him.
"Shang Shu, you must not do it, you must not do it..."
"Now is no longer the time to pay attention to the truth, and what the Ministry of Industry has done is also to undermine the established national policy of the Song Dynasty."
"Even if you are the minister and you stand up and speak out, who can believe that you are just talking about the matter?"
He glanced at Chen Shilang who was trying to persuade him beside him, and then looked at the chaos in the court in front of him.
Wu Zhizhong couldn't help chopping his feet and sighing, closing his eyes, let it go, out of sight, out of mind.
After all, the treacherous Prime Minister Cai Jing was indeed right when he said that everyone at the Ministry of Industry must be happy to see that the arms reform cannot proceed.
Aren't all the officials in the Ministry of Industry part of the group of officials who strongly opposed the reform? It's just that Mr. Xu was just a prominent figure.
As the censors impeached the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the memorials flew to the official desks like snowflakes.
And under the confession of Mr. Xu who was detained in Dali Temple, many officials from the Ministry of Industry were involved.
The Minister of the Ministry of Industry was demoted to the position of magistrate of Kuizhou Road and Bozhou. The Minister of the Ministry of Industry was demoted to the position of Tuan Lian Envoy.
As for Dr. Xu, he colluded with his father-in-law Zhao Fujin and intended to sabotage the imperial armaments reform.
The officials were furious and summoned Dr. Xu into the Chui Gong Hall to scold him.
He even announced on the spot that he would immediately seize his position, depose him as a common man, and never use him again.
As for how to deal with a little miscellaneous fish like Lu Captou, there is no need to alarm the emperor of the Song Dynasty.
As for the official in charge of the Kaifeng Prefecture, the sentence was fairly fair, and he finally escaped the court turmoil without any danger.
And among the officials in the court, even though they have countless things to complain about in their hearts.
However, in the face of the unified front between the officials, Cai, Tong, and Gao, they could only maintain a tacit understanding in frustration, and no one dared to stand up and say anything.
After all, Dr. Xu from the Ministry of Works was looking for death. As for the Minister of Works, the Minister of Works, and several fallen officials of the Ministry of Works.
After all, he is a victim of the power struggle, or he is just a fish in the pond.
The reason why Dr. Xu was not killed directly was because the officials abided by the ancestral precepts.
As for Gao Zhang, Tong Zhisheng, and Cai Yao, the three young and talented weapons supervisors.
How could the officials just look on and say nothing after suffering such great grievances because of the imperial reform?
