Chapter 126 Tell the people behind you that I’m coming
Zhu Youxiao glanced at the three censors.
Feng Sanyuan, the censor, Wei Yingjia, the official of the Sixth Section, and Zhang Xiude are not from the Donglin Party, but the people behind them are very similar to the National People's Congress behind the Donglin Party.
The people behind them have actually wanted to impeach Xiong Tingbi for a long time.
There is no other reason, because behind them is the huge smuggling business network in Liaodong and Jiangnan.
A large number of Jiangnan big landowners, big salt merchants and township party cronies have gathered a large amount of assets and do not engage in production and research and development. Instead, they engage in land mergers and reselling to earn the price difference.
Land is their basic base, and monopolizing the Grand Canal and engaging in differential trade in shipping is their way to make huge profits.
Monopolize the trade of horses, ginseng, mink skins, deer antlers, medicinal materials, and fine wood from the Northeast, and sell them to Jiangnan to earn ten times the price difference.
Smuggling rice, tea, and sugar from Jiangnan to Jurchen and Mongolia, earning dozens of times the price difference.
When Liaodong was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, their smuggling was covered by Li Chengliang and others, and everyone shared the spoils together.
After Li Chengliang's death, there were still a large number of landlords and businessmen in Liaoyang who acted as transit agents and sold to the enemy to make money.
There will also be Mao Wenlong's smuggling gang in the future, and the eight major Shanxi merchants after Huang Taiji took over the eastern part of the grassland, they are just their middlemen.
It just so happened that Xiong Tingbi was working hard to clear the country and strictly control the troops in Liaodong. This year, the smuggling business dropped by 80%.
How can Xiong Tingbi be allowed to continue working?!
Their agents targeted Xiong Tingbi for impeachment.
Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, Zhang Xiude and other censorship officials, whether subjectively or intentionally, or objectively, they are officials who monopolize smuggling power and use their political voices to cover up.
Why do you respect yourself but don't dare to attack? You fear the enemy like a tiger and sit back and watch the slaves live freely. They mobilize nine soldiers to embezzle money and food. You have a bad temper and beat the generals, and you make up one charge after another.
He talks about righteousness, but behind his back is business.
No wonder Zhu Youxiao was deceived in his previous life, and later he was so angry that he used Lao Wei Quan to take him down. The motive for killing Xiong Tingbi was too dirty.
It has to be said that with the integration of government and businessmen, there will always be people in the court and behind the scenes who speak out for the monopoly of government and businessmen. Historically, Chongzhen went crazy for lack of money, but in Zhangjiakou, more than 100 kilometers away, the eight imperial merchants sold endless looted from the customs for the Qing Dynasty.
Wealth has always been unable to be discovered and punished.
Zhu Youxiao knows that the current Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, and Zhang Xiude, like Chen Xinjia and others behind them, are just the spokespersons of these monopoly landlords and businessmen. The only difference lies in whether the middlemen are Liaoyang businessmen or the Eight Imperial Businessmen.
If these smugglers in Liaoyang remember correctly, when Nurhachi broke into the city, they all decorated the city with lights and colorful decorations, and organized the women in the city to put on makeup to welcome him.
More shameless than the Eight Great Imperial Merchants.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the civil and military officials: "Is there anyone else who wants to impeach Xiong Tingbi?"
Several more imperial censors came forward, saying that Xiong Tingbi must be like Wang Zuo, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was greedy for military pay, weapons, armor, gunpowder, and grain and grass. They hoped to take him down immediately and replace him with someone else as the Liaodong manager. There were other officials who were involved in smuggling in Liaodong and had close relations with big landowners and monopoly businessmen.
This prince overseeing the country is very powerful. If there is a trap, let these stupid young men rush ahead.
"Okay, okay, okay~"
He has thought about it too.
If you kill a few spokespersons, there will be new ones.
Kill the Liaoyang smuggling merchants and middlemen, and there will be middlemen like Mao Wenlong on the sea; kill the eight major Shanxi merchants, and there will be similar Wuxiang, Jiliao, and smugglers.
If we kill the current large landowners in the southeast and the giant businessmen who monopolize the Grand Canal, they will be replaced by the Xunqi Landowners and Businessmen Group and the Huguangda Landowners and Businessmen.
You have to kill, but you can’t kill like this.
Instead, we need to use some people to kill them and take down all the guys behind them.
Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly, and Liu Ruoyu next to him felt a slight chill. He knew that the prince did not usually smile like this, but only smiled like this when Wang Wenyan, Yang Lian, and Wang An were in trouble.
"By the way, there is complete evidence of the Ministry of Industry's corruption and perversion of the law. In addition to Duke Cheng, Youdu Yushi and Jin Yiwei, there are also people who have contributed a lot. I would like to ask the Minister of the Ministry of War to explain it to everyone."
"I obey the decree."
Huang Jiashan, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, who was previously impeached by Yang Lian for the eight deadly crimes, did not show as much performance as Fang Congzhe, Huang Kezuan, and Li Ruhua after returning to the court, and seemed to have been a bit low-key.
Why keep a low profile?
Of course it's because the prince gave him another special mission.
After Huang Jiashan was impeached for the eight deadly crimes, he suddenly disappeared from the world. In fact, he was arranged by the prince to go to Tongzhou, where he joined the Zhejiang soldiers and the Baigan soldiers and entered the city at the critical moment to put down the rebellion.
It's the same this time... He usually doesn't move here, and if he moves, someone will suffer.
Huang Jiashan spoke loudly: "The weapons and armors made by the Ministry of Industry include excellent and high-quality products, and there are also shabby and defective products. These defective products are in the hands of our main army of the Ming Dynasty, but what about the high-quality products? Feng Yushi, you know
?"
"Why did Huang Benbing get involved? I didn't know. If I had known, he would have been impeached a long time ago." Feng Sanyuan hurriedly denied it. When he was anxious, he directly called the Minister of War the "Benbing", which was not respected by the Minister of War.
"Haha, then you can ask the big businessmen behind you, they know very well~"
When Huang Jiashan asked this question, the atmosphere in the morning suddenly changed.
"What...what do you mean!?" Feng Sanyuan's face turned ugly.
Huang Jiashan ignored him and reported to the prince: "After the incident, I immediately set out to eliminate the remnants of the Beijing camp and capture the fugitive generals involved in rebellion. I found that the generals in the Beijing camp were reselling high-quality weapons and armors to big businessmen, who in turn sold these
The goods are sold to Liaodong and grasslands."
Ah!?
Most officials were shocked.
This is to support the enemy.
"Do you have evidence?" Feng Sanyuan was anxious. It was obvious that Huang Jiashan was talking about reselling generals involved in rebellion, but he had preconceived the idea and questioned it.
"Haha, I, Huang Jiashan, am relatively isolated in the court, but your abilities should not be underestimated."
He raised his head slightly and said to the sky: "Old minister, he was the result of Zhang Juzheng's implementation of the One Whip Law, and he was gradually appointed and promoted later. I remember that at that time, the Longwan New Deal brought about the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention anything else, I just talked about Mongolia.
People negotiated peace and trade, and opened Fujian Yuegang.
After the old minister cleared his land, he went to Datong and the northwest for decades, and he was very aware of the twists and turns between big landowners, big businessmen and the Mongols~
Isn’t this how the Shanxi merchants and the Shanxi Party were born? Are all the Shanxi merchants and the Jin Party bad people? No! Is there anyone in the Shanxi merchants and the Jin Party who resells arms? Yes!"
Huang Jiashan flicked his sleeves and glared at Feng Sanyuan: "Impeach Xiong Tingbi? Did Xiong Jinglue call in troops from all sides to hinder the smuggling of Liaodong smugglers and Grand Canal smugglers? I don't know anything else, but the Ministry of Industry gave a report to the Beijing camp.
A batch of high-quality weapons and armor was intercepted by Xiong Tingbi and I, and both witnesses and physical evidence are there!"
Feng Sanyuan was shocked and pretended to be stupid.
Zhu Youxiao on the throne smiled: "Go back and tell the people behind you that I am coming."