Chapter 923 Caused by This - Generals and Generals
"Official." Wang Xi held a memorial in his hand and stood beside Yunxi with his hands down.
"What's the matter?" Yunxi, who was criticizing the memorial, asked softly without raising his head.
Wang Xi glanced sideways at the fourth auxiliary officer who was drafting a memorial on a table a few feet away, and whispered something in Yunxi's ear.
Yunxi's hand holding the pen suddenly stopped in mid-air. After a while, he put down the pen. He stood up and took Wang Xi to a small attic. He asked the eunuch to close the door and then asked in a deep voice: "What did you do just now?"
Say what you said to me again."
"The official family," Wang Xi was not afraid, and his voice was steady: "The official family asked the servants to divide the memorials that the ministers handed down these days to impeach the children of powerful people according to the birthplace of the person, the Yamen and the people who had good relations with him in the same year.
The servants are just sorting out the files in the room where the officials’ files are kept according to the officials’ instructions.”
"But when I saw this memorial, I realized that something was wrong." As he spoke, Wang Xi picked up the memorial in his hand: "This memorial was submitted by Hu Ying, the imperial censor of Huguang Road in the Imperial Procuratorate. Hu Ying was a Zhili
Although Cao Tai, the Marquis of Xuanning, was from Shouzhou directly under the Central Government, his grandfather's generation moved from Taihu County to Shouzhou. Taihu Lake is the location of his ancestral grave. In the third year of Hongwu, the late emperor named Cao Liangchen the Marquis of Xuanning.
Cao Liangchen and his son Cao Tai also specially returned to Taihu County to worship their ancestors, renovate their ancestral tombs, and join the clan with the clansmen who stayed there and did not move north. Although there is no certainty that this Hu Ying is related to the local Cao clan,
This person should be the mouthpiece of Marquis Xuanning."
"This time, Hu Ying made excuses for two days in a row, begging your Majesty to punish Xu Jingchang severely."
"If there is only one person like this, it doesn't matter. It's impossible to say that this person hates evil so much that he asks Xu Jingchang to be punished severely." Yunxi argued as if he hoped that the things he was vaguely thinking were just conjectures.
"Officials, if this is all, I will never dare to talk to the officials." Wang Xi said: "With this thought in mind, I will be more careful when looking through the files of the ministers who submitted the memorial. After careful screening, I found that
Most of these people are related to noble families."
Wang Xi took out seven or eight memorials from his waist and said to Yunxi one by one: "This person is Tang Xuanfa. He is the head of the Department of Fine Food and Cleaning of the Ministry of Rites. He has something to do with Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jingchuan. We both ask your Majesty to punish Xu Jingchang seriously. This person is
Ye Qiu, Zuo Sicheng of Honglu Temple, was involved with Huixian Bo Sangjing, and he also petitioned to impeach Xu Jingchang; this person..."
"My slaves discovered that nine ministers who had petitioned to impeach other generals or the nobles' children were involved with the nobles, and,"
"And most of the other civil servants who submitted the impeachment report were also involved with the nobles, but they were hidden deeply and not discovered." When Wang Xi hesitated, Yunxi had already finished his sentence with a sneer.
"You have become more capable, and you actually started fighting through this incident." Yunxi sat down and said this again with a sneer.
Wang Xi hurriedly walked to the door and asked the eunuch to bring a pot of tea. He also told them not to come in without permission. He then poured a cup of tea for Yunxi with the teapot and persuaded: "The officials should calm down."
"How can I calm down?" Yunxi took the tea cup and took a sip, and said angrily: "This time, the civil servants are impeaching nobles, and these people actually took this opportunity to punish the generals of different factions. They are not afraid that I will kill them all in one rage.
Those who were impeached were punished!”
Things have become very clear. Some of the highest-ranking military generals in the Ming Dynasty actually took advantage of this opportunity for the civilian officials to impeach Xu Jingchang. They wanted to use this opportunity to completely remove Xu Jingchang from Yunxi, or at least have him dismissed from office.
It is a matter of course that the generals of the Ming Dynasty also have factions, and because there are many founding heroes and their descendants who are still alive, there are many factions. Although the Xu family, Chang family and Li family are the three most powerful factions,
But there are still quite a few generals who are not from these three factions.
Among the many factions now, the Xu family is too dazzling. Xu Da was originally the second hero in the founding of the country, and Li Shanchang became the first hero after his death. They are very powerful. Now Xu Huizu is in charge of military affairs in the northwest, and Xu Zengshou is in Yongzhou in the northeast.
The vassal served as the king's prime minister. Xu Jingchang's meritorious service in Annan this time earned him a count for his father. Even Xu Yingxu, who everyone thought was incompetent, became the governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and handled daily affairs. Even Xu Qin was in the guardhouse.
Experience.
At the same time, three of the four girls of the Xu family were married to the prince as the principal concubines, and the other was married to the emperor as one of the four concubines. All of this made the Xu family now too powerful.
His power was not comparable to that of the Chang family and the Li family combined. This aroused the jealousy of the generals of other factions.
If it is just jealousy, more importantly, this matter is related to the promotion of military generals of their own faction, which is very fatal. Even if the Xu family can handle it impartially when promoting officials, many military generals often
If they are all qualified, will the Xu family not give priority to the generals of their own faction? Think about it, it is impossible.
Therefore, for the future of their own faction's generals, they also had to deal with the Xu family. It just so happened that Xu Jingchang's wrong doing provided them with an opportunity, so they took action.
In fact, Yunxi is not unaware that the Xu family is now very powerful, but now is the time to employ people, and the Xu family has the ability, so he can only use it temporarily, and wait for the matter to pass before he can rise up or down secretly, and cut it.
He gained part of the power of the Xu family.
What's more important is that this time is another political struggle between the civil servants and the nobles. Even though the scale is not as good as last time, many generals can't even care about it.
"Officials, don't be upset if I say a word. Now everyone in the imperial court knows that there will be a war with the Kingdom of Samarkand in the next two years. Your Majesty will never do anything to the military generals at this time. Especially three years ago.
A few days ago, news came from the northwest about Timur's expedition to the White Horde Khanate. Your ministers and Your Majesty must have guessed the same thing. Timur wants to eliminate his worries. He will probably send troops to the Ming Dynasty next year, and Your Majesty will not do anything to the generals at this time.
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"Besides, the contact between the civil servants they instigated and their family this time is very secret. If the officials hadn't used some kind of 'big data analysis' to peel off the clues and let the Jin Yiwei investigate, they would never have been discovered. Many people were in the late Emperor's reign.
He was already an official at that time, but the late emperor didn't notice." Wang Xi persuaded.
"Hey, because we have to fight a war, why don't you feel free to impeach the Xu family?" Yunxi sneered.
At this moment, he wanted to dispose of all the discovered generals; but his left hand repeatedly clenched and unclenched, and in the end he could only let go of this thought for the time being.
"But even if I can't deal with them all, I won't make it easy for them." Yunxi said.
