"The entire military department is greedy for nearly two million taels of ink, and the old man himself is greedy for more than 500,000 taels, don't go too far, so as not to cause the soldiers to mutiny, the old man is willing to return all the silver, please let Your Majesty spare the old man's life!"
Zhang Heming trembled his lips and said, and knelt down and kowtowed to Wei Zhongxian.Wei Zhongxian said with a cold face: "These silvers belong to the imperial court, and they still need you to return them?"
”As he spoke, Wei Zhongxian shouted: "Ask him why he dares to be greedy for ink after the emperor explicitly forbids it!"
Anyway, he is also the minister of Shangshu, so he doesn't want to think about what is behind him?!
”"Yes!"
So, Jin Yiwei held a whip dipped in salt water and whipped Zhang Heming.Zhang Heming, who has enjoyed honor for a long time, has never experienced such a beating in his life, and for a while, the fine skin and tender flesh were beaten to the point of blood and flesh, and he kept screaming: "Ah!
It hurts!
”"Why do you dare to be greedy for ink after Your Majesty's explicit ban, and you are also a minister of Shangshu, so you don't want to think about what is behind you?"
Jin Yiwei asked as he was told.This Zhang Heming had to reply painfully: "Everyone does this, there is no civil and military official who does not love money and is not greedy for luxury, where can people's greed stop, and the minister has not thought about what happened after his death, but the evaluation behind him is also my scholar and doctor's own evaluation of himself, and he will cover up his ugliness, this is common sense, why do you ask more, the old man didn't expect His Majesty to be so serious this time, even if the sons of heaven of all dynasties know, they will be open to this matter!"
Besides, don't you factory guards like silver?!
”"Our family also likes silver, but we know what silver to take and what not to take!
The biggest difference between our family and you Zhang Heming is that our family has always taken the emperor to heart, unlike a hypocrite like you Zhang Heming, who keeps saying that he is for the country and the people, but he dares to be greedy for the emperor's silver and swallow the silver of the soldiers who fought bloodily for the Ming Dynasty!
”Wei Zhongxian asked himself if he was a good person, but he didn't know why his sense of justice suddenly exploded, and he secretly felt that he seemed to be doing a good deed for the world and cleaning up such a big corrupt official.For a while, Wei Zhongxian shouted solemnly because of this: "Take it down, and detain it first!"
”Then, Wei Zhongxian said: "Continue to interrogate other officials suspected of embezzlement of ink." ”So, the people from Dongchang interrogated a soldier Langzhong: "From the truth, how much military salary you have embezzled, and how did you steal it?"
”At first, this soldier also denied it: "I didn't swallow it, I didn't swallow it!"
”"I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin, I use torture directly, I have been holding your evidence in my hands for months in the East Factory, and I am still hard-mouthed!
Do you really think that anyone will save you now?
”Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but scold.Thereupon.This soldier was also tortured, and began to shout, extremely miserable, like a ghost crying wolf.The other detained civil servants trembled at the sight of this, as if they were on pins and needles.But because of this, these civil officials basically obediently confessed to their crimes and confessed all their embezzlement.And Wei Zhongxian came to Zhu Youxiao with a large pile of confessions: "Emperor, the military department has confessed!"
”Zhu Youxiao looked at it because of this, and after watching it for a while, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.Although Zhu Youxiao knew that the corruption of the Ming Dynasty officials was very serious, he did not expect that it would be so corrupt, and some officials of the military department not only coveted military salaries, but also clearly marked the prices of various military attache positions, and brazenly sold official positions, and even some civilian officials of the military department, relying on the power to harm the military attachés under them, deliberately tampered with the figures of the military salaries received by the military attachés under them, and then falsely accused these military attaches that they had eaten empty salaries and falsely reported their military salaries, forcing these military attaches to honor them, and there were also those who colluded with military attaches or forced military attaches to eat empty salaries and make meritorious contributions."
The military attachés of the Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more unsuccessful, and there are more and more people who eat empty salaries and even kill good and impostor, and the root lies in the civilian officials who manage them!
Passed on to the cabinet ministers. ”After Zhu Youxiao said this, he threw the confessions of these civilian officials of the military department on the ground.For a while, Fang Congzhe, Han Yi, and Wang Xiangqian all came to the Qianqing Palace.After these people came, Zhu Youxiao directly threw the confessions of these civilian officials of the military department to Fang Congzhe and others: "Take a closer look!"
How can I trust you civil servants in the future?!
”Fang Congzhe and the others hurriedly looked at it seriously.Although the three ministers had long known about this kind of thing, they had to show their horror now."
Your Majesty, this is too appalling, how can these people be so disloyal and shameless!"
Han Yi even said it most excitedly."
Your Majesty, this thing is really incredible, and the minister is really unheard of!
I can't imagine that there are people among my ministers who have fallen to such a degree!
”Fang Congzhe also said."
Your Majesty, the minister has to say, if it goes on like this, the military government will not be bad!"
Wang Xiangqian also sighed.......
"The corruption of officials is too serious, and we can't do without heavy punishment!"
When the law of Taizu is reinstated, it should even be aggravated, and those who embezzle more than 60 taels of silver will be cut in half, stripped of skin and grass, and have no family property!
Those under sixty taels will be decided!
No property!
This time all the corrupt officials dealt with it in this way. ”Zhu Youxiao said at this time.And the three ministers were very surprised when they heard this.Fang Congzhe also had to admit that His Majesty was too ruthless like this, so he asked: "Your Majesty, almost most of the officials in the Ministry of War this time are suspected of being greedy for ink, and Yichen just read the confession and knew that except for Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, and Sun Chuanting, the director of the Ministry of War, who had just been transferred to Beijing from the magistrate of the county, they were all greedy for ink, this is undoubtedly a nest case, if they are all killed, there will be almost no one in the Ministry of War." ”"It is precisely because it is a nest case that it must be handled strictly!
If a person in a ministry is corrupt to such an extent, and he is not punished, will other ministers also think that as long as they go up and down and get through the greedy ink, they will be fine?
We must not let the people of other ministries and officials leave anything to chance, and we must set an example!
Kill them all!
If there is no one in the military department, I will immediately arrange people, I don't believe that there is still a shortage of people in the world who are officials, and in addition, it is too much power to divide part of the authority of the military department!
”After Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and said, he said: "He is not only in charge of the selection and promotion of military attachés in the world, but also in charge of the allocation of military salaries and military command, and there are no checks and balances, so that corruption is unscrupulous!"
Immediately drafted the decree, reaffirmed the ancestral law, and returned the functions of military attache examination and promotion and command to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, which set up the Military Selection Department and the Military Aircraft Division, and the Ministry of War only left two divisions of the car and the arsenal, and added a Treasury Department to be responsible for the distribution of military salaries, and another training and education department was set up, which was responsible for the training of soldiers and horses and border defense propaganda!
”The cabinet ministers did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would take this opportunity to seize the power of the military department.