Daming Military Empire

Chapter 29
Zhu Cijiong has been very excited during this period, especially today, the planning of the military factory has finally been completed, and the construction can start immediately. According to the planned progress, it can be completed before the system distributes the flintlock rewards.

At that time, once the flintlock guns are released, the combat power of the Ming army will increase rapidly. Although it cannot be said to be invincible, self-protection is no problem.

He didn't expect that Sun Chengzong immediately poured a basin of cold water on him as soon as the order to transfer silver was sent to the household department.

On this day, after the morning court, Zhu Cijiong came to the imperial study as usual to accompany Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youjian to review the memorial.

The memorial prepared by the cabinet ticket has not yet been opened, but Sun Chengzong took out a large number of memorials from his arms, and asked seriously: "Your Majesty, are you planning to allocate 100 million taels of silver to build a military factory?"

Oops, I was so excited that I even forgot to communicate with Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youjian. Minister Gu Ming and the auxiliary prince didn't know about such a big matter, it was indeed a bit too much.He smiled awkwardly: "Hehe, this, this is indeed the case, I was too happy for a while, and forgot to tell you."

Sun Chengzong didn't bother with this issue, he handed the memorial in his hand to Cao Huachun, and said indifferently: "This is the memorial for the impeachment of Xu Guangqi, Minister of Rites by the supervisory censor Xiong Zezhen of Henan Province, Qu Shixu and others from the Ministry of Rites. You read it to the emperor. Bar."

Cao Huachun took the memorial and saw that Zhu Cijiong did not object, so he read it aloud.

Good guy, it really is all about the impeachment of Xu Guangqi, these memorials are written, that is called poison.

What Xu Guangqi doesn't think about the study of saints, but prefers strange and obscene skills, is a shame for scholars, and is not worthy of being an official in the court;
Why is Xu Guangqi known as the emperor's teacher, but in fact he is a poison teacher, who dedicated his barbarian knowledge to poisoning the emperor, and his crime should be punished;
It is an unforgivable crime for Xu Guangqi to instigate the emperor to spend 200 million silver to build a useless military factory in order to embezzle ink and silver;

According to their point of view, this Xu Guangqi is simply a traitorous minister, and it is not enough for the people to be outraged if he is not dismissed and investigated!
What kind of high-ranking official is this supervising censor and giving affairs, dare to impeach the majestic cabinet minister and minister of rites?

In fact, the supervisory censors and officials are not very big officials. On the contrary, they are very low-ranking, and they are all "seventh-rank sesame officials", but they have great power, so big that the emperor dares to scold them!
Why is this so?Here I have to introduce the Ming Dynasty's Kedao system.

The so-called "Ke Dao" refers to the six departments of officials, households, rites, soldiers, punishment, and engineering to Shizhong and the thirteen supervisory censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.Among the six departments, they were called officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the thirteen censors were called Tao officials. Together, they were called "Ko Tao officials". Indiscipline.

These six departments are dedicated to supervising the officials of the six departments, which is equivalent to the current discipline inspection department.

These thirteen supervisory censors are responsible for supervising officials all over the country. They are equivalent to the current prosecutors. The supervisory censors belong to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is equivalent to the current Procuratorate.

But the discipline inspection officials and prosecutors in the Ming Dynasty are different from those in modern times, because Ming Taizu stipulated that they can "hear rumors" and directly advise the emperor, and it doesn't matter if they are wrong. Officials at all levels are strictly forbidden to take private revenge!

That is to say, they don't need a report letter at all if they want to investigate and impeach anyone, as long as they "hear the news" they can "talk about it"!
Zhu Yuanzhang's starting point was good, and he wanted to use these people to supervise officials and prevent corruption, but these responsibilities he set were infinitely magnified by some ministers behind him, even to the point where he could directly dissuade the emperor!This also laid the root of the disaster for the later bureaucratic groups to compete with the emperor for control of the country, and made various party disputes intensify, often causing hundreds of officials to regard wrangling and quarreling as their main business, and no one cares about the government!
As a master in fighting for power and profit, Qian Qianyi naturally knows the role of these supervisory censors and officials, so his daily life is to win over such "speakers" in the Donglin Party, and prepare to use these "speakers" as his own promotion of order.It has been prepared for several years, and today it finally came in handy. Qian Qianyi waved his hand, and the memorial to impeach Xu Guangqi flew to the palace like snowflakes, hitting Zhu Cijiong.

Zhu Cijiong has heard about the power of these speech officials, and their ability to "gossip and tell stories" is not something to brag about, and they also like to be crazy, like to make troubles, and they go to the palace at every turn, forcing the emperor to accept their advice.If you don't accept them, you will make trouble. The so-called "one cry", "two troubles", and "three", er, these three, three are not hanged, but hunger strikes, and they are still kneeling in the palace for hunger strikes.

If you don’t listen, right? If you don’t listen, we’ll go on a hunger strike and die. We’ll go underground to find Emperor Taizu to file a complaint and see how you unworthy descendants face our ancestors!

This trick is ruthless, this kind of unfilial piety is a taboo in the Ming Dynasty, even the emperor dare not be unfilial, so Emperor Wanli and Emperor Tianqi were both annoyed by these officials and dare not go to the court!

Emperor Shenzong Wanli of the Ming Dynasty hid in the harem to cultivate his body and nature, Emperor Xizong Tianqi of Ming Dynasty simply played carpentry, and he couldn't be provoked. I can always hide, right?
Will it be the same when Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong is here?
After Zhu Cijiong listened to the memorial read by Cao Huachun, his head suddenly became dizzy, what the heck, are these people crazy or something, building a military factory is none of their business!
Now he's in serious trouble. He's not really afraid of these lunatics, but he's not afraid of other people!It is impossible for him to build the military factory by himself, and he still has to rely on Xu Guangqi and others to do it. Now that these lunatics are blocking the front, who dares to go!
For a while, Zhu Cijiong couldn't think of any solution, so he could only perfunctoryly say: "Uh, the matter of building a military factory was not my mentor's idea, but my intention. If you are not very good, you can explain it and let them stop making trouble. .”

Sun Chengzong looked at Zhu Cijiong helplessly, his eyes were full of disbelief, you said that you, a six-year-old child, wanted to build a military factory with a radius of three or four miles, who would believe it?But he is not the kind of person who likes to fight, otherwise he would not have retired when the battle between the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party was in full swing.

He also wanted to calm things down, so he reluctantly accepted Zhu Cijiong's 'excuse', and replied with a little hesitation: "Then I'll try it, I don't know if they will listen, if possible, the emperor will still discuss this matter." Stop it."

Just kidding, how can this matter stop, just point at this military factory to produce weapons, if it stops, it will still produce farts!

Zhu Cijiong also knew that this was not Sun Chengzong's original intention, so he didn't refuse him face to face, but asked him to try his best to persuade these officials.He thought that with Sun Chengzong's prestige, this matter should be calmed down soon, but he didn't expect that this matter was not that simple at all.

Qian Qianyi didn't come for the military factory, he came for the position of Minister of Rites.He is not so bored as to care about how the emperor spends money. His purpose is to bring down Xu Guangqi. Even if Zhu Cijiong orders to stop the construction of the military factory, he will not let it go!
(End of this chapter)