The Ming Dynasty started with caution

The leading beggar was so frightened that he dared not breathe. He looked up at Wang Shouren, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Every month... someone always puts clean clothes on us, takes us into the barracks, and lines up to receive military pay."

Emperor Hongzhi's head buzzed.

The military registration offered by Wang Shouren had already made him feel like a bolt from the blue. The words of this beggar were like Thor's hammer, smashing his heart of striving for governance from body to soul!

Ma Wensheng opened his mouth slightly, shivering all over, unable to say a word.

Li Dongyang, Liu Jian and others were also shocked.

"You said there are more than a thousand beggars outside the palace, all of whom are people who have received empty sounds?"

Wang Shouren said: "I'm afraid there are more than..."

At this moment, many beggars were kneeling outside the palace, and even the soldiers and horses of the Five Cities and Shuntian Prefecture were alarmed. Fortunately, Wang Yue was there, so they were not arrested.

Everyone in the hall was terrified.

Dai Shan's cloudy eyes lit up. He had just praised Yan Chengjin a few days ago, and this guy had poked a big hole in the Ming Dynasty. Good job!

Isn't the duty of the Censorate to monitor the government and the people?

What a great achievement!

Dai Shan was ecstatic and knelt down with a plop, and other censors in the Censorate followed suit.

"The Censorate, from top to bottom, begs His Majesty to thoroughly investigate those who eat empty noises!"

Yan Chengjin was stunned. At this moment, he was the only censor standing.

"Yan Chengjin, kneel down quickly." Dai Shan waved at him.

Dai Shan's request for His Majesty to conduct a thorough investigation was not within Yan Chengjin's deduction...

Dai Shan was a Jinshi in the late Tianshun period and an upright minister. Dai Shan's uprightness was mainly due to his upright father Dai Xi. Dai Xi was a professor in Jiaxing and a very proud man. A gentry once bribed him heavily in order to allow their slaves to enter school, but Dai Xi resolutely refused and lost his job for this.

Dai Shan's temperament is very similar to Wang Shu's. He was recommended by Wang Shu to become the deputy censor. Like Wang Shu, he is also an unpopular person in the court.

Yan Chengjin dare not conclude that he is absolutely clean, but he should not have a share in the empty talk.

Although it is dangerous to rectify the Beijing camp, the benefits are even greater.

It can further gain the trust of Emperor Hongzhi.

One step closer to the position of Li Dongyang and others.

Now in the court, Emperor Hongzhi trusts three people in the cabinet the most, and no one can replace them.

To break this deadlock and become the fourth person, it requires great achievements.

The Beijing camp eats up a lot of military pay every year. If it is not exposed, the prosperous era will be difficult to come.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, Yan Chengjin may not dare to do this, but the risk is much smaller in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

The civil service party struggle in the Hongzhi Dynasty has not yet formed on a large scale, and the interests of the ministers in power and the ministers below are inconsistent.

The people in power are Li Dongyang and Liu Jian, who did not eat empty talk.

In other words, their interests were not touched.

In addition, with Emperor Hongzhi in power, it was not difficult to rectify the Beijing camp.

The hall was silent for a long time.

Emperor Hongzhi took a deep breath, showed a murderous look, stared at Wang Shouren, and asked weakly: "Do you know who ate the empty sound?"

Wang Shouren shook his head: "I don't know."

"Order the three judicial officials to investigate together. I will never forgive. Withdraw..."

The three beggars were already scared to death, but no one cared about them. The civil officials were not much better. They were all trembling with fear.

Such a big thing happened in the Beijing camp, and Ma Wensheng was full of guilt.

Yan Chengjin was about to follow the officials to leave the hall, but the weak voice of Emperor Hongzhi came: "Yan Chengjin, you stay."

Liu Jian couldn't bear it, and advised: "Is your majesty okay?"

Emperor Hongzhi shook his head: "All go out, I only want Yan Chengjin."

All the officials and eunuchs left the hall, and Xiao Jing closed the door of the hall.

A creaking sound echoed in the hall.

The empty hall was left with only Emperor Hongzhi and Yan Chengjin.

Emperor Hongzhi looked miserable and asked feebly, "Have you known about the corruption in the Beijing camp?"

"I have something to say..."

Emperor Hongzhi stared at him, his eyes were about to burst, he wanted to kill someone at this moment.

Yan Chengjin nodded honestly, "Yes, I knew about it before I told Your Majesty, so I advised to rectify the Beijing camp. In fact, I also heard it from Lord Wang Yue. Your Majesty, do you still remember ordering Lord Wang Yue to be the deputy governor of the five armies and be in charge of military registration?"

Emperor Hongzhi stammered, "Why didn't he come and tell me in person?"

"If he said so, would Your Majesty trust him?"

As if he had been exposed, Emperor Hongzhi's heart trembled.

Yan Chengjin continued: "Lord Wang colluded with eunuchs in the previous dynasty. Although he had the intention to change his ways and wrote "Confession" to express his intention, he knew that he would not be trusted by His Majesty no matter what, so he did not dare to speak frankly to His Majesty."

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes were filled with tears. He was unaware that only 60,000 of the 140,000 Beijing troops were left.

Yan Chengjin could understand his feelings. It was like working overtime for more than ten years, but the things he made were not preserved.

A broken heart is like a piece of glass.

Anyone would collapse if they encountered such a thing, right?

"I... take my leave?"

Emperor Hongzhi waved his sleeves, and Yan Chengjin bowed and left the hall.

Opening the door of the hall, Li Dongyang and others came up one after another and surrounded him: "How is Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty was just depressed for a while, covering his face and crying, so there was this cry. Don't worry, you adults, it will be fine after crying." Yan Chengjin comforted.

"Lao Gao, I have never seen my father cry. Can he cry? I came here specially to see." Zhu Houzhao said seriously.

The ministers looked livid!

Zhu Houzhao, are you still a human being?

Seeing that something was wrong, Zhu Houzhao walked aside angrily, lay on the window, dug out his paper eyes, and looked in curiously.

My father is an upright man, how could he cry?

But Zhu Houzhao saw Emperor Hongzhi sitting slumped on the dragon chair, covering his face and crying.

Yan Chengjin did not dare to get too close to him for fear of being beaten, so he slipped away quietly.

You just need to pay attention to safety when leaving the palace. Wang Yue has been equipped with a green steel sword, a ten thousand stone bow on his back, and is waiting for him to come out with his elite troops.

"My dear nephew, how is the situation in the palace?"

"Your Majesty is depressed. He will be fine in two days."

Early the next morning,

Only then did Yan Chengjin know that Emperor Hongzhi announced that there was no need to attend the morning court...

It startled him.

After Emperor Hongzhi succeeded to the throne, he changed the two dynasties a day to three dynasties a day, rain or shine, and never slacked off in work.

Not going to court today?

The Zhang brothers, Uncle Chang Ning and others were very happy and turned around to go back home to sleep.

The Sanfa Division and Dongchang are investigating the matter thoroughly.

Two days have passed and there is still no need to go to court.

Wang Shouren was nowhere to be seen. Yan Chengjin thought for a while and went to the Beijing Camp with Wang Yue.

I saw a man on a horse, commanding the soldiers of the 12th Regiment and Battalion majestically, turning left and right for a while, which was very exciting.

Taking a closer look, Yan Chengjin was stunned.

Is it actually Zhu Houzhao?

Zhu Houzhao sat on his horse in high spirits and rode happily in front of the formation: "From today on, I am the mighty general in charge of the three armies, Zhu Shou!"

drink!

The whole army was solemn.

More than a dozen thousand households stood by and obeyed.

What's going on? As for Wang Shouren, why is it that this bitch Zhu Houzhao is training Mao, and the British father is also there, so no one is taking care of him?

Yan Chengjin had many questions in his mind.

Zhu Houzhao suddenly shouted: "What is that bitch doing standing there in a daze? Where's your armor? I'm talking about you. Hey... Oops, why are you here, Lao Gao?"

Zhu Houzhao rode over with a smile.

At this time, he was wearing a military uniform, which was obviously ripped off from a thousand households. It was a bit broad and somewhat majestic.

Yan Chengjin snorted coldly: "Your Highness is so silly, aren't you afraid of His Majesty's dragon whip?"

Zhu Houzhao smiled proudly, took out a decree from his arms, and threw it over: "Who are you looking down on? It is the mighty general who my father conferred on me."

Yan Chengjin opened the imperial edict: The emperor is destined to carry the heaven, and the edict says, "Jings to reward virtuous workers are the classics of the imperial court. They show the kindness of relatives and the deep love of the son of man. The prince is wise and virtuous. Now Zhu Shou is appointed as a mighty general to rule." This is the military affairs of the three armies in the Beijing camp.

It has a big seal and a dragon seal as an anti-counterfeiting mark.

After reading the imperial edict, Yan Chengjin looked at the British Duke Zhang Mao aside. Zhang Mao sighed and nodded towards him.

"This imperial edict is actually true."

"It's not an edict."

"..." Yan Chengjin.

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