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"The upheaval began with Ma Kun's proposal to reduce the amount of money, and ended with Huang Maoguan's investigation and reform of his wife's food. The minister, Cai Kelian, was sick and resigned, and the foreigner, Fang Youji, and the principal, Anqian, were let go."

"Whose memorial is this?"

Just as the servant was reciting the impeachment memorial from Nanjing in the hall, he was suddenly interrupted by Emperor Jiajing.

"Reporting to the emperor, this is the memo written by Liu Xingsu, an official of the Nanjing Science and Technology Department."

The little servant hurriedly replied.

"Is there anything else behind? Tell me."

Emperor Jiajing frowned and said.

"Yes, there is also Zhao Shiqi, and..."

"That's enough, read it to me one by one."

Emperor Jiajing interrupted impatiently.

There have been too many impeachment memorabilia in recent days, and he didn't have the patience to listen to them, so he just let the servants read the cabinet votes and let it go.

So in fact, the impeachment memorials written by the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which they hoped to use as a promotional memorial, were never seen or heard by Emperor Jiajing at all.

That’s right, calling yourself someone else, listening to dozens or hundreds of articles with similar content every day, I’m afraid I’ll be bored too.

There were more than a dozen memorials for the impeachment of Ma Kun by Nanjing Kedao. Emperor Jiajing gradually became impatient after hearing a few of them, because the contents of the memorials were all the same, and the reasons for impeachment were mostly the same.

In fact, these memorials were not requested by the officials of Nanjing Kedao themselves, but mainly because of the pressure from Xu Pengju, Li Sui and others.

Although the first official document from the imperial court to Nanjing did not intend to investigate the dereliction of duty of the dignitaries in Nanjing, but when such a big incident happened, a scapegoat must be found to take care of everything.

After He Shou, Xu Pengju, Li Sui and others secretly discussed, they gradually set their sights on Ma Kun who was in the capital.

Ma Kun is now the Secretary of the Household Department, and he has enough responsibility to bear the responsibility, and the original cause of the incident was also caused by his cut of military pay, otherwise it would never have happened.

Moreover, due to the disturbance in the Zhenwu camp, several recruiting camps in and around Nanjing have also shown signs of instability recently. Li Tingzhu has been sent out to condolences to the soldiers of the battalions, hoping to stabilize the morale of the troops for the time being.

They, like the Zhenwu Battalion, belonged to recruits whose military pay had been cut.

After seeing the disturbance in the Zhenwu camp, not only was he not held accountable, but he was rewarded with a tael of silver, all of them were extremely jealous.

Without Wei Guangde's intervention, and on the premise of finding a reasonable reason for Huang Maoguan's death for the officers and soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion, the mutiny spread rapidly in Nanjing City after the occurrence, especially after Xu Pengju, He Shou and other dignitaries escaped from Nanjing City in embarrassment under the siege of the rebel army. Many barracks soldiers also joined the ranks of the mutiny and looted the shops and wealthy households in Nanjing.

However, at that time, not only Wei Guangde, but even Xu Pengju, He Shou and others who were in the vortex did not realize that there were such unstable factors, and thought that Nanjing Jingying was completely controlled by them.

It wasn't until recently that Li Tingzhu talked about the fact that several military camps along the river had been cut in pay, and the soldiers complained a lot. He had already received a report in the past two days. Because of the Zhenwu camp incident, there was some commotion among the soldiers in the military camp recently, which attracted their attention.

The soldiers of the Zhenwu camp made trouble and killed the third-rank officials of the court, but in the end, nothing happened and they were given money. This is undoubtedly a very bad start.

The current solution is also very simple in their discussions, that is to compensate all the soldiers whose military pay has been reduced, and it can be counted as reward silver. The standard is the same as that of the Zhenwu Camp, one or two silver per person, and the military pay after that will also return to the old rule. As issued.

It was just reporting directly and worrying that it would be wrong. After doing nothing, he had to convict Ma Kun for his dereliction of duty, so that he could go to the court to make up the salary, while Li Tingzhu ran non-stop to those military camps to stabilize the morale of the troops.

In the present city of Nanjing, there must never be another mutiny involving soldiers.

As for Nanjing City, who should we target?

Discussions come and go, and now the officials of the various yamen seem to have a good relationship with them, and it is really difficult to do so, so we had to push out Cai Kelian, the old minister of the household department, who was waiting to become an official.

It is estimated that the dismissal did not run away this time, but everyone should take care of his family afterwards. Bao Cai's family has a quota for candidates. As for whether he can become a Jinshi, that is his own business.

In addition, they themselves are more or less guilty of negligence, and they also mention it in the impeachment memorial, otherwise they will not be able to justify it.
That's it, it's settled.

The officials who contacted each other to shout, this is how the Nanjing Ministry of War and the Kodao officials collectively impeached Ma Kun, and also sent the memorial to Huang Maoguan who treated the soldiers harshly and wanted to change his wife and food. Qualitative.

"Give me Huang Maoguan's memorial."

Sitting on the throne, Emperor Jiajing's eyes flickered, and the eunuchs and servants around him didn't know what he was thinking, but they quickly found Huang Maoguan's last written memorial and put it on the imperial book case.

Emperor Jiajing picked up the memorial and looked it up directly. The seal on it was correct. As for other
"Have you checked Huang Maoguan's handwriting?"

This question was asked to Huang Jin who was beside him. Huang Maoguan was dead now, and even the Emperor Jiajing, who was an emperor, could not guarantee that the officials under him would play any tricks.

"The supervisor of ceremonies has compared Huang Maoguan's memorials in the past, and the handwriting is correct."

While speaking, Huang Jin waved his sleeves, and a small servant next to him brought up several memorabilia, all of which were written by Huang Yuguan before, and now they are naturally used when checking the handwriting.

Emperor Jiajing was not completely relieved because of Huang Jin's words, but took a copy of the memorial from the servant's hand, opened it, and compared the handwriting of the two memorials.

"Humph"

After a long time, Emperor Jiajing snorted, and then said angrily: "Officer Huang Mao deserves to die, he is so harsh and vicious, no wonder the soldiers wanted to kill him."

Emperor Jiajing actually didn't intend to pursue the Nanjing report before. After all, there was no major incident, and he just issued an order.

Emperor Jiajing was a little numb to things like mutiny.

Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong was succeeded by his cousin Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao. The year he took the throne was the 16th year of Zhengde.

At the beginning of Emperor Jiajing's ascension to the throne, some shortcomings of the Wuzong Dynasty were changed. The scorched "Guochao Xianzhenglu" recorded that people at that time believed that Jiajing's new policy was "the world is moving, and it is called Gengshengyun".

It was at this time that Emperor Jiajing ushered in the first mutiny in his emperor's career-the Ganzhou mutiny.

Ganzhou and other five guards were in chaos, killing the governor, capital censor Xu Ming, and "burning his body", destroying his bones and ashes.

As for the reason for the mutiny, it was still a matter of money.

Xu Ming served as the governor of Gansu Town, and made a mistake in disposing of the monthly salary of sergeants.

He changed the monthly salary of the soldiers from direct food to equivalent food prices, and distributed silver equivalent to the amount of monthly food.

But with such a mess, the monthly salary of the sergeant will fluctuate due to the fluctuation of the market price. Once the handling is wrong, it will easily lead to mutiny.

According to records, one stone of Ganzhou’s monthly grain was equivalent to seven renminbi of silver, but the price of rice in the month of the mutiny was cheap, and the price of grain was only three renminbi of silver.Then the soldiers rebelled.

It was only found out after the fact that the mutiny of the military pay was just an excuse, and the real reason was the grievances between the governor Zhang Ming and the Gansu general Li Long. Zhang Ming blocked Li Long's money because of his work, so Li Long secretly instructed the soldiers to mutiny and kill the soldiers. Zhang Ming.

The Ganzhou mutiny was originally a well-founded rebellion, but Sejong was young and indecisive, and he could not finalize Li Long's crime for a long time, so it greatly affected the prestige of the court.

There were also mutinies before Jiajing, but the scale was small and no high-ranking officials were killed. The mutiny was only a means for the soldiers to protest to the court.

However, the Ganzhou mutiny in the Jiajing Dynasty was the paradigm of subsequent mutinies. The rebel soldiers pointed their finger at the governor and other high-ranking officials. The governor and other senior officials were killed one after another during the mutiny. Pointing at the rebellion of the central court, Bing became a problem that threatened Ming rule.

Even in the end, Li Long was beheaded for public display, but the bad head had already started, and it was hard to stop it.

In the third year of Jiajing, Zhang Wenjin, the governor of Datong and the imperial envoy of the capital, implemented cruel rule, which aroused the resistance of the army.

The main leaders of the mutiny were Guo Jian, Liu Zhong, Chen Hao, Hu Xiong, Guo Scarzi and others. They used fire as a sign at night, killed the corrupt official Zhang Wenjin, opened warehouses, distributed food, broke open prisons, released prisoners, and occupied the Datong city.

Nine years later, Zhu Zhen, who had been the general soldier of Shanyin, organized Wang Fusheng and other soldier leaders to stage a mutiny in Datong.

The imperial court sent the governor Liu Yuanqing and the general Gao Yong to lead troops to suppress it. The Ming army stationed in Jule in order to trap Zhu Zhen, and Zhu Zhen committed suicide.

Then, the Ming army arrested and killed more than 30 people, including Wang Fusheng, before quelling the mutiny.

Since Emperor Jiajing came to the throne, mutiny every two or three years seems to have become an iron law. Except that the place is constantly changing, from Liaodong Town to Gansu Town from the east to the west, the scale is also large and small, but the mutiny seems to have become Potluck.

Nine Sides didn't stop much in those years. It was either fighting with the Mongolian Tartars, or the soldiers of the guards had a mutiny. However, in the center of the empire like Nanjing City, the mutiny of the soldiers also happened. This was never thought of by Emperor Jiajing.

In his opinion, it should be the result of the officials' collective drifting and greed for ink. They ate up the army's salary and finally distributed too little money to the soldiers. Disaster, soldiers have a hard time.

Emperor Jiajing naturally knew about the disappearance of the officials, but so what?
Kill a batch, and the officials who are replaced will continue to be corrupt.

What else can I do, I can only pick capable corrupt officials to do things.

After all, all the decisions of the imperial court need to be implemented by the people below. You can't get rid of people because of corruption, and in the end you can't find a clean person to do things.

Emperor Jiajing had actually despaired of the integrity of his officials.

But judging from today, it is a bit different from what he thinks. This matter is really the responsibility of Ma Kun and Huang Maoguan, who are too harsh on the soldiers.

And Cai Kelian, Minister of the Nanjing Household Department, did not perform his duties. Although he was sick, he made such a big mistake, and he couldn't just get away with it when he was sick.

"The imperial edict dismisses Ke Lian, orders Kun to become an official, Huan Youjin, modestly degrades his position to serve the people, retains Jue and Shou, stops his salary according to regulations, and orders himself to report.

It is not good to demote the general manager, commander Zhang Peng and other 29 people. "

After considering all the circumstances, Emperor Jiajing opened his mouth to issue an order. Cai Kelian, the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department, was dismissed from his post, and the current Minister of the Household Department, Ma Kun, was dismissed.

As for the more than 20 people from the Zhenwu camp who had been arrested, they were convicted according to the law. They were all military households.

These are the people who have been dealt with, while others, such as the guard eunuch He Shou, and the Nanjing guard Xu Pengju, just stopped their salaries and kept them in place of guilt.

"Pass the decree to the cabinet and let the cabinet discuss the candidates for the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs."

Ma Kun resigned, but the Ministry of Accounting had to have someone to talk to. It was impossible for the servant to be in charge of the seal of the Ministry of Accounting for a long time. He had to either strengthen the position or arrange someone to take over. Therefore, it was imperative to decide on the candidate for the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting.

Huang Jin bowed slightly, "Observe the order."

Gao Zhong below held the newly written edict with both hands and sent it to the imperial book case, waiting for Emperor Jiajing to read it, and after confirming that it was correct, it was printed and distributed to the foreign court.

Ten days later, Wei Guangde, who was stranded in Nanjing, accompanied Nanjing officials to receive an imperial edict from the capital.

The content of the imperial decree to be read was consistent with the conclusions they had reached after their discussions before, and they were all consequences they could bear, so everyone seemed a little elated after kneeling to receive the imperial edict and getting up.

Of course, there are also those who are lonely, that is Cai Kelian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing. He originally hoped to be able to serve in this position instead of being dismissed. .

Sighing in his heart, he stroked his gray hair with some disinterest. The official hat was taken off by the accompanying Jin Yiwei when the angel delivered the decree. He is no longer an official, and he can't even enjoy the retirement treatment of an official. He was deposed.

But fortunately, he won a qualification for his own children, and at the same time, he also had a reputation as a scholar. With these things, his family can still be called a local gentry and will not be silent because of his resignation.

At this time, all the dignitaries in Nanjing City were complimenting the messenger angel. After all, going south to deliver the decree was hard enough at this time of year. Only Cai Kelian walked out of the crowd dejectedly and headed home.

At this time, Wei Guangde was also a little embarrassed. He was surrounded by the crowd and he didn't know how to deal with the eunuch opposite.

The current Wei Guangde has become an imperial envoy after receiving the order. The so-called one thing does not bother two masters. Since there is a ready-made imperial envoy in Nanjing, Beijing has not sent anyone south. Wei Guangde was directly appointed as the imperial envoy to supervise the rebellion of Zhenwu camp soldiers. trial.

In fact, the so-called trial is just going through the motions, and everyone has already discussed how to deal with it.

To Wei Guangde's embarrassment, the messenger angel this time was actually Chen Ju.

In the past, Wei Guangde was naturally happy to see Chen Ju leading the emperor's mission, but now his mentality is a bit subtle.

In the past year, he could feel Chen Ju's intentional alienation, and he didn't even give a reason. Until this time, before going south, Chen Ju went to his house to eat and drink again. Except for conveying the secret decree of Emperor Jiajing, others shook his head and kept silent. .

"Master Wei, please take care of me this time, complete the imperial mission as soon as possible, so that we can return to Beijing as soon as possible."

At this time, Chen Ju cupped his hands to Wei Guangde.