At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 98 Two Secret Letters (First update, please subscribe!!)
After investigation by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and factory guards, the case has come to light.

Jia Gui, the chief steward of Pengcheng Bo's mansion, colluded with the enemy and punished the nine clans.

According to Mantulu's confession, there are still a large number of spies from the Tatar tribe in the capital. Most of them entered the customs from the Liaodong area, and the best way to cover up their identities is fur dealers or medicinal material dealers.

Jin Yiwei immediately mobilized and searched the whole city for merchants from Liaodong.

After investigation, Peng Chengbo Zhang Kejian was not the principal offender, so he was spared the death penalty, was stripped of his title, and demoted to a commoner.

The two stones in Zhu Qizhen's heart finally fell to one.

Since Tumubao, he has always suspected that there are traitors in the capital. Now it seems that it is not the officials in the court who are secretly colluding with the Mongols, but businessmen.

Since the founding of the country by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty have been sworn enemies of each other. Therefore, the mutual market has not been opened for a hundred years.

Mobei is barren, and living materials are extremely scarce, and they cannot be obtained from the Central Plains through normal channels. Therefore, many smugglers have emerged.

There are two most important routes for transporting goods from Daming territory to the grassland. One is to leave the customs from Datong and Xuanfu, and the other is to leave Shanhaiguan and go to Liaodong.

The former are mainly Shanxi merchants, and their trading partners are the Wala people.

In fact, the Shanxi Merchants Group has been active throughout the Ming Dynasty, and has been engaged in smuggling activities for a long time, even in the turmoil at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has vigorously subsidized the establishment of slaves. These are the eight famous imperial merchants in later generations.

This line was uprooted shortly after Zhu Qizhen returned to Beijing, completely cutting off the supplies and intelligence of the Wara Department.

The latter colluded with the Tatar Ministry, and it has also suffered heavy losses to this day.

After eradicating all these two lines, it is almost impossible to obtain information from Daming, whether it is Oala or Tatar.

Now, Zhu Qizhen still has the last stone left in his heart...

Two sealed letters were placed on the desk.

The first letter was a list with three names on it.

The second letter is a survey results.

After the secret inspection by Jueshengwei, Jin Yiwei's commander, Zhu Ji, is also Yu Qian's son-in-law.

What's more, with Yu Qian's relationship, Zhu Qizhen made up his mind to hand over this job to him.

"Your Majesty, Jin Yiwei Zhu Ji is asking to see you."

"Xuan!"

Not long after, Zhu Ji walked into the imperial study.

"Humble Zhu Ji, long live my emperor!"

"Be flat!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Zhu Ji got up, he lowered his head quietly, waiting for orders.

Zhu Qizhen took a closer look, he was about [-] years old, with a burly figure, but a very delicate appearance, if he wasn't wearing a black fish suit, he would have thought he was a scholar.

"Yuan Bin personally recommended for me, saying that the Qing family is worthy of a great job, and I have no doubts about employing people, and I entrust you with an important errand."

Zhu Ji hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for trusting me, I will go through fire and water for my humbleness, and I will do my best!"

"Not that serious!"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "I will go to the Northern Expedition myself in the near future, and Yuan Bin will accompany me on the expedition, and the Jinyiwei in the capital will be handed over to you."

"Please rest assured, the emperor, I will go all out!"

"I'm not worried about the ability of the Qing family."

Zhu Qizhen shook his head lightly, and said, "I ask you to investigate a few people secretly!"

"Please order from the emperor!"

"Wang Wen, the censor of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Xu Bin, the Shaoqing of the Taichang Temple, and Zhang Yu, the governor of the Chinese Army in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."

Zhu Ji seemed a little puzzled, and asked, "What does the emperor need to investigate?"

"At the beginning, when I announced my personal conquest of Mobei, I told all the officials that if something happened to me, and the king of Qi would succeed the general, do you know what it means?"

Zhu Ji thought for a long time, and said: "The emperor means that if someone hides disobedience, they may take action during the time when the emperor is away from Beijing?"

Zhu Qizhen was very satisfied, this person was quick-witted and understood everything, much better than those reckless men.

Over the past few days, through the secret investigation of Jueshengwei, some officials were indeed dishonest and secretly had some thoughts, but they were just thoughts, and they were determined not to take any action before they left the capital.

"I will leave you an imperial decree, and if anyone is found to be plotting against the law, Jin Yiwei has the right to kill first and then act!"

"Humble and obedient!"

Zhu Ji paused for a moment, and then asked again: "Your Majesty, where is the king..."

When I said this, I tried my best to make up my mind.

It is true that Jin Yiwei is loyal to the emperor, but it is hard to say when it comes to King Tan.

Because he might become the next emperor at any time!
What's more, when it comes to the royal family, even Jin Yiwei is not easy to intervene.

A little carelessness will cause people's heads to roll and blood to flow like rivers.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly asked: "What do you think of King Tan?"

With a plop, Zhu Ji immediately knelt down.

"Humbleness is only loyal to the emperor!"

"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking casually."

"Humble and dare not lie!"

"Okay, okay, get up, I won't ask any more."

Only then did Zhu Ji stand up tremblingly, his face was pale, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while, then asked again: "What do you think...how is King Xiang?"

Pfft!
Zhu Ji's knees softened and he knelt down again.

These are all propositions!

"I've said it all, just asking casually, don't be so nervous!"

Zhu Ji thought to himself, don't you look at what you asked, can I not be nervous?
Well, wait for me to stand up here, and you can say something again, how is King Zheng?
Simply, I can't get up on my knees, okay!
"Let me change the question..."

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and asked, "What do you think of the current situation of the vassal princes of Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Ji was about to cry, and said: "The only way to be humble is the emperor, even if you are a vassal king, as long as the emperor says a word, you will be humble..."

"I didn't mean that!"

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly interrupted him, then pondered for a long time, and then said: "Since Emperor Taizu, the children of the Zhu family were entrusted to guard the border, but later, they gradually moved the fiefdom to the Central Plains, and the vassal kings gradually became greedy for pleasure. If things go on like this, there will be more and more vassal kings in Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be impossible to seal them in the end?"

Zhu Ji was at a loss, how did the vassal king of Ming Dynasty change from King Sai to King Xian, who are you asking?
But having said that, there are more and more vassal kings, and they are all idlers. Each vassal king occupies a lot of land and resources. What will happen when the land of Daming is allotted?
But why are you asking me this kind of question?

I'm Jin Yiwei, it's okay to arrest people and handle cases. For national affairs, you go to the cabinet!

Zhu Ji regretted it very much at this time, why did he owe him so much, what did he do to promote the king so well?
Who knows, Zhu Qizhen has long planned to change the status quo of the vassal king, and today he heard Zhu Ji mention it, so he came here temporarily to ask a few questions.

He naturally knew in his heart that this kind of thing cannot be done overnight, and it needs a long-term plan.

"Stop kneeling, go get busy!"

"Yes!"

Only then did Zhu Ji heave a sigh of relief, he hurriedly got up to leave, and left the palace as if fleeing.

(End of this chapter)