The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 313 Imperial Envoy Impeaches Jia Min
Jiang Mingqian always thought of himself as a diligent and good official, so from the second day after arriving in Bukui, he started intense inspections.

He has been in charge of exile affairs for so many years, and he has accumulated a wealth of experience.He is clear about the situation of each place of exile and each management process.

As long as he asked some people to ask questions, and then looked at the information provided by each yamen, he would know whether there was any fraudulent behavior in it.

Most of the time, there are deceitful behaviors in each distribution center, the difference is only in the degree.

These fraudulent behaviors include financial deficits, vacant quotas for officials, vacancies, profit withholding, private sales of public property, embezzlement of public funds, favoritism and fraud, concealment of accidents, high death rates among exiles, and high escape rates.

These problems also exist to varying degrees in Bukui.However, an obvious fact is that since Jia Min came, these disadvantages have been gradually changed.

It can be said that since Jia Min took over Pukui, a watershed has been formed.The two paragraphs before and after have very different styles.

As long as it is someone with a little experience, it can be seen at a glance.

Of course, these are just matters of retreat, and some things still need to be investigated and verified in practice.

Therefore, these days, Jiang Mingqian has basically been visiting various official villages, factories and mines.

For the convenience of the visit, he deliberately did not ask Jia Min to send someone to accompany him, in order to prevent Bu Kui from making preparations in advance, cheating and fooling him.

He had often encountered such things in other places before.He is already very experienced in dealing with these methods.

In order to allow the following to tell the truth, he can also conceal his identity as an imperial envoy, and only bring Master Wang and two entourages with him.Sometimes, they even pretended to be relatives who came to visit their relatives and visited various places.

Jia Min didn't bother to take care of the imperial envoy's actions.It's just that after sending a few soldiers to guard on the first day, it doesn't matter in the future.

As for where Jiang Shilang went, who he met, and what he did every day, he didn't care.All the things I have done are there.The imperial envoy can see it however he likes.As for the final evaluation, let him go.

I do things with a clear conscience and candidness, so I let others comment.

There is one thing, except for the master, all the followers don't know.

That was the inspection, which started as soon as they left the imperial capital.

Regarding the fact that Jia Min escorted five hundred people, none of them escaped with casualties, Jiang Shilang was always dubious.

So, this time to Bukui, he chose the same route as Jia Min went to Bukui.It is also a route to board the ship from Tianjinwei, then land from Niuzhuang, and then go to Shengjing, Yangmingbao, Kaiyuan... this route.When he arrived at each military station along the way, he had to check the records and ask the military station personnel for questioning.

When he arrived at the place where Jia Min was camping on the road, he still wanted to ask the local people.

The result did surprise him.

Almost every time they asked questions, the other party could clearly answer the local situation of Jia Minfu's corps.

The reason is very simple, that is, those people are too impressed with this army.

Over the years, they have never seen such a well-disciplined and well-groomed army.

Another deep impression is that the exiles they escorted were all in cars, and the food was good, and the soldiers didn't beat or scold them.

The reaction along the way was the same, which made Jiang Shilang believe it.

Generally speaking, Jiang Shilang is very satisfied with Jia Min's performance in exile affairs.Especially for some of his reform measures, he even praised them a little.

However, he was very dissatisfied with Jia Min's handling of the four major tribes.

The imperial court's attitude towards the four major tribes is basically a policy of letting nature take its course and governing by doing nothing.As long as they don't make trouble or rebel, just let them go.

As for Jia Min's plan to recover tribute and set up prefectures and counties, there is no hope.In their view, this is an impossible task.

Therefore, he also opposed Jia Min's instigation of conflicts with the four major tribes.I thought it was Jia Min's overjoyed move.

Therefore, Jia Min's request for additional troops will naturally not be supported.

After arriving at Bu Kui, Jiang Shilang discussed this issue with Jia Min.But what Jia Min said was ambiguous, neither saying that he would fight in the future, nor that he would not fight in the future, so he just dealt with it.

Therefore, Jiang Shilang thought that Jia Min followed his persuasion.

It wasn't until today that Jiang Shilang found out that Jia Min didn't take his words seriously at all.

The incident started when a woman named Xie Baoli from the Tiefo tribe came to complain.

She found the imperial envoy, and listed Jia Min's various crimes in the past six months, including wantonly poisoning the grassland tribes and oppressing the grassland people for personal gain, and listed more than a dozen crimes.

Including slaughtering innocent people, harassing the grasslands, plundering the population, spreading rumors to slander the leader, sowing discord between the tribe and the leader, instigating the tribe to rebel, embargoing spices, disturbing order, cutting off trade routes...etc.

All the crimes are listed on a large piece of paper with the signatures of the heads of each tribe and the signatures of more than 1 tribesmen.

Xie Baoli claimed that he wanted to ask the imperial envoy to make the decision, and it was better to go to the grassland to listen to the voices of the people in person, instead of just staying in Bukui and being deceived by Jia Min.

He also threatened that if the dog official Jia Min continued to force them, the government would force the people to rebel, and the people would have to rebel.

At that time, [-] prairie cavalry will attack Bu Kui and kill Bu Kui without leaving a blade of grass.

I hope that the imperial envoy will make the decision for them, otherwise, they will go to the imperial capital to sue the imperial court and ask the emperor to make the decision.

Jiang Shilang has always prided himself on being an upright official. This time he received the emperor's order and served as an imperial envoy, so he naturally acted as a substitute for the emperor to patrol the four directions, holding a Shangfang sword, intimidating local officials, and declaring the emperor's benevolence and kindness.

This time, when someone came to file a complaint, it aroused the feelings of being an official and not making decisions for the people. It is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes.In addition, Jia Min's approach to the affairs of the four major tribes was almost against the court, and he had persuaded him not to be troublesome.

So he was very dissatisfied with Jia Min.

Only these are not enough for him to take radical action.The problem lies in the last two items that Xie Baoli said.

One is that [-] prairie cavalry killed Bu Kui without leaving a single blade of grass, and the second is to go to the imperial capital to file an imperial complaint.

If [-] prairie cavalry really attacked Bu Kui, there was almost no doubt that Bu Kui would suffer disaster.

Not only will the people here suffer, but if the nearly [-] exiles are released, it will be a greater disaster.

If these desperadoes flow into the society, they will definitely have a great impact on the social order.

It's fine if I'm not here at this time, but it happens that I'm still here, and as an imperial envoy, how can I escape from being involved?
Even if he was not trampled to death by the horseshoes of the prairie cavalry, dismissal and investigation would be unavoidable after returning home.

Even if the [-] cavalry don't attack, just going to the imperial capital to sue the imperial court, I will have to go around.

As an imperial envoy, if you can't even handle this, what else can you do?Wouldn't he have failed the emperor's order and the holy grace?
Master Wang came back, but he came back alone.

He was going to inquire about news and sent Jia Min to listen to the imperial envoy's questioning.

"How about it?"

"Jia Min is not here. Two hours ago, he went to the front line to supervise the battle."

"Frontline supervisor? What do you mean? You mean, he fought with the four tribes?"

"Yes, I specifically went to the barracks to ask. Last night, all the troops were dispatched, leaving only a dozen baggage personnel. They fought against the four major tribes. According to those who stayed, this time it was decisive battle."

"A decisive battle? 700 people against [-] prairie cavalry? Just his army regiment? He has only practiced for a few days? He walks around making quilts all day long. Has he ever fought? He has fought for several months, and he himself said yes After repeated defeats and repeated battles, why do you have to fight against [-] cavalry? Isn't this setting yourself on fire?"

"Yeah, Shi Weng, I have also learned from the local people here in the past few days. In the past few months, they have indeed been defeated repeatedly. No one thinks that 700 people will be the opponent of [-] grassland cavalry. of."

"This Jia Min, you know how great he is, and he does things so recklessly? If he loses this battle, Bu Kui will definitely lose his life. Ten thousand people will lose control, commit crimes everywhere, and confuse the world. The crime is heinous."

"This matter is hopeless, Shi Weng should still think about how to protect himself?"

"He has already gone to the front line, the vast grassland, where can we find him? Are we going to flee back?"

"The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to find him. Besides, whether he can come back is still a matter of discussion. Running away at this time is also a bad idea. Running away in the face of an emergency is even more taboo."

"In your opinion, how to deal with it?"

"Then Xie Baoli came to sue, and he must have wanted the imperial envoy to make the decision. It seems that they have no objection. Even if they defeated Jia Min and were intimidated by the court's majesty, they still wanted to negotiate with the imperial court. At this time, they happened to be the imperial envoy. Negotiations, a little appeasement, and they will die down."

"This plan is feasible, and I am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but how to explain to the court?"

"Jia Min has to be held accountable for his great success and his ability to reveal things. Shi Weng has warned him, but he is still stubborn and determined to go his own way. How can such a person be able to rule a land and guard the land?"

"You mean, you want me to impeach Jia Min?"

"Apart from this, is there any other way? If Shiweng doesn't protect himself at this time? Should he be buried with Jia Min?"

"Oh, that's all I have to do."

Therefore, Master Wang drafted the memorial, based on Xie Baoli's case, listed a series of crimes against Jia Min, and impeached Jia Min.

As for the immigration management and reform measures that Jiang Shilang admired, I will skip it.Keep it for yourself when you deal with the aftermath in the future, and take it as your own, greedy for the merits of heaven.

After the master finished drafting, Jiang Shilang read it several times, and the two of them deliberated together for a while, revised a few places, and then Jiang Shilang transcribed it, changed the date to yesterday, attached Xie Baoli's certificate, sent two followers, and immediately Set off, go to the nearest military platform and quickly pass to the imperial capital.

After doing all this, I feel at ease.The two began to study how to appease the grassland tribes in the future.The preliminary plan is to pay 20 taels of silver to calm the incident.

(End of this chapter)