Chapter 1928 A rare court meeting
It was night, Emperor Jiajing hugged Shang Meiren, who had won the brand, and they were chattering on the dragon bed, chirping again and again.
Feng Bao touched a golden hairpin given by Shang Meiren in his arms, and couldn't close the corners of his mouth. He just mentioned it when the saint turned over the cards. It was snowing, and Shang Meiren led his pet dog. The palace maid was having a snowball fight and fell down with her pet dog.
Huang Jin arranged for his factory guards to work hard overnight to verify the Suzhou defense battle.
Luo Longwen and other members of the Strict Party are staying up late to urge their clerks to write a memorial to impeach the Suzhou News for falsifying.
The heavy snow outside is continuous and has no intention of stopping.
More than ten miles away from the capital, Liu Mu led a battalion of Zhejiang soldiers and soldiers from Suzhou Prefecture, driving a cart full of Japanese pirate heads and driving shackled Japanese prisoners across the sky. We drove all night in the snowy weather.
“Brothers, let’s continue our hard work for five miles and then find a village to set up camp and rest for the night. By then, the capital will be close at hand, so we’ll be on our way before dawn, just in time to have breakfast in the capital. ”
“When we get to the capital and offer the prisoners, we will have plenty of fish, meat, and wine, and let the brothers have a good rest for two days.”
Liu Mu rode his horse in front of and behind the team, He said loudly to everyone.
"Brother Mu, there is no need to say anything. We are going to the capital to offer prisoners to your lord. Your lord has treated us with great kindness. We would have gone even fifty miles away, let alone five miles."
"That is, your lord has treated us badly. Say, this way Dundun There is meat and soup, and the heavy snow makes me sweat all over. Even walking to the capital all night is just for digestion. "
A group of Zhejiang Army soldiers replied loudly, even though they braved the wind and snow all night. Road, but morale is high.
In comparison, the soldiers in Suzhou Prefecture are slightly inferior.
However, before leaving, the Suzhou prefect still generously rewarded everyone, and their morale was not bad.
As for the Japanese prisoners, they were like zombies. Not to mention their morale, they even lost their spirit.
They were full of evil deeds and deserved to die. If the purpose of this trip was not to sacrifice prisoners, they would not be allowed to die easily.
However, I won’t make it easy for them.
To wear, in the coldest month of winter, there are no cotton clothes to wear, only ragged linen clothes, just to avoid freezing to death; to eat, there is food, but only to not starve to death; to sleep, to sleep on the ground, There are no beddings or anything else; there is also the rush, and you are shackled, and you have to keep up with the schedule. If you can't keep up, you will be whipped, and no one will be lenient.
Zhu Ping'an and the prefect also gave Liu Mu and others a death target, as long as the death rate of Japanese pirate prisoners was not higher than 20%.
Now, Liu Mu and the others have no pressure at all, and they are still far away from this target.
Braving the wind and snow, they continued on their way. For more than half an hour, Liu Mu and the others walked five or six miles and arrived outside a village.
This village is named Wulihou, because five miles further back is the capital.
In order not to disturb the village, Liu Mu took several people into the village to meet with Li Zheng and the village elders, and found out their identities. He also bought bacon and rice noodles from the village through them, and set up camp outside the village and made a fire. They made rice, cooked a pot of bacon stew, made pancakes, cooked rice porridge, and everyone ate it steaming hot.
As for the Japanese prisoners, they could only eat some leftovers after everyone had finished eating, so as not to starve to death.
It was already late at night, and Liu Mu arranged the night watch personnel according to Zhu Ping'an's instructions to ensure that nothing went wrong before resting.
No words for a night.
While Liu Mu and the others were setting up camp to rest, a group of more than fifty Feiyu clothing factory guards rushed past outside the village.
"Why are there so many people outside the village? There seems to be a troop stationed here." A factory guard noticed the simple camp of Liu Mu and others and said vigilantly.
"The Governor ordered us to quickly go south to verify the war in Suzhou. This is an important matter of His Majesty's concern. Let's not get into trouble. We should go south day and night." The factory guard beside him reminded, " Besides, this is near Jiji, the capital, and there are many people under the management of the government. Without proper procedures, they would not be able to get here and would have been stopped and processed.”
"Zhao Baihu's words make sense. Let's go south as quickly as possible." The factory guard nodded vigorously.
A group of factory guards rushed past.
"Okay, you can rest now. The unknown team has left." The night watchers in the camp couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the factory guards leaving.
On their way there, their hearts were tense, lest something unexpected happen and miss the important event that Monk Zhu Pingan maintained.
Every time a dangerous person approaches the team, they are highly nervous and alert, just in case.
Just like this team of factory guards, they did not wear factory guard uniforms. In order to facilitate the investigation, they wore regular clothes, but they wore swords.
In the eyes of the prisoner-offering team, this is a dangerous element. Their departure made the prisoner-offering team breathe a sigh of relief.
Nothing happened all night.
The next day, before dawn, Liu Mu and the others broke camp and set off, speeding towards the capital that was just around the corner.
Similarly, before dawn, Luo Longwen and others had already gone straight to the General Secretary's Office with the impeachment memorial to be written.
Special instructions were given to the officials of the General Affairs Department, and the news was not sent to Xiyuan until after the end of the year, creating a situation where "I only learned about the success of the Suzhou Prefecture in the morning, felt dissatisfied, and immediately wrote a letter of impeachment." This requires a time lag.
Just when Luo Longwen came out of the General Affairs Department, a note came from Xiyuan, summoning the cabinet ministers and major government offices such as the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Personnel, Dali Temple, and the Inspectorate. The chief and deputy officials entered Wuyi Hall in Xiyuan to discuss matters.
This is almost equivalent to a court meeting.
For the ministers in the capital, this is very difficult. Emperor Jiajing has not held a court meeting for many years. He always summons one or more ministers in Xiyuan at irregular times and by unknown persons. Entering Xiyuan to meet the Holy Spirit. It is quite rare to summon so many ministers to Xiyuan to discuss matters like today.
In previous years, even at the end of the same year, the number of people summoned by Emperor Jiajing to Xiyuan could not be compared with today.
The chamberlain who sent the note from Xiyuan also informed the summoned ministers of the main topics of the meeting.
The theme of this discussion revolves around the major events that have occurred in the government and the opposition in the past few months, including Mongolia's various ministerial policies, military pay policies on all fronts, snow disaster relief policies in the north, flood relief policies in the south, and various border and military policies. Local officials have been promoted, removed and demoted for a long time, the Ministry of Industry has a money-making policy, the salt law policy has been changed, the royal family's food policy for the common people and the Japanese Japanese invasion policy in the south of the Yangtze River have been implemented.
The victory of Suzhou Prefecture ranked last on the agenda.
“That’s good now. There is no need to go through the General Affairs Department to send the message to Xiyuan. I can just take it myself.”
After receiving the news, one of the summoned members After receiving the news, Wang Shilang took the memorial back from the General Affairs Department and said excitedly.
There are several others like him.
The Strict Party occupies most of the government and the opposition, and more than half of the people summoned are Strict Party members.
As for Luo Longwen and others, they were not qualified to be summoned by Emperor Jiajing, and the memorial to impeach Zhu Ping'an still had to be submitted to Xiyuan through the General Affairs Secretary. (End of this chapter)