Something has been spread in the capital these days. It is said that the cabinet minister Pei Weilai reported the memorial of "Please Punish the Official Army for arbitrary looting and punishment" that made Emperor Guangxu very angry. This situation of corruption in the lower-level army is actually not the first time that someone reported to the court. However, this is indeed the first time that he was sent to Emperor Guangxu. Of course, there are only a few people in the court who can do this ability.

In the compilation, Pei Wei-, a bachelor of the cabinet, wrote down the true face of the army he saw when he visited the local area last year:

"... The stolen ministers should be strict discipline first, and the slack year is the urgent need to be polite and displaced. The next day, the officials may not be able to handle things when they encounter problems, or they may not take care of them. There are many places... The most important thing that the officials have heard is that the official army will plunder the women along the way and take them to rob them. The camp officials regard it as usual. Although there are complaints, the local officials dare not interfere. So far, there are hundreds of people left everywhere. The military discipline is gone, and the situation is very tragic..."

This official, who was the first Jinshi in the second list, bluntly mentioned the huge problems in military discipline control today. Military discipline management is completely handled by battalions and generals. If these lieutenant generals let this go, it means that soldiers can do whatever they want. Although local officials have the responsibility to capture thieves and arrest thieves, they cannot control these military soldiers at all.

Last year, he passed by Shandong, Shanxi, Huguang and other places and saw the local military training and robbing the women on their way to the departure. Even a battalion of soldiers stayed in the place for several days. When he left, hundreds of women were abandoned, the local officials were completely powerless. The impeachment of the small county magistrate could not shake the bad habits of this huge military system!

Of course, Pei Weiyi's memorial only revealed the tip of the iceberg of the current corruption of military discipline in the imperial court. After his memorial was redeemed by Weng Tonghe, the military minister, immediately triggered a series of chain reactions. A large number of officials wrote letters to expose the military discipline issues, the issue of food and wage vacancy, and the issue of reselling weapons in the army...

After these remarks were handed by Weng Tonghe, some of them were sent to the diligent Guangxu, and other issues were ignored in a targeted manner. It is obvious that the young emperor attached great importance to the military power he had in his hands, especially since the Eight Banners Army became a nursing home, the training of military training in various places according to Western France has become the main military force of the country.

Unexpectedly, the huge army that consumes tens of millions of taels of military salary every year actually has such serious military discipline problems. Weng Tonghe's evaluation of this was even more thorough. He told the young emperor bluntly, "It is expected that the military training cost a lot of money, and it is expected that it will cost so much to maintain such useless army. It is better to save the money and include it in the national treasury. At that time, the governors of various provinces could raise their own silver without paying the court's silver salary and train the brave camps that they were used to fighting, and now they can also maintain local peace."

Of course, Weng Tonghe's words were just a cover. How could the Qing court easily delegate the military power that had finally been nominally taken to the court? Now, although the Huai Army is still the middle of the national defense force, there is no serious Huai Army saying that now, those who practice military forces in the name of the court are all training.

Weng Tonghe's silver issue naturally saw the most concerned issue in the court. The Qing Dynasty has invested more than 80 million taels of silver this year, but in fact, the treasury expenditure is always in short supply every year. If millions of good money can be dug out of military expenditure, it will be a big surplus. What's more, this move can obviously severely hit the old opponent Li Hongzhang!

However, Weng Tonghe was very clear about one thing: it was almost impossible to abolish the Huai Army at present. Under his command, he all condemned the military discipline of the army, which was obviously laying the foundation for preparing for the military discipline.

Under the criticism of the Qingliu School in the capital, many conservative officials also joined the ranks of declaring Li Hongzhang. The rank-in official had to submit a statement in mid-March, claiming that he would thoroughly investigate the corruption and military discipline of the army, and would hold the relevant generals accountable and would never tolerate them.

After Li Hongzhang's memorial was at the center, he would naturally not be left by Weng Tonghe. If he wanted to attack Li Hongzhang, he would not use such unruly means. Soon the memorial was sent to the palace and reported to Empress Dowager Cixi through other channels. After all, Li Zhongtang was always a celebrity in front of the empress dowager.

On the 20th, the empress dowager's decree came down, and he was very grateful for Li Hongzhang's statement. However, the empress dowager, who had been thinking about spending money, was also thinking about the proposal of Qingliu to abolish some of the troops who violated discipline. After all, the layoff of tens of thousands of troops would be hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Therefore, the empress dowager also praised Qingliu's faction for loyalty to the emperor and the country.

How could Weng Tonghe, the old man in the court, not understand the meaning of the West Palace? With this imperial decree, he immediately persuaded Guangxu to take action against the army. He was in the palace all day long. Although he only listened to the old man Weng explaining the essence of Chinese, his true insight was not something he could hear in the palace all day long. After thinking about it, he naturally had no insight. Fortunately, his teacher did not give such difficult things to the emperor.

On the afternoon of the 23rd, Weng Tonghe had been ordered to draft an imperial edict and planned to send 7 special envoys to supervise the military discipline of the army. In the first draft draft, Lord Weng spoke very tough and thoroughly liquidated the violations of discipline in the army. The military organization with serious problems should be completely abolished and rebuilt to ensure that the new army no longer has the old problems... However, Emperor Guangxu obviously did not agree with his teacher's opinion on this. After a slight modification, he would no longer hold the general problems accountable. If corruption and serious violations of discipline are serious, he would be punished.

Naturally, this imperial edict could not be promulgated immediately in the name of Guangxu, because there was an imperial edict that was more powerful than this imperial edict. Later that day, Emperor Guangxu, Weng Tonghe and military agent Sun Yuwen went to the Summer Palace to meet Cixi. After submitting the draft, the Empress Dowager of the West Palace reviewed it very seriously.

Sun Yuwen, who was acquainted with Li Hongzhang, always looked down on Weng Tong and his noble appearance. He naturally had to make a name for himself in this matter. He immediately bowed and left, "The Empress Dowager, the Wei Me, also understands the emperor's anxious thoughts, but if these seven special envoys are sent, I'm afraid the local governors will have more opinions. After all, the special envoy sent by the emperor is the identity of the imperial envoy, and there may be many inconveniences in the local area!"

The old woman behind the curtain noisy and noisy, then said, "Sir Sun said something is reasonable. Lord Weng, I think it's almost done to send two trips. Just get things done to share the worries for the emperor!"

These words were naturally not as simple as it sounded on the surface. The little emperor knelt down honestly and retreated. When he got outside, Guangxu asked his teacher in a daze, "Gei, do you understand what the emperor's mother mean?"

Weng Tonghe nodded with a smile. He always looked like a master of all things in front of himself, the emperor student. "The Queen Mother has too many specialized orders for the 7th route, and only opens 2nd route. Obviously, I don't want us to make too much noise. I'm afraid the morale of the army will be disrupted... I think the Queen Mother's concern is indeed necessary. I think she will send a navy and a land commander. I won't investigate the Eight Banners of the Capital!"

"The teacher has a suitable candidate. I think this matter must be an honest and upright person!" The young emperor was quite sure of the key to this problem. If you need to continue to check it, the pressure is extremely huge. Even under the name of the imperial envoy, it may not be useful.

Weng Tonghe did not respond directly, but looked at Sun Yuwen who was still following behind. This famous celebrity of the Hou Party. Their conversation deliberately did not avoid this person, which was also an attitude. However, there were a few candidates for this person. "The emperor, Zhirui, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, Shen Zengzhi, the head of the Ministry of Justice, Wang Renkan, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Huang Shaoji, and Ding Lijun, are all available. I will report it after I go back and consider it!"

After Weng Tonghe returned to the Military Discipline Office, he naturally considered the personnel who supervised military discipline affairs this time. After careful consideration, if the previous few Qingliu generals really went to the military to handle this matter, to be honest, he was a little worried. Investigating military disciplines is definitely an offensive activity, but if nothing can be found, wouldn't it be a loss of the emperor's face and his own face?

Zhirui, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, is the cousin of the emperor's favorite concubine Zhen. He is capable of doing things. It is feasible to send him to the Lu Division to inspect military discipline. Shen Zengzhi, the head of the Ministry of Justice, has a good literary talent, but he is not a person who does big things. Wang Renkan, Huang Shaoji, Ding Lijun and others are all good writers and have good character, but they lack experience in doing practical things, and have never been involved in the navy and Lu Division...

After thinking about it carefully, he had a headache and asked Li Hongzao and Huang Tifang to discuss it. As a result, Li Hongzao recommended Hanlin editor Li Wentian, but Huang Tifang was not selected. He had thought about recommending Lu Hong, but now Lu Hong is just a commoner... But this opportunity seems to be rewarded with this nephew Lu!

Weng Tonghe was worried about the supervision of military discipline, but two days later, something shocked him happened in Shanghai!
Chapter completed!