Chapter 228 Defeat Yuanwen Capital
King Yang Nan of Qi was very fierce in his questioning, full of anger and murderous intent, and the Taifu Qing Yuanwen, who was in charge of the treasury, was not outdone and argued according to reason.
He has the responsibility to protect King Yang Nan of Qi from harm, but he cannot control King Yang Nan of Qi, so he has to form an alliance with Wei, and at the same time he has to try every means to curb the growth of King Yang Nan of Qi, so as not to turn his ambition into reality. The consequence is an out-of-control disaster.
Yuan Wendu's reason was that the two sides of the river were continuously affected, and millions of disaster victims in Henan fled to Yuzhou to survive. This is a fact. Before, local officials in Henan not only did not provide disaster relief, but instead deceived the superiors and subordinates to deliberately conceal the truth of the disaster, which led to a sharp deterioration in the situation in Henan and even the front line of Tongji Canal, which is now in the crisis of interruption of Tongji Canal. While Yingru's noble bureaucrats were doing their best to rescue Henan's victims, they also exposed this truth to the world, which gave Dongdu a loud slap. Dongdu has the crime of inadvertent supervision, and the central government is also in danger of losing the hearts of the people. Although the emperor and the central government will definitely punish local officials in Henan after returning from the eastern expedition, for Dongdu, it is necessary to make up for the loss of the sheep and help the local governments in Yingru area to fully rescue the victims, so as to save the lost hearts of the people, save the central government's authority and make up for the faults caused by Dongdu.
Now Dongdu has to stabilize the local situation. It is necessary to suppress the rebellion and suppress the thieves and give all its strength to support it. However, Dongdu was deceived by the local governments in Henan, and ignored the lives and deaths of the disaster victims, resulting in the misfortune. These are two completely opposite attitudes. Dongdu ignores the victims, but kills all the rebels who are mainly disaster victims. What kind of severe impact will this bring to the Henan people? It can be foreseen that the conflict between Dongdu and Henan, Guanlong people and Shandong people will be unprecedentedly fierce, and the prospect of suppressing the rebellion and suppressing the thieves is extremely unoptimistic. Therefore, suppressing the thieves is only one of the means to suppress the rebellion. Bloody killings cannot win back the hearts of the people, nor can it stabilize the situation. If you want to successfully suppress the rebellion, you must work hard to appease it, which requires King Yang Nan of Qi to use superb political wisdom and military strategies.
Therefore, there is no need to call 20,000 troops to suppress the rebellion, and the treasury will not give it or provide the 20,000 troops with the cost of suppressing the bandits.
King Yang Nan of Qi finally waited for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to "exert ambitions" and finally seized the opportunity to "kill" the numerous encirclements of large and small political forces in Dongdu. Of course, we must do our best to bring out the 20,000 troops under our command. Besides, everyone knows that the battlefield of Tongjiqu is actually a trap. Some people want to use this crisis to defeat King Yang Nan of Qi, while some people have to protect King Yang of Qi due to political interests. So
At the beginning, Shangshu Dushang was unable to make a decision to suppress the rebellion. Now Wei Yunqi revealed the truth about the Tongji Canal crisis with a big defeat, forcing Shangshu Dushang to make a decision to send troops to suppress the rebellion. King Yang Nan of Qi resolutely jumped into the trap with the determination to burn the boat and insisted on fighting against the water. If you want to win, of course, you must first ensure that you have strong strength, and 20,000 troops are the guarantee of strength. In this matter, King Yang Nan of Qi would never compromise and led 5,000 people to jump into the Tongji Canal trap, which was purely seeking death.
Yuan Wendu is highly respected in the political circle of Dongdu, with a huge power, and is the first minister of finance of this dynasty. He is powerful and has a very strong voice in Shangshudu Province. Now the emperor and many important officials are not present. Although he cannot do anything in Shangshudu Province, he dares to confront him or even forcefully suppress him. However, few of them are
Before, Yuan Wendu firmly opposed sending troops to quell the rebellion. Later, he compromised and supported Wei Yunqi to go out of Beijing to inspect Tongji Canal. His purpose was to hope that Wei Yunqi could quickly stabilize the situation on the front line of Tongji Canal. In this way, Dongdu took the initiative. If the situation permits, let King Yang Nan of Qi go out of Beijing to gain some credit for the suppression of the rebellion. If the situation does not permit, he will resolutely not let King Yang Nan of Qi go out of Beijing and maintain the original state. It is also considered to be a protection of King Yang Nan of Qi, and it is easy to explain to both the superiors and the subordinates.
However, Wei Yunqi was defeated by Jishui and slap Yuan Wendu, which made Yuan Wendu lose face and furious. But there was no way, the situation could not be controlled. He could only kill his teeth and blood and agreed to send troops to quell the rebellion. But how could he bear this anger? In addition, when King Yang Nan of Qi arrived at the battlefield of Tongji Canal, the Tongji Canal could be interrupted regardless of winning or losing. The consequences of the interruption of Tongji Canal were terrible. Yuan Wen had to do his best to control the ambition of King Yang Nan of Qi, and sacrifice the interests of King Yang Nan of Qi, in exchange for compromise in trying to use this opportunity to defeat King Yang Nan of Qi, to ensure that the Tongji Canal is always smooth, to ensure that there will be no problems in the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, and to ensure that the overall interests of Sino-Turkish Tu are not damaged.
Yuan Wendu resolutely cut off his political alliance with Wei and "bravely" stood opposite to King Yang Nan of Qi, which made the political situation in Dongdu suddenly complicated. Although the political group led by King Yang Nan of Qi won the decision to send troops to suppress the rebellion in Shangshu Province, it was caught in the siege of many political forces. It was too difficult for King Yang Nan of Qi to leave the capital. Even if he had the determination to sacrifice himself to die, many people would constrain him in every way for their own interests, which led to him not even being able to die.
Yuan Wendu's firm attitude is to "bottle the neck", but in fact it is to tear the face apart. But since Wei dared to slap him in the face publicly, of course he is guarded against his "counterattack". How could he be helpless?
Wei Jin, deputy chief of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stayed in the Eastern Capital and acted as the Minister of Civil Affairs. Wei Jin slapped the case and took out a series of data in response to Yuan Wendu's rhetoric. Finally, he concluded that according to the statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the treasury must have sufficient money and grain to support the 20,000 army to suppress the rebellion and suppress the thieves. However, Yuan Wendu said that the treasury is seriously insufficient money and grain, which can only show one thing: there is a problem within the treasury, and a very serious problem. It is either false reporting of data or corruption or abuse of power. In short, it has endangered the safety of the country's fortune. If you want to investigate, check it immediately.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for the statistics and regulation of the treasury, and is a financial management agency. As one of the nine temples of the Central Government, Taifu Temple is in charge of the state gold and silk and grains, and is a custodial cashier.
The relationship between the two is that the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of property and the Taifu is in charge of warehouse cashiers. The cashiers of the Taifu must be implemented according to the documents issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, while the Ministry of Civil Affairs reviews the actual amount of expenses based on the declaration of the Taifu Temple to achieve the constraints and supervision between the two. But this is not enough. The two may collude and be in a collusion, so the law has taken special precautions. First, the special censor supervises the Taifu cashier throughout the process, and second, the special ministers directly exercise the Taifu cashier's power, nominally sending special envoys to undertake specific things, which is actually publicly infringing on the power of the Taifu official.
Now Wei Jin openly challenged Yuan Wendu, and Wei and Yuanfu faced each other head-on. Of course, the central officials who participated in the decision-making of state affairs in Shangshudu Province were "excited". Some promoted the fire, some caused the injustice, and some watched coldly, but there was no "dissuasion of the fight". As a result, the decision was quickly made and the censor sent by the Censorate to investigate in accordance with the law.
Since the censor launched an investigation into the treasury of Taifu, it would not take a day or two, and this would seriously affect the plan to suppress the rebellion, so the Shangshu Province immediately came up with a second decision. At present, the suppression of rebellion and suppression of thieves is the top priority. Special matters should be handled specially. In accordance with the law, the special ministers will directly exercise the right to cashier the military funds for the suppression of rebellion, and the special censor will also supervise the Taifu's cashier of the military funds for the suppression of rebellion throughout the process.
Yuan Wendu was alone and was "defeated like a mountain of defeat". Although he was highly respected and powerful, the local aristocratic group of Guanlong led by Wei's family was too powerful to attack. In addition, the Heluo aristocratic group headed by Yang Xuangan, the Minister of Rites, contributed to the fire, and the Shandong aristocratic group headed by Zheng Yuanshou, the right guard general Zheng Yuanshou, took the lead in the fall. Some of the political forces with neutral positions did not dare to easily intervene in the dispute over the imperial unification, but just watched coldly, which resulted in the great power of the Guanlong Lu aristocratic group headed by Yuan's family in Shangshudu Province.
The emperor and the core ministers of the central government went to the battlefield in the Far East and took away the decision-making power of state affairs. The decision-making power of the Shangshu Province was very limited. In this case, the political groups of course sought to compromise in order to maximize their interests. However, Yuan Wen was angry by Wei in the matter of suppressing the rebellion and mistakenly chose to fight. The result can be imagined and was defeated.
Taking advantage of your illness, you will be killed. Yuan family retreated step by step, while Wei family pursued and fought relentlessly. The third decision was followed. The Shangshu Province agreed that Du Xingman, the deputy chief of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, would be appointed as the special minister and go to the Taifu to exercise the cashier of the military funds for the suppression of rebellion. The attendant censor Wei Deyu was appointed as the special censor to supervise the cashier of the military funds for the suppression of rebellion throughout the process.
Du Xingman, the assistant minister of the Cang Ministry, came from the Du family in Guanzhong. The Du family in Guanzhong is the second largest wealthy family in Guanzhong and is consistent with the interests of the Wei family in Guanzhong. Although the two families compete in local interests, they are definitely dependent on life and death in overall interests, and share honor and disgrace.
Wei Deyu came from Wei's family in Guanzhong. During the time when Wei Yunqi went out of Beijing to inspect Tongji Canal, the person acting for the affairs of the Censorate was the veteran Censor Wei Deyu.
Wei was defeated and completely controlled the military, government, and finance related to the suppression of rebellion and suppression of bandits with a thunderstorm. From the standpoint of King Yang Nan of Qi, this is a good thing. Only when power is great can you do whatever you want, do what you want, ensure the victory of suppressing rebellion and suppressing bandits, and make a bloody road from the battlefield of Tongji Canal. However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. If King Yang Nan of Qi capsizes in the gutter while holding great power, then he will be completely finished and he will not even have the chance to make a comeback.
Judging from the positions of many political forces in Dongdu, this is also a good thing. King Yang Nan of Qi and Wei of Qi used this to compromise with them. During this period, as long as I suppress the rebellion, I gave up all other interests. This is equivalent to giving them the opportunity to get along with others. In the future, no matter which side the political wind direction of Dongdu is blowing, they can make profits from it. Of course, this is an ideal state and does not exist in reality. If you want to make profits, you must make a choice. Fortunately, King Yang Nan of Qi gave them time to observe and consider them.
King Yang Nan of Qi left the capital, and 20,000 troops rushed to the battlefield of Tongjiqu day and night.
Chapter completed!