Chapter 642: Violence Has Never Lost Control, So It Is Not a Mutiny

Some people listen to too many flattering horse-fart words and will feel that they are "golden pupils and emerald feathers, different from the ordinary." They are different from ordinary mortals.

"I am different from the ordinary" was the fundamental motivation for the decision of "stationing the imperial carriage to decide the battle" in the Battle of Tumu during Zhu Qizhen's time.

I don't know military affairs, but I just feel that my decision is right, so I must do it.

In the end, he was captured by the Oirats, the Great Ming capital battalion collapsed, and fifty-two high-level civil officials and sixteen military generals of the Great Ming died in battle, including Duke of England Zhang Fu, Minister of Revenue Wang Zuo, Minister of War Kuang Ye, and Senior Grand Secretary Cao Nai, all of whom died for the country.

The Tumu Crisis was a tragedy caused by Zhu Qizhen's personal decision-making error. This tragedy spread to the entire Great Ming, with endless poison.

Lin Fu and Li Zhi, because of the real existence of the Emperor, did not dare to over-discuss the alienation of people by power, but dispersed it into religion and money. But they still told the Emperor that the final result of alienation is: I think I am a special existence compared to mortals.

Zhu Yijun, when he was seriously ill and dying due to the inflammatory storm, thought about letting the Dissection Institute dissect himself, so as to determine that the Emperor is the same as everyone else, and there is nothing special.

"Ma Wenying is a hero, never thought of evading responsibility." Zhu Yijun noticed these four battalion commanders, all of them are heroes!

Evaluating a person cannot just look at what he says. Great Ming officials are all scholars, and their words are all good, with a basket of big principles. Shouting that the people are the foundation of the country is loud, but what they do is not good-looking. Evaluating a person must look at what he is doing.

Ma Wenying, from beginning to end, never evaded responsibility even once, whether it was self-binding at Yongchang Gate, hanging himself in prison, or opening the city gate to surrender, Ma Wenying walked out of the city alone.

These are all things Ma Wenying did. Zhu Yijun admires him, he is an iron-willed man.

Good words are useless. Only good deeds are useful.

"It's better to punish symbolically, after all, it's making trouble for pay." Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment and said: "Why not exile to the Japanese country."

"Is it definitely a punishment?" Wang Chonggu immediately opened his mouth and said: "Ma Wenying exiled to the Japanese country? He can't wait to run to the Nagasaki Governor's Office to kill Japanese pirates..."

If Ma Wenying, or all the soldiers of the Zhejiang nine battalions, were allowed to choose one, whether to patrol and prevent floods, or to go to Nagasaki to exterminate Japanese pirates, nine out of ten soldiers would choose the latter. Zhang Juzheng's partiality is too obvious.

"Then Junior Grand Secretary Wang find a way. You can't just mutiny and have no punishment at all." Zhang Juzheng spread his hands and said: "Then Junior Grand Secretary Wang give a punishment?"

"It seems there is nothing to punish. Just exile to the Nagasaki Governor's Office to serve in the army." Wang Chonggu calculated and agreed with Zhang Juzheng's method.

Ma Wenying, as the chief culprit, cannot stay in Zhejiang. The reason is also very simple. He is the leader of the mutiny. His existence will make the Zhejiang ground always have the possibility of mutiny. For the stability of the place, he must let Ma Wenying leave.

"Why not do this? These nine battalions will conduct a selection, select 4,500 elite soldiers to change defense to the Nagasaki Governor's Office, supplement the Nagasaki military strength, and also verify the guarantee of overseas supplies mentioned by Sea Transport Viceroy Wang Zongmu and Minister of Personnel Liang Menglong." Wang Chonggu put forward a suggestion.

These 45,000 people in the Zhejiang nine battalions are not all young and strong. Some are already old and weak. After all, Zhejiang's anti-Japanese war was before the fortieth year of Jiajing. Selecting 4,500 elite soldiers and sending them to the Nagasaki Governor's Office is to train the team bit by bit and enhance the Great Ming's overseas projection capability.

"Good." Zhu Yijun highly recognized this idea. This further increased the stability of the place, and also gave these sharp soldiers a place to use their skills. Dying before achieving their ambitions, perhaps this is the greatest regret of these soldiers. Similarly, it can also effectively reduce conspiracy theories.

Ma Wenying, Yang Tingyong, Zhang Wenyuan, and Yang Zhi, these four battalion commanders, went to Nagasaki alone, which is easy to be written by pen-holders who like to talk nonsense as the Emperor wanting to borrow a knife to kill people, borrowing the hands of Japanese pirates to kill the battalion commanders who did not obey management and mutinied.

But the battalion commanders also took 4,500 people with them. Then who kills whom is not certain, and the pen-holders cannot be so conspiratorial.

Looking at the whole thing, Wang Chonggu couldn't say the words of beheading Ma Wenying for public display.

Carrying sharp weapons, the heart of killing arises by itself. This is the reason of nature. The nine battalion soldiers have 45,000 people. They have been silently enduring exploitation for so many years. The court initially thought that only the two battalions guarding Hangzhou were exploited, but after Yan Shixuan's investigation, it was found that the entire nine battalions were being exploited.

The big money of Wanli Tongbao cannot circulate in Zhejiang because the court has no policy inclination, and the quantity of big money is insufficient, leading to the fact that big money cannot buy any goods in the Zhejiang ground. Wu Shanyan controls this business of big money buying and selling to Songjiang Prefecture.

It is not that Wu Shanyan is insatiably greedy, using reduced pay to force soldiers to leave, and by the way embezzling this silver. I am afraid this kind of exploitation will continue to exist.

It must be said that Wu Shanyan is really bold. He even dares to take the soldiers' silver.

"Who should be sent to Zhejiang?" Zhu Yijun talked about the candidate for Zhejiang Governor.

"Let Shen Shixing lead it for a while, stabilize it for a while, and then send a Governor." Wang Chonggu gave a compromise opinion.

Shen Shixing is a relatively suitable candidate. He is close, and the Songjiang Prefecture matter cannot be delayed. Secondly, Shen Shixing is a person from heaven, and he is acting, so he will not speak for the local gentry and scholars and powerful and wealthy people, covering up for them, and the problems can be exposed more clearly.

"There are 5,400 people arrested in the nine battalions entering the city to clear out the sitting bandits." Zhu Yijun talked about the results of the Zhejiang nine battalions. The tricky definition problem was clarified, and then it was time to talk about specific problems.

That is the sitting bandits in the city. Sitting bandits are relative to wandering bandits.

There are wandering bandits outside the city, and sitting bandits inside the city. And these sitting bandits are all running dogs raised by Wu Shanyan, private secretaries, and various prefectures and counties. This is also the group of people the nine battalions hate the most. After entering the city, they began to clear out the sitting bandits.

"No, Your Majesty, this turned into entering the city to suppress bandits? It was clearly a mutiny." Wang Chonggu keenly noticed the Emperor's definition of this matter, from a mutiny to entering the city to suppress sitting bandits. Once this rhetoric changed, such a vicious event as a mutiny completely changed its nature.

"Otherwise." Zhu Yijun said very definitely: "Otherwise, kill all these 45,000 anti-Japanese heroes in Zhejiang? Otherwise, how could there be a vague definition of making trouble for pay?"

If you can't change the facts, change the definition. This is a routine used by lowly scholars. Zhu Yijun knows lowly scholars very well and knows their means very well, so he will naturally learn and use them.

Bad news, His Majesty learned that set of lowly scholars. Good news, he learned it all.

"Uh, His Majesty is wise!" Wang Chonggu said a bit indifferently.

Making trouble for pay is also a mutiny, but the Great Ming has the definition of making trouble for pay, which is not to let the contradiction further intensify. If it is all a mutiny, then it must be suppressed, the contradiction further intensifies, and no one can be decent. Things have reached such a point, changing the nature, letting things ease, is a compromise.

"Your Majesty, a mutiny should be violence out of control. I think this time the Zhejiang nine battalions entered the city to suppress bandits, it is not violence out of control. There was no malicious injury to the common people, no innocent people were hurt. Although they occupied the prefectural and county yamen, they did not directly interfere with government affairs, nor did they kill court officials. This is not a mutiny." Zhang Juzheng was very supportive of the Emperor's definition of the mutiny.

Wu Shanyan is still alive. This doesn't count as a mutiny.

And Zhang Juzheng further clarified the reason why it didn't count as a mutiny, because from beginning to end, violence never lost control. The soldiers who were desperate still adhered to the eight words: Report to the Son of Heaven above, save the common people below.

Reporting to the Son of Heaven above is easy to understand under the concept of monarch and minister for thousands of years, but these four words, save the common people below, appeared for the first time in thousands of years.

The Zhejiang nine battalions followed these eight words very well.

These eight words were indeed the military soul of the capital battalion proposed by Qi Jiguang, but these eight words were also the experience summarized in the long-term anti-Japanese struggle.

Relying on the common people is equivalent to having countless eyes on the battlefield, which can obtain the victory of the anti-Japanese war. Separating from the common people, it is impossible to obtain victory.

"The teacher spoke very well, I accept the teaching." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and highly recognized Zhang Juzheng's definition of the mutiny.

Violence never lost control.

The nine battalions of 45,000 soldiers arrested a total of 5,400 people. Those who resisted were killed. A total of more than 3,000 people were killed.

These sitting bandits are not only gangs in the city, but also inferior gentry in the homes of powerful and wealthy people, gentry and scholars, inferior gentry's servants, litigation sticks, swindling brokers, etc. There are also this group of people who drink soldiers' blood. And the key targets of the soldiers were to solve the human trafficking agencies in all prefectural and county cities in the Zhejiang ground.

That is those human trafficking agencies that buy and sell people everywhere, especially those that buy and sell five or six-year-old girls, were all eliminated by the nine battalion soldiers. It was indeed eliminated. All human traffickers involved in the human trafficking agencies were executed on the spot.

Because of the siege, all personnel involved in the human trafficking agencies could not escape. With the cooperation of the common people in the city, the nine battalion soldiers uprooted all human trafficking agencies.

Zhu Yijun learned a chilling fact from Yan Shixuan's memorial and the more than a hundred crimes against Wu Shanyan, that is, the families of the nine battalion soldiers who patrolled and prevented floods in March and returned to the camp in September every year, many children were abducted by these human trafficking agencies.

When the nine battalions patrolled, the military camp lacked strong men, so these human trafficking agencies liked to run to the families of the nine battalions to hold, grab, snatch, and cheat children when the patrol day arrived.

The nine battalions made trouble for pay, mutinied, and carried out a comprehensive and thorough liquidation of the human trafficking agencies!

The masters, shopkeepers, clerks, brokers, tooth people, etc. behind the human trafficking agencies were all beheaded for public display on the street.

Shen Shixing's reason for bringing Chen Tiande was to let these maritime defense inspectors of Songjiang Prefecture conduct a comprehensive investigation of these people beheaded for public display, mainly to see if there were any wronged people. When the mutiny broke out, the court had to appease their families.

Chen Tiande took the Songjiang Prefecture maritime defense inspectors to handle the case in a different place. It took fifteen days to investigate everyone beheaded in the mutiny and found that there was no injustice.

As long as there was a little possibility of being wronged, and there were some doubts, the nine battalion soldiers chose to take them into custody, so they arrested 5,400 people.

This is the most intuitive manifestation of violence not losing control.

Mutinous soldiers, in the process of reciprocal retaliation, very easily discover that they possess sharp blades. When seeking revenge, they become blinded by bloodlust. Then, driven by greed for money, their actions turn from retaliation and revenge into looting, then from looting into rampaging, burning, and killing, and finally evolve into a massacre.

This is a gradual process. The evil of human nature is constantly magnified, and finally becomes slaughtering the city.

The Zhejiang nine battalions had already besieged all the prefectural cities. Loss of control was between the fingers, but the grassroots officers, battalion commanders, thousand-household officers, and hundred-household officers restrained the soldiers and did not let violence lose control.

Therefore, it cannot be defined as a mutiny.

"Among the 5,400 people arrested, including inferior gentry, about 1,200 need to be beheaded." Wang Chonggu reported the specific situation.

The most things Shen Shixing did in Hangzhou Prefecture was to investigate cases, investigate all those arrested in the mutiny clearly, and there were 1,200 people who deserved to be beheaded. These beasts, everyone's hands were stained with the blood of the common people. Just the yamen worms, that is, the yamen servants who did evil, were more than 600.

"Kill! Not one left." Zhu Yijun said very definitely: "Expedite the investigation and supplementation, strive to give the Zhejiang common people an explanation before the end of the year, and behead them for public display outside Yongchang Gate in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang!"

"This mutiny has at least pushed the reform pace of the Wanli Reform forward by ten years!"

Zhu Yijun is not joking. The most direct influence is: the Zhejiang ground has finally cleared the clouds and seen the sun. These beasts die, and the Zhejiang ground common people can at least take a big breath. This breath can at least be taken for five or six years.

And its invisible far-reaching influence is the most terrifying.

Inside and outside the Great Ming court, they felt the bottom-up power very directly. No one would question the correctness of *Contradiction Theory* anymore. The fundamental purpose of *Contradiction Theory* is to expound the bottom-up power. Whether it is the division of classes or the discussion of distribution, it is based on the fact that the bottom-up has extremely terrifying power.

This helps the reform of the Great Ming political system. No Great Ming official dares to ignore the poor people and laborers, feeling that they can't do anything, because the Zhejiang nine battalions have set an example, forcing people to be anxious, breaking into prefectural and county yamen, and trampling these high-and-mighty masters under their feet.

The inner treasury is burned into brocade and embroidery ash, and the bones of the public ministers are stepped on the sky street, no longer poetry, but reality.

After Wu Shanyan was beheaded for public display, his death was greater than his contribution in his life.

When the news of the mutiny reached the capital, Zhang Juzheng clearly stated that this could not shake the ruling foundation of the Great Ming.

If the Great Ming is to perish, it will only perish in the hands of the common people. As long as the common people can live, the Great Ming court can live. The Great Ming has no stage for gentry and scholars, powerful and wealthy people, and official-selected officials to rebel. Except for playing some conspiracy tricks, they can't do anything.

The Emperor who was a beggar has left, but the Emperor's beggars are still guarding the Great Ming.

Zhang Juzheng's statement is to say: His Majesty can rest assured and build boldly.

Actually, as an Emperor, Zhu Yijun should not accept this view. It is very difficult for poor people and laborers to fight to Beijing, but these powerful and wealthy people can really take the Emperor's life.

In this case, the Emperor should choose to stand with the powerful and wealthy people and exploit downward together, just like Wu Shanyan, so that it will be safe.

Emperors Xianzong, Wuzong, and Shizong all confirmed this point with the lessons of blood.

But Zhu Yijun just doesn't, he just wants to stand and be the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing. During the process of the soldiers clearing out the sitting bandits, seventy-three people died in the battle." Wang Chonggu said with a difficult face: "According to the system, the Loyalty Shrine should be built and pension should be given. Should this be given or not?"

"Give." Zhu Yijun said very definitely: "Build the Loyalty Shrine in front of Yongchang Gate, and after Wu Shanyan dies, bury his head in it for sacrifice."

Before seeing Ma Wenying, Yang Tingyong, Zhang Wenyuan, and Yang Zhi, Zhu Yijun conducted a comprehensive definition of this matter in the Tonghe Palace Imperial Study with the Great Ming Senior and Junior Grand Secretaries.

And Qi Jiguang, who should have been in the Imperial Study, was in the Northern Great Camp.

Qi Jiguang is preparing for war. Once the Southern Yamen navy cannot quickly stabilize the situation, the capital battalion will go south along the highway to Mizhou and take a boat to Shuangyu Port.

Qi Jiguang is not prepared to bring too many people. He will bring his 3,000 "Qi Family Army", that is, the 3,000 guest soldiers recruited in Yiwu, Zhejiang back then. He returns to Zhejiang, just like going home. If Chen Lin cannot handle it, he will handle it himself.

Qi Jiguang does not believe, does not believe that the nine battalion soldiers will hurt himself, hurt these Yiwu soldiers.

Before there is a clear signal to prove that the Zhejiang mutiny will not cause greater chaos, Qi Jiguang will not leave the capital battalion.

Qi Jiguang, the ballast stone of the empire.

The four battalion commanders who launched the entering the city to suppress bandits in Luomu Battalion want to enter the capital. They took the fast sailing ship Youlong.

The speed of the Youlong is second only to the hydrofoil sailing ship, and it is safe and stable. And every October before the Bohai Bay freezes, the Youlong will cruise to Tianjin Guard and leave at the end of October.

"Fuck, back then if we had this thing, could the Japanese pirates land? I'll take the Japanese pirates' surname! Damn it, sink them all at sea! Then use fish forks to name them one by one!" Zhang Wenyuan didn't close his mouth after getting on the ship, dumbfounded.

Youlong, the swimming dragon at sea.

"Iron!" Yang Tingyong's sand-pot-sized fist smashed on the mast, grinning in pain, and kept shaking his hands. He is a human, his fist smashed on iron, even if he didn't use much force, it hurt him.

It really hurts, and it's really happy. No wonder the Japanese pirates don't come.

Only Ma Wenying didn't speak, but stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the distance.

"What is Ma Sanye looking at?" Li Yougong asked very curiously.

"Great Internal Official, you are lifting me up. Call me Ma Wenying." Ma Wenying knew this master in the court who was calling the wind and summoning the rain, and was the Emperor's walking in the world. He didn't dare to call himself Ma Sanye.

"What is Ma Sanye thinking about?" Li Yougong didn't change his address either. Ma Wenying could kill twenty-two Japanese pirates with his own hands, so he deserved the honorific title of Ma Sanye.

"Looking at the ships on the sea, thousands of sails passing by, it's really good. Every time I see it, it's a profit." Ma Wenying pointed to the sea and said: "The future of the Great Ming is on the sea. This was what Minister Hu said to us back then. Minister Hu said that without the ocean, the Great Ming southeast would not have a day of peace."

"Minister Hu said to us back then, the significance of our Zhejiang nine battalions' existence is that one day we can go to sea."

"Ma Sanye, is this the reason why Minister Hu had to die, and Xu Jie had to risk the world's great disapproval to let Minister Hu die in the prison?" Li Yougong clearly felt that his heartbeat accelerated a bit. He never expected that in an unintentional chat, he actually discovered the reason why Hu Zongxian had to die.

Hu Zongxian wanted to open the sea, and the southeast stability was on the sea waves. This point was exactly the same as the propositions of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou.

"I don't know, the height of the temple, how do we soldiers understand this..." Ma Wenying shook his head: "From my own point of view, in fact, the national treasury was in great deficit back then, and there was no money. Yan Song and Yan Shifan hit the idea on sea trade. The hole was too big to fill."

Yan Song and Yan Shifan didn't understand the significance of opening the sea to the Great Ming. The reason they supported Hu Zongxian was actually that they were poor and crazy, and had to find money everywhere.

Ma Wenying didn't understand the height of the temple and the calculations of the temple officials, but he knew Hu Zongxian and knew that Hu Zongxian couldn't even pacify the Japanese pirates without relying on the Yan family.

Li Yougong had always been unable to understand why Xu Jie had to kill Hu Zongxian, who was already at home and harmless. Originally, Li Yougong thought it was Xu Jie worrying that Hu Zongxian would rise again and threaten him.

Now it seems that Hu Zongxian pacified the Japanese pirates, but in the end, he still put himself in.

The production capacity of fast sailing ships has risen to seven per year, but the Youlong, as the first fast sailing ship to go to sea, has great symbolic significance, roughly equivalent to the status of the seal boat, that is, the Emperor's imperial boat. For example, passing ships will wave flag language to express respect.

The speed of the Youlong was very fast. Even against the wind, because the hard sail could walk eight sides of the wind, the Youlong successfully arrived at Tianjin Guard three days later.

After Ma Wenying got off the ship and rested for a day, he took the iron horse-drawn carriage of the Shengping No. 2 to enter the capital. When the whistle sounded, it really scared Ma Wenying and others. It wasn't until the vehicle moved slowly forward that Ma Wenying calmed down. Looking around, he laughed directly.

Yang Tingyong, who was not afraid of heaven or earth, grabbed the armrest tightly, full of fear. This was the first time he saw a highway and the first time he saw an iron horse. Such a big monster-like thing, roaring forward, really made Yang Tingyong a bit at a loss.

If this hits, it will definitely die, right?

After the carriage drove out of the station, every time it passed a highway exit, there were continuous houses, all formed around the merchant team, extremely lively. Ma Wenying felt that his eyes were not enough. He thought that the changes in the south would be greater than in the north, because the south was opening the sea, which could be said to be changing with each passing day, but he never expected that the changes in the north would be earth-shaking.

Before arriving at Tongzhou, continuous houses began to appear in front of Ma Wenying. Hangzhou, as a big city with a million people, was very prosperous, and the attached houses also stretched for several miles, but it was far from being as shocking as this scene. After walking for a long, long time, Ma Wenying didn't see the city wall.

When stopping at Tongzhou, Ma Wenying thought he had arrived. After asking, he knew that it was still twenty-four *li* away from the capital.

"It's just these ten years that there have been such big changes. When I was a child, outside Zhaoyang Gate was a wasteland, not even a tree." Li Yougong arranged for Ma Wenying to stay at the Tongzhou Joint Meeting Post Station and talked about the changes.

Ma Wenying and others felt surprised, and Li Yougong also felt surprised. Every time he went out and returned to the capital, he felt like he didn't know the way.

As a super heavy town in the north, the scale of the capital is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Wang Xiyuan, the Shun Tian Prefecture Assistant, is really busy until his head is bald. The pressure is not less than Shen Shixing's.

The changes in the capital are in all aspects. Houses are increasing, so they must be managed. The attached houses built at will originally need to be dismantled and changed for road planning. Sanitation, public welfare pharmacies, schools, water supply, and other matters, every thing, every moment, is changing. The refined management of the city is a science, and it is a big science.

The Emperor issued a decree to summon the four battalion commanders. The place of meeting was not in the Wenhua Hall, nor in the Huangji Hall, but in the Wu Ying Building of the Northern Great Camp.

The Emperor issued an edict to summon the four Company Commanders. The meeting place was not the Hall of Literary Brilliance, nor the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but the Wu Ying Pavilion in the Northern Great Camp.

Its size has become the fifth city of the capital.

The capital has four cities: East City, West City, Outer City, and Forbidden City. And now the North City has formed a scale.

"Tonghe Gate?" Ma Wenying looked at the Northern Tucheng with five city gates and was a bit surprised. This is an earth city? The construction of the city gate, what is the difference from Desheng Gate not far away?

Li Yougong said calmly: "Hmm, it should be from Viceroy Pan Jixun. All city gates facing Tonghe Palace are called this name. In terms of flattery, who is the opponent of these scholars!"

This kind of work of flattery should have been done by internal officials, but it was all snatched away by civil officials!

After the carriage drove into the city gate slowly, Li Yougong pointed to the west and said: "That side is the Ten Wang Cheng, which is the city within the city, where the princes who moved to the capital live. On the right hand side is the Royal Institute of Technology. To the north, around the Wu Ying Building, thirty-three squares were built, but there are no square walls. They are divided by roads and divided into four areas, with the four directions of east, west, south, and north, as Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird."

Li Yougong introduced the construction of the Northern Tucheng in detail for Ma Wenying. It can be said that the entire Northern Tucheng was built by Wang Chonggu.

Back then, Wang Chonggu was the Viceroy of Capital Battalion military affairs and worked for less than a year before returning to Xuanfu Datong to block the hole of the Great Wall construction. Later, Wang Chonggu could no longer touch the capital battalion, but he obviously had an obsession with the capital battalion, unable to supervise military affairs, but planned the entire Northern Tucheng in an orderly manner.

Wang Chonggu was so dedicated, which can be considered as having some sense of participation.

The greatest achievements of Wang Chonggu's life were all in military affairs. Later, he could no longer contact military affairs, so he started government factories.

The Three Walls are the Wu Ying Building, the Ten Wang Cheng, and the Royal Institute of Technology. The Four Elephants are the military camps. The families of the military camps are also in the Four Elephants. The Seven Stars are the seven government offices.

Including the Capital Battalion Town Fuse Division, this is a legal division, specially responsible for all cases of the capital battalion; the Bell and Drum Tower is responsible for night watchmen patrolling the streets and firemen fighting fires; the East and West Markets buy and sell goods and commodities; the Martial Library Division stacks gunpowder and military equipment; the Garrison Commander's Office and the Assistant Regional Commander's Mansion are places for Assistant Regional Commanders to discuss matters; the Household Section Experience Division specializes in military pay accounting and distribution; the Education Division specializes in capital battalion schools and other matters.

Ma Wenying looked at these government offices that the carriage passed by and asked blankly: "Does the capital battalion have a special Household Section Experience Division to manage military pay?"

"Does the Zhejiang nine battalions not have it?" Li Yougong asked full of doubts.

"No."

"This Wu Shanyan! A dog thing that deceives the top and hides from the bottom and should be chopped into ten thousand pieces!" Li Yougong cursed viciously.

In the ninth year of Wanli, the Emperor issued an imperial decree to set up a Household Section Experience Division in each Regional Military Commission, with one experience officer, fifth rank, which is part of the strengthening of the military, which is the government office that accounts for the distribution of military pay, directly under the management of the Ministry of Revenue. Wu Shanyan reported to the court that the establishment was completed.

Now it seems that it is deceiving the top and hiding from the bottom. I am afraid that the experience officer of the Zhejiang Regional Military Commission Experience Division is eight out of ten Wu Shanyan's running dogs. No wonder the military pay was clearly out of the treasury, and it could still be less than six *qian* of silver out of thin air!

Now Wu Shanyan has added another crime, deceiving the Emperor.

Yan Shixuan thought that Wu Shanyan was just exploiting downward. When investigating, he didn't think about the matter of deceiving heaven. This Wu Shanyan really thought he was a different existence from mortals, and even dared to deceive the Emperor.

"That is the Wu Ying Building." The carriage moved forward slowly and stopped in front of this palace pavilion, waiting for the imperial decree to summon. ===== CHAPTER 643 =====

"That is the Wu Ying Pavilion." The carriage moved slowly forward and stopped in front of the Wu Ying Pavilion, waiting for the imperial edict to be proclaimed.