Jinyi Wei Baihu Tian Ergeng and Yingzhou Wei Commander Long Shenke were brought to the court meeting, and complained in front of the courtiers and the emperor that he did not make any illegal moves when he cleaned up the land encroachment of the guard.

The imperial historians headed by Men Chen Xin began to talk about the local surnames of Wu, Wang, and Chen, all of whom were heirlooms, and had always been willing to give good and good, and how noble their conduct was.

But they never said whether it was a fact that these three families had encroached on the land of the guard.

Soon, the focus of the court's discussion shifted from whether the way of dealing with the encroachment on the land of the guard was appropriate, to the question of whether Tian Ergeng and other Jinyi guards took the opportunity to clean up the land that encroached on the guard and took the opportunity to crack down on the exploitation of the local gentry.

Compared with the last court meeting, this time there were more officials who attacked Tian Ergeng and other Jinyi guards at the court meeting.

There were many officials who were not even contacted by Men Chenxin and others in advance, but only out of natural hostility towards Jinyiwei after seeing Tian Ergeng and others.

Looking at the huge momentum set off by seventy or eighty officials, the nobles finally couldn't bear the loneliness, and Liu Zuochang, Marquis of Anyuan, Zhang Gongri, Marquis of Longping, and Zhao Zhilong, Bo of Xincheng, joined the ranks of attacking Tian Ergeng.

Tian Ergeng and Long Shenke finally shut up, although the crowd in the court was turbulent, but today's court meeting was extremely orderly. After fighting with Chongzhen a few times at the court meeting, these officials quickly learned how not to let Chongzhen take advantage of it.

Lu Chengyuan, Wang Shoulu and other leaders have not yet made a move, and after several failed court debates, they found that they were always falling behind, all because they jumped out too early, so they were preempted by Chongzhen.

Therefore, today, several speech leaders have simply changed their ways. Let Men Chen Xin and the others take the lead first, and they will wait for Chongzhen to make a move before acting.

Chongzhen didn't seem to wake up today, and in the impeachment of these civil officials, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, as if he was outside a fugue.

Lu Chengyuan finally couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, this Tian'er cultivates the law and discipline and bullies the local gentry, which is really a great crime. Please ask Your Majesty to hand over this officer to the three law divisions, to be a typical example, and to reassure the hearts of the local gentry. ”

Zhu Youzhen yawned lazily, and then said: "The country is a typical example, and it always has real evidence." You just said a lot, I heard it right, what Zhu Qing said just now is either said or heard, so how can I convict Tian Baihu of sin? ”

Hearing Chongzhen's tone, Men Chenxin was a little weak, thinking that Chongzhen was looking at the impeachment of Tian Ergeng too many officials, and he was going to give up Tian Ergeng, so he hurriedly came out and said.

"Chen Xin of the minister dares to vouch that what the minister said is true, there is no falsehood, and the minister has the love letters of Wu, Wang, and Chen as proof."

Door Chen Xin took out a stack of papers from his sleeve pocket and wanted to present it to Chongzhen. Zhu Youzhen stopped it, and the eunuch on duty in the palace wanted to pick up Chen Qing's letter.

"I'm not a three-law division, what kind of love letter do I want to read. Is there anyone other than the Gate Imperial History who is willing to vouch for this? Zhu Youzhen rubbed his temples and said.

Although Zhu Youzhen's attitude is ambiguous, the officials in the court can see that Chongzhen still prefers Tian Ergeng, and has no good impression of Chen Xin, the imperial historian who impeached him.

This made some officials who themselves came out to stand up for a moment silent, and it was naturally no problem to impeach Tian Ergeng, but they were still unwilling to get involved in this trouble as a guarantee for whether the gentry in these places had encroached on military land.

However, like Men Chen Xin, those who accepted the silver money from the gentry who encroached on the land of Yingzhou Sanwei, and hated Tian Ergeng to the core, 12 officials came out one after another, including two nobles.

Looking at Tian Ergeng, who was standing on the side with his hands down, Huang Daozhou, who was indignant for Donglin's predecessors, also wanted to join the ranks, but Ni Yuanlu, who was standing beside him, blocked him intentionally or unintentionally.

Noticing Huang Daozhou's incomprehensible gaze, Ni Yuanlu whispered without squinting: "Men Chen Xin was also one of the officials of Wei Zhongxian in the past, and he stood up to impeach Tian Ergeng at this time. ”

Huang Daozhou frowned and retorted: "This is not a gentleman's doing, even if Men Chen Xin was attached to the eunuch party that day, but Tian Ergeng is Wei Zhongxian's minion, and he is also an accomplice who killed my Donglin predecessors, if you don't take this opportunity to take revenge today, when will you wait?" Now it is advisable to follow the power, not to stick to common sense, and let go of the vicious dog Tian Ergeng. ”

However, Huang Daozhou's delay, Zhu Youzhen had already spoken, "Since you think that Tian Ergeng is indeed guilty, then you will be the plaintiff and sue Tian Ergeng in the Three Law Division."

Since ancient times, if you become a plaintiff, you cannot be a judge, so the trial officials selected by the three legal divisions must not collude with the plaintiff and the defendant, and second, they must not have any personal relationship with the plaintiff and the defendant.

Whether it is Tian Ergeng or you, if you feel that there is a problem with the trial officials of the three legal divisions, you can raise it before the trial, and once you enter the trial, you are not allowed to appeal and recuse yourself.

The trial officials selected by the three judicial divisions must be named and write down documents that have no relationship with the plaintiff and the defendant, and if it is discovered that there is any concealment, the trial will be annulled, and the official will also be punished. ”

Handed over Tian Ergeng to the three law divisions for trial, in the eyes of these officials, this is no different from a conviction.

Because Jinyiwei has always been a judicial system independent of the three law divisions, the conflict between Jin Yiwei and the three law divisions has broken out more than once on weekdays, but because Jin Yiwei is trusted by the emperor, every time there is a conflict, the three law divisions are at a disadvantage.

With such prejudices, the impeachment officials in the court have all returned to the order. However, Chongzhen refused to detain Tian Ergeng and the others in the prison of the Criminal Department, on the grounds that the charges were undecided.

The courtiers looked at each other, but finally did not argue any further, anyway, as long as Tian Ergeng entered the Three Law Division, the crime would definitely not be able to escape, and it didn't matter if he continued to fight with Chongzhen in the court.

Then Tian Yang, who had just taken office, said: "The horses of the Taifu Temple were originally dedicated to the regimental camp for riding exercises, but since the official horse farm was abolished, it was changed to assign the official horses to the private households to raise, and after a certain period of time, the policy of collecting the agreed horses, this is the horse law, and the horse law was soon abolished.

It has been divided into a system of folding, which is no longer the original intention of the original legislation. Since the abolition of the Taifu Temple, the Yuan Ma Temple was abolished, the horses of the border army also relied on the Yuchen Temple, and the temple folded color and the horse system was wiped out.

In recent years, the price of horses is only more than 450,200 gold, and the emperor has rewarded him from time to time. Now the provinces are straight and negative number, and the ministers beg to pay attention to the restrictions to complete the solution, and pick up the special questions. ”

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Youzhen finally figured it out, and he asked Tian Yang: "In other words, now the Taifu Temple has become a place to collect taxes and sell horses to the provinces and provide them to the border army and the Beijing camp, and the Taifu Temple itself no longer has a horse, right?" ”

Tian Yang nodded yes, and Zhu Youzhen then asked: "Then how does Taifu Temple know when to replenish the number of horses in the border army and the Beijing camp?" ”

"The supplementary number of horses reported to each army will be sent to the Taifu Temple after being reviewed by the Vehicles and Drivers Department of the Ministry of War." Tian Yang felt a little uneasy as he explained.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly turned to Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, and asked: "Guo Shangshu, if I remember correctly, the folded silver handed over by this horse household should have been exempted from national tax and forced labor, right?" ”

Guo Yunhou nodded and said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, the ancestor thought that Ma Zheng was the most important thing in the country, and the ancients first horses and then money and grain, so the horses were right." In order to ensure that the horse households can raise their horses well, the horse households are exempted from national taxes and forced labor. ”

"So that is to say, the purpose of setting up a horse household at the beginning of the country was to get horses, not to fold silver?" Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked.

Guo Yunhou nodded yes without thinking, and after Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while, he asked Huang Liji again: "If Taifu Temple even gives up the responsibility of raising horses that he is responsible for, then is there still a need to exist?" It is enough to review the supplementary number of military horses and have a military department, and it is enough to collect taxes and silver to have a household department, so why do you want to get a Taifu Temple in the middle? ”

Huang Liji is being attacked by the Qingliu these days, saying that he is blindly increasing the number of official positions, which is catering to the holy will and increasing the burden on the people.

Now Chongzhen gave him a chance to plug the clear stream, and he naturally climbed up along the pole.

"The minister thinks that this Taifu Temple should indeed be rectified and eliminated from the officials." After all, Huang Liji still didn't dare to follow the emperor's wishes and completely dismantle the Taifu Temple.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at him, then turned to Liu Zongzhou and asked, "Mr. Qishan, this horse household levies one tael of forage silver every year, one horse every three years, and 24 taels of color. That is to say, 9 taels of silver will be collected every year. This is at least twice as much as the tax paid by ordinary households, is this good governance? Or is it bad government? ”

Liu Zongzhou said without hesitation: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, in the eyes of the ministers, the establishment of the horse household is completely exploiting the small people, and it is not beneficial to the country and the people. ”

Zhu Youzhen no longer asked others, and said to the courtiers: "Since there are no horses in the Ma household, and the people are complaining, then there is no need to set up a horse household." All horse households have been converted into private households, and in the future, the household department will collect taxes uniformly.

The Ministry of War continued to review the quantity, the Ministry of Household allocated funds for purchase, and each of the five military governors set up a logistics office, which was responsible for verifying the number of horses in each guard station, and purchasing and accepting horses.

As for the Taifu Temple, except for the Taifu Temple, the Taifu Temple Shaoqing, the Chenghuang Administration, and the Chefu Department, the others issued a year's Yulu and were cancelled. ”

Tian Yang, the secretary of the Taifu Temple, was suddenly shocked and said: "Your Majesty, even if this Taifu Temple is to be abolished, what is the crime of the officials of the various ministries?" The minister thought that after the selection, the best should be assigned to other officials. ”

Tian Yanghua has won the support of many officials, after all, after ten years of hard study, it was not easy to get an official position, because he fell in the Taifu Temple, he was dismissed from his official position and rushed home, which was too ruthless.

Zhu Youzhen hesitated, and then revised to: "Since Zhu Qing intercedes, then I will revise it, and the officials who are transferred to the Taifu Temple within a year can return to the Ministry of Officials and re-elect officials." A year later, the officials who had asked for a change in Ma Zheng were re-evaluated by the Ministry of Officials, and the rest remained unchanged. ”