Chapter 7 Meet the Great Sima
After Zhen Jiang left, the Great Sima Mansion in Yedu often gave Yanbei a feeling of emptiness, although the lively Zhen Dao was still there, but it always made him feel empty in his heart. Sometimes that person is around, and there are not many special feelings in the heart; But once the person is gone, it seems that nothing is right.
However, during this period of time, the rumors of the people in Yedu still made Yanbei feel very satisfied in the bottom of his heart, and people were afraid that this post under Sun Qing included the three religions and nine streams. Although Mingli investigates and deals with internal and external corruption, in fact, he inspects everything and supervises both inside and outside.
At the end of the first month of the first month of the establishment of the school temple, the temple informed China and the DPRK of a major event - the school captain Chen Zhong deducted the grain and grass in the army, smuggled soldiers and horses to circulate outside the country, and made a profit of tens of millions of family assets.
The so-called Zhong Dynasty is the general name of the officials who directly enter and leave the palace forbidden, and the three dukes do not have the authority of the emperor to enter the palace without notification.
Yan Bei was extremely shocked in the palace, as if Jixiao Temple was directly ordered by the emperor and never informed him first, and said angrily: "This Chen Zhong is too unusual!" In his early years, he fought for Yan, so his subordinates, generals, captains, etc. treated him leniently, but he dared to withhold the soldiers' food and grass, and also sold war horses and ordnance to the outside of the fortress? Your Majesty! Please punish the sins of the ministers! ”
In fact, Yanbei had already been shocked once, and when Sun Qing told him that Chen Zhong's family had tens of millions, Yanbei couldn't figure out where his money came from anyway. Chen Zhong was the subordinate who injured his husband and bullied his wife when Yanbei first entered Wuji City in the early years, at that time, Yanbei did not have enough command for more than 700 black mountain soldiers under his subordinates, and there was also a gap in his own prestige, so he was worried that Xiaoying had to accept it on his behalf, and the whip almost whipped Yanbei to death.
Later, Yanbei saw that Chen Zhong was still loyal, so he didn't care too much, just let him be his personal guard, and later sent an envoy to the Suli tribe outside the Saiwai. Later, when he entered Jizhou to pacify Montenegro, he did not bring it out, but stayed in Liaodong. Up to now, most of the generals who followed Yanbei to live in the early years were Sima and school captains, but this Chen Zhong was too presumptuous.
Let's not talk about Yanbei's private wealth, he doesn't have private wealth but he doesn't have anything he can think of but can't get, after all, the prince of Youji is him. But even the Zhen family does not have tens of millions of family assets, although Jiang Jin is greedy and has deducted grain and grass in the past, but since he became a general of Duliao, he has also begun to care about his own reputation, and the excess money is released, at most let the servants of the clan go outside the fortress to smuggle some handmade products and buy some horses back.
But even Jiang Jin doesn't have as much money as tens of millions.
Chen Zhong was already dead in Yanbei's heart, and he was dead.
"Da Sima, please get up, it's not your fault." The emperor is very peaceful in his heart, not to mention that he has tens of millions of family assets in the past, even if he has more than 100 million family assets, he also knows that there are many of them. The most important thing is that the emperor has never spent money himself, and he doesn't know what the concept of these family assets is, so he just asked Yan Bei: "How does Da Sima think this matter should be punished?" ”
In the end, the people of Yanbei, whether it is the servant of the Chinese Dynasty or the emperor, are unwilling to deal with Chen Zhong from the bottom of their hearts, and they are worried that it is contrary to Yanbei's ideas.
"The minister thinks that if he is handed over to the school temple to deal with it, the people who are implicated inside and outside will be imprisoned and their family property will be confiscated."
Yan Bei almost gritted his teeth and said this, in all fairness, he didn't dislike Chen Zhong, but he was extremely disgusted with this kind of thing. You can reward you without it, but you can't take it if you don't give it, let alone Chen Zhong, take Yanbei strictly forbade the sale of horses and ironware, but Chen Zhong relied on this to make a fortune.
Now it is not only Chen Zhong who is hated by Yanbei, but also the people who are involved in this matter from top to bottom.
This is what really contradicts his idea - how many people who are greedy for pleasure and possessions, and who are busy with camping, can forge ahead?
If Youji becomes like this, calming the world is just an empty word.
Set an example!
When Sun Qing's subordinates reported the news to Yanbei, they already had a large amount of incriminating evidence of Chen Zhong and others, and with Yanbei reaching an agreement with the imperial court, in just ten days, Chen Zhong and more than ten middle and lower-level generals and officials involved in this matter were arrested one by one under the co-sponsorship of Youzhou Mu Yandong, and then handed over to the newly completed Jixiao Temple for trial.
The family property was not more than 100 million.
The north shook, this was the first time that Jixiao Temple crashed into the ears of the Yan generals, and Chen Zhong was executed in one day, which was not big or small, which made people panic. Lu Yi of Bohai County sent a letter to ask Yanbei what was going on, and he still thought that the Jixiao Temple was set up by the imperial court to punish them, and he didn't know what was going on until Yanbei sent back the letter.
Throughout Youji, many generals also restrained their subordinates from this time.
Qian Yanbei, who was confiscated, did not wait for them to become moldy in the treasury, and allocated all the funds to Bingyuan, the mountain chief of the newly built Taixue outside Yedu, to provide food and clothing for the scholars and build school buildings.
Yan Bei knew from the beginning that this matter would end in this way, but this was only the beginning, letting the imperial court know his determination. Since then, the government and the opposition have been his eyes and ears everywhere, and no one wants to hide from him to do bad things. At the same time, in order to add a lock to the Jixiao Temple, the Jixiao Temple was supervised by Zhen Yao, who was in the imperial history, so as to ensure the balance of power to the greatest extent.
Although the turmoil has passed, the Great Sima Mansion often has a satisfied smile on his face when he looks at the reflections of the temples in various places.
There are not a few people who dare to smuggle on the border, and Chen Zhong is not the only one who is bold enough to do so, but after the Chen Zhong incident, many people have cut off contact with the outside world, and some old departments have sold all the surplus fields and houses at home in order to protect themselves. Of course, there will still be stubborn people, but Yanbei has already handed over the matter of how to deal with it to Sun Qing and the Youji Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, and treated those who don't know what to do, and repeatedly demoted them, and finally took them into custody silently.
It can't be as big as the Chen Zhong case.
Just when this matter came to an end, and Yanbei finally thought that he could be a little more relaxed, Guanzhong sent another message that Ma Teng, the general of Liangzhou's expedition to the west, went out of the pass again, stationed troops in Chang'an, and sent a messenger escorted by thousands of cavalry soldiers into Guanzhong, and came to Yedu.
Those envoys didn't make Yanbei wait too long.
At the beginning of June, as soon as the weather warmed up, the Xizhou chariot entered Wei County and stopped at Liyang to be supervised. And their leader, that is, Ma Teng's envoy, sent a request to the Great Sima Mansion, hoping to meet Yanbei in person.
Yan Bei happened to want to know what kind of medicine was sold in Ma Teng's gourd, so he sent someone to take him into the house.
Not long after, I saw a young general wearing Liangzhou armor enter the hall, and respectfully bowed his hand and said: "In Xiamadai, I was ordered by my uncle to come to the court to meet Da Sima!" ”