"Lord Wang, the people who were arrested with the criminals at that time were killed one after another, and the criminals really have no one to prove."

In the face of Li Yuntian's inquiry, Song Hai smiled helplessly, after being caught by the local tribe, his soldiers died one after another in order to protect him, and in the end, if he hadn't met a tribe of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate who had participated in resisting the invasion of the Timurid Empire and had a lot of good feelings towards the Ming Dynasty, then he would not have been able to rush to Guanxi at all, and it was that tribe who sent someone to send him back who was dying.

Therefore, Song Hai has no one to prove that he was captured, not to escape from the battlefield in order to survive, you must know that breaking out and escaping are two different concepts, after breaking through the siege, he should return to the battlefield and escape will find a place to hide, and Song Hai did not come out until the end of the war, so people will suspect that he escaped on the battlefield.

"Wu Guogong, this king has asked the people from the Guanxi camp to go and verify, if what you say is true, this king will give you justice." Li Yuntian had long known that Song Hai had no evidence, and Song Hai had already confessed when he was in Qinglong City, but as a process of arraignment, Li Yuntian still had to ask, so he had already asked the people from the Qinglong Camp in Guanxi to verify it.

With the end of the Battle of the Western Regions, the territory of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate has been pacified, which allows the people of the Qinglong camp in Guanxi to go to the area where Song Hai was captured to verify, and news should come next year, which will be an important basis for Song Hai's conviction.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Song Hai couldn't help but feel warm in his heart when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and bowed to Li Yuntian to thank him, he believed that Li Yuntian would give him justice.

Li Yuntian did not stay in the prison for a long time, he simply asked Song Hai and left, he did not really want to interrogate Song Hai this time, but to show an attitude, that is, he would judge Song Hai fairly.

"Wu Guogong has made great contributions to the Daming Society, and he must take good care of him before he is convicted." Before leaving, Li Yuntian summoned the prison officer to speak and admonished in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, the prince knows what to do." The prison officer nodded and agreed, with Li Yuntian's words, Song Hai would not suffer in prison, for Li Yuntian, this was just a gesture, but for Song Hai, it was extremely valuable.

Because Song Hai's case is very important, Li Yuntian has a very cautious attitude, so Song Hai has to stay in prison until the investigation results of the Qinglong camp in Kansai, which is also for the sake of the reputation of the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army, after all, no one wants to have a commander who escapes, otherwise it will be a lifetime of shame.

Moreover, this is also related to the reputation of the Ming Dynasty, once Song Hai is really afraid of the war and avoids the war, then the Xungui group will be ridiculed and despised by the civilian group, and it will be difficult to raise his head.

To tell the truth, the Xungui group hopes to dispose of the missing Song Hai according to the battlefield of the battle, but this is strongly opposed by the Daming civil official group, after all, the Western Expeditionary Army suffered heavy casualties in Blue Leaf City, how can this incident be closed without explanation?

For this reason, Li Yuntian was very cautious about Song Hai's case, he believed that Song Hai was not greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise he would not have returned to Daming despite the hardships, so he asked people to go to the field to investigate.

Song Hai's return was like a pebble falling on the surface of a calm lake, causing layers of ripples, because the people of the Guanxi camp of the Xiaowu army were verifying what Song Hai said, so Song Hai's affairs were temporarily calmed down, and the officialdom of the capital quietly waited for the news of the Guanxi camp.

Li Yuntian didn't have much energy to focus on Song Hai, because he was so busy all day long that he rarely went back to his home, going back and forth to the lecture hall, the palace, the military cabinet, the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate every day, and often slept in the lecture hall at night.

At present, the most important thing facing Li Yuntian is to promote the reform of the military system of the new army implemented in the Northwest Governor's Office, the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, the Shanbei Military Region, and the Liaodong Military Region.

In the current reform of the military system of the new army, the number of armed forces has been reduced one after another, and Li Yuntian's concept is that "the soldiers are expensive but not too expensive," and as long as the army is brave and good at fighting, there is no need for so many people to live in the army.

In addition, there is a general situation of "empty salaries" in various health centers, and the army has varying degrees of shortages, so it is just taking this opportunity to sort things out.

In fact, the most important issue in this military reform is the origin of military spending, according to the new military system, the military expenditure of the army will be allocated by the imperial court, and the treasury of the household department certainly does not have so much money, so it can only fall on the military hall and the royal treasury, and the overseas trade alone will make a lot of money

It is worth mentioning that after the establishment of the Commercial Bureau and the Tax Bureau, the commercial tax collected by the Ming Dynasty increased year by year, but most of the commercial tax went into the royal treasury, and the household department could only get a small part from it.

Originally, the household department should be the richest yamen in the Ming Dynasty, but now both the martial arts hall and the royal inner library are richer than him, which makes the people of the household feel unfair.

For this reason, the household department once wrote to the imperial court to return foreign and overseas trade and commercial taxes to the household department, and the household department unified the allocation, but was successively rejected by Emperor Xuande and the Empress Dowager Zhang, once the money was handed over to the household department, it would definitely be quickly spent by the people of the household department, God knows where the money went.

What is particularly important is that the Ministry of Household is resistant to the establishment of the Tax Bureau, after the establishment of the Tax Bureau will divide the commercial tax rights of the Ministry of Households, although the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty is pitiful, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is not meat.

Moreover, after the establishment of the tax bureau, it took the lead in implementing a new tax system in Jiangnan, and the commercial tax was much higher than the 30 taxes that the Ming Dynasty had been using, so it was able to collect a lot of taxes every year, which made the people in the household department red-eyed.

In the early days of the tax bureau's increase in commercial tax, some people once accused the tax bureau of "competing with the people for profit", which was contrary to the original intention of Ming Taizu to set up "thirty taxes and one".

In the face of this accusation, the people from the tax bureau refuted it, pointing out that when Ming Taizu set the "thirty taxes and one", the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, so it was an encouragement to business.

After decades of capital accumulation, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty earned a large amount of industry under the low tax rate, and now the Ming business has flourished, so it is logical to raise the tax rate.

As for competing with the people for profit, the prosperity of commerce has made the merchants live a life of fine clothes and food, but the local people rarely benefit from it, so after the increase in commercial taxes, the merchants only earn less than before, how can it be said that they are competing with the people for profit?

Moreover, even if a new commercial tax was implemented, the tax rate of the Ming Dynasty was much lower than that of the Tang and Song dynasties, which was completely acceptable to the merchants.

Originally, the imperial court thought that the merchants would make trouble because of this, but unexpectedly, even Jiangnan, which was thought to be met with strong resistance by civil and military officials, was calm, and no one stood up to make trouble, let alone boycott it.

Almost all of the big businessmen in Jiangnan participated in the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty, and whoever was full of food offended the tax bureau, and behind the tax bureau was Li Yuntian, who could kick him out of the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty with a word, so everyone naturally would not make trouble.

Besides, the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty is indeed not high, lower than that of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the merchants have nothing to complain about.

Those big businessmen accepted the new business tax, and the rest of the businessmen naturally did not make trouble, Li Yuntian was the one who convinced those big businessmen, and then made the new business tax smoothly implemented.

What is particularly important is that Li Yuntian still has the killer weapon of the Commercial Bureau, which is in charge of the issuance and review of business licenses, once the business license is revoked by the Commercial Bureau, then don't think about doing business in Daming.

If Li Yuntian was not so proficient in commercial affairs, then those big merchants would definitely rebel and strike to force the imperial court, believing that this move violated the ancestral system of Emperor Hongwu.

It's a pity that Li Yuntian is not only proficient in commercial affairs, but also has the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce as a backing, which makes those big businessmen who want to make trouble have to retreat, if they strike and boycott, they will definitely be swallowed up by the merchants of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.

Although those big businessmen were close to the forces in the capital in the past, with the support of Emperor Xuande and the Empress Dowager Zhang, who was willing to confront Li Yuntian because of this matter?

To tell the truth, Li Yuntian just raised some business taxes, and it didn't have much impact on the income of those forces in the capital, but those big businessmen made a little less, so who would make a big deal about it? As long as the merchants can guarantee their interests.

As the affairs of the commercial bureau and the tax bureau are gradually on the right track, and the business of Daming is becoming more and more prosperous, the commercial tax is rising rapidly, and there is a vague tendency to catch up with and surpass the agricultural tax.

This made the household department very annoyed by this, and watched the white tax money of the commercial tax flow into the tax office of the tax bureau in front of his eyes, and the household department could only get a small piece of the pie.

Since the reform of the military structure of the new army involved nearly half of the Ming Dynasty's troops, and it was still the main force on which it depended, Li Yuntian had no choice but to cautiously deal with the restructuring of the Northwest Divisions, the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, the Shanbei Military Region, and the Liaodong Military Region, and held close discussions with the cabinet members of the military cabinet and the governors of each prefecture to balance the interests of all parties.

Looking at the Ming Dynasty, no one except Li Yuntian can take charge of this restructuring, otherwise there will be a lot of waves, Li Yuntian is not only high and powerful, but also fair, which makes the nobles involved settle down and wait for the changes.

In addition to balancing all parties, the most difficult thing for Li Yuntian is the resettlement of local military households, which will involve millions of military households, which makes Li Yuntian have to spend a lot of energy to solve this matter.

As for the rest of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian has no chance at all, even on the holidays stipulated by the imperial court, he has to be busy as usual.

However, the only thing that made Li Yuntian feel relieved was that the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family knew that he had been too busy recently, so she deliberately exempted him from the court, so that he did not have to waste nearly a day in the Taihe Palace, and Li Yuntian was the first person who could enjoy this honor in the Ming Dynasty.

For this grace of the Empress Dowager Zhang, the civil and military officials in the capital are actually not jealous, because everyone knows that Li Yuntian has a lot of opportunities every day, and he can only fall asleep until late at night every day, and in everyone's opinion, it is Li Yuntian's won care, after all, compared with the affairs in Li Yuntian's hands, the things that the court talked about seem insignificant.

Finally, before Li Yuntian set off for Nanzhili, the strategy for the reform of the military system of the new army was finally adopted in the imperial court, and the rest of the things did not belong to Li Yuntian, and the people below would complete a series of affairs in the details of the reform of the military system of the new army according to this strategy, which was not something he had to worry about.