Chapter 1151 Postscript 8: The Queen Mother and the Prime Minister are still too strong
Another day, Xie Yan was having breakfast when he suddenly heard noise coming from the direction of the office.
Xie Yiqin's face changed slightly, he put down his bowls and chopsticks and went out.
Xie Yan and his second brother Xie Kan quickly followed.
The younger sister also wanted to watch the fun, but her mother pushed her back to the dining table.
On the street in front of the government office, more than two hundred parents and children knelt there and howled loudly. They recounted the hardships of their lives, saying that if child labor was banned, they would not be able to feed their children, and begged the officials to give them a bite of food.
The situation at the gate of the government office next door was similar, and there was also a lot of crying and howling.
The officials persuaded them patiently and civilly, but there was no violent law enforcement to drive them away.
Xie Yiqin and the officials who were already at work looked very ugly at this moment.
These parents and child workers came from different factories. If they could get together to petition, there must be someone organized. Moreover, the officials also secretly sided with the petitioners, and the external officials became weak.
"How should we deal with the big verdict?" Xie Yiqin's full-time secretary (Jin Ningjun) asked in a low voice.
Xie Yiqin said, "Let them howl first while I go to the government office." He then said to his two sons, "Stop looking and go study."
Xie Yiqin turned around and went out through the side door, and soon entered through the side door of the government office, where he found the prefect Du Yinzheng with the same gloomy face.
In theory, the prefect is in charge of all affairs, but is mainly responsible for administration, caring for the people, personnel, science and education, greetings, sacrifices, etc. In particular, he is responsible for evaluating officials, supervising subordinate counties, and inheriting official documents. He can easily suppress all officials in the government.
Gotta die.
"Those factory owners don't even say hello." Xie Yiqin sighed.
Du Yinzheng said: "You and I must work together this time. Instigating the people to cry to the government and petition is just throwing stones to ask for directions. You may not know what will happen next."
Although capital is donated to collude with the powerful, not every official is qualified to be donated.
The cake has almost been cut long ago.
Item officials like Du Yinzheng and Xie Yiqin would be transferred after a few years of service. They had little connection with the powerful families in their jurisdiction.
In other words, the local aristocratic families are powerful and there is no need to curry favor with them.
I have another backer!
If the magistrate and magistrates are sensible and sensible, it will naturally be good for you, good for me, and good for everyone. In many daily tasks, powerful local families will actively cooperate and try their best to let the official achieve a good political performance.
But if any official is ignorant, it will be difficult to carry out daily administration.
"Drag?" Xie Yiqin asked.
Du Yinzheng thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "Hold on!"
The two parents reached a preliminary agreement and left tacitly, as if nothing happened today.
They don't know how the situation will develop, so they can only try to delay it as long as possible.
A real choice will not be made until the situation becomes clearer.
It is possible that the prefect and general magistrate can work together to reform.
It is also possible that the prefect and the tongpan will fight each other!
Xie Yiqin returned to the office and said to his subordinate officials: "Prepare some tea and let them cry. When they are tired of shouting, invite them to drink tea. Anyone who dares to break into the gate of the office will be immediately taken to jail for trial!"
The commander's office further away received an encrypted military telegram.
The commander, Shao Cheng, stared at the telegram for a long time, hesitated for a long time, and finally made a decision: "According to the orders of the cabinet, the Ministry of War and the Hubei Governor, send troops to arrest the people!"
The military camp outside the city quickly became lively.
There were even many officers and soldiers stationed on duty in the military camps who were cheating and cheating and not even on duty. In order to gather troops, the generals had to send cavalry. They first blew the troop gathering horn outside the city, and then rode into the city and blew trumpets along the streets.
The discipline of the army has become very bad!
A series of actions by the Huangzhou Mansion garrison quickly alarmed everyone. Not only the officials came to inquire about the situation, but even the local wealthy families also sent people to inquire.
Just when the commander, Shao Cheng, led the organized troops into the city, the prefect, general magistrate, county magistrate and other officials rushed to stop them.
"Commander Shao, without orders from the Ministry of War, garrison troops from various places are not allowed to enter the city!" Du Yinzheng reminded.
Shao Cheng stood up and dismounted, handed over a telegram and said: "A joint secret message between the Ministry of War and Hubei Dusi. No.: Bing 09 Ding Si 01 Yite 06. If the prefect has any doubts, he can call the Ministry of War or Hubei Dusi for verification. The verification password is 29455
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Du Yinzheng's eyes fell on the word "Yite". He nodded slightly to Xie Yiqin, and then the two of them went to the telegraph room together.
Half an hour later, the secret message was verified to be correct.
"A few common people are making trouble, and the Ministry of War directly intervenes?" Xie Yiqin was confused.
Du Yinzheng said: "How long has this quarrel been going on? The Ministry of War has no way of knowing."
The two fell into silence.
Obviously, the secret order to mobilize the army was not only sent to Huangzhou Prefecture, but also to all parts of the country!
Today is just a coincidence.
They returned to the city gate and ordered the officers to let the army pass.
Hundreds of soldiers, all equipped with armor, quickly rushed to the side of the petitioners.
Shao Cheng ordered: "Arrest them all and take them to the military camp. If there is resistance, shoot without mercy!"
The petitioners stopped crying and were all trembling with fear. They were taken to the military camp with their children.
Xie Yiqin couldn't help but ask: "How to deal with them?"
"Waiting for the boat." Shao Cheng said.
Du Yinzheng was even more confused: "What are you waiting for the boat to do?"
Shao Cheng said: "Wait for the ship to go to Shanghai, and then ship it overseas. If there are others at home, they can also apply to go overseas together. It is the same in every province in the country. It is just the difference between taking a boat and taking a train."
After hearing this, Du Yinzheng and Xie Yiqin looked at each other and already understood that something big had happened.
The Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Prime Minister finally have complete control over the country's military, and they directly show off their muscles to the officials, aristocratic families, powerful people and the common people!
There must be compromises and deals involved, otherwise there would be no need to spend three years.
At the beginning, they emptied the first three rows of the court (killed them all) for treason, and reduced the first ten rows to only a few generals (some of whom were exiled and imprisoned). They also imprisoned, exiled, and executed more than 200 rebel civil and military officers.
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Although they are not many in number, they are all top dignitaries, and their influence is so far-reaching that they dare not make the next move.
Because although the tree fell, the hozens have not dispersed.
These hozens are spread all over the country, including civil servants, military generals, and countless wealthy families. If anything happens, the whole country will be in chaos, and there may be several counter-insurgency wars.
The Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the Prime Minister did not dare to act rashly, and those hozens also did not dare to move.
Because it is a crime of rebellion, the new central team has great righteousness, and they will be justified no matter how many people are killed in the court.
Therefore, in the past three years, the relationship between the central and local governments has been extremely delicate.
The central government does not dare to randomly replace local civil and military officials. At most, it appoints and removes some officials below the sixth rank, or transfers some officials who have expired. At the same time, it waits for more local civil and military officials to express their attitude and support the central government.
The local civil and military authorities are even more passive. Even if they want to do something, they dare not do it openly. Because if they openly defy the central government, they will be caught and severely punished.
Three years later, the local army finally got it all done.
This was due to the foundation laid by Emperor Dingtai. At the beginning, he would rather force the army to rebel and quell the rebellion, but also reorganize the army and firmly control it in the hands of the emperor.
Otherwise, it would never be so smooth now.
Because those top military officials who were executed, imprisoned, and exiled for treason had countless disciples and former officials who were in charge of the army, and they even had immediate family members leading troops abroad!
Xie Yiqin watched the commander go away and arrested people, and gradually strengthened his determination - he wanted to be a reformist.
He even suspected that there had been wars in some places in the past three years, but the news had been blocked.
Not long after returning to the office, Xie Yiqin's old servant suddenly ran to the office with a telegram: "Ms. sir, this is a civilian telegram from the provincial capital."
Xie Yiqin took the telegram and read the newspaper: "The newly appointed chief ministers and inspectors have arrived in the provincial capital. The officials in the capital remain unchanged. Friend."
He knew which friend it was from.
But what the hell is it that the chief secretary and the chief officer of the general inspection department were all replaced without saying a word?
To be continued...