Chapter 109 Right Yamen Guard

At the end of March, Zhao Yinshi was appointed as General Wuwei of Youyamen. As soon as he took office, he encountered a difficult problem.

The emperor ordered an order to rectify the atmosphere in the palace and demanded a thorough investigation into the cases of abuse of lynching by the Imperial Guards and the Department of Punishment in the years since Suihe. Since reports were rewarded, more than a thousand people were unearthed at once.

According to the law, these people must be dismissed from their official positions and driven out of the capital, and will not be allowed to return to the capital until their death.

However, Zhao Yin actually stated in the memorial that there were malicious reporters due to personal grudges, and there were also innocent people who were implicated, so it cannot be generalized. After the memorial was rejected by the furious emperor, he knelt outside Wenxuan Hall for two more hours and was slapped by the emperor.

After a scolding, he asked the emperor for three days' grace to allow him to examine the school's actual performance and screen more than a thousand people.

For a time, there was an endless stream of people coming to Zhao Yinshi's door to ask for mercy.

But they were all turned away by him.

That's quite reasonable.

This was his first errand after taking up the imperial army, and he also issued a military order in front of the emperor. He never dared to show favoritism.

Zhao Yinshi didn't sleep for two days and two nights. He pulled out the past files and read them one by one. Finally, on the third night, he drew up a list of more than 300 people, and attached the file information to prove it.

These people are innocent.

Ye Qinghuai randomly checked a few people and found that Zhao Yinshi's story was true, so he followed Zhao Yinshi's petition and finally punished only the remaining 700 people.

Of the 8,000-strong Youyamen Guards, hundreds of them died in the palace coup a few days ago, and now another 700 people have been demoted, and one out of seven has been eliminated at once. Every department is short of manpower.

Zhao Yinshi took advantage of the situation and proposed to reorganize the Youyamen Guards and reorganize the personnel.

On the first day of April, the night was already deep, but there was no intention of resting in Jingshou Palace.

The door of Qinxian Palace is closed.

In the room, Ye Qinghuai and Zhao Yinshi sat across from each other across the desk. A piece of paper as long as a desk was spread out on the desk between them. There were words and lines on it, which wrote the establishment of each department of the right Yamen and the names of the chiefs.

As well as the affiliations between various departments, the neat regular script is all written by Zhao Yinshi.

Ye Qinghuai was holding a pen and revising it.

She and Zhao Yinshi have been discussing this new Youya Guard establishment for several hours.

"I still believe that the most important ones should be the various ministers stationed at the palace gates. The most reliable people must be used for these positions, and they should be given the highest official positions and the largest salaries."

"The general agrees with the first half of your Majesty's sentence, but the position of the Imperial Guard is based on the number of people under its jurisdiction, but the number of people under each clan's jurisdiction is very small, which is incomparable with the front hall responsible for ceremonial guards. Even the largest clan, Chengtianmen,

The division has only two hundred guards under its jurisdiction, and the designated position can only be designated as a guard lieutenant."

"Then a separate guard battalion will be set up outside this establishment. I will directly control all the divisions and have a specific establishment for this guard battalion."

"Although this is convenient for coordinating the various departments, it is equivalent to leaving the safety of the entire inner palace in the hands of the commander of the guard battalion. The general thinks it is too risky."

The monarch and his minister fell into silence.

At this time, there were two knocks on the palace door, and then Li Baoquan's voice came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, it's time to go to bed."

Ye Qinghuai looked out the window, sighed softly, and said, "It's already this time."

She stood up, pointed on the paper and said: "Please change these things first. We can discuss the affairs of each department tomorrow. By the way, how is the right yamen guard now? But there is still a thorn in his side.

head?"

Zhao Yinshi stood up, saluted her, and said: "Your Majesty, everything is stable now. Several people who took the lead in provoking trouble have been dismissed from their posts as punishment."

Ye Qinghuai nodded.

This thorough investigation of the old case of the Youya Guard was originally a play that she and Zhao Yinshi had discussed and staged. The purpose was to establish Zhao Yinshi's authority, reorganize the establishment of the Youya Guard, and break up the original collusion of interests among various departments and offices.

Small groups.

So far, it seems to be working well.

This is partly due to Ye Qinghuai's acting skills. The more vicious she is to Zhao Yinshi, the more rare Zhao Yinshi's act of defying power and insisting on protecting her subordinates becomes, and the more grateful she is from his subordinates.

On the other hand, it is due to Zhao Yinshi's ability.

It has to be said that he did this job flawlessly. Even Ye Qinghuai sighed in his heart, if there were fair and capable ministers like him in the Dajing court, what else could not be accomplished?

"You have worked hard these days and you haven't had a good night's sleep, right? Go get some rest early today." After Ye Qinghuai finished speaking, he ordered Li Baoquan outside the hall, "Li Baoquan, the mountain sent by the governor of Yingzhou at the beginning of the year

Take two big ginseng plants and bring them back to General Zhao."

"Your Majesty -" Yingzhou's wild ginseng is famous all over the world. The wild ginseng presented to the emperor by the governor of Yingzhou has always been for the emperor's own use or as a state gift to foreign guests. It is rarely given to ministers. Zhao Yinshi heard this,

Immediately reject it.

Ye Qinghuai raised his hand to interrupt him and smiled at him: "General Zhao, the current situation is turbulent. You are the only one I rely on in the capital army. You must take care of yourself."

Her sincere words made Zhao Yinshen's heart heat up. He knelt down to express his gratitude and said, "Your Majesty, I will never let you down."

Ye Qinghuai patted his shoulder lightly and said, "Go ahead."

He bowed again before following Li Baoquan.

Not long after they left, Aunt Fanghua came in.

"Your Majesty, do you want to take a shower and rest?" She couldn't wait for Ye Qinghuai in the dormitory, so she came to ask in person.

Ye Qinghuai was still studying the organization diagram of the right yamen guard on the case, and said without raising his head: "Wait a minute. Eunuch Li probably has something to ask me for."

When she was talking to people in the Qinxian Hall, Li Baoquan never knocked on the door to disturb her. This time it was unusual and something must have happened.

Sure enough, after getting wild ginseng for Zhao Yinshi, Li Baoquan came to find Ye Qinghuai as soon as he returned to Jingshou Palace.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the pawn shop." Li Baoquan took out a bamboo tube and handed it to Ye Qinghuai.

Ever since meeting Tao Yuan, Ye Qinghuai has been asking Li Baoquan to send someone to Huisheng Pawn every morning to collect the Eagle Guard's report.

But there was no report this morning.

"In the morning, the pawn shop clerk said that he would come back later, as he might have important news. So I went there in person in the evening, and sure enough, I had news." Li Baoquan explained.

Ye Qinghuai nodded and waved for him to leave.

Li Baoquan closed the palace door behind him when he left.

Ye Qinghuai was the only one left in the hall. She looked at the bamboo tube in front of her with a heavy expression, and her intuition told her that there would be no good news in it.

Ye Qinghuai followed Tao Yuan's instructions and poured two drops of medicine into the basin, then took out a blank piece of white paper from the bamboo tube and immersed it in the water.

Writing gradually appeared on the white paper.

Ye Qinghuai took out the paper and put it on the table.

She only glanced at it, and her expression suddenly became serious.
Chapter completed!