Chapter 1142 Ye Tie’s Thoughts! (Part )

After telling Ye Mingsheng his true thoughts that day, Ye Tie, kneeling on the floor tiles of the study, felt very uneasy. He didn’t know how Ye Mingsheng would deal with him...

Fortunately, Ye Tie's intuition was correct, and his honesty was exactly the answer Ye Mingsheng wanted, so the board that was raised high was finally put down gently, and Ye Tie was only demoted to Liaoyang as the general!

While Ye Tie felt lucky, he couldn't help but feel even more grateful to Ye Mingsheng. After all, he knew very well that as the general of Yijing, he was completely unaware of such a thing, which constituted dereliction of duty. There would be no problem at all even if Ye Mingsheng killed him!
Ye Mingsheng only demoted him to Liaoyang, which was absolutely magnanimous and a pardon outside the law!

Although he managed to get away with it this time, Ye Tie was keenly aware that although Ye Baode's rebellion was suppressed before it was officially launched, it could be said that it did not cause much substantial damage to the Yijing court, but the impact it produced could be extremely far-reaching!
Before Ye Baode's rebellion, although there were struggles within the Fengwu Army, they were basically able to maintain a situation of fighting but not breaking up!

But this time the situation was broken, and the impact can be said to be extremely bad!
Although Ye Tie had not read much and did not understand too many great principles, he had followed Ye Mingsheng for many years and could more or less figure out Ye Mingsheng's thoughts...

Ye Tie believed that after the incident with Ye Baode, Ye Mingsheng would most likely focus more on preventing internal party struggles, so as to prevent the Ye Baode incident from happening again and destroying the hard-earned victory!
In addition, Ye Tie also believes that after experiencing the Ye Baode incident, the status of the Ye family members in the Yijing court will become more delicate!

Ye Tie could never figure out what Ye Mingsheng’s attitude was towards the Ye family’s children!

If you say that Ye Mingsheng does not trust the descendants of the Ye family, then when generals like He Jingyun, Yuan Song, Guo Zhiping and others led their troops to war, there would be at least one descendant of the Ye family in his deployment, such as Ye Dong, Ye Tao, and later Ye Fu!

This is an unspoken rule in the Fengwu Army that no one talks about, but everyone silently abides by. Everyone knows that these Ye family members are equivalent to the military supervisors sent by Ye Mingsheng!
But if you say that Ye Mingsheng trusts the children of the Ye family, then there are quite a few children of the Ye family serving in the Fengwu Army, but none of them has truly entered the core circle of power in the Fengwu Army or even in the current Yijing court!

The core circle of power has always been controlled by several outsiders such as Cui Shao, He Jingyun, Yuan Song, Gu Sansi, Li Jian, Zhao Han, etc. It may be a bit exaggerated to say that Yijing would tremble if these people stomped their feet, but these are the ones who truly hold power in the Yijing court!
Not only that, although the Ye family members claimed to be "royal relatives" in the Fengwu Army, this "royal relative" was just lip service, and in fact they did not have any special treatment or special powers...
So when he couldn't figure out Ye Mingsheng's thoughts, Ye Tie still felt that the most important thing was to protect himself!
It was with this idea in mind that Ye Tie chose to avoid seeing so many Ye brothers coming to see him off during the day!
Ye Tie knew that the Internal Guards and the Coordination Office had many eyes and ears, and these Ye family members had gathered together openly to see him off. Therefore, if this were to get to the Marshal's ears, he would most likely be accused of forming a clique for personal gain. If that were the case, he would really be in tears and would be in big trouble!

Although he was from Liaoyang, after seeing the prosperity of the world in Yijing and living a comfortable life, Ye Tie really didn't want to go back to Liaoyang! So even though Ye Mingsheng ordered Ye Tie to go to Liaoyang to serve as a general, Ye Tie was still thinking about finding an opportunity to transfer back to Yijing. He didn't want to stay in Liaoyang for too long, after all, most of his family's property was in Yijing!

While thinking about how to transfer back to Yijing, he thought about the coquettish and lovely appearance of his concubine Xiao Cui. He gradually felt sleepy. After a while, Ye Tie closed his eyes unconsciously and fell asleep on the bed in the post station.

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Yijing, Ministry of Revenue

Cui Shao was silently reading the memorial sent by Ma Runchuan, the governor of Qi and Lu, in the room. Because the former governor Sun Jing'an had been running Qi and Lu for many years, he had influenced many people from top to bottom. This also led to the widespread corruption in Qi and Lu this time, affecting many people!
This also led to some government offices in Qi and Lu being deserted due to the investigation, so the current governor Ma Runchuan also wrote a memorial to the court.

The general meaning of the memorial was that as the governor of Qi and Lu, he firmly supported this investigation and was very grateful to the court for detoxifying Qi and Lu this time!

On this basis, Ma Runchuan also implicitly expressed that the people are currently in a panic because of the investigation into Qi and Lu, and everyone's mind is not on work, so he hopes that the court will not take a one-size-fits-all approach, and consider giving some officials with relatively minor circumstances a chance to make amends for their crimes!

Cui Shao was not surprised by Ma Runchuan's memorial. In his opinion, Ma Runchuan had been looking forward to the position of provincial governor for a long time. Now was the time for him to show his ambition and give Ye Mingsheng a satisfactory answer!
However, there were too many people involved in the Qi-Lu incident this time. There were already double-digit people imprisoned in the Provincial Government alone, and the number of people involved in the prefecture and county offices was even more countless!
Although the responsibility was all on the former governor Sun Jing'an, this undoubtedly affected Ma Runchuan's development plan. Ma Runchuan could not find a suitable replacement to replace these officials for a while.
Therefore, whether Ma Runchuan wanted to show favor to his subordinates to establish his prestige as a governor, or wanted to implement his ideas and political views as soon as possible, it was reasonable for him to submit this memorial to plead for the officials of Qi and Lu!

As the Minister of Revenue, Cui Shao actually agreed with Ma Runchuan's idea. After all, Qi Lu was now one of the important pillars of the Yijing court's finances, so Cui Shao naturally hoped that Qi Lu could get back on track as soon as possible and provide more taxes to the court. In this way, the burden on him as the Minister of Revenue would be much lighter.

However, there are some additional circumstances now, so Cui Shao feels that he must make more careful considerations··························
(End of this chapter)