A Huang Huai was very shocked by Zhang Zhaohua's appointment of a hundred households to transfer the Beijing guards, and he said: "Niangniang, Weichen doesn't know what kind of ability this Kaiping hundred households has, how can he be in charge of the sixteenth road Beijing guard alone?"

Zhang Zhaohua is naturally not untargeted, she said: "You are compiling the actual record, you should also know Yang Jing, the Marquis of Yingyang, right? He is Yang Jing's son." ”

Yang Shiqi and Huang Huai gasped at the same time, remembering the record about Yang Jing in the Taizu Records - in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Yang Jing was posthumously named the Duke of Rui Guogong, and he was really cheated to death. He ran to King Yan and became King Yan's guard, and then in the battle of Lingbi to save King Yan was beheaded in front of the battle.

When Zhang Zhaohua came to Nanjing from Beiping, he went to Tianjin to visit Mrs. Shi, who was reluctant to go south and insisted on staying in Beiping, but sent Yang Hong to go with her. When Yang Hong came to Nanjing, the emperor saw him specifically, and only gave him a lot of silver coins and treasure money, and mentioned that he had made a hundred households, but he couldn't give him a higher reward, but Zhang Zhaohua heard the emperor say a word, "Jiang Caiye".

He said this to Gao Chi, but Zhang Zhaohua was also on the side and could hear it clearly. Zhang Zhaohua is convinced of the emperor's vision of people, just from the talent and ability of the five people in the cabinet, it can be seen that these people who are plain and unknown in the hands of Emperor Gao, but they shine in the hands of Emperor Yongle, which is really amazing.

Although Zhang Zhaohua has a good relationship with the wives of the generals, he has not seen much of these generals themselves, and there are only five of them who have worked together during the Jingjing period, namely Gu Cheng, Li Yuan, Chen Mao, Tan Guang and Xue Lu, Gu Cheng is in Guizhou Zhenfu, Li Yuan is now the Marquis of Anping, and he went with Qiu Fu's Northern Expedition; Chen Mao was the commander of Daning, and Xue Lu followed the emperor on his northern tour, but none of them were in Nanjing.

Although most of the generals followed the emperor's northern tour, there were still many nobles and their sons and nephews who stayed in Nanjing, but Zhang Zhaohua did not dare to use any of them, firstly, because these generals had already clearly supported Gao Xu, and she had a bad heart; second, because of this mutiny, she deeply suspected that she had an inseparable relationship with these people.

"This mutiny seems to be an outburst of resentment, and there is no prior warning, so that people cannot cope with it," Zhang Zhaohua said: "But is it possible? It was only 17 days of delay, and it has not even been a month? Who would believe that no one had instructed it?" There are all kinds of indications that even if these noble sons are not the masterminds behind this mutiny, they also have their shadows. Look at Guo Xiang, the commander of the Jingwei, he was under the command of the British Duke Zhang Fu! Zhang Fu picked him up with one hand! I asked him to go to quell the rebellion, and he joined forces with the rebels to make false accusations with me, and even fanned the flames to add fuel to the fire.

Guo Xiang undoubtedly contributed to the deterioration of the situation, and this incident, if not called a rebellion in Zhang Zhaohua's mouth, was definitely a vicious mutiny.

Huang Huai very much agreed with Zhang Zhaohua's inference, he said: "The reason why the 3,000 battalions dare to do this, or in other words, the reason why these lords who are martyred in Fengtian dare to do so is nothing more than three reasons: first, the military salary cannot be reduced, even if the Northern Expedition of the Duke of Qi this year, even if there is a great hunger in Shandong and Zhili this year, and even if the harvest in Huguang is not as good as in previous years, they cannot cut off their food and salary, because that is the source of their wealth; second, if it is considered Chengping today, Chengping is the great enemy of the army if nothing happens. Seven years is enough time to corrupt the elite divisions who can fight well, and as far as the ministers know, there are six nobles who occupy the army, not to mention the nobles who buy leisure. ”

The so-called occupation of labor refers to the privatization of soldiers, arbitrary command, and various types of labor. The so-called buying idle refers to eating empty salaries, and most of the names of soldiers on the roster are just a false shot, and they are only in vain. Whoever can do this is naturally clear at a glance.

Zhang Zhaohua had also heard of several princes' families before, who were named to support grain and sell soldiers, although they had a registration book, they couldn't be identified. Now that I heard what Huang Huai said, I nodded and said: "I also feel deeply, it has only been a few years of hard work, and it has degenerated like this." ”

Therefore, Zhang Zhaohua concluded early on that these nobles in the governor's mansion had indiscriminately eaten empty salaries, wantonly withheld them, and refused to wronged themselves in the slightest, even if hundreds of thousands of disaster victims were waiting to be fed, just asking them to lack food for 17 days.

"They also don't believe that the household department can't come up with the money," Zhang Zhaohua said angrily: "They think that a huge country will not be unable to come up with 300,000 taels of silver, and the country's money and grain, in the hands of civil officials, are badly controlled, not that there is none, but that they refuse to give them - in fact, the treasury is indeed so tight that it can no longer take out 300,000 taels of silver." ”

In addition to this year's Northern Expedition and Northern Tour, there was also the famine in Shandong, and the floods in Henan that spread due to the diversion of the Yellow River, the British Duke Zhang Fu was still trapped on the battlefield of Jiaozhi, Zheng He had just started his second cruise, and he had just sealed out Emperor Gao's five or six young vassal kings, as well as the Beijing Palace and Nanwudang, which were being repaired, where did the country have extra money and food? Xia Yuanji almost turned his hair gray, and thanks to him, Emperor Yongle was able to maintain his own initiative to build so many meritorious deeds in one go.

Therefore, Huang Huai believes that at the beginning of the mutiny, the nobles were indeed guiding and letting go, and they thought that as long as the trouble was not big, the court could only focus on appeasement. But the development of the situation quickly surprised them, there was really no silver in the treasury of the household, and at this time there was a fatality, after all, it was the waiter of the third grade, not a cat or a dog, and he said that he would be killed, wouldn't it be sensational?

The matter has reached such a point, who can not see that they are playing with fire and setting themselves on fire? However, the hateful thing is that such a mess still has to be cleaned up by the imperial court, and now more than a group of civil officials who handle the salary are unlucky, and even the crown prince is scolded by the emperor.

Huang Huai said: "Deducting military salaries in the front, seditions in the back, Niang Niang summoned these nobles, if they don't ask for their crimes, or allow them to wear crimes and make meritorious contributions, they can offset this responsibility, then in the future, who else will abide by the laws of the court?"

"That's exactly what I mean," Zhang Zhaohua nodded, "It must be severely punished." ”

However, when Huang Huai and Yang Shiqi retreated and returned to Wenyuan Pavilion, when Huang Huai was about to write a chapter, Yang Shiqi pulled his sleeve: "Don't write first, write and consider how to write." ”

Huang Huai was surprised: "Brother Shiqi, what do you mean?"

"I know what you mean," Yang Shiqi still said unhurriedly: "The two dead waiters Huang Guoguang and Wang Mian are indeed very miserable, if you don't write like this, the emperor will not severely punish these nobles who he brought up with his own hands." But do you think about how to write this, the rebels tied up and humiliated the two squires, forced them to pay their salaries, and after the attempt, they beat them with sticks, so that the two adults died tragically?"

Huang Huai felt ashamed after hearing Yang Shiqi's words, and couldn't help but say: "It is precisely because I should seek justice for them that I want to write like this!"

Yang Shiqi nodded lightly and said, "This can indeed shake the seemingly indestructible noble class. ”

Yang Shiqi and Huang Huai are both civil officials, although civil officials are not only fighting in the civil service, but obviously when facing the noble generals, they have to form a group, because even if they form a group, their strength is far less than that of the noble class, especially the nobles who are protected by the emperor.

"In the fifth year of Yongle, Li Hua, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was angry that the Beijing camp was bad, and he was beaten by the masked and weak until he vomited blood," Yang Shiqi said: "Afterwards, I only got condolences and promotion, and the emperor did not pursue the behind-the-scenes instructions at all." In the sixth year of Yongle, Wu Deming, the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, asked to practice the Beijing camp, but those who were not as good as the law and did not practice were deposed. But only three months later, Wu Deming was attacked, saying that he was a private virtue and was demoted out of Beijing. ”

Who is behind the scenes, Huang Huai and Yang Shiqi naturally know that this time is indeed a good time, because their recital represents the opinions of the ministers to a certain extent, and Xungui does have a great deal of control to be caught by them. Of course, Beijing should already know about this, because Ji Gang's Jinyiwei is not a dry meal, although his report is timely, it must only simply describe what happened, or add a few words that are unfavorable to the prince, but the details of the matter, and deeper things, must be in their book.