After Gao Gong finished speaking, Song Zhihan opened his mouth first: "The students think that since the change of Gengxu, the civil and military forces have competed for the Beijing camp, and Zhao Ge has been respected by the ministers and the general constitution, after all, he is one of the leaders of the civil ministers, and it is not surprising that he has such a move." ”

Gao Gong turned his head and glanced at Gao Shishi, seeing that his face was calm, he knew about the changes in Gengxu, so he nodded and didn't say much.

The so-called Gengxu Rebellion occurred in July of the 29th year of Jiajing, when the Tatar Altan Khan gathered more than 100,000 people and invaded Datong in the south. Xuanda's commander-in-chief, Xianning Hou Qiuluan, panicked and bribed Altan Khan with a lot of money, begging Altan Khan to attack elsewhere. In August, Altan Khan moved his troops eastward and marched towards Jizhou, attacking the border wall of Gubeikou with thousands of cavalry. Another elite cavalry was sent to break through the wall from the middle road and bypass behind the Ming army.

The Ming army suffered from the enemy on the back of the abdomen, and the whole line collapsed, and Altan Khan immediately led the army straight to Tongzhou, divided his troops to plunder Changping, and invaded the tombs of the emperors of Tianshou Mountain. When the Jingshi heard the alarm, martial law was declared. At the critical moment when Altan Khan's soldiers were approaching the city, Sejong ordered the generals of the towns to command the troops of the king, and appointed Qiu Luan as the "general of peace" to control the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin. Ding Rukui, the secretary of the military department, asked the first assistant Yan Song about his plan to retreat from the enemy. Yan Song was afraid of losing the battle, and warned the generals not to act rashly. Qiu Luan went to Dongzhimen to watch, and allowed the enemy army to burn and plunder freely outside the city for eight days. In September, Altan Khan's soldiers plundered a large amount of gold and silver, livestock, and people, and then calmly exited the fortress by the mouth of the white sheep. Qiu Luan was ordered to pursue but was defeated, and finally killed more than 80 civilians, cutting off their heads and pretending to kill the enemy in revenge. Since this year is the year of Gengxu, it is called "Gengxu Change".

"History of the Ming Dynasty" records: In the twenty-ninth year, I was admitted to the Kou, and the military department Shangshu Ding Rukui nuclear battalion was less than 50,000 or 60,000 people. Driven out of the city gate, they all did not dare to go forward, and the generals also looked at each other and changed color. Thou sits down and sits down. Yan Songnai, a university scholar, asked for a brush to try to deal with the aftermath.

How to "vibrate" and "clean up"?

Because Ding Rukui, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, was pushed out by Yan Song as a scapegoat and was sentenced, at this time, Wang Bangrui, the servant of the Ministry of Temporary Regents, said: "At the beginning of the country, the strong army of the Beijing camp did not reduce seven or eight hundred thousand, and there was often no shortage of people in Yuanrong. From the three battalions to the twelve regiment battalions, and then to the two official halls, although the immersion is not as good as the beginning, but the army is still 380,000 strange. Today, there are more than 140,000 military preparations, and there are only 50,000 or 60,000 practitioners. The enemy rode deeply, and the battle and defense were all called unarmed. That is, the soldiers, the old, the weak, the tired, the wandering peddlers, the clothes and armor were taken to the temporary. The disadvantage of this is not in the flight, but in the occupation; Not in the sergeant, but in the general. Cover the commander, sit in the camp, trumpet, and put the chief officials, many generations of hakama, usually occupy the camp army, pay in an empty name, and when they are in the exercise, they are the market people, shouting and dancing and laughing. In the early years, Shangshu Wang Qiong, Mao Bowen, and Liu Tianhe often intended to revitalize. However, the generals hated themselves and conspired to obstruct them, and the sergeants were accustomed to being arrogant and lazy, competing to advocate rumors, and the matter was suspended, causing harm to this day. Begging for a great revitalization of the cadres and sending officials to the core. ”

This is directly aimed at the Wuchen Xungui, which would not appear under normal circumstances, but Emperor Jiajing was shocked and angry by this incident, and felt quite reasonable when he heard the words - of course, he actually knew about this situation before, but he didn't expect the situation to be so serious, and if this continues, sooner or later, Beijing City will be completely empty by this group of waste! Is that worth it? So the thunder was furious, and the army was strictly ordered to discuss the revolution.

Seeing that the emperor was really angry, the noble military ministers knew that they would be guilty at this time, so they simply pretended to be dead and "lay down and laugh at each other".

So the results of the revival revolution soon came out: the regimental battalions and the two official halls were abolished, and the old system of the three battalions was restored. The 3,000 battalions were also the pivotal battalions. Remove the governor, the gun and other ministers. set up a military minister, called the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, with the Marquis of Xianning Qiu Luan for it; A Wenchen, said to be the assistant director of Jingying Rongzheng, that is, Wang Bangrui to fill it. There are 26 deputy staff officers under it.

But this Wenchen will still not be satisfied, because the prime minister Jingying Rongzheng is still a military minister, so this restructuring is not very stable, and finally Jiajing Dynasty, its system has been changed repeatedly, and finally the name of the Chinese army sentry is also called, only called the war defender and the car battalion.

Some officials want to ask, the military minister's performance is so bad this time, why is the prime minister Jingying Rongzheng still the military minister?

First, of course, because Qiu Luan's spending money to buy peace was not exposed, Jiajing thought that this person was good and could be trusted.

Second, we must talk about the old system here. Not to mention the far away, the prime minister was ordered to be the prime minister from the time of Hong Xi. In the fifth year of Xuande, Zhu Yongyan, the Duke of Chengguo, selected the Beijing Guards to train in the Fifth Army. In the following year, the number of guards was ordered to be counted by the Dao and Jinyi officials. The expedition to Gaoxu and the destruction of Wuliangha were both won by Beijing. In the second year of orthodoxy, it was still because of what Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, said, so that half of the guards and tomb guards were kept in Jinyi, and the school under the banner was under the supervision of Jinyi, and the rest belonged to the three major battalions. There were no major problems with the system, but who expected that there would be difficulties in civil engineering, and the elite Beijing army that relied on the shock of the world and the attack on Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty was almost wiped out.

At this time, the civil official group who stayed in Beijing found that the opportunity had come, regardless of Yingzong's exile in Wara, and pushed Emperor Jing to ascend the throne. Each battalion has one governor, one trumpet officer, two commanders, a total of ten people, a hundred team leaders, and two hundred team managers. Then one of the three battalions of the governor was promoted as the chief military officer, and the prison minister - and then the key came: one person from the military department or the imperial history of the capital was the commander. The rest of the army returned to the base camp and called it home. The system of the Beijing army has changed.

As a result, for the first time, the civilian clique reached into the core of military power, the Beijing camp.

However, the next situation may not have been expected by everyone, Yingzong relied on his personality charm to escape from Warat, and soon after Emperor Jing fell seriously ill and died, Yingzong was restored.

Yu Qian, as an important figure in Emperor Tuijing's ascendancy, was naturally killed on a charge, and the regimental camp was no more.

Later, the emperors of Xianzong, Wuzong, and Sejong went back and forth to reform the system of Jingying, and this prime minister Jingying Rongzheng was a military minister for a while, a civil minister for a while, and even a eunuch Wang Zhi...... Anyway, it's a mess.

Another point to add is that the five military offices were originally printed by the opening of the government, but only the main military registration was not with the battalion, and the battalion drill officers were not printed. Rong Zheng has both a government and a seal, which is the beginning of hatred.

Although Qiu Luan was a waste, at that time, because other fronts were about to collapse, he relied on bribing Altan Khan, and he was actually considered a famous general in the world, and he was very favored. Of course, he couldn't say a word when he was favored, so he suggested that Emperor Jiajing select 68,000 border soldiers, divide them into guards, and train with the Beijing army, and ordered the generals of the Beijing camp to train the border soldiers, so the border army was subordinate to the Beijing division. But this idea is obviously a bad idea: there are policemen on the plug, but border generals are not allowed to recruit, and as a result, not only the Beijing army has not been trained, but the border army has become more and more rubbish, and it can only be "the worse the border affairs". When the ugly affairs of Qiu Luan were exposed, the imperial court was dismissed as the subordinate of the head of the Rong Zheng Office, but the guards only took Gansu alone.

Because Gao Gong nodded at Gao Pragmatic just now, Gao Pragmatic misunderstood the meaning of Gao Gong's hope, thinking that he was signaling him to speak, so he said: "Prime Minister Rong Zheng controls most of the military power in Beijing, and this position in the hands of military ministers naturally cannot satisfy the civilian officials, so there must be a group of civilian officials who want to take this great power." Zhao Ge Lao did this, and the kid thought that there were two possibilities: one might be because the pressure on Sanbo was too great for him, so that he had to use this to win the support of more civil officials, in order to counter the power of Sanbo; The second possibility is that he can directly profit from pushing this matter...... For example, if he is the prime minister of Jingying Rongzheng and takes this position, it does not mean that he dares to do anything unspeakable, but it will make some people misjudge the situation and think that His Majesty is solemn to him, so that some people will remain silent about his dispute with the third uncle. ”

Gao Pragmatic misunderstood Gao Gong's meaning and expressed his opinion, but Gao Gong turned around and misunderstood his meaning, thinking that it was the first time he was allowed to participate in such an "internal meeting" and wanted to express himself. However, these two articles are at least clear, although Gao Gong knows that the second article is not valid - the military department is a Shangshu and four waiters (no wind note: originally two waiters, the four waiters system was proposed and promoted by Gao Gong, and the two waiters added to it mainly patrol the border affairs, understand the situation, and be very familiar with the dangers of the border, the urgency of the captivity, the virtuous generals, and the strength and weakness of the horses. In this way, there are people in charge of border affairs, and if there is a shortage of governors, they can also be filled immediately. None of them are Zhao Zhenji's people, but of course Gao Pragmatic doesn't know this, so just from his analytical ideas, it's not bad, so Gao Gong didn't say anything.

Not speaking means acquiescing.

The nine protégés of Gao Gong with a great future were quite surprised: first, they were surprised that Gao Pragmatic could see the doorway at a glance, secondly, they were surprised that Gao Pragmatic said so bluntly, and finally they were surprised that Gao Gong's attitude was completely acquiescing.

But everyone still has doubts in their hearts: does an eight-year-old child really have such a vision? Could it be that the teacher did an analysis of Gao Pragmatic in advance in order to establish his nephew's reputation?

Of course, this kind of suspicion can't be directly announced, but it shouldn't be a big problem to turn around and test it, so the officials all spoke to Tu Menggui in the matter: "When Gengxu changed, Zhao Ge Lao Li ruled out the main peace discussion, but was belittled by Yan Song, until he inherited Dabao today, and reinstated him as a waiter of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and was in charge of Zhan Shifu, which can be regarded as returning to the center again." It was only in August last year that he entered the cabinet as an assistant to the cabinet as a secretary of the Ministry of Rites. Speaking of which, although he has some prestige in Shilin, his foundation in the court is actually shallow. From this point of view, the little junior brother's analysis is quite reasonable, but it ......"

Tu Menggui paused for a moment, frowned and said: "Although Huo Benbing has been in military affairs for a long time, he is often in the border town, and he only came to Beijing in the second year of Longqing as the Great Sima, and he knows that the affairs of the Beijing camp involve a wide range of interests and depth, and he is self-advocated, and there are rumors that he has always been good friends with the Duke of Chengguo and the British Prince, according to the views of the students, I am afraid that he may not be happy to see Zhao Ge Lao meddling in military affairs, especially the military affairs of the Beijing camp. ”

This soldier is another name for the military department's book, and Huo Benbing refers to Huo Ji, who is currently the military department's secretary, as for the big Sima...... The Ming people like to refer to their current position by ancient names, and Da Sima is also another name for the book of the military department.

In fact, if he can be the prime minister of the military department, of course, it is not a bad thing for Huo Ji, but in fact, due to the change of civil engineering, Yu Qian established ten regiments and battalions with the military department, and the power was unparalleled for a while, and even the emperor had to often succumb to Yu Qian's will.

For example, if Chengping is today, Huo Ji has no second thoughts, so he will not have too many thoughts about mastering the capital camp at all, but will feel that it is better to maintain the status quo than to concurrently serve this position to cause the emperor to worry. What's more, in the end, most of the trouble is still the squire to concurrently serve in this position, and when the time comes, the squire will still be the shangshu, but the squire has greatly increased his power, so who has the final say in the military department?

Any official who changes the Zhengyin Hall will have such worries, is he Huo Ji an exception?

Gao Pragmatic not only understood Tu Menggui's words, but also understood Tu Menggui's subtext: Although Zhao Zhenji may get the favor of many civil officials by doing this, it is nothing more than that, but he offended the military department and a group of noble military ministers at the same time, is this business really cost-effective?