Chapter 165: Wuxing

Yang Shiqi also admired Wang Ao, and Zhu Qizhen didn't want Wang Ao to stay in Sichuan.

Because he can think that Wang Ao must be a force in Sichuan,

Zhu Qizhen understood as soon as he heard that Wang Ao was an unsentimental person.

Naturally, he was not allowed to be in a critical place.

However, what Zhu Qizhen said cannot be wrong.

Compared with Songpan, the matter in Guangxi is more serious, after all, Guangxi is adjacent to Yunnan and Guizhou.

Of course, in this era, the road from Guangxi to Yunnan cannot be said to be none, but it is just a small road, and it is impossible to pass the army at all.

Even smuggling is difficult.

But for many toasts, it's not too difficult.

After all, for the people of the Central Plains, it is a continuous mountain, but for them they have long been accustomed to it.

Once the chaos in Guangxi becomes big and Guizhou is implicated, things will not be easy to handle.

Yang Shiqi said: "Your Majesty is wise, but let Wang Ao supervise Guangxi?" ”

"Nope." Zhu Qizhen said: "The southwest rebellion is different from Luchuan, and it should be divided into seven political and three military, so that the people of Guangxi should be afraid of it and threatened, and the people of Guangxi should obey it with morality. Therefore, the focus was not on the military, and Wang Ao became the governor of Liangguang. And send a general to serve as a general, as the chief military officer of Guangxi, to be powerful, Wang Ao to be virtuous. ”

Yang Shiqi said: "Governor of Liangguang? This official position was not available in the imperial court before, I don't know what His Majesty thinks the authority of the governor of Liangguang is? ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he was slightly shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that the famous governor of Liangguang in later generations did not have this official position in this era?

However, Zhu Qizhen did not have nothing to do after a full meal, and wanted to be crowned a governor of Liangguang, but he felt the necessity of solving the Guangxi problem.

The reason is very simple, where does Guangxi's military rations come from?

It can't be shipped from Beijing, and if it really has to be transported thousands of miles away, I don't know how much the freight costs exceed the value of the grain itself.

Therefore, the food and salary for the war in Guangxi must be raised nearby.

Among Guangxi's neighboring identities, only Guangdong can afford to pay for food.

Huguang is not poor, but Huguang's grain has to be transported to Yungui. As for Yunnan and Guizhou, they themselves have no grain, even in the late Ming Dynasty, Guizhou's annual grain tax is only 70,000 or 80,000 stone, which is not comparable to a county in the south of the Yangtze River, or even a large county in the north.

Because of the grain tax in the large counties in the north, there are many as 30,000 or 40,000 stones.

Therefore, not only now, but also for a long time in the future, it is a common practice for Guangdong to pay Guangxi for assistance.

The same is true today.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhu Qizhen decided to let Wang Ao hang the title of governor of Liangguang and govern the two provinces.

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a while and said: "Let Wang Ao sit in Guangxi and transfer the grain, and let Wang Ao be responsible for the direct person in Guangdong's grain and salary." cooperate

The two provinces were transferred to supply military supplies, and after the war, to pacify the people. ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it carefully, he originally intended to let the governor of Liangguang have the authority of the future, but when he thought about it in his heart, he suddenly understood one thing. I was distorted by the memories of my past life.

Yes, it's crooked.

The official positions in the later Ming Dynasty were all based on the great victory of the civil official group over the Xungui group.

In other words, these official positions themselves encroach on the rights of military generals.

If this is the case, what is the difference between the governor and the overseer? It doesn't matter if it's a difference in name.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen immediately made several discounts. did not even give Wang Ao jurisdiction over the front-line soldiers. Of course, there is one thing, Zhu Qizhen still understands.

In many cases, power is not written in plain text.

A lot of power doesn't need to be spoken, he naturally exists.

No matter who fights on the front line, he will not offend the officials who supervise the transportation of grain and grass behind. And the officials who supervise the transportation of grain and grass may not have no troops in their hands. After all, these people, the soldiers who escorted the grain, and after distributing weapons, they were not vulnerable to a battle.

It's just that in this situation, the front-line ministers are the commanders, and there are civilian officials in the rear to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. Zhu Qizhen wants to try this model, if it really works, most of the Ming Dynasty's troops will be like this in the future.

Of course, such a model was not pioneered by Zhu Qizhen.

But the reality is so.

Emperor Taizong made several northern expeditions, and the people who supervised the transportation of grain and grass in the back were all Wenchen, that is, Xia Yuanji, who was as famous as Jian Gong. It's just that this big guy doesn't have a holiday, otherwise his authority is still above Sanyang, but he died in the fifth year of Xuande.

Moreover, Zhu Qizhen also found that under the means of Taizu Taizong, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies lost many functions, and it can even be said that the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies did not have the ability to independently wage a war.

It is necessary to have the cooperation of the Ministry of War.

Otherwise, they will not be able to handle the weight of grain and grass.

This is just a check and balance of power.

In this regard, Zhu Qizhen was a little entangled in his heart. In his mind, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, as the highest military body, should have a set of war systems.

It can bypass the cabinet and have the ability to preside over the war.

Because without this ability, it is impossible for Wenchen's hand to be cut off when he reaches out in the army, especially in terms of logistics.

But to really let the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies have this ability, Zhu Qizhen may not be able to sleep himself.

Yang Shiqi said: "The minister understands, but he doesn't know who His Majesty wants to sit in Guangxi?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Is there a candidate for sir?" ”

Yang Shiqi said: "I think it's better to choose a student than to be cooked. When General Wuxing was in Jiangxi, he cooperated with Wang Ao tacitly, and it was better to go to Guangxi to care about the two of them. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "General Wu? ”

Zhu Qizhen had an impression of him, although he had never seen Wuxing, he knew that he was originally the governor of the Five Armies

Among the generals, in the first month of the tenth year of Xuande, they urgently sat in Jiangxi, and they have been until now.

That's right, it was when Xuanzong died.

It is the queen mother's general.

Zhu Qizhen immediately felt that this Wuxing was credible.

Zhu Qizhen's vision of the Empress Dowager is still quite convincing. At that time, there were people in Jiangxi, as many as 30,000 people, and Wuxing was wiped out in one fell swoop.

Loyalty can be relied upon. The ability is also good.

If it weren't for Wuxing's lack of experience in dealing with big scenes, the Battle of Luchuan, Zhu Qizhen would have been a little bit interested in Wuxing. After all, the war of hundreds of thousands of people is not something that Wuxing's experience in suppressing bandits can do.

However, for the war in Guangxi, it was enough to deal with it.

After all, those toasts in Guangxi, speaking of the bandits, there is not much difference.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I asked the British public about this matter. ”

In fact, Zhu Qizhen had already agreed in his heart, but he still reminded Yang Shiqi like this.

Zhu Qizhen wanted to establish a clear distinction between civil and military, in military affairs, Zhu Qizhen relied on the British duke, and in civil affairs, Zhu Qizhen relied on Yang Shiqi.

Zhang Fu is very knowledgeable, and he doesn't mention a word more than he does in civil affairs.

But Yang Shiqi didn't have this consciousness.

It may be said that Yang Shiqi feels that as the first assistant of the country, although he does not have the name of the prime minister, he has the reality of the prime minister. In particular, the Empress Dowager relied heavily on Yang Shiqi, so that Yang Shiqi's authority has been growing from Xuande ten years to now.

Even in the system of the Ming Dynasty, at least in the early Ming Dynasty, the cabinet scholars and the six books were not superior, but had a relationship of checks and balances.

But Yang Shiqi has actually broken this delicate relationship.

The authority of the cabinet has been greatly increased, and the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty has made great contributions from the emperor's secretary to the real administrative center, such as Yang Shiqi, Yang Tinghe, Zhang Juzheng, etc.

Yang Shiqi didn't know if he understood Zhu Qizhen's subtext, maybe he understood. Just pretend you don't understand. Then he said: "Your Majesty, although the water around Beijing has receded, but many places have not harvested the grain, although the warehouse is opened, the work is for relief, but if it continues to develop like this, next spring, when the green and yellow are not harvested, the people are estimated to have a hard time." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened and asked solemnly in his heart: "Is this really the case?" ”

Yang Shiqi said: "The minister naturally does not dare to deceive His Majesty. ”

Zhu Qizhen's face was uncomfortable for a while, and he said: "It is my fault that the people suffered this catastrophe. ”

The self-blame in Zhu Qizhen's heart is also real.

In Zhu Qizhen's heart, the flood fighting and rescue is a model for future generations, but now this flood has made Zhu Qizhen know how cold and cruel the reality is.

Beijing City, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the best place, there are still nearly 1,000 people who died in the flood, what is it like outside Beijing?

Zhu Qizhen couldn't think about it.