This is the case in the capital, where there is always an undercurrent underneath.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these are just two gratifying and congratulatory good news, but in officialdom, they involve a lot. Even if it should be a matter of rewarding meritorious deeds, in the game of political parties, another result will often be produced.

Whether it was Zhang Jing, the governor of Zhejiang, who had won a great victory in the past and was beheaded, or Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, who was pushed to the guillotine because of his poor defense of the territory, their life and death were not necessarily related to the outcome of the war, but more the result of political struggle.

Now that Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou have achieved such a great victory, it stands to reason that they should be rewarded for their meritorious deeds, but the matter has already involved the rise and fall of Hu Zongxian, and Yang Bo is afraid that he will follow Yan Song's approach.

As Mr. Jin expected, the voice of "recovering Hu Zongxian" quickly grew among the scholars like a spark, forming an influential wave of petitions.

In the early morning of the third day, a large group of scholars stopped the official sedan chairs heading to the Yamen at Mixiang in Dongjiang and West Chang'an Avenue, and handed over petitions to "reinstate Hu Zongxian".

Now that the southeastern Japanese have been pacified, these scholars did not ask Hu Zongxian to reinstate the governor of Zhejiang, but asked the imperial court to restore Hu Zongxian as the governor of the north on the grounds that the Tartars had repeatedly entered the customs and plundered.

The three most important governors in the north were: the Governor of Xuanda, the Governor of Jiliao, and the Governor of the Trilateral Border. However, Liu Tao, the governor of Jiliao, and Jiangdong, the governor of Xuanda, are both well-known and handsome, and only Guo Gan, the governor of these three sides, relies on seniority and Yang Bo's support.

They seem to be well versed in the principle of "bullying the weak and fearing the hard", and they have already aimed at Guo Gan, who is the weakest, so they put forward a specific plan: reinstate Hu Zongxian as the governor of the three sides.

In this regard, many officials vaguely guessed that someone was behind the incident, and there was a political game in this incident, but many people could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Hu Zongxian had fellow villagers, and the same year and his old ministry were in the capital, so these people naturally would not let go of this excellent time, and they were agitating behind their backs, trying to make Hu Zongxian successfully recover.

But at this point, there are already more powerful characters in charge of all this.

"Sure enough, it's Dong Fen, this old horseman!" Yang Bo conducted an investigation in secret, and soon learned that Dong Fen, the left servant of the ministry, was fanning the flames behind his back, and gritted his teeth with resentment.

Although the Yan Party has already fallen apart and has been purged twice by Xu Jie, Lei Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Dong Fen, the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials, still have a deep imprint of the Yan Party.

Dong Fen, the left servant of the special ministry department, is a very ambitious person, and he has gathered a lot of remnants of the strict party over the years, and there is every reason to pull Hu Zongxian at this time to seek help for the throne of the first assistant in the future.

Yang Bo took the initiative to find Dong Fen at the yamen of the Ministry of Officials, and said straight to the point: "Dong Shilang, I hope you don't push for the revenge of Hu Zongxian, count me Yang someone owes you a favor!" ”

Although he knew that Dong Fen was fanning the flames behind his back, he didn't plan to tear his face directly with Dong Fen. After all, this left servant of the Ministry of Officials took advantage of his position to disturb a group of officials, and won the emperor's respect, and almost became the secretary of the Ministry last year, and he is a strong contender for the throne of the first assistant in the future.

Dong Fen didn't expect Yang Bo to come to the door so quickly, he glanced at Yang Bo in a slight surprise, and after weighing the pros and cons, he agreed directly and said, "Okay."

After Yang Bo got Dong Fen, he went directly to the main hall next door to sign the detention room and visited Wu Shan, the secretary of the ministry.

Wu Shan was busy with the affairs at hand, and replied without raising his head: "Wu Ruzhen's embezzlement of ink has been confirmed, although the emperor exempts him from responsibility, but he does not meet the old man's employment standards. ”

Yang Bo gave a salute to this high-spirited and bright official Shangshu, and he immediately found Lei Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and Lei Li said simply: "The old man will not participate in these battles anymore, please go back!" ”

After repeatedly getting rid of these bigwigs, Yang Bo went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites to find Li Chunfang, Li Chunfang naturally couldn't help Wu Zongxian, but Yang Bo came with other purposes.

Regardless of the era, the war of public opinion is extremely important.

Even if Zhu Di obviously wanted to rebel, he was hooked up with the slogan of "Jing Yan", and when he entered Nanjing City, he pretended to run to Taimiao first, thus legitimizing his rebellion.

Another day, when the voice of the scholar "reinstating Hu Zongxian as the governor of the three sides" weakened slightly, the wind direction suddenly changed, and the reason was that the latest issue of "On the Past and the Present" was released.

In this issue of "Talking about the Past and the Present", the current affairs section resolutely is: "The southeast is not enough to boast, and the heroes and famous generals are really a bunch of mediocre people".

In this article on current affairs, it is listed all kinds of expenses for the southeast to suppress the Japanese, which is as high as three million taels, and the author sighed in the article: "The southeast can get rid of the troubles, not the work of the commander, nor the life of the sergeants, but the work of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty to tax grain!" ”

Not only in terms of the cost of suppressing the Japanese soldiers, the article also pointed out the deployment of troops in various parts of the southeast, but it gave the data on the use of 670,000 soldiers, and the author said sarcastically: "What is the merit in mobilizing hundreds of thousands of soldiers to get rid of tens of thousands of Japanese people, 20 times more than the Japanese people?" ”

"Talking about the Past and the Present" has become the most influential reading book in Beijing today, and with the publication of this article, coupled with the shocking data listed, the wind has changed completely.

"Three million taels of military expenses, this is a war, it is clearly eating silver!"

"Huh...... The southeast mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, and only then did they kill such a small number of Japanese people! ”

"Qi Jiguang and his ilk are just like that, if they don't punish them, it's already settled, why does the imperial court still reward them?"

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Shizi was too disappointed when he learned of these data. Many people think that Hu Zongxian has no merits, and even Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang and others are not famous generals, after all, they used hundreds of thousands of soldiers to eliminate tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers.

The matter of recovering Hu Zongxian soon ceased to be the focus of public opinion in the capital, and everyone turned their attention to the investment in the southeast to suppress the Japanese, and then discussed that the success of the suppression of the Japanese was not enough to praise.

People are like this, they always heal the scars and forget the pain.

Not to mention that these data are suspected of deliberately confusing the public, they seem to have long forgotten that in the past, more than a dozen Japanese robbers were killed under the city of Nanjing, and many cities only dared to defend the city in the face of the Japanese robbers, and even spent a lot of money to ask people to leave.

It is precisely like this, such a major battle feat, but it is easy to erase this open mouth.

The Ministry of War's opinion to the cabinet was soon released: Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou should not be rewarded, and they should keep their original posts and continue to obey orders.