Chapter 4: Poor Wang Zhen

Zhu Qizhen also understands that Xu Xi may not be alarmist and admonishes him when he says this. After all, Zhu Qizhen also knew that before entering the palace, Xu Xi and Yang Pu had met.

However, Zhu Qizhen really did not dare to risk the more than 100,000 main army of the Ming Dynasty, the long grain road from Shaanxi to Gansu, the possible instability factors in the rear, and even the terrible situation of lack of water and food.

Zhu Qizhen had to admit the reality.

Even though he admitted in his heart that he was a little stubborn, he didn't show it, and said: "Xu Qing has walked tens of thousands of miles, looking at the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and what do you think is the biggest problem in the nine sides?" ”

Xu Xi listened to this, and there was some hesitation in his heart for a while.

The problem of the Nine Sides? There are more than that, there are too many, but Xu Xi also knows that some things can be said and some things cannot be said.

Xu Xi also said several names during this long conversation.

But either there is no specific evaluation, the intention of praise and disapproval is not obvious, or it is praise.

It's not that today's nine-sided generals are all morally perfect, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But it is Xu Xi who understands his identity, he is not the imperial history of the nine-border border defense, and he catches people's pigtails, so his focus is on the deployment of each town, for some shortcomings in the nine-border defense, Xu Xi will naturally point out, such as the gap in Dongshengwei he said, which led to the military disaster in Yan'an, and the problem of Zhuang Langwei can connect the grassland with Qinghai.

The strategic depth of Gansu Town is too thin, if Gansu is lost, then there is no strategic depth in the northwest, and it is impossible to say that the territory of the Ming Dynasty will take a big step back, making it almost the same as the Song Dynasty.

However, the basic problem of this strategy is not to be taken care of by any chief military officer, and they cannot afford to take this responsibility.

Now Zhu Qizhen's question makes Xu Xi difficult to answer, although it seems that Xu Xi's ability is not enough to fool the past with a question, but if he really wants to say a question, he will offend a large number of people.

Zhang Fu is still in the cabinet.

Xu Xi suddenly thought of a question, felt that it was more appropriate, and said: "Your Majesty, there is one thing, the minister is not unhappy. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Xu Qing, please speak? ”

Xu Xi said: "Taizu Zu Xun, eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, even if the inner court can not sweep this generation, it should not be allowed to indulge outside, and now the nine-sided town, there is no time that there are no eunuchs to supervise the army, this generation often said that it is the eyes and ears of His Majesty, rampant, suppressing the nine-sided town generals, civil and military officials, meritorious, then said that my merit, there is, then it is said that the fault of the people." As for the rampant crimes, there are countless people who have committed adultery and criminals against the Tartar army. I am afraid of losing the hearts of the nine-sided army. ”

Zhu Qizhen heard this and smiled bitterly in his heart. He really didn't know how to solve this problem.

Because what these eunuchs say is good, he is these toos

The general backstage of the supervisor. Of course, Zhu Qizhen also admitted that some of what Xu Xi said was right, and some eunuchs were indeed not good things.

But there are some eunuchs who are indeed capable ministers, but they are just three inches below the navel, and they are only missing two taels of meat, such as Yishiha, such as Liu Yongcheng.

Now the importance of the nine sides, even the empress dowager did not have the intention of removing the eunuchs and supervising the army of the nine sides, you must know that the empress dowager was in Xuande for ten years, when Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, she could stop all urgent matters, and recalled many eunuchs who guarded the town.

Only the eunuchs of the nine sides, after entering the orthodox years, did not decrease but increased, even when Yang Shiqi was there, he did not say anything about this matter.

After Emperor Renzong ascended the throne, he installed Wenchen on the nine sides, and ordered the governor or governor to check and balance each other with the general army, and the eunuch and the army were carried forward during the Xuande period.

It has long been formed in the nine sides, and the checks and balances between the three layers of civil officials, eunuchs, and military generals have been formed.

Although the commander-in-chief of the military is still respected in various localities, the opinions of both civil officials and eunuchs should not be underestimated. Whenever there is a major event, it must be the three of them who play a joint chapter to explain the matter.

This mode of checks and balances was formed during the Xuande period and acquiesced to the Empress Dowager. It's just that after the death of the Empress Dowager, Wang Zhen's power has swelled greatly, which has made many people dissatisfied.

In fact, throughout the orthodox years, Wang Zhen's power was expanding.

The Empress Dowager acquiesced and even encouraged this matter four years before orthodoxy. After all, the Empress Dowager has always been worried that Zhu Qizhen will not be able to bear this burden, and would rather cultivate a powerful eunuch than a powerful minister.

After four years of orthodoxy, the Empress Dowager found that Zhu Qizhen was capable enough, so she reduced her support for Wang Zhen a lot, but Zhu Qizhen continued to support Wang Zhen.

Wang Zhen controls the celebrant eunuch, except for Dongchang in the hands of Jin Ying, Da Nei is the eunuch in the world and must be respected. Especially after the death of the Empress Dowager, Zhu Qizhen's style changed greatly and became silent, but Wang Zhen's became arrogant.

There is already a trend of toppling the king in the court.

Among them, Li Shimian, who was in charge of the customs in charge of the household department, was the most intense.

In the past few years, Li Shimian has been sitting in Tianjin, and several coastal ports have been developed one after another, but the total economic volume is here, although almost every province has a customs, but the total customs tax has not exceeded 5 million.

After all, the total economic volume of the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade is still limited, and before the West comes to the East, the entire east-west trade volume, or the internal trade volume of Southeast Asia, is not without a ceiling.

Coupled with such and such reasons, for a long period of time, the Daming Sea tariff is about 5 million taels.

Even so, Zhou Chen did not sit back and watch this money not flow into the household, outside the household

, so this year, Zhou Chen has played many times, that is, the customs has been included in the household department.

In the end, Zhu Qizhen agreed, and Li Shimian presided over the customs as a household servant, and chose a place in the capital to build the General Administration of Customs as a subordinate yamen of the household department.

After Li Shimian entered Beijing, the first shot hit Wang Zhen.

But it was because of the Ningbo Widow case.

What is the Ningbo Wako case, that is, in the sixth year of orthodoxy, all the way to Ningbo went ashore and conquered the Dasong Thousand Households. To be specific, there are only hundreds.

Zhu Qizhen was also furious, and at that time he ordered Zhen Haiwei to command Wang Ying to lead the fleet, encircle and suppress the Japanese invaders, and ordered Wei Guogong to preside.

After Wang Ying grabbed the tail, half of them were beaten, and half of them escaped, and dozens of them actually floated to North Korea.

After being captured by the Korean lord, he was sent to Beijing.

made Zhu Qizhen a little embarrassed. Needless to say, it was necessary to send an envoy to Korea to announce the reward and thanksgiving.

Just this one matter, it was implicated in the taxes of Ningbo Customs that year. Li Shimian played and said that Da Songwei Qianhu had taken Wang Zhen's path before he had taken office. and accused Wang Zhen of several major crimes, and many civil officials rose up to do it.

forced Wang Zhen to apologize to Zhu Qizhen and defend himself.

Regarding Wang Zhen's defense, Zhu Qizhen has some beliefs and some disbeliefs, and he knows some of Wang Zhen's own greed for money. But Wang Zhen is the person who hates the people below to play tricks on him the most, that is, he digs Wang Zhen to be greedy for money, which is natural, but if the people below dare to take an extra tael of silver from him, Wang Zhen will kill him.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen never believed that Wang Zhen had made a fortune even below.

But Zhu Qizhen knocked Wang Zhen, after all, the love between master and servant for so many years still has to be preserved.

Moreover, above the officialdom, anyone who understands a little bit can not know that Wang Zhennai is Zhu Qizhen's person. Zhu Qizhen was very worried that Wang Zhennai was a temptation for Zhu Qizhen. It seems that after the death of the Empress Dowager, Zhu Qizhen no longer actively sought this reform and that change.

A lot of things are that if you take a step back, the people below will go further.

Zhu Qizhen came forward to negotiate with Yang Pu, and Yang Pu took a lot of effort to suppress the storm that poured Wang Zhen below.

But the turmoil has been suppressed, but the dark tide has not subsided, and it seems that the anti-eunuch party and anti-Wang Zhen have become the political correctness of many civilian officials.

Therefore, Xu Xi did not dare to offend Zhang Fu, and Zhu Yong was noble, but he was not afraid of offending Wang Zhen.

After all, Zhu Qizhen's restraint on Wang Zhen is also very strict.

So that after many people impeached Wang Zhen, there was no hanging, and everyone became bold, quite something, impeachment of Wang Zhen, nothing to do, and then impeachment of Wang Zhen.