Chapter 80: Kou Shen

There was a temporary truce in the war in Annam.

Whether it is the Battle of Champa or the Battle of Quang Ninh, they can be regarded as having their own victories and defeats.

However, Annan's strategic attempt can be regarded as more than half completed, at least no matter what happens, with the current situation of occupying the city, it is to be absent from the upcoming battle between Annan and Daming.

Even if it was fought, it could only be a civil war in the city, and the scale was limited to the inside of the city.

Most of Annam's troops could be liberated and placed in the north.

And taking advantage of this time period, Guo Deng also completed the first step and intervened in the civil strife of the Cen family with decisive methods. Please Cen Rui for Sienbo.

and transferred Cen Rui into the Beijing camp sequence. Became one of Guo Deng's lieutenant generals.

Of course, Cen Rui will not pay a price for such treatment.

His price was that Si'en Mansion was changed and returned to the stream, and Cen Rui used the prestige of the Cen family as an endorsement to recruit soldiers in the old land of Guangxi.

The Cen family solved it peacefully.

But the other toasts did not solve it peacefully.

However, none of them could escape the palm of Guo Deng's hand.

With the help of the Cen family and the Hou family in Datengxia. Almost a steady stream of Guangxi people with identity and without identity, and those with household registration in the future, all walked down from the mountains and were willing to join the army.

Of course, this is of course because of the prestige of the Cen family and other toasts. It is even more because of the power of Brother Kong Fang.

Because Zhu Qizhen asked Guo Deng to recruit these troops very early, it was for the future Nanjing garrison and the future Nanyang expedition.

After all, letting Hebei soldiers go to Nanyang to fight, not to mention injuries is a big problem.

Therefore, the conditions for these conscriptions in Guangxi can be said to be the same as those in Beijing.

Twelve taels per year, one tael per month, and other treatments and so on.

This treatment was formulated by Zhu Qizhen according to the vicinity of Shuntianfu and even the vicinity of Hebei.

You must know that near Shuntianfu, within the scope of the Ming Dynasty, it may not be the richest, but it is much stronger than Guangxi. Therefore, in Hebei, it is a relatively high military salary, but in Guangxi, it is a price that can sell people's lives.

Therefore, a large number of people who originally belonged to Tusi were willing to eat this mouthful of life-selling meal.

Speaking of which, these strong Miao tribes who have crossed the mountains and mountains are quite suitable as a source of soldiers.

The only problem is the issue of dialects.

Fortunately, the army of the Guangxi Guard, which has been stationed in Guangxi for many years, and after the Battle of Datengxia, there are a group of suitable officers.

Guo Deng is expected to train 150,000 troops in Guangxi, in fact, the army of Guangxi Tusi and the Guangxi garrison are also Mao Sheng's troops.

So the real recruits, that is, around fifty thousand.

Coupled with the original Beijing camp headquarters, there are a total of 200,000 horses.

It's just that the formation and training of the army also takes time, and the transportation of ordnance and materials also takes time, and this training and training will take about half a year to a year.

Therefore, the war in Annam is over for the time being.

But after a lot of jumping in the palace, Zhu Qizhen was reprimanded by the Queen Mother desperately, and let the prince go to Jiangnan.

Naturally, it is impossible for the crown princess to follow the crown prince.

So the prince took Wang to the south.

At this time, the focus of the Ming and Qing dynasties had been advanced to the south of the Yangtze River.

In the matter of Qingzhang, Zhu Qizhen is naturally good at choosing officials, especially the most important Qingzhang in Jiangnan, Zhu Qizhen is even more cautious.

Especially after Xu Youzhen's denunciation, this is even more so.

For this matter, Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and could only invite an old minister who should have been a minister.

Kou Shen.

This old minister is a native of Tang County, Hebei Province, and he was crowned as a student of Yongle Junjunior.

And the Tai students in the Yongle period were not as popular as Jinshi, so it took 20 years for this young Tai student to sit in the position of the head of the Criminal Department at the beginning of Xuande.

But it is precisely because of the floating dust inside and outside for so many years that he can see the changes in the world clearly.

Many things can be seen at a glance.

It can be said that the eyes of the law are unparalleled, and when he served in the Criminal Department, there was never a problem with the cases he endured. People give the nickname God Broken.

But he was too old, and when he was twenty-three years old, his mother died of illness and returned to his hometown to guard the system, but after that, Kou Shen gave up the idea of becoming a leader.

After all, speaking of which. He was in his seventies.

Although it was also profitable to work in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, at that time, Zhu Qi suppressed Liu Qiu in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Kou Shen had no room for promotion.

In that case, why not go back to your hometown.

After all, Hebei has developed quite well over the years. Kou Shen simply didn't want to return to Beijing to take up his post.

Zhu Qizhen originally wanted to approve.

After all, it is too unkind to let an old minister who is nearly seventy years old come out to do things for the court again. Although Zhu Qizhen did not personally interfere in the specific work of Qingzhang.

But also know that this is quite a tedious and quite a lot of work.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen really can't think of someone he can trust for a while.

Kou Shen is an old minister. Senior, old, can hold the field. The most important thing is the northerners, the Hebei people. The relationship with the southerners is not too deep.

And have the ability to have wrists.

No one should be under this old minister's command.

In addition, he also ordered Cao Nai, who stayed in Nanjing, to cooperate closely.

Note that Cao Nai is also from Hebei.

This already shows Zhu Qizhen's tendencies.

The prince came out this time, and it was the same as before, semi-public.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were many precedents for the emperor to send the prince out of Beijing on an errand, so the ministers did not feel that there was any problem.

It's like Taizu sent the crown prince Zhu Biao out of Beijing many times, and Taizong even let Emperor Renzong stay in Nanjing, as for Emperor Xuanzong, when Emperor Renzong died, Xuanzong was also on an errand abroad.

Therefore, it is not a big deal for the prince to go out.

The only difference is that Zhu Jianjun did not fight the prince. The high-ranking officials in various places naturally know about it, but the officials in the prefectures and counties below may not know everything.

The prince saw Cao Nai in Nanjing, so he immediately went to Jiangnan to see Kou Shen.

Although Cao Nai's official position is above Kou Shen, he is more in charge of the overall situation, and it is Kou Shen who really deals with the matter of Qingzhang.

When Kou Shen saw the prince, he was not polite.

Without him, Kou Shen is now seventy years old, and he can live for a few years, and now His Majesty is in full bloom, and when the prince ascends the throne, I don't know what year and month it is.

Kou Shen really didn't have anything to expect from the prince, he was just polite and not offended.

The two of them greeted each other like this, and then the prince asked: "When Gu came, my father said that all this was handed over to the two adults, and Cao Gong asked Gu to listen to Kou Gong's opinion, but I don't know how Kou Gong arranged Gu?" ”

Kou Shen sighed and said: "This part of the south of the Yangtze River is just an errand, according to the opinion of the old minister, the prince and his entourage temporarily hide their identities, and when they go to the old man's curtain, they say that they are transferred from Beijing to sort out the documents for the old man, and after the prince is familiar with everything here, the old minister is asking the prince to go to the county below to preside over the measurement of a county." ”

Kou Shen still has a good understanding of the emperor's intentions, which is nothing more than to let the prince take a look at the people's suffering.

To be honest, the crown prince Zhu Jianjun received the best education from birth. But none of these educations can give him a deep understanding of how the bottom of the Ming Dynasty lives.

When he is in the ninth place, an order will have a certain impact on the following.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen has repeatedly sent the prince down.

It's just that Kou Shen, an old minister, thinks more.

The reason why he kept the prince was to see the prince's ability. Since the emperor entrusted the crown prince to him, he must hand over a satisfactory answer.

In other words, what the prince has to do will definitely succeed. If the prince messes things up here and affects the prince's prestige, Kou Shen won't have any good fruit to eat.

How to guarantee the absolute success of the crown prince. It is a way to circle the target after archery, but Kou Shen is not going to do this, but first weigh the prince's ability, give him a suitable question, and then he will take care of it a little later, so that the prince can unconsciously complete a perfect answer.

The prince didn't know the inside story, and he was still a little happy in his heart, as if he remembered the incident of organizing the construction of the canal in Lanzhou. If this kind of thing is done well, it is actually very rewarding.

"Lonely just listen to Kou Gong's orders." The prince said.