The head of the Ministry of Rites, Long Chizhong, was in contact with the clansmen of the Zongren Mansion, and even asserted: "If it is directly cut by two percent, those idle clansmen are probably going to make a fuss!" ”

Sun Zhengang reacted at this time, this matter is really another mystery.

Ning Jiang waited for the response of Long Chizhong, and his heart became even more excited, so he continued to talk eloquently: "This seems to be a measure to benefit the country and the people, but if the imperial court can't face up to the shortcomings of the Zong Domain, and the emperor is not determined to be ruthless against the Zong Domain, this ill cannot be cured!" Even if the Ministry of Rites came up with a plan to cut 50 percent, the small amount was only the expenditure on paper, and the actual amount of rice given to the clan was still increasing, and naturally it could not alleviate the financial problems. ”

Wei Shiliang sighed softly, although he didn't know what kind of plan the Ministry of Rites would come up with, but according to the style of the Xu Party, it was definitely impossible to dare to be ruthless to the clan relatives.

Yang Futian clutched a warm pot tightly, and said with disdain: "Where does Xu Jie want to attack the shortcomings of the sect's Lumi, it is clear that he is using this matter to create this storm of public opinion, so as to achieve the purpose of 'repairing the plank road in the open and crossing the Chen Cang in secret'." ”

"It should be like this, Dong Wei failed to rectify the salt administration, and as a result, no official stood up to accuse, but once again avoided the important and trivialized, focusing the problem on the stove household. They also don't want to think about the hard life of the stove household, who overcame the income of the stove household? Zhou Youqing immediately nodded in agreement.

Xiao Jinian and the others were all smart people, and they also nodded one after another. In this turmoil, everyone's attention was attracted by the affairs of the clan, but they were indifferent to the results of Dong Wei's rectification of the salt government, and it seemed that they unanimously acquiesced that the imperial court should not continue to increase the salt tax.

Long Chizhong turned his head to look at Lin Haoran and asked seriously, "Senior brother, what should we do next?" ”

Everyone's eyes also fell on Lin Haoran, Lin Haoran has undoubtedly become the backbone of their group, and even everyone has tacitly agreed to everything obey Lin Haoran's arrangement.

"I have already made it clear that now we are temporarily sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and we will not do anything at the moment!" Lin Haoran took a sip of tea and looked at everyone and responded seriously.

Although he really wanted to do something for the country, he knew that he couldn't do anything now.

Whether it is a clan issue, a salt administration issue, or a military issue, in fact, the essence is the same. You want those people to spit out the fat that they have eaten in their mouths, and that is undoubtedly killing them.

If you don't have the full support of the emperor, or if you have enough power in your hands, you will not be able to compete with these interest groups, let alone carry out these reforms.

It's just that Lin Haoran doesn't have all of this now, and it is impossible to recklessly hit a stone with an egg with Xu Dang.

Xiao Jinian and the others sighed softly, knowing that their current situation was indeed not good. Now that Xu Jie's strength is growing, and he is still attracting forces from all sides, it is fortunate that they can avoid next year's Jingcha.

Ning Jiang was a smart person, and immediately changed the subject: "I just got a military report from Liaodong, the leader of the Mongolian tribe, Du'er, led his troops to invade from the Modaoyu wall, and Liaodong was sacked. The Governor of Jiliao is simply a waste material, he actually avoided the war, and let a small tribal leader take a liking to him, he really didn't understand what Yang Bo liked about him! ”

"If it were me, I wouldn't have taken the initiative!" After Yang Futian asked him to change to a more prosperous warm pot, he said slyly.

Sun Zhengang looked at Yang Futian puzzled and said, "Why is this?" ”

"After fighting, Yang Bo was jealous if he won the battle; If you lose, you may lose your head! As long as the Mongols don't make too much trouble, as Yan Song said at the beginning, these people will leave after they have grabbed enough! Yang Futian replied with Zhizhu holding the ground.

When everyone heard this, they were unwilling to show a wry smile on their faces.

Although these words are overly snobbish, they are a fact. Yang Xuan is now the left squire of the military department, and being too brilliant will threaten Yang Bo, and the safest way is to stick to a middle way.

Ning Jiang immediately looked at each other angrily and said: "Our Ming army is falling day by day, and it is an official like you who is greedy for life and afraid of death to harm!" ”

"With your temper, I don't think about leading troops on the frontier in my life. The current court is to be stable, as long as the Mongolian cavalry does not hit the city of Beijing, everyone will blink and close an eye! Yang Futian sneered.

Lin Haoran was also helpless in his heart, in order to alleviate the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court continued to choose to reduce the military spending of the nine sides, resulting in a further reduction in the combat power of the current border army.

Of course, the reason for the current weak combat strength of the border army is caused by many aspects, and it can be regarded as a problem left over from history.

After Jiajing vetoed Xia Yan's original plan to recover the Hetao, the imperial court has always adopted a defensive strategy in recent years, basically giving up the offensive battle plan completely.

Now that Xu Jie came to power, he did not intend to solve this problem, but symbolically rectified the problem of greed for ink among the border army generals, and then cut the military spending of the nine sides.

It was this negative combat attitude of the imperial court that made the tribes on the Mongolian side despise the Ming Dynasty more and more, and even a Mongolian tribe dared to enter Liaodong.

Seeing that Ning Jiang and Yang Futian had an argument, Lin Haoran was about to speak out to dissuade him, but Lin Fu suddenly pushed open the door and hurriedly ran in to say that a holy decree had arrived.

Divine decree?

After hearing these words, everyone couldn't help but be stunned, and turned their heads to look at Lin Haoran, their eyes were mostly puzzled. At this time, a holy decree was suddenly issued, and I had no idea whether it was a blessing or a curse.

"I lost my company first!"

Lin Haoran's face remained calm, stood up and saluted everyone, and strode towards the front yard.

A very bad premonition surged in his heart, he had heard a rumor before: Xu Jie took the opportunity of the vacancy of the governor of the southwest to kick himself out of the capital and release him as the governor of the southwest.

It was no secret that Xu Jie wanted him to leave the capital. Although he couldn't threaten Xu Jie's first assistant throne, he always gave Wu Shan advice, and he had already become a thorn in Xu Jie's side.

It was only this rumor that reached his ears, and then there was no follow-up, so that he suspected that it was a rumor. Clearly, he was overly optimistic.

At the moment, Xu Jie is afraid that he has done Jiajing's work, and wants to send him to the southwest to serve as the governor, officially kick him out of the court, and let him deal with those disobedient Tusi in the southwest.

At this thought, he suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness. Although he would love to stay in the capital and participate in the struggle, this is the case with this court, and the opponent will never go your way.