Chapter Eighty-Four: The Governor of Yungui

Zhu Qizhen listened and couldn't speak for a while. After a while, he said: "Has the situation in the southwest reached this point? ”

If Zhu Qizhen doesn't know anything about this situation, it's fake.

What the world's health office looks like, Zhu Qizhen actually knows it in his heart. But I didn't expect that the dependence on the health center was different in different places.

It's like the mainland, and many places don't need a health center at all.

In the border areas, however, they rely more on the guard.

Moreover, when the Ming military declined, the center's attention to different places was also different, and the nine border defense lines were related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the most important place for the imperial court.

Therefore, the inclination in this regard is also the heaviest.

From the Orthodox years, the imperial court has begun to pay for the nine sides. But this aspect was not available in the early Ming Dynasty, because according to Emperor Taizu's policy, the guard should be self-sufficient.

This was an amount beyond the original budget of the imperial court, and even later became the largest expense of the Ming court.

This is the degree of support of the Ming court for the nine sides.

But the Southwest is different.

On top of strategy, never pay attention to it. In the southwestern provinces, especially the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou, more than half of the land is in the hands of Tusi.

The strength of the Da Ming Wei is enough to suppress the toasts, and these toasts are naturally honest. Even if there is chaos, the Ming Dynasty does not need to mobilize troops, and the local guard post is enough to quell the chaos.

But now in the current situation, Zhu Qizhen finally understood why he encountered so many border chaos

From Songpan, Luchuan, and even Vietnam, North Korea's small actions, the tile spur has not yet joined, and the tile spur is more of an effort to unify the steppe.

"The flesh will rot by itself, and then the worm will grow." Zhu Qizhen said: "I finally understand. ”

There are some things that you may not feel yourself, but others feel very much when they look at you, and you have gained a few pounds, and you don't notice it, and others can see it at a glance.

With the decline of the Ming Dynasty's military strength, the imperial court may still be able to deceive itself, but outsiders can see through it at a glance.

Although Zhu Qizhen also said something in Meng Ying's mouth, he heard a lot of Meng Ying's eye medicine on the Mu family.

The Mu family has been in Yunnan for a long time, and for such a thing, it is said that the Mu family has no responsibility. The Mu family didn't believe it themselves. It's just that compared with the situation in the southwest, Zhu Qizhen can't take care of the Mu family.

The Mu family's performance in this war was indeed extremely clumsy.

In this case, the remnant of King Qianning, the treatment that should be given will naturally be given. However, if they can't control it, don't take it.

Zhu Qizhen said: "In the opinion of the Marquis of Baoding, how should the affairs of the southwest be handled? ”

Baoding Hou said: "Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, in the opinion of the minister, you can't be in a hurry, but it will mess up the situation.

When a member of the important ministers was dispatched, he slowly adjusted and rectified the military affairs in the southwest. ”

Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart: "Sure enough." ”

Sending a member of the important minister over is naturally to transfer the Mu family back. The Mu family has a special status in Yunnan, but what is it in Beijing?

Not to mention that the power of the Great Ming Lords and nobles generally declined with the decline of the combat effectiveness of the guards.

Just to say that even within Xungui, it has its own basic plate, and where the Mu family's basic is is naturally southwest. Sending important ministers to rectify military affairs in the southwest, how much is left of the Mu family's basic plate?

Zhu Qizhen said: "Who do you think is better to sit in the southwest?" ”

The Marquis of Baoding said: "In the opinion of the minister's ignorance, the superintendent Wang Ji is more suitable. ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it and had to admit that Wang Ji was suitable, and at the same time, this position was not good for Wang Ji or for the Mu family.

Wang Ji is a person from Yang Rong who has been a secretary of the military department. To quell the rebellion in the northwest, we must have qualifications and ability.

It couldn't be more suitable to sit in Yungui.

But Wang Ji himself was unwilling.

Wang Ji has always wanted to return to Beijing. and even enter the cabinet.

It's a pity that Yang Rong died at the wrong time, otherwise, this year's cabinet changes, Wang Ji may not be able to get a ticket. Now Zhu Qizhen feels that Wang Ji must have tried his best to return to Beijing.

The court has a radish and a pit, and before Wang Ji went out, he was the secretary of the military department. If you want to come back, you must have six books, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the lack of the cabinet.

But such a lack is difficult to find for a while.

Meng Ying may not have deliberately targeted Wang Ji, but this proposal had best be approved by the imperial court, even if it was the military department's Shangshu Chaiche, he didn't want Wang Ji to come back soon.

This may not be just Meng Ying's calculation, but Zhu Qizhen doesn't think much about it.

It doesn't matter who calculates how much. The important thing is whether it is beneficial to Daming. The important thing is whether what Meng Ying said is true. Zhu Qizhen will not be able to devote his energy to the southwest region for a long time in the future. But looking at the complicated situation in the southwest, coupled with the restless factor of King Xiang, it does require an important minister.

"In this way, I'm sorry for Wang Aiqing." Zhu Qizhen said secretly, but said in his mouth: "This matter should be considered in the long run." ”

After Zhu Qizhen asked Meng Ying to leave, he immediately went to the Wenhua Palace, summoned Yang Shiqi in the Wenhua Palace, and said what Meng Ying said, and said with a worried face: "I thought that Yunnan would be comforted when the Luchuan battle was settled, but now it seems that it is not, so Wang Ji is sitting in the southwest, but it is the best way in front of him." ”

As Zhu Qizhen expected, Yang Shiqi did not object at all, and said: "Shengming has no fault with Your Majesty. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's just that Mr. thinks that Wang Ji should be given one."

What position? ”

This is also what Zhu Qizhen feels is difficult to do, this time the battle of Luchuan, Wang Ji is also meritorious, a meritorious man, he can't help but be rewarded.

Before Wang Ji set out on the expedition, he was the secretary of the military department. Sitting in the rank of Yungui, it should not be lower than the military department, but how many officials in the Ming court are higher than the military department?

Yang Shiqi thought for a while and said, "In the opinion of the minister, it is better to make Wang Ji an earl." In return for their work. ”

Zhu Qizhen felt for a moment whether Wang Ji had offended Yang Shiqi.

Is it a good thing for Wenchen to be knighted?

This is also a matter of opinion and wisdom. But Zhu Qizhen is sure that once Wang Ji is knighted, he will be like a bat, he will be a military general in the eyes of civil officials, and a civil minister in the eyes of military generals. In some special positions, it may be able to play a role, but in more exclusive positions of civil officials, there is no Wang Ji's share.

There is already a Zhang Fu in the cabinet, and Wenchen definitely doesn't want to have another knighted Wang Ji, so with a title, Wang Ji has no chance with the cabinet.

But on the whole, the treatment of the Ming Dynasty is still higher than that of civil officials, and an earl is enough for future generations to eat.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't think about what Wang Ji thought, but Zhu Qizhen didn't allow it.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen loves Wang Ji a lot, but Zhu Qizhen doesn't want Wenchen to expand his influence, once Wang Ji is knighted, who knows if this will open an opening, and the following can't stop it.

Zhu Qizhen said: "This may not be a good thing for Wang Qing, so let's do it, I think that Yunnan and Guizhou are one, but now the affairs are complicated, with Wang Ji as the title of secretary of the military department, and the general leader of Yungui military and political affairs." Give the king a flag, you can cut it first and then play. The two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou were entrusted to Wang Qing. ”

Zhu Qizhen said a long list of words, but this official position can be condensed into four words in later generations. That is the Governor of Yungui.

Yang Shiqi listened, frowned slightly, and said, "Your Majesty, in this way, the power of the Governor of Yungui is a little too great. It should not be permanent, Wang Ji will return to Beijing after finishing his work, and this official position will be justified. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr.'s intention is exactly what I want. ”

Zhu Qizhen also slowly felt that in terms of the official system, it was not necessarily better than the Ming Dynasty, yes, it was as if the Qing Dynasty divided the world to several governors, Ganshan, Zhili, Liangjiang, Lianghu, Fujian and Zhejiang, Northeast, Henan, Sichuan, and Liangguang. He hadn't thought about it before, but now it seemed completely unreasonable.

Because the power of the governor is too great. It's time to fight against the central government.

Zhu Qizhen naturally will never learn, even if this governor of Yungui is a temporary official position. If it weren't for Wang Ji's official position being too high and difficult to place, it wouldn't be like this.

So, he was trying to find a way to return to Beijing in Yunnan, and persuaded Chai Che Zhishi that he would go back to be Wang Ji, who was the secretary of the military department. didn't know that his future had already been predetermined.