Chapter 138: Tile Thorn Retreats

Some people also said that since the Orthodox years, the nine sides have not seemed to be too peaceful. This peace is somewhat fake.

No, although there are wars on the nine sides from time to time, but they are only less than a thousand people, or even hundreds of people fighting, such a war is nothing at the strategic level of the Ming Dynasty.

At least tens of thousands of people have not been killed or injured.

For the people on the border, this can be said to be a peaceful day.

Cheng Guogong is also under a lot of political pressure in his heart.

Yes, Zhu Qizhen delegated power to Chengguo Gong.

It is a war or a peace with the tile spur, and now it can be decided in a word.

But this kind of power is also a kind of pressure on Cheng Guogong.

Because he is the one who makes the decision, if after the war, the fight is not good, and it is not a big victory, then Cheng Guogong can imagine how the imperial historian behind him buried him with spittle.

This is not only related to the life and death of him Zhu Yong, but also to the success or failure of Chengguo Gongman.

Zhang Fu's words of persuasion, he listened to it even more.

Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, the emperor is a thing, love can lift it to the sky, and hate can press it into the ground. Now the more beautiful the Chengguo Mansion is, the more uneasy Zhu Yong's heart becomes.

Therefore, Zhu Yong did not dare to make mistakes.

"Report, General, the Tile Thorn has withdrawn." When Zhu Yong was thinking, a person came to report, and Zhu Yong immediately opened the pergola to look over, but saw that only a convoy of more than 2,000 people remained, and the other armies, as if the tide was ebbing, retreated in a moment.

Zhu Yong sighed slightly in his heart, and said secretly: "That's fine." ”

Zhu Yong also reported layer by layer according to the words of the tile spur.

When the news reached Jingshi, Zhu Qizhen was not in the palace, but in martial arts.

After several years of accumulation, the quality of martial arts students has reached the level recognized by Liu Yongcheng. And Zhu Qizhen was approaching the Tile Spur army. It is also necessary to declare the emperor's martial intentions.

Zhu Qizhen came to the martial arts, once again gathered all the bachelors of martial arts, competed in front of the emperor, and decided the top three.

When the news from the front line reached Zhu Qizhen's hands, it was when Zhu Qizhen watched the competition below, he looked at the information in his hand, and there was a sneer in his heart.

He knew very well that his birthday was November, and there was still more than half a year to go. The tile spur is just an excuse.

"It's fine." Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart.

Although this feeling of self-deception made Zhu Qizhen very uncomfortable, if he considered the current situation of the imperial court, Zhu Qizhen could only endure this breath and not think about it too much.

After all, the severity of today's drought is even greater than the three-year drought in Hebei a few years ago, and this time the drought covers a particularly wide area, from Beijing to Huguang. That's all it takes in the north.

Great drought in the north Zhu Qi

The town is actually used to it.

The spring drought has become an annual occurrence. And this time it affected Huguang, but it was a big deal.

After all, the main grain producing areas of the Ming Dynasty are moving to Huguang, although Jiangnan is a heavy place for taxation, and most of Beijing's grain and salary come from Jiangnan, but the people of Jiangnan prefer to grow cash crops rather than rice.

When Zhu Qizhen looked at Zhou Chen's resume, he found that Zhou Chen had organized the people to buy rice from Huguang and pay taxes in Jiangyin. This policy has made many people feel convenient.

But although Zhu Qizhen is the emperor, at the economic level, he does not have detailed statistics.

The planting of cash crops in the south of the Yangtze River, the decrease in grain production, and the increase in grain production in Huguang have made Huguang the most important production area of grain in the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Qizhen couldn't make a judgment at all.

However, there is no doubt that grain production has shifted to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

In this way, the vast drought of the lake is something that makes Zhu Qizhen think about it without paying attention to it.

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Qizhen didn't want to fight with the tile thorns in his heart. Although this situation is ugly, it is just a fig leaf, but Zhu Qizhen can only admit it.

Zhu Qizhen saw this and handed it to Fan Hong casually, as if he didn't know anything. He said to the people around him: "Whenever I see a student of martial arts, I feel a lot more relieved in my heart. ”

Liu Yongcheng said respectfully: "Your Majesty praises." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Baoding Hou." ”

Meng Ying immediately came out and said, "The minister is here." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "What do you think of these students? ”

Baoding Marquis Meng Ying saw that there were still a few children of the Meng family, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, they are all good seedlings." In the future, they will be the pillars of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty Martial Arts School is actually still a noble school, and anyone who can go to school here will have at least one hereditary official position. Either they have the grace of their ancestors and are related to the royal family.

Baoding Hou Mengying's children are all here, how can he say anything bad. Naturally, it is said that it is picked up.

But in all fairness, it's a bit of a lie to say how great these people will be in the future, but it is no problem for most of the students to be released to be a hundred households.

As for the future, it depends on their luck.

Things on the battlefield, who can say clearly, just like Meng Ying, when she was a teenager, she assisted her father to win the Battle of Baoding, which not only made her father famous in the first battle, but also made him a general. At that time, Zhang Fu had not yet emerged.

But decades later, he can only follow Zhang Fu's back.

Is it just that Zhang Fu's ability is stronger than him?

It can only be said that the circumstances of life are really unspeakably tight, and these students in front of them can now be regarded as qualified, whether they are truly outstanding or not, how can they be present

In the one that can be seen clearly.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Martial arts is a British duke, and Liu Gonggong is in charge, but the affairs of the DPRK and China, I can't leave the British duke for a moment, and Liu Gonggong is good at guarding the inner house, and he can't serve as a martial artist for a long time, is this martial arts Baoding Marquis willing to pick up this burden?" ”

How could the Marquis of Baoding say that he was unwilling, he immediately said: "Your Majesty, how dare you disobey the ministers." ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded, and didn't say anything more.

Although Zhu Qizhen spoiled Chengguo Mansion to the sky, the thorn was on the side, which also greatly stimulated the sense of crisis in Zhu Qizhen's heart, and he could never fully trust Chengguo Gong.

He needs a pawn that can balance Cheng Guogong.

For so many years, Zhu Qizhen slowly pondered a problem, that is, he has always regarded the British Duke as the biggest mountain in the army, which may have been right at the time, but today in the twelve years of orthodoxy, there is something wrong.

The reason is very simple, people go tea cool.

The British public minister has been in the cabinet for more than ten years, which means that the British public minister has been separated from the direct management of the army for more than ten years.

In the past ten years, the Duke of Chengguo has cooperated with the Duke of England, one in charge of soldiers and horses in Beijing, and the other in charge of the Privy Council in the center. It seems that the cooperation is intimate, almost one.

But are Cheng Guo Gong and Ying Gong really a family?

Zhu Qizhen didn't believe it.

Therefore, he wants to check and balance Chengguo Gong, and he must start from both sides, one is to drive a wedge between the British Duchy and the Chengguo Duke, but this matter must be done slowly, not in a hurry. Especially for an old fox like the English male. is even more impatient, once it is seen by the British public. On the contrary, it does not end well.

In this matter, Zhu Qizhen's principle is that he would rather not do it than get into trouble.

Another thing is to push Baoding Hou to the throne.

Zhu Qizhen has been doing this thing.

After the southern expedition, although the Marquis of Baoding has been in the Beijing camp, it does not mean that the Marquis of Baoding has not been promoted, and now the Marquis of Baoding is already the chief general of the Shenji Battalion, one of the three major battalions in the Beijing camp. Hundreds of thousands of people in Beijing, the generals under the command of the Marquis of Baoding, can control at least one-third.

But Zhu Qizhen still felt that it was not enough, and he wanted to let Baoding Hou take charge of martial arts. Spread his influence.

The martial arts faction was deeply bound to the men and horses of the Hou Nanzheng faction in Baoding, and used it to counter the power of the Chengguo Mansion.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen's sentence is a casual personnel arrangement, but he doesn't know how many brain cells died behind.

Some people also think that this is the case, isn't the Marquis of Baoding sitting big.

Zhu Qizhen doesn't care about this, he should be kept here at the age of Baoding Hou. Baoding Hou Mengying, British Duke Zhang Fu, and Chengguo Duke Zhu Yong are all the second generation of Jing Nan.

They're all young.

Meng Ying is also in her early sixties. Even if Zhu Qizhen desperately relinquishes power, and Meng Ying takes the place of Chengguo Gong, how many years can he control it?