Chapter Ninety-One: Rectifying the Guard's Proportions

Liu Dingzhi hurriedly got up.

Although Liu Dingzhi was born as a champion, he can be regarded as a member of the imperial court, and he is about to be promoted. But in the face of Guo Deng, he did not dare to slack off.

After all, Guo Deng was born in the Marquis of Wuding, and he was also a confidant of the emperor, and he won a battle, and it was rumored that he was about to be feuded. The future is vast, and it is not inferior to him at all.

Guo Deng said: "Lord Liu doesn't have to be polite, I wanted to talk to Lord Liu in detail. It's just that Lord Liu is going to Beijing tomorrow, and there are some things that can only be said tonight. ”

Liu Dingzhi immediately woke up.

He is very aware of the political labels between each other, whether it is him or Guo Deng, there is a common label attached to them, His Majesty's henchmen.

Guo Deng came to him. Naturally, there is something to ask.

Liu Dingzhi said: "General, wait a minute. He immediately got up, washed his face with cold water, and immediately felt refreshed. said: "The general has something to say, please speak." ”

Guo Deng took out Zhu Qizhen's secret letter and said, "Your Excellency is not an outsider, this is Your Majesty's secret decree." ”

Liu Dingzhi looked at it carefully, and immediately frowned.

His first feeling was that His Majesty was in too much of a hurry.

During Liu Dingzhi's time in Beijing, he spent a lot of time with Zhu Qizhen, and he also knew Zhu Qizhen's mind well. It's just that he knows better that many things affect the whole body.

If it was so easy to rectify the guard, the imperial court would have done a good job a long time ago, instead of sending the Qing army over and over again from the beginning of the Xuande period to the present, but it was useless.

After reading it, Liu Dingzhi said: "Congratulations to the general, if the general can do this thing well, there will be a general seat in the cabinet in the future." ”

Many people can see that in the future, there will be six scholars and one national prince in the Ming cabinet.

Guo Deng listened to it and said with a wry smile: "Brother Jing, don't make fun of me, I'm having a headache about this matter." ”

Guo Deng is not stunned, although his father is Guo Ying's concubine and has no power in the Wuding Marquis Mansion, but Guo Dengchang is in the Wuding Marquis Mansion, and what he has come into contact with is the core layer of the Ming military.

He was exposed to the news that many people did not know about it all their lives.

It is even said that Zhu Qizhen's understanding of the situation in the army is not as good as Guo Deng.

Not to mention anything else, Guo Deng knew that the family members of the Marquis of Wuding were all suspended from the guards below, and if they really wanted to be pulled out, they were all officials of the imperial court. Although the official is not big.

led the court to Lu, but the master worked, Guo Deng has seen a lot of such things.

Even if Guo Deng was born to a concubine, when Guo Deng joined the army, he could arrange a number of people to accompany him and help him control the situation. It can be said that Guo Deng can have today, and the help of the Marquis of Wuding is indispensable.

Because of this, Guo Deng knows how deep the water is.

Although there is no one on the Fujian side

What a powerful general, and it can be regarded as within the sphere of influence of the founding nobles.

Specifically, it can be said that the establishment of each guard is inextricably linked with a certain noble. If you talk about it in detail, you can say who is who. Each guard corresponds to a certain noble family in the imperial court.

This is the so-called protégé.

I won't go into detail here.

Generally speaking, the founding honors were a little far away from the military power because of the blows of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong, and it was Jingnan who really led the military and political affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the forces of Jing Nan Xun are in the north, especially in Beijing and Jiubian.

On the Fujian side, if you think carefully, you should believe in the sphere of influence of Guogong Tang and his family, but it has long since moved over. Doing it here has little impact on Jing Nanxun's group.

But Guo Deng still felt extremely hot, but the emperor's order, he couldn't help but do it, he thought about it, he had been thinking about it for a long time, and then he came to ask Liu Dingzhi for advice.

Liu Dingzhi said: "The general has this bottom, and he can always maintain his wealth in the future." ”

Guo Deng said: "Whether you are rich or not, I don't think much about it, as long as I can satisfy Your Majesty." ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "What does the general think, how are the Fujian soldiers? ”

Guo Deng said: "It's just a mustard person. ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Isn't this the end, the general has made a new great contribution, and he wants to be knighted soon, the ancestral system of this dynasty has always been to shoot the prince to go out to train the army." The lord also accepted this order, and the general only did what he was ordered. ”

"Why not?"

Guo Deng was about to say something, and suddenly thought of something. Saluted Liu Dingzhi and said, "I understand what Mr. means." ”

The implication of Liu Dingzhi's words is not to think too much.

Don't think that the emperor wants him to rectify the affairs of the guard, and don't think about the interests involved in the guard, just do official business, just like Emperor Taizu sent the prince out to train soldiers at the beginning of the country.

The unusable soldiers are withdrawn, as long as the Fujian soldiers are trained well, they can be worthy of a war. As for the rest, he assumed he didn't know.

As long as you grasp this measure, you can explain it to the court, and you will also leave room for yourself.

Of course, this may be different from what Zhu Qizhen thinks. Although this time Ye Liuzong rebelled, Zhu Qizhen had already taken off the hat of several hereditary commanders.

But there are many such families who have survived.

This system remains unchanged, even though Guo Deng has made great efforts to train the Fujian army, but can it last for a few years?

Guo Deng said: "But Your Majesty's side? ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will make a statement on your behalf." ”

Liu Dingzhi said this, not for Guo Deng, but for Zhu Qizhen. The first step in many things is not to do the best, but to be able to carry out this one thing.

As long as the first step is implemented, there will be a second step, a third

If the first step goes wrong and you are forced to abort, the next time you start again, it will take several times more effort.

This method, of course, will give Guo Deng a chance to protect himself, but it is also the best way.

Guo Deng saluted again and said, "Thank you, Brother Jing. ”

Guo Deng said a few more words of greeting, and then he said goodbye.

The next day, Liu Dingzhi handed over the government affairs and began to go north.

Because it is winter, Tianjin Port is also frozen, and it is even more windy to go north by sea. Liu Dingzhi naturally went to Hangzhou by land, and then went north from the canal, and wanted to come to Jingshi, which will be more than January next year.

It's just that as soon as he left, someone sent a package, but it was Cheng Yi sent by Guo Deng.

Liu Dingyi looked at it, but it was a letter of silver, five hundred taels.

Liu Dingzhi said to the people around him: "Take it." ”

The housekeeper behind him said a little strangely: "Uncle, on weekdays, the uncle never accepts other people's silver, why today?" ”

Liu Dingzhi smiled faintly and said: "Others are others, but General Guo is not someone else, other people's silver can't be collected, but General Guo's silver can be collected." ”

Liu Dingzhi smiled lightly and went all the way north.

And Guo Deng has already begun to dispatch people from various guards to attack the mountain at the foot of Tianjie Mountain, and for a time it was naturally full of tricks and miserable.

Guo Deng exploded his lungs.

He originally thought that the performance of the Fujian soldiers in the battle was bad enough. But he never expected that the poor performance he saw was already the result of the selection of the best among the best soldiers in Fujian.

And the real situation is worse than this, and many people from the health office can't raise it. I can't even cope with the inspection.

Although Guo Deng has the idea of protecting himself, as a member of the Marquis of Wuding, he is also responsible for the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing this situation, I don't care about the heart of self-preservation. wrote a secret letter to report the situation of the Fujian Guard to the imperial court.

Several commanders were impeached in one go. Then it was drastically rectified.

As soon as Guo Deng released his military registration, almost all the remaining soldiers for a while had to change to civilian registration, so that Guo Deng had to open one guard post after another.

Seventy or eighty percent of the troops in almost all the guards in Fujian were worried about changing blood, and as for those who refused to leave, they were naturally officers.

There is a hereditary official position, and only a fool will give it up.

As for the land situation of the guard, although Guo Deng did not investigate it carefully, he also beat it up, and divided the generals who had accidents, whether they were defeated but those who were involved in Xie Huai's case, and the land and property they had encroached upon were repeatedly distributed to the soldiers. But compared to the founding of the country, the soldiers were given acres of land. Only about a third.

But only this one-third, after the people of Fujian found out that joining the army really divided the land, they were even more enthusiastic, and tens of thousands of people were recruited in one go.