In the middle of July of the first year of Jingtai.

As the conflict between the Chinese military ministers intensified, many civilian officials began to shift the focus of the struggle to authority.

For a time, whenever the Chinese military minister of the DPRK went to the court, he began to compete for the importance of military force in the court, competing for various authority, and even some speech officials began to compete for the military power of the military attaché!

In the face of the aggressive situation of the civilian officials, Yu Qian, who is the secretary of the Ministry of War, is also worried, at this time the Ming Dynasty has just experienced the defeat of Tumubao, just finished the defense of Beijing, and it is the time to recuperate, but at this time, the civil officials in the court and the central government have taken advantage of the topic to play and stir up the government and politics.

Yu Qian was also angry, so he began to fight back together with the military attachés of the DPRK, constantly writing to Emperor Jingtai, denouncing the Chinese officials of the DPRK for making trouble, and impeaching more than a dozen imperial historians who took the lead in disrupting the political situation.

However, Emperor Jingtai never commented on the struggle between the Chinese military officials of the DPRK and the impeachment folds that continued to be played by both sides, but concentrated on secretly competing with the orthodox emperor and tried his best to suppress the remaining forces of the orthodox emperor.

Seeing Emperor Jingtai's inaction, Yu Qian, in desperation, publicly denounced the Chinese officials of the dynasty at the court meeting on this day, and refuted everyone's various actions one by one.

"The imperial court has its own law, and I have my own political system in the Ming Dynasty! The military officials of the Chinese military in the DPRK should perform their own duties, and the civilian officials should control government affairs, people's livelihood, and assist the emperor; The generals conquer the world, defend the Quartet, and protect the territory and the people! In this way, I can be politically harmonious and serve guests from all over the world. ”

Yu Qian angrily pointed at the many civil officials in the main hall and scolded loudly: "Now, you are acting on your behalf, not only suppressing your fellow military attachés everywhere, but also reaching out to the authority of guarding, adjusting defense, money and food, and military equipment, which is really unreasonable!" These are the power of military generals, what does it have to do with you? Ladies and gentlemen, this is a seizure of power, and you are fighting against differences in the party! ”

In the face of Qian's anger, many civil officials in the court were unimpressed, and even refuted it one after another.

"Lord Yu's words are wrong! When the Emperor Taishang drove his own expedition, 500,000 Ming soldiers buried their bones in the civil fort, what was the reason? All of them are the sins of the military attachés of the DPRK and China! If it had been for us and other civil officials who had read the writings of the sages to preside over this battle, of course there would not have been such a great defeat! ”

"That's right! Since ancient times, most of the troubled countries have been military generals, and when you don't look at the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, there are all military generals and disputes, and the world is full of corpses! ”

"I am clear that civilian officials should be in charge and in charge of military power, so that we can restore national and military strength as soon as possible, and can we completely solve the disaster of Warat!"

Yu Qian was angry when he heard this, and reprimanded loudly: "You want to seize the military power of the military attaché, do you know about the military?" Have you ever led your troops into battle? You only know rhetoric, you only know how to talk on paper, what qualifications do you have to control my Ming soldiers and horses! ”

An imperial historian raised his head and said: "Lord Yu, there were also many civil officials who led the army in the Han and Tang dynasties, didn't they all make immortal military exploits? It is not necessarily difficult for this leader to fight, but the military attachés of the DPRK and China are too incompetent now! ”

As soon as these words came out, many military attachés in the hall were furious, and immediately retorted one after another.

"The Wenchen of the Han and Tang dynasties were all generals and ministers, how can you be compared with the sages!"

"A group of rotten people who are powerless, what qualifications do they have to judge us!"

And many civil officials are also not giving an inch: "The Ming Dynasty should implement the policy of using literature and military force, so that the Ming Dynasty can restore its national strength!" ”

"The military attache should hand over power, and the Ming must not repeat the mistake of the defeat of the civil fort!"

Yu Qian saw that dozens of civil and military ministers on the main hall went into battle shirtless, and the entire court hall was like a group of streets and alleys, with voices shaking the sky and shouting constantly, and he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.

At this time, Yu Qian looked at Emperor Jingtai on the dragon chair again, only to see Emperor Jingtai looking at the chaos in front of him expressionlessly, and he had no intention of stopping it at all, so he couldn't help but sigh, and most of the anger in his heart was also vented.

After the day went down, Yu Qian returned to the mansion with a heavy heart and locked himself in the study and pondered for a long time.

For Yu Qian, now the struggle between the Chinese and military ministers of the DPRK has become the same as water and fire, and Emperor Jingtai took advantage of the power struggle to divert the attention of the ministers, and began to comprehensively suppress the power of the Taishang Emperor's orthodox emperor, it can be said that now all the forces in the Ming Dynasty are all vying for power and profit, and no one cares about government affairs and people's livelihood!

It wasn't until late at night that Yu Qian came back to his senses, and after thinking for a while, he picked up the pen and paper and wrote a letter to Liu Juntao, describing the situation in the court at this time.

For Yu Qian, although Liu Juntao is only the chief soldier of a town, his image of being brave and good at fighting and upright has been deeply rooted in Yu Qian's heart.

Moreover, the cause of this dispute between the DPRK and China was also due to the struggle between Liu Juntao and many bigwigs in Nanzhili, so Yu Qian wanted to hear Liu Juntao's views on the dispute between the DPRK and China, and maybe he could get some inspiration from it.

A few days later, the capital city of Yanzhou, the general military mansion.

Liu Juntao held two letters in his hand, one was a handwritten letter sent by Yu Qian, and the other was the information collected by the Chaotang Division of the Investigation Department about the struggle between the DPRK and China.

At this time, Liu Juntao had already compared the two letters, and the two letters also confirmed each other's authenticity.

"Now it can be said that the DPRK and China have quarreled into a pot of porridge, and the situation is developing in an unfavorable situation for us, do you have any opinions?"

Liu Zi'an took Liu Zhong, the secretary of the court, Lan Siqi took Zhao Ling, the secretary of the strategy department, and Zhang Yuqing, the chief of staff, to sit next to Liu Juntao.

At this time, everyone's faces were very solemn, if the dispute between the DPRK and China really finally set the tone and formed a strategy of using literature and martial arts, it would be a big bad news for Liu Juntao, who is the chief military officer of Yanzhou Town!

When the time comes, not only the prefect Gu Quanhui in Yanzhou Mansion will point fingers at the General Military Office, but even the Shandong political envoy Gu Yi, the governor of Shandong, Li Chengming, and the Shandong envoy Zhu Qiaozuo in Jinan Prefecture will begin to be aggressive.

Moreover, at that time, the workshops and ticket numbers in Yushan Town, as well as the Yushan Town Military Bureau, the Xuzhou Military Bureau, and the Dongpingzhou Ordnance Institute will be called huge hidden dangers, and many civil officials in Yanzhou Mansion and Shandong Buzheng Envoy Department will rush up like flies to find trouble with Yushan Town and Liu Juntao!

Everyone has made suggestions, Liu Zi'an and Si Cheng Liu Zhong both suggested that they follow the method of dealing with the Nanzhili bigwigs, send people to the capital, and assassinate all the backbones of those civil officials!

In this regard, although Liu Juntao was also quite moved, but in the end he still kept his senses, after all, the ministers of the DPRK and China are no better than those businessmen and bigwigs in the south of the country, and the assassination of the imperial court officials is a very risky and serious matter, so Liu Juntao vetoed this suggestion.

Lan Siqi and Si Cheng Zhang Yuqing and Si Cheng Zhao Ling discussed in a whisper, and then the three of them proposed a method, suggesting that the Ministry of Commerce should mobilize a large amount of silver and send people to Beijing.

"The head town! Since those civil officials can't be killed, then let's stun them with silver! As long as they are willing to die down or defect on the verge of battle, we will let them make an offer, and it will not be long before the situation between the DPRK and China can be completely reversed! ”

Liu Juntao thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No!" Now those civilian officials in the DPRK and China are all vying for power, and now the military attaché clique and the Xungui clique in the DPRK and China have all suffered heavy blows, and it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and those civilian officials will hardly give up this opportunity. We spend money to buy people, and if we don't get it right, we will give them to those civil officials in vain! ”

They deliberated from morning to evening, but they never came up with a feasible solution.

After all, Liu Juntao is now only the general soldier of a local town, and he cannot intervene in the affairs of the DPRK and China at all, so he cannot influence the direction of the government.

That night, Liu Juntao walked alone in the courtyard, constantly thinking about the situation in the DPRK and China, and then thinking of the various tragedies of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, he was suddenly angry and uneasy, and he wanted to kill all the civil officials who were vying for power and profit in the DPRK and China!

"No! Even if I speak lightly, I must argue, otherwise I will not be able to calm the anger in my heart! ”

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao returned to the study and began to write.

Early the next morning, Liu Juntao found Liu Zi'an, the head of the Investigation Department, and asked him to send a fast horse to send his handwritten letter to Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Later, Liu Juntao found Tang Yu, Minister of Commerce, and asked about the "encirclement and suppression" of the Yu family, Tian family, and Cao family in Nanzhili.

Tang Yu said with a smile: "Don't worry, the situation is very good now, I estimate that it won't take more than three months to completely defeat the Yu family, the Tian family, and the Cao family!" Now the goods of more than 30 merchants and gentry in Yushan Town and Shandong have blossomed everywhere in Nanzhili, and even the surrounding provinces in Jiangnan have also begun to dump! ”

"Good!"

Liu Juntao said fiercely: "Don't show mercy to these miscellaneous pieces, give me a hard beating!" ”