When Yu Qian's family passed through Dongchang Mansion, he disappeared incredibly, and the officials and Jinyi guards in charge of escorting were all killed, and this bold bandit evaporated from the world, and there was no trace of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Shandong Town, as well as thousands of people and horses in Shandong Province, and the political envoys of Shandong.

Although Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang were also furious, and they all sent people to check secretly, but there were no clues.

After a long time, Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang began to be suspicious of each other, thinking that the other party had robbed and hid the Qian family in order to suppress themselves in the future.

As a result, Xu Youzhen took the opportunity to unite with many civil officials in the DPRK and China, and publicly accused Yu Qian's family of being robbed by Shi Heng and his party, which immediately caused an uproar in the government and the opposition.

Seeing this, Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang were not to be outdone, and the two launched counterattacks, and Shi Heng and a group of ministers impeached Xu Youzhen, accusing him of "catching thieves".

And Cao Jixiang kept blowing the wind in the ears of Emperor Tianshun and said all the bad things about Xu Youzhen.

The ministers of the court and China also split into two camps with the struggle between Xu Youzhen and Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang, and a new round of quarrels began, and Emperor Tianshun was tired of this.

Therefore, in order to calm down the matter, Emperor Tianshun ordered the new commander of the Beizhen Fusi to strictly investigate the case, and the case must be solved within a month limit.

But a month passed quickly, and Beizhen Fusi still didn't have any clues, and the robbery of Yu Qian's family became a headless case, and Emperor Tianshun couldn't help it.

In this way, the ministers of the DPRK and China quarreled over this matter for a month, and Xu Youzhen saw that he could not suppress Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang with this matter, so he began to turn his mind elsewhere.

So, Xu Youzhen convened a group of civil officials to discuss secretly at home, and then took a few confidants to find Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the two sides discussed for a long time in the middle of the night, until the next morning Xu Youzhen and others left Chen Xun's mansion.

A few days later, Xu Youzhen united more than 30 ministers to play, proposing that in order for the imperial court to better control the armies in various places and improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming soldiers, the commanders and generals of the military towns and towns in various places, as well as the commanders of the guards in various places, should concentrate all the military power and put the governors of each province in charge.

In this way, according to Xu Youzhen's proposal, the governors of each province directly grasped the military and political power of a province and became a real feudal official.

This is not the same as the previous imperial court increased the authority of the governors of the provinces, but only increased the right of the governors of the provinces to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the local guards and supervise the battalions of the provinces, but did not directly mobilize and manage all the soldiers and horses in the province.

If the imperial court follows Xu Youzhen's proposal, then the military power of the Ming Dynasty will really be transferred to the hands of civilian officials, and the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty will be greatly advanced!

As soon as this proposal came out, the government and the opposition suddenly fell into a fierce debate, the military generals in the court and the central government opposed it, and the civilian officials strongly agreed, and Emperor Tianshun was also biased towards Xu Youzhen in his heart, after all, the military power was in the hands of the civilian officials, and it seemed that there was no major threat, it was better than the military power in the hands of the military generals who could conquer and fight.

Moreover, now that civilian officials in the DPRK and China have the upper hand, even if Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang have already leaned into power, they cannot completely suppress the situation of the Chinese official forces in the DPRK, and can only just talk about things.

Seeing that in the controversy between the DPRK and China, Xu Youzhen and other civilian forces have the upper hand, and even Emperor Tianshun has expressed his stance on different occasions many times, and his attitude is very biased towards Xu Youzhen and others, Liu Juntao, who has been paying attention to the situation in the DPRK and China, is very worried about this.

Not only Liu Juntao, but also the general soldiers and generals in various places are also strongly opposed to this proposal between the DPRK and China, when the imperial court increased the rights of the governors in various places, it has already made the generals and general soldiers in various places uneasy and panicked, and at this time, the imperial court directly put the governors of various places on the heads of the general soldiers and generals in various places, how can everyone swallow this breath?

So the situation at this time has become extremely strange, most of the ministers in the DPRK and China support Xu Youzhen's proposal, even if some ministers oppose it, in the face of the general trend of the DPRK, they basically choose to remain silent, only Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others are still fighting.

In the provinces of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of military officers, deputy generals, staff generals and other generals expressed their opposition, like snowflakes flew to the capital, appeared on the Tianshun Emperor's bookcase, all of them opposed the transfer of military power to the governor.

Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, said bluntly in the recital: "Xu Youzhen's move is to reproduce the festival of the late Tang Dynasty, once this proposal is passed, my Ming Dynasty will definitely repeat the disaster of the late Tang Dynasty!" ”

Liu Juntao's recital suddenly set off a monstrous wave in the already turbulent court, and after Xu Youzhen heard the news, he took a group of imperial historians to play and began to criticize Liu Juntao.

But Liu Juntao was still unmoved, and continued to play with a group of chief military officers and generals, and resolutely fought against Xu Youzhen and other parties to the end.

Emperor Tianshun was also miserable when he saw this, although his opinions were biased towards Xu Youzhen's proposal, but in the face of the strong opposition of almost all the generals in the country, he could not make up his mind to approve the implementation for a while.

For the quarrel between the court, Emperor Tianshun has always been hesitant, Xu Youzhen, Shi Heng, and Cao Jixiang are all heroes who helped him to restore the throne.

At this moment, Emperor Tianshun suddenly saw the latest performance of Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, and remembered that when he was imprisoned by Emperor Jingtai, only Liu Juntao helped him among the generals.

Thinking of this, Emperor Tianshun issued a secret order to ask Liu Juntao, is Xu Youzhen's proposition really undesirable?

In Emperor Tianshun's heart, he was still thinking about whether it could be balanced, after all, Xu Youzhen's proposal was still very much in line with Emperor Tianshun's wishes.

A few days later, Liu Juntao received a secret decree from Emperor Tianshun and couldn't help but sigh.

Emperor Tianshun still values civil officials in his heart, which is not good news for the Ming Dynasty.

But Liu Juntao did not reply immediately, but first asked the deputy chief soldier Hu Dexing to entertain the eunuchs and brocade guards who came to deliver the secret decree, and Liu Juntao himself fell into deep thought in the study.

Until the next day, at the insistent request of the eunuch who announced the decree, Liu Juntao invited the eunuch to the study, and the rest of the people waited outside.

"General Zhaoyong (Liu Juntao's martial arts rank), it's been a day, how are you thinking about it? The miscellaneous family still has to return to Beijing as soon as possible to resume their lives, but they can't let Your Majesty wait too long! ”

Liu Juntao smiled slightly, hugged his fists and said, "Father-in-law Lao has been waiting for a long time!" ”

Then, Liu Juntao took out a letter, handed it over, and said, "Father-in-law of Annoyance presents this letter to Your Majesty!" ”

After speaking, Liu Juntao handed over a silver ticket with a Yushan ticket number, and the eunuch took it and glanced at it, it turned out to be five hundred taels of silver!

"Haha! General Zhao Yong is too polite! The miscellaneous family is disrespectful, and the miscellaneous family must help with this matter. ”

Within a few days, Emperor Tianshun received Liu Juntao's recital, only to see that the compromises wrote: "Weichen saw that Xu Youzhen was already a cabinet minister, the title of secretary (honor) of the Ministry of War, and the title of uncle, and now he can almost lead the direction of the court, and this is the minister in the court!" Once the governors of various places grasp the military and political power of the provinces, they are like de facto feudal towns in the local area, just like the envoys of the late Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court may not be able to calmly dispatch them in time. At that time, His Majesty will face a situation in which there are powerful ministers inside and feudal towns outside, and this powerful minister is cut off from the local feudal towns, how will His Majesty's imperial power be handled? ”

Emperor Tianshun suddenly changed color after watching the recital, his eyes were also flickering, and he only felt a chill on his back, and it was cold sweat that had soaked his clothes.

After Emperor Jingtai ascended the throne and was imprisoned in Nangong, Emperor Tianshun attached great importance to imperial power, and the prospect described by Liu Juntao made Emperor Tianshun frightened and made up his mind almost instantly.

Thinking of what Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang and others have been doing, Emperor Tianshun's face became extremely ugly, and his eyes became more and more fierce.