Jingtai 6th year, September.

Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, and other 19 town commanders, together with dozens of town guard generals and deputy generals from various places, went to the imperial court one after another, and without exception all began to resist the two proposals put forward by Chen Xun, the chief assistant of the cabinet, to send town guards and strengthen the authority of local governors.

However, because Emperor Jingtai was already terminally ill, there was no way to deal with government affairs at present, and the government affairs of the DPRK and China were actually controlled by civilian forces such as Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet.

It is precisely because of this that the opposition of Liu Juntao and other generals did not have any effect, and was directly ignored by Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, and others, and in the name of the imperial court, many generals in the letter were refuted and reprimanded.

It didn't take long for the imperial court to send the first batch of town guards under pressure, including Wang Ji, who was the squire of the military department at this time.

When Liu Juntao heard the name Wang Ji, he also felt the "good intentions" of Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Although this Wang Ji is just a squire of the Ministry of War, he has been a secretary of the Ministry of War before, and he was demoted and appointed only because he was impeached.

Liu Juntao was familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty before he crossed over, and he was also very familiar with this Wang Ji, knowing that this person was not a scholar with weak literature and literature, nor was he a pedantic person, but a capable minister who really knew the soldiers!

Looking at the news sent by the Ministry of Intelligence, Liu Juntao's mind also poured out Wang Ji's information.

Wang Ji, whose name is Shangde, is a native of Shulu County, Baoding Prefecture (now Xinji, Hebei).

It is said that this Wang Ji is resolute and courageous, and he is brave and strategic, and Yongle has been on the rank of Jinshi in four years, and he has been awarded the military department. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, he moved to the Ministry of War.

In the third year of orthodoxy, Wang Ji also led his troops to fight more than 1,000 miles with Jiang Gui, a general of Shaanxi Town, to break the Wara army that disturbed the border, forcing Duoer to flee far away, and made a great contribution.

During the six years of orthodoxy to the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, Wang Ji was the governor of military affairs, conquered Luchuan three times, and was awarded Jingyuan Bo for his merits, and Wang Yue of Weiningbo and Wang Shouren of Xinjian Bo became the three civil officials of the Ming Dynasty who were knighted for military merits.

However, later Wang Ji was impeached by the imperial historian of the court and the central government for labor, and Wang Zhen was exempted from the crime by relying on the protection of the eunuch Wang Zhen, which was also a huge stain on Wang Jishi's way, especially after the change of Tumubao, which made Wang Ji directly demoted from the secretary of the military department to the squire of the military department.

Later, Wang Ji also led the army to quell the Miao rebellion in Huguang and other places, and was given a world ticket.

Liu Juntao still remembers that Wang Ji was awarded the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and replaced Yu Qian because of his meritorious participation in the seizure of the door, and was given the title of Fengtian Yiwei Tui Cheng Xuanli Shou Zhengwen Chen and Guanglu Doctor. A few months later, Wang Ji asked the old man to retire.

In the fourth year of Tianshun (1460), Wang Ji died at the age of eighty-three. Posthumously named the Marquis of Jingyuan, nicknamed "Zhongyi".

However, Liu Juntao once read a record in the wild history, when Wuqing Marquis Shi Heng and others launched the "Change of Seizing the Gate" and welcomed Zhu Qizhen to the throne. Wang Ji also participated in this conspiracy, not only personally put on his armor and mounted the horse, but also brought his children and grandchildren with him.

Afterwards, Yingzong's reward to Wang Ji was a little late, and he wrote to Chen: "Wang Xiang, the son of the minister, entered the southern city, was squeezed by the generals, fell to the ground and almost died. Now that he has no share in the merits, the minister suspects that someone has suppressed him. “

Yingzong appointed Wang Ji's son Wang Xiang as the commander, and still appointed Wang Ji as the secretary of the military department, managing the affairs of the military department, and adding the rank of Fengtian Yiwei to push the sincerity of Xuanli to guard the text and the doctor of Guanglu, and the rest remained the same. A few months later, Wang Ji asked the old man to retire.

It is also this record that makes Liu Juntao look down on Wang Ji a little, this person attaches too much importance to authority, and he is a "fan of officials".

Although Wang Ji is very capable and can fight, he attaches too much importance to authority, and his character is very problematic.

So, Liu Juntao asked Liu Zi'an, the minister of intelligence, to continue to pay attention to the whereabouts and actions of Wang Ji, the town guard, and report it in time.

After the arrangement, Liu Juntao began to deal with some military affairs, but after a few days, Liu Zi'an came to report with a blue face: Wang Ji has made a big disaster!

It turned out that when the imperial court appointed Wang Ji to guard Gansu, it had already issued two orders:

First, border affairs are major national affairs, and Gansu is particularly important. The comparison will not be his people, and the armament will be slack. Today, Wang Ji was specially ordered to go, and the general army town guard meeting battle defense strategy, one by one division is allowed, and the court obeys Wang Ji's cheap implementation, and there is still a good news;

Second, if the officers and soldiers do not obey the orders of the secretary, frustrate government affairs, leak opportunities, and cower in the face of criminals, they will be questioned and understood, and they will be punished.

These two orders of the court actually express the same meaning - giving Wang Ji the supreme military command in Gansu!

Wang Ji rushed to Gansu with these two orders, don't look at Wang Ji at this time Wang Ji is already an old man in his seventies, but after being appointed as a town guard by the imperial court, he is still in good spirits, full of energy, and he arrived non-stop on the journey of thousands of miles.

So, after Wang Ji was ordered to rush to Gansu, within a few days, he beheaded An Jing, the commander of the capital, in public for the crime of "losing the plane", and reprimanded Jiang Gui, who had been transferred to the governor of Gansu, for capital crimes, and did not remember the friendship between himself and Jiang Gui who had fought side by side.

Because Wang Ji was ordered by the emperor, and at the same time, the general environment of the entire court situation was that civilian officials had the upper hand, so the generals of Gansu Province were all shocked and obeyed Wang Ji's orders, but they did not dare to obey any orders.

But after this astonishing news spread, the general soldiers and generals in all parts of the Ming Dynasty all blew up their nests, and they wrote to Wang Ji to criticize and protest, and even some reckless people clamored to raise troops to clear the king's side.

For a while, the government and the opposition were in turmoil, and seeing that Wang Ji had provoked public anger as soon as he arrived in Gansu, Chen Xun, the first assistant to the cabinet, was also quite a headache, and immediately punished some generals who had taken the lead, but he still couldn't suppress the fierce protests inside and outside the government and the opposition.

Seeing this, Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, hurriedly recalled Wang Ji in the name of the Ministry of War, for fear that this hot-tempered "old man" would do something out of the ordinary again, so it was better to temporarily pull him back to the capital.

At the same time, Yu Qian also personally wrote letters to appease the general soldiers and generals in various places, but at this time, the anger of the general soldiers and generals in various places had been ignited, and few people listened to Yu Qian's persuasion and continued to write to impeach Wang Ji and denounce the policy adjustment of the imperial court.

In particular, Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, even directly wrote a letter demanding the dismissal of Wang Ji, the squire of the military department, and strictly punished those who implemented the policy of guarding the town and strengthening the authority of the governor, claiming that these ministers were traitorous ministers who "abused power and seized power" and must be severely punished!

Chen Xun, the head of the cabinet, looked at the protests of Liu Juntao and other military generals, and was also a little panicked in his heart, although the Chinese officials of the DPRK had the upper hand at this time, it was far from the level of completely suppressing the martial artists, so in the face of such protests from many powerful generals at the level of the general army, Chen Xun also had to let Wang Ji go home first to "rest" for a period of time, so as to block the leisurely mouths of generals everywhere.

However, these two policies have not stopped with regard to the dispatch of town guards to various localities and the enhancement of the authority of provincial governors, and have even been accelerated under the impetus of Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, and others.

What made Liu Juntao feel uneasy was that the court had already boiled a pot of boiling water, completely boiling the pot, but Shi Heng, the governor of the right capital, Xu Youzhen, the imperial history of the left capital, and Cao Jixiang, the eunuch of ceremonies, and others died down together and did not participate in it.

"These guys actually know how to be human with their tails between them?"

Liu Juntao thought for a while, and suddenly realized that Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang and others were most likely hiding something by taking advantage of the matter of the dispute between the DPRK and China at this time.

"Are they going to move ahead of schedule!"

Liu Juntao suddenly realized that although the implementation of the town guard officer in history has also received some resistance, it is far from being as tough as he took the lead in resisting at this time, and Shi Heng and others are likely to take advantage of the trend and prepare to launch the "change of seizing the door" in advance!

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao couldn't help but smile bitterly for a while, and said secretly: "I didn't expect that my every move now has begun to affect the trend of history, it's really helpless!" ”