The prince is not good at fighting, but the competition in the court is also a war, and the intensity is even more tragic than on the battlefield.

It may be a mystery why Emperor Zong of the Ming Dynasty suddenly contracted an incurable disease at a young age after Yingzong returned to the dynasty, but there is no doubt that including Yu Qian, they all support Yingzong more and look forward to Daizong's death. But decades later, the same thing happened to Xiaozong and Wuzong's father and son, both of whom had no warning before, and then they were both sudden illnesses and sudden collapses.

Many people suspect that there is a conspiracy in Wuzong's death, but has anyone ever thought that Xiaozong's death may also be a conspiracy? Xiaozong wanted to reform and redistribute the fields of the kings and nobles to the common people, but as soon as he was about to do this, he died.

Political struggle is the most fatal thing, and people do not hesitate to use all rights and means to protect their own interests. Compared to the power they now wield, the enemies they face are still formidable, and they themselves are still dangerous.

But Tianlang and Qianqian are not afraid of death, otherwise it is impossible for Tianlang to risk his life and rush to the battlefield in person; Qianqian is also not afraid of death, otherwise when Kong Youde besieges Liuzhou, it will be impossible for her to personally kick the city to command the defensive battle.

Wang Fuzhi is not afraid of death, or he would not have organized a rebel army with his family to resist the Qing Dynasty before. It is natural for him to cherish his feathers and take into account his reputation, which is normal, but most literati cherish their feathers, but Mencius said that fish and bear's paws cannot be both, and it is just a matter of sacrificing one's life for righteousness. As long as the choice you make can really save Daming, you can do without your life, let alone your reputation?

Wang Fuzhi also quickly made a choice, got up and bowed to Tianlang, and asked Tianlang for permission to enter the court as an official. Tianlang naturally readily agreed, and after that, everyone was happy, Tianlang returned to the palace, and Wang Fuzhi only waited for the appointment notice from the ministry.

However, a contest for political power is a long process, if Wang Fuzhi really wants to enter the cabinet as Qianqian expects, it is also a long process, Tianlang and Qianqian are taking precautions, the external enemy is too strong, and the internal reforms they hope to make, at least for now, should try to avoid irreconcilable contradictions with stakeholders.

What he said today is a long-term goal, and the biggest problem he is facing now is military salaries.

After the morning of the next day, Tianlang left a group of generals behind and went to the side hall to make a new adjustment of the deployment of troops.

Soon after Li Dingguo killed Kong Youde, he was transferred to Yuezhou to confront Jierharang, who had retreated to Wuchang.

The first adjustment Tianlang made this time was to send Gao Bizheng's loyal battalion of 13,000 men to Li Dingguo's back to defend Changsha.

Li Jin found that he could not hold it during the defensive war in Yuezhou, so he withdrew his 7,000 veterans to Hengzhou in advance and joined Hao Yongzhong, and now his 7,000 men and horses have become the capital of the revolution, and he was sent by Tianlang to defend Changsha with Gao Bizheng.

Hao Yongzhong's 21,000 men were sent to garrison Changde, so that Yanyue Prefecture was divided into Changsha and Guangdong; The two main roads to Changde and Guangxi were guarded by the elite of the Ming army, so that the in-depth defense of Huguang was formed.

Jierharang guarded Wuchang, but sat back and watched Wang Jincai go north to cross the river to Henan to make trouble, Jiao Lian and Wang Yuncai went to Fujian to unite Zheng Chenggong's department, which made Jierharang even more out of reach, so it was also very painful for Prince Zheng, and Li Dingguo stared at him in Yuezhou, which actually made him very uncomfortable.

There is also the matter of rewarding, although Li Dingguo's annihilation of Nikan was worth the merits, he also killed Kong Youde, so he was promoted to the left squire of the military department; Hao Yongzhong was promoted to the right attendant of the military department because of the great victory in Ganzhou and the great merit of He Luohui.

The former right attendant of the Ministry of War, Wei Yuanbo, Qin Yiming, will be reappointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry after returning from filial piety, and he has been more in charge of logistics work, and will further direct the ordnance production as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and is still continuing to serve as the commander of the school training guard, in the position of the Ministry of Industry, it is undoubtedly more beneficial for him to give his Yulin Army and school training guard equipment.

During the post-war period, Tianlang increased the number of school training guards in the nature of the whole army's teaching corps to 7,000 people, and these people were naturally all elites from a hundred, which was naturally different from the so-called forbidden army and the empty shelves that Tengxiang four guards had not built.

Tianlang also wants to expand the Imperial Forest Army from the original 60,000 horses to 170,000 horses, but he is worried because he has no money and equipment.

The summer and autumn of the third year of Yongli are much hotter than before, the fever of more than 30 degrees continues to go away, and the leaves seem to be still on several tall trees, and there is no trace of wind in the air.

There is an ice cellar in the Jingjiang Palace, these days, the eunuchs have to cut some ice for the queen mother and the queen's bedroom every day, the queen mother is old, the queen is double, with ice, it will make the house look cooler, there is not much ice, so even Tianlang and Du Heng Fangzhi and Yu Qing'er do not have such treatment.

No matter how unbearable the scorching heat was, Fang Zhi still stayed quietly in her room all day, embroidering, playing the piano, reading and writing.

Du Heng is not as leisurely as her, there will be more children in the family soon, and there will be many more nurses and maids around the children, and these people have already entered the palace in advance, which makes the expenses on her account book much more.

"Twelve nurses, a total of forty-eight taels per month, and fifteen maids a total of thirty taels per month, hey, it will increase the expenditure by nearly a thousand taels a year."

Fang Zhi listened to Du Heng's complaints, didn't answer, just pursed her lips and smiled, and said while fiddling with the needle and thread: "You, you are a money fan, since the queen's sister became pregnant, she handed over all the accounts of daily income and expenditure to you, you can just take a look at it every once in a while, I didn't expect you to treat these accounts as a thing." ”

Du Heng closed the account book, walked to Fang Zhi, who was embroidering flowers, and shook her shoulder, "You don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, in order to resist the southern invasion of the Tartars, we are running out of money and food." The Tartars were repulsed, but if you look at our family, from the end of last year to the present, the household department has allocated 2,000 taels of silver, just enough for the annual money of the Queen Mother, I mean the annual money of a Queen Mother. After the battle just ended, the silver deposit in the inner money was only 1,800 taels, and the baby's maid and nurse would spend 936 taels, how can we live! ”

Fang Zhi finally put down the flower brace in her hand, and sighed and said, "Then talk to the queen's sister and see what ideas you can have, so that there will be more money in the palace." The money needed by the old and the young in the family cannot be tightened, and there is really no way, so we have to continue to be struggling with some of them. ”