Volume 3 Chapter 157 Evil

Xia Yan and Yan Song's trick is really a bit vicious, what kind of place is it in the southwest border, it is really a place where birds don't, let alone organizing an army to fight, even the local people don't have enough food to eat.

If Yang Cong wanted to organize a crusade against Annam, he had to transfer grain from Huguang, Sichuan, and Nanzhili, and the southwest and these provinces were separated by reckless mountains, and it was simply difficult to transport grain to the past.

At this time, there is no direct highway connection, let alone a railway, and if you want to transport grain to the southwest, you can only rely on manpower to carry it, and even horse-drawn carriages cannot be used, because the passages opened out of the reckless mountains are narrow and steep in many places, and horse-drawn carriages cannot pass at all.

Nanzhili, Huguang, Sichuan and other places are at least thousands of miles away from the southwest border, and the hardships of letting people carry dozens or even hundreds of catties of grain over can be imagined.

If calculated according to the efficiency at this time, it will consume at least two stones of grain to transport one stone of grain to the southwest, after all, the people who transport the grain also have to eat, and it is impossible for people to carry dozens or hundreds of catties of grain on an empty stomach to climb up and down in the mountains.

That is to say, if Yang Cong gathers more than 100,000 troops, the transportation cost of grain alone and his own cost will add up to at least more than 200,000 taels a month, which will be nearly 3 million taels in a year.

This does not include the salaries of the soldiers, if calculated according to the salaries of the Northwest Frontier Army, the more than 100,000 troops are more than 200,000 taels a month, and nearly 3 million taels a year.

It is no exaggeration to say that without five or six million taels, there is no need to organize more than 100,000 troops to conquer Annan Mo's family, and Yang Cong is very likely to lose the battle if he does not recruit more than 100,000 troops, after all, Annan Mo's already has more than 100,000 troops in hand at this time, and they still occupy the geographical advantage.

What's even more terrifying is that there are terrifying poisonous miasma, poisonous snakes and insects, and plague-like diseases in the southwest border.

In short, Xia Yan and Yan Song both believed that this was simply an impossible task, and only a canary like Jiajing, who was raised in the Forbidden City, didn't know how difficult it was.

The reason why they fooled Jiajing so hard and sent Yang Cong to the southwest border was not just to seize control of the southeastern provinces, they wanted Yang Cong to die directly in the southwest, and never to suffer in the future!

Sometimes the most terrible thing is when the literati are vicious, whether it is Yan Song or Xia Yan, they treat their political enemies as if they can die!

So, will Yang Cong be in this evil deed?

He can't be fooled, because Jiajing has made a holy decree, and if he doesn't go, he will resist the decree and disobey it!

Of course, he can also pretend to be sick and shirk it, but then his career will basically be ruined.

Yang Cong received the holy decree, so angry that he almost didn't scold on the spot, he was not afraid to go to Annan to quell the rebellion, because he knew quite well that it was impossible for Mo Dengyong to attack the Ming Dynasty, if Mo Dengyong really did this, then he would become a big celebrity in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

The problem is that Yang Cong has never heard of this in later generations, whether it is on the Internet, or on TV, so he can be sure that Mo Dengyong will not attack Daming.

Obviously, this is a trick made up by Xia Yan and Yan Song in order to transfer him away from the southeast, that is to say, Mo Dengyong has no idea of attacking Daming at all, all of this is a lie made up by Xia Yan and Yan Song to deceive Jiajing.

Since it is a lie, there is nothing to worry about in the matter of Annan, Mo Dengyong will not dare to start a war with the Ming Dynasty nine times out of ten, and it is very likely that this counterinsurgency will be changed from a military fight to a civil fight.

Speaking of Wendou, Yang Cong, the champion of the champion, was afraid of whom.

In short, Annan's matter is not a big deal, and he is angry that Xia Yan and Yan Song racked their brains to transfer him out of the southeast.

You must know that at this time, pirates and pirates are almost extinct, and the great cause of suppressing pirates is almost complete, but when he leaves, it is estimated that there will be traces of pirates and pirates in the southeast.

Because this pirate and the pirate were originally recruited by the maritime giants, once he left the southeast, the maritime giants would definitely try their best to seize the control of the southeast and the control of maritime trade, and raising pirates and pirates was their usual method.

Sure enough, he had just received the holy decree, and before the handover was arranged, news came from the capital that Xia Yan and Yan Song had nominated Zhao Wenhua, a waiter of the Ministry of Works, to take his place as the governor of Zhejiang.

Nima!

When Yang Cong received the news, he couldn't help but scold.

This matter is really the ghost of Xia Yan and Yan Song, and their purpose is to regain control of the southeast through the hands of maritime giants.

Can such brazen people let them succeed easily?

Of course not!

Yang Cong recommended Tang Shunzhi of the military department to take over as the governor of Zhejiang, and wrote a secret letter to teach the big man of Yangming's lineage to deal with it like this.

At this time, Yangming and Yan Song's party fought again, and the two sides were tense in order to compete for the position of governor of Zhejiang.

Although Jiajing likes to provoke infighting among the ministers, it has to be a covert battle within a controllable range, like Yangming and Yan Song, who are all rolling up their sleeves and preparing to fight, but in desperation, he can only organize court discussions.

In the early morning of this day, just after the recital link, Jiajing had just announced the start of the court meeting, Zhang Bangqi stood out from the train, knelt in the middle of the imperial road and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the governor of Zhejiang is responsible for the important task of clearing pirates and pirates, although it does not have to be as brilliant as Yang Cong and Lord Yang's literary and martial arts, at least he must be proficient in the art of war. ”

When Jiajing heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning, yes, Zhao Wenhua didn't have any experience in commanding troops at all, and it was too ridiculous to send him to the southeast to be responsible for clearing out pirates and pirates, right?

Seeing this, Yan Song hurriedly ran out of the train, knelt next to Zhang Bangqi and said loudly: "Your Majesty, don't listen to rumors, there is a book "Spring and Autumn" in the imperial examination, and most of it is the art of war, how can Lord Zhao not know the art of war." Tang Shunzhi Tang is a disciple of Wang Ji, and no one knows about this matter, they want to teach each other privately and dominate the southeast! ”

This!

When Jiajing heard this, his brows furrowed again, in the past few days, he did hear that Yang Ming wanted to turn the southeast into his back garden, and it was indeed a bit inappropriate to let Tang Shunzhi take Yang Cong's place.

Both sides are bound to win the position of the governor of Zhejiang, and the liveliness of the court discussion scene can be imagined, and there are more and more officials of the Yangming and Yan Song parties kneeling in the imperial road, if it were not for the presence of the emperor, they would probably have quarreled.

Seeing this, Jiajing really had a bit of a headache, and in the end, he simply chose the suggestion of the peacemaker Mao Bowen, and promoted Zhao Wenhua to the right deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Governor of Zhejiang, and at the same time promoted Tang Shunzhi to be the squire of the military department and the counselor of the southeast military affairs.

This means that both of them are on the list, but Zhao Wenhua is in charge of civil affairs, and Tang Shun is in charge of military politics.

He was obviously following Mao Bowen's suggestion and mud, but Yang Ming and Yan Song's party didn't dare to fight anymore, because their goal seemed to have been achieved, but everyone couldn't eat alone.