A leaf falls to know the autumn of the world, and the middle of the autumn in late autumn is high and refreshing. Although the two new city buildings in the east and west of the city are newly built, they are the capital of the Ming Dynasty compared to many cities. Undoubtedly, there are a few different kinds of solemnity and majesty, especially in the new city in the northwest, because there are many mansions, official halls and the mansions of princes and nobles, which naturally looks more solemn than ordinary places.

However, for many people who come to this time for the first time, they are often attracted by the straight and spacious streets under their feet, and the asphalt roads are as few as ten fathoms (meters) and as many as dozens of fathoms, which can always bring people a different feeling.

Walking on the pavement paved with horse tooth stones, stepping on the yellow fallen leaves, and looking at the bustling street markets around him, Liu Zhen can hardly imagine that the city has become a capital master, but it is only less than two years away, and it is even harder to imagine that all the mansions and buildings on both sides of the street here were only started last year.

Even though he has been in Zhongdu for half a month, Liu Zhen will always look curiously, look at the streets, and observe everything around him. As the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, although he is a vassal king with a different surname, the court still has a lot of thought about his arrival. When he entered the Hajj to see His Majesty, His Majesty rewarded the royal palace, and even rewarded an additional 200,000 taels from the Inner Treasury - compared to other clan vassal kings, it can be said to be extremely gracious. Those clan vassal kings, except for one royal palace, only received a reward of 100,000 taels.

In addition, as vassal kings, they no longer have Wang Tian, and they no longer have fiefs as in the past, they are like officials, and they have to rely on annual salaries to eat, but it is only 10,000 taels, and there is 10,000 stone meters. And he, Liu Zhen, has been the same since then.

There seems to be nothing bad about being a king of peace.

The emperor gave him 200,000 taels, and when he left Guangzhou, the king of Jin gave him 100,000 taels, plus the savings of the past few years, there are almost six or seven hundred thousand taels, perhaps, you can buy some land. Although official land cannot be sold privately, there is always a place for extrajudicial grace to the vassal kings and nobles - as the vassal king, he can buy 50,000 acres of land.

It's just that where did you buy these 50,000 acres of land?

Nan Zhili?

Land prices there are too expensive and too scattered. Then Gyeonggi, where the land is poor, and now there are not many official fields. And what about Huguang? It seems that there are already a lot of nobles who have bought land there, Sichuan, where there are too few people......

Just when Liu Zhen was planning his future there to be an Anle King, he didn't know that the arrival of him, the "Qinggui Vassal King", had set off a big storm for the political situation in Zhongdu.

"It seems that the Jin Domain will definitely enter Beijing!"

In the Yiyong Mansion, Zhang Jinsheng, who is the first generation of Yiyong, is now paying attention to his every move, lest he lose his physique, but everyone knows that if he is extremely angry, he will definitely explode foully. Just like this, his heart seemed a little sullen.

"Grandpa, the Jin Domain is a person who knows the soldiers, if nothing else, when the Jin Domain enters Beijing, His Majesty will definitely use it to enter the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, after all, the Lord is the main army, but His Majesty makes a decision."

As Zhang Jinsheng's private scene, Zhou Chang's background is not very glorious, he was originally just a state pawn, and later attached to the Manchu Qing Dynasty prominent people into Beijing, after the Qing Dynasty fled, he went to the streets, the reason why he will enter Zhang Jinsheng's mansion is entirely because Zhang Jinsheng is a Jingmen like him, and even knew Zhang Jinsheng when he was young, and later Mao recommended himself into Zhang Jinsheng's mansion, became his private scene, and gave advice to him.

Lord of the Lords.

When mentioning these four words, Zhou Chang can see from His Majesty's setting of the army, in addition to the difference between him and the emperors of the previous dynasties and the Ming Dynasty - through various ministries and bureaus, the possibility of civilian officials interfering in the military is completely cut off.

The first point of these ministries and bureaus is to establish the "lord of the army", re-establish the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and make it the highest military organ of the army, parallel to the center of the imperial court, so as to separate the army from the imperial court, and only military meritorious ministers can enter the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. This completely eliminated the possibility of civilian officials entering the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces.

Of course, this is not the key, the more critical point is that in the ministries and bureaus of the Ministry of War, according to the current Ming official system, the secretary of the Ministry of War must be recommended by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in service, and then the cabinet will play His Majesty, and wait for His Majesty to appoint by decree. As the representative of the army in the imperial court, the military department was under the control of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. When the Cabinet violated the interests of the military and clashed with the military, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces could order the military department to resign directly to the emperor without appointing a successor. As a result, the six ministries of the imperial court were incomplete, and at this time, Shoufu could only lead the cabinet to resign. In other words, the post of secretary of the military department can directly decide whether the cabinet ministers will stay or not.

It is precisely because of this that no civilian official dares to despise the military generals, because the military generals can decide the fate of the ministers and even the civilian officials, but the ministers and the civil officials cannot control the generals. There is only one person who can influence the generals, and that is His Majesty the Emperor himself, because the governors and acquaintances of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are all appointed by His Majesty himself. Military power is only in the hands of the emperor, and it is not allowed to be touched by civilian officials, which is almost inevitable in any dynasty.

"Hmph, this duke is Zuodu, he is here, is it possible that Bengong will give him Zuodu?"

Zhang Jinsheng's tone was a little dissatisfied, the five military governors set up the left and right governors, and jointly took charge of the governor's office, which was a structure designed by His Majesty himself, the left governor was in charge of the army's combat and training, and the right governor was responsible for intelligence, military law, logistics and other things, and the two restrained and cooperated with each other.

If the Jin clan came and became the governor of the capital, Zhang Jinsheng, who was only a righteous and brave duke, would naturally have to give up the official position of Zuodu.

"Is it difficult, when the time comes, Lao Tzu will go to the court, like Zheng Tai, to be a secretary of the military department, and to be a mouthpiece all day long."

Although in fact, the military department is not a mouthpiece, and the military department is not just handing out the budget in the imperial court. At the same time, he was also responsible for the recruitment, training, equipment development and salary of new soldiers, especially in times of war, and he also coordinated with the imperial court to raise military expenses and materials. It is also a great deal of power and responsibility.

The left and right governors of the Governor's Mansion and the military department are actually indispensable to the three feet of the army, but now, in many cases, people will always ignore the military department and just regard him as a tool to restrain civilian officials, and the mouthpiece of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Of course, few people know that this system was carefully constructed by Zhu Mingzhong, and it takes time to slowly show its strength, but in Zhang Jinsheng's view, the military department is just a deaf man's ear.

"Grandpa, if you don't enter the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, then where can the Jin Clan go?"

Zhou Chang looked at Zhang Jinsheng and asked rhetorically, although two years have passed, he will still envy Zhang Jinsheng's chances, if he hadn't taken the wrong path back then, would he have joined the court as a minister now?

Of course, no one can say anything about this kind of thing, just like Zhang Jinsheng, who would never have thought that he would be plundered by the Zheng family as a soldier back then, and he would become the righteous and brave man of the Ming Dynasty by mistake.

"It doesn't matter if he goes there!"

Shaking his head, Zhang Jinsheng said in a rather dissatisfied tone.

"But this is the Governor's Mansion in charge of my Ming Dynasty's more than 400,000 royal divisions, and it can't be handed over to an outsider so easily, the emperor won't do this!"

The proprietor's words made Zhou Chang sigh. When looking at Zhang Jinsheng, he even felt that this might be a fool and a fool. I didn't even see through such a simple thing.

It is true that the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and it seems to be a centralized military power, but in fact, where is the military power? Under the left and right governors, there are also governors with the same knowledge, the army has the same governors, and the navy also has the same governors. They were in charge of the Ming Army and Navy respectively, and although the left and right governors were noble, they could not pass the commanders and commanders of the troops. Moreover, according to the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty, it is a first-level command level, and it will never tolerate overstepping. Zhang Jinsheng, who was the governor of the left capital, could not even mobilize a brigade of soldiers and horses except for the guards of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

His Majesty has long used a locking approach to completely control the army, and even the commanders of the battalions guarding the localities are unable to lead the troops into rebellion because of the constraints of the commanders at all levels.

After entering the Zhang Mansion, Zhou Chang will always study the official system and military system of the Ming Dynasty, and always come to the conclusion that the Xingqian Emperor admires it to the extreme, in his opinion, the emperor is definitely a collection of thousands of years of imperial ministers in Dacheng, the separation of civil and military, so that civil officials can not meddle in military affairs, and the use of military force to "bind" the text, but also to avoid the monopoly of the civil official family since the Song Dynasty, and there will be no more low status of military attachés.

And more importantly, through all kinds of seemingly invisible rings, the army is firmly in the hands of the emperor himself. In the end, whether it is a civil official or a military general, it is just a tool in the hands of the emperor himself.

"Leave it to outsiders ......"

Zhou Chang smiled bitterly.

"With a governor who can't move a single soldier, to exchange the Jin domain to hand over the military power, and from the local strong vassal to the court as a cardinal, in this world, is there a more cost-effective deal?"

Facing the proprietor, Zhou Chang did not hide it at all, and his sentence "The governor who can't move a soldier and a pawn" heard Zhang Jinsheng's ears, which made him slightly stunned, and only shook his head after a moment and said.

"Pei Gong, there are too many smart people in this world, but sometimes, being too smart is not a good thing......"

After that, Zhang Jinsheng picked up the teacup and tasted the tea silently, he didn't know that he was a "governor who couldn't move a soldier and a pawn", but he couldn't say it, let alone have any complaints.

"Ah......h

The proprietor's words made Zhou Chang's whole person dumbfounded, just a moment ago he felt that the person in front of him was a fool and a fool, but now it seems that he, he knows......

"You must know that this world is the world of His Majesty......"

After saying this, Zhang Jinsheng slowly came to the window, looked out the window and said.

"I heard that this year's harvest in the north is not very good, and I don't know how many Shaanxi fathers and elders are going to suffer again......