It should be said,Since the palace coup more than ten years ago,The high-level politics of Daqi,It's all in a very abnormal atmosphere to come to the school city to read。 Achieving political goals by directly destroying the other party** is often a precursor to troubled times. In a dynasty, normal political struggles often follow the general historical rule of "punishment is not a doctor".

In particular, assassination, which is an extreme method, is a last resort and is often not used until it is pushed to the point of exhaustion. However, in the current Daqi, it has become a norm. When the Ji family case broke out, Xiao Hui took the opportunity to kill He Kuan, the supervisor of the city guard; Song Zheng himself was even sniped in Lianjia's painting boat...... All of the above makes people's hearts chill.

Wang Wan died strangely, and the Empress Dowager Huang Jiao and the little emperor Xiao Ying were furious. Huang Feng, the commander of the Metropolitan Guards, was dismissed from his post and investigated, and six or seven generals were dismissed and replaced by the City Guards. Although Huang Yuandu tried his best, Huang Feng was finally relieved of heavy responsibility, but he had to be demoted and transferred to Luoyang Guan as the left pacification envoy. Since then, the Duwei Army, which was founded by Huang Yuandu, officially declared itself out of Huang Yuandu's control.

The new commander of the Duwei Army is a figure that no one expected---- former maritime governor Liang Shouxin, the governor of Caoyun Lei Mingjue and the maritime governor Liang Shouxin have always had a close relationship with the prime minister. Among the seven existing governors of Daqi (the newly added governor of Xijingguan), Liang Shouxin, the governor of shipping, was the weakest, and he was much inferior to Lei Mingjue, probably because the role of shipping was much smaller than that of Caoyun. Liang Shouxin's ability to take charge of the capital guard army is a great promotion.

After all, Du Weijun was founded by Huang Yuandu himself, although Huang Feng was dismissed, but he was replaced by Liang Shouxin, who had a good relationship with the Prime Minister, and the Taoism in it was also thought-provoking. On the surface, it was probably because Xiao Tong didn't want to stimulate Huang Yuandu too much, so he pushed Liang Shouxin to the top. As for the truth, Song Zheng is not easy to guess.

Among the many military personnel changes, the most surprising is Dong Lancheng. Dong Lancheng, the former right attendant of the military department, was the absolute henchman of Xiao Hui at the beginning. After Xiao Hui died of illness in Xijing, Dong Lancheng once competed for the position of Tai Lieutenant. Later, Dong Lancheng faced the situation of being deposed, and it was rumored that Dong Lancheng was ready to return to the old age. However, after the Spring Festival, Dong Lancheng suddenly became active, not only was he not dismissed, but he was also promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department.

After listening, the right division learned that Dong Lancheng had taken refuge in Xiaotong. As the absolute henchman of Wang Ye Juni, no one knows the layout and details of Xiao Juni's back better than Dong Lancheng. Including the amount of salaries for each army, the deployment of personnel, and so on. The reason why Xiaotong was able to clean up dissidents so smoothly was that Dong Lancheng made a great contribution. Otherwise, Xiaotong would not have made such a big move as soon as he took office.

There is also a personnel change that makes Song Zheng quite nerve-wracking, that is, his father-in-law Lu Hengshan was transferred to Jiangning, promoted to the left envoy of the Duwei Army, and officially included in the ranks of senior military officials. The five major border troops of Daqi, plus the transportation and shipping, plus the city guards and the capital guards guarding Jiangning, a total of nine military systems, the main governor or commander, there are nine people, and the deputy position (left and right road pacification envoys or left and right envoys) 18 people, adding up to a total of 27 people, which can be regarded as a real military high-level.

Song Zheng knows this old man very well, Lu Hengshan's utilitarian heart is quite heavy, and he even wanted to find a way in Jiangning in the past two years, but he just took a break because of the treacherous situation. Unexpectedly, during the time he left Jiangning, Lu Hengshan actually found the Guogong Mansion and obtained the high position of the left envoy of the city guard!

What does 逄通 mean? Why did you choose Lu Hengshan? Song Zheng didn't naively think that there was no one available in his hands, or he really took a fancy to Lu Hengshan's talent. With the ability to pass through, he would not know that Lu Hengshan was Song Zheng's father-in-law. So why did he do it? In Song Zheng's eyes, Xiao Tong is a thousand-year-old demon fox that is extremely hidden, and there must be a deep meaning in doing so.

Cai Yong reported a lot of content, and Song Zheng didn't care about thinking deeply. Another important piece of information came out again: the contemporary Great Confucianism was not thoughtful, the official was reinstated, and he was reinstated as the chief teacher of the Jiangning Academy of Literature! Not only that, Wei Buzhou also became a court teacher again, the same as Song Jue, the father of Song Zheng.

Compared with the previous information, this surprised Song Zheng even more. You must know that in order to set science as the mainstream, Huang Yuandu drove many traditional Confucian scholars out of the public gate, including Wei Buzhou. Now that Wei Wei has actually been activated, this is directly digging into Huang Yuandu's heart.

"When was Wei Buzhou activated?" Song Zheng couldn't help but ask. In Cai Yong's narrative just now, Song Zheng never asked. Now that I finally asked, it shows the importance of this matter.

Cai Yong didn't know much about things like Confucianism and science, so he just reported the information that Mu Yu sorted out to Song Zheng one by one. Seeing Song Zheng asking, he hurriedly said, "That is, half a month ago." It is said that it was the Holy Lord who summoned Wei Buzhou, and later personally ordered Wei Buzhou to be appointed as a court teacher, and on the third day, he was restored to the official position of chief teacher of the Academy of Literature. ”

Song Zheng knew that Wei Buzhou had taught the little emperor in the palace back then, but after Huang Yuandu was removed from his position in the Academy of Literature, Wei Buzhou never stepped into the palace again. This time, Xiao Ying suddenly summoned Wei Buzhou, if there was no one behind the back, Song Zheng didn't believe it at all.

"Huang Yuandu was taken away from the Duwei Army, and now Wei Buzhou, who was belittled by him, has become the chief teacher of the Academy of Literature, I don't believe that Huang Yuandu will not fight back at all?"

"Childe's eyes are as wise as a torch." Cai Yong hurriedly said, "Huang Yuandu once made a proposal to the Shengshang, asking the household department to send additional grain supervisors to enter the border troops in various places, cooperate with the opportunity to inspect the empty salary, and control the flow of the imperial court's salary. It's just that in the Holy One, this proposal was not passed. Instead, it was a different way, and the saint wanted to set up a prison army in each border army, which would be filled by the eunuchs in the palace, just like the city guards and the capital guards. When Xiao left Jiangning, the matter was still under discussion, but it was very likely to be promulgated. ”

Song Zheng frowned, using eunuchs as supervisors, the Ming Dynasty in history can be regarded as the pinnacle. But the eunuchs are even less trustworthy, and in addition to being greedy for money, they really can't find a few eunuchs who can do the right thing. Huang Yuandu's counterattack was not sharp, however, when it came to the little emperor, the eunuch became a trustworthy object. The idea of replacing the household supervisor with a eunuch supervising the army and transferring flowers and trees is very clever in terms of strategy, but in terms of actual results, it is rotten.

Cai Yong continued, "Right now, Huang Yuandu seems to be in a big trouble. It was rumored in Jiangning City that the Holy Lord no longer trusted Huang Yuandu. In addition, Huang Yuandu was also involved in a case, that is, the 300,000 taels of silver allocated by the household department that year disappeared inexplicably, and some people revisited the old case. It is said that Huang Yuandu was involved. ”

Song Zheng's eyes widened instantly, he knew a lot about this matter. Tang Wan, the wife of his friend Xu Mingxuan, is the adjutant of the household department. Because 300,000 taels of silver were taken away, Tang Wan's father was cut down, and Tang Wan also fell into prostitution. After several tortures, Tang Wan and Xu Mingxuan came together. Based on the news that Song Zheng originally came to investigate, it seems that Huang Yuandu used the 300,000 taels of silver to supplement the Duwei army. Why is this incident breaking out again now?

Cai Yong didn't care about the mystery, but continued to report the next news.

"Childe, there is one more thing, Mu Dutong has no time to verify. I heard that Datong Money Bank and Kaibao Money Bank are going to set up a Huilian number, and the two big money banks will jointly lend money to the imperial court to make up for the deficit of the imperial court. ”

"What?" Song Zheng stood up suddenly.

Cai Yong was taken aback, in his feeling, the previous news was more shocking than this news, and Song Zheng was not as surprised as now. How did he know that Song Zheng felt a very unusual meaning from it, and a line slowly connected some things.

Due to the great Qi's efforts to march into Guanzhong, the imperial court's finances were extremely tight. Xiao Ying and Huang Yuandu worked hard to survive this war. There is no need to think about it, Song Zheng also knows that the current financial situation of Daqi should be extremely grim. If the Huilian was established and loaned to the imperial court, then the mortgage must be used for the taxes of the imperial court in the next few years. To put it another way, the Convergence will kidnap the entire court.

It is necessary to know that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Daqi has always been a thin and light endowment, hiding wealth from the people, which has led to today's prosperity. These taxes were originally not enough to support the huge expenses of the imperial court, and Huang Yuandu initially sold many benefits such as salt, wine and mines to the Jiangnan people, not only in exchange for their support, but also in disguised ways to increase taxes.

For example, at the beginning of the dynasty, the national salt was only a dozen yuan per catty, and the annual salt tax was only more than 400,000 taels. After the salt was handed over to the Ji family and other big families, they handed over about 800,000 taels a year. It seems that the income of the imperial court has doubled, but I don't know that the price of salt has risen year after year, and finally it has risen several times or even more than ten times.

This policy not only caused the price of salt to skyrocket, but also damaged the interests of the imperial court in disguise. As a result, Daqi's "hiding wealth from the people" has become "hiding wealth from the big family". Huang Yuandu also realized his mistake, and when he couldn't bear it anymore, he chose to cooperate with Xiao Hui, directly raided the Ji family, and took back the salt.

As a result, everyone in Jiangnan felt the crisis and felt the crisis. In Huang Yuandu's established policy, there was also a plan to gradually weaken the Jiangnan family, which prompted the Jiangnan family to gradually separate from Huang Yuandu. However, due to the alliance between Xiao Hui and Huang Yuandu, the power was unprecedentedly huge, and everyone in Jiangnan did not come up with a reliable way to overthrow Huang Yuandu for a while.

Everyone in Jiangnan urgently needs a new agent to appear, and the death of Xiao Hui has led to a great opportunity. The combination of Kaibao Money and Chase Money is beginning to take shape. You must know that the shareholders of Kaibao Qian Zhuang are from a family in the military. That is, after Taizu crossed to the south, some of the powerful generals he led. As the second largest money village in the country, Kaibao Money Village is headquartered in Kaifeng, which is the reason.

The largest shareholder of Chase Money is the Bao family, one of the masters in Jiangnan. Originally, it was a competitive relationship with Kaibao Money, but now it wants to unite, so someone must be pulling money from it. This person is also obvious, and there must be no doubt about it. Xiaotong has a deep foundation in the army, and Kaibao Qianzhuang also has shares in it. And everyone in Jiangnan wanted to abandon Huang Yuandu, so they chose to cooperate with Xiaotong.

In a word, everyone in Jiangnan chose to support Xiaotong. In this case, they will inevitably have to do everything possible to replace the prime minister and move Huang Yuandu down. Under the planning of Xiao Tong, a series of schemes against Huang Yuandu were released. The Duwei army changed commanders and seized Huang Yuandu's only military power; Wei Buzhou Qifu seized the foundation of Huang Yuandu's science; reopened the old case, so that Huang Yuandu did not have time to separate.

From this point of view, Xiao Tong is in the next big game of chess: with the help of the emperor to investigate the issue of empty salaries, clean up dissidents in the army, and firmly control military power. At the same time, he tried every means to dig into the corner of Huang Yuandu, stretched out his hand to the regime, and replaced him with a prime minister who could cooperate with him at the right time. In this way, the day of controlling the entire Great Qi Dynasty is not far away.