On July 25, Zhu Youzhen, the Son of Heaven, ended the difficult court meeting and slowly returned to the Qianqing Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The court meeting on this day was not so much the Son of Heaven handling state affairs, but rather the hundred officials forcing the Son of Heaven to the palace. Zhu Youzhen let out a long breath when he came out of the Imperial Palace, as if he was sighing that he had finally escaped from the Imperial Palace.

Wang Chengen followed behind Zhu Youjian, but his face was full of surprise, as if he was greatly shocked.

Zhu Youzhen returned to the Qianqing Palace, flicked his sleeves and sat on the throne, looking at the gorgeous wall decorations in the Qianqing Palace and was silent.

After a long time, Zhu Youzhen took a long breath and shook his head.

Wang Chengen's face was still full of shock, and finally he couldn't help it, and asked: "Shengshang, the slave doesn't understand, Shengshang is really going to transfer Guan Ningjun to crusade against Li Zhi?" ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't answer this question, but just sighed.

Wang Chengen said: "Holy Lord, I can't help it! Not to mention that the Duke of Jin is loyal to defend the country. Just talking about the Guanning defense line guarded by the Guanning army, the southern transfer of 70,000 troops, wouldn't it give all the Ningjin defense line to the Tartars? The imperial court spends millions of taels of silver every year on the Guanning defense line. The four hundred miles of mountains and rivers from Yizhou to Shanhaiguan are all not needed at once? Gave way to the Tartars? ”

Wang Chengen said anxiously: "Holy Lord, my Ming Dynasty has been guarding this Ningjin defense line for decades, and now it has been completely abandoned!" I can't help it, my lord. ”

Zhu Youzhen flipped through the recital on the imperial case and did not speak.

Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youzhen, waiting for the Son of Heaven to answer his words.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen, and said after a long time: "These Donglin Party people don't know how much silver they took from the Shandong gentry this time, and they are all fried at once!" They regard the Guan Ning Army as their private property, if I don't let the civilian officials transfer the Guan Ning Army, will these civilian officials let me go? ”

The Guanning defense line was built at the hands of Sun Chengzong. Sun Chengzong was the boss of the Donglin Party, and the construction of the Guanning Defense Line was strongly supported by the Donglin Party politically. After the completion of the Guanning defense line, it often consumed four or five million taels of silver in the imperial court a year. A considerable part of these salaries went back to the private pockets of the Donglin Party bosses.

Because of such historical origins, the relationship between the Donglin Party and the Guan Ning Army is very close. The salary standard of the Guanning Army has always been the highest among the border armies of the Ming Dynasty. In peacetime, no matter how short of money the imperial court was, no Donglin Party member was willing to reduce the size and salary level of the Guanning Army. After all, to reduce the expenditure of the Guan Ning Army is to reduce the money given to the civilian officials themselves.

In the population of the Donglin Party, the Guan Ning Army is the door god who guards the land of the Ming Dynasty in western Liaoning, and has made great contributions to the survival of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this time, the Donglin Party would rather give up the filial piety of the Guanning Army and transfer the Guanning Army to crusade against Li Zhi.

This time, Li Zhi was in Junping Tianfu in Shandong, and he stabbed the hornet's nest at once, which was basically equivalent to digging up the ancestral graves of civil officials. No matter how important Guan Ningjun's filial piety is, it is not as important as the private property of a civilian official in his hometown! If we don't go all out to stop Li Zhi, I'm afraid that Li Zhi will have to impose the policy of equalizing the fields to the whole country in the future.

Civil officials were first of all gentry and then officials. Which civil official does not have thousands of acres of fertile land in his hometown? Without the tax-free privileges, what will these civil officials eat in the future?

Just now, on the Imperial Palace, dozens of civil officials came out to ask Guan Ningjun to crusade against Li Zhi. The civilian officials have nurtured the Guan Ning Army for decades, and now it is time to transfer the Guan Ning Army to use it.

The Donglin Party even felt that the Guan Ning Army was the private army of the Donglin Party, and they said nothing about this matter.

Even Zhu Youzhen, the Son of Heaven, did not dare to go against the entire civil service system. There are too many emperors in the Ming Dynasty who died inexplicably, and Zhu Youzhen didn't want to be one of them.

So after dozens of civil officials played aggressively, Zhu Youzhen retreated. Zhu Youzhen agreed to transfer the Guan Ning army into Tianjin, under the banner of rectifying local order.

When Wang Chengen heard Zhu Youzhen's words, he subconsciously looked at the eunuchs and maids on the left and right, as if there were people who had defected to the Donglin Party everywhere.

Zhu Youzhen's palace is not monolithic, and the power of the Donglin Party is also not small here. For example, Cao Huachun, the "eunuch of Si Li Bingbi and the commander of Dongchang", was a member of the Donglin Party. At that time, Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, wanted to run Qian Qianyi of Donglin, and Cao Huachun killed Wen Tiren, and finally Wen Tiren resigned and returned to his hometown.

If the Son of Heaven confronts the entire civil service system, he may die of illness one day.

Wang Chengen also knew that the Son of Heaven was in a difficult situation. The Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty can only maintain the royal dignity like a tightrope in this fiery world, and it is difficult to maintain the qi of the Ming Dynasty. The Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty is far from being the power that the common people think.

Zhu Youzhen sighed and said, "Even if I don't agree, the civil officials will definitely be able to bypass me and mobilize the Guanning army." Zu Dashou, these warlords, can they have me in their eyes? Rather than pointlessly confronting the civilian officials, it is better to let the boat go. ”

Wang Chengen was silent for a long time before asking: "In that case, why did the Son of Heaven stubbornly guard the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp and not let the civilian officials transfer the newly trained new army of the Beijing camp." ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "The new army is different from the Guan Ning army. The new army is my brainchild, and it is in the hands of the most loyal generals. Without my will, no one can move the new army, so naturally I will not let the new army merge with Li Zhihuo. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said: "And if the new army of Beijing is mobilized to merge with Li Zhihuo, it will really tear your face." Li Zhi also knew the relationship between the Guan Ning Army and the Donglin Party, and would not raise the anti-flag just because he was attacked by the Guan Ning Army. If I mobilize the new army to crusade against Li Zhi, I will really force Li Zhi to rebel. ”

"And to say a thousand things and ten thousand, Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are too strong, and they can defeat more than 100,000 Japanese shogunate troops. The new army and Li Zhi's tiger division faced each other, and it was difficult to say who would win and who would lose. The new army in the capital can deter Li Zhi, but it must not be used to crusade against Li Zhi. Otherwise, if Li Zhi wins the battle against the New Army, wouldn't it..."

Wang Chengen finally understood the thoughts of the Son of Heaven and said: "That's why the Son of Heaven deliberately said that he was in poor health and would not go to court in the next two months?" ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "That's right." I agreed to let the Donglin Party transfer the Ningjun army to clean up the local order in Tianjin, but I didn't say how to do it. In the end, whether you fight or not, what it looks like, I don't care! I'm sick, and I'm going to recuperate in the palace! ”

The banner of purging the local order in Tianjin is very vague, and if the Guanning army wins this battle, it can take Li Zhi's life. But if Li Zhi wins this battle, to put it mildly, Zhu Youzhen can also explain that the Son of Heaven has no intention of crusading against Li Zhi, and that it is a civilian official who has abused his power.

Wang Chengen groaned and said: "However, no matter what, once the land of Ningjin is given up for four hundred miles, the slave still feels like a knife. ”

Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Wang Chengen and sighed.

"At the beginning, for the sake of silver, these civil officials said that the Ningjin defense line was extremely important, and they would spend millions of silver in Ningjin every year. However, when it came to such a critical moment as Junheida Fu, these civil officials did not care about anything. Obviously, 100,000 border troops are suppressing thieves in Henan, and the imperial court is in short supply, and these civil officials have to transfer the last Guanning army to fight Li Zhi and provoke civil strife. ”

"In the eyes of these civil officials, how can there ever be a trace of family and country?"