Chapter 189: It's still Yang Yiqing
Liu Meng knew that he could be punished for misreporting military information, but he was still reluctant to publicize the martial arts of Emperor Zhengde and even the entire group of military generals, because this would only affect the status of their civilian group.
However, what Liu Meng didn't expect was that Cai Kuan was unwilling to cooperate with him, and he also reprimanded himself for delaying the military plane, so he immediately suspended himself with Ma Wensheng.
"Don't forget that you are Wenchen! Doing so will only make the warriors rise! ”
Liu Meng shouted at the closed door, and then sat back in his chair in a huff.
He was made a political envoy from the imperial history to Fujian, and he only became a governor at the beginning of the fourth year of Zhengde, and he didn't understand the behavior of Wenchen Caikuan and others, who valued martial arts and ignored literary affairs, and finally had to scold again:
"Since ancient times, people who have both civil and military skills, whether they use literature to enter the military, or to use martial arts to enter the literature, are not the right way, and now this is only Kuan, Ma Wensheng and other people who are really not the right way!"
This feeling of being locked up made Liu Meng feel extremely uncomfortable, but when Zhang Lun shouted that he was going to break his body into pieces, he was still afraid to hide in the corner, glad that he was locked up by Ma Wensheng, otherwise he was really worried that he might be hacked to death by Zhang Lun.
Zhang Lun has now seen the eyes of the literati, and he can't wait to eat Liu Meng, who almost let go of the little prince, alive, but fortunately, he still captured the little prince again.
Ma Wensheng did not wait for Zhu Houzhao's will, so he waved his troops into the Hetao first.
It has always been his long-cherished wish to recover the Hetao, and after learning that the little prince was captured alive and that the Hetao was no longer a Tartar cavalry, he would naturally recover the Hetao immediately.
Zhu Houzhao received the news about the recovery of the Hetao in September of the fifth year of Zhengde.
The recovery of the Hetao means that the border defense of the Ming Dynasty can be further strengthened, and the Ming Dynasty can directly rely on Helan Mountain, Wolf Mountain, and Daqing Mountain to guard against the northern Tatars, and can harvest countless fertile fields, and at the same time there are many pastures with fertile water and grass, and can also provide more good horses.
In addition, before this, Zhu Houzhao asked Qiu Yue to lead the Ming Dynasty with 15,000 iron cavalry to rescue the Mongolian right wing, cripple the little prince's 50,000 iron cavalry, and even capture the little prince alive, and even ordered all border towns to attack the rear of the little prince.
Zhengde's four-year Ming record can be described as brilliant.
Reclaim the Loop!
Cripple the Mongolian left wing and also make the Mongolian right wing lose its strength and capture the little prince alive!
Although Zhu Houzhao's cultural rule has not yet been established, his martial arts have already drawn a strong stroke.
Zhu Houzhao naturally will not let some civil officials with ulterior motives hide their martial arts in the vast sea of books, and he wants to write about his brilliant achievements in Zhengde for four years!
Therefore, Zhu Hou gave Zhang Lun according to the order of His Excellency, ordering him to escort the little prince into Beijing, and he wanted to hold a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners.
At the same time, Zhu Houzhao also ordered the cabinet to discuss the matter of rewarding meritorious deeds with the six ministries, and the defeat of Qiu Yue of the Mongolian left wing, Zhang Lun, who captured the little prince alive, and Ma Wensheng, who recovered the Hetao, were all knighted on merit.
But.
Zhu Houzhao in this life will no longer be a general of the town and country like Zhengde in history, and he will knight himself.
However, just when Zhu Houzhao was about to promote his martial arts, he received the news that Zhu Ningxiao, the king of Anhua, had rebelled.
However, this time, the rebellion of Zhu Ningxiao, the king of Anhua, is not the historical crusade against Liu Jin, but the side of the Qing monarch, and the ministers Ma Wensheng, Jiao Fang, Xu Jin and others!
The killing of Ma Wensheng was naturally because when Ma Wensheng was cleaning up Tuntian in the border town, he forced Zhu Ningxiao to hand over a lot of embezzled people's tuntian and military tuntian
The reasons for killing Jiao Fang and Xu Jin are naturally self-evident, that is, because the cabinet intends to rectify the salt policy, which infringes on the interests of him, the vassal king.
As early as August of the fourth year of Zhengde, Tang Ren made a suggestion to the imperial court to rectify the salt administration and restore the system of paying grain and taking silver, thus opening the prelude to the discussion of rectifying the salt administration.
The news of the proposed passage of the cabinet vote soon made the powerful gentry know that the king of Anhua, who was often engaged in border trade business, was naturally unwilling to let the imperial court rectify the salt administration and cut off his own financial route.
Although all this was instructed by Zhu Houzhao, and the cleaning up of Tuntian in the border town was not only aimed at Zhu Ningjiao, a vassal king, but all the magnates in the border town were cleaned up, and the salt administration had not yet begun to rectify and even the prohibition of selling salt to the little prince had not been thoroughly investigated.
However, under the inducement of Ningxia health workers Sun Jingwen, Meng Bin and other literati, Zhu Ningyao, the king of Anhua, had long had a rebellion.
Now because he heard that Zhu Houzhao had not returned to the north and the Ming army had been defeated, he thought that the time had come, so the king of Anhua directly rebelled, first killing the governor An Weixue, the chief military officer Jiang Han, and the eunuch Li Zeng, etc., and then preparing to forcibly seize the ferry in an attempt to prevent the official army from entering Ningxiawei.
However, Cai Kuan had already been instructed by Zhu Houzhao to deploy defenses in advance, so that the rebels failed to seize the ferry, and then Cai Kuan personally led a large army to cross the river, and in less than ten days, he leveled the rebellion of the king of Anhua.
The rebellion of King Anhua was like a joke, but the officials in the border towns took this matter very seriously, and directly sent the matter to Beijing in a hurry, and also played a document into Beijing.
"Huang Ke, the governor of Guyuan, reported that the king of Anhua conspired against the rebellion, and the traitor who wanted to steal the authority in the text has now caused a great earthquake in Guanzhong, please send a large army to conquer it quickly! Otherwise, the consequences are unpredictable, and I am afraid that there will be chaos in Guanzhong and the world will be uneasy! ”
Zhu Houzhao picked up the song and smiled lightly, and said to Xu Jin, Jiao Fang and others: "Where is this playing to report the enemy's situation, this is clearly scaring me, he is just a vassal king, he has no soldiers and no power, what kind of climate can he become, is it worth these people to be so shaken?" Although I grew up in the deep palace, I am not a timid person, so the general system of Shaanxi can quell the rebellion, and at the same time strictly enforce military discipline and not disturb the people! ”
"Obey the order!"
Xu Jin and Jiao Fang both secretly admired their majesty's wisdom, and they could see at a glance that these border town officials were clearly reporting the rebellion of King Anhua to the imperial court, but in fact, they were telling the imperial court that because they were traitorous ministers who filled the cabinet and overhauled the state government, they caused the dissatisfaction of the vassal king, and wanted to scare Zhu Houzhao with this, and had to kill their traitorous ministers in order to appease the anger of the vassal king.
Fortunately, his majesty is far-sighted, and the tricks of these officials are no longer enough for him to fall for easily.
That's why.
For the rebellion of the king of Anhua.
The emperor and the cabinet, the military department, and even the general staff of the Guards were all calm.
The Cabinet continued to study with the Ministry of Household Affairs on how to reform the salt administration.
Emperor Zhu Houzhao began to be a wet nurse, only teasing three children with pink makeup every day, or touching Ruyi's increasingly bulging belly.
The General Staff of the Guards Army is summarizing the foreign military strategy of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
The military headquarters determined how many officers and soldiers would be needed to defend the Hetao after it was recovered.
Dong Tian, the young secretary of Dali Temple, gave a recital on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fifth year of Zhengde, saying that the rebel army was strong, and His Majesty should immediately send important ministers to take command of the expedition to calm the border troubles.
Zhu Houzhao naturally smiled dumbly after receiving this letter, he only asked the cabinet to draft a vote, let it be played first, let the cabinet deliberate, and decide who to let go on the expedition.
Soon, the result of the cabinet meeting was placed in front of Zhu Houzhao, but the result of the court meeting was to use Yang Yiqing as the general military officer, Jingyang Bo Shenying as the chief military officer, and the eunuch Wei Bin to supervise the army.
Zhu Houzhao naturally didn't really want these people to lead the troops to the battle, he just wanted to see who was secretly so anxious to make contributions and take the position.
Yang Yiqing?
Zhu Houzhao remembered that in history, it was Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong who conspired with Zhang Yong to get rid of Liu Jin by taking command of this expedition to the king of Anhua.
However, in this life, Zhang Yong has already been ambushed.
And because Liu Jin was the emperor, he asked Ma Wensheng, Jiao Fang and other civil officials to carry some black pots for him, so that Liu Jin, the master of ceremonies, was not so hated in this world, and at most he was scolded for colluding with traitorous ministers, just like Feng Bao in the Wanli period in history.
Zhu Houzhao is now getting used to pondering people's hearts, after all, the trajectory of history is changing, and he has to think more, for example, now he is thinking about why the eunuch who was pushed out by the court in this life is Wei Bin.
Although Zhu Houzhao knew that none of the officials in the court were simple-minded, he could not guarantee that he would be able to catch the minds of others, the only thing he could conclude now was that Yang Yiqing, Wei Bin and Shenying all wanted to take credit, and the other thing was that these people might want to take this opportunity to plot to get rid of whom, just like Yang Yiqing united Zhang Yong to get rid of Liu Jin in history.
Although the current incident is different from the original historical incident, but taking its similarities, Zhu Houzhao found that Yang Yiqing is the key to it, whether it is the current incident or in the original history, Yang Yiqing was promoted by the court as the general system (just waiting for Zhu Houzhao's order).
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao was sure in his heart that Yang Yiqing must be impatient with loneliness, or thinking about getting rid of someone.
Now Zhu Houzhao knows that he does not have to worry about civilian officials directly dealing with him, because there are now a group of officials with the same interests as himself.
In addition, his harsh crackdown methods have also made officials dissatisfied with the new policy aware of the consequences of disobeying Long Yan, but Zhu Houzhao believes that these civil officials who are good at infighting will still shift the blame to the cabinet ministers who are in power in the DPRK and China, and maybe even the eunuchs of the celebrant eunuchs.
Jiao Fang, the first assistant of the cabinet, actually didn't quite understand why His Majesty the Emperor still agreed to the words of Dong Tian, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, on sending troops to quell the rebellion, so on this day, he couldn't help but have to ask:
"Your Majesty! Didn't you intend to send troops to quell the rebellion, and only let Cai Kuan to quell the rebellion, but why do you want to hold a court meeting now, and let the hundred officials recommend someone who is suitable to be in command. ”
"I agreed to hold a court meeting and send troops to the battle, but I didn't want them to really go on the expedition, the Ming Dynasty didn't have so much money and food to spend on this kind of useless work, how could I know the thoughts of the people below if I didn't do this", Zhu Houzhao said and instructed the cabinet and the military department to appoint Yang Yiqing and others to send troops for the time being, and wait for a month later.
When Jiao Fang, the first assistant of the cabinet, heard this, he secretly sighed in his heart that His Majesty the Emperor's mind was unpredictable, and he was also busy saying yes.
Yang Yiqing is not a person who is willing to live under the people, he knows that what he wants is to make meritorious contributions and enter the cabinet, but now he is almost sixty years old, and he has not yet become a scholar, so he wants to seize this opportunity for King Anhua to rebel and make another contribution.
But Yang Yiqing didn't understand Zhu Houzhao's thoughts.
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