As the saying goes, if he is in his position, he will do his job, and since he is already a member of the military department, Lu Zhen wants to contribute to the military of the Ming Dynasty today.

However, after all, he is just an ordinary person, he does not know the art of war, and he knows very little about training soldiers and horses, so he can only start from other places. And the map he saw on the wall in Jiro gave him a good idea.

As mentioned before, the maps at this time were quite rudimentary, with graffiti drawings of mountains, rivers, cities, roads, etc., and some names were marked. Not to mention showing it to ordinary people, even soldiers who are familiar with everything on the map, it is not so easy to make tactical arrangements through the map.

Therefore, Lu Zhen started the idea of improving the military map of the military department. Anyway, he is also from a liberal arts background, and he has also seen a lot of advanced geographical maps in later generations, and he has everything in his hands on the contour line, and he feels that there is a lot to be done.

It's just that although I thought about it well, when I really wanted to implement it, I encountered a problem. One is that his understanding of the terrain around Datong is actually not enough, if it is just the geography of the mountains and rivers around Ulzhou, but there are hundreds of miles around Datong, he doesn't know it at all. The second is that after drawing some contour lines, he suddenly realized that this is a very advanced and scientific method in later generations, but now it is just a dragon slaying technique.

Because in the middle of the world today, the person who can see the height of the terrain from the sparse and dense curves is just him. Therefore, if he really wants to use this to help the Ming army, he must first teach them the principle of looking at the contour line and other geographical knowledge of later generations, which is not something that more than ninety percent of the soldiers in the army who don't even know a word can do.

When he understood this, and then looked at the map that had just started, Lu Zhen was a little depressed: "The eyes are high, and the master is low, it's me." It's a lot harder than it was to build that hot air balloon, and I shouldn't have thought about it. ”

Indeed, he took it for granted in this matter, although the military map of later generations was indeed a hundred times more advanced than at this time, but with the current situation of the Ming border army, in fact, the role of this simple map is not bad, at least the Mongolian people in the north cannot have such a detailed map, which also played a certain role in helping the mobilization of the Ming border army.

After this useless effort, not only did nothing be gained, but a lot of time passed. At this time, it was the middle of March, and he had been in the military department for almost half a month.

In the past half a month, the changes in the DPRK and China have not been too great, Wang Zhen's power is still growing, and some important officials who hinder him or refuse to submit to him have also been uprooted one by one under various pretexts, and the loyal and upright people in the DPRK and China are naturally in mourning.

Maybe now is the time to make great progress, or maybe he feels that he will always make a mistake by putting Lu Zhen in the Ministry of War, so in the past half a month, Wang Zhen's people have not actually attacked Lu Jin, and even the people of Jinyiwei have not come to look for trouble again. So after the first few days of strict defense, now Lu Zhen has also relaxed, and sometimes he doesn't even call Lin Lie, so he comes to the yamen alone.

However, the situation between the DPRK and China still made Lu Zhen a little anxious. If this continues, once even the Ministry of Officials is annexed by Wang Zhen, then eventually his hand will reach out to the Ministry of War, and then a year later......

Fortunately, this concern has been somewhat curbed with the return of one person. After recuperating in the palace for half a year, the patriarch of the Four Dynasties, the official secretary Hu Hu finally recovered with the warmer weather and returned to the official yamen.

The officials who already had no ability to resist, after having the backbone, quickly launched a counterattack. not only relied on Hu Hui's tough attitude to push back the frame-up from outside, but also quickly kicked aside the people who Wang Zhen had so hard placed in the key positions of the ministry, losing its due usefulness.

In the end, Hu Hu is an old man in political disputes, this move is a ruthless move, and the officials will be turned into a monolith again in a few clicks, and Wang Zhen's layout and efforts in the past few months have also been in vain.

It is said that in the past two days, the temper of the prince is quite big, and he grits his teeth even more against Hu Hui, and he has called him old and immortal in private several times. But no matter how much he hated, he was helpless in the face of such an old minister of several dynasties who was proficient in power and strategy, enjoyed a good reputation in the court, and was extremely trusted by the Son of Heaven.

When Lu Zhen learned the news from others, he was also very happy, and almost forgot all the worries that he could not make a map. But soon, something that could really make him feel annoyed appeared, and this was also related to Hu Hui's power.

Because Hu Hui's comeback suppressed Wang Zhen's people, which made him a little unsure of what to do for the time being, so he refocused his attention on the guy who annoyed him the most - Lu Jin!

Soon, a statement against Lu Zhen was put forward by some officials and imperial historians, and when this was proposed at the court meeting and passed to the military department, Yu Qian didn't feel a headache, and immediately called Lu Jin to him.

On this morning, Lu Zhen was looking through the records of some small rebellions in the southwest in the past few years, when he was called over by Yu Qian. As soon as he saw Yu Qian's solemn appearance, he didn't feel a moment of surprise, and asked after saluting, "I don't know what the Lord Shilang has to call the officials to come and order?" ”

With the relationship between the two of them, Yu Qian had no intention of beating around the bush, and immediately asked him to sit down, and said: "In the past two days, there have always been people in the DPRK and China who have impeached some officials for their corpses, saying that they have not really done anything decent in their positions, and they have not had any useful advice with the imperial court. Therefore, in their opinion, such officials are really not worthy of standing in the court. ”

"Huh? What do you mean, you're coming for me? Lu Zhen had actually heard of these sayings before, but he didn't think about it deeply, and now that Yu Qian called himself alone, this is naturally what he meant.

"Of course they didn't make it that clear. But then someone suggested that all officials of the yamen and above must make suggestions or do something about their official positions, which is obviously aimed at you. ”

After a pause, Yu Qian continued: "Actually, our military department did have a rule that every season we must let subordinate officials put forward some of their own opinions on side affairs or military situations. It's just because you've just arrived that I haven't talked to you about it before. But apparently, this time some people are not going to let you go. ”

Lu Zhen nodded clearly: "Xiaguan understands." ”

In fact, this rule has the same effect as the hard assessment of how many impeachments and corrections must be made every month, so that the officials naturally do their duty, rather than just taking advantage of the court.

But when they put the scope of this requirement in the range of five products and above, the intention was very clear, which was completely against themselves.

Because Lu Zhen has only been in office for half a month after he has been in the Ministry of War, I am afraid that at most he has some understanding of the affairs of the ministry, and now it is indeed a little embarrassing for him to put forward any views from the perspective of an official of the Ministry of War.

But Lu Zhen is not good at using this as an excuse to ask for an exception, after all, this is a major event for the entire imperial court, even if you are indeed wronged, it is not good to make an exception, otherwise how can you convince the public? Not only the imperial court, but also the entire military department, I'm afraid there are many people watching him.

Yu Qian sighed softly: "I thought that this matter had nothing to do with you, but now it seems that you can't get out." Now that the end of the month is only half a month away, you have to think about it. He was still quite confident in Lu Jin's ability, so he didn't offer to help.

After pondering, Lu Zhen quickly raised his head and admitted: "Xiaguan understands!" "Originally, the creation of that map might have been a credit, but now it seems that we have to start elsewhere.

"Then you go, in the next few days, just think about it, and don't be busy with other official business." Yu Qian waved his hand slightly, and Lu Zhen got up and left.

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After a period of depression, in the past two days, Wang Zhen's face finally showed a few smiles, which made the subordinate eunuchs in the celebrant finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Today, when Wang Zhen approved the red for a few pieces of music and put down the pen, Cao Rui hurriedly brought the ginseng tea over, and when Wang Zhen took it casually and drank a few sips to recuperate, he hurriedly came behind him and knocked on the back for the prince.

Because he acted obediently and could speak, Cao Rui at this time had already been promoted to the eunuch of Bingbi among the ceremonial supervisors, and at the same time, he also became the trusted right and left hand of Wang Zhen's side. But even so, in front of the prince, he didn't dare to be arrogant, and he still behaved the same as before, and even flattered him more than before.

After knocking on his back for a while, and seeing a slight smile on the corner of Wang Zhen's mouth, Cao Rui said in a somewhat happy voice: "Father-in-law, this time Lu Zhen will have to suffer a little." As Wang Zhen's close confidants, of course he knew what his father-in-law was happy about.

When Wang Zhen heard this, he really felt like he had been scratched, and his smile became even bigger: "This Lu Zhen has repeatedly ruined the good things of our family, this time let's see how he can deal with it." Even if you can't remove him from office, you have to make him disgraced and lose face. By the way, you go to the factory guards and get them to keep an eye on him lately, as well as the other officials in the military department, in case someone is a gunman for him. If he dares to do this, we will be able to impeach him more logically. ”

"The slave and maid understand, in fact, the slave and maid have already asked people to go to the Jinyi Guard to spread the word, presumably at this moment, Ma Dudu has already sent someone to watch him."

"Huh...... Or you know our family's heart best, do a good job. Wang Zhen nodded with satisfaction, and then sat up straight again: "If you can use this to pull Yu Qian or Hu Hu into the water, then it will be no better." His purpose in doing this was obviously not only Lu Jin, because he knew that Lu Jin's relationship with these two opponents of the DPRK and China was very close.