Zhu Zhanji carefully read the list in front of him, put it on the oil lamp and burned it until it turned into a cloud of ashes, then looked at Sun Lin and said: "In the spring of the sixteenth year, you returned from Nanyang, and in the past two years, the Advisory Department has made meritorious contributions to the intelligence about the northwest. However, this is not enough, not because the information is not enough, but because the active participation is not enough. ”

Sun Lin bowed down and asked, "Your Highness, what is the strength of active participation?" ”

"It is to take the initiative to participate in the economy and politics of those subject countries, including military groups, take the interests of the Ming Dynasty as the fundamental interests, and guide their development in the direction of how the Ming Dynasty needs them to develop. Like what...... Jinyiwei's fishing law enforcement ...... in previous years"

During the Ji Gang period, in order to achieve Zhu Di's political goals, Jin Yiwei did a lot of bad things.

Under the command of Zhu Di, they framed, induced, guided, and even framed those disobedient ministers, and threw a large number of disobedient ministers into prison.

Some of these ministers deserved their crimes, but a large part of them just disagreed with Zhu Di, and they were beaten into tricks.

This is also an important reason why Ji Gang is bound to die in the original history, the cunning rabbit is dead and the lackey cooks, when there is no longer the power to continue to oppose Zhu Di, Ji Gang, who has done all the bad things, will of course be pushed out to calm the people's anger.

Sun Lin didn't expect Zhu Zhanji to say this, he took a moment to understand, and a hesitation appeared on his face.

But Zhu Zhanji said: "In the territory of Daming, this kind of fishing law enforcement is of course not advisable, so the current power of Jinyiwei has been restricted. But it is righteous in any way to a foreign race, to another nation. The interests of the Ming Dynasty are above everything else, and the interests of the country are above everything else. ”

Sun Lin bowed and hugged his fists and said, "The minister understands!" ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "These days, you will be looking for some chamberlains who are more familiar with the situation in the north, especially those who have been in charge of trade with the Eastern Chahatai Khanate, Warat, and Tatar, and develop your strength among them. And these are the ...... that need silver."

He looked at Jin Kuo and said, "Eunuch Jin, after the New Year, I will allocate 200,000 taels of silver to Sun Lin from the small treasury......"

Before Jin Kuo could speak, Sun Lin was a little frightened, and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, it's too much!" ”

Although the Department of Information has extended its tentacles to most areas of the Ming Dynasty, the Department has a huge advantage, that is, it is parasitic on the huge interest group of internal supervision.

All the commercial activities of the Ming Dynasty are under the internal control system, whether it is silk, porcelain, factories, mines, cotton and linen, including the current cement road, although the project is controlled by the Ministry of Industry, the capital is the internal control system.

The internal prison is parasitic on the huge country of the Ming Dynasty, and the size of a country's economy fattens them and turns them into a huge interest group.

The Advisory Intelligence Division is parasitic on this huge interest group, and although the stall is very large, it does not cost much. Because most of the inner prisoners were loyal lackeys of the royal family, even if they did not give money, they were all loyal to their work.

In the five years since its establishment, the Department of Information and Intelligence has spent less than 200,000 taels in the first two years, that is, in the last two years, it has rolled out an intelligence network in Nanyang, and the cost has only reached 400,000 taels.

Most of the internal supervisors do not give them money at all, and only after obtaining information will they give some rewards according to the importance of the information.

Therefore, although the Advisory Intelligence Division is growing rapidly and is large, it is not deeply rooted and lacks real professionals.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "Espionage operations are very costly, whether it is bribing others, buying intelligence, or even carrying out some assassination operations, it can't be done without money. Although this is a lot of silver, it is not much for such a large territory as the entire Ming Dynasty.

In the future, the remuneration of some professional personnel should be improved, and those internal supervisors who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty should also be rewarded. When you go back, ask some old people and make a reform plan. ”

Zhu Zhanji wanted to develop the Intelligence Department in the direction of the CIA, and Jinyiwei was the KGB or more like the FBI.

These two departments are directly responsible to the royal family, while the General Administration Department and the Criminal Department are more like investigative agencies of the imperial court, not just the royal family.

After sending them away, Liu Wan and Zhuang Fengyi had already prepared supper for Zhu Zhanji.

After eating and drinking, Zhu Zhanji began to be a diligent old scalper again, cultivating land.

Outside the bedroom, Liu Wan arranged two chamberlains who were responsible for protecting Zhu Zhanji, and some couldn't wait to come to the side room, looking at the somewhat thin figure sitting on the edge of the bed, silently in a daze.

He had never felt his heart beating so fast, and he wanted to speak, but his voice was muffled in his throat.

It was the other party who saw him first, and hurriedly got up and saluted in fright, Liu Wan waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite...... Your Highness doesn't like to have someone to help serve at night, you don't have to wait, and let those palace maids remove all the hot water. ”

The other party answered, went out and told the little palace maids not to wait, and then returned to the room. Seeing that Liu Wan was still sitting there, she didn't dare to drive the other party away, so she sat down next to him. "Young Eunuch Liu does this every day...... Busy? ”

Liu Wan woke up in shock and said with a smile: "Your Highness is full of energy, and there are more daily affairs. However, I took turns serving with Young Eunuch Li, and I didn't feel tired. I still don't know the girl's surname, where is her home? ”

"I didn't dare to ask as a young eunuch, the slave's original surname was Cai, and after entering the palace, she was able to serve Zhuang Fengyi, and was given the name Jade by Zhuang Fengyi. My hometown is Linzhou ......"

Liu Wan couldn't wait to ask: "But Caizhuang, Yutang Town, Linzhou, there is a big jujube tree in front of your house?" ”

"Young Eunuch...... How do you know? ”

Liu Wan stood up and bowed, and said in Linzhou dialect: "Boy Liu Wan is here to thank Miss for her life......

Yu Yu stood up in surprise, looked at Liu Wan but was speechless.

Although since entering the palace, Liu Wan has enjoyed the wealth of the human world, and has traveled the world with His Royal Highness. But the turbulent life of exile when he was a child is still a deep memory that he can't erase.

He vaguely remembered that his father was a hunter, but he was eaten by a tiger in Taihang Mountain. The court did not allow young women to be widows, and their mothers wanted to remarry, and they originally fell in love with an honest widower in a neighboring village, but they were afraid that the three acres of land left by his father would be taken by others, and the family forced their mothers to let her marry a broken family.

The mother refused, the broken family not only did not do his job, but also liked to beat women, and he was also afraid of that person.

In the end, for some reason, his mother was sunk in the pig cage, and he and his three-year-old sister became orphans at the age of eight.

Later, his sister was also taken away, and he escaped alone in such a cold winter.

An eight-year-old child who doesn't know anything, when Liu Wan often recalls, he is a little afraid, he is really lucky to be able to survive at that time.

It was also such a snowy night, and he hid in the ancestral hall of Caizhuang all night. That night he thought he was going to die, but the next day he met an old man who came to the ancestral hall with his family.

The young lady, who was a little younger than herself, wore a red cotton jacket and held a freshly steamed steamed bun in her hand.

The old man saw him hiding in the ancestral hall and asked people to throw him out, but the young lady stuffed the steamed bun in his hand to him.

Because of that steamed bun, he survived and had the strength to go to Linzhou. He thought he would be a beggar, but before he entered Linzhou, he met the team of the crown princess who passed by.

Master Jin Kuo was still very young at that time, and asked him if he would like to be a eunuch with them.

He asked if he could eat enough, and Master laughed. "Tube full."

Since then, there has been one less Liu Hu and one more Liu Wan.

More than ten years have passed, and he has little memory of everything in his hometown. But on that gray and white cold winter day, that red cotton jacket was the eternal warmth in the deepest part of his memory.

Liu Wan smiled, the red cotton jacket and the somewhat timid figure in front of her were one, she was still so beautiful.

He touched his earlobe and said, "Seventeen years ago, in the Caizhuang ancestral hall, Miss made a steamed bun and let me survive. I can't remember what Miss looked like, but this red mole on your earlobe has always been imprinted on my heart. ”

Yu Yu didn't expect that she would be able to meet her former old friend in the palace, in fact, she had already forgotten about it. It wasn't until Liu Wan reminded her that she had a vague impression.

However, even so, the fate with Liu Wan made her extremely happy. In this cold palace, she could feel a trace of warmth.

The two of them talked about everything in their hometown, and many memories that had been blurred in Liu Wan's heart have now become vivid.

He suddenly missed his sister, who was five years younger than him, his dearest relative, and he didn't know if he was alive or dead.

In the past, he didn't want to think about it, and he didn't dare to think about it, but now, his thoughts were hooked.

It's been seventeen years, and His Royal Highness won't leave the capital for several years, shouldn't I ask for an errand to go to Linzhou to find the sister who left me at the age of three......

The snow was falling heavier and heavier outside, and by the time it was almost dawn, there was a thick layer outside.

Some of the little eunuchs on duty had already gotten up, and they had prepared the tools to clear the heavy snow, and when the nobles got up, they were about to start clearing the snow.

Although they didn't sleep all night, Liu Wan and Yuyu didn't feel sleepy. Hearing the movement from the inner room, it should be that His Highness has gotten up.

Liu Wancai said to Yuxing: "In this Xingqing Palace, relying on His Highness and Master, my words are still somewhat useful. If you encounter any grievances in the future, don't hide them, I will support you. If you miss your father, I can also bring the letter back for you, and even arrange for them to come to the capital to meet you, it is not difficult. ”

Yu Yu shook his head and said, "If I had been assigned to other departments and bureaus, I would have been able to go home after ten years of work, and I still hope to go home one day." But since I entered the palace, this is my place from now on, and I can't go back. ”

Liu Wan knew very well that His Royal Highness had been thinking about reforming the palace, but now he didn't have a letter and didn't dare to give hope to the other party.

He said with relief: "You just pray that Zhuang Fengyi can conceive the dragon seed soon, whether it is the little prince or the little county lord, as long as you have a child, you will be much better in the future." In the future, you can even think of this palace as a ...... Family. ”

Yu Yu didn't understand, and looked at Liu Wan with a little surprise. Liu Wan felt a little ashamed, embarrassed to face the other party again, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness is awake, I'll go ......"

When Zhu Zhanji woke up, everyone began to get busy, waiting for him to wash up, and then he quickly left Yongfu Palace.

Yu Yu only had time to go back to Zhuang Fengyi's bedroom at this time, Zhuang Fengyi, who always wakes up very early on weekdays, is still sleeping in Haitang Spring at this time, and the movement in the morning did not wake her up.

Looking at the somewhat messy bed, and smelling the somewhat panicked smell, she suddenly understood the meaning of Liu Wan's words just now, and her face turned red.

But seeing the strictness of this palace, and thinking of the night talk last night, she didn't seem to be disgusted in her heart.

Zhu Zhanji is idle today, of course, not because he has nothing to do, but because he doesn't have to go to Fengtian Hall to see those ministers quarrelling.

Zhu Di resolutely arranged the distribution of silver, and introduced the rules of deliberation, and there was no court meeting in the past few days.

While all the ministers were waiting for the day of the seal, they were busy connecting with each other to come up with a plan that everyone agreed, and they seemed to be busier than ever.

Zhu Zhan was basically able to rest for a few days, but now that he had begun to sort out all aspects of information on the Northwest and Timur Kingdom, his study seemed to be busier than before.

In addition to intelligence officers from various places returning to Beijing to report on their work, many people who connected with the political secretary and Jinyiwei also came.

They cooperated with each other, summarized and analyzed the information one by one, and then handed the results to Xingqing Palace.

On the Jinyiwei side, Yang Zhangde, the commander of the Jinyiwei, personally sat in charge, suppressing the people of the Jinyiwei not to contradict the people of the Advisory Department.

On the side of the General Political Division, Zuo Tongzheng Liangjie just came over to take a look, and seeing that Zhu Zhanji did not come, he arranged for Pang Bo, the right senator of Wupin, to be responsible for coordination here.

Since Zhu Zhanji began to collect and sort out intelligence, everyone knew that this was the matter of the Western Expedition to be officially put on the agenda.

But no one cares about this now, whether to let the six court officials take turns to serve as the speaker, one in turn for a year, or fix one person to serve as the speaker for five consecutive years and preside over the court meeting, is now the attention of the ministers.

The two options have their own merits, the former one is relatively fair, and all six officials have the opportunity to serve as officials, and no one will be superior.

However, this is not what the ministers wanted, because no matter who it is, who does not have an ideal of superiority?

Fix this position, become the head of the ministers, and lead the ministers to fight with the emperor, although he is not the prime minister, but he is also comparable to the prime minister!

These days are supposed to be sealed and closed, and all departments have nothing to do except for the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky.

However, the personnel of all departments in the capital are more complete than in the past, and even those who have asked for leave have begun to work one by one.

Even if they can't participate in the high-level competition, they want to know the exact news as soon as possible.

Zhu Di paid close attention to the attitude of the ministers, but Zhu Zhanji did not have the heart to find out what kind of decision they would make.

Whichever option they accept, the end result is the same.

All his energy was focused on the intelligence of the northwest and the contrast between the power of the Chinese military minister and the eunuch group.

His ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a great talent, although he was born as a monk, he never read and could not read until the end, but he became a generation of masters.

In particular, his ability to control people's hearts and manage them can be called the pride of the previous generation.

Although Confucianism has a limited side, they resist all development and let anyone only toss within the established range, but they bring super cohesive power to this nation.

Since the beginning of the dynasties, there has always been no shortage of Confucian scholars and ministers who have been "loyal to the monarch", and they can shed their blood for their ideals.

After Zhu Yuanzhang drove away the Meng Yuan people, a large number of ghosts who were afraid of death immediately turned over and became masters, becoming not afraid of death.

Zhu Yuanzhang used Wenchen to govern the country, used military generals to suppress Wenchen, and then used eunuchs who were always of the same mind with the royal family to restrict military generals.

After the construction of such a circular power link is completed, the imperial power has mastered the balance and arbitration, so that neither side can occupy an absolute advantage.

However, there is a big problem here, that is, the talent generation!

Military generals are not like Wenchen, they need to fight on the battlefield and need to face various difficult situations to mature.

In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, after decades of fighting, he had a large number of generals with rich combat experience, including the ability to fight politically.

Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Tang He, Lan Yu, any one of them can suppress a large number of Wenchen. In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, Wenchen's power was much smaller than that of military generals.

But with the stability of the country, the older generation of generals will be killed, and the old will be killed, and the new generation of generals will not be as good as the older generation.

But Wenchen is different, with the stability of the country, their numbers are increasing, their power is increasing, and their experience is becoming more and more abundant.

In the Zhu Di period, with the death of Zhu Neng, there was only one Zhang Fu left, and one Mu Sheng still had a little political acumen.

Mu Sheng is stationed in Yunnan, and Zhang Fu is now also stationed in Jiaozhi. In today's Ming Dynasty, the original situation of military generals balancing Wenchen is gone, and Wenchen's power is getting bigger and bigger.

Zhu Di had no choice but to support the eunuchs to help the generals balance the Wenchen, which was also the fundamental reason for the prosperity of the eunuchs during the Yongle period.

Zhu Di's seven eunuchs, except for one Li Qian, are Han Chinese, two Hui, two Jurchen, and two Mengyuan people. This is not only because the aliens are not more loyal, but the main reason is that they are less jealous of Wenchen.

Zhu Zhanji didn't understand at first why Zhu Di liked to use different races, but when he really integrated into this era, he realized that he couldn't use the thinking of later generations to consider the problem.

In later generations, the state and the nation have become a universal basis for ideological education.

However, in this era, although the concept of the nation has been formed, there is no concept of the state at all.

No matter what nationality the people are, they will not be loyal to any nation or country, but will only be loyal to a certain person.

Wang Yan's original name was Wang Gou'er, and the name Wang Yan was given by Zhu Di. He was originally a Jurchen. But in the early days of Yongle, he served as the eunuch of Liaodong Town, and he was not soft at all in killing the Jurchens, but killing the Han people, and he had to consider a little more.

To him, the Jurchen is nothing, and whoever is good to him, he is loyal to.

Except for pan-patriots like Zheng He, the other eunuchs are all like this, they are loyal to Zhu Di, the emperor, not the Ming Dynasty.

This is mainly because the national concept and consciousness have not yet awakened.

As a matter of fact, the awakening of national consciousness did not really mature until the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the 20 th century and the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Therefore, in this era of family and world, it is meaningless to care which person is which nationality.

Having said that, the decline of the general's power is not anyone's reason. It's because there are fewer wars, less experience, and because the generals face less political opposition.

The power of the eunuchs was the result of the emperor's support, and also because they controlled the country's economy.

From this point of view, they are natural opponents with Wenchen.

Because what the civil servants needed was to govern, they had to control the economic discourse, rather than just relying on taxes to make a living.

That's why there was a change in the civil fort, and the group of honorable military generals was wiped out, and all the power fell into the hands of the civilian group.

As a result, even if the peace is whitewashed in history, it cannot be concealed, and all the land and money have flowed into the forces of the civilian and bureaucratic groups, and they are rich and oily, while the people and the country are poor.

Even if Zhu Zhanji now supports the launching of the Western Expeditionary War, he must prevent civilian officials from making moves in this regard.

They may not have the idea right now, but what they do will turn the whole situation in that direction.

This is a general trend, and Zhu Zhanji is to strike a balance.

This is what an emperor must do well, and everything else is trivial.

We must not neglect to control the situation just because we want to fight, and we also need to support more military generals from this war.

However, Zhu Zhanji is not optimistic, because among the current military generals, there are many people who can fight, but there are few military generals with political ability.

In the list of generals listed by Zhu Di to Zhu Zhanji, Mu Sheng and Zhang Fu are both impressively listed, which also shows that Zhu Di now relies on the abilities of the two very much.

Mu Sheng and Zhu Zhanji don't know much about it, and they have seen two sides over the years. He is already a very popular minister, of course, he doesn't need to curry favor with a grandchild.

But Zhang Fu and Zhu Zhanji were not ready to let him out, nor were they ready to let him go back, but were ready to leave him in the capital as a treasure of the town.

And Zhu Di was inclined to let Liu Sheng lead the Northern Route Army, and Zhu Zhanji did not agree. Since he was in charge of the Shenji Battalion, he has been a great contributor to the development of Daming Firearms, and he also has a strong combat capability.

However, the main role of the Northern Route Army was not to fight wars, but to shoulder the important task of encompassing the countries and nationalities in the northwest. From this point of view, Jung Hyung is more suitable than him.

Over the years, Zheng Heng led 100,000 cavalry to garrison Beiming Mountain, although he did not fight, but he was able to put the defeated Warat and the dissenting Tatars on the reins, and this kind of political skill was what the commander of the road really needed.

It took three days to complete the plan in this regard, and the imperial court ushered in the last great court meeting in the seventeenth year of Yongle.

(In the section on the general trend later in this chapter, I feel more pertinent, hehe...... ）

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