When Chongzhen was awarded the title in the northern suburbs, a team of more than 100 horsemen and horses were also leaving the capital from Fuchengmen and slowly moving towards the southwest.

Most of the people in this group were dressed in brocade clothes, and there were several people dressed as eunuchs, and the people of the capital who had a little insight quickly recognized that these eunuchs who were surrounded by brocade guards and went out of the city were probably ordered to go out of the city on an errand.

After the vendors and pedestrians on the streets of Fuchengmen saw this group of people, they immediately got out of the way, preferring to avoid it for a while rather than accidentally bump into the team of people who went out.

The leader of the Jinyi Guard, who led this group of men and horses out of the city, was Tian Ergeng, the commander who was called Wei Zhongxian's eldest son by the Donglin Party in the past. After Wei Zhongxian lost power, the former governor of Jinyi stopped for a while, and everyone thought that this person was going to disappear from now on.

However, in less than 2 years, Tian Ergeng ascended to the position of director of the patrol police department. The director of the patrol department, which is under the dual management of Jinyi Wei and the Criminal Department, although not as majestic as the Jinyi Governor, is also a high-powered position.

It's just that Tian Ergeng, who was almost buried because of Wei Zhongxian's loss of power, finally learned some lessons, and his work was no longer as high-profile as before, which made his impeachment much less.

However, he rarely shows up in the capital, but today he personally led the team out of the city, which couldn't help but surprise many passers-by who recognized Tian Ergeng, and many people subconsciously guessed that it was possible that there was a big case somewhere again.

Although the speculation of these passers-by is somewhat outrageous, in fact their speculation is not far from the truth.

After leaving the urn city of Fuchengmen, Tian Ergeng, who was riding on a horse, carefully said to the three eunuchs in their 30s beside him: "Several fathers-in-law, our errand in Beijing this time is an extremely urgent matter, and we will drive more than 2,000 miles in the next 15 days, of which a small half is a mountain road.

Because of the urgency of the matter, I can only ask a few fathers-in-law to ride together, if there is any inconvenience on the road, please be patient, otherwise I have to take the others on the road first. ”

Although the three eunuchs' faces were a little pale, they still said one after another: "Commander Tian can rest assured, we are also under the emperor's order, how dare we delay time." No matter how difficult it is, we will keep up with the command. ”

Tian Ergeng nodded to the three of them, and then urged the horses to run to the front of the team, so the group of men and horses went along the official road towards the Lugou Bridge in the southwest direction.

In the colonel field in the northern suburbs, every military attache who accepted the rank looked extremely happy, of course, this was not unrelated to the fact that they had already understood in advance, and the various treatments and powers corresponding to each rank were not unrelated.

Unlike the previous military ranks, which only existed among the military attaches on active duty, the military ranks established by the new army not only ensured the treatment of military attachés at all levels, but also ensured the command power of the higher ranks over the lower ranks during the war.

Zhu Youzhen only conferred the ranks of marshal and general, and then retreated to the side of the rostrum with Sun Chengzong, and asked these newly awarded generals to confer the titles of colonel and lieutenant officers. As for the rank of soldier below the rank of lieutenant, in order to save time, it was simply awarded by the lieutenant when he returned to the barracks.

While watching the process of conferring the title, Zhu Youzhen whispered to Sun Chengzong: "Sir, you should have read the information about the Shaanxi incident that I sent you yesterday, right?" ”

Sun Chengzong subconsciously nodded and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." Is Your Majesty planning to mobilize a new army to Xi'an? Isn't this a little too far to quench your thirst? In fact, the neighboring Shanxi and Xuanda have surplus troops that can be mobilized, which is more convenient than mobilizing the new army in the capital, and the logistics supply is also easier. ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said: "Although Shanxi and Xuanda have teams that can be transferred, they will have to be transferred back sooner or later." This time, I transferred a division from the New Army to Xi'an, and I also planned to take out two graduating classes from the Military Academy to transform the Shaanxi Border Army.

Hasn't the General Staff already submitted this year's plan for the reorganization of the army? This year, we will develop the new army to 120,000 people, and in addition to the Xuanda, Jiliao, Gyeonggi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan regions, we will naturally have a new army in the northwest that is sufficient to suppress the localities.

The Qin army has always been hard-working, and the quality of its troops is also higher than that of other border towns, and it is relatively united internally. However, because of this, in ordinary years, if we want to adapt the Qin army, we will definitely encounter great obstacles.

But now, Shaanxi has been hit by disasters year after year, and contradictions have emerged between the local people and the gentry, and between the border town guards and the local people. Taking this opportunity to transform the Qin army and establish the skeleton of the new army in Shaanxi will lay the foundation for the imperial court to build a reliable army in the northwest in the future. Therefore, I still ask that it be better to transfer one unit from the Gyeonggi New Army. ”

Sun Chengzong lowered his head and thought for a while, before he cautiously said to Chongzhen: "If Your Majesty thinks so, then the minister suggests that it is better to transfer Zuo Liangyu out of Xi'an."

Zuo Liangyu is careful in his work, and he is quite able to win people's hearts, let him go to Xi'an, there should be no conflict with the generals of the Qin army..."

After the award ceremony was over, Sun Chengzong, who had sent Chongzhen out of the camp in the northern suburbs, returned to the camp with the members of the General Staff and the generals of the new army, and began to convey the emperor's latest orders to these subordinates.

After confirming the support of the General Staff for him, Zhu Youzhen returned to Beijing in a carriage. Sitting in the carriage, he had been thinking about the matter he had negotiated with the representatives of the three banks last night.

When Zhu Youzhen stepped down from the carriage because of the reminder of the carriage driver, he realized that he had returned to the front of the Wenhua Palace.

He stretched his muscles a little on the spot, and then casually asked Wang Chengen, who came up: "How is the cabinet discussing the officials sent to Shaanxi today, as well as the land dispute in Shaanxi?" ”

Wang Chengen, who was left by Chongzhen to listen to the discussion of the cabinet, cautiously replied to the emperor: "Back to Your Majesty, several cabinet elders have been arguing for a day today, and they have not come to any conclusion on these two issues? ”

Zhu Youzhen suddenly looked at him with some surprise and asked, "You haven't even discussed the officials assigned to Shaanxi?" So what are they talking about in the morning? ”

Wang Chengen looked left and right, waved his hand to let the accompanying little eunuchs retreat, and then whispered to the emperor: "Back to Your Majesty, it is because the elders of the cabinet can't think of a plan to solve the land dispute, so they can't determine the candidate to send officials."

According to His Majesty's intention at the meeting yesterday, when sending officials down to deal with land disputes, they should always favor the side of the victims who have returned to their hometowns, so as not to provoke greater turmoil in the locality.

But in this way, wouldn't the officials sent by this be tantamount to offending the local gentry, or even the clan vassal kings? This is a good errand, and it will be resented by the gentry clan of Shaanxi; If this is not done well, it will be used as a scapegoat by the officials of the DPRK and China to provoke local chaos.

Several elders didn't want to recommend their protégés and friends to go down, nor did they want to attract resentment for no reason, so they couldn't decide on a few candidates. ”

Zhu Youzhen subconsciously frowned, and then loosened his brows and said, "Then who are the candidates they are discussing now?" ”

Wang Chengen replied without thinking: "The first one is Cui Ningxiu, and the second is Han Yiliang. However, Mr. Xu objected to Cui Ningxiu's going down, believing that he had just been reinstated and knew nothing about the inside affairs of the imperial court and Shaanxi, and it might be counterproductive to let him go down.

Mr. Guo and Mr. Xu opposed Han Yiliang at the same time, thinking that although the candidate was suitable, Han Yiliang was still in Yangzhou now, and when he arrived in the capital and then transferred to Shaanxi, it is estimated that Shaanxi would already be full of flames..."

After listening to Wang Chengen's report while walking, Zhu You had a general understanding of what the cabinet had discussed in today's meeting.

Standing in front of the conference room of the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Youzhen tidied up his appearance, and then instructed Wang Chengen: "Go and report, I want to participate in the discussion meeting of the cabinet." ”

Huang Liji and other cabinet ministers got up and looked at Chongzhen who walked in from outside the door, and many people suddenly felt a little empty in their hearts. When they had a meeting today, they didn't blame each other, and now after seeing Chongzhen present in person, they finally felt the urgency of the incident again.

After sitting down, Zhu Youzhen did not greet the ministers as usual, he was silent for a moment before he opened his mouth to Huang Liji and asked: "Mr. Huang, I want to know if the cabinet has discussed a plan for how to deal with the encroachment of the land of the affected people?" ”

Huang Liji first glanced at his colleagues next to him, and then made up his mind to say to the emperor: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the most important thing at present is to ensure the stability of Shaanxi.

Therefore, getting the local officials to urge the gentry to return the land was the only feasible solution at present. However, there are still some different opinions in the cabinet, and the ministers still need time to reach a unified understanding. ”

Huang Liji's statement finally softened Zhu Youzhen's face, he nodded slightly and said, "The cabinet has this basic understanding, and I think it's still good."

Of course, I also knew that trying to get the land out of the hands of those squires without spending money was bound to cause an uproar.

Moreover, a lot of the land was sold to others before the victims left their hometowns, because they never thought that they would be able to return to their hometowns again.

However, things have developed to this point, even if those squires are resentful, the court has to let them spit out some of their benefits. Of course, we can't do things directly, we still need some strategy..."