Shizi was asking for directions through Liao Tycoon's stones, and all the participants thought so. To Zhu Pingjin's surprise, it was not the court official Liu Zhibo who took the lead in speaking out, but Shu Guoping, the general of the National Protector Army and chief of the General Staff.

Shu Guoping asked Zhu Pingjin bluntly, do you remember what he said when he was in Bifengxia about the dispute over military discipline?

"Remember every word! Mr. Shu's words are also that if there is a Ming Dynasty, there will be my Shu Domain, and if there is no Ming Dynasty, there will be no Shu Domain. This son and Daming share weal and woe, honor and disgrace. ”

Shu Guoping expressed his opinion firmly:

"Shizi is really a good memory! If the son of the world rebels, there will be a traitor in the future, saying, "If he is opposed, why can't I?" If the son of the world does not rebel, he will have nothing to say! The order of the prince is like a mountain, and the last general is the head of the horse! ”

Shu Guoping's words uncovered a dusty past in the early history of the Protector Army.

When the military discipline was agreed upon at Bifengxia, He Youyi believed that the caravan should be loyal to the Prince, while Shu Guoping believed that it should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the Son of Heaven. The two couldn't argue, and in the end, Zhu Pingjin came out to play a round.

However, the debate did not end there. In the current national defense army, the purpose of "allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, protecting the country and the people", the first half is becoming more and more diluted, and the second half is slowly left.

Ordinary soldiers felt that it was a matter of course to give their lives to whose money. took the silver of the prince, that is, the soldier of the prince, and has a bird relationship with the emperor who is far away in the sky!

Junior officers felt that "loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and protection of the country and the people" was just a slogan, and this slogan did not bring them and their families real returns. They need a concrete objectified image or a living person to be loyal to, and this image or character can never be an emperor who is far away in the sky, but only a prince who is close at hand. Only the sons of the world can remember their merits and give them practical benefits.

As for the senior officers, of course, they have more thoughts......

Sure enough, Shu Guoping was violently counterattacked by Sun Hong, the chief soldier: "Brother Guoping, during the battle for military discipline in Bifengxia, he was on the way with Wang Daniu and others in Xiashang. Later, I heard that Mr. He once asked Brother Guoping: If you see the close ministers of the Son of Heaven, hold the blood edict of the Son of Heaven, and recruit the Son of Heaven to enter the King of Jingqin. If the son of the world goes, he will die halfway; If the son of the world does not go, is it not a rebellion? Brother Guoping couldn't answer. Time has passed, can Brother Guoping answer today? ”

"The last general is stupid, and he can't answer. After a year of following the son, taking the son as the king, and taking the son as the teacher, the last general finally figured it out. Meng said: The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. It is because of the people of the hill that he is the Son of Heaven, because the Son of Heaven is the princes, and because of the princes who are the doctors. The princes are in danger, and they are replaced; If the water overflows early, it will be replaced! Therefore, it is said: The people are more important than the community, and the society is more important than the Son of Heaven! The son of the world puts the people and the community first in everything, and he will be Yao Shunyu soup one day! ”

The people present, except for Zhu Pingjian's wife and the martial artist Song Zhenzong, can all memorize the quotations of Mencius in the four books. Shu Guoping suddenly quoted Mencius's theory of "the people are noble and the monarch is light", and confused these people. It was because of this passage that Mencius was forcibly "versed" by Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of Zhu Pingjin, who was very unhappy, that is, clicked with scissors. When Shu Guoping said "Yao Shunyu Soup", these people were stunned, including Zhu Pingjin and Luo Yuhong.

"Yao Shunyu Soup", fools know that this is the Three Emperors and Five Emperors! How can he use "Yao Shunyu Soup" to describe the son?

Zhu Pingjin looked down on the martial artists beside him, and Song Da didn't understand. He just likes to go straight and listen to the twists and turns. He yelled at his former partner: "Mr. Shu, what do you mean by this?" Are we against it or not? ”

"Don't oppose the Ming Dynasty, don't oppose the emperor, save the people from fire and water, save the country's fortunes from the fall, and plot rebellion!" Shu Guoping replied calmly.

What does it mean to "not oppose the Ming Dynasty"? What does it mean to "not oppose the emperor"?

At this time, Zheng Anmin Zhenzhen came out of the queue and answered for Shu Guoping:

"The world has been sinking for a long time, and non-saints can't save the world! However, the Ming Dynasty has grace with the world, and the Son of Heaven has not lost his virtue, but on the contrary, he will lose the expectations of the public! Therefore, what Mr. Shu said means that the name of the country is not against the Ming Dynasty; Respect the Son of Heaven, that is, not against the emperor! Lock the border to protect the country, stabilize the people of Shu, and wait for the great changes in the world! The world has changed greatly, or the Son of Heaven has a Ming Zhaoqin King, then the northern expedition to Qinchuan and the east out of Jianghuai will be restored until the Beijing division is restored and the world is restored! ”

Seeing the opportunity, Zheng Anmin talked eloquently. Speaking of Shu Min, Liao Daheng suddenly had an understanding.

What are the people of Shu, does it refer to the poor people of Sichuan who face the loess with their backs to the sky?

Definitely!

A few days ago, the prince instructed Tian Qian to organize a council of peace gentry in each county.

What is a Justice of the Peace? What is the Senate? How to participate? What to discuss? Liao Daheng couldn't think about it.

Now Liao Daheng had a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he understood the mystery.

At this moment, he was thinking, could it be that in addition to him, the prince of the world has arranged another protagonist today?

Zhu Pingjin did not arrange another protagonist, but some people did aspire to be the protagonist of tonight, just like Liao Daheng.

That person is Zheng Anmin, the right chief of the Shu Wangfu and the prime minister of the government department.

Because before Zheng Anmin set off, he learned a bad news: his poor and crazy concubine received five hundred taels of silver from the favorite concubine of King Deyang.

Thinking of listening to the concubine's pillow wind before Zhengdan, he said something for King Deyang in front of Miss Luo, and let him step out of the high wall and live in the prince's former mansion. Zheng Anmin knows that he has made an unforgivable political mistake. This mistake will not only ruin his future, but also endanger the lives of his family. Passing by Huima Town, he chatted with Jiangding Town, the Shunqing Guanzhuang, who came to greet him, for a night. Jiang Dingzhen's words woke up the person in the dream, and Zheng Anmin, who was thinking hard about how to get rid of the crime, suddenly opened.

Jiang Ding Zhen said, the prince took advantage of the Xichong incident to turn the Li clan patriarch and Zhishi Yushi Li Wan around. Now Li Wan has to withstand great pressure and act as an eagle dog for the palace to suppress the gentry in Xichong. The Li family and several big clans in Xichong, including Li Wan and his brother Li Zhao, the right attendant of the household department, had no choice but to hug the thighs of the palace in order to protect themselves, and wholeheartedly became the spokesperson of the palace in Xichong, and worked hard to clean up the local mess.

A glimpse of the leopard, the emperor's mental technique of the prince has been cultivated to perfection!

Jiang Ding Town also said that the prince took advantage of the southern invasion of the local tyrants and the autumn grain in February to take away all the official fields and military fields of Shunqing Mansion and Guang'an Shouyu Qianhu Office, and assigned all the ownerless wasteland and barren mountains in the six counties of Guang'an and Pengzhou Prefectures to the name of Shu Wangfu. Shunqing Wangzhuang has been ordered by Vice Premier Li Chongwen to carry out a comprehensive inventory of Shunqing land, and the first to bear the brunt is Nanchong and Xichong counties. In the future, the tax rate will be redetermined based on the results of the clearance, and the "one-size-fits-all" tax collection that is being carried out by Jianzi Wangzhuang will be implemented. Maybe on the basis of this tax, two more points of the so-called "National Security Fund" will be levied!

Jiang Dingzhen's words that night, Zheng Anmin remembered the sentence most clearly:

"The hills and valleys in the heart of the prince are far from the speculation of our ordinary people! However, in the opinion of the following officials, the constraints within the walls are worse than those of thieves. Now that the battlefield has won a great victory, the people's hearts are stable, and it is the general trend for the prince to unify Shu. The only thing that is missing is just a note! Looking at the revival newspaper in recent days, you can know: Shizi and Liao Fu defeated the local tyrant in northern Sichuan, and the official gentry from all over the country have a court, but there is no 'local tyrant and inferior gentry' in Qiongmei and Chongqing!

Yes yes?

Or not at all? ”

……

Zheng Anmin's expansive explanation of Shu Guoping's discourse made the city gate tower lively.

"Lock up the border and protect the country, waiting for a big change?" Liao Daheng chattered to Zheng Anmin two or three times, and finally laughed out loud and said, "Wonderful! Wonderful! ”

At this time, Zhu Pingjin spoke. Zheng Anmin's so-called "waiting for a big change", he pretended to be deaf and dumb, didn't say a word, and just asked: "Where is the boundary of Lord Zheng's locked realm?" ”

"Nature is bounded by Shudi. East to Kuimen, north to Chaotian Pass. However, ......" Zheng Anmin slyly added a note to include key points such as Hanzhong, the Three Gorges, and Lizhou, "The Three Gorges and Qinling Mountains are all natural dangers, and it is unwise to abandon them." It was the old minister who thought that the defense of the Three Gorges must start from Yiling, and the land of Gushu must be bounded by the Qinling Mountains! In addition, Huguang Li Prefecture was originally the location of my Huayang Domain, and it must not be observed. However, this place is located in Jinghu Lake, and there is no danger to defend. The sacrifice thief and the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution were re-established in Yinghuo, and this place bore the brunt of it......"

Zhu Pingjin once again avoided the matter of Yiling, Qinling and Lizhou. He asked Zheng Anmin: "Those who lock up the territory and protect the country can't do it without an army." How many times does it take for the Sichuan official army and the national protection army to resist thieves? ”

Zheng Anmin replied seriously: "The minister has carefully calculated, counting the thirteen prefectures of Sichuan, the six prefectures of Zhili, the fifteen prefectures, and one hundred and eleven counties, and each county has a brigade of protecting the village, totaling about 500 people; Half of the battalions of the Protector Army were taken, and the battalion was about sixty-five, that is, sixteen regiments. Based on the calculation of four battalions of each regiment, the National Protector Army is less than 60,000 people, less than 20% of the number of thieves......"

Zheng Anmin knew that since the prince was knowingly asking, he wanted to lead today's topic to the reorganization of the army. For at least half an hour, everyone will be focusing on the topic of army reorganization. The Son's purpose was achieved, and his purpose was half accomplished.

Sure enough, the prince immediately pointed at the official army: "Those officers and soldiers can be incorporated into the national protection army?" ”

This time it was Liao Tycoon who rushed to answer. He deliberately called the prince in front of Liu Zhibo and Chen Qichi, in order to show them his political choice:

"The minister's meaning, the army that can fight in Sichuan, regardless of the feudal Han Tuliu, regardless of the battalion soldiers, regardless of the main army and guest soldiers, will be incorporated into the national protection army. It's just that the amount is large and miscellaneous, and it is not suitable to be compiled at one time.

It is best to compile it in several periods. In the first phase, Liu Zhenfan, Ding Xianjue, Tu Long, Zhu Hualong, Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan, Zhang Zhuokai, and Jia Denglian of the main and guest armies in northern Sichuan could be incorporated into the National Protector Army. If the number of camps is too large or too small, it will be redeployed in the future. The armies of southern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan were incorporated in the second and third phases. As for the guards, the old and weak are in the camp, the minister's will, and the elimination of it! ”

Liao Daheng's words are exactly what Zhu Pingjin meant. He hurriedly said:

"Liao Fu's proposal is feasible! However, Tu Long's headquarters was too damaged, and the number of troops was less than 1,000, so the garrison place was the most suitable; The three departments of Zeng Ying, Li Zhanchun, and Yu Dajiang in eastern Sichuan have water and land, and have participated in the war in eastern Sichuan, so let's put it in the first phase of reorganization! The Ma brothers in Lizhou have already opened to Jiading Prefecture, and they are also included in the first phase. In the future, the 20,000 people in the Xingdu Division will also be handled in this way: a batch will be issued and a batch will be reorganized; Tune out a batch, transfer in a batch. So the edge is stable and safe. Mr. Shu, what other plans does the General Staff have? ”