For Jiang Xuan, the recent news is obviously not good news. The disappearance of Jiang Xuan, the younger brother of Crazy Sand Literature Network, made him unable to find a relative who could discuss matters.

The elder brother who was far away in Yulin obviously couldn't give him any advice, he couldn't go to Yulin in person, and his brother couldn't come to Datong. Relying on intermediaries to transmit information, first, it is unreliable and may be intercepted halfway; The second is that it is too time-consuming. Maybe the reply from the elder brother has not yet arrived in Datong, and he is already about to be taken back to the capital by the imperial envoy.

What's more, at this moment, the imperial court has focused its attention on him and his younger brother Jiang Xuan, and it is the matter of their collusion with the Kang clan that has not yet pulled the Jiang clan in Yulin in. At this time, Yulin's brother was put out of the way, but it left a way for the Jiang family to survive, so he also broke off the idea of discussing with his brother how to deal with the court's criticism.

As the largest landlord in the Datong area of Shanxi, Jiang Hao is naturally the leader of the gentry clan in northern Shanxi. Although Shanxi was a province in later generations, it was actually divided into two administrative regions in Daming.

North of Wutai Mountain, from Datong to Xuanfu, all belong to the border area under the jurisdiction of the border town. The south of Wutai Mountain belongs to the mainland and is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Shanxi. Most of the gentry in Shanxi lived in the Hedong region south of Taiyuan, near the Yellow River.

As for the border areas north of Wutai Mountain, the so-called big gentry basically belonged to putting gold on their faces, and the previous generations were just small landlords and military households.

However, after the peace of Longqing, the land from Datong to the Great Wall could finally be exploited, and these small landlords and military households slowly began to make a fortune by virtue of their relationship with the army.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, as the imperial court subdued the two major Mongolian tribes of Tumut and Chahar, and annexed most of the southern Mongolia, the Mongolian tribes outside the Great Wall of Shanxi finally ceased to be a threat to Shanxi.

The Datong area, which was originally regarded as the center of gravity of the Xuanda defense line, also quickly shifted from a military center to a logistics center for the Ming Dynasty to operate the Monan grassland, and began to gradually carry out local construction according to the standards of the mainland.

In this way, the land in the north of Shanxi began to be valuable. In recent years, natural disasters have driven many northern peasants out of their homes, which has allowed many gentry families in southern Shanxi to recruit a large number of displaced people at extremely low prices to exploit the wasteland on both sides of the Great Wall.

For the gentry and landlords in northern Shanxi, headed by Jiang Xuan, this was both an opportunity and a threat. After all, they have mastered the best land in this area, and the increase in land value will naturally bring them great benefits.

On the other hand, the huge amount of land in their hands will also be targeted by powerful people, especially those well-established and famous families in the Hedong region.

In order to fight against these powerful and powerful families, Jiang Hao and other gentry and landlords in northern Shanxi could only huddle together to keep warm, and took refuge under Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Fengda.

It should be said that whether it is Jiang Hao or these local gentry who are in the group with him, they basically have no political ambitions. Their greatest ideal when they came together was to keep the land and property they had accumulated in the past.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, except for a short period of time when Wei Zhongxian was in power, the Ming Dynasty really had no precedent for the imperial court to attack the gentry's property, which is why Wei Zhongxian was hated by so many gentry.

Therefore, when his in-law Kang was imprisoned on trumped-up charges, Jiang Hao reacted so violently and united his relatives and friends to protest to the imperial court. Because in their eyes, this time it was the court that was at fault, and swallowed up the property of a good citizen who was not at fault by means of planting false accusations.

Kang's opposition to depositing his gold and silver in the bank was a normal thing in the eyes of the gentry. No matter how loyal they are to the monarchy, they can't be allowed to exchange real money for a stack of paper to go home, right?

If the Kang family was convicted of this incident, then how should they face the demands of the imperial court next? Do you really want to dedicate all your gold and silver to the imperial court, this is too unusual.

Therefore, these gentry are crying out for Kang's grievances, in fact, they are also speaking for their own families. They hoped to stir up the anger of the gentry against the new policy, so that they could force the court to amend or repeal the coinage law.

The Ming Dynasty had a precedent of not holding the public accountable, the change of Tumubao, Ming Yingzong was captured, and Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, was in charge of the country. As a result, Zhu Qiyu lost control of the first court meeting, and the civil officials killed Ma Shun, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, in front of him, and Zhu Qiyu could only declare everyone innocent.

During the Wanli and Tianqi years, because the local gentry were dissatisfied with the excessive collection of taxes by the tax supervisors sent by the palace and the arrest of the gentry by the Jinyi Guards, the Jinyi Guards who incited the people to besiege the tax customs and perform official duties were not once or twice, and the two emperors could only acquiesce in this fact. Not only did he not pursue the main messenger, but began to restrain the actions of the eunuchs and Jinyiwei.

Therefore, in the eyes of Jiang Hao and other Shanxi gentry and landlords, if the coinage bill can cause the gentry of the world to resist, the imperial court will eventually give in. And using the Kang case to challenge the imperial court is obviously an excellent excuse.

Jiang Hao thought that he didn't want to rebel, just to keep his family business. His family guards the frontier instead of the imperial court, and now the three brothers are guarding one side separately, can the imperial court still deal with a loyal courtier like him because he complains a few words? If so, who will be willing to work for the court in the future.

Jiang Jiu's ideal is indeed beautiful, but this reality is obviously a bit cruel. This time, the imperial court didn't follow the road at all, and didn't even give them a chance to stand up again, so they just flashed and thundered.

And the Jiang Gang brothers, who had complained a few times on the side, are now facing this storm squarely. Jiang Jiu was worried about his brother whose whereabouts were unknown, and at the same time, he was also afraid of the order that he was summoned to the capital, so he couldn't help but summon the local gentry and close henchmen to discuss.

God is pitiful, Jiang Hao dared to swear that he summoned these people just to discuss countermeasures, and he had no intention of rebelling. After the abolition of many military functions in Datong Town, he, the general soldier of Datong, not only had many fewer soldiers in his hands than in the past, but he was no longer the highest military commander in Datong as in the past.

Originally, the Xuanda region was regarded as one, and the Xuanda Governor presided over the military and civil affairs. However, the residence of the governor of Xuanda was in Yanghe, and Xuanfu and Datong each had a governor and a general soldier. Although the governor has overall leadership responsibility, the commander-in-chief is the highest military commander in the region and is responsible for local military affairs.

Since the establishment of the General Staff and the reform of the frontier official positions in the imperial court, the Governor of Fengda replaced the Governor of Xuanda. After the Monan grassland was incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, the frontier of the Ming Dynasty continued to expand to the north, and the Chengde and Monan grasslands became the new northern frontiers, so that the military status of the original Xuanda region began to decline, and the political connection between Xuanfu and Datong was severed.

The Xuanfu was re-divided into Hebei, and the authority of the governors of the two places to manage military affairs was greatly eliminated, and was replaced by the emergence of the local governor's office, which was directly under the dual leadership of the general staff and the local governor's office, and gained the power to manage the local army and military administration.

In other words, there are now three provincial-level real power yamen in Datong City. the governor's yamen, who managed the local administration and led the army; the general army yamen responsible for the security of Datong city and the local garrison force; The Fengda Governor's Mansion manages the general army yamen and local field troops and army logistics, and coordinates the relationship between the army and the local government.

In other words, if Jiang Huang, the chief soldier of Datong, did not get the approval of the Fengda Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, not only would he not be able to mobilize the troops in the city, but he would not even be able to open the arsenal. Otherwise, it would be a real rebellion.

Before the border army was restructured, there were nearly 30,000 Ming troops in Datong City. After the restructuring, the army in the city was less than 8,000, including a battalion of new troops garrisoning the governor's mansion and a standard battalion under the governor's yamen, with a total of about 2,000 people, and the remaining 6,000 were the garrison troops managed by the general army yamen.

In addition, there are hundreds of police officers in the city to maintain law and order, and it can be used as a military force in times of emergency. Although Jiang Hao's troops exceeded the strength of the imperial court in the city, less than 3 miles outside the north gate of the city, there was a field army camp with more than 3,000 soldiers stationed.

With such a balance of power, Jiang Hao didn't feel that he had any chance of winning the rebellion. After all, he had also witnessed the training of the field army. The soldiers of these field armies may not be as good as the legendary Manchurians, but it should be no problem to fight these garrisons under him, and one should deal with two or three.

Therefore, as long as he could not close the whole city in a short period of time, and let these field armies rush into the city, it would be the beginning of the failure of the army.

Therefore, Jiang Hao, who is well aware of things, has never thought in the direction of raising troops. He summoned the crowd to hear what good ideas the listeners had to get him through; the second is to see if these people will betray him after hearing the news from the imperial court; The third is to hope that everyone can collect a sum of money so that he can take the road of power when he goes to Beijing.

But the situation that he did not expect appeared, and although the gentry and landlords heard the hint that he wanted money, they pretended not to understand one by one, and did not think about the way to take the money to eliminate the disaster.

And his group of cronies and generals are the ones whose interests have been damaged in this military restructuring. If the generals of the Ming border army want to get ahead, the most important thing is not to have military merits but to have money. The military ministers of the Ming Dynasty have money, and the civil officials have even more money, and if they want to climb up, they can't do it without money.

Just like Mao Wenlong, Dongjiang Town, who fought with his life, had to embezzle military funds to bribe the ruling minister in order to gain the support of the imperial court.

For the military ministers to make money, one is to deduct the military salaries of their subordinates and covet military funds; The second is to accept bribes and drive subordinates to work for themselves. After the reform of the military system, the establishment of the logistics department cut off the financial resources of these middle-level generals, not to mention the general staff, and even seized their control over the promotion of their subordinates, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among these generals.