Zhao Ji entered the lobby of the council, which had become a pot of porridge, Zhang Mengcun and Bi Lige of the Farmers and Peasants Association went into battle shirtless, and were fighting with Shen Tingyang and Wang Chong of the Chamber of Commerce, and the old man Dabu and Han Laohan from Baita Village also appeared here, holding crutches and scolding profiteers for bullying people. Hundreds of people crowded together to make noise and scuffle, the scene was chaotic, Li Jianji and Wang Fang were so anxious that they were sweating profusely, but no one listened to them, Zhao Ji's personal guards sounded the military horn in a hurry, and the group quieted down.

Li Jianji cried and told Zhao Ji that the House of Representatives was about to be unable to do it, first of all, he couldn't be elected, Wu Lang Hahatun refused to do it, and others didn't dare to show his face, so he had to put his name on his head first, everyone didn't want to be the head, but they rushed to be the governor and fellow governor below, the competition was too fierce, and he didn't settle down until now; The deliberations are even more chaotic, and the big things are noisy for a few days and cannot be decided, and everyone also complains that there are too many people in the Naturalization Mansion, and the people from other guards can only be foils, and the most annoying thing is that the farmers and herdsmen will rely on the strength of the people, and everyone must listen to them every time, otherwise they will make trouble, and this is a, just break up.

Zhao Ji covered his stomach and laughed after hearing this, and only when he laughed enough did he comfort Li Jianji not to be discouraged, his old Zhao must support them to fight with the Ming court. Zhao Ji called the people in the council together, and told them in a serious tone: Everything is difficult at the beginning, the most important thing is to set the rules first, especially their rabble, so what rules are the best? Don't tell me about the court, there is the most unruly mess, and the most deceitful is our horse thief! Whoever in the world does not say that we are the most trustworthy and reasonable, and if you want to make the House of Representatives, learn from me.

"If you don't believe it, then let's tell the truth," Zhao Ji didn't blush when he heard a boo, and said loudly to everyone, "Let's do a one-vote deal, and we can get together dozens of people who don't know each other in the shortest possible time, so that orders and prohibitions can be carried out, from stepping on the point, starting, covering, evacuating, and sharing the spoils in one go, can the officials and soldiers of the imperial court do it?" And we are also the fairest, from the commander and the rider down to the sentry and the man, everyone is satisfied with the remuneration for their work, and many of you have traveled from south to north, who has ever seen us do unreasonable things? Let me tell you, the more famous the horse thief is, the more he pays attention to the rules, and the knowledge in this is deep. ”

Li Jianji thought about it and agreed, authentic horse thieves are indeed very concerned about the rules of the rivers and lakes, and they are trustworthy when they say what they say, and it is the government that often plays shamelessly, but Shen Tingyang muttered in a low voice, "Actually, we also talk about rules" - the Shen family originated in shipping, and has dealings with the East and the West, to put it bluntly, it is a pirate to start, but now that it is whitewashed, I am really embarrassed to expose my own shortcomings.

Zhao Ji continued: "It is risky to do our business, usually find a place to hide, and only get together when you encounter a big deal, everyone is very little and not familiar with each other, and there is no one big and who is small, a bowl of water is flat, everyone will accept the errand and work hard, so we also have to sit together to discuss and decide, this is to abide by the rules and reason, like you are noisy, you have already broken up, and you have a fart robbery!" Do you know the rules of the proceedings? Probably as soon as the meeting is held, there are absolutely a lot of nonsense, grabbing words, going off topic, and twisting farts and big things. ”

"That's it, I said a long time ago that there should be rules for deliberations, you can't come as many people as you want, and you can't talk around, but they just don't listen." Shen Tingyang touched the waist of the beaten and yelled at Zhang Mengcun.

"You have money, and there are many literate people, what should we do if we have fewer people and are bullied by you?" Zhang Mengcun replied unconvinced.

"Shut up! Now listen to me. Zhao Ji slapped the table viciously, and continued to talk about the rules of their horse thieves - first of all, they must choose a leader, they must be a respected and fair old horse thief, what the old horse thief wants to do is not to lead everyone to fight and kill, but to call everyone together to discuss how to distribute errands, share the harvest, compensate the dead and wounded, and punish those who do not obey orders and hide their property. Of course, those who leave must also ensure that they do not harm other people's affairs and strictly keep secrets, otherwise they will be scum of the same way, and everyone can punish them.

Shen Tingyang felt that it was time to show off, they pirates also had this set of rules, and then Zhao Ji's words continued to add: Among them, the rules of deliberation are the most important, the deliberations are not about who wants to come, but about each gang electing representatives, and there can't be too many people, otherwise it will be easy to be manipulated by people with ulterior motives. When deliberating, the presiding officer should first clarify the topic, but can not say something tendentious, let alone make a decision by himself, but to ensure that each representative fully expresses his opinions, if there is a grabbing of words, off topic, and nonsense, it must be stopped immediately, and those who deliberately make trouble must be expelled from the venue, everyone must be reasonable, vote openly to decide, the minority obeys the majority, the majority does not bully the minority, and no one can listen to whoever has a loud voice.

How does this guy know our rules? Could it be that he also did a horse thief - Zhao Ji couldn't help but look at Shen Tingyang a few more times, waved his hand and said: "What Lao Shen said is good, as soon as you hear it, you know that he is an expert, so you can listen to him more, Zhang Ding, the Sky Eagle and Sun Fuhu are also big horse thieves, you can also ask them." Let me give you another idea, if no one really dares to be the speaker, then elect Uncle Dabu, he is an old man with high morality and is an elder of the great commander, who dares to treat him? But he is a little older, and he is illiterate, so someone has to help him, I think Lao Li is good, so I will choose him as the deputy speaker. ”

Li Jianji made a small calculation in his heart, according to Zhao Ji's rules of deliberation, the speaker just maintained the order of the proceedings, which was not interesting at all, so he had to quickly call Shen Shoulian and Sun Tingyao back, and it was very good to stuff them in. After Li Jianji deliberately modestly took a look, he picked up Lao Dabu, and in a cheer, he walked in front of everyone and waved.

"Ji Ming, from today onwards, you will take the lead in formulating the rules of procedure of this court, and everyone must follow them in the future." After Li Jianji was elected, he issued the first order to Shen Tingyang, and Lao Dabu had not yet figured out what was going on.

Zhang Shi'an traveled to Beijing day and night, and immediately asked to see the commander of Jinyi, Luo Yangxing--In recent years, through Zhang Shi'an, Jinyiwei not only benefited from the private salt business in Fengzhou, but also earned a lot of face with the information he sent from Liaodong, thus changing the image of the new emperor after succeeding to the throne, and the market rose sharply in the court. Luo Yangxing also attached great importance to Zhang Shi'an, a meritorious man, and immediately summoned him, and after asking him what he meant, he didn't say much, but took him into the palace to see Wang Dehua, the eunuch of Dongchang.

After listening to Luo Yangxing and Zhang Shi'an, Wang Dehua frowned and pondered for a moment before asking, "Zhang Qianhu, can you be sure that there are spies among the people who make trouble?" ”

"Father-in-law, the word 'traitor' comes from the mouth of the chief Dolgon, used to separate Fengzhou and my Daming, originally shouted in Xuanfu for a while, and then no one paid attention to it, and now there are suddenly people in Beijing who are clamoring, and there are eighty percent of the lowly ones who are sure that there are hidden spies, and there are two people who are brought by the lowly position this time, and they will definitely be able to catch the spies." Zhang Shi'an replied affirmatively.

Wang Dehua no longer hesitated, and ordered Luo Yangxing with a sneer. "Okay, our family is also trying to clean up this group of bold scholars, Lord Luo, your Jinyi guard must start immediately, go all out to arrest the spies, and never fail, do you understand?"

"My subordinates understand! There must be spies among the troublemakers. ”

Wang Dehua turned his face and smiled and said to Zhang Shi'an: "The naturalized general soldier is very good, the emperor trusts him very much, and it is not so easy for those self-righteous ministers to harm him, if there is anything in the future, just find Datong's father-in-law Liu to pass a word, and our family and father-in-law will help him." ”

Zhang Shi'an came at the right time, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren started fighting again, this time it was Zhou Yanru who provoked the war - he suffered a loss last time, and he wanted to attack Wen Tiren after a little reluctance. At the beginning of the year, Zhou Yanru instructed his in-law Hanlin Academy to edit Chen Yutai's book on current affairs, pointing out that Sang scolded Huai to attack Wen Tiren, which can make Wen Tiren angry, you are the first assistant, and you are the one who is in charge of the Ming Dynasty, what are you doing with insinuations and scolding me? At this time, the inner dynasty secretly helped Wen Tiren, and instigated the Xuanfu to monitor the eunuch Wang Kun to impeach Chen Yutai for stealing the name of the department, implicating Zhou Yanru in the examination for favoritism, and Fu Youchao immediately wrote to the Zhou party, accusing Wang Kun of vainly interfering with the power of impeachment, and the rhetoric was sophisticated and sharp, and it was obvious that there were treacherous people behind the scenes - Zhou and Wen opened the curtain again, and the generals of both sides appeared one after another, and they wrote to impeach each other, bent on making each other stink and bring down each other.

However, Zhou Yanru spread to an unlucky teammate, and the target of the attack was wrong - Wang Zhidao, the left deputy envoy, was upset for Zhou Yanru, and said that the recent actions of the ministers almost held the emperor's platform, so that the auxiliary ministers were bombed, and the court was panicked, and the ministers discussed the end of the government, and the disasters were endless, and for the sake of eternity, he requested the dismissal of the prison officials everywhere, which angered the emperor and quickly removed Wang Zhidao's official position. Wang Zhidao returned to his hometown, and the other officials were also enraged, Feng Yuanbiao, Yan Jizu, Yu Yinggui and others angrily wrote to ask for the removal of the internal prison again, just at this time a group of scholars who entered Beijing to complain, and the naturalized general soldier Li Yu's various illegal deeds were obvious to the world, and the Qingliu were furious, and at the same time they supported the SX scholars, and added a hat of connivance to Wen Tiren and the inner dynasty - they said good things for the traitor, they must have been in a group, and some scholars and people from Beijing also joined in, and smashed several shops opened by Fengzhou people in Beijing, Catching the salt dealer is also a violent beating - where does the salt come from in Jingshi? Everyone tacitly knew that beating a few hawkers who sold Toyosu illicit salt could also relieve their anger. The matter is getting bigger, the General Administration Department is too frightened to take the case, the eunuchs of the Inner Dynasty and Wen Tiren and his party are also secretly weak-minded, Zhang Shi'an ran to say that among the people who made trouble, there were Jiannu spies, and they were in their arms, so there was a reason to do it, even if there were no spies, they had to try to find out the spies.

Luo Yangxing came back from the palace and immediately ordered the Jinyi Guards to start acting, a large number of plainclothes were sent to the streets and alleys of the Beijing Division, Zhang Shi'an's people also mixed in the crowd of troublemakers every day to search, the two Titang who had been the Jin State were too familiar with the same kind before, as long as there were Jin Guoren, they would definitely not be able to escape their eyes. Two days later, they finally had a harvest, a guy who mixed in with the scholars to fan the flames was identified as a Jin Guo - the shaved marks on his forehead and the occasional Liaodong accent revealed his identity, Jin Yiwei secretly arrested this man, and according to his confession, found the hiding place of the Jin State spies, and all but two of the five people in it resisted arrest and were killed on the spot, and the others were captured in one fell swoop. Wang Dehua and Luo Yangxing were overjoyed when they heard the news, and immediately ordered Wu Mengming and Zhang Shi'an, the servants of the Jinyi Guard, to interrogate the spies and pry their mouths open no matter what.

The three spies are also tough enough, they all understand that once they confess that they are spies, they will never be able to escape the doom of Ling Chi's execution, and they gritted their teeth and refused to admit it, but Jinyiwei's punishment was not comfortable, and the three of them supported it in the early morning of the next day and finally confessed - these guys arrived in Beijing at the end of last year, and their errand was to spy on the military situation and incite the people to volition. Zhang Shi'an also got a new situation from them, Li Yongfang, who was in charge of espionage affairs in the Jin State, was seriously ill, and Li Shutai, the second eldest member of the Li family, took over the errand, and the first thing he did after taking office was to send a large number of spies to the four towns of Naturalization, Datong, Xuanfu, and SX in the Xuanda region, but how to dispatch them is not something that these little people can know.

My opponent has been replaced by Li Shutai, this person is said to have been raised in the palace by the old chief since he was a child, and he should be easier to deal with than Li Yongfang, Fengzhou implements a strict guard system, and the organization is strict, and the Titang Division and the Inspection Department have been on guard against the Ming and Jin spies, and it is difficult for the people of the Jin Kingdom to infiltrate Fengzhou, but the other three towns basically have no anti-espionage ability, which is a bit hanging, and it is necessary to remind Datong, Taiyuan, and Xuanhua to strengthen the vigilance of the three Titang - Zhang Shi'an thought in his heart.

Wang Dehua and Luo Yangxing got the confession, and proudly went to report to the emperor, the emperor was furious and ordered the spy to be sent to Xishi Lingchi to be executed, and at the same time notified the officials and the people of Beijing that if anyone dared to provoke trouble again, they would be punished. There is also a person who is also going to be unlucky, the spies confessed that they had visited Zhou Yanru as a businessman, and also gave a big gift, of course the emperor did not believe that the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty would collaborate with the enemy, but Zhou Yanru regarded money as his life, he wanted any money, and dared to take any money.

The emperor's determination to take out Zhou Yanru has not yet been made, Wen Tiren immediately added fire and used the sharp weapon that has been treasured for many years - Chen Zanhua wrote again to expose that Zhou Yanru had said to Li Biao, a former cabinet minister who had already returned to his hometown, "Yu has the power to return to heaven, it seems that he is the emperor of Xi today", and cited the time, place, and witnesses. The emperor couldn't bear it anymore this time, Zhou Yanru was arrogant, and even slandered him as a stupid ancient man before Emperor Xi, this person must get out.

Zhou Yanru is about to go back to his hometown, what is he, just a hypocrite, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty should be me, I want to create a new era for the Ming Dynasty, the naturalized general soldier is really good, it brings me good luck every time, this guy is as annoying as me, just pull this fierce general on my boat, and it will definitely be used in the future - Wen Tiren thought proudly, although Zhou Yanru wagged his tail vigorously to sue for peace, but he, the victor, would not pay attention to this waste man, and Zhou Yanru was forced to resign and return to his hometown after more than a month, Wen Tiren took over as the first assistant of the Ming cabinet.

The overall situation between the Zhou and Wen parties has been decided, and there is a change in the northwest at this time - Hudun Tuhan reached out to ask for money again, and threatened to tear his face and start a war if he didn't give it. Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, was deeply worried about this, and said in the recital that the Han was tired and fearless, but the Qin army was transferred to SX in large numbers and there were Yu Kou who still had to be exterminated, so the troops of the five towns in the northwest were overstretched, and the border wall of thousands of miles was overwhelmed, Hong Chengchou thought that Yu Kou should be exterminated first, and then free up his hands to deal with the Han Dynasty, hoping that the imperial court would allow him to intercept part of the SX tax as military pay, and at the same time asked for the new and old Liao salaries of Yan'an, Qingyang, and Pingliang, which were seriously affected by the drought, to appease the people.

The ministers have nothing to say to Hudun Tuhan, an ally, this guy is a scoundrel by nature, after so many years, others are getting better and better, but he is still asking for food, and this time he won't give a tael of silver. As for Hong Chengchou, it is not the first time that he has intercepted taxes, he can't spoil him, the taxes that should be paid must be paid, Yan'an, Qingyang, and Pingliang can be exempted from Liao's salary, and it is estimated that the people there really can't squeeze oil and water, but Hong Chengchou doesn't want to shirk the responsibility of guarding the border for some reason, although it is important to suppress the Kou, the side wall must not be lost - let a group of people who ask for food break through, Daming TC can't afford to lose that face.

Wen Tiren is more realistic, and thinks that let Hong Chengchou catch both ends, and if he can't get both, it just so happens that the naturalized general soldier is still farming in the Hetao, give him some money and grain, and it would be good to contain the Han. The emperor also thought that the naturalized general army had outstanding military achievements, but he had hardly reaped the benefits, and he was too bad to treat others, so he immediately ordered the cabinet to draft an edict to greatly praise the naturalized general soldiers, first to give some spiritual encouragement, and let Wen Tiren go to the household department to raise money. Wen Tiren is a quick way to do things, to the household department to turn over the account book for a day, and finally found out last year's account - there are 5,000 horses of coarse cloth transported from Nanzhili to Tongzhou Hexi, but thrown in the treasury has been uncared for, it is estimated that in addition to embezzlement, theft and damage, there should be half left, Wen Tiren immediately ordered someone to go to Hexiwu, be sure to send this batch of coarse cloth to naturalization.

At this time, the war clouds in Ordos were thick, and the cavalry front battalion, cavalry rear battalion, infantry left battalion, infantry right battalion, infantry rear battalion, artillery battalion and the Flying Tiger Battalion, the cavalry right battalion, the Chahan Naoer Guard Garrison Cavalry Battalion, and the infantry battalion stationed here all crossed the Yellow River and set up camp north of the Hetao, and they were confronted by nearly 100,000 troops of Chahar Khan - the road to the south of the Chahar people was blocked, and what awaited them was a bloody battle, but did they still have the ability to defeat the Fengzhou people who were armed to the teeth?