On April 13, the 26th year of Wanli, Zhao Hu once again led the army to break 10,000 Meng coalition troops, the Mon coalition army suffered heavy losses, fled in embarrassment, and lost three tribes to Zhao Hu, Zhao Hu could not continue to march, so he could only guard and digest these prisoners of war in situ, and wait for Yuan Huang's main force to arrive and then advance.

Previously, Yuan Huang also told Zhao Hu not to march too fast, and to give the other party a chance to gather the main force and break their main force in one fell swoop, so as not to be able to clean up their main force after many battles.

The advance of the Ming army in southern Xinjiang was very smooth, and victory was just around the corner, and in the capital, Jingcha, under the leadership of Shen and Cai Guozhen, was also steadily advancing.

The kind of tea that can't be left once you drink it.

At this time, there is no need to say any faction among civil officials, as long as they are officials with some authority, even if they go to investigate, it is really strange to find out the problem, and it is the norm to find out the problem.

Therefore, every year of Jingcha, officials always have to be cautious and vigilant, that is, they are afraid that their faction will be investigated because of the defeat of the political struggle, and then lose their positions and lose their good future.

To put it bluntly, everyone actually has a problem, who has a problem, what corruption methods there are, everyone is clear, but they don't say it, because the time has not come, and it is not yet time to rectify you.

It's time for Jingcha to come, you can say it, you can counterattack, you can start working, and you can be checked and accurate, and you will be solved in minutes, so the big guy is really not unconfident, but the confidence has not existed from the beginning.

Naturally, the same is true of the Jin bureaucrats who use money to open the way.

In fact, the officials of the various factions of the Ming Dynasty use their own rules and regulations to be greedy for ink, collude with each other, and eat kickbacks in what way, and they are clear to each other.

Cai Guozhen, as a veteran, is basically a sharpshooter with a hundred shots, the first arrow hit Yang Junmin, and then repeatedly opened the bow without missing a hand, attacking the backbone of the Jin bureaucrats in the court, and pulling down twelve Jin bureaucrats in a row.

If at this moment, the Jin family still thinks that Cai Guozhen is desperate to enter the cabinet and wants to attack the courtiers indiscriminately, then it is really blind to the Jin bureaucratic team that Zhang Siwei and others have cultivated over the years.

Cai Guozhen is making a big move to attack the Jin system!

Didn't you see that in addition to the twelve Jin bureaucrats, there was only one minor official of the Liaodong department who had fallen these days? The rest of the more than 20 bureaucrats of the Jin and Liaodong departments were isolated and examined, and only three foreign officials were taken down by Cai Guozhen because their reputations were too bad for their colleagues to look down on.

Doesn't that tell the story?

The Jin bureaucrats began to put themselves in danger, and when they tried to fight back to protect themselves, they were stunned to find that they had no means to fight back.

Yang Junmin was taken down at the beginning, and then the mainstay of the middle level, now the middle level is chaotic, everyone at the lower level is in danger, the Jin bureaucrats can no longer find a way to fight back, and those officials who were friendly with the Jin family in the past seem to have become strangers overnight, and the Jin family seems to have become an orphan in the court.

The situation between Korea and China was chaotic and everyone was in danger, and at this moment, a war report from Xiao Ruxun, the governor of the four sides, added a sense of tension to the Jingcha storm.

Pullik, who had been ordered to be beheaded by Zhu Yijun, invited many tribes from the north to go south before the defeat, and now although Pullik has been captured, these tribes who intend to go south have just arrived outside the Great Wall, and the number is expected to be no less than 500,000, and the number of soldiers who can fight starts at least 100,000!

Just ended a battle of Datong, Shanxi Province where 100,000 people were captured from the north and south, but there was another battle of 100,000 people here!

Xiao Ruxun didn't have time to make many deployments, so he could only stop the war with war.

He said that he would recruit 100,000 soldiers from the four towns to gather in Datong, and expressed to the imperial court that he was determined to fight to the death, and would not put a single person from the north into Datong, and strive to ensure that the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty would not be lost.

However, at present, there is a real lack of military equipment, so please allocate a large amount of money from the imperial court, especially armor, crossbow arrows, gunpowder, lead, and fire ropes, the more the merrier, well, of course, there are silver taels used by the army, which is an important means to maintain morale.

After the cabinet received this war report, Shen always felt the seriousness of the problem, except for Cai Guozhen who continued to go all out to eliminate the Jin forces, the rest of the bigwigs gathered in the cabinet again to discuss the problem.

I don't know when, China's civil officials have a kind of civil war insiders and outsiders special attributes, this attribute is very easy to contagious, but also very easy to inherit, every time in the middle and late dynasties or the end of the dynasty, there are always batches of civil wars insiders and outsiders, the internal war is more important than the foreign war.

I don't know where this attribute began to develop, probably from the Northern Song Dynasty began to emerge, the Southern Song Dynasty carried forward, the middle and late Ming Dynasty in the case of comprehensive inheritance, and so on to the Southern Ming Dynasty reached the peak of the level.

That's really "I'd rather give up my country to a foreigner than my political enemies"!

What a pride!

Heroes!

At present, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are in a situation of "pushing through the old and bringing forth the new", and they have not yet evolved to that state of madness, and they can still maintain the operation of the government, but I have to say that what the bigwigs want to do at this moment is to liquidate the Jin system, rather than pay attention to the war.

"The Northern Captives are truly hateful! 100,000 to the south is not enough, another 500,000 is coming! Is this going to use Datong as their ranch?! ”

Shi Xing has always been tough on the issue of the Northern Captives, and now he is also counting on Xiao Ruxun's military exploits to be higher, so as to promote his entry into the cabinet and create momentum for him to enter the cabinet, so when liquidating the Jin system, he will inevitably help Xiao Ruxun to create momentum, and wait for the tide to rise and push himself into the cabinet.

Shi Xing got up, and the remaining bigwigs also expressed their opinions one by one, in short, it was verbal and written, and when it came to the core issue, everyone seemed a little insincere.

Shen has always been a little more sensible, knowing what he should do most now, infighting is infighting, and he can't let Beiyu come in and lift the table, otherwise he will be doubted by the emperor, and now he has no other way to go, he has already ridden a tiger, he can't get down, and he doesn't think about it.

"The north captives are hateful, so they have to be hit, what is better than before is that Xiao Zhennan is commanding the troops, Xiao Zhennan is comparable to the Great Wall of the country, and he is commanding the troops to resist the enemy, so we naturally don't have to worry about the north captives going south, but Xiao Zhennan said that the ordnance and materials are silver, and we still need to think of a way.

Of course, grain and grass can be used to support the grain in those grain caves, but fighting a war always requires ordnance and materials, armor, gunpowder and lead, crossbow arrows, artillery, and silver taels, all of which are indispensable. ”

Shen always looked at Shi Xing.