Chapter 79: Reasons for Sending Troops
After Yang Tingjian finished arranging, he immediately went to Beijing to ask to see Emperor Chongzhen. Thousands of people are dispatched, it is absolutely impossible without the emperor's will, even if it is Jinyiwei, they are not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, such a large-scale dispatch, it must be approved by the emperor, otherwise it will be a rebellion.
In addition, Yang Tingjian needs to discuss an excuse with Emperor Chongzhen, thousands of brocade guards are fully armed and drive to Shanxi, without a high-sounding reason, those civil officials will not agree, if those profiteers see the clues, it is not good.
Yang Tingjian's request to see him was very smooth, and Chongzhen met him in the Qianqing Palace:
"Yang Aiqing, what is the important thing you want to see me this time...... Hey, Yang Aiqing, do you know that now the imperial court is asking for money everywhere, and those civil and military generals heard that I dug up millions of taels of silver, which is like a locust smelling blood, and looking for me every day to ask for silver, no, I asked for a million taels from here a few days ago...... Oh, it's hard for me! ”
As soon as Chongzhen saw Yang Tingjian, he began to vomit bitterness, in fact, Chongzhen indirectly said to Yang Tingjian, you Yang Tingjian should do your best to help him "grab" the silver, and it just so happened that Yang Tingjian also came for this matter.
"Your Majesty, please step back and go, Weichen has something important to do."
As soon as Yang Tingjian said this, Chongzhen immediately understood, this Yang Tingjian was going to make a move, it had been almost three months, Chongzhen was even more anxious than Yang Tingjian, and immediately let all the eunuchs retreat outside the Qianqing Palace, even Wang Chengen was no exception.
"Yang Aiqing, you can get ready."
Now that there are no outsiders in the Qianqing Palace, of course Yang Tingjian will not hide it, so he said directly:
"Your Majesty, Wechen has already mastered the evidence of those profiteers collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and the Son of Heaven's pro-army trained by Wechen has also achieved a little success, and it is more than enough to deal with those profiteers, even if they collude with some local generals, Wechen is confident that he can calm the scene.
But these thousands of people and horses were mobilized to Shanxi, after all, there must be an explanation, otherwise they will be startled, and it is likely that the entire operation will be wasted. ”
Chongzhen thought about it, so he pondered for a moment and said:
"Yang Aiqing, let's do it, didn't the household department say that Shanxi has been owed a year's military salary? The autumn tax has been collected, and there are two million taels of silver that I have allocated before and after, so I will order you to escort this batch of military salaries to Shanxi, and the road from Beijing to Shanxi is not smooth, and more people should not attract too many people's attention. ”
Chongzhen is actually very smart, and his political skills are also good, of course, he is also decisive, Chongzhen's poor knowledge is not enough, and his thinking is not broad enough, which is completely caused by his education, and at the same time, the environment he is in also limits his thoughts, not Chongzhen's own problems.
"Your Majesty, Weichen admires it so much, these thousands of men and horses escorted millions of taels of troops to the border pass, it is really normal, and it will be implemented according to His Majesty's policy."
"Hmm...... I hope Aiqing will live up to my trust......"
"These are all traitors who collaborated with the enemy and traitors found by chance by Wechen, and Wechen copied those profiteers who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, all of which were Wechen's ideas, and they had nothing to do with His Majesty."
"Aiqing...... I've wronged you. ”
Chongzhen wants to be the son of the saint in other people's mouths, of course, he will not take on the matter of robbing the property of criminals, this is all Yang Tingjian's dog official in order to please the emperor.
Of course, Yang Tingjian's reputation is ruined, at least in Shilin, it can be said that Yang Tingjian's discipline is lost, but does Yang Tingjian need to exercise this thing? How much silver a pound.
Soon the Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty would not be able to control the generals under him, including Yang Sichang, the cabinet minister and secretary of the Ministry of War, who could not control a warlord like Zuo Liangyu.
"If you have a gun, you are the king of grass" is practical in any era, especially in troubled times like the end of the Ming Dynasty, so Yang Tingjian will not care about the so-called discipline at all, and it is the king to master your own armed forces first, and you don't have your own armed forces to make a wool! Chongzhen has never been soft on killing Wenchen, and Chongzhen is helpless against the self-respecting generals.
Also, without enough force, Yang Tingjian could not guarantee the implementation of his own policy at all, as long as Yang Tingjian won the jinshi, used the money to operate, and then took the army to the coast to serve as a magistrate, he could gradually reform according to his own methods.
"Power comes out of the barrel of a gun", those with vested interests want to obstruct reform, hoping that his head will be harder than lead bullet.
In the final moments of the imminent demise of this nation, to hell with that thing! Yang Tingjian does not need it, Yang Tingjian only hopes that the Chinese nation will not be bullied by foreign powers for hundreds of years, will not be slaughtered by tens of millions of Manchu Tartars, and will not be enslaved by Manchu Tartars for nearly 300 years.
After Yang Tingjian said goodbye to Chongzhen, he returned to the "Dragon Gate Inn" to wait for news, which made it possible for Yang Tingjian to escort the order of military pay to come down, and it might take two or three days.
The next day, Yang Tingjian received a special invitation, that is, Yang Sichang's invitation, Yang Sichang is now a military officer in Shanhaiguan, and he is a civil official of the fourth grade.
Why did Yang Sichang come to invite Yang Tingjian, it was not because both of them were surnamed Yang, and the two were not of the same clan at all. That's because Yang Sichang's father is Yang He, when Yang He was the governor of Shanxi, he adopted the policy of appeasement, and as a result, the thieves rebelled, so he was arrested by Chongzhen and returned to Beijing.
As a result, Yang Tingjian killed the thieves and pulled Yang He and Shen Lian back from the Hades Palace, and on the way back to Beijing, Yang Tingjian took care of Yang He, a criminal official, and Yang He was also very good to Yang Tingjian, which can be said to be a good friend.
Yang Sichang's invitation, Yang Tingjian will definitely go, this Yang Sichang will also be a man of the year in the late Ming Dynasty in the future, and the "four positives, six corners and ten nets" encirclement and suppression strategy he formulated is no problem, but the imperial court's food and salary can't keep up, plus He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu support the army and don't listen to the dispatch at all, which made Yang Sichang's army defeated and forced to commit suicide to apologize.
Yang Tingjian didn't say a word, and after receiving Yang Sichang's invitation, he changed into a scholar's crescent robe and rode a four-wheeled carriage to Yang Sichang's mansion.
During this time, the Jingshi had already begun to become popular with the four-wheeled carriage, which was more comfortable than a sedan chair, because it had a shock-absorbing system, and those dignitaries always had to find a way to buy a four-wheeled carriage.
However, the production of four-wheeled carriages is limited, and it may not be possible to buy them if you want to buy them, and a four-wheeled carriage is not cheap, and the selling price is more than three hundred, but those dignitaries still rush to it.
At this time, the four-wheeled carriage is like a top sports car like Ferrari now, which is used to install % of the force, and the Chinese people love this mouthful, and if they have money, they will be willful, and no one will say anything.
When Yang Tingjian arrived at Yang Sichang's mansion, he asked Menzi to report, and after a while, Yang Sichang opened the middle door and came out to greet him. In ancient times, the middle door would not be opened casually, and ordinary people entered and exited through the side door, so it was necessary to be a distinguished guest to enjoy such treatment.
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