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In Zhou Chong's office room in Wenyuan Pavilion in Beijing, although this room is not very big, it is crowded with people today, because Zhou Zhong invited several ministers in the cabinet, and there are also several important ministers in the court, so this originally small room is crowded, and after each person puts a chair and sits down, there is no space in the whole room.

Speaking of Li Dongyang's death, although he was given a grand funeral, and he was also very generous to his posthumous affairs, but it was because Li Dongyang was already a dead man, so Zhou Zhong didn't mind letting the other party be more beautiful, but he was not polite to the people left by the cabinet.

For example, the original Liang Chu and Liu Zhong were both able to enter the cabinet because of Li Dongyang's recommendation, although these two people were quite talented, but they were a little stubborn, and they had raised objections to some of Zhou Chong's measures before, especially some of Zhou Chong's reforms in the governance of officials, and they were very resistant, so Zhou Chong eliminated these two people from the cabinet in the name of the other party's talent, and ránhòu promoted Wang Shouren and Yang Yiqing to the cabinet, as for Zhang Cai, because of his special status, so he couldn't enter the cabinet at all. But he can participate in court discussions like ordinary cabinet ministers, which is actually not much different from joining the cabinet.

The current cabinet members have a total of five points, namely Yang Tinghe, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, Jiao Fang, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, Wang Qiong, a scholar of Jinshen Palace, Wang Shouren, a scholar of Dongge University, and Yang Yiqing, a scholar of Huagai Temple.

Speaking of which, it is important for Zhou to carry out reforms and rectify the rule of officials, and it is best to be able to make the cabinet and him of one mind, so that in the process of implementing the law. to be able to have no constraints. However, Yang Tinghe is not an ordinary person. He was originally a teacher of Zhengde. Now as soon as Li Dongyang died, Yang Tinghe became the representative of the entire southern department officials, and the southern officials accounted for more than seventy percent of the Ming officials, and now Zhou Zhong has ruled Liang Chu and Liu Zhong, if Zài kicks Yang Tinghe out of the cabinet, I am afraid it will make the entire officialdom chaotic.

In addition, the weight of the week is also taken into account. When he was changing the law and rectifying the rule of officials, he needed an opposing voice in the court to remind him to prevent him from going too far in some things, and Yang Ting and the first assistant of the cabinet just had such strength and conditions, so Zhou Chong still let Yang Tinghe serve as the first assistant, and he did not even have the power to empty Yang Tinghe.

Originally, Yang Tinghe didn't know what Zhou Zheng was doing, but with a series of changes in the cabinet, Zài and Zhou Chong's preparations for reforming and rectifying the rule of officials made Yang Tinghe, who was very keen in politics, finally realized Zhou Chong's purpose, which shocked him at the same time. I am very conflicted in my heart, and I don't know where I should stand in this change?

Speaking of which, Yang Tinghe is a representative of the officials of the southern department. The wind of the Ming officialdom has been around for a long time, if it is reformed, then it will definitely involve the entire Ming officialdom, the first of which is the largest number of southern officials, and he, as the head of the southern officials, naturally wants to protect the interests of his own side, but as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, he also hopes to completely eradicate the corruption in the Ming officialdom, which is not only a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, but also a good thing for him to leave a name in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

It is also Yang Tinghe's ambivalence, so for some of the preparations made by Zhou Chong before the reform, Yang Tinghe has always been in a business-like attitude, that is, he will not block or give the green light, and he will also raise objections if there is a problem, and this is exactly what Zhou Chong wants, so up to now, Zhou Chong and Yang Tinghe have not had too many contradictions because of the reform.

Today, Zhou Chong suddenly summoned all the five major ministers to him, and Yang Tinghe already had a premonition, but when Zhou Chong did not explicitly express his intention to reform before, he could still use a neutral attitude to be impartial, but if Zhou Chong officially announced the reform of the Ming Dynasty, then he could not do it like before, but he had to join a camp, either like Yang Yiqing and Wang Shouren, completely stand on Zhou Chong's side, or resist Zhou Chong's reform as Li Dongyang and all the southern officials wanted.

Yang Tinghe was full of contradictions in his heart, Zhou Zhong also looked at him deeply before speaking, and seemed to have seen Yang Tinghe's entanglement, but he didn't care, but cleared his throat and said: "Everyone, please come here today, mainly to discuss two things, the first thing is the matter of His Majesty's personal expedition to Liaodong, I don't know if you have anything else to say about this?" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong mention Zhengde's personal expedition to Liaodong, everyone looked at Wang Qiong, after all, he was not only a cabinet scholar, but also a secretary of the military department, so he had the most say in this kind of military matter.

I saw Wang Qiongqing cough, stood up and said: "Qi Qi Jian Guo, now the Southern Route Army led by His Majesty, and the Eastern Route Army led by Liaodong Dusi have been assembled, and there are no problems in logistics, it can be said that the two Route Armies can launch an attack at any time, but according to the plan formulated before, this time the battle of Duoyan Sanwei is still mainly based on surrender, so before launching the attack, the Ministry of Rites has sent an envoy to Duoyan Sanwei, hoping to persuade Duoyan Sanwei to directly annex it, without zài sword soldiers, After all, as long as the war is fought together, not only will countless soldiers die in battle, but also a lot of financial and material resources will be spent. ”

Zhou Zhong also knew about sending an envoy to Duoyan Sanwei, after all, Duoyan Sanwei was originally a wall grass between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars, and if he could use the envoy to persuade the other party to submit to it, it would also be a good thing.

"Lord Wang, in your opinion, will the Duoyan Sanwei be moved by our envoy's words, so as to break away from the Tartars and fall to my Daming?" Zhou Zhong pondered for a moment and asked, although Wang Qiong's character is problematic, her talent can be called the head of the ministers, otherwise she would not be called the three ministers of the Ming Dynasty together with Yu Qian and Zhang Juzheng.

Hearing Zhou Chong's question, Wang Qiong pondered for a while and immediately replied: "Qi Qi Jian Guo, if it was placed in the past, Duoyan Sanwei is likely to be moved by the envoys, so as to submit to my Ming Dynasty, but the previous submission is only nominal, and our Ming Dynasty will not interfere in the internal affairs of Duoyan Sanwei, but this time we not only proposed to let the other party submit to obedience, but also proposed to take over the other party's army, and ránhòu stationed officials to manage it, so that the power of those tribal leaders will be hollowed out, With the character of this person, he will definitely not agree to the conditions put forward by our Ming Dynasty, so this battle is probably inevitable! ”

Zhou Zhong and other cabinet ministers heard Wang Qiong's analysis, and they all nodded in agreement, the reason why they used troops against Duoyan Sanwei this time was to completely subdue them, ránhòu recruited the Mongols of Sanwei, and Zài plus the Han people formed a Han and Mongolian cavalry, as the main force to invade the grassland in the future, so naturally it is impossible to let Duoyan Sanwei be autonomous, and Duoyan Sanwei must be completely included in the rule of the Ming Dynasty, this contradiction is irreconcilable, and the other party must not easily agree, Therefore, the Ming Dynasty can only use war to beat and wound the other party until the other party has to agree.

"That's it, then we can only fight, but this time we dispatched an army of 150,000, isn't this a bit of a fuss, so many troops, can almost wipe out the Duoyan Sanwei?" At this time, Yang Tinghe suddenly raised his objection and said, Duoyan Sanwei is just a wall grass, and it only takes tens of thousands of people to deal with such a tribe, and now Wang Qiong has mobilized 150,000 people at once, which is simply làngfèi in Yang Tinghe's opinion.

"Lord Yang, don't underestimate Duoyan Sanwei, they have been encroaching on Liaodong step by step over the years, and their strength has long been incomparable to the past, and the total population of Sanwei has also increased several times, and the preliminary estimate should be more than 500,000, if you want to conquer such a big tribe, more than 100,000 people are still small, and the 50,000 Japanese servants on the side of Liaodong Dusi do not only have to deal with Duoyan Sanwei, their most important task is to deal with those Jurchen savages in Jianzhouwei." Without waiting for Wang Qiong to speak, Zhou Zhong answered for him.

"But Duoyan Sanwei is originally a grassland person, and he has no fixed place all the year round, if the army is pressed now, they see that they can't beat it, what if Zài takes people to flee north, after all, they originally lived in the upper reaches of the Songhua River, and it is not difficult for Zài to return to the ancestral land?" Yang Ting and Zài raised their own objections.

First of all, the reason why Duoyan Sanwei went south, in addition to coveting the abundance of the southern grassland, the most important thing is that the north has become colder and colder in recent years, and the grassland people will be frozen to death in winter almost every year, so Duoyan Sanwei will desperately move south, but after they leave, the grassland that originally belonged to them has been occupied by other Mongolian tribes, if they want to go back, I am afraid that they can only start a war with those Mongolian tribes, and then it will be a war of extermination. It is even more terrible than surrendering our Da Ming! "Wang Qiong, the secretary of the military department, is indeed very competent, and he knows everything about the grassland.

"That's right, Duoyan Sanwei has no way to retreat, we sent an army of 150,000, on the one hand, to show our Ming military might, on the other hand, it is also to let Duoyan Sanwei see our determination to recover Liaodong, I believe that as long as Duoyan Sanwei can't take advantage of the war, they should seriously consider the matter of returning to Shun." At this time, Yang Yiqing also opened his mouth to add that he was the only one among his ministers who could lead his troops to fight alone, and when he was in Ningxia, he knew the situation on the grassland very well, and although the situation in Liaodong was different from Ningxia, the truth was the same.

When Yang Tinghe heard this, he finally had no objections, and then Zhou Chong discussed a few words with Wang Qiong and Yang Yiqing, and then put aside the matter of Liaodong and began to talk about the second thing, which is also the main reason why Zhou Chong called everyone here today, and it is also the thing that Yang Tinghe is most worried about. (To be continued......)

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