Yang Chengzu held the account book in his hand, and from Zong Yuzi, he got a lot of letters from the wealthy families in the southeast and the pirates. He is now in charge of the factory guard, and he is in a high position, and if these things are taken out, he can completely arrest some people and lock them up for a while.

is different from Jiang Bin before, Jiang Bin was born in the army, and he cares more about the sons and daughters of the army, and he doesn't care much about the strength of these fans or cavalry, and he doesn't care much about exploring people's personal affairs. He relied on the saint of righteousness, not reason, and when he encountered a problem, he made it clear that the carriage and horse would go to the door, and no one could do anything to him.

Yang Chengzu does not have the kind of rudeness of people from the border army, he prefers to use yin tricks to do things, and he also has insight beyond this era in the use of intelligence organs. He has never done similar work, but after all, he has seen a lot of things in this area, and when the two major intelligence agencies of the Ming Dynasty were caught in his hands, the factory guard, which had been silent for a long time, was rejuvenated.

It must be noted that both of these agencies are internal and not external, and do not undertake the task of gathering intelligence on foreign enemies. Including the Jinyi Wei in the thousands of households, there is no foreign agency setting, and at the beginning of its design, it was used to clamp down on hundreds of officials and use it as the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven. Yang Chengzu's current role in the organization is also in this regard, through bribery, planting eyes and ears, etc., in the homes of various ministers, to arrange his own strength.

Collecting the private affairs of civil and military officials, monitoring their words and deeds, catching the handle, and then using the handle as a threat to exchange interests is the way he admires doing things. For example, those ledgers and handles can often be turned into real money in his hands, and even vacancies in important positions, and then put the right people on them.

However, this kind of resource is not something that can be lightly used by human ministers, if the Son of Heaven feels that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty may be controlled by Yang Chengzu, it is also a matter of death without a place to be buried. So although he controls this resource and has the corresponding strength, on the surface, he still has to be in a weak position. Even if he is impeached by officials, he must pretend to be powerless to resist, let others attack, and only wait for Banzai to speak, he will dare to make a move.

Jiajing said: "Today, the military department gave Wang Qinian a book in the matter, which is a bit interesting, and proposes to repeat it." This is one of the most interesting pieces of the recent recital. I listened to my eldest brother's recommendation, and Yang Yiqing became the governor of the three sides, and he worked for more than a year, which is very good. The military princes of the three sides and Ma Zheng are all doing well, and the northern captives have not made any noise on the three sides. Now it is said that the money and food of the military and government are all good, and Wang Qinian's gang proposed to recover the old land of Hetao, which is a good thing, what does the eldest brother think? ”

"The minister thinks that this matter needs to be cautious. If the minister's expectations are correct, if Banzai approves this book, they will suggest that the five battalions of the new army should be used as the main backbone to go to the border and recover the territory. In the final analysis, I still don't want these centaurs to be in the hands of Banzai. ”

"Big brother, that's a good point. Although people are not in the court, they guess their thoughts accurately, and they are really my brains. Jiajing praised with satisfaction

"I said that this twist and turn is interesting, and it is interesting at this point, those people, as analyzed by the eldest brother, are not pleasing to the eyes of the new army. First, he concealed the supply of money and food from the new army, and now under the banner of recovering the territory, he wants the new army to kill the enemy on three sides. The set is to be restored, but the new army cannot be moved. What I mean is that I will spend a few years saving money and food and training soldiers. After cultivating strength, it is not too late to recover the Hetao. ”

Yang Chengzu still follows the concept of the officer corps for the construction of the new army, and the significance of the new army of the five battalions lies not in its own combat strength of 15,000, but in the fact that it can be used as a teaching team to train other troops. According to his and Jiajing's ideas, after the five battalions of the new army entered Beijing, the next step was to reorganize and reorganize the three battalions; on the one hand, they would use the new army to conduct their own operations, and on the other hand, they would send the backbone of the new army to the three battalions as officers and conduct training according to the standards of the new army.

Although the three battalions have been eroding for a long time, tens of thousands of combat strength can still be scraped together, and by recruiting brave soldiers and selecting forwards, it will not be a problem for the new army with more than 20 battalions. Trained according to the model of the new army, even if the combat effectiveness does not meet the standards of the new army, the personal loyalty to the emperor can be raised to the level of the new army.

In this, it is natural to have a collusion with the nobles of the court, the nobles of the Jingshi have been operating for many years, and the relationship with the three major battalions is intertwined, and with their assistance, it is easy to carry out the work. In the past, the method by which civilian officials stretched out their hands in the three major battalions or the army was to control the supply of the troops, and ensure that their own strength could penetrate into the army by grasping the lifeline of the troops.

Moreover, soldiers do not have much education, in their eyes, the truth of the world is still in the hands of scholars, and what a well-educated person says, they will subconsciously accept it. This is also the consciousness formed in the society as a whole, which recognizes that everything is inferior, and only in the social atmosphere of high reading. It is the control of the soldiers by the scholars, compared with the martial artists, there is an innate advantage.

The existence of Yang Ji makes it possible for the supply of the troops to no longer rely on the civilian system as in the past, and with the cooperation of the nobles, the reorganization of the new army can be carried out by itself, leaving no room for outsiders to interfere. However, it is precisely because of this that some ministers are not satisfied, so they do everything possible to find a way to make the new army unhappy.

When the former New Army first arrived in Beijing, some people stuck the supply of the New Army, hoping that these people would plunder merchants near Beijing first and ruin their reputation. Unexpectedly, the discipline of the new army was too strong, and with the consideration of welfare and family considerations, under the order of the commander, the soldiers starved in the battalion, and no one dared to come out to sabotage. The advance arrangement failed to play a role, so this time I could only borrow a knife to kill people, and I wanted to transfer the new army out of Beijing by borrowing the idea of the Son of Heaven's good military merits.

Yang Chengzu had already thought of this possibility before this incident, and Jiajing was not fooled. But the Son of Heaven was obviously not prepared and just left it at that. "Big brother, after you go back, check who this Wang Qinian was instructed by. I don't pay attention to this kind of small role, but the people behind him can't just forget it. Also, these officials are relying on the power to say that they are not guilty, and they are jumping too fiercely, I want to clean them up, you can help me think of a way. ”

"When Grandpa Hongwu set up this family law, he wanted them to help the emperor and restrain the prime minister. Grandpa Hongwu set up brocade clothes to restrain hundreds of officials, mainly to prevent the rebellion of the military ministers. The purpose of restricting the prime minister with words and officials is to control the big with the small, so as not to embark on the old road of the Song Dynasty, where the power of the prime minister was too great, and the Son of Heaven could not even kill individuals independently. It's a pity that later, the brocade clothes existed in name only, but the official turned to the side of the six departments and the first assistant, and went against the Son of Heaven. Long live if you want to be arbitrary, you still have to be like Grandpa Hongwu, let the Yanguan be used by me, and let them bite whoever they want. If you want to do this, you have to change blood and cultivate a group of scholars who are completely loyal to the Son of Heaven to serve as speech officials. Until then, there is only the use of speech officials to restrain speech officials. ”