Fengyang General He Cheng has been a little flustered recently, and in the official commendation document of Zhang Fangyan, the governor of Zhejiang, his name bears the brunt. Not only that, but Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenju, also personally promised that when he made a contribution to the emperor, he would be promoted freely. I want to compare the stinginess of Fengyang Governor Zhu Dadian, or the temper of the Zhenyu Marquis, everything is true. Originally, there was still a trace of sympathy for Zhu Dadian in his heart, and because of many of his own interests, he was swept away.

There is another thing, which greatly surprised He Cheng, the chief soldier of Fengyang, compared with the vigor of the arrest of Zhu Dadian and He Yilong, Li Xin's treatment of these two people is simply an understatement. The disposition of the two was extremely low-key, and he only made a simple report to the internal security of the government office, and did not call Zhu Dadian a criminal official, but said that the matter involved the imperial court feudal officials, and he, as a military attaché, had no right to deal with it, so he decided to escort him into Beijing and hand it over to the imperial cabinet. As for He Yilong, the head of the five battalions of Gezuo, he was escorted into Beijing as a prisoner.

Since the battle in Fengyang was over, Sun Zhijie, the commander-in-chief of Huai'an, was ordered to return to the station, and Li Xin's Three Guards also decided to officially set off for the south after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Zhang Fangyan had sent a letter before, saying that he had arrived in Jiangdu, which was separated from Nanjing by a river, but he did not plan to enter Nanjing in a hurry, and had other plans.

As a result, Li Xin looked at this old man again, and it seemed that this person was not as incompetent as he had in his previous impression, which may be what people often say about wisdom and foolishness. At the same time, he also secretly warned himself that he must not despise people like Zhang Fangyan, they are all people who have been floating and sinking in the sea for most of their lives, don't look at the dormant like a snake and insect that is about to die, but as long as he is given a little nutrients and sunshine, he immediately has the ability to turn his hands into clouds and cover his hands for rain.

At the moment, Li Xin also has one more important thing, that is, to track the whereabouts of Ma Shouying's troops, since the defeat of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, the scouts of the Three Guards Army have quickly lost their monitoring of them. originally thought that this old guy might escape back to the Yinghuo Mountain, where he had been hidden, but who would have thought that these thieves seemed to have moved to Jiujiang and Ruichang on a large scale. He didn't know much about the shape of the Yangtze River, but he also knew that the Jiujiang Prefecture Governance Office Dehua was the throat of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and if these thieves were allowed to escape, it would pose a great threat to the entire Nanzhili, or Ying Tianfu.

After coming to this conclusion, Li Xin found He Tengjiao to discuss the matter. As a result, He Tengjiao laughed loudly, and bluntly said that he put his heart back in his stomach with peace of mind, first of all, Dehua is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and secondly, the Yangtze River is not a river in the north that can be crossed if it is said to be crossed, and the military discipline of the thief organization is extremely corrupt, not to mention crossing the river to fight. No matter from which point of view, if the thief dares to fight the idea of Dehua, there can only be one result, and that is the egg hitting the stone. Li Xin lay on the simple map with only simple lines and studied it for a long time, and felt that He Tengjiao's argument was still relatively reliable, so he turned his attention back to Fengyang locally.

First of all, Li Xin personally investigated the city defense situation of Fengyang, but the conclusion he came to was extremely not optimistic. In particular, the city gates and city walls that were rebuilt after eight years of Chongzhen are all vulnerable, and the slag will be dropped straight when stabbed with an iron shovel, and even in some places the whole green brick can be lifted up with a little force, which is far worse than Dangshan County.

Fengyang City and Dangshan City are generally rammed earth brick plate city walls, but the newly built brick plate city wall is of extremely poor quality, in Li Xin's words, this is tofu slag. He Tengjiao, who followed Li Xin all the way to inspect, had a solemn face, and he couldn't bother to say hello to this apt metaphor, and his heart was full of worries about this capital city in the Ming Dynasty.

Even Zhang Shi smacked his tongue again and again, bluntly saying that it was no wonder that the previous blasting of the east gate was so light, and the city gate and the iron gate were blown up in one go. In fact, the problem of the east gate at that time was not only so, according to the requirements of the city wall under the foundation soil under the city gate must be compacted with rammed earth, if the construction is strictly in accordance with the standard, the rammed earth is as solid as iron and stone, only with the grenadier battalion of the shovels, iron pickaxes can not dig a cent. Naturally, Fengyang City could not be easily taken down and broken by the Three Guards, and Zhu Dadian would not end up today.

Li Xin ordered someone to dig up the unqualified parts on the spot and reconstruct them, and the soldiers and craftsmen present shook their heads and sighed after seeing it, if the thieves got a glimpse of such a tofu-like city defense in Fengyang City, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defend that month. Until this time, He Tengjiao knew that Li Xinshanshou's reputation was not a lie, this person was not only good at battle formations, but also worked in city defense, no matter from which point of view, he was a rare talent, only sighed that the old ministers of the imperial court did not know gold and jade, only until they blindly suppressed these hot-blooded men who were interested in serving the country.

In the past few days, He Tengjiao, the imperial court's official newspaper, also read it, and there was an official document issued by the cabinet to the provinces, bluntly saying that the civil and military affairs in various places were corrupt and out of balance, and ordered all localities not to repeat the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty, and to take them as a warning. Although these words were all nonsense, and he did not name names, he could still see it at a glance, and so on. Nine is aimed at the marquis in front of him. But what is the way, he He Tengjiao is just a Jixi soldier, and he is soft-spoken, and it is impossible to control such a big court situation, not to mention that even he himself is protected by Li Xin, a military attaché, and what ability does he have to make Zhongliang do his best and keep the traitor away from the center of the court?

Thinking of this, He Tengjiao couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. said a thousand ways and ten thousand, such a situation occurred in the court, or the court employs people without a clear guide, and this employment, especially the central auxiliary ministers and local feudal officials, all need to be appointed by the emperor, so in the end, these accounts must be counted on the head of the Son of Heaven?

This idea jumped out, which made He Tengjiao shocked, for a person like him who was born on the right path of the imperial examination, and has been far away from the center, and became a remote petty official in the local area, the emperor is a distant and unattainable existence for them, even if he has half a bit of disrespect in his heart, it is intolerable. But wasn't his idea just now to accuse the emperor of negligence and unclear employment?

For example, first made Zhang Sizhi in the cabinet as a prestige, and made the court a miasma, and then used Zhou Yanru, who had been dismissed, this son was even more destructive than Zhang Sizhi. Such a large-scale purge of officials has certainly strengthened the authority of the cabinet chiefs and assistants unprecedentedly, but it has also brought about a strict consequence. That is, the officials of the DPRK and China no longer ask about right and wrong, but only about their friends. In the short term, the danger may not appear, but in the long run, the dispute between friends will also intensify. Once he loses his official position, the people who were previously excluded and suppressed will inevitably come back to take revenge, and then purge the existing officials, and install all the people who have been hit by the party before.

The more He Tengjiao thought about it, the more frightened he became, the Niu Li party struggle at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the old and new party disputes in the late Northern Song Dynasty, these examples popped up in his mind one by one. It was these endless repeated party struggles, like a life-threatening sword, that made the already dying dynasty even worse, and finally led to the demise of their respective countries and the severance of the society.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder. The current situation of the Ming Dynasty does not seem to be much better than that of those two dynasties. Not to mention internal and external troubles, there is also constant struggle between the DPRK and China, and there has been a clear trend of rising party strife since the Apocalypse Dynasty, but now that he has succeeded to the throne, he is extremely strong, and the parties cannot help them to hold their tails and behave.

However, the current situation seems to have undergone some imperceptible changes, and with the long reign of the present, the wars between the north and the south have been frequently defeated, and the ability to control the ministers under the emaciation seems to have gradually weakened. Among them, the reactivation of Zhou Yanru is an obvious signal. Zhou Yanru used the excuse of rectifying the rule of officials to crack down on dissidents, and Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, actually acquiesced in this behavior. What does this mean? This shows that there is already a crisis in the emperor's heart that is more worrying than Zhou Yanru's attack on dissident cultivation forces.

What is this crisis? He Tengjiao's heart was like a flood that had opened the floodgates at this time, constantly surging and spreading. In fact, the answer is very simple, but he is selectively unwilling to believe it, maybe, maybe the Ming Dynasty has reached the last moment of exhaustion, right? It may be precisely because of this premonition that the emperor let Zhou Yanru take power, and pinned his hopes on him to turn the tide and revive the Ming Dynasty.

He Tengjiao shook his head again and again, sighing that the emperor entrusted him with no people, counting on Zhou Yanru to become a generation of Zhongxing celebrities, it is better to count on the sow to go up the tree and the iron tree to bloom.

"Why does He Bingxian keep nodding and shaking his head?" A hearty laugh came, He Tengjiao nodded for a while, shook his head for a while, and looked at the strange demeanor in the distance that caught Li Xin's attention.

In fact, Li Xin's worries were no worse than He Tengjiao's, and he also saw the imperial court's newspaper, and he also knew that Zhou Yanru did not name him. He already had a hunch that the pressure from the imperial court would be stricter than ever. It's just that he still has something to rely on, as long as the emperor doesn't have a dislike for himself, then even if there are constraints from the ministers of the court, he has the confidence to deal with it calmly.

Soon, another thought came to his mind, what if the emperor had a dislike for himself? If the emperor no longer trusts and supports him unreservedly as before, if the imperial court sends down an edict and gives him self-determination, will he still be obedient?

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