Chapter 799: Intercepting and Killing the Messenger
Chapter 800: The Aftermath
"Bold." When the prefect of Guangzhou saw this letter first, he slapped it on the table heavily, shaking the tea bowl, and for a moment he felt that his palm was painful, and even felt that his bones seemed to be broken. But no matter how much it hurts, he has to shoot it heavily, as if it is not so, and he can't express his anger.
First of all, in tone.
Huang Shilong is the commander of the main fleet of the Yong Army. In the Yongjun, it is written with a higher identity than the position of a battalion officer. It's just in an egalitarian tone.
In the eyes of the Guangzhou prefect, this is absolutely wrong.
He is a small military attaché, how can He De talk to himself in such a tone, it is simply not condescending at all. Everything else is secondary, it is better to say the envoy of the Danmu Kingdom who was killed outside the city of Guangzhou, because in his opinion, this letter is full of two words, that is, Bahu.
It seems that Huang Shilong forgot the experience when he was an official in Daming?
How he faced a magistrate was called Shangguan.
In Dongyong, he will not face county-level officials at all, because it is usually the prefect who hands over to him. However, the prefect's level is a little lower than his level, but Dongyong's civil officials and military generals are fundamentally two systems, unless you do it as a privy envoy, or in the county lieutenant and government lieutenant system, under the dual management of the Privy Council and the Prime Minister's Office, you don't need to have much contact with civil officials at all.
Therefore, the level is a little worse, and the two sides are also in court.
Huang Shilong treated the Guangzhou prefect in the same way as the prefect of Dongyong. Of course, the prefect of Guangzhou was greatly dissatisfied.
So this letter went from the prefect of Guangzhou, to the governor of Guangzhou, and then all the way to Jiajing.
Jiajing hurriedly looked at it, "snapped", slapped the letter on the table and said: "Look, Dongyong has become so strong, if it continues like this, is it only when Dongyong's sailors attack Guangzhou City that they can be regarded as having a heart of disobedience, in my opinion, Dongyong's heart of disobedience has long grown in his heart, but at this moment he has grown up and is about to jump out." ”
Dongyong, which was founded by Zhu Houhuang, is also sighing at the moment, and has to consider the thoughts of his courtiers, and the Ming court inherited by Jiajing makes Jiajing feel constrained.
Yes, he drove away Yang Tinghe.
But if you drive Yang Tinghe away and kill Yang Tinghe, can you make the court listen to him?
It has to be said that this is a beautiful illusion.
Killing Yang Tinghe, no matter what kind of means he uses, Jiajing's power has greatly increased, but even so, he can't be allowed to do whatever he wants. For example, what he wants to do, send troops to Dongyong, and there has always been a stubborn opposition in the DPRK.
It should be said that these people oppose all wars in any form and advocate using benevolence and virtue to influence the enemy, which shows that the so-called virgin has never been unique to modern times, nor did it emerge when Jiajing was in power. When Zhengde was in power, there were these people, but Zhengde used Yang Tinghe to suppress these people. As soon as Yang Tinghe went, these people were the first to come out.
Jiajing found that it was not as good as Yang Tinghe.
When Yang Tinghe was there, Jiajing felt constrained, but as long as Yang Tinghe wanted to do something, he could still do it, but now, Jiajing found that it seemed that he had gained absolute power, but what he wanted to do, it was often impossible to do it, and when Yang Tinghe was there, he only needed to find a way to persuade Yang Tinghe.
But now Jiajing doesn't know who to convince in order to ensure that his orders are solid and not discounted, no, there is no need to be undiscounted, just not much discounted. It's just that Jiajing can't find such a person. It seems that everything is omnipotent, but every thing that is ordered will be out of shape, unless Jiajing is staring at it.
From start to finish.
But how many things are there in the imperial court. Where does Jiajing have so much time to devote to this, he still can't cultivate the Tao. Please don't ask for immortals.
So Yang Tinghe gradually pushed these affairs on Zhang Xuan.
Although Zhang Xuan's experience is not as good as Yang Tinghe's, he has slowly developed it. But Zhang Zhang, who has been trained, doesn't want to be so obedient at the beginning, and has his own political ideas.
Zhang Xuan came from the bottom, and before he was admitted to the Jinshi, he had been poor, and Shaohua died early, and the sky was out of time, so he acted eagerly, took shortcuts, and became the mastermind of Jiajing, so that he could quickly ascend to the throne. In just a few years, he joined the cabinet and became the de facto head of the cabinet, and the speed of promotion in Daming was almost unparalleled. It's just that after coming to power, he revealed his political ideas.
Zhang Xuan is used to seeing the misery of the people at the bottom, so he is bent on changing the status quo of the Ming Dynasty. How can it be changed? First of all, we should crack down on the big households and protect the small people. And what is the so-called big family of the Ming Dynasty. It's nothing else, it's the imperial village, the eunuchs, and the people who are officials. Zhang Xuan is bent on eliminating the accumulated evils, he doesn't want to fight, he wants to fight the eunuchs, fight the vassal kings, reform the rule of officials, and make the people of the Ming Dynasty feel better.
Zhang Zhang's reform ideas were spread, and then Zhang Juzheng and others inherited Zhang Zhang's mantle. Of course, that's an afterthought.
In Zhang Zhang's view, the trouble of the Ming Dynasty is not inside or outside, it lies in the people's uprising, not in the overseas vassal king.
Therefore, in Zhang Xuan's view, Jiajing is bent on destroying King Yong, which is simply more than worth the loss, it is better to withdraw from some imperial villages, withdraw from some vassal kings to occupy the land, and rest with the people. And not an expedition to a country.
So Jiajing said this to Zhang Xuan as soon as he had time.
Zhang Xuan said: "Your Highness, King Yong is certainly domineering, but now that the Jiangnan Wokou are raging, it is not the time for another war. ”
Jiajing glanced at Zhang Xuan and said, "Just wait for Yang Ge Lao's report." ”
Yang Yiqing still has his own people, he is not slow or sick in Zhejiang, and he doesn't seem to have done anything, but the situation of the Japanese Kou has disappeared. Xu Hai got a lot of supplies from ships, of course, he also got a lot of personnel to replenish, among the sailors, it was no longer Xu Hai's word, and unconsciously, Xu Hai's subordinates changed from Xu Hai's private soldiers to the country's economic division.
Xu Hai went to sea many times and fought with the so-called Japanese invaders, winning successive battles. And Yang Yiqing cleaned up several families with old and spicy methods, beat and wooed again, and made the local families who originally supported the chaos obedient. Without support, these pirates were almost cornered, and it would not take a few months to clean them all up.
How could Zhang Xuan not know this.
He is aware. But he also knew that this was a palliative but not a cure, and it was under Yang Yiqing's high-pressure policy, temporarily retracted, and once Yang Yiqing moved elsewhere, the situation would be very different. So he was very confident in the defeat of the Japanese Invaders, but he was not too confident in the complete elimination of the Japanese Invaders, and he also found that the elimination of the Japanese Invaders on the southeast coast was closely related to the sea ban, and wanting to abolish the sea ban was closely related to King Yong, which seemed to have become a chain of links.
Zhang Xuan also had a trace of wavering in his heart, what he was shaken was that in order to solve the southeast coastal problem, it was not worth fighting with Dongyong.
However, after all, Jiajing is the emperor, and Zhang Xuan is a solid imperial party, so it is difficult for Zhang Xuan to disobey Jiajing's orders on many issues. ”
Jiajing and Zhang Xuan didn't know when Yang Yiqing's report document would return to Beijing, but what Huang Shilong did in Guangzhou had already reached Zhu Houhuang's ears.
Zhu Houhuang was furious and wanted to call Huang Shilong to his side and reprimand him well. But Huang Shilong was already far away in Penghu, Zhu Houhuang suppressed his anger, wrote a letter to reprimand, and secretly regretted it in his heart, he had known this, so he let the envoy of the Danmu country go to Beijing, even if he arrived in Beijing, at most, he would just give a few holy decrees to stop the army. Zhu Houhuang never took this holy decree in his eyes, and Beijing also knew that Zhu Houhuang never put it in his eyes, and there was no other possibility at all, so it was far better to stimulate Jiajing like this.