Coming out of Cao's Mansion, Fan Ning sent Zhao Zhongzhen back to the palace first, and on the carriage, Zhao Zhongzhen asked puzzledly: "I always thought that I started by opening an account for the soldiers, but when Uncle Fan explained to the old man, why did he become the first to streamline the soldiers?" ”

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "Persimmon to pick up the soft pinch, change the law should also start from the easiest, the streamlining of the soldiers will definitely touch the interests of many soldiers, but we give twenty acres of land compensation, the interests of the soldiers are compensated, the resistance will be much smaller, and the streamlining of the soldiers can give a lot of empty generals a chance to eliminate the account, we can not blame the past, but if we don't know what to do, then don't blame us for the ruthlessness of the next step in the inventory of the empty soldiers, this is called the first salute and then the soldiers, first with the heart of the Bodhisattva, and then show the thunderbolt means, so that the generals have nothing to say." ”

Zhao Zhongzhen suddenly realized, bowed down and apologized: "Uncle Fan is clever, and the little nephew has been taught." ”

Fanning smiled again: "The change of the law has always been one time and another, now we only need to take out 2,000 hectares of land to eliminate the resistance of the soldiers, and when we want to lay off 300,000 people in the future, the imperial court may not be able to take out 60,000 hectares of land, so this is just because we have been stained with the light of the experiment, and we have to think of another way to compensate for the change of the law in the future, and we can't ask for a sword!" ”

"The little nephew understands, tomorrow morning, I will urge Han Xianggong and ask him to take out the land and silver."

Between jokes, Fan Ning sent Zhao Zhongzhen to the Upper East Gate, and he returned to the Hongwenguan dormitory from here, and before he officially took office, Zhao Zhongzhen was still a student of Hongwenguan.

Fan Ning then let the carriage go to Zhu Yuanfeng's mansion, he was on a business trip in the capital alone, and he must have lived in Zhu Yuanfeng's mansion, not in his father-in-law's mansion, which was full of rules.

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At noon the next day, the "Tabloid Newspaper," the "Hong Kong Economic Journal," and the "Chao Pao" all published the same article written by Cao Cong, "On the Dangers of Redundant Soldiers," in which the article analyzed the facts and expounded in detail from four aspects: the heavy financial burden, the hardships of the soldiers' livelihood, the sharp decline in combat effectiveness, and the rampant corruption within the army.

This article was published, which immediately caused a big wave in the government and the opposition, and at this time, the decision of the Jingdong Road Army to implement the law change has not been officially announced, and many people do not know where Cao Cong's sword is pointing.

Zhang Yaozuo knew yesterday that Zhao Zhongzhen would implement the military reform in the Jingdong Road Army, which made Zhao Yaozuo hate and anxious, and hated that Zhao Wenyun was not angry, and was trampled on the ground by Zhao Zhongzhen again and again, and stayed in the palace for ten years, which is not as good as Zhao Zhongzhen, who has been in the palace for a few months.

The urgency is that Zhao Zhongzhen has already sealed the king of Liang County, and he patrolled Jingdong Road on behalf of the Son of Heaven, which is clearly a harbinger of ascending to the throne, but what is Zhao Wenyun doing, he is still studying in Hongwen Hall, can't he fight for himself?

"Adou! He's just a dou who can't be helped! ”

Zhang Yaozuo was so angry that he slapped the newspaper on the table, "He doesn't seek to be motivated himself, what's the use of me working hard for him?" ”

Yang Kai saw that Zhang Yaozuo had put the responsibility on Zhao Yunwen again, and sighed secretly in his heart, every time something happened, the responsibility was someone else's, and this Mrs. Zhang would never review his mistakes.

"What did Jia Changchao say?" Zhang Yaozuo turned his head and glared at Yang Kai fiercely.

Yang Kai secretly met with Zhang Yaozuo's son-in-law Li Yun this morning, and Zhang Yaozuo pinned his hopes on Jia Changchao.

Yang Kai shook his head, "Li Yun said, Jia Changchao has never asked the Jia family to want to serve as the third prime minister, Jia Changchao said that with him as the prime minister, he is already worthy of his ancestors, and his descendants have their own children and grandchildren, and it is not his turn to worry about it." ”

"Shameless bastard!"

Zhang Yaozuo hated the root of his teeth, and wanted to bite Jia Changchao to death, when Zhao Wenyun had the upper hand, who insisted on the three prime ministers before he was willing to form an alliance with him, and now seeing that the Son of Heaven was biased towards Zhao Zhongzhen, he swallowed back what he had said.

Jia Changchao, a two-faced bastard with three swords, is even more hateful than Han Qi and Fan Ning.

Yang Kai said again: "But Li Yun still revealed some news. ”

"What's the news?"

"The Son of Heaven wants to implement the Xiangjun Transformation Law on Jingdong Road, and is ready to let Zhao Zhongzhen take the lead."

"Fart dominant!"

Zhang Yaozuo said hatefully: "He's a little kid, he knows what a fart!" It was obviously Fanning who was doing it, and he finally went to pick peaches, which became his credit. ”

"Taishi, the problem is here, I agree with Jia Changchao's opinion, this is the Son of Heaven testing Zhao Zhongzhen, once the change is successful, I'm afraid Zhao Wenyun will really lose."

"Do you think that's the case?" Zhang Yaozuo asked with wide eyes.

Yang Kai nodded, "Taishi, this is a very dangerous omen, yesterday the Son of Heaven summoned Fan Ning and Zhao Zhongzhen alone in the Qilin Palace, and no chamberlain was allowed to be present, I felt that something was wrong, there must be a demon when something went wrong, the Son of Heaven must have promised something, or hinted at something, but we didn't know." ”

Yesterday's conversation in the Qilin Hall was very secretive, and even Zhang Yaozuo, who had always been well-informed in the palace, didn't know the content of the conversation, and what he was most worried about still happened.

Zhang Yaozuo suddenly panicked a little, and said urgently: "We must not let Zhao Zhongzhen's method change succeed, this is our last hope, what do you say?" ”

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In the newspaper on the third day, there was an article written by Gao Jixuan, the head of the Gao family, which was Ying and yesterday's Cao Cong's "On the Dangers of Redundant Soldiers", and at this time, many courtiers knew the real errand of the newly canonized King of Liangjun, and actually went to Jingdong Road to change the law against the Xiang army, and it turned out that these old army leaders were supporting Zhao Zhongzhen.

In the imperial study, Zhao Zhen put down the newspaper in his hand, with a smile on his face, the emperor's grandson Zhao Zhongzhen did a good job, knowing that the first thing to do was to win public opinion, win the support of this old military leader, and get full moral support, so as to suppress the voice of opponents, this is the most critical point.

Of course, Zhao Zhen knew that this was Fan Ning's idea, but he still unceremoniously counted these credits on Zhao Zhongzhen, Zhao Zhongzhen was handsome, Fan Ning was a general, and the credit made by the general was, of course, owned by the marshal.

Zhao Zhen flipped through the first report sent by Zhao Zhongzhen early this morning, reporting his activities in the past two days, including the first discussion between him and Fan Ning, going to Zhu's money shop for research, visiting Cao's mansion, applying for financial and land support from the Zhizheng Hall, and going to the barracks yesterday afternoon to investigate, these activities were written in great detail, writing more than 10,000 words, so that Zhao Zhen read it for a morning.

This report greatly pleased him, Zhao Zhongzhen did not immediately go to Tianfu to change the law in a hurry, but made full preparations, financial resources, public opinion, internal support of the army, technical support, and low-level investigations.

Zhao Zhen especially appreciated Zhao Zhongzhen's idea of starting with cleaning up overage soldiers, which was a very wonderful breakthrough, which was conducive to the generals to quickly break off from the illegal behavior of eating empty money, which was equivalent to self-examination and gave the generals a chance to reform themselves.

Of course, some accounts still have to be settled, but not now, but after the success of the change, the accounts will be settled later.

What Zhao Zhen appreciates is not entirely the plan itself, but more appreciates Zhao Zhongzhen's practice of not taking the blame from now on, the problem of redundant troops has existed for hundreds of years, and it is simply impossible and unrealistic to investigate past behaviors, but it will intensify the contradictions, so that the reform cannot be carried out, and only by knowing how to make trade-offs and compromises can the reform be successful.

This is a painful lesson that Zhao Zhen summed up from the failure of Qingli's reform, and he is very pleased that Zhao Zhongzhen did not repeat his mistakes in this regard.

I didn't see the wrong person!

At this time, a eunuch reported outside the imperial study, "Your Majesty, Han Xianggong asks to see you!" ”

"Let him in!"

After a while, Han Qi hurriedly walked in and bowed, "Weichen see Your Majesty!" ”

"What's the matter with Han Xianggong?"

Han Qi submitted a resolution of the Zhizheng Hall, "Your Majesty, this is a resolution of the Zhizheng Hall on supporting the reform and reform of the Jingdong Luxiang Army, and the Zhizheng Hall passed a resolution at one time, deciding to allocate 3,000 hectares of official land, 50,000 yuan of money, and 30,000 stones of grain. ”

Zhao Zhen was a little surprised, "Jia Xianggong and Tian Xianggong didn't raise objections?" ”

Han Qi understood the surprise of Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven, Jia Changchao and Tian Zheng were both people who supported Zhao Wenyun, but today's vote was really unexpected, only Tian Zheng was opposed, but Jia Changchao unexpectedly voted in favor, and proposed the establishment of an inspector to supervise the real use of land and money to change the law.

"Your Majesty, Tian Xianggong thinks that there is no precedent for allocating money in this way, and it will increase the burden on the court, he disagrees, but Jia Xianggong said that this is the most positive step taken by the redundant army to reform the system, and he fully supports it."

Zhao Zhen immediately understood, this old and cunning Jia Changchao! It began to turn, and the situation of the field obviously did not come over.

Zhao Zhen didn't say anything, looked at the resolution, and asked again: "There is no specific plan yet?" ”

"Your Majesty, the specific plan for land, money and grain has not come out because it is necessary to cooperate with the restructuring of the box army on Jingdong Road, and after the plan on Jingdong Road comes out, it will be formulated here, and now it is only a total number of resolutions."

"It can be implemented!"

Zhao Zhen immediately drew a circle on the resolution and approved the resolution to support the restructuring of the Jingdong Road Army.