Chapter 330

The proposal of the inner court to reopen the West Factory also surprised the old man, before the early dynasty outside the Fengtian Palace, Song Nan quietly informed Zhang Mao of the matter, and Zhang Mao immediately understood the deep meaning of Liu Jin's move, and analyzed several by inference, instead of being as hindsight as Song Nan when he first heard the news.

"There is no doubt that Liu Jin is going to take away the power of your Jinyiwei, the West Factory will be reopened, and the Jinyiwei and the East Factory will be under its control, even if your Jinyiwei may not all be under the control of the West Factory, but it will also be constrained by it; And there is another thing that will also become a big problem, I wonder if you have considered it? ”

Zhang Mao paced under the stairs with his hands in his hands, and said in a low voice.

"I only know that the reopening of the West Factory will restrain my Jinyi Wei and weaken my position in the DPRK, I don't know if there are other harms, and I ask the old man for advice." Song Nan humbly asked for advice.

Zhang Mao said: "No wonder you don't know the details, Wang Zhi set up the West Factory during the Chenghua period, more than 20 years ago, when you were not born, how can you know the significance of the establishment of this institution; The authority of the West Factory covers all the functions and powers of Jinyiwei and the East Factory, and can try prisoners on its own and set up prisons. Prisoners. If you take an important person, you still need to receive a criminal department, and the West Factory doesn't need to go through any yamen at all, just like the East Factory. More importantly, the number of Xichang horsemen can be several times that of Dongchang, and if it is calculated as five times that of Dongchang during the Chenghua period, the reopened Xichang Yamen can have five times the number of Dongchang soldiers, that is, the maximum increase of 15,000 horsemen. Liu Jin added 15,000 men for nothing, and this matter is more deadly than your Jinyi Guard's yamen being clamped. ”

Song Nan was shocked, the increase in the number of 15,000 internal cavalry, plus the 3,000 battles in Dongchang, plus the 3,000 battalions led by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the amount of strength in Liu Jin's hands alone exceeded 20,000, and although he tried his best to expand the scale of the Jinyi Guard Yamen, so far it was only a big yamen of 35,600 people, and there were actually only more than 10,000 people in the left side of Gyeonggi.

That is to say, once the West Factory is established, in the vicinity of Gyeonggi Zuo, Liu Jin's strength is completely superior to himself, and he can even replace the existence of Jinyiwei with the West Factory, because what Jinyiwei can do, the West Factory still has sufficient manpower to do, and the means are even more free and effective than Jinyiwei, because they don't have to worry about reputation and means.

"Song Nan, I'm afraid I have to think of a foolproof plan for this matter, Liu Jin's move is turbulent, and the person who comes is not good." Zhang Mao's white eyebrows were deeply locked, and he didn't have much to do for a while.

Song Nan nodded, understanding how big the challenge was in front of him.

After the early dynasty, Zhengde took the initiative to summon Song Nan, and Song Nan vaguely felt that it must be the reopening of the West Factory, and Zhengde wanted to explain to himself.

In the imperial study of the Qianqing Palace, the charcoal-baked room was hot, and Zhengde, who was dressed like a big zongzi, saw Song Nan come in, and sat down with a smile, and even Liu Jin, who didn't have a good relationship with Song Nan recently, unexpectedly moved the corners of his mouth, and nodded without smiling.

"Song Nan, I heard that the day of your marriage to the lord of the British government is approaching, what day is it?"

"Your Majesty, it's the eighteenth day of the lunar month, and there's still half a month." Song Nan was very amused by Zhengde's knowingly greetings, Zhengde was like a schoolboy who had done something wrong, and always liked to talk about it before the showdown.

"Oh, very good, very good, when the day comes, I will give you a decree to celebrate, and I will also have a reward."

"Thank you for the emperor's care, the emperor really has nothing to say to the ministers."

"That's natural, there are only you and Liu Jin around me, I can trust the most, you are newly married, I naturally want to express something; Not...... I have my own arrangements for this matter at that time, and now I have something to discuss with you, and I am a little uncertain, so you can also help me come up with ideas. ”

Song Nan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please speak." ”

Zhengde glanced at Liu Jin, rubbed his hands and said: "Song Nan, I received several letters a few days ago, all of which suggested strengthening public security and intelligence gathering inside and outside Gyeonggi. The capital is the most important place in my Ming Dynasty, and the city of millions of people in Huanghuang is the primary responsibility to maintain its stability, and the emperors of the previous dynasties attached great importance to this. ”

Song Nan frowned and said, "Your Majesty, is there something wrong with the duties of the minister?" In the past six months, there have been two percent fewer cases in Beijing, the market is peaceful, and no vicious incidents have occurred. ”

Zhengde hurriedly waved his hand and said: "That's not it, I don't mean that you are ineffective, in fact, the Jinyiwei Yamen has taken on a new look in your hands, and the people's reputation for Jinyiwei has also changed. ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "I see, it seems that the minister has disappointed the emperor a little." ”

Zhengde hurriedly said: "Don't say that, your time to take over is still short, and some things should not be borne by you." I listened to Liu Jin's words a few days ago, and I think there is some truth, Liu Jin said that there will be some reforms, especially the reform between factories and guards, which may stimulate the motivation of the two of you, Song Nan, you might as well listen to Liu Jin's words. ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Okay, if Gonggong Liu has a high opinion, I will naturally listen to it." ”

Zhengde said happily: "Okay, Liu Jin, tell me your suggestion, in front of me, you factory guards are all a family, and if you have good ideas, you have to communicate with each other, and you are not outsiders." ”

Liu Jin kowtowed and saluted: "The slave obeys the order." ”

Song Nan's heart is already hanging like a mirror, what he is most concerned about is actually Zhengde's attitude, now it seems that Zhengde has completely sided with Liu Jin, although I don't know what Liu Jin said to make Zhengde agree to his suggestion, but obviously, today's idea of stopping Liu Jin from reopening the West Factory may be in vain. If you react violently, but you have no reason to refute it, I am afraid that you will fall into Liu Jin's strategy, and you will incur Zhengde's disgust.

Liu Jin got up and came to Song Nan to salute and said: "Lord Song, our family is ordered by the emperor to say some of our own opinions, if there is something wrong, please don't laugh, it's just the words of the family." ”

Song Nan arched his hand and said: "My father-in-law is polite, my father-in-law's proposal must be every word, listen to it." ”

Liu Jin smiled and said slowly: "We have all heard what the emperor said just now, in fact, the emperor is not dissatisfied with the security of the capital and the audit official duties of our factory guards, the emperor is saving face for us; But as courtiers, we must have the courage to analyze our own ugliness, and not be afraid to expose our shortcomings. The emperor is right, we are talking by ourselves behind closed doors, and it will not be known to outsiders, I wonder if Lord Song thinks so? ”

Song Nan said: "Father-in-law Liu can say whatever he wants." ”

Liu Jin nodded and said: "Okay, Lord Song, the emperor is busy with government affairs, you and I, as the emperor's close ministers, are in charge of the Jinyi Guard and the Dongchang Yamen, and according to our duties, we should share the emperor's worries, not add chaos to the emperor, right?" ”

Song Nan said solemnly: "Do you need to say this? ”

Liu Jin said: "Although you and I have this will, but to tell the truth, you and I have not done this. Of course, this is not your fault, there has always been a mustard between the factory and the guard, and this is not a secret, because of the overlapping rights and responsibilities of each other, they are not convinced by each other, and sometimes they can not help each other, but drag each other back. Information cannot be shared, manpower cannot be uniformly deployed, and many opportunities to handle cases are often missed, which is inefficient and consumes more manpower and material resources. ”

Song Nan was silent, Liu Jin was telling the truth, but Liu Jin was so brave to analyze himself, obviously not for self-criticism, but to lead to a proposal to rebuild the West Factory later. In front of the emperor, the more sincere he becomes, the more the emperor's advice to him will be given a high score, if he opposes it without reason, it will not succeed, and he will lose points in the eyes of Zhengde.

"Our family is not shy about saying that some of the information reported to the emperor by Dongchang and Jinyi Wei Yamen is not only incomplete and insufficient, but also often contradictory, if it is not for the emperor's benevolence, you and I should be punished. Factory guards can spy on all kinds of news inside and outside Beijing, but the same news contradicts itself, isn't it ridiculous and generous to spread it? It is true that we have the right to rumor, but it is obviously inappropriate to report the news without integration and mutual communication and corroboration, wasting the emperor's energy not to say it, and making the emperor not know whose information to believe. ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "My father-in-law is right, although such incidents are rare, they do happen, but my father-in-law's suggestion is ......."

Liu Jin smiled and said: "My inspiration still comes from Lord Song, do you still remember that when I was analyzing the gains and losses of the battle of Xinpingbao in the court, Lord Song mentioned the disadvantages of poor news between the towns in the border areas, their own formations, mutual non-cooperation, and even the disadvantages of winning less and losing more when they were harassed by the Tartars?" We feel that there seems to be a lack of communication and trust between our factories and guards. On that day, the solution given by Lord Song and the British Duke was to reinstate the trilateral commander-in-chief and unify and coordinate the military affairs of the northwest tripartite, which can be described as a wise suggestion, and the emperor also agreed to this proposal. ”

Song Nan opened his mouth slightly, secretly depressed, Liu Jin really didn't cover it, he knew how to pierce his shield with his spear, and set up a trilateral general system yamen that was one level higher than the trilateral general military office to unify and coordinate management It was his own suggestion, and now it was used by Liu Jin to deal with him, it was really a quick retribution.

Liu Jin looked at Song Nan's ugly face, and continued proudly: "In view of the current situation, our family also wants to follow the example of the cat and the tiger, if a yamen is set up to coordinate the affairs of the prime minister's two yamen above the Dongchang and Jinyi Wei yamen, in the future, we only need to hand over the detective intelligence and official documents to the yamen for summarization, and report to the emperor for knowledge after unified coordination and verification and completion, wouldn't it also play a role like the trilateral general system?" Lord Song, what do you think? ”