Zhu Si asked suspiciously, "Why do you want to replace Zang Feng? Isn't he the man we're trying to woo? It's hard to establish a relationship with him, so let him go down?"

Obviously, Zhu Si's pattern has not yet been opened, and his thinking is still stuck in "uniting outsiders to deal with Yang Tinghe", which is obviously not in line with the status quo.

Zhu Hao said, "Isn't our opponent Yang Ge Lao?"

"That's right."

Zhu Si was inexplicable.

I didn't say it wasn't Lao Yangtou.

Zhu Hao pointed out: "After Elder Yang Ge retreats, there will be no constraints in the court, all the people in the world will be in His Majesty, and the subjects will all support him, so who can't use it?"

"Ugh...... Yes."

Zhu Si thought about it, it seemed to be the truth.

Zhu Hao said, "In this way, shouldn't our goal be to use all the resources at hand to let Yang Ge Elder get to the office early?"

Zhu Si didn't understand it for a while, what is the difference between the two?

"Your Majesty, our current purpose is not to unite with Zang Feng to deal with Yang Ge Lao, or rather, everyone is a chess piece and can be sacrificed at any time, and our ultimate goal is to let Yang Ge Lao become a master, and at that time, it will not be too late for Your Majesty to talk about who to use." Zhu Hao said.

Zhu Si suddenly realized: "I understand, in fact, when you first asked me to contact Zang Feng, you didn't plan to take him back, but used this as a cover to make the surnamed Yang think that we were going to recruit talents, but in fact, you were digging a hole for the surnamed Yang and asking him to take the initiative to jump inside?"

Zhu Hao smiled: "It's not bad, that's what it means."

Zhu Sidao: "But...... Replace Zang Feng, who will come up? If he changes his position as Yang wishes, won't the military power of Xuanfu and Datong fall into his hands?"

Zhu Hao shook his head: "It doesn't matter who you change, the important thing is to replace Zang Feng as soon as possible, because the minister has expected that in the next half a year, the main attack point of the Tatars will be on the front line of Xuanfu and Datong...... It will cause people's hearts to be scattered, and there will be loopholes in the outer defense line everywhere."

"Oh."

Zhu Si bowed, "At that time, we will be able to attack the surnamed Yang on the grounds that he disregarded the safety of the front line and removed the border officials for his own selfish interests?"

"Hmm."

Zhu Hao nodded.

Zhu Si finally got on the road and knew that this was a bureau specially set up for Yang Tinghe.

Zhu Si still didn't understand, shook his head and said, "Then Zhu Hao, how do you know that Zang Feng can do it, but if you change someone else, you can't?"

Zhu Hao smiled and shook his head: "It's not Zang Fengxing, but no one can go."

「……」

Zhu Si was speechless.

Zhu Hao said: "In the last few years of Zhengde, His Majesty drove down to the south of the Yangtze River, took away a large number of generals, and caused the armaments of Xuanfu, Datong, and Yatou Pass to be deserted, and the walled fortress was in disrepair. It's because I can't prevent it!"

"That...... It's really bad."

Zhu Si also felt that the problem was very big.

Zhu Hao sighed: "This is also the reason why the Tatars chose to send troops from the front line of Xuanda, because compared with the three sides, the armament of the Ming Dynasty on the front line of Xuanda mainly relied on the Holy Driver to visit the Xingxuan Mansion in the past few years, and the army gathered to deter the grassland tribes.

"And now in the land of Xuanda, it is impossible for Your Majesty to be stationed, and Jiang Bin and other generals have also become ancient, how can you guarantee combat effectiveness just by relying on the city fortress that has fallen into disrepair for a long time and the hearts of the people who are scattered? Something that is highly probable when you fail."

Zhu Si was silent.

When he is the emperor, he can feel the harm that the imperial brother in front of him has brought to the court.

Emperor Zhengde only seems to be a Ming monarch, but in fact he is not at all in tune, he is stationed in Xuanfu, profligate, occupies a lot of materials, almost crushes the armament of Xuanfu, Jiang Bin and other female cadres are even more Xuanfu as their back garden, arbitrarily transfer military funds, even the materials for the maintenance of the pass are forcibly occupied or sold, over the years, the first line of the Great Wall is increasingly dilapidated.

"This is also the reason why Zang Feng knew that the army had falsely reported its war exploits, and he still had to hide it for him, so the battle report was released two days late

report, it is estimated that Zang Feng is also investigating this matter, but if it is exposed, it will make the hearts of the Xuanfu and Datong front-line troops unstable, so it is better to use the battle in Baiyangkou as a typical propaganda to calm people's hearts and maintain the Xuanda first-line pass No more mistakes."

Zhu Hao made such an analysis.

After all, Zhu Hao is familiar with history and knows what the difficulties encountered by Jiajing at the beginning of his ascension to the throne.

In the future, the Datong military mutiny occurred in the Xuanda area, and the military funds were occupied by the emperor or high-level during the Zhengde period, and the border army guarded the dilapidated city and held dilapidated ordnance.

From Zhu Hao's point of view, Zang Feng just tried his best to obey the destiny of heaven and try his best to maintain the current situation, and whoever went to Xuanda couldn't clean up the mess in a short time.

If you want to reorganize the front-line armaments of Xuanda, it may not work for five years, but now that Emperor Zhengde has been dead for only one year, and Zang Feng has only been going to Xuanda for half a year, the Tatars have poured out of the nest, and Zang Feng can't hold back.

Since he knew that Zang Feng was not good, he changed his thinking and made Yang Tinghe feel that the emperor wanted to rein in Zang Feng in order to obtain the first-line military power of Xuanda.

In this way, Yang Tinghe will expose the scandal of Zang Feng's false declaration of military exploits for the border general, replace him, and even take him to the capital for questioning...... With such a change of commander, if there is any turmoil on the front line of Xuanda, the responsibility will all lie on Yang Tinghe.

Zhu Si asked, "If the person surnamed Yang doesn't mention it himself, what if the official is impeached?"

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Except for the opinions raised by Elder Yang Ge, Your Majesty can ignore anyone...... Your Majesty can also ask Yang Ge Lao's opinion separately in the court, and if you want to remove the Governor Xuanda, whom Your Majesty trusts, you must have to be advised by the First Auxiliary Minister, and Your Majesty will not pay attention to the opinions of others."

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As Zhu Hao expected.

Yang Tinghe did not know much about the situation in Xuanfu and Datong, thinking that the Tatar offensive had subsided, after all, the main strategy of the Tatars in the past was to plunder the border and rob, plus the intelligence showed that the disaster on the grassland in the past two years was serious, and it coincided with the tribal disputes after the death of Dayan Khan, Yang Tinghe did not think that the Tatars had the ability to invade the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the war reports everywhere are leveling off, Yang Tinghe, as a professional politician, is not to consider how to stabilize the situation in Xuanfu, but to curb the little emperor's ambition to retract Xuanda's military power.

Yang Tinghe asked Zuodu Yu Shi Jin Xianmin to discuss this matter.

When Jin Xianmin saw Yang Tinghe's visit, he felt that something was wrong, and when Yang Tinghe explained that he wanted to thoroughly investigate whether Xuanda had falsely reported his military exploits, he understood that this move was aimed at the emperor.

"The situation is unknown, so I can only check it first, but I don't know...... To what extent?"

To investigate false reports of war exploits, it is necessary to see who is found.

If you just find out about the border generals, don't implicate the civil officials, but if you want to make a big fuss, then even the governor-level officials will have to follow the black pot.

Yang Tinghe said, "What do you think should be done?"

Jin Xianmin sighed: "Now that the northwest is in ruins, if you move the prison at this time, I am afraid that there will be a lot of rumors, and the grass and trees are all soldiers, even if there is a false report, it should be stopped."

Yang Tinghe shook his head: "If you want to investigate, you will check to the end, this wind cannot last."

After leaving a cold sentence, Yang Tinghe left.

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……

In fact, there is no need for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate, Zang Feng falsely reported the military exploits for the Baiyangkou defenders, and it can't stand scrutiny.

First of all, it is a great sin to abandon the customs and escape.

Later, there was a royal history report in Xuanda, mentioning that the Aries Pass was destroyed by the Tatars, and the Tatars had killed the money in Tianchengwei and had withdrawn after plundering, in fact, there was no second war, that is...... In the so-called battle of Kefu Baiyangkou, the two sides did not exchange troops, which is why the border army did not report its own losses in the second battle.

There was no fight at all, and there was no one dead.

As for the Tatar heads, it is still the old routine of "killing the good and risking the merits", that is, after chasing out, I randomly found a tribe that I don't know if it was a Tatar or a Ming herdsman, slaughtered wildly, and borrowed the head for use......

Originally side

There are many small tribes in the land of abundant water and grass, nominally attached to the Ming Dynasty, but they are often robbed by the cavalry on both sides of the Ming and Tatars......

It was not an easy task to eat near the pass, these tribes were not bold, but every year they paid protection fees to both the Ming army and the Tatars, and the herdsmen thought that their safety was guaranteed, but they turned out to be captive cattle and sheep, which were taken and taken by others.

Of course, if it weren't for the destruction of the Baiyangkou Pass, the Tatars burned and plundered and then fled, the border army was too guilty to bear the responsibility of the imperial court, and it was in urgent need of credit, and the border army would not have killed these hens who could lay eggs, and cut off the long-term meal ticket.

So there is such a farce that is not faultless but meritorious, anyway, the Tatars withdrew, and the report said that they were killed and retreated by our border army, and there are still people to testify, it should be no problem, right?

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After the incident was revealed, the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

In the court.

Zhu Si looked disgraced, but he knew very well that he was just acting in front of Yang Tinghe.

"Elder Yang Ge, I didn't investigate, I never thought about such a thing, with Elder Yang Ge's opinion, how should we deal with people who falsely reported their military exploits?"

Zhu Si looked very humble and took the initiative to ask Yang Tinghe about the remedial plan.

Yang Tinghe was originally very cautious.

If the emperor hadn't asked in front of the minister of civil and military affairs, he would never have stood up and commented.

But now that the emperor earnestly asked him for his opinion, he had no choice but to reply, "This matter should be referred to the Criminal Department and the Imperial Court for inquiry."

It means that I go through the judicial process, and as the head of the cabinet, it is not good for me to express my opinion casually.

That's a lot of water.

Zhu Sidao: "I also agree that we should not encourage such unhealthy tendencies, but now the front line of Xuanda is still not peaceful...... The person involved in the case was brought back to Jingshi for questioning, who should be replaced?"

The emperor said this, and it was clear that he wanted to take Zang Feng with a knife.

But even if Zang Feng is replaced, the emperor will try his best to change "his own person" in the past, don't you want to promote Tang Yin in the next step, right?

Yang Tinghe didn't want to wade into troubled waters and make Zang Feng infamous, his goal had already been achieved.

It can be seen that a Zang Feng has fallen, and the emperor has to cultivate a new one, Yang Tinghe naturally can't sit idly by.

What Yang Tinghe wants to guarantee is that no matter who the next governor of Xuanda is, it cannot be said that it is appointed by the little emperor, but should be controlled by him......

There was nothing wrong with that.

But he didn't know it, and unknowingly fell into the trap that Zhu Hao set for him.