When Zhu Hao saw the person sent by Lu Song, he couldn't help but wonder that it was his old friend Lu Bing.

Lu Bing is already a twelve-year-old boy, his height has risen a lot, and he suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Hao, and he felt half a head taller after not seeing him for a few months, and his body was full of heroism.

Seeing Zhu Hao, Lu Bing looked shapeless, and grinned, "Zhu Hao."

Zhu Hao asked him to sit down, and he was about to get up and make tea, but Lu Bing refused.

"My father asked me to tell you that the prefect of Yongping and other magistrates want to take away our mines, and it seems that the backers of the court are supporting them, even if my father comes forward as a thousand households in Jinyi, they will not give face."

Lu Bing looked businesslike.

Zhu Hao didn't dwell on this question, and asked with a smile, "How did you come here?"

Lu Bing said, "Oh, my father heard that you were going south, so he asked me to go south along the canal and chase after me. In fact, I caught up the day before yesterday, but I was never able to meet you, and today I finally saw the opportunity to meet you...... Rest easy, no one will see me come in."

Zhu Hao smiled.

Lu Song presided over the mining and had trouble, so he didn't report to the emperor, but came to ask him for advice, because Lu Song cared about the credit of this business trip.

If he asks for help from the emperor, it means that he is very incompetent as a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, originally the identity of a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, there is no problem at all with the local government, just arrest some people and intimidate, but Lu Song's head is flexible, and he guesses that it is likely that the local people are looking for trouble just to provoke him and let the situation get out of control.

The best way to report is to ask Zhu Hao for advice.

Zhu Hao thought to himself, Lu Song was very smart and not self-righteous.

"Zhu Hao, you quickly think of a way to deal with those magistrates who came to make trouble, my father is opening a mine for His Majesty, why do local officials dare to embarrass it? Who gave them the guts? Do you have a solution?"

Lu Bing was very upright, and asked questions one after another about the doubts in his heart.

Zhu Hao said, "Lu Bing, what does your father mean?"

Lu Bing thought for a while and shook his head: "I don't know, my father only said that he would ask your opinion and then act according to your instructions."

Zhu Hao smiled and went downstairs to the room to ask for a pot of hot boiling water, slowly brewed tea, and then filled the teacup in front of Lu Bing, everything seemed orderly.

The young man acted impulsively, recklessly, and couldn't settle down for a while, what Zhu Hao had to do was to make Lu Bing completely quiet.

Seeing Lu Bing reluctantly take a sip of tea, Zhu Hao said, "Even if you want to clean up the magistrate, you have to wait until I come back from Nanjing...... Now you can only let your father stabilize the place, and if anyone is looking for trouble, send someone to fence off the mine. Show the enemy weakness first, and then turn around and clean them up."

Lu Bing said, "What if they rob it hard?"

Zhu Hao couldn't help but sigh.

In Daming, it's not easy to do something practical.

Even for the emperor to do errands, local forces dare to stick inside, the rules of Confucianism have always been "strong dragons do not suppress the head snake", which makes the head snake fearless, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu comes to his own territory, he also dares to make a fuss, as if the court does not dare to do anything to them.

"Then fight!"

Zhu Hao said with a straight face: "If you completely subdue them, there will be nothing left. But don't make a fuss, under this premise, it's easy to say. You can even take the initiative to fight back......

Speaking of this, Zhu Hao thoughtfully: "Your father asked you to come, did you say that you should go back to your life earlier?"

Lu Bing shook his head: "My father said, let me do things with you."

Sure enough.

Zhu Hao understood Lu Song's good intentions.

Let Lu Bing ask for advice, first, his son is the most trustworthy and will not leak the news to the outside world, and then Lu Song is like Lu Bing to have a good future.

From Lu Song's point of view, the best way to let his son enter the official career is naturally to follow Zhu Hao, a capable minister who is respected even by the emperor, and even everything can be considered in advance, Zhu Hao

The disciples he received were more promising than the other, and Lu Song knew that he couldn't cultivate Lu Bing into a talent, so he could only let Zhu Hao help.

"Okay, you go to Nanjing with me, but it's still the same, you can only follow secretly, you can't show up, and then ...... Appropriately restrained, look at your appearance, just like a chivalrous and righteous charlatan, this world is too arrogant and easy to cause trouble, you have no official status, you are really targeted, it is easy to suffer."

Zhu Hao educated Lu Binglai by the way.

Lu Bing smiled, his mouth was taking advantage of it again and again, but in fact, his left ear went in and out of his right ear, and he probably thought about how to go out to play after arriving in Nanjing.

Zhu Hao said, "I'll find someone to inform your father...... You find a place to stay first."

Zhu Hao didn't say much to Lu Bing, only during the time when Yu Chengxun entered the city, he could see Lu Bing, and the rest of the time Lu Bing could only follow from afar, and the two couldn't stay together.

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Entering September.

The young Emperor Jiajing is about to get married.

At this time, the focus of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military attention was almost entirely on the war in the northwest.

The pressure on the front line of Xuanda is very huge.

The Tatars have formed a system and entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty to loot, because there are lessons from the previous changes in the civil fort, and Zhu Houzhao was stubborn and self-serving before the great victory in Yingzhou, so the attitude of the Ming ministers of the Ming Dynasty is very clear, that is, no matter what the chaos in the northwest looks like, the chaos must be isolated outside the Juyong Pass.

In other words, the emperor cannot drive the expedition in person, and the Ming Jingshi cannot be transferred north.

This gave Yang Ting and huge pressure.

Because from Yang Tinghe's point of view, the best strategy is to transfer troops from Beijing to Xuanda, avoid drawing troops from the three sides, and do not need to transfer people from Liaodong and other places.

But now because the court has set the tone, the capital's defense cannot be relaxed in the slightest, and even Yang Tinghe is not good at breaking this rule.

As a result, Yang Tinghe could only be forced to take a "risky move", that is, to transfer troops to Xuanda from three sides.

In order to avoid jumping over the wall in a hurry and defecting to the Tatar camp and cholera in Gyeonggi, Yang Tinghe specially asked the little emperor to issue an order when he was in front of the king, which means that even if the proposal of transferring troops was proposed by me Yang someone, the only one who carried the black pot could only be the new emperor! Who told you to calculate me and dig such a big hole for me to jump down? Then now I will put you along, dare to ask you whether this will be under or not?

Zhu Si was very supportive of this, because he had asked Zhang Zuo to go to the cabinet, the military department and other places to convey his opinions, and transfer troops and reinforcements from all over the country as soon as possible, including the three sides.

The Ming Dynasty belonged to Zhu Si, the emperor, and he was more anxious than anyone else to pacify the northwest, so after Yang Tinghe and Yu Chaotang suggested that the emperor make an imperial decree, Zhu Si immediately made a decision and asked the military department to draft a strategy, and finally issued the military order in the form of an edict to various places in the northwest.

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The third day of September.

Cabinet duty.

That night, Yang Ting and Mao Ji were on duty at night, which was the second time that the cabinet added personnel on the night shift after the military affairs in the northwest became tense again.

「…… It seems that His Majesty is willing to quickly quell the war in the northwest, and according to the experience of previous years, or before the onset of winter, this protracted attack can be over. After all, after winter, the Tatars will not be able to grab anything if they want to."

Mao Ji was originally as worried as Yang Tinghe that the new emperor would make a big fuss with the help of the Xuanda chaos and confront Yang Tinghe head-on.

But unexpectedly, Zhu Si showed an extremely sincere attitude, looking like he wanted to solve problems for the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Si did not have a head-on conflict with Yang Tinghe in several court discussions about the situation in the northwest.

Only in terms of money and food dispatch......

Zhu Si tightened this very tightly, and kept letting the household department allocate it as appropriate, but the household department used the excuse that the autumn grain harvest was not completed, and the autumn harvest had not been levied that year.

Yang Tinghe said: "Now the officers and soldiers in the army have not even prepared their winter clothes, if this battle survives until winter, how will the soldiers survive the winter?"

The Tatars plundered on the front line of Xuanda, and the Ming border army basically retreated in the city, and the possibility of an encounter between the two sides

It's not big, in fact, the Tatars have no intention of taking the initiative to start a war with the Ming Dynasty.

The number of Ming cavalry is more than that of the Tatars, after all, Xuanda is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, once the Tatars find that the Ming cavalry is out of the city, they immediately scatter in a hurry, on the contrary, if the Tatars gather, the number exceeds the Ming cavalry in the city, and the Ming cavalry also fled back to the city.

The two sides maintained a tacit understanding.

You rob yours, I do my façade work, as long as you don't fight each other in a short battle, how can you love it, even if you Tatars set up the camp under my Daming fortress, we can also do it with you without incident.

Mao Jidao: "There has never been a decent victory, and it is indeed not a way to go on like this! If you don't hurt the Tatars, the Tatars still think that my Ming frontier is undefended!"

Yang Tinghe picked up a trilateral report and said, "Then it depends on how this battle will be fought after the arrival of Yansui reinforcements!" I hope that everything will go well, and the Tatars will be intimidated by the might of our Ming army and retreat on their own, and in any case, they will survive this year first."

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Yang Tinghe had a wishful thinking.

Now the situation in the northwest is in chaos.

But the three sides, which used to be the eye of the storm, have basically not encountered any pressure this year.

Before Yang Tinghe through the Xuanda chaos, successfully obtained the military power of Xuanda, if from the three sides to transfer people and horses to aid Xuanfu Datong, and the Tatars see that it is good, and wait for the winter, in the spring of the next year, the Xuanda city fortress will be reinforced, and the collapsed Great Wall will be repaired properly, it will be perfect for Yang Tinghe.

With the military power of Sanbian and Xuanda in hand, the little emperor's abacus completely failed, and Yang Tinghe was able to use this as a springboard to start with the Gyeonggi garrison, and gradually replace the Jingying and others with his people......

After all, the northwest is related to nearly half of the expenses of the Ming court, and Yang Tinghe is equivalent to holding the economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty, but this is only in terms of expenses, and the next step is to control the production area...... That is, the Jiangnan tax, which requires the replacement of Nanjing's household department and military department books with his people.

Plan one step at a time.

The premise must be that the situation in Xuanda must be controllable, and the northwest can only talk about the follow-up.

Now the imperial court needs Huang Zhan, the secretary of the Southern Household Department, to help raise military supplies, and it can't attack it for the time being.

Yang Tinghe asked Zhu Hao and Yu Chengxun to go south, in fact, there is the meaning of startling the snake, first arrange a few nails, and maybe when the balloon in Jiangnan will be burst.