Zhu Yong looked at Shen Yichen for a long time and did not speak, he knew that this letter from Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji was not so much a private letter between old friends, but rather expected his help to persuade the civilian group in the court to agree to the military emigration.

And Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji put the breakthrough of lobbying on Shen Yichen, the first assistant of the cabinet.

After all, he has been in charge of military affairs as a civilian official all the year round, and he is very aware of the difficulties and hardships of the Southwest Tusi Counterinsurgency War. In addition, the Luchuan War has been fought until now, and it was Shen Yichen who agreed on the strategy of the Yongzhen side to obtain the approval of the first emperor.

Shen Yichen is the son of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, and letting him open this mouth is much more likely to succeed than Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji directly going to the imperial court to clear the side of the court.

"To the north, Luchuan can't become an incurable wound of the Ming Dynasty, if Jingyuan Boyong Town can't solve it this time, then I am afraid it will not be the king's land in the future!"

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, finally decided to help his old friend Wang Ji say this, although the Governor's Office of the Five Armies can decide to transfer military households in Tuntian, but in fact, this scale of "immigration" cannot be completed without the cooperation of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Annan has been lost, and Luchuan and even Yunnan must not become the second Annan, which is the consensus reached by the military generals in the early Ming Dynasty.

The responsibility of throwing away the soil, infamous through the ages!

"Grandpa, Luchuan will definitely not become a trauma for Daming, and there will never be the next Luchuan expedition!"

Shen Yichen replied with a firm gaze, Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji's expedition was promoted by himself, so he had to be responsible for it to the end.

In fact, regardless of the "colonial" rhetoric, wars to expand territory since ancient times are destined to be accompanied by bloodshed and massacres. During the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he sent his predecessor Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, and Zhang Fu, the British Duke to conquer Annam, and the number of beheadings according to clear statistics in the history books was as high as more than 60,000.

Don't think this is a small number, you must know that the population of Annam at that time was only a few million, and the number of enemies killed in a campaign reached 1% of the total population.

And this is only the number of beheadings, the British Gong Zhang Fu also "moved" nearly 16,000 craftsmen and more than 16,000 scholars from Annan, which is equivalent to directly cutting off the handicraft industry and cultural roots of Annan, and almost did not step directly into the primitive society.

This is the reason why when the Ming Dynasty built the Forbidden City, there were many Annam craftsmen, who were essentially prisoners of war. In addition, there are a large number of Annan eunuchs in the palace, such as Jin Ying, the former eunuch who was castrated and brought into the palace to become a eunuch since he was a child.

There are all kinds of precedents, and the civilian-official clique is now extremely weak, Shen Yichen believes that it will not be very difficult to abandon the "royal Taoism" and directly use bloody and brutal means to move towards the DPRK and China.

The only difficulty is how to make 200,000 military households, and even civilian households, willingly go to a place like Luchuan, where green mountains and bad waters are?

"Once a son of heaven and a courtier, now the court no longer belongs to my father, and it depends on how you deal with this matter."

After hearing Shen Yichen's firm words, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, replied with a surging smile, his tone and demeanor were like a peaceful old man, and he couldn't feel the slightest sharpness and sharpness back then.

The younger generations of the family are better than the blue, and he believes that Shen Yichen will do better than himself!

With the end of a brief conversation, in the next few days, when the New Year is approaching, there seems to be a lot less dispute and anger inside and outside the court, and there is a joyful style among the civil and military officials.

However, in the dark, it was far from being as calm as it seemed, and after discussing with Cao Jixiang, the head of the Celebrant Supervisor, Shi Heng immediately went to gather the civil officials he had single-handedly supported.

For example, Liu Bendao, the head of the household department, Sun Hong, the head of the Ministry of Works, and Liu Ruyan, a member of the military department, and others. They balance the power Shi Heng took advantage of the eagerness of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu to promote a group of middle-class officials, and now with the change of dynasty and Emperor Mingliang ascending the throne, they have also fallen into a decline, and they urgently need a change to continue to climb up.

In addition to these original party forces, Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, also spent a lot of money to buy off a group of science and technology officials. In Shi Heng's eyes these years, there is nothing clear to speak of, only the price code given is not in place.

When the money is smashed into place, there will always be some clear stream that turns into a licking dog!

However, Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, also knows very well in his heart that the henchmen and some gossip officials can only play a role in building momentum, and it is far from enough to impeach Shen Yichen. The figure who can really play a decisive role in uniting the civilian-bureaucratic group is Hu Hu, the veteran of the Six Dynasties.

But the problem is that this is a real old fox, and Shen Yichen originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity of his relatives to evade taxes and encroach on 10,000 acres of fertile land to impeach Hu Hui. Let's not talk about whether you can be convicted or anything, at least find a way to damage Hu Hu's reputation, and it is best to be ashamed of yourself and become a beggar skeleton.

As a result, Hu Hu broke his wrist by a strong man, eliminated the threat invisibly, and then pretended to be dead in a low-key manner and did not confront Shen Yichen at all, which simply played the philosophy of officialdom to the fullest.

It's not easy to move him into the game.

Fortunately, Shi Heng has a few old friends in the civil official group, he is the imperial envoy Wang Wen and the cabinet minister Wang Yining.

If Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is a veteran of the Six Dynasties, and he can stand accurately every time he stands in line, then the current imperial envoy Wang Wen is almost like a lost dog, in addition to his qualifications, he can also say that there is no force to rely on in the court.

Cabinet minister Wang Yining, not to mention, is purely a voting tool placed in the cabinet by Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu in order to gain the upper hand in Yi Chu. In particular, he relied on the eunuch Wang Chengyuan to introduce the cabinet, setting a precedent for the Ming Dynasty and being regarded as a shame by the officialdom, which has reached the point of notoriety, and has completely become a transparent person.

But no matter what, these two people's official titles are there, and their qualifications can be regarded as civil veterans, plus Wang Wen is also like-minded with Shi Heng, and he has always had the idea of welcoming foreign vassals during the dispute between the princes.

With these two people connecting the bridges, Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, said that the grasp of Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, can be a little bigger.

The time soon came to the first day of the Lunar New Year in the first year of Mingliang, and the most lively Zhengdan Dynasty will be held on this day. As the first year of the new monarch's accession to the throne, the officials of the state capitals of the Ming Dynasty rushed to the capital to meet and worship, and the scale was even greater than in the past!

With the goose feathers and heavy snow flying in the sky, Shen Yichen and Chen Qingtong sat in the carriage and staggered towards the palace.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty had strict etiquette laws, even if Shen Yichen never restricted the travel of the female scrolls in the family, Chen Qingtong, who was the queen of people, still lived in a simple house, and it was almost half a year since the last time he left the house.

She lifted the curtains from time to time, looked at the scene outside the window with curious eyes, and it didn't take long for a smile to appear on her face, and she said to Shen Yichen: "Husband, you are a good official." ”

Suddenly hearing Chen Qingtong say this sentence inexplicably, Shen Yichen felt a little puzzled, and asked with a smile: "We are all old husbands and wives, do we still need to wear this high hat?" ”

"No, I mean really."

Chen Qingtong emphasized, then looked out the window of the car and said: "Husband, the heavy snow fluttering outside is a beautiful scenery for dignitaries and nobles, and I still remember that there is a famous Snow Listening Pavilion in Beijing, which is built to better appreciate the snow scene, which has attracted praise from countless literati and scholars." ”

"But for the people at the bottom, heavy snow means hunger and cold, and they may freeze to death in a winter night."

"I still remember that when the concubine was waiting for the purdah, she often sneaked out to play with the maidservants, and every time it snowed heavily in winter, I could always see many refugees huddled in the streets and alleys, which was incompatible with the joyful celebration of Chinese New Year's Eve."

"Driving all the way today, the concubine hasn't seen a refugee on the side of the road, isn't it enough to show that the husband is a good official?"

After listening to Chen Qingtong's words, Shen Yichen was stunned for a moment, maybe he had seen too many tragic scenes, or it could be that he had to be hard-hearted after being in a high position, he almost stopped paying attention to these trivial things.

After Chen Qingtong's reminder, it is true that there are no common frozen bones on the side of the road.

"It seems that my husband has done something in the past few years."

Shen Yichen's tone was full of emotion, the grain war in Beijing in the early years overthrew the price rule of the gentry and landlords, and since then the imperial court has formulated a ceiling on grain prices.

The implementation of such policies not only allows the people to have a bite to eat in the disaster year, but also prevents them from mortgaging their land, selling their children and daughters, and so on, thus delaying the development of the land annexation situation in disguise.

In addition, Shen Yichen's measures such as opening the sea, setting up customs, and collecting customs duties have gone through the "wasteland period" in the first few years, and now they have also begun to provide a source of tax revenue for the imperial court, reducing the stripping of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes to the people.

In addition, the trend of sinking the party, the improvement of efficiency and honesty brought about by the rectification of official governance, the superposition of various factors has changed from quantity to change. It may be that the current year is far from being peaceful and prosperous, but at least compared with the late Orthodox Dynasty and the early Jingtai Dynasty, the scene of continuous natural and man-made disasters, the life of the people is much better.

"Not only did he do something, but his husband is simply a big hero."

"Stop, if you continue to boast about it, you will float away."

Shen Yichen made a joke with a smile, and at this time, the voice of the coachman came from the front: "Yuanfu, you have arrived at Chengtianmen." ”

Hearing the coachman's reminder, Shen Yichen put away the smile on his face, looked at his wife Chen Qingtong in front of him, and a look of embarrassment appeared.

"Husband, what's the matter?"

Knowing his husband and wife, seeing Shen Yichen's expression, Chen Qingtong knew that he must have something important.

"Qingtong, in fact, I shouldn't have involved you in the government affairs of the court, but it is difficult for the harem forbidden land to be involved as an official of the former court. Especially the current queen mother has a misunderstanding of being a husband, and can only take the opportunity of the Zhengdan Dynasty to meet the wife to find a way to resolve the misunderstanding. ”

A few days ago, Shen Yichen talked to Shang Chen about this topic, that is, to take advantage of the Zhengdan court meeting, and the Empress Dowager Hang led the emperor to accept the worship of civil and military officials, and took the opportunity to meet to eliminate the estrangement between the two sides.

Later, Shen Yichen thought about it carefully, and thought that it was unrealistic to ask for a separate meeting with the empress dowager in front of the Manchu civil and military forces. After thinking about the final operation method, it is better to wait for the Empress Dowager Hang to return to the harem to accept the worship of the appointed woman, and let Chen Qingtong talk and meet with her.

After all, both parties are women, and there are no restrictions on etiquette, and the conversation between the women can better narrow the distance. You must know that the fundamental reason why Empress Dowager Hang is very jealous is still the fear of Shen Yichen's status as a "powerful minister", worried that he will become Huo Guang or Cao Cao of the Ming Dynasty.

But after all, this involves a dispute between the court, and Shen Yichen doesn't want to involve Chen Qingtong until the last resort, which is why his face is full of hesitation.

"We are husband and wife, what should we say that we should not say?"

"The concubine will find a way to explain the situation to the queen mother, and the husband can rest assured."

Chen Qingtong accepted it with tenderness on her face, she knew very well that Shen Yichen had been walking on thin ice in order to climb to the pinnacle of power over the years, and it was her own duty to help him share it.

"I haven't said why this is the case, how do you explain the situation to the Queen Mother."

Shen Yichen replied with a wry smile, the reputation of "killing the king" was not good after all, and he couldn't explain to Chen Qingtong the reason why he had to do it.

"Husband, do you really think that I am a deep boudoir village woman and don't know a little about the court?"

"Don't forget, the concubine is the only daughter of the Marquis of Taining, if it weren't for the daughter's body, maybe there would be a place for me in the Fengtian Palace today!"

When he said this, Chen Qingtong seemed to have recovered the style of the eldest sister in the Ying Tianfu period. You must know that in the Chengguo Mansion Family School, her grades were among the best, but it is a pity that her daughter was destined to be unable to participate in the imperial examination, so she did not go further in her studies.

"Indeed, who said that women are inferior to men."

Shen Yichen nodded in response, Chen Qingtong's knowledge and political sense have always been among the best, but there is no room to play.

"Okay, the husband is the Yuan Fu of the Dynasty, the civil and military officials are probably waiting for you to go over, don't stop in the carriage, and the concubine has to rush into the palace."

Chen Qingtong urged, she didn't want Shen Yichen to be polite to her, her husband was too tired to bear it alone all these years.

"Then I'll go down first."

"Go ahead."

After a simple goodbye, Shen Yichen lifted the curtain of the car and stepped out of the carriage.

At this moment, the front of Chengtian Gate was already densely packed with officials who were meeting the court, and all of them were focused on Shen Yichen, who had just gotten off the carriage, and most of them were adoring and envious eyes that could not be concealed.

Before he reached the age of establishment, he was able to wear a scarlet robe and become the Yuan Fu of the Ming Dynasty, and even overwhelmed the heavenly officials of the Ministry of Officials and the Great Sect of the Ministry of Rites, becoming the real head of civil officials. With this power and majesty in his eyes, who wouldn't have the urge to be like this?

Facing everyone's eyes, Shen Yichen just tidied up his robe casually, and then strode towards Chengtianmen.

Looking at Shen Yichen approaching step by step, in an instant, he saw the officials standing in the front row, like a wave of wheat blown down by the wind, and bowed in unison.

"Xiaguan meets Motosuke!"