After experiencing the grand scene of the noon gate offering prisoners, there were not many onlookers in the Cao Law Field in the city, but in order to prevent accidents, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division still mobilized a lot of soldiers and officials to surround the law field layer by layer to ensure the smooth progress of the execution.

Shen Yichen paced in front of the Luchuan prisoners of war, and saw different looks of fear, anger, resentment, pleading, and so on in their eyes. Only Meng Fan saw Shen Yichen coming, and his heart was filled with despair.

After so many years of leading the tribe to raise troops against the Ming, but in the end he ended up with the Si clan Yi clan, he was a little puzzled whether the struggle he had dedicated himself to was right or wrong.

"Meng Fan, long time no see."

Shen Yichen said hello surgingly, the expression on his face was very complicated, and he did not have the kind of arrogant bravado of the victor, let alone the pity and unbearable mentality of the Holy Mother.

Hearing Shen Yichen's voice, Meng Fanshen's Tong Kong finally had a slight change. He slowly raised his head and looked directly at the man who had broken himself and had all the illusions about Da Ming, and replied in frustration: "You won." ”

"I would have won a long time ago, but you didn't want to believe it at the time."

"Yes, I used to think that the Ming Dynasty was the state of etiquette and the ultimate paradise of the subject countries of the Quartet. As a result, what Da Ming needs is not our barbarian love at all, but fear! ”

It was Shen Yichen's words that subverted Meng Fan's Confucian doctrinal cognition from childhood to adulthood, and it turned out that the other party had no hypocritical cover-up, and the road of royal Taoism would not work.

"Meng Fan, do you think that the Ming Dynasty has betrayed the fetters system and invaded your Luchuan homeland. But just like Qin swept Liuhe back then, the unification of the world is the trend of the times, and only in this way will the Tusi people in Luchuan not suffer the discrimination and humiliation you have experienced. ”

"If there is no integration and unification, you will always be barbarians in the eyes of the Central Dynasty, and you will be trapped in the cycle of rebellion and submission for generations, is this the scene you expect to see?"

Just as Shen Yichen did not hide Daming's determination to calm down, he also unabashedly sued Meng Fan today, unification and integration is the process of history, otherwise the side of Daming's couch will not tolerate others snoring, and there will only be more people who will die at that time.

"Heh, this is just a defeat of the king, if Luchuan wins this war, will you Shen Yichen still say that the unification of the world is the trend of the times?"

"There is no such what if."

Shen Yichen's tone responded firmly to Meng Fan's assumptions.

Then he added: "Strength dictates, Daming can fail several times, but Luchuan can't fail once, you are destined to be labeled as rebel and spurned by the world!" ”

The murderous answer made the unwillingness and anger in Meng Fan's heart instantly become worthless, this is the bloody cruel reality.

After a long silence, Meng Fan spoke: "On the way I was escorting to Jingshi, I heard about the Luchuan immigration and resettlement regulations formulated by you, which promised that the Luchuan people could be included in the Ming household registration and participate in the imperial examination. ”

"The grievances between you and me began with the distinction of Huayi at the Xiao Sanyuan banquet, and I hope that it will end with the head of the Si clan today, and the people of Luchuan will become the people of Daming in the future, and they will be divided into Huayi again!"

When Meng Fan said this, he raised his head high, but he still couldn't hide two lines of hot tears sliding down the corners of his mouth.

He didn't expect that he would struggle all his life and want to get fairness and respect from Daming, but he was done by his sworn enemy Shen Yichen, and it was ironic to say it.

But in terms of whether he is willing to admit it, compared to any official in Daming, Meng Fan is more willing to believe Shen Yichen in his heart. The promulgation of this regulation will not become a lie, and the next generation of Luchuan people can finally avoid war and slaughter, and enjoy the long-lost peace and justice!

"I will do it, treat the people of Luchuan fairly and kindly, you can go on the road with peace of mind."

In a sense, Shen Yichen and Meng Fan's pursuit is the same goal, they both want to completely solve the war and chaos, and then divide Huayi!

After saying this, Shen Yichen didn't wait for Meng Fan's response, he turned around and left silently.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that his heart was much more relaxed, and at the same time, he deeply understood the meaning of the eight words "stop fighting for martial arts, stop fighting with war".

Looking at Shen Yichen's departing back, Meng Fan silently closed his eyes, but the corners of his mouth showed a relieved smile. Maybe this is not the result I want, but it is the best ending that can be obtained from the current situation, and in a sense, it can be regarded as a wish.

One of the chain reactions triggered by the announcement of the end of the Luchuan War was the formal approval of the cabinet's proposal a few days later on the "splitting the earth and sealing the king" of the Zhongguo Gong Seok-hyung.

However, the "counteroffer" between the civil official group and the celebrant Cao Jixiang was very fierce, and they agreed to Dao Shiheng's condition of being crowned king, not as the boundary of the traditional Western Regions in later generations, but as the benchmark for the peak territory of the Han and Tang dynasties.

This also means that if Zhongguo Gong Shi Heng wants to be promoted to the king, he must at least attack Central Asia to have any hope. Under normal circumstances, according to the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the support of the imperial court, it is almost an impossible thing to complete.

But Shen Yichen chose to accept, and on the other side, Shi Heng also chose to trust.

Others may not be able to do it, as long as the Ming Dynasty is dominated by Shen Yichen, then it will inevitably provide all the support to the Western Expeditionary Army, which has been verified by the Southern Expeditionary Army in Luchuan.

"Tearing the earth and sealing the king" has never been an easy thing, especially Shi Heng, a criminal minister who raised troops to force the palace, it can be called a victory to get this far.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, although the matter of the Western Expedition is sure that Shi Heng and his cronies have been released from the edict, but the court still needs a long time to prepare for the work, which Shen Yichen taught the Hubu Shangshu Nianfu.

However, he himself put the focus on the reform of the Ming military household, and successively held cabinet meetings with Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, and Li Xian, the secretary of the ministry, to discuss many times, and made it clear that the Ming military and government were completely separated, and the local government adopted the structure of equal emphasis on the general army and the governor, and the governor's office of the five armies in the center of the imperial court was restructured into a staff headquarters.

The relatives of the Ming Dynasty no longer have the power to meddle in government affairs, and even the power to meddle in military affairs is deprived from the law, if you want to join the army to control the actual military power, you have to break away from the staff system and start as a junior officer in the army.

To tell the truth, Shen Yichen's original intention was to completely abolish the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and become a pension department. The reason is that the founding of the country or the knighthood of Jingnan, by the time of Emperor Ming Liang, it has basically been passed down to the second and third generations, such as Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, and there are a few of the first generations of honorable relatives.

This group of second-generation relatives grew up in brocade clothes and jade food, and they have long lost the actual combat experience and military ability of their fathers, and most of them have become the sons of gentlemen. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the reason why the military department replaced the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was a factor in the great weakening of the Xun Qi caused by the Battle of Tumubao.

The depravity and corruption of Xun Qi itself is also another major factor, allowing this group of second-generation leaders to fight on the battlefield, and as many soldiers and horses as many heads as they want.

But the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was completely reduced to a pension department, and the resistance was also great, and no one was willing to give up the power in his hands, even if Shen Yichen had the support of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, he still persuaded the old Xunqi group of the imperial court.

The General Staff Department is a disguised way to stabilize the old clique of honorable relatives, making them think that they are participating in planning and controlling decision-making, as if they have taken back the power to transfer and command troops from the hands of the Military Department.

In fact, the restructuring of the General Staff Department is only the first step, and Shen Yichen will follow the martial arts hall he opened in Fujian, and the military department will lead the various political departments and Guozijian to establish a cascade martial arts hall, which will gradually evolve into a professional military academy in later generations.

In the future, the staff officers of the Ming Dynasty will need to go to the lecture hall for further study, and only after graduating can they enter the staff department to give advice, so that they can use a method similar to boiling frogs in warm water to gradually eliminate those who are overwhelmed in the honorable people, and can also provide a channel for the civilian class to rise.

You must know that the armies of all dynasties are often a closed circle, and they are one of the deepest rooted territories of the gate valve family. On the side of the civil official group, no matter how poetry and books are handed down, there is still a imperial examination system, which maintains the substitution and replacement of fresh blood, and gives the bottom a channel to rise to prevent class solidification.

Even if the military pioneered martial arts, under the decisive factor of being poor and rich in military affairs, there are often very few people who can participate, and only by imitating the military academy system of the imperial examination can this closed circle be broken.

The abolition of the military household system has never been a simple slap on the head, and it can be implemented perfectly, and it requires various follow-up policies and the cooperation of the six ministries and the five military governors. Everything Shen Yichen is doing now needs to be verified in years or even decades.

In addition, Shen Yichen also took advantage of this opportunity to discuss political affairs with the six ministries, and specially left Li Xian, the secretary of the ministry, intending to ask about a matter that had been considered for a long time.

Long before Shi Heng raised his army, Shen Yichen noticed that Li Xian and Xu Youzhen had established a "Shen Party" in the court, after all, this matter involved himself, Shen Yichen didn't know how to discuss it, and it was impossible to deny and overthrow his academic concept and dissolve this so-called party, right?

However, according to the current process of flood control, Xu Youzhen has been really good at sending out officials to do things in recent years, and he has fully exerted his talent in science and engineering, and basically maintained the flood disaster within a completely acceptable range.

Since the first year of Jingtai, it has been three years, and there has been no serious embankment failure in conservative flood-stricken provinces such as Henan and Shandong. Now that the dry period of winter has come, there will be no major floods under normal circumstances, and Xu Youzhen's three-year expatriate period has expired, and he will return to the DPRK in the near future.

The stronger the ability, the greater the ability to do things, just one Li Xian recruited a group of young and strong officials to form the Shen Party, Shen Yichen still felt that it was within the controllable range. When Xu Youzhen comes back, this guy has an extreme personality, and maybe he can really do the operation of the party and the other.

There was no way, Shen Yichen could only pierce this layer of window paper with Li Xian and restrain the members of the "Shen Party".

"Shen Gongbao, even if you say something bluntly, the lower officials will listen to you."

Li Xian saw Shen Yichen's embarrassed expression, so he took the initiative to start talking.

Now Shen Yichen has added the title of prince and Taibao, officially surpassing the six Shangshu in terms of rank, and Li Xian already worships and respects, and regards himself as a protégé of Shen Xue, and has no idea of cabinet struggle at all, so he claims to be a subordinate early on.

Regarding Li Xian's self-proclaimed officials, Shen Yichen also persuaded two words earlier. After all, compared with the emperor's "secretary" such as the head of the cabinet, the head of the civil official who was determined by law was the head of the government after the prime minister.

However, Li Xian was always unwilling to accept it, and Shen Yichen acquiesced in this relationship between superiors and subordinates after several times. After all, in his ideal world plan, he is ready to transform the six ministries into executive departments, rather than having decision-making power as he does now.

For the feudal dynasty, the court voting of the cabinet department was too large, resulting in a bit of low efficiency. The cabinet head system is the most suitable result for the Ming Dynasty at this stage, but the real core of the civil official group Hu Hu does not retreat, and Shen Yichen does not let the cabinet completely override the six ministries.

"Otsuka Zai, this official heard that you and Xu Youzhen formed a Shen party, but is there such a thing?"

Shen Yichen didn't unilaterally say it thoroughly, he was ready to listen to Li Xian's thoughts.

"There is indeed such a thing, Xia Guan has long wanted to protect with Shen Gong, but he was persuaded by Brother Youzhen."

Li Xian didn't hide it, and immediately nodded and admitted.

"Then why is Xu Shilang like this?"

"Brother Zhen has worked with Gong Bao, and he has been involved in Shen Xue's door earlier, he said that if Shen Gong Bao is known about this matter, he will inevitably suffer obstacles and opposition, and he can only know after the matter is completed."

Does Xu Youzhen think so?

Shen Yichen was a little surprised to be honest, he didn't expect Xu Youzhen to know himself so well, and indeed formed such a thing, if he knew about it as soon as he could, he would definitely stop it.

After all, now as the emperor and the first assistant of the cabinet, in addition to not being a marquis and paying homage to the prime minister, he has already stood at the height of a supreme minister. If another "Shen Party" is formed, will other officials in the DPRK and China still have the right to speak and oppose it?

The battle of Tumubao caused heavy losses to the Xunqi group, resulting in the dominance of the civilian group, and the hidden consequences led to the decline of the Ming Dynasty's martial arts and buried the danger of the country. No one can continue to count the legacy, including Shen Yichen himself, and he must have opposing voices in order to keep moving forward.

The way of the court is balance, this is a truth that Shen Yichen has been very clear since he entered the office, even if he has been checked and suppressed by Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, he also maintains a calm and understanding mentality.

It can only be said that Xu Youzhen is indeed talented, even if he has not been in the center of the court for many years, he can still understand his temper and temperament thoroughly. Such a person must put him in the right position, otherwise he will be poor.

Fortunately, Shen Yichen found a way to use Xu Youzhen, but now Li Xian came in, which made the situation change slightly.