Thorough investigation?

Hearing this news, Qian Fanjiang was stunned, he didn't expect Shen Yichen's attitude to be as tough as ever in the case of civil unrest and impeachment, as if he didn't put the world's public opinion in his eyes at all!

At the same time, standing aside and pressing the envoy Huang Lun, his face was even more pale, and dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and the ruffians and hooligans who fanned the trouble were his masterminds.

One misstep will become a thousand hatreds, if Huang Lun is given another chance to choose, he will definitely not be a hands-off shopkeeper, and only order the people below to do things.

Qian Fanjiang and Huang Lun understood the dirtiness behind it, the great Confucian Guo Cheng didn't know that there were so many twists and turns in the civil unrest, and when he heard that Shen Yichen's attitude was so tough, he would continue to fully implement the new policy.

immediately shouted angrily: "The people in the state capitals are in turmoil, and the society has been turbulent by his Shen Yichen, and he dares to speak out so loudly. ”

"Is it tolerable or unbearable, the old general will personally lead the disciples of the Huozhou School into Beijing to knock on the que, and meet His Majesty to explain everything, so as not to be deceived by the traitors in the court!"

If Guo Cheng used to hold a "personal grudge" that was inconsistent with Shen Yichen's concept, then now he has completely burst out of a sense of responsibility for the family and country of traditional literati. Regardless of whether the starting point is right or not, at least in his eyes, the New Deal has caused social turmoil, and Shen Yichen's continued implementation will only intensify.

For the Confucian concept, social stability is greater than everything, and Shen Yichen's move is undoubtedly nonsense, bringing disaster to the country and the people!

In the face of the angry Confucian Guo Cheng, Huang Lun was really scared, and subconsciously dissuaded: "Guo Daru must not be angry, this matter has to be considered in the long run, Shen Yuan's auxiliary power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and the identity of the emperor's division, I am afraid that we will suffer a big loss if it makes a big fuss." ”

It's just that as soon as Huang Lun's voice fell, Qian Fanjiang, the political envoy next to him, said ruthlessly: "Zhentai's words are wrong, the monarch abides by the monarchy, and the ministers do their duty." As courtiers, how can we seek advantage and avoid disadvantage when we are a straightforward admonition? ”

"Qian Fantai, you ......"

Hearing Qian Fanjiang's rebuttal, Huang Lun stood in place even more dumbfounded, Guo Cheng, an old Confucian, didn't know what was going on, didn't he know it?

If you don't cooperate with the dissuasion of turning big things into small things, it's just a matter of turning small things into small things, and you are still fueling the fire and saying what to say bluntly, do you really think Shen Yichen is a character to be provoked?

But without waiting for Huang Lun to speak, Qian Fanjiang resolutely interrupted him, turned to Guo Cheng and Xue Chun and said: "Two gentlemen, compared to Shen Yuanfu's power, this official is like the difference between fireflies and the sun and the moon. ”

"The official is here to implore the two gentlemen to mobilize their influence in Shilin to protest to the local government and expand the situation to everyone. Only by relying on the general trend of the world can we resist Shen Yuanfu's monstrous power, and evil cannot prevail over good! ”

Qian Fanjiang's words were simply righteous and awe-inspiring, which made Guo Cheng and Xue Chun both awe-inspiring, but they didn't expect that an official in a high position did not succumb to power and forget his identity as a scholar and forget the character of a scholar.

At the same time, Huang Lun, the envoy standing on the side, finally understood Qian Fanjiang's intentions at this moment. It is true that this matter can no longer be made small, on the contrary, with the help of Shilin's power to trigger a nationwide protest, it is possible to exert heavy pressure to force Shen Yichen to compromise.

No matter how Shen Yichen has the power to lean towards the government and the opposition, after all, this Daming country is not his, and he can still stop the entire scholar class?

"Qian Fantai's public heart and righteousness make the old man admire, even if he gives up this old bone, he vows to fight against the court to the end!"

"There are also contemptible people and the Hedong School, and they are incompatible with the national thieves!"

Guo Cheng and Xue Chun expressed their stance one after another, they had long been dissatisfied with the existence of the heresy of "Shen Xue", and simply took this opportunity to arrive at Tianting and set things right in an all-round way.

The Huozhou School and the Hedong School had a great influence in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, and after just half a month, all the Shilin students in the entire north were mobilized, and the major yamen were full of scholars protesting against the New Deal.

By the way, many peasants at the bottom who did not know the truth, seeing that the voices criticizing the New Deal were getting louder and louder, they were even more convinced that the land tax promulgated by Shen Yichen was a war tax that the imperial court was preparing to suck the people's fat and ointment.

No matter how the members of the "Shen Party" among the magistrates explained, they could not occupy the advantage of public opinion, and the scope of turmoil became wider and wider.

If ordinary people make trouble and besiege the yamen, the government can still send troops to forcibly drive them away and suppress them, but they can face the scholars and doctors of the two northern universities. Not to mention the suppression, the prefect of the general county order has to be polite and invite the leader into the yamen to drink a cup of tea.

Scholars already have the privilege of not being a doctor, and in addition, the school has formed a huge interest group in a sense, and it is difficult for the local officials who have no backing to offend them to keep the black gauze hat on their heads in the assessment of the officials.

This situation intensified in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, such as the yamen in Suzhou and other places in the south, which were often made up of troublesome scholars. Later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere was corrupted to the extreme, and the scholars didn't even want the fig leaf of their faces.

That's right, it's just to hire Xiucai to beat people......

Who would have thought that under the fermentation of privilege, scholars have evolved into "underworld forces", and for the government, they are much more difficult to deal with than scoundrels, and there is no way to hold people accountable under normal circumstances.

The chaotic situation in the local area was transmitted to the Jingshi, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the officials in the court, even the members of the Shen Party in the DPRK and China actually had a lot of complaints in their hearts in the face of the new policy.

After all, aside from the identity of "Shen Dang", they are still essentially scholars and doctors, and they may agree with some of Shen Yichen's ideas, but under the guidance of Confucian thinking after studying hard for more than ten years, it is still difficult to accept the concept of the gentry as one errand and food.

How can the rule of tax exemption for scholars and doctors be easily changed for thousands of years?

In response to all kinds of boiling hustle and bustle in the outside world, Shen Yichen, who originally said that he would thoroughly investigate and block the yamen and firmly implement the new policy, unexpectedly fell silent. For more than half a month, I have not seen his follow-up actions, which has surprised many officials in the DPRK and China.

You must know that with Shen Yichen's resolute and resolute character, he basically showed his actions when he said it, but this time he changed the norm, and he couldn't help but wonder if there was a big move hidden behind it, just waiting to catch it all.

In fact, Shen Yichen didn't play any operations to capture and indulge, and after the words of that day, he originally planned to appoint Shen Party officials to assist Yang Hongze again, and use thunderous means to deal with the gentry who fanned the civil unrest behind them.

As a result, when considering the candidate, an urgent military information came from the frontier, and the Mongol Khanate had a strange movement and gathered a large number of soldiers and horses.

The specific number of soldiers and horses assembled, the border scouts could not be counted specifically, but judging from the migration data of the tribes and herds collected by all parties, the number of soldiers should not be less than 50,000, and the scale has exceeded that of the winter border in the first year of Ming Liang.

You must know that that year, in order to divert the internal contradictions of Mongolia, he first attacked an acropolis in southern Mongolia. Now the number of soldiers gathered can completely attack the entire Ming Great Wall line, and the border guards will speculate that it is not a small temptation, and must have planned some big moves.

When Shen Yichen received this news of the military intelligence, the first thought that popped up in his heart was that the target of Yexian was the Western Expeditionary Army led by Shi Heng, the Duke of Zhongguo.

Although the entire expedition ceremony was held by Shen Yichen in an unusually low-key manner, and there was no fanfare to promote deterrence, the dispatch of 50,000 troops, and the logistics support of at least 100,000 people behind it, it was almost impossible to avoid attracting attention.

Especially for a tyrant like Tiansheng Khan, he attached more importance to intelligence work than the Ming Dynasty during the orthodox dynasty. It wasn't until the outbreak of the Jingshi Guard War that Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, cleaned up the spies in the Jingshi city, and then Shen Yichen was in charge of the government and sent a large-scale Jinyi guard to closely monitor the movements of the Mongolian tribes, and the two sides were evenly matched in intelligence exploration.

Shiheng, the prince of Zhongguo, has been marching for several months, and is currently sweeping away the scattered nomadic tribes in the Hexi Corridor, which is still in the stage of small fighting. The next step was to stabilize the position, establish a logistics supply base, and officially attack the Kansai Seven Guards, which were under the control of the Mongol Khanate.

Shen Yichen believed that the Western Expeditionary Army could be called Yang's plan, and the Tiansheng Khan must have known it well, and the Guanxi Seven Guards were the key to cutting off the Ming Dynasty's access to the Western Regions, and it was also the way for the Mongol Khanate to connect with the brother Khanate Yili (Eastern Chagatai Khanate).

Genghis Khan founded the Great Mongol Empire, but after his death, there was a split under the dispute between Ali Buge and Kublai Khan, and the divided Mongol kings chose to support different camps, so four relatively independent states were formed, which are the four khanates.

Although the four khanates were independent of each other, only the Yuan emperor enjoyed the honorific title of Great Khan of the Mongols, and nominally had the right to canonize and rule over the other khanates.

Tianye first usurped the throne and became Khan, publicly restored the title of the Mongol Khanate, and even claimed to inherit the legal system of the Great Yuan Empire. With his ambitions, he was necessarily interested in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, founded by the Mongols more west.

The unification of Mobei Mongolia is nothing, only by unifying the four khanates and the Central Plains can it truly be worthy of the emperor title of Great Yuan and restore the glory that belongs to Genghis Khan.

Once the Hexi Corridor and the eastern half of the Western Regions were occupied by the Ming army, the connection between the Mobei Mongol Khanate and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate would be completely severed. Even if the two sides don't have much friendship, they don't have the blood of the Golden Family, but they still have the identity of the same clan at the critical moment and can jointly resist the offensive of the Ming Kingdom.

Guessing Yexian's intentions, Shen Yichen could only prioritize and focus on the Western Expeditionary Army first. He first sent an order to the Chungkook Gong Shi Heng, ordering him to suspend the pace of the march and the movement of the Kansai Seven Guards.

In addition, he found the eldest prince Zhu Ji, and after the two discussed, they asked Emperor Ming Liang to appoint him to wear the seal of the general of the west, and coordinate the soldiers and horses of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Xuanda defense lines, so as to prevent the northwest from changing and having their own battles.

At the same time, he ordered Mo Nan Mongolia Dingxiang Bo Guo Deng, and Cao Yi, the general soldier of Liaodong who was promoted to Fengrunbo, and ordered the two of them to reorganize their armaments and make some offensive moves appropriately, so as to contain the movement of the Mongol Khanate as a whole, so that Ye Xian had no time to meet the battle with all his might.

In addition to these military preparations, the war is mainly fought by logistics. Shen Yichen also discussed with Xiao Yi, who was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, to speed up the transportation of autumn grain to the major granaries in Beijing and the northwest through Cao Yun, so as to ensure that there would be no logistical crisis throughout the winter.

Shen Yichen knew very well that the strongest time period for the Mongol soldiers and horses was the node of late autumn and early winter, and once it entered the snowy winter, he would not have the ability to launch a large-scale offensive at first, unless he wanted to die regardless of the cost of casualties.

After making these war preparations, Shen Yichen stepped into the Yamen of Fusi in Jinyi Weinan Town, and by the way, he was followed by the commander of the Shenji Battalion, and Li Da, who had been promoted to the governor of Tongzhi step by step over the years, was ready to clear the obstacles to reform and change the law once and for all.

The commander Zhao Hongjie was dealing with the information of all parties, and when he heard his subordinates tell Shen Yichen to come to visit, before he could put down the affairs in his hand, the door of the room had been pushed open, and two familiar faces appeared.

Seeing Shen Yichen's appearance of "the comer is not good", Zhao Hongjie said with a wry smile on his face: "Jinyiwei's territory, only you can run rampant to the north, and no one dares to stop it." ”

After several changes of imperial power, Zhao Hongjie has gotten rid of the Jingtai Dynasty, the state of the emperor who is about to leave, and has won the full trust of Emperor Mingliang. Coupled with the help of Shen Yichen in the court, he completely confirmed the identity of the head of the Ming intelligence spies, and the powerful position forced the Jinyi guard commander in the Jiajing period to make the peak Lu Bing, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared not give him face.

There has always been only Jinyi Wei who broke into other yamen, but Shen Yichen was able to unscrupulously break into the duty room of the Jinyi Guard's commander, and Zhao Hongjie couldn't help but ridicule him.

It's just that this time Shen Yichen was not interested in joking with Zhao Hongjie, and after he entered the house, he asked straight to the point: "Half a month ago, Cabinet Minister Yang Hongze was beaten by a mob, I asked you to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes, is there a result?" ”

At the cabinet meeting that day, Shen Yichen was not just as simple as saying something to the outside world, he had already entrusted Zhao Hongjie's Jinyiwei to comprehensively investigate what happened. Only did he not think that the local gentry class would be so bold, and the speed of the situation would be worse than he expected, and the civil unrest had spread to the entire northern provinces, with a tendency to spread to the entire Ming Dynasty.

Seeing Shen Yichen's expression so serious, Zhao Hongjie put away the smile on his face, nodded and responded: "Check it out, I am also about to go to the cabinet to find you, the main messenger behind the attack on Yang Ge Lao is Huang Lun, the imperial envoy of Henan." ”

"However, the real culprits who caused this large-scale civil unrest were the great Confucian Guo Cheng and Xue Chun of the current dynasty, who formed a party to connect the entire northern Shilin in a vain attempt to resist the implementation of the new policy."

After that, Zhao Hongjie glanced at Li Da behind Shen Yichen, and added with a slightly serious expression: "The Huozhou School and the Hedong School behind the two of them have almost won the trust of half of the Ming literati, and tough measures will cause very serious consequences. ”