The moon on the second day of the ninth month is still round, and the moon has risen to the sky at this time, and it is the third watch.

The moonlight spilled into the room from the doorway, and in the study of Zhang Fu, the second assistant of the cabinet, sat three of the six departments and nine secretaries of the Ming Dynasty: Zhou Yang, the secretary of the ministry, Song Qian, the secretary of the household department, and Wu Shichang, the imperial envoy.

The four of them are all over half a hundred years old, and although it is late at night, they are still in high spirits sipping fragrant tea and discussing important matters.

"Second assistant, the king of Dongping County sent people to collect all the military power in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the army has begun to be reorganized, and the Fujian naval division has also begun to drill, it seems that the military is determined to take advantage of next year's monsoon to exterminate the bandits and pirates entrenched in the coastal islands!"

The imperial envoy Wu Shichang put down the tea bowl, his eyes full of worry.

Song Qian, the head of the household department: "I heard that His Majesty plans to reopen the sea, and the source is reliable. ”

"What!?"

Zhang Fu and Zhou Yang glanced at each other, but still did not speak.

Wu Shichang slapped his palm on the table and shook the tea bowl high, "How can a monarch compete with the small people?" ”

Zhang Fu waved his hand, "The financial deficit of the imperial court in recent years has been getting bigger and bigger, there are always places in the two capitals and thirteen provinces that have suffered disasters, there are still Warat people in the north, the natives in southern Xinjiang and the country of Annan are also in peace, money is needed everywhere, and Your Majesty is also embarrassed!" ”

The three of them were stunned, and the study suddenly fell silent, and the eyes of the three of them looked at Zhang Fu together.

Zhang Fu took a sip of the tea bowl, and Fang said slowly: "Opening the sea is a move that will bring disaster to the country and the people, and it must not be opened." However, you can't go against Your Majesty, after all, Shi Junlu is worried about you. ”

Song Qian, who was sitting next to him, had an uncomfortable look flashing in his eyes, sighed silently, bowed his head and remained silent.

Zhou Yang, the secretary of the ministry: "This matter is not urgent, not to mention that the army is in training, even if it takes a long time to go to sea to encircle and suppress those pirates and pirates hiding on the island, it will definitely not be over in a year and a half." We can figure it out slowly. ”

Wu Shichang's eyes flashed, "I heard that there was a great epidemic in the grassland, and the Warat people suffered heavy losses. ”

"Oh?"

Zhou Yang's eyes slanted.

There was silence for a while, and after a while, Zhang Fu spoke, "Say something, the accurate news from the palace, Your Majesty has a holy decree from the first emperor in his hand, canonizing Jia Daixiao, the left attendant of the military department, as the holy decree of the Marquis of Zhongwu." ”

"Martial Sect's Holy Decree?!"

"Yes."

Zhang Fu continued: "I didn't expect it, after so many years, I thought that the things of the year had disappeared, but who would have thought that there were still traces left...."

Wu Shichang stood up abruptly and sneered, "What kind of 'clues' is this?" Back then, Wu Zong favored the Jia family, and it was possible to leave such an unaware edict, besides, the people of the year were all dead, who would check these? ”

Zhang Fu stared at him, "Your Majesty showed this edict to Jia Jue, and promised to return this title to the Jia family." ”

"Oh?"

Wu Shichang was shocked, "Is the news reliable?" ”

"It seems that Your Majesty is planning to reuse the Jia family!"

Zhou Yang said quickly: "Back then, Wu Zong reused the Jia family and other nobles to cut off the shackles and shackles on their bodies, but Wu Lao and others planned for three years to break the backbone of Xungui's vein in one fell swoop. ”

Wu Shichang gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Don't be careless." As the saying goes, it is unreasonable for a show to meet a soldier. Although the First World War buried the successors cultivated by the Xungui lineage, causing them to break off the inheritance, don't forget, if it weren't for His Majesty's ignorance of the government and delegation of power to the cabinet and six ministries over the years, we might not have been able to suppress them for so many years. Now that the wind has changed, His Majesty obviously intends to support Xungui to fight with us, Shoufu is a rotten Confucian, he will only obey His Majesty's will, once this son grows up, who can guarantee that he will not track down the truth of the year, don't forget, Jia Daixiao is his own grandfather, and there was the poisoning case two years ago. ”

Speaking of this, a fierce color flashed in his eyes, and he said word by word: "Chop the grass to remove the roots!" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but be surprised, and his face was a little uncomfortable.

There was only one Song Qian left, and Zhang Fu looked at him, "What do you say?" ”

After being silent for a while, Song Qian sighed, "The old man doesn't want to evaluate what happened back then, and he doesn't want to get involved." In the past few years, why have the Warat people been able to overwhelm us, and why have Jiangsu and Zhejiang been in constant trouble? Presumably everyone understands in their hearts that the events of the year have affected the combat strength of the military, without these noble generals, the army is scattered, and the generals selected by the martial arts can't support the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty at all, they are not talented enough, and now they have finally come out with a general's talent, for the sake of the country, you can't raise your hand? ! ”

Zhang Fu knew that he was angry, so he had to be silent.

Wu Shichang said nonchalantly: "Isn't there already a few families in the Xungui lineage who have fallen to us, and when the overall situation is certain, let's support them again, a hairy boy will give up, it doesn't matter." ”

After that, he looked at the second assistant Zhang Fu and said: "According to today's situation, all the arrears will be recovered in three or two days, and King Liang has been sent to the household department again, this money will definitely not be moved, with money, Your Majesty will definitely speed up the pace, and I can't say that I have already started to do it behind my back, and the military power we finally got in our hands is gone." Now that you have money and the military power of Gyeonggi, will you be able to endure it any longer? ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yang suddenly realized, nodded and said, "That's true, it's just.... What should we do? You can't openly disagree with Your Majesty in front of hundreds of officials, right!? ”

Zhang Fu took a sip of tea, thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's a good thing, after all, we are courtiers, and we still have to have the awe we we should have." ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, pondered for a moment, and then continued: "Back then, Wu Lao, they were able to break the backbone of the Xungui military, we didn't dare to compete with the ancestors, since they want to be the sword in the hands of His Majesty, then don't blame us for being unkind and righteous, and find a way to break him!" ”

Wu Shichang continued: "In the past two winters, there will be a snowstorm in the north that will sweep the entire grassland, and even the Hetao area will be greatly affected. Find a way to let the Tatars go south together. ”

Hearing this, not to mention Song Qian, even Zhou Yang's face changed.

Zhang Fu said lightly: "Go on." ”

"According to the current strength of Datong and Xuanfu, they can't stop the siege of the Warat people at all, and they will definitely write to the court to ask for reinforcements, and find a way to let Jia Jiazi follow the army north to participate in the war, if he doesn't die on the battlefield, let the Marquis of Jinxiang and a few of them find a way to create a chaos, just like they did when they got rid of Jia Daixiao and shoot him to death."

Zhou Yang couldn't help it, "After the matter of the Chen Mansion, the Jinxiang Hou Mansion retreated. ”

"Flinching? It's late! ”

Wu Shichang sneered, "If you enter this door, you can't help them." ”

Zhang Fu nodded, his eyes turned to Song Gan again, seeing him sitting there with a gloomy expression, he shook his head, and said to Wu Shichang: "We have not been able to completely defeat Xungui for so many years, the reason is because they have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Jiangnan and Southern Xinjiang, if we want to completely defeat them, we must take these two places, Nanzhili is Xungui's base camp is not easy to move, but Nanjiang is different, it is too far away from Shenjing and Nanzhili, and it will take more than half a month to expedite eight hundred miles, You can kill them with a little trickery. ”

"Fight snakes and fight seven inches, the grain and grass of the southern Xinjiang army is jointly borne by Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and it just so happens that these three provinces have our people, as long as they do something on the grain and grass..."

Wu Shichang said with a sneer.

Zhou Yang was taken aback, "The wolf ambitions of Annan have always coveted the territory in the south, if something goes wrong with the army in southern Xinjiang, they will definitely take the opportunity to seize the land of Yungui." ”

"This is more than 100,000 troops, once the army of Southern Xinjiang is destroyed, the people of Yungui will be finished!"

Song Qian said in a sad tone.

"Hmph, those who become big things are not informal, besides, a group of living people, if they die, they will die, there is no pity."

Wu Shichang said coldly.

As they argued, a dark shadow flashed from the corner outside the study.