In the past two days, Emperor Tianyou has been extremely diligent in his administration, and he rushed to the upper study early in the morning, and at this time, the cabinet chief assistant Wen dialect has been waiting for a long time.

"Your Majesty!"

"Shousuke doesn't have to be polite!"

Emperor Tianyou waved his hand and said with a smile: "Let Shoufu come over so early, I really don't want to go, come, give me a seat." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Go, bring me and Shoufu a bowl of porridge."

Emperor Tianyou sat down, picked up the fold placed on the imperial eucalyptus, looked at it, Fang raised his head and said with a smile: "Shoufu guessed well, Zhongwu Bo has been excerpted, and Prince Baoju is appointed as the commander of the nine provinces." ”

"The four major families are in the same spirit, and Uncle Zhongwu will not ignore Wang Ziteng."

Wen Fangyan sat down on the low mound, thought for a while, and said: "The minister is still the same sentence, compared to the nine sides, the forbidden army needs Li Xian more. Wang Ziteng is selfish and lacks ability, but he is easy to control, and he goes to the nine sides to inspect the armament at most to mix a little seniority, and if he is lucky, he will get a little military merit, which will not have much impact on the military.

As for the others, it's hard to say, except for Datong, Xuanfu, Jizhou and Shanhaiguan are in the hands of the noble generals, the rest of the towns are all in the hands of military generals with military backgrounds, maybe they have the figure of civil officials behind them, but they definitely don't have the courage to resist the control of the nine provinces with the holy decree in hand. ”

Emperor Tianyou was also taken aback, he has been thinking about this problem for the past few days, in addition to the prince Teng who jumped up and down, even the hereditary second-class Bo Ma Shang and others in the ruling mansion were also eyeing this nine-province system, although the nine sides were hard, but it was a fat difference.

Although he was dissatisfied with Wang Ziteng in his heart, he still gave him a chance, no, yesterday morning Wang Ziteng entered the palace and knelt on the square of the Qianqing Palace to ask for guilt, if he didn't know who he was, Emperor Tianyou would have abandoned him a long time ago, this is an ambitious, but not courageous coward!

Thinking of this, he read Jia Jue's recommendation again, smiled, and then turned his head to Dai Quan and asked, "What have you been doing lately?" ”

Dai Quan glanced at Wen Fangyan, who bowed his head, and replied: "In addition to going to the barracks to deal with military affairs, Zhongwubo also met with several people from the south, all of whom were Lin Yanzheng's juniors. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, hurriedly stepped forward, and whispered: "There is news from the Ruishi Battalion that Zhongwu Bo has appointed his nephew Jia Rong as the commander of the firearms battalion, and the soldiers under his command are equipped with the latest firearms guns made by the Hyogo Division. ”

Emperor Tianyou nodded silently, Zhang Fu proposed to set up a prison army in the Ruishi camp, in order to avoid contradictions, Emperor Tianyou ordered Dai Quan's godson Xiao Li Eunuch to go to the Ruishi camp to serve as a supervisor, which was a compromise solution.

Thinking of Qin Keqing again, love walks in color, he found a secret thing from the secret file in the Heart Cultivation Palace, that is, Wuzong is not without bloodline in the world, and an investigation found the orphan girl left by Wuzong's outer maid, under the arrangement of Emperor Tianyou, Qin Ye of the Ministry of Industry raised her from the health hall, and then single-handedly arranged for her to marry into Ningguofu.

This marriage shocked the entire Shenjing back then, and everyone was wondering if Jia Zhen was dizzy, you know, although Jia Zhen only has a third-class honor, she should not marry the daughter of a fifth-grade petty official to be the future wife of the Jia family, plus the Qin family's over-standard dowry, which makes many people curious about Qin Keqing's life experience.

Originally, there was no excuse to take care of this niece, but now that his husband has joined the Royal Forest Army, as long as he has qualifications, he can be generously rewarded.

Emperor Tianyou folded it and smiled slightly, "Then it's decided, let Wang Ziteng serve as the commander of the nine provinces." ”

Wen dialect: "Yes." ”

At this moment, two little eunuchs came in carrying a large food box, followed by two palace maids, each holding a tray with a bowl and a spoon on it, and a small plate of pickles.

Dai Quan walked to the big food box first, lifted the lid, and there was a casserole inside, picked up a spoon and stirred it in the casserole, and then scooped up a spoonful.

The two little eunuchs hurriedly took out a small shallow dish from their arms, held it with both hands, Dai Quan poured the spoonful of porridge into their small plate, the two of them held the plate and poured the porridge into their mouths, and after a while, Dai Quan waved his hand, "Go out." ”

As he spoke, he walked up to the two palace maids again, and also let the two of them try the pickles on the plate, and drove them out without any trouble, and personally served a bowl of porridge to Emperor Tianyou.

Emperor Tianyou saw that it was very inconvenient for Wen Fangyan to bow his waist, so he said to Dai Quan: "Bring a chair for Shoufu and put it next to the imperial eucalyptus." ”

Wen Fangyan immediately stood up, "The minister is terrified! ”

"Shousuke is humble."

Emperor Tianyou waved his hand, gave Dai Quan a look, and said to Wen Fangyan: "Since Tianyou has been thirty years, you and I have been accompanied by monarchs and ministers for almost eleven years, these years, we are like brothers and sisters, if it weren't for the first assistant to bear the pressure from the court for me, I don't know if I can survive until now." I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and if I'm not mistaken, Shousuke is almost fifty-eight years old. ”

"It's almost over after the New Year."

Emperor Tianyou couldn't help but glance at Wen Dialect again, only to find that Wen Dialect's eyebrows and beard had already turned white, and there were old age spots on his face. ”

"The old slave obeys!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!"

Emperor Tianyou stood up, then walked over, and helped Wen Fangyan up with both hands, "Come, let's talk while eating." ”

"Yes."

The two sat down across the royal eucalyptus, and Emperor Tianyou picked up the spoon in the bowl, scooped half a spoon into his mouth, nodded, and said to Wen Fangyan: "I am ready to approve Wu Shichang's excerpt and appoint the Marquis of Jinxiang as the right attendant of the military department." ”

Wen Fangyan put the spoon down and thought for a moment, "This Jinxiang Marquis is now stepping on multiple boats and cannot be reused. ”

Emperor Tianyou nodded, and said, "By the way, I plan to transfer Lu Wenliang from the General Administration Department to the Ministry of Officials as the left attendant. ”

Wen Fangyan pondered for a moment, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not easy to do!" ”

"I understand, but there's no urgency."

Emperor Tianyou smiled slightly, "I just talked to Shoufu about this matter in advance, and I will talk about it later." When the time comes, the imperial court will change a lot. ”

Wen Fangyan was slightly stunned, and a trace of shock flashed in his eyes.

Emperor Tianyou stopped talking, the two drank porridge silently, and after a while, Dai Quan summoned the palace maid to remove all the things.

There was silence in the hall.

At this moment, Dai Quan walked in quickly and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Lord Wang Ziteng has sent some local products from Jiangnan. ”

Perhaps remembering the embarrassment of Wang Ziteng yesterday, Emperor Tianyou showed a smile on his face, waved his hand, and said: "Take it, you go and tell him, you have to work hard, don't clean up those crooked ways all day long, and have time to think more about how to do it for me and share the worries of the court, if I can do this, I would have a reason to promote him, and he Wang Teng will not end up in such an embarrassment." ”

"Yes."

Dai Quan withdrew.

"This prince Teng!"

Emperor Tianyou looked at Dai Quan's distant back and smiled, then took a letter from the imperial eucalyptus and handed it to Wen Fangyan, "Shoufu take a look." ”

Wen Fangyan got up and took the letter, a flash of light flashed in his eyes, this turned out to be a handwritten letter from Xu Pengju, the king of Dongping County, and what shocked him the most was the content of this letter, which was only a line of four words: Everything is ready!

The simple four words made Wen Fangyan's forehead sweat, he knew what it meant behind this, which meant that a cruel and bloody purge was coming, and the object of the purge was the gentry families in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, the emperor had been suppressed too aggrieved over the years, and now that the emperor had turned over, it was impossible not to kill him.

Speaking of which, all this is because of the appearance of Jia Jue, he broke the shackles of the civil officials on the emperor, so that the emperor has money in his hands, and only with money can he raise soldiers, and the Jiangnan battalion has nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, which is enough to sweep the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, even if the local family is unwilling to be killed and provoke local turmoil, 200,000 elites are enough to quell all rebellions.

Wen Fangyan was a little embarrassed and said: "Suzhou and Hangzhou are the base camp of the family, and it is also a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, once there is turmoil, what should the hundreds of thousands of people there do?" ”

Emperor Tianyou said coldly: "If they are honestly tied up, I can open the net and only punish the three clans, and the rest of the clansmen will scatter and migrate to other places." If they feel they can compete with the army in my hands, I am with them! As for the people there, I will rebuild their homes and compensate them. ”

Wen Fangyan sat there with some complicated feelings, in fact, when Emperor Tianyou allowed the king of Dongping County to reorganize the soldiers and horses of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he saw the emperor's thinking, and did not clear the bandits and robbers entrenched in the coastal islands as he said to the outside world.

In fact, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all knew that the backers behind these pirates and pirates who ravaged the coast were the local gentry and wealthy households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, otherwise how could they always avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Jiangnan camp, as long as these gentry were eliminated, the imperial court would immediately be able to completely clean up the pirates and pirates entrenched on the island.

In terms of the interests of the Ming Dynasty, he was very much in favor of the emperor's approach, but Wen Fangyan was more worried about how long the deterrence brought by killing would last in the future? What kind of impact will this massacre of the great families have on the imperial court?

Emperor Tianyou is not Emperor Taizu, he does not have the prestige of Emperor Taizu, he can't suppress the scholars in the whole world, and blindly relies on killing to deter, once or twice is okay, and if there is more, it will cause resistance.

Also, what kind of attitude will Emperor Tianyou take to govern the Ming Dynasty after he has completely taken power?

He has been with the emperor for more than ten years, and knows the emperor better than any official, this seems to be a straightforward and very talkative person, but he is a ruthless person at all, and he has been holding back all these years, just to wait for an opportunity to turn the tables, an excellent opportunity to completely destroy the Jiangnan civil official group, and now, this time is almost ripe.

It's just a bright excuse!

"What is Shousuke thinking?"

Emperor Tianyou took a book and said with a slight smile.

Wen Fangyan woke up from his contemplation and hurriedly got up, "The minister was thinking about the northwest border town just now, and he was distracted, he really deserved death!" ”

"You can rest assured that I have been prepared for this matter, and Wang Ziteng's main errand is to inspect the armaments of the border army and the fortifications along the Great Wall."

Speaking of this, the smile on Emperor Tianyou's face disappeared, and when he said this, he no longer concealed it, and said directly: "There has been an accident on the grassland, I need a legitimate reason to stabilize people's hearts, and I also ask the first assistant to help me." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wen Fangyan couldn't answer for a while.

There was silence.

At this time, Emperor Tianyou took out a letter from Fang Cai's book and handed it to Wen Fangyan, "Shoufu, please take a look." ”

Wen Fangyan took the letter and unfolded it, his long eyebrows trembled slightly, and he pointed to the last sentence in the letter, 'Wu thief is irritable, and it can be a breakthrough.' He asked, "I don't know what Zhongwu Bo means?" ”

Emperor Tianyou laughed, and handed over the secret book handed by Beizhen Fusi, Wen Yanyan opened it and looked at it, only looked at it twice, and then showed anger, and secretly cursed a beast in his heart.

"If you can't do it during the New Year, you can only wait until spring."

Speaking of this, Emperor Tianyou picked up Fang Cai's notebook and said: "These people are too deeply hidden, all the evidence cannot convict them, and now they can only hope that there will be civil strife on their own, and there are many obscure circumstances, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and for the sake of my descendants, I still have to see it clearly, and I can't take risks." ”

Ranwen

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Wen dialect replied loudly.