"Old Guogong, do you really think that a soldier and horse are so easy to train?"

In the British Mansion, as expected, when he convened all the nobles of the Shuntian Mansion and told Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, he was immediately questioned by Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo.

In the main hall of the mansion, more than 30 nobles sat on both sides, Zhu Chunchen and Xu Xigao, the Duke of Dingguo, sat first on the left and right, and Zhang Weixian sat on the main seat.

With Zhu Chunchen's opening, the other nobles behind him also dared to speak.

The first to speak was Gongshun Hou Wu Ruyin, who was nearly sixty years old, and said to Zhang Weixian:

"Regardless of anything else, when the Xuzhou and Huai'an Mansion Guards in Nanzhili were abolished, the old man had already said that if he didn't stop it, he would inevitably be abolished in the future."

"Now, let's see, is it as the old man said at the beginning?"

As soon as Wu Ruyin opened his mouth, other nobles also opened their mouths to echo in an instant, and Wu Ruyin saw that someone echoed him, and he said even more boldly:

"Before, it was four guards and three institutes, and now it is necessary to abolish more than 20 guards in Shuntianfu, Tianjin, and Yongping."

"If you go further, do you want to remove the entire Rear Army Governor's Mansion and the 26 Guards of Shangzhi?"

"After finishing it, and finally dismantling the governor's mansions of the five armies in (Shuntian) and Nanjing?"

Speaking of which, Wu Ruyin hates iron and does not make steel:

"Long live the difficulty, we all know it, we can't collect taxes, don't go to Wenchen, what are you doing with me?"

Wu Ruyin's words are also funny, if Zhu Youzhen is here, it is estimated that he will punch the old face of this old Qiu Ba.

There are nearly 100 million troops in the world, how much have these nobles swallowed, and there are no points in their hearts?

Not to mention anything else, if Juntuntian can be honest, according to the same annual feeding of more than 20 million stone of grain to the national treasury during the Yongle and Hongwu years, not to mention that Liaodong uses more than 5 million taels of silver a year, even more than 10 million can support it.

As a result, over the years, the paper data of Juntun seed grain was only about 2 million, and in the end, we cried poor here and there, and not to mention that a pound of grain was not handed over to the state treasury, and a lot of money was taken out.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has been cut into the ground, they still refuse to give up profits.

That is, Zhu Youxiao still remembered Zhang Weixian's goodness, and asked someone to tell him that if Zhu Youzhen directly used a knife to slaughter this group of unclean guys.

Zhu Youzhen is not able to fight many parties, because they control more than 70% of the tax acres of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Xianzong finally got the Jingying and the Imperial Horse Supervisor right, and the Jingying was handed over to Xungui, but it didn't take 20 years to become a waste.

The imperial horse eunuch was handed over to the eunuch to manage, and in the Zhengde period, the imperial horse eunuch dared to turn over the horse and Zhu Houzhao to cut the little prince, and this group of nobles was not even as good as the eunuchs.

Chenghua, Zhengde, Jiajing, Wanli......

These four generations of emperors have not thought about rectifying the Beijing camp and supporting Xungui, but Xungui himself can't support the wall.

Not to mention anything else, at the moment, it is a question whether the 120,000 Beijing camp can pull out 10,000 people to fight.

As long as Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth, even if his soldiers had only been practicing for more than two months, Zhu Youzhen dared to take them to cut down Jingying and Xungui.

It's such a group of wasted people, they can't recognize themselves as waste, and now they still want to not listen to the emperor, it's really against the sky......

Zhang Weixian looked at the people in the main hall, and suddenly felt tired.

He thought that the nobles would come up with some good solutions, but he didn't want to end up pushing the tax to Wenchen's side.

If this news is known by the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Kunming, it is estimated that one-third of Xunguili will be impeached the next day, which is still ironclad evidence.

In other words, as long as Zhu Youxiao released his words, he would exempt the additional silver, and then change the field tax from 30 to 50 to 1, but the condition was that the governor's office of the five armies was abolished and all the military tuntian was redistributed, and the civil officials estimated that they would be able to kill the nobles and the guard system.

The civilian officials were already looking at the nobles unpleasantly, and they were just waste, and they still occupied so many military tuntians.

If it weren't for the emperors of all dynasties who supported the nobles and prevented them from falling, almost all the nobles would have been solved one by one after the Tumubao Change.

At the moment, the emperor just wanted to take back a little military tuntian, and they began to bark wildly.

The owner keeps a dog because he is obedient, but if the dog dares to bite the owner, he will be beaten to death with a stick in the next second.

Zhang Weixian is very aware of this matter, so he has always paid attention to the royal family.

It's a pity that Zhu Changluo died too quickly, and Zhu Youzhen shot too quickly, which led to him not getting any credit that night.

Now it's okay, one wrong step, one wrong step.

The emperor is now going to rectify the guard system, and if the nobles are disobedient, it is estimated that they will also be cleaned up.

Thinking of this, Zhang Weixian suddenly felt that there was nothing to say to this group of nobles, even if he was a god, he couldn't bring a group of guys who wanted to drag their feet.

Zhang Weixian, who was accused of overdoing it by the nobles, suddenly turned on the mode of rotten and stood up suddenly.

The nobles who were suddenly noisy at this stop closed their mouths.

At this moment, the character of most of them who bully the soft and fear the hard is vividly embodied.

Zhang Weixian really didn't look down on them in his heart, so he said directly:

"Long live the army to move to Tuntian, because the state is difficult!"

"You ask yourself, how am I, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, to our honors? Right now, it's just a matter of abolishing the guards of Shuntianfu and Yongpingfu, and you have such a big reaction, if you want to ban the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, do you want to rebel! ”

Zhang Weixian was furious, and no one dared to step forward to dissuade him for a while, Zhu Chunchen was even more cold sweat on his forehead, and Xu Xigao could barely change his face.

As for the other nobles, some nobles didn't look down on other nobles, so they stood up directly and said:

"Old Guogong, although I have not inherited the title of Yongkang Marquis Mansion, long live the abolition of Yongping and Shuntian Mansion Guards, and I Xu Yingyuan supports it!"

Xu Yingyuan, he is the younger brother of the former Yongkang Marquis, and Xu Xiyin, the son of the former Yongkang Marquis, is too young to inherit the title, so the Yongkang Marquis Mansion is in charge of him.

With Xu Yingyuan's beginning, there are more nobles who get up.

"Wu'an Hou Mansion, Zheng Weixiao, support the will of Long Live Will!"

"Huaining Hou Mansion, Sun Jijun, support the will of Long Live Will!"

"The new city is attached, Wang Guoxing, support the will of long live!"

"Pingjiang Bofu, Chen Zhi'an, support the will of Long Live!"

"Xuancheng Bofu, Wei Shitai, support the will of Long Live!"

"Zhangwu Bofu, Yang Chongyou, support the will of Long Live!"

A ridiculous scene appeared, among the more than thirty nobles, only seven nobles stood up, and Wang Guoxing and Yang Chongyou among them were only sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys.

If Zhu Youzhen is here, he will definitely recognize that most of these seven nobles were loyal people who either self-immolated or died in battle when the city of Beijing was broken in the Ming Dynasty.

"Good! Then my British government can't be left behind! Zhang Weixian looked at the huge hall, there are still nobles who dare to stand up, so they are not afraid that there will be no successors to them.

He glanced at Zhu Chunchen and Xu Xigao, and then mocked:

"Since you don't want Banzai to move the guards of Shuntian and Yongping, go and talk to Banzai yourself!"

"Broad & Bright!" Zhang Weixian shouted, and then a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy stood up from the chair next to him.

He is Zhang Shize, the eldest grandson of Zhang Weixian, and in the face of his grandson, Zhang Weixian said to him: "Tell your father and tell him to enter the palace to face the saint." ”

"Send the list of Hou Bo that I just agreed, and our British government can't control the rest."

"Yes, grandpa." Zhang Shize saluted, then turned around and was about to leave.

Seeing this, Zhang Weixian also said to many nobles:

"It's almost curfew, so the old man won't leave you to eat, let's disperse separately......"

"This ...... Old man! Seeing that Zhang Weixian was actually directly rotten, some of the nobles who had ridiculed him before and were very happy to ridicule him immediately panicked.

But he didn't want Zhang Weixian not to give them a chance, so he turned around and left directly, and the other nobles who supported the abolition of the guard also walked away.

In the end, only thirty-two and three nobles remained, and they were left in the main hall to be embarrassed.

Everyone set their eyes on Xu Xigao and Zhu Chunchen, after all, it was Zhu Chunchen who took the lead in singing the opposition.

But they still overestimated Zhu Chunchen, and in the face of so many people's gazes, Zhu Chunchen, who had just turned thirty, could only say in dismay:

"Banzai really wants to do it, and I can't deal with it......"

His words were instantly exchanged for countless disdainful glances.

Co-authoring this guy is playing monkey tricks on everyone? A group of people were here to accompany him to act, but he confessed to it, so that the people who are now acting are not human beings inside and out.

"Stand down, and I'll go into the palace to discuss it with Banzai later."

There was no way, in the face of the pig teammates who were dragging their feet, Xu Xigao came to the stage again and got up to appease everyone.

But after being appeased, he still sighed and said:

"However, what Banzai has to do, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist just by waiting for us."

Xu Xigao is really a little afraid of the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen now.

Back then, I looked at the harmlessness of people and animals, especially Zhu Youzhen, who only knew that he was cowardly hiding behind Zhu Youxiao.

But looking at it now, Zhu Youzhen is the guy who hides the deepest.

In the past, those cowardices were all fake, and in less than three months after returning to Changping, 50,000 soldiers and horses were pulled out, and they also helped the Donglin Party seriously injure the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Kunming.

Now that it's okay, I've finished the southern field of the Imperial Horse Prison, and I'm starting to attack the north again.

To be honest, Xu Xigao also had a headache, but he had no choice, so he hurriedly called a carriage to send him to the palace while it was not dark.

In the middle of the transmission, he saw Zhang Zhiji who had just come out of the Qianqing Palace Gate.

"Extreme, what do you say?" Looking at Zhang Weixian's son Zhang Zhiji, Xu Xigao barely squeezed out a smile.

But he didn't want to, Zhang Zhiji glanced at him, and said coldly: "Long live it, I want to know what Dingguo Gong will say......

"I ...... Hehe......" Xu Xigao was stunned, and was speechless for a moment, and then looked at the figure of Zhang Zhiji who left after making a move, and secretly scolded this kid and his old man in his heart are not good things.

"Dingguo Gong, long live waiting for you for a long time."

Suddenly, Wei Zhongxian's cold laughter sounded, startling Xu Xigao with goosebumps.

After Xu Xigao turned around and saw Wei Zhongxian, he said, "Wei Zhangyin, how is the mood of Long Live Palm?" ”

"Hmm...... Naturally, it's not so good. Wei Zhongxian's eyes rolled and he replied with a deep groan.

His response was seen through by Xu Xigao at a glance, so he could only scold in his heart, and said to Wei Zhongxian with a smile:

"I heard that Wei Zhangyin is a native of Suning, Hejian, and I won't tell you that my subordinates have been running a grange there, but they are not very familiar with the water and soil of Suning, so they have failed to harvest year after year."

"I wonder if any of Wei Zhangyin's subordinates are familiar with the water and soil there, and can they be sent to help?"

"Naturally, there is, that is, our family is full of crop men, I don't know the size of the grange, and I don't know how many people to send." Wei Zhongxian responded with a smile, and Xu Xigao also said with a smile:

"The grange is not big, about 600 acres, and it is estimated that 50 people can be busy."

"Eh, fifty people is a lot, and people have to eat a lot of things when they eat horses." Wei Zhongxian pretended that he couldn't take out so many people, but he actually wanted silver.

The so-called helping to operate is just giving away land in disguise, and Wei Zhongxian now wants to take the land and silver.

Xu Xigao didn't expect that he also needed to bribe a eunuch who he once looked down on, but even if his back molars were crushed, he still had to smile and say:

"That's true, people eat horses and chew them, and they can't do their jobs without food."

"Why don't you do that? How about I ask someone to send two thousand taels of silver to the Grange and buy ten more oxen? ”

"That's pretty much it, but I don't know if they can get some rewards in the future after they manage the Grange?" Wei Zhongxian continued to squeeze with a knife in his smile, and Xu Xigao could only smile and say:

"Don't, there's a lot of money, huh? When the time comes, if you really serve the acres of land well, and the grain harvest will be bumper in the coming year, you will naturally have to give gift money according to the wages of the capital. ”

The so-called bumper grain harvest is just an excuse, to put it bluntly, it is to see if things can be done, and whether you Wei Zhongxian can help.

If things help well, it's okay for me to give a little more later, but if it doesn't work, then naturally it's a little less.

Wei Zhongxian naturally understood this kind of words, so he laughed and said:

"Naturally, there will be a bumper harvest, and you can rest assured that Dingguo Gong is here, so let's wait here for a while, and let's go in and tell Banzai that you are here."

"Eh, I'm tired of Wei's palm print." Xu Xigao responded with a smile, and Wei Zhongxian also turned around and walked towards the Qianqing Palace.

Crossing the long road of the Qianqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian crossed the doorrail and entered the Qianqing Palace, and said to Zhu Youxiao, who was dealing with the music in the Yangxin Palace:

"Long live, Dingguo Gong is here."

"Well, let's call him in." Zhu Youxiao didn't raise his head, it seemed that for him, he had expected Xu Xigao to come.

But when he said this, Wei Zhongxian said:

"Long live, Dingguo Gong came to admit his mistake."

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao put down the music in his hand, frowned slightly and raised his head, and Wei Zhongxian also flattered:

"Dingguo Gong said that he was not reluctant to accept the guards of Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion, but he was worried that Banzai would be abolished too much, and he was afraid of causing turmoil in the guards."

"Pass him in." Zhu Youxiao's frowning brows relaxed.

For a person of his age, he who is in charge of the supreme imperial power can only follow it, not go against it.

He naturally knew that Wei Zhongxian had accepted Xu Xigao's benefits, after all, he had seen too many of this kind of things.

But since Xu Xigao has paid the benefits, it means that he is actually afraid.

As long as he is afraid, then things will be much easier.

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao agreed, Wei Zhongxian smiled, and then glanced at the little eunuch at the door.

"Xuanding Guogong entered the palace to meet ......" The little eunuch sang loudly in his heart, and Xu Xigao of the Qianqing Palace Gate heard it, so he hurriedly entered the Qianqing Palace Road.

He walked all the way quickly, and after a dozen breaths, he stepped into the Qianqing Palace, facing the Heart Cultivation Hall facing Wei Zhongxian, and bowed his head and said:

"Minister, Xu Xigao, long live the holy bow ......"

"Zhen'an" Zhu Youxiao picked up the recital, and said while looking at it:

"What is the ......matter with the Dingguo Office?"

"The minister heard that Banzai was going to abolish the guards of Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, so he wanted to enter the palace to ......" When he said this, Xu Xigao heard Wei Zhongxian's whispered reminder, so he changed his tone and said:

"I want to remind Long Live that even if the guard post is to be abolished, at least we have to see if the Imperial Horse Supervisor really has the strength to suppress the guard."

Xu Xigao is very smart, but he is also very stupid.

He was smart enough to point things out and pretend to be a loyal minister, but the fault was that he didn't believe Zhu Youzhen.

"Hooray!" At this moment, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly smiled and said:

"Although Dingguo Gong's words are a bit unfounded, they are indeed for the sake of Long Live and Daming."

"It's been more than two months now, and Banzai hasn't seen how the training of the Qiwei One Battalion is, and the Fifth Highness has also been to Tianshou Mountain for more than half a month, so it's better to take advantage of the Qingling Tomb to repair and improve in a few days, how about going to Banzai in person?"

Wei Zhongxian helped Xu Xigao's words come back very well, and accurately poked Zhu Youxiao's thoughts.

Zhu Youxiao is very worried about Zhu Youzhen, and Wei Zhongxian understands this matter best.

Almost every day, Zhu Youxiao will talk about Zhu Youzhen at least ten times, and Zhu Youxiao also wants to go out of the palace to have fun.

He said more than once that the palace was too stuffy and he wanted to go out for a walk.

Right now, you can just take advantage of the fact that the Qingling Tomb is repaired and go to worship under the pretext of going out of Beijing, and then play in Changping Tianshou Mountain for a while.

"Hmmm......"

Sure enough, as soon as Wei Zhongxian finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up, and he nodded instantly: "Zhongxian, what you said is not bad. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Xu Xigao again, and then said:

"Dingguo Gong is also for me, it is better to go back to Dingguo Gong and discuss with the British Duke and Chengguo Gong, and when the Qingling Tomb is completed, I will take the civil and military officials to Tianshou Mountain to worship the emperors of the past dynasties."

"The minister's decree ......" Xu Xigao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

He even had some secret joy in his heart, wanting to take this opportunity to expose the true face of Zhu Youzhen's seven guards and one battalion, and make the emperor give up the matter of dismantling the Yongping Mansion and the Shuntian Mansion Guards.

"In that case, then Dingguo Gong should step back first, and when the Qingling is repaired, I will announce this matter in the Chang Dynasty."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and Xu Xigao completed his purpose and returned the salute, and then withdrew from the Qianqing Palace.

He was extremely satisfied, and after he withdrew, Zhu Youxiao suddenly put away the smiling face just now, and his face became gloomy.

This scene made Wei Zhongxian's scalp tingle, but Zhu Youxiao sneered at Xu Xigao's actions in his heart.

Xu Xigao's careful thinking was clearly seen by him, and the reason why he cooperated was nothing more than to use this matter to settle the matter of abolishing the guards of Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion, as well as changing the defense of Jizhen.

Didn't the civil and military officials believe that the two brothers had military power? That's good, the two brothers have a direct showdown, let them know that the Seven Guards and One Battalion of the Imperial Horse Prison are not talking about fun.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youxiao wanted to take this opportunity not only to make military achievements, but also to make it clear to Wenchen politically that the imperial power and military power were close again.

His method is the method that Ming Xianzong used to play back then.

The change of the civil fort and the great power of the civil official? So what?

Ming Xianzong's method was very simple, 120,000 elite men and horses were selected from the Beijing camp, known as the 12th regiment battalion, and the sergeants were known as the selection of the front.

Not only that, but he also asked Wang Zhi to train the four guards and one battalion of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

In this way, Zhu Jianshen has 140,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and he has nothing to do with Wenchen, and Wenchen can't intervene at all.

With the power of the army, Zhu Jianshen quickly solved the mess left by Zhu Qizhen little by little, which can be said to be the most appropriate and correct way to follow in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao in history had no choice, the nobles couldn't support him, and the generals had a relationship with Wenchen, so he couldn't cultivate his own military power.

But now it's different, Zhu Youxiao believes in his younger brother from the bottom of his heart, and Zhu Youzhen has not lived up to his expectations.

Zhu Youxiao saw from some of Yang Lian's behaviors that the combat effectiveness of the Qiwei and 1st Battalion was definitely not comparable to that of the Beijing Battalion and the border army.

At present, the training time is short, but Zhu Youxiao also said that he will go to the sacrifice after the Qingling is repaired.

How long does it take to repair Qingling? This question is very ambiguous, because there is no time regulation, so whether it is four months or half a year, this time is decided by Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao gave his younger brother enough time to train the army, as long as Zhu Youzhen couldn't make a mistake, then when the accompanying Wenchen saw the combat effectiveness of the Seven Guards and One Battalion, he would at least not be as aggressive as before.

There are only a few emperors in the entire Ming Dynasty and military power.

Except for Zhu Yunwen, who was fooled and lame by civil officials, and Zhu Qizhen who died by himself, several other emperors said nothing about Wenchen.

Zhu Youxiao wants to follow the old path, and this path must be supported by his good brother.

Therefore, after maintaining a gloomy face for a few seconds, Zhu Youxiao picked up a blank notebook again, wrote it with pen and ink, and then raised his head and threw it in front of Wei Zhongxian.

"Smack"

The sound of Song Shu falling to the ground almost made Wei Zhongxian fall to his knees in fright.

"Send this handwritten letter to the Yanshan camp, and no one except my brother can read it...... Including you. ”

"The slave and maid are ......" Wei Zhongxian was startled, thinking that the emperor was going to slaughter him.

After hearing that it was this, he nodded like a chicken pecking rice, then knelt down and picked up the handwriting, and after returning the salute, he turned around and walked to the palace gate, but when he arrived at the gate of the palace gate, he paused again, turned to Zhu Youxiao and said:

"Long live, do you want to arrange for someone to send some food to the Yanshan camp? The slave maid was afraid that His Royal Highness would not eat well. ”

"Well, you can do it." When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he also nodded, and then lowered his head to deal with the music.

Wei Zhongxian saw that he had done what he liked, so he was overjoyed, and then withdrew from the Qianqing Palace, and asked Wang Tiqian to honestly send people to send letters and bear's paws, shark fins, bird's nests, and all kinds of tribute tea and tribute wine to Changping.

Wang Tiqian got the order and hurriedly sent ten factory guards from the East Factory to escort the handwritten books and food.

Taking advantage of the fact that the dusk drum had not yet sounded, these factory guards hurriedly took things from the ten libraries of the inner house, and then rode on fast horses and rode towards Changping from Andingmen.

Soon, under Zhu Youxiao's indulgence, the news of his conversation with Xu Xigao spread in the outer court.

The Wenhua Palace's guards all knew that the emperor was going to take hundreds of civil and military officials to Tianshou Mountain to worship the emperor's tomb after the renovation of the Qingling Tomb was completed.

A small number of civil servants were worried, but many more laughed at jokes.

Perhaps, in their eyes, training soldiers and horses for two or three months is just a shameful thing......