"What kind of military department is not the military department, the armory only recognizes Long Live and His Royal Highness the King of Qi!"

On 29 June, the day before Zhu Youzhen learned the news inside the Guan, the situation inside the Daming Pass was not optimistic compared with that outside the Guan......

At the gate of the armory station in the north of the Yanshan camp, the officials of the military department came here to eat a closed door.

Shen Cewei and Jin Wuwei, who were guarding this place, didn't care about the cabinet's order at all, and directly drew their swords and pointed directly at the officials.

Dozens of military officials were trembling with anger, and the Beijing camp behind them was also at a loss.

"The northwest border is urgent, and the transfer of gunpowder from the ordnance station is also for the sake of the family and country, please ask Commander Zhou not to ......"

"I'll say it again, without the handwriting of Long Live and King Qi, cats and dogs don't want to enter the Ordnance Institute and the Yanshan Camp!"

Commander Jin Wuwei made Zhou Xian not care about the words of the military department officials at all, and looked down on the military department officials arrogantly, and then turned around and said:

"Close the door!"

After that, he and the commander of the Shen Cewei turned around and walked into the Yanshan camp together, and at the same time, the soldiers on both sides also directly closed the gate of the Yanshan camp.

"This ...... Vulgar Takefu! ”

Seeing this, the military officials could only scold, but then they also turned their heads and said:

"Send the matter here to the capital quickly, and say that Jin Wuwei commands Zhou Xian and Shen Cewei commands Zhang Chao not to accept the order!"

"Yes ......" The clerk of the military department next to him returned the salute, and then sent Tang Cavalry to spread the matter of this place to the capital.

At the same time, in the palace of the capital, hundreds of officials also quarreled into a pot of porridge......

"The war in Liaodong is urgent, why does the household department transfer grain at will without waiting for the will of Banzai?!"

In the Wenhua Palace, Yang Lian got up and questioned Li Zongyan, the new head of the household department, but in the face of the questioning, Li Zongyan said with a sad face:

"The people of Liaodong are the people of the Ming Dynasty, aren't the people of Suiyang, Xu and Pi the people of the Ming Dynasty? Yang Du gave the ...... in the matter"

"You ......" Yang Lian was scolded, and immediately suppressed his anger and said:

"Even if you want disaster relief, you should ask Henan and Nanzhili to adjust the regular settlement and official food relief, instead of intercepting military rations!"

"In addition, why did the military department transfer gunpowder and leave Beijing? At the moment, it is Liaodong that needs gunpowder the most, not Shaanxi! ”

"Huh! Yang Du gave the matter, the deliberation will be discussed, don't roar above the hall of filial piety, lose the etiquette......"

Yang Lian was having a seizure, but Zhu Guozuo opened his mouth suddenly, and reprimanded him for losing etiquette, but Zhu Guozuo was the wrong person this time, Yang Lian even dared to scare Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao, how could he be afraid of him as a minister?

"What?! What Zhu Gechen meant, isn't what Xia Guan said the truth?! ”

"Soldiers, national affairs, at present, the imperial court has more than 700,000 troops in the north, nearly half of which is hoarded in Liaodong, if Liaodong is lost, the country will be shaken!"

"Exaggeration...... exaggerated ......" Shen Yan, who was also a minister, coughed, and then said to Yang Lian:

"Yang Du is in the matter, and now you are in the middle of the matter, not the military department and the household department, if you have opinions, you can put forward, you can discuss, but you can't have such an attitude."

"How can such an attitude of questioning colleagues and not listening to the causes and effects of their actions be fair as a bureaucrat?"

Shen opened his mouth to be benevolent, righteous and moral, and closed his mouth to control his colleagues, Yang Lian's teeth were itching.

"Explain the matter of the military department......"

Suddenly, Ye Xianggao, who was sitting in the main seat, spoke, and an unfamiliar face also stood up and said:

"The Hetao in the northwest, and the Ningxia Beiyu have been knocking on the border for two consecutive years, shouldn't gunpowder and artillery be allocated?"

Due to the matter of the Hetao Department knocking on the side, Wang Xiangqian, the secretary of the military department, went to Yansui, so the temporary replacement of the secretary of the military department was Dong Hanru, the left waiter.

It was Wang Xiangqian's departure that gave Dong Hanru and others a chance.

The way he spoke was righteous and righteous, and he didn't seem to think there was anything wrong, but Zuo Guangdou, who was the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, said unhurriedly:

"If I'm not mistaken, in the transfer of the military department, there are only 300 Fran cannons and 523 tiger squat cannons, right? Including the artillery in the northwest before, the size is only more than 14,000 pieces. ”

"This is less than 15,000 artillery pieces, and it takes millions of catties of gunpowder to go to Shaanxi?"

"Be prepared!" Dong Hanru was neither humble nor arrogant, and Ye Xianggao frowned slightly when he heard his words, and then spoke:

"There is nothing wrong with all parties in this matter, and Yang Du is just asking about the matter."

Ye Xianggao wanted to reveal the matter, but this behavior made Yang Lian look at Liu Yixian with dissatisfaction.

It's just that Liu Yixiao seems to have something on his mind, and he looks absent-minded, and he doesn't see Yang Lian's eyes.

"Okay, let's talk about the Shuntian prefect and the Yongping prefect, I heard that the prefects of these two places set up a card to stop the disaster victims who moved to Liaodong, why is this?"

Ye Xianggao continued to lead to the things that had just happened yesterday and that even Zhu Youzhen didn't know about.

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone looked at Zhu Guozuo, because they all knew that the current Shuntian prefect and Yongping prefect were from the Zhejiang Party.

However, for this matter, Zhu Guozuo is the old god:

"This matter is mainly to picket the remnants of the White Lotus Sect who are hiding among the victims."

"Dare to ask, delay the migration of the people and lack the amount of rice and wheat, is the prefect of the two places responsible?" Ye asked with a frown.

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor is responsible for the relocation, so naturally the Imperial Horse Supervisor will continue to be in charge." Zhu Guozuo's brazen opening made Ye Xianggao's face twitch vaguely.

No wonder when the emperor ordered the household department to transfer another 1.5 million stone of military rations to Liaodong, the household department agreed so happily that the joint household department did not want to transfer the military rations in Taicang at all.

Not only did he not transfer it to Liaodong, but he also wanted to use the victims to consume the food of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Even if there was no breach of the Yellow River in the land of Xu Pi, I am afraid that they would find a way to transfer the military rations to other places.

This kind of trick is already a common means for the civil servants of various parties to engage in party struggle.

When the general and the economic strategy are officials of the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Kunming, they will spare no effort to support the general.

The household department ran out of money and couldn't fight anymore, so they tried to increase taxes and escort grain.

And if the generals are not the officials of the five parties, they will collectively put on a bad show, do not offer advice or make plans, sit back and watch the generals of the opposing party lose ground on the battlefield, and then put forward a request for the replacement of the generals.

All that is needed is to suppress the hostile parties, bring their own officials to power, and seek military merit.

"When did the officials of the Ming Dynasty become this virtue, and now even the military rations have been transferred......"

"King Qi, King Qi, you really lifted a stone to shoot yourself in the foot......"

Thinking of the flaws revealed by Zhu Youzhen himself and then being caught by Zhu Guozuo, Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, but continued to say to the mud:

"The remnants of the White Lotus Sect, I think it has already been cleared, and now we should quickly release the disaster victims."

"How can this work?" Yao Zongwen, who was sitting near the door, suddenly stood up and said righteously:

"At present, Liaodong is experiencing war, if the victims are relocated, will it not be a place of death? When the Liao affair is over, the king of Qi returns to Beijing, and then the conclusion is made! ”

"Ridiculous! At present, Liaodong is short of manpower, and the victims have gone to Liaodong......" Yang Lian immediately retorted, not wanting to interrupt him with a deep sigh:

"Yang Du is in the matter, and now he is talking about the affairs of the Ministry of War, and Yao Du is using the identity of the Military Department to discuss the matter, I don't think this matter needs to be taken care of by the Ministry of Officials......"

"Even if you don't have the identity of the military department, the lower official is still the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!" Yang Lian was forced to be anxious, and directly blushed and said his identity as the imperial history.

"The Point Guard Is Here"

"Goshi can't be aggressive!" He raised his hand and slapped it on the table, and the sound made the hearts of the non-party people tense and made the party officials frown.

Ye Xianggao was also a member of the frowning, and from his deep words, he also heard the possibility that this matter did not exist and was muddy.

"You are going to offend King Xiao Qi to death......"

Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, and then his mind was spinning rapidly, what could he do now.

It's just that after a while, he didn't come up with it after all, and then he could only speak:

"Take a quarter of an hour's rest, and then discuss the matter after a quarter of an hour......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone snorted coldly

Cabinet, six ministries, six sections, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate......

Among the more than 40 officials, if you look closely, you will find that because the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun and Donglin are evenly matched, neither side can recommend officials from their own factions to take office.

Thus, among the six ministries that hold real power, a very delicate balance emerges.

Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Li Zongyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Lin Yaoyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Dong Hanru, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Wang Xiangqian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Qiao Yunsheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Zhong Zhengyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry......

Among these seven people, one is the Donglin Party, one is the Qin Party, one is the Qi Party, one is the Fujian Party, and among the remaining three officials from Henan who seem to have no party, Dong Hanru took refuge in the Zhejiang Party.

That is to say, in the current cabinet, Qi and Zhejiang each occupy two seats, while Donglin occupies one seat, and the remaining two non-party and two small parties.

In the past few years, this pattern was simply impossible, but now it has been subtly formed.

"At a critical time, don't deal with that person first, but come to deal with your colleagues, pedantic!"

While spying on the situation, Yao Zongwen, who was sitting in the side pavilion with Shen Yu and Zhu Guozuo, was unhappy to speak, and the person he scolded was naturally Yang Lian.

At present, everyone can see the situation, if Zhu Youzhen easily recovers Liaodong, then the next step is to completely abolish and reform the health center, and when the health center is thoroughly understood, it is to reform the tax system and the official system.

These three practices harmed the interests of the guards and the military commanders, the landlords and the gentry, and the scholars and officials.

The first pair of combinations is good to say, as long as the British government does not take the lead in making trouble, the officers of the guard and other military honors are just fish on the eucalyptus board.

Compared with this pair, the latter two pairs are terrifying existences.

But to say that they are terrifying is for ordinary emperors, but for Zhu Youxiao, there is no such threat at all.

Behind Zhu Youxiao is Zhu Youzhen, a drug tricker, and behind Zhu Youzhen is a newly rising Qi Wang Party.

The Qi Wang Party is said to be the Qi Wang Party, but it is more like a royalist.

It's just that this party, so far, has not been involved in the officialdom, and has only stayed in the border army and the soldiers.

It is precisely for this reason that the two major forces in the court cannot contact them, talk about them in detail, let alone win them over.

Zhu Youzhen's political stance and political views are different from those of many political parties.

Whether it is a party, a state, or an official, as soon as they enter old age and decline, they will want to stick to the rules, do not want to change the rules they are familiar with, and get in touch with interests that they do not understand.

This is also the reason why the officials of the successive dynasties clearly knew that if this continued, the dynasty would slowly have problems, but they did not want to find a way to solve them.

Anyway, in the eyes of many officials, there is a pit in front and it is troublesome to solve, so it is better to leave it to the next generation, as long as the bomb does not explode in my hands, it has nothing to do with me.

In this way, one generation pushes one generation after another, and one generation pits one generation after another, and finally leads to the pit getting bigger and deeper.

At this time, if there is an enterprising emperor, then it will be a disaster for the dynasty.

It's just that the emperors of all dynasties and all the emperors who wanted to forge ahead wanted to start from the political aspect, and Zhu Youzhen went the opposite way and started with the army first.

The opponents of the emperors of the past dynasties were basically the most powerful forces in the court.

Such as the nobles of Qin, the relatives of the Western Han Dynasty, the heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the scholars of the Jin Dynasty, the gate lords of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Wenchen of the Song Dynasty, the warlords of the Yuan, and the Wuxun Wenchen of the early Ming Dynasty.

The difference is that the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty collapsed too quickly, without the nobility of Qin, the systematic inheritance of the two Han Dynasty relatives and the Sui and Tang Dynasty gates, often only one or two generations of strong and then went downhill, which lasted for a short time and could not maintain a strong position above the court.

As a result, the Ming emperor went from only balancing the two forces to facing the Wenchen alone.

The 12th Regiment Battalion of Chenghua, the three major battalions of Jiajing were renovated, and the border army of Zhengde was transferred to Beijing, all of which wanted to support Wuxun to rise again, but Wuxun was like an ostrich, and the mud could not support the wall.

This led to the Jiajing period to directly abandon the Wuxun group, change the means and begin to lure the pan-Jiangnan forces into infighting, using the civil officials in Pan-Jiangnan and eastern Zhejiang to bury the gap from the beginning of the country, and constantly let them fight among themselves.

The final result was that Jiajing succeeded in disintegrating the pan-Jiangnan forces, and the eastern Zhejiang forces also fell apart.

Later, Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong infighting actually broke away from the pan-Jiangnan and eastern Zhejiang infighting, and transformed into the Gao Party of the Henan faction and the Zhang internal infighting of the Huguang faction.

In other words, the commune party has actually been dismantled, and the commune party has been transformed into a friend party.

Compared with the monolithic township party, the friends party is easier to handle.

It's just that I didn't expect that Wanli was rotten after Zhang Juzheng's death, so that Shen of the children of eastern Zhejiang always seized the opportunity, and the children of eastern Zhejiang rose again and became the new township party, the Zhejiang party.

The Chu Party, the Qi Party, the Fujian Party, and the Sichuan Party after the Zhejiang Party all rose when Wanli was rotten.

In the face of the offensive of the Zhejiang Party, the pan-Jiangnan forces could not unite, and although they formed a township party, they only reached the level of two small parties, the Xuan Party and the Kunming Party.

The interests of the township party had been consolidated, and at this time, the Donglin Party, as a friend party, suddenly emerged, and then was quickly suppressed by the Zhejiang Party.

After being suppressed, the Donglin Party began to engage in party unity and dissent, and as a result, most Donglin Party officials adhered to one principle.

"Putting aside the facts", if you are in favor of me, I will oppose it, and if you oppose it, I will be in favor.

Such a situation is easy to be manipulated by the emperor, because the characteristics of the Donglin Party determine that when the emperor has the means, he can use the Donglin Party as a knife to stab other parties.

Once the Donglin Party is strong, then what it has done is like adding a layer of ridicule to its body, and many parties will surround and suppress him.

In this situation, the emperor could choose to be alone.

But the problem is that this situation is easy to collapse, and Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen did see the results of playing the Donglin Party in the first year of Taichang and the first year of the Apocalypse.

Gao Panlong, Wan Yanyang and others were scolding the air, eager to kill Zhu Youjian.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen made a second-hand preparation, that is, since Wu Xun can't support it, then I will evolve into Wu Xun by myself!

Therefore, the current situation is a bit awkward.

Zhu Youzhen, with his various military exploits, successfully transformed into the only group of martial arts forces in the Ming Dynasty at the critical juncture of the fierce struggle of various parties.

Wuxun has risen, although it is not as strong as Huaixi Wuxun, but the civil officials are more stretched.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Huaixi Wuxun's opponent was the joint efforts of the pan-Jiangnan civil official forces and the eastern Zhejiang civil official forces, but now?

The martial forces represented by Zhu Youjian faced the split civil officials, Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, Kun, Donglin, Qin, Sichuan, and Fujian......

More than a dozen township parties, large and small, have different interests and different political views, and it is simply a joke to unite them to deal with Zhu Youzhen's martial forces.

For example, this time, the battle of Liaodong was very important to the Ming Dynasty, and once it was lost, it would shake the country's foundation.

Zhu Guozuo and the others are not fools, they know that this battle cannot be lost, and if they lose, it is really the same as what Yang Lian said, it will shake the country's foundation.

But they can't let Zhu Youzhen win easily, because Zhu Youzhen won easily, then the power of Wuxun will be further expanded, and in the next two years, as long as some of the Wenchen people defect to the Wuxun forces, then the current Wenchen forces will be worse than the late Tang Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen can win the battle of Liaodong, but he must win badly enough, so bad that he can't recover for a few years, so that he can't threaten the strength of civilian officials.

This is also the reason why Zhu Guozuo and other Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, Qin, Minchuan parties, and even most of the Donglin parties did not intervene in this operation.

The matter of Yanshan Academy is so big, the ministers actually knew it for a long time, Zhu Youzhen was there to teach hundreds of thousands of poor children to read and write, and emphasized arithmetic, what is the intention of this? Fools can see it.

History has abound in history by first seizing land, then training troops, then installing officials, and reforming the tax system.

Wenchen was just taken advantage of by Zhu Youzhen continuously, so he didn't notice it for a while, and let Zhu Youzhen's nascent martial arts power rise, which does not mean that they are fools.

The battle of Liaodong must be won miserably! People like Yang Lian who are still supporting Zhu Youzhen must also be kicked out of the court.

Thinking of this, Zhu Guozuo narrowed his eyes, and then said to Yao Zongwen:

"Let the officials in Xu Pi do something, and then transfer Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others to Xu Pi under the pretext of supervising disaster relief."

"Good!" Hearing Zhu Guozuo's thoughts, Yao Zongwen's eyes lit up.

Didn't Yang Lian show off his identity as an inspector of the imperial history? All right! Now it's time for him to use his status as an inspector.

As long as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were transferred, Liu Yixiao, who was swaying from side to side, and Ye Xianggao, who was unable to support himself, would not be able to stop them at all.

It was just that while they were planning, an official also walked into the side hall where they were, and then said:

"The ministers, the officials and soldiers sent by the Shuncheon Prefecture and the Yongpyeong Prefecture to check the identities of the victims were driven away by the soldiers and horses of the 12th Battalion of Shangzhi......"

"Didn't they say it was a directive from the Sixth Ministry and the Cabinet?" Shen frowned and drank lightly.

"Forehead......," the official said with embarrassment:

The man below said...... But the generals of the 12th Battalion said......"

"I'm waiting for a martial artist, vulgar, illiterate, please take out the order of King Qi"

The atmosphere of "......" fell into embarrassment for a while, and the faces of Zhu Guozuo and the three of them instantly turned the color of pig liver.

Although they didn't think that this kind of thing could develop for a long time, they would not be destroyed by the 12th Battalion of Shangzhi after only one day of execution, and they still used the reason of illiteracy.

Isn't this a proper way to use the words that Wenchen often mocks military generals to ridicule Wenchen?

You say I'm illiterate and rude, so I really can't read now......

"Piff!" Yao Zongwen scolded quietly, but everyone knew who he was scolding.

Zhu Youzhen, his soldiers and horses have a temperament with him, so he won't care about the officials of Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion, stop him from doing things, and kill them all!

"Winter—"

Before Zhu Guozuo and the three of them could react, the drums of the main hall sounded, and the three of them could only get up and continue to participate in the proceedings.

It's just that when they returned to the main worship hall, their buttocks were not yet hot, and Ye Xianggao said:

"Just now, the cabinet received news that the gunpowder of the armor factory arrived at Juyong Pass and was stopped by Banzai's order, and now it has been re-transferred to Liaodong."

"Long live the original text, the armor factory belongs to the War Bureau, and the Ministry of War has no right to intervene."

Ye Xianggao spoke, and Zhu Guozuo's faces turned the color of pig liver again, they didn't expect that the emperor had torn his face to such an extent.

In the past, the military department adjusted the gunpowder and armor stomach of the armor factory, but the emperor didn't ask.

Now it's okay, the gunpowder can't be adjusted, and the status of the military department in the armor factory is also denied.

"Hooray didn't say anything about military rations?" Suddenly, Yang Lian frowned and asked, but Ye Xianggao shook his head and said:

"Hooray didn't say ......"

"......" Yang Lian frowned, and Zhu Guozuo and the others also laughed secretly in their hearts.

They didn't know that Zhu Youzhen had transferred a sufficient amount of military rations from the Imperial Horse Supervisor and stockpiled them in Liaodong in advance, so it was not military rations that bothered Zhu Youzhen at all, but gunpowder.

And even if it is gunpowder, with the amount of 300,000 catties in Liaodong, Zhu Youzhen is confident that he will use them to recover the entire Liaodong.

And Zhu Guozuo and the others also knew that there were hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder in Liaodong, but they thought that with the current situation, the first battle of Fuliao would fall into a bitter battle.

Based on the battle loss ratio of the Ming army against Jianguo in the past, if you want to eat one Jianguo, you will have to lose at least three Ming soldiers.

In other words, as long as Zhu Youzhen is deflated on the battlefield in Liaodong, they can also propose to change the generals.

Thinking of this, Zhu Guozuo and the others calmed down, and Yang Lian also got up and said:

"The matter of Liaodong is the first major thing in my Ming Dynasty, and military food is the top priority, no! I'm going to go to Banzai and ask for clarification! ”

After that, Yang Lian was about to review an explanation for Zhu You, but Ye Xianggao said:

"Let's go with the old man."

As soon as Ye Xianggao spoke, Yang Lian's footsteps stopped, after all, in terms of official position, he was indeed not enough to go to the Qianqing Palace to take the initiative to ask for a meeting.

"Then I'm tired of Ye Ge getting old...... Yang Lian said respectfully, and Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, not understanding why the emperor indulged these ministers at such a juncture.

With a nervous mood, the figure of the sentence, Ye Xianggao walked towards the Qianqing Palace......