"This battle expands thousands of miles, when remembering the first great achievement of my younger brother, in addition to the reward of silver and pension silver for the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, and then according to the straight one person three taels, the outer arch guard battalion one person two taels, the auxiliary soldiers one tael, the people one person five dollars reward silver!"

In the Qianqing Palace, when Zhu Youxiao's excited decree sounded, he took Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tiqian, and Liu Ruoyu into the palace, holding the good news in his hand, reluctant to put it down, and his mouth was gushing.

Every word he said, every tael of silver sent out, for Wei Zhongxian, was tantamount to cutting flesh and bloodletting.

However, in order to keep the emperor's trust here, Wei Zhongxian still smiled and said:

"There are still more than 4.1 million taels of silver in the internal treasury, which is more than enough according to the number of the first level above the victory."

"Long live rewarding the three armies is the act of the Son of Heaven......"

Wei Zhongxian was patting his ass, and Zhu Youxiao also handed the good news to Wang Tiqian when he heard this:

"Let the people of the household department immediately calculate the number of reward silver, pension silver, and pension field, and then reward the three armies according to what I said before."

"Slave maid takes the order...... Wang Tiqian glanced at Wei Zhongxian, who was still laughing with him, and then asked people to send the good news to the household department.

Zhu Youxiao has been very happy during this period, and did not deal with the music, but crossed the trail left and right in the Yangxin Palace:

"My brother's battle has raised the prestige of my Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't care about the rewards of some rare treasures, and he doesn't lack ...... money."

Zhu Youxiao was entangled, but Wei Zhongxian stepped forward to flatter him:

"Long live, for His Royal Highness King Qi, ten thousand taels of silver, it is better to get one more set of furniture for His Royal Highness."

"Yes, yes, yes......" Hearing Wei Zhongxian's words, Zhu Youxiao also had a smile on his face, and then turned around and ordered:

"If you are foolish and ask someone to find some golden silk nanmu from the treasury, I will get some furniture for my brother."

"The slave maid received the order...... Liu Ruoyu responded, and then went down on an errand.

Also when Zhu Youxiao sat down happily and reached out for the teacup, Wei Zhongxian quickly brought a cup of sour plum soup from the table next to him and said:

"Hooray, it's hot, it's better to drink some ice drinks."

"Hmm" Zhu Youxiao took a drink, and then said happily:

"Zhongxian, send someone to ask my younger brother to send the list of generals who need to be promoted in this battle as soon as possible, and let my younger brother lead the army to triumph, I will personally set up a state banquet for my younger brother to celebrate his achievements!"

"Hooray, how can this show the merits of His Highness?" Wei Zhongxian not only wanted to curry favor with Zhu Youxiao, but also wanted to curry favor with Zhu Youzhen.

Moreover, he knows very well that flattering Zhu Youzhen on the surface is actually currying favor with Zhu Youxiao, and the relationship between the two is almost the same.

As long as you openly offer to curry favor with either party, the other side will be very useful.

"You have a good idea?" Zhu Youxiao put down the sour plum soup in his hand and asked with great interest, while Wei Zhongxian flattered:

"Harawen Mountain is only more than 800 miles away from the fishing sea, why don't you ask His Royal Highness King Qi to go to the fishing sea to worship the sky and pay tribute to Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Cheng Zuwen?"

"Is it a wolf? It's not bad, but with my brother's martial arts, fishing is not as good as the sea. Zhu Youxiao smiled first, then frowned:

"Huo Quai, Dou Xian and the military generals can seal the wolf Juxu, Le Shi Yanran, the fishing sea is not as good as the wolf Juxu Mountain to the north......"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao frowned, and said with a smile in the next second:

"It's not good in the north, but it's okay in the south." Saying that, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said:

"Ordered Huanglong to carve a stone stele in the extreme south, cousin's exploits in recovering the old port."

"Long live, there are not many people in this extreme southern place, although the inscription is good, but it still can't show His Highness's martial arts." Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said:

"Why don't you let all the countries pay tribute, collect the iron of all the countries, and build an iron tablet at the foot of Yan Mountain?"

"Not bad! That's a good idea! Wei Zhongxian's words made Zhu Youxiao's eyes light up, but he added:

"But what is Yanshan? Allocate 100,000 taels of silver from the inside, build a stone step at the highest place in the Haravan Mountains, build a stone monument on the top of the mountain, and erect a golden bell! ”

Zhu Youxiao's eyes became brighter and brighter the more he spoke: "Set up a bell tower, collect the copper of the countries and the provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and set up a bell that is bigger than the Yongle Bell!" ”

As soon as Zhu Youxiao spoke, Wei Zhongxian's heart immediately became weak.

The Yongle bell is the largest bronze bell in the Central Plains Dynasty, the bell is two feet two feet two inches high, weighs more than 76,000 catties, and is almost one-third of the annual output of the copper mine in Luzon.

When used to mint money, at least more than 10 million copper coins can be issued, and this is only its material value.

The difficulty of the Yongle bell lies in the fact that when it is cast, it casts scriptures all over the inside and outside of the bell, with a total of 227,000 words.

If you want to cast such a bell, I am afraid that it will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver to gather the world's bell casting craftsmen.

However, in order to please the emperor and the king of Qi, Wei Zhongxian said righteously:

"Long live what you said is very true, according to the slave maid, this big bell must not only be cast, but also cast big enough, how about three feet, three feet and three inches?"

"Not bad!" Zhu Youxiao nodded unconsciously, but as a carpenter, he also knew how much it would cost to cast such a mountaintop bell tower, so he hurriedly said:

"Spread the decree that all the prisoners in the world will be sent to Kaiping Mansion, and after the bell tower of Hara Wenshan is cast, they will be moved to Taining Mansion."

"Slave obeys the order......" Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt down to accept the order, and his respectful appearance made Zhu Youxiao very useful.

In addition to his usefulness, Wang Tiqian walked into the Heart Cultivation Hall with a calculated document in both hands:

"Long live, according to the calculation of the Ministry of Households, this war should be rewarded with silver, 926,420 taels of pension silver, and 12,400 acres of pension land still need to be paid."

In this battle, the Ming army beheaded more than 8,000 people from the north, Jian, and fake, and 1,240 of its own casualties.

In terms of such a battle loss ratio, it is already one of the pinnacles of the Ming army itself.

Although there are more than 900,000 taels and more than 10,000 acres of land, Zhu Youxiao is not unable to get it.

"Send it, my brother said not to chill the soldiers, such a big victory, 920,000 taels of silver is not much."

As soon as Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, he basically set the distribution of the silver reward, and although Wei Zhongxian's heart was dripping blood, he still flattered him:

"Long live loving soldiers like sons, presumably the three armies will definitely be grateful to Long live."

"Okay, don't be a sycophant, take care of the clock tower." Zhu Youxiao said that, he stretched out his hand and began to deal with the notes on the dragon eucalyptus, and Wei Zhongxian also left the Heart Cultivation Hall after a "slave and maid retire".

After he left, Wang Tiqian also left the Heart Cultivation Palace, while Zhu Youxiao's expression quickly relaxed, revealing a trace of calmness.

He lowered his head to deal with the music, but when Liu Ruoyu returned, he suddenly said:

"What's going on with the West Factory......"

"Long live, the slaves and maids have gathered more than 1,000 people in Dongchang and Jinyiwei." Liu Ruoyu bowed his head in response, while Zhu Youxiao bowed slightly in agreement when he heard this.

Seeing that the emperor did not speak, Liu Ruoyu continued:

"Lin Yanguan in the Middle East was suppressed and killed by Wei Bingbi, and if Yuan Keli and other eighteen people are transferred away now, there will only be more than 20 Donglin such as Sun Chengzong and Han Yi left in the DPRK."

"Long live, in this case, I am afraid that the government will be uneasy......

Liu Ruoyu is involved in a political problem, which can also be said to be a mathematical problem.

Mathematically, trigonometry is the most stable planar structure, there is no one.

This stable structure is the same when it comes to politics.

It seems that there is a definite number in the dark, and the third is to maintain a fixed number that is the least in an organization, a country, and a world.

The so-called dictatorship, the establishment of many countries, is often the appearance, digging deep and summing up, the deep-seated reason for the existence of this world, this country, and the imperial court must be the three-legged establishment.

Generally speaking, unless the heavens are slight, the tripartite battle can often be fought for a long time.

In terms of magnifying the Ming Dynasty, the four forces of Huaixi, eastern Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and imperial power in the early Ming Dynasty were an important juncture in the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this political situation that Zhu Yuanzhang thought would last for a long time often broke out into many turbulent things.

On the contrary, after the fall of Huaixi, there was a long and stable balance between eastern Zhejiang, Jiangnan and imperial power.

Even if Zhedong and Jiangnan merged for a long time and developed into a pan-Jiangnan civil official group, the emperor also knew how to support eunuchs to check and balance.

This kind of support can also stabilize the political situation a little and keep the general direction unchanged.

However, after Jiajing destroyed the pan-Jiangnan civilian-official group and decomposed them, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have entered into endless party struggles.

Zhang Party, Gao Party, Zhejiang Party, Qi Party, Chu Party, Xuan Party, Donglin Party, Qin Party, Sichuan Party, Fujian Party, Donglin Party......

In many cases, these parties have even developed into a political situation in which multiple forces emerge together, followed by constant party contention.

This situation lasted until Zhu You's procuratorial tactics swept down a group of veteran ministers of the Zhejiang Party and forcibly forced the five parties to join together to protect themselves.

Donglin, Qi Wang Party, and the Five Party Alliance......

The situation of tripartite balance made the Ming Dynasty stable for two years, and then the five parties were weak, and Zhu Youxiao put in another Wei Zhongxian.

But now it seems that Wei Zhongxian is obviously an egoist, as long as he can accomplish what he wants to accomplish, he will not care what means are used.

framed and tortured to extract confessions......

This is less than two years after coming to power, and there are only a few dozen big cats and kittens left in Donglin, on the other hand, the eunuch party......

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's constant use of military exploits and great victories to promote the Qi Wang Party, maybe the Eunuch Party would have overwhelmed the Qi Wang Party.

Now that Donglin is weak, it is still difficult to support, and the political situation of the three parties has been turbulent, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that this situation is not handled well, and the fierce party struggle similar to the first year of the Apocalypse is about to break out again.

How to stabilize the situation is a problem that Zhu Youxiao needs to solve in a hurry.

Liu Ruoyu, as Zhu Youxiao's confidant, naturally reminded the other party.

For his reminder, Zhu Youxiao was also silent for a long time, and then got up and walked back and forth, but he didn't think of a good way for a while.

It is impossible for Donglin to help, because most of the Donglin who have been ousted are boastful officials, and re-ascending to the court will only make the contradictions of the party more and more acute.

If you support someone like Yuan Keli to enter the cabinet, although you can be strong Donglin, it will be a dilemma whether the eunuch party can suppress Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli can be regarded as half of the Qi Wang Party, and if he enters the cabinet, it undoubtedly means that the Qi Wang Party has overwhelmed the Eunuch Party.

The Qi Wang Party can no longer grow, and continuing to maintain this situation is what the Qi Wang Party has to do.

Once the Qi Wang Party grows stronger, the contradictions of the party struggle will slowly burn from Donglin and the Eunuch Party to the Eunuch Party and the Qi Wang Party.

At that time, although Zhu Youxiao can suppress any party, such suppression is limited.

The five parties in the eunuch party are already unpressable, and if the Qi Wang Party is forcefully suppressed, then it is worth interesting how some generals in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies look at the situation.

Civil chaos brings disaster to the country......

The chaos of the military attache will bring disaster to the world......

Enabling and supporting the military generals' forces, this is the helpless move of Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen, and many times the Ming Dynasty is not an army pull, but a political pull.

But as long as Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian could control the court, neither of them needed to use the power of the military generals, and they could let Daming smoothly pass through the Xiaoice River period.

However, at that time, except for the military generals, there seemed to be no one who could be co-opted by them.

Even this embarrassment is not only that there is no military general to take the initiative to attach, but also that the imperial power does not have its own power.

This embarrassing situation prompted Zhu Youzhen to take the initiative to learn the art of war, train soldiers, and win over Qi Jin, Qin Bangping and others.

It stands to reason that the army should be Zhu Youxiao's force and an extension of imperial power.

The problem is that Zhu Youzhen did too well, which led to the army slowly breaking away from the imperial power and becoming the Qi royal party.

The current army and military forces seem to be supported by the emperor and belong to the extension of imperial power.

But the branches that extend out are very fragile, and as the hub of the connection between the two, it is all up to Zhu Youzhen to maintain it alone.

The relationship between the two is weak, and the emerging military forces want to make meritorious contributions and achieve a class leap.

Zhu Youzhen's foreign conquest was not only to stabilize the frontier, not only to suppress civilian officials with great victories, but to balance the interests and needs of the army.

The reason is very simple, according to the hereditary system of lords formulated by Zhu Youzhen, it has actually been decided that the Ming army needs to continue to fight to maintain internal stability.

The current newcomers need military exploits to confer knighthood and bless their descendants.

Future lords will need military exploits to keep their titles from being taken away.

These two points will be a balance that needs to be maintained within the Ming army, and Zhu Youxiao is still relatively clear.

What the Qi Wang Party needs is not strength, but stability, so it can't help them.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao stopped his steps, and after a while, he frowned and said:

"Let Gu Bingqian come for a ......"

"The slave takes the command." Hearing the emperor's words, Liu Ruoyu immediately asked people to pass on Gu Bingqian.

This kind of communication did not make Zhu Youxiao wait too long, but in just two quarters of an hour, Gu Bingqian came to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"Hooray......

Gu Bingqian saluted, and Zhu Youxiao was straight to the point in front of him:

"You've seen the cabinet notes issued by the celebrant supervisor, haven't you? What do you think? ”

"The construction of the bell tower of Harawen Mountain is a matter of promoting the prestige of the country, and the minister thinks that it should be built." Gu Bingqian talked eloquently:

"In addition, the soldiers' rewards and silver can also be obtained by the inner money and the imperial horse supervisor, so they naturally need to be rewarded."

"As for the generals who went out to fight, the minister thought that it was a little difficult to seal three of them."

"Say ......" Zhu Youxiao squinted, and Gu Bingqian also said:

"Jingluo Xiong Tingbi, Governor Mangui, and Governor Sun Yingyuan ......"

"The latter can be crowned with the crown prince and the young master to commend the merits, but the former ......"

Gu Bingqian stopped at the point, and Zhu Youxiao also understood what the other party meant.

Xiong Tingbi's merits have actually reached the level of knighthood, but the embarrassment is that he is a civil official......

This is not to say that civil officials cannot be knighted, but after the induction, most of the civil officials who were knighted withdrew from politics shortly after the knighthood.

Except for the occasional inquiry from the Emperor, they were almost like transparent people.

If Zhu Youxiao wants to crown Xiong Tingbi as a noble, then naturally he can, and even he can let Xiong Tingbi continue to serve outside the court.

But there's a problem......

What Zhu Youzhen is doing is separating the military from the government, and Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue and others are very embarrassed.

It's a pity to put them in the court......

Put them on the frontier, and it is a bit contrary to the separation of military and political affairs set by Zhu Youzhen.

The so-called official position of Jinglu will be slowly eliminated in the future, so how to canonize Xiong Tingbi requires Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen to discuss it carefully.

However, Zhu Youxiao called Gu Bingqian to come, not to discuss the issue of these three people, what he wanted Gu Bingqian to do now was to let the Qi Wang Party help the Donglin Party......

"The matter of Xiong Tingbi and the three of them, I will handle it."

"This time, seventeen officials from the Ministry of Officials were transferred to Guanwai, and the Ministry of Officials is empty, so I want you to recommend some officials to serve in the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

As soon as Zhu Youxiao spoke, Gu Bingqian sensed that something was wrong.

Sure enough, he didn't guess wrong, the emperor was going to let him go to war with the eunuchs, or rather confront him.

The position of the vacancy in Donglin was supplemented by officials of the Qi Wang Party, which seemed to strengthen the power of the Qi Wang Party in the court, but in fact it was setting off a contradiction between the two.

Such an arrangement made Liu Ruoyu, who was standing in the corner, beat the drum in his heart.

No one knows whether the dispute between the Qi Wang Party and the Eunuch Party in the court will develop from the court to the local level.

"At present, there is no available person to ...... for the time being."

Gu Bingqian hesitated again and again, but still chose to refuse the emperor's intentions, and this move made Liu Ruoyu's heart tighten.

Zhu Youxiao is the same, although he does not show joy and anger on the surface, he still makes people feel a trace of dissatisfaction from the tone of his speech:

"Well, I know, you can step down......"

"The minister retires......" Gu Bingqian made a gesture to retire, and Zhu Youxiao watched him withdraw from the Heart Cultivation Hall and clear the palace throughout the whole process.

It wasn't until he was far away from the palace that Zhu Youxiao showed a dissatisfied look on his face.

Liu Ruoyu also knows very well that if Gu Bingqian does not move, then there is a force that must move......

"Hooray, the slave is willing to recommend some people."

Liu Ruo opened his mouth foolishly, which means that he is willing to personally go down to the emperor to be a pawn to stifle the eunuchs.

Zhu Youxiao was very pleased with his initiative, but it was difficult for Zhu Youxiao to support him for his ability.

So after a moment of silence, he replied:

"Wang An has also rested enough in Nanchang, so send a message to him to return to the capital and take charge of the West Factory."

"The slave maid takes the order......" Liu Ruoyu breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

After all, as a eunuch, the death in person means that he has to participate in the party struggle, and there is a danger of being in a different place.

He was willing to die for the emperor, but he was also afraid of death.

Liu Ruoyu knew very well that he alone could not play the group of people under Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian.

Now that the emperor has restarted Wang An, the meaning is worth seeking.

Zhu Youzhen has arranged Wang An in the south field of the Imperial Horse Prison for nearly five years, which means that Wang An has a small team in the south field of the Imperial Horse Prison.

As soon as he came, he didn't come alone, but with a mature team.

Besides, how many people in this inner court have received Wang An's favor?

If nothing else, just Cao Huachun......

"Transfer Cao Huachun to the Nanchang Governor."

Liu Ruoyu's conjecture was not over, and Zhu Youxiao made a further will.

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao also knew that if Wang An returned to fight with the eunuchs, then Cao Huachun would inevitably end up helping his father-in-law.

But once Cao Huachun is gone, it means that the Qi Wang Party is also gone.

It is impossible for Zhu Youxiao to move the forces of the Qi Wang Party without moving Wang An.

It just so happened that after Wang An left Nanchang, Nanchang needed a eunuch to guard it, and as Cao Huachun, who had established Nanchang, it seemed very suitable to transfer him to Nanchang.

Moreover, Wang An has a natural advantage.

Donglin Foreign Aid ......

As a personal eunuch under Zhu Changluo for more than 20 years, most of the Donglin Party that has always supported Zhu Changluo is familiar with Wang An.

Once Wang An returns to the capital, coupled with the resentment that Donglin was suppressed by the eunuch party, I am afraid that Wang An will be able to unite Donglin to jointly fight against the eunuch party.

"A handwritten copy to my younger brother, let people send it urgently for 800 miles, and at the same time urge Wang An to go north."

After detailing everything, Zhu Youxiao finally gave all the wills, and Liu Ruoyu saw that the emperor didn't say anything more, and slowly withdrew from the palace, and asked people to send the letter to two places: the south and the north.

However, compared with Taining City, which is more than 1,900 miles away, there are post stations along the way, and Wang An, who is only more than 1,300 miles away, first got the holy decree of relocation.

When his hands received the heavy holy decree, Wang An secretly stabbed his flesh with his nails in disbelief.

The trip to Nanchang in the past five years not only did not make him haggard and old, but made him look energetic and younger.

"Congratulations to the factory, congratulations to the factory!"

For a while, all the eunuchs and scribes in the Yamen of the Southern Field of the Imperial Horse Prison stepped forward to congratulate Wang An, and Wang An slowly sobered up in the congratulations.

Looking at the holy decree in his hand, he knew very well that with his age, I am afraid that this time it was the emperor's last use of him.

After this time, either he stayed away from the court and went home to be a wealthy eunuch, or he became an unpleasant eunuch in the inner court.

"You guys stand down, pack up our things, and our family will leave for Beijing tomorrow."

Wang An glanced at the eunuchs and scribes around him, and secretly began to count the heads in his heart.

He has to return to the capital with a group of team, otherwise he will not be able to control the West Factory and compete with Wei Zhongxian.

Moreover, with his friendship with Donglin, after he returns to the capital, he may be able to operate from it and attract a group of foreign aid from outside the inner court.

Thinking of this, Wang An chuckled after everyone left:

"Li Jinzhong, our family is back......"