"Your Highness, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has rejected your ...... of the Imperial Procuratorate."

On August 22, the day after Zhu Youzhen announced the news of his inauguration on the winter solstice of the 23rd year of the Apocalypse, the Metropolitan Procuratorate took the lead in counterattacking.

As soon as Wang Chengen's words came out, Cao Huachun and Lu Wenzhao in the carrier hall stopped what they were doing and looked up at Zhu Youzhen, as if they wanted to see what their Royal Highness would do.

"Is there anything else......

Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and asked Wang Chengen without raising his eyelids, Wang Chengen shook his head: "At the moment, there is only the reaction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate." ”

"Your Highness......" Cao Huachun opened his mouth and said:

"I'm afraid that the concerts of various places and the yamen in the capital are already on the way."

Obviously, Cao Huachun didn't believe that the Yanshan faction could only pry into one Metropolitan Procuratorate.

With their strength, if they really make trouble, I am afraid that half of the officials in the world will be dismissed.

"It's just a simple sparseness, it doesn't matter how many people there are, check what else they have done."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to respond, and this task naturally had to be handed over to Lu Wenzhao, who was the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

"Retire from your duties." Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Lu Wenzhao stood up, and then withdrew from the carrier hall, apparently preparing to go to investigate the matter.

After he withdrew, Zhu Youzhen also said to Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen:

"An order was issued to transfer Sun Shoufa, Cao Meng, and the four cavalry guards under their command to change the defense of the capital, and send the Daxing camp and Wanping camp to Fengyang."

"In addition, the Shangzhi and the Northern Army, the Western Army, the Eastern Army, and the Southern Army were disrupted respectively, and the generals above the garrison of the five armies were rotated to other governors."

"The soldiers and horses of the provincial soldiers and horses divisions, generals, garrisons, and general flag officers have changed their guards."

"In addition, Wu Aheng, Yan Yinshao, Jin Xuan, Yang Wenyue, Shen Tingyang, Lu Xiangsheng, Qi Yuanbi, and Qi Yuanfu will be transferred back to Beijing."

"Yan Yingyuan, the prefect of South Kunlun, was promoted to the supervision envoy of South Kunlun, and Wen Anzhi, the governor of Ceylon Prefecture, was promoted to the supervision envoy of Xiaoxiyang, and then sent Yang Weizhi, the envoy of Hexi, to the old port and served as the political envoy of the old port."

"The Shuntian prefect Zuo Maodi was sent as the political envoy of Yingzhou, Huang Zongxi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was transferred to the political envoy of Nanzhou, and Xia Yunyi was promoted to the governor of Qi."

Zhu Youzhen recalled eight appointments that in his opinion could stabilize the Ming Dynasty, and then replaced the political envoys of the five provinces, the chief of Qi.

It can be seen that he was worried that the transfer of these eight people would cause unrest overseas, so he arranged for officials he trusted to maintain stability as early as possible.

Cao Huachun heard the words and wrote down all the names and things, and then left the carrier hall with the handwritten notes in his hand that recorded various things.

After they left, only Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen were left in the huge carrying hall.

"I'm a little tired, let's go take a nap first."

Zhu Youzhen stretched his waist, and then walked to the side hall of the carrying hall.

After Wang Chengen served him and fell asleep, he turned his head to look at the mountain of music on the table next to him, and he didn't know what he thought, so he was stunned before shaking his head and leaving.

It's just that at the same time as he left, the East Palace unexpectedly received the news that the king of Qi had become a vassal and that the provincial officials had been transferred.

In this regard, Zhu Ciran is naturally unlikely to sit idly by and ignore it, but has to find a way to deal with it.

"I want to transfer Sun Kewang back to Beizhili, and in the current situation, he can at least stabilize Beizhili."

Facing the plug Yinxi who had just passed on the news, Zhu Ciran opened his mouth and at the same time, he also granted official positions to others.

"Zhang Xiu was appointed as the magistrate of Tianjin, Liu Shun was appointed as the general of the Shuntian Soldiers' and Horses Division, and Gao Yinxi was appointed as the Shuntian prefect."

Zhu Ciran assigned official positions to the three of them, apparently preparing to firmly grasp the Shuntian Mansion.

Not only that, but he also said to Gu Yinxi: "Diao Sun Kewang returns to Beizhili and serves as the magistrate of Tongzhou." ”

Shuntian, Tianjin, Tongzhou, the former is the Jingshi, the latter is the Tianzi Ferry and the Jingshi granary, as long as these three places are not lost, then everything is easy to say.

"I don't know if the Yanshan faction will stop ......"

Zhang Xiu hesitated to speak, but Zhu Ciran shook his head: "Their opponent is uncle, and we are just a chess piece." ”

"What we have to do is to keep our own one-third of an acre of land, and don't make trouble for our uncle."

After that, Zhu Ciran said to Gu Yinxi again: "This matter must be notified to my father immediately." ”

"Secondly, I have to send someone to inform Li Dingguo, don't let the second brother and third brother have an accident."

Zhu Ciran arranged various matters in an orderly manner, and his style of doing things was much more sophisticated than back then, but it was still too far behind Chengde and others, who had been tempered in the temple for a long time.

The edicts issued by the East Palace were quickly rejected, and the reason was very simple, he was only the crown prince and the eunuch, and all the decrees needed to be seen by the emperor before they could be issued.

Obviously, yesterday he issued an order, and the hundred officials could still implement it in an orderly manner, but after only one day, his order no longer worked.

This situation made Zhu Ciran unable to do anything, he could only press his temper and send the order to Nanjing City.

The situation of the East Palace quickly spread throughout the outer court and the imperial city, and it was not surprising to everyone.

When the King of Qi and the Yanshan faction had not yet torn their faces, whatever the prince said, the officials of the Yanshan faction could turn a blind eye, because he was the crown prince and there was King Qi behind him.

But if the two sides tear their faces, then the prince is a pawn to contain King Qi, and it is not bad that he can enter and leave the imperial city freely.

Beijing city is divided into three outer cities, the inner city, the imperial city, the palace city four city walls, among them, responsible for guarding the outer three city walls and city gates are Daxing camp, Wanping camp.

The soldiers and horses in charge of the inner city walls and gates, the Flying Bear Guard in charge of the imperial city, and the Dragon Tiger Guard and the Jingjun in charge of the palace city.

The strength of the Daxing Battalion and the Wanping Battalion was 6,000 men, and the strength of the Beijing Terracotta Division was 9,000 men, and these 15,000 men were not under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Palace.

The only ones who could be mobilized by Zhu Ciran were the Flying Bear Guard and the Dragon Tiger Guard, who were the three guards of the Imperial City, and the Pure Army Eunuchs in the Inner Court, whose number had been reduced to 3,000 people.

In terms of numbers, the two sides are similar, and because the Flying Bear Guard and Dragon Tiger Guard are equipped with rifles, they are more elite than the battalions and soldiers in the outer and inner cities.

The Terracotta Division can only be equipped with flintlock pistols, and only the battalion soldiers and guards under the battalion guard system can be equipped with rifles.

From this point of view, it seems that if the soldiers and horses of the capital and the battalion soldiers are controlled by the Yanshan faction, then the power of the inner and outer cities of the capital will be quickly deprived.

But don't forget, in addition to going on expeditions, the four cavalry guards are stationed in the Nanyuan military camp more than ten miles south of the capital all year round.

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As long as there is something in the capital, the four cavalry guards can immediately notify the Shangzhi Sixteen Guards near Beizhili and the Shangzhi Gong Guard Battalion.

The defense of Baiwangfang, as long as the four cavalry guards did not go out, it was all rotated by the four cavalry guards.

Therefore, the King of Qi has a cavalry force of 5,600 guards in the city, and there are no less than 50,000 troops within a hundred miles outside the city, but it is difficult to say how many of these soldiers and horses have anything to do with the Yanshan faction.

Of course, no matter how bold Chengde is, they have not torn their faces to the point of daring to block Baiwangfang.

But for Zhu Ciran, it is not necessarily, as long as Chengde speaks, maybe Zhu Ciran's people can't even get out of the imperial city.

Fortunately, the two sides have not yet torn their faces to that point, and at the moment everyone is just a little smelly of gunpowder, but it is not enough to explode.

Zhu Ciran's news was sent out of the capital, and he took a train to Nanjing City with Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting did not choose to stay, because he had no roots in the capital, and it was useless to stay.

Only when he is out of the capital can he be useful.

This atmosphere filled with the smell of gunpowder lasted for a long time, and Chengde also took leave for six days, and never went to Zhu Youzhen to spread out the matter.

The contradictions between the two sides are difficult to mediate, and the Yanshan faction that wants to go to Qi has already applied to the Ministry of Officials for transfer since last year.

Those who stayed didn't want to go to Qi country.

They don't go to Qi State, and they don't want Zhu Youzhen to go to Qi State, if Zhu Youzhen wants to go to Qi State, they will definitely stop it.

If he can't stop it, then he can also go, but he can't suppress the Yanshan faction's forces left in Daming.

The idea of the internal officials of the Yanshan faction was simple......

"If you King Qi are leaving, we can't keep it, but since you are leaving, you don't care about the affairs of Daming."

When the chess pieces fell, an official who was playing chess with Chengde opened his mouth to say this rebellious sentence.

The two sat in the "narrow" four-point courtyard of the official's Fang Chengde residence, playing chess unhurriedly, while at the door stood the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses.

"Or you are more far-sighted, you have planted people at the grassroots level early, and now His Royal Highness has transferred middle and high-level generals, and the impact on us is not very great."

As soon as the twenty-four-five-year-old young official spoke, Chengde on the opposite side played chess unhurriedly, cutting off his retreat on the chessboard:

"The Ming Dynasty wants to innovate, and if the King of Qi is not there, it will be led by us."

Chengde's eyes drooped, looking a little absent-minded, but his tone was very resolute.

The young official sitting opposite him nodded when he heard this, but at the same time he was puzzled:

"In that case, why don't you stop His Highness's order to summon Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue and others back to Beijing?"

"There's no need to ......" Cheng De shook his head: "In the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, forty percent of the middle-level generals are our people. ”

"Except for His Highness who can shake, it is useless for other people to come."

"The armies supporting Banzai are mainly the Northern Army, the Western Army, and the Southern Army."

"Most of the southern army is far overseas, the western army is heavily assembled in Luchuan, and it is necessary to contain the southern captives, and the northern army will send troops to the river next year to recover, and it is impossible to delay."

"Your Highness can definitely guess what we think, he wants to hand over power, I don't object, but power cannot be granted to Banzai, but should be granted to the crown prince."

Chengde's tone was unquestionable, and in the face of his words, the official opposite couldn't help but laugh and said, "Aren't you afraid that they will say that you are fake for public benefit?" The prince is your disciple......"

"They know better than me how the prince is doing." Chengde was not chaotic at all, but at the same time he also said:

"Even if the crown prince violates the people's noble monarch's thoughts in "Yanshan", he can also be deposed."

"The imperial power cannot fall, but it can be replaced."

"There is news from the people in the army of Broken Leaf City, at least King Yong and King Ding are relatively approachable, mild-tempered, and very kind to the people."

"You're wrong......" the official shook his head:

"Your Highness can allow you to do many things, but you will not be allowed to stop him from handing over power."

"The prince has power, but long live must also have it, in the heart of His Royal Highness, long live is heavier than the prince and the people."

As the two spoke, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, revealing the full picture of the officials.

"If your father had known about your behavior, he would have broken into my small courtyard and demolished it."

Chengde had a slight fluctuation, looked up at Lu Yuangao opposite, and was very puzzled by what Lu Yuangao wanted.

"Although you are also a graduate of the official school, but you were planning to get close to the prince earlier, but now you are falling to us, do you think I should believe you?"

Chengde questioned Lu Yuangao, and in this regard, Lu Yuangao said undeniably: "I did have the idea of working from the dragon in my early years. ”

"But after returning from the trip with His Highness, I think the people and nobles you proposed are good."

Lu Yuangao paused, but continued:

"When the people in the northwest were suffering, the Manchu officials were singing the praises of the prosperous times."

"This prosperous era is their prosperous age, not the prosperous age of the people of the world."

"I'm not cooperating with Yanshan, I'm cooperating with you, so if you dare to give me the corrupt officials inside Yanshan as a merit, you are worthy of cooperation."

Lu Yuangao said something unknown, and Cheng De also frowned slightly, and said with dissatisfaction:

"I gave you the information about their corruption, so that your father can continue to sit in this position, and when you are old, I will hand over the position to you, not let him go back to the capital."

"Now that he has returned to the capital, the three thousand brocade guards in the capital have become variables."

"No hindrance......" Lu Yuangao saw that the chess game was over, and while cleaning up the chess game, he comforted:

"There are three thousand brocade guards in the capital, I don't dare to say that I control them all, but at least seventy percent of the brocade guards will obey my orders."

"But I need to know what you're trying to do before I can help you."

"If I confront the King of Qi head-on, then I'm afraid I'll have to go to the King of Qi's Mansion to plead guilty."

"There is so much false news, I'm afraid it's useless to bear the guilt of Jing Jing......" Cheng De took a sip of tea and started with a sunspot first.

"You have to try it if it's useless, it's better to die nine times than to die ten times at all." Lu Yuangao picked up the white son and fell, and competed with Chengde.

Lu Yuangao's words were already full of his disapproval of the head-on confrontation between Yanshan and King Qi.

Chengde naturally knew that in the same way, he was not optimistic about the outcome of the confrontation between the Yanshan faction and the King of Qi, so he said:

"I know what kind of character His Royal Highness King Qi is, as long as we don't use the sword soldiers, then His Royal Highness the King of Qi will not take the lead in using the sword soldiers."

"Want His Royal Highness the King of Qi not to use the sword soldiers?" Lu Yuangao couldn't help but smile and said:

"Knife soldiers are the fastest and most trouble-free way, although you have four percent of the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion, and eighty percent of the soldiers and horses, but if the soldiers below know that it is against the King of Qi, I am afraid that they will instantly change the flag."

"Not to mention that the prestige of King Qi is known to the world, as long as His Royal Highness opens his mouth to use swords, once the people everywhere learn the news, they will inevitably organize themselves."

"They can't stop the Gongwei battalion, but they can resist the soldiers."

"Don't forget, all the clans in Wusizang, Hexi, Modong and other places regard His Royal Highness as a Bodhisattva, and there are more than 200,000 retired veterans within the country."

"Your Highness, once you use the sword, you won't be able to escape......"

"That only means that you don't know Your Highness." Cheng De interrupted Lu Yuangao's words, and he calmly looked at Lu Yuangao:

"In the Battle of Jingjing, the people of Shandong and Beizhili were empty, millions of people died on the battlefield, and millions of people turned into displaced people and were displaced."

"Although we are not as good as Emperor Cheng Zuwen, but this time the scope is larger, once His Royal Highness wants to raise a sword army, then even if he can defeat us in one day, there will be hundreds of thousands of people killed."

"If the war lasts for a few months, it will probably take more than ten years for the dynasty to recover."

"You gamble with people's lives?" Lu Yuangao subconsciously touched his waist, but felt empty.

His move was seen by Chengde, but Chengde explained without panic:

"It's not about gambling with people's lives, but about telling you what the result of using the sword will be."

"What we want is just a world where the people are noble and the monarch is light, the imperial power can exist, and Yanshan can also exist, the difference is just how much power each party holds."

"We are not forcing His Highness to hand over power to us, but we don't want to give too much power to the crown prince, long live."

"Huaibei hunger...... Shaanxi People's Uprising...... Sichuan gentry turmoil ......"

"This turmoil has dragged His Highness back a lot, if there were no such turmoil, the dynasty would have been able to pacify the establishment of the captives several years in advance, and the people would not have encountered such a situation."

"If the Ming Dynasty wants to innovate, the first thing to reform is the royal power, followed by the officials of the old school."

"I don't need His Highness to give us power, I just need His Highness to not care about anything, and that's enough."

Chengde's words couldn't help but remind Lu Yuangao of the hardships of the people in Shanxi when he accompanied Zhu Youzhen on his trip last time, as well as the smiles of the people in Hexi and Wusizang.

His frown gradually eased, and at last he reminded:

"The three guards of the imperial city, the internal guards, the decision-making power...... That's all I can tell you. ”

"Thank you." Hearing Lu Yuangao's words, Chengde's eyes lit up.

Obviously, these are the bottom lines of Zhu Youzhen, and with Zhu Youzhen's bottom line, Chengde will be able to better negotiate with King Qi.

"His Royal Highness has summoned Yan Yinshao and Jin Xuan back, and they will be able to arrive in the capital by June next year at the latest."

"Instead of thinking about this, I think you should resolve the internal problems of Yanshan first."

Lu Yuangao reminded Chengde, but Chengde shook his head when he heard the words and said:

"His Royal Highness wants to divide us, but I think I can convince Yan Yinshao."

"What about Kim Hyun?" Lu Yuangao asked Cheng De rhetorically, this question made Cheng De silent for a few seconds, and then he spoke:

"Even if Boyu doesn't agree, he won't oppose me."

"I hope so......" Lu Yuangao took a deep look, then got up, as if he was not ready to finish this game of chess.

In this regard, Chengde didn't say anything, but watched him put on his shoes and walked out of the courtyard.

"The kid is still too young...... Cheng De smiled, and Lu Yuangao, who had left the courtyard, also returned to Lu Mansion in a carriage.

After coming to the Lu Mansion, he didn't go to look for others, but even went to the study and saw Lu Wenzhao here.

Seeing him come back, Lu Wenzhao also hurriedly got up: "How is it?" ”

Obviously, what Lu Yuangao did was instructed by him, and Chengde's words also meant that he knew it very well in his heart.

In the face of the inquiry, Lu Yuangao also said:

"Chengde, they are not ready to use swords, and for His Royal Highness's bottom line, the child also conveyed it to him......"

"But judging from their situation, the child really doesn't think they have the idea of using a knife."

"It's good to ...... if you don't move the sword soldiers" Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao breathed a sigh of relief.

"I think Chengde should know that I was sent by His Highness." Lu Yuangao hesitated to say his conjecture, but Lu Wenzhao didn't feel strange, he comforted:

"If he can't see it, he is not worthy to lead the Yanshan officials."

"Instead of sending a scheming person and letting them speculate, it is better to send someone who is easy to see to find out the news."

"You have done a good job, Your Highness's purpose should have been achieved."

"And after that?" Lu Yuangao couldn't help but ask Lu Wenzhao, which made Lu Wenzhao frown slightly: "I don't know what happened next." ”

"Your Highness is always as unsearchable as an antelope hanging horns, this is the case in wars, and the same is true for dealing with this group of civil officials."

"Fortunately, Chengde has a single concept, and it is much easier to deal with than the six parties such as Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Donglin."

"You don't have to worry about this matter, Your Highness can handle it properly."

Lu Wenzhao appeased Lu Yuangao, and when he heard this, he could only let go of the uneasiness in his heart, and after chatting with Lu Wenzhao about some other things, he withdrew from the study.

Regarding the news brought back by Lu Yuangao, Lu Wenzhao did not believe it, but waited until the brocade guards hidden in the officials' workshop handed over the news through other brocade guards, and he generally believed it, and arranged for someone to take advantage of the curfew to send the news to the Qi Palace.

Under his arrangement, Zhu Youzhen got information about the attitude of the Yanshan faction that night.

After reading it, he threw the news into the fire, and his face grimaced.

Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, who were next to them, were a little curious when they saw this, and couldn't help asking:

"Your Highness, isn't it a good thing that the Yanshan faction doesn't have such a radical attitude? Why do you look ......?"

"If they're really not radical, that's a good thing, but are they really that simple?"

Zhu Youzhen asked the two of them rhetorically, and then thought in place with his hands behind his back for a while before continuing:

"Who are Li Deyu and Zhang Maocai in the Yanshan faction, you know better than me, they clamored to force the palace in the Qianqing Palace back then, and now they will suddenly agree to me as a vassal?"

"Besides, I will be the queen of the domain, and they will lead the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, which is what I am worried about."

"What I want right now is not radical, but stability."

"Lu Yuangao is still too immature, and the news he has set out is dispensable, and it looks more like the Yanshan faction's delaying tactics."

"Your Highness, what should we do?" Cao Huachun stepped forward to ask, after all, Yanshan is so big that it is difficult to get rid of it in one go.

went to the Yanshan faction, and Daming became a vegetative person in a short period of time, not to mention muscle atrophy, it may be difficult to go further in the next ten years.

"Do you want to stop the westward expedition first?" Wang Chengen stepped forward and asked cautiously, but Zhu Youzhen resolutely vetoed:

"The westward crusade must be carried out, and now is the best chance to regain the middle of the river and east of the Lingbei Mountains (the Ural Mountains)."

"As for the Yanshan faction's plan to delay the army, don't worry about it for the time being, I want to see what they can do."

Zhu Youzhen's face couldn't help but smile, because right now, not only the Yanshan faction needed to delay the army, but he Zhu Youzhen also needed a delaying strategy.

As soon as this year passes, the drought will soon subside, and there will never be such a serious drought as in the past two years, and Daming's finances will improve instantly.

Chengde can predict everything, but this natural disaster, they can't predict.

Even if Zhu Youzhen has no clue, with this natural disaster, there are too many articles he can do......