"Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao are back, with the two of them, Wang Kejian is afraid that it will be difficult to support ...... alone"

In October, as the season enters the cold winter, a worried voice cannot help but sound in a house in Anxi.

In the study, two officials of 35 or 6 years old were talking at length, their faces grim.

"Your Highness sent us to serve in Anxi and Beiting, obviously planning for the return of the two of them for a long time."

As soon as Li Demao's words came out, Zhang Maocai, who was sitting opposite him, bowed his head slightly, and his statement was undeniable.

In Yanshan, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of students come out every year, with a total of nearly 800,000 people.

Although nearly 300,000 of these 800,000 people were beaten out and exiled to Nanzhou because of their unclean hands and feet, the remaining 500,000 people are still distributed in the ranks of the army and officials.

The officials of the first phase of Yanshan are mainly distributed among the civil officials, and the outstanding ones are Jin Xuan, Cheng De, Yan Yinshao, Li Demao, and Zhang Maocai.

Among the five people, the other three have needless to say about their official positions, Li Demao and Zhang Maocai were appointed as political envoys when Anxi and Beiting were established.

Although the two were the governors of the two provinces, since the two provinces belonged to the border fortress, most of the affairs revolved around the army.

If there are no generals to support them, then they are actually just decorations.

However, the reason why they agreed to come to Anxi was naturally because they had their own forces entrenched in it.

Compared with the first phase of the temple, nearly one-third of the second phase of Yanshan poured into the army, and they were also the cornerstone of the reform of the Ming army.

At present, if you calculate carefully, in the second phase of Yanshan, there are only two people with more than five grades of civil officials, Wang Kejian and Zhang Xiaocun, but there are more military generals with more than five grades.

Li Zicheng, Li Zijing, Liu Zongmin, Liu Tiren, Gao Yigong, Cao Bianjiao, Cao Dingjiao and other more than ten generals all walked out of the second phase of Yanshan, and now they are all serving as the general army of a province.

In addition to the students of the third, fourth and fifth phases, there are no less than 20 soldiers in the army who have something to do with Yanshan.

Of course, literati and martial artists have never been able to pee in a pot, not to mention that Li Zicheng and they were not qualified to enter Yanshan, if it weren't for Zhu Youzhen running into them, they could only return to Shaanxi in ashes, and it was very likely that they would starve to death on the way.

Therefore, in the eyes of Li Zicheng and their small group, Lao Tzu's life was given by the King of Qi, and your petty profits are so disgusting, if you don't kill you, Lao Tzu is kind-hearted, so it is naturally impossible to get together with Li Demao and them.

Therefore, although Li Demao also has roots in the armies of Anxi and Beiting, compared to Li Zicheng and others, that foundation is not at all good.

Li Demao and Zhang Maocai had the slightest mistake, and I am afraid that Li Guo and Liu Zongmin, who were stationed in Anxi City and Beiting City, would pick up knives and cut them down that night.

Before they came, they didn't realize that the situation had begun to collapse, and they didn't expect that King Qi would suddenly announce the specific time of his inauguration this year.

The two of them are now in the Western Regions, and they are beyond the reach of the situation in the Central Plains.

There is no train to be repaired here, and the transmission of news can only rely on carrier pigeons, once the judgment is wrong, there is no chance of recovery.

What they are relying on now is Wang Kejian and Zhang Xiaocun, who are the descendants of the two of them in the second phase of Yanshan.

However, judging from the current situation, the ability and prestige of the two are not enough to suppress Chengde, but they will be led by Chengde.

Now that Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao, two people with great prestige in the first and second phases of Yanshan, have returned, I am afraid that some of the incorruptible Yanshan factions who are unwilling to join the same stream will quickly gather around them.

After all, the Yanshan faction is a reform party, and the education it receives is also a new-style education.

Even though the vast majority of them have suffered from the same problems as the Ming politicians in the Ming political arena, there are still a small number of idealists among them.

"It is the general trend for officials to replace Yanshan, but even if Jin Xuan can pull out a group of people, I am afraid that there are not many of them and cannot completely replace us."

Zhang Maocai still has a certain grasp and determination of the situation, and what Wang Kejian said to Chengde is actually what the two of them want to say.

There is a reason why the cabinet should position six seats, and why the Yanshan faction must occupy three seats.

"Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou will definitely enter the cabinet, Sun Chuanting's character, and the Liangzi we formed back then, but whenever the prince wants to do something to us in the future, Sun Chuanting will spare no effort."

"Decision-making power is not important, it is mainly a matter of cabinet seats, central decrees, and decrees."

Li Demao opened his mouth with a heavy heart, and Zhang Maocai, who was sitting opposite him, also frowned when he heard this:

"You should know that His Royal Highness is not a person who likes to compromise, right now His Highness is dragging time, and Chengde is also dragging time."

"Chengde dragged Yan Yinshao to Beijing, but what about His Royal Highness? Can you guess it? ”

Zhang Maocai's words made Li Demao a little uneasy, and he also knew that it was impossible for the King of Qi to agree to the issue of the Zhongzhi and the Lingzhi.

If the three-seat cabinet and six-year election system are only means for the Yanshan faction to protect themselves during these six years, then the problem of the Zhongzhi and the decree is to cut off the emperor's desire to kill the minister.

At present, the army has been replaced by the king of Qi, not to mention loyal to the emperor and the prison state, but at least it will not be disobedient.

They will still carry out the will that should be carried out.

As long as the generals carry out the emperor's decree, the emperor can bypass the cabinet and the six ministries, and only rely on the cooperation of the Jinyi guard and the army to arrest the ministers.

This kind of behavior of treating the courtiers as slaves will naturally be resisted by the courtiers.

If the person sitting on the throne is Zhu Youzhen, then there is nothing, and no one dares to resist at all.

But Zhu Youxiao, who is sitting on the throne at the moment, the people may only know that he has made great achievements and created a peaceful and prosperous era, but they don't know who gave him the merits behind these words.

Such a situation is like the chairman taking the lead in laying the foundation of the country, and then he wants to pass on the throne to his brother who has not contributed much to the company.

For Zhu Youxiao, Li Demao and Zhang Maocai and others know the roots.

They didn't want to confront the King of Qi, their idea was to wait for the King of Qi to become a vassal before they would stand up and let the emperor give up power little by little.

The emperor did not have the same prestige as the King of Qi, so he could only compromise a little bit in order to let them achieve their goal.

The old-fashioned civil officials used this method to seize power from Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji.

It's just that right now, King Qi doesn't want to leave so simply, but is ready to solve the last problem.

This makes the two parties, who were not in conflict, conflicted.

"You and I are trapped in Anxi, monitored by Li Zicheng, Cao Wenzhao and others all the time, it is difficult to get out, and with Wang Kejian and them, I will definitely not be able to fight His Highness."

"Although Chengde is quite talented, his heart is always towards His Royal Highness, you and I should have made plans in advance."

"How about just retaining cabinet seats and a six-year electoral system, and discussing the issue of prohibiting military generals and the military from interfering in politics?"

Zhang Maocai put forward a suggestion, that is, to resolutely ensure that the generals and the army are not allowed to interfere in politics, so that even if the emperor and the crown prince have a central decree, as long as the soldiers and horses and the officials do not accept the order, it will be difficult for the emperor to clean them up.

If you want to replace the soldiers and horses and the officials with the emperor's own people, it will take at least ten or twenty years of hard work.

More than ten or twenty years later, the Yanshan faction had long since withdrawn from the tide of the times, and the emperor naturally did not need to target them anymore.

It is estimated that when the time comes, it will be the current official school that will appear in the temple and occupy the absolute right to speak.

"This can be discussed......" Hearing Zhang Mao's words, even Li Demao couldn't help but hesitate and nodded at the same time.

"Think about it first, if you think it's okay, you don't need to ask me, just send a message to the capital."

"Time is running out, although Yan Yinshao still has a few months to return to Beijing, Jin Xuan's appeal is greater than him, and I think there are already many people visiting Jin Xuan now."

Zhang Maocai hurriedly spoke, and Li Demao also nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Zhang Mao got up and left Li Demao's mansion, and Li Demao thought about it again and again, but still felt that it was not possible to confront the king of Qi head-on, and finally sent a carrier pigeon to the capital.

"Senior, since that's the case, I'll take my leave first."

"Runtang walks slowly ......"

Almost when Li Demao and Zhang Mao decided to take a step back, Jin Xuan did send away batch after batch of Yanshan officials who came to visit as they expected.

In fact, not only Yanshan, but also many private self-taught officials in Enke have also heard of Kim Hyun's name, after all, what happened to his death back then caused a lot of turmoil.

Therefore, after learning that he came back, whether it was Yanshan's idealism or the folk self-study school that was excluded by Yanshan, almost all of them visited Kim Hyun.

Although they knew that once Yan Shan's idea succeeded, the old law of "not punishing a sergeant doctor" would be repeated, which would also be a good thing for them, and they would not have to worry about the emperor killing him.

But the problem is that the prerequisite for enjoying this good thing is that they must still be officials at that time.

Judging from the Yanshan party's disdain and exclusion of other officials, they wanted to be officials at that time, which was more difficult than that of King Qi.

In this case, let's just take refuge in the Jin Xuan faction that has King Qi standing in the team, and then defeat the Yanshan faction first.

Even if they can't be defeated, the "meat" that the Yanshan Sect dropped after suffering a heavy blow is enough for them to eat for a long time.

Right now, Kim Hyun had just sent off a junior, and after a while, many people knocked at his door.

For them, Jin Xuan also welcomed them one by one, which made many Yanshan officials who were hiding in the shadows to observe gritted their teeth.

It's just that their hiding methods are too shoddy, and Kim Hyun just glances around to know where they might be peeping.

However, he didn't care about any of this, because he was completing the second thing that King Qi had explained...... Win hearts and minds.

The sword soldiers can't move, but even if they use political means to deal with the Yanshan faction, Zhu Youzhen is absolutely sure.

Once all political parties develop and become strong, they will be divided internally, and if they can pull a group to fight a group, then in the temple, Zhu Youzhen will be able to quickly pull up a new force to fight against the Yanshan faction.

However, even so, it will take a long time to find the many incriminating evidence of the Yanshan faction.

Often, Jin Yiwei here finds evidence of an official's guilt, and that official takes the initiative to make the so-called evidence worthless.

Active substitution is not the same as passive substitution, and the officials of the Yanshan faction in Beijing are well aware of this.

Since the civil uprising in northern Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting patrolled the provinces and killed tens of thousands of Yanshan officials, Yanshan officials often operated in this way.

If the punishment is too large and may involve colleagues, then take the initiative to surrender and be assigned to Nanzhou.

If the punishment for the crime was too small, the Metropolitan Procuratorate would argue with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, and reduce the imprisonment to lighter punishments such as fines, whipping, and court battles.

This is how Chengde's prestige was accumulated, and under his protection, although the Yanshan faction was suppressed, it never suffered a heavy blow.

It's just that the current situation seems to have changed, King Qi is determined to clean up Yanshan, and Chengde's previous methods are about to fail.

"In just one month, 1,320 officials were arrested and exiled, and they were punished for their crimes, at most 30 lashes, how did they fall to the point where they needed to be exiled to Lingbei?"

"If we don't fight back, what will the officials below think of us?"

In Chengde's courtyard, when Wang Kejian and Zhang Xiaocun came with two documents, Zhang Xiaocun immediately asked Chengde about his views on this matter.

It's just that in this regard, Cheng Deyun said lightly: "There are hundreds of thousands of people in Yanshan, and you can't help it if you kill more than 1,000 people?" ”

"There are more than 1,000 people, and some of them can be made up by recommending some of them to participate in Enke, so what's the hurry."

Cheng De took a sip of tea, and Zhang Xiaocun also realized that he was too impulsive, so he couldn't help but sit back in his position with a hint of temper.

After he sat down, Wang Kejian next to him also took out a handwritten letter and said:

"On the Western Regions, the two seniors feel that we can take a step back, not abolish the decree and the decree, and not argue about decision-making, but only military generals and the army are not allowed to interfere in politics, and the new cabinet system is retained."

The battle between the King of Qi and the Yanshan faction began with the initial concession of the Yanshan faction, but Chengde knew very well that the King of Qi wanted more than that.

However, there is no need for him to discuss these with Wang Kejian and Zhang Xiaocun, so in the face of Wang Kejian's words, Chengde only bowed slightly:

"In this matter, I will continue to talk to His Highness in the future, as for whether His Highness agrees or not, it still depends on His Highness."

"If you have nothing else to do, then leave it at that."

Chengde served tea to the guests, and the two did not stay for long when they saw this, and withdrew from the small courtyard after making a gesture.

They didn't discuss Kim Hyun's matter, after all, anyone could see that Kim Hyun's confidence was King Qi, and as long as King Qi nodded, Kim Hyun would immediately stop his current actions.

But......

"Regression is retreat, but there is a lot of careful thinking in it."

When Chengde's recital was sent to the Qi Palace, Zhu Youzhen leaned back in his chair in the face of this recital, and said in front of Sun Shoufa and others:

"Military generals and the army are not allowed to interfere in politics, on the surface, it is to prevent the chaos of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, but at the moment the biggest force supporting the imperial power is the army."

"If I respond now, I may be able to change the peace of the Ming Dynasty for a few years, but if there are more people who form a party and run a private business in the future, then the temple will be a hall of civil officials."

"If I agree to this matter, in case the descendants of the Zhu family see the dagger in the end of the day and have no choice but to use the army, then I am afraid that they will be put on a hat again."

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen threw the song on the table: "Don't pay attention to it, continue our ......"

After saying that, Zhu Youzhen got up and looked at the "Emperor Ming Qi Guokun Yutu" behind him.

At present, he is discussing with Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan, and Huang Long about the key military towns and military pressures of Qi in the future.

For Qi State, for a long time in the future, its pressure will come from the sea, so Zhu Youzhen also made adjustments to the army's military spending under the understanding of Qi State's finances.

The Qi State does not need much army, and the number of troops only needs 100,000 people for now and in the next thirty years.

"The defense line is mainly based on the sea, and the responsibility of the army is to defend the homeland and cooperate with the landing operations of the DPRK and its own navy."

"Next ......"

Zhu Youzhen talked about the national defense of the Qi State, and the content that Chengde handed over to the Qi Palace's music was also quickly passed on to the East Palace.

October is the day of graduation from the official school, and it is also the day of Enke, taking this opportunity, Zhu Ciran recruited more than 2,000 subordinate officials, plus the original hundreds of people, the subordinate officials of the East Palace have reached as many as 3,000.

Such a number of subordinate officials is unique in all dynasties.

The person in charge of managing and leading these subordinate officials was Sun Kewang, who had just returned from Anxi.

At this moment, he was flipping through the documents of these officials, and opposite him was Zhu Ciran, who was dealing with the notes.

Although most of the songs were violated by Yang and Yin, Zhu Ciran still had to deal with it head-on, and he couldn't pile things up in Yanshan and Qi Wangfu to divide the winner, which would delay a lot of things.

However, after dealing with it, he couldn't help but glance at Sun Kewang.

Compared with when he left, Sun Kewang's skin is much darker, and his face is full of wind and frost.

After two years of events, Sun Kewang made Shanshan County a prosperous county with a population of 6,000 and 50,000 arable land, and its tax situation could even rank in the middle of more than 2,000 counties in the Ming Dynasty.

Such an achievement was naturally rated two first-class for two consecutive years.

Coupled with the first-class in the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse, Sun Kewang has won three first-class in a row, and now he is also managing the affairs of the East Palace as the "Dai Shao Zhan Shi" from the fifth grade.

Shao Zhan is an official position of the fourth grade, and Sun Kewang is only from the fifth grade.

However, this does not affect Zhu Ciran's trust in him, and Sun Kewang will also use his ability to repay Zhu Ciran.

It took him six hours to read the documents of more than 100 officials who were more important among the 3,000 officials, and then he raised his head and looked at Zhu Ciran and said:

"Your Highness, the lower officials have seen it, and there is no problem with the arrangement of most official positions, but at the moment, Yanshan occupies many positions, if they don't vacate it, then this group of officials may not be able to be promoted in the future."

Sun Kewang is not good at scheming, otherwise he would not have been able to fight Li Dingguo in history, and finally chose to leave in a negative mood.

His talent is more like that of a governance minister like Xiao He, and it is precisely because of this that when the East Palace was expanding, Zhu Ciran would temporarily let him change from his original official position to manage the East Palace.

said that he was managing the Zhan Mansion of the East Palace, but in fact, he asked Sun Kewang to accumulate merit with the civil officials below, and wait for the Yanshan faction to divide the official position after the fall.

"How do you think this fight will end?"

Zhu Ciran pushed the news he had just arrived to Sun Kewang, and Sun Kewang took it and glanced at it and then groaned slightly: "Yanshan gave in, which means that they feel that they are not the opponents of His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

"However, even if they don't give in, the lower officials don't feel that they are the opponents of His Royal Highness King Qi."

"Yanshan started too late, from the fifth year of the Apocalypse to the present only sixteen years, although it occupies a lot of power at the middle and grassroots levels, it has never built a high platform, and there is still no cabinet minister in the cabinet to speak for it."

"If they can unite with Zhou Yanru, the 'Gu Party' who betrayed the Qi Palace, and then attack the Qi Palace, then they may be able to succeed."

"But right now, they don't look down on Zhou Yanru, and Zhou Yanru looks down on them even more."

"As long as they don't unite, there will be very few threats to His Highness and His Royal Highness the King of Qi, as well as Long Live Life."

"Right now, we only need to wait for Yan Yinshao and others to return to Beijing, and I think we can probably see which side has the absolute advantage."

Sun Kewang is not good at scheming, and it is good to be able to analyze this.

However, he is not good at scheming, but there are people who are good at it.

"Go and call Zhong Mian over and let him see the news."

Zhu Ciran instructed the eunuchs in the palace, and the eunuchs also withdrew from the Chunhe Palace when they heard the words, and soon called Du Yinxi into the palace.

After Sun Kewang and Du Yinxi met, the two nodded and said hello.

There is no contradiction between them, and there is no conflict with Zhu Ciran's help, Sun Kewang is the governance, and the plug Yinxi is the supervisor and the minister.

After entering the Chunhe Palace, Du Yinxi first read the news that Yanshan was soft, and then pointed out:

"Although this seems to be to prevent the occurrence of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it is actually a delaying tactic."

"They just want to delay time and let King Qi leave on the winter solstice of the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse."

"Once His Royal Highness King Qi leaves, then they can use their status as cabinet ministers to make a fuss."

"It can't be said that they haven't regressed, it's just that the scope of this regression is a little small, and it's normal for His Royal Highness King Qi not to agree."

"If you really want to go back, it should be to give up the three seats in the cabinet and support the six-year election system in the cabinet."

"There are normally seven seats in the cabinet, and with the number of officials in Yanshan, it is not a problem to win two or three."

"But only three of them were won, and in the face of Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and the other two cabinet teams with a high probability of Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, they couldn't please them."

"This cabinet team is essentially aimed at them, which is why they will ask for the seats to be reduced to six, because only then can they have the certainty of checking and balancing the temple."

"However, judging from His Royal Highness King Qi's reaction at the moment, His Royal Highness King Qi can't even accept this condition."

"It's easy to force them into a hurry, but they don't dare to use their swords, they can only watch the time being dragged out by His Royal Highness King Qi."

Speaking of this, Du Yinxi looked at Zhu Ciran, closed the information in his hand and said solemnly:

"The most important thing at the moment is to see how many people the new Left Capital Imperial Shi Jin Xuan and the Right Capital Imperial Shi Yan Yinshao, who have not yet arrived in the capital, can pull up and how big a team they can organize."

"As long as this group of officials who oppose the Yanshan faction are gathered, then whether it is a temple, a locality, or an army, the situation in which the Yanshan faction covers the sky will be dismantled."

"The battlefield is confined to the temple, which is a good thing for the people and the world, and the situation in the East Palace can also be improved."

"As long as the situation is clear, when the time comes, Sun Gechen and Hong Gechen will start to investigate in Nanzhili, and use Nanzhili to clean up the Yanshan officials in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, and then the officials of the East Palace will make up for it, then the general trend can be determined."

Plugging Yinxi's words basically connected Zhu Youzhen's step-by-step plan in series.

Qi Wangfu took the lead, and Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao built momentum.

As long as the forces of the two parties are equal, then the emperor, the crown prince, and the king of Qi are all here, and Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou can also start to clean up Jiangnan.

The five provinces of Jiugang, the three provinces of Jiangnan and Yingzhou accounted for more than forty percent of the taxes paid by the Ming Dynasty, and as long as these five provinces were obtained, the Yanshan faction would not be able to threaten anything.

But......

"However, the key to the final move is to have enough replacement officials, and with only three thousand officials in our East Palace, I am afraid that we will not be able to replace the officials in the entire Jiangnan."

Du Yinxi's face was embarrassed, which made Zhu Ciran's originally cheerful mood sink again.

In the end, he actually became a dragger.

"Not necessarily......" Sun Ke suddenly spoke, causing Zhu Ciran and Du Yinxi to look at him.

Facing the puzzled gazes of the two, Sun Kewang said: "The matter of officials, I think the arrangement of His Royal Highness King Qi has already begun. ”

"As for this arrangement, I think it's probably in ......"