Chapter 372: The Wind and Clouds Are Turbulent, and the Mountains Shake V

Yang He was robbed in the middle of the road when he was assigned to Jiangxi a year ago, and Zhu Youzhen immediately ordered Dongchang to raid his house after learning about it, but even Yang He's son Yang Sichang did not know where to go.

Now several old ministers don't know why the emperor suddenly remembered Yang He again, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Zhou Qing thinks, who will take over Fengyang and other places now?"

Yang Qi's 200,000 army is still in Jiangbei, although Chen Cao did not launch an offensive against it, but the defensive posture is obvious, Yang Qi is not stupid, for the safety of the army under his command, and ordered the army to withdraw along the river, and retreated directly to Fengyang.

Zhou Yanru thought about it, and then said: "Xiong Mingyu, the left attendant of the military department, is worthy of a big responsibility. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, then nodded: "It's okay, the cabinet is going to add Xiong Mingyu to the prince Shaobao, and to patrol Fengyang with the rank of left attendant of the military department, and the governor of Fengyang inside and outside." ”

"Zou Qing, I seem to remember that you were transferred from the Nanjing Military Department, right?"

Zou Weilian was at the back of several old ministers, and was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then bowed down to suppress his nervousness: "Your Majesty is not mistaken, the minister was indeed transferred all the way from Wailang, a member of the Nanjing Military Department, to the Beijing Division. ”

"I heard that you had some dirty things with Chen Cao back then?"

Zhu Youzhen had never asked the courtiers about the reason, but today he suddenly asked Zou Weilian, which made him feel a little bad, so he said: "Yes, Your Majesty, because Chen Wei falsely accused the ministers of corruption in the Nanjing Ministry and arrested the ministers, the reason for the latter is because he wanted to steal the sea ship map in the treasury of the military department and use the ministers as a felling, and this matter has been proved by Lord Qi as a minister afterwards." ”

After Zou Weilian finished speaking, he behaved seriously and without any waves.

Zhu Youzhen's brain circuit was very fast, and he didn't continue to ask Zou Weilian, so he asked Zhou Yanru: "Zhou Qing thinks that Baoguo Gong may be competent?" ”

Zhou Yanru thought for a while, and then said: "Among the lords of the dynasty, there are not three of them in terms of loyalty, Chengguo Gong, Baoguo Gong, and British Gong, Chengguo Gong is injured, and the British Duke is in charge of the Beijing camp to maintain the safety of Gyeonggi..."

Zhou Yanru didn't finish his words, and let the emperor think about the rest for himself, from his experience in the past few years, compared with the current emperor, every time he discusses the matter, he must not put himself in a dominant position, otherwise several first assistants and the killed senior officials of the governor's department will be a lesson for him.

"Whew..."

Zhu Youzhen also felt that the water in the court was too deep, so he waved his hand and went to the Dongnuan Pavilion alone.

"Big friend..."

Wang Chengen followed into the warm pavilion, and Zhu Youzhen sat on the kang: "Did you report truthfully from the East Factory?" ”

"Emperor, there is no discrepancy between what Dongchang reported and what Lord Zou said, but now Qi Shangshu is still in Gaoyou, and the details have not been investigated for the time being, and the slave has already ordered the people from Dongchang to investigate, and let Lao Cao also go to check carefully, and no one will be left behind."

"Hmm..."

Zhu Youzhen not only suspected Zou Weilian, since listening to the advice of the Donglin Party to close the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, he was surprised to find that he didn't know anything when he was in power, and was deceived by the courtiers below, so he reopened the Dongchang and Jinyiwei last year, and Luo Yangxing was in charge of Jinyiwei.

"I'm really tired..."Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes: "This country..."

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"The Emperor must have become suspicious..."

Zou Weilian poured Xu Kaixian a cup of tea: "Your affairs should be arranged as soon as possible, if Jiannu moves more and more slowly, I am worried that Dongchang will find out about me." ”

Xu Kaixian's work has been very busy these days, in addition to contacting his own people in Beijing, the important thing is to personally study the route of retreat and deduce various unexpected situations that will occur when escaping.

"The contact with Jiannu's internal line is directly in contact with Lao Zhao, that is, I don't know the inside story, and the things that can be determined now are still from Chen Yan's side, although Lord Zou is at ease, once things change, I will definitely give priority to arranging Lord Zou's retreat."

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The governor of Yingzhou has jurisdiction over the middle, left, right, and rear four guards and horses, although the name sounds bluffing, but it is controlled by the yamen of the governor of Jizhou, although it belongs to the direct jurisdiction of the five military governors, but the composition of the soldiers is only a general rank.

The new governor of Yingzhou is the old horse commander Jing Kuan, the ancestor of Jing Yuan is a martyr, the Tumu Fort was killed in battle, posthumously named Julu Marquis, and then by his younger brother Jing Ying to attack the lord, and then in Jiajing, he sat down to cut the knight, reinstated the horse captain, and the hereditary governor of the right army of the five armies.

After Chen Yan received the order, he knew that Zou Weilian's plan was successful, so he rushed to the Yingzhou Pass non-stop, and then temporarily took over the defense of Yingzhou as a messenger.

The governor of Yingzhou is stationed in Yingzhou Youtunwei, Jizhou County, and Jizhou Town General Army is stationed, and the right Tunwei is under the jurisdiction of the Great Wall Ma Lanyu, Kuandianyu, Huang Yayu three passes.

"Xiaguan has seen Lord Chen..."

Jing Kuan didn't dare to hold it up, at this time, not to mention a governor of the five armies, even if the governor of a government was here, he had to honestly salute the civil officials.

Before Chen Yan came, he carefully studied the origins of the guards of the various passes of the Great Wall with Zou Weilian, and picked and chosen, but he only felt that Jing Kuan was the most suitable.

After Jing Ying's raid, he was crowned a hereditary high-ranking official of Jinyiwei, and the concubine is an official position, just like a title, as long as the previous one married a princess, then the concubine is a hereditary official position.

It's just that Jing Ying's generation did not marry a royal woman, until the Jiajing period, the contemporary giant deer Hou Jingshun was accused by the imperial history of participating in the Yan Song case and was cut off and imprisoned.

And because Jing Shun's wife is Jiajing's sister Princess Changning, with this identity as a royal prince, Jing Shun was spared death, but the title was never restored.

It was not until Wanli that his son Jing Jianju Ma Du Lieutenant was restored, and the position of Governor of the Five Armies was awarded to this day.

Jing Kuan did not marry a princess like his ancestors, so he relied on the position of the captain of the horse left by his ancestors to mix up to the present.

"Jing Dudu, how is it along the Great Wall?"

Jing Kuan accompanied Chen Yan to walk in the yamen: "Lord Chen, you can rest assured, the three passes are very well guarded, there is a lesson from the past of Xifengkou, and the last general has been very careful since he took over Yingzhou." ”

Chen Yan nodded: "Governor Jingdu, this official will inspect the Three Pass Pass in the afternoon, you should prepare." ”

Jing Kuan felt that Chen Yan was making a big fuss, after all, he had not received the news of the assembly of the Jiannu army in Yingzhou.

"Lord Chen has come all the way from Liaodong to enter the customs, it is better to rest for a few days first, and the next official can arrange Lord Chen's schedule."

Chen Yan looked left and right, and said: "The governor of Jingdu is coming, and the official has something important to discuss with the governor of Jingdu." ”

In the governor's yamen, Jing Kuan invited Chen Yan to the study in the second hall, and after the two sides sat opposite each other, Jing Kuan spoke first: "I don't know if Lord Chen has anything important to discuss with the lower officials?" ”

Chen Yan took a sip of tea, then put it down slowly, and said with a smile: "When Jing Juma was here, I heard that Emperor Shenzong intended to marry the daughter of King Qi to Jing Juma..."

Jing Kuan must be, and then sighed, his old father had talked about this when he was alive, the wealth of the Jing family was made because the ancestor married the princess, although marrying a princess in the Ming Dynasty was a wretched matter, but since Jiajing, this situation has changed greatly.

After the princess gets married, she can go out of the ten princes to live in another house, no longer live in the palace, and the time and freedom to meet the princess are also a lot more, and the Yi family has been secretly trying to maintain the identity of the royal family, and the only way is to continue to marry the princess, even if you can't marry the princess, you can still marry the princess of the prince, and you can still become the captain of the princess when you get married.

The reason why Jing Kuan's father Jing Jian did not marry the daughter of King Qi was because there was a recital in the imperial history that Jing Jian was not a man, so he gave up, and because of bribing the selected officials of the Zongren Mansion, he was dismissed from the post of Captain of the Horse, and only Jing Kuan was left with a hereditary affair of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Anyone is a bag, and when it comes to Jing Kuan's generation, it seems that the royal family has never remembered the Jing family again.

Chen Yan had already sensed Jing Kuan's abnormal reaction, so he continued: "When there is chaos today, Liaodong Jiannu is also eyeing it..."

Jing Kuan didn't understand what Chen Yan meant, so he gave his hand: "The lower official is dull, please make it clear to Lord Chen." ”

"Jing Dudu, the ancestor is the Marquis of Julu..."

Chen Yan muttered with some regret, and saw that Jing Kuan's neck was already a little red, so he said: "Yan Song's case is a false accusation..."

"That's right..."

Jing Kuan was also angry, and was foreshadowed by Chen Yan, but he didn't understand what Chen Yan said, Yan Song's case is an iron case approved by Sejong, who dares to turn over Yan Song's case?

reacted immediately, and after a moment of shock, he found that Chen Yan was blowing and drinking water from a teacup, but he couldn't figure out what Chen Yan wanted to express.

"Don't be afraid," Chen Yan startled Jing Kuan, who was thinking nonsense, again: "Jing Dudu, wealth and fame are right in front of you." ”

Jing Kuan didn't know what to do, and then he was shocked, and said in a lost voice: "Lord Chen, you want to smuggle from Yingzhou?" ”

The trend of smuggling in the trilateral areas is very strong, especially in Shanxi in the past few years, he still knows more or less, even in his Yingzhou, there are also many generals guarding the customs who smuggle privately, but these are all things done by the military, and there are very few joint civilian officials.

At least in Jing Kuan's eyes, Chen Yan didn't look like he was in the smuggling business.

"Hehe... It seems that there are not a few transactions with the Tartars outside the Guanwai..."

Jing Kuan waved his hand again and again: "Lord Chen misunderstood, the lower officials just heard about it, and besides, even if it is smuggling, it has nothing to do with wealth and fame." ”

Although Chen Yan and Zou Weilian had studied Jing Kuan, they didn't dare to talk about it openly after all, so they excused themselves: "It's really related to smuggling." ”

Jing Kuan was stunned, that is, several generals under his jurisdiction have smuggling business, and they will also send him silver on this every month, neither need him to take responsibility, nor do they need to take actual action, even if something happens, there are civil officials behind those people to deal with it, why not.

"Shhhh Lord Chen, if the court knows..."

Chen Yan said in a low voice: "Now that Nanzhili's taxes have not been collected for three years, the dynasty is becoming more and more difficult..."