Zhu Yijun signaled to Feng Bao to announce the decree, this Taifu's edict, the inner study has already been written, just waiting for the ministry to ask for help, Wan Shihe directly asked for Zhang Juzheng's favor, that is, it came just in time, and this Taifu deserves his name.

Feng Bao shook off the dust, stood in front of the holy decree, and said loudly: "Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says:"

"Yuanfu was ordered to take the imperial examination, Kuang Bi bowed, so far for four years, Xun Demao. Here's a nine-year performance appraisal, grace and Yilong. With Gat into the Zuozhu country, promoted to the Taifu, the earl, and the official as before, gave the due order, and also wrote the reward, gave the banquet and the Ministry of Rites, and Yin a son Shangbao Si Cheng, in order to praise my loyalty and hard work. ”

"Chin this."

Zhu Yijun was invited by the Ministry of Officials to be promoted to the top of Zhang Juzheng after nine years of examination.

Zhang Juzheng presented his first book of "Resignation and Exemption from Grace and Life" to the imperial front, Zhang Juzheng has been shirking before, and there is no clear purpose, everyone tacitly agrees, now that the nine-year examination is over, it is time to be promoted.

In the holy decree, Zhu Yijun specifically mentioned the earl, the next step is to give Zhang Juzheng a count, the relationship between Qi Jiguang and Zhang Juzheng is complementary to each other, in fact, not only Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Liu Xian father and son, Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, etc., are all sheltered by Zhang Juzheng, in order to show their ambitions.

The current national policy of the Ming Dynasty is to enrich the country and strengthen the army proposed by Zhang Juzheng, and the strong army will inevitably revitalize the military, Zhenwu will give the military generals the right to do things, and give the military generals the right to discuss the relationship between the civil and military, the military generals are like the slaves of the civil officials, this is the status quo of the Ming Dynasty before Zhenwu.

During the Wanli period, Da Ming was able to support his huge and weak body, and he was able to exert his strength and feet, and won many battles, which was closely related to Zhang Juzheng's new policy.

After reading Zhang Juzheng's first letter of resignation, Zhu Yijun found the resoluteness of Zhang Juzheng's intention to refuse.

Zhang Juzheng really doesn't want to be a master, it's not self-humility, it's not playing any tricks, the reason for resigning is that he is not virtuous enough, His Majesty relies on it, treats him as a master, and treats him with his heart, which is enough.

Zhang Juzheng was very emotional, he had been in the cabinet for more than nine years, and his mental strength was wasted, but in fact, there was no political achievement at all, the world was still trapped in annexation, the small people were still like grass mustard and were stripped by the powerful gentry, Siyi was still eyeing China, and the border provocations were still frequent, and the four seas were not peaceful.

The main contradiction has not yet been relieved, although the rich country and the strong army have achieved some results, but it is only to accumulate and prosper profits, and has not fundamentally and structurally changed the production structure and lifestyle of the Ming Dynasty.

It is said: What merit does the minister have that can be inherited? If you don't think about the peace of righteousness, you will be blamed for your own speed, so you don't dare to be proud, but you are deeply afraid.

"Let's continue the deliberations." Zhu Yijun smiled and motioned for the court meeting to continue, and the first pull was over.

The ministers actually know very well that Zhang Ju can't resist His Majesty, His Majesty is the emperor, and the thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace.

Tan Lun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, with the death of Tang Kekuan, please ask the imperial court to set a meritorious record." ”

"The canon of meritorious service is the right of the state to grind the world. Under the knowledge of the commander, those who died in the army were attacked by the world officials; In the deputy general soldier and the general soldier, the outstanding officers are given exceptional benefits; The sole commander should attack and promote the commander of the capital, and he is confined to the theory that the official is not hereditary. Is it not a pity to die because of the reverence of his official rank? ”

"In the future, all commanders will go to the enemy's death array, in addition to giving their own mercy and the eldest male to inherit the ancestral position, still take the second male one, and do the crown belt, the general flag is the one who has meritorious service and died in the lifetime, and the test of a hundred households are hereditary, if there is no secondary male, the eldest male will be inherited next time."

Tang Kekuan was killed for greed, if it weren't for the chatter of the officials, his son would inherit the ancestral position, but the officials put this matter on the table for discussion, and they could only be punished and stripped of the hereditary office.

Tan Lun meant that the commander would go to the enemy in the future, and in addition to the original hereditary position, he would give a hereditary family of 100 households.

Tan Lun is for Zhenwu, Tan Lun, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes, as a civil official, speaks for the generals everywhere, and now he is not satisfied with the due treatment, but also gives one more hereditary hundred households, Tan Lun is a martial artist with a layer of civil official skin.

Tan Lun has also been active for a long time, investigated in many ways, communicated with the six Ming Princes and the cabinet, and also met the saint twice, elaborating on the purpose of doing so, in summary, it is Zhenwu, Zhenwu, or special Zhenwu!

If you can't win, the country will have no peace, and the people will not be able to rest in peace!

The content of this court discussion has been approved by most people, the hereditary hundred households, in fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, is an important force against the gentry, with the general trend of Xingwen and Wu, the military and civilians fled the place, the hereditary hundred households and thousands of households, can no longer effectively fight against the gentry.

Tan Lun also knows that this matter is difficult to return, the general trend of more than 150 years of Xingwen and Wuwu is not something that Tan Lun can control, the hereditary military attache of 100 households in the Wanli period is 120 people, and the court can neither give Yu Lu nor the army, it is an honor.

The only role is that in the future, the descendants will talk about their ancestors who have made meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

"Since there are no objections, then so it is." Zhu Yijun saw that the courtiers did not object, and agreed to the code of retribution.

Zhang Juzheng took out another book and said: "The governor of Shandong, the governor of Shandong, the governor of Changyi, Sun Mingfeng, is a smug wolf. ”

"Mr. Hai said: Your Majesty has worked hard to govern the country, and the ministers have admired their morality, and they have led hundreds of bureaucrats with frugality, and the law has also been slightly invigorated. If you want the world to be peaceful, you must be peaceful for the people, and if you want to be peaceful for the people, you must have a clean and honest company. Jin only shows Sun Mingfeng, who is greedy and perverts the law, and should be severely punished. ”

Hai Ruihai, the pioneer of the trend of killing corruption, identified that this Sun Mingfeng is not an honest courtier, and he must be severely punished.

Zhu Yijun took the song in his hand and said: "Tsk, this Sun Mingfeng has been the county magistrate for three years, and he is greedy for 70,000 taels of silver, and he can't even stand the top boss, so he directly organizes it, for fear that Sun Mingfeng will continue to be so greedy and burn the fire on himself." ”

According to the principle of not blaming the past, before Hai Jui led the corruption scandal, everyone turned a blind eye to the previous bribery policy, after all, it was not emphasized in the past, but now it is emphasized.

The governor of Shandong held this Sun Mingfeng, but this Sun Mingfeng was under the three orders of the imperial court, and he still did not change the old customs, and accepted two gentry and silver to shield the traitor.

"Seventy thousand taels of silver, in the Hongwu years, enough to peel the skin and pull the grass 3,500 times." Zhu Yijun shook his head again and again.

Sun Mingfeng's verified corruption exceeded 70,000 taels of silver, and he was able to raise a foot camp for a year.

When Wan Shihe heard His Majesty say this, he said with great certainty: "Your Majesty, peeling and picking grass has never seen a national canon, let alone an example, but Emperor Taizu Gao hated corruption, and personally issued an edict four times to execute several corrupt officials. ”

Wan Shihe searched the history of the national classics and letters, and did not find the theory of peeling the skin, but it was just a matter of exaggeration of Emperor Gao's cruelty by later generations.

However, Emperor Gao was very strict with corruption, killing heads at every turn, and only personally ordered to behead the public more than four times, and it was throughout the Hongwu period, and it was under this high pressure that Emperor Gao's brutal image became more and more deep-rooted.

"Escorted to Beijing Shi Xu Xing to ask questions, according to the Ming Dynasty, cut the official body and deprive him of his fame, he is not allowed to sign official affairs, and he will be exiled to Luzon." Zhu Yijun chose to deal with it at the top level, and anti-corruption is an important means to rectify the rule of officials after appeasing the evils.

Ma Ziqiang finished reading the recital in his hand, and asked suspiciously: "Wan Dazai, the vacancies of Changyi County and Fei County are filled by Yang Guo, the same knowledge of Dongping Prefecture, and Zhao Jiao, the judge?" ”

The magistrate of Fei County has been missing for more than half a month, the magistrate of Fei County is not a corrupt official, he is sick and died, and the officials have the right to appoint and dismiss personnel, also called the Quan Department, so they elected Yang Guo and Zhao Jiao, the judge.

"Yang Guo and Zhao Jiao are not from Jinshi or Juren, but officials." Ma Ziqiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, reminded Wan Shihe that this thing violates the current officialdom ecology and has no fame, how can he be an official?

Since he is a small official, he will be a clerk for the rest of his life.

Wan Shihe said with great conviction: "No background is not a problem, virtue and ability, nine years of promotion, it is the law of the ancestors of the country, why not?" The court employs people and appoints people on the basis of merit, both of whom have been promoted in nine years, handling government affairs and presiding over local affairs, which are far better than some Jinshi who have just finished studying. ”

The first time Jiao Hong and Zhang Siwen met in the Quanchu Hall, they discussed a problem, that is, the promotion of officials to officials, from officials to officials, from the beginning of Xuande year, there is an insurmountable barrier.

And now, Wan Shihe wants to break this kind of moat, and he wants to promote Yang Guo and Zhao Jiao to become officials.

Wan Shihe's reason is that the ancestors made the law, this is the old system during the Hongwu Yongle period, since it is not easy to use Jinshi, it is better to use these old officials.

"And that's true." Ma Ziqiang was silent for a moment, and agreed with Wan Shihe's behavior of recommending officials as officials.

Ma Ziqiang is Zhang Juzheng's person, he attaches more importance to the officials, he will try the Chinese style of the palace test, and he has won the fame, these people who read dead books and dead books, when they get to the place, they really can't fight these gentlemen, and the officials are from old officials, and there is a way to deal with these gentlemen.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is in Qingzhang, Wang Shizhen was deposed, isn't it because of the chaos caused by Qingzhang in Jiangling County?

"What do you think, sir?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked.

Zhang Juzheng pondered for a while and bowed his head and said: "Sun Mingfeng is greedy for beetles, and he is relying on his Jinshi background, so he dares to be presumptuous. ”

Sun Mingfeng, a jinshi, has the same list, a teacher, and a fellow villager, so he dares to be so presumptuous, so presumptuous that his boss wants to hold him, but if he is a person and a clerk, he does not have so many network resources, but can only rely on the power given by the imperial court, and after nine years of promotion, he has been tested and experienced, and he uses people to see his function, regardless of his qualifications.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Well, according to what Mr. said." ”

There is a Huanggu town in Pinghu, Zhejiang, which was originally a mudflat field with sediment accumulation, and the vicissitudes of the sea and the tidal flat fields where the sea water receded are all saline-alkali land, so the local people live in extreme poverty.

In the fourth year of Wanli, Huanggu Town did not exist.

Zhang Juzheng is meritocracy, promoted a lot of officials to serve as county commanders, there is a Huang Qing Qing official, this Huang Qing is full of wisdom and infinite adaptability, and the results of the examination over the years are all superior, Wanli 11 years, should have been promoted to the prefect, but at that time, Zhang Juzheng had been gone for nearly a year, and the imperial court began to counterattack Zhang Juzheng, and this Huang Qing was degraded to this tidal field that did not even have a name.

After Huang Qing arrived here, he began to actively raise and build a sea pond, intending to improve people's livelihood by raising fish and sea vegetables.

Huang Qing's sister came to the tidal flat field from Jiangxi to mourn, and after taking care of Huang Qing's funeral, she found that her brother had not finished her business, so she settled down in the tidal flat field and continued to dig the sea pond.

After the pond was dug up, it was called Huanggutang, and later became Huanggu Town, where the people lived in the pond for generations and paid tribute from generation to generation.

Zhang Juzheng actually doesn't like to talk about his background, he is from a military family, and he is nicknamed that the mud on his legs has not been cleaned.

The Wanli Emperor in history attached great importance to his background, for example, his eldest son Zhu Changluo was born by a palace maid, and after he had trouble with the Empress Dowager Li and the courtiers, he just didn't look down on Zhu Changluo's background.

In this case, there is a strong reason for the conflict between imperial power and vassals, but Emperor Wanli lost in this case.

Zhu Yijun Zhu approved this note, and said with a smile: "If you do a good job, you can give Enke to raise people and jinshi, and the method mentioned by Hai Zongxian before is a good idea." ”

Hai Rui mentioned before that those who go to Luzon can be given a special gift to Enke Jinshi, so the special gift of Enke and Jinshi can not become an important way to elect officials in the Ming Dynasty.

These jinshi did not threaten, they had been lying for too long, thinking that they would have everything after passing the exam, they did not have any competitive pressure, and naturally began to talk about their hearts.

The king of the rolls among these individual officials, put them together in a relatively fair environment, can effectively invigorate the rule of officials.

When Zhang Juzheng heard this, he showed a relieved smile, he resigned from the position of Taifu many times, because he knew that the emperor had gradually learned to use the power in his hands, and this Taifu was completely unnecessary.

Ge Shouli gave a very interesting recital, saying: In today's officialdom, the disadvantages of appeasement have just been eliminated, and bribery is still repeatedly prohibited.

Ge Shouli found that foreign officials always sent people into Beijing to check around, and the imperial history of the five cities, the Yamen of the Detective Affairs, and the Ti Cai should pay attention to visiting and arresting these political brokers and entering Beijing to deal with them.

How do you get to these brokers?

Starting from all kinds of banquets, such as the teacher appreciation banquet, the apprenticeship banquet, the hometown association, the poetry meeting, the private door, etc., Tiqi should pay attention to the brokers from various banquets.

Moreover, it is necessary to strictly order: all officials in the capital hall are in Beijing and go out of Beijing, and banquets are also prohibited, and they are diligent in their professions, and the wind is shown in all directions. If you indulge in indulgence and do not abide by official rules, you will participate in the re-governance.

If they indulge in pleasure and participate in the banquet, all the ministers and officials in the world can report it, and if it is found that they are guilty of sitting on the throne and dismissed, they will be deprived of their fame.

"Ge Gong, is this also part of party building?" Zhu Yijun looked at Song Shu and asked suspiciously.

Ge Shouli said very certainly: "Back to Your Majesty, this is also part of the party building, and the atmosphere of Qinglang Shilu. ”

"So." Zhu Yijun Zhu criticized Ge Shouli's recital, which will become a clear decree and be transmitted to the Quartet.

At the end of the court discussion, there was bad news that Zhao Zhenji, the former crown prince Taibao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, died of illness in his hometown in Sichuan, and asked the court to give him an official funeral.

The Ministry of Rites agreed on Wensu, and the Ministry of Officials gave Shaobao, so that Zhao Zhenji's life came to an end.

Zhao Zhenji was disgusted with Gao Gong, so he returned to his hometown, and after returning to his hometown, he has been closing his door to thank customers, writing books, and passing away today.

Zhao Zhenji Jiajing won the lifting in the seventh year, but it was not until the fourteenth year of Jiajing that he entered Beijing to catch the exam.

At that time, Zhao Zhenji liked to cultivate the world in the silent ancient temple, Zhao Zhenji's father took out a stick with a thick arm, and drove Zhao Zhenji to the Beijing Division for reference.

In the seventeenth year of Zhao Zhenji's reign in Jiajing, he went to the Taoist "Begging for True Confucianism", scolding Emperor Jiajing for liking to burn and indulging in magic.

After Zhao Zhenji returned to the court again, he happened to encounter Altan Khan's looting in Gyeonggi, and no one dared to say the sentence that promised Altan Khan's request and asked Altan Khan to retreat for the time being, and Zhao Zhenji said it.

Zhao Zhenji was reprimanded to Guangxi because of his evil Yan Song's father and son, and then he had ups and downs, and finally when he was a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and the general constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After the court discussion, Zhu Yijun took Zhao Zhenji's sign off the fifteen-page official book screen.

Tan Lun did not leave directly, but had an in-depth discussion with His Majesty about the loss of combat effectiveness of the Ming border army.

Tan Lun said with sorrow: "Speaking of why the border army can't fight, it must start from the second year of Wang Ji's orthodoxy, and he commanded An Jing by the secret edict. ”

"Since then, the general trend of Xingwen and military has been achieved, and the civilian officials have seized power over the military attachés, at this time, the Daningwei and the Hetao border army have fallen into a strange circle, and they can't report too much battle damage in every battle."

"If there are too many soldiers reported in the war, then the imperial court will inevitably pursue it, and all the generals will be labeled as ineffective and incompetent."

"So the battle damage, that is, if you can underreport, you will underreport, but the loss of the general, the general, the deputy general, and the general soldier have to be reported in full, because it can't be hidden, after all, it is the general who died, and the battle report during the Jiajing period is already very weird, and the general and deputy general soldiers of Xuanda Liaodong have died one after another, but there is no number of soldiers killed."

"It's very strange."

"After all, the soldier was killed, how to make an account? It is divided into daily deaths, escapes, training, escapes, and accidents. ”

It was the first time Zhu Yijun had heard such a statement, and he frowned and said, "Isn't that a fallen sergeant, and there will be no pension?" ”

Tan Lun spat out and said, "Your Majesty is wise." ”

"The fallen sergeants have no pension, so that the soldiers have no heart to defend the war, and they can't even get the word horse leather shroud and loyalty and bravery, and when they start fighting, it is natural that the morale is low, and over time, the Beijing camp in the first year of Tianshun was disbanded, and the Ming Dynasty was repeatedly defeated in Hetao and Daningwei, and finally lost Hetao and Daningwei."

went into battle to kill the enemy, but as a result, he died on the battlefield for the Ming War, and he couldn't get compensation, and even he himself was a staged dead man, and he was reported to have fled after a period of time and became a deserter.

Under the general trend of Xingwen and Wuwu, if the generals did not want to be killed by civilian officials, they had to whitewash the peace, and they could only treat the soldiers as consumables, and the depreciation and amortization accounts were written off every period.

Tan Lun has been talking about the restoration of Daningwei and Hetao, repeatedly studied the events of the year, and studied the rapid decline in the combat effectiveness of the Ming border army very thoroughly.

This is also the reason why Tan Lun has repeatedly run for the sake of meritorious service, the Loyal and Brave Temple must be built, and the hereditary military attache must be given, even if it is not given to Yu Lu, it is better to give some honor than not to give nothing.

"Well, I see." Zhu Yijun sighed, no wonder from Qi Jiguang to Li Chengliang, they all had to ask for orders to set up a loyal and brave shrine and record the merits of the soldiers.

An octagonal pavilion, a loyal and brave monument, engraved with names and things, the loyal and brave temple does not even have an official sacrifice, but it is also an important reference for military attaches to measure the wind power of the imperial court, the imperial court is also willing to set up such an inscription, that is, Zhenwu, even such an inscription is not willing to stand, then the court is a martial arts.

A strange quantification criterion, but exceptionally reasonable.

"Recently, Liaodong Governor Hou Yu Zhao and Daning Counselor Military Affairs Zhou Liangyin have been out of Zhangwu and Daning Wei Tuntian respectively." Zhu Yijun took out a book of songs, which was something Hou Yuzhao had heard.

"Hou Yu Zhao Zhongjun Tiguo." Tan Lun said with feeling, this kind of method, Tuman Khan can't stop it at all.

Hou Yuzhao is playing a very new way of attacking, the Tun Cultivation Offensive Method.

It is to find a suitable place to establish an earthen camp fort under the investigation of the distant marquis of the pier, and then push forward, just like a knife to cut meat, cut a small piece at a time, cut it and swallow it into the stomach of Daming.

This trick is somewhat unsolvable, and the only problem is that there are not enough farmers.

The reason why there is no solution to the trick is that there are not many people in the Tuban Khan, and in some places, there are not always tribes that occupy all the land.

Most of the grassland people are grazing and migrating with the water and grass, the grassland people have just given up the territory, the hoe of Hou Yu Zhao dug over, and the herdsmen want to graze again in the next year, they must find a way to break through these camps, but to break through these camps, it takes a heavy price.

The sun arches and dies.

Zhou Liangyin saw that Hou Yuzhao was playing very well, and he also started, anyway, Hou Yuzhao was scolded lightly, not him Zhou Liangyin.

The construction of the earthen camp fort is actually very simple, it only takes ten days and a half months of work to build a preliminary camp fort.

When Tuman Khan wanted to attack these camps and forts, he had to take into account the Daning guards and Li Chengliang's guest soldiers behind him.

In fact, it is easy to deal with the lack of peasant households, and there are not many others in the Ming Dynasty, but the landless tenants are countless, and the household department has recruited landless tenants in the workhouse to go to Daning Weitun to farm.

The Great Sikou Wang Chonggu dragged his tired body back home, he leaned heavily on the back of the chair, his eyes stared at him fiercely, he wanted to know who burned the coal shop on Shikou Street.

More than 100 people were burned to death, and if it was a natural disaster, it would be fine, but recently the Xishan Coal Bureau is preparing, no matter how you look at it, someone is deliberately causing it.

"Father's coal market fire yesterday, is there another hidden reason that makes my father so sad?" Wang Qian asked in a low voice when he saw his father return home, his face was tired.

"I'm going to take the exam soon, you prepare well, you will fail the list again this time, and you will take the exam next time." Wang Chonggu seems to be reluctant to talk about it, and hopes that his son can be admitted to the Jinshi well, even if he is in the middle of the family in the future, he will be a gentleman no matter how bad he is.

Wang Qian said with a smile: "The child is still very confident, and he is very well prepared for the Jinshi examination. ”

"It was better to do so." Wang Chonggu nodded, Wang Chonggu still recognized Wang Qian's studies.

Wang Qian thought about it and said with some unease: "Father, there is a fire at the mouth of the coal market, and it is rumored that someone set it on fire. ”

Wang Chonggu thought for a while, and made his thoughts very clear, someone has recently released coal, even if he can't prove that he is a criminal, he can prove that he knows, as long as there is a clue, he can find out this bold figure along the way.

After listening to this, Wang Qian said with great certainty: "Father, it's better to eat two fish like this." ”

"How do you eat one fish and two people?" Wang Chonggu looked at Wang Qian and asked with a little doubt.

Wang Qian didn't answer immediately, but took out a pen and paper, wrote and painted, and said: "Since you dare to burn coal in the market, you will naturally wait until the price of coal rises to the sky before releasing coal, otherwise you will take a big risk, just to make money in the past, then these bold guys will naturally refuse." ”

"Since it's greedy for money, let them be greedy, the coal fried from the official kiln in Xishan has piled up a lot, according to the usual experience, this heavy snow closes the road, and the coal in Xishan can't be transported to the capital."

"We put coal every day, day by day, someone will inevitably eat it, and when the other party can't eat it, that is, when we put coal, we will put a large amount of coal at the same price! Let him lose his wife and soldiers, and find him out. ”

"The reason why we can do this is that Xishan official kiln produces a lot of coal and can supply it, and the second is to establish a rule, and there will be people in the province who are not able to do it in the future, so they have to resist the imperial court's decree."

Wang Qian, a master of playing with people's hearts, he used these means to buy Zhang Siwei's concubines, outer chambers, slaves, chaifu, etc.

Wang Chonggu wants to find out the culprit, and Wang Qian wants to eat two fish, and the price of coal in Beijing will rise and fall in the future, depending on the face of the court, not the face of the rich businessmen, this is the effect that Wang Qian wants to achieve.

"Your idea is very good, but it is very difficult to operate." Wang Chonggu approved of Wang Qian's idea.

But this idea, the biggest problem, is to find this time to accurately release coal, find the court to make a lot of money, can't find it, this rule is impossible to talk about.

"Isn't this my father?" Of course, Wang Qian knows that it is very difficult, just like fishing, when to start the rod, he is very experienced.

And Wang Chonggu's experience in doing business is very rich.

Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!

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