In the face of the problem of rewards in the northwest, even senior experts like Ma Wensheng have to be silent.

Zhang Mao said: "Your Majesty, with meritorious deeds, you may be able to postpone it for the first time, and when all the inquests are over, it will continue for a few more months......"

Zhu Youzhu frowned and said: "British Duke, do you mean to let me drag them down, so that such a big credit can be made into a small one, or make the border soldiers forget?" ”

"That's not what the old minister meant."

Zhang Mao was also quite anxious.

When did I say I wouldn't give them a reward? To delay the reward, is to owe it first, and then redeem it when the court has money?

Zhu Youzhu said: "The two battles of Biguan and Ningyuan, there have been many problems in the reward, and they have not yet been solved. ”

Li Dongyang asked: "Your Majesty has a plan?" ”

Zhu Youzhu took out Zhang Zhou's recital before and said: "Actually, before Bingkuan left, he mentioned the matter of salt politics, and I also planned to reward him with this meritorious service, and use salt as a reward, which can be regarded as an explanation for the meritorious soldiers of the border army." Alas! ”

In the end, Zhu Youzhu couldn't help but sigh.

Even Zhang Mao on the side frowned when he heard it.

Just now, Your Majesty, you also taught me a lesson, saying that I had a bad idea, and I think Your Majesty's proposal and Zhang Bingkuan's proposal is not much better.

When I say IOU, don't you mean to use salt as a blank check? What is the difference between indiscriminate salt introduction and occupying a nest? Even if the grain is changed, the salt merchant will not be stupid enough to exchange it in full, and in the end, it is not "a big work to a small one"?

Zhu Youzhu continued: "If there is something insufficient, I want to reward it with a military promotion, so as to form a rule. ”

Although he didn't explicitly say that he wanted to change the system of the first merit, he was mentioning this point.

In the Ming Dynasty and Hongzhi dynasties, when rewarding military merits, the emphasis on material rewards and not the promotion of official positions is cautious about the promotion of military positions, because the court knows that a temporary reward is more direct than a promotion, because after the promotion, it will bring continuous pressure to the imperial court's finances, and the reward is a hammer deal.

But the downside of this is that you need to come up with a lot of money at a time.

Until the time of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty's finances were stretched, Zhu Houzhao began to look at the sub-seals, and gave meritorious soldiers the promotion of Jilu officials, especially the positions of Jinyi Wei Qianhu and Baihu increased significantly, and the hereditary official positions of Jinyi Wei were as many as nearly 100,000 people......

Don't look at it, it seems to deepen the pressure on the imperial court's finances, but as long as it is not honored, the Jilu official is not a rare thing, but more of a reputation.

Even if you want to make more money, it will be a pit for more than ten years or even decades, which is equivalent to using the future finance to solve the current problem, which is better than taking money directly from the treasury, right? Maybe my children and grandchildren will solve the financial problem?

This is also very similar to the local finance of Daming.

They all want to do things now.

But the result is ...... Those who can't do it are spending future money, pulling some deficits for the next term to fill, and the next term will push on the successor!

Zhu Youzhu also means this, we can't get so much silver out of the treasury now, so we will seal more officials, give some salt, and at most add some actual material compensation, and this matter will be revealed first...... If you have money, you can't spend all of it on rewarding past achievements, but you also have to prepare for the war after the war, don't you think?

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When several ministers present heard this, although they felt aggrieved, they were right.

They also seemed to understand why the emperor wanted to call the Hubu Shangshu Zhou Jing over in the matter of rewarding military merits.

In fact, it is to tell them that the biggest problem with the reward for military merit is whether the household can hold on.

Li Dongyang broke the silence and said: "Your Majesty, such a decision is only afraid that it will make the generals and soldiers in the army have opinions." ”

"Hmm." Zhu Youzhu nodded and said, "In the past, I didn't know how to tell the generals in the army, but now that there is Bingkuan to govern the army, if he implements it, it may be logical." ”

Okay.

Xie Qian and the others were thinking in their hearts, we were still thinking about how to suppress Zhang Zhou's merits, but now for the sake of rewarding military achievements, the monarchs and ministers still have to rely on Zhang Zhou's prestige to make empty promises to those soldiers.

That's really ...... Can't hold it down.

Zhu Youzhu said: "For the meritorious ministers in this war, I have also thought about it, I want to take Bingkuan as the Duke of Laiguo, promote the imperial history of the left capital, and promote the military affairs of Xuanda and the three sides, what are your opinions?" ”

did not say that Zhang Zhou was promoted to the secretary of the military department, but he wanted to use Wang Yue's precedent to let Zhang Zhou lead the troops as a part-time job in the imperial history of the left capital, and it was also a civil and military position, which was both the imperial history of the left capital and the prince of the country, as if Zhang Zhou had the final say in the northwest.

Liu Jian said: "It is useless to rashly use the position of an official and put it on the body of one person, and the government is out of the official and the general is out of order, and it is useless to be stable in the northwest." ”

This kind of thing, Ma Wensheng and a few other Shangshu are not good to come out and oppose it.

Only Liu Jian, the first assistant, is qualified to give the emperor some advice.

Just as they had discussed before the court meeting, about the reward for Zhang Zhou, don't go to sing against the emperor, but be gentle and persuasive, and let Zhang Zhou choose before the civil and military positions as much as possible, instead of letting Zhang Zhou hold power, which affects the balance of power in the northwest and even the imperial court.

Zhu Youzhu shook his head and said: "In extraordinary times, there should be extraordinary things. ”

Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty, if the northwest wants to raise the matter of using troops for a long time, with Zhang Zhouren holding both civil and military duties, there will be no people in the northwest to check and balance, and the balance of the country's use of troops to govern the army will also be broken." Lao Chen is not aimed at one person, but for the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty, and also for the morale of the soldiers in the army. ”

Zhu Youzhu frowned and said, "Governing the army with Bingleniency will also affect morale?" ”

Messing with me?

Zhang Zhou is in the northwest, and the soldiers are like fighting chicken blood, and I have never seen the soldiers in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty have this kind of morale.

Xie Qian was not afraid of things, he walked out and said: "Presiding over military and political affairs by one person will inevitably make the left and right hands stick together, and no matter how good your fists and feet are, you can't use them. Those who follow the other are prosperous, and those who oppose the other have no foothold, and when he made military affairs in Xuanfu, he had a holiday with the governor of Xuanfu, and asked His Majesty to think about the hidden worries of the generals in the northwest towns. ”

Zhu Youzhu was silent for a while.

Although Zhang Zhou is in the northwest and can boost the morale of the army, in the vast majority of cases, he can prepare for war with peace of mind.

But in the matter of Zhang Zhoubao Ma Yi and Ma Zhongxi singing against each other, it is indeed a not very good start, which will make the old ministers of those traditional factions, especially the old Confucian officials, have a lot of opinions about Zhang Zhou.

Zhu Youzhu said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't actually have to highlight Bingkuan alone, but he has merit and is there, and he can also deter the grassland Xiaoxiao, with his affairs in the northwest, you should have no opinion, right?" ”

This time, even Xie Qian didn't speak.

What other comments can you have?

He Zhang Bingkuan is awesome, we also have to admit this, he fought three great battles in half a year, and each one won so simply, and he also brought out a group of awesome characters in Yanwutang, like a tiger descending from the mountain to gain a firm foothold in the northwest, and Wang Shouren can use tricks at will......

If you don't accept it, you can't.

Zhu Youzhu saw that no one objected, so he seemed to really make it clear and said: "If you have no opinion, then take Bingkuan as the imperial history of the left capital, lead the military affairs of Xuanda Biguan and other places, and reduce the military affairs of various places in the northwest. As for the title of Duke of Laiguo, you can wait for him to return to the dynasty before giving it, what do you think? ”

In this matter, Zhu Youzhu seems to be deliberately predicting the reaction of the civil officials in advance.

Previously, I took a resolute attitude to give Zhang Zhou an official promotion, and I expected that you would come out to oppose it, so I will first fill my words, and then we will each take a step back.

Zhang Zhou continued to control the military affairs of the northwest, and even Qin Hong had to be controlled and dispatched by Zhang Zhou, so that only Zhang Zhou was allowed to be a minister.

But Wuxun's title is no longer a "reward after remembering", but directly determined, Lai Guogong is his, when will he step down from the Xuanda general system and return to Beijing, when will this title be given to him.

Xu Qiong asked: "Then Your Majesty, after he returns to the court, will he still keep the errands outside the Governor's Mansion?" ”

This is a very Buddhist question.

So much so that everyone present couldn't help but glance at Xu Qiong.

In fact, they also heard that Xu Qiong had already "turned against the water", the emperor didn't say this kind of thing, we should pretend not to know, this would be the time when Zhang Zhou's credit was the greatest, and the emperor relied on him immensely.

You, Xu Qiong, aren't you just reminding the emperor and letting the emperor settle things at once?

Zhu Youzhu said: "The revision of the "Huidian" has been basically completed, and it is only about to be officially published, and I will delay it for a few days, but the things previously decided will not be biased. With Bingkuan's work of cultivating books, he was promoted to a bachelor, which was also to facilitate him to better teach the prince in the future, and as for his current position as the right attendant of the military department, it is also dispensable. ”

The emperor also made it clear.

Zhang Zhou's part-time job in the sixth department can be exempted.

However, the position of the Hanlin Academy must be retained, and Lai Guogong must also be given at the same time, and then Zhang Zhouke will not be the governor of the military capital and the governor of the palace, so he will directly give the real vacancy, and he will really become a representative of the Ming Dynasty.

"Regarding the reward for the military merits of this battle, as well as how to prevent the fire screening invasion, as well as the matter of his reserve war to calm the grassland, I will also listen to his opinions, and I hope that you will not interfere too much, and the court should still value harmony."

Zhu Youzhu still seemed to rely on the ministers present and reminded him.

In this way, even Zhang Mao felt very angry, and suddenly Zhang Zhou was about to enter the picture, what he wanted before was to let this kid go to harm Wenchen, and now even Zhang Zhou of the Governor's Mansion did not let go...... Fortunately, Zhang Zhou is currently only in charge of military affairs in the northwest, and it seems that he is still a little short of getting involved in the Beijing camp, but who knows what will happen in the future?

For the Wenchen present, it was even more difficult in his heart.

Zhu Youji's tone was still calm, and because the process of this discussion was generally smooth, he said: "This matter is so decided." In the next ten months, or even half a year, the defense of the northwest will also be the top priority of the imperial court, and it will depend more on the concerted efforts of all the secretaries, and it is better to put aside prejudices. ”

to this one.

There is no objection to it.

Originally, everyone still expected Liu Jian to come out and say a few words, but Liu Jian's expression seemed to be similar to Zhang Zhou's "full release", which probably let them know that Zhang Zhou's rise was unstoppable.

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"How?"

Several ministers went out of the Qianqing Palace, and Xiao Jing was going to personally lead them out of the palace or back to the duty room.

But Xiao Jing also knew each other, giving them room to discuss on their own, and the person who led the way was even far behind.

The words were asked by Xie Qian.

There was no one at the scene to answer his words.

It can't be said that everyone is speechless about Zhang Zhou's rise, or has no strategy, but all strategies must be based on "Zhang Zhou's mistakes".

That's all for nothing.

Before the cabinet ministers and the rest of the people were about to leave the room, Zhou Jing suddenly asked: "Will there be any worries about the meritorious lord in the future?" ”

This raises a hypothesis.

Since Zhang Zhou's merits are steadily increasing one by one, why don't we find another way and not consider that he made mistakes, but that he has too much credit, so that His Majesty is worried about him and afraid that he will rebel?

Such a guy has won the hearts of the army and the people through the will of heaven, and can even call the wind and rain, isn't His Majesty worried that he has a heart of disobedience?

Xie Qian said: "I don't know if it's the Lord, but my horse is unstable, so I can go back to my hometown early and have fun with my children and grandchildren...... It's the same with or without me. ”

It's a bit frustrating.

But in fact, it is also to say the voices of many ministers who have opinions about Zhang Zhou.

Since Zhang Bingkuan is so powerful, then His Majesty and those who admire him expect him to deal with court affairs? What else do you want us ministers to do?

If we are in a hurry, we will jointly play and put pressure on Your Majesty, anyway, there is no him in this court, or Your Majesty will let him govern the affairs of the court alone, and we will resign together......

Xie Qian has this idea, also because he ranks third in the cabinet, and if he is not responsible, he will not be responsible.

Li Dongyang reminded: "The court is eventful, and it involves the use of troops in border towns, don't do a battle of will!" ”

You Xie Yuqiao is poor.

We know that you are not so enthusiastic about being an official, and you can retire at any time, but when you leave, who will come up? Can you make sure it's our people? Don't let Your Majesty enter the cabinet in the next step, no matter how worthless it is, let people who are close to Zhang Zhou enter the cabinet, and then it will really be a waste of rice.

Cheng Minzheng, Lin Han, Wang Wei, strictly speaking, we can't fully control them now, but they are pushed to Zhang Zhou's side step by step.

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Weininghai victory.

Before the news of the withdrawal of the soldiers and horses to Yanghekou was transmitted back to the Beijing Division, the will to promote Zhang Zhou to the Imperial History of the Left Capital and the Right Squire of the Military Department, he had already set off from the Beijing Division, and the matter had not even been discussed by the court, so it was decided at an inner court meeting.

Zhu Youzhu is also eager to stabilize the situation.

Because from Zhu Youji's point of view, what he is most afraid of is that the fire screen takes the opportunity to retaliate, Zhang Zhou is driving the dog into the poor alley, and the fire screen is not a mad dog but also a mad dog.

You have taken all the old nests of the people, and killed more than 20,000 soldiers and horses and clansmen who captive.

How many belongings do people have?

You're not giving people a way to live.

Bingkuan, you also said that the number of artillery and gunpowder is a bit insufficient, at this time, if the fire screen violates the realm again, will it bury all the majesty that was fought before?

As soon as the letter of appointment was issued, Zhu Youji got the news that Zhang Zhou had withdrawn into Yanghekou, and at the same time, Zhang Zhou personally played it, which mentioned the news that made Zhu Youzhu very happy...... The fire sieve led the headquarters to kill and rush back, but they didn't dare to enter an inch after arriving at Maoerzhuang......

The fire sifted the mad dog and turned into a dead dog.

"Your Majesty, from the point of view of the slave maid, it all depends on Mr. Zhang's majestic strategy." Dai Yi patted the ass at the right time.

Zhu Youzhu didn't feel very comfortable listening to it, he didn't seem to have something to figure out now, he got up, paced back and forth in the Qianqing Palace, and asked a question that sounded nonsensical: "If the Fire Sieve Clan is obedient, should this person be killed or stayed?" ”

Now Dai Yi and other eunuchs can't figure it out.

Zhang Zhou didn't say that the fire sieve planned to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Once the eagle on the grassland, second only to Dayan Khan's fierce general, or the honorary master appointed by Dayan Khan, was just plucked out of his feathers?

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, even if the clansmen are captured, he can rob the people of other tribes, or take the remaining tribesmen to move elsewhere, the grassland is so big, there is always a place for him to settle down, and the whole clan will not be in Weininghai, right?

Xiao Jing said: "Your Majesty, if he really submits to the Ming Dynasty, he shouldn't stay!" But it doesn't seem to be a matter of killing. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Youzhu nodded.

Dai Yi was very angry when he heard it.

It's you Xiao Jing who came out to steal the talk, you are really "resourceful".

"Huh." Zhu Youzhu suddenly smiled, "Am I thinking too much?" If the fire sieve really returned to the Ming Dynasty, it means that he is desperate, and he is at the end of his rope at that time, does he have to worry so much? Even Bingkuan should be able to deal with it, even if he is separated from the tribesmen, and the people of his tribe are still herdsmen, he can pull out his claws. ”

"Yes, yes." Xiao Jing hurriedly responded.

Zhu Youzhu said with emotion: "I didn't expect that this great victory would come so heartily, I didn't even know how to plan the future pattern of the border town, and I thought that at the beginning of the year, I was still struggling to sleep for the precautions in the northwest...... It's like a world away. ”

Several eunuchs present felt the same way.

In the first year and at the beginning of the year, I was still worried about how to prevent it in the northwest, and now I am thinking about how to destroy the grassland, and the inner pattern is different.

Half a year ago, how much did you think that today you would be so "suddenly enlightened"?

Chen Kuan reminded: "Your Majesty, now that the soldiers and horses have returned, and the military exploits have been decided, the title of Duke of Guo on Mr. Zhang's side may be slowed down, and as for the promotion of the rest of the meritorious generals, should it also be ......?"

This is to remind Zhu Youzhu that Zhang Zhou's Lai Guogong has already discussed with the minister.

The next step should be to give Wang Shouren and Ma Yi, the two heroes who directly participated in this battle, the issue of rewarding, and the soldiers who accompanied the army, including Guan Jing, Sun Shangqi and others, as well as Zhu Hui, Zhang Heling, Tang Yin and others who reinforced the past......

The details can be reported by Zhang Zhou, but Zhang Zhou has no power to decide who is knighted and who is not.

Zhu Youzhu shook his head and said: "Bingkuan only mentioned that Ma Yi will atone for his sins, and Wang Shouren will be promoted to the governor of the imperial history of Datong, and the matter of knighthood can also be delayed, so there is no hurry." ”

Several eunuchs understood at the same time.

As long as Zhang Zhou's exploits are given, the rest of the people ...... The emperor didn't bother to deal with it, they were all a fart compared to Bingkuan? It's the same if you change someone else, and you have to give them one by one......

Really when the title of Daming is a radish, any pit really has to be inserted into a radish? Don't be a knight, don't raise it, don't spend money? My name for frugality is not in vain.

(End of chapter)