Ministry of Rites.

Li Dongyang came to discuss the autumn festival, and sat down with Lin Han to discuss for a long time, and the topic was deliberately led to Zhang Mao by Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang said: "With the prominence of the British government for generations, now Zhang Mao has gone to the northwest to govern the army and lead the troops to deal with the Tatars, even if the army is defeated, it should not fall to the point of the fall of the family, I don't know what Lin Lao thinks of the sacrificial wine?"

In terms of Qinggao, Li Dongyang is considered a leader among the Chinese people in the DPRK.

In front of Lin Han, he called Zhang Mao's name.

It seems to be disrespectful to Zhang Mao, but between the words, it seems that he is helping Zhang Mao make amends, and in Lin Han's opinion, it may also be that the cabinet is not optimistic that Zhang Mao can win this battle.

Lin Han shook his head and said, "The old man knows very little about governing the army, if something really happens, let's go to the court and discuss it."

With Lin Han's prudence, he naturally would not deliberately express his position in front of Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang smiled and said, "Then I don't know what Old Priest Lin has to say about His Majesty's dispatch of the British Duke to the expedition? Could it be...... His Majesty intends to transfer the matter of the garrison of the Beijing camp to the Ministry of War, and from then on, the Governor's Office will only obey the orders of the Ministry of War? The ministers will stand!"

"Huh."

Lin Han heard Li Dongyang's concern about Zhang Zhou's arbitrary power, and he still just smiled.

If this had been changed before, Lin Han would definitely have the same position as Li Dongyang, and he would have looked at Zhang Zhou unpleasantly for a long time.

But now......

Zhang Zhou is his son-in-law, and Lin Han can be promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites because of Zhang Zhou's relationship, and because he gets along with Zhang Zhou a lot, his attitude has naturally improved a lot.

Li Dongyang said: "In matters of right and wrong, it is better for Lin Lao to maintain principles for sacrificial wine."

"Alas!" Lin Han sighed, "The old man doesn't know the consequences of the power of the ministers, but if you want to talk about that Zhang Shangshu, he was promoted quickly, but he still has prestige in the army, and even in the Han Yuan, there are many people who respect him, not only because he has won the trust of His Majesty, but also because of his outstanding ability."

Li Dongyang shook his head and said, "No matter how outstanding you are, you are still too young, and you haven't experienced a lot of polishing, but I'm afraid that the edges and corners are too sharp in dealing with people."

Lin Han said: "There is nothing wrong with this, there are many mediocre people in the government and the opposition, if they all stand in the court with the attitude of being a person, I am afraid that the government and the opposition will already be a stagnant water. Perhaps His Majesty used him, and it was precisely because he saw that he was different from others."

Li Dongyang squinted at Lin Han and said, "So, Lin Lao is on his side?"

Lin Han waved his hand and said: "No one is standing on anyone, the old man is already old and old now, and he doesn't want to ask so many things, if you want to ask him about him, you can find someone else, I haven't had many opportunities to meet him in the past year, let alone talk about major affairs in the DPRK and China." I don't know where he stands. As for the affairs of the Governor's Palace, I will not even bother with it, since Your Majesty has arranged for the British to go on an expedition, it has its own reasons...... If there is nothing to do, the old man still has some official business to deal with."

"Then take your leave." Li Dongyang didn't talk nonsense with Lin Han anymore.

When Lin Han left the Ministry of Rites, he immediately went to the Ministry of Officials and saw Ma Wensheng who was drinking medicine.

At this time, Li Dongyang also felt that the old guys in the court were not in good health, and compared to Zhang Zhou's lively jumping, the old guys in front of him were indeed like a pool of stagnant water.

The two sat down and talked individually.

Ma Wensheng knew about Li Dongyang's communication with Lin Han, and couldn't help laughing: "He is like this, he wants to stay out of everything, but he should also know that His Majesty has long regarded him as Zhang Bingkuan's person, and therefore entrusted him with important tasks."

Li Dongyang said, "Brother Negative Figure, who do you think is more suitable for the person who can replace you in the future?"

The smile on Ma Wensheng's face couldn't help but rise.

He asked, "So, do you start preparing now?"

Li Dongyang looked unspeakable, but he had to sigh and said: "The preparations that should be made must also be made, for more than a year, the top and bottom of the DPRK and the Central Committee have been very stable, but there are still changes in the six departments, in the past, within a year, it was reasonable for the old ministers of the Central Court to change a few people, and there was no one to talk about it, but now, ...... even if

It's just that one person has changed, and it's almost a game, and it's all about one and the other."

"Hmm."

Ma Wensheng nodded, agreeing with Li Dongyang's statement.

Ma Wensheng said: "In the past, within the Wenchen, they were generally courteous to each other, and no one took the sword sideways, but now that there is Zhang Bingkuan, you should be worried that someone will use the relationship between Zhang Bingkuan and His Majesty to go astray, and after taking the throne, the court will be disrupted, right?" Li Dongyang said: "It's not that I'm afraid of chaos, Zhang Bingkuan has been in the court for a few years, and he has been a scholar for two years, and in the past two years, he hasn't caused much trouble, but it's definitely not a matter of following the rules."

"That's ...... How?" Ma Wensheng couldn't understand what Li Dongyang meant, or the meaning of the iron triangle of the cabinet represented by Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang said with a bit of murderous aura in his eyes: "Remove it! Otherwise, there will be no peace in the government and the opposition."

Ma Wensheng then fell silent.

He wasn't too embarrassed to ask.

In addition to this, will Zhang Zhou be completely unable to turn over, or will it be solved physically and kill him directly?

Li Dongyang said, "Brother Negative Tu, what do you think?"

After pondering deeply, Ma Wensheng said slowly: "With His Majesty's trust in him at present, I am afraid that it will be difficult to shake his status...... With the help of the Governor's Palace, or ...... There's a chance."

Li Dongyang smiled slightly and said, "Brother Negative Diagram also sees this?"

Ma Wensheng almost glanced at Li Dongyang, as if to say, you ran to talk to Lin Han about Zhang Mao, indicating that you value the contradiction between Zhang Zhou and Zhang Mao very much, and want to take the opportunity to tear up the relationship between the two of them, and then use Zhang Mao to deal with Zhang Zhou......

Are you blind to me?

Ma Wensheng said: "The British duke, who was sophisticated and sleek in the past, was mostly vain in dealing with Zhang Bingkuan's affairs, and now that the fire is burning on him, it is impossible for him to ignore it anymore."

Li Dongyang nodded and said, "But I'm afraid that the British will win this battle in the northwest, and at that time, the situation will be different."

Ma Wensheng asked, "Are you afraid that Zhang Bingkuan will help the British Gong win?" Let the British Duke get the status of military merit? Then why didn't Your Majesty send someone else, not the British duke? There are many rumors about the bad deeds of the British Duke in Beijing, if it weren't for someone secretly instigating, I'm afraid it wouldn't be like this, even Dongchang and Jinyiwei turned a blind eye, doesn't it explain the problem?"

According to Ma Wensheng's meaning, the emperor definitely did not let Zhang Mao lead the troops in order to "fulfill" Zhang Mao.

Zhang Mao lacked the military merits of leading troops to fight, but if the emperor was really good for Zhang Mao, he could have left Zhang Mao in Beijing to continue to be his rich and noble prince, and there was no need to send Zhang Mao to the northwest.

There is only one purpose in doing this, and that is to suppress Zhang Mao.

Compared with Zhu Hui, the protector of the country, who has only risen in the past 20 years, Zhang Mao's position in the army can be said to be very stable, and he has a lot of people.

The literati fought by mouth and resourcefulness.

What do warriors rely on?

Physical eradication can also become a routine operation.

Ma Wensheng seems to be secretly testing the reactions of these people because he understands that Li Dongyang wants to use Zhang Mao's hand to kill Zhang Zhou.

Li Dongyang said, "So right now, we have to do something."

Ma Wensheng asked, "Continue to add fuel to the fire, so that Your Majesty will be more harsh on the British Duke in the northwest, so that he will have resentment, even hatred?"

Li Dongyang didn't expect Ma Wensheng to say things so directly, and after thinking about it, he also nodded.

Ma Wensheng pondered for a moment and said, "If this is the case, then in terms of grain and grass rationing, we must make some trouble, and we must deduct it in the name of the Ministry of War, but Zhang Bingkuan is not a mediocre person, he will notice any actions on your side, or he will respond."

Li Dongyang said: "This is not worried, since His Majesty sent the British Duke to the northwest, the contradiction between Zhang Bingkuan and Zhang Mao has arisen

None of them. Sometimes we should fulfill him, and now we help him, aren't we pushing the British Duke into the water?"

"Huh." Ma Wensheng sighed bitterly, "Since it is in the water, I think it looks like molten iron, and it is not hot when it is hot."

Under the coordination of Ma Wensheng and Li Dongyang, the emperor was immediately appointed by the officials and asked to appoint a new governor of the border to assist the British Duke in completing the war in the northwest.

In addition, the British government was allowed to mobilize 60,000 troops and horses from Biguan, Datong, Yansui, and other places to go out to the army, which was an increase of 10,000 men from the original plan, but it did not mention at all how much military rations and materials would be transferred, and even the storage and transportation of basic combat firearms such as artillery.

Only give you soldiers and horses, and leave the rest of the problems to you Zhang Mao to solve by himself.

"What does that mean?"

When Zhu Youzhu got the note handed over by Xiao Jing and saw the cabinet's vote, he himself was a little unclear about the situation.

Xiao Jing said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you see, the government and the opposition are really concerned about the matter of the British Duke's war in the northwest, and even where to transfer troops and horses from are listed very clearly, and the fortresses and soldiers and horses around the pass can be used by the British public, and it seems that the British public must win this battle!"

"Really? If that's the case, they really have a heart."

Zhu Youzhu looked at the performance carefully, but still didn't find anything wrong.

No matter how you look at it, it is the government and the opposition who are making suggestions and helping the British Northwest to win, and they have indeed made a lot of constructive suggestions.

The help given is also presented on paper, and even the cabinet's vote is inclined to assist Zhang Mao, rather than causing trouble for Zhang Mao.

Xiao Jing said: "Your Majesty, the hearts of all the ministers in the court are still for the border government, and they probably all know that the British Duke has no experience in leading troops before, so I want to give him more help."

"Oh."

Zhu Youzhu nodded.

With Zhu Youji's wisdom, he did not see that the purpose of the DPRK and China in doing this was only to achieve "what is said and what is actually are two different things".

The government and the opposition helped you, so that Zhang Mao felt very moved, and when you found out that everything was empty talk, in the end you didn't get any support, you want soldiers and horses, you want grain and grass, and you don't have food and grass...... The so-called ability to transfer troops and food is just a piece of paper, and you Zhang Mao are still angry?

Who should you be angry with then?

Is it us, the Wenchen who is "dedicated to helping you", or Zhang Zhou, who doesn't do things behind the scenes?

You Zhang Mao guess, why didn't the emperor give you support?

Is it to trap you, or is it to train you?

At that point, who are you to hate?

"Then everything will follow the reply that came up. I'm not in a good mood these days, so I won't ask too much, you can just deal with it yourself."

Zhu Youzhu didn't bother to review the recitals again.

Once he finds that there are people in the court who can help him do things, he will be lazy.

Before, he didn't dare.

And now that Zhang Zhou has taken care of all the incurable diseases for him, he can rest assured that he will hand over the matter.

"What's the matter, Grandpa Xiao?"

When Xiao Jing returned to the duty room of the celebrant supervisor, Wei Bin hurriedly greeted him.

As before, Chen Kuan is not here, not even Li Zhang.

Xiao Jing completely cultivated Wei Bin as a successor, and Chen Kuan was already out, as for Li Zhang, he was not Xiao Jing's person in the first place.

In the celebrant supervisor, he is also very particular about factions.

Xiao Jing smiled and nodded, "Your Majesty has read the following invitation, and naturally thinks that this is to help the Ming Northwest win, how can there be any reason not to agree?" Your Majesty asked our family to approve it on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and this matter can be decided."

Wei Bin smiled, "Your Majesty still hasn't seen it."

Xiao Jing glanced over coldly and said, "What do you mean by this? Do you think there's something wrong with that?"

Wei Bin was so frightened that he quickly explained, "That's not what I meant."

"You'd better not mean that, we are all people who share your Majesty's worries, what can you think, do you think there will be any collusion between the celebrant and the cabinet

？ Have a little brain!"

Of course, Xiao Jing refused to admit that this matter was not only a private collaboration between the cabinet and the officials and other yamen, but even their celebrant and supervisor were behind their backs.

Because to overthrow Zhang Zhou, it is not the meaning of the Chinese courtier, and even Xiao Jing will be deeply involved in it.

It's just that Xiao Jing usually gives people the impression that he is a good man, and he welcomes everyone with a smile when he sees him, and no one seems to think that he will be involved in such a big party dispute.

The celebrant himself has no connection with the ministers.

Wei Bin said: "Having said that, but it is really necessary to coordinate everywhere, the British public soldiers have food and firearms, and it is not a problem for the northwest to win, and the time will ......

"Will it?"

Xiao Jing said, "Do you think Zhang Bingkuan is a vegetarian, or is Your Majesty not taking precautions? Even if the British Duke went to the northwest, he saw that he would definitely return in vain. Even if the Tatars were ten times outnumbered, in the case of being pushed deep into the steppe by Xinbo, they only blindly retreated, do you think that with the ability of the British duke, there will be a chance to fight the Tatars head-on? And let him win a big victory?"

"That's ...... In vain?" Wei Bin asked.

"That's all good, the most feared thing is to break the halberd and sink into the sand, the bigger the noise, the more there is no gain, and the more Your Majesty will pick thorns! If the British Duke wants to win now, he is afraid that only Da Luo Jinxian can help him, otherwise even if he is not the second Duke of Baoguo, others will say that he is! Zhang's good life is getting better!"