Chapter 190 It’s still Yang Yiqing
Liu Meng knew that he could be punished for misrepresenting military information, but he was still unwilling to publicize Emperor Zhengde's martial arts, or even the martial arts of the entire group of distinguished generals, because this would only affect the status of their civilian group.
However, what Liu Meng did not expect was that Cai Kuan was unwilling to cooperate with him, and even scolded himself for delaying the military flight, and immediately suspended him together with Ma Wensheng.
"Don't forget that you are civil servants! What you do will only make military ministers rise!"
Liu Meng shouted at the closed door, and then sat back on the chair angrily.
He was promoted from the imperial censor to the chief envoy of Fujian, and did not become the governor until the beginning of the fourth year of Zhengde. He did not understand the behavior of civil servants such as Cai Kuan and others who emphasized martial arts and neglected civil affairs. In the end, he had to curse again:
"Since ancient times, people who are both civilized and military, whether they use literature as martial arts or use martial arts as literature, are not in the right way. Nowadays, Cai Kuan, Ma Wensheng and others are indeed not in the right way!"
This feeling of being locked up made Liu Meng feel extremely uncomfortable, but when Zhang Lun shouted that he was going to be cut into pieces, he was still scared and hid in the corner. He was glad that he was locked up by Ma Wensheng, otherwise he would really He was worried that he might be hacked to death by Zhang Lun.
Zhang Lun now saw the literati's mind, and he wished he could eat Liu Meng alive who almost let the little prince go. Fortunately, he captured the little prince again.
Ma Wensheng sent his troops into the Hetao without waiting for Zhu Houzhao's order.
Recovering the Hetao has always been his long-cherished wish. After learning that the little prince was captured alive and that there were no Tatar cavalry in the Hetao, he would naturally recover the Hetao immediately.
Zhu Houzhao received the news about the recovery of Hetao in September of the fifth year of Zhengde.
The recovery of the Hetao means that the Ming Dynasty's border defense can be further strengthened. The Ming Dynasty can directly rely on Helan Mountain, Lang Mountain, and Daqing Mountain to defend against the northern Tartars, and can harvest countless fertile fields. At the same time, there are many pastures with fertile water and grass, and it can also provide more good horses. .
In addition, before that, Zhu Houzhao asked Qiu Yue to lead the Ming Dynasty's 15,000 cavalry to rescue the Mongolian right wing, cripple the little prince's 50,000 cavalry, and even capture the little prince alive. He even ordered the border towns to attack the rear of the little prince.
Zhengde's four-year Ming Dynasty record can be described as brilliant.
Recover the Loop!
Crippling the Mongolian left wing will also greatly weaken the Mongolian right wing and capture the little prince alive!
Although Zhu Houzhao's martial arts was not yet developed, his martial arts had already been painted with great color.
Naturally, Zhu Houzhao would not let some civil servants with ulterior motives hide his martial arts in the vast sea of books. He wanted to write down his glorious achievements in the four years of Zhengde!
Therefore, Zhu Hou followed the cabinet order and ordered Zhang Lun to escort the young prince to Beijing. He would hold a grand prisoner dedication ceremony.
At the same time, Zhu Houzhao also ordered the cabinet to discuss the matter of merit-based rewards with the six ministries. Qiu Yue who defeated the Mongolian left wing, Zhang Lun who captured the little prince alive, and Ma Wensheng who recaptured the Hetao were all to be awarded titles based on merit.
but.
In this life, Zhu Houzhao will not create a general who governs the country like Zhengde in history, and he will give himself a knighthood.
However, just when Zhu Houzhao was about to promote his martial arts, he received news that King Zhu Chixiu of Anhua had launched a rebellion.
However, this time, Anhua King Zhu Zhixiu's message of rebellion was not the historical crusade against Liu Jin, but the Qing emperor's side, killing powerful ministers Ma Wensheng, Jiao Fang, Xu Jin and others!
Naturally, the reason why Ma Wensheng was killed was because when Ma Wensheng was cleaning up farmland in the border town, he forced Zhu Zhixiu to hand over a lot of civilian and military farmland that he had usurped
The reason for the execution of Jiao Fang and Xu Jin is naturally self-evident, that is because the cabinet intends to rectify the salt policy, which infringes on the interests of his vassal king.
As early as August of the fourth year of Zhengde, Tang Ren wrote a memorial to the Hu Kedu government, suggesting that the imperial court should rectify the salt policy to implement border affairs and restore the system of paying grain and collecting silver. This kicked off the discussion of rectifying the salt policy.
The news that the cabinet vote was to be approved soon informed the powerful gentry that King Anhua, who often did border trade business, was naturally unwilling to let the court rectify the salt policy and cut off his own financial path.
Although all of this came from Zhu Houzhao's instruction, and the clearing of farmland in the border town was not just for Zhu Zhixiu, a vassal king, but all the dignitaries in the border town were also cleaned up, and the salt policy had not yet begun to be rectified and even banned The matter of selling salt to the little prince has not yet been thoroughly investigated.
However, Anhua King Zhu Zhixiu had already had his objections under the inducement of Ningxia health workers Sun Jingwen, Meng Bin and other literati.
Now, because he heard that Zhu Houzhao had not returned from the northern expedition and the Ming army was defeated, he thought the time had come. King Anhua immediately launched an army to rebel. He first killed the governor An Weixue, the chief military officer Jiang Han, and the guarding eunuch Li Zeng, etc., and then prepared to take it by force. Ferry, trying to prevent the officers and soldiers from entering the Ningxia Guard.
However, Cai Kuan had already received Zhu Houzhao's instructions to deploy his defenses in advance, which caused the rebels to fail in seizing the ferry. Then Cai Kuan personally led his army across the river, and within ten days the king's rebellion was calmed down.
King Anhua's rebellion was like a joke, but the officials in the border town took it seriously and directly sent the matter to Beijing as an emergency report, along with a memorandum.
"Guanyuan Governor Huang Ke reported that King Anhua had conspired to rebel and wanted to punish the treacherous officials who had stolen power. Now Guanzhong has been shaken. Please send a large army to conquer it quickly! Otherwise, the consequences are unpredictable, and there may be chaos in Guanzhong and the world. Ann! ”
Zhu Houzhao picked up the memorial and smiled lightly, and said to Xu Jin, Jiao Fang and others: "This is not reporting the enemy's situation. This is clearly trying to scare me. King Anhua is just a vassal king. He has no soldiers and no power. What can he do? ,value Are these people so shocked? Although I have grown up in the palace, I am not a timid person. I ordered the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi to take measures to suppress the rebellion. At the same time, I strictly enforce military discipline and do not disturb the people! "
Xu Jin and Jiao Fang both secretly admired their majesty's wisdom. They could tell at a glance that these border town officials were clearly reporting to the court about King Anhua's rebellion, but in fact they were telling the court that the cabinet was undergoing major changes due to their traitorous ministers. He wanted to frighten Zhu Houzhao, but he had to kill his traitorous ministers to appease the feudal king's anger.
Fortunately, His Majesty is far-sighted, and the tricks of these officials are no longer enough for him to fall into easily.
Because of this.
Regarding the rebellion of King Anhua.
The emperor, the cabinet, the Ministry of War and even the General Staff of the Guards all behaved calmly.
The cabinet continues to study with the Ministry of Household Affairs how to reform the salt policy.
Emperor Zhu Houzhao began to act as a nanny, and every day he only teased the three beautiful children, or touched Ruyi's increasingly protruding belly.
The General Staff of the Guards is summarizing the next Ming Dynasty's foreign military strategy.
The Ministry of War will determine how many officers and soldiers will be needed to defend the Hetao after it is recaptured.
Dong Tian, the young minister of Dali Temple, wrote a memorial on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fifth year of Zhengde, saying that the rebel army was powerful and that your Majesty should immediately send out important ministers to lead an expedition to quell the border troubles.
Zhu Houzhao naturally burst into laughter after receiving this memorial. He only asked the cabinet to draft it, approve the memorial first, and then let the cabinet discuss who should lead the expedition.
Soon, the results of the cabinet meeting were put in front of Zhu Houzhao. The result of the meeting was to appoint Yang Yiqing to be in charge of military affairs, Bo Shenying of Jingyang to be the chief military officer, and eunuch Wei Bin to supervise the army.
Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't really want these people to lead the army. He just wanted to see who was secretly so eager to make contributions and get a position.
Yang Yiqing?
Zhu Houzhao remembered that in history, it was Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong who conspired with Zhang Yong to get rid of Liu Jin by taking command of the expedition against King Anhua.
However, in this life, Zhang Yong had already been executed.
As an emperor, Liu Jin allowed civil servants such as Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang to take some of the blame for him. As a result, Liu Jin, the chief minister of etiquette, was not so hated in this world. At most, he was scolded for collaborating with treacherous ministers, just like the Wanli period in history. Same as Feng Bao.
Zhu Houzhao is now getting used to thinking about people's hearts. After all, the trajectory of history is changing, and he has to think more. For example, he is now wondering why the eunuch who was pushed out by the imperial court in this life is Wei Bin.
People's hearts are apart. Although Zhu Houzhao knew that none of the officials in the court had simple thoughts, he could not guarantee that he would be able to capture others' thoughts. The only thing he could conclude now was that Yang Yiqing, Wei Bin and Shenying all wanted to In addition, these people may want to take this opportunity to plot to get rid of someone, just like Yang Yiqing teamed up with Zhang Yong to get rid of Liu Jin in history.
Although the current incident is different from the original historical incident, based on the similarities, Zhu Houzhao discovered that Yang Yiqing was the key. Whether it was the current incident or the original historical incident, Yang Yiqing was arrested by the court. It was recommended to be the general system (just waiting for Zhu Houzhao's decree).
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao was sure that Yang Yiqing must be impatient of loneliness or thinking about getting rid of someone.
Now Zhu Houzhao knows that he does not have to worry about civilian officials dealing with him directly, because there is already a group of officials who have the same interests as him.
In addition, his severe crackdowns also let officials who were dissatisfied with the New Deal know the consequences of defying Long Yan. However, Zhu Houzhao believed that these civil servants who were good at internal fighting would still shift the blame to the cabinet ministers in power in the DPRK and the Central Government, and they might even The eunuch who serves as the ceremonial supervisor.
Jiao Fang, the chief minister of the cabinet, didn't quite understand why the Emperor agreed to Dong Tian's proposal to send troops to quell the rebellion. Therefore, on this day, he couldn't help but asked:
"Your Majesty! Didn't you have no intention of sending troops to quell the rebellion? You only asked Cai Kuan to quell the rebellion. But why do you need to hold a court meeting now and let the officials recommend someone suitable to take charge?"
"I agreed to hold a court meeting and send troops to go out, but I didn't want them to actually go out. The Ming Dynasty does not have so much money and food to spend on such useless work. If not, how can we know the minds of the people below?" Zhu Houzhao said. Instruct the cabinet and the Ministry of War to not prepare the decision to appoint Yang Yiqing and others to send troops for the time being, and wait until a month later.
When Jiao Fang, the chief minister of the cabinet, heard this, he secretly sighed that His Majesty the Emperor's thoughts were unpredictable, and nodded in agreement.
Yang Yiqing is not a person who is willing to live in seclusion. He knows that what he wants is to make contributions and enter the cabinet. But now he is almost sixty and has not yet become a minister, so he wants to seize this opportunity for King Anhua to rebel again. Make a meritorious deed.
But Yang Yiqing didn't understand Zhu Houzhao's thoughts.
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