As the Ming Dynasty capital enters August, the weather is still hot and the autumn wind does not blow away the heat.
In addition, the tireless chirping of cicada monkeys on the trees in the yard made Wei Guangde in the house feel uncomfortable.
As a cabinet minister in the Ming Dynasty, life was actually quite boring, and there were endless memorials. Wei Guangde had a deep understanding of the difficulty of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also expressed his understanding of the establishment of the cabinet by Emperor Yongle.
You know, what he handled was only part of the world's memorials, so he felt it was very difficult. Those two emperors had been taking over the power most of the time, and they handled these memorials alone.
As soon as he finished processing a memorial, Wei Guangde put it aside and reached out to pick up another one. When he saw the cover, he was stunned, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The memorial was a bit thick. Wei Guangde looked at the front and saw that it was the memorial of the Ministry of Rites. He submitted a memorial to Altan Khan for the appointment of Sonan Garcio as the Dalai Lama and requested the court to decide. The memorial to Altan Khan, followed by Altan Khan, and finally Sonan Garcio’s memorial to express his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.
After waiting for more than half a month, the memorial was finally delivered to the capital.
Wei Guangde carefully read the memorials of Altan Khan and Sonangacuo, and slowly guessed their psychological changes from the lines.
To be honest, Wei Guangde was somewhat influenced by that person and showed a slight distrust of the Dalai Lama.
However, after carefully reading Sonangacu's memorial, I felt that at this time, it might have been suppressed by the Tibetan Pakhan regime and urgently needed help from foreign players, so the memorial content was very humble.
Since the other party showed humility, Wei Guangde didn't feel it necessary to take action, although he had long believed in this matter in his heart.
However, when the matter is really in front of you, your heart is still somewhat affected by your predecessor.
After looking at Altan Khan's memorial again, Wei Guangde picked up the note and put it on the paper and started writing a note, "Mongolia's heart towards Buddha can be seen. It is planned to sign Sonangacuo as the Zen Master of the Protector Hongjiao, please decide."
It should be noted that although the Dalai Lama was enthroned in the Ming Dynasty, it was not the Dalai Lama's title.
Strictly speaking, the Dalai Lama at this time was just Altan Khan's respectful title to Sonangacuo, and it was of a private nature. Naturally, it was impossible to write a word like "Dalai Lama" in official documents.
"Zen Master Huguo Hongjiao" was what Wei Guangde thought of after reading the memorial, and promoted Buddhism to the Mongols.
As for adding the word "protecting the country", it also seems noble. After all, the imperial court requires the imperial edict and seal.
After putting away the pen, Wei Guangde felt that it was almost done. He immediately waited for the handwriting on the note to dry out before picking it up and putting it into the memorial.
However, there were some things he had never thought of, that was, Tan Lun discussed this matter with relevant officials of the Ministry of War Department after that day.
The vocational department gave another judgment, that is, if Altan Khan continues to operate in Qinghai or even Tibet after he mastered Mongolia in the south of the desert, he may not lose his tail.
That means that Wei Guangde and his friends planned to lure Altan Khan to bring the Mongols to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and weaken the Mongolians' strength, but they didn't know that this was an help for the Mongols to expand their ruling areas and increase their population and combat power.
If it is not controlled properly, Altan Khan's strength may have a qualitative leap because of his acquisition of Tibet, which is even more difficult to control.
In response to this, Tan Lun rushed to Wei Guangde's mansion that night and informed Wei Guangde of the analysis of the official position in detail.
Until now, Wei Guangde is still hesitant about this and has not set an ultimate goal.
Yes, sometimes I think about things like this, only considering my preference for myself, but forgetting that things have two sides.
The large-scale entry of Mongolians into Tibet is both a danger and an opportunity, a crisis and a crisis, an opportunity in danger.
So at this moment, Wei Guangde thought of sending Sonangatou to Mongolia to promote Buddhism.
The same thing is said, asking the Mongolians to "put down the butcher's knife" is the purpose. They either go to stock or worship Buddha without fighting. What a great thing.
However, Wei Guangde didn't know that this was actually something that happened in the original time and space.
The Yellow Sect represented by Sonangacuo no longer has a place to live in Tibet, so they have to seek help from Mongolia and go to Mongolia to preach Buddhism, while strengthening their relations with Mongolia, hoping to use Mongolia's power to restore the Glu religion's status in Tibet.
And he eventually passed away in Mongolia, and his new spiritual child was Altan Khan's new great-grandson.
The Fourth Dalai Lama returned to Tibet in the late Ming Dynasty with Mongolian cavalry, and the strength of the Mongols also entered Tibet again and established the Khanate.
After the Qing Dynasty conquered Mongolia and the Central Plains, the Khanate of Tibet also surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. As a result, the Qing Dynasty had reasons to interfere in Tibet affairs. When Tibet refused to obey the orders of the central court, the Qing soldiers sent troops from Qinghai and Sichuan to attack Tibet many times and achieved success.
In the end, the military victory allowed the Tibetan ruling class to choose to truly surrender to the Qing government. The ministers in Tibet sent by the Qing government were fully powered to interfere in Tibet affairs and firmly tie Tibet with China.
It can be said that Mongolia's entry into Tibet did not expand the strength of the Mongols, especially when facing a stronger opponent, the Qing Dynasty, and had no power to resist.
It is precisely because of this that it is said that the Qing Dynasty actually made the greatest contribution to China's territory.
Otherwise, west of Sichuan and Shaanxi and north of the Great Wall may not be within China's territory.
Putting this matter aside, Wei Guangde continued to handle other matters, and the following one is another thing he cares about.
The memorial was written by the right deputy chief censor Lao, who was far away in Zhejiang. What he said was naturally the news that Yin Zhengmao's fleet went to sea.
It was also half a month ago that Yin Zhengmao arrived in Ningbo, Zhejiang. After checking all the ships and supplies accompanying him, he said goodbye to Lao Kan and other officials who saw him off, and took the fleet sailing to sea and headed towards Luzon.
Nowadays, it has become a common practice for sea ships in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to head south and go to Luzon for the first stop.
After all, this place is already considered the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Only the sea boats that secretly go out to sea in Guangdong and Guangxi will take the routes of Annan and Siam.
On their route, they had to deliberately avoid Luzon and Old Port.
After all, without a ship guide, it is difficult to explain where they came from.
However, this situation will change soon, after all, the Chinese people's habit of using their brains also penetrates into their bones.
Although I can't get the official ship guide from the Ming Dynasty, I can transform my own ship into a ship of the Nanyang vassal state.
You only need to find some Nanyang boatmen to board the ship. After all, with the increase in merchant ship exchanges between Luzon and the old port, it has gradually become a distribution center for Ming Dynasty goods in Nanyang.
Some merchants who are not in time to arrive at Yuegang for various reasons will give priority to docking in the old port to purchase goods, followed by Luzon.
This also greatly increased tariffs in the two places. The tax bank of the Nanhai Navy flowed into the Navy's money bag, and the Ministry of Revenue sent skilled officials from Ningbo and Quanzhou to the two places to help calculate the tax bank.
This income was not collected from the Ming Dynasty, and the Ministry of Revenue and the inner court both blocked the news, so not many people knew it.
Wei Guangde had no votes on this Lao Kan's report, and it was a document to be submitted, so it was enough to let the superiors know about this matter.
It is sent to the palace intact, and the Sili Supervisor can just approve it. How can he still need a Grand Secretary’s ticket?
Thinking that the fleet had already set off, Wei Guangde couldn't help but think of Myanmar.
A month ago, Li Chengliang sent a message saying that he had prepared and that the army would advance westward in the near future and completely eliminate the remnants of the Dongyu Dynasty.
However, in this month, the Ministry of War did not report the war report to the cabinet.
Wei Guangde was not worried that Li Chengliang would lose his head, but there was no news, so Wei Guangde could not help but be a little worried.
He was upset, and Wei Guangde picked up the teacup on the table, but found that there was no water in the teacup.
"Reed, Reed, come in."
Wei Guangde was unhappy and shouted to the outside of the door.
However, this time, there was no scene of Lu Bu stepping into the house quickly, and there was no movement outside the door.
"What did this kid do?"
Wei Guangde cursed in a low voice, picked up the folding fan beside the desk and opened it, fanned himself and cooled it down, then got up and walked to the door while shaking the fan.
Sure enough, there was no one outside the door. When the movement here was heard, a figure popped up in the wing room next to him.
"Guanjun, where is the Lubu man? Where did you hide and be lazy?"
Wei Guangde immediately shouted when he saw the man.
Shi Guanjun, a supervisor, was transferred to the Zhongshu Department for his ability to do things. Later, he was elected to the cabinet as the Zhongshu Tanner to help do something.
Wei Guangde asked, and Shi Guanjun hurriedly stood out and clasped his fists at Wei Guangde and said, "Old Wei, there was a little servant outside just now, and Lu Bu followed him.
The person who came seemed to be guarding the imperial gate, and there should be something outside. ”
"Oh, I got it, please help me refill the tea."
Wei Guangde nodded and gave another order.
The Zhongshu Department is the yamen where Zhang Ke went to, located next to the Sixth Department, but most of them are places where people can turn around.
Because the Zhongshu Institute has no longer written edicts, edicts, silver books, iron vouchers, etc., these errands have actually fallen into the hands of the Zhongshu.
For officials from the seventh rank, Wei Guangde could naturally use them at will.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
He was resting in the yard, and Shi Guanjun had already soaked the tea and brought it over.
"Please trouble you, go get busy."
Wei Guangde smiled at him and said something.
"Gemaster Wei, please say hello if you have something to do, and I'll be in the next room."
Shi Guanjun said with a smile.
Wei Guangde had been resting in the yard for about half a cup of tea, and finally saw Lu Bu jogging in from outside the yard.
"Master, come to me."
When Lu Bu saw Wei Guangde in the yard, he guessed it.
"Yeah."
Wei Guangde responded and then returned to the room.
No matter whether Lu Bu goes out for office or private matter, he still has to deal with it with it closed, and no one can let others in the cabinet laugh at it.
After entering the room, Lu Bu took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it over with both hands.
"Master, this is what Butler Zhang gave to me from the imperial city, and said he would give it to me as soon as possible."
Before Wei Guangde could ask, Lu Bu had already explained the reason for his departure.
Knowing that Zhang Ji was asking someone to call him out, Wei Guangde naturally knew that something must be wrong.
After receiving the letter, Wei Guangde frowned.
The letter was not from Zhang Ji, but sent by Ma Fang, the Xuanfu family.
"What's wrong with Xuanfu? Altan Khan is not on the grassland now."
Wei Guangde muttered, then tore open the envelope and pulled out the letter paper to look.
Until Wei Guangde finished reading all the letters, Wei Guangde's mood also became low.
Yes, Ma Fang's letter actually has nothing else. It is either asking the court for money and food, but simply telling him that he should arrange his successor to go to Xuanfu as soon as possible.
Starting from the beginning of the year, Ma Fang felt that her health was getting worse and worse, and now she can’t even ride a war horse for a long time.
The generals of the border town cannot ride horses to fight, so what else can they do?
In fact, if you were wandering in the grassland in your early years, your body would have a root cause. In the past, you were young and strong and could withstand it.
The conditions have been better in the past few years, and I plan to raise them, but my foundation is already broken.
According to the contents of the letter, he probably has lived a life of a few years.
Obviously, his physical condition is worse than that of Tan Lun.
Tan Lun, at least in Beijing, I can get a lot of tonic medicinal materials to nourish my body, so I felt I couldn’t stand it in the past two years, but I could still continue to stand guard.
But when Ma Fang's body collapsed, all kinds of problems came.
Fortunately, the walls on Xuanfu are quiet now, Altan Khan is not there, and Mongolia cannot get into trouble, so Ma Fang has not led the team to patrol this year.
I really have the will but lack the ability, so I didn't delay my choreography.
But this situation cannot last. I will arrange it with Wei Guangde. He will return to his hometown in Wei County to spend his old age next year.
It has to be said that this letter is really important, which is related to Wei Guangde's layout for the safety of the capital.
It hasn't been a few years since Yu Dayou's side, and Ma Fang is the same. At that time, only Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang will be left in their hands.
There are quite a few, but the territory of the Ming Dynasty is too large and people need to watch from both north and south, so I can't help but feel a little stretched.
Wei Guangde now feels that there are too few talents in his hands, especially those generals with experience in combat formations.
Thinking of this, Wei Guangde naturally thought of the Ministry of War.
He just grasped the general direction, but his understanding of local military generals is definitely the most familiar with the Ministry of War Military Selection Department.
Wei Guangde didn't believe that there were no famous generals in the Ming Dynasty at this time, and there were many talents in which dynasty or generation.
As for Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou's reputation, they were the heroes who created the times. They participated in the suppression of Japanese Japanese, so celebrities have been eternal. In addition, their military qualities are also excellent, and they are all generals who are both in the north and the south.
We have to start cultivating a new generation of generals, and we cannot rely solely on these veterans to conquer the world.
People are about to grow old.
Perhaps at the beginning, Yu Dayou said he wanted to retire, but Wei Guangde wanted to let him survive again. After he trained Chen Lin and others, the navy had a new leader.
Now that Ma Fang from Xuanfu has also given up, Wei Guangde has to pay attention to the renewal of talents.
He wrote a note to Tan Lun, asking him to arrange for the Wuxuan Department to sort out the generals from all over the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, select some available talents, and send them to Xuanfu, Liaozhen and other places for training as soon as possible.
Especially Qi Jiguang's military training method, Wei Guangde felt that it should be retained and promoted in various border towns. He also had to ask the Ministry of War for the promotion of Qi Jiguang's cavalry, stair camp and van camp, which step has been taken now.
Wei Guangde only remembers that he had always said that he would set up ten new troops in Jizhen, but at that time it was Qi Jiguang's plan.
After that, Qi Jiguang transferred north and took away four trained barracks. Wei Guangde had to ask carefully about what happened to the other ones, whether to supplement them, etc.
During this period, I forgot this.
"There are so many things left behind in the past."
Wei Guangde sighed with emotion, called Lu Bu, handed him the note, and asked him to send it to the Ministry of War to hand it over to Tan Lun, and then he started to handle official duties again.
As for the candidates Ma Fang mentioned in the letter, he has no choice but to wait first. (This chapter ends)