Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 210 I'm Rude
"Why is the Ministry of War not the Ministry of War? The Ordnance Institute only recognizes Long Live and His Royal Highness King Qi!"

On June [-]th, the day before Zhu Youjian heard the news inside the pass, the situation inside the Daming Pass was not as optimistic as compared to outside the pass...

At the gate of the Ordnance Station in the north of Yanshan Daying, officials from the Ministry of War came here and were shut down.

The shence guards and Jin Wu guards guarding this place didn't care about the cabinet's order at all, and directly drew their swords and pointed at the officials.

Dozens of military officials, big and small, were trembling with anger, and the Beijing camp behind them was also at a loss.

"There is an emergency in the northwest, and the gunpowder of the Ordnance Station is also for the sake of the country. Commander Zhou, please don't..."

"I'll say it again, without the handwriting of Long Live and King Qi, cats and dogs don't want to enter the Ordnance Institute and Yanshan Camp!"

The commander of the Jinwu Guard, Zhou Xian, didn't care about the words of the officials of the Ministry of War at all. He looked down at the officials of the Ministry of War arrogantly, then turned around and said:
"close the door!"

After all, he and the Commander of Shence Guard turned around and walked into the Yanshan Camp, and at the same time, the soldiers on both sides directly closed the gate of the Yanshan Camp.

"This... a rough martial artist!"

When the military officials saw this, they could only curse, but then they turned their heads and said:
"Send the matter here to the capital as soon as possible, and say that Zhou Xian, the commander of the Jinwu Guard, and Zhang Chao, the commander of the Shence Guard, did not accept the transfer order!"

"Yes..." The clerk of the Ministry of War next to him saluted in return, and then sent Tang Qi to report the events of this place to the capital.

At the same time, in the imperial palace of the capital, all the officials were also arguing into a pot of porridge...

"The war in Liaodong is urgent, why does the Ministry of Households mobilize food and fodder at will without waiting for the order of Long Live?!"

In the Wenhua Palace, Yang Lian stood up and questioned Li Zongyan, the new Minister of the Ministry of Households during the incident, but Li Zongyan said with a sad face when facing the questioning:

"The people of Liaodong are the people of Ming Dynasty. Are the people of Suiyang, Xu and Pi not the people of Ming Dynasty? Yang Du is in the middle of the matter..."

"You..." Yang Lian was stunned, and immediately suppressed his anger and said:
"Even if you want disaster relief, you should ask Henan and Nanzhili to transfer Changping warehouses and official rations for disaster relief instead of intercepting military rations!"

"In addition, why did the Ministry of War transfer gunpowder to leave Beijing? Liaodong is the most in need of gunpowder right now, not Shaanxi!"

"Hey! Yang Du is in the middle of the matter, discuss the matter as it is, don't roar above the hall, it is a loss of etiquette..."

Yang Lian was having a fit, but Zhu Guozuo suddenly opened his mouth and reprimanded him for breaking the etiquette. However, Zhu Guozuo pissed off the wrong person this time. Yang Lian even dared to yell at Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao. How could he be afraid of him as a cabinet minister?
"What?! What Zhu Gechen means is, isn't what the officer said is true?!"

"Soldiers, major national affairs, the imperial court has more than [-] troops in the north, and nearly half of them are stored in Liaodong. If there is a loss in Liaodong, the foundation of the country will be shaken!"

"Exaggerated...exaggerated..." Shen Li, who was also a cabinet minister, coughed, and then said to Yang Lian:
"Yang Du gave it to Shizhong, and now you are given to Shizhong as the official department, not the military department or the household department. If you have opinions, you can raise them and discuss them, but you can't take such an attitude."

"Questioning colleagues instead of listening to the cause and effect of their actions, with such an attitude, how can you deal with things fairly as an official?"

Shen Li opened his mouth to be benevolent and moral, but kept his mouth shut to be respectful to his colleagues. Yang Lian's teeth itch in such an angry manner.

"Please explain the matter of the Ministry of War..."

Suddenly, Ye Xianggao, who was sitting in the main seat, spoke, and a strange face stood up and said:

"Hetao Beilu in the northwest, and Ningxia Beilu have been knocking on the border for two years in a row. Shouldn't they allocate gunpowder and artillery?"

Due to the incident of the Hetao Ministry's knocking on the border, Wang Xianggan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, went to Yansui, so Dong Hanru, the left servant, was temporarily acting as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

It was Wang Xiangqian's departure that gave Dong Hanru and others a chance.

The way he spoke was righteous, and he didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong, but Zuo Guangdou, who was the censor of Zuoqian capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, said unhurriedly:

"If I remember correctly, in the mobilization of the Ministry of War, there are only [-] Fran cannons and [-] tiger squatting cannons, right? Including the artillery in the Northwest before, the size is only more than [-]. "

"There are less than [-] cannons, and we need to transfer millions of catties of gunpowder to Shaanxi?"

"Be prepared!" Dong Hanru was neither humble nor overbearing, and Ye Xianggao frowned slightly when he heard his words, and then said:

"There is nothing wrong with all parties in this matter, and Yang Du gave the matter nothing more than an inquiry."

Ye Xianggao wanted to expose the matter, but this behavior made Yang Lian look at Liu Yixiu dissatisfied.

It's just that Liu Yixiu seemed to be preoccupied, absent-minded, and didn't see Yang Lian's eyes.

"Okay, let's talk about the prefects of Shuntian and Yongping. I heard that the prefects of these two places set up cards to stop the victims who moved to Liaodong. Why?"

Ye Xianggao continued to elicit something that happened just yesterday, and even Zhu Youjian didn't know about it.

When he opened his mouth, everyone looked at Zhu Guozuo, because they all knew that the current prefects of Shuntian and Yongping belonged to the Zhejiang Party.

However, regarding this matter, Zhu Guozuo said:
"This matter is mainly to picket and hide the remnants of the White Lotus Sect among the victims."

"Dare to ask, will the prefects of the two places be responsible for the shortage of Mimai due to the delay in the migration of the people?" Ye Xianggao asked with a frown.

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor is in charge of the relocation, so naturally the Imperial Horse Supervisor will continue to be in charge." Zhu Guozuo said brazenly, causing Ye Xianggao to twitch vaguely.

It's no wonder that when the emperor ordered the household department to send another [-] million shi of military rations to Liaodong, the household department agreed so readily, and the co-authors did not want to adjust the military rations in Taicang at all.

Not only did it not transfer to Liaodong, but also wanted to use the victims of the disaster to consume the food of the Yumajian.

Even if there was no breach of the Yellow River in Xupi, I am afraid they will find a way to transfer the military rations elsewhere.

This kind of tactic is already a common method used by civil servants of various parties when they are engaged in party struggles.

When the general and Jinglue are officials of the five parties of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, and Kun, they will spare no effort to support the general.

The household department ran out of money and couldn't continue fighting, so they tried to increase taxes and escort food.

And if the generals are not officials of their five parties, they will collectively act badly, do not offer advice, do not plot, sit and watch the generals of the opposing party lose power on the battlefield, and then ask for a replacement of the general.

All that is needed is to suppress the hostile parties, bring one's own officials to power, and seek military merit.

"When did Ming officials become so virtuous, and now even the military rations have been mobilized..."

"King Qi, King Qi, you are really shooting yourself in the foot with a rock..."

Thinking that the relocation was done by Zhu Youjian himself, and then Zhu Guozuo took the opportunity to expose the flaws, Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, but continued to talk to each other:

"I think the remnants of the White Lotus Sect have been cleared up long ago. Right now, we should let the victims out quickly."

"How can this be done?" Yao Zongwen, who was sitting near the door, stood up suddenly, and said righteously:

"Currently Liaodong is facing a war. If the victims are relocated there, wouldn't the victims be killed? When the Liao incident is over and the king of Qi returns to Beijing, we will make a conclusion!"

"Extremely ridiculous! Liaodong is short of manpower right now, and the victims have gone to Liaodong..." Yang Lian immediately retorted, not wanting Shen Yun to interrupt him:
"Yang Duge is talking about the affairs of the Ministry of War right now. Yao Duge is discussing affairs in the capacity of the military department. I don't think the official department should take care of this matter..."

"Even if he doesn't have the identity of the military department, the lower official is still the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!" Yang Lian was pressed by Shen Yun, and blushed directly to reveal his identity as the censor.

"The censor can't be aggressive either!" Shen Yu suddenly raised his hand and slapped the table, the sound made the non-party people feel nervous and made the party officials frown.

Ye Xianggao was also one of the frowning members, and from Shen Yu's words, he also heard that this matter did not exist and was a possibility.

"You are going to offend King Qi to death..."

Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, and then his mind was spinning rapidly, what could he do now.

It was only after a while that he couldn't figure it out after all, and then he could only open his mouth and say:

"Take a break for a quarter of an hour, and discuss the matter after a quarter of an hour..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone snorted coldly and left.
The cabinet, six ministries, six divisions, the Metropolitan Procuratorate...

Among the more than forty officials, large and small, if you observe carefully, you will find that because the five parties of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, Kun and Donglin are evenly matched, neither party can recommend officials from their own factions to the top.

Therefore, among the six departments that hold real power, a very delicate balance has emerged.

Minister of the Ministry of Officials Zhao Nanxing, Minister of the Ministry of Households Li Zongyan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites Lin Yaoyu, Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs Dong Hanru and Minister of the Ministry of War Wang Xiangqian, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment Qiao Yunsheng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry Zhong Zhengyu...

Among these seven people, one is Donglin Party, one is Qin Party, one is Qi Party, one is Fujian Party, and among the remaining three seemingly non-party officials of Henan origin, Dong Hanru has taken refuge in Zhejiang Party.

In other words, Qi and Zhejiang each occupy two seats in the cabinet, while Donglin occupies one seat, leaving two non-party and two small parties.

In the past few years, this pattern was impossible to exist, but now it has subtly formed.

"When it's critical, you don't deal with that person first, but deal with your colleagues, it's pedantic!"

While spying on the situation, Yao Zongwen, who was resting in the side pavilion with Shen Yu and Zhu Guozuo, spoke up annoyed, and the person he scolded was naturally Yang Lian.

Everyone can see the situation right now. If Zhu Youjian easily regains Liaodong, then the next step is to completely abolish and reform the guards.

These three practices harmed the interests of guard officers and military officers, landlords and gentry, scholars and officials respectively.

Fortunately for the first pair, as long as the British government doesn't take the lead in making troubles, the guard officers and other martial arts are just fish on the chopping board.

Compared with this pair, the latter two pairs are terrifying.

But to say that they are terrifying is for ordinary emperors, but for Zhu Youxiao, there is no such threat at all.

Behind Zhu Youxiao is Zhu Youjian, a villainous kid, and behind Zhu Youjian is a rising Qi royal party.

The Qi Royal Party is said to be the Qi Royal Party, it is better to say that it is more like the Royalist Party.

It's just that this party, so far, has not been involved in the officialdom, but only stays in the frontier army and soldiers.

It is also for this reason that neither of the two major powers in the imperial court can contact them, discuss them in detail, let alone win them over.

Zhu Youjian's political stance and opinions are different from many parties.

Regardless of parties, countries, or officials, as soon as they enter old age and decline, they will think about sticking to the rules and don't want to change the rules they are familiar with to get in touch with interests that they don't understand.

This is also the reason why the officials of the past dynasties clearly knew that if this situation continued, the dynasty would gradually have problems, but they did not want to find a way to solve them.

Anyway, in the eyes of many officials, if there is a hole in the front, it will be troublesome to solve it, so let’s leave it to the next generation. As long as the bomb doesn’t explode in my hands, it has nothing to do with me.

In this way, one generation pushes one generation, one generation pits one generation, and finally the pit becomes bigger and deeper.

At this time, if there is an enterprising emperor, it will be a disaster for the dynasty.

It's just that the emperors of all dynasties, and all the emperors who wanted to forge ahead, all wanted to start from the political aspect, but Zhu Youjian did the opposite, starting from the army first.

The opponents of the emperors of all dynasties were basically the most powerful forces in the court.

Such as the nobles of Qin, the relatives of the Western Han Dynasty, the tyrants of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the gentry of the Jin Dynasty, the powerful families of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty, the warlords of the Yuan Dynasty, and the military officials of the early Ming Dynasty.

The difference is that the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty collapsed too quickly. Without the nobility of the Qin Dynasty, the systematic inheritance of powerful foreign relatives in the Han Dynasty and the powerful families of the Sui and Tang Dynasties often went downhill after only one or two generations of power, and the sustainability was short. Go strong.

As a result, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty changed from only needing to balance the two forces to facing civil servants alone.

The [-]th Regiment Battalion in Chenghua, the Reformation of the Three Great Battalions in Jiajing, and the transfer of the Zhengde Frontier Army to the Beijing Army all wanted to support Wu Xun to rise again, but Wu Xun is like an ostrich, and mud cannot support the wall.

This led to the direct abandonment of the Wuxun Group in the late Jiajing period, and changed its methods to lure the Pan-Jiangnan forces to fight internally, using the civil servants of Pan-Jiangnan and Eastern Zhejiang to bury the gap since the beginning of the country, and constantly let them fight internally.

The final result is that Jiajing successfully disintegrated the Pan-South forces, and the Eastern Zhejiang forces also fell apart.

The subsequent Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong infighting had actually broken away from the Panjiangnan and Eastern Zhejiang infighting, and transformed into an infighting between the Gaodang of the Henan faction and the Zhang Party of the Huguang faction.

In other words, the township party has actually been disintegrated and transformed from a township party into a crony party.

Compared with the monolithic country party, cronies are easier to handle.

It was just unexpected that Wanli was ruined after Zhang Juzheng's death, so that Shen Yiguan, a child of East Zhejiang, seized the opportunity, and the children of East Zhejiang revived again and became a new township party, the Zhejiang Party.

After the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, Qi Party, Fujian Party, and Sichuan Party all rose up when Wanli was in decline.

Facing the Zhejiang Party's offensive, the Panjiangnan forces could not unite. Although the Township Party was formed, it only reached the level of two small parties, the Xuan Party and the Kun Party.

The interests of the township party have been stabilized, and at this time, the Donglin party, a crony party, suddenly emerged, and was quickly suppressed by the Zhejiang party.

After being suppressed, the Donglin Party began to fight against dissidents, and the result was that most of the Donglin Party officials adhered to one principle.

"Leave the facts aside", if you agree, I will oppose it, and if you oppose it, I will agree.

Such a situation was easily manipulated by the emperor, because the characteristics of the Donglin Party determined that when the emperor had the means, he could use the Donglin Party as a knife to stab other parties.

Once the Donglin Party becomes powerful, the things it has done are like adding a layer of ridicule to him, and many parties will encircle and suppress him.

In this situation, the emperor can choose to be alone.

But the problem is that this kind of situation is easy to play and collapse, and Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian did see the result of playing and collapsing the Donglin Party in the first year of Taichang and the first year of Tianqi.

Gao Panlong, Wan Yanyang and the others were so angry that they wanted to cut Zhu Youjian alive.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian made a second-hand preparation, that is, since Wu Xun can't be supported, then I will evolve into Wu Xun myself!

Therefore, the current situation is a bit embarrassing.

By virtue of various military exploits, Zhu Youjian succeeded in transforming into the only group of martial arts forces in the Ming Dynasty at the juncture of the fierce struggle between the parties.

Wu Xun has risen, although it is not as powerful as Huaixi Wu Xun, but the civil servants are even more stretched.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Huaixi Wuxun's opponent was the combination of the Pan-Jiangnan civil servants and the eastern Zhejiang civil servants, but what about now?

The Wu Xun forces represented by Zhu Youjian are facing the divided civil servants, Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, Kun, Donglin, Qin, Sichuan, Fujian...

There are more than a dozen township parties, large and small, with different interests and political opinions. It is simply a joke to unite them to deal with Zhu Youjian's Wu Xun forces.

For example, this time, the Battle of Liaodong is very important to Ming Dynasty, and if it is defeated, it will shake the foundation of the country.

Zhu Guozuo and the others are not fools either, they know that this battle cannot be lost, and if they lose, it will really shake the foundation of the country as Yang Lian said.

But they can't let Zhu Youjian win easily, because Zhu Youjian won easily, then Wu Xun's power will further expand, and after another two years, as long as some of the civil servants turn to Wu Xun's power, the power of the civil servants will be stronger than that of the late Tang and Yuan Dynasties. Generation is worse.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian can win the battle of Liaodong, but he must win badly enough that he can't recover his strength for several years, so that he can't threaten the strength of civil servants.

This is why Zhu Guozuo, Qi Chuzhe Xuankun Qin Minchuan parties, and even most of the Donglin Party did not intervene in this operation.

The matter of Yanshan Academy is so big that civil servants have already known about it. Zhu Youjian taught hundreds of thousands of poor children to read and write, and focused on arithmetic. What is his intention?Any fool can see it.

Seize the land first, then train the troops, then install officials, and reform the tax system. This method abounds in history.

The civil servants just took advantage of Zhu Youjian's continuous loopholes, so they didn't notice for a while, allowing Zhu Youjian's new martial arts power to rise. This doesn't mean they are fools.

The Battle of Liaodong must be won miserably!People like Yang Lian who are still supporting Zhu Youjian must also be kicked out of court.

Thinking of this, Zhu Guozuo narrowed his eyes, and then said to Yao Zongwen:
"Let the officials in the Xupi area do something, and then transfer Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others to Xupi to supervise the disaster relief under the pretext."

"Okay!" Hearing Zhu Guozuo's thoughts, Yao Zongwen's eyes lit up.

Didn't Yang Lian show off his status as inspector censor?Well!Now is the time for him to use his status as inspector censor.

As long as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were transferred away, Liu Yixiu, who was swaying from side to side, and Ye Xianggao, who was alone, couldn't stop them at all.

But at the same time as they were planning, an official also walked into the side hall where they were, and then bowed and said:

"The ministers, the officials and soldiers sent by Shuntian Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture to check the identities of the victims were driven away by the soldiers and horses of the [-]th Battalion..."

"Didn't they say it was an order from the six ministries and the cabinet?" Shen Yu frowned and said softly.

"Er..." the official said with embarrassment:

"The people below said... but the generals of the [-]th Battalion of Shangzhi said..."

"I'm a martial artist, I'm vulgar and illiterate, please take out the Qi Wangling"

"..." The atmosphere fell into embarrassment for a moment, and the faces of Zhu Guozuo and the others instantly turned into liver-colored.

Although they didn't expect this kind of thing to develop for a long time, it was not possible for them to be destroyed by the Shangzhi [-]th Battalion after only one day of implementation, and they still used the reason of illiteracy.

Isn't this a proper way to mock civil servants with the words that civil servants often mock military generals?

You say that I am illiterate and vulgar, so I really can't read now...

"Fuck!" Yao Zongwen scolded in a low voice, but everyone knew who he was scolding.

Zhu Youjian and his soldiers and horses have the same temperament as him, so he won't care about the officials of Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, if they stop him from doing things, he will kill them all!

"Boom-"

Before the three of Zhu Guozuo could respond, the drums of the main hall sounded, and the three of them could only get up and continue to participate in the discussion.

It's just that when they returned to the Lord's Hall, Ye Xianggao said before their buttocks were hot:

"Just now the cabinet received the news that the armor factory's gunpowder arrived in Juyongguan and was stopped by the decree of Long Live. Now it has been re-transported to Liaodong."

"Long Live's decree in the original text, the armor factory belongs to the military bureau, and the Ministry of War has no right to intervene."

Ye Xianggao's words made Zhu Guozuo's and the others' faces turn pale again. They didn't expect the emperor to tear his face to such an extent.

In the past, when the Ministry of War transferred gunpowder and armor from the armor factory, the emperor didn't even ask.

Now it's all right, the gunpowder can't be transferred, and the position of the Ministry of War in the armor factory has also been denied.

"Didn't Long Live talk about the military rations?" Suddenly Yang Lian frowned and asked, but Ye Xianggao shook his head and said:

"Long live did not say..."

"..." Yang Lian frowned tightly, while Zhu Guozuo and the others were also secretly laughing inwardly.

They didn't know that Zhu Youjian had transferred a sufficient amount of military rations from the Yuma Supervisor and stocked them in Liaodong in advance, so what troubled Zhu Youjian was not military rations at all, but gunpowder.

And even if it is gunpowder, with the amount of [-] catties in Liaodong, Zhu Youjian is confident to use them to recover the entire Liaodong.

Zhu Guozuo and the others also knew that there were hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder in Liaodong, but they even thought that, given the current situation, the battle to restore Liao Dynasty would be a bitter battle.

Based on the loss ratio of the Ming army against Jianlu in the past, to eat one Jianlu, at least three Ming troops must be lost.

That is to say, as long as Zhu Youjian is defeated in the Liaodong battlefield, they can propose to change the general.

Thinking of this, Zhu Guozuo and the others calmed down, and Yang Lian got up and said:
"The Liaodong matter is the most important thing for my Ming Dynasty right now, and the military rations are the top priority. No way! I'm going to ask Wansui to find out!"

After all, Yang Lian made a gesture to criticize Zhu You's statement, but Ye Xianggao said:

"Let's go, old man."

As soon as Ye Xianggao opened his mouth, Yang Lian stopped in his footsteps. After all, in terms of his official position, he was indeed not good enough to go to Qianqing Palace to ask for an audience.

"Then I will trouble Ye Ge to be old..." Yang Lian bowed respectfully, while Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, not understanding why the emperor indulged these civil servants at such a critical moment.

With a disturbed mood and a stooped figure, Ye Xianggao walked towards the Qianqing Palace...

(End of this chapter)