Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 229 The Palace of Qianguo in the Center of the Vortex

"Following the order of Prince Qi's Mansion! In the past, all honors, salts and teas will be abolished, and the acres of land under his command will be measured by the officials of Prince Qi's mansion, and the book will be re-created!"

November, this is destined to be a restless month.

Not only the city of Beijing, but also Xu Hongji, Duke of the State of Wei in Nanjing, was ordered by Jin Yiwei to stay behind at the Thousand Households Office in Nanjing.

All of a sudden, the whole north and south nobles were in turmoil, and all the grass and trees were full of soldiers.

In the Huangji Hall and Wenhua Hall in the capital, many civil servants also resigned to force the palace, but Zhu Youxiao approved them one by one.

Gao Panlong, who clamored to resign from office on the first day, clamored to resign in Huangji Hall. On the second day, Zhu Youxiao issued an order to approve, and asked General Dahan to go to his home, collect the things, and send him to the palace. He got into the carriage and sent him back to Wuxi with a whip.

At this time, Zhu Guozuo, Shen Yu, Zhao Nanxing, Qi Shijiao, Gu Tianjun, Tang Binyin and other party leaders calmed down. They asked for leave to rest in the capital mansion, and then sent a large number of officials and censors to Qianqing Palace. rise.

As a result, there are only a few people like Ye Xianggao left in the Wenhua Palace, and a large number of officials from the Eunuch Party and the King Qi Party.

But even so, these hundreds of officials were unable to maintain the operation of the huge Ming Dynasty, and the situation fell into a stalemate for a while.

In such a general environment, the reform of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the abolition of the Tianxia Guards seem not so important.

One is to attack the nobles of Daming, and the other is to attack ordinary guard officers.

Most people can tell which of the two is more important, but even so, some deep-rooted local guards are still not ready to compromise!
"put!"

"Boom bang bang-"

On November [-]th, with Qi Yuanbi leading the army to take office, the officers of nine guards, including Chuzhou Guard, Shaoxing Guard, Haining Guard, Changguo Guard, Wenzhou Guard, and Linshan Guard, among the sixteen guards in Zhejiang, blatantly disobeyed their orders. It ignited a wave of resistance to innovation in the whole Zhejiang Weisuo.

Qi Yuanbi commanded the Third Battalion of the Zhejiang Army, facing the disobedience of the nine guards, all he did was one word... fight!

When three hundred five-pound cannons appeared in front of Wenzhou Weisuo City and fired, three hundred stone bullets immediately struck the city wall over a distance of two miles.

Qi Yuanbi stood in front of the first battalion of soldiers and horses, holding his armor and holding his knife, while the other two battalions also went to suppress other rebel guards.

In his clairvoyance, there are only three hundred armored guards at the head of Wenzhou Weicheng, and more than two thousand guard soldiers in old mandarin duck battle jackets.

It is not so much a soldier of the guard, but a soldier of the clan's children.

The south is different from the north. After all, the north has been devastated by the Five Hu, Five Dynasties, Jin, Liao, Meng and Yuan. It cannot be said that there is no clan power, but it is definitely not as powerful as the south.

The largest clan power in the north is Shanxi, and the abolition of the local guards in Shanxi was carried out by Zhu Youjian mobilizing nearly [-] soldiers and horses.

But the current Zhejiang is different. The clan power in Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty was second only to Nanzhili and Jiangxi, and even more united than Fujian.

The Weisuo, which has been passed down for more than two hundred years, has long been integrated with the local clan forces and is deeply rooted.

In addition, Zhejiang is densely populated, so a few clans waved their arms, and nearly [-] clan children who resisted orders were pulled out.

These clan children were pulled out because they were worried that the Weisuotian in their hands would be taken away by the court.

The reason why he dared to disobey orders was also because Qi Yuanbi only had three battalions of more than nine thousand soldiers and horses in his hands.

It's just that they don't know that sometimes the number of people does not represent combat effectiveness.

After three hundred five-jin cannons bombarded continuously for an hour, the head of Wenzhou Weicheng was smashed into a mess, and many clan children in old mandarin duck battle jackets fell in the ruins, while Qi Yuanbi watched this scene , immediately raised his hand and said:
"stop!"

"Stop the artillery!" Hearing Qi Yuanbi's words, his generals immediately ordered to stop the shelling, and Qi Yuanbi also said after the artillery stopped for a moment:

"Order people to spread the word, and say that the King's Mansion ordered that after the abolition of the Weisuo, the fields of the Weisuo will be divided equally among households. If anyone resists, after Wenzhou City is broken, the whole family will be exiled to Guangxi!"

"The last general takes orders!" Hearing Qi Yuanbi's words, the general sent Tang Qi to Wenzhou Acropolis to announce the order of King Qi's mansion.

At the head of the city, it was found that the clan's soldiers who were not under shelling took out their own hunting bows under the command of the clan elder who was the commander of the guards, but everyone was panicked.

"King Qi really wants to divide our fields?"

"Then can there be a fake? Have you fired a cannon without seeing it?"

After the baptism of artillery, some clan soldiers began to waver, and at this time, Tang Qi of the Ming army also came to the city, loudly announced the order of King Qi's mansion to the top of the city, and drew a bow and arrow, and shot the arrow with the notice at the top of the city .

Some of the clan's respectable middle-aged men took down the notices, glanced at them, and prepared to hand them over to the clan elders of the commander of the guards.

But the clan elder who saw the notice said stubbornly: "It must be the officers and soldiers who lured me to open the city gate, don't worry about him!"

"But... the officers and soldiers also said that if the city gates are not opened after fifteen minutes, the whole family will be exiled to Guangxi."

Some clan elders who sensed something was wrong frowned and questioned. After all, Wenzhou Wei's Weisuo field totaled more than [-] mu, and the guard commander's family alone occupied thousands of mu.

Now who knows, is this a way for the other party to trick them into resisting Qi Yuanbi by refusing to hand over the land?

Although they are also officials of the guards, each occupying hundreds of acres of land, it is impossible to fight against the court for hundreds of acres of land.

Now that I think about it, there is something wrong with disobedience in a daze.

"Brothers, please trust me once, as long as the momentum becomes big, Long Live will definitely stop King Qi."

The clan elder bowed to many officers of the hereditary guards, but once he spoke, the others couldn't hold back.

Do you have to let them persist for a while?Haven't you seen how powerful the artillery of the army is?
"Open the city gate, stop fighting!"

Suddenly, a clan elder spoke instantly, and the others also looked at the clan elder as the commanding envoy vigilantly, and ordered to open the door one after another.

"You will regret it!" The commander stomped anxiously, but it was useless for him to be anxious, because some clan children under the city had already opened the city gate.

No one is a fool. It is okay to ask the government to adjust the troubles.

But the problem is, now that the officers and soldiers are directly firing over, who is willing to play with them with their lives?
"Chief soldier, the city gate is open."

In the Ming army formation, the generals reported back, and upon seeing this, Qi Yuanbi immediately opened his mouth and said:

"Lead a thousand troops in to have a look, bring out all the yellow books and fish scale albums in the Commander's Mansion, and then tell the whole Wenzhou Guard what His Highness said."

"Yes!" The general responded, and then led a thousand soldiers into the city.

After he entered the city, he quickly told the story, and when the other clan children heard that the Wei Suotian would be divided equally, they stopped making trouble immediately, and obediently returned home under the general's order.

As for some clan elders who served as military officers, all the first offenders were taken away, and the unknowing accomplices were only deprived of their official positions.

Such a scene is happening in the whole of Zhejiang and even south of the Yellow River. Except for Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places that are far away, the abolition of guards has not yet begun, and most of the rest of the places have begun to abolish the guards.

As for these three provinces, Hong Chengchou's speed was also a little faster than Zhu Youjian estimated. He rushed to Guiyang on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month and sat in Guiyang to abolish the guards in the three provinces.

It's just that the abolition sounds nice, but the energy and difficulty required to implement it are much more difficult.

All the armies reported back to Zhu Youjian about the lack of cooperation of subordinate officials from various places, and the news that scholars from all over the place were unwilling to become officials to help clarify the acres of land.

When these news were seen by Zhu Youjian, all this did not surprise him.

At noon on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Youjian was leaning on the reclining chair of the temporary yamen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the Yanshan Daying Camp.

Seeing his posture, Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but said:

"Your Highness, from the beginning of the month to the present, the Governor's Mansion has recruited more than [-] scribes. According to this speed, I am afraid that the results will not be measured until next year."

"You see if you don't want to use corvee to force some scribes."

Lu Wenzhao gave a good idea, but Zhu Youjian shook his head and said:

"Forcibly recruited, I guess they won't concentrate on doing it, maybe they will make mistakes on purpose."

"This group of common people who have no background are unwilling to join. In the final analysis, they are afraid that they will not be able to get promoted after becoming subordinate officials."

"In this case, it is ordered that the subalterns in the governor's mansions and the five armies' governor's mansions have a salary of ten taels of silver every year, and another merit test. Those who are excellent in the merit test will be promoted to an official position."

The number of subordinate officials in the Ming Dynasty was extremely insufficient because the country was in dire straits in the early Ming Dynasty. Therefore, many subordinate officials could be promoted to officials by being appreciated by the chief officials through their excellent professional skills.

However, with the passage of time, the status of officials in the Ming Dynasty became lower and lower. In addition, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that subordinate officials were not allowed to take the imperial examinations, and the channels for promotion of subordinate officials were artificially cut off.

Officials gradually differentiated. With the increase of grassroots officials and the gradual decline of their status, grassroots miscellaneous servants and subordinate staff merged to form a community of interests at the grassroots level during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, that is, the official service group.

The most embarrassing thing is that the subalterns don't have any salary, so they can only earn some money by exploiting the people, or earn extra money by exempting them from corvee.

The reason why the status of subordinate staff is so low is also related to the economy.

Calculated according to the two million yuan of subordinate officials in the Ming Dynasty, even if each person had a salary of five taels a year, the annual expenditure would be ten million taels of silver.

But Zhu Youjian understands that as long as the money is in place, one subordinate staff can do the work of several subordinate staff.

In the final analysis, the number of subordinate staff is so large because the treatment is too low, which causes the subordinate staff to do things carelessly, and the result of inattentiveness is inefficiency.

Officials don't think about improving the treatment of subordinate staff and making them work hard, but instead expand the number of subordinate staff, which is a vicious circle in disguise.

Giving money and an ascending channel is the most practical!
As long as these two things are in place, not to mention the ordinary peasant children, even the clan children will not be able to resist coming to the Five Army Commander's Mansion.

However, given such treatment, a new problem also came one after another.

"Your Highness, the annual salary of ten taels per person, according to the original establishment of the Dudu Mansion, the salary of [-] subordinates is [-] taels of silver..."

Lu Wenzhao was reminding Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said:

"When all the troops in the world get their hands on the land, this little money is nothing, you just go and do it."

"Yes..." Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Lu Wenzhao couldn't say anything more, but after Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he seemed to think of something again, and continued:
"Wait!"

Lu Wenzhao stopped, turned to look at Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian also closed the document and said:

"Is there any change in Qian Guogong's mansion?"

The Duke of Guizhou's mansion controls half of Yunnan's real power faction Wu Xun, which is different from the nobles in the southern Beijing city. Although Mu Changzuo is also useless, his subordinates can still pull out some soldiers who can fight.

Zhu Youjian was most worried about the Duke of Guizhou's government regarding Xungui's innovation, and as soon as his question was uttered, Lu Wenzhao bowed and said:
"On November [-]th, General Ma Xianglin led [-] troops to Kunming. The soldiers and horses from the Duke of Qian's Mansion were taken by Mu Changzuo to the Yuanmou area on purpose, and he ordered the people from the Duke of Qian's Mansion to Prevarication said that we need to wait for him to return to Kunming to make a decision."

"Look at this posture, he should be planning to rely on the soldiers and horses in his hands to make His Highness give up the power to take away the Duke of Qian."

"Give up? Heh..." Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youjian sneered:
"Does he think he is Mu Ying? Just relying on his [-] rotten fish and shrimps and Yunnan chieftains, he wants to stop Gu's military orders?"

Having said that, Zhu Youjian's expression changed and he said:

"Pass the military order to Mu Zeng. I am going to reform the guard in Yunnan in Ming Dynasty. If Mu Zeng surrenders the military power, he can be appointed as the Zuo Counselor of the Western Army's Governor's Mansion."

Zhu Youjian was willing to make Mu Zeng the second-in-command of the Western Army Governor's Mansion when he opened his mouth, which surprised Lu Wenzhao and said:
"Your Highness, why make such a promise? It would be better to send troops from the Southwest to Yunnan. The Western Army and the Southern Army now have [-] troops and more than [-] artillery pieces. Even if Mu Changzuo wanted to, it would be impossible for him to rebel."

"No problem, the left counselor of the Western Army was reserved for Mu Zeng." Zhu Youjian glanced at Lu Wenzhao and responded, then said:
"Don't worry about Mu Changzuo's affairs until Mu Zeng reacts. If Mu Changzuo wants to shrink his head, he will abolish the Yunnan Guard first, and then develop the land to win the hearts of the people."

"Tell the commanders of the armies to recruit the [-] battalions in the establishment first, and then think about other things when the formation is full."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Youjian continued to deal with other documents, and his words were rushed to all over the world under the [-] miles of Jin Yiwei.

However, before it was quiet for a quarter of an hour, Lu Jianxing from the Supervision Department walked into the courtyard with a document.

"Your Highness, some of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and Jin Yiwei have been found out..."

He bowed and bowed, but Zhu Youjian said absently when he heard the words: "Report the number..."

"Eh..." Lu Jianxing hesitated for a few seconds, then glanced at Lu Wenzhao, and said when he saw that Lu Wenzhao didn't say anything:

"Among Jinyiwei, there are no less than seven thousand people who have ties to the inner court, civil servants, and Wu Xun."

"There are roughly four thousand people in the Imperial Horse Prison."

In one sentence, Zhu Youjian closed the document in his hand and said meaningfully:

"Nearly one tenth of the [-] royal guards belong to other people. How can there be [-] of the [-] imperial guards?"

"Your Highness, forgive me. There are so many others in Jinyiwei and Yumajian, it is really helpless. After all, although the two were innovative, there were no people who could use them, and the people below did not investigate carefully." Lu Wenzhao pleaded.

"That's right... The result of not checking carefully is that I didn't know that Wen Chen was making small moves under my nose." Zhu Youjian rubbed his fingertips, and Lu Wenzhao immediately understood when he saw this movement:

"The humble official will thoroughly investigate the Third Division of Jinyiwei from now on, and Cao Bingbi will be notified about the Yumajian."

"I didn't get the information right, but I have come up with so many people's sophistication..." Zhu Youjian glanced at Lu Wenzhao, then continued to open the document and said:
"Let's reduce the manpower of Jinyiwei to [-] first. When the third division of Jinyiwei can produce some useful information, we will see if it can be expanded."

"The lowly job takes orders!" Lu Wenzhao reluctantly responded, and Zhu Youjian continued:

"Let Cheng En and Hua Chun handle the affairs of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Supervision Department will verify the identity of the person who entered the Imperial Horse Supervisor."

"A lowly official takes orders." Lu Wenzhao and Lu Jianxing agreed at the same time.

"Retire..." Zhu Youjian waved his hand, and the two also retreated cautiously.

After they left, Zhu Youjian impatiently closed the document.

To be honest, he understood why Jinyiwei and Yumajian had so many spies, and the two words summed it up as "greed".

How much money can the various parties spend to bribe people?Therefore, it is not surprising that they were bribed, not to mention that most of the old people in Jinyiwei flirted with various parties and ministers. At the beginning, I didn't have the time and money to get rid of them, so I was suffering the consequences of myself.

He thought that he would be fine if he came up with a way to report each other, but the facts proved that the Tao is as tall as one foot and the devil is as tall as one foot.

No one thinks there is too much money, and corruption and bribery cannot be eliminated. He can only clean these dirt regularly to keep the government clean.

While he was thinking this way, the officials of various parties in the capital were also having a headache for his actions.

However, in one and a half months, more than [-]% of the guards in the world were abolished, and the guards in various places could not form a force to resist the soldiers and horses that Zhu Youjian had arranged in the places.

The nine guards in Zhejiang were put down by Qi Yuanbi within ten days of their disobedience, and the guards in other places such as Fujian, Jiangxi, and Nanzhili were also abolished one after another, and the guard system collapsed for a while.

This kind of speed made Wenchen see it and be anxious in his heart.

"Tell me, what should I do next?"

In Zhu Guozuo's mansion, Gu Tianjun, the leader of the Kunming Party, walked back and forth like an ant on a hot pot, while Zhu Guozuo and other leaders of the other four parties, Shen Yun, Yao Zongwen and others were sitting in the meeting hall.

"The garrison was abolished so quickly, it is really hard to imagine that the only one who can be wooed right now is the Duke of Guizhou in Yunnan, and the nobles of Shuntian and Yingtian have been abolished!"

Zhu Guozuo frowned tightly, looked around, and it was not difficult to see that he was also a little flustered.

According to their deduction, it would take at least a year for Zhu You to prosecute and dismantle the guard post, but he didn't expect that this guy was not afraid of impeachment by the local censor at all, and directly asked the generals of the five-army governor's mansion to put down the rebellion by force.

This has led to the dismantling of guards at an alarming rate.

After the dismantling of the guard house, when the students from Yanshan come out, it is not difficult to imagine that Zhu Youjian will attack the government.

"Is this kid really not coveting the throne?"

Yao Zongwen couldn't help saying a word, and this sentence made everyone's faces look uncomfortable.

Logically speaking, if you want to be an emperor, you must not let yourself have too much black material, but what Zhu Youjian called the five army governors to do, it seems that he is not afraid of being splashed with black water at all.

"Didn't Ye Xianggao say anything?" Zhu Guozuo asked Yao Zongwen and the others, but Qi Shijiao shook his head and said:

"After Liu Yixiu resigned, the burden of the entire cabinet fell on him. Right now, he is busy with all kinds of memorials at the end of the year."

"This is Liu Jihui! If you don't want to go away for fun, why not go away at this time!" Shen Yun couldn't help being angry, and blamed Liu Yixiu for the matter.

After all, they understood that Liu Yixiu resigned early because he saw that the situation was out of control.

Fortunately for him, he is now at a leisure time, and Zhao Nanxing is also supporting Donglin, but as far as the court is concerned, there is less pressure from a cabinet member, and for the emperor, the pressure to face has been reduced a lot.

It is impossible for Ye Xianggao and Sun Chengzong to put pressure on the emperor. There are only Zhu Guozuo and the others, and the strength formed is not enough, so there is a stalemate.

But right now, the stalemate is not a good thing. The longer the stalemate, the more time you will have for Zhu Youjian. When Zhu Youjian settles the matter of the guard and Wu Xun, the civil servants will probably...

"It seems that we need to send someone to Qian Guogong to test it out."

At this time, Zhu Guozuo could only take the risk to see if he could win over Mu Changzuo.

If Mu Changzuo can be won over, perhaps he can use the power of the court to install Mu Changzuo in the five-army governor's mansion, and leave Zhu Youjian a man who is in trouble.

"Just relying on Mu Changzuo, I'm afraid he might be the match of King Qi."

Shen Yu dismissed it in time, because he didn't think Mu Changzuo would be Zhu Youjian's opponent.

How long can Mu Changzuo, a general who played soy sauce during the She'an Rebellion, withstand the pressure of the tiger and wolf division who had just experienced the first battle of the Liao Dynasty?
Not to mention that there are Qin Liangyu, Qin Bangping, Zhu Xieyuan and others sitting in the southwest.

As long as Zhu Youjian mobilizes the Western Army and the Southern Army to station in Yunnan, I am afraid that Mu Changzuo will hand over his power immediately.

Even if Zhu Youjian didn't mobilize troops, Mu Changzuo would not be able to last long in the current situation.

He didn't dare to rebel. After all, so many soldiers and horses were suppressed in the She'an Rebellion, not to mention the [-] to [-] people in his hands?
Shen Teng could see it clearly, and his words made everyone's mood drop to the bottom.

To put it bluntly, they still didn't grasp the military power firmly enough, now it's a wrong step, a wrong step...

"You can try it and win over Mu Changzuo and Mu Zeng at the same time."

At this time, Yao Zongwen made a special suggestion, and his suggestion immediately caused Tang Binyin and Qi Shijiao to frown.

They still cared a little about Mu Zeng Shaomin's identity, but Zhu Guozuo didn't bother to care so much.

If Zhu Youjian can easily suppress the guards and Xun Chen, then some scholars who are still watching the court will know how to place their treasures.

The Ming Dynasty popularized so many official and private schools, leading to the birth of millions of scholars.

With so many scholars, as long as one tenth of them turn to Zhu Youjian, civil servants can only wait to be deprived of power, and all parties can only be destroyed.

"Send someone to try it out." Zhu Guozuo immediately decided to carry out the action as soon as he opened his mouth.

It's just that they don't know that Zhu Youjian's people have already ran hundreds of miles away compared to the fact that they are still wrangling here.

(End of this chapter)