eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 146 Preliminary Discussion on Horse Administration ([-])

Wang Shouren didn't understand where he made a mistake in preparing for the disadvantages of Shangshu Chenbian.He even doubted whether this decree was sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But no matter what, the sealed imperial decree is not fake, and he has no other choice but to pack up his belongings and go to Guizhou.

At this time, go to Wang Jia again?

He felt a little uncomfortable, so he decided to take a detour to Shandong to visit his father, Wang Hua, who was still serving as the chief envoy of Shandong.

Family is the last port of call.Such simple words are never false.When a man is full of passion and suddenly suffers such cold reception and setbacks, where else would he want to go other than home?
The hot summer in the capital in August was unbearable, Wang Shouren decided to go to Tongzhou by boat first, and on this boat, he met a man, a Jinshi in Yiwei like him.

Because it is hot outside, no one likes to stay on the deck, so in the canopy, this person sat down in front of Wang Shouren like a familiar person, raised his hand and said: "I think this is the one who asked to check." Brother Wang Bo'an from the army station is gone."

Wang Shouren took a closer look, and felt a little weird, because this guy has a big shoulder and a round waist, and his sticking out fingers are much thicker than ordinary people.Looks like a warrior.

But he is served by a literati, and his actions and speech are all scholarly.

And since he said the words please check Juntun, he must have been an official in Beijing.

"...I'm right here, I don't know, which colleague is it?"

"Under Wu Wending, like Brother Wang, he is a Jinshi of Yiwei Enke."

When Wang Shouren heard this, he took it seriously in his heart. Although he couldn't cheer up because of what happened to him, when he met a Jinshi, he still had to give him the respect he should.

So he raised his hand and bowed, "So it's from the same department, please forgive me, brother Wu. By the way, brother Wu, this is...?"

"Oh." Wu Wending continued to raise his thick arms, "I was appointed as a Changzhou Tuiguan, and I was supposed to take up the post in April, but unfortunately I fell ill at that time, and it was delayed for some time. Healed up, but with the Holy Fate, I really dare not delay any longer."

Wang Shouren looked at his strong, mighty, and energetic appearance, and murmured in his heart: Are you still unhealed?
But this doubt is clearly not as great as the disappointment slowly rising in his heart,

Enke later awarded Changzhou Tuiguan (Tuiguan: established at the first level of the government, the seventh grade, equivalent to the president of the court), which shows that Wu Wending's ranking in the imperial examination is behind him.

After all, it is still different to work in the Sixth Ministry and go to Changzhou to be a pusher.

However, ironically, in just three months, the two of them left Beijing together, and the situation changed drastically again.

"Brother Bo'an's "Please Check the Army Tunnels", Wu also read it. Brother Bo'an sacrificed his life for righteousness and offered advice for the country, please accept Wu's gift." Wu Wending looks like a 'rough person', but he is really good at acting 'Literati'.

According to his official position, he is now a big one.

So Wang Shouren didn't dare to take it seriously, and quickly said: "I dare not. But Wang is not asking Wang Bo'an from Zha Juntun, but Wang Bo'an, the postman of Longchang Station."

These words are somewhat self-deprecating.

"Brother Wang, why do you want to belittle yourself?" Wu Wending encouraged: "The current crown prince is the image of a sage. I think that soon after he comes, His Highness will think of this "Please check the army garrison"."

These are comforting words, people can say whatever they want, and they can listen to them whatever they want.

"Let me borrow a good word from Brother Wu."

This meeting between Wang and Wu didn't cause any disturbances, but the two were considered to have known each other because of this.

After Wang Shouren arrived in Shandong, he thought that his father should comfort him,
After all, he was the first one in the entire Ming Dynasty to be a Jinshi in a new department and become a postman.

But he didn't expect that he couldn't enter the gate of the chief envoy's yamen either!
In the scorching sun, Wang Shouren stood outside the door completely lost.

This is why!

Grievance, really indescribable grievance.

With His Royal Highness and Wang Jia, he could only bear with his grievances.But when he got to his father, he couldn't help it.

Wang Hua didn't see him, so he stood outside the door.

The sun was so hot that the guards at the gate hid in the shade under the eaves, and even the dogs on the street knew how to hide under the trees and stick out their tongues over and over again.

On the open space in front of the chief envoy's yamen, there was a young man standing motionless.

Although there are few people on the street, but after a long time, people see more people coming and going, so naturally there will be criticisms.

Fortunately, the guard at the gate knew that this was the chief minister's son, so he didn't dare to be negligent, and would ask him to wait in the shade together, but Wang Shouren had a donkey temper and just didn't move.

Later, there was no other way, so Wang Hua asked the people in the yamen to come out and give him a sentence,

It's an old man in official uniform. Now anyone who wears official uniform is older than Wang Shouren.

The old man asked, "Is the young master white?"

"My next official, I will serve as the postmaster of Longchang, Guizhou."

"Then why don't you go to Guizhou to take office, and come to Shandong's governor's office?"

This question is asked, and everyone who looks at the gate knows that I am Wang Hua's son!

Wang Shouren endured again, "The next official is looking for my father."

The old man shook his head, "My son was demoted and came to Guizhou. He should take office. Why did you come to Shandong? Your father has explained what you did in Guizhou, and your father doesn't know about Guizhou. If you feel wronged in your heart, it will be even worse No need, thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king. If you don’t go there, you deliberately detoured to Shandong, so... are you going to come here to complain?"

Wang Shouren was shocked when he heard this.

If it is broken, if someone is caught by it, read a book, saying that he is dissatisfied with Junfu, and he might even hurt his father.

"The lower official is confused! I'm leaving now!" After walking half a step, he turned back again, "Please pass on a message for the lower official, saying that the child knows that he was wrong, and he will go to Guizhou to take up the post."

"Well, children can be taught." The old man nodded while stroking his beard.

After turning around and entering the gate, I bumped into the chief minister, Wang Hua, who had been eavesdropping here.

Where does Wang Hua not want to see his son?
Father and son are separated in two places, how can he not feel the pain of separation.

Because of the sweltering heat, there were few pedestrians on the road, and only Wang Shouren was on his way with his luggage on his back, raising his arms from time to time to wipe the sweat from his forehead, his back was somewhat lonely.

As a father, Wang Hua also felt a burst of sadness, "My son, take care."

"There is no need to be sad for the Fantai. Mr. Bo'an is the leader of the country. He speaks bluntly about the ills of the frontier army. He has the demeanor of a political minister. Given time, he must be the pillar of the country."

It was probably at this moment that Wang Hua would miss the time when his son was arguing with him and making him angry at home. At that time, he hoped that he would succeed in the imperial examination and shine in the family

Now the Jinshi is awarded, but he is going to a place like Guizhou.

"Hey."

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And in the East Palace.

Zhu Houzhao's mind was attracted by a memorial.

In fact, after the crown prince supervised the country, the enterprising spirit shown gave a boost to the drowsy officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Officials from all over the country want to send their views on a certain state affairs to the case of the prince, so Wang Shouren is not the only one like this.

But things have to be prioritized. With Zhu Houzhao's current ability and the limitations of this era, it is impossible for him to do everything perfectly.

Many of the previous measures were basically palliative measures, such as King Yong and King Qi begging for acres of land, but not allowed.In essence, this maladministration is just stopped, but what has been occupied before is still what it was before.

There is no way, many things cannot be done now.

After all, it was because of the recent achievements in the whole army that he gained more confidence.

But today's memorial is different from others, Zhu Houzhao wants to discuss with his courtiers,
The person in Shangshu is Yang Yiqing. He was transferred from Nanjing Taichang Temple Minister to Shaanxi Governor in the 15th year of Hongzhi, and supervised Shaanxi Mazheng.

Now that Zhu Houzhao is here, how could he throw people like Yang Yiqing to Nanjing to waste a few years?He is not Wang Shouren, he is already 45 years old, and Yang Yiqing is already a mature Yang Yiqing.

In the 11th year of Hongzhi, before and after the Zuoshunmen Change, the emperor and the prince transferred officials on a large scale. At that time, Zhu Houzhao had already left Yang Yiqing on hold, and was promoted to the governor of Shaanxi and the special supervisor of Shaanxi Mazheng.

After more than a year, there is finally this letter "Please Eliminate the Disadvantages of Horse Administration".

After the cabinet and six ministers arrived, Zhu Houzhao asked Liu Jin to show the memorial to the ministers one by one, while he waited patiently.

In the feudal dynasty, horse politics was a key state policy that could never be bypassed.State affairs are nothing more important than soldiers, and military affairs are more important than horses. This is the reason.

Because war horses are too important in the era of cold weapons.

It is historical nihilism if one expects to have 20 or [-] infantry and be invincible in front of the nomads.Because people don't fight you decisively, they just hit and run, so it is very passive for the side that is beaten.

In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi also sent Ma Wensheng to rectify the frontier army. Emperor Zhengde, also known as Emperor Wu, also rectified the Beijing camp. The generals also had famous generals like Wang Yue, and Qin Hong, who succeeded Wang Yue as the commander-in-chief of the three sides. These are very capable ministers.

According to historical records, after Qin Hong was in charge of military affairs in the Northwest, he selected strong men, established garrison fields, reiterated his orders, and greatly boosted his military power.

However, in the 13th, 17th, and 18th years of Hongzhi, the Tatars had large-scale border raids. They always robbed when they came, and left after robbing.

Sometimes it's really not that 'the national army doesn't work hard,' it's that the horses are not as good as others, the cavalry is not as good as others, and they can't even catch up, so how can they fight.

Therefore, the successful monarchs of all dynasties, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and Zhu Zhanji, all attached great importance to Ma Zheng.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: Since ancient times, there have been all countries in the world, and horse administration is the most important thing. Therefore, those who ask the king's wealth must count horses.

That is to say, in ancient countries, when asking whether the country was rich or not, the first question was not money and food, but how many horses there were!

Zhu Zhanji also warned the ministers to pay attention to horse politics, saying: Horses are the most used by the military and the country.The military state is great, and the horse government is also great.

According to the general routine, like all other systems, the horse administration of the Ming Dynasty was relatively good at the beginning of the founding of the country. When Yongle died, it could raise 150 million war horses.But by the 12th year of Hongzhi... I am afraid that even half of this number will be gone.

This is also the background of the "horse shortage in Datong" encountered by Mao Yuwen when he was investigating smugglers in Datong.

Yang Yiqing’s memorial stated that the horse breeding institutions in Shaanxi only kept more than 2000 war horses, and many of them were old, weak, sick and critical horses...

When Li Dongyang was reading the memorial, he was thinking: Yang Yiqing is also a smart man. Looking at the situation in Beijing and what the prince has done, he should have expected that the imperial court will use troops against the Tatars in the future. Since they use troops, how could they ignore Ma Zheng?
And he is in charge of supervising horse administration, which is not good,

If that day really came, the court wanted to use horses, but he, the person in charge, couldn't produce enough horses, wouldn't it be all the shit on his head?
After all, it is not Yang Yiqing's fault that Ma Zheng has been negligent so far, so why should he take this thunder.

So it is better to report the situation early, not only for the country and the people, but also to eliminate hidden dangers.And the more serious the better, anyway, if something goes wrong, don't come to me.

And once the imperial court paid attention to it and started to do it, wouldn't the officials in charge of horse administration have made remarkable achievements?He, Yang Yiqing, can also have a "youth version of Jane in the heart of the emperor" on the prince's side.

This is the difference between an experienced and a newborn calf.

Looking at Wang Shouren's letter, it was full of energy, but it made everyone panic.Look at Yang Yiqing's letter again, scratching His Highness's itchy spot.

Li Dongyang nodded calmly, now it's up to His Highness how to deal with it.

"Why don't you speak?"

It may be that Yang Yiqing's memorials were too profound, which made everyone a little 'fearful'.

But Zhu Houzhao is not that kind of personality. Of course it was difficult in the feudal era, and it is not easy to stimulate some vitality under this system, so we can’t just accept it like this.

"My palace has said since the beginning of the supervision of the country that in any matter, you must first figure out what the situation is and where the problem is. Don't be afraid of problems, and always find a way to solve them together. Or let's express our opinions and talk about Ma Zheng... But There is still room for improvement.”

Ma Zheng in the Ming Dynasty was also really difficult.

"Your Highness, let me tell you first?" Liu Jian is the head of the cabinet. Everyone can hide at this time, but he can't.

(End of this chapter)