Wanli 1592

Chapter 384 Political Animals
Zhu Yijun didn't feel at all that his mother put Xiao Ruxun's matter at the end because of her bad memory, so she forgot that as a political animal, her mother's level of playing power was not low, and she was also infected with some political animals. The unique habits, such as saying half a sentence, such as beating around the bush to express one's meaning, in a word, it is difficult to say something, but the amount of information is often very large.

It is impossible for Xiao Ruxun to come back without a suitable reason and timing. Zhu Yijun is very clear that his letter has been read by Queen Mother Li, and probably only Queen Mother Li has read it. Those who know should add Wang Xijue. The hasty coup plan, such as letting Xiao Ruxun lead troops into the capital, control the capital, and then behead those shameless people one by one.

Although it is pleasant to do so, if all the ministers are killed, who will govern the country?Won't the ministers fight back to find out the king's side?Fortunately, this plan was not implemented, otherwise Zhu Yijun would have to worry about his life and the position of the emperor.

However, Xiao Ruxun has always been a very important part of his plan. If nothing else, let's just say that he has strong combat power, which is something that ordinary generals don't have. A Xiao Ruxun is worth as much as the entire capital. According to Zhu Yijun's own estimate, if he is given tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, among other things, the Beijing-Tianjin region can be controlled well, and then he can control Shanhaiguan and Ji Town, seize the soldiers and horses to control Hebei, and then develop to other places...

Zhu Yijun only thought of that much at the time, but now that I think about it, there are still many unexpected factors, such as Xiao Ruxun's prestige and appeal in the local army, it is very likely that some troops will directly defect, so no matter how the plan is modified or improved Well, an elite army that has always been in the hands is indispensable, and Xiao Ruxun is the key to mastering the army, that is the general he single-handedly picked up.

But now it’s good, the general was assigned to open up wasteland in that place in the south where birds don’t shit and chickens don’t lay eggs. In name, he is a warlord in Yongzhen Burma, but everyone knows that there are no Han people in that ghostly place. !To make it clear is exile in a disguised form, and I will give you that place to toss around at will, and you will not come back. That's what it means, is there any other meaning?
Well, a hero, a Marquis of Nanzhen and a Shizhen of Burma were held in the south and could not get out. Such a general didn't have to fight Jurchen and Mongolia, but he was left in the south to defend against some Francois?Things that can be solved by the governor of any place, unexpectedly let a handsome man spend his whole life there!More importantly, this directly isolated Zhu Yijun himself, and completely cut off the contact with the army. Except for Jin Yiwei, he had no direct control of the army, and all the troops were in the hands of the Ministry of War.

The hatred in Zhu Yijun's heart!
Wang Xijue felt so relieved!

The most troublesome thing is solved, and Wang Xijue can start to arrange the funeral. First of all, Xiao Ruxun's status and power issues. Even a fool can see that this is exile in disguise, so in order to appease the hearts of heroes, he will give care in terms of power. Issue an order to the governor of Yunnan to exempt Burmese townspeople from taxes for three years. After three years, except for tax issues, they will not interfere in the internal affairs of Burma town. Just treat that place as his private territory of Xiao Ruxun, and give the court He made a king there and let him do whatever he wanted.

Then there was Xiao Ruxun's request to keep 5000 soldiers. The reason was that the remaining poison was not cleared, the place was unstable, and he was worried that the Dongwu Kingdom would revive. The request is to transfer all the military households of the soldiers in these places to Burma Town, and then relocate their family members to live in Burma Town.

Regarding this request, the cabinet carefully studied it and felt that it was inappropriate. One had too much work, and the other believed that Xiao Ruxun had a strong army under his command, which was very elite. It would be a pity for him to stay there by himself. It would be even more pity to keep it, so the cabinet's opinion is that except for the [-] firearms battalion in Ningxia headquarters, all other troops will be recalled, but they will be allowed to train new troops among the townspeople who will live in Burma Town in the future, with a quota of [-]. Let's guard the southern border together.

This is clearly a pitfall. According to the current level of productivity, one out of ten people is enough to be a soldier. When will a place like Myanmar have 30 residents to recruit [-] soldiers for Xiao Ruxun?
After Shi Xing tried hard to get Xiao Ruxun back to Beijing, he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing. He also believed that it was unnecessary to stay in such a place. To put it bluntly, if it was not for the settlement of Xiao Ruxun, places like Myanmar would be lost. It’s not a pity to lose it, it’s not a pity at all, keeping him and those 5000 people is a comfort now, if you can recruit [-] soldiers, then you can do it yourself, if you can’t, don’t blame us.

There is no need to say that military salaries and food are allocated from Yunnan every year. Let the governor of Yunnan pay attention to responsibility. This request should be satisfied with him, otherwise I don’t know what kind of emotions he will have.

The main force of the navy was recalled, and he was allowed to keep [-] boats as the Burmese town navy. Recently, he set off to the designated place to load the refugees to Burma town. How to arrange these people after entering Burma town is Xiao Ruxun's own business.

The imperial court did not send officials to establish prefectures and counties, and implemented military control in Burma Town. First, the military administration was assigned to the Zhennan Hou Xiao’s own arrangements, but when the development required Zhennan Hou, he raised money and cut expenditures. Instead of annual taxes, the imperial court rewarded Zhennanhou with some property and land, and let Zhennanhou figure it out for himself!

Wang Xijue was complacent, and let Xiao Ruxun fight to the death there, and he didn't have time to help the emperor with a coup d'état. After a long time, his vigor was exhausted, and the emperor would forget all about it. By then, Daming would be truly stable , and let Xiao Ruxun stay in the south, the whole south is safe, if something happens, let him solve it, anyway, he can fight.

Zhang Wei and Yang Junmin were also complacent, especially Yang Junmin, who finally got rid of the big burden of the refugees, so they moved non-stop to the affected states and counties, and asked them to organize refugees to gather at seaside ports and wait for the Burma town. These burdens can be thrown away, and the local state and county heads let out a sigh of relief, and used unimaginable super-high efficiency to publicize and organize refugees.

I'm really sorry, folks, but there's really no way, we don't have any leftover food for you to eat, if we keep you, everyone will starve to death, and no one will survive, but the imperial court will not give up Everyone, pointed out a way out for everyone—in the south of Yunnan, Xiao Ruxun, the famous General Zhennanhou, just conquered the Dongwu Kingdom. It’s a huge piece of land, and it’s all unclaimed land. As long as you go there, you can Immediately grant you land, exempt from taxes for three years, and you will be able to eat and live!
Anyway, that’s what it means, that is, we have no food here. If you keep it, you can only be deported and starved to death, or killed. But, if you want to live, you can, and the court is unwilling to watch If you starve to death or rebel, the imperial court will give you a way to survive. You go to Myanmar, where there is no owner of wasteland. When you go there, every household will get ten times the fertile land before, and you will be able to live!

This kind of propaganda offensive went on wave after wave, and with the progress of the propaganda, there was less and less gruel in the porridge shed, and an imminent problem lay in front of all the refugees—whether to starve to death here or to revolt Rebel on the spot, or leave home and go to the so-called unheard of Myanmar to seek a way out?

Many victims believed that this was a scam by the court. There was no such thing as Burma Town. The court just wanted to drive them away and let them starve to death on the road. In response to such rumors, Yang Junmin ordered the states and counties to distribute Rush to the dry food at the designated seaport and tell them that as long as you go there, the counties along the way will provide you with food for a few days. If the imperial court wants to kill you, you can kill you now, on the spot. Why do you have to go all the way? Run to the harbor and kill again?Isn't there something wrong with that?

The disaster victims thought it was right. If the court wanted to kill people, they would have killed them long ago. How could they not make up such a nonsensical lie for everyone? Judging by the court’s integrity, the more nonsensical and illusory, the more feasible it is. The good life that is close at hand is definitely a lie, and the imperial court's confident appearance this time does not seem to be a lie at all.

Immediately afterwards, the rations arrived, and the rumors suddenly disappeared.

Everyone, should we stay here and wait to starve to death, or risk our lives to beg for a bowl of rice?Everyone knows Xiao Ruxun's name, and the news that Xiao Ruxun went south to fight in Nanyang was also widely publicized by the imperial court. Do you believe it or not, starve to death on the street or fight it out?
I don't know who took the lead, but anyway, strands of refugees took the food and started to move towards the Zhejiang seaport designated by the imperial court with staggering steps.

The local government breathed a sigh of relief—a major crisis that was about to erupt just disappeared.

As far away as Ningxia, the family members of military households in Ningxia were mobilized by the imperial court to take the route of Sichuan and Yunnan, and directly arrived in Burma by land to join their families.

The news quickly spread to Nanjing, and the news that Xiao Ruxun became Zhennanhou Shizhen Myanmar also reached the ears of Ye Mengxiong and Yang Caiyun. Ye Mengxiong knew that Xiao Ruxun's goal had been achieved, so he quickly arranged ships and escorts to escort Xiao Ruxun's family members to join him in Myanmar.

The news of the establishment of a military town in the impoverished and white Burmese town spread throughout Daming. Besides the Mu family in Yunnan, Daming had another local general from Shizhen. Ridiculous, some people watched with cold eyes.

What the hell is Myanmar?Xiao Ruxun, the most famous general of Guochao in recent years, was arranged in the poor and barren land of Shizhen. Is this a reward or exile in disguise?Is this a reward or is it a bird's best bow?
Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, weighing the gains and losses of this matter.

People of insight sighed unceasingly, lamented that the imperial court was narrow-minded and could not accommodate a handsome talent, lamented that the imperial court had lost a great opportunity to pacify northern Xinjiang, and would not know how long the state of corruption in northern Xinjiang would continue, lamented that the fate of Ming Dynasty was too hard, and all good things took time .

But no matter how much they sigh, the established facts will not change, and everything is moving forward steadily.

In mid-to-late October, Xiao Ruxun received a reward envoy from the sea, and learned that he was named Zhennanhou, Burma Town Chief Military Officer, Shizhen Burma, and was given a Dan Shu Iron Coupon as a token of honor. Pet.

I also learned that my request to garrison troops was basically rejected. Except for the 5000 people in the Ningxia headquarters, the rest of the troops had to be withdrawn, and then Xiao Ruxun was allowed to select suitable candidates from the Burmese townspeople to train a new army, with a quota of [-].

The first batch of refugees were already waiting in the harbor, and the imperial court ordered Xiao Ruxun to immediately arrange sailors to go north to meet them. After the sailors went north, Myanmar was allowed to keep [-] warships as sailors, and the rest of the warships returned to various ports to garrison.

The imperial court granted Xiao Ruxun [-] gold, [-] silver, and [-] mu of land—a random selection of fertile land in Burma towns.

In general, apart from the 5000 taels of gold and 3 taels of silver paid by the imperial court, everything else is imaginary. Even ten thousand mu of fertile land has to be claimed by Xiao Ruxun in Myanmar, which is his fiefdom.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Xiao Ruxun still felt a burst of depression and anger—these guys’ food looks are too ugly, they made the world laugh at them for nothing, and I have volunteered to stay here, can’t your food look a little better? ?

The envoy of reward was a civil servant who appreciated Xiao Ruxun's sympathy for Xiao Ruxun. He talked to Xiao Ruxun about the turmoil caused by the announcement of the news by the court. Accusing the court of ugly eating and harsh treatment of heroes will not only chill the hearts of heroes, but also chill the hearts of insightful people in the world.

The result of beheading hundreds of thousands of people for the imperial court's southern and northern wars to expand the territory was actually sealed in a barren land, Shizhen, and even the Central Plains were not allowed to return. How did the imperial court treat heroes?
The officials who were dissatisfied with Wang Xijue began to make excuses and bombarded Wang Xijue, and some people pointed their guns at Zhang Wei, because the gossip said that Zhang Wei was the first to put forward this suggestion, so some officials scolded him for being short-sighted and scolded him. Narrow-minded, and some people broke the news that Yang Junmin fully supported this matter, which immediately stabbed a hornet's nest, new and old grudges came together, and the impeachment of Yang Junmin's dereliction of duty immediately became a politically correct thing.

Zhang Wei stayed in the cabinet for several days without showing his face, and Yang Junmin didn't even dare to leave the house.

Then, it broke out that Zhao Zhigao and Shi Xing tried their best to recall Xiao Ruxun to no avail, and then almost staged a full-scale martial arts in the cabinet. The resignation letter was approved after three rounds, Wang Xijue abdicated, Zhao Zhigao ascended to the next level, and became the first assistant of the Ming cabinet again, and Zhang Wei was promoted to the second assistant of the cabinet.

However, because of the previous events, Zhang Wei's promotion to the cabinet's second assistant was criticized by many people. In addition, the number of cabinet members was not enough to handle heavy government affairs. Zhao Zhigao decided to hold a tribunal meeting to elect famous and powerful ministers to the cabinet to fill the cabinet vacancies. , this matter was allowed by the emperor.

Shi Xing, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, became a popular candidate.

Then the headlines in the capital became speculation about who would eventually enter the cabinet, and no one paid attention to Xiao Ruxun's affairs.

Seeing the aggrieved look of the reward envoy, Xiao Ruxun knew that—political animals will not give up if they don't squeeze out the value of what should be used.

(End of this chapter)