Chapter 156: The Storm Rises in the Middle Kingdom

Of course, Azi Timur also had a second hand of preparation, if the Ming army refused to let him go. He also found a way to wrestle with the Ming in the Western Regions.

Let this war not be a war between the Tile Thorn and the Ming Dynasty, but a war between Muslims and the Ming Dynasty.

After all, there is a fire department.

The one who is on fire in Islam means the Holy Seed. It was after Muhammad that it was very appealing.

Guo He could only take a few people out of the tile spur camp, and did not go to Gaochang, but bypassed this place and went to Yizhou City.

Now the city of Yizhou is busy.

Therefore, the battle under Stone City has not completely ended, but Daming has begun to transport supplies here in batches, that is, the recent heavy snow has stopped.

Yizhou, that is, Hami, has become the general logistics center of the Western Regions, and for their counteroffensive next year, it has already begun.

Of course, there is also some smell of blood in Yizhou City.

Anyone who is entangled is among those who are killed.

The order given by Bai Gui does not mean that all the returns are killed, but the entanglement is particularly emphasized.

These entanglements are the Huihui, which is closely related to Central Asia like the Fire Ministry, and their hat is not a small white hat, but is wrapped in cloth.

This is also the difference between the Ming and the Muslims.

It has been some time since Islam was introduced to China. Many people have become one with the local culture of the Ming Dynasty and have never been outside of China.

Some even cite Confucian classics to interpret the Koran. It is called a Uighur.

Naturally, these people were resolutely supportive of the imperial court.

Therefore, under Bai Gui's order, these returns are never implicated, and the main purpose is to entangle.

When Guo He saw such an order, his eyes turned red, and he seemed to remember a lot of things, and gritted his teeth and said, "You deserve it." ”

Guo He, as a tuntian official, has a certain degree of civil jurisdiction, and he did not favor the Han people when managing the local entanglement.

It's just that he is Han after all, and he identifies with Han people in customs. I also have the idea of returning the local area and turning it into summer.

This becomes the sin of defilement of sanctity in the eyes of these retrospectives.

When the chaos started, Guo He's subordinate friends were all killed, and he was lucky to pick up a small life.

After Guo He vented his emotions, he also had apprehension in his heart, but the government asked to see him, and Bai Gui immediately summoned him. I read the letters of Aztimur first.

Bai Gui just sneered and didn't say anything. Immediately asked Guo He in detail, the situation on the side of Waspur, and the news of Yili.

It's just that Guo He didn't hear any news from Yili.

Immediately, Bai Gui sent someone to send the letter to Jingshi quickly.

In the Wuying Palace, Zhu Qizhen asked Huai En to hand the letter to Liu Dingzhi. Asked:

"What do you think, sir?"

Liu Dingzhi coughed slightly, read it carefully, closed his hands back, and said: "The Great Khan of the Tile Thorn, if you want to get a cheap and leave, you can't help but think too well, but how Your Majesty should choose, but the minister does not dare to say anything." ”

Zhu Qizhen was a little puzzled, and said, "Sir------"

Liu Dingzhi said: "In the opinion of the minister, if Your Majesty is attentive, he may not be unable to agree. ”

Zhu Qizhen's heart moved slightly, and said, "I don't understand a little. ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, now that the hundred officials are boiling, the ministers are almost unable to suppress it. Between inside and outside, there has to be a decision. ”

Zhu Qizhen looked at Liu Dingzhi, but saw that Liu Dingzhi's figure was a little haggard, but his eyes were firm, and in the face of Zhu Qizhen's gaze, he did not back down at all, and he knew that the situation was evolving now, and it was becoming more and more unfavorable to change the law.

Since a few years of pilot rollout. There are good and bad, but on the whole, there is still good feedback, whether it is a whip law or a clerk law.

For cutting interests, it is a zero-sum game, and if there are more people, there must be fewer people.

A whip law only made the rich more money, but the law of officials made the gentry and big families everywhere lose more.

Without him, there is a saying that it is not difficult to be in government, and it is enough not to sin the giant room.

So why not offend the giant room, this matter can be explained in various aspects, but fundamentally it is the management ability of the local government and county government, which is simply not enough to reach the lowest level of the people, and must pass through the middle layer of the gentry.

In other words, the Ming court was built at the level of these gentry.

In the 100 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that the most basic Lijia institutions have begun to slowly transform into the middle layer of the gentry.

And these officials who are native to their hometowns, even if they exploit the people, do not dare to offend these officials. After all, the status of the officials is too low, and a person with an official status can kill them in a word.

The so-called officials are like oil, and even regard these local big families as backers, after all, the county order will leave sooner or later, but these families will not leave, how can they offend a lifelong partner for the sake of a rogue official.

Now, the situation is different. As a grassroots level, the possibility of officials becoming officials has greatly increased, and generally speaking, even if they are mediocre, they can survive from the ninth grade to the top in their lives.

Don't underestimate it, a nine-grade sesame official, but for the people, it is very different.

In this way, these local officials have the motivation to fight with the local magnates for the sake of political performance. Of course, these officials alone are not enough to shake it.

However, with the addition of magistrates, a comprehensive suppression of the local magnitaries was achieved.

After all, although the local big households are said to be a whole, they are full of internal contradictions, and it is difficult to form a joint force.

There are powerful people, even if they are

In this way, these local big households can also be taken down. But when the local county government became the county government of the imperial court, not the county government of the local family.

Generally, the magistrates have completed the suppression of the other party's big households.

Even if you have an official body, it's not too useful, after all, in the officialdom, unless there is incense, there are some relationships that can't be beaten, who cares?

Such a situation was just introduced. A lot of people still can't see it.

Slowly, people discovered that wherever the law of officials was introduced, the magistrates liked to deal with large households. Because although Zhu Qizhen is not only based on political performance, but the booklet of the examination method is still there, this kind of simplified performance appraisal is in.

Magistrates want to scrub through the data.

But how to farm data?

Just overturn this big household, and the county government will be able to do things when they have money. As for how to overthrow the big households, as long as the magistrates want to find a way, there are enough ways to kill the big households reasonably and legally.

There are very few large families that are clean when they make a fortune. There is not a single problem.

Many of the gentry were an afterthought.

It seems that overnight, the rules of Daming's game are no longer familiar to them. It also seems that overnight, the previous good and good laws have all become bad laws.

A whip law, the cashier does not collect grain, oppressing the people. And the law of officials will be redundant.

The total number of officials in the Ming Dynasty is only 20,000, and the number of military attaches is only 50,000 or 60,000, and the total does not exceed 100,000, but the number of officials is at least hundreds of thousands.

This was an extremely heavy burden on the imperial court.

And the more officials you raise, the more taxes you will collect, and the more taxes you collect, the more officials you will have to raise, and this has become a vicious circle.

In the end, the people were overwhelmed, and the world fell apart.

This kind of opposition first spread at the bottom, within the officialdom, and even more violently in the rebellion in the Western Regions after Shi Heng's death.

Even Liu Dingzhi was under extremely strong pressure.

There is strife within, and there is war without. Liu Dingzhi was very worried that under such circumstances, it would be impossible to have both, so he hoped that Zhu Qizhen would slow down the matter of changing the law for a long time.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen flatly refused.

Liu Dingzhi naturally thought now, since Zhu Qizhen did not give up changing the law, should the affairs of the Western Regions be put aside first.

Liu Dingzhi naturally knew Timur's intentions.

It's just that Liu Dingzhi knows better that it doesn't matter what others think, what matters is what the court needs to do, which is the most important thing.

However, how can Zhu Qizhen be willing?

The matter of changing the law cannot be compromised, can the affairs of the Western Regions be compromised?

Perhaps, after all, the status of the Western Regions in the eyes of the Ming people is not an inseparable territory in later generations. It's no problem to take it a little slowly.

But after some things happened, Zhu Qizhen couldn't let him take half a step.