Sun Chengzong has reason to be surprised, to know what kind of place is the cabinet?

After more than 100 years of evolution, the cabinet has become the most important department of the Ming Dynasty, but also the nerve center of the entire Ming Dynasty, all the decrees and important orders issued by the imperial court must be approved by the cabinet before they can take effect.

Don't look at Yang Feng as Jiang Ninghou, holding tens of thousands of troops to shock the southeast, but compared to the cabinet, it is still far from enough, and now seeing the three pavilion elders, including Gu Bingqian, are so jealous of Yang Feng, it naturally makes Sun Chengzong feel shocked and inexplicable.

Seeing Sun Chengzong's surprised expression, Gu Bingqian glanced at each other with Han Yi and Zhu Guozhen before he smiled bitterly and said to Sun Chengzong: "Kaiyang Gong, you have been in Liaodong for a long time, and you are not very familiar with the affairs of the court, the old man can understand."

Now what the old man wants to tell you is that Jiang Ninghou is not as simple as it seems. Today's Jiang Ninghou cannot be said to be in power, but his influence is all over the entire Ming Dynasty, so to speak, if Jiang Ninghou stomps his feet, the entire Ming Dynasty will tremble. "What...... Jiang Ninghou actually has such a big influence? ”

"Of course, what did the old man coax you to do?"

Gu Bingqian didn't have a good airway.

"The old man only tells you one simple thing, you know the most popular rice seeds in Jiangnan today, right?"

"Yes!" Sun Chengzong replied honestly, although he was far away in Liaodong, he also knew about the high-yield grain seeds that Yang Feng had gotten.

"Although Xiaguan is far away in Liaodong, he has also heard that the highest yield of these rice seeds from Jiangning Hou can reach as much as 1,000 catties, and when Xiaguan first heard about it, he thought it was a rumor, but as the news from the customs continued to come, Xiaguan believed that it was not a rumor."

"Hmm!"

Gu Bingqian stroked his beard, "Kaiyang Gong is right, these high-yield rice seeds brought by Jiangning Hou have a very high grain yield, although not every mu can reach as many as 1,000 catties, but eight or nine hundred catties can be reached."

Coupled with the seeds of crops such as corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and sorghum, it can be said that although the Ming Dynasty has continued to suffer from drought in recent years, there has been no large-scale displacement incident. ”

Sun Chengzong nodded silently, he was a well-known sincere gentleman who had read poetry and books, and naturally disdained the recognized facts.

After seeing Sun Chengzong nodding, Gu Bingqian continued meaningfully: "Have you thought about Kaiyang Gong, if Jiang Ninghou stops providing Daming with seeds for high-yield rice and even those expenses and pesticides that can increase grain production, what will be the consequences?" ”

"Of course the consequences will ......" Sun Chengzong said without thinking, and then immediately stopped, with a shocked look on his face.

"It seems that Kaiyang Gong also understands this consequence."

Gu Bingqian's face showed a look of helplessness, and without waiting for Sun Chengzong to speak, he said to himself: "The rice grain yield provided by Jiang Ninghou is a full thirty percent higher than that of previous rice, plus those high-yield potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops, what does such a yield mean You should be clear without the old man saying it, right?" ”

"Xiaguan understands."

Sun Chengzong understood that he was accustomed to the Ming Dynasty, which had a yield of eight or nine hundred catties per mu, and if he returned to the era of five or six hundred catties per mu, I am afraid that the landlords and peasants in the south of the Yangtze River would probably be the first to be the first to stand it.

"And that's not all."

Seeing Sun Chengzong, who was silent, Gu Bingqian sneered: "Jiang Ninghou not only provided these high-yield seeds, but the Ming Royal Commercial House he personally founded has five or six million taels of silver distributed to His Majesty every year, if there is suddenly no such silver, think about it, how will Your Majesty react?" ”

"Hiss......"

Sun Chengzong gasped, and now he completely understood.

Today's Yang Feng has firmly linked himself with the emperor and the peasants, and the most powerful thing is that no matter who becomes the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he will become a vested interest, so if anyone dares to touch Yang Feng, he is doing it to the emperor and millions of peasants, and without Yang Feng to speak, the emperor will take the lead in tearing him apart.

It can be said that the current Yang Feng has long established himself in an invincible position, because no matter who is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he will treat him as a treasure for his own money bag.

Seeing Sun Chengzong's frowning brows, Gu Bingqian said lightly: "Now you understand why the old man and the elders of the pavilion have such a headache." ”

"Xiaguan understands." Sun Chengzong let out a long sigh, at this moment he finally understood Gu Bingqian, Han Yi and Zhu Guozhen's feelings towards Yang Feng.

In the face of such a person who has a heavy army, is rich and rivals the country, and still firmly ties himself to the imperial family and peasants of the Ming Dynasty, they have no way, and against Yang Feng is equivalent to dealing with the emperor and against thousands of peasants.

Don't look at them as elders, but as long as the emperor is not satisfied with them, he can remove any of them in minutes, but Yang Feng is irreplaceable, this is the biggest difference between them.

"Yi'an Gong, what do you want the lower officials to do?"

Gu Bingqian said slowly: "This official doesn't expect you to do anything, I just hope that in the future, you can make good use of the relationship with Jiang Ninghou to strengthen the connection between him and the cabinet, and the most important thing is that you must not repeat the disaster of the late Tang Dynasty, do you understand?"

At this moment, Sun Chengzong finally understood what Gu Bingqian's three people's biggest worries were, what they were most afraid of was that Yang Feng would greatly improve the status of the martial arts and form a situation of confrontation with civilian officials.

They are not afraid that Yang Feng will turn the sky upside down, nor are they afraid that Yang Feng's relationship with the royal family is too deep, because no matter how powerful Yang Feng is, he is just a mortal, don't look at him now, but when Yang Feng is old or even dies, everything in Daming will return to the original track, and Daming is still the world of scholars.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the status of military attachés and nobles was very high, to put it mildly, civil officials did not even have a big breath in front of them, the reason is very simple, the world of the Ming Dynasty was fought by them, and they just had this confidence.

After a long period of hibernation and the change of the civil fort, the civil official group slowly suppressed the military attache group, and even heroes like Qi Jiguang could only call themselves lackeys in the letter to Zhang Juzheng.

It can be said that after hundreds of years of hard work, the civilian clique has finally reached today's situation.

Originally, they thought that this situation would continue, but the appearance of Yang Feng made them feel panicked, and with the news of the victories of the Ming army one by one, the status of the Ming soldiers and generals was also improving step by step.

Originally, for Da Ming, such a situation was good, but for the Yu Wenguan group, it was a nightmare, and they couldn't bear it.

Now Gu Bingqian wants to hand over this burden to Sun Chengzong, and after thinking about this, Sun Chengzong felt overwhelmed for the first time.