Chapter 314: The Confident General of the Jingying
"A bunch of ruffians eating mixed rice?"
Zhu Youxiao's face turned slightly red, and then he glared at Yang Feng angrily, how can this guy tell the truth, will he still chat?
"Isn't it?"
Yang Feng ignored Zhu Youxiao's angry eyes, and said regardless of it: "When Taizu and Chengzu were in power, how good was my Ming Dynasty's Beijing camp, the Beijing camp was out of the fortress, and the aliens outside the gate all fled in despair, and Chengzu led the army out of the fortress five times to fight the Tatars and the Watters suffered heavy losses, which laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. But after the death of Emperor Chengzu, what has become of the Jingying, the elite of my Ming Dynasty was lost in the first battle of Tumubao, if it weren't for a Yu Qian, I'm afraid that my Ming Dynasty would have changed hands long ago, and now Your Majesty still dares to say that the Jingying is not a group of moths and ruffians who eat mixed rice? β
Zhu Youxiao, who was red-faced and red-eared, was speechless for a while, now ten people know that the Beijing camp is a group of waste concentration camps, and the people in it are all chaotic, not to mention that such soldiers are pulling out of the pass to fight the tartars, I am afraid that even the bandits in the pass will not be able to defeat them.
For the sake of face, Zhu Youxiao wanted to deny it, but after all, he couldn't open his eyes and say nonsense, so he could only blushing and snorting coldly to express his acquiescence.
Seeing that Zhu Youxiao didn't speak, Yang Feng also knew that he couldn't be stimulated anymore, he was a big boss, and it would not be good for him to offend the boss miserably. He coughed lightly and apologized to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, Weichen Meng Lang is gone." β
Zhu Youxiao snorted lightly, and said a little stupidly: "That's it, today's Beijing camp is indeed too unreasonable, it has long become a place to hide filth and dirt, I also have the heart to rectify the Beijing camp, but it is really ...... Alas......"
Zhu Youxiao's words eventually turned into a long sigh......
Looking at Zhu Youxiao's stunned expression, Yang Feng said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, please forgive Weichen for saying bluntly, the way to govern the country should be both civil and military, and it is not advisable to just emphasize literature or military force. If the Ming Dynasty is compared to a person, the civil ministers and military generals are like the two legs of a person.
For the former, you can just look at the fate of the former Song Dynasty, the status of Wenchen in the former Song Dynasty was high enough, right? The emperor of the Song Dynasty even said that he would not kill the doctor, on the other hand, those warriors, if they wanted to be a soldier to serve the country, they had to be engraved on their faces, how sad it was.
The result? When the iron cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom came to Bianliang City, the huge Bianliang City could not find a person who dared to go out of the city to fight, and finally those Jurchens escorted more than 3,000 people such as Song Huizong, Song Qinzong's father and son, and most of the Zhao royal family, harem concubines, Guiqing, courtiers, etc., to the north, and the public and private savings in Tokyo City were empty, this is the most profound lesson!
Of course, it is not advisable to emphasize military force over literature. The disaster of the feudal towns of the former Tang Dynasty is a lesson from the past. But Your Majesty, you know best what the Ming Dynasty looks like today, and do you have room to speak among the generals of the Ming Dynasty? Is it normal for a seven-rank county commander or imperial history to dare to throw his face at the dignified chief military officer, and a third-grade commander wants to kneel down to a five-rank military station? The minister dared to ask, if the imperial court was such a military attachΓ©, if the Tartars hit the city of Beijing on another day, who else would be willing to die for His Majesty? Is it just those court princes who can only play tricks? β
Yang Feng's words can be said to be heart-wrenching, which is also after more than a year of observation, Yang Feng believes that Zhu Youxiao is not the kind of person who kills donkeys or is mean and unkind.
Hearing Yang Feng speak so frankly, Zhu Youxiao was also very moved in his heart, and he sighed a little helplessly: "Yang Aiqing is reasonable, I also had the intention to reorganize the military equipment before, but I found that it was difficult to return to the Ming Dynasty in the early morning, and the treasury was empty, so that I didn't know where to start...... It's hard! β
"You have to do it if it's difficult, otherwise Daming will really have no hope." Yang Feng said categorically: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this rectification will start from the Beijing camp, as long as Your Majesty has tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, who else dares to despise you?" β
"I have long wanted to rectify the Beijing camp, but now the treasury is so empty that it can run rats, and everything is in vain without silver." Zhu Youxiao put his hands together and looked at Yang Feng with a malicious smile on his face: "Yang Aiqing is a famous rich man, why don't you come and help me?" β
Yang Feng pondered for a while before saying: "Okay, it's April now, the profit of the first quarter of this year has come out, about 1.6 million, according to the original agreement, the royal family should get 800,000 taels of silver, and in a few days the minister will let people send the silver to the inner treasury, so that the start-up capital for the rectification of the Beijing camp will be available, and the minister estimates that it is not a day's work to rectify the Beijing camp, and it will take one to two years to see the results. It's up to His Majesty to make the decision. β
Zhu Youxiao glanced at Yang Feng deeply and said with a smile: "Aiqing is too worried, I know what you are worried about." But I'm not Cao Cao, and you're not Yang Xiu, so Aiqing doesn't have to be so careful. β
Hearing Zhu Youxiao say this, Yang Feng couldn't help but laugh wryly: "Your Majesty, the minister is not worried about Your Majesty, but worried about the gossip outside, the ancients also said that three people become tigers, and the minister is worried that it will bring too much pressure to Your Majesty." β
"!" Zhu Youxiao rarely burst into a foul language, "What kind of person do you think of me, if you can't even bear this pressure, what kind of emperor will you be?" Don't bother the two masters, since this matter was proposed by you, I will leave it to you to do it, and I will remove Zhu Chunchen and hand over the position of governor to you, so that you can let go of your hands and feet, I will give you a year, and I must train an elite soldier for me. I'll give you three days to write down your thoughts and hand them to me, can you do it? β
Looking at the high-spirited Zhu Youxiao, Yang Feng's heart was relieved, the current Zhu Youxiao was like a real emperor, and it was not in vain that he spent so much energy to help him, only to see him stand up and bow down and say, "Do you dare to obey your orders?" β
April 16 Celebrant of Ceremonies
The celebrant is located northeast of the Imperial Palace, near the right side of Banzai Mountain.
Although the Ming Dynasty celebrant replaced the emperor with the right to "wear red", it can be described as a monstrous power. However, the celebrant is not big, just a few small courtyards, which look very ordinary, and are not at all conspicuous compared to the rest of the palace.
In a small house of the celebrant supervisor, the nine-thousand-year-old father-in-law Wei, who had been in power in the past, sat in the room, looking at a copy of the fold in his hand, his face was cloudy. Next to him sat a eunuch in his forties, dressed in royal blue eunuch attire, with four golden bars embroidered on his sleeves, indicating that the eunuch's rank had reached the pinnacle of what a eunuch could reach...... Sipin, he is the eunuch Wang Tiqian, the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch.
Looking at Wei Zhongxian, who was not good-looking, Wang Tiqian asked in disbelief: "Nine thousand years old, do we really want to give this will to the end?" β
"Why don't you approve it?" Wei Zhongxian sneered: "This is what Your Majesty meant, can we still resist the decree?" In fact, we want to see how the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will react after seeing this will? β
Wang Tiqian said faintly: "We don't know what the civil officials have to say, but what we can be sure of is that the martial artists in the capital will definitely jump." β
Wang Tiqian was right, the next day when the letter was folded and sent to the cabinet, the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military shocks not to mention, Zhu Chunchen's whole person was as stunned on the spot as five thunderbolts, he never expected that he, the governor who had been in office for more than ten years, would be dismissed, and he was removed without warning, and he was replaced by Yang Feng, who had just returned to Beijing.
It stands to reason that Zhu Chunchen, the governor of Beijing, was removed from his post and Yang Feng took his place, and the civil officials who were already at odds with Yang Feng should jump up and oppose it in unison, but the strange thing is that these civil officials actually showed an attitude of not caring about themselves, which also disappointed Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian, who originally wanted to watch a good show.
"Miscalculated, we all miscalculated!"
Wei Zhongxian smiled bitterly: "I originally thought that those Donglin Party would play their sleeves with Yang Feng again and let us watch a good show, but I never thought that they would shrink back." β
"It was indeed miscalculated." Wang Tiqian also shook his head and said: "Military power has always been the most sensitive and the most taboo thing for the emperor, Your Majesty handed over the Beijing camp to Yang Feng, if they jump out to oppose it at this time, then Your Majesty will have enough reasons to clean them up, Gao Panlong They naturally will not do such a stupid thing." β
Wei Zhongxian also nodded, military power is the foundation of all emperors, even the most mediocre emperor will not hand over military power to people he does not trust, judging from Zhu Youxiao's actions this time, he wants to make a big move. However, even Wei Zhongxian had to admit that now Jingying is deeply ill, and no one except Yang Feng has the ability to bring Jingying out.
Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but sigh lightly, it seems that Yang Feng is more and more trusted by the emperor, and even the army of Jingying, which is related to his life, is handed over to him, this guy's luck is too good......
"Crackling ......"
As the sound of things being broken came from the hall, mixed with the sound of Zhu Chunchen's angry shouting.
Yang Feng ...... I'm at odds with you! β
As an old martial artist, the mansion of Chengguo Mansion is naturally richly decorated, and this hall is more than 200 square meters, enough to accommodate hundreds of people. Now, in the center of the hall sits the owner of this mansion, the contemporary Duke of Chengguo, Zhu Chunchen, and below him stand dozens of military generals, almost all of whom include all the middle and high-level generals in Beijing.
It stands to reason that the iron battalion is a flowing official. As a force defending the capital, the transfer of generals in Beijing is too ordinary, Zhu Chunchen has been the governor of Beijing for more than ten years, this is abnormal, Zhu Youxiao transferred him is a very common thing, but he has been the governor for more than ten years, where is he willing to give up the rights in his hands when he regards Beijing as his own backyard?
In addition, under his painstaking management over the years, Jingying has long become his Zhu Chunchen's self-reserved land, and he has at least 100,000 taels of silver for the empty salary he eats every year. Now that he is gone, these items will naturally be gone, as the so-called cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, Zhu Chunchen is naturally unwilling to let his financial routes be cut off, which attracted these subordinates to discuss countermeasures.
After losing his temper for a while, Zhu Chunchen gasped and said, "Wang Chunsheng, you are the deputy general of the Shenshu Battalion, how should we deal with this matter?" β
Before Wang Chunsheng could answer, a very obese general in his thirties next to him said with some embarrassment: "Grandpa, although this is the case, but Your Majesty's holy decree has been issued, we as courtiers must not disobey the order and disrespect, right?" β
"Idiot!" Wang Chunsheng, who was sitting on top of him, glared at him and scolded: "You have eaten all the food for so many years, we really can't go against Your Majesty's will, but what is Jingying?" That's our old nest, it's too simple to deal with an outsider, as long as we join forces to give him a yang and yin disobedience, can he Yang Feng still eat us?
Moreover, His Majesty ordered Yang Feng to reorganize the Beijing camp, and he must have given a time limit. As long as we can elevate him and let him have nothing to do for a few months, I am afraid that His Majesty will be the first to remove him, and the position of the governor of Beijing will not be the grandfather of the country at that time? β
"Right...... Wang Fu will be right. A guerrilla on the side agreed: "If the surname Yang is an acquaintance, we don't mind giving him some benefits, if he doesn't know each other, we will incite the brothers to make trouble, I see what he does, as long as the matter is big, His Majesty will naturally know, and those Donglin Party are not vegetarians, last time Yang Feng was Gao Panlong ruthlessly slammed it, I heard that Gao Panlong's niece and daughter-in-law wanted to find a short time several times, fortunately he was rescued, this time Gao Panlong has already formed a mortal enmity with Yang Feng, once he has the opportunity he will never let go." β
"That's right, it's still Lin's guerrilla that makes sense." The eyes of the generals and officials suddenly lit up, if these people let them go to war, I am afraid that they will not even be able to defeat the bandits, but if they are allowed to play tricks such as making trouble and provoking trouble, they are all experts.
Seeing everyone's excited faces, it is not that no one is a little worried, after all, judging from Yang Feng's performance since entering Beijing, Yang Feng is not a master who is easy to fool, if he really provokes him, this guy will really be ruthless.
However, there is a saying in the West in later generations that God must first make it crazy if he wants to make it perish, from Zhu Chunchen to the deputy generals below, guerrillas, and even auxiliary generals, and camps, all they think of at the moment is what benefits they can get from this trouble, but they didn't expect that Yang Feng would not take advantage of the topic and take the opportunity to clean them up, because in their opinion, Yang Feng can't do without the help of these local snakes if he wants to reorganize the Beijing camp, and Yang Feng only has a share of them Yang Feng, and he definitely doesn't dare to attack them, which is also the reason why they are full of confidence.
Is it just that things are really as they imagined?