Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time, so long that Yang Hao thought that Chongzhen had flinched after listening to his words.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly exhaled heavily, and said to him in a low voice: "I am ready, I am ready for the worst preparations for losing all the land outside the Guan, and the Liaodong armies will defect to the enemy.

If Liaodong is a pustule on Daming's body, then it is better to squeeze it as soon as possible.

Besides, as Yang Qing said, after the death of this old slave, the power within Jiannu has not yet been unified. Even if the Liaoxi generals wanted to collude with Jiannu because of this strategy of dividing the army and the people, I don't think that Jiannu dared to come out of the nest and rely on a group of Liaoxi generals at both ends of the head rat to seize Shanhaiguan.

Besides, the side wall of my Ming Dynasty is the most majestic in Shanhaiguan, and it is also the most solid and intact. Instead of letting the Houjin army make a detour to other areas to attack Guannei, it is better to let the Ningyuan-Shanhaiguan line open, so that the offensive line of the Houjin army can be fixed here.

The reason why I wanted to have a separate interview with Yang Qing was that I heard that Yang Qing had a good relationship with the Li family in Liaodong and was quite familiar with the soldiers of Liaodong. Although I don't know how powerful this Liaoxi Jiangmen is in Liaodong now, I believe that they have not been able to cover the sky in Liaodong alone, otherwise this Jin Qiliang would not have died so bizarrely. ”

Yang Hao thought for a moment before he said hesitantly: "Your Majesty's strategy is certainly far-sighted, but can Your Majesty think about it carefully?" Mencius has clouds, fish, I want, bear's paws, I also want, I can't have both, and those who give up fish and take bear's paws are also.

After discussing peace with Houjin and rectifying the military system, the old minister thought it was imperative. However, this division of the army and the people, weakening the strength of the generals in western Liaoning, the old minister thought that it should be delayed, this matter is not only related to the heart of the Liaodong army, but also related to the discussion of peace and the military system, if the Liaodong army is unstable, then the discussion of peace and the rectification of the military system will be hindered.

From the perspective of the old ministers, although the generals of Liaoxi are domineering, they have not yet dared to openly rebel against my Daming. Therefore, it is better to punish a little first, and take the heads of one or two Liaodong officers to deter these unscrupulous people in the Liaodong army. When the peace talks are brokered and the military system is reorganized, it is not too late to slowly clean up these gates.

Moreover, the land in western Liaoning is either in the hands of these generals, or in the hands of those local landlords and wealthy families in western Liaoning. Although His Majesty wants to divide the military and the people, and reduce the strength of these generals. But where does Your Majesty plan to take the land to settle these Liaodong fugitives?

Between the landlords and wealthy families of Liaoxi and those generals in Liaoxi, they are two sides of the same coin. His Majesty rescued these Liaodong people from Jiangmen, but in the end, they had to be sent to the hands of the landlords and wealthy families, for them, it was nothing more than a change of soup and not a change of medicine. The minister thought that it was really thankless to do this strategy, so it was better not to do it..."

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and interrupted Yang Hao's persuasion, "I will solve the land matter." Yang Qing only needs to identify for me, and there are still those people available in the Liaodong Army. ”

Seeing that Chongzhen's mind was so firm, Yang Hao couldn't persuade him anymore, he could only think that when the time came, he could only try to relax the policy formulated by Chongzhen a little bit, and not provoke an uncontrollable mutiny.

After Yang Hao left, Wang Chengen and Wang Tiqian walked in again. Wang Chengen asked Chongzhen: "Your Majesty will go back to the Qianqing Palace to rest for a while, or go directly to the Governor's Mansion to inspect?" ”

Zhu Youzhen held his chin with his right hand and thought for a while, before he regained his spirit and said, "Let's go to the Governor's Mansion." ”

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is located on the west side of the imperial road between the Daming Gate and the Chengtian Gate, and is far away from the six official offices on the east side of the imperial road.

Between the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Governor's Office of the Sixth Army, there is a royal square surrounded by a tall red wall, and the two cannot be seen.

Zhu Youzhen and his entourage came out of Chengtianmen, he stood on the Jinshui Bridge and could see the majestic Zhengyang Gate at the end of the red wall, the square within the red wall, that is, part of the ** square in later generations, the square in the red wall is five or six hundred steps wide from east to west, and about 1,600 steps long from north to south.

There was a thick layer of snow piled up on top of the heavy red wall, like wearing a white hat, but the snow on the ground was clean.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, although the scenery in front of him looks unusually thick, there is a lack of popularity in the empty square.

Wang Chengen and three or four other eunuchs stood behind Chongzhen, I don't know why His Majesty stopped on the empty and cold Jinshui Bridge, which was blocked by the red walls around it, and there was not much scenery to see.

When Wang Chengen was standing and waiting, he suddenly heard Zhu Youzhen say in a low voice: "One day, I will tear down the red walls on both sides, this square is really too breathless." ”

Wang Chengen listened to Chongzhen's remarks, he didn't even blink his eyelids, and still stood with his hands folded and his eyebrows lowered, waiting for Chongzhen to finish expressing his feelings.

Since His Royal Highness King Shin ascended the throne, His Majesty's outrageous words and deeds have popped out of his mouth from time to time.

As the most trusted eunuch around Chongzhen, Wang Chengen may have admonished him with fear at first, trying to make His Majesty cautious in his words and deeds and not affect his image.

But now, Chongzhen's remarks have been immune to him, and Wang Chengen found that instead of admonishing His Majesty to speak carefully, it is easier to silence the eunuchs serving around His Majesty.

Zhu Youzhen, who sighed with emotion, only regretted that there was no one around him who echoed him a few times, he looked back and found that all the attendants were looking down at the ground, obviously they wanted to pretend to be deaf.

Zhu Youzhen raised his eyebrows, and then asked Wang Chengen, "Where should we go now?" ”

Wang Chengen then ran to Chongzhen in small steps and said: "Please allow Your Majesty to let the ministers lead the way for Your Majesty, and go out from the right gate of Chang'an on the west side, which is the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies." ”

"Cheng, then you will lead the way in front. By the way, tell me about the history of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. Zhu Youzhen agreed casually.

The predecessor of the Five Military Governor's Mansion was the Dadu Governor's Mansion, which was the institution that controlled military power before Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who entered the Ming Emperor as the marshal of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, deeply understood how a great threat to the emperor was to a Metropolitan Governor's Mansion that unified power and controlled the Chinese and foreign military.

Therefore, in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Dadu Governor's Mansion and replaced it with five military governors with equal status, which managed the Beijing Division and the local guards respectively.

After Taizu set up the system and Chengzu perfected the system, the Governor's Office and the Military Department of the Five Armies were all under the orders of the emperor, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies had the right to command the troops but not the right to transfer troops, and the Ministry of War had the right to transfer troops but not the right to command the troops. The Governor's Office and the Military Department of the five armies control each other and do not subordinate each other.

However, after becoming an ancestor, with the rapid weakening of the Xungui group, the power of the civil and official group began to expand rapidly, and the civil and military checks and balances system of the Ming Dynasty was gradually destroyed.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies had lost its political participation and political power, and had changed from a central organ of "the general internal and external military" to a subordinate organization that was subject to the military department everywhere and simply carried out orders.

From the beginning of Emperor Zhengde, the atmosphere of indiscriminate sealing of military posts also discredited the authority and prestige of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. At the end of Jiajing, Emperor Sejong even crowned a guerrilla Ma Fang as the right governor.

The result of this proliferation of military positions is that no one regards the governor's office of the five armies as the same thing, and in the eyes of civilian officials, there is no difference between the chief soldier and the pawn. When the chief officer of the army receives orders from the military headquarters, he must kneel outside the palace. Occasionally, those who give a salute to the governor will be considered to be ignorant of the general situation.

When Chongzhen, under the leadership of Wang Chengen, walked towards the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. In front of the former military governor's mansion, a soldier in a single shirt was standing guard in front of the door with a gun. Apart from this soldier, there was not a single guard in front of the door.

After returning from an errand outside, the secretary of the division couldn't help frowning when he walked out of the sedan door and saw the soldiers shivering in the cold wind.

After sending away the sedan chair driver, he walked down the steps towards the gate of the former military governor's mansion. The gate of the Governor's Mansion was closed, and only one ear door was opened on the right side.

When the priest walked to the ear door, he heard a commotion coming from the ear room inside the door. He stopped, hesitated for a moment, then walked to the door of the earroom, pushed it open, and entered.

3. 4 soldiers are hiding in the ear room around a charcoal basin to keep warm, the basin is made of some inferior charcoal, resulting in the whole small ear room full of smoke and fire, but the temperature is warmer than the outside.

As soon as Yan Chengze entered the door, he was hit by this charcoal gas and sneezed several times in a row. The soldiers, who were hiding in the room to make a fire, saw a junior official in his 30s walk in, and immediately stood up.

One of the sharp-eyed ones saw the faces of the visitors clearly in the smoke, and then saluted and said, "It turns out that the priest has returned, do you have any orders?" ”

Yan Chengze glanced at it fixedly, and only then did he recognize that it was Lu Shanhe, the small flag on duty guarding the gate, who saluted him, and he waved his hand to avoid the salute of several other soldiers, and then asked with some unhappiness.

What's the matter with the soldier outside the door? Why is it so cold that he is still wearing single clothes on such a cold day.

Xiaoqi Lu Shanhe said with a smile: "Yan Si Jie still don't care about this matter, the one outside the door is a stubborn, open-mouthed Cao Dian who said that the household room is too ruthless to deduct food and salary this month, and the other guards are only deducting thirty percent, and this guard actually deducts fifty percent, how can people survive in this cold winter."

When Cao Dianguan heard the news, he was quite dissatisfied, so he asked for a lesson from his humble position. You also know that the Cao Dian, the official of this house, is in charge of everyone's salary, how can we provoke him.

The villain wanted to let this stubborn man blow the cold wind outside, firstly, to let Cao Dianzhi dissipate his anger, and secondly, to prevent Cao Dianzhi from continuing to remember him. Blowing a cold wind outside the door is at most a minor illness, but if Cao Dianguan continues to remember him, it will be difficult to say. ”

Hearing the name Cao Dian, Yan Chengze suddenly hesitated. Although the rank of this Cao Dianguan is lower than his own, he is the confidant of Shangguan Zhang's experience, and he is also the money bag of Zhang's experience to make money, and most of the food and salary deducted by Cao Dian's official is into Zhang's pocket.