Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 530 Yu Qian's Decision

In Gansu, the north wind is blowing, and the cold wind is chilling.

Today's Gansu is not yet one of the famous Nine Frontier Army towns in Daming. Compared with important towns like Datong and Xuanfu, it seems a bit small and dilapidated.

Of course, as an important city to fight against captives, Gansu City is also scarred and has vicissitudes of battle.

The mottled traces stood in the cold wind, telling its achievements silently.

In the post station, the decoration is very simple. An old man in scarlet robes, holding a writing brush, leaned over the desk, writing and writing. Finally, he put down the writing brush in his hand and sighed deeply.

Yu Qian thought about what he saw when he inspected the barracks just now, and his worries deepened.

This time the emperor sent him out of Beijing, there are three things to do, one is to thoroughly investigate the case of Luotong.

This matter is not difficult, although it is an old case.

However, in secret, the emperor ordered Jin Yiwei to assist, and on the surface, Yu Qian personally supervised the handling. No matter how difficult a case is, as long as there are clues to be found, it can be investigated to the bottom.

For this matter, Yu Qian specially transferred several criminal case experts from the Ministry of Criminal Justice to cooperate with the case files sealed by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the local government, and quickly found a breakthrough.

Luo Tong's handling at the time was indeed very good, especially when Wang Ji, Minister of the Ministry of War who was in charge of investigating the case, turned a blind eye to it. Basically, the traces that can be found in the army and the handlers who know the inside story, All were silenced by him.

As for the bandits who bought the weapons at that time, they were also found an opportunity to exterminate them.

It should be said that it is very difficult to investigate now.

However, after careful investigation, Yu Qian discovered that the traces in the army had been wiped clean, but before the bandits were wiped out, there was an internal strife once.

The internal strife was very serious, and a fire broke out in the village. In the end, a group of people escaped without a trace, while the rest were wiped out by the subsequent army.

The bandits who escaped carried some weapons on their bodies.

Therefore, Yu Qian sent people to investigate carefully, and finally found the traces of this group of people near Shaanxi, and now they have obtained a confession.

Although they didn't know who was the one who resold the weapons back then, the quantity and type of the corresponding ones were all consistent with the reported losses in the army at that time.

For this alone, Luo Tong cannot escape the responsibility.

He was the censor of the army at the time, even if the weapons were not resold by him, but they flowed out of the army for no reason and were reported to the imperial court as war damage, which was also a crime of dereliction of duty.

Logically speaking, if the case continues to be investigated, more things can be found out, but Yu Qian has no intention to investigate.

Luo Tong's case was nothing more than a cover.

It is enough to have the crime of dereliction of duty, and further investigation, one is extremely difficult, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the other is not very meaningful.

In addition to Luo Tong's case, Yu Qian's second mission is to inspect the borders and investigate the feasibility of the nine border town plan.

During this period of time, with Datong as the center, as far as Gansu in the west and Xuanfu in the east, Yu Qian basically ran around, and what he saw made him quite anxious.

Last year, it also invaded first, with a huge momentum, and many pass battles were severely damaged.

Although the Ministry of Industry has mobilized craftsmen from all over the country to restore it, due to financial reasons, there are still many places that have not been repaired.

If you want to further rebuild a military town that is comparable to Datong and Xuanfu, you have to face many problems.

Yu Qian is confident in solving military problems, but there is a big gap in financial problems.

Only after seeing the dilapidated cities in various places in person, Yu Qian could feel more and more the importance of establishing the nine-border defense line.

So, naturally, he paid more and more attention to the situation of military settlements in various places.

However, after checking, Yu Qian felt even more frightened.

The number of military settlements in the Ming Dynasty, registered in the register, is already one-third less than when the country was founded. The opening of China, which was originally just a supplement, has become one of the main sources of border military expenses.

This point, Yu Qian, as Minister of the Ministry of War, has long been aware of it.

However, what he didn't expect was that the number of military settlements still operating normally in various places was less than one-third of the total.

What is this concept?
Less than one-third of the normal military settlements have to provide two-thirds of the military settlement taxes.

In other words, the taxes borne by the officers and troops in the farming army had essentially doubled.

Because the land and utensils for cultivation are provided uniformly by the state, Daming set the taxation of military settlements not lightly. Depending on the region, some places are [-]% to [-]%, and some places are [-]% or [-]%.

Fortunately for the former, part of the army can still be left, such as those that need to turn over [-]% or [-]% of the land boundary. The officers and soldiers will farm for a year. Not only will they not get any rations, but they will have to pay them upside down.

The rations of the officers and soldiers in many places even have to rely on commercial villages to make up for it.

Ordinary sergeants have been tortured to this point, and if things go on like this, how can all kinds of soldiers not flee.

The embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed by ant nests, and the military settlements were abandoned. The chain reaction brought about was that the frontier troops fled, and their combat power dropped seriously. But when facing foreign enemies, they were defeated in one battle.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that in the first battle of Oala, he was able to be as powerful as a broken bamboo.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for less than a hundred years now, and the previous emperors of all dynasties were all called British Lords. As a result, the border has been corrupted to this point...

The more he came to the field, saw the real scene, and understood the corrupt status quo of the border, the heavier Yu Qian's heart felt.

How can such an atmosphere, such a frontier army, be able to defend the country?

The sky had already slanted to the west, Yu Qian rubbed his forehead, put down the pen in his hand, saw that he had edited and edited countless times, but still had a thick pile of reports, he couldn't help but sighed.

To be honest, before going to the border, Yu Qian was somewhat self-confident.

Although it is said that the Son of Heaven deserved the first credit for the Battle of Oirat, Yu Qian did everything he did to rectify the Beijing camp, coordinate the frontier troops, ensure logistics, and coordinate the military forces of various places.

He is not proud of it, but he will not belittle himself either.

However, when he actually went to inspect the border and really set his sights on the military camp, Yu Qian really realized how incompetent he was as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

If someone saw Yu Qian now, he would be greatly astonished.

Yu Shaobao, who has always been extremely firm and never hesitated, now has a hesitant and dejected look on his face.

After all, even Yu Qian couldn't help but feel a little powerless in his heart regarding the corruption at the border and what he found out these days.

However, he is Yu Qian, a proud Yu Qian who would rather bend than bend!
Therefore, shame and self-pity are not his style, he will only face difficulties!

Silently made a decision in his heart, Yu Qian's gaze became resolute again.

Immediately, Yu Qian caught a glimpse of the imperial decree that was urgently delivered just eight hundred miles away.

So, he couldn't help but another thought came to him.

The reason why the Son of Heaven suppressed his Nine Sides proposal and insisted on letting him come to the border in person, is this also an intention?
Thinking so, there was a 30-year-old green-robed official outside. After knocking on the door, he walked in lightly, bowed his hands, and said.

"Shao Bao, just now came the news from the Xuan Mansion that the Supreme Emperor Shengjia has just set off from the Xuan Mansion."

This person's name is Fang Gao, who was originally the head of the Arsenal Department, but was later recommended by Yu Qian and promoted to be a member of the Ministry of War, Wai Lang, who was in charge of the affairs of the Arsenal Department.

This case involved weapons, so Yu Qian brought him here.

Hearing Fang Gao's words, Yu Qian also came back to his senses.

He is not a person who is particularly willing to try to figure out the holy will, he has his own beliefs.

What's more, it doesn't matter to him whether the emperor has this intention or not.

A gentleman does something, does not do something... must do something!

In his position, he should plan his own affairs. He has found out and seen these things. As long as he is still the Minister of the Ministry of War, he will fight against them to the end!
Gently exhaling, Yu Qian sorted out the ink-stained memorials at hand, then carefully sealed them with wax, stamped his own seal, and said.

"Same as before, expedited eight hundred miles, straight to the Imperial Palace!"

Then, beside Yu Qian, out of the shadows that no one was paying attention to, a sergeant dressed as a brocade guard with an embroidered spring knife walked out.

This person took the memorial, checked it carefully, sealed it again with Jin Yiwei's technique, bowed, and then retreated silently.

From beginning to end, without saying a word.

Although this scene has happened more than once, Yu Qian still couldn't help but look at him more.

Logically speaking, Jinyiwei is the official establishment of the imperial court, and everyone in it has files to check in the Ministry of War.

However, Yu Qian couldn't find his file for this person!

In other words, what he can see is an extremely ordinary file.

This person joined the army a year ago, and the file shows that he was an ordinary military household to fill in the vacancy. His father was Jinyiwei Xiaoqi, who died in civil engineering. As the only son, he inherited the status of a military household and became an ordinary Jinyiwei school lieutenant. The history is very clear.

However, after careful investigation, many clues can be found. For example, everyone in his family has died, and the so-called "father" does have a son, but he is weak and sick. Said it was rare to see people.

For another example, this person is so ordinary that he can't tell anything special when he is thrown into the crowd. Even his title is just an ordinary captain of Jinyiwei.

However, since Yu Qian left the capital, wherever he went, he could command the movement of all guards, thousands or hundreds of households.

Yu Qian believed that if it wasn't for the investigation of the military settlement this time and the need to rely on the power of Jin Yiwei, he might never know that there are such people under the emperor.

Jin Yiwei's water is far deeper than he imagined!

However, Yu Qian didn't ask too much, he just needed to be clear that after his memorandum was handed over to this person, it would be quietly sent to the emperor without going through any procedures.

Even, the imperial court would never know about the existence of this memorandum...

Of course, as Minister of the Ministry of War, Yu Qian still knows some news.

For example, in the Battle of Oara, the frontier army lost many elite Yebushou, some of them found their bodies, but some of them did not know whether they were alive or dead...

After handing over the playbook, Yu Qian breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to Fang Gao, who came in to report, and said.

"Okay, you make arrangements, we will set off tomorrow, to Xuanfu!"

"what?"

Fang Gao didn't realize it for a while, the emperor's order came from yesterday, and he was in a hurry for eight hundred miles, and ordered Yu Qian to go to the Xuanfu to persuade the Supreme Emperor to return to Beijing.

This matter was not kept secret, so Fang Gao naturally knew about it.

However, after Yu Qian finished reading it, he was not in a hurry. He only said that there were still some things to deal with at hand, and it would not be too late to wait two days before leaving.

At the same time, he ordered Fang Gao to pay attention to the news of Haoxuan Mansion, and report any news immediately.

As Yu Qian's confidant, Fang Gao naturally knew that Yu Qian had more than one responsibility for this border patrol. Although the lord never told him clearly, from many clues, he could roughly guess what the lord was looking for.

Originally, Fang Gao also thought that his boss had reached a critical moment in the investigation of the military settlement, so it was inconvenient to leave immediately.

But now it seems that it is not...

Blinking his eyes, Fang Gao looked at the document in his hand again, and said.

"Shao Bao, what the officer said just now is that the Supreme Emperor has already set off to return to the capital, you..."

you don't have to go...

The emperor's decree is to ask you to persuade the Supreme Emperor to return to the court as soon as possible. Now, the Supreme Emperor has already left without waiting for anyone to persuade him, so what are you going to do?
Yu Qian didn't explain too much, he just looked at the imperial decree in his hand and said.

"You don't have to ask too much, just do it!"

Although Fang Gao was puzzled, he still nodded and turned around to make arrangements.

Yu Qian sat back on the chair again, unfolded the imperial decree in his hand, looked at the words "full authority to be responsible for the affairs of the Supreme Emperor in Xuanfu" written on it, and fell into deep thought.

In fact, Yu Qian had never been worried about the Taishanghuang's welcome back.

Although he is at the border, thanks to Jin Yiwei, Yu Qian can get news of many important events in Beijing as quickly as possible.

So he knew that once it was a foregone conclusion that the crown prince would leave the cabinet, the Supreme Emperor would have to go back, it was only a matter of time.

As for asking him to go to the Xuan Mansion to "advise" the Supreme Emperor, the intention was not to persuade him, but to go to the Xuan Mansion!
Among the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, Datong and Xuanfu are the most important, and among them, Xuanfu is the most important. It has a long history, a large number of soldiers, and the relationship is more complicated.

This time, Yu Qian went from Datong to near Xuanfu, and then from near Xuanfu to Gansu. In fact, he made a big circle.

However, he never went to Xuanfu City.

As for why...

The right hand tapped lightly on the table, making clear and regular sounds, Yu Qian seemed to be talking to himself.

"Datong uncle Tao Jin, inherited his father's position in Yongle 14, and was the commander of Yangzhou Wei. In Yongle 21, he was transferred to Yanghe Wei. He followed Emperor Taizong's northern expedition. He was brave and calm, with military exploits, and was the commander of Jin."

"In the first year of Zhengtong, he was recommended by Liu Pu, the Marquis of Anyuan. Therefore, the British Duke Zhang Fu personally tried his military art and martial arts, and was promoted to be the commander of the capital. In the 14th year of Zhengtong, he served as a general on the left and suppressed the rebellion in Zhejiang. He returned to the army in April and entered the middle of the country with merit. The governor of the military governor's mansion."

"In August, Tao Jin was also close to the Bauhinia Pass. Tao Jin was ordered to go out with Ningyuan Hou Renli to shoot and kill Yan Timur, the chieftain of the enemy. It's been half a year."

As Yu Qian said that, he counted Tao Jin's resume in a calm tone.

Then, he paused, and after a while, Fang continued.

"The former commander-in-chief of the Xuan Mansion is Yang Hong, the Marquis of Changping, the governor of the capital of the rear army."

"His nephew, Yang Xin, guarded Xuanfu with Yang Hong for many years, and made many military exploits. Yang Hongjin has already made a Marquis in the first branch, so Yang Xin was granted the title of hereditary commander, and the son of Zhun Jiayin will be the commander's acquaintance, and he will still serve as the deputy commander in Xuanfu."

It's over here.

It stops abruptly, but it means a lot.

In the place where the setting sun can't shine, the unique subtle collision sound of the Xiuchun Knife sounded, as if someone stood up, and then fell silent...

　Dazhang, thank you book friend Banana Chang ah Chang for rewarding the lord...

　　
　
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