I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 722 Mountain Guard 3
And it is not so easy to choose someone who has the qualifications and ability to replace this Lan Daman as the supervisor of Zhongjing this time.

And even if they are elected, they still have to go all the way from the capital to the capital.If something happens on the way, it will be a lot of fun!

In short, as soon as this incident happened, the imperial court was immediately overwhelmed, not to mention the Zhongjing side, which was even more anxious and chaotic.

Originally, the evil disaster spread in the area of ​​Zhongjing, but it was still far away from Zhongjing.But now within a hundred miles of Zhongjing City, traces of monsters have begun to appear.

Countless people dragged their families and fled to the nearest city.

In just over ten days, the population of Zhongjing City increased by more than [-] people, which increased the pressure on logistics and food.

Originally, the supervisor should have arrived, but the military and government seized it and issued a government order to calm down food prices and crack down on hoarding.Even when necessary, military control and so on.

But at this time, the civilian supervisor was not available, whether it was Zheng Xiaoming, the chief general, or Wu Chuncheng, the supervising army, they could only watch the situation deteriorate.

As the population left the countryside in large numbers, panic spread and resentment boiled.More and more monsters began to appear, even in the villages ten or twenty miles around Zhongjing, monsters began to appear.

According to the experience of the Great Chu court in dealing with evil disasters for hundreds of years, the first step in suppressing evil disasters is to prevent such things from happening.

If resentment and panic are not given a chance to spread, there will be no more monsters flooding.

Once the number of monsters increases, they become one piece and become a climate, it will not be easy to suppress the demon disaster at that time!

The imperial court had no choice but to order Zheng Xiaoming to lead some mountain guards to take the initiative to attack, clean up the monsters in all directions, reduce the number of monsters, delay the formation of the monster disaster, and delay the arrival of the new supervisor.

Zheng Xiaoming could only lead the army and fight dozens of battles in three days, killing tens of thousands of monsters.Almost wiped out all the monsters within fifty miles around Zhongjing City.

But there are more and more monsters fifty miles away from Zhongjing City.

Even Xue Xiangguang, the new supervisor, was besieged by a demon disaster on his way to Zhongjing in a Zhonggao county.

The new supervisor, Xue Xiangguang, is an old minister who served as an official in Nanjing for the elderly. He has made outstanding achievements and is well-known.

Nanjing is much closer to Zhongjing than Shangjing, and there are more convenient waterways along the way. The Clippers can usually arrive in two days.

But I don't want this Governor Xue to be unlucky, he was surrounded on the way, and it is said that the situation in Zhonggao County is precarious.

It would be a big joke if two supervisors died in a row.

The court had no choice but to dispatch the Shanling Guards to save people.

However, the imperial court and cabinet could not adjust Shanlingwei.This order can only be issued by the current emperor.

It's a pity that the emperor hesitated at this time, because the Shanling Guard can be regarded as the royal private army and has nothing to do with foreign courts.

There was no such precedent for dispatching the Shanling Guard because of foreign court affairs before, so the emperor hesitated.

Don't think that this is not a big deal, many things are afraid of having a beginning.

Isn't there a broken window effect?

When all the windows are intact, everyone will protect and cherish.But as soon as a window breaks the first time and no one fixes it, soon all the windows in the entire building will break.

And this kind of thing is the same, once there is the first time, there will be the second time. In the future, the imperial court and cabinet may erode the past step by step, and gradually poach the control of Shanlingwei from the emperor.

This kind of thing happened not once or twice in the history of Dachu!

It is not a matter of a day or two for Da Chu to evolve into the current political structure.

At the time of Taizu, the emperor was still arbitrary, and the thunder was unrestrained, and killing civil servants was like killing chickens.

However, in the struggle between the civil official group and the emperor from generation to generation, the emperor's power was gradually pried away by the civil official group.

That's why the emperor set up the ceremonial supervisor as the "inner dynasty" to check and balance the "outer dynasty" of the imperial cabinet.

Now the Shanling Guard is the most important and one of the greatest forces in the hands of the emperor.It's impossible for civil servants to get involved...

Although it is said that the Great Chu used eunuchs and nobles to check and balance the huge civil official group.But to be honest, there is only barely a fight.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the civil service group, from the imperial court and the cabinet, the six ministries and the nine ministers, the central agencies of the imperial court, and even the local prefectures and counties, where are the civil officials making the decisions?
Even the local gentry are allies and reserve forces of the civil society.

With such a powerful force, even if the imperial power held the eunuch Xungui in his arms, he could only retreat step by step, barely stabilizing his position.

In short, if the civil servants take Shanlingwei away again, even if it is just a possible crack, the emperor will not be far away.

But even if the emperor is unwilling, there is nothing he can do. After all, this world is still the world of Great Chu, the world of the emperor.He can't just sit back and watch the overall situation collapse, let alone watch the second supervisor Xue Xiangguang die in battle, and the situation in Beijing is completely corrupted.

Therefore, under unthinkable circumstances, and under the repeated requests of several academicians in the cabinet, the emperor could only agree to Shanlingwei to dispatch to Zhonggao County to rescue Xue Xiangguang.

So, a few days later, when the emperor's edict was sent to Zheng Xiaoming.Let Zheng Xiaoming personally lead Shanlingwei out to save people.

This was somewhat beyond the expectations of the court cabinet. Originally, they just wanted to ask the emperor to send out the mountain guards, and they never thought about letting Zheng Xiaoming lead the troops there.

Without him, Zheng Xiaoming is also the commander-in-chief of Zhongjing, the commander of this war, okay?Although it's in name, you can't directly send the coach out to work!

However, in order to ensure the control of the Shanling Guard, the emperor would not be controlled by those civil servants once he dispatched once, so he had to let Zheng Xiaoming go out in person.

Moreover, the emperor issued a secret edict to Zheng Xiaoming, allowing Zheng Xiaoming to act cheaply.

To put it bluntly, if those civil servants have bad intentions and want to use some means to control the Shanling Guard and create established facts, Zheng Xiaoming can directly flip the table.

Of course, this secret edict is optional.First of all, the civil official group may not necessarily do this... Secondly, if they really want to do this, it is not certain whether Zheng Xiaoming, the Marquis of Xiayang, will obey orders.

Not every honorable person has the courage to directly oppose the civil official group by throwing the table!
Who knew that the emperor asked you to work at this time, and after the matter was over, he asked you to take the blame?
This happens a lot in the workplace.There are also many in the imperial court...

The most famous one is of course the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the Han Dynasty, in which Emperor Jing killed Chao Cuo.It was obvious that he was helping the emperor to cut down the vassal, but when the Seven Kingdoms threatened, they killed Chao Cuo and took the blame!

Therefore, with such great courage, there are really not many honorable princes who have completely turned against the civil official group!

(End of this chapter)