Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1137 Who is the plotter?

In the early morning of the next day, as expected, Zhang Siwei, the chief assistant, asked for more cabinet ministers.

Zhang Siwei wrote thousands of words in this scribble, the general meaning is that the affairs of the imperial court are already much more busy than ten years ago, the cabinet is overwhelmed, and young and promising new cabinet ministers are urgently needed to share the pressure so as not to delay event.

What are the specific things? Zhang Siwei also gave some examples.

For example, more than ten years ago, due to the Japanese pirate rebellion, the imperial court only needed to prevent and control the left and right wings of Mongolia, and even after Alta paid tribute, it only needed to prevent and control the left-wing Mongolia, and the military pressure was very small.

However, with the victory of the Monan War, the imperial court's plan for the Western Huaidong System has entered a new stage, and now it is fully preparing for the battle in the direction of Jiliao, upgrading armaments, storing food and grass, training soldiers, etc., are vigorously advancing.

At the same time, the war between Yunnan and Burma broke out again this year. The court paid nearly one million yuan and dispatched nearly 20 troops (including the local defense forces in Yunnan and the troops mobilized by the chieftain). It's the end of the battle.

As for other aspects, that's more.For example, there was no reform of the post station system more than ten years ago, and the imperial court could ignore the size of the post stations in various places, but now the post stations have to face irregular inspections by the imperial court and localities every year;
There is also the problem of ports. The imperial court has to send personnel to check the operation of each port every year to avoid tax evasion problems. The workload of the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance has been greatly increased.

There are also the usual floods, droughts and locust disasters. In the past, the imperial court basically had no or no ability to manage them. Now at least after the catastrophe occurs, it will try its best to mobilize manpower and material resources for relief and resettlement.Although it is hard to say how effective this kind of work will be, it is better than nothing, and this will also increase the pressure on the cabinet and various ministries.

In a word, the cabinet is understaffed.

By the way, Zhang Siwei also briefly mentioned the fact that Yu Youding was unable to perform his duties for a long time-this is not easy to mention, otherwise it will appear inhumane, but it must be mentioned, otherwise it would be insufficient to add two cabinet ministers at a time.

While presenting the ministerial documents of the cabinet to the emperor, they issued the archives to the General Secretary, but the General Secretary has always been one of the focuses of contention among all parties. Once this kind of public document reaches the General Secretary, it is actually equivalent to the entire capital’s officialdom. We all know.

The outside world was still discussing in private whether this essay had anything to do with yesterday's highly pragmatic move, and the emperor's edict came down in the afternoon.

"Yuanfu and Mr. Zhu have worked hard recently. I know it. When I was in the middle of the year, Mr. Gao once said: The treasure of the country lies in the virtuous ministers, not in pearls and jade. Now that the state affairs are becoming more and more complicated, and the gentlemen are full of papers, my heart If you are uneasy, you should ask for it. Yuanfu can invite anyone who is worthy of the post to come and see."

The emperor really agreed once, without "following the procedure"!
Not to mention that everyone in the outer court was surprised when they heard the news, even Shen Shixing in the cabinet was stunned for a while when he knew the emperor's reply, and then immediately realized that something big had happened.

The current situation in the cabinet is that there are two from the Real School, two from the Mind School, and one from the Neutral School, which is basically in a balanced state.Although Yu Youding was too sick to get out of bed, but as long as he was still there, he would have one vote every day, and this situation could still be maintained.

But why did Zhang Siwei add cabinet ministers?Could it be that he wants to take advantage of the credit for pacifying southern Xinjiang this time and directly overthrow the Xin School in order to monopolize the whole power?
This possibility is of course unlikely to exist in the past, but the Practical School has made great achievements all the way since the high-practice inspection of Guangxi, and now it can be regarded as the completion of the north-south pass!At this time, do they feel that they are sure to kick the Heart School directly and go it alone?

Very likely!
Although this kind of thing is unreasonable and may cause an all-out resistance from the School of Mind, Shen Shixing thought about it and thought of a possibility: once the School of Mind starts to counterattack, the School of Reality will immediately launch the Jiliao frontier army to attack the Yuan court on a large scale!

At that time, the emperor's mind must be completely attracted by this battle, in order to establish the most brilliant achievements since the second ancestor, so why would he be interested in whether their mind school is dead or alive?
Thinking of this, Shen Shixing suddenly scared himself into a cold sweat, and regardless of the fact that he happened to be on duty today, he hastily sent someone to tell the emperor a leave of absence, and hurried out of the palace in three steps at a time to "visit" Yu Ding went.

The Green Ni sedan was parked in front of Yu Dashi's mansion, and Shen Cifu's performance was not much more calm than Gao Yushi's performance yesterday, the only difference was that he didn't directly push away the servants of Yu's mansion like Gao Yushi did.Fortunately, everyone in the Yu family knew that Shen Cifu was their master's life-and-death acquaintance, although they were taken aback for a moment, they hurriedly invited him into the mansion.

When Shen Shixing walked into Yu Youding's bedroom, he only felt the smell of medicine in the room. Although it was less than ten days since he came to visit last time, Yu Youding looked more haggard than before.

An unknown number of mung bean-sized black age spots had already appeared on Yu Ge's sallow face, and he was extremely skinny, with dense wrinkles like knives and swords.

"Brother Bing Zhongwu..." Shen Shixing seemed to have a premonition, and a moment of grief came from it, and when he stepped forward to hold Yu Youding's right hand, even his voice was choked up.

Yu Youding showed a comforting smile with difficulty, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "Don't worry, Rumo, I can hold on... What's wrong?"

Shen Shixing had thought up a lot of words at first, but now he was afraid to say them, for fear of irritating Yu Youding, so he hesitated for a while.

Yu Youding shook his head slightly: "I'm already like this, just tell me if you have something to do, otherwise... I'm afraid I won't have a chance to help you again in the future."

Shen Shixing couldn't bear it anymore, two lines of hot tears overflowed his eyes, flowed down his face, and dripped onto the crane patch on his chest, choked up and couldn't speak.

Yu Youding turned his hand tremblingly, grabbed Shen Shixing's hand and shook it, and said in the same tone as when he supported Shen Shixing in the past: "Ru Mo just say it, what else can I not accept?"

Shen Shixing realized from the weak strength in Yu Youding's hand that his energy was really going to be exhausted, and he didn't dare to miss things because of sadness. Consider expressing it as simply as possible, and then look at my best friend for many years, hoping that he can show me a clear way—or, in other words, can share this huge political pressure for myself for the last time.

But Yu Youding didn't answer right away, instead he looked away from Shen Shixing's face and stared blankly at the roof.

Shen Shixing wanted to call him, but after thinking about it, he didn't dare, so he had to wait quietly.

After a long while, Yu Youding suddenly said, "You should have this concern."

Shen Shihang immediately asked, "Can my brother give you advice?"

Yu Youding probably really didn't have the energy to say any polite words, so he said directly: "Gao Wushi can't be allowed to stay in Liaodong anymore."

Shen Shixing was taken aback when he heard that, and said hesitantly, "This is what Zhang Fengpan did..."

"Then why did Gao Wushi go to see him yesterday?"

Shen Shixing said in astonishment: "Brother Bingzhong is saying... Liaodong has completed its war preparations, so Gao Qiuzhen used this to persuade Zhang Fengpan to launch a political war?"

"Maybe, maybe not." Yu Youding shook his head slightly: "But whether it is or not, as long as Gao Wu is in Liaodong for a day, they may do this one day."

"My brother is saying that Gao Wushi will be transferred away, and someone from us will be the Liaofu?"

Yu Youding nodded slightly.

Shen Shixing shook his head: "I'm afraid this is too difficult-my brother should know that all the towns in the north are the food in the party's plate, and if I want to grab the food, how can they give in?"

Yu Youding said calmly: "If you let it, he will recommend the addition of cabinet ministers; if you don't let it, you will mobilize all the officials inside and outside my mind to oppose it. Ru Mo, there is a cliff behind us, as long as we take another step back, we will definitely be defeated." There is no place to die."

Shen Shixing couldn't believe it, he frowned and said, "Just because of a high-minded truth?"

Yu Youding sighed softly: "The battle of Annan was fought by Gao Yushi; the battle of Monan was fought by Gao Qiuzhen; the battle of Liaonan was fought by Gao Qiuzhen; Do you really want to fight?"

Shen Shixing was at a loss for words.

Yu Youding sneered and said: "Liu Shizeng is a mediocre person, he can maintain the peace, but he will act recklessly in times of war. If he didn't ask for help from the truth, he would end up cutting his nationality for the people this time."

Shen Shixing said in astonishment: "Is it so serious? Gao Qiuzhen just this time..."

Yu Youding shook his head and interrupted: "Just set up a Yunnan war treasure and sent [-] soldiers across the sea? You are wrong, Ru Mo, he has done a lot of things."

People who are about to die have no scruples about speaking, Yu Youding ignored Shen Shixing's astonishment, closed his eyes gently, and said quietly: "Think about it first, who will lead my imperial army in this battle between Yunnan and Burma?" Soldiers going out? Liu Ting, Deng Zilong. Let me ask you: who recommended Liu Ting and Deng Zilong to go to Yunnan, what year did they go, and who tried every means to change their troops early?"

Shen Shixing turned pale with shock: "This happened a few years ago! Brother Bingzhong, you...you mean that Gao Qiuzhen came to this battle a few years ago, so he was already prepared?"

Without even raising his eyelids, Yu Youding asked calmly, "What do you think?"

Shen Shixing gasped: "This... this is too... too unbelievable!"

"Unbelievable? There are even more unbelievable things." Yu Youding continued: "Huang Zhiting said that he brought [-] of his own wolf soldiers, I don't think so... I have read the investigation sent by Liu Shouyou before, Although the family may not be unable to send [-] troops, it is impossible for her to leave her family's foundation in Annan and come all the way from thousands of miles away.

But Gao Wu is in Annan, but he controls two large armies in the name of the commander-in-chief. According to Liu Shouyou's estimate, the combined number of these two large armies must be at least [-] to [-] people. In Myanmar, the main force under its command may be a highly pragmatic private army! "

Shen Shixing had also seen the things that Liu Shouyou investigated at the beginning, but the emperor himself knew about the matter of Annan being controlled by Jinghua, so it was meaningless to talk about it.

As for the issue of the private army... Firstly, how to characterize the two garrison armies is very complicated in itself. Highly pragmatic can be inferred that they are the Annan army controlled by Jinghua; In suppressing all kinds of civil unrest in Annan, if it is said that Gao Yushi's manipulation of them is a conspiracy, presumably his classmates of the emperor will not believe it.

However, if the main force of the expeditionary force is these two garrison armies, then the combat effectiveness of these two "private armies" is too strong-the two armies combined are less than 4 people, and they have calmed down. three countries?Even if these small southern barbarian countries are not worth mentioning, but forty thousand three countries, this is still too amazing.

What's even more astonishing is that if Gao Pragmatic's military training ability is so powerful, then he can mobilize more than [-] troops in Liaodong, and Qi Jiguang from Jizhen can cooperate with him. Once he really launches an attack on Yuan Ting , Can Tumen Khan, who has been beaten to a half, really stand up?

This is actually the limitation of the literati vision of Shen Shixing. Gao Wu's army in Annan was controlled by his own servants. How could the army in Liaodong be so "pure"?Not to mention that the command is not so satisfactory, and the matter of changing clothes is much more troublesome-he can change clothes for the guard army at will, but obviously he can't change clothes for the regular army of Ming Dynasty.

Even if he himself is full of patriotism and is willing to pay for it out of his own pocket, he still has to consider what the court and the emperor will think!

Do you want to turn my Liaodong town into your own?Li Chengliang didn't do it like you!

Yu Youding didn't know whether he didn't see it or he did. He deliberately didn't say anything. He opened his eyes, looked at the shocked Shen Shixing and continued: "Now Ru Mo knows how powerful Gao Wushi is?"

Without waiting for Shen Shixing to answer, he let out a long sigh: "I was careless! At the beginning Gao Xinzheng valued his nephew so much, I thought he was only thinking about the long-term wealth of the Gao family, but now I know... I'm afraid he was already convinced at that time that whether or not practical learning can become superior to my mental learning is not up to Guo Pu or Zhang Siwei - it all depends on this guy!"

Shen Shixing closed his eyes, calmed down, and said: "If the above are facts, then this high-minded truth is... so wise and close to a monster, it is true that he cannot continue to stay in Liaodong. At least in my mind If Yiyi cannot control the overall situation of the court, it is absolutely impossible to let him stay in Liaodong."

Seeing that Shen Shixing finally accepted his opinion, Yu Youding breathed a sigh of relief, and added: "Ru Mo, if you believe me, no matter who Zhang Siwei recommends for the cabinet this time, you don't have to care. As far as I know No, Zhang Siwei's parents are not physically strong, and he himself is a sick child, and he asked himself to leave his job to recuperate a few years ago.

You are nine years younger than him, and you are in good health. As long as you follow the example of Mr. Xu Huating, you can beat him to death no matter how hard it is.When the time comes, it will naturally be the time for you to display your ambitions.The most urgent task at the moment is to transfer Gao Yushi from Liaodong and replace him with our people, so as to ensure that Ji Liao will never make a northern expedition in the short term.Ru Mo, as long as this period of time is delayed, when you take over the power, and then complete your efforts in one battle, the biggest disadvantage of my school of mind to the school of practice will be evened out. "

Shen Shixing sighed and nodded, and asked again: "Even if you take the two elders in exchange for Gao Wushi's transfer, where are you going to transfer him? Brother Bingzhong may not know yet, but after the Great Court yesterday, he has It is the crown prince Shaobao, the right servant of the Ministry of War, and the right deputy are all censors."

Yu Youding shook his head indifferently, and said: "No matter what, as long as you don't let him take a foreign post, you can just transfer him back to the capital. You can do whatever you want. You can suppress it if you can, and it doesn't matter if you can't... In short Be sure to let him stay in the capital, under your nose!"
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