Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 42: Discussion in the Flower Hall ([-])
After Gao Gong finished speaking, Song Zhihan opened his mouth first: "Students think that since the Gengxu Revolution, civil and military forces have competed for the capital camp, Zhao Ge is now the respect of the cabinet ministers and the general constitution, after all, he is one of the leaders of the civil servants, there is such a thing. It’s no surprise at all.”

Gao Gong turned his head and glanced at Gao Yushi, seeing his calm face, expecting him to know about the Gengxu changes, he nodded and didn't say much.

The so-called Gengxu change occurred in July of the 29th year of Jiajing. At that time, Altan Khan of the Tatar tribe gathered more than [-] people and invaded Datong in a large scale.Xuanda's general soldier Qiu Luan, Marquis of Xianning, panicked, bribed Al Da Khan with a lot of money, begging Al Da Khan to attack elsewhere.In August, Alta Khan moved his troops eastward to Jizhou and attacked the side wall of Gubeikou with thousands of cavalry.Another group of capable cavalry was sent to break through the wall from the middle road and go around behind the Ming army.

The Ming army was attacked from the front and back, and the whole line collapsed. Immediately, Al Da Khan led the army to Tongzhou, divided the troops to plunder Changping, and invaded the tombs of the emperors in Tianshou Mountain.The capital heard the police and declared martial law.At the critical moment when Altan Khan's soldiers approached the city, Sejong ordered the generals of the towns to command the troops of King Qin, and appointed Qiu Luan as "General Pinglu" to control the soldiers and horses of King Qin from all walks of life.Ding Rukui, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, asked Yan Song, the chief assistant, about his plan to retreat from the enemy.Yan Song was afraid of losing the battle, so he ordered the generals not to act rashly.Qiu Luan went to Dongzhimen to watch and let the enemy burn freely outside the city for eight days.In September, Alta Khan's soldiers plundered a large amount of gold and silver property, livestock and people, and then calmly left the fortress from Baiyangkou.Qiu Luan was ordered to pursue but was defeated, and finally killed more than 80 civilians, cut off their heads and pretended to kill the enemy to repay the merit.Since this year is the year of Gengxu, it is called "the change of Gengxu".

"History of the Ming Dynasty" records: In 29 years, I Da entered the bandits, and Ding Rukui, Minister of the Ministry of War, had less than 6 or [-] troops.After driving out of the city gate, all the generals looked at each other and changed color.Ru Kui sits and executes.Yan Song, a scholar of the University, please shake the brush to deal with the aftermath.

How to "vibrate" and "clean up the aftermath"?

Because Ding Rukui, the former Minister of the Ministry of War, was pushed out by Yan Song as a scapegoat and was punished, Wang Bangrui, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said: "At the beginning of the country, the capital's strong troops did not decrease by 80 million, and there were often many veteran generals in the Yuan Dynasty. People. From the three battalions to the 38th regiment battalion, and then to the two official halls, although the immersion is not as good as before, the number of troops is still 14. Now the armed forces are accumulated, and there are only more than [-] people, and the number of practitioners is only five With [-], there is food, but there is no dispatch. The enemy rides deep, and the defenders say that they have no army. That is to say, the soldiers are old, weak, tired, and street peddlers. Not fleeing, but occupying service; not being a sergeant, but being a general. Covering the admiral, sitting in the battalion, the number one, and the commander-in-chief, all the officials who have been in the army for many generations, usually occupying the battalion army, paying their wages with empty names, and they are paid when they are in operation. The people in the market are just dancing and laughing. In the early years, Shangshu Wang Qiong, Mao Bowen, Liu Tianhe often wanted to cheer up. However, the generals hated them and harmed themselves, conspiring to obstruct them, and the sergeants were accustomed to arrogance and laziness. The resumption is suspended, and the harm has been brewed to this day. Beg for great vigor and leadership, and send officials to concentrate."

This is directly aimed at the military minister Xungui, which would not happen under normal circumstances, but Emperor Jiajing was shocked and angry by this incident, and he felt quite reasonable after hearing the words-of course, this situation was actually his previous experience. I also know, but I didn't expect the situation to be so serious. If things go on like this, sooner or later, the city of Beijing will be turned into an empty camp by this group of dudes!That's okay?So Lei Ting was furious and ordered the Ministry of War to discuss Xingge.

Seeing that the emperor was really angry, the honorable military ministers knew that it would be a crime to speak out at this time, so they simply pretended to be dead, "Lie down and let the ridicule go."

So the results of Xingge came out quickly: the regiment battalion, the two government offices were dismissed, and the old system of the three battalions was restored.The 26 camp was changed to the Shenshu camp.Dismiss the admiral, supervisor and other ministers.There is one military minister, who is called the governor of the Jingying Rongzheng, and he is the Marquis of Xianning, Qiu Luan; one of the civil servants is called the assistant manager of the Jingying Rongzheng, that is, Wang Bangrui.Under it, there are [-] officials such as deputy counselors.

However, civil servants will not be satisfied with this, because the Prime Minister Jingying Rongzheng is still a military minister, so this reform is not very stable. In the end of the Jiajing Dynasty, the system was changed repeatedly. In the end, the name of the Chinese Army sentry was no matter what, it was only called Zhan Shoubing Concurrent car camp.

Some observers want to ask, Wuchen's performance is so bad this time, why is the Prime Minister Jingying Rongzheng still Wuchen?

Firstly, of course, it was because the fact that Qiu Luan spent money to buy peace hadn't been exposed, Jiajing thought he was a good person and could be trusted.

Secondly, here we must talk about the old system.Leaving aside the distant ones, the appointment of military ministers as the prime minister began in Hongxi's time.In the fifth year of Xuande, Zhu Yongyan, the Duke of Chengguo, selected Beijing guards to be attached to the five armies for training.The next year, Ke Dao and Jinyi officials were ordered to check the number of guards.Both Zheng Gaoxu and Powu Liangha won with the Beijing camp.In the second year of Zhengtong, it was still because of what Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong said, so that half of the guards such as Jinyi and the guards of the mausoleum survived.The system didn't seem to have any major problems at first, but unexpectedly, there were civil difficulties. The elite Beijing army that used to frighten the world and attack Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty was almost wiped out.

At this time, the civil official group who stayed in the capital realized that the opportunity had come. Regardless of Yingzong's captivity in Oala, he pushed Emperor Jing to ascend the throne. To learn, please select one hundred thousand soldiers from each battalion, and divide them into ten battalions for training.Each battalion has one governor, one chief officer, and two commanders. There are ten generals, 100 team leaders, and 200 team managers.Then one of the governors of the three battalions was promoted to be the general officer, and the internal ministers were supervised-then the key came: the minister of the Ministry of War or the imperial censor was the admiral.The rest of the army returned to the base camp, called their hometown.The system of the Beijing Army changed.

Thus, for the first time, the civil service group reached into the core of military power - the Beijing camp.

However, what happened next may not have been expected by everyone. Yingzong escaped from Wala relying on his personality charm, and soon Emperor Jing died of serious illness, and Yingzong was restored.

Yu Qian, as an important person who pushed Emperor Jing to the throne, was naturally found guilty and killed, regardless of the regiment camp.

Later, the emperors Xianzong, Wuzong, and Sejong reorganized the Beijing camp back and forth. The prime minister Jingying Rongzheng was sometimes a military minister, sometimes a civil servant, and even an eunuch like Wang Zhi... In short, it was very chaotic.

Another point to add is that originally, the five military mansions were all sealed by the Kaifu, but only the main soldier's registration and not the battalion officer, and the battalion officer did not give the seal.Rongzheng has both government and seal, which started from Qiuluan.

Although Qiu Luan was a waste, but at that time, because other fronts were about to collapse at a touch, he was considered a famous general in the world by bribing Al Da Khan, and he was very favored.Of course, he couldn't keep silent after being favored, so he suggested that Emperor Jiajing choose 8000 soldiers from each side, divide them into the guard, and train with the Beijing army. .But this idea is obviously a bad idea: there are police in the frontier, but frontier generals are not allowed to recruit. As a result, not only the Beijing army has not been trained, but the frontier army has become more and more rubbish.When Qiu Luan's scandal was exposed and his death was revealed, the imperial court dismissed the subordinates who were the leaders of the Rongzheng Department, but the guards only dismissed Gansu.

Because Gao Gong nodded at Gao Yushi just now, Gao Yushi misunderstood the meaning of Gao Gong's look and thought it was a signal for him to speak, so he said: "Prime Minister Rongzheng controls most of the military power in the capital, and this position is in the hands of military officials Naturally, the civil servants cannot be satisfied, so there must be a group of civil servants who want to take over this great power. The boy thinks that there are two possibilities for Mr. Zhao Ge to do this: one may be because Sanbo Qifu put too much pressure on him so that he had to use this to win the support of more civil servants in order to fight against the power of the third uncle; the second possibility is that he can directly benefit from promoting this matter... For example, if he is the prime minister of Beijing Ying Rong Zheng, taking this position does not mean that he dares to do anything unspeakable, but it will make some people misjudge the situation and think that His Majesty treats his holy family with grandeur, which will make some people think that he and the third uncle are married. Keep quiet about the dispute."

Gao Shishi misunderstood Gao Gong's meaning and expressed some opinions, but Gao Gong turned around and misunderstood his meaning, thinking that it was the first time he was allowed to participate in such an "internal meeting" and wanted to express himself.However, these two terms are at least clear, although Gao Gong knows that the second one is not valid-the Ministry of War has a minister and four servants (Wufeng note: originally there were two servants, the four servants system was proposed by Gao Gong and promoted reforms, and the addition of The two attendants mainly patrol the border affairs, understand the situation, and are very familiar with the dangers of the border, the priorities of the captives, whether the generals are good or not, and the strength of the soldiers and horses. In this way, there are people in charge of the border affairs, and the lack of governors can also be used. Immediately make up.) None of them belong to Zhao Zhenji, but of course Gao Yushi doesn't know this, so from his analysis thinking, it's not bad, so Gao Gong didn't say much.

Not speaking means default.

The nine Gao Gong students with a bright future were quite surprised: firstly, they were surprised that Gao Yushi could see the way of this at a glance; secondly, they were surprised that Gao Yushi spoke so straightforwardly; Total acquiescence.

But everyone still has doubts in their hearts: Does an eight-year-old really have such vision?Could it be that the master gave Gao Yushi an analysis in advance in order to establish his nephew's reputation?
Of course, this kind of doubt can't be stated directly, but it shouldn't be a big problem to try it out around the corner, so the official department said to Tu Menggui: "During the Gengxu Revolution, Zhao Ge Lao vigorously opposed the leader and the others. In the end, he was reprimanded by Yan Song. He did not return to the central government until he inherited Dabao and became a minister of the Ministry of Rites, a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and in charge of Zhan Shifu. In August last year, he entered the cabinet as a minister of the Ministry of Rites to assist the government. .Speaking of which, although he has some prestige in Shilin, his foundation in the imperial court is actually shallow. From this point of view, the younger brother's analysis is quite reasonable, but..."

Tu Menggui paused, frowned and said: "Although Huo Benbing has been in the military for a long time, he is often in the border town. He only came to Beijing in the second year of Longqing to serve as the chief minister. He is well aware of the wide and deep interests involved in the affairs of the Beijing camp. It is a matter of prudence, and there are rumors that he has always been on good terms with Cheng Guogong, Yingying Gong, etc. From the perspective of the students, I am afraid that he may not be happy to see Mr. Zhao Ge intervene in military affairs, especially the military affairs of the Beijing camp."

Ben Bing is another name for the Minister of the Ministry of War. Huo Benbing refers to Huo Ji who is currently the Minister of the Ministry of War. As for Da Sima... Ming people like to refer to the current position by the ancient name, and Da Sima is also another name for the Minister of the Ministry of War.

In fact, it would certainly not be a bad thing for Huo Ji if he could use the Minister of the Ministry of War to serve as the prime minister. The meaning is that even if civil servants intervene in the Beijing camp later, the higher-ups will rarely let the Minister of the Ministry of War take up the post concurrently.

Now that the world is at peace, Huo Ji has no two minds, so he doesn't think too much about controlling the Beijing camp. Instead, he feels that it is better to maintain the status quo than to hold this position and cause the emperor to worry.What's more, in the end, most of the troubles will be held by the minister. At that time, the minister will still be the minister, but the minister's power will be greatly increased. Who will have the final say on the Ministry of War?

Any Zhengyin hall official would have such worries. Is he Huo Ji an exception?
Gao Wushi not only understood Tu Menggui's words, but also understood Tu Menggui's subtext: Although Zhao Zhenji's actions may win the favor of many civil servants, that's all. Wuchen, is this deal really worth it?
(End of this chapter)