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Zhu Si asked suspiciously: "Why did you want to replace Zang Feng? Isn't he the one we want to win over? After finally establishing a relationship with him, let him go down like this?"

Obviously, Zhu Si's pattern has not yet been opened, and his thinking is still stuck on "cooperating with outsiders to deal with Yang Tinghe", which is obviously not in line with the status quo.

Zhu Hao said: "Isn't our opponent Yang Ge?"

"Yup."

Zhu Si was puzzled.

I didn't say it wasn't Lao Yangtou either.

Zhu Hao pointed out: "After Yang Ge retires, there will be no constraints in the court, and all the people in the world will be loyal to His Majesty, and all the subjects will support him, so who can't be used?"

"Uh...yes."

Zhu Si thought about it, and it seemed to be the reason.

Zhu Haodao: "Shouldn't our goal be to use all the resources at hand to let Elder Yang retire early?"

Zhu Si did not understand for a while, what is the difference between the two?
"Your Majesty, our purpose now is not to unite Zang Feng to deal with Mr. Yang Ge, or to say that everyone is a pawn and can be sacrificed at any time, but our ultimate goal is to let Mr. Yang Ge retire. At that time, Your Majesty will talk about it later." It's not too late to ask who to use." Zhu Hao said.

Zhu Si suddenly realized: "I understand. In fact, when you asked me to contact Zang Feng at the beginning, you didn't intend to win him over. Instead, you used this as a cover to make people surnamed Yang think that we were recruiting talents. Dig a hole and let him jump into it on his own initiative?"

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "It's not bad, that's what it means."

Zhu Sidao: "But...if Zang Feng is replaced, who will take over? If Yang's wish is fulfilled, and someone named Yang is replaced, wouldn't the military power of Xuanfu and Datong fall into his hands?"

Zhu Hao shook his head: "It doesn't matter who you replace, the important thing is to replace Zang Feng as soon as possible, because I have expected that in the next six months, the main attack point of the Tatars will be on the front line of Xuanfu and Datong. A change of coaches...will surely disperse the hearts of the people, and there will be loopholes everywhere in the external defense line."

"Oh."

Zhu Si nodded, "At that time, we can use the surname Yang to disregard the safety of the front line and replace the officials at the border for self-interest as an excuse to attack him?"

"Um."

Zhu Hao nodded.

Zhu Si finally got on the road, knowing that this was a bureau specially set up for Yang Tinghe.

Zhu Si still didn't understand, he shook his head and said, "Then Zhu Hao, how do you know that Zang Feng can do it, but someone else can't do it?"

Zhu Hao smiled and shook his head: "It's not Zang Fengxing, it's just that no one else can go."

"..."

Zhu Si was speechless.

Zhu Haodao: "In the last few years of Zhengde, Your Majesty drove down to the south of the Yangtze River and took away a large number of generals, causing the Xuanfu, Datong, Piantouguan and other places to be depleted of armaments, and the fortresses were in disrepair. Otherwise, why would Baiyangkou encounter hundreds of enemy troops? Lost armor and armor when attacking, even lost the pass? Just because you can't defend!"

"That's... really bad."

Zhu Si also felt that there was a big problem.

Zhu Hao sighed: "This is exactly the reason why the Tatars chose to send troops from the front line of Xuanda, because compared with the three sides, the armaments of Ming Dynasty on the front line of Xuanda, in the past few years, mainly relied on Shengjia to come to Xingxuan Mansion, and the army gathered , to deter the grassland tribes, the Ming Dynasty is expanding outwards, focusing on attacking instead of defending, and paying little attention to city defense."

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"Nowadays, it is impossible for His Majesty to be stationed in the land of Xuanda, and Jiang Bin and other generals have passed away. How can we guarantee our combat power just by relying on the dilapidated fortress and the scattered people? There is a high probability of failure. .”

Zhu Si remained silent.

As the emperor, he can most feel the harm that the previous emperor brother brought to the court.

Emperor Zhengde only looks like a wise emperor, but in fact he is not at all in tune. He is always stationed in Xuanfu, spends a lot of money, takes up a lot of resources, and almost overwhelms the Xuanfu's military equipment. In their back garden, military funds were used at will, and even the materials for repairing the pass were seized or sold off. Over the past few years, the first-line fortresses of the Outer Great Wall have become increasingly dilapidated.

"This is also the reason why Zang Feng knew that the army had falsely reported military exploits, but still concealed it for them. The battle report was two days late.

It is estimated that Zang Feng is also investigating this matter, but if it is exposed, it will disturb the hearts of the Xuanfu and Datong frontline troops. It is better to publicize the battle at Baiyangkou as a model to calm people's hearts and maintain peace at the frontline pass of Xuanda. Mistake again. "

Zhu Hao made such an analysis.

After all, Zhu Hao is familiar with history and knows what difficulties Jiajing encountered when he ascended the throne.

In the future, the Datong military uprising took place in the Xuanda area. During the Zhengde period, the military expenditure was embezzled by the emperor or high-level officials. The frontier army guarded the dilapidated city, armed with dilapidated ordnance.

From Zhu Hao's point of view, Zang Feng is just doing his best to obey the destiny and try his best to maintain the current situation. Whoever goes to Xuanda will not be able to clean up the mess in a short time.

It may not take five years to reorganize Xuanda's first-line armaments, but now Emperor Zhengde died only a year ago, and it took only half a year for Zang Feng to go to Xuanda, and the Tatars came out in force. Zang Feng couldn't help of.

Now that he knows that Zang Feng can't do it, he should change his thinking and let Yang Tinghe think that the emperor wants to win over Zang Feng in order to gain Xuanda's first-line military power.

In this way, Yang Tinghe will expose Zang Feng's scandal of falsely reporting military exploits as a side general, replace him, and even take him to the capital for interrogation... If there is any turmoil in Xuanda's front line, then the responsibility It's all on Yang Tinghe.

Zhu Si asked: "If the surname Yang doesn't mention it himself, how about letting the officials participate in the impeachment?"

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Your Majesty can ignore anyone except Yang Gelao's opinion...Your Majesty can also ask Yang Gelao's opinion alone in the court hall. If you want to replace the Xuanda Governor-General who His Majesty trusts, it is not up to the chief assistant It is not acceptable for ministers to come and give advice, His Majesty does not need to pay attention to the opinions of others.”

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Just as Zhu Hao expected.

Yang Tinghe didn't know much about the situation in Xuanfu and Datong, and thought that the Tatars' offensive had subsided. After all, the main strategy of the Tatars in the past was to plunder and plunder. In addition, intelligence showed that the disasters on the grasslands in the past two years were serious. After the death of Dayan Khan, there were disputes among the various tribes, and Yang Tinghe didn't think that the Tatars had the ability to invade Daming.

Now that the battle reports are stabilizing everywhere, as a professional politician, Yang Tinghe's priority is not to consider how to stabilize the situation in the Xuan Mansion, but to curb the little emperor's ambition to gather Xuan Da's military power.

Yang Tinghe consulted Jin Xianmin, the censor of Zuodu, to discuss the matter.

When Jin Xianmin saw Yang Tinghe's visit, he felt that something was wrong. When Yang Tinghe explained that he wanted to thoroughly investigate whether Xuanda had falsely reported military exploits, he knew that this move was aimed at the emperor.

...

"I don't know the situation, so I can only check it first, but I don't know... how far to go?"

Investigating false military exploits depends on who is found.

If you only find out about the border generals, don't involve civil servants, but if you want to make a big deal, even officials at the governor and governor level will be blamed.

Yang Tinghe said, "How far do you think the investigation should go?"

Jin Xianmin sighed: "Nowadays the Northwest is full of waste and is waiting to be rebuilt. If the prison is opened at this time, I am afraid that there will be turmoil, and the grass and trees will be full of soldiers. Even if there is a false report, it should be done in moderation."

Yang Tinghe shook his head: "If you want to investigate, you must investigate to the end. This trend cannot last long."

After leaving a cold sentence, Yang Tinghe left.

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In fact, there is no need for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate. Zang Feng's false report of military exploits for the Baiyangkou defenders cannot stand scrutiny.

First of all, abandoning the gate and fleeing is a serious crime.

Later, there was a censor's report in Xuanda, mentioning that the Baiyang Pass was destroyed by the Tatars, and that the Tatars had killed money in Tianchengwei's troops, plundered it, and then withdrew. In fact, there was no second battle. In other words... in the so-called battle of overcoming Baiyangkou, the two sides did not engage in combat, which is why the frontier army did not report their losses in the second battle.

There was no fighting at all, and there were no dead.

The destruction of the Baiyangkou pass was a real thing. As for the head of the Tatars, it is still the old routine of "killing the good and pretending to be meritorious". The tribe of herdsmen slaughtered wildly and used their heads...

originally side

There are many small tribes distributed in the land with lush water and grass, nominally attached to Ming Dynasty, but they are often robbed by cavalry from both sides of Ming Dynasty and Tatar...

It is not easy to make a living near the pass. These tribes are not brave, but pay protection fees to both the Ming army and the Tatars every year. The herdsmen thought that their safety was guaranteed, but in the end they became The cattle and sheep raised in captivity are left to be taken and taken by others.

Of course, if the Baiyangkou Pass hadn’t been destroyed, the Tatars would have gone away after burning, killing and looting. The crimes of the frontier army were too great, and no one could bear the court’s responsibility. They urgently need credit, and the frontier army would not kill them A hen that can lay eggs has lost its long-term meal ticket.

So there was such a farce where there was no fault but merit. Anyway, the Tatars withdrew and reported that they were killed by our frontier army. There are still heads to testify. It should be no problem, right?

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After the incident was revealed, the ruling and opposition parties were in an uproar.

in the hall.

Zhu Si looked disheartened, but he knew very well that he was just acting in front of Yang Tinghe.

"Mr. Yang Ge, I didn't investigate, and I never thought of such a thing. According to Mr. Yang Ge, how should we deal with those who falsely report their military exploits?"

Zhu Si seemed very humble, and asked Yang Tinghe about his compensation plan.

Yang Tinghe was very cautious at first.

If the emperor hadn't asked in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, he would never stand up and comment.

But now the emperor earnestly asked him for his opinion, and he had no choice but to reply: "This matter should be investigated by the Ministry of Punishment and the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

It means to go through the judicial process. As the chief assistant of the cabinet, it is not easy for me to express my opinions casually.

That's a no-brainer.

Zhu Sidao: "I also agree that such unhealthy tendencies should not be encouraged, but the Xuanda frontline is still not at peace. If...the people involved in the case are brought back to the capital for questioning, who should replace them?"

The emperor had already said this, and it was obvious that he wanted to take Zang Feng into surgery.

But even if Zang Feng is replaced, the emperor will try every means to replace "his own person" in the past, don't make an exception to promote Tang Yin in the next step, right?
Yang Tinghe didn't want to wade into the muddy water and make Zang Feng fall into disrepute, his goal has already been achieved.

It can be seen that one Zang Feng fell, and the emperor wanted to plant a new one, Yang Tinghe naturally couldn't just sit idly by.

What Yang Tinghe wants to guarantee is that no matter who the next governor of Xuanda is, he cannot be said to be appointed by the little emperor, but should be controlled by him...

It was understandable.

But he didn't know it, and fell into the trap that Zhu Hao had set for him without knowing it.
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