Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 821 Zhu Youxiao's question: Is the new army that does not respect the imperial decree s

The official letter is naturally the official letter of the cabinet.

The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty was originally a product of the abolition of the prime minister. In the early stage, it only had the right to draft votes but not the decision-making power; Shangshu became a veritable prime minister and even took control of military power; after Zhang Juzheng's death, although the power of the cabinet was weakened, it was still not small.

After all, Emperor Wanli hardly went to court in the late Wanli Dynasty, and after the Wanli Dynasty, he only experienced one Taichang Dynasty, and then Zhu Youxiao's Tianqi Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao, like Shenzong Zhu Yijun, was a young emperor at the beginning, and needed the cabinet to assist in the administration, and the cabinet had great power.

Shenzong was only nine years old when he came to the throne, and he relied entirely on Zhang Juzheng to assist the government. This is why Zhang Juzheng has great power. After all, the military and government burdens are shouldered, so can the power not be great?
And Zhu Youxiao also had Zhang Haogu in this dynasty. The chief assistant of the two generations of cabinets fell into the hands of the New Party. Zhang Haogu became the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty. It is also in the hands of the chief minister of the cabinet.

For example, the establishment of the new army, the supply of military pay, money, food and equipment, the military system, the appointment of chief officials, etc., were all established by the new party such as Zhang Haogu. In addition, the students from Datong Academy flooded the grassroots of Daming villages and towns and the northern, central plains, and Jiangnan provinces. Therefore, Zhang Haogu's actual power is greater than what Zhang Juzheng said.

After all, during Zhang Juzheng's period, he had to cooperate with the eunuch Feng Bao, relying on the support of the Empress Dowager Li in the harem, these three talents were the Big Three in the early Wanli Dynasty.

The Wanli New Deal was only able to be carried out because of these three people, and Wanli Zhongxing was born.

Empress Dowager Li is the god of Dinghai. When the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun was young and unable to govern, the acting emperor gave Zhang Juzheng the right to become the actual chief assistant and take charge of the power; Although the cabinet is in charge, the bills need to be approved and sealed, so Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao are also cooperative.

It can be said that without these three people, there would be no Wanli ZTE in the Ming Dynasty, let alone the New Deal in the early Wanli period, and the operation of the cabinet in the Wanli Dynasty can be said to be unique to the Ming Dynasty.

But in the Tianqi Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao was enthroned as an adult, young and vigorous, and treated others with sincerity. Zhu Youxiao had all his trust in Zhang Haogu, and Zhang Haogu also dedicated himself to it. If the monarch and ministers are not suspicious, naturally there is no need for a harem and peace. The eunuch was involved.

Didn't you see that Eunuch Wei has to join the New Party as a supervisor of rites and a pen?

Therefore, the operation of the cabinet in the Tianqi Dynasty is actually different from that in the Wanli Dynasty, because in the Wanli Dynasty, the new policy was implemented by the three giants, the Queen Mother, the Supervisor of Rituals, and the Cabinet Chief Assistant. The new party is in power, and the military and government are in the hands of the cabinet.

Some people think that the three giants of the new party are Zhang Haogu, the first assistant, Zhang Ruitu, the second assistant, and Wei Zhongxian, the supervisor of ceremonies; Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji, Fang Yunchu, Zhao Yuqi, Han Yaowei, Wang Dashan called them the Seven Generals of the New Army and so on.

But in any case, it is true that the Revolutionary Party was in power in the Apocalypse Dynasty, and the decrees of the Apocalypse Dynasty were also determined by the cabinet itself on ordinary state affairs. be opposed to.

Therefore, the right of the supervisor of ceremonies to report the pen and seal has actually been greatly reduced. After all, Wei Zhongxian is also considered a member of the New Party.

Now Liu Guangtong's imperial decree is different from that of the previous imperial court, not to mention that Liu Guangtong is to be the supervisor of the army.

Just kidding, since the establishment of the new army, has there ever been a mention of eunuchs or civil servants supervising the army?
And why is it ever said that a civil servant who has no military knowledge is the chief general of an army?
Leave the professional matters to professional people, and the new army of Ming Dynasty will not be the same as the three major battalions of the guards.

This is the first time that such a change of military mission and the addition of the old party supervisory army have been encountered. If there is no official letter from the cabinet, the new army will not recognize Liu Guangtong.

Liu Guangtong obviously knew this too. He was secretly annoyed when he saw that these new army generals demanded the official letter from the cabinet after seeing the imperial decree. Was it His Majesty or Zhang Haogu who had the final say in the Ming Dynasty? !

The commanding envoy of Yunnan’s affairs of the third rank, let alone the deputy imperial envoy of the third-rank Metropolitan Procuratorate, even the fifth-rank magistrate can be mobilized; All households must be commanded by the Qipin county magistrate, and the civil servants are the masters.

But who let it be the Apocalypse Dynasty now, the status of warriors is elevated, and those stinky mounds before have now become ministers of the Ming Dynasty and the heroes of the country; compared with others, they seem to have a strategy, but in fact they have no ink and can only talk The status of literati who criticized current affairs declined rapidly.
Nowadays, when you become an official, you don’t read your stereotyped essays. You have to inspect all aspects of Chinese studies, investigations, farming and mulberry, and business, and the supervision is extremely strict, and you are not allowed to expand the land to buy family property. The good things that used to be the magistrate’s [-] snowflakes and ten thousand hectares of fertile land in the past three years are gone. up.

Thinking of this, Liu Guangtong sighed secretly, how come the good days of civil servants in Ming Dynasty are gone forever?

Although he thought so, Liu Guangtong still took out the official letter from the imperial court and cabinet from his sleeve and handed it to Lang Pingyu.

Lang Pingyu frowned when he opened the official letter. This official letter was indeed the same as the secret decree. Auxiliary or secondary auxiliary anyone!

Seeing Lang Pingyu's expression, Ji Min felt a little nervous, and couldn't help asking: "General Lang, is there any problem?"

Lang Pingyu said: "My lords, there is nothing wrong with this official letter. It is normal to approve the red and seal, but when the official letter of the cabinet is not issued with the seal of the first assistant or the second assistant, but by the two cabinet ministers. issued in the name of?"

As soon as these words came out, both Liu Guangtong and Ji Min's expressions changed. Indeed, the official documents of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty did not mention anything else. If the military affairs were involved, the chief assistant should be stamped. The seal of the cabinet is correct. How can there be no seals of the first and second assistants of the cabinet like this?

Not to mention the transfer of the new army, what's the matter with Huang Liji and Qiao Yunsheng?

Liu Guangtong and Ji Min originally thought that the generals of the new party knew a little bit of writing and could fight, just like the previous warriors, after all, they were all bad guys.

But the two of them didn't expect that Lang Pingyu knew so much about some court rules. Originally, when an official letter was sent, some who didn't understand anything or didn't understand anything just nodded and bowed down to act according to the official letter from the cabinet. different?

It stands to reason that ordinary magistrates may not be able to understand these things. How do these Qiu Ba know the court's operation and rules so well?
Liu Guangtong and Ji Min still regarded the new army as the previous Ming army. They didn't know the difference between the new army and the previous Ming army. Basic reading and literacy education, not to mention the level of generals, especially the level of generals who rule a town and guard a province?

At the level of a third-rank general in Yizhendutong, proficiency in military affairs and familiarity with military books are the foundation. Now the infantry drills, cavalry drills, artillery drills and even the military teaching and training of the core officers at the rank of lieutenant in the new army are all the same. These generals cooperated to compile and summarize.

Whoever regards the generals of the new army as Qiu Bani's legs who don't understand anything is a fool.

It was lucky that Liu Guangtong didn't take out this official letter, but taking out this official letter now proves the problem.

After reading the official letter, the rest of the generals saw something wrong with the expressions of Liu Guangtong and Ji Min. One of the Xietong even asked directly: "Master Liu, Lord Ji, how did you get this official letter? The two of you don't have the chief assistant of the cabinet." Or the sealed official letter from the second assistant is just a document from the Ministry of War plus this official letter, is it to amuse us?"

Liu Guangtong was extremely nervous when he saw the unkind faces of these warriors, but he still tried to calm down and said, "What do you mean?!"

As he said that, Liu Guangtong cupped his hands in the direction of Shuntian Mansion: "This official came with His Majesty's secret decree, not to mention the documents of the Ministry of War and the official letter of the cabinet. How dare you want to resist the decree and disrespect it?!"

"Could it be that I am a dignified third-rank Metropolitan Prosecutor's Deputy Capital Envoy and Mr. Ji, the Minister of the Ministry of War, can't move you with the imperial decree?!"

"Are you the new army of the imperial court? Do you listen to His Majesty's will?"

Asking these three sentences can be called words of punishment.

He almost didn't ask the new army directly whether he listened to the emperor or Zhang Haogu.

Ordinary people have already panicked in the face of such slanderous words and loyalty to the emperor, but Lang Pingyu said righteously: "The two adults may not know that the new army has its own internal system. This is His Majesty's permission. In order to train the best army in the world."

"What the two of you have brought out now does not conform to the court's laws, let alone the military system. I would have reason to doubt whether the two of you have obtained His Majesty's permission."

Ji Min took a step forward, and said in a cold voice: "Our official status has been proven, and you have read His Majesty's secret decree. I will ask you whether you will listen to the imperial court's decree!"

"There are 50 mobs in the camp. I would like to advise you to quickly pull out those mobs who besieged the King of Shu that day, and execute all the Ming Zhengdian sentences. You are loyal ministers of the imperial court, if you continue to disobey orders, don’t blame me for not being sympathetic.”

Lang Pingyu couldn't help but sneered: "Don't talk about affection? What kind of affection can I have with you? When I was going to fight the Kunming Mansion with the Annan thieves, where were you adults?"

Liu Guangtong couldn't help it: "Are you planning to rebel?!"

"Jin Yiwei, take down these rebels!"

"I see who dares!"

The sound of drawing knives resounded, and the Jinyiwei and the generals' personal guards in the big tent drew their swords to confront each other, and all the generals and school lieutenants also drew their swords and drew their swords to confront the Jinyiwei next to Liu Guangtong and Ji Min.

For a while, the big tent turned out to be full of murderous aura.

The movement inside the big tent alarmed the guards outside, and the brocade guards outside the big tent also stood in a stalemate with the soldiers of the Ming army.

Liu Guangtong and Ji Min's faces were even more ugly. They really didn't expect that these new generals would actually dare to draw their swords at them!

Don't these Qiu Ba know that they are important officials of the court?
How many third-rank generals, do you want to compare with them? !
"Are you going to fight against the imperial court?! I advise you not to make mistakes!" Ji Min shouted sharply.

Lang Pingyu said in a cold voice: "The imperial court's anti-rebellion camp is an important military base! All affairs are handled by this general and under the command of the cabinet. The two came unexpectedly, and the official letter was full of loopholes. I suspected that you were spies from Liaodong. The 50 people who rebelled against this place caused chaos in the southwestern part of the Ming Dynasty so that we could not conquer Liaodong on time!"

Liu Guangtong said angrily: "The reason for sending the mob here to join the Liaodong army is for the imperial court's plan to conquer the Liao Dynasty! Lang Pingyu, do you really want to disobey the holy will?"

"Believe it or not, I will go up to the court and take down your authority!"

Lang Pingyu said with a smile: "This general will also go to the imperial court to see where you all come from!"

"Hmph! Let's go!" Liu Guangtong finally gave in.

This is the camp of the new army. The new army doesn't recognize them as officials of the conservative party. It's too dangerous here, so it's better to leave quickly!
"Let them go." Lang Pingyu said.

After the two sides closed their swords, Ji Min looked at Lang Pingyu with a half-smile: "General Lang, let's do it for ourselves!"

Letting Liu Guangtong and Ji Min leave the camp with Jin Yiwei with a gloomy face, the faces of all the generals were not very good-looking.

"Are these people real court envoys or..."

"Of course it's true. We've checked the identity of the official, and we've read the seal and ribbon. The imperial decree and official documents are all there. They are the imperial court's envoys. Look at that team of brocade guards, embroidered spring knives, flying fish uniforms, and the shoes are official boots from Dongchang. These are Dongchang Tiqi, the guards of the court envoys. They are of course real." Lang Pingyu said.

"But the decree they brought didn't have the seal of the chief assistant. And they asked me to kill tens of thousands of people. This was all released by the imperial court before." A Dutong said.

Lang Pingyu frowned: "This is also what I am worried about. These people are not friendly. Let someone keep an eye on them first. I will write a letter to Yuanfu."

The generals nodded, their new army is not helpless.

After leaving the anti-insurgency camp, both Ji Min and Liu Guangtong looked very ugly. Ji Min said: "Now that these new generals don't obey the imperial court's order, how can we do things?"

Liu Guangtong asked: "If you go to the various prefectures to announce the decree, is it feasible to transfer the soldiers and horses of the various prefectures?"

After finishing speaking, Liu Guangtong felt that he had asked an idiot question. If the soldiers and horses of various governments are useful, does the court still need to spend a lot of effort to train the new army?
Ji Min said helplessly: "Let's write an excerpt for His Majesty."

"Let's say that the new army is rebellious, resisting orders is not respectful, and the words are only the cabinet but not the court. There are many rebellious words."

Liu Guangtong kept nodding his head: "That's right, His Majesty must remove these people's military posts and deal with them properly!"

Soon the joint memorial of Ji Min and Liu Guangtong was sent back to Shuntian Mansion in the capital by flying horses. At the same time, the joint memorial of Lang Pingyu and other counter-insurgency generals was also sent to Shuntian Mansion.

But one was in the hands of Zhu Youxiao, and the other was in the hands of Zhang Haogu, the cabinet.

"Yuanfu, take a look at the excerpts sent by the anti-insurgency battalion." Gu Yan handed the excerpts to Zhang Haogu.

Zhang Haogu looked at Gu Yanwu's complexion a bit ugly, couldn't help laughing and said: "What's the situation, is Ningren encountering trouble?"

Gu Yanwu twisted his mouth, and finally said: "It's just a little depressed."

Zhang Haogu opened the booklet with a smile, looked at it, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then looked at Gu Yanwu, apparently knowing why Gu Yanwu was so depressed.

Putting away the booklet, Zhang Haogu said: "This matter, this pavilion will investigate clearly."

And when Zhu Youxiao received the joint brochure from Liu Guangtong and Ji Min, his expression also became subtle.

Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao's face, and couldn't help asking: "My lord, this."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Zhongxian, then looked at the brochure, and couldn't help laughing: "These two people, I let them do things, but if they don't do well, they will blame the new army. How about the new army? Still don't know?"

Even though he said so, Zhu Youxiao's heart sank. His imperial decree actually ordered the new army not to move.

The new army even refused to obey the order on the grounds that the official cabinet letter did not have the seal of the chief assistant!

Zhu Youxiao knows that the new army has its own system. Its purpose is to abandon those old parties and dignitaries, and prevent those mediocre people who only know about corruption and pervert the law without strategy from ruining the only army that the imperial court can fight.

The new army is the foundation for Zhu Youxiao to maintain the New Deal and maintain his own rule. Today, the new army in 47 towns across the country is Zhu Youxiao's biggest capital.

Zhu Youxiao always felt that the new army was under control, but now it seems that the generals of the new army did not follow the imperial edict!
Is this an isolated phenomenon or is it true for all recruits?

Is there something wrong with the thinking inside the new army?
Zhu Youxiao thought deeply, he didn't want to ask Lang Pingyu why he didn't obey the imperial edict, was it because there was a problem with the official letter of the cabinet, or was it to maintain the previous imperial edict, or for the sake of the 50 people, he only knew that Lang Pingyu did not go Do it, it's a sin!

What's more, Lang Pingyu is still in charge of 50 new troops at this time, and he is in charge of [-] people who have rebelled. What does Lang Pingyu want to do? !

Has he been instructed?

Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and said to Wei Zhongxian who was on the side: "Go, invite Master."

Soon, Zhang Haogu rushed to the Hall of Martial Ying, and Zhu Youxiao directly handed over Liu Guangtong and Ji Min's booklet: "Master, let's take a look."

Zhang Haogu slowly flipped through the leaflets, and after reading the leaflets, he escaped from his sleeve and handed over another leaflet: "Your Majesty, this is the joint name leaflet of the rebellious generals in Xi'an Ping."

Zhu Youxiao was a little hesitant, all the generals jointly signed, why the zhezi was given to Zhang Haogu instead of directly to himself?

After taking the booklet and looking at it, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing: "So, they are disobedient and disrespectful, but they are thinking for my own sake?"

"In order to maintain the law of the court, to maintain my sanctity, and to stabilize the overall situation of the court in the southwest, what a high-sounding reason!"

"I remember Master said that the most important thing in the army is to follow orders, and should orders be prohibited? Why don't I carry out this order? Why is this book sent to Master again?"

"The new army of the imperial court disobeyed the imperial order. No matter what the reason is, this is a crime! No one in the Southwest counter-insurgency army acted according to the order, and all of them disobeyed the imperial order. I couldn't help but suspect that this new army was my own. New Army?"

"Master, can you give me an explanation?"

Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao's series of words in astonishment, he was covered in cold sweat, what's wrong?
Is this how the monarch and his ministers will break up? !

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