Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 66 Your Majesty, I Didn't Teach You!
Zhu Youtang knew that he had already touched the sensitive nerves of some people, but the matter of seizing military power would have to be cut quickly, so he added: "The twelve commanding envoys will go home and stay idle, and all the personnel in the camp will be dismissed by the warlord. Anyone who violates the order will be killed!"

"Your Majesty, please take it back!"

Minister of the Ministry of War Yu Zijun and other officials originally objected to Zhu Youtang's attack on the [-]th Battalion, but now they heard the subsequent decision and immediately blocked it.

Although Emperor Chenghua also sent eunuchs to supervise the army, it is just that supervising the army and being in charge of the army are completely different things.

The former only went to the [-]th Battalion to supervise, and although he could give instructions, he should be able to deal with it.It's just that sending the overseer and withdrawing the commander now means that the eunuch will be in charge of the army directly.

If it is said that Emperor Chenghua took out their pockets, then Zhu Youtang's hand simply touched the depths of their souls.

cough!
Liu Ji gasped, but he never thought that Zhu Youtang would be in charge of the military alone, so he gave the British Duke a stern look.

The British Duke Zhang Mao hesitated for a while, and led the nobles to express their views: "Your Majesty, please take it back!"

This……

Seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng and other officials couldn't help being slightly taken aback. The civil servants and Wu Xun, who had been incompatible just now, quickly formed an alliance at this moment.

Although it is said that "water has no shape, and people have no fixed potential", this change really makes people dumbfounded. Do you think they were originally a group?
Some officials who had already seen the truth did not think it was different, and all this was caused by interests.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the barracks were indeed controlled by Wu Xun.It's just that since the civil official group produced Yu Qian, and Tumubao buried a group of brave and resourceful nobles, the civil official group's infiltration of the Beijing camp has quietly begun.

Whether in the officialdom or the army, the people at the bottom place the most importance on personal promotion and conferring a wife and son, and these things have long been out of Wu Xun's control.

Take the British Duke Zhang Mao as an example. Although he became a noble at the age of ten, he was not promoted by the court until he was 33, and he was in charge of the military governor's office and the fifth army battalion.

The dignified Duke of the State was not promoted by Wen Chenting until he was 33 years old to be in charge of the military governor's mansion and the fifth military battalion. The military governor's mansion has been reduced to a subordinate yamen of the Ministry of War, and the fifth military battalion has already become the "hometown" in the mouth of the Beijing soldiers. .

Just imagine, the fate of the dignified British prince is controlled by civil servants, is it possible for the generals at the bottom to mix with the British prince?
Shi Heng was originally a small commander of Kuanhewei. He accumulated military merits and was promoted to Datong General. Together with Xining Hou Songying and Wu Jinbo Zhu Mian, he fought with Yexian's troops in Yanghekou. Song Ying and Zhu Mian died in battle, while Shi Heng He fled back alone.

Although Shi Heng was demoted, he met Yu Qian, the great nobleman in his life at this time, and was appreciated by Yu Qian, who was then the Minister of the Ministry of War.

It was under Yu Qian's actions that Shi Heng went to the capital to take charge of the five army battalion and was promoted to the right governor.Because of his meritorious service in guarding Deshengmen, he was named Wu Qingbo.

In the first year of Jingtai, when Yu Qian was building a regiment camp, he ordered Shi Heng to serve as the admiral and the commander-in-chief.

It is not difficult to see from the resumes of the British princes Zhang Mao and Shi Heng that the former can't even decide his own future, and the latter has a prosperous official career by hugging the thigh of a civil servant.

Just like this, Zhu Youtang's removal of the twelve commanders of the military camp is simply abolishing the civilian group, and it will also damage the prestige they have established in recent decades.

Why did British Duke Zhang Mao stand up and oppose it?
Although the British Duke himself did not serve as admiral in the [-]th Battalion, the position of admiral has always been assigned to Wu Xun, so Wu Xun will also lose his military power.

Zhu Youtang naturally knew that he would encounter resistance from civil servants and Wu Xun, so he asked with a serious face: "Do you want me to use you to be loyal ministers and generals? Are you a traitor?"

"I dare not wait!" Yu Zijun, Minister of the Ministry of War, naturally did not dare to take the hat, and bowed his head.

However, without waiting for the British Duke Zhang Mao to open his mouth, Fu Ning Hou Zhu Yong made a statement: "Your Majesty, I wait for the honor of martial arts to obey the holy order!"

Although the military power of their martial arts has also been reduced, and the military and political ecology of the "three-legged stand" that has been maintained has been destroyed, they are hereditary nobles after all.

Even if His Majesty withdraws military power now, as long as they or their descendants can win His Majesty's trust, they will only get more military power in the future.

If you want to blame, you can only blame the civil servants group for being too ruthless. Instead of begging with a broken bowl, it is better to break the broken bowl and hang out with this slick new king.

British Duke Zhang Mao frowned slightly, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Your Majesty, the meaning of the ministers and others should be used as a lesson for the future Han Dynasty. Please prevent the eunuchs from messing up the government. The pros and cons of the ministers have already made it clear to Your Majesty when they were in the East Palace!" .

"Your Majesty, please learn from the chaos of the eunuchs in the future Han Dynasty, and take it back!" Seeing the flaws, Xu Pu and other officials immediately agreed.

Zhu Youtang knew that he couldn't compromise with civil servants at this moment, so he looked very angry and asked with a smile: "You must guard against relatives, eunuchs, brothers, and generals, but you must not forget that the usurper of the former Han Dynasty was Wenchen!"

This... I didn't teach it, Your Majesty...you still read the book after class?
Liu Jian couldn't help being dumbfounded, looking at this good student who has always been obedient and well-behaved in disbelief, and he just nodded when he proposed to reuse Wang Shu a while ago.

Zhu Youtang knew that neither party could be trusted, but compared with these cunning civil servants, he would rather trust those simple-minded and loyal little eunuchs.

Maybe some of these eunuchs have no military talent, maybe they are not as brave as they appear on the surface, but since Xianzong can cultivate one Wang Zhi, he still believes that there will be a second Wang Zhi.

Zhu Youtang has never been a cowardly person, but Goujian has been able to endure hardships for ten years, and it is actually worthwhile to endure it for a month, at least he can see many people and things clearly.

He saw clearly that the governance of this country really depends on himself, not these civil servants who are all thinking about small calculations, and the group of officials standing behind are also thinking about how to get closer to him.

The wind picked up in the morning, and in the center of the huge Fengtianmen was Zhu Youtang in uniform.

Although his voice was very soft, his attitude was extremely resolute. Only four words spread throughout Fengtianmen Square with the wind——I have made up my mind.

I have made up my mind?

Xu Pu looked at Zhu Youtang who was sitting above, and sighed secretly in his heart, finally realized that he had misjudged his student and despised this emperor who was more scheming and cunning than Emperor Chenghua.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he didn't liquidate the party, didn't reuse them, the old officials of the East Palace, and didn't even reach out to the military and government. Instead, they disrupted everyone's rhythm and caused chaos within their civil official group.

The civil official group is not afraid of the emperor's integrity, nor is it afraid of the emperor's ruthlessness, but they are afraid that the emperor will do nothing, so that a group of officials don't know whose thigh to hug.

The most subtle thing is that this time, Zhu Youtang used the suspicion of seizing the door to break the situation. Zhu Youtang not only resolved their civic officials to join forces to force the palace to hold a sutra feast, but also chose dictatorship as a matter of course, and he was able to directly control the Beijing army through the eunuchs.

Before the debate about seizing the door, Zhu Youtang wanted to let the eunuchs directly take charge of the [-]th Battalion, not to mention that it is impossible for all civil and military officials to be the same. .

just what?Seizing the door?Your Majesty is terrified, and wants to seize the military power to prevent someone from usurping the throne, who would dare to jump out and stop it?

If one can only say that Zhu Youtang is good at making good use of the status of the emperor to promote Wang Yue's political salt, then Zhu Youtang's use of the conjecture of seizing the door to consolidate the imperial power this time is undoubtedly a monarch who understands the emperor's mind.

Naturally, Zhu Youtang didn't need to take into account the reaction and obstruction of these civil servants, and said to Liu Ji who was still in a daze: "Old Liu Ge, don't you understand what I mean?"

Minister of the Ministry of War Yu Zijun and other officials turned their heads to look at Liu Ji, hoping that Liu Ji could show the backbone of a civil servant and refuse, after all, he is one of the leaders of the civil official group.

Hey, come out with some literati style!

"The minister leads the decree!" Liu Ji hesitated for a moment, then expressed his position very simply.

He knew that even if he refused to draft the decree, the old man Wan An who would be invited back later would definitely draft the decree, and even a group of ministers in the Hanlin Academy below were eager to draft the decree.

Although speaking, he is one of the elders of the Sange, since this is not a Mingjun who is easy to bully at all, naturally he can only bow his head to Emperor Chenghua for the sake of power.

Zhu Youtang saw that Liu Ji did not disobey him, but he was still a little worried and said: "Master Zhou, Master Zhang, Mr. Liu Ge is not in good health, you two should accompany him to the decree!"

(End of this chapter)