Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 151
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the capital.

Looking at the battle report from Chen Shanglai, Tianqi beheaded [-] people, took [-] prisoners, and captured [-] horses.

Not only regained Hetao, rebuilt Dongshengwei, but also conquered Guihua City. Such a big victory was only possible when the country was founded.

Zhang Zongxian gave him more surprises than these, and the Yellow River Bridge that was built on the day he ascended the throne, the first in the ages, made Tianqi think that he was destined by destiny, and Wen Chengwu's virtues would definitely surpass his ancestors.

Zhang Zongxian also proposed in the memorial to gradually abolish the current nine-border military system, rebuild the military household system at the founding of the country, allocate all the land outside the border wall to the common people, and exempt the common people from corvee and taxation.Let the people serve the country by serving the army instead.

In this way, Daming can save a lot of military pay every year and reduce the burden on the common people.Nine Frontiers will be self-sufficient in the future, and there is no need for the imperial court to transport food from the interior. It only needs to reward the soldiers before and after the war.

Moreover, there is no longer any threat from the Tumed Department, and the frontier troops from the military towns of Shanxi and Datong can also be transferred to Liaodong.

In the memorial book, Tianqi described the future military system of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty will restore all the guards when the country was founded. These guards are surrounded by land reclaimed by military households. Foreign invasions must first face these guards.

Even if the enemy captured these guards, they would still encounter David's guards inside the side walls.These saved military expenses are to increase the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, and troops and horses can be mobilized from the two capitals for support in all parts of the country.

Zhang Zongxian also proposed that after the restructuring, these guards would not be set up to participate in the general army, but divided into prefectures, and the court would appoint people-friendly officials to manage them.In order to avoid the formation of separatist regimes.

Zhang Zongxian naturally knew the disadvantages of the military household system, and raised these to Tianqi just to get the right to reform the border town.In the future plan, Zhang Zongxian will implement compulsory military service for all in Daming.

He was very moved by the scene Zhang Zongxian described in the memorial. He knew that when the country was founded, the military household system ensured the stability of the border of the Ming Dynasty, but now the guard system has been corrupted, causing the court to spend money to recruit soldiers.

If the guard system can be rebuilt, then Daming can save at least 1000 million taels of military pay and food every year, and with 500 million taels, he can raise 50 troops in the northern and southern capitals.

The rest of the food and salary can be collected from internal funds, allowing him to build more and better palaces, and he doesn't have to worry about the lack of military expenditure every day.

Seeing this, Tianqi was already very moved. Zhang Zongxian also said that as long as the emperor approves his strategy and agrees to restore the old system, then the supply of military pay, food and grass to Yansui Town can be stopped from January next year.Use the saved money to the Liaodong front.

These words are all in Tianqi's heart. Tianqi has agreed with Zhang Zongxian's strategy in his heart, but the matter is too big to see the cabinet's reaction, and then he will send this strategy to the cabinet for discussion.

In addition, as to how to reward Zhang Zongxian for his meritorious service in such a great victory, the cabinet should come up with a reward strategy as soon as possible.

Then Tianqi personally took a pen and named the newly built Yellow River Bridge "Dingxi Bridge." It means to stabilize the northwest.

At this time, Liu Yixiu was the head of the cabinet, and he was the minister of Gu Ming with Fang Congzhe, Han Yu, Zuo Guangdou and Ye Xianggao.Fang Congzhe has already retired from office because of the Hongwan case.

Today's court, the Donglin Party, is the most powerful. The Donglin Party members are in charge of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Ministries, known as the Zhongzhengying Dynasty.

After receiving Zhang Zongxian's good news and strategy, the cabinet ministers didn't believe it at first, and followed Zhang Zongxian to transport the captured horses and captured Tartar nobles to the capital.

You must know that the imperial court spends millions of taels of silver to buy horses every year, and these war horses alone are worth more than one million taels.

In particular, the silver Buddha statue seized from Guihua City has been taken over by Jin Yiwei and is on its way to the capital.

Let these Donglin Party have to believe that now that Zhang Zongxian has made such great achievements, it seems that Emperor Tianqi intends to let him preside over the reform of the Nine Sides.

This made the Donglin Party completely unacceptable. How could a tribute-paying superintendent be more powerful than scholars like them who took the imperial examination?

Besides, even if they want to reform Nine Sides, they should come up with the strategy. What is a supervisor who pays tribute?
Therefore, the cabinet first rejected Zhang Zongxian's innovation strategy, thinking that the nine-sided innovation is related to the country and cannot be changed at will, and believes that the existing system is very good.

Then Ni Sihui, Zhu Qinxiang, Wang Xinyi Yushi Zhou Zongjian, Shilang Chen Bangzhan, Yushi Ma Mingqi, Hou Zhenyang and others were asked to impeach Zhang Zongxian for being good at border quarrels and destroying the former and Tumote departments. mutual market.

Not only could he not be awarded a reward, but he would also be punished. Zhang Zongxian was required to immediately withdraw his troops and return Guihua City to the Tumote Ministry.

Zhu Youxiao also thought about surpassing his ancestor's literary and martial arts, and it was related to sealing the snow demon, how could he return Guihua City, so he immediately reprimanded these censors.

When the cabinet saw that the impeachment was unsuccessful, it thought of hiding Zhang Zongxian with a bright promotion and a dark surrender. When awarding Zhang Zongxian a reward, he only gave a position as a doctor in the Ministry of War, the Arsenal of the Ministry of War, and was promoted to the fifth rank.

As for the rewards for meritorious service officers and soldiers, there is no discount, but it is just an excuse that the treasury is not enough, and God is asked to reward generals Chu with money.

After Tianqi received the cabinet's reply, Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he sent back the cabinet's playbook directly and asked them to re-draft.

The cabinet ministers felt that Tianqi was young and easy to bully, so not only did he not re-draft, but he handed it back to Zhu Youxiao unchanged. This approach made Tianqi completely lose his trust in the Donglin Party.

Then Tianqi asked Li Jinzhong to be the eunuch of Bingbi and the admiral of Baohe Sandian, and changed his surname back to Wei Zhongxian.Let Wei Zhongxian's forces form in advance.

As Zhang Zongxian's uncle, Wei Zhongxian naturally wanted to fight for a reward for his nephew. After all, Zhang Zongxian paid him a lot of money every year, and recently built a glass greenhouse for him to use to flatter Tianqi.

After letting Wei Zhongxian take control of the inner court, Ni Sihui, Zhu Qinxiang, and Wang Xinyi spoke to Zhu Youxiao during the incident, and they were all demoted to other places.

In just a few days, Zhu Youxiao changed from the wise king in the eyes of the Donglin Party to the faint king who appointed the Eunuch Party.

Zhang Zongxian scolded Donglin for being shameless when he received a fight from the imperial court because of the reward he received. On the one hand, he asked Yu Nong to go to supervise the transportation of the spoils in person, and to transport the horses, captives and silver Buddhas to the capital as soon as possible.

On the one hand, he wrote to Wei Zhongxian, hoping that he could persuade Tianqi to hold a prisoner offering ceremony.

Let the people in the capital see who is the leader of the country, and let those so-called gentlemen in Donglin shut up.

After Wei Zhongxian received the letter, he proposed to Tianqi to hold a prisoner offering ceremony to sweep away the shadow brought by the defeat of Saerhu on Daming.

Tianqi also felt that there should be a ceremony of presenting prisoners. The emperor didn't want to be overjoyed, not to mention that this was a real victory.

At the beginning, the cabinet and the six ministries cited various reasons against holding the prisoner offering ceremony, but Tianqi had already seen through everyone in Donglin, and if he didn't want to hold the ceremony, he was afraid that Tianqi would restore the imperial power.

They only want an obedient emperor, not an emperor who is assertive and prestigious and kills them like a chicken.

After many years of hard work, these civil servants gained the power to counter the imperial power, how could they be easily taken back by Tianqi.Tianqi is so young, and he wanted to innovate Jiubian when he came up, so he might not know what he wants to do later.

Tian Qi became addicted to this prisoner offering ceremony, what should he do if he wants to go on a personal conquest?
However, Tianqi was determined to hold the prisoner offering ceremony, so he bypassed the Ministry of Rites and asked the Rites Supervisor to take charge of the matter.

The cabinet couldn't persuade it, and had to appear at the prisoner offering ceremony, so in the end it could only play to let the Ministry of Rites participate in the matter.

Finally, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the silver Buddha, captives and horses were transported to the capital.

Under the auspices of Wei Zhongxian, the prisoner offering ceremony went very smoothly.

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the people in the capital seem to celebrate the new year in advance.
How many years have passed, and the people in the capital still vaguely remember that Alatan Khan of Tumed sent envoys to the capital many times to demand the opening of tribute trade but failed, and threatened the court by force to open border trade.

Now the Tumed tribe has been wiped out by Daming, and the silver Buddha in Guihua City has become a trophy. Seeing the three-meter-high silver Buddha enter the capital, the people cheered all the way, talking about the one who destroyed the Tumed tribe. Zhang Zongxian, the imperial envoy.

Master Ma also followed suit and arranged for people to spread the word everywhere in the capital. Duke Chu of the court was jealous of the virtuous and capable, and he only gave him the official position of a doctor in the Ministry of War for his great achievements.

For a while, the people in the capital were discussing this matter. It has been many years since Ming Dynasty, and it has never destroyed the country. It even lost a big defeat the year before last. How unfair it is that only one doctor is awarded for such great achievements!

In addition, Zhang Zongxian is from the capital, which makes the people of the capital stand on Zhang Zongxian's side even more.

Facing such ferocious public opinion, the cabinet did not dare to ignore it, so it had to redo the award, this time proposing to make Zhang Zongxian the magistrate of Zunyi Prefecture, a nobleman in the southwest.

Thinking that you are not good at fighting?It just so happens that the chieftain in the Southwest is not stable, so he can be a prefect wherever he goes, and he can use his resources to the best of his abilities. Of course, it would be best if he was beaten to death by the local chieftain.

When the playbook was in Tianqi's hands, Tianqi threw the playbook on the ground, didn't bother to scold them, and continued to do handwork.

Young emperor, you have to follow along. Can Tianqi be happy if he doesn't give Tianqi face like this?Wei Zhongxian, who was standing on the side, had already thought about it in his heart.

When Master Ma learned that the cabinet wanted to send his lord to the southwest, he also secretly scolded Duke Chu for being shameless, and then began to find people in the officialdom in the capital to speak for Zhang Zongxian.

Although members of the Donglin Party were in control of the cabinet at this time, the Zhejiang Party of Fang Congzhe, the former leader, was still there. Mr. Ma spent a lot of money to get the members of the Zhejiang Party to join forces and invited Zhang Zongxian to be the governor of Yansui.

Such an operation will directly prevent the cabinet from stepping down.The cabinet had no choice but to follow suit and invite Zhang Zongxian to be the governor of Yansui.

As if the Zhejiang Party found an opportunity to break up with Donglin all of a sudden, the Zhejiang Party simply did not do anything, and asked Zhang Zongxian to be the governor of the three sides to preside over the reform of the military affairs of the three sides in Shaanxi.

After receiving the petition, he did not reject it, but handed it over to the cabinet for discussion.

At this moment, everyone in Donglin understood that Tianqi really wanted to reform the Nine Sides, and the Zhejiang Party was also moved after hearing the news, and they all began to write memorials, trying to explain the shortcomings of the Nine Sides, and they all came up with ideas to reform the Nine Sides.

The ferocious discussion caught Dong Lin by surprise. Wei Zhongxian also realized that it was not enough for him to control the inner court. There should also be his people in the court to speak for him.

Immediately search for personnel from the original Qi, Chu, Xuan, and Kun parties, hoping to control the court.

Mr. Ma was not idle on that side, he kept stirring up public opinion and persecuting Donglin's cabinet.

In the end, the cabinet couldn't bear the pressure, and finally decided on Zhang Zongxian's reward, and asked to appoint Zhang Zongxian as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.

After that, the supervisor of ceremonies approved the redemption, and when he arrived at Tianqi, he added the crown prince Shaobao and gave him silver coins in python clothes. Not only did he not take back Shangfang's sword, but he also expanded Zhang Zongxian's power to kill first and then play.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Tianqi, the Ming court formally appointed Zhang Zongxian as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, the minister of the Jiabing Department, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi military affairs, and the four governors of Shaanxi, Yansui, Ningxia, and Gansu, and Guyuan, Yulin, Ningxia, and Gansu. , Lintao five towns, and specialize in the six provinces of Guyuan Bingbei, Taomin Bingbei, Kunzhou Bingbei, Lingong Bingbei, Gongchang Bingbei, Jinglu Bingbei, the two prefectures of Gongchang and Lintao prefectures of Shaanxi, and the prefectures of Pingliang Prefecture Pingliang, Guyuan, Jingning and other prefectures and counties, Yanzhou in Yan'an Prefecture, Guyuan in the Shaanxi capital, Taozhou, Lintao, Gongchang, Lanzhou, Taizhou, Minzhou and other Wei, Wenxian, Lidian, Guide, Jiezhou, etc. Place.

The whole world was in an uproar for a while, a supervising student became a second-rank official in less than three years, and was also the governor of the local military and government. This was the only governor in Ming Dynasty who did not enter the cabinet.

Of course, the Donglin cabinet is not easy to mess with. Since you Zhang Zongxian wants to reform the Nine Frontiers, you said that it doesn't cost the court a cent of money or a grain of food to raise soldiers.

Then they secretly deducted all the military pay, food, and grass that had to be escorted to the three sides of Shaanxi after the spring, in order to force the frontier soldiers who owed the salary to make trouble, so that Zhang Zongxian would not be able to come to Taiwan. .

In addition to awarding Zhang Zongxian, all the generals who made contributions this time were also promoted. In fact, Zhang Zongxian had already killed those generals in Yansui Town, and reported them all as fighting to death when reporting their meritorious service. .

As for Zhang Zongxian's disciples, all of them were promoted to the official military officers of the Ming Dynasty by virtue of this meritorious service award, and among them, Liang Chen and Bo Ren were promoted to generals respectively.

In Yansui Town, there should be 13 guerrilla generals, 33 guerrillas in the guard, [-] guards, [-] officers in the camp, and [-] foremen in the imperial capital. For these positions, Zhang Zongxian was specially selected in Yansui Town. A group of family members who are in decline and are easy to control have reported credit to their children and let them take up these positions to confuse the court. In fact, these people can only receive a salary, and the real power is in the hands of Zhang Zongxian's disciples .

The small banners and general banners under the entire Yansui Town have hundreds of households and thousands of households.These grassroots officers were all replaced by Zhang Zongxian's disciples.

There are also some hereditary hundred households in the military households who did not follow the side wall and are still the same people, but Zhang Zongxian will soon check the fields, and these hundred households will soon be replaced by Zhang Zongxian's people.

With this reward Zhang Zongxian, he completely controlled all the military forces in Yansui Town.In addition, the governor can actually open the government and recruit about 5000 pacesetters, that is, the governor's personal soldiers.

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