The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

The Fuzhou Three Guards were actually not the "mutiny" reported by Wu Fu, but just ordinary food troubles.

The requirements of the three guards are not too excessive. The military pay was owed to us for half a year, but we endured it. But the military rations should be replenished. We can't go hungry and prepare for the Japanese, right?

You Jingwu did two things.

The first thing was to order the Fujian Guard Army to forcibly enter Cangchang, Fujian Province. Later, without the consent of the civil servants, he opened a warehouse and provided food for the three guards.

After the three guards in Fuzhou got food, they naturally stopped causing trouble. They each returned to their respective stations and continued to train troops to prepare for the Japanese.

The second thing is that General You Jing wrote the truth about the "mutiny" in Fujian into a memorial and rushed it to the court for 800 miles.

At the same time, Wang Miao rushed to Fujian without stopping, and as the envoy of Jinyi Weinan Town, he arrested Wu Fu, who was to be governor of Shandong, and official officials Lin Tingyu and Gao Wenda. He was quickly escorted back to Beijing.

Two months later, in the capital, Fusi, Beizhen, was imprisoned.

It's late spring, and the leaves of the soul-inducing sycamore tree at the gate of Zhao Prison have become lush and lush.

The weather is good today, and Chang Feng is in a good mood. He stretched himself at the gate of the prison.

Qian Ning and Jiang Bin came over and saluted Chang Feng: "Master Hou."

Chang Feng smiled and said, "Forgive me. Wu Fu, Lin Tingyu, and Gao Wenda are imprisoned in the prison of your Bei Division. When I go in to interrogate them, I naturally want to say hello to you."

Qian Ning said quickly: "Nanzhen Fusi is responsible for the Fujian affairs. Just bring them to trial, Lord Marquis. We, the Northern Division, will never interfere."

Chang Feng nodded: "Sure. Then go and do your work. I will go to prison."

At this moment, Yang Tinghe walked over in three steps and two steps at a time.

Chang Feng smiled and said: "Why did Yang Shoufu come to our Jinyi Guard? You are a rare guest!"

Yang Tinghe asked: "Brother Chang, can you lend me a moment to speak?"

After all, they were life and death friends who fought side by side thirty years ago. Chang Feng still has to give Yang Tinghe this little face.

Chang Feng nodded: "Okay. Let me check in."

The two entered the duty room, and Chang Feng took the initiative to pour tea for Yang Tinghe: "You don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Tell me, what's the matter?"

Yang Tinghe got straight to the point: "I know you want to check whether Wu Fu, Lin Tingyu, and Gao Wenda have any background."

"I can tell you clearly that they have a backstage, and it is inside the palace. You can meet them every morning in the palace."

"But I'm here to beg you today. Don't investigate any further."

"This time, the Jin Yiwei arrested a governor without asking for permission. The Jin Yiwei has already stolen the limelight."

"You Jingwu was in Fujian and ordered the guards to take over Cangchang by force. Fujian civil servants dared not speak out in anger. Your Chang family has already stolen the limelight."

"If you have to be merciful, please be merciful!"

Chang Feng sneered: "Oh, you have to be merciful and forgive others? Do you want to say in the following two sentences, endure the calm for a while and take a step back to open up the sea and the sky?"

"I have been an official for more than 30 years, and I have learned something from this. Forbearance can only make you harder, and you can only take one step back to make further progress!"

"Wu Fu and the others created this farce of 'mutiny' in Fujian, which is not only against Jing Wu, but also against the Chang family, and even more so against the nobles!"

"I've endured it this time. I don't know what conspiracy the civil servants will come up with next time to kill my Chang family!"

"I'm telling you clearly, I want to kill Wu Fu, I want to kill Lin Tingyu and Gao Wenda. I also want to kill their backstage people!"

Yang Tinghe said in surprise: "Chang Feng, you have changed! When it came to the Haishang case, you could calm things down for the sake of the stability of the court. When your wife was framed and killed in the street, you could also calm things down for the sake of the overall situation."

"You were less than forty years old at that time, and you still had an admirable view of the overall situation. Why are you now in your fifties, and you are as happy to take revenge as a stupid young man?"

Chang Feng said: "Fuck the stability of the court drama, screw the overall situation, and screw the overall situation! Now that I have become an official, I understand."

"What if you continue to tolerate for the sake of the overall situation? If the overall situation is bad, it will still be bad! Why don't those civil servants under you think about the overall situation? They use open and covert attacks on my Chang family at every turn."

Yang Tinghe said: "Let me tell you Ming. Regarding Fujian, there are people in the cabinet who have given instructions, and there are also people in the six ministers who have given instructions."

Chang Feng smiled and said: "I won't tell you who is in the cabinet. After all, they are cabinet members, and I don't want to quarrel with each other. As for the minister you mentioned, he is Shi Jie from the Ministry of Revenue, right?"

Yang Tinghe's expression changed: "You haven't brought Wu Fu to trial yet, how do you know?"

Chang Feng sneered: "Jin Yiwei knows a lot! Okay, my brother Yang, don't you just want to protect the person behind the Wu Talisman?"

"I will give you a condition directly! If you agree to my condition, I will only kill Wu, Lin, and Gao. No matter who is behind the scenes!"

Yang Tinghe said: "Brother Chang, please tell me."

Chang Feng said: "Shi Jie, the Minister of Household Affairs, is almost seventy years old. He is old and dim. This time he secretly supported Wu Fu in setting up a trap in Fujian to frame my Chang family. He has to pay the price!"

"I'll give him a golden staircase to walk on. Let him hand over a memorial to his old age."

Yang Tinghe was surprised: "Didn't you say you don't care about the background?"

Chang Feng said coldly: "I don't care what I said, just don't kill! I'll say it again, let Shi Jie always give him a golden step to walk!"

Yang Tinghe thought for a long time: "Okay, I promise you."

Chang Feng waved his hand: "Wait a minute. I haven't finished my conditions yet! After Shi Jie retires, the cabinet will not recommend candidates to fill the vacancy of the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Let the post of the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs be vacant!"

"In addition, the cabinet will transfer Yang Tan, the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, to the southwest to inspect the money and grain of Bashu and Yunnan."

How smart is Yang Tinghe? He immediately understood Chang Feng's intention: "The Minister of Hubu is vacant, and the Left Minister is sent to the southwest. Doesn't the Minister of Hubu become the General Manager of Chang Ponu, the Right Minister?"

"Chang Feng, why have you become so greedy for power now? You have such a big appetite. You will let the Chang family control the financial power of the imperial court!"

Chang Feng smiled contemptuously: "No matter how greedy I am for power, how can I be as greedy for power as those civil servants under you?"

"After so many years, I have finally come to understand. Power is most secure only if it is in one's own hands! In the court, once there is a power struggle, there is no courtesy!"

"Oh, by the way, I went to the Leopard Room a while ago and chatted with Fire Master Asan for a long time about overseas anecdotes."

"He told me that in the place where Mu Gu Du Shu was located, there was a king named Ke Leku who said a wise saying." (Note: When Zheng He sailed to the West and stopped at the coast of East Africa, he called Africa 'Mu Gu Du Shu'.)
"This is a wise saying. I want you to tell Shi Jie and the man named Chiang in the cabinet!"

Yang Tinghe asked: "What is the wise saying?"

Chang Feng said loudly: "If you don't leave power, power will leave you!"

Yang Tinghe was stunned.

Chang Feng said: "Let's not talk nonsense. If Shi Jie does not become an official and Yang Tan does not go to the southwest, I will immediately interrogate Wu, Lin, and Gao. You know the methods of our Jin Yiwei."

"As long as I want, I can let Shi Jie and the one in the cabinet die without a burial place!"

Yang Tinghe gritted his teeth: "Okay, Chang Feng. I promise you. You are becoming more and more like a person now."

Chang Feng smiled and said, "You mean Liu Jin?"

Yang Tinghe sighed: "Oh, Chang Feng, you can take care of yourself."

After speaking, Yang Tinghe turned to leave.

Chang Feng stopped him: "Wait a minute! We haven't finished negotiating the terms yet!"

Yang Tinghe turned around: "Didn't I agree to let Shi Jie retire and Yang Tan go to the southwest?" Chang Feng said: "That's just the first condition! I have a second condition!"

Yang Tinghe stared at Chang Feng. Although he had met him every morning, he felt that Chang Feng was very strange at this moment.

Yang Tinghe said: "Tell me, what is the second condition?"

Chang Feng replied: "The second condition is that the governors of each province should cooperate with the commanders and eunuchs sent by the emperor to hand over military power honestly."

Yang Tinghe glared at Chang Feng: "Chang Feng, you are going too far!"

Chang Feng said: "Why, the emperor wanted to withdraw military power. Didn't you, Mr. Yang, support it?"

"Without your approval, how could you be the chief assistant?"

Yang Tinghe sighed: "Oh, Chang Feng, I can agree to your second condition."

"But I want to remind you. You are a powerful minister, and the power of a powerful minister often comes from the emperor."

"They all say that the emperor lives forever. But looking at the history books, how can there be a true king who lives forever?"

"The emperor is mortal like ordinary people. But the power of civil servants will live forever!"

"Let me say something disrespectful again. Aren't you afraid that a hundred years from now, the Chang family will be in ruins?"

Chang Feng smiled and said: "Yu Qian Yu Shaobao is a role model for your civil servants. I will answer you with two lines of his poem!"

"Don't be afraid of being shattered into pieces. You must keep your innocence in this world!"

Yang Tinghe said: "That's all! We, the life-and-death acquaintances, have broken up from now on."

"Now that we've broken up, I'll ignore the old relationship and discuss terms with you!"

"You can kill Lin Tingyu and Gao Wenda. You can't kill Wu Fu."

Chang Feng said: "I don't have to kill Wu Fu. But he can't just go to Shandong and continue to be the governor like a normal person! The prison is where he will live for the rest of his life!"

"That's my biggest concession."

Yang Tinghe thought for a long time: "That's it! Just do what you said!"

The civilian clique wanted to reverse their disadvantage and staged a "mutiny" in Fujian to compete for military power.

Who would have thought that the thirteenth year of Zhengde was not the first year of Zhengde. The power of civil servants simply could not compete with the imperial power.

And the Chang family, who was highly praised by Emperor Zhengde, represented imperial power!

This time, the civil servants could be said to have stolen the chicken but lost the rice. They lost their wives and lost their troops. The military power was not fought over, but the financial power of the Ministry of Revenue was snatched away by Chang Feng and handed over to his son.

In fact, the failure of the civil service was doomed as early as the great victory in Yingzhou and when Emperor Zhengde's prestige in the military reached its peak.

It has been more than 150 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it has gone through ten emperors. There were only four emperors who could truly suppress the civil power. Taizu, Taizong, Xianzong, plus a Zhengde emperor.

Spring night two days later. Today is Chang Tian’s birthday.

The whole family gathered at Princess Wanping's mansion.

Chang Tian is delicious. His husband was in charge of the cook's office in Guanglu Temple. Tonight's birthday banquet is naturally a delicacy of sea and land delicacies.

Chang Feng sighed: "In the blink of an eye, my little Tangtang is also forty years old."

Chang Tian said: "Yes, it really happened in the blink of an eye."

Chang Feng went from a low-level general of the Royal Guards to the powerful Marquis Chang in the blink of an eye.
The family is having fun, eating and drinking.

Chang Ponu suddenly said: "Dad, something strange happened during the day."

Chang Feng asked calmly: "Oh? What's the matter?"

Chang Ponu replied: "Our Shibu Tang submitted a memorial to the old man. Yang Zuotang was sent by the cabinet to the southwest to inspect money and food. Within one day, I was the only official left in the Ministry of Revenue."

"Shoufu Yang summoned me to the cabinet this afternoon and said that from now on, I will be fully responsible for the affairs of the Household Department."

"Dad, are you playing some trick here?"

Chang Feng said: "What tricks can dad use? This is just a coincidence. Since the court trusts you, you should fulfill your duties and do your job well. Don't let down the emperor's kindness to our Chang family."

Chang Qingyun was always young and spoke unabashedly: "That's not right, Grandpa, don't you always say that there is no coincidence in this matter, only the illusion of coincidence."

Chang Feng smiled and said: "You are now considered a member of the imperial court. You have to learn one thing, listen more, see more and speak less."

Chang Ponu actually already guessed a few things in his mind. But he saw through it without revealing it, and turned around to teach Chang Qingyun: "Qingyun, you have to remember your grandfather's teachings. It's better to say less."

Chang Qingyun nodded: "Okay, I remember it."

Liu Xiaoyan said: "By the way, today I went to Cining Palace to visit the Queen Mother. I happened to meet the Emperor to pay his respects to the Queen Mother."

"The emperor casually mentioned that he planned to put me in charge of the Five Cities Military and Horse Department in a while. All the losers in the Military and Horse Department would be replaced by veterans of the 12th Regiment Battalion."

Changfeng was startled when he heard this.

Nowadays, inside and outside the capital, the only military force controlled by civilian officials is the Wucheng Military and Horse Division.

The Military and Horse Division of the Five Cities was under the jurisdiction of the Censor of the City Patrol, and the Censor of the City Patrol was under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

When Emperor Zhengde said this, he seemed to want to deprive the civilian officials of their last bit of military power.

And put the military and horse department under the control of a woman. This is the first time since Wu Zhou!
Chang Feng said: "The emperor plans to set a precedent for appointing female generals!"

Huang Yuan interjected: "Brother, are you saying that the emperor has plans to restore the Wuzhou female official system?"

Chang Feng nodded: "Our emperor is a promising monarch. There is nothing he dares not do."

Let’s talk about the back garden of Yang Tinghe’s mansion.

Yang Tinghe was having a fierce dispute with cabinet member Yang Yiqing.

Yang Yiqing said: "You know better than me who Chang Feng is. He is loyal and upright. So what if he has great power?"

"The people under you set a trap for the Chang family in Fujian. You knew in advance, why didn't you stop it?"

Yang Tinghe said: "My senior Yang. You must know that we and Chang Feng now belong to two camps!"

"Chang Feng is now the emperor's substitute in the court! Liu Jin is an ordinary person! Can we still be on good terms with Chang Feng as before?"

Yang Yiqing sighed: "After all, it still involves the word 'struggle for power'! In the Ming Dynasty, no matter civil servants or military generals, nobles or relatives, they all thought about how to work together to assist the king to create a prosperous age."

"But in the end, why can't we escape the word 'struggle for power'?"

"I've been an official for decades, and I'm really tired of it! That's all, I will also submit a memorial tomorrow to retire and return home!"

Yang Yiqing is an old fox no less than Chang Feng. He retreated from the rapids at this time, and it was by no means "tired" as he said.

He had a premonition that there would be a life-and-death struggle between the emperor and the civil servants. He didn't want to get involved, so he used an excuse to hide away. (End of chapter)