Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 512 Things change and people change
"Currently, 1,467 corrupt officials and 5,235 officials have been found in Beijing, and more than 3,978,200 gold, silver, copper coins and house grains have been seized. "

"In addition, there are more than 226,500 acres of land. If it is sold at a discount, you can get more than 3.2 million yuan and 18 boxes of antique calligraphy and paintings."

"In addition, Yang Shiqi's son Yang Ji has been adopted by Hu Jiti and is currently on his way to Beijing."

"All the officials in the temple feel that Wang Hui is deeply involved. Now many people are complaining at Wuyingmen..."

In early September, Zhu Gaoxu was taking a lunch break in the side hall of Wuying Hall with his eyes closed, while Yishiha stood beside him and waited on him, reporting to Zhu Gaoxu what happened in various places.

After listening to everything, Zhu Gaoxu slowly opened his eyes: "Take the antique calligraphy and paintings into the Daming Palace, sell them in the fields and houses, put the grain into the local Changping warehouse, and put the gold, silver and copper coins into the national treasury."

"Since Song Li wants to become an official, he should do it right and promote Yang Shiqi to be the Minister of Rites."

In a few words, Zhu Gaoxu arranged the matter, but did not mention the kneeling officials of Wuyingmen.

In his opinion, this group of people just had enough to hold on and were spoiled by Song Yuan.

If they are willing to kneel, then let them kneel.

Faced with Yi Shiha's words, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything. He just opened his eyes after a while, picked up the ink pen and began to mechanically review the memorial.

Yang Pu mentioned the names of two people. Yang Rong frowned and said: "These people are not clean themselves, but they dare to investigate us and Mr. Dongli."

"It's impossible. Sun Cheng is no longer recognized by the officials of the New Deal. They are more willing to believe Yan Yan of Dali Temple and Li Mian of the Ministry of Punishment."

Xu Shuo and Xue Xuan were numb because of too many memorials, while Yang Rong and Yang Pu were upset because of Wang Hui's incident.

A staff member came forward to bow to Yang Shiqi. Yang Shiqi slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were not cloudy, but very clear.

Yang Shiqi looked at him, pondered for a long time and then asked: "Tell me your own opinion."

In the main hall, Xu Shuo, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, and Xue Xuan dealt with the memorial with cold faces.

"I don't dare to say this..."

Wuying Hall is surrounded by dozens of wide steps, and the two of them are walking in the middle without fear that anyone can hear their conversation.

Time passed little by little, and soon the sun set in the west and the dusk drums sounded.

After Zhu Gaoxu left in a carriage, Xu Shuo and Xue Xuan dismissed their classes one after another. After they were the only two people left in the huge palace, they got up and walked out of Wuying Hall and walked around Wuying Hall to relax.

He looked at his staff and said calmly: "Ji'er, is it really a false accusation?"

"Look, do you want to..."

If they had known that Wang Hui would dare to make such a big fuss, they would never have let the emperor choose this guy to go to Jiangnan.

"Your Majesty, this king is indeed involved in too many people, and judging from his direction, he seems to have some complaints about those in the New Deal."

If he continues to investigate, not to mention local officials, even officials in Beijing will be brought down a lot.

"Your Majesty, what are you thinking? Since you have arrested Yang Ji, why do you want to promote Mr. Dongli?"

Yi Shiha did not continue to explain clearly, but Zhu Gaoxu said: "No one implicated by him has a dirty butt."

"Sir, everything is packed..."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, Yi Shiha nodded and said:
"With these more than 7 million yuan, this year's national debt and interest can be easily repaid."

"The person who committed corruption this time, including his family members and others, was assigned to Yanran Dusi to build the railway."

As a human spirit, he naturally knew what this meant, so he immediately sent people to pack their bags and prepare to go north to Beijing to take up a post the next day.

The ones on duty today were Yang Rong and Yang Pu. They had taken over the task of promoting Yang Shiqi, but their faces were not good-looking.

As for the intrigues within Shaanxi, to be honest, those people are not his opponents at all. In terms of scheming alone, he is not inferior to anyone.

"People from my hometown came back with news and said it was a false accusation." The staff responded without thinking.

Now that it's better, this guy can't wait to turn Jiangnan upside down. In just two and a half months, he has confiscated more than 7 million yuan, which is almost the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty in two months.

"I understand. You don't have to say anything. Let's pack our things and get ready to go."

At the age of sixty, he does not look old. After all, it is not difficult for him to serve as the chief envoy of a province. The reason why he failed to pass the imperial examination is mainly because he has no new ideas in governing the country.

"Just wait. When Mr. Dongli arrives in Beijing, we can feel at ease." Yang Pu exhaled, and then took Yang Rong back to Wuying Hall to continue his shift.

"I just don't know how much gold, silver, and copper coins we can get if we investigate all of Jiangnan, and how much time the court can have for a few more years..."

Following his order, three or five servants and maids began to pack his luggage in a simple courtyard, while he sat at the head of the table, with the old god present.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu continued to close his eyes to rest his mind, while Yi Shiha hesitated and said:

In this way, he will naturally be able to complete Zhu Gaoxu's instructions excellently.

A few days later, Yang Shiqi, who was far away in Shaanxi, received the news that his eldest son Yang Ji had been "slandered" and convicted by Wang Hui, and that he had been promoted.

"You mean... Sun Cheng?" Yang Rong's expression changed, but then he shook his head and said:

But things are different now. Zhu Gaoxu has his own ideas for governing the country. Yang Shiqi only needs to complete it step by step according to Zhu Gaoxu's instructions.

His style is also very clean and honest, leaving no one with any evidence to use against him. Therefore, regarding the arrest of his eldest son this time, he also believed that the people behind Wang Hui were doing it against him.

Yang Rong's face was gloomy and he was puzzled. On the contrary, Yang Pu said coldly: "Think about who Mr. Dongli corresponds to?"

"Wang Hui is just the person Yan Yan, Li Mian and the others pushed to the stage. I suspect that they ordered Wang Hui to do this."

"The imperial court needs money. Since they dare to commit corruption and accept bribes, they are not afraid of being investigated."

Thinking of this, their faces became even gloomier.

When the staff began to hesitate, Yang Shiqi knew that his son must have committed something, but the emperor still promoted him.

Obviously, the emperor did not want the New Deal faction to remain strong after Jiangnan was attacked.

Although the New Deal faction had been hit hard by the Guimao case the year before last, the hits were mainly on middle- and lower-level officials, while the upper-level officials had not been hit hard.

However, the problem is that the top echelons of the New Deal faction are mainly officials elected by Zhu Gaoxu by taking advantage of the loopholes in the inspection and promotion system in the Jianwen New Deal.

Back then, he elected three thousand officials as officials in one fell swoop. Some of these people fell, while others climbed to the top of power.

When Wang Hui dared to confront Sun Cheng, the leader of the New Deal, in Wuying Palace, he only dared to do so because he had their backing.

Although Yang Shiqi has been in Shaanxi, he has many informants in the capital.

Sun Cheng had already been sidelined and returned home to retire. With his status as the uncle of Hanzhou, it was not easy for others to attack him. Therefore, faced with his move to provide for retirement in his early fifties, Li Mian and his group did not pursue him because they knew It was Zhu Gaoxu's instruction that Sun Cheng was able to take care of his old age.

The success of these two teams, Yanfu and Bohai, all depends on Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di. In fact, there are not many people with strength and talent in the two teams. They just caught a ride and gained glory that others would never get. Wealth.

Sun Cheng was an official, and it took him nearly ten years to manage the New Deal in Liaodong before he entered the court. This shows that his ability is not top-notch.

Today is an era when the elderly retire to provide for themselves and new people rise to take charge. If the incompetent elderly do not take the initiative to retreat bravely, they will have no choice but to be forced to retire.

People like Li Mian are inherently inferior in ability to status, so they are not involved in many major events, and all they have is qualifications.

Taking advantage of their seniority and status, they promoted groups of people like Wang Hui and Zhang Mengcun, and threatened them with the promotion, making them puppets of their own group.

But how can someone like Wang Hui, who has passed various tests and became an official as a Jinshi, be willing to be controlled by a group of old people who could not even pass the imperial examination and could only rely on recommendations from the imperial examination system?
Yang Shiqi saw clearly what happened this time. It was simply that Li Mian and others wanted to use Wang Hui as a knife to go to Jiangnan to investigate the case and attack Qingliu. Wang Hui knew that once he was used as a knife to attack Qingliu, Qingliu would take revenge in the future. Mian and others will definitely not save themselves, so he must save himself.

His self-rescue was to choose to seek refuge with the emperor, and what the emperor wanted was to solve the current national debt and treasury problems.

Because of this, Wang Hui's house raid was so swift and effective this time.

If Wang Hui wanted to take into account the New Deal officials who were also in Jiangnan, he would definitely not be able to attack everyone, so he simply ignored this group of people and only ransacked their homes to enrich the treasury.

Upon seeing this, Qingliu officials immediately began to secretly investigate the New Deal officials, and even bribed some Beijing officials to counter the New Deal officials.

As a result, a steady stream of New Deal officials were dismissed, and this was not what Li Mian and the others wanted to see.

In order to avoid revenge and threats from Li Mian and other old people, Wang Hui had to transfer Qingliu's hatred to Li Mian and others, and he chose to attack Yang Shiqi directly.

Wang Hui's current approach, although Yang Shiqi's official position is not as good as Wang Hui's, his status in Qingliu is equal to that of Sun Cheng.

The difference is that Sun Cheng was sidelined, while Yang Shiqi was able to provide continuous blood transfusions to the Qingliu in the local area.

In recent years, the number of northerners in Qingliu has continued to increase, and this is mostly due to Yang Shiqi.

Because of this, Wang Hui attacked Yang Shiqi. Naturally, Yang Rong, Yang Pu and others would not think that Wang Hui could decide such a matter. Their eyes were undoubtedly on Li Mian and others.

At this juncture, he was suddenly promoted, but his son was convicted.

Yang Shiqi analyzed everything and felt that the current situation was too chaotic, and Wang Hui could not stir it up alone.

The one who really added fuel to the flames was the one sitting on the golden platform.

What this one wants is to overthrow Li Mian and others with his own hands, and replace Wang Hui, Zhang Mengcun, and Xu Shuo in their place.

He can take action himself, but if he takes action, the nature will change...

He took advantage of Wang Hui's ambition to cause internal unrest in the New Deal faction, and then used himself and the Qingliu to deal with Li Mian. The court did not have to do anything and could make millions of profits from the infighting among officials.

Yang Shiqi was gradually losing his mind now. As far as that person's methods were concerned, if his son really didn't cause anything, even if he caught his son, he would be unlikely to force him to submit.

He can see through these things, and that person knows it, so... before getting into the car, Yang Shiqi turned to his staff who was about to ride in another carriage and said: "Over there in my hometown, you can send someone to find out in private."

Hearing this, the staff was stunned for a moment, but they still bowed and responded: "Take orders..."

Not long after, the carriage set off for the train station, and now the Zhang-Feng Railway has been completed.

Zhu Gaoxu promoted him based on his political achievements. This ingenious timing made Yang Shiqi break into cold sweat on his forehead.

This group of people is entering the game step by step according to Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement. When this game ends, whether it is Qingliu or the New Deal, they will be severely damaged. Only the court and the people can profit in the end.

It can only be said that this person still treats officials as consumables.

This time the consumables are thrown into the furnace of the Ming Dynasty. I wonder how long it will keep the Ming Dynasty moving forward...

Taking the train, Yang Shiqi went to Beijing. At this time, Hecheng, Daning, which was thousands of miles away from Beijing, was not stable either.

Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanhe, and Zhu Zhanji's grandson and grandson resettled many Mongolians from the Tatar and Oara tribes to Bohai and Daning.

According to their wishes, the group was given pasture and arable land.

For grazing, each household is given 3,000 acres of pasture.

For farming, each household is given thirty acres of farmland.

Under such a policy, the problems of more than 400,000 Mongolian herdsmen were quickly solved.

Today, in Moxi, there are only two tribes, Baotupolo and Yesiantugan, with a total of no more than 150,000 people.

Zhu Di arranged for Yanran guards to supervise them near their tribe. Although there were only more than 5,000 people, if there was any conflict, the concrete military fort was enough for them to hold a stalemate with the less than 30,000 soldiers.

In addition, Zhu Di also left half a year's worth of supplies to Yan Ranwei, and after returning to Hailar, asked Hailar to send a year's worth of food to Yan Ranwei.

With Yan Ranwei here, even if there is any trick to bring Tupolo and Ye Xiantu, I believe it will be difficult to achieve.

Nearly two months have passed since the end of the war. More than 400,000 Mongolians have been properly resettled, and Meng Zhang, Zhu Zhanhe and others have also been able to breathe a sigh of relief.

The night sky in late autumn is also beautiful. In this era without light pollution, standing on the wall of Hecheng, Zhu Di can clearly see the Milky Way in the sky.

Although not as colorful as the cameras of later generations, the silver-white flickering Milky Way still made Zhu Di feel sad.

"old……"

He didn't know why he said this, and at this moment a figure walked up the horse path behind him.

"Grandpa, it's windy at night. What are you doing here?"

Zhu Zhanhe's voice sounded, and he stepped forward and followed Zhu Di's gaze to look at the Milky Way in the sky.

At his age, he didn't find them attractive.

"I don't know what I'm looking at, I just want to see it."

There was a hint of smile in Zhu Di's voice, and then he sat directly on the steps of the arrow tower next to him.

Zhu Zhanhe didn't feel that anyone was sitting next to him, and Zhu Di also sighed:
"Sigh... Now that the matter has been settled, I don't even know what to do anymore."

"You can continue to rest in Daming Palace and go hunting from time to time."

Zhu Zhanhe chuckled and spoke, while Zhu Di looked at him, looking up and down: "Boy, you have changed a lot..."

"Well..." Zhu Zhanhe didn't explain much, but Zhu Di said:

"It's just not enough. At least if you want to sit in that position, your background is still too shallow."

With just one sentence, Zhu Zhanhe was silenced by Zhu Di, and his smile gradually faded away.

"Throughout the ages, the eldest sons of the founding emperors of all dynasties rarely died a good death."

"Your uncle passed away before he came to the throne. After I became emperor, uncle You's situation was slightly better. But if I had supported him at that time, he would have had a chance, but..."

Zhu Di paused, then turned to look at the dark Hecheng area ahead, with occasional flashes of fire.

"Honestly, it's okay for your uncle to be a conservative king, but he's far behind compared to your father. Even if your father didn't capture Nanjing, I wouldn't choose your uncle, but your father, because you Dad is much better than your uncle in terms of ability and foundation."

"Fortunately, your uncle is also a man who knows how to advance and retreat, so the three brothers can live in harmony."

"It's just that in your generation, your father has let you study for too many years and practice for too many years. Now you are twenty-six years old, but you don't even have a team of your own."

"If you want to rely on your mother's family, let alone your father, even I won't agree."

"If you can't rely on your mother's family, then who can you rely on now?"

Zhu Di asked Zhu Zhanhe. Zhu Zhanhe thought for a while and said after a while: "I..."

"Hey!" Zhu Di interrupted him: "Grandpa, let me tell you first, the second, third, and fourth children look good, but they are very jealous of the chair under your butt."

"Tell me honestly what they are doing now, do you know?"

"I know something..." Zhu Zhanhe told what he knew.

To put it simply, the second eldest brother, Zhu Zhanqi, became the official of Qianhu, and is now constantly encircling and suppressing the Changshan barbarians in Jiaozhi. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be able to make a lot of achievements next year.

He has more than a thousand people under his command, so it is not easy for him to select a few people to support.

The third child, Zhu Zhantan, and the fourth child, Zhu Zhanluo, joined the army to guard the border in Qiongzhou, Guangdong and Che, Yunnan respectively.

One of them dealt with Li Man, and the other dealt with Jiuliao. Although their abilities were not as outstanding as Zhu Zhanqi's, they still had small achievements to mention.

Although due to environmental and situation problems, the Ming army did not have any conflicts with the Mongols, so it was naturally impossible for Zhu Zhanhe to have any military exploits, but in terms of winning people's hearts, Zhu Zhanhe had been in Mobei for so long, and even Wang Rong and others We didn't even get to know each other carefully, but we only established a relationship with Wang Rong after being reminded this time.

In the past few months, Zhu Zhanhe has been winning people's hearts everywhere. Meng Mao, Zhang Fu, Meng Ying, Wang Rong, Zhu Zhanji and others have clearly supported him.

In the southwest, Muchun is his father-in-law, and his two brothers-in-law are also performing very well. The future is promising, and Wang Xuan in western Yunnan has made an early bet on himself.

It can be said that what I lack now is mainly the northwest direction and the temple.

He wrote letters to several people in Jianghuai, and also sent Wang Huan to win over Lu Yu and a man named Yu Qian beside him. Although the power was not large, it was enough to suppress his brothers.

These are just the resources and power he has obtained by using his status as prince in the past few months, which shows how much support he can get with this status.

After Zhu Zhanhe learned what Zhu Zhanqi had done in Jiaozhi, he was left silent.

If the second child was a prince, he might have been driven to the place and vassaled, and he wouldn't even have a bodyguard.

The second child is so thoughtful, and I only discovered it after spending so many years with him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanhe did feel a little discouraged, but this discouragement only lasted for a moment.

Judging from the actions of their father and grandfather, they still hope that they can ascend the throne, and what they have to do is very simple, that is, let go of their integrity and become smooth and philistine.

"As long as you know..."

After hearing these things from Zhu Zhanhe, Zhu Di did not comfort him, but simply said:

"You have to speed up and don't disappoint your father. If your father is disappointed, it will be bad for you."

"Grandpa, my grandson knows." Zhu Zhanhe nodded and stood up at the same time: "It's windy here, can I help you back?"

"Well... let's go back." Zhu Di Jianlang stood up without Zhu Zhanhe's help at all.

Seeing his appearance, Zhu Zhanhe smiled and said: "These days, there are always people trying to persuade me to persuade you to go south, saying that you are too old to bear the hardships of Mobei."

"Now it seems that the people who advised you are not as strong as you."

He escorted Zhu Di off the horse trail with a smile. Zhu Di didn't say much during this period, but just smiled to indicate that he was in good health.

Not long after, they disappeared on the horse road, and thousands of miles away from here in the south of the Yangtze River, a mighty Beijing inspection operation continued to expand.

A large number of Beijing inspection officials moved from the Jiangbei area of ​​Nanzhili to the Jiangnan area, and officials at all levels were constantly inspected in this densely populated area.

Although there were only 3,000 people, they conducted inspections in each prefecture and seized more and more criminal evidence, gold, silver, and food.

Jiangnan's wealth exceeded Wang Hui's imagination. Originally, he thought that Jiangnan would not achieve much this time after many blows, but reality gave him a loud slap in the face.

The wealth from various places was absorbed by officials and nobles, and finally transferred to the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan.

Here, many houses and mansions are related to the noble officials of the capital, and Wang Hui knows what can and cannot be investigated, so his goal has always been the Qingliu in Jiangnan, and then use the Qingliu to deal with the New Deal officials in Jiangnan.

While he was inspecting Jiangnan, a train gradually pulled from the northwest and stopped beside the platform of Beijing North Railway Station, which was built less than three years ago.

On the platform, many impressive people in regular uniforms were waiting quietly.

As the train came to a stop, the train door was opened, and Yang Shiqi, who was wearing ordinary clothes, stepped out of the train.

"Mr. Dongli..."

The group of extraordinary people bowed to Yang Shiqi one after another, and Yang Shiqi also took a deep breath and glanced at Beijing North Railway Station, feeling the solidity of the platform under his feet.

"Fifteen years later, I'm finally back..."

(End of this chapter)