Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 554
"This... Let's talk about this later." Zhang Tongchang said cautiously.

"Huh?" Li Jing was taken aback when he heard the words, then pondered for a while, and immediately understood what Zhang Tongchang meant.

Li Jing now holds several positions in one person, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, the Governor of the Metropolitan Government, and the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Li Jing holds the most important positions in the Ming Dynasty.

But it is impossible for Li Jing to hold so many positions forever. After resigning, if his successor uses this system to restrain Li Jing, Li Jing will be in a very embarrassing situation.

Because the system was formulated by Li Jing, if Li Jing himself did not abide by it, how could he ask others to abide by the system?Then there will be big trouble.

Shaking his head, Li Jing smiled lightly and said, "It doesn't matter, what should be marked must be marked."

Zhang Tongchang thought for a while and nodded slightly. As long as Li Jing is not confused, he will not appoint a disobedient Minister of the Ministry of War, nor will he appoint a Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who is against him.

Smiling, Li Jing said: "In the future, the ranks of military and civilian positions will have to be redrawn. It's a bit chaotic now, and many things will be difficult to deal with in the future."

Seeing that Zhang Tongchang and Wen Qing were a little unclear, Li Jing smiled and said: "Now the emperor doesn't care about the country's government affairs, and the prime minister is the highest administrative head of the country. If the rank of the governor is the same as that of the prime minister, the governor may not Follow the orders of the Prime Minister."

"What does the Marshal mean to put the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion under the cabinet?" Zhang Tong said openly.

Li Jingjing nodded: "The rank of the governor must be lower than that of the prime minister."

Zhang Tongchang nodded slightly when he heard the words.

Li Jing smiled, picked up a pen and drew another box on the top of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, wrote the word "Cabinet" inside, and then continued: "In this way, the Cabinet is the head, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the yamen are secondary. , the overall control of the military and government, and each department has a yamen.

In the future, the post level will be the first rank for the prime minister, the first rank for the deputy prime minister and the governor, and the second rank for the ministers, the fourth department of the army, and the six governors, and so on.

In addition, we need to further improve the military ranks of the army. I plan to use the governor of the army and the Minister of the Ministry of War as the marshal, the four ministers of the army as the deputy commander, the six governors as the general, the general of the army as the general, the deputy general as the lieutenant general, and the general as the general. Major generals, guerrillas are brigadier generals, and those below are sorted by school lieutenants, evenly divided into upper, middle, and lower ranks.

In other words, in the future, the treatment of the army will be determined according to the military rank, and the rank only means the corresponding relationship with the civil service system.In this way, in the future, if the civil servant serves as a military officer, or the military officer serves as a civilian officer, arrangements can be made based on this.

Of course, this is just my preliminary idea. There are many things that need to be discussed. Please write it down first. After I return to Beijing, I will discuss it with you adults. "

Zhang Tongchang and Wen Qing nodded, hurried back to their desks, and wrote down what Li Jing said just now with a pen.

Gently rubbing his forehead, Li Jing said, "Do the officials in Nanjing have anything to report?"

Zhang Tongchang shook his head: "Most of the original imperial relatives, meritorious nobles and retired officials, as well as some officials who were disliked by the general came to the banquet, and the students all refused by the students on the grounds that the adults were tired."

Li Jingjing nodded: "That's right, these people probably watched me have a meal with Nanjing officials, and wanted to join in the fun, and they will push away all invitations from now on!"

Zhang Tongchang nodded hurriedly.

Li Jing thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow you will take people from the Council and the Yousi staff to check the treasury. I don't trust the figures reported by the officials in Jiangsu. You can take people to check it yourself."

"Marshal, the students think that the treasury in Nanjing should not be a big problem. Even if these people are so brave, they don't dare to tamper with the treasury of the chief envoy's yamen at this time, but it was reported by the newspapers of various counties below. The number students feel that there are some problems, which are more than the number reported by General Chen last year." Zhang Tongchang said.

Li Jing sneered: "They want to report more to please me! You are right. They don't dare to tamper with the treasury of the chief envoy's yamen. The key is the lower level. Maybe they put the lower level Qian Liang was transferred to Nanjing to deal with me, so let's check it out. Well, when you go down, bring your guards with you, and if you encounter obstacles, just take them down."

"Yes!" Zhang Tong said.

At this time, Wen Qing said: "Marshal, General Chen is not in charge of Nanjing now, and after General Chen left, most of his troops went to Zhejiang, and most of the troops from the original imperial court are here in Nanjing. No defense."

Li Jing waved his hand: "They are not that courageous yet."

Wen Qing hurriedly said: "Marshal, don't take it lightly. The students believe that the officials newly promoted by the Marshal will not make any changes, but the original royal relatives, meritorious nobles and officials who were disliked by the Marshal in Nanjing City, These people were robbed of their property by the Marshal and removed from their positions, so they must have a grudge against the Marshal.

These people have been operating in Nanjing for many years, and their power should not be underestimated.The Marshal is escorted by guards, these people may have some scruples, but if Brother Bie Shan takes the guards down, the strength of the guards will be reduced, and if they are not kept together, these people will have some thoughts.The students think that Nanjing is a place of right and wrong, and the commander-in-chief cannot wait for long. "

"Jingzhi is right. There must be no shortage of guards around the Marshal in Nanjing. In fact, the Marshal is a bit reckless to go out for a parade in micro-clothes today. Fortunately, no one knows about the Marshal's going out except for us. Those people It never occurred to me that the commander-in-chief would go out in micro-clothes when he was tired from the journey." Zhang Tongchang continued.

Li Jing sneered: "How could I be afraid of these rats? It's fine if they keep their own way. If there is any change, just take them down."

"What is the status of the commander-in-chief, how can he put himself to the test of danger?" Wen Qing asked anxiously.

Li Jing smiled: "What risk? Do you think that these people will be able to jump up and down when Chen Dahu leaves Nanjing? Chen Dahu did take away most of the original direct troops, but when Chen Dahu was in office, he recruited [-] soldiers in Nanjing. Yu Xinjun. Chen Dahu is not a fool. He knows the importance of Nanjing, so he left all the [-] new troops in Nanjing when he left. These people have been training for more than a year. Nanjing City has no problems at all."

"However, as far as the students know, most of these soldiers have not yet equipped with guns. Once those people attack, our army may not have the upper hand." Wen Qing said urgently.

Li Jing smiled, and patted Wen Qing on the shoulder lightly: "You can notice these problems, which shows that you really put your heart into it, and you know that you care about military issues, very good, very good."

Wen Qing smiled embarrassedly: "Students stay with the commander-in-chief all day, if they don't learn a little more, wouldn't it be a waste of time to stay with the commander-in-chief?"

Li Jing smiled: "It's a pity that you have never been in the army, otherwise you will know that fighting is not as simple as you imagined. Whether it is fighting or rebelling, it is not an easy task. An impromptu gathering of people to rise up, the kind of thing only a desperate farmer would do.

If you want to win a war and succeed in an event, you must have careful arrangements.

Just say that those people in Nanjing city you are worried about will be against me.These people do not have soldiers in their hands, at most they keep some servants. As for me, I have guards by my side, and there are troops trained by my direct subordinates in the city.

So what will they do?You can only contact generals with military power who have the same interests as them. There are such people around Nanjing, and there are quite a few.

But you have to know that I came to Nanjing just passing by, even if they knew in advance that I would come to Nanjing, there would not be much time for them to prepare, and they had to be careful and careful.

The safer way is to arrange a small number of troops to sneak into Nanjing secretly and find a secret place to hide.

Then mobilize the army to besiege the city, break open the city gate from inside and outside, and finally defeat my army, so that it is possible to take me down.

I may not be able to detect the secret operations in the early stage, but when their army is dispatched, they will not be able to hide it. If there is a large army mobilization under my rule, if I still can't find out, then am I not in vain as a general? "

Zhang Tongchang and Wen Qing laughed lightly at the same time.

Li Jing may be ignorant of other things, but any military action in any part of the Ming Dynasty will never escape Li Jing's eyes.

And the two of them also knew that even they could see that someone in Nanjing City was dissatisfied with Li Jing, so how could Li Jing not know?I'm afraid Li Jing has already grasped the every move of all the people in Nanjing who are dissatisfied with him.

Li Jing smiled and continued: "Without my order to mobilize the army, I know what they are going to do without asking. At this time, will I sit and wait for them to arrest me?"

Zhang Tongchang and Wen Qing smiled, knowing that as long as the army of these people started to move, they might find themselves surrounded before reaching Nanjing City.

These two people were by Li Jing's side all day long, so they naturally knew how nervous the generals were. I am afraid that from the day Li Jing left the capital, the generals' eyes were always on Li Jing's whereabouts.

Now at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and Zhejiang, Zhou Huhu of Shandong, Lu Xiangsheng of Henan, and Chen Dahu of Zhejiang, the troops of these three people are even more vigilant. People and horses will immediately go to Nanjing to escort them.

Sighing lightly, Li Jing continued: "I know that I have offended many people, many people hold grudges against me, and I know that some people are secretly making small moves, but I can't attack these people yet. Because even if I have Some people will say that I use my power to suppress courtiers with different political opinions.

There is an article "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan" in "Zuo Zhuan". You must have read this article, right?Why did Zheng Zhuanggong indulge his younger brother Duan first, and wait for Duan to rebel before sending troops to destroy him?
The reason is very simple, if it is not like this, then he will not be able to attack his unscrupulous younger brother, and it will attract the reputation of killing his younger brother.

I have no other choice now, but I can only imitate Zheng Zhuanggong, and when these people make a big fuss, then I can clean up these people in a legitimate way. "

(End of this chapter)