I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 877 Situation Reversal
They also really want to take this opportunity to clean up the bandits on the water.

But with only their boat and hundreds of people, they can't take care of them, along the two sides of the river, hundreds of miles of water.

Therefore, they still need a lot of assistance. Among them, whether the Nanjing Ministry of War is willing to help, and whether the nobles in Nanjing who hold real power are willing to help is the key to whether this matter can finally be carried out.

To be honest, in fact, Zhu Zhanji and the others have crossed the line by sending troops privately to suppress the bandits this time.

Without the exact order of the imperial court, without the emperor's own written imperial approval and affixed with the seal of the Ministry of War, privately using a ship with hundreds of officers and soldiers, no matter what the reason, is already considered a violation of the imperial court's taboo.

There is one thing to say.

If Chen Hong is the main person in charge of this troop dispatch, then Chen Hong's life is over.

Even if the merits and demerits are equal in the end and the head is not killed, it is considered good to stay in prison for a lifetime.

But because they used a prince to be attacked before they sent troops, they sent troops this time to avenge His Highness the prince, and wiped out a water village by the way.

That's perfectly fine.

You know, what are the responsibilities of Chen Hong and others now?
It is to protect the safety of His Royal Highness, and they can actually do anything that can threaten the safety of His Royal Highness.

Therefore, the dispatch of troops this time became justified and well-founded, and the court could not find any faults.

But still the first sentence, if you want to wipe out the water pirates on the entire river, it is not enough for them to have hundreds of people in a single boat.

Only with the support of the entire Nanjing city can there be any hope.

As for Chen Hong and Zhu Zhanji, the ceremony of presenting prisoners this time is actually borrowing public opinion to force the real power holders in Nanjing to support themselves.

Otherwise, as long as any Nanjing official or some honorable person writes a letter to the imperial court in a strange manner, even if Zhu Zhanji and the others acted aboveboard this time.

It will also be discredited that Zhu Zhanji acted arbitrarily and acted recklessly in disregard of the royal order.

At that time, don't say that you really do something for the people along the river. It may be good that Zhu Zhanji and others are not punished in the end.

But once the prisoner offering ceremony was held this time, the situation was completely different.

From this moment on, almost all the people in Nanjing City knew that the prince helped them eliminate the water pirates and returned with a big victory.

You Nanjing is full of nobles, thousands of officials of all sizes, and hundreds of thousands of troops.

He actually allowed water robbers to run rampant on the river, and in the end he had to rely on His Royal Highness's bodyguards to do it.

You said what do your officials in Nanjing do for food? The common people spend money to support you, which is not as useful as raising a pig.

In this way, public opinion was won over by them, and officials in Nanjing had no choice but to take care of it even if they didn't want to.

This was also what troubled Zhang Yiliang and He Lin at that time.

It's not that they don't want to send troops, nor do they want to maintain the peace of one side.

But the imperial court has great restrictions on sending troops, especially for people in high positions like them, they must be more cautious in doing things.

Otherwise, if one fails, it will be ruined.

So they would rather pretend that they could not see or hear anything, rather than take the risk of writing a letter and sending troops.

Even if it was written, the court agreed.

But in the end how to fight, who will send troops, how many troops will be sent, and where will the military expenses come from? These are all problems.

You know, sending troops to fight a war is very expensive.

If the money is not enough, if you want soldiers to go into battle to kill the enemy, that is a joke.

Even if these problems can be solved, the water pirates on the river and some people in the Nanjing government have intricate and responsible relationships, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no information leakage.

If you win, everything is fine, but if you lose, it will not only be embarrassing, but you may even lose your life. If the situation is serious, it is not impossible to be ransacked and beheaded.

Generally speaking, it's not that the people in Nanjing don't know what's going on on the water, or they don't want to care about it.

But no one can guarantee that this matter will be done.

The idea that more things are worse than less things, and the idea of ​​muddling along is the common thinking of these people who are officials in Nanjing.

Even a good and honest official like Zhang Yiliang is actually the same, they have too many things to consider.

But it's different now.

Zhu Zhanji used his own face to personally force the officials in Nanjing to release the water pipe.

Let them not only have a suitable excuse, but even if something goes wrong, they don't have to bear the blame themselves.

If it succeeds, they can still make a fortune in battle, which can be said to be foolproof.

Previously, Zhang Yiliang and others discussed that each of them sent hundreds of people to help Zhu Zhanji with this favor. They wanted to use this method to make this matter settle down as soon as possible.

But they didn't expect that Zhu Zhanji would make the prisoner offering ceremony so grand and solemn that almost everyone in the city knew about it.

In this way, not only many people in Nanjing knew about this matter, but also knew that the imperial court was actually capable of dealing with the banditry on the river. In a short time, the capital would probably know about it too.

This is not a good thing for them.

At that time, the emperor will give them one, the crime of lazy administration is light, and the crimes of not reporting what is known, concealing the report, condoning banditry, etc., no matter which one is enough for them to drink a pot.

They didn't know the plan of Zhu Zhanji and others before, and they originally thought that they were just on a whim, and they might give up after wandering on the river for two days without any results.

But it never occurred to them that they not only won a big victory, but also captured more than half of the gangsters.

This is much more difficult.

Originally, they might still have an excuse to evade the matter of sending troops, saying that the court law came before them, and they could not disobey the law.

But now, their bodies have basically been roasted on the fire, and it is impossible to use all their strength.

Just after receiving the report from his subordinates, saying that His Royal Highness was going to repair at Xuanwu Lake, and when the prisoner presentation ceremony was held by the way, the Nanjing Ministry of War and the Nanjing Garrison rushed here in a hurry.

I want to stop Zhu Zhanji and the others from engaging in this big scene one step ahead.

But when they arrived, it was already too late.

Looking at the water pirates who were strung together in a string, they walked down the boat one by one dejectedly.

The faces of Zhang Yiliang and others became more and more ugly.

The matter has become a foregone conclusion, and there is basically no way to change it. There is no way, they want to keep their official positions, and now they can only ask His Highness the Crown Prince not to be too ruthless.

There was a big reversal in the form, and almost all the right to speak was transferred to Zhu Zhanji.

Apart from cooperating with Zhu Zhanji, they have no other way to go.

(End of this chapter)