Jinyi champion

Zhu Hao couldn't help but smile when he saw the person sent by Lu Song. It turned out to be his old friend Lu Bing.

Lu Bing was already twelve years old, and his height had risen a lot. He suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Hao. After a few months, he felt half his head taller again, showing his heroic spirit.

Seeing Zhu Hao, Lu Bing looked out of shape, grinned and said, "Zhu Hao."

Zhu Hao asked him to sit down and wanted to get up to make tea, but Lu Bing refused.

"My father asked me to tell you that the magistrate of Yongping and other local officials want to take our mine away. It seems that there are backers in the court to support them. Even if my father came forward as a thousand households of Jinyiwei, they would not give face."

Lu Bing looked like he was doing business.

Zhu Hao didn't bother with this question, and asked with a smile, "How did you come here?"

Lu Bingdao: "Oh, my father heard that you were going south, so he asked me to go south along the canal and chase after him. In fact, I caught up with you the day before yesterday, but I still couldn't meet you. Today I finally saw the opportunity to see you... Just relax, no one saw me coming in."

Zhu Hao smiled.

Lu Song presided over the mining troubles, instead of reporting to the emperor, he came to ask him for advice, because Lu Song cared about the credit of this business trip.

If he turned to the emperor for help, it would mean that he was very incompetent as a Jinyiwei Qianhu. Originally, as a Jinyiwei Qianhu, he would have no problem fighting with the local government. Just arrest some people and intimidate him, but Lu Song was quick-witted. Guess it is very likely that the local government is looking for trouble to anger him and let the situation get out of control, once to give an excuse to the civil official faction, saying that the mine is disturbing the local and so on, and if the iron ore factory is shut down by then, then he will be a sinner.

It seems incompetent to report, and if you don't report the place, you will find trouble frequently, and you will be tired of coping. The best way is to ask Zhu Hao for advice.

Zhu Hao thought to himself, Lu Song is very smart and not self-righteous.

"Zhu Hao, quickly think of a way to get rid of those magistrates who came here to make trouble. My father is opening a mine for His Majesty. Why do local officials dare to make things difficult? Who gave them the courage? Do you have a solution?"

Lu Bing was very straightforward, and asked out his doubts one after another.

Zhu Hao said: "Lu Bing, what does your father mean?"

Lu Bing thought for a while, then shook his head: "I don't know, my father just said, I want to ask your opinion, and then act according to your orders."

Zhu Hao smiled and went downstairs to the kitchen to ask for a pot of hot water, slowly brewed tea, and then filled the teacup in front of Lu Bing, everything seemed orderly.

The young man acted impulsively, regardless of the consequences, he couldn't calm down for a while, what Zhu Hao had to do was to make Lu Bing completely quiet.

Seeing Lu Bing reluctantly took a sip of tea, Zhu Haocai said: "Even if you want to deal with the local officials, you have to wait until I come back from Nanjing... Now I can only let your father stay in place. If anyone makes trouble, send someone Encircle the entire mine. Show the enemy weak first, and deal with them later.”

Lu Bing said, "What if they forcefully snatch it?"

Zhu Hao couldn't help but sighed.

In Daming, it is not easy to do something practical.

Even when running errands for the emperor, the local powers dare to enter into it. The Confucian rules have always been "a strong dragon does not overwhelm the local snake", which makes the local snake feel confident. , as if the imperial court did not dare to do anything to them. …

"Then hit!"

Zhu Hao said solemnly: "If you completely subdue them, everything will be fine. But you must not kill anyone. Under this premise, you can talk about anything. You can even take the initiative to fight back..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Hao thought deeply: "Your father asked you to come, but did he say that he asked you to go back earlier?"

Lu Bing shook his head: "My father said, let me work with you."

as predicted.

Zhu Hao understood Lu Song's good intentions.

Let Lu Bing come to ask for advice, one is that his son is the most trustworthy and will not leak information to the outside world, and the other is that Lu Song looks like Lu Bing for a good future.

From Lu Song's point of view, the best way for his son to enter an official career is naturally to follow Zhu Hao, a capable minister who is admired even by the emperor, and can even consider everything in advance, Zhu Hao

The disciples he recruited were more promising than each other. Lu Song knew that he could not train Lu Bing to become a talent, so he had to ask Zhu Hao to help him.

"Okay, you go to Nanjing with me, but it's still the same, you can only follow secretly, you can't show your face, and then...be more restrained, look at you, like a chivalrous quack, this world is too much Too much arrogance can easily lead to misfortune, you have no official status, if you are really targeted by people, it is easy to suffer."

Zhu Hao educated Lu Binglai by the way.

Lu Bing was grinning, saying yes again and again, but in fact, his left ear went in and his right ear went out. He was probably thinking about how he went out to play after arriving in Nanjing.

Zhu Hao said, "I'll find someone to inform your father...you should find a place to sleep first."

Zhu Hao didn't talk too much to Lu Bing, only when Yu Chengxun was in the city, he could see Lu Bing, the rest of the time Lu Bing could only follow from a distance, the two couldn't stay together.

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Enter September.

The young Emperor Jiajing is about to get married.

At this time, the civil and military focus of the Manchu Dynasty was almost entirely on the Northwest War.

The pressure on Xuanda's front line is enormous.

The Tatars have entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty to plunder. Because of the lessons learned from the previous civil fort change, and Zhu Hou’s self-willedness before the victory in Zhaoyingzhou, the attitude of the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty is very clear, that is, no matter what happens in the northwest Let the chaos be isolated from Juyongguan.

That is to say, the emperor could not drive himself to conquest, and the troops of the Ming capital could not be transferred north.

This puts great pressure on Yang Tinghe.

Because from Yang Tinghe's point of view, the best strategy is to transfer troops from the Beijing camp to Xuanda, avoiding the transfer from the three sides, and there is no need to transfer troops from Liaodong and other places.

But now because the tone has been set in the court, the capital's defenses cannot be relaxed in the slightest, and even Yang Tinghe can't break this rule.

As a result, Yang Tinghe was forced to take a "dangerous move", which was to transfer troops from three sides to Xuanda.

In order to prevent Xuanda local generals from jumping over the wall in a hurry, defecting to the Tatar camp, and causing cholera in the capital, Yang Tinghe specially asked the little emperor to make an order when the prelude was right, meaning that even if I, Yang, proposed the transfer of troops, it would be the fault. It can only be you, the new emperor!Who told you to plot against me and dig such a big hole for me to jump down?Now I will put you on the sidelines, dare to ask you whether this will or not?
Zhu Si was very supportive of this, because he had previously asked Zhang Zuo to convey his opinions to the cabinet, the Ministry of War, etc., and early dispatched reinforcements from various places, including the three sides. …

Daming belonged to the emperor Zhu Si, who was more anxious than anyone else to pacify the northwest, so after Yang Tinghe suggested to the emperor to issue an imperial decree, Zhu Si made a decisive decision and asked the Ministry of War to draft a strategy. place.

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The third day of September.

Cabinet value.

That night, Yang Tinghe and Mao Ji were on duty. This was another increase in the number of night shift personnel in the cabinet after military affairs in the Northwest became tense again.

"...It seems that His Majesty intends to quickly quell the war in the northwest. According to previous years of experience, this protracted harassment may end before winter. After all, after winter, the Tatars will be unable to grab anything. "

Mao Ji was as worried as Yang Tinghe, that the new emperor would make a big fuss by taking advantage of the Xuanda chaos and confront Yang Tinghe head-on.

But unexpectedly, Zhu Si's attitude was extremely sincere, as if he wanted to solve Ming Dynasty's worries and problems. In several court meetings about the situation in the northwest, Zhu Si did not have a direct conflict with Yang Tinghe.

Only in terms of money and food scheduling...

Zhu Si was very strict about this, and kept asking the Ministry of Households to allocate it as appropriate, but the Ministry of Households used the excuse that the harvest of autumn grain had not been completed, and the autumn harvest had not yet been levied. The money and food gap keeps widening.

Yang Tinghe said: "Now the soldiers in the army don't even prepare the winter clothes properly. If this battle lasts until winter, how will the soldiers survive the winter?"

The Tatars plundered on the front line of Xuanda, and the frontier troops of the Ming Dynasty basically retreated in the fortress. The possibility of an encounter between the two sides

Not much, in fact, the Tatars did not take the initiative to start a war with Ming.

The number of Daming cavalry is greater than that of the Tatars. After all, Xuanda is the territory of Ming Dynasty. Once the Tatars find that the Ming cavalry has come out of the city, they will immediately disperse. On the other hand, if the Tatars gather and outnumber the Ming cavalry in the city, The Ming cavalry also fled back to the city.

The two sides maintained a tacit understanding.

You rob yours, and I will do my front work. As long as you don’t fight hand-to-hand and do whatever you like, even if you Tatars set up camp under my Daming fortress, we can still live in peace with you.

Mao Jidao: "There has never been a decent victory. It is really not an option to go on like this! If you don't beat the Tatars, the Tatars will think that our Ming Dynasty's frontier is not fortified!"

Yang Tinghe picked up a Tripartite Report and said, "Let's see how the battle will be fought after the Yansui reinforcements arrive! I hope everything goes well. The Tatars are frightened by our Ming army and retreat on their own. No matter what Let’s talk about it in a year.”

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Yang Tinghe had a wishful thinking.

The situation in the Northwest is now in chaos.

However, Trilateral, which used to be the eye of the storm, has basically encountered no pressure this year.

Previously, Yang Tinghe succeeded in gaining Xuanda's military power through Xuanda's chaos. If he dispatched troops from three sides to assist Xuanfu Datong, and the Tatars accepted it as soon as they saw a good deal, after the winter, the fortress of Xuanda City will be strengthened in the spring of the next year, and the fortress will be strengthened. The collapsed Outer Great Wall has been properly repaired, which is perfect for Yang Tinghe.

With the power of the Three Sides and the Xuanda Army in hand, the little emperor's calculations were completely lost. Yang Tinghe could use this as a springboard to start to attack the Gyeonggi garrison, and gradually replace the capital camp with his people...

After all, the Northwest is related to nearly half of the expenses of the Ming court. Taking control of the Northwest, Yang Tinghe is equivalent to controlling the economic lifeline of Daming, but this is only in terms of expenses. It is necessary to replace the Shangshu of the Nanjing Household Department and the Shangshu of the Ministry of War with his people.

Plan step by step.

The premise must be that the Xuanda situation must be controllable, and the Northwest must do its best to talk about the follow-up.

Now the imperial court needs Huang Zan, Shangshu of the Nanhu Department, to help raise military supplies, so it cannot be done for the time being.

Yang Tinghe asked Zhu Hao and Yu Chengxun to go to the south. In fact, he meant to scare the snakes. He arranged a few nails first, and he might burst the balloons in Jiangnan at any time.