prosperous age

Chapter 443 442 liters, relocation

"Yang Shangshu, you may wish to consider Yu Dayou, the general of Guizhou West Road."

Just when Yang Bo thought that Wei Guangde blocked the way to recommend his own relatives, he never expected to hear what Wei Guangde said was someone else.

Wei Guangde was still talking about the big and small battles that Yu Dayou had participated in, while Yang Bo had already stroked his beard and nodded.

Not to mention, the person recommended by Wei Guangde is really suitable.

If it is said that Yang Bo didn't know Yu Dayou very well before, then it would be a bit dereliction of duty if he didn't know about Yu Dayou after the Datong battle last year.

It's just that it's not Yang Bo's fault. After all, he has only been Minister of the Ministry of War for a long time, and he stayed in Jizhen for a long time after leaving Xuanda.

Wei Guangde was still talking about Yu Dayou's past experience, but now Yang Bo already had a candidate in his heart.

Wei Guangde was rambling now, but he was actually worried that Yang Bo would find it troublesome. After all, Yu Dayou had a real job now, and he had to go through Huang Guangsheng's when he was transferred, and he had to consider who would succeed him. Not everyone in Guizhou would like to go there. Yu Dayou left the meeting There will be no riots.

However, for Wei Guangde, there are some troublesome things. In fact, if the Ministry of War makes a decision, it will only be a matter of a few official documents.

Of course, it's not just the official document. After all, it is necessary to select a general to replace Yu Dayou, which is actually the most troublesome.

Waving his hand to interrupt Wei Guangde's words, Yang Bo said, "I understand that you recommended Yu Dayou. The Ministry of War will discuss this matter as soon as possible."

Speaking of this, Yang Bo suddenly laughed and said, "If General Yu is in charge of Wan'an, Jiangxi will really be as solid as gold."

What he said actually showed his attitude towards Yu Dayou. This man is very difficult to fight. He is a rare military general in the Ming Dynasty. Especially when Yu Dayou was still in Zhejiang as the commander-in-chief, he often led the navy to fight against the Japanese. Stop most of the Japanese pirates at sea.

This is also the reason why the Japanese pirates' attack moved southward obviously after the 36th year of Jiajing, developing towards Fujian and Guangdong.

But in the past few years, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong have been continuously harassed by Japanese pirates. Although Hu Zongxian's report was revenge from Wang Zhi's remnants, it has to be said that Yu Dayou's conviction has a lot to do with the navy's inability to fight.

After Yang Bo finished speaking, he cupped his hands at Wei Guangde, then walked forward and went back to the Yamen of the Ministry of War. The servant behind him and other officials of the Ministry of War were also thinking about the person recommended by Wei Guangde when they were talking, and they all felt that the recommendation was still worthwhile. That's right, so they all smiled and gave him their hands and chased after Yang Bo.

After Wei Guangde watched them go in, he also hurried to Zuo Que Gate, today there was a royal banquet, entertaining the vassal prince's mansion and overseas vassal state missions.

On the day of the Longevity Festival, many ceremonies were held one after another, but it was like this every year, so there was nothing wrong with it, and the Ministry of Rituals organized it very well.

On the third day after the Longevity Festival, the court was back on track, and the official affairs that should be handled had to be dealt with, and the cabinet ministers and the six ministries and nine ministers were called to Xiyuan again.

"Today's Nine Sides, the most important thing is Ji Town. Since the heart is safe, the limbs have nothing to worry about. Today, the captives are Yong Shao Baowu, and three soldiers invade Datong Town Chuanbao. The chieftain, I Da Huang Taiji. Badu'er and Tuman are hidden, fearing that they will spy on Jizhen to subdue Chengchen's worries, so I would like to present six things.

First, please order the frontier ministers first to drive away the bandits of Datong, strengthen the walls and clear the fields to secure their defenses, set up ambushes to defeat their fronts, divide the elite soldiers to smash their nests, and invite their horses to keep the bandits from approaching Ji Town;

To guard against thieves, you must first check out the stone alone"

Today, after all the ministers entered the Yongshou Palace, Emperor Jiajing directly took the pre-holiday decree and asked Yang Bo's military department's strategy for the border town.

And Yang Bo went to the cabinet yesterday, discussed with Yan Song and Xu Jie, and basically set six strategies, and now he just read them out to ease the emperor's heart.

After Yang Bo finished speaking, Emperor Jiajing frowned and asked, "The Ministry of War is worried that the Ministry of Defense will enter Ji Town this autumn, are you sure?"

"Your Majesty, there were tens of thousands of captives in the Xuan Mansion and the Datong bandits before, and there was no movement in the other border towns. Ma Fang, the deputy commander of the Xuan Mansion, led his troops to attack the invaders, and found out that it was not the elite of Aldakhan."

Yang Bo hurriedly replied.

In fact, during this period, although the Ming army was in charge of defense, they did not blindly defend. There were also generals who dared to send troops to attack the enemy approaching the city, but their record was not good, so naturally they would not report it.

Moreover, if it wasn't for the fact that all the IDA troops were out, and only a small number of Tartars harassed, the Ming army would still dare to fight when they had an advantage.

In fact, the main reason for the poor record was the lack of cavalry in the Ming army. Even if they won, it would be difficult to stop the Tartars from fleeing north. Without a leader, it would be difficult for the generals to be identified, and they would even be accused of falsely reporting military exploits. .

If most of the Tartars came, the Ming army was numerous but scattered in various military forts, and would not have the upper hand. Naturally, they would not fight foolishly, and could only try their best to maintain the front line.

After hearing Yang Bo's analysis, Emperor Jiajing's face softened, and he turned to Yan Song and asked, "What did the cabinet say?"

Yan Song hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, what the Ministry of War said is true."

Having said that, he looked back at Xu Jie who was nodding and continued, "The cabinet has no other opinions."

A small move, in the eyes of everyone in the room, naturally this opinion is the joint decision of the two cabinet ministers, not Yan Song's alone.

"Of course."

Hearing that the cabinet had no opinion, Emperor Jiajing was relieved, "All the matters that were announced were implemented, and the Ministry of Households urgently distributed food for the host and guest soldiers."

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs, please distribute the food and salary according to the annual regulations."

At this time, Gao Yao, Shangshu of Hubu hurriedly stood up and bowed to play.

"Gao Shangshu, the three districts of Huanghua Town, Juyong, Changping, and Huailai, Huailai, Longqing, and Yongning, all over the world are friends. The governor of Xuanda moved to Huailai to support Jizhen in autumn. In recent years, Jizhen's main and guest soldiers have repeatedly reported that there is a lack of food. It is advisable to distribute it immediately, and I am afraid that it will not be enough according to the distribution in previous years."

Yang Bo said hastily.

The Ministry of Households naturally considers spending less money, while the Ministry of War considers winning the battle and preventing the Ministry of Responsibility from outside the customs.

For this fall's defense, the Ministry of War plans to mobilize a large number of elite troops to move eastward to assist in the defense of Ji Town. Naturally, the consumption of the large army outside will greatly increase, which is definitely not enough according to the usual practice.

Moreover, in the autumn and winter seasons of previous years, the towns lacked military supplies, so they naturally wanted to take this opportunity to speak out and try to ask for more things from the Ministry of Households before the imperial court.

Gao Yao is so eager to stand up, in fact, he is worried that Yang Bo will ask for money in the future. If he does not take this opportunity to set the amount of food and salaries to be allocated, how much Yang Bo will ask for after he comes down, and Emperor Jiajing will approve it. Yes, Hubu is too passive.

So next, Yang Bo and Gao Yao began to argue about how much more salary should be paid to meet the needs.

In fact, the whole process was Yang Bo and Gao Yao's grievance meeting, and they all complained to Emperor Jiajing, because in front of the emperor, the final decision was naturally made by Emperor Jiajing.

The Emperor Jiajing also made the final decision after the two debated, "Annual exceptions add 4 taels of salary, and the border ministers are not allowed to invade, and they must save love and be practical."

As in the past, the appropriation of the imperial court, I don't know when the words "no intrusion is allowed" will be added.

However, even if these four words are written in the imperial decree, for the officials, what should be distributed according to the rules still needs to be distributed, and they will not not want money because of these words.

You must know that the reason for distributing the money is "drifting away", which is a normal loss, not corruption.

After the military affairs were finished, Yuan Wei also went out to play at this time: "Your Majesty, according to the Ministry of Rites, there are a total of 760 nine fresh mushrooms imported from the four directions, and there are not many of them with five colors and a full size. Please request to take them next year."

"allow."

Emperor Jiajing immediately said that this was about purchasing Ganoderma lucidum, and naturally the more the better for him.

Cai Yuncheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, also came to join in the fun at this time, saying: "Your Majesty, I wanted to come to Japan to report on this matter, and the matter that should be dealt with by criminals this autumn is now in front of the emperor, so please show your Majesty."

After pondering for a while, Emperor Jiajing said: "There is a severe drought in May, and we should pray for the fall of rain and autumn. I am grateful for the blessing of He Xiangxuan, and I am so grateful. This year, I will be temporarily exempted from punishment, and I will be in prison as before."

After finishing speaking, seeing that no one from the courtiers came out, Emperor Jiajing waved his hand and motioned for Huang Jin to take out the red-approved playbook, and said, "Governor Li Wenjin, governor of Xuanda, Chi Fengxiang, governor of Xuanda, and the others announced that the Xuanfu government in July will be Jiewen, please narrate the merits of Ma Fang, deputy commander-in-chief, and the Ministry of War will reward you, and I have already approved it."

As Emperor Jiajing's voice fell, Huang Jin opened the memorial and read: "Reward Wen Jinyin 30 taels, silk for the second watch, Fengxiang and Li Xian, the chief military officer, each for 20 taels, the second watch, Ma Fang promoted to the second rank, and Sun Wu, Dai En, Ding Chun, counselor Yang Wei each received 20 taels, and counselor Wang Mengxia and other military sects were rewarded respectively."

After Huang Jin finished reading, the officials below had mixed reactions, but most of them had little to do with them. After all, except for Li Wenjin and Chi Fengxiang, everyone else was a martial artist, but Yan Song frowned.

Wei Guangde's brochure has been handed to him, in which is the name of Ma Fang, who wants to seek the position of chief military officer.

Now that Ma Fang has been promoted to the second rank, Ma Fang is now the governor's signature. After being promoted to two ranks, he will surpass the governor Tongzhi and the right governor, and become the left governor.

I can't stop it.

Yan Song knew that this time everyone else was rewarded, but Ma Fang was promoted, which meant to be promoted.

The emperor had this idea, and he absolutely couldn't stop it.

Yang Bo also had a similar idea with him. How could he not know what the emperor meant? Considering Li Xian's current age, it seemed that the general officer of Xuanfu was going to be replaced.

Someone in the Ministry of War wanted to transfer Ma Fang to Jizhen before, but he stopped him. After all, Xuanda is the northwest barrier of the capital, and its position is extremely important.

If Altan Khan's goal in the future shifts from Xuanda to Jizhen, this matter can be considered.

After the decree was read, Emperor Jiajing sat on the throne and looked at the crowd and asked, "Is there anything else in the ministries?"

After convening so many people and talking for so long, Emperor Jiajing was a little tired.

In fact, the main purpose of calling people into the palace today is to talk about the affairs of Bian Town, if there is nothing wrong, they should be let go.

At this time, Yang Bo, Minister of the Ministry of War, came out again and said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has already selected someone for the post of garrison in Wan'an."

"who?"

Emperor Jiajing looked at Yang Bo and asked.

"Yu Dayou, general and commander of Guizhou West Road."

Yang Bo replied.

Hearing this name, Yan Song frowned again, not because of Wei Guangde, because the pamphlet Wei Guangde gave him did not include Yu Dayou's name, but he remembered that it was mentioned in the letter sent by Hu Zongxian before.

This person should have been convicted at the beginning, but in the end he was exchanged by Lu Bing with conditions, and later he was promoted because of his meritorious service in Datong.

At that time, Yan Song realized that Yu Dayou could only be suppressed as much as possible, so he had been suppressing Yu Dayou's rewards when the Ministry of War rewarded him.

Unexpectedly, Yang Bo mentioned this person again in front of the imperial court today.

How to suppress in front of the emperor?

Yan Song realized that he might not be able to stop this matter. If the Ministry of War played it, he could still stop it in the cabinet.

Thinking of this, Yan Songxu narrowed his eyes and looked at Yang Bo.

"Yu Dayou?"

Emperor Jiajing muttered something, as if thinking of someone, and asked, "Is that Yu Dayou who made great contributions in Datong?"

"Exactly."

Yang Bo replied, "After Yu Dayou took office in Guizhou, he quickly quelled several rebellions, and now Guizhou West Road has stabilized.

This time the Fujian-Guangzhou thieves invaded Jiangxi. After discussion, the Ministry of War felt that it was a surefire strategy to transfer Yu Dayou to stay in Wan'an, and Yu Dayou was familiar with mountain and field warfare. "

"What did the cabinet say?"

Emperor Jiajing didn't make a decision right away, but looked at Yan Song and Xu Jie.

Without discussing with Xu Jie, Yan Song stepped forward and said: "Yu Dayou has done a good job in military affairs, so he should be qualified for this position, but he is originally from Fujian, so this."

When Yan Song said this, he suddenly felt bad, and he didn't find the right reason.

He said this using the rules of civil servants, that is, civil servants cannot hold office in their hometown.

Wan'an is located at the junction of Jiangxi and Fujian, although it does not belong to Fujian, but earlier Yang Boke said that he wanted Yu Dayou to send troops to suppress the rebels, so wouldn't he go to Fujian?
It's just that it was only halfway through the sentence that I realized that Yu Dayou was a military officer, and there is no such thing as a military officer.

"What the old man said is wrong"

Sure enough, Yang Bo immediately refuted Yan Song when he paused, while Xu Jie looked at Yan Song's back with slightly surprised eyes.

It is rare that Yan Song will make such a low-level mistake.

But soon, Xu Jie had his own guess in his mind. He was old, lacked energy, and didn't think well.

This is the fatal flaw of being the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Thinking of this, Xu Jie looked at the others and found that many people were surprised when they looked at Yan Song.

Yan Song's previous remarks were unreasonable, and naturally he couldn't find words to respond to Yang Bo's rebuttal, and he couldn't think of a reason to stop the matter for a while.

Perhaps, if it was played by the Ministry of War, he could still ask Yan Shifan in the cabinet to come up with a reason to stop the selection of Yu Dayou, but in front of the imperial court, at this time, he really couldn't think of what to say to stop the matter.

After seeing Yang Bo finished speaking, Yan Song just remained silent, and Emperor Jiajing also made a decision, saying immediately: "Commander Yu Dayou will serve as a general and Ren Wan'an will guard the Jiangxi, South and Jiangxi provinces."

Emperor Jiajing's words were naturally finalized, and Yan Song didn't want to stop him, mainly because he couldn't find a reason.

After everyone left the Yongshou Palace, Yang Bo was still very excited. Today, all the proposals of the Ministry of War were approved by the imperial court. He hurried back to the Ministry of War to announce the matter, and the subsequent process must be completed as soon as possible.

Yan Song walked behind, looking at Yang Bo who was walking in front, with a hint of resentment in his eyes.

It didn't matter if Yu Dayou was not stopped from relocating. After leaving the palace, Yan Song began to worry about it. He just wanted to bring Jiangxi into Hu Zongxian's management. Yu Dayou was working under Hu Zongxian, so he might not find a reason to manipulate him.

(End of this chapter)