The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 318 Controlling the Military Power in Beiping
Zhu Gaochi asked people to go to Tianjin to pick up Guo Cailian.

Guo Cailian had already returned to Peiping from Liaodong. Although she knew that there was no shortage of people around her wife, Zhu Gaochi still sent someone there.

One is to express the deep love between husband and wife, and the other is to win over the Guo family.

On this day, Zhu Gaochi received a letter from Li Bosheng in Shaanxi, which talked about Zhu Di and Song Sheng.

Propose an engagement between the two families.

Song Sheng's fourth son is about the same age as Yan Wang's third daughter, so they can make a marriage contract first.

"It seems that some things are bound to happen."

"what?"

Zhang Quan didn't hear clearly and asked subconsciously.

Zhu Gaochi silently put down the letter.

Seeing the young prince's appearance, Zhang Quan shut his mouth, guessing that the young prince was talking to himself just now.

This thing works to my advantage.

Zhu Gaochi made a decision to facilitate this matter.

Song Sheng accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang in the South and North Wars for decades, and later guarded Ganzhou and became the real power of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division.

And this person is invincible, keeping the Hexi Corridor peaceful for many years.

In history, it was not until the 31st year of Hongwu, the year when Zhu Yuanzhang died, that Song Sheng was ordered to go to the desert with Zhu Di.

In fact, as early as the 29th year of Hongwu, the two had a chance to meet each other.

However, Zhu Di was very "simple" at that time. Although he was ordered to patrol the border, he did not want to be troublesome. He wiped out the enemy in two months and did not leave Peiping.

It may be fate, Zhu Yuanzhang's decree in the year of his death gave the two a chance to meet and left a chance.

When Zhu Di rebelled, Song Sheng's eldest son died early, and the second son followed the imperial army to conquer Zhu Di, and died in a fierce battle.

However, the veteran Song Sheng did not come out of the mountain.

The imperial court didn't believe him either, and worried about the friendship between the two in Hongwu's 31 years, don't end up taking refuge in Zhu Di, that's called leading a wolf into the house.

Because too many generals took refuge in Zhu Di.

Zhu Di was also afraid that this person would personally lead soldiers to attack him.

When both sides had concerns, Song Sheng stood still in Ganzhou, and Zhu Yunwen even issued an order to use Song Sheng's "prestige and long-term presence in Liangzhou", ordering him to be the commander-in-chief again in Gansu.

In short.

After Zhu Di successfully ascended the throne in rebellion, he married his third daughter to Song Sheng's fourth son, which shows the importance of the Song family.

In the first year of Yongle, Song Sheng learned that Timur and his allies planned to invade Daming, and was ordered by Zhu Di to strengthen the defense of Ganzhou.

In the end, before Timur's army came, Song Sheng first forced the Pingzhang commanders in the west, Du Timur and Lundu Hui, to surrender, wiped out the remaining forces of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and regained a large area of ​​territory.

It can be seen the prestige and ability of the veteran Song Sheng.

If the Song family in Ganzhou can be won over to the palace, not to mention the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Shaanxi capital, even the guards of the Shaanxi capital may defect to Zhu Di.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, Zhu Gaochi picked up his pen again and wrote a letter, which was sent to Li Bosheng immediately.

The first thing is to make it happen with all your strength.

The second thing is to use the power of the Song family to develop China Heavy Industry locally.

The third thing is to win over the Shaanxi Guard.

After Ge Cheng and Jin Zhong learned about it, Ge Cheng felt that the young prince had taken it for granted, and reminded him, "I'm afraid there will be many people who object."

Jin Zhong didn't think so.

"If the old King Qin is still alive, there is no need to mention this matter, but the old King Qin is no longer there, and there is not much hindrance in Shaanxi."

"As for the imperial court, with King Yan's weight in the saint's heart, the saint should not object to the matter of marrying a daughter."

Ge Cheng shook his head, "This matter is of great importance. General Song has a serious personality, so he probably won't wade into it."

This is true.

It mainly depends on the parties involved.

Hearing the analysis of the two long history officials, Zhu Gaochi felt that there was great hope.

Because of his historical performance, Zhu Gaochi believed that Song Sheng still had a good impression of Zhu Di.

Whether it was when Zhu Di rebelled or after Zhu Di ascended the throne, this person performed well.

First of all, he did not feel sorry for the court. His second son died fighting for the court. As for not personally leading troops to counter the rebellion for the court, it was because the court ordered him to continue guarding Ganzhou, and the court did not trust him.

Secondly, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, Song Sheng did not take advantage of the situation to become bigger, but strictly abided by the court system, without any overstepping.

In the end, this person made important contributions to the frontier of Ming Dynasty.

This person's city must not be underestimated, and he cannot be treated simply as a warrior, and even many things can be seen clearly by this person.

But precisely because he saw clearly, he made the right choice.

To be worthy of the imperial court, and even more worthy of the world, is the old Zhu's civil war after all, and Song Sheng did not lose points in this process.

"The key still depends on General Song himself. If he doesn't refuse, the matter will be settled, so we still have to convince him."

Ge Cheng couldn't help but look at Zhu Gaochi.

The Guo family in eastern Liaodong, together with the Song family of the Xingdu Si in Shaanxi, take the current situation in Beiping, Daning, and Kaiping.

There are also the Tianjin Navy, the Jinzhou Navy, the Jinzhou Wei Xin Army, and the Shixiaying New Army.

The little prince's ambitions are fully revealed.

Ge Cheng was very worried.

Because of the prince's care, the little prince has been going smoothly these years, and he has somewhat underestimated the people of the world, and his steps are getting bigger and bigger.

Is this going to be a good thing?

Seeing that the young prince could not be persuaded, when Ge Cheng and Jin Zhong left, they stayed on the stone platform of the palace.

"The little prince is very talented, even I can understand the prince's love for the little prince."

"Do you think that because the prince loves the young prince too much, the young prince's current ambitions have been created?"

Jin Zhong looked at Ge Cheng with a smile.

Jin Zhong has grown from a white man to the current Changshi Fuyou Changshi. Compared with Ge Cheng, he currently only lacks qualifications.

Ge Cheng didn't speak, it was acquiescence to Jin Zhong's words.

Jin Zhong put away his smile, looked up into the distance, and suddenly stretched out his hand in the air, pointing in a circle.

Jin Zhong is the most loyal person to Zhu Di.

Because Zhu Di is Jin Zhong's bole, he gave Jin Zhong an opportunity that ordinary people can't reach, and Jin Zhong did not disappoint Zhu Di, and did a lot of things for the palace.

He is different from Ge Cheng.

Ge Cheng was not only born in Jinyiwei, but also had a court status.

Jin Zhong said solemnly: "It's not that the young prince is extremely talented, but that he has never heard of it. The sky in Beiping has changed a long time ago."

"The trend of cutting the feudal clan in the capital is becoming more and more arrogant, and the prince's prestige is now the top among the feudal clans. The contradiction between the two cannot be reconciled."

"However, the young prince was born in the palace. The better he does, the greater the pressure on the court, and it has long been impossible to reconcile."

"The little prince was born in another family, not even an ordinary family. This is a non-choice choice."

The talk of cutting the vassals has not stopped since the day Zhu Yuanzhang divided the kings.

Because China's history is too long and the records are too detailed.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stop it.

It's not that the auxiliary ministers he deliberately retained for Zhu Yunqi are people who are determined to cut down the vassal, but that most officials think that the vassal should be cut down.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice, because he felt that the officials in the line were all officials who wanted to cut down the vassal.

Even the vassal kings knew that the imperial court would cut down the vassals.

It's just that I don't know how to do the specifics of the policy of cutting the feudal clan.

As the saying goes, the chaos of the seven kingdoms, the chaos of the eight kings.

However, in the early Ming Dynasty, there were 24 states in the vassal state, counting the vassal states that had not become the vassal state, as many as [-] states, and the difficulty of cutting the vassal state was no less than before.

When the showdown.

People have to make choices.

Just like when King Yan decided to rebel, some people firmly opposed it, such as Yu Fengchen, while others firmly supported it, such as Jin Zhong.

Before the showdown, Jin Zhong had already made a choice.

Ge Cheng was caught off guard by Jin Zhong's sudden "showdown", not knowing how to deal with it, the two fell silent.

Jin Zhong observed Ge Cheng.

Zuo Changshi's position is too important. Although he knew that Ge Cheng had already taken refuge in the prince, Jin Zhong wanted to see how far he could go.

"Does the little prince know?"

"My lord knows everything."

"Doing so will be detrimental to one's reputation, and even if the matter is successful, it will leave an indelible stain and be accused by future generations."

Jin Zhong didn't answer Ge Cheng, but Jin Zhong's attitude had already shown his intentions.

In Peking in July, the weather is hot.

It seems that people's hearts are also affected by the weather, and they become hotter and hotter.

Under the scorching sun.

Jin Zhong arrived in Zhuozhou by railway.

Zhendingwei is the gateway to Beiping City.

Zhendingwei is also an important military force in Beiping.

Originally belonged to outside the Peiping Department, it was an independent existence in Peiping. When the Prince was alive, Zhendingwei had already joined the Prince's Department.

It's actually quite understandable.

Even Zhu Di's left guard is like this, let alone the Zhending guard outside.

This act of eroding power lasted until Zhu Di led the army to the victory for the first time, and then began to restore power after the sudden death of the prince.

The political situation is never static.

Just like the development of affairs, it will not remain static.

just now.

Jin Zhong is a knife in Zhu Gaochi's hand. This knife is going to fall on Zhen Dingwei, and Jin Zhong comes with a letter of appointment.

Zhang Wu, who used to guard hundreds of households on the right side of Yanshan, now has a thousand households of Zhendingwei, and has been promoted to Zhendingweiqianshi.

Zhang Wu was transferred to Zhendingwei the year before last. After two years of polishing, he has already recruited many Zhendingwei generals.

That's why today's promotion came about.

Not only Zhang Wu, many generals trusted by the palace have been promoted one after another over the years.

This approach is based on the group of generals Zhu Di mastered after he set off on the expedition.

It is also where Zhu Di has the confidence to rebel in the future.

It is precisely because of the expedition that Hongwu started in 23 years that Zhu Di was provided with a large number of trustworthy generals from the flames of war.

After eight years, these officers have gradually grown to be able to stand on their own.

Meng Shan, the former guard of Qianhu in Yanshan Mountain, is now the commander of Jizhou Guard
Huozhen, the former guard of Qianhu in Yanshan Mountain, is now the commander of Tongzhou Guard.

Wang Cong, who used to guard hundreds of households in Yanshan Mountain, is now in command of the right guard of Yongqing.

……

Zhu Gaochi used the authority of the palace, took advantage of Zhu Di's prestige, and the influence of China Heavy Industry, and made a lot of internal transfers to the Beiping army, which attracted the attention of the outside world.

At this time, a censor arrived in Peiping from the south.

"I came to Peiping only for one thing, to investigate whether it was an accident or a murder."

This censor is very high-profile.

His name is Ye Xixian.

The former prince's line is now the backbone of the emperor's grandson line.

Although he was only a censor, even the Chief Secretary and Chief Political Envoy Yan Dun felt the pressure on his face.

This summer is destined to be unusual.

(End of this chapter)