.Chapter 796: The Secretary of the Republic of China is attacked (Part 2)

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On the one hand, he was silent and actively talked with the Ministry of War to eliminate the adverse effects of the attack on the Secretary of the Republic of China; on the other hand, he ordered the Ministry of War to immediately transfer Qi Jiguang, the general of Jizhen, to return to Beijing to lead the Shenji Camp, and requested the emperor to regain Dongning Hou Jiao Ying to lead the Beijing Camp.

Wang Chonggu and Huo Ji muttered about these two orders. These two were silent confidants. They finally drove them out of the Beijing camp. How could they come back easily? Although Chen Mo is now a Grand Secretary in charge of military affairs, he mainly relies on his own influence if he wants to interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of War. If the Ministry of War is determined not to buy it, he can only propose it at the cabinet meeting, and after passing it, he will issue the Ministry of War in the form of an imperial edict... If he fails to pass the cabinet meeting, he will have no choice but to do anything.

Moreover, the two ministers judged that with the current situation of the cabinet, the possibility of not being able to pass was even greater than the possibility of passing, so they did not immediately implement his order, but instead went to Yang Bo's mansion that night, Wang Chonggu went to Yang Bo's mansion to ask if it was possible.

After listening to Wang Chonggu's report, Yang Bo fell into silence and said slowly after a long time: "I heard that at the cabinet meeting, Mr. Xu proposed that the Ministry of War should be rectified?"

"Ah..." Wang Chonggu was a little surprised and immediately said, "It seems like there is such a saying."

"At this critical moment, if the Ministry of War and the Grand Secretary in charge of military affairs were against each other," Yang Bo said a little, "What would happen?"

"I'm afraid I'm giving them more reasons and excuses." Wang Chonggu said, shook his head slightly and said, "Didn't it mean that Xu Jie and Shen Mo are not in harmony?"

"They are also masters and apprentices, so they are closer to us because of this." Yang Bo looked at him, and his tone returned to normal, "What's more, in this 'Overturning Pavilion Tide', the silence of their relationship greatly eased..."

"Didn't you see what he is doing?" Wang Chonggu frowned.

"It's right." Yang Bo said: "Everyone in the court and the country know that Silence is kind to Gao Gong, but during the three months of backward Gong, he never said a word for Gao Gong, nor did he stumbling on Xu Jie..." He raised his hand and said: "I know you want to talk about Xu Zhi, but in Xu Jie's eyes, I have a greater suspicion."

Wang Chonggu was held back and had to continue listening to him: "At the critical moment, he could draw a clear line with Gao Gong, which would undoubtedly make Xu Jie breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the student is a student, breaking the bones and connecting the tendons... Now that Gao Gong, who was half-hearted, has left, and he has given the lessons he should give, Xu Jie still needs to use his."

"Haha," Wang Chonggu said with a smile: "Your speculation is too kind."

"It's not that I'm kind-hearted." Yang Bo sighed and said, "It's that I know too much about the cumshots. Don't look at this kid who is down all day long, in fact, he is a brave outlaw in his bones." When he said this, he thought that last autumn, the guy gained his trust and pulled out his troops to fight Altan... That battle would be won. If he loses, he would be in a statesman at least, at least he would be defeated in his career, and at worst he would be pulled out of the Meridian Gate to behead him. This is not what a politician with the word "stable" should do?

Afterwards, Yang Bo repeated his thoughts and was shocked by the madness hidden in his bones, so he compromised in his entry into the cabinet, just to avoid completely getting along with this madman. In the tide of the Pavilion this spring, this guy started to disappear, which out of Yang Bo's expectations... In fact, what Yang Bo really wanted to plot against was Xu Jie, who believed that silence would help Gao Gong, sooner or later. As long as these two people joined forces and combined with their own strength, they might be Xu Jie's opponent.

However, he waited until Gao Gong was defeated and did not wait until silently took action. He realized that he had missed his plan. At this moment, he was completely disappointed, and if he wanted to protect Gao Gong, he would only be buried with him. Therefore, Yang Bo could only die with fellow Taoists and not die. In order to protect himself, he publicly expressed his opinion on protecting Xu Jie, which not only lost face, but also offended his allies...

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It was not until this time that Yang Bo understood why Chen Si kept holding his hands. This kid chose the strategy that was the most profitable and the least risky to him... After all, Chen Si's relationship with Xu and Gao was extraordinary. If he showed obvious tendencies in his words and deeds, he would definitely be hated by the other party. So in public, Chen Si just kept silent and did not say a word, let alone stand up to defend anyone. Of course, he would also do some superficial articles, such as saying irrelevant words of persuasion in front of Xu Jie and Gao Gong, giving people the impression that he was embarrassed and tried his best to mediate the conflict between Xu Jie and Gao Gong.

As for what Chen Si said and did in secret, Yang Bo didn't know, but probably he had done a lot of things like slapping his chest on the left and showing loyalty on the right. If he didn't **, it wouldn't be a clumsy word - sitting in the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and not offending both of them, this is the countermeasure of silence.

These nine words are simple to say, but they are even more difficult to do. After all, this is not a child playing house, but a deal with the top politicians today. Once they are exposed, they will lose everything. However, the silence of this lunatic still did this

What's even more incredible is that he actually did it. Not only was he not pulled into the whirlpool of the Pavilion Tide, but he also found a good opportunity to master the Ministry of War in the chaos. So he took a decisive action to use Yang Bo's understanding of him. He will definitely attack Mianmeng and will never give up until he achieves his goal.

"Tick your head." Yang Bo smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Rational people are not scary, and mad people are not scary, but rational mad people are too scary... because his actions will always be beyond your expectations, but they are often very effective, making people unable to defend themselves."

"What should I do?" Hearing that Yang Bo is so afraid of Chen Si, Wang Chonggu said in a depressed manner: "Do you act according to your order? Then hand over the entire War to him?"

"What's that right?" Yang Bo thought for a long time and whispered: "He has to pass the moment before talking about it. It's not that easy to handle Wang Ruguan's affairs thoroughly and to calm the chaos in the Beijing camp." He said, looking at Wang Chonggu and said: "We should not directly conflict with him. Let's know several dukes, so that their people must withstand. The longer the time is delayed, the more unfavorable it is for him, but the more beneficial it is for us."

"Come." Wang Chonggu nodded and said, "I will have someone go to pass the message tonight."

"Also." Yang Bo looked at Wang Chonggu and said, "Let those people in the tribe be restrained recently and don't give them any measures. You can't give him any face. Take this opportunity to get rid of a few bad horses. You don't have to be a villain yourself, so why not do it?"

"Yes." Wang Chonggu nodded again, then continued to wait for Yang Bo's orders, but saw that he had already picked up the teacup to moisten his throat, and he was obviously finished. He couldn't help but feel disappointed and said, "That's all? Why don't we take the initiative to attack and give him some color?" This is his real purpose in finding Yang Bo.

"What do you want to do, just do what..." Yang Bo shook his head, looked at the gray sky outside the window, and said quietly: "Stop running to me recently..."

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Soon, Wang Chonggu understood why Yang Bo was so depressed. Just one day later, the famous Zhan Yangpi wrote a letter to impeach Yang Bo, saying, "Since the accomplice has been punished, why is the culprit still lingering in the court with shame?" He also said, "Yang Bo is very sinister. Now he cheated Gao Gong a fool. He sold him and helped count the money."

As one of the "Four Great Wars", Wang Zhan Yangpi's appeal was worse than Ouyang Yijing. Some censors immediately started to urge and impeach Yang Bo, not only limited to the Beijing investigation incident, but also the winter service incident that broke out last year, and earlier secretly making peace with the Mongols... To count it, Old Yang Bo has more flaws in recent years than in the past few decades. In fact, he knows his own suffering. This is because with the growth of a new generation of forces like Wang Chonggu and Huo Ji, they are more courageous and less scruples in doing things. When encountering storms, they always want to participate, and unlike the older generation like him and Ge Shouli, they always choose to avoid right and wrong.

The younger generation snatched the shift and seized power. Yang Bo felt that his speech among the village party was no longer as good as before. He knew that at this time, the most important thing was to let Xu Jie get angry first before talking. So he simply left the spot, wrote the defense commentary, and went home to close the door to thank the guests, waiting for the disposal.

Immediately afterwards, an investigation report by Lin Run, the left deputy chief censor, suddenly made the Ministry of War, at the forefront of the storm, feel the pain of Mount Tai's pressure... After the military uniform incident last year, Lin Run secretly ordered the entire military supply system to investigate. It took him half a year, but he didn't know what methods he used. Without knowing it, he investigated the entire military supply system and finally wrote an 80,000-word investigation report to report.

Seeing that report, the cabinet was shocked. Although they had expected that the situation would be bad, they did not expect that it would be ten times worse than expected...

The military supply and political affairs of this dynasty were combined into one yuan, which was quite loose and chaotic, and needed the cooperation of the three ministries of the army, households and industry to complete. The logistics responsibilities involved in the three ministries were: the Qing official department of the Ministry of War was in charge of the custody and distribution of weapons, the Qing official department of the chariot was in charge of the pastoral and distribution of military horses; the Ministry of Revenue was in charge of military expenses and distribution of food and wages; the Ministry of Works was in charge of military supplies manufacturing, and all armor, weapons, gunpowder, chariots, warships, etc. were all responsible.

The annual military budget is proposed by the Ministry of War, and then consulted with the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue, and finally decided on the plan, which was proposed at the annual financial meeting of the cabinet. After approval, the appropriation will be allocated and produced, and then it will be accepted by the Ministry of War and distributed to each army. In the entire process, the Ministry of War is responsible for putting forward standards and final inspections, so it occupies a dominant position.

However, if this centralized distribution can be effectively implemented, it can also meet the military needs of this huge empire. However, the worse situation is that each department does not have the ability to directly control production, and production and execution depends entirely on subordinate institutions that do not belong to each other... Taking the production of armor as an example, a military armor factory under the Ministry of Works was set up in Yanjiao, which is a legal arsenal that provides 50,000 sets of armor for the Beijing camp officers and soldiers. However, in fact, this military armor factory can only manufacture 50,000 sets of armor every year, and the remaining 90% of the orders are subcontracted to nearly a hundred small workshops scattered in Beijing, Tianjin, Baoding, and even Shandong, and jointly produced and put together. The respective managers of each factory. Although there is a centralized coordination between the Ministry of Works, similar to the General Management Office, the Ministry of Works, is not able to coordinate the power of manpower and materials, and naturally there is no effective technical division of labor.

Needless to say, the low energy and chaos in the organization will inevitably lead to equipment backwardness and are even more of a breeding ground. The Ming Dynasty's craftsmanship level is actually very high, and there is no shortage of skilled craftsmen in this area. This can be seen from the excellent equipment of the four guards of the imperial guards and officers. However, the remaining troops can only be equipped with cotton slurries lined with small iron sheets, or a small amount of metal armor made of paper tendons, which are also of poor quality and chaotic specifications, and cannot be said to be excellent at all, and are very ugly.

The same is true for the rest of the weapons and equipment. However, the court's purchase funds were allocated a lot, and they were priced according to standard equipment. Millions of silver were spent every year to exchange for this pile of counterfeit and shoddy products. If the army equipment has combat effectiveness, it would be called seeing a ghost.

Although the cabinet was angry, the water in the pool was too deep. All aspects involved include princes and nobles, royal relatives, officials from various departments, and even the Grand Secretary themselves, which have received filial piety in this regard. How can they be determined to investigate and deal with it thoroughly?

Of course, now the synonym of 'cabinet' can be replaced by 'Xu Jie' Gao Gong left. The cabinet has completely become Xu Ge Lao's one-man show, and the other major officials have become A, B, B, and D who are ordered to act. In the court and the country, he responded with all his power, and his power even surpassed the emperor. He can be said to be at its peak, and I am the only one who is the only one who is the emperor.

From the heart, Xu Jie hoped to rectify the military and cheer up the border defense of the Ming Dynasty. Like Yan Song eliminated the Japanese ills on the southeast coast, he also solved the northern Tartars. However, compared with the thugs of pirates in the south, the northern Tartars were well-equipped and superbly cavalrying and shooting. Every action was a big army. And because their fronts stretched from Liaodong to northwest for thousands of miles, the entire northern border was their battlefield, which determined that one or two elite troops could establish a victory like the south, and would not repeat it in the north.

It is necessary to improve the overall combat quality of the Ming Dynasty and carry out all-round military reforms to completely eliminate border troubles and restore the country's borders to peace. However, Xu Jie advocated "less trouble". His political propositions focused on correcting the shortcomings of the previous dynasty, hoping to exchange for the recovery of national strength at the lowest cost. The reason why he wanted to expel Gao Gong was not entirely to occupy power, but also out of rejection of dissidents... He could not tolerate a madman who thought about "revolutionizing the old and creating the new" and "reforming the reform" all day long, and mastered the country's regime. As an old-fashioned politician, he firmly believed that existence is reasonable, and the maintenance of the country was to reconcile conflicts in all aspects. Any change would bring new problems and even endanger the operation of the country.

So although he saw the disadvantages, he still did not want earth-shaking changes. He was more inclined to adjust gently. Even if he had to save himself, he had to be in a controllable state. With this conservative attitude, he was already a little disappointed with Zhang Juzheng. Instead, he saw that Shen Zhuoyan became more and more like him as he grew older. Especially this time, Shen Mo's actions made Xu Jie very satisfied. Although it was impossible to change his course and abandon Zhang Baoshen, he had stopped boycotting Shen Mo and even deliberately improved Shen Mo's situation to alert Zhang Taiyue, who had become increasingly disobedient recently.

So at the cabinet meeting, Xu Jie expressed his authorization to be a plenipotentiary envoy to rectify the military administration in the capital. The only restriction was that the rectification must be controlled in the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works, and that those noble families could not be involved... Although these dukes and marquis had no power, their noble status and transcendent status still had considerable influence on the military and the emperor.

Although Xu Jie was not afraid of them, he did not want to get into evil with them, so he specifically told him to restrain himself in silence.

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The advantage of a one-man charity is high efficiency. In the afternoon of the same day, the imperial edict was issued, and Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Xixiao was appointed as the governor of the Rongzheng Minister of the Capital, and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge was silent as the assistant minister of the Rongzheng Minister of the Rongzheng Minister of the Capital. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that although Duke Cheng Guo serves as the main position, he is only a nominee to show his respect for the noble family.

In fact, the real person in charge was the Cabinet Grand Secretary who was silent. It seemed that this time he was going to attack Rong Zheng from the capital.

After seeing the imperial edict, Wang Chonggu and Huo Ji could no longer sit still. Thinking of their previous perfunctory attitude towards Chen Si, they suddenly felt something was wrong and rushed to ask Yang Bo for instructions. However, the Yang family closed the door to thank the guests, and they disappeared. They only sent a housekeeper and passed a note to the two of them, saying: "The man Chen Si can only show his softness, not strongness, you should do it yourself."

"What does this mean?" Looking at the piece, Huo Ji asked Wang Chong's ancient road.

"Let's pretend to be grandson" Wang Chonggu's face looked very bad. He was still a silent senior back then. Unexpectedly, he became a cabinet master and a minister. So although he knew that he could not do anything randomly, he felt a hundred uncomfortable when he thought about being shouted by him.

"Speaking of it..." Huo Ji suddenly remembered something and said, "Have you ordered those two orders to be executed?"

"No..." Wang Chonggu shook his head and said, "It's been put there, I want to wait."

"What are you waiting for?" Huo Ji was anxious: "I turned around and asked, if it has not been implemented yet, how can we explain it?"

"What a serious face..." Wang Chonggu felt sad, but the situation was stronger than others, so he sighed and said, "It's too late today, I'll do it tomorrow."

"It's too late tomorrow." Huo Ji was not as entangled as he was. He looked at Wang Chonggu incomprehensible and said: "I must send out 100,000 yuan today."

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