On the first day of March, the Di newspaper, which published the confrontation between Zhang Jun and Zhao Guan's family, was already on its way to all parts of the country. At the same time, the imperial court imitated Jing Kangzhong's famous court meeting and counted heads in this way.
Zhang Jun’s package plan was approved directly and beyond doubt.
At that time, Emperor Taishang Yuansheng used this method to suppress the main war faction, and once the overall situation of the court was changed to the main peace - that time, there were more than a hundred people participating, and 70% of them agreed to cede Taiyuan, Zhongshan,
Thirty percent of the people in the three towns in Hejian firmly opposed it.
But in the face of that bright numerical comparison, the peace faction finally got rid of the suppression of justice and status, and in turn overwhelmed the war faction. Emperor Taishang Yuansheng was able to withdraw from the incident, get rid of political responsibilities, and directly carry out the war.
Negotiate peace.
However, unlike the original intention of Emperor Taishang Yuansheng to get rid of political responsibility, the Zhao family and radicals today adopt this method to implement Zhang Deyuan's package plan, which is obviously a political suppression and demonstration... that is, to use the unquestionable political voting results.
This deprived the Slow Progress faction of any room for opposition.
Of course, even this does not mean that things will be smooth sailing, nor does it mean that opponents will shut up.
It can only be said that after this vote, the opponents within the court may temporarily shut up, but the public opinion in the opposition will not have any scruples. And if this political plan eventually creates problems, then not only the opponents within the court will speak again,
The scale of opposition will also be larger.
As for whether political plans will cause problems... you must know that political plans are just political plans after all. Even if a political plan looks good and sounds good, it is still likely to become bad in actual operation, or even
It will harm the country and the people... Moreover, the series of political plans proposed by Zhang Jun were full of controversy and some idealized narratives from the beginning.
In actual operation, God knows what kind of trouble it will cause.
It's mid-March, the spring season, and the weather is getting warmer.
It was just early in the morning. After the Zhao Guan family finished shooting arrows at the martial arts school as usual, they were sweating slightly, but they did not rush to the Shiting. Instead, they turned to Xinggang next to the city wall near the martial arts school to rest for a while.
As soon as he boarded Xinggang and sat down in the thatched pavilion on the hill, Liu Yan led a team of imperial guards to pile dozens of secret boxes beside Zhao Guan's house, and then someone else immediately arranged them in the pavilion.
The pen and ink.
Seeing this, Zhao Jiu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I originally wanted to hide from these zazi, but I can't hide here even if I don't want to."
Of course Liu Yan was embarrassed when he heard this, but he could only carefully ask: "I am scared, do you want to return the secret letters to Shiting?"
"No need." Zhao Jiu shook his head in reply. While going to get the pen, he extended his hand to Liu Yan to signal. "This is the rule I set... It's better to abide by it."
Seeing the official's signal, the others, including Yang Yizhong and Fan Zongyin, retreated a few steps. Only Liu Yan immediately opened the secret code box with his own hands and handed the secret code to Zhao Guan's family for viewing.
The Zhao Guan family responded to those secret letters on the spot and gave instructions.
By the way, Zhao Jiuping was always very particular when giving instructions on the secret letters. In addition to replying to the specific matters mentioned in the secret letters, he would also usually greet the controllers and sometimes correct typos and so on.
But this time, Zhao Guanjia was obviously a little impatient. He read one article, replied a few sentences casually, read another article, replied a few more sentences, and quickly replied to the dozen secret letters.
.
Obviously full of perfunctory.
After replying, Liu Yan put away the secret letter and left immediately, intending to send it back quickly according to the rules. However, Zhao Jiu watched the other party go down to Xinggang, but shook his head again and smiled bitterly: "The secret letter is full of recommenders.
It’s an expression of merit. Let’s see, tomorrow and the day after, they will send the memorial to the Privy Council with the same words...Have you ever counted how many letters there are about military expansion?”
Everyone naturally knew that the officials were complaining, and most of them smiled bitterly when they heard the words... After all, the Zhao officials were annoyed by these memorials and memorials, so what about them as the people who helped deal with the memorials?
However, at this moment, Ren Baozhong, the minister of the pavilion who was wearing a cotton turban, did not hesitate at all. He took half a step forward and held his hands in front of the thatched pavilion:
"In order to let the officials know, civil servants, military officers, and central places have been sending memorandums about military expansion in the past ten days. Of course, the secret ministers don't know about it. However, the serious memorials forwarded by the Privy Council and the Ministry of Internal Affairs mentioned the military expansion policy.
Counting from the first morning of this month to last night, there were a total of 227 letters..."
On Xinggang, everyone was stunned and silent for a moment. They didn't know whether they were frightened by this number or by the ambition of the old man Dangxiang.
Naturally, Zhao Guanjia also knew that Ren Baozhong was an old tree blooming, but after so many years as an official, how could he not know? Regardless of other people's motives, as long as it really worked, it would be better than Fan Zongyin spending his time looking in the mirror, right?
?Just when I was shooting an arrow, the guy secretly took a photo.
At this thought, Zhao Guanjia naturally wanted to show his face to Ren Baozhong: "Ren Qing is interested, so what are the origins of these two hundred and twenty-seven memorials? Maybe they can be divided into different categories?"
"When I report back to the officials, everything is mentioned in the memorial." Ren Baozhong still blurted out. "Often a memorial involves many aspects, and my Chinese language is not as good as that of many scholars. I can only roughly understand the meaning.
I can’t even figure out the twists and turns in some people’s words, so it’s really difficult to classify them specifically to share the worries of the officials…”
Fan Zongyin, Lu Benzhong and others on the side immediately showed their faces when they heard this, which was in sharp contrast with Yang Yizhong who had always been expressionless beside them. Zhao Jiu was also speechless for a moment... I can only say that these two Hanlin bachelors are really serious.
It's a time of wealth.
But at this time, Naren Baozhong continued without changing his expression: "So, it is only a matter of asking the officials to atone for their sins. I can only make a rough summary, which is difficult to make accurately."
"Come on." Zhao Jiu, who had long expected such a turning point, turned around and spoke seriously, but he admired this old man Dangxiang even more.
No matter what, this person still has talent, so what if we give him some opportunities?
Sure enough, Ren Baozhong did not hesitate to seize the opportunity and sum up his summary one by one... Not surprisingly, it was similar to what Zhao Jiu had summarized in the past few days.
In other words, since the imperial court forcibly and formally implemented Zhang Jun's package of preparations for the Northern Expedition in early March, as the news reached the local areas, of course, related matters began to be carried out immediately. However, the central government immediately received various reports.
All kinds of feedback.
However, among these five things, An Hou and Zheng Ming were too sensitive, especially the firm attitude of Zhao Guan's family and the ruling officials, which had been clearly demonstrated through Di Bao and the first day of March, so few people were willing to get into trouble.
Discussing these two things... After all, not everyone has a good brother like Li Jing, and can be appointed as a magistrate in a promising place like Xingqing Mansion.
Don’t you see, even the censor Zhongcheng Li Guang and Li Xiantai didn’t say a word this time?
Of course, this is also related to the specific implementation of these two things, which itself does not involve much, and the matter is relatively simple - the imperial court directly sent envoys to Shaolin Temple and Dongxiao Palace on the second day of March, and also sent Quan Bangyan and Guo Zhong
Xun Yi issued the appointment.
At the same time, the matter of building wealth is a real hard nut, and it is the key to the success or failure of the preparations for the Northern Expedition. Therefore, many people have been waiting and hesitating on this matter for a while... No one dares to take it easy.
Invite yourself to participate, and no one dares to criticize easily. They just wait and see.
To put it bluntly, many potential opponents who are silent are probably waiting for problems to arise in the implementation of this matter before they speak out.
As for the alliance, it takes time to wait for reactions from all parties, and it is not easy to interrupt at the moment.
Of course, messengers have been sent out on a large scale,
So relatively speaking, for now, everyone's focus is on the small-scale military expansion. This is a relatively simple matter that has mature conditions and involves a lot of interests.
As a result, within ten days, letters and memorials came one after another, and their contents were diverse.
According to Ren Baozhong’s summary, the current opinions from various parties are as follows:
For example, the military commanders in the imperial camp often wrote to them about how critical the place where they were stationed was, how powerful the enemy in front of them was, and how stretched their troops were. At the same time, it happened that their own soldiers and horses were so capable of fighting in the past, and how they used less to defeat more.
, What outstanding achievements... In a word, this is to obtain more troops for the headquarters to expand.
In stark contrast, local officials from all over the front line flocked to submit memorials, but most of them described the hardships of raising local troops in their memorials, saying how the local people were squeezed out by the garrison, how their finances were impoverished, and how local security was troubled by the garrison.
, it is obvious that they do not want to allow the new troops and horses to be stationed here after the expansion of the army, or the proportion of troops and horses stationed here has increased again.
What’s interesting about this is that when military generals compete for positions in various departments, they always do not forget to create obstacles for their opponents. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, they imply and express how incompetent the other armies are. But the civil servants are almost in the same position, and
Extraordinary unity, from the East and West Road in Beijing where the Yuejia Army was stationed, to the newly recovered northern Shaanxi, there was no place where the civil servants welcomed more garrison troops.
Those who are qualified to write memorials will all write memorials, and those who are not qualified will directly write official documents to put pressure on the province and the Privy Council.
Even Wan Qixi wrote a letter, saying that the existence of Yue Fei's department had a huge impact on the economic revival of Western Beijing!
At the same time, there are also some debates here in the center, but the focus is a bit higher... Some people suggested adding more posts to the Imperial Navy to ensure the stability of the Yellow River defense line, while others suggested massively expanding the Imperial Navy to harass the Jin Kingdom as soon as possible.
On the rear, of course, more people suggested expanding the imperial camp army, which is the force directly under Tokyo.
As the number of soldiers increased, officers were naturally needed, and there were many recommendations for recommenders.
At this time, it’s time to focus on the key points.
"I'm taking the liberty of you." At the end of the sentence, Ren Baozhong said seriously with his hands raised in the complicated eyes of several nearby ministers. "These are actually small details. Do the officials still want to prevent them from garrisoning troops there because of objections from any state or county?
Or which commander is more bragging and adds a thousand soldiers to them? The minister briefly summarized that what is before the officials is actually the following things... Should the army be expanded on land or on water? Should it be expanded by cavalry or infantry?
?Should we put heavy troops in Kansai or Jingdong? When hiring core generals, should we use veterans who have been eliminated before, or should we promote them from below? When recruiting middle- and lower-level officers, should we use veterans or new people?"
Zhao Jiu nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Renqing is interested... But I have been a little confused by these things these days... How do you explain these specifically?"
Ren Baozhong was overjoyed, and hurriedly took another half step forward, cupping his hands: "The officials... First, should we expand the army on land or on water? Expanding on land will facilitate the decisive battle after the Northern Expedition crosses the river; expanding on water will facilitate the coordination of advance and retreat.
.”
After saying that, Ren Baozhong immediately looked at Zhao Guan's house with some expectancy.
Zhao Jiu thought for a while and came up with the answer... The Northern Expedition was a desperate effort, and the decisive battle was what decided everything. If you had to make a choice, of course it was to expand the army.
However, although the official immediately had the answer in his mind, there was no expression on his face and no reply.
"Second, whether to expand the cavalry or to expand the foot, the rider is to attack, the foot is to defend." Ren Baozhong saw that Zhao Guanjia was silent and quickly continued to explain.
"Ride!" Zhao Jiu replied immediately in his heart, but remained silent on his face.
"Third, Jingdong is still in Guanxi. If the heavy troops are in Kanxi, they will be taken from Hedong, and if they are in Guandong, they will be taken from Hebei." Ren Baozhong continued to speak hastily.
"Kansai!" Zhao Guanjia still only answered in his heart.
"Fourth, should we use veterans or promote from below..." Ren Baozhong was already a little cautious at this time. "And for the vacancies after promotion, should we use lower-level imperial camp officers or martial arts students to fill the vacancies?"
"Of course they are promoted from below." Zhao Jiu finally smiled at Ren Baozhong, and then spoke. "We will select those with military exploits from the imperial camp to be promoted, and for the vacancies at the grassroots level after promotion, those with martial arts and imperial skills will be promoted."
Those who are straight from the class will be given priority to fill in."
Ren Baozhong got an answer and relaxed for a moment. The Ban Zhi and martial arts students around him were also very happy, but they didn't dare to show it.
Only Fan Zongyin and Lu Benzhong couldn't get a word in, and they were a little embarrassed for a while.
Fortunately, after Zhao Guanjia said this, he immediately stood up and left the thatched pavilion, and then walked down the Xinggang Hill, as if he was going back to the Shiting of the harem to work. All the ministers and Ban Zhi did not care about anything, and immediately swarmed around
Follow.
However, when the team arrived at Linhua Gate and was about to enter the harem, Zhao Guanjia, who was the first to walk through the gate, suddenly stopped, then turned around and ordered: "Yang Yizhong, come with me, the others will wait for sixty breaths before entering."
The emperor had spoken. Although everyone with different thoughts was caught off guard, they could only stop outside the door and watch Yang Yizhong, who had not said a word today, walk dozens of steps forward with Zhao Guan's house, and then fish at the nearest place.
Stopped in the open space in front of the pond.
"Land or water?" Zhao Jiu asked with his hands behind his hands.
Yang Yizhong looked back at the people with complicated expressions outside the door. He felt helpless and could only bow his head and said: "I am not a general..."
"Of course I will ask Generals Han Yue, Li and Zhang again, and now I'm asking you."
"I thought it was Lu."
"Ride or walk?"
"ride!"
“Kansai or Jingdong?”
"Kansai!"
Now that Zhao Jiu got the same answer as he thought, he didn't nod or shake his head. He didn't even care about when the person behind him would count sixty breaths before coming in. Instead, he directly went to Shiting to handle official business with his hands behind his hands.
Already.
PS: Thanks to the new alliance leader Jia Haoren and classmate Jia, the 152nd cutest character in this book!
Continue to dedicate the new book "The Immortal of the Aztecs".