Yang Shen wanted to ask his father how to deal with the resourceful and aggressive little emperor.
He wanted to say something for Zhu Hao and Yu Chengxun and transfer them back as soon as possible.
Now that Yang Shen is in the Hanlin Academy, without Yu Chengxun and Zhu Hao helping him to do things, others still seem to be respectful, but it feels more like a perfunctory way. It is a kind of awe for his father, and they are just polite to him.
With respect, Yang Shen felt that Yu Chengxun and Zhu Hao were the ones who could really help him.
When Yang Shen walked out of his father's study, he was still thinking about what Yang Tinghe had just said.
"...Don't bother your second brother. He is preparing hard for the national examination recently. I hope that being named on the gold list next year will once again bring glory to the lintel of my Yang family."
These words hurt Yang Shen.
Yang Shen looked at the night sky, feeling extremely melancholy.
Here, in order to compete with the little emperor, the father often made strange moves. It seemed that the father won, but in fact, the father's control over the court situation, especially the declaration of war, had collapsed. The father was full of trust and expectations for his younger brother Yang Dun, but instead
to him……
First, he flatly rejected the emperor's offer to promote him to be a minister, and then transferred away Yu Chengxun and Zhu Hao, who were trustworthy around him.
He knew that his father suspected that something was wrong with the people around him, and that his son was also implicated.
"I originally wanted to say that maybe Mao Gong and Jing Dao were doing things for others, and I was willing to catch this undercover agent for my father, but now it seems that my father is extremely disappointed in me. He can't find a military adviser beside His Majesty to make suggestions in a short time, so I will take it.
I vented my anger... How has he heard a word of advice from me recently?"
In the past, when Yang Shen suggested something, even if Yang Tinghe didn't accept it, he would still encourage him with a few words.
But now Yang Shen clearly feels that he has fallen out of favor with his father. His father no longer regards him as a trustworthy adviser. At most, he will be asked to handle things for him, and he will directly drive him away when he sees nothing.
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The war situation in the northwest worsened step by step.
The Tatar offensive became more fierce with the arrival of the autumn harvest season.
Although the Ming Dynasty's farming in the northwest was not as large as that of previous generations, the base was there after all, and a large number of food crops were still grown. During the autumn harvest, the Tatars broke through the pass and entered the Ming Dynasty Pass to plunder. The Ming army basically hunkered down in the castle.
The Tatars became farmers instead, put down their weapons and used sickles. The first thing they did every time they entered the customs was to harvest the farmers in the fields, and they did not keep any livestock that could be stolen.
This combat mode... is actually similar to that of bandits.
Not even robbers, more like a group of refugees passing through the border like locusts.
But for this group of Tatars who entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty and ran to the fields to harvest food, the Ming government and army had no way to do anything about them.
After all, the Tatars were on horseback, and their individual combat capabilities were much stronger than those of the Ming Dynasty's official army. In addition, after Chen Jiuchou took office as the governor of Xuanda, the military and political affairs in the area were in chaos, and there was no way for everyone to work together. Chen Jiuchou was familiar with the three sides.
However, the situation in Xuan Da was so poorly understood that the governor-general's government orders could not even get out of Datong Mansion, let alone the Piantou Pass or the defense of Xuan Mansion.
No one wanted to take responsibility, so when they found out that the Tatars could break through the pass and march straight in, almost all the troops chose to huddle up and defend...
Just grab it.
After robbing the troublesome people, leave as soon as possible. We won’t pursue you. At most, we will just go out of the city and pretend to avoid being impeached by the censor. The rest...
Just do your best to obey fate.
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The election held in the inner garden of the palace officially ended.
Among the three candidates for the queen, Zhu Si did not receive any advice from Zhu Hao. He made the decision entirely based on his own heart. As the wheel of history rolled forward, he still chose Chen.
As Chen was elected as the queen, Chen Wanyan, Chen's father, who was just a student, was instantly promoted to the minister of Honglu Temple, but it was only a temporary position rather than an actual position. He was then promoted to the governor of the Central Military Governor's Palace, but had not yet been knighted.
, but according to the Ming Dynasty tradition of conferring the title of empress on the father, Chen Wanyan will at least be an earl in the future.
The queen chooses.
Then the etiquette department was asked to work out the details of the wedding.
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The ministry immediately issued a ceremonial annotation, setting the date for the sacrifice to Heaven and Earth on the second day of the ninth lunar month, and the ancestral temple set the date of the wedding on the eleventh day of the ninth month.
At the same time, Zhu Si proposed a general amnesty for the whole country.
This proposal was opposed by the ministers...
At the court meeting that day, four cabinet ministers came out to oppose Zhu Si's amnesty proposal, and the relationship between the emperor and his ministers suddenly became tense.
After coming out of Fengtian Hall, Mao Cheng, the Minister of Rites, spoke to Yang Tinghe alone and asked about the amnesty.
Mao Cheng's words were very direct: "Are Jie Fu worried that His Majesty's move is deliberately targeting the former emperor's old ministers? He wants to excuse them and let them return to the court as soon as possible."
Yang Tinghe remained silent.
Now everyone can see that what Yang Tinghe did in the military and political affairs of the northwest is very unpopular. In order to fight with the little emperor and completely disrupt the originally peaceful situation in Xuan Da, former Xuan Governor Zang Feng became the right minister of the Ministry of Justice.
After being transferred back to the capital, he was immediately dismissed from his post for questioning. Although Zang Feng has not been jailed, he is still under house arrest.
Chen Jiuchou, who succeeded Zang Feng, obviously did not ease the situation in Xuanda. Xuanfu, Datong, and Piantouguan now reported urgent military reports to the court every day and kept asking for money from the court.
Now the imperial court cannot afford even a tael of silver.
The new emperor is in no hurry.
It's like waiting to see Yang Tinghe's joke.
Don't you, Yang Tinghe, want to take down Zang Feng and replace him with one of yours?
If something goes wrong now, you should bear it, don't ask me to take money from the inner government again... This time I won't provide you with a penny, so I don't want to be taken advantage of.
Mao Cheng said: "If the war situation no longer improves, we can only discuss with His Majesty the deployment of troops, or send others to control the nine sides, or use the three-sided general system to announce the war and coordinate military affairs."
Mao Cheng made another suggestion.
Don't you, Yang Tinghe, think that deploying troops from the three sides may intensify the conflict between the three sides and Xuanda?
Then we might as well not only mobilize troops, but also Li Yue, the governor of the three sides, take over the control of the nine sides as the governor of the three sides. In this way, he can take over the military affairs of the nine sides by himself, and then let Li Yue move the headquarters from Yansui to
Xuanfu, thus skipping Chen Jiuchou...
Yang Tinghe replied coldly: "Can the situation be stabilized by announcing this?"
Transferring soldiers and horses from the three sides to Xuan Da is likely to cause big fluctuations. Now we have to transfer the governors from the three sides? What do you, Mao Cheng, think?
You, the Minister of Rites, are so concerned about the affairs of the Ministry of War? Does this have anything to do with you? …
Since you are so opinionated, why don't you come out to make suggestions in the court? Instead, you come to me to make suggestions alone? Why should I listen to you?
Mao Cheng smiled bitterly.
He originally racked his brains to help Yang Tinghe think of countermeasures, but he didn't expect that he would get such an answer.
Since the dispute over the ceremony, Mao Cheng found it difficult to gain Yang Tinghe's trust. He wanted to use this publicity crisis as an opportunity to change Yang Tinghe's view of him, but he never thought...it seems that the conflict has intensified.
Mao Cheng naturally knew that this was because the new emperor continued to put pressure on Yang Tinghe, which made Yang Tinghe's mentality unbalanced.
It’s not that Yang Tinghe is too stubborn, but now it’s impossible for him to refer to the opinions of everyone around him on everything. At this time, as the civilian commander-in-chief, Yang Tinghe has to engage in a "one-note hall". Only in this way can he curb the evil deeds.
The emperor's ambition to usurp civil power.
Yang Tinghe himself did nothing wrong.
If Yang Tinghe continues to let everyone come out for discussion and finally learn from each other's strengths... maybe the little emperor will defeat all these civil servants in the end, and the civil servant group has not yet discussed a countermeasure.
Yang Tinghe acted arbitrarily as a last resort, which caused people's hearts to wander. For Yang Tinghe, it was like adding insult to injury.
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Zhu Hao is still on his way south.
While rafting down the canal, you won't see much scenery, but you will also be able to experience a lot of local customs and customs.
Zhu Hao himself was very relaxed and comfortable.
He didn't even bother to find out what was going on in the capital... He acted like he was traveling to Nanjing at public expense.
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...Jingdao, I have already said hello to the people on the shore and asked the people on the shore to ride horses to the water station in front to help with the preparation. We will set off later tomorrow morning. We have been traveling in a hurry these days, so have a good rest tonight."
Unlike Zhu Hao, Yu Chengxun could be a monk with a pure heart and few desires.
This time I didn’t bring my family with me. After six or seven consecutive days on the road, Yu Chengxun was a little overwhelmed. Apparently he wanted to take the opportunity to go ashore to "relax" and find a place to have fun. After all, the canal was the main artery for transporting the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, and the business system was extremely developed. When he got to the shore, he wanted to
You can find whatever you are looking for.
Zhu Hao said: "Brother Maogong, shouldn't we travel under the stars and night to arrive in Nanjing as soon as possible? Are you sick and you still want to rest?"
Zhu Hao was very dissatisfied with Yu Chengxun's attitude.
It seems like you came south with me just to spy on me, but you couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to go to the shore to find a place to have a good time and have fun, and it seemed like you didn't intend to take me with you.
I know that you are Yang Tinghe's son-in-law, and you have to hide him even if you want to go to the shore to drink wine, but if you do this, wouldn't you forget your own job?
Yu Chengxun's old face turned red and he forcefully defended: "Actually, I went to the shore to ask about the situation in the south. By the way, we went south without many people. If there is really someone in the south who is corrupt and bends the law, it must be related to the Nanjing garrison yamen or the local generals.
, they may be disadvantageous to us, it would be better to find out more about the truth."
What a perfect reason.
Zhu Hao thought to himself, are you making up your words after careful consideration?
"Then...thank you for your hard work, brother Mao Gong."
Zhu Hao arched his hands.
"Everywhere, I work for the imperial court."
Yu Chengxun had a smile on his face, his eyes were shining, and he looked like he was rippling in the spring breeze.
I probably thought that I would be able to relieve the boredom on the road at night, and I started to look forward to it. I even felt that Zhu Hao was easy to trick, and he had a kind of pleasure in fooling others.
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At night.
A group of people checked into Guanyi.
As expected, Yu Chengxun took the people away and ran to the shore to have fun.
Zhu Hao was in the room, taking out a book and reading it.
Not long after, Yu San sneaked into the room and whispered to Zhu Hao: "Sir, Lu Qianhu sent someone to see him."
"Lu Qianhu? Isn't he in Yongping Mansion? It's not close to here..."
Zhu Hao was very surprised. Lu Song obviously went to the west of Beijing to coordinate the mining affairs, and he was not on the accompanying list. How could he send someone here? There was only one possibility. Lu Song encountered trouble in Yongping Mansion.