After Gao Gong finished speaking, Han Zhixian of the Song Dynasty spoke first: "Students think that since the Gengxu Revolution, the civil and military forces have been fighting for the capital. Zhao Ge Laojin has taken the title of cabinet minister and served as the general constitution. After all, he is one of the leaders of civil servants. With this
It’s not surprising at all.”
Gao Gong turned his head and glanced at Gao Pingshi. Seeing that his face was calm, he guessed that he knew about the Gengxu changes, so he nodded without saying much.
The so-called Gengxu Incident occurred in July of the 29th year of Jiajing. At that time, the Tatar tribe Ada Khan gathered more than 100,000 people and invaded Datong southward. Qiu Luan, the general of Xuan Dynasty, the Marquis of Xianning, panicked and bribed me with a large sum of money.
Da Khan begged An Da Khan to attack elsewhere. In August, An Da Khan moved his troops eastward toward Jizhou and used thousands of cavalry to attack the wall near Gubeikou. Another group of capable cavalry was sent to break through the wall from the inner road.
, after bypassing the Ming army.
The Ming army was attacked from both sides and collapsed. Anda Khan immediately led the army straight to Tongzhou, divided his troops to plunder Changping, and invaded the royal tombs in Tianshou Mountain. The capital heard the alarm and declared martial law. At the critical moment when Anda Khan's troops approached the city, Sejong ordered all towns
The general commanded the troops of Qinwang and appointed Qiu Luan as the "General of Pinglu" to control the troops of Qinwang. Ding Rukui, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, asked Yan Song, the chief assistant, about his plan to retreat from the enemy. Yan Song was afraid of losing the battle and ordered the generals not to act rashly. Qiu Luan
He went to Dongzhimen to wait and see, and allowed the enemy troops to freely burn and loot outside the city for eight days. In September, Anda Khan's soldiers looted a large amount of gold and silver property, livestock and people, and then left the fortress calmly from Baiyangkou. Qiu Luan was ordered to pursue but was defeated.
In the end, more than 80 civilians were killed, and their heads were cut off to pretend to kill the enemy as a reward. Since this year was the year of Gengxu, it was called the "Gengxu Incident".
"History of the Ming Dynasty" records: In the 29th year of the Ming Dynasty, when I was invaded by the invaders, Ding Rukui, the Minister of War, had less than 50,000 or 60,000 troops in his camp. When they were driven out of the city gate, they all shed tears and dared not go forward. The generals also looked at each other and changed their expressions. Rukui was executed.
Shi Yansong asked Zhenshu to deal with the aftermath.
How to "refresh" and "remediate the aftermath"?
Because Ding Rukui, the former minister of the Ministry of War, was pushed out by Yan Song and made a scapegoat and was executed, Wang Bangrui, the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs who was temporarily serving as the Minister of War, made a speech and said: "In the early days of the Kingdom, the number of powerful troops in the capital was no less than 700,000 to 800,000, and Yuan Rong's senior generals often
There is no shortage of people. From the three major battalions to the twelve regiment camps, and then to the two official halls, although the situation is not as good as before, the army is still 380,000. Now the military equipment is accumulated, and the number of soldiers is only 140,000.
There were no more than fifty or sixty thousand soldiers, and they had some provisions, but no dispatches. The enemy's cavalry advanced deeply, and the fighting and defenders were all said to have no troops. When they saw the soldiers, they led old, weak, tired, and peddlers in the market, and temporarily obtained their clothes, armor, and equipment.
.The disadvantage is not to escape, but to occupy the army; not to the soldiers, but to the generals. The admiral, sitting in the camp, the boss, and the commander-in-chief of all the officials. For many generations, they occupy the camp and army in peacetime, and pay their salaries in an empty name.
, before Cao Cao, people in the market were just dancing and laughing. In previous years, the ministers Wang Qiong, Mao Bowen, and Liu Tianhe often wanted to encourage them. However, the generals hated them and harmed themselves, and conspired to obstruct them, and the sergeants were accustomed to arrogance and laziness, and competed with others.
Promoting rumors, the matter was stopped again, causing harm to this day. I begged to revitalize the work and send out the best officials."
This was a direct attack on the military ministers and nobles, which would not happen under normal circumstances, but Emperor Jiajing was shocked and angry by this incident. Hearing this, he felt that it was quite reasonable - of course, this situation had actually happened to him before.
I knew it, but I didn't expect that the situation had become so serious. If things go on like this, sooner or later, Beijing would be turned into an empty camp by this group of dandy wastes! Is that okay? So Lei Lei was furious and ordered the Ministry of War to discuss reforms.
Seeing that the emperor was really angry, the noble military ministers knew that speaking at this time would be a sin, so they simply pretended to be dead and "lay down and let them be laughed at".
So the results of the reform came out quickly: the regiment camp was dismissed, the two government offices were restored, and the old system of three camps was restored. The three thousand camps were reorganized into the Shenshu camp. The admirals, gun guards and other internal ministers were dismissed. A military minister was established, called the governor Jingying Rong.
The government is headed by Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning. There is also a civil servant named Assistant Manager of the military affairs of the capital, which means he is charged with the responsibility of the king. There are also twenty-six deputy counselors and other officials under him.
However, the civil servants would still not be satisfied with this, because the prime minister was still a military minister in the military affairs of the capital, so this reform was not very stable. In the end of the Jiajing Dynasty, the system was repeatedly changed, and finally the name of the Chinese military outpost was just called the war garrison.
Also set up a car camp.
Some readers would like to ask, if Wu Chen's performance is so bad this time, why is Prime Minister Jingying Rongzheng still Wu Chen?
First of all, of course, it was because Qiu Luan's money to buy Ping'an was not exposed, and Jiajing thought that this person was a good and trustworthy person.
Secondly, here we must talk about the old system. Not to mention the distant ones, the ordering of military ministers and one prime minister to run the government began in the Hongxi period. In the fifth year of Xuande, Zhu Yongyan, the Duke of Chengguo, selected the guards of the capital to be attached to the five armies for training. The following year,
Ming Kedao and Jinyi officials checked the number of guards. The expedition to Gaoxu and the defeat of Wuliangha were both won by the Beijing camp. In the second year of Zhengtong, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, ordered Jinyi and other guards to guard the mausoleum.
Half of them were left alive, and they went to Zhiqi School under the supervision of Jinyi, and the rest were all returned to the three camps. The system did not seem to have any major problems at first, but who expected the civil engineering difficulties, and in the early Ming Dynasty, it was used to frighten the world and attack Mongolia.
The elite Beijing army was almost completely wiped out.
At this time, the civil servant group who stayed in the capital realized that an opportunity had come. Regardless of the fact that Yingzong was captured in Oala, they pushed Emperor Jing to ascend the throne. Emperor Jing then used Qian as Minister of the Ministry of War. Yu Qian then appointed the three major battalions as edicts.
Xi asked each camp to select 100,000 victorious soldiers and divide them into ten battalions for training. Each battalion would have one governor and one chief officer, both of whom would command two people. There would be ten commanders in total, one hundred team leaders, and two hundred team leaders.
Then one of the three battalion commanders was selected to serve as the chief military officer and to supervise the internal ministers - and then the key came: one person from the Minister of War or the censor of the capital was appointed as the admiral. The rest of the army returned to the main camp, called home. The structure of the Beijing army changed.
Thus, for the first time, the civilian clique reached into the Beijing camp, the core of military power.
However, what happened next may not have been expected by everyone. Yingzong actually escaped from Wala due to his charisma. Soon after, Emperor Jing died of a serious illness and Yingzong was restored.
As an important figure in promoting Emperor Jing to the throne, Yu Qian was naturally found guilty and killed, including Tuanying.
Later, emperors Xianzong, Wuzong, and Shizong restructured the capital back and forth. The prime minister, the military and political affairs of the capital, was sometimes a military minister, sometimes a civil servant, and even the eunuch Wang Zhi... In short, it was very chaotic.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Another point to add is that originally, the five military offices were all issued by the Kaifu, but they only dealt with the military status and did not communicate with the battalion, and the battalion officers did not give the seal.
.The military government had both a government and a seal, and it started from Qiu Luan.
Although Qiu Luan was a waste, at that time, because other fronts were on the verge of collapse, he bribed An Dahan and was actually considered a famous general in the world, and he was very favored. Of course, he could not remain silent if he was favored, so he suggested that Emperor Jiajing choose all sides
Sixty-eight thousand soldiers were sent to the defense in separate groups to train with the Beijing army. They also ordered the generals of the Beijing camp to train the border troops separately, so the border troops were all subordinate to the capital. But this idea was obviously a bad idea: there were police on the fortress, but the border generals were not.
Recruitment was not allowed, and as a result, not only did the Beijing army fail to train, but the border troops became more and more rubbish, which could only make "border affairs get worse". When Qiu Luan's scandal was exposed and he died, the imperial court dismissed the subordinates who had appointed him as the head of the military affairs department.
, but the Wei army only controlled Gansu.
Because Gao Gong just nodded to Gao Pragmatic, Gao Pragmatic misunderstood the meaning of Gao Gong's look and thought it was a signal for him to speak, so he said: "Prime Minister Rongzheng controls most of the military power in the capital. This position is handed over to the military ministers."
Naturally, it cannot satisfy the civil servants, so there must be a group of civil servants who want to take over this great power. Zhao Ge always did this, and I thought there were two possibilities: One possibility was that the resurrection of the third uncle put too much pressure on him
, so that he had to use this to win the support of more civil servants in an attempt to counter the power of the third uncle; the second possibility is that he can directly benefit from promoting this matter... For example, using his people as the Prime Minister's Beijing Camp
Rong Zheng, taking this position does not mean that he dares to do anything unspeakable, but it will make some people misjudge the situation and think that His Majesty is treating him with great respect, which will make some people treat him and the third uncle.
Remain silent on the matter of dispute.”
Gao pragmatic misunderstood Gao Gong's meaning and expressed his opinion. As a result, Gao Gong misunderstood him and thought that it was the first time he was allowed to participate in such an "internal meeting" and he wanted to express himself. However,
These two items are at least clear and coherent, although Gao Gong knows that the second item is not true - the first minister of the Ministry of War and the four ministers (Wu Feng's note: originally it was the two ministers and the four ministers system that Gao Gong proposed and promoted the reform, and he added
The two ministers mainly patrol the border affairs to understand the situation, so that they are very familiar with the dangerous passes on the border, the urgent situation of the captives, the virtuous generals, and the strength of the soldiers and horses. In this way, there will be someone dedicated to the border affairs, and if there is a shortage of governor-general, they can be dealt with immediately.
((to add)) are not Zhao Zhenji’s people, but of course Gao Pragmatic doesn’t know this, so just judging from his analytical thinking, it’s not bad, so Gao Gong didn’t say anything more.
Not speaking means default.
The nine Gao Gong disciples with great future were all quite surprised: firstly, they were surprised that Gao Gongshi could see the secret at a glance, secondly, they were surprised that Gao Gongshi said it so straightforwardly, and finally, they were surprised that Gao Gongshi was like this.
Total acquiescence.
But everyone still had doubts: Does an eight-year-old really have such vision? Could it be that the teacher had analyzed Gao Pragmatic in advance in order to build up his nephew's reputation?
Of course, this kind of suspicion cannot be stated directly orally, but it should not be a big problem to test it out in a roundabout way, so the officials all spoke to Tu Menggui about the incident: "During the Gengxu Revolution, Zhao Ge Laoli ranked the leader and the
After the discussion, he was demoted by Yan Song. It was not until Jinshang inherited Dabao that he was reinstated as minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and took charge of Zhanshi government affairs. Only then did he return to the central government. In August last year, he entered the cabinet as minister of the Ministry of Rites to assist the government.
. Speaking of which, although he has some reputation in Shilin, his foundation in the court is actually shallow. From this point of view, junior brother’s analysis is quite reasonable, but..."
Tu Menggui paused for a moment, frowned and said: "Although Huo Benbing has been in military affairs for a long time, he is always in the border towns. He only came to the capital in the second year of Longqing to become the Grand Sima. He is well aware that the affairs of the capital camp involve wide and deep interests, so he
He came to advocate caution, and there are rumors that he has always been on good terms with Duke Cheng and the British Duke. According to the students, I am afraid that they may not be happy to see Mr. Zhao Ge intervening in military affairs, especially the military affairs of the Beijing camp."
Benbing is another name for the Minister of War, and Huo Benbing refers to Huo Ji, who is currently the Minister of War. As for Da Sima... people in the Ming Dynasty liked to use ancient names to refer to the current position, and Da Sima is also another name for Shangshu of the Ministry of War.
In fact, it would not be a bad thing for Huo Ji if he could use the Minister of War as the Minister of War to lead the military affairs. However, after the civil war, Yu Qian used the Minister of War to establish the Tenth Regiment Camp, which was so powerful that even the emperor had to give in to Qian from time to time.
This means that even if civil servants intervene in the capital camp in the future, the superiors will rarely let the Minister of the Ministry of War concurrently hold the post. Most of the people who hold this post concurrently are the ministers of the Ministry of War. The system of large and small prime ministers has always been a fine tradition of the Ming Dynasty.
Now that the world is at peace, Huo Ji has no second thoughts, so he doesn't think much about taking control of the capital. Instead, he feels that instead of taking this position and causing the emperor to worry, it is better to maintain the status quo. What's more, in the end, the trouble will most likely
Or should the Vice Minister take up this position concurrently? Then the Minister will still be the same Minister, but the Vice Minister will have greater power. So who has the final say in the Ministry of War?
Any Zhengyintang official would have such worries. Is Huo Ji an exception?
Gao Pragmatic not only understood Tu Menggui's words, but also understood Tu Menggui's subtext: Although Zhao Zhenji might gain the favor of many civil servants by doing this, it was nothing more than that. However, by doing so, he offended the Minister of War and many nobles at the same time.
