Wanli Youming

Chapter 230 Xie manages the relationship between the monarch and his ministers

Chapter 230 Xie manages the relationship between the monarch and his ministers

After Zhang Juzheng asked, Yang Zhao was speechless for a while, not knowing how to refute.

Even the other ministers present couldn't say anything more.

How to deal with Qi Jiguang is indeed a difficult problem for Zhu Yijun and his important ministers.

The reason is that although Qi Jiguang was born as a hereditary guard officer, he himself rose to become the coach of the Ming Dynasty through the recruitment system.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang's old troops are basically his own people trained by him. Unlike Li Chengliang's generals in the guard system, most of Li Chengliang's generals are served by the children of other generals on the nine sides, only his own Jia Ding is led by his own Li family's children.

And in this way, it is inevitable that the imperial court must not let the embankment, and Qi Jiguang's old department only knows to listen to Qi Jiguang, not to the imperial court.

However, the problem is not that serious.

After all, there are not too many soldiers in the south now, and most of Qi Jiguang's old troops have not reached the point where they are also in charge of the army.

But the problem is that if the imperial court wants to continue to use Qi Jiguang's old troops, it has to take precautions before they happen. Otherwise, they can only disband these Qi's troops in place and use them again during the war.

Zhang Juzheng put forward this suggestion at this time. In addition to strengthening the imperial power, it is on the one hand. After all, since the dawn of the global navigation era in the Ming Dynasty, local gentry who have risen by relying on maritime trade have begun to challenge the imperial power. Qi Jiajun doesn't need it.

At this time, Fang Fengshi got up and played when he saw this: "Your Majesty, I agree with Yuanfu's proposal! Since the son-in-law Yibin selected by this dynasty only takes people from the people, they are more idlers, and if they are suddenly expensive, it is easy to damage the court's discipline. Not to mention losing the face of the family, but also causing the princess to be wronged;”

"Therefore, the system of choosing consort Yibin should be restored to Taizu's old system at the beginning of the country, with the emperor's family matching martial arts, such as the example of Princess Ning who married Mei Gong, the nephew of Mei Sizu, the Marquis of Runan;"

"In addition, even if the Marquis of Qi will make great contributions to the country in the future, retiring as a relative of the country will be regarded as an honorary retirement. It’s just to lead the troops, so that the old department can also be used.”

Zhu Yijun said: "Since that's the case, it's settled like this. The decree is for the children of the Qi family to go to Beijing to be selected! In addition, the Privy Council issued a decree to ask Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, etc. how to prepare for the recruitment of Japanese, and when to send troops?"

"Your Majesty!"

At this time, Pan Sheng, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and said: "The chiefs of the Japanese kingdom, Shimadzu, Otomo, and Longzuosi, all sent tribute envoys and sent notes, advising us to give up the idea of ​​conquering the Japanese, saying that they have The guardian of Shenfeng also said, if we insist on marching, they will unite the three families, and at all costs, they will destroy the royal division I entered, and they will blame our dynasty, which will make the southeastern provinces restless!"

The so-called kamikaze by the Japanese is the typhoon encountered when the Japanese conquered Japan in the past. Because this typhoon forced the Yuan Dynasty to give up destroying the sun, the Japanese called this typhoon the kamikaze.

At present, in the Kyushu area adjacent to the Ming Dynasty, there are mainly three daimyos with the strongest strength, namely Shimadzu, Otomo, and Ryuzoji.

These three big names were originally fighting each other to dominate Kyushu, but in the ninth year of Wanli, the three parties entered a short period of truce that appeared in history, and at this time, Daming also began to prepare to conquer the Japanese, and the three of them simply couldn't do it. Temporarily make peace, prepare to unanimously communicate with the outside world, and send a note to Daming.

When Shen Shixing heard that the Japanese threatened to plunder the southeast as revenge, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and he could only say bluntly: "Your Majesty, there are many wealthy households in the southeast that trade with the Japanese country. I am afraid that the Japanese country will know about this dynasty's upcoming conquest of Japanese people." , and it may really happen that the giants will once again collude with the Japanese pirates to harass the southeast. Now the threat of the three chieftains of the Japanese kingdom is not a joke, and the country should also take precautions against it!"

Zhu Yijun sneered after hearing this: "The small country of Cuoer dares to threaten the dynasty? It's as if they didn't come to disturb my southeast peace when the dynasty didn't conquer them!"

"In my opinion, this tranquility cannot be obtained by relying on charity from others. Only by fighting for it can we obtain tranquility."

"The Japanese plague at the time of the Shimiao has been eliminated today, because the soldiers of the country use their lives, the righteous people dare to die, and the bureaucrats dare to do things, not because the Japanese slaves suddenly have a conscience and know that the robbers are indecent."

As he said that, Zhu Yijun said solemnly: "Besides, is it true that I should not go when Kou Ke comes? We are afraid of him coming, and they are really not afraid of us going?"

"I believe that none of us and the people in the southeast want to live in fear of Japanese pirates coming to us every day. Instead of doing this, it is better to beat him once, so that his Japanese slaves become trembling, and we are afraid that we will be accused of crimes!"

"What's more, these Japanese slave chieftains only know how to attack excessively, and they don't know how to be benevolent, so that a large number of Japanese people went bankrupt, and then fled to our Daming to be robbers, which can be said to be harmful to the world! The crime of benevolence, I am afraid that the world will be further and further chaotic by these chieftains!"

"Your Majesty said yes."

Shen Shixing replied.

Zhu Yijun continued: "However, what Shen Qing said is correct. Make preparations in the morning and ask all the governors in the southeast to be cautious, and send more sailors to patrol and monitor the ships coming to my Ming Dynasty."

Then, Zhu Yijun got up and stretched out his sleeves: "Also, tell the envoy that if they commit the crime of invading me in the southeast again, I will not only ask the crime, but directly slaughter their country!"

After hearing this, Pan Sheng bowed his hands and said yes.

While Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers were carrying out the new policy of government and gentry paying food and errands internally, in terms of military affairs, preparations for the conquest of the Wa Kingdom had been in full swing.

For this reason, Zhijiang Shipyard was specially reopened as a new base for building warships and training sailors.

At the same time, politically, Zhu Yijun also specially sent Nanhe Bo Fangye to Nanjing Xiaoling on his behalf, and read and burned the book of the emperor Sun Jigao who wrote in the name of Emperor Zhu Yijun to the emperor Taizu. The ancestor knew it, and he wrote in the book why he wanted to conquer the Japanese country, and listed dozens of major crimes caused by the Japanese plague to the country.

"The so-called New Deal is nothing more than favoring the officials and gentry, especially the benefits I have taken away from me in Nanzhi!"

"That's all. A gentleman shouldn't pay more attention to profit than righteousness. The court wants to eliminate the problem that the gentry's preferential exemption will dry up the tax source. It is acceptable for the lower officials to levy benefits for the gentry."

"But as a result, the accumulated wealth is not thought of thrift in order to prolong the country, but it is used to make war against foreign countries!"

"Others are okay, Mr. Ge is from Wu, why hasn't he disputed it until now?!"

Although the matter of enlisting the Japanese was initiated by the privy envoy Fang Fengshi on the grounds that the Japanese pirates would not conquer the world, Zhang Juzheng did not stop it, so that the war has been carefully prepared, but there are still many opponents, even the majority, just because the imperial There are many supporters at the top of the power, so it seems that there are not many people who oppose it.

Huke gave Ye Shixin the matter, so he specifically asked Shen Shixing to see him, questioned Shen Shixing, and said after the questioning:

"It stands to reason that now is the time to reduce the number of soldiers to save people's wealth!"

"After all, the wealth of the rich and powerful families is not brought by strong winds, it is also taken from the people!"

"As a result, not only is the people's wealth not saved, but also a large increase in troops. It is conceivable that in the future, when there are more and more arrogant soldiers and generals, what kind of chaos will happen if the court has no money to support! Bing, I, Nanzhi, can hardly afford it, Mr. Ge!"

"I don't understand, why don't you cut down your military strength and control your martial arts!"

After Ye Shixin said that, he clenched his fists tightly.

President Shen Shi let out a sigh of relief: "You think I don't know that military expenditures are a heavy burden on Nan Zhi? But if he doesn't hurt his Japanese slaves once, who knows if his Japanese slaves will repeat the large-scale looting of the Shimiao? "

After asking, Shen Shixing sighed and said: "You young officials, you only saw that the imperial court took advantage of Jiangnan in order to raise elite soldiers. You didn't see the cruel scene of a large number of Japanese pirates going deep into the southeast hinterland when they saw people, slaughtered them, and kidnapped them. , do you think Fang Shuxiang is also a civil servant who was born as a Jinshi, so he really doesn't know the harm of military use?"

"I made this decision because I saw with my own eyes the scenes where a large number of ronin invaded and plundered the southeast due to the continuous war in the Japanese country! It's not to cater to the young and energetic emperor."

"The analysis of the Privy Council's title is very comprehensive. If Da Ming doesn't fight the Wa country now, it will definitely fight in the future."

"Because according to the information brought back by Jin Yiwei, there is an overlord named Oda Nobunaga in Wa Kingdom, who has a plan to 'Tang Jin', which is a plan to destroy my Ming Dynasty, and has unified their China, and wants to use Kyushu as annihilation." My Daming's base."

"It can be seen that even if we don't send troops to Japan, this person will invade our Ming Dynasty again in the future!"

"The key point is that if I want to eliminate this great trouble, the price will undoubtedly increase in the future! After all, he has not yet unified Japan."

"Otherwise, Yuanfu, who intended to cut troops, would have stopped it long ago!"

"It's all because we know that the Wa country is not unified yet, and the wars continue. This is the most suitable time to divide and rule for peace."

After Shen Shixing said it, Ye Shixin was quite horrified when he heard it, and asked, "I don't know!"

Shen Shixing said: "After the system is restructured and the government affairs hall is set up, and the officials don't have to participate in the decision-making, they will naturally not know about it. The fear is that if there are too many people participating in the discussion, many strategies will be easily leaked."

Ye Shixin nodded after hearing this, and cupped his hands and said: "Thank you, Mr. Ge, for your reminder, otherwise, the lower officials will only complain about the central government's militarism."

Shen Shixing just smiled lightly, and said: "If you are really worried that the Japanese kingdom will invade the southeast of me on a larger scale, why don't you ask your majesty to issue an order to exempt Ding Yin from paying taxes for a year wherever the Japanese riots occur in the future? , lest the pirates go, and the thieves rise again!"

"It's not at this time, going against the vigorous emperor and forcing him to rebel."

"As a senior official, you must be able to pick up what's left and make up for the vacancy. Don't try to stop what the emperor and the ruling ministers have decided on by yourself, because you can't reverse it!"

"And if you try to forcibly stop it, it will intensify the conflict between the monarch and his ministers. As ministers, you and I must be able to remonstrate with the emperor, but don't go against the emperor."

Shen Shixing shook his head and sighed as he spoke, "Do you want me to teach you how to do things well? How to manage the relationship between the emperor and the ministers, and how to reconcile and weigh each other's positions. You should understand it seriously, or you will go away." Not for long!"

Ye Shixin immediately cupped his hands in admiration, and said, "So, thank you for your advice, I know what to do!"

(End of this chapter)