Wanli Youming

Chapter 482

Chapter 482

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "I knew that there must be generals in the old party who still want to use the old rituals to control me!"

"Leave it to the Duke of Ji and the Marquis of Nanchang."

Zhu Yijun then gave an order in a deep voice.

Half an hour later, Qi Jiguang and Liu Ting came to Zhu Yijun's place, and stood with hands folded: "Your Majesty!"

"You cooperate with Marquis Tieling to immediately arrest Wang Shangwen, Feng Mengfeng and all the people he instigated to return to Liaodong, and order the city to be sealed off, and the imperial guards to take over the imperial city!"

Zhu Yijun ordered directly.

"According to the order!"

Zhu Yijun then waved his hand: "Back off."

Then, Zhu Yijun returned to his Nuan Pavilion, and continued to hug his concubine to catch up on sleep.

And soon.

In the imperial city illuminated by the bright moon, armor began to move around, like an undercurrent of iron, and a large number of chasing wind blunderbusses (hawk-beaked blunderbusses) were also lifted out, like long snakes passing through the sky above the black bluestone slabs , was illuminated by the moonlight, and they all revealed a chilly air.

at that time.

Wang Shangwen and Feng Mengfeng called a group of Beibing officers from Liaodong to their side.

Wang Shangwen first said: "I am ordered by the young master to ask you, would you like to go back to Liaodong with the young master, and turn against the imperial court?"

At this moment, Yang Jijing's chief general asked, "Why do you want to oppose the imperial court?"

"Why are you asking?"

Feng Mengfeng said something in a cold voice, and said:

"Of course it's because there are treacherous ministers and villains in the court who want to frame the old and young masters! They want to kill Zhongliang!"

"A foolish ruler with no principles, arbitrarily doing things like a lone husband and a traitor to the people, blindly violating the laws of the ancestors, and disobeying the edict of the great ancestor not to conscript!"

"Besides, we are able to get to this day thanks to the kindness of the old and young masters. Now that the old and young masters are in trouble, don't we want to serve them?"

"But we have received the military medal, and we have also received His Majesty's grace."

Sentinel Zhong Changdong replied.

"Then it's up to you!"

"Are you willing to work hard for the old and young masters, and do whatever you want in the future, without having to observe any kind of discipline, and get rich and enjoy great wealth; And the experience of those birds from Xingming Academy can give me advice!"

Wang Shangwen said.

"Then I am willing to serve the old master and the young master! I have had enough of these bird army rules and regulations! Soldiers can't be private to generals, so what's the point in front of the generals!"

At this time, Mr. Qian called Cheng Bangqi yelled and stood up.

"I would too!"

"And I!"

For a while, several government schools were willing.

"I do not want to!"

"In the final analysis, it is all the grace of the emperor. The old and young masters promoted us justly, but it was just our duty as ministers."

"That's right, you have to be loyal! The military guards and guards are all His Majesty's people, so they are naturally different from others. You don't have to come if you don't want to!"

But there are also many government schools that refuse to do so.

Wang Shangwen looked at Feng Mengfeng after expressing his opinions in these official schools, and said: "If you don't want to, don't blame us for being rude!"

Feng Mengfeng even threw the teacup: "Come here!"

Keng!

Boom!

Boom!

Suddenly, there was a dense sound of gunfire outside.

Then, a large number of infantry in cloth face armor walked into the room where Wang Shangwen and others were, all holding eagle-billed guns and wearing red helmets, and surrounded Wang Shangwen and Feng Mengfeng.

"Who are you?"

Wang Shangwen asked in a deep voice.

Li Juexian, the commander of the battalion, came over at this moment: "Naturally, the Son of Heaven personally guards the army."

"People from Nanbing?"

Feng Mengfeng also glanced at Wang Shangwen in astonishment, and asked.

Wang Shangwen's face sank like water at this time.

After a while, Wang Shangwen looked at Feng Mengfeng and said, "It's the young master! It must be the young master who betrayed us, only he knew we would do this."

"Why would he do this?"

Feng Mengfeng gritted his teeth and asked.

Wang Shangwen smiled helplessly: "It seems that he is more loyal than we imagined, even if this matter involves the safety of his Li family!"

Wang Shangwen sighed and said: "The emperor knows him better!"

"Holy will is God's will."

Feng Mengfeng suddenly thought of a sentence that has been widely circulated among scholars in Shilin recently, and asked Wang Shangwen:

"Is it true that the divine will is the will of the heavens?"

"Otherwise, why does His Majesty know the young master better than we do? That's why he is relieved to let the young master's people enter the guard!"

"Holy will is God's will!"

Wang Shangwen murmured, and then looked at Li Juexian:

"Aren't the generals of the Northern Army here all following the criminals to seek rebellion, these few are unwilling, and please report the truth to the general."

As Wang Shangwen spoke, he pointed to Zhong Changdong and others.

But Cheng Bangqi and others became even more panicked.

Li Jue nodded first: "I will report the truth to the court!"

As he said that, Li Juexian ordered Wang Shangwen and others to be taken down.

Zhu Yijun personally interrogated Wang Shangwen, Feng Mengfeng and other pro-army generals the next morning: "Tell me, why did you fabricate rumors in an attempt to coax Marquis Tieling and Marquis Ningyuan into rebellion?"

Wang Shangwen replied: "Because Fang Hongjing and Zhou Hongzu will confess us sooner or later, we can only take the risk first."

"You are the emperor's internal ministers, why do you want to contact foreign ministers?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Wang Shangwen fell silent.

At this time, Feng Mengfeng replied first: "Return to Your Majesty, because not all generals are willing to fight for military merit and rank!"

"Most military generals, in fact, want to live a peaceful life. They don't want to go to the battlefield to fight for some prominent officials. They don't even want to treat soldiers as human beings in order to win military merits on the battlefield. They can't be used casually, they can't be beaten and scolded casually, they can't Deduct military pay at will!"

"Many military generals think this is boring. In fact, they prefer to be like before. When they become officials, they will reach the top. The civil servants will take care of the big things. We military generals only need to make money to keep the world in order!"

"But now, everyone from the soldiers to the commander-in-chief must be passed the exam, and they must all be required to work hard to become a high-ranking official."

"This makes us generals who only want to live a peaceful life as a general in the army, more and more excluded, and it forces us to turn to the old party and hope that the power of the soldiers can check and balance the power of the emperor, so that the bureaucrats of the world can be free. , can live in peace, and don’t have to be forced to make progress and make contributions.”

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Is there any other reason?"

"Have!"

Wang Shangwen also became bold at this time, knowing that since the holy will may be the will of God, there is no need to hide it, so he replied:

"Since Qi Penglai proved that a farmer and a miner can become a good soldier with a firearms tank and a month of training, my northern general is even more unsafe!"

"Now His Majesty still appoints him as Prime Minister. Regardless of the fact that there are a large number of southern soldiers in the army and guards, even the Beijing battalion needs infantry. The infantry also use firearms like the southern soldiers, and they only choose honest and honest farmers. Let it be even more difficult for us generals to be respected by the imperial court for being good at riding and shooting!"

"So, in our hearts, we don't want the court to take the road of strengthening the army! We just want the court to continue to worship the culture and weaken the military master, and the civil servants rely on us generals to guard the nine sides!"

"Only civil servants are in charge of military power, and if we follow the old rituals and not expand outside, then the development of firearms does not need to be greatly developed. Our northern generals can still rely on their superb riding and shooting skills to become the mainstay of the court."

"Instead of asking Qi Penglai to practice firearms, or even more than 10 people to practice firearms!"

"If this continues, His Majesty will be able to control our generals just by controlling craftsmen and money, and he can kill and copy whenever he wants. In addition, soldiers can also threaten superior martial arts superiors with only one firearm."

"So, although the way of strengthening the army can make us military officials not have to look at the faces of civil servants, it also messes up the system, so that soldiers and subordinates don't have to look at our faces."

(End of this chapter)