My life skills in Daming Liver

Zhao Zhenji, who received Zhang Juzheng's letter, is discussing with his staff how to deal with it.

The staff members talked a lot, Shaoxing master surnamed Sun said:

"Dong Weng, reforms have always offended a group of people, not to mention a whip method that involves wealth. Since ancient times, those who initiated reforms have often ended badly."

Zhao Zhenji nodded and said, "That's true. Everyone else left, but Master Sun stayed."

The other masters looked at Master Sun enviously, then bowed their hands to Zhao Zhenji and left.

After the other masters had left, Zhao Zhenji said: "What do you think, sir, what should I do now?"

Master Sun paused for a while and said, "Leave Nanzhili."

Zhao Zhenji laughed immediately and said, "Master Sun really wanted to go with me."

Master Sun immediately said: "If you are in charge of Nanzhili, you will end up with nothing. Dong Weng's ambition is to enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister. If you stay in Nanzhili, you will lose your way to the cabinet."

Zhao Zhenji asked: "Sir, now that the state affairs are in turmoil, the court trusts me to let me be in charge of Nanzhili, how can I leave Nanzhili?"

Master Sun looked at Zhao Zhenji and said, "Dong Weng, you already know the answer, why ask me?"

Zhao Zhenji stroked his exquisite beard and said, "Please, Sun Muyou, explain clearly."

Master Sun was still hesitating, and Zhao Zhenji said, "Well, let me write a word, and you write a word, let's see if we think the same thing?"

The two each took out a scrap of paper and wrote a word on it.

I only saw the word "Xu" written on Zhao Zhenji, while Master Sun wrote two characters, "Anti-Xu". Zhao Zhenji smiled at Master Sun and said:

"Sun Muyou is a great talent, we need to get closer in the future."

Then Zhao Zhenji asked again: "What about Zhang Butang's whip?"

Master Sun immediately said: "Procrastinate, this year's autumn grain collection is coming soon, we can't change the financial method at this time, Dong Weng can delay for a while."

"When Dong Weng is transferred from Nanzhili, Zhang Butang will not look for you again."

Zhao Zhenji said: "Sure enough, it's a good strategy, let's follow Sun Muyou's method!"

In October, Zhao Zhenji, the Minister of the Household Department of Nanzhili, secretly revealed to the emperor the illegal activities of impeaching Xu Jie's family in Songjiang Mansion.

Zhao Zhenji did not impeach Xu Jie's family for colluding with the rebels, but uncovered the case of Xu Jie's family's occupation and annexation of land a few years ago.

Zhao Zhenji knew very well what the emperor on the dragon chair was thinking.

For every chief minister of the cabinet, there will be a second minister of the cabinet watching over him. This is Emperor Jiajing's technique of mixing different opinions.

From Yang Tinghe to Xia Yan, from Xia Yan to Yan Song, and from Yan Song to Xu Jie, it was all like this.

In this way, there will be no powerful ministers in the cabinet, which is why the court can still operate normally after Jiajing can deal with the first assistant every time.

But this time Qingliu formed a cabinet, there was no such person in the cabinet.

Xu Jie is a great Confucian who learned by heart, and now those who stay in his cabinet, such as Li Chunfang and others, are ministers of the younger generation, and they dare not confront Xu Jie at all.

What makes the emperor even more restless is that Qingliu still supports King Yu.

Prince Chu and cabinet ministers, this has already made Emperor Jiajing, who is proficient in power, feel frightened and uneasy.

Zhao Zhenji naturally knew that it was impossible for her secret disclosure to bring Xu Jie down.

But this is his attitude, and his unequivocal attitude against Xu Jie may become a step for him to join the cabinet.

Meanwhile, nine sides.

The concept of nine sides is huge, covering almost the entire northern region of the Ming Empire.

Line up from east to west are: Liaodong, Jizhen, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Yansui, Ningxia, Guyuan, Gansu.

Because of the impression of the end of the Ming Dynasty, many people believed that the Nine Sides were set up in the Ming Dynasty to defend against the Jurchens.

In fact, during the Jiajing period, the biggest enemy of the Ming Empire was the Mongols, and the Nine Sides defense system was used to defend against the Mongol Alta.

At this time, the Jurchen tribe had not yet risen, and they were even younger brothers of the Ming Dynasty, often helping the Ming Dynasty's frontier army to fight against the Mongols.

Datong Town, which is the "Da" of "Xuan Da", is stationed in Datong Mansion, and the commander-in-chief wears the seal of the former general in the west.

The responsible area of ​​Datong Town is Shanxi Xingdusi, and its foundation is also the three institutes and fourteen guards under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Xingdusi, such as Zuoyun Yuyang and Tianzhen.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Datong was a border town of feudal kings, but since Emperor Yongle succeeded in Jingnan, he no longer dared to hand over the border army to his brothers and nephews.

After the Civil Fortress Change, Xungui became even more hip, and the commander-in-chief of the Nine Sides was no longer Xungui's exclusive position.

For example, Jiang Yingxiong, the current commander-in-chief of Datong, is a commander-in-chief who was born as a general.

The commander-in-chief of the nine borders is considered a top position among military generals, but this commander-in-chief Jiang is trembling.

The reason is also very simple. The commander-in-chief of the frontier army in the Ming Dynasty was a hot ass position, especially the commander-in-chief of Datong in the Jiajing Dynasty. It didn't end well.

The most famous commander-in-chief of Datong was named Qiu Luan. This monarch was once so powerful that he could even rival the powerful officials in the court.

It also dominated the Datong horse market, which can be said to be a moment of glory.

What happened to Qiu Luan was that his body was slaughtered in a museum, his bones and ashes were scattered, and all his family members were sent to the frontier.

After Qiu Luan's several military officers, the best result was dismissal, and countless people were exiled, arrested and imprisoned. In the past ten years, Datong has changed ten military officers.

Jiang Yingxiong only accepted the post of commander-in-chief after watching his predecessor be dispatched to Liaodong. Naturally, he was not happy at all.

"General! Jin Yiwei is here!"

Hearing the news of Jin Yiwei's arrival, Jiang Yingxiong was almost frightened to death. Thoughts flashed through his mind, should he vote for the Mongols right now.

Fortunately, the next sentence dispelled his thoughts.

"Jin Yiwei is here to arrest Yu Dayou."

Yu Dayou?

Only then did Jiang Yingxiong realize that he was the general who was assigned to guard the border last year, right?

Yu Dayou was sent to Datong to defend the border, because the "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan" incident caused a lot of trouble, and Yu Dayou was compared to Yue Fei, so when he arrived in Datong, Jiang Yingxiong went to greet him.

"Since Yu Dayou is the one to arrest, let them arrest and report to the officer what to do!"

Jiang Yingxiong was a little annoyed, and the guards startled him by screaming, thinking they were here to arrest him!

The personal guard showed a embarrassed look and said: "This Yu Dayou is guarding the border in Hezhong Fort, and he is deeply supported by the soldiers. If Jin Yiwei goes directly, I'm afraid he won't be able to get anything good."

Jiang Yingxiong still didn't want to be troublesome, he slapped the table and said: "This Yu Dayou is just a pawn who is assigned to serve as a border guard. The royal guards of the imperial court ordered him to arrest him. Does anyone dare to stop him? You just take the guards to Hezhong Fort." "

The two personal soldiers looked at it, and reluctantly left the tent of the general army, and led ten Jinyi guards to Hezhong Fort.

The leading Jinyiwei Qianhu is named Chen Danian, the adopted son of the great eunuch Chen Hong.

After Chen Hong replaced Lu Bing and became the leader of Jinyiwei in Dongchang, the relaxed style of Lu Bing's period immediately changed, and Jinyiwei's behavior became more and more brutal.

It was under such circumstances that Chen Danian climbed to a high position, he did things cruelly without leaving room, and intimidated others through terror.

Regarding Jiang Yingxiong's slow treatment, Chen Danian held a grudge in his heart, and waited for a chance to deal with him in the future.

The most important thing now is to take Yu Dayou back.

After Chen Hong took charge of Jinyiwei, he treated his subordinates even more cruelly.

The Jinyi guard who went to Nanzhili to arrest Tan Lun last time has been dismissed, and it is said that he will be sent to prison for questioning.

Chen Danian was also afraid that the news would leak out, so he immediately asked Jiang Yingxiong's personal soldiers to take him to Hezhong Fort.

"Qianhu, this Hezhong Fort is the farthest garrison in Datong Town."

Hearing this, Chen Danian nodded, it seems that this Yu Dayou was not treated preferentially in Datong.

The soldier said again: "When we get to Hezhong Fort, please wait a moment for Qianhu, let us lure Yu Dayou out before arresting him."

Chen Danian is used to domineering in the capital, the last time he ransacked the house of a strict party minister, he just kicked open the front door, and when he heard that the chief soldier was so cowardly, he couldn't help but ask: "Why is this?" ?”

The general soldier said: "Qianhu, you don't know, this river castle is tough, and there have been many troubles before, even if the general soldier comes, he must be careful to appease him, otherwise there will be chaos!"

"This is just a garrison, so what?"

"As for the matter, there are three general officers on the fort in the river."

"In the beginning, in the early years of this dynasty, when the emperor first succeeded to the throne, there was a disturbance in order to set up the river castle."

"At that time, Zhang Wenjin, the commander-in-chief, built the Fort in the River and dispatched soldiers to guard it far away. Because of Zhang Wenjin's brutality, the soldiers killed Zhang Wenjin and captured Datong. It took the court a year to put down the rebels."

"Hezhong Fort had several rebellions, and the most serious one was simply surrendered to Mongolia. Later, Bianzhen spent a lot of money to buy it back from the Mongols."

Chen Danian was startled all of a sudden, he didn't expect Bian Zhen to be so arrogant.

The river castle is not actually a desolate desert castle, on the contrary, it is a small castle on the edge of a prairie river.

Now it's autumn and winter, the grass is withered and yellow like dirty waves, if you come here in spring and summer, it should be a green ocean.

The area controlled by the Datong garrison is actually the Hetao area that the previous dynasties attached great importance to.

The Yellow River turns in the Hetao area, forming a pocket-shaped plain area. The Central Plains Dynasty has been operating the Hetao area since the Han and Tang Dynasties, using it as an important line of defense against the invasion of grassland peoples.

The Song Dynasty was not stable and failed to regain the Hetao area, so it has been violently beaten by the northern nomads.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Hetao was recovered, but with the shrinking of the national power in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Hetao area is basically abandoned now.

The Fort in the River is already the deepest fort in Datong Town extending to the Hetao area.

In Hezhong Fort, Yu Dayou was practicing with soldiers.

After being assigned, Yu Dayou's mentality was very good.

Hezhong Fort is the farthest from Datong, so the officers don't like to go there on weekdays. There are more than 100 soldiers in the entire Hezhong Fort, but only one general banner is stationed permanently.

Yu Dayou, who is good at training soldiers and dealing with soldiers, immediately became the leader of this group of soldiers.

At this time, Yu Dayou was leading the group of soldiers to practice, when suddenly the soldiers in charge of security whistled.

"Enemy attack?"

The guards of the River Fort moved very quickly. They immediately rushed into the treasury to pick up their equipment. At this moment, two horses appeared at the gate of the River Fort.

"Is General Yu here!?"

Only a middle-aged man was riding on the two horses. He was dusty and shouted to the castle in the river.

The archers climbed up the wall of Hezhong Fort, and Yu Dayou shouted: "Yu is not a general, but a soldier of Hezhong Fort, who are you!?"

"Su Xianggong's old friend!"

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man shouted: "General Yu, come with me, Jin Yiwei is here to arrest you!"

The soldiers were in an uproar, while Yu Dayou walked over and saw that this middle-aged man was somewhat familiar.

The person who came was the former Jinyiwei Lu Er. He inquired about the news that the imperial court wanted to arrest Yu Dayou in the capital, and immediately left the capital and came to Datong.

However, Datong had a large garrison, so Lu Er finally found out that Yu Dayou was in Hezhong Fort, bought two good horses immediately, and then went all the way to Hezhong Fort to report the news.

"Why did you arrest General Yu!"

"The imperial court has already wronged General Yu, why don't you let him go now!"

The soldiers were filled with righteous indignation, during these days Yu Dayou led them to fight against the Mongols, led them to patrol and guard the border, and only then did Hezhong Fort find peace.

In the past, the days of hiding in the castle in the river shivering and being bullied by the Mongols are over.

But the good times haven't passed long, and now the court is going to arrest Yu Dayou.

"Are you someone close to Mr. Su?"

Lu Er nodded.

Lu Er continued: "Jin Yiwei is coming soon! If General Yu will be arrested without a fight, will the Paoze brothers agree?"

"cannot!"

The soldiers shouted one after another.

Lu Er said: "General! If the Paoze brothers rebel for you, they will definitely be suppressed by the court? For the sake of the brothers, you follow me!"

Yu Dayou thought for a while, and finally nodded helplessly.

Lu Er was right. With his prestige in Hezhong Fort, even if he was captured obediently, the guards of Hezhong Fort would not let Jin Yiwei take him away.

At that time, more than 100 people in Hezhong Fort rebelled, and they would definitely be suppressed by Datong.

Yu Dayou bowed his hands to the soldiers of Hezhong Fort and said:

"Brothers, Mr. Yu is still going."

Although everyone was reluctant to give up, it was impossible to see Yu Dayou being captured by Jin Yiwei. The soldiers opened the gate of Hezhong Castle and said goodbye to Yu Dayou in unison.

As soon as Lu Er and Yu Dayou left, Chen Danian's Jin Yiwei arrived.

Chen Danian's subordinates shouted at Hezhong Fort: "Where is Yu Dayou, the criminal!"

There was no reaction in the fort in the river, and Jiang Zongbing's personal guard stepped forward to shout again, and only then did the soldiers stand on the wall and said:

"General Yu has left!"

Chen Danian's head buzzed, making Yu Dayou run away again?

"We are Imperial Guards, we have to go in and search!"

After a long time, the gate of Hezhong Fort was opened, and Chen Danian and his guards went in to search, but they did not see Yu Dayou.

Chen Danian was furious and wanted to arrest these guards for interrogation, but was stopped by Jiang Zongbing's personal soldiers.

Seeing the weapons in the hands of these guards, Chen Danian quickly lost his mind.

Chen Danian could only go away with hatred, and when he returned to Datong, General Jiang sent troops to search for him, but naturally it was fruitless.

On the grassland, side by side with Lu Er, Yu Dayou asked, "Where does Mr. Su want me to go?"

This section is a transitional chapter. If the situation on the nine sides is drawn out, there is no need to ask for votes.