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When Zhang Juzheng heard that his father had been released, his first thought was not surprise.

There were many messages from the capital. While Zhang Juzheng was still having a headache how to deal with it, his father was released. This was too fast!

Zhang Juzheng quickly realized this and understood what his old rival Su Ze was thinking.

This is conspiracy!

Su Ze sent Zhang Juzheng's family back so decisively just to drive a wedge between Zhang Juzheng and Ming Ting.

There must be a lot of rumors in the capital now, and people are talking about Zhang Juzheng and Southeast collusion everywhere!

But Zhang Juzheng still has nothing to do!

Your biological father has been sent back intact, so you have to accept it!

Zhang Juzheng only felt that his head was heavy. When he returned to the capital from Huguang, he had to take his father and his entire family with him.

But Zhang's father was stubborn and refused to leave his hometown, so Zhang Juzheng had no choice but to give up.

Now that something like this happens again, I'm afraid the government will not be able to live in peace this year.

Zhang Juzheng sighed, the reason why Yangmou is Yangmou is that even he can't refuse.

Now that dad has sent it back, I can only go over to greet him.

As expected, Father Zhang was sent back too quickly.

After Jingzhou was captured, Xiong Kuang received the order to send the Zhang family's people down the Yangtze River on a fast boat, to the Shanghai Pier, and then to Dagu by clipper ship.

Finally, Dagu sent a troop to escort him all the way to the outside of the capital city!

This speed is only a few days slower than Mingting's ability to figure out the situation in Huguang!

As a result, the capital was naturally in an uproar!

Xu Xuemo, the governor of Jingzhou, committed suicide and martyred his country. Your Zhang Juzheng family has been sent back intact!

You also said that you and Su Thief did not collude?

Suddenly, rumors were flying all over the sky, and even all kinds of outrageous messages had to be spread by the intelligence station and circulated in various tabloids.

Even the Yushitai under the control of Zhang Juzheng was shaken. Some censors also wrote to ask for a thorough investigation of Liu Shiyan's mistakes in the decisive battle of Hanyang and to sort out the problems of the Huguang New Army.

A conspiracy theory quickly spread in the capital.

The Huguang New Army is Zhang Juzheng's old team, and Liu Shiyan is Zhang Juzheng's old partner when he led troops to fight.

After Zhang Juzheng put down the rebellion of King Jing, he handed over the army to Liu Shiyan, and then returned to the capital from Huguang to serve as the Prime Minister of Zhongshu.

It can be said that the Huguang New Army is Zhang Juzheng's team, and Liu Shiyan is Zhang Juzheng's representative in Huguang.

The Huguang New Army received treatment even better than that of the Three Towns New Army.

Huguang was also the province that received the most support from the Ming court. After Zhang Juzheng came to power, he set up workshops in Huguang and even a gun factory in Huguang. He also gave the Huguang New Army the right to collect grain and recruit troops in Huguang.

It can be said that the Huguang New Army is the army with the most support from the imperial court among the new armies of all provinces.

Even Li Chengliang, Minister of the New Army, was quite dissatisfied with this, believing that the imperial court gave too many resources to the Huguang New Army.

The Huguang New Army, which had invested so many resources, collapsed in one battle. Its leader Liu Shiyan was captured, and the entire Huguang army fell quickly.

Was Liu Shiyan defeated or surrendered? Are the Huguang New Army good or bad?

There is absolutely no way to say this.

If the Huguang New Army cannot be defeated, it means they are too weak. Then why has the court invested so much energy in these years? Is it just to give it to Southeast?

If the Huguang New Army surrendered on purpose, then it was Liu Shiyan who did it on purpose. That was betraying the trust and investment of the imperial court and deliberately surrendering. Then this kind of behavior is too bad.

And Liu Shiyan is Zhang Juzheng's confidant. Doesn't this have something to do with Zhang Juzheng?

To take a step back, even if Liu Shiyan and Zhang Juzheng have nothing to do with each other, then as Liu Shiyan’s old superior, doesn’t Zhang Juzheng have no fault?

Now that the Southeast New Army has so decisively sent Zhang Juzheng's father back, this further confirms the statement that Zhang Juzheng has a problem.

This statement once again gathered those forces that opposed Zhang Juzheng.

But this time, Zhang Juzheng's power was not as strong as before.

The reason is naturally because of the Huguang New Army.

Even Li Chengliang, a warrior, could see that troubled times had arrived.

In troubled times, the fist is the most powerful.

Zhang Juzheng was able to sit safely in the court because Huguang and the Huguang New Army supported him.

Although other forces, including Henan Governor Chen Yiqin and several other governors, also supported Zhang Juzheng, they were not Zhang Juzheng's direct descendants after all.

As for Li Chengliang, the Minister of the New Army in Shandong, they had a relationship of mutual use. However, as the Ming court tightened supplies, many cracks appeared between them.

After all, there are only so many resources, and Li Chengliang wants too much, and Zhang Juzheng sometimes cannot satisfy it.

Political struggle is all about the decline of one thing and the growth of the other.

The same thing, done at different points in time, often has different effects.

For example, there have been countless political undercurrents in the capital, but none of them were as dangerous as this one.

Nanjing, the Governor's Mansion.

Xu Wei looked at the information sent back from the capital and said to Su Ze:

"This time is enough for Prime Minister Zhang to drink a pot."

Su Ze said with a smile: "We in the southeast do not have the tradition of threatening people's family members. We send gifts to the Zhang family to the capital, and Zhang Juzheng wants to thank us."

Xu Wei also laughed.

The Southeast New Army has always treated prisoners preferentially. Even Ming court officials can come and go freely as long as they do not commit any serious crimes.

Zhang Juzheng's family was in Jingzhou, and they were closely watched by Xu Xuemo, so they had no chance to do evil.

After Su Ze received the news from Xiong Kuang, he immediately ordered Xiong Kuang to take the Zhang family to Shanghai, and then escort them north by boat.

The capital is going to be in chaos.

When Su Ze finished talking about the capital, he looked at the map and said:

"General Lin sent me a letter yesterday, saying that she discovered the Spanish fleet in Nanyang."

Xu Wei put away his smile. In the southeast, there were many generals named Lin, but only one was called General Lin.

That was Su Ze's close deputy, Lin Mojun, who was once a member of the Changning Guards.

In the southeastern military system, Lin Mojun enjoyed a transcendent status.

Most of the important generals in the southeast came from the Changning Guards, and Lin Mojun was their oldest member.

When Su Ze started his career, he relied on the Changning Guard Navy, which is now the Southeast Navy, and the leader of this army is Lin Mojun.

Due to the land war, Southeast continued to expand its army, but it did not relax its construction of maritime power.

Today, the Fuzhou Naval Academy is as famous as the Nanjing Army Academy.

Even because the navy offers better treatment, it attracts many young people to want to join the navy.

In the political system of the Southeast, there are also two positions in the cabinet: Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy.

However, in the gradually formed political tacit understanding, these two ministers are generally not in Nanjing and do not participate in the daily decision-making of the cabinet.

However, these two ministers still have the decision-making power of the cabinet, but most of the time they do not express their opinions.

Some even say that the Minister of War and the Minister of Navy are the last resort for Governor Su Ze to influence the cabinet through the military.

Although this statement is nonsense, Su Ze can completely control the cabinet with his prestige, but it also shows the importance of these two ministers.

With such a prominent status, Lin Mojun is very low-key.

Even most of the time, even Xu Wei, the chief minister of the cabinet, didn't know where Lin Mojun was leading the fleet and what mission he was performing.

After reading the information, Xu Wei learned that Lin Mojun had led the fleet to Nanyang.

Xu Wei didn't find anything strange about this conclusion.

Since the Battle of Shandong, the war between the Southeast and the Ming Dynasty has entered the stage of fighting for inland areas.

According to the plan formulated by Su Ze, Shandong will be a feint attack direction for a long time, mainly relying on the army and Ming Dynasty to compete for several inland provinces.

After occupying Huguang, you can plot the four provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.

In these wars, the navy played a smaller role.

In the two wars going on simultaneously in the southeast, North Korea has been "contracted" to the Donghai Trading Company.

Some of the main managers of this company are "retired" officers from the navy, and the "original shares" of the Navy's shares in this company are retired warships and weapons.

Nowadays, the situation in North Korea is relatively smooth. After the North Korean leader fled north, the entire Seoul immediately lost its will to resist. After Yi Sun-shin convened a meeting of the Progressive Association outside the city, he put forward the slogan "Sovereignty lies with the people" like Southeast, and then also proposed that in North Korea held a constitutional convention and followed the example of Southeast Asia in carrying out constitutional reforms.

Immediately afterwards, Yi Sun-shin led troops into Seoul, using the slogan of "constitutional government", announced the abolition of the privileges of the royal family and two classes of nobles, and confiscated these royal properties and noble family properties.

This initiative was naturally welcomed by the entire North Korea. Those who were violated by the two groups of nobles who used their privileges to infringe their interests included ordinary people and small local landowners.

Naturally, the positions occupied by the two groups of aristocratic children cannot be the children of ordinary people. They are mostly children of poor families who were born as small landowners.

After receiving the news, the North Korean army that attacked Busan welcomed the envoy sent by Yi Sunshin into the army and announced its surrender to Yi Sunsin.

Yi Sun-shin nominally controls the entire South Korea area and is sending officials to control these areas.

Now North Korea does not need to use the navy in the southeast, and Annan does not need it either.

After the northern part of Annan was occupied by Qi Jiguang's troops, Houli in the southern part of Annan also split.

Ruan Huang and Hou Li's powerful minister Zheng Jian fought together. Near a city like Zhongjuncheng, Zheng Jian's power had the upper hand.

But in the vast rural areas of Annam, Nguyen Hoang, who had the support of sugar plantation owners, prevailed.

Annan is now in the stage of a proxy war, and has not yet reached the stage where Southeast will end itself, so there is no need for Southeast's navy.

But the navy in the southeast went to sea a month ago. They said they were performing some kind of maritime show, but it turned out to be a pretense.

Now that he heard that Lin Mojun went to Nanyang, Xu Wei also felt that everything made sense.

He opened the letter and took a closer look at what happened to Lin Mojun.