152. Chapter 151 Governor of Shaanxi Province

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Chapter 151 Governor of Shaanxi Province

The tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Beijing.

Tianqi looked at the battle report from Chen and beheaded 20,000 people, captured 50,000 people, and captured 50,000 horses.

Not only did they recapture the Hetao, rebuilt Dongshengwei, but also captured Guihua City. Such a great victory was only seen in the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Zhang Zongxian gave him more than just these surprises. There was also the Yellow River Bridge built on the day he ascended the throne, the largest in history, which made Tianqi think that he was destined by destiny, and his civilized martial arts would definitely surpass his ancestors.

Zhang Zongxian also proposed in the memorial to gradually abolish the current nine-border military system, rebuild the military household system at the founding of the People's Republic of China, give all the land outside the border walls to the people, and exempt the people from corvee and taxes. Instead, let the people serve the country by joining the army.

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In this way, Ming Dynasty can save a lot of military pay every year and reduce the burden on the people. Jiubian will be self-sufficient in the future, and there will be no need for the court to transport food from the mainland. It only needs to give rewards to soldiers before and after wars.

Moreover, the Tumut Department is no longer a threat, and the border troops from the military towns in Shanxi and Datong can also be transferred to Liaodong.

In the memorial, he described to Tianqi the future military system of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty would restore all the guard posts that were there when the country was founded. The surrounding areas of these guard posts were all cultivated by military households. Invasions from other places would first have to face these guard posts.

Even if the enemy forces capture these guard posts, they will still encounter the various guard posts within the border walls. These saved military expenses will increase the number of soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp. Troops and horses can be mobilized from the two capitals to support any situation in various places.

Zhang Zongxian also proposed that after the restructuring is completed in the future, these guard posts will not be assigned a general soldier to participate, but will be divided into states and managed by people-friendly officials appointed by the court to avoid the formation of separatist regimes.

Zhang Zongxian naturally knew the shortcomings of the military household system, and proposed these to Tianqi just to get the right to reform the border towns. In future planning, Zhang Zongxian wanted to implement a universal compulsory military service system in the Ming Dynasty.

He was very moved by the scene described by Zhang Zongxian in the memorial. He knew that at the founding of the People's Republic of China, the military household system ensured the stability of the Ming Dynasty's frontiers, but now the guard system has been corrupted, resulting in the imperial court having to spend money to recruit soldiers.

If the garrison system could be rebuilt, the Ming Dynasty could save at least 10 million taels of military pay and food every year. With 5 million taels, it would be able to raise 500,000 troops in the northern and southern capitals.

The remaining food and salary can be used as internal funds to build more and better palaces, and he does not have to worry about insufficient military expenditure every day.

Tianqi was very excited when he saw this. Zhang Zongxian also said that as long as the emperor recognized his strategy and agreed to restore the old system, the supply of military pay and food to Yansui Town could be stopped starting from January next year. The money saved would be used on the Liaodong front line.

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These words spoke to Tianqi's heart, and Tianqi had already agreed with Zhang Zongxian's strategy, but the matter was so serious that he had to wait and see the reaction of the cabinet, and then sent the strategy to the cabinet for discussion.

In addition, the cabinet should come up with a reward strategy as soon as possible on how to reward Zhang Zongxian for achieving such a great victory.

Then Tianqi personally wrote and named the newly built Yellow River Bridge "Dingxi Bridge." It means stability in the northwest.

At this time, the chief minister of the cabinet was Liu Yishui, who together with Fang Congzhe, Han Xu, Zuo Guangdou and Ye Xianggao were ministers of Gu Ming. Fang Congzhe had already retired from office and returned home due to the Hongwan case.

Today, the Donglin Party is the most powerful in the imperial court. Donglin Party members are in charge of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Six Ministries, and are known as Zhongzheng Yingchao.

After receiving Zhang Zongxian's victory report and strategy, the cabinet ministers did not believe it at first, and then Zhang Zongxian began to transport captured horses and captured Tatar nobles to the capital.

You must know that the imperial court spends one million taels of silver every year to buy horses, and these war horses alone are worth no less than one million taels.

In particular, the silver Buddha statue seized from Guihua City has been received by Jin Yiwei and is on its way to the capital.

These Donglin Party members had no choice but to believe that, despite Zhang Zongxian's great achievements, it seemed that Emperor Tianqi intended to let him preside over the reform of the Nine Sides.

This was completely unacceptable to the Donglin Party. How could a prisoner who paid tribute be more powerful than scholars like them, who had taken the imperial examination? It must have been the Tatars who had taken advantage of them.

Besides, even if they want to reform Jiubian, they should come up with the strategy. What is a tribute-paying supervisor?

So the cabinet first rejected Zhang Zongxian's reform strategy, saying that the nine-sided reform was related to the country's fundamentals and could not be changed at will, and believed that the existing system was very good.

Then he asked Ni Sihui, Zhu Qinxiang, Wang Xinyi, the censor Zhou Zongjian, the minister Chen Bangzhan, and the censor Ma Mingqi to impeach Zhang Zongxian, such as Hou Zhenyang and others, to provoke Zhang Zongxian and destroy the original and Tumote tribes.

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Not only could he not be rewarded, but he must also be punished. Zhang Zongxian was asked to immediately withdraw his troops and return Guihua City to the Tumote tribe.

Zhu Youxiao was still thinking about how he could return Guihua City because he had surpassed his ancestors' martial arts skills and sealed the snow monster, so he immediately issued an order to reprimand these censors.

Seeing that the impeachment was unsuccessful, the cabinet thought of hiding Zhang Zongxian through promotion and secret demotion. When they decided to give Zhang Zongxian a reward, they only gave him the position of a doctor in the Qing Li Division of the Arsenal of the Ministry of War, and he was promoted one level to the fifth rank.

As for the rewards for meritorious officers, there was no discount. They just used the excuse that the treasury was insufficient and asked God to use internal funds to reward Chu officers and soldiers.

After Tianqi received the reply from the cabinet, Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he sent the cabinet's memorial directly back and asked them to draft it again.

The cabinet ministers felt that Tianqi was young and easy to bully, so not only did they not re-draft it, they handed it back to Zhu Youxiao without any change. This approach made Tianqi completely lose trust in the Donglin Party.

Tianqi then appointed Li Jinzhong as eunuch Bingbi and governor of Baohe Sandian, and changed his surname back to his original name, giving him the name Wei Zhongxian. This allowed Wei Zhongxian's power to be formed in advance.

As Zhang Zongxian's uncle, Wei Zhongxian naturally wanted to strive for rewards for his nephew. After all, Zhang Zongxian paid him a lot of money every year, and recently built a glass greenhouse for him to use to flatter Tianqi.

After letting Wei Zhongxian take control of the inner court, Ni Sihui, Zhu Qinxiang, and Wang Xinyi made suggestions to Zhu Youxiao, but they were all demoted to other places.

In just a few days, Zhu Youxiao changed from a wise king in the eyes of the Donglin Party to a faint king who appointed the eunuchs.

After receiving the news that the court was fighting because of the reward given to him, Zhang Zongxian scolded Donglin for being shameless, and asked Yu Nong to go in person to supervise the transportation of the spoils, and to transport the horses, captives and silver Buddha to the capital as soon as possible.

On the one hand, he wrote to Wei Zhongxian, hoping that he could persuade Tianqi to hold a prisoner dedication ceremony.

Let the people in the capital see who is the leader of the country, and let those so-called gentlemen in Donglin shut up.

After Wei Zhongxian received the letter, he proposed to Tianqi to hold a prisoner dedication ceremony to wipe away the shadow caused by the defeat of Saarhu on the Ming Dynasty.

Tianqi also felt that a prisoner dedication ceremony should be held. The emperor didn't want to be overjoyed, let alone this was a real victory.

At first, the cabinet and the six ministries cited various reasons to oppose holding the prisoner dedication ceremony. However, Tianqi had already seen through the people in Donglin. They did not want to hold the ceremony because they were afraid that Tianqi would reassert imperial power.

They just want an obedient emperor, not an emperor who is assertive and prestigious and kills them like chickens.

After many years of hard work, these civil servants gained the power to compete with the imperial power. How could Tianqi take it back so easily? Tianqi is so young and wants to revolutionize Jiubian when he first comes up. He may not know what he wants to do next.

Waiyi's prisoner-offering ceremony made Tianqi addicted. What should he do if he wanted to conquer it personally?

However, Tianqi was determined to hold a prisoner dedication ceremony, so he directly bypassed the Ministry of Rites and asked the Chief of Rites to take charge of the matter.

The cabinet was unable to persuade him and had to show up at the prisoner presentation ceremony. In the end, he had no choice but to submit a memorial to ask the Ministry of Rites to participate in the matter.

Finally, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Silver Buddha, captives, and horses were transported to the capital.

Under the auspices of Wei Zhongxian, the prisoner presentation ceremony went very smoothly.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the people in the capital seemed to be celebrating the New Year in advance.

How many years have passed, the people in the capital still vaguely remember that Alatan Khan of Tumut sent envoys to the capital many times to demand the opening of tribute trade, but failed. Then he came to the capital and used force to threaten the imperial court to open border trade.

Now that the Tumut Tribe was wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, all the Silver Buddhas in Guihua City became trophies. Seeing the three-meter-tall Silver Buddha enter the capital, the people cheered all the way, talking about the one who wiped out the Tumut Tribe.

The imperial envoy Zhang Zongxian.

Master Ma also followed the trend and arranged for people to spread the news everywhere in the capital. Chu Gong in the court was jealous of the virtuous people, so he only gave the official position to a doctor in the Ministry of War after he had made such great achievements.

People in the capital were discussing this matter for a while. How many years had passed since the Ming Dynasty, but the country had not been destroyed. It even suffered a huge defeat the year before last. It was so unfair that only a doctor could be awarded the official position for such a great achievement!

In addition, Zhang Zongxian is from the capital, which makes the people of the capital even more supportive of Zhang Zongxian.

Faced with such fierce public opinion, the cabinet did not dare to ignore it and could only re-draw the reward. This time, it was proposed to make Zhang Zongxian the prefect of Zunyi Prefecture, a noble house in the southwest.

Don't you think you are good at fighting? The southwestern chieftains are unstable, so becoming a magistrate is a good use of your resources. Of course, it would be best to be beaten to death by the local chieftains.

When the memorial arrived in Tianqi's hands, Tianqi threw it directly on the ground without even bothering to scold them and continued working on his craft.

Young emperor, you have to go along with it. Can you be happy if you don't give Tianqi face and stand up to Tianqi so hard? Wei Zhongxian, who was standing aside, had already thought to himself.

When Master Ma learned that the cabinet wanted to send his lord to the southwest, he secretly scolded Chu Gong for being shameless, and then began to look for people in the official circles of the capital to help Zhang Zongxian speak for him.

Although people from the Donglin Party controlled the cabinet at this time, the power of the Zhejiang Party, which was formerly the leader of Fang Congzhe, was still there. Master Ma spent a lot of money to have people from the Zhejiang Party jointly submit a petition to invite Zhang Zongxian to be the governor of Yansui.

This operation directly prevented the cabinet from coming to power. The cabinet had no choice but to follow the petition and invite Zhang Zongxian to be the governor of Yansui.

As if the Zhejiang Party suddenly found an opportunity to break up with Donglin, the Zhejiang Party simply refused to do anything and asked Zhang Zongxian to be the trilateral governor to preside over the reform of Shaanxi's trilateral military affairs.

After receiving the petition, they did not reject it, but instead handed it over to the cabinet for discussion.

At this moment, everyone in Donglin understood that Tianqi really wanted to reform Jiubian. The Zhejiang Party also heard the news and began to write memorials, expounding the shortcomings of Jiubian, and came up with ideas to reform Jiubian.

The ferocious discussion caught Dong Lin off guard. At this time, Wei Zhongxian also realized that it was not enough for him to control the inner court. There should also be people in the court who could help him speak for him.

He immediately looked for people among the original Qi, Chu, Xuan and Kun parties, hoping to control the court.

Master Ma is not idle either, he has been constantly stirring up public opinion and forcing the Donglin Cabinet.

In the end, the cabinet could not withstand the pressure and finally decided on Zhang Zongxian's reward, and petitioned to appoint Zhang Zongxian as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.

Then the Chief of Ceremonies approved the crime, and when he arrived at Tianqi, he was granted the title of Prince Shaobao and given silver coins in mangyi. Not only did he not take back Shang Fang's sword, but he also expanded Zhang Zongxian's power to kill first and then report. Even the commander-in-chief could kill him later.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty officially appointed Zhang Zongxian as the governor of Shaanxi Province, Minister of War, and governor of the military affairs of Shaanxi Province, with control over Shaanxi, Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu, Guyuan, Yulin, Ningxia, and Gansu

, the five towns of Lintao, the exclusive command of Guyuan military equipment, Taomin military equipment, Yanzhou military equipment, Lingong military equipment, Gongchang military equipment, Jinglu military equipment and six roads, Shaanxi chief envoy to Gongchang, Lintao Second Prefecture, and Pingliang Prefecture.

Pingliang, Guyuan, Jingning and other prefectures and counties, Yanzhou of Yan'an Prefecture, Guyuan, Taozhou, Lintao, Gongchang, Lanzhou, Taizhou, Minzhou and other Wei, Wenxian, Lidian, Guide, Jiezhou, etc. of Shaanxi Dusi

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The whole country was in an uproar for a while. In less than three years, a supervisor turned out to be a second-rank official and a governor overseeing local military affairs. He was also the only governor in the Ming Dynasty who did not join the cabinet.

Of course, the Donglin cabinet is not easy to mess with. Since you, Zhang Zongxian, want to reform the Nine Borders, how can you raise an army without spending a cent of money or a grain of food from the court?

So he secretly withheld all the military pay and food that was to be escorted to the three sides of Shaanxi after the beginning of spring, hoping to force the border troops who owed wages to cause trouble and prevent Zhang Zongxian from coming to power. It would be better to launch a mutiny and hack Zhang Zongxian to death in office.

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In addition to issuing an order to reward Zhang Zongxian, all the generals who made meritorious service this time were also promoted. In fact, Zhang Zongxian had already killed those generals in Yansui Town, and when he wanted to report their merits this time, they all died in battle.

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As for Zhang Zongxian's disciples, all of them were promoted to official military attachés of the Ming Dynasty by virtue of this reward. Among them, Liangchen and Boren were promoted to the rank of military commander respectively.

In Yansui Town, there should be thirteen guerrilla generals, five guerrillas in the guard, thirty-three guards, four officers in the camp, and six foremans and imperial guards. For these positions, Zhang Zongxian specially assigned them to Yansui Town.

, selected a group of general families who were in decline and easy to control, reported their achievements to their children, and let them hold these positions to confuse the court. In fact, these people can only receive a salary, and the real power lies with Zhang Zongxian.

In the hands of his disciples.

The small banners, general banners, hundreds of households, and thousands of households below the entire Yansui Town. These grassroots officers were all replaced by Zhang Zongxian's disciples.

There are also some hereditary households among the military households that have not followed the border fence and are still the same people. However, Zhang Zongxian will soon inventory the acres, and these hundreds of households will soon be replaced by Zhang Zongxian's people.

With this award, Zhang Zongxian completely controlled all the military forces in Yansui Town. In addition, the governor was actually able to open a mansion and recruit about 5,000 model soldiers, that is, the governor's personal soldiers.

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