Chapter 90                                                             �

Zhou Mengchen is not an emotional brain, nor is Zhang Juzheng.

Zhou Mengchen calmly experienced Zhang Juzheng's feelings, but from Zhang Juzheng's perspective, Zhou Mengchen suddenly retreated, but gave him the best position between advancing and retreating.

Zhou Mengchen made judgments about the future big storm, and Zhang Juzheng also made judgments. Perhaps because of the different positions, the opinions are also different. But there is still general consistency.

That is, Yan Song will inevitably fall, even in this year.

Yan Song's fall was a big storm.

A big storm.

Even if Yan Song falls, he may not be able to fall down with just one push, but will even have to fill a lot of lives after a fierce pull. Zhang Juzheng returns home at this moment to avoid all this. This is Xu Jie's choice.

Zhang Juzheng's choice is a little longer than Xu Jie.

That is, as soon as Yan Song fell, Zhou Mengchen would have to face Xu Jie's methods. The division between Zhou and Xu had reached this point. Zhou Mengchen was very dangerous during the period when Yan Song fell.

Maybe Jiajing himself did not feel it. However, his disagreement and his decision to reconcile the two strong men seemed to be fine, but as he let go of the government, the authority of the cabinet was gradually increased and his authority was weakened.

Xu Jie and Yan Song's remaining power were at its peak, and even Jiajing had to avoid three points.

The reason is very simple. As soon as Yan Song fell, the only one who could maintain the situation in the Ming Dynasty was Xu Jie. If Xu Jie had left the house, the Ming Dynasty's court might have stopped. Of course, if Xu Jie did this, Jiajing would not have a good ending.

It’s just that Xu Jie would make Jiajing realize this. Jiajing would not act irritably.

What would Xu Jie do at that time?

Zhang Juzheng could still guess this, and Xu Jie would definitely find a way to get rid of Zhou Mengchen. Not only was Zhou Mengchen's power established, but Jiajing's favor, and supporters from both sides targeted each other. And so on.

There must be a battle between the two.

When Zhou Mengchen was weakest, it was the year when Xu Jie had just come to power. If Xu Jie could not deal with Zhou Mengchen this year, he would have to stop. The reason was very simple. Jiajing would temporarily tolerate some of Xu Jie's behavior because of Yan Song's absence, and would never do so because of this.

In one year, it was enough for Jiajing to cultivate a person who checked and balanced Xu Jie.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng took a year off and avoided the conflict between Xu Jie and Zhou Mengchen, and maintained his relationship with both sides.

Even Xu Jie knew Zhang Juzheng’s thoughts.

However, Xu Jie also has a clear mind. Although there are fighting, killing and fighting in the world, there are also people in the world. When Xu Jie had the most advantage, he could not defeat Zhou Mengchen, so he naturally had to change his attitude.

Zhang Juzheng will be a bridge by then.

In this way, Xu Jieying and Zhang Juzheng were Xu Jie's successor. Zhou Mengchen was in power in the future. Zhang Juzheng was a political ally. He was free to advance and retreat.

Who knew that if you step on two boats, most people would capsize. But Zhang Juzheng was obviously not an ordinary person. He stepped on two boats, and even made both boats acquiesce and grateful.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "Uncle Zhang is worthy of his reputation." However, his mind was tense. The reason was very simple. Zhang Juzheng's actions also proved one thing, that is, a war is imminent.

After Zhou Mengchen saw Zhang Juzheng away, He Xinyin came to the door that night.

According to Xu Jie's intention, He Xinyin told Zhou Mengchen everything about the immortal medicine.

After listening to it, Zhou Mengchen felt a little relieved.

At least the situation has not reached the worst level that Zhou Mengchen thought. Once Jiajing starts taking ravens, it will be a headache for Zhou Mengchen. Now there is still a possibility of recovery.

But Zhou Mengchen also understood that this was actually a big problem.

Why, if things had happened? Zhou Mengchen grabbed Yan Shifan's painful foot in one go, just telling Jiajing the harm of the aphrodisiac. But now it is different. Yan Shifan's crimes have not been exposed. Zhou Mengchen wanted to beat Yan Shifan to death with a slap, but it was a little difficult to deal with.

Yan Song can still maintain his position now, not because Yan Party has no shit on his butt. Instead, Jiajing is nostalgic and does not want to make trouble in the court. You should know that changing the chief minister would be a big deal.

I don’t know how much energy it will take for Jiajing to consume.

Therefore, ordinary small things cannot shake the ruling party at all. They must be big things and must be big cases.

Xu Jie also thought of the problem that Zhou Mengchen thought of.

Xu Jie originally wanted to wait until Yan Shifan's plan succeeded, and then find a way to stab Jiajing. With Jiajing's emphasis on his health, he must hate Yan's party to death. But now Zhou Mengchen came to make a move. Xu Jie asked Zhou Mengchen to play the striker.

Although Yan Dang is old, he is also a tiger. If his own people fight the first wave, several of them may be damaged. In history, when Yan Song was about to fall, several of the censors who impeached Yan Song had no good end. In the end, He Xinyin and Taoist priests moved to Yan Song.

Zhou Mengchen pondered for a moment and suddenly realized that he would not be able to fight this striker.

Xu Jie's trump card is much stronger than Zhou Mengchen. Xu Jie doesn't care about Jiajing. Changing an emperor is nothing to Xu Jie. Zhou Mengchen can't afford it. Because the next emperor trusts Gao Gong the most.

At that time, Xu Jie is in front and Gao Gong is in back. It will be difficult for Zhou Mengchen to win the position of prime minister in the competition between the two.

Jiajing must live, at least, before Zhou Mengchen ascended the position of chief minister, he must live and live healthily. This is the most beneficial to Zhou Mengchen. Zhou Mengchen thought about this and admitted that Xu Jie's open conspiracy. However, he was very interested in He Xinyin.

He Xinyin is really a genius in some places, especially in intelligence. Even Zhou Mengchen felt that he was more capable than Lu Bing in intelligence. Lu Bing had a huge Jinyiwei under his command, but Zhou Mengchen still felt that Lu Bing's intelligence was blank in many places, even in the capital.

There is no huge team behind He Xin's invisibility, but he is very capable at critical moments.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "If He Xinyin was recruited under his sect, many things would be much easier."

Xu Wei cannot be said to be incapable. But now Xu Jie. With the expansion of Zhou Mengchen's career, Xu Wei and Zhou Mengchen's position as the first aide have not been shaken. But the more he has done, he is too busy.

Zhou Mengchen said: "This is what Brother He wanted to tell me back then, but I don't know that Brother He was the same as he did today. He still had other meanings as Mr. Xu's wishes-----"

He Xinyin said: "Why do you have to mention the previous things? Just say that it's right in front of you."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Okay, then I'll talk about what's happening in front of me. What can Brother He teach me about today's situation?"

He Xinyin said: "What kind of person is the adult? What can I teach you? But, in how many years has the adults been paying attention to Jiubian?"

Zhou Mengchen was stunned and said, "What happened again in Jiubian? Isn't it just that there is something wrong with Liaodong?"

He Xinyin sneered and said, "A little problem? The great famine in Liaodong, natural disasters and man-made disasters are just over. Now it's just over. This is because Yang Shangshu's methods are very good. Lord Zhou doesn't know that last autumn, the Tartars had already hit the edge of Jizhou Town."

Zhou Mengchen was shocked and said, "This is impossible? How is it possible?"

Zhou Mengchen was very at ease when he was fighting in the south. That was when he was acting in the nine northern borders, the strongest part of Mongolia, the Tumote tribe was destroyed by Zhou Mengchen. Anyway, he thought that the remaining power would be shocked for a few years.

Even if we are not shocked, Heshuo has more than 100,000 troops and all of them have horses and stances, and they are all elite troops who dare to fight. Such an army may not be able to go directly into the desert, but guarding the border walls is not a problem at all.

Not to mention, after the rise of Heshuo, the burden on the border defense forces of Daming was greatly reduced. If we talked about the construction of Heshuo Town in the past few years, there was still more military expenditure. Now, Heshuo Province can generally be self-sufficient.

Established in slaughtering, animal husbandry, wool spinning, coal and iron, Datong has already supported Heshuo Province and can also pay some taxes to the capital. The military expenditure saved by Datong should be distributed to other border towns.

In this way, the military expenditure of other border towns should have increased, not decreased.
Chapter completed!