Chapter 53: Beijing incident

Yang Bo did not directly talk about the conditions, but said, "The sudden change in Beijing has been going on for more than ten days, which is very exciting."

Zhou Mengchen was stunned. He had to admit that he was still not as good as many civil servants in many things, such as the news transmission. For the same thing, Yang Bo could have known about the news from Beijing to various places a few days earlier than Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen could only contact various places through the post station, but Yang Bo had the entire Shanxi merchant's news channel. Although he could not compare with the official channels of the Ming Dynasty, in some special circumstances, he could be faster than the official channels.

Sometimes it’s almost one day, and it’s the difference between heaven and earth.

Many civil servants have such channels, although the channels are rooted in different places.

But Zhou Mengchen did not.

Zhou Mengchen said, "I would like to ask Brother Yang for some advice."

Yang Bo said: "There are many things, and I don't know where to start for a while. Let's talk about it first. Although I am the Minister of War, I can't stay away all the time. Someone still needs to be in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War. Yang Shun, Governor of Xuanda, has entered Beijing and is in charge of the ministry."

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen sneered and said, "Even if you don't use Brother Yang, you should use Governor Xu, why do you use this person?"

Zhou Mengchen had a very bad opinion of Yang Shun. It’s not that Yang Shun is a member of the Yan Party. To be honest, for some officials with a foundation, they can choose to be a party and follow the boss. However, for the officials at the bottom, they have no choice at all. Their origins determine who they want to follow? Otherwise, they are ungrateful. Otherwise, they are against the morality of the officialdom and are not from the inside and outside. If you do this, please refer to Li Shangyin. Li Shangyin’s life was so miserable, it was because he was walking on two boats in the officialdom.

For men, this is a taboo. The hatchet in the officialdom is more fierce than you think.

Therefore, among the strict party, there are not no ministers who can do things. However, the proportion is relatively small, but Yang Shun is not listed here at all.

In Zhou Mengchen's opinion, I don't know whether Yang Shun can do other things, but it is not suitable to be a border minister at all.

Zhou Mengchen was in Datong for several years, but his superiors, including the Governor of Xuanfu and Governor of Xuanda, have been changing their positions, not to mention that Zhou Mengchen did not abandon Governor of Xuanda at all. He had any questions and contacted the Ministry of War and the Cabinet. Governor of Xuanda had become Governor of Xuanfu and his power was greatly reduced.

Under the principle of checks and balances, Yan Song's people have always served in the Xuanfu. After all, Zhou Mengchen was nominally a member of Xu Jie, and Xuanfu and Datong are two gates in Beijing, and they cannot be handed over to one person.

Zhou Mengchen recalled what Yang Shun did in Xuanfu, which can be summarized into three things. The first is to seize merit. Zhou Mengchen is under the command of the Governor of Xuanda after all. Although Yang Shun could not interfere in anything about Datong, once Zhou Mengchen did something, he wanted to seize merit. Even if he couldn't catch merit, he would have to make some money. It was so annoying. Moreover, Yang Shun's seize merit was not only for Zhou Mengchen, but also for Yang Shun's pursuit of merit against the people below. Any little bit of merit must be Yang Shun's contribution. The little bit of merit that he made from hard work is his.

The second is to make money.

He has to take advantage of all kinds of money, military pay, all kinds of appropriations, even smuggling, etc., everything that can make money is worthwhile.

The third is that Yan Shifan is the only one who obeys the order. He searched for beautiful women for Yan Shifan and found Datong for a while. After all, Datong’s wife is famous.

Apart from these three points, he had no military achievements at all, and he didn't even know how to fight. If Zhou Mengchen hadn't been to Datong, he would have been crippled by Xin Ai long ago.

This also made Zhou Mengchen sometimes unbalanced. Sometimes he wanted to let go of the road and let Xin Ai fight the Xuanfu so that the people in the world could see what Yang was like. But he could only think about it. After all, he didn't think about it for himself, but also for the people of the Xuanfu.

As for Xu Lun, he is now the governor of Liaodong. He is also resisting the Tumans and the front line with the Liaodong Jurchen tribes and other divisions. It can be said that looking at the entire nine sides, the largest opponent of the Ming Dynasty is the Tumote tribe, and the second largest opponent is the Tuman tribe in Liaodong, the Tuman tribes, the Duoyan tribes, the Jurchen tribes, etc. that Liaodong has to face. In short, it doesn't seem strong, but it is actually very troublesome. Xu Lun handles it very well. Although there is no big victory, the divisions have not been cheap in Liaodong. In Zhou Mengchen's view, Xu Lun has the talent of the Minister of War.

In history, after Longqing was granted tribute, Altan became honest. After that, all the wars were fought in Liaodong, and Li Chengliang's reputation was also made. Xu Lun established a foothold in Liaodong and was able to do things, which shows that he had financial resources.

Of course, another reason why Zhou Mengchen valued Xu Lun is that Xu Lun is from Shaanxi. After Zhou Mengchen and Han Bangqi joined the line, they actually joined the entire Shaanxi gentry. No matter what, Xu Lun is Zhou Mengchen's own person, but with this relationship, he can speak better and become a helper for each other. After all, at this time, those who cannot follow me will prosper and rebellion will perish. More importantly, they must join forces and join forces.

Zhou Mengchen actually didn't know that because history changed, the experiences of these two people changed a little.

In history, Xu Lun replaced the Minister of War after Yang Bo. Because Xu Lun had two achievements before, the first was to build the outer city of Beijing. The second was to build the walls of Shanxi, fight against the Tartars, and behead hundreds of them. The third was to build the Datong border wall, and he was also a military talent that was quickly promoted by Jiajing after Altan was at the city in the 29th year of Jiajing. However, in this history, Zhou Mengchen was too bright, Xu Lun had insufficient achievements, and there was no one above, and he is still in the position of governor. On the contrary, although Yang Shun was influenced by Zhou Mengchen, as the backbone of the Yan Party, the confidant of the little cabinet, naturally he was not affected. The most famous thing Yang Shun did in history was either anything else, or killing Shen Lian.

Of course, Xu Jie is much stronger than in history. Although Yan Song has one hand covering the sky, it is different from the other hand covering the sky in history. After all, Xu Jie accepted Xia Yan's remaining troops from the beginning, and then had the support of Zhou Mengchen, a famous general and favorite minister, which is completely different from Xu Jie's rank as a Grand Secretary at that time.

So under this form, Yan Song had no intention of trying to mess with Shen Lian. After all, Shen Lian was from the Jinyiwei and Lu Bing. Lu Bing was also an emperor, and he was always neutral in the struggle between the two sides.

Zhou Mengchen actually understood that when Yang Bo went out, he was destined to be vacant for a long time. Among the rules of the officialdom, the person who temporarily took over the ministry affairs at this time was the person who would take charge of the Ministry of War in the future.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "Yang Bo mentioned this at this time? Was he asking me to help him regain his position as Minister of War? I can't do this?"

Zhou Mengchen has a place in politics now, but it is just a place. It does not mean that Zhou Mengchen has the opportunity to speak on major events like the Six Ministers of the Secretariat. Even if there is, it is still in the capital. He has no influence outside.

This is also the reason why many officials are unwilling to leave the capital. Because of their right to speak, Zhou Mengchen used some effort to speak in the capital, but it was not that he could not speak on the candidates for the Minister of War. It was like Zhou Mengchen who helped Wang Yongbin to subscribe to the Minister of Rites by chance.

Yang Bo shook his head slightly and said, "Mr. Zhou has been too rewarded. Yang Shun's temporary reign as Minister of War is still a small matter, and there is another thing that has something to do with Lord Zhou. Mr. Wang of the Ministry of Rites has been transferred to the Minister of Rites in Nanjing."

Zhou Mengchen was slightly stunned when he heard this, sighed and said, "After all, the imperial examination is imminent, and Wang Shangshu has no foundation. This incident was actually expected, but he didn't expect that these two things would happen together."

Yang Bo laughed and said, "There are not two things happening together, and one thing happening too. Compared to this thing, these two things are simply pediatrics."

Zhou Mengchen was stunned. He felt that the change of the six ministers of the six ministries was already a great turmoil in the officialdom. Could it be that something else had happened? Zhou Mengchen immediately asked, "What else?"
Chapter completed!