When Li Yanzhi left Beijing, he knew that Xia Yan and Zeng Xian might be bad.

Before returning to Beijing, he didn't know about Jiajing and Lu Bing's conversation at the Dan furnace. The reason why he made such a speculation was based on the information he had.

The Ministry of War was responsible for the military intelligence, military staff work, and some of the highest secrets of the Ming Empire. He could not reach the level of the chief, but he also heard some "rumors". The "rumors" said that two years ago, Shanxi and Shaanxi were in a famine. Zeng Xian's plan to reconcile money and disturb the local area, recruiting civilians and levying food and salary, which caused several riots, and Zeng Xian himself was suspected of deducting military salary. The source of the rumors came from Qiu Luan, a general who was impeached and imprisoned by Zeng Xian.

Li Yanzhi knew that Qiu Luan's "rumor" was reported to the Ministry of War. The question was whether the cabinet had suppressed it, or did anyone else tell Jiajing these "rumors" through other channels? But thinking about Yan Shifan's personality, Li Yanzhi knew that unless these rumors were completely stolen, even if only three points of fact were used as a foundation, Yan Shifan would definitely think of a way to let Jiajing know.

"Zeng Xian was bad at that time!" Li Yan thought, but what he didn't expect was that it was not "then" but "then" Zeng Xian was bad at this time!

Almost the day after Li Yanzhi left Beijing, Jiajing suddenly ordered the cabinet to re-examine the consequences of this re-condom operation. He raised three questions: First, is the re-condom known for his master? Second, is the food and salary sufficient? Third, is it certainly successful?

The first question is false, the second question is the key, and the third question is Jiajing's bottom line! If it is just these three questions, it would be fine, but these three questions are followed by a sentence, a very terrible sentence, that is, if the division is unknown, the food and salary are insufficient, it may not be successful. "What is the point of saying it is like the people who live in danger!"

This is no longer an inquiry, but a setting of the tone!

There is no money in the northwest!

Li Yan heard about this when he was in the southeast, and after a few months of patrol in the northwest, he became even more convinced.

The economic development level of various regions within the Ming Empire was extremely unbalanced. The southeast agriculture was developed and the commodity economy was prosperous. I really needed money and food. However, due to historical reasons, the northwest was generally poor, and grain production was difficult to even self-sufficient. As for buying grain, I had no money! All military operations must rely on the support of the central government. But does the central government have money?

That's right, Jiajing just allocated 200,000 taels of silver as the start-up fund, but 200,000 taels of silver is a drop in the bucket compared to this big plan for reconciliation! Just before leaving, Li Yanzhi checked the relevant information of the Ministry of War on the reconciliation plan. He knew that when Bai Gui, the Minister of War, was the first to propose this plan, he made an estimate, thinking that nine million taels of silver may be invested every year to maintain it. It was this terrible number that scared the rulers of all generations of 70 years!

Jiajing has a certain talent in power and skills, but he has many problems in state affairs. He is especially lacking in scrupulousness in his work, and he is prone to extreme stubbornness. When he first heard about the plan to reconcile, he was very excited, but he didn't think so much. But when he looked back, he felt something was wrong, so he turned from one extreme to another.

However, no matter what the emperor does, he will not make mistakes, so the mistake must be the ministers. There must be a minister to be responsible for this matter, so that the emperor can not be embarrassed! Therefore, Jiajing raised the three questions that have been confirmed.

Xia Yan could not answer these three questions.

Since he entered the cabinet again, he has spent money in the poor place in the northwest, and in the wealthy place in the southeast, he has also spent money! Millions of taels of silver! Even as the chief minister, he cannot raise it! Under the existing system of the Ming Dynasty, even a strong chief minister like Xia Yan has no ability to solve the financial problems at all.

As for winning, there is no winning in war.

Li Yanzhi stood on the former site of the Great Wall in Shanxi, looking down at the border villages below, and suddenly found that the silhouette of the Ming Empire was so devastated!

Is this and the Southeast really the same country?

He felt sad, not feeling disgusted.

"The money from the southeast is useless!"

Although the north is poor, it is the front line to resist the barbarians! For the wealthy southeast, the borders of Shanxi and Shaanxi may be poor and backward, but they are also persevering! If the poor and backward north is lost, the civilization and wealth in the south will be difficult to preserve!

Similarly, the key to whether the northern front can be defended is not the north, but the southeast! Because war requires money, the northwest has no money!

This is a natural lip-dental relationship!

"Driven the financial resources of the southeast and raise the soldiers of the northwest!"

This is the right way.

However, people in the south probably wouldn’t think so long. At this time, a unified government is needed to conduct regulatory planning.

"But what is our court doing!"

Xia Yan, who wants to do good things but does not have enough ability to do good things, is embarrassed.

At this time, Yan Song stood up and shouted sternly: "I think it is impossible to do it again!" He mustered up a long time of courage to roar this sentence. Facing Xia Yan's questioning eyes, he slowly said: "The cost of retrieval is too much, but now the national treasury is empty. This cannot be done! The border generals are jealous of the virtuous and capable, and withhold military pay, and cannot do it. These two cannot be done! Xuan, Da, the three sides, there is no major trouble. If the border provocation is lightly initiated, it will cause a great disaster and lead the Hu Ma Nan invasion, who will resist? These three cannot be done! Now the traitor in the court, the border warrior wants to gain his reputation for eternity, and bet on the safety of Your Majesty and the survival of the capital. The old minister is afraid that Ban Chao's achievements have not been seen, and the disaster of the earth and the disaster of the earth and the disaster is coming!"

The "Tumu Rebellion" occurred during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Oirat invaded the south. The eunuch Wang Zhen held Yingzong personally to fight and defeated Tumu Fort. Yingzong was captured. This was an unprecedented shame and humiliation since the founding of the Ming Dynasty! Jiajing's face changed drastically when he heard this, and there was already fear in his eyes!

Those who are proficient in power and scheming may not be proficient in politics, and those who are brave in internal fighting are more afraid of foreign enemies!

When Li Yanzhi left Datong, the weather began to warm up. The men in the capital were not afraid of the changes in the four seasons, because there was a furnace of charcoal to keep warm in winter and a storing ice to relieve heat in summer. The more distinct the four seasons were, the more they enjoyed it. However, the soldiers at the bottom of the border lacked food and clothing, and they might be buried after a heavy snowfall! And most people in the temple could not see these situations--even not pay any attention.

Xia Yan was one of the few ministers who could pay attention to these things. Yan Song's words surprised him. He stared at the "old friend" and his old opponent who had kneeled at his feet and cried and begged for mercy. He suddenly realized that he was very wrong - he underestimated the other party's shamelessness!

"Since you are against reconnaissance, why didn't you say it before?" Xia Yan roared angrily!

"Your Majesty!" Yan Song said with tears, and knelt down at Jiajing's feet: "Your Majesty! It's not that the old minister doesn't object! It's because Xia Yan never gives anyone a chance to object to him! I have the same maneuver as Xia Yan, and it's all matters. It's because he is arrogant and self-reliant, and he is dictatorial in everything! He is afraid of his ministers' intervention. In order to avoid him, he often waits until midnight to draft a book, and only occasionally picks one or two of them to give him a look! He didn't discuss it with me at all! Therefore, everyone in the court laughed at the old ministers, saying that the old ministers were decorations in the cabinet! They all respected Xia Yan, and everyone said: 'If you don't see Xia Yan, you don't know how to respect the general'!"

Jiajing's eyebrows stood up and said angrily: "This is really the case!"

Xia Yan felt cold in his heart. He suddenly realized that it was not him and Yan Song who had antagonized the West Garden at this moment, but him and the emperor!

However, it was too late to say anything at this time.

Xia Yan was dismissed from his post that day and was expelled from the capital today, and Zeng Xian was even more miserable! The Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Envoy both thought that the crime was unforgivable! Yan Song was laughing secretly when he was carrying Jiajing on his back. After receiving the news, Yan Shifan lay on the cushion and laughed wildly.

Until Li Yan reached Zeng Xian's military camp, and was about to go in and visit him, a team of fast horses took him first!

Who is it? It is even more fierce than the special envoy of the Ministry of War? After about one stick of incense, Li Yanzhi knew it - it was the special envoy of Jiajing!

With the imperial edict, the three-sided governor who held military power was dragged out like a dog!

Seeing this scene, Li Yanzhi suddenly felt cold sweat from his back!

"If I had taken another road back then, like Zeng Mian, even if I had the opportunity to be the governor of Zhejiang and take charge of Southeast Defense, the emperor would change his mind, and I would probably end up like this."

The meeting between Li Yanzhi and Zeng Xian happened in such a situation. Zeng Xian had no idea who was looking at him, but was just shouting in the shackles that he was wronged!

His screams were shrill and full of helplessness.

Li Yanzhi just watched quietly, and he was powerless to do anything about all this, and he didn't even know what to do.

"Have Li Zhe, the head of the Ministry of War who visited the northwest, arrived?"

The eunuch passed the order and shouted.

Li Yan stood out and knelt down to listen to the order.

"Sorry Li Zhe, the head of the Ministry of War, to take charge of this camp for a while until the new governor arrives!"

"I received the order."

It is not a good job to take charge of this camp for a while! Being a temporary military supervisor can take as long as a few days, but many people die in these few days!

After Zeng Xian was captured, Li Yan walked into the camp, and indeed felt that every pair of eyes was staring at him with hatred!

"Zeng Xian treats them well." Li Yanzhi thought. If Zeng Xian is really bad to them, Li Yanzhi should be welcomed rather than suspicious at this moment.

He took the letter of appointment and slowly walked into the camp, ordered the promotion to the tent, and summoned the generals to discuss matters. Most of the generals who came in were blood red. They entered the tent, but did not take off their knife!

The big tent was full of murderous aura! If Wang Shizhen had been replaced, he might have been scared by this murderous aura.

Li Yanzhi sat down slowly and ordered the generals to sit down. In this big tent, his official rank was the smallest, but the situation was special at the moment. As a temporary military supervisor, he became the leader. Only after he spoke out did the generals dare to sit down.

"Although I am from the Ministry of War, I have just come from Shanxi and I don't know the situation in the capital." Li Yanzhi said: "I just arrived here and was about to visit Governor Zeng, but I didn't expect to encounter this incident. Like you, I don't know what happened. I was shocked and puzzled. However, since the court ordered me to take charge of this camp for the time being, I would like to ask you to help me. During the period before the arrival of the new Governor, everyone would not cause trouble. All the food and wages of the court should be distinguished."

His words express his position: Although I am from Beijing, I am not the same as the one who captured Zeng Xian. I will not make things difficult for you, but you should not cause trouble for me or yourself.

When the generals heard this, several of them rushed out and knelt down, crying and saying that Governor Zeng was wronged and asked the army to report to the court, don’t kill the good generals and loyal ministers! As these people took the lead, the whole camp knelt down and pleaded with mercy.

Li Yanzhi hurriedly stood up and helped him up one by one, with a serious expression, but his words were not confusing: "I will report to the court for you to what you mean! I think as long as Governor Zeng is really wrong, the emperor will make a statement!"

The soldiers and generals in the camp all had wives, children, and their boss was suddenly arrested. They had a momentary mood, but after the emotions passed, the military camp calmed down. After all, these were all soldiers from the court, not Zeng Xian's soldiers.

Li Yanzhi visited various battalions every day, listened to the soldiers' complaints, and tried his best to comfort them. He suddenly found that the joys, sorrows, sorrows, bitterness, and bitterness of these men in the northwest were essentially no different from those of the men in the southeast. When the generals saw that he was skilled in military affairs, they were not the kind of civil servants who could not understand the sorrows of men in the army at all, and they gradually became closer to him.

These days have made Li Yanzhi more confident, letting him know that his experience in leading troops in the south can be used to come to the north.

"If I were given power in the side, I could be the governor of the three sides!"

Li Yan thought.

But soon, the real three-sided governor took office. Seeing that the military camp was not leaking at all under Li Yanzhi's supervisor, he was surprised and praised: "Master Li, I can't tell that you are a new Jinshi, and you can lead troops!"

Li Yanzhi hurriedly said, "What do you have to do with the officials? The soldiers can abide by military rules."

All the generals were very happy when they heard this. The new governor smiled slightly and added a special note to the reply to the Ministry of War, praising Li Yanzhi for his temporary military supervision and his ability to be of great use. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in. There are more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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