The little emperor Longqing lived a comfortable and awkward life.

What’s so comfortable is that he has nothing to do. Now he is still a teenager. If he is in an ordinary family, even though he is an emperor, there is Xu Jie in government affairs and Li Zhe in border defense. It is true that literature can stabilize the country and martial arts can stabilize the country. What are the concerns about the emperor?

But it was awkward and awkward here - Longqing felt that after he ascended the throne, he was no different from when he was a state-regulator. All the government affairs of the imperial court were handled by the cabinet ministers and asked him to stamp them after they were properly handled, which made him feel like a puppet, not an emperor.

This situation reminded him of Emperor Xian in the late Han Dynasty, "Can I be a king who lost his country?"

Xu Jie and Li Zhe respected him at least in terms of etiquette, but if an emperor has no power, can he feel real?

Sometimes, Longqing even missed Jiajing a little, and he thought: "If my father was in power, he would definitely be able to suppress these civil and military officials. Although I am the crown prince, I will always be able to take over the throne one day..."

But now, he and Jiajing are both hanging in the air. Once the power is moved down, can the lord continue to be the lord, and can the lord continue to be the lord?

The little emperor was not the only one who felt the pressure of the tripod. On the contrary, the ministers of the two capitals realized earlier than the emperor in this matter!

Although the tariff figures reported by the General Administration of the Maritime Administration of the State Council have been retained, the huge number is still shocking to the central government officials in Beijing. Li Yanzhi led a troops of tens of thousands of people, including an elite force that is not comparable to those of any military officer or military officer. Moreover, the military source of military troops has clearly broken through the military system and switched to recruitment. With this fixed income, the Navy Governor's Office can not only support troops, but also expand its military.

Since ancient times, once the military power and financial power of the border officials have been integrated, the situation may be uncontrollable! What's more, the authority of the central government has been weakened unprecedentedly, and even split into the north and south. Therefore, Xu Jie and others have made the worst plan in their hearts, which is what to do if Li Yan rebelled?

Several major ministers in the cabinet have good friendships with Li Yanzhi, some are his mentors, and some are his bosses. If Li Yanzhi is unjust, Xu Jie and others may not be able to continue their wealth in the new dynasty as long as they change their minds, but Xu Jie does not want the situation to develop in that direction.

"Emperor Taizu made great contributions to expel the captives, and now there is no serious crime of harming the country and the people. If Li Zhe had an unexpected plan, he might be suspected of stealing the capital. Moreover, the chaos in the world is not a blessing for the people."

But what is Li Yanzhi's intention? Although Xu Jie had an extraordinary relationship with him, he could not ask him directly, and he could not even write a letter - there was a risk of leaking the words, but things could not be dragged on like this.

In the past few months, Li Yanzhi has been very cooperative with Beijing's policies. Thanks to his cooperation, Xu Jie was able to handle the country's complex government affairs in a relatively stable situation. However, after entering a new era, with the expansion of power in Li Yanzhi's hands and the increase of elite soldiers and generals of the Navy Governor's Office, Xu Jie increasingly felt that the Beijing government had an excessive dependence on Li Yanzhi. He was willing to change this situation, but recently something happened.

Since the New Year, Fang Dun, the Minister of Revenue, ran to the cabinet every few days. Recently, he has been pestering Xu Jie every day, just for that matter - Jiangnan Caoyin!

"This matter is related to the life and death of the court. Master, you must keep a close eye on it!"

It should be noted that although the Ming Dynasty ruled a large area, most of the taxes came from the south of the Yangtze River, with a population of one million in Beijing, hundreds of thousands of troops from the three norths, and even the large and small yamen in the country all rely on taxes from the southeast to transport north through the canal. If the two taxes arrived in Beijing late last year, the army would not be able to pay or pay the officials or pay, and maybe Beijing would still collapse after the king left. Today, it has gradually become more and more stable, but for the Beijing government, there is a big problem that is the existence of the Nanjing government.

Jiajing and Yan Song had long been eyeing the taxes on the southeast. Although the prefectures and county governments in various places still collected taxes in accordance with the customs to wait for the north transportation, the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue has issued a document to rob the batch of money and grain. If this batch of taxes is taken away by Jiajing, the Beijing central government will be in danger of collapse. Therefore, Fang Dun said that this matter "is related to the life and death of the court."

In fact, even if Fang Dun didn't say this, Xu Jie was thinking about it every day, but this matter was quite difficult. Xu Jie could still maintain a calm mind when facing the southern invasion of Mongolia, but when he thought of this, he became irritable and restless, and several other cabinet ministers were all numb when they thought of it.

Beijing’s dependence on Caoyin is more important than that of babies who have not yet grown teeth on breast milk! Whoever pinchs Caoyin will pinch the lifeblood of the Beijing government!

The transfer of money and grain in the southeast is from the Governor of the Sewage Transport.

The capital in the early Ming Dynasty was set up in Nanjing, and the capital of the capital was established. The grain transport commander was established. Soon after the Jingnan Campaign, the general officer of the grain transport was appointed. During the Xuande period, the assistant minister, the chief censor, Shaoqing and other officials were sent to govern the grain transport. In the second year of Jingtai, the governor of the grain transport and the governor of the four prefectures of Huai, Yang, Lu, Feng, and Xu, He and Chu, which were both governors of the grain transport and military affairs. Therefore, the governor of the grain transport was in charge of the grain transport and had the most power!

The title of Governor of the Grain Transport was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel. Before the chaos in Beijing, the cabinet could decide the stay and departure of Governor of the Grain Transport Transport, but after the Ming Dynasty split into the north and south, the authoritarianism of the two capitals was greatly weakened. The current Governor Chen Simei and the emperors of the two capitals did not dare to act rashly, but instead wanted to win over it - this principle is the same as winning over Li Yanzhi at the same time.

Xu Jie and Fang Dun both knew that if the Governor of the Valley Transport was in favor of Nanjing, then he would have to ship the grain ship to Nanjing with a single order, and then the matter would be over. But if Chen Simei rashly removed and a more reliable person would be the Governor of the Valley Transport, if Chen Simei would turn to Nanjing before the new official took office and refused to be ordered, it would only make things worse.

"In the past six months, because Li Zhe was suppressing in Shanghai, the officials in Nanjing did not dare to do anything randomly. The tax on the canal transportation is still in accordance with the old rules for the time being." Ding Rukui said: "But today's canal transportation governor Chen Simei once had an old relationship with Yan Song, so this matter is very unfavorable to us!"

Fang Dun also sighed: "The Supreme Emperor and Yan Song have not made any noise in the past six months, mainly because they are poor. If they have money in their hands, the Ming Dynasty will be in a mess!"

During this period, Beijing and Nanjing were trying hard to win Chen Simei. Beijing hoped that he would be conservative and Nanjing hoped that he would obey the new order. Both sides used all means from threats to temptations. However, the Governor of the Cao Transportation was located in Huai'an, which was close to Nanjing and far away from Beijing. Yan Song and his son made things easier. Several major officials in the Beijing cabinet felt that this matter was not likely to win.

"In fact, no matter what the Governor of the Grain Transport thinks, we have a way to win." Zhang Jing, Minister of War, suddenly said.

"Is there a way to win?" Ding Rukui, Fang Dun and others asked one after another.

But Zhang Jing didn't speak, just looked at Xu Jie.
Chapter completed!