Chapter 34: The Dragon Born (3)

As soon as he left the palace, Zhu Zhi was blocked by Yang Rong who had been waiting in the Chaofang for a long time. Just as Yang Rong was about to speak, Zhu Zhi made a gesture. The two got into the carriage and the carriage slowly drove towards the palace.

The vehicle was shaking on the road, and Zhu Zhi told Yang Rong about the whole process of this trip to Jingzhou. Yang Rong remained silent for a long time after hearing this. Zhu Zhi thought he blamed him for not listening to the plan, so he hurriedly said, "Does Mianren blame me for not listening to your plan?"

Yang Rong hurriedly said, "Rong dares not. To be honest, Your Highness values ​​love and righteousness. Rong really admires it."

Zhu Zhi smiled and said, "Come on, Mianren, you don't say anything, but you must be complaining about meddling in your other people's business."

Yang Rong suddenly bowed respectfully and said, "Your Highness's words are really unfaithful to your subordinates' hearts, just like Rong does not understand your noble's hearts. Rong was thinking that your noble dared to act and dared to do the king, and it was not comparable to my wise and self-protection method. Rong was really ashamed.

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Zhu Zhi felt a little embarrassed to praise Yang Rong like this and hurriedly said, "Don't I know Mian Ren, a person I am so angry that I do something unreasonable. Haha, if Mian Ren was not correcting it, the fate of King Zhou would have appeared on me.

OK, don’t say this to my mother-in-law. Is there anything big happening in the capital these days when I left?"

After hearing Yang Rong's words, it turned out that Jianwen was not idle either and kept trying to deal with the King of Yan. First, Qi Tai suggested that he sent troops to prepare for the border Kaiping. Many elite soldiers and generals among the three guards of King of Yan were drawn away. Then Emperor Jianwen appointed Zhang Bing as the governor of Peking, and Xie Gui was the commander-in-chief of Peking, and in charge of the military and political affairs of Peking.

"Five days ago, the Ministry of War issued a series of orders, and the governor Song Zhong transferred 30,000 guards from Yanbian to garrison Kaiping. The Mongolian cavalry of Guan Tong, the former commander of the King of Yan, was transferred to the capital. Guan Tong was transferred to Beijing.

In addition, the left guard of Yongqing was stationed in Zhangde, the governor Xu Kai trained troops in Linqing, and the governor Geng Xian trained troops in Shanhaiguan. This time, our Shenyang Central Guard was transferred to Kaiping.

In this way, all the elite troops of the King of Yan have been transferred from the surrounding areas of Peiping, and Peiping has surrounded the imperial soldiers like iron barrels." Yang Rong introduced.

Ah, why did Qu Qing’s Shenyang Central Guard be transferred? This is the basic cadre team in Liaodong. After Yang Rong said this, Zhu Zhi was a little anxious: "Wait a minute, what's going on with the Shenyang Central Guard? How could they be transferred?"

Yang Rong said: "There is no way to do this. Song Zhong transferred troops from each border town, and the King of Yan, King of Jin, King of Dai, and King of Ning in the northern towns. Of course, there will be no shortages in Liaodong.

Lord Tie wrote to him that he originally wanted to transfer the Dingliao vanguards. But Yang Wen was afraid that the troops sent were not enough, so he finally decided to let the Shenyang Central Guards take action. But please rest assured, Qu Qing is still the commander. He has the troops in charge, so there should be no big problem.

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Zhu Zhi was upset. Yang Rong didn't know that Song Zhong's 30,000 troops were the first royal troops to fight to suppress the rebellion in Beiping after the Jingnan Campaign began in the future. Look at this name. Song Zhong, after the end of the year, I'm damn, the soldiers and horses he brought were invincible.

He won't be worried whether he can beat Zhu Zhi or not, but if he gets his elite soldiers for nothing, he will feel so distressed.

Zhu Zhi murmured, "No, no Liaodong soldiers and horses I have worked hard to manage can be cheaper for others. Mianren, please think of a solution quickly. Let the Shenyang Zhongwei return to Jian.

"Yang Rong felt a little strange. Although the Chenyang Zhongwei is Zhu Zhi's direct subordinate, there is no need to make such a big fight. But Zhu Zhi's order has come, and this idea is still something to think about.

In fact, for Zhu Zhi, Jianwen’s strategies are all about Chenzhizi, and they are all in history books, and Zhu Zhi also remembers them. In fact, for Jianwen.

These two hands were used to remove the firewood from the underworld. First, they took away Zhu Di's starting troops, and second, they found two police dogs to monitor them. No matter how they thought, they were foolproof. But... Zhu Zhi sighed in his heart and shook his head and said, "Mianren thinks whether the court's arrangements are appropriate."

Yang Rong said: "From the present perspective, the imperial court has basically cut off the wings of the King of Yan in this way. However, according to Wujian's spies, the King of Yan has recently recruited many outlaws in the name of fleeing troops. It seems that the King of Yan has already shown his rebellion.

But it's just now. My subordinates don't think there are many opportunities for King Yan." As he said that, Yang Rong's brows frowned.

Zhu Zhi knew that in Yang Rong's strategic conception, King Yan was always a big tree in front of him. But according to the current situation, King Yan's business was not as good as it could be done, so Yang Rong was naturally worried.

But Zhu Zhi couldn't tell him that the sale of King Yan would definitely be successful, and it would be very big, so he had to comfort him and said, "Oh, Wujian seems to be very efficient, but since Wujian knows it, the Jinyiwei cannot not know it."

Yang Rong said: "We have a spy's brother-in-law who happens to be the little leader of the royal palace guard camp. And he can only hear news about military affairs, and there is nothing else to do.

These are the five most important spies in Wujian. How much time has it taken to install such one? It costs at least 5,000 taels of silver every year. What can the Jinyiwei do? Your Highness thinks that Jinyiwei is so powerful."

Seeing Yang Rong scolding the Jinyiwei, Zhu Zhi knew that under Yang Rong's leadership, he had done a lot of achievements in intelligence work in the past two years. Some key departments of the court, such as the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and the most important even the eunuchs in the inner court had been placed in nails.

However, these are all piled up with money. Every year, they feed more than 100,000 taels of silver to more than 100 spies across the country. Zhu Zhi took out every penny from his own king's village, and sometimes embezzled some public funds from the construction of the navy.

Zhu Zhi said: "In recent years, Wujian's work has developed well, and he has worked hard and made great contributions."

Yang Rong said: "Your Highness, don't praise me. These are all filled out with money. Fortunately, I got the money from the previous yuan this year, otherwise I would have a headache."

Zhu Zhi suddenly remembered the matter of King Xiang and said, "The "mole" group in the Instagram must guard the door. Don't let us be so happy to find out about others, but people will spy on their own affairs clearly." Yang Rong quickly responded.

After talking about the idle chapter, Zhu Zhi said again: "Mianren thinks it is more appropriate to go back when we will go back."

Yang Rong said: "Your Highness has been there for only two months. Since the navy's ship arrived in the capital on the third day of the third month, it has been mooring in Jiangyin to wait. When he was inside, did your Highness mention the return of the vassal state to the emperor?"

Zhu Zhi said: "No, the emperor can't care about this. He is just about how to reduce the vassal states all day long."

Yang Rong said: "It's not just about reducing the vassal states, but the emperor has other wonderful things."

Zhu Zhi knew that Emperor Jianwen was not a foolish person. When he took office, he was involved in the criminal laws of all dynasties and revised the Hongwu Law to 73 articles, and everyone in the world praised him for his virtues.

Following Fang Xiaoru's opinions, he ordered the lenient administration, pardoned guilty and exempted the land rent owed by farmers. He ordered the Xingzhou, Yingzhou and Kaiping Guards who were all in the army would be exempted from one person. If the guards in the world were single, they would be released for the people.

Look, on the one hand, it wins over the people's hearts and on the other hand, it really looks like a wise ruler.

However, this person was a little overjoyed and unrealistic. After becoming an emperor, he not only quickly weakened the power of his uncles and uncles, but also anxious to change the ancestral land constitution.

First of all, he upgraded the six local officials, but it turned out to be just the second rank. He upgraded the Shangshu's grade to the first rank. This is just a small case.

The stupidest thing is that he also believed in Fang Xiaoru's instigation, and according to the records of the "Book of Zhou", he made frequent changes to the official titles of the six ministries, and some official names that had been used for thousands of years were changed to the official names in the "Book of Zhou".

For example, if you change the minister to the left and right ministers, your name has changed and your position has not changed. Isn’t this a matter of nothing to make trouble?

Another point is that Fang Xiaoru actually instigated Jianwen to restore the well-field system. Fortunately, the ministers led by Yang Jing stopped the nonsense between teachers and students, and the matter was settled.

However, these so-called new policies later gave the King of Yan an excuse to "restore the ancestral system" to raise an army.

Listening to Yang Rong's introduction, Zhu Zhi shook his head in distress. There was no way, even the nine cows that took the wrong medicine could not be brought back. He was diligent and loving the people, but he couldn't figure out whether his position was stable.

Yang Rong finally said: "Huang Zicheng is a man who is ambitious and has made many tricks. He is uneasy in foreign affairs and moves internal affairs, which is fundamentally shaken. How can there be a reason to be indestructible? Unfortunately, the emperor trusts this person so much."

Zhu Zhi said: "Hmph, I had a fight with this person in the palace today. Who knows what trouble he is going to make me again?"

Yang Rong said: "No further ado, Your Highness can use the excuse of the ice layer at Jinzhou Port to open up and ask the emperor to order him to return to the vassal."

Zhu Zhi opened the curtains and looked out the window. There were people coming and going in the streets and alleys of Nanjing, and no one was concerned about the changes in the country's government affairs.

Just as Zhu Zhi was thinking about how to express his farewell, a message sent from Liaodong was spread on Zhu Zhi's way back like timely rain - the North Mountain Jurchens went south to invade.

After four years of cultivation in the Jurchen area of ​​Beishan, Zahaqi's youngest son Fei Yanggu borrowed three thousand troops from his grandmother's house to piece together his two thousand troops, but Zamuling's dissuasion of soldiers was developed.

Although Fei Yanggu violated his father's advice and went south to compete for power, he also knew deeply that the strength of the North Mountain Jurchen was definitely not as good as that of Liaodong.

Therefore, he only adopted the harassment tactic of burning, killing, looting, and bypassing Dazhen, and heading south with light cavalry to reach the northern border of Lalu.

Zhuang De led the Lalu Guards to fight, but Fei Yanggu ran away after fighting, and there was no way to capture the main force of the Beishan Jurchens. Considering that he had insufficient troops, Zhuang De had already asked the Liaodong Dushi to send troops to reinforce.

Tie Hyun wrote the news into a letter to send it to the capital. The news came sooner or later, and it happened to be similar to the day when Zhu Zhi returned to the capital.
Chapter completed!