Since he is an isolated minister, it is more difficult to climb to the position of chief minister of the cabinet than to form a famous minister. If Chen Yan can stand here, if he can always bear to be called "old man", he will naturally not be as ignorant as the slander of the political enemy. Just by avoiding the real and changing the wrongs and replacing the pillars, it can be seen that.

Emperor Chongzhen was indeed stuck due to the money and food problem.

It is very simple for military generals to go to the expedition. With an edict, the military power was granted, and then they took the defense of the Ministry of War to lead the troops. Every military general who can stand alone has his own servants. These adopted sons are the main force of the army. Naturally, they help him handle all the affairs of all major and small, and there is no need for the court to send additional officials. At most, they only send military supervisors, as well as civil servants who communicate food and grass, and record merits and demerits.

It is even easier to supervise the army to go to the front line to supervise the generals as long as the imperial edict is issued and guards are in place. During Yuan Chonghuan's time, even if he is as fierce as the generals in Liao Town, he had to listen to the generals and make some small moves secretly. To this day, even the important officials like Hou Xun and Ding Qirui could not control Zuo Liangyu. As for the Shanxi and Shaanxi, Wang Qiaonian and Fu Zonglong were directly abandoned by their generals and died in the formation.

This is also the reason why Grand Secretary Wu Yan was trying to lead the soldiers in the Beijing camp to supervise the local area.

If the emperor personally fought, it would be very different.

First of all, no one of the Shangzhi personal guards must be left behind, and secondly, all three major battalions in the capital must be dispatched. According to the ancestral system, the Shenji camp is guarding outside, the three thousand camps are patrolling in the center, and the five military camps are deploying guards inside.

In addition to military preparations, the political center must also follow the emperor's presence, the cabinet assistant, the six ministries officials, and the ministers of Taigaki must also accompany them. The official letters and texts of each ministries were transferred from the capital to the journey, and they had to be passed on day and night by post horses. People ate horses and chewed horses, and how could they personally fight without money and food?

Chen Yan hit the nail on the head, clearly saying: Your Majesty the Emperor, now you have no money, don’t have the idea of ​​personally expedition. He looked at Chongzhen, who looked full of confusion, as if he was being pulled into an egg, and moved the flowers and trees again, shifting the topic away, and said calmly: "On that day, Your Majesty was willing to supervise Huguang. Wu Qi refused to go without any troops. If Your Majesty could gather the army, how could Wu Qi refuse?"

Wu Yan was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli. During the Tianqi period, he was appointed as the censor. His career was bumpy and he had several ups and downs. In June of the 15th year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the Minister of Rites and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, and was the second auxiliary to the cabinet. The Grand Secretary of the Dongge had the responsibility to educate the East Palace. When the prince happened to be at the age of studying, he had to go to the East Palace. If he didn't say he was really teaching, he had to be familiar with him.

Zhu Cilang had a deeper impression of Wu Di. Compared with the famous calligraphy and painting officials before, Wu Di had a rich experience. He had the power and wit of bravely fighting Wei Zhongxian in the court; he had the character of despicable people rather than bowing his head; he had the ruthlessness of governor Shanxi to suppress the rioters; he had the kindness of raising flags in front of the army to allow the elderly, weak women and children to survive.

When Wu Yan entered the cabinet, Zhou Yanru was the chief assistant. Zhou Yanru, as the old-fashioned chief assistant, secretly formed a party, and Wu Yan could also compete with him. People at that time called Zhou Yanru the Jiangnan Party and Wu Yan the Jiangbei Party because of the origins of the two auxiliary ministers. It can be seen that this secondary assistant also had the ability to raise the flag to fight for the party.

Now Wu Yan has been sent to the Jinyiwei Prison, and there is no exaggeration to say that his life is in full swing.

"The Emperor, the Eastern Palace is here by order and is waiting to be summoned." Wang Zhixin saw that Chen Yan mentioned Wu Yan, and knew that the prime minister had the intention of putting in trouble and killing a dog. He also knew that His Highness the Crown Prince's favor for Wu Yan, and went forward without any trace to change the topic. He thought that Chen Yan would never dare to rush to Wu Yan in front of the crown prince.

As expected, Chongzhen was unconsciously attracted the attention and said, "Please come up from the East Palace."

Wang Zhixin quickly changed his words, and soon saw the Eastern Palace steadily wearing a big red dragon robe. Although his figure was not yet full and thick, it had already shown the posture of a dragon walking and a tiger strolling, which made people feel awe.

Zhu Cilang went up to the cloud platform and glanced lightly, and he had already taken all the ministers into his eyes.

In addition to the several major ministers of the cabinet, the seven important ministers were also here. Among them, the left censor Li Banghua was considered his own person, the center Feng Yuanbiao and the Ministry of Personnel Li Yuzhi were all ministers who showed good feelings for him. Ni Yuanlu of the Ministry of Revenue once taught him a class and was also an acquaintance, and most of them were on his side.

The majority of the seven ministers have already gained, and Zhu Cilang has greater confidence in obtaining the military commander of the clear order today.

"My son pays homage to His Majesty," Zhu Cilang stepped forward and said.

"Xing." Chongzhen raised his arm slightly, and a hint of love appeared under his tired face. He ordered his left and right to give him a seat, and then returned to the military of Huguang, saying: "Shuchen asked for an order to yu urge the prince to ease the army of Huguang. Why do the prince think?"

"My sons and ministers should share the worries of the king and father, and serve the country!" Zhu Cilang agreed without hesitation.

Feng Yuanbiao and Li Banghua had known the prince's ambition for a long time, and it was not surprising. Because Feng Yuanbiao had already made memorials and memorials, the task of beating the side drums now fell on Li Banghua's head. The old man coughed lightly and went out to play: "Congratulations to Your Majesty! The Eastern Palace is loyal, brave and pure filial, and it is truly a blessing for the country and your Majesty's blessing!"

After hearing this, Chongzhen raised his lips slightly and swept his eyes to the senior officials in front of him.

Chen Yan could no longer mention Wu Da's affairs, and felt a little regretful, but he was silent. Jiang Dejing and Wei Zaode were only informed about the prince's affairs on weekdays, and as the assistant to the court, he did not dare to pay too much attention to it, so he was inconvenient to speak. Another cabinet minister, Huang Jingfang, recently submitted memorials to request retirement, so he was unwilling to speak up again.

"Your Majesty," finally Jiang Dejing broke the cold and stepped forward and said, "I think your highness's army is not less expensive than personal expedition."

Zhu Cilang looked at Jiang Dejing and also stepped forward and followed up: "His Majesty, my son's ministers can practice the military, and the military's consciences can be paid separately without the need for the treasury to pay the military salary." The silver he got this time in the epidemic prevention process was enough to support a unit of nearly 10,000 people for more than half a year. This was because the treatment under the Eastern Palace was extremely high, and even exceeded the standards of the Qi family's army when Qi Jiguang was.

Moreover, fundraising has become a trend now, and some of the military expenses of the Eastern Palace Guards were clearly listed at real prices. This part of the money was used as the guards to maintain the refugee camp outside the city. The cost of the quarantine camp was equivalent to reimbursing part of the military maintenance expenses. As for the refugee camp and the quarantine camp, there are naturally separate listings, so the prince's prince does not need to be cāo's heart.

"The practice of traveling to the guest army?" Jiang Dejing expressed his expressionless face, but just repeated it, and thought to himself: The prince grew up in the deep palace. Although he was familiar with the rules, he didn't know how heavy this "visit military practice" was.

According to the imperial regulations, the guest army only needed to prepare its own food for three days in combat, and then began to eat local prefectures and counties on the second day of the garrison. However, there were policies and countermeasures on the upper side. During the change, the kings and soldiers from all over the country rushed to the capital and began to eat all counties in the capital from the second day according to the rules. The Ministry of War, Revenue and County were in difficulties, unwilling and unable to provide them, so they thought of a way: only let the guest army stay for one night, and the next day they transferred troops to Zhen'an County.

Naturally, his county also followed suit and refused to pay military rations. The host army of the kings was always turned away and was always on the road and could not get food and supplies. How could it fight against the Jin soldiers? Not only could it not fight, some of the host army collapsed and became chaotic soldiers, and then became the main force of the later bandits.

Thinking about the early years of Chongzhen, when refugees were in chaos, where were there any military orders? Didn’t we just see the imperial army scattered? It was these foreign troops, especially Xuanfu and Datong’s foreign troops, who became powerful, which gave refugees the ability to confront the official army and eventually formed the current situation. Not to mention anything else, many giant bandits from Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and even the Fifth Band of the Gellshu were once the Ming official troops who had eaten imperial grain.

"I'm afraid there are difficulties in the local area," Jiang Dejing added.

Zhu Ciyang responded: "Since the court wants to send reinforcements, no matter who supervises the army, there is a place to eat. How can they do it, why can't they do it?"

Jiang Dejing looked at the prince, wondering whether the prince was deliberately pretending to be stupid or had other meanings. Others could collect grain on the spot by leading the army through the border, because they had enough evil spirits. Hasn't you heard of "thieves are like combs, and soldiers are like combs"? As the prince, can you be as rogue and arrogant as those Qiu Bas? If that's the truth, even a county magistrate is from two Jinshi, can you really speak of him?
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