After leaving the official residence of the Ministry of War, the generals dispersed one after another. The generals under the general followed their superiors spontaneously. Zhang Jin was moved when he saw Yuwen Shuxing leaving alone, and he quickly caught up with him, calling Said: "Brother Yuwen, please stay!"
Zhang Jin is one of the important members of the Guanlong aristocracy, while Yu Wenshu is an imperial member of the Guanlong aristocracy. The two are wary of each other and do not usually have much intersection. But Zhang Jin felt that their common enemies were Yang Su and Yang Ji, and they could talk together. What's more, both of them are Guanlong nobles, so they should be able to negotiate.
Yang Jian and Yang Guang did not interfere too much with the private contacts between ministers. They were emperors and had their own considerations. The conflicts between ministers were not terrible in themselves. As long as they did not do anything harmful to the country, then conflicts would exist, but instead It is beneficial to the emperor's ministers and control of the world.
Simply because factions and power struggles have always been the mainstream of officialdom in any court or regime from ancient times to the present, and the fundamental purpose of their existence is for profit. As a supreme emperor, such factional struggles also need to exist.
Of course, any power struggle must be under the control of the emperor. Once it gets out of control, it will fall into unlimited crony chaos and cause a crisis for the court. Such crises occurred in the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties in history.
Yang Guang also acquiesced in the emergence of factions in the imperial court. In fact, he could not stop it. As long as there were people, there would be struggle, and it would not change just because he was the emperor. So in a sense, Yang Guang hoped that there would be factional disputes in the court and that the Guanlong nobles would derive several powerful factions based on the three major factions. If Yuwenshu and Zhang Jin formed a new Guanlong faction, Yang Guang would Not only would Guang not stop it, but he would be happy to see it happen.
These important ministers all understand the emperor's trade-offs, so they can communicate with each other without fear, and do not deliberately pretend to be estranged from each other until death.
When Yu Wenshu heard this, he quickly stopped, turned around and glanced at Zhang Jin, smiled and said, "Brother Zhang, do you have any advice?"
"I don't dare take it!" Zhang Jin returned the salute with a smile and said, "Brother Yuwen, can we talk while we walk?"
"With pleasure!" Yu Wenshu smiled slightly. He almost didn't need to guess. He also knew that Zhang Jin had some unsolvable and sinister methods for the military reform and for Yang Ji. At the same time, he also felt lucky. Fortunately, he received the request for the military reform first. Plan and let your own people replenish their troops in time, otherwise your fake ones will be in trouble. Although it is only one night and one morning earlier than others, there are already many things that can be done during this time period.
However, Yu Wenshu is also depressed. The reason is that Yang Guang praised his visit to welcome Yang Ji last night, but Yang Ji's damn bastard responded to his "goodwill" through Yang Zhao's mouth and actually recommended him to stay. In the fight against bandits, this seems to be a "goodwill" move, but in fact, suppressing bandits has always been a thankless task.
Once the bandits have been wiped out, people think they are insignificant bandits, and they are not considered a great achievement. What is there to show off? If you can't suppress it completely, you are incompetent. What's more important is that after he stayed in Guanzhong, he was unable to accompany him in moving the capital, and many plans were shattered as a result, which made Yuwen Shu's heart bleed with hatred.
At the same time, Yu Wenshu also knew that most of the bandits in Guanzhong appeared when Yang Liang rebelled, and were inextricably linked to the Guanlong nobles. If they had the support of the Guanlong nobles, the task of suppressing bandits might not be so difficult; but He is a staunch supporter of Yang Guang and runs counter to the Guanlong nobles' philosophy of supporting Yang Yong. He has long been denounced as a traitor by them and banned by the three major factions. Now that he is in decline, how can the Guanlong nobles help him?
Just as he was distressed about this matter, Zhang Jin came forward on his own, which surprised the calm Yu Wenshu.
The two walked side by side, and Yu Wenshu said: "Brother Zhang, the reorganization of the Beijing camp is about to begin. As one of them, I would like to ask Brother Zhang for your full support."
"Support, how could you not support it?" Zhang Jin said with a smile: "As King Wei said just now, how can the Beijing soldiers be elite? It has really reached the point where it has to change, the saint is wise."
Yu Wenshu felt like a bright mirror in his heart, thinking that the sage really had some tricks, and his little trick had frightened the Guanlong nobles. If he followed Yang Ji's method to rectify the capital troops, the Guanlong nobles would be in chaos. , everyone puts themselves first, so how can they create trouble for the saint on the issue of moving the capital?
After the reorganization of the Beijing troops and the relocation of the capital in the Sui Dynasty, the strength of the Guanlong nobles must have declined greatly. Although this was an opportunity for the Shandong gentry, the southern gentry, and the eastern powerhouses to rise, on the other hand, was it not an opportunity for him, Yu Wenshu?
If the Beijing troops were not reorganized and the capital was not moved during the Sui Dynasty, everything would be decided by the three major factions of the Guan and Long aristocrats, and it would be difficult for them to seize part of the say in the Beijing troops. Therefore, in terms of overall interests, it would be beneficial to Yuwenshu to reorganize the Beijing troops and move the capital.
Zhang Jin paused for a moment and then said: "The saint asked Brother Yuwen and Yue Gong to draft the method of selecting troops and reducing generals to rectify the Beijing camp. There is no problem in thinking about it. But brother Yuwen, I have a suggestion. I want to talk about it.”
Yu Wenshu smiled: "Brother Zhang, it doesn't matter if you say it."
Zhang Jin said: "The Beijing troops are being reorganized, but there must always be a way out for the generals who violated the rules, right? They may have made mistakes now, but many of them have made great contributions to the court. The court cannot ignore old feelings and strictly follow the law. Should we punish them? There are also some old soldiers who are struggling to survive on military pay. If we just eliminate them without solving their livelihood, I'm afraid it will cause trouble in Guanzhong."
Yu Wenshu raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "What do you mean by Brother Yi Zhang?"
Zhang Jin sighed and said worriedly: "I think it is okay to eliminate the school, the old and the weak, but the court must arrange it properly, and most importantly, make a sum of money to settle down. Otherwise, I'm afraid people will be resentful."
When Yu Wenshu heard this, he felt a little unhappy: the military reform was an important battle for his comeback, and whether he could regain the holy family was very crucial to him; if there was no clearing out the bandits in the customs, he might turn a blind eye. He closed his eyes; but the subsequent suppression of bandits was obviously a thankless task, so he had to be extremely energetic. During the military reform process, he also had to consider the interests of the Sui Dynasty. Only the Only by achieving world-renowned achievements here can the possible "suppression of bandits" be eliminated.
At this time, Zhang Jin not only did not think about helping the children of the clan to make amends, but also wanted to make a fortune. How ridiculous is this? What made him even more dissatisfied was that he actually encouraged him to submit a memorial. Did he think that Yu Wenshu was a fool?
He said calmly: "These scum and old and weak soldiers in the army have taken up a lot of money from the imperial court. How can they ask for money from the imperial court?"
Zhang Jin frowned and said: "According to the wishes of the saint, the 700,000 Beijing soldiers must be cut in half. Such a large number of people cannot be left alone, right?"
Yu Wenshu said in a deep voice: "These generals are unfit for war, useless, and their military discipline is ruined. It makes no sense to give them money! What's more, there are many places where the imperial court needs money."
"The imperial court has never worried about money and food. Why can't it come up with this money?" Zhang Jin knew that no one could stop the imperial court's strategy of reorganizing the army and eliminating the old and weak. . For example, once the news comes out that Zhang Jin is here to fight for the rights and interests of eliminating generals and soldiers, this will greatly gain the favor of the Guanlong nobles and even the morale of the military.
Yu Wenshu smiled: "This has nothing to do with me."
Zhang Jin gave a meaningful reminder: "Nearly 400,000 people will be laid off. If they are not properly resettled, big trouble will probably occur."
"There will be no chaos!" Yu Wenshu said calmly: "Some generals have been eating short quotas and drinking soldiers' blood for many years. We should strictly investigate them and make them make up for the shortfalls. At that time, the old officers were settled with the shortfall money taken by the unscrupulous generals. weak!"
Yu Wenshu had already heard Yang Guang's words, and Yang Guang's meaning was very obvious. The court would not pay a cent in this matter.
As for the housing expenses for the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who have been eliminated, they can be found from the lawless generals. These people have been living on empty quotas and drinking the blood of soldiers for countless years, and have accumulated countless illegal gains. If they were investigated to the end and questioned one by one, the court would not have to pay any money. money, but make a lot of money.
This strategy was naturally used by Yang Guang to learn from Yang Ji's reorganization of the Liangzhou armies at Yang Su's suggestion.
Zhang Jin's face suddenly turned red, he praised the situation, and shouted coldly: "Wonderful, this strategy is extremely wonderful. It takes away the general's wealth and distributes it among the soldiers, without any money from the court."
But he was sneering in his heart, Yu Wenshu, you are so ignorant, you want to check the shortfalls, do you want him and the children of the clan to make up for the vacancies and military pay that they have received from the Beijing camp over the years?
Daydreaming!
Why couldn't Yuwenshu hear the anger in Zhang Jin's tone? Why would you want to offend someone so much? But everything he does now is dependent on the emperor, how can he not think about the emperor?
Now he has an arrow on the string and has no choice but to shoot. If he fails to do it, the emperor will ask for his punishment and he will have nothing.
Not to mention other people, even the money eaten by Yu Wenshu's pretenders must be spit out one by one and distributed to the soldiers below in time; maybe they are still punished, but at least they still stay in the military camp. , if the person is gone, how will Yuwenshu grow stronger in the future?
Besides, he is just a deputy with a major criminal record, and Yang Su is suppressing him. Now there is a scheming Yang Ji, what can he do? What do you dare to do? It's hard to say that Yang Su and Yang Ji are now hoping that he will make mistakes in rectifying the Beijing army.
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At the same time, Yang Ji, Yang Su, Yang Xiong, Xiao Jue, and Duan Wenzhen sent Yang Zhao away, and walked together to a spacious and bright side hall separated by a screen.
Xiao Jue ordered the clerk to serve fragrant tea.
Everyone sat across from each other, chatting and laughing while sipping tea, and the atmosphere became as formal as the main hall.
Yang Suguan paid homage to Shangshu Ling. He was the head of the six departments of Shangshu Province, so he should be the chief. He did not mention the matter just now, and asked Yang Ji with a smile: "King Wei, is it fun to fight the Turks?"
Yang Ji laughed when he heard this: "It's quite fun."
Yang Su asked again: "Didn't you encounter any difficulties?"
"This is really not true!" Yang Ji said: "Yue Gong, you are an old man who fought against the Turks. You know what the Turks soldiers are like, so I won't say more."
Yang Su nodded: "Let's talk some other time."
"Okay!" Yang Ji said with a smile: "I happen to have a lot of confusion, and I hope Mr. Yue will give you some advice."
Yang Ji was full of respect for Yang Su, a military god who was quite like a madman.
In his previous life, Yang Ji also went to Yiyun, thinking that the Yang family and his son had been preparing to rebel as early as the Yang Su period. The most powerful and sharpest argument at that time was what Yang Su said when he and his wife were arguing, "If I were the emperor, you would never want to be the queen." Then he wrote a book based on this sentence and said, "These things are very taboo in the feudal dynasty. , as a top figure in the Sui Dynasty, it is only reasonable that Yang Su should be careful in his words and actions. If he had no evil intentions, how could he say such things? And the fact that he blurted it out during the quarrel just shows that this is what Yang Su feels deep in his heart. Real thoughts.”
Only after the Sui Dynasty did we realize that this "sharpest" argument was actually the most unreliable "argument". The reason was that the thinking during this period was extremely open-minded. When the army returned from victory, the soldiers and civilians shouted "Long live xx". They are all, and there are also people named "Long Live" and "Dragon and Phoenix". So Yang Su angrily told his wife, "If I were the emperor, you would never be the queen." In fact, it was a private quarrel between the couple and had nothing to do with Yang Xuangan's rebellion. But Yang Su never dreamed that his wife would be used as evidence of his death, and based on this, he complained to the emperor and empress, saying that her husband was plotting evil and preparing to rebel.
In view of the big fuss caused by this matter, Yang Jian suspended Yang Su from his post for a period of time to give an explanation to the people of the world. Soon after, Yang Su was reinstated. This is just the attitude of an emperor. Otherwise, how could Yang Jian have Yang Su reinstated in such a short period of time?
Even now, Yang Guang still pays great respect to Yang Su. Otherwise, how could he leave all the defense issues centered on Luoyang Xindu to Yang Su to design and build?
Therefore, Yang Xuangan, who rebelled, was more of a hero created by the current situation and had little to do with Yang Su. It was just that Yang Xuangan used Yang Su's accumulated wealth and a large number of contacts. In addition, it has nothing to do with Yang Su.
"King Wei is welcome, let's learn from each other." Yang Su smiled and said: "Inspired by King Wei, I started to write a military experience. I collected many ancient and modern battle cases. Many of King Wei's fighting methods were unprecedented and very special. It’s novel. If you, the person involved and the coach, were there to talk about it, I would definitely gain a lot.”
"Then I'll ask you to talk to me some other time. Let's have a nice chat," Yang Ji said.
Yang Su smiled and said, "National affairs are the most important thing. After this moment, find a quiet place." "
After the greetings were completed, Yang Su said: "King Wei arrived in Beijing yesterday. He was not supposed to be in charge of labor, but the military reform is so fast that there is no need to delay. In order to improve the general reform as quickly as possible, I recommended you to the saint."
After a pause, he looked at Yang Ji with gentle eyes: "Through the suggestion just now, I know that I did not recommend the wrong person."
Yang Ji bowed and said with a smile: "Yue Gong has fought and worked hard for the Sui Dynasty all his life, and he is still working hard for the cause of the Sui Dynasty. As a junior, what reason do I have to be lazy? I don't have anything to say. As long as I'm free, I'm always available."
Yang Su looked at Yang Ji with admiration and thought to himself, he is really a good young man who is neither arrogant nor impetuous. The country is very lucky to have such a hero. He laughed heartily and said, "Speak quickly! I admire your straightforward temper."
Yang Su is like this: as long as he admires anyone with real abilities, he can also treat them as friends. As for the other person's origin, wealth, age, etc., he doesn't care, because no matter how others compare, they are not as high as him. , much wealth. But if you have no ability but occupy a high position, don't blame him for losing face.
As for Yang Ji's ability, there is no doubt that his literary talent is also top-notch, and Yang Su recognizes everything. More importantly, he admired his style of immediately blaming the sky and the earth when something was wrong.
If you have the ability, why not be a little arrogant? How can we bow our heads to those wine bags and rice bags that eat nothing?
He praised it and then said: "During the early court, the saint asked Yu Wenshu and I to join hands with the Ministry of War to rectify the Beijing army. I proposed to take this opportunity to cut off the so-called 700,000 elites by 400,000, and to replace the old, weak, sick and disabled with useless weapons. Eliminate them all. If you can't collect 300,000, continue to eliminate them to 200,000 or 100,000. This will not only reduce the financial pressure on the court, but also get a truly elite army. The saint also means the same, but how to disarm? There is no detailed plan for how to arrange it.”
At this point, he said meaningfully: "If we can quell the Han Dynasty's rebellion, the troops that have not arrived yet will be able to breathe a sigh of relief."
This is a bit shocking to say.
Who led the army that has yet to arrive?
Since he was a "disciple" of the Guanlong nobles who took a wait-and-see attitude between Yang Guang and Yang Liang, Yang Guang would have trouble sleeping and eating against these uncontrolled troops; if it were not delayed by the purge of Bingzhou officialdom in the first half of the year.
It has been greatly improved a long time ago.
Now that we have our hands free, it is time to settle accounts with these armies.
When Yang Ji heard this, his heart couldn't help but be filled with a haze.
Cutting off 400,000 Beijing soldiers in one breath is a terrifying thing in itself. If it specifically targets the army that has not done anything before, you don't need to think about it to know that it will be a big turmoil.
It's no wonder that Yang Guang asked himself to prepare the Liangzhou Army, Huizhou Army, Lanzhou Army, and Taozhou Army to enter the Pass. It turned out that he had already had the worst plan to defeat Guanzhong. In addition to his own Liangzhou army, Yu Juluo, the general manager of Fengzhou in the north of Yongzhou, and Sun Changxun, the general manager of Shengzhou, must also have received similar instructions.
Yang Guang urgently moved Yang Yichen, who had served as the governor of Xiangzhou for less than half a year, as the governor of Jingzhou. He clearly wanted Yang Yichen to guard the east gate of the Liangzhou army's eastward advance, so that the Liangzhou army could enter the pass unimpeded. In the same way, Qu Tutong, who was appointed as the governor of Yanzhou, seems to be helping Yu Juluo and Sun Changxun guard the southern gate of Guanzhong... In addition, the newly appointed governor of Puzhou, Guo Xuan, and the governor of Guozhou, Wei Jin, are both A direct descendant of Yang Guang.
After combing through this, Yang Ji couldn't help but take a breath of air.
The military reform was not only a military reform, but also deliberately angered the Guanlong nobles and encouraged them to rebel after the imperial court moved the capital.
If that's the case, that's really a big deal. However, from the perspective of the interests of the Sui Dynasty, using Guanzhong to bury the Guanlong nobles was definitely a very cost-effective business.
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