After Gao Gong finished speaking, Han Zhi of the Song Dynasty spoke first: "Students think that since the Gengxu Revolution, civil and military forces have been fighting for the capital. Zhao Ge Laojin has taken the title of cabinet minister as the general constitution. After all, he is one of the civil servant leaders. With this It’s not surprising at all.”
Gao Gong turned his head and glanced at Gao Pingshi. Seeing that his face was calm, he guessed that he knew about the Gengxu incident, so he nodded without saying much.
The so-called Gengxu Revolution occurred in July of the 29th year of Jiajing. At that time, the Tatar tribe Anda Khan gathered more than 100,000 people and invaded Datong in a large-scale south. Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, the commander-in-chief of Xuanda, panicked and bribed Anda Khan with a large sum of money, begging Anda Khan to attack elsewhere. In August, Anda Khan moved his troops eastward towards Jizhou and attacked the wall of Gubeikou with thousands of cavalry. Another group of capable cavalry was sent to break through the wall through the road and bypass the Ming army.
The Ming army was attacked from both sides and collapsed. Anda Khan immediately led the army straight to Tongzhou, divided his forces, looted Changping, and invaded the imperial tombs in Tianshou Mountain. The capital heard the police and declared martial law. At the critical moment when Anda Khan's troops were approaching the city, Emperor Shizong ordered the generals of all towns to command their troops to serve the King of Qin, and appointed Qiu Luan as the "General of Pinglu" to control the troops and horses of the King of Qin. Ding Rukui, the Minister of War, asked Yan Song, the chief assistant, about his plan to retreat from the enemy. Yan Song was afraid of losing the battle and ordered his generals not to act rashly. Qiu Luan went to Dongzhimen to wait and see, and allowed the enemy troops to freely burn and loot outside the city for eight days. In September, the soldiers of Anda Khan plundered a large amount of gold and silver property, livestock and people, and then left the fortress calmly from Baiyangkou. Qiu Luan was ordered to pursue but was defeated. In the end, he killed more than 80 civilians and cut off their heads to pretend to kill the enemy. Since this year was the year of Gengxu, it was called the "Gengxu Change".
"History of the Ming Dynasty" records: In the 29th year, I joined the invaders, and Ding Rukui, the Minister of War, had less than 50,000 or 60,000 troops in his camp. When they were driven out of the city gate, they were all in tears and did not dare to go forward. The generals also looked at each other and changed their expressions. Ru Kui sits down for execution. Yan Song, a great scholar, asked Zheng Brush to deal with the aftermath.
How to "refresh" and "remediate the aftermath"?
Because Ding Rukui, the former minister of the Ministry of War, was pushed out by Yan Song and made a scapegoat and executed, Wang Bangrui, the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs who was temporarily in charge of the Ministry of War, spoke up and said: "In the early days of the Kingdom, the number of powerful troops in the Beijing camp was no less than 700,000 to 800,000, and the Yuanrong generals often There is no shortage of people. From the three camps to the twelfth regiment camp, and then to the two official halls, although the situation is not as good as before, the army is still 380,000. Now the military equipment is accumulated, and the number of soldiers is only 140,000. There were no more than fifty or sixty thousand drillers, and they had some provisions but no dispatches. The enemy's cavalry penetrated deep, and the fighting and defenders were all said to have no troops. When they saw the soldiers, they led the old, weak, tired, and hawkers in the market, and took out their clothes, armor, and equipment for the time being. . The disadvantage is not to escape, but to occupy the army; not to the soldiers, but to the generals. They have been appointed as admirals, camp commanders, bosses, and generals. For many generations, they have occupied the army in peacetime and paid their salaries in an empty name. Before Cao Cao, people in the market were just dancing and laughing. In the past years, the ministers Wang Qiong, Mao Bowen, and Liu Tianhe often wanted to encourage them. However, the generals hated them and harmed themselves, and conspired to obstruct them. The sergeants were accustomed to arrogance and laziness, and competed with others. Promote rumors, but the matter was stopped again, causing harm to this day. I begged to revitalize the work and send out the best officials."
This was a direct attack on the military ministers and nobles, which would not happen under normal circumstances, but Emperor Jiajing was shocked and angry by this incident. Hearing this, he felt that it was quite reasonable - of course, this situation had actually happened to him before. I also knew that, but I didn’t expect that the situation has become so serious. If things continue like this, sooner or later, Beijing will be turned into an empty camp by this group of dandy wastes! Is that okay? So Lei Lei was furious and ordered the Ministry of War to discuss reform.
Seeing that the emperor was really angry, the noble military ministers knew that speaking at this time would be a sin, so they simply pretended to be dead and "lay down and let them be laughed at."
So the results of the reform came out quickly: the regiment camp and the two official offices were dismissed, and the old system of the three camps was restored. The three thousand camps were changed to the Shenshu Camp. Dismiss the admirals, gun supervisors and other internal ministers. Let there be a military minister, who is called the governor of the military affairs of the capital, and Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, is in charge; a civil servant, who is called the assistant governor of the military affairs of the capital, is appointed by the prince Rui. There are twenty-six deputy staff officers and other officers under him.
However, the civil servants would still not be satisfied with this, because the prime minister was still a military minister in the military affairs of the capital, so this reform was not very stable. In the end of the Jiajing Dynasty, the system was changed repeatedly, and finally the name of the Chinese military outpost was just called the war garrison. Also set up a car camp.
Some readers would like to ask, if Wu Chen performed so poorly this time, why is Prime Minister Jingying Rongzheng still Wu Chen?
First of all, of course, it was because Qiu Luan's spending money to buy Ping An was not exposed. Jiajing thought that this person was good and trustworthy.
Secondly, we must talk about the old system here. Not to mention the distant past, the appointment of military ministers as prime ministers to run the government began in the Hongxi period. In the fifth year of Xuande's reign, Zhu Yongyan, the Duke of Chengguo, selected the soldiers of the Beijing Guard to be assigned to the Fifth Army for training. The next year, he ordered Ke Dao and Jin Yi officials to verify the number of guards. The expedition against Gaoxu and the defeat of Wuliangha were both won with the Beijing camp. In the second year of Zhengtong, it was because of the words of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, that Jin Yi and other guards and mausoleum guards were ordered to keep half of them, and the Zhiqi School was under the supervision of Jin Yi, and the rest were all returned to the three camps. The system did not seem to have any major problems at first, but who could have predicted the construction difficulties, and the elite Beijing army that had relied on to frighten the world and attack Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty was almost completely wiped out.
At this time, the civil servant group who stayed in the capital realized that an opportunity had come. Regardless of the fact that Yingzong was taken prisoner in Oala, they pushed Emperor Jing to ascend the throne. Emperor Jing then used Qian as Minister of the Ministry of War. Yu Qian then appointed the three major battalions as edicts. To practice, one hundred thousand victorious soldiers were selected from each camp and divided into ten battalions for training. Each battalion has one commander, one chief officer, two commanders, ten commanders, one hundred team leaders, and two hundred team leaders. Then one of the three battalion commanders was selected to serve as the chief military officer and to supervise the internal ministers - and then the key came: the Minister of the Ministry of War or the censor of the capital was appointed as the admiral. The rest of the army returned to their base camp, which they called their hometown. The system of the Beijing army changed.
Thus, for the first time, the civilian clique reached into the Beijing camp, the core of military power.
However, what happened next may not have been expected by everyone. Yingzong actually escaped from Wala due to his charisma. Soon after, Emperor Jing died of serious illness and Yingzong was restored.
As an important figure in promoting Emperor Jing to the throne, Yu Qian was naturally found guilty and killed, including Tuanying.
Later, emperors Xianzong, Wuzong, and Shizong restructured the Jingying camp back and forth. The prime minister, Jingying Rongzheng, was sometimes a military minister, sometimes a civil servant, and even the eunuch Wang Zhi... In short, it was very chaotic.
Another point that needs to be added is that originally, the five military offices were all opened to give seals, but they only dealt with soldiers' registration and did not communicate with the battalion, and the battalion officers did not give seals. The military government had both a government and a seal, which started from Qiu Luan.
Although Qiu Luan was a waste, because other fronts were on the verge of collapse at that time, he bribed An Dahan and was actually considered a famous general in the world and was very favored. Of course he couldn't remain silent after being favored, so he suggested that Emperor Jiajing select 68,000 soldiers from each side to guard the army in separate groups to train with the Beijing army. Capital. But this idea is obviously a bad idea: there are police on the fort, but the border generals are not allowed to be recruited. As a result, not only the Beijing army has not been trained, but the border army has become more and more rubbish, which can only make "the border affairs get worse." When Qiu Luan's scandal was exposed and he died, the imperial court dismissed the chief officials of the Rongzheng Hall he had appointed, but the guards only dismissed Gansu.
Because Gao Gong just nodded to Gao Pragmatic, Gao Pragmatic misunderstood the meaning of Gao Gong's look and thought it was a signal for him to speak, so he said: "Prime Minister Rongzheng controls most of the military power in the capital. This position is handed over to the military ministers." Naturally, it cannot satisfy the civil servants. Therefore, there must be a group of civil servants who want to take over this great power. Zhao Ge always did this, and the boy thought there were two possibilities: One possibility was that the resurrection of the third uncle put too much pressure on him , so that he had to use this to win more support from civil servants in an attempt to counter the power of the third uncle; the second possibility is that he can directly benefit from promoting this matter... For example, using his people as the Prime Minister's Beijing Camp Rong Zheng, taking this position does not mean that he dares to do any unspeakable things, but it will make some people misjudge the situation and think that His Majesty is treating him with great respect, which will make some people treat him and the third uncle. Remain silent on the matter of dispute.”
Gao pragmatic misunderstood Gao Gong's meaning and expressed his opinion. As a result, Gao Gong misunderstood him and thought that it was the first time he was allowed to participate in such an "internal meeting" and he wanted to express himself. However, these two items are at least clear and coherent. Although Gao Gong knows that the second item is not true - the first minister of the Ministry of War and the four ministers (Wu Feng's note: originally the two ministers and the four ministers system were proposed and promoted by Gao Gong and the reform was added. The two assistant ministers mainly inspected the border affairs to understand the situation, so that they were very familiar with the dangerous passes on the border, the urgency of the situation with the captives, the virtuousness of the generals, and the strength of the soldiers and horses. In this way, there would be someone dedicated to the border affairs, and if there was a shortage of governors, they could (Please make up for it immediately.) None of them were from Zhao Zhenji, but of course Gao Pragmatic didn't know this, so judging from his analysis, it was pretty good, so Gao Gong didn't say anything more.
Not speaking represents acquiescence.
The nine Gao Gong disciples with great future were all quite surprised: firstly, they were surprised that Gao Gongshi could see the secret at a glance, secondly, they were surprised that Gao Gongshi said it so straightforwardly, and finally, they were surprised that Gao Gongshi was like this. Total acquiescence.
But everyone still has doubts in their hearts: Does an eight-year-old really have such vision? Could it be that the prime minister had analyzed Gao Pragmatic in advance in order to build up his nephew's reputation?
Of course, this kind of suspicion cannot be stated directly orally, but it shouldn't be a big problem to test it out in a roundabout way, so the officials all spoke to Tu Menggui about the incident: "During the Gengxu Revolution, Zhao Ge Laoli ranked the leader and the After the discussion, he was demoted by Yan Song. It was not until Jinshang inherited Dabao that he was reinstated as the Minister of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and took charge of Zhan Shifu affairs. This was when he returned to the central government. In August last year, he entered the cabinet as the Minister of Rites to assist the government. . Speaking of which, although he has some reputation in Shilin, his foundation in the court is actually shallow. From this point of view, junior brother’s analysis is quite reasonable, but..."
Tu Menggui paused for a moment, frowned and said: "Although Huo Benbing has been in military affairs for a long time, he is always in the border towns. He only came to the capital in the second year of Longqing to become the Grand Sima. He is well aware of the wide and deep interests involved in the affairs of the capital camp, so he He came to advocate caution, and there are rumors that he has always been on good terms with Duke Cheng Guo, Duke Ying, etc. According to students, I am afraid that they may not be happy to see Mr. Zhao Ge intervening in military affairs, especially the military affairs of the Beijing Camp."
Benbing is another name for the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Huo Benbing refers to Huo Ji, who is currently the Minister of the Ministry of War. As for the Great Sima... the Ming Dynasty people like to use ancient names to refer to the current position, and the Great Sima is also another name for the Minister of the Ministry of War.
In fact, it would not be a bad thing for Huo Ji if he could use the Minister of the Ministry of War to lead the military affairs. However, after the civil war, Yu Qian used the Minister of the Ministry of War to establish the Tenth Regiment Camp, which was so powerful that even the emperor had to give in to Qian from time to time. This means that even if civil servants intervene in the capital camp in the future, the superiors will rarely let the Minister of the Ministry of War concurrently hold the post. Those who hold this post concurrently are mostly ministers of the Ministry of War - the system of ministers and ministers has always been a fine tradition of the Ming Dynasty.
Now that the world is at peace, Huo Ji has no second thoughts, so he doesn't think much about taking control of the capital. Instead, he feels that instead of taking this position and causing the emperor to worry, it is better to maintain the status quo. What's more, in the end of the dispute, it is likely that the minister will take up this position concurrently. When the time comes, the minister will still be the minister, but the minister will have greater power. So who has the final say in the Ministry of War?
Any Zhengyintang official would have such worries. Is Huo Ji an exception?
Gao Pragmatic not only understood Tu Menggui's words, but also understood Tu Menggui's subtext: Although Zhao Zhenji might gain the favor of many civil servants by doing this, it was nothing more than that. However, by doing so, he offended the Minister of War and many nobles at the same time. Wu Chen, is this deal really a good deal?
