Chapter 285 The commander-in-chief of the six towns went to the shuffle to punish him for treason!

  Guo Zhicong slammed the table and shouted: "You are so bold, how dare you threaten this court like this!"

  After hearing this, Zhang Xiong approached with a knife and asked: "So, Zhongcheng is unwilling to join us in raising troops to Qingjun's side?"

   "Not really!"

  Guo Zhicong persuaded decisively in seconds, and said: "There are indeed treacherous officials in the court, and it is not impossible to ask the Qing emperor to side, but you can't be hasty. The nine sides are just your town to raise troops?"

   "Of course not, the five towns of Datong, Yansui, Guyuan, Ningxia, and Shanxi will also raise troops."

  Wang Chengyun replied.

  Guo Zhicong said after hearing this: "It seems that only Ji Town, Liao Town, and Gansu Town did not participate."

   "Gansu is too far away, and there is no contact. Both Jizhen and Liaozhen belong to Zhang Guojiu, so naturally they will not be on the side of Qingjun."

  Zhang Xiong replied.

"This time the imperial court reformed the Weisuo system and abolished military households. It is true that you have hurt your roots and taken away your right to serve military households. It is understandable for your six towns to raise troops to clear the emperor's side. But have you ever thought about it? The consequences of defeat?"

   Guo Zhicong asked.

Wang Chengyun said: "How can we not think it through carefully? The imperial army is nothing more than concentrated in Jiliao and Gyeonggi. On the side of our Qing emperor, it is really difficult to take down the capital, but the root of the imperial court's determination to innovate is actually not in the capital, but in Xishan, and in the Xishan Industry Department. There are millions of craftsmen and common people in the factories and workshops under the Xishan Mountain. Those people in Xishan were originally refugees, but they were turned into whips to force the imperial court to reform by Uncle Zhang Guofu. As long as we slaughter those people in Xishan, there will be no reform in the imperial court. The whip of reform has no motivation."

   "That's exactly the reason. These refugees are superfluous people, so they should all be killed, so as not to make them a burden on the court."

  Zhang Xiong followed suit.

Wang Chengyun continued: "In addition, in addition to slaughtering Xishan, once the soldiers and horses of our six towns abandon the border towns, they can go south like Tartars, slaughtering and plundering the people in the pass, just like the Anshi Rebellion, which made the court tired of coping. The killing has greatly reduced the number of people living in the world, and when the imperial court cannot gather and annihilate us, it will recruit us. At that time, we will still be able to defend the border for the country. However, the imperial court will no longer need to reform to support more living people because of the greatly reduced number of people. , I’m afraid it will take more than ten years just to recuperate.”

   "Perhaps after our troops and horses in the six towns are chaotic in the pass, the Tatars will enter the pass again to plunder. At that time, the imperial court may feel even more regretful about their current behavior."

  Zhang Xiong said with a smile.

  Guo Zhicong nodded after hearing this, and said again: "Although you say that, have you ever thought about whether the imperial court has anticipated this step and responded to it?"

   "How can I manage so much!"

  Wang Chengyun replied, saying: "No matter what, we are not willing to be slaughtered like fish and meat! If we really only live on salary and maintenance money, who the **** is willing to guard the Zhu family for him in this bitter cold place!"

"How about this, the chief soldiers of the six towns and some of our governors first wrote a book, opposing the imperial court's breaking the ancestral system, and withdrawing the guards and abolishing the military households. The imperial court naturally understands what we mean. If they don't insist on doing this, they will You don’t have to risk the misfortune of the nine clans to confront them, if they insist, it won’t be too late to raise your butcher’s knife like the people in the pass.”

"After all, raising troops directly in the pass will limit your future power even more. You must know that the rebellion of the Five Dynasties was caused by your generals' rebellion. As a result, everyone in the world regards it as a taboo for generals to rule the country! Now you do it rashly, It will only make the life of future generals more difficult. After all, we are not Tartars, so unless it is absolutely necessary, we should not act against the world."

   Guo Zhicong said.

  Wang Chengyun thought about it after hearing this: "Anyway, it will take time for the soldiers and horses of the other five towns to arrive at the Xuanfu, so you can read the Taoist book first. If the imperial court abandons the idea of ​​​​withdrawing the guards and abolishing the military households, everyone will be happy!"

  Because Tianqi and his favorites decided to withdraw the guard post and abolish the military households, and reform the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the cloud of war on the nine sides was clouded for a while.

  Many senior officials in the frontier army of the Ming Empire began to have rebellion and were ready to move.

Tianqi also received the memorabilia of Guo Zhicong and Wang Chengyun not long ago, and said to Zhang Gui and others: "The three governors and the commander-in-chief of the six towns jointly named Shangshu. , the most important thing is that I don’t want me to abolish military households and deprive them of their legal right to enslave military households. There is no doubt that if I don’t agree, they will rise up.”

   "This is expected. If they really want to rebel because of this, the court will naturally have to deal with this result."

   Zhang Gui said.

  Military Minister Lu Xiangsheng followed and said: "The key is how to deal with it. Naturally, the officers of all the guards in the world are unwilling to accept the withdrawal of the guards and abolish the military households."

   "Once they all follow suit, it is not a turmoil caused by a small number of people."

   "More importantly, it will lead to a big disaster!"

"The imperial court decided to do this before, just to test these people, but now the result of the trial is obvious, there are already six towns commanders and three town governors hinting to the imperial court that if the imperial court insists on doing this, they seem to be going to raise troops rebel!"

   "The chief soldiers of the country are not the Jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty after all. They and the government schools at all levels are still appointed by the court, so they may not all be of one mind."

"In addition, the soldiers' salaries and food are also controlled by the imperial court. Unless they themselves become soldiers and bandits and go south to plunder, otherwise, even if they raise troops, they will not last long. Therefore, from the perspective of my ministers, the most worrying thing for the imperial court is that they will go south to plunder The problem."

   "Once this happens, they will be no different from rogues, and they will be more difficult to encircle and suppress than rogues. Therefore, if we really want to continue reforming the military system, we must prevent these frontier troops from becoming soldiers and rogues!"

  The Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Yuan Keli, spoke at this time.

Zhang Gui nodded and said: "Since Zai Otsuka said just now that the frontier military officials and schools at all levels are not necessarily of the same mind, it is better to directly spend money and first plan to counteract the military households and most of the lower-ranking officers who have the least profit in the guard system, and buy them off. To win over middle-level officers who want to make meritorious deeds and not to bear the notoriety of rebels, and isolate upper-level officers! Use the method of medical soldier Ling Chi to dissect rebels, dissect layer by layer, and treat them differently!"

"This is a good idea. On the nine sides, there are governors, general soldiers, patrol officers, battalion garrisons, thousand generals, general generals, and guards with thousands of households, military households and battalion soldiers, as well as the strong and brave people of the village. Everyone wants to rebel and opposes the reform of the military system. It is more cost-effective to use money to instigate rebellion and buy those who do not want to rebel or even dare to rebel than to directly send a large army to encircle and suppress them. It can save a lot of food and fodder. It can also prevent a large number of frontier troops from turning into rogue soldiers and bandits, and then slaughtering living people."

  Lu Xiangsheng echoed.

Yuan Keli also nodded and said with a smile: "The minister also agrees. In addition, the minister believes that the joint governor of the three towns and the commander-in-chief of the six towns can stay in the middle and keep them in an unknown state. After the imperial court disintegrates its interior, it will issue an edict , so that they accept the arrangement of the court, if they still want to raise troops, they will naturally have to wait to be caught by the court and charged with treason!"

   Tian Qi listened and nodded: "Just do it like this."

So, next, the Ming court began to use the powerful intelligence capabilities of its own factory guard system, and began to send Captain Duolu Tiqi to the Jiubian to contact the middle and lower official schools in Jiubian. At the same time, the Zizheng School also sent alternates Officials pretended to be quacks, barefoot doctors, and overseas Chinese businessmen to enter the towns of the Nine Frontiers, directly contacted the bottom frontier soldiers and military households, and established various organizations in the name of treating or helping military households, with the intention of mobilizing in the future. Soldiers and military households contribute to the court.

   On the bright side, the imperial court did nothing, and did not respond to the joint appointment of the governors of the three towns and the commander-in-chief of the six towns. They didn't even ask about the killing of the three governors and several other governors.

   Gradually, Guo Zhicong, Wang Chengyun, Zhang Xiong and others couldn't sit still.

  (end of this chapter)