"Admiral Xiao wants to help Your Majesty capture 100,000 Japanese pirates to help Your Majesty open the mines?"
"It's not just opening the mines. Why would I need 100,000 people to open the mines? Repair the city, repair the Yellow River, repair the embankments, repair the granaries, repair the roads, repair the canals, repair the palaces and houses. In the past, those bastards always said that I wanted this and that and didn't know how to sympathize with the people. Now, it's great. I don't need to Daming the people. I use the Japanese slaves as captives.
What else can those bastards say? They spread rumors that you slaves the people to open the mines. They say that I am a tyrant. Good, good! Now, I don't need to Daming the people. I don't need them to serve. I only use captives. Only these Japanese slaves! These war criminals! Even if those bastards break the heavens, they can't say anything wrong with me! They are too noisy! "
After calming down, Zhu Yijun sighed and said, "The officials are trying to fool me. They don't want me to get more money. They want all the money in the world to be in their hands! Only Xiao Ruxun understands my meaning and supports me with all his strength. With such a general, I don't need to be afraid of being isolated. "
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Luo Sigong and Zhang Cheng looked at each other and said in unison, "This subject (old slave) congratulates Your Majesty."
"Hehehehe …" Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Don't be happy too early. Those bastards are very powerful. Xiao Ruxun is only a 23 year old boy. He is also a general. How can he fight against them? He can help me get some benefits outside, but he can't really help me in politics. He can't change the situation for me. Tomorrow, I will send out an imperial edict to test the waters. "
Zhu Yijun's eyes flashed with a terrifying light.
Only a few people knew of Xiao Ruxun's true intentions. However, the news of Xiao Ruxun defeating the Japanese pirates in Korea spread out. For a moment, the court was in awe and the people were talking about it. The main topic of discussion was that Daming was going to have a famous general.
So, Li Chengliang was very troubled.
Before Xiao Ruxun's appearance, he was the number one commander of the Great Ming Dynasty's borders. He was also the one who achieved the position of the first military general to be conferred a title of nobility since the reign of Zhengde Jiajing. Countless military generals revered him, and Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and the others could only look at his back, unable to surpass him. He had thought that he would be able to carry this honor until the day he died, but he did not expect that in his old age, a powerful junior would emerge and challenge his position.
Originally, the Wusun Group was like a pool of stagnant water. If Li Chengliang ignored them, they wouldn't be able to do anything. Outside of Beijing, they were trash, and they could only defend their territory in Beijing. But who knew that the effects of the gene mutation would be so terrifying, giving this group of trash a piece of gold?
A glistening yellow piece of real gold. First, he vanquished the rebel army in the northwest, and then he went to Korea to command the winds and clouds. In one battle, he annihilated 40,000 Wokou pirates and recovered nearly half of Korea. In an instant, he stabilized the war situation and saved Korea. Many people praised him.
And at this time, Li Chengliang's position as the number one general in the Great Ming Dynasty could no longer be maintained. Even his most outstanding son could not compare to him. The Li Family's position as a family of generals was being challenged. Originally, the Wusun Group was in a state of disunity and could not find a suitable person. Now, someone had appeared, and it was highly possible that he could unify the entire Wusun Group's power and connections and cause havoc in the capital.
He, Li Chengliang, had already formed a feud with Xiao Ruxun. As the saying goes, there's no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Not to mention, they were two military representatives of different factions. No matter what, they had to compete.
But Li Chengliang was already in his sixties. How could he compete with a young man in his twenties? He wasn't afraid that people would laugh their heads off if he said this out loud, but compared to his sons, each and every one of them were fierce and incompetent. The most outstanding one, Li Rusong, was still serving as a cavalry commander under Xiao Ruxun.
The victory of the war was won by Xiao Ruxun. Li Rusong killed a lot of people, but it wasn't a meritorious deed. It could only be said that he didn't embarrass Li Chengliang. But that was not the result Li Chengliang wanted.
The military generals and civil officials of the Liaodong lineage had made a lot of enemies in the Great Ming Dynasty. In addition, whenever his son became an official in a place, he would definitely stir up some trouble and make trouble with some local officials. The local officials had complicated relationships in the imperial court. Therefore, the civil officials of the Liaodong lineage and the Li family of Liaodong were actually in a very bad situation.
In the past, there was no general who could compete with them. The other imperial court forces couldn't find a standard to support to fight against the Liaodong faction. Ma Gui's identity was special. He was not a descendant of Huaxia and couldn't enter the imperial court. So they could only swallow their anger. But now the situation was different. A shining general was rising, and the new generation was pushing the old one forward.
All kinds of bad people began to stir.
The fuse was Song Yingchang's memorial to ask for credit. It not only detailed Xiao Ruxun's achievements, but also mentioned that the 200,000 taels of silver allocated by the imperial court to the Liaodong Army for military expenses were used to injure the warehouse guards by the Liaodong Army. They took away 80,000 taels of silver unscrupulously, leaving only 120,000 taels. Song Yingchang and Xiao Ruxun's situation suddenly became difficult. It was even a little difficult to collect food.
Not to mention before, this kind of thing happened too many times at that time. The officials could do nothing to the arrogant and domineering Liaodong Army. They couldn't find anyone who could punish them, so they could only swallow their anger. But now a new star was rising and was about to wrestle with Li Chengliang. The civil officials who were not from Liaodong faction and wanted to "overthrow Li" rushed to him like flies smelling blood.
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Song Yingchang decisively used this truth to launch a counterattack against Li Chengliang.
Memorials accusing the Liaodong Army of corruption and arrogance were piled up all over the Office of Transmission. Like brave and fearless soldiers, they went to war vigorously. Slowly, they criticized some Liaodong Army's arrogance and ignorance of the general interest. Then, they went all the way to the target of the Liaodong Army and the benchmark of the Liaodong faction, Li Chengliang, and demanded that Li Chengliang be punished.
Their reasons were very good. For example, Li Chengliang had been out of Liaodong for more than ten years and brought out a group of bandits who disregarded the law and only cared about money and goods. They had no military discipline, cruelly harmed the people, killed innocent people, and dug up all the old accounts. The memorial of Hao Jie, the dynamiter of the Liaodong Army, was brought up again. For a moment, Li Chengliang actually felt nervous at the slightest sound.
The general of the Liaodong Army who took the lead in robbing the silver was called to account by name. The anti-li faction who had suffered too much anger decided to launch an unprecedented counterattack. They vented the anger they had suffered for many years and beat Li Chengliang back to his original state.
Li Chengliang was worried about this. Of course, he knew that these things were done under his instruction. But he didn't expect that Xiao Ruxun was so good at fighting, which gave Song Yingchang so much confidence that he directly made trouble for the Liaodong Army. The trouble was so unexpected that Li Chengliang was unprepared. So, he had to ask his backer for advice.
Li Chengliang wrote a letter and asked someone to send it to Wang Xijue, who was visiting the sick in his hometown.
Since Zhang Juzheng, Li Chengliang had been protected by Shen Shixing, Xu Guo, and Wang Xijue. Shen Shixing and Xu Guo had been removed from their posts because of the fight for the foundation of the country, so they could not return to the center of the court and could not provide the protection that Li Chengliang deserved.
However, Wang Xijue was very clever. He went back to his hometown to visit his mother on the excuse that she was seriously ill, so that he could avoid the most critical part of the fight for the foundation of the country. So, he was not implicated. He asked for a temporary leave, and Zhao Zhigao could temporarily assist him. It could be imagined that once Wang Xijue returned to the court, Zhao Zhigao, who admired Xiao Ruxun, would definitely retreat to the second line.
At that time, Li Chengliang's opportunity would come.
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