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Chapter 611: Retreat

After Liao Fangzheng finished speaking, Liao Huanzhi was still sitting quietly. After a while, he asked, "Do you want to go?"

"Baby..." Liao Fangzheng spoke and paused, "Baby really wants to go, but she thinks it is an opportunity. Father, you also know that Child is not as good as her second brother, nor is she as smart as her third brother. As the eldest son in the family, the only thing she can do is to calculate the academic..."

Speaking of this, Liao Fangzheng lowered his head, his expression was a little sad. As a father, Liao Huanzhi certainly understood his son's thoughts.

In fact, as the eldest son, Liao Fangzheng will not talk about his talent in mathematics, and his current job at the Royal Institute. If nothing unexpected happens, there will definitely be no chance for the next imperial examination and Jinshi exam, but according to Mingju, there is absolutely no problem to officially become an official.

What's more, as Liao Huanzhi's eldest son, he already has an official position. With Liao Huanzhi's help, although he cannot be a good minister in the future, there is absolutely no problem to be a middle-level official. More importantly, Liao Fangzheng can still inherit the title. When Liao Huanzhi dies in the future, Liao Fangzheng will be the head of the Liao family, and the title will naturally be his.

In these aspects, Liao Fangzheng far exceeds 99% of the people, but for Liao Fangzheng himself, he does not want to rely on Liao Huanzhi and his family background. Compared to his brothers, he seems a bit mediocre, but he is also the eldest son, and he always hopes to have a stage to prove his ability, and this time it happens to be an opportunity for him.

After sighing lightly, Liao Huanzhi's eyes gradually softened, and he said softly: "Since that's the case, I won't stop you, but Fengyang is not at peace now, be careful."

With a slight trembling, Liao Fangzheng didn't expect Liao Huanzhi to agree so easily, and his face suddenly showed joy, but his good tutor made him restrain himself immediately and respectfully bowed to his father to express his gratitude.

Waving his hand, Liao Fangzheng left, looking at his son's brisk back, Liao Huanzhi sighed again. When the child was old, he naturally had his own thoughts. Thinking of this, he suddenly laughed again. His eldest son was no longer a child, and now he even had a grandson. Isn't it natural for the eldest son, who is already a father, to have his own thoughts?

The laughter just appeared and faded from Liao Huanzhi's eyebrows. His eyes couldn't help but look at a memorial placed next to the desk. This was a memorial that had just been written not long ago. It was also written by him after thinking about it in the study room for a long time in the afternoon. Putting one hand on this memorial, Liao Huanzhi felt mixed emotions.

The memorial was written, but Liao Huanzhi didn't think about whether to present it or when it was submitted. Because this memorial was not an ordinary memorial, and the contents were not ordinary state affairs, but about him. If the contents of this memorial were known to the outside world, it would definitely alarm the government and the public.

This is a memorial for resignation, to put it bluntly, it is a letter of resignation. Logically speaking, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the term of office of the Minister of Military Affairs is four years, and each person can be re-elected for two terms, that is, eight years.

Since Liao Huanzhi took this position, he has just passed one term, and he has been a few years since he officially left office. Moreover, as the chief military minister, Liao Huanzhi has been trusted by Zhu Yicheng. In recent years, both officials and work have been stable and no problems have occurred.

With Liao Huanzhi's status, ability and favor, he could safely complete the last term until he stepped down after the expiration of the period. Moreover, even if he retreated, he was still an important official in the court. It was self-evident that he would not even have much weaker power in his hands.

But in this case, Liao Huanzhi actually wrote such a memorial to resign, which was surprising. However, the reason for doing this was that Liao Huanzhi made a decision after careful consideration.

After the battle in Fengyang, Zhongdu, the court seemed calm, but in fact it was undercurrents. In other words, this undercurrent began after the outside world learned that Wu Sidao voluntarily resigned from his post as a military officer.

Liao Huanzhi did not think so at first. He could be the chief military minister. It can be said that he was one of the first people who knew that Wu Sidao was leaving the Military Affairs Office. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng had privately solicited his opinions for this matter, and he also expressed his views to Zhu Yicheng calmly.

But he never expected that the one who succeeded Wu Sidao was not Jiang Jin who he thought was natural, but Shi Yizhi. When the news was announced, Liao Huanzhi suddenly found that the position under his butt was sitting at the crater.

The development of the matter later made him even more worried. Jiang Jin, who learned that he had lost his military appointment, was initially indignant, but soon returned to normal. On the surface, it seemed that he had accepted the facts, but Liao Huanzhi knew Jiang Jin very well and knew that this was completely opposite to Jiang Jin's personality.

As expected, not long after, when the news of the Battle of Fengyang came, the court kept impeachment memorials against Zhu Yigui, and these memorials were severely punished. On the surface, the censor took the lead in this matter, and Zhu Yigui was indeed responsible for his position in the Battle of Fengyang, so impeachment was normal, but Liao Huanzhi smelled an unusual smell from behind this matter, which made him extremely uneasy.

Immediately afterwards, when Zhu Yicheng suppressed the impeachment of Zhu Yigui and made him commit crimes and meritorious service, the matter finally passed. But no one expected that Zhu Yigui's impeachment was just pressed and raised an issue for Fengyang's aftermath. Today, many ministers in the court made a statement and wrote to Zhu Yicheng to ask the court to appease the people of Fengyang as soon as possible and rebuild Zhongdu.

This incident seemed normal at first, but it was not normal in reality. At present, the Central Plains War is imminent, and the southwest has not yet been quelled, the Qing army in Shandong has fled into Huizhou, and the wars everywhere have almost reached a white-hot stage. At this time, military expenditures are already extremely tight, not to mention that after Jiangbei recovered, the court had allocated huge sums to resume production, and the court now does not have much money to take out.

As the chief military minister, Liao Huanzhi was very clear about the court's family background, so he immediately felt that the matter was strange. This matter was clearly targeted at the Ministry of Revenue, in other words, Wang Fan. At the first time, Liao Huanzhi thought of Jiang Jin. Combined with the previous impeachment of Zhu Yigui, he judged that Jiang Jin was clearly forming a party in private and taking advantage of the situation to attack his political opponents.
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