.Chapter 796: The Secretary of the Republic of China is attacked (Part 1)

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After saying goodbye to Gao Gong, life has to continue. Chen Mo and Zhang Juzheng rushed forward and finally returned to the capital before the city gate was locked.

However, an unexpected incident happened. Yongding Gate was closed in advance. The group and many ordinary people who were about to enter the city were blocked outside the city. The opening and closing of the Beijing city gates were strictly limited, and they could not be stopped sooner or later. Now that the door was closed in advance, there must be a major event.

For safety reasons, the guards asked the two Grand Secretary to sit in the shade of the tree beside the road, and then sent someone to inquire about the news. After a while, the person who inquired about the news came back and said that the city had been martial law two hours ago, as if it was arresting someone.

"What can happen?" Zhang Juzheng looked at the high city wall.

"I don't know." Chen Si shook his head slowly and said, "I can only wait and see."

Fortunately, I was lucky, and the city gate opened at the last moment, so I avoided the trouble of finding a place to stay.

As soon as he entered the city, Hu Yong went to call the city gate captain to come and ask: "Who is responsible here?"

"I," a lieutenant came over. When he saw that the school official was dressed in bright clothes. Although the official rank was the same, the waist-brand format was different. This was the wear of the mansion in the Meridian Gate, he put on a smile and asked, "What's the matter?"

"We are the head of the guard squad of the cabinet's old master." Hu Yong immediately clasped his fists and said, "I'm ordered to ask my brother a few words."

"Please speak, please speak." The captain said in his heart, no wonder he was so arrogant. It turned out to be a member of the cabinet.

"When did the capital city happen?" Hu Yong asked, "Why did the city gate close?"

"We don't know what's specific." The captain said: "I heard that the Minister of War Wang was attacked, and then the Military and Ma Si closed the nine gates and searched the murderers in the whole city."

"What?" Hu Yong was surprised and said, "Who is so bold? Have you caught it?"

"We don't know this." The captain shook his head and said, "But the superior let the city gate open, maybe he just caught it."

Hu Yong knew that he, a young lieutenant, didn't have much work, so he went back to report to the two great scholars.

After learning about the love, Chen Mo and Zhang Juzheng were both surprised. It is unheard of that the nine ministers were able to be attacked in the capital.

What should I do now? It is said that the cabinet should be gone soon, but it was getting darker and the Meridian Gate had already locked and could no longer enter the Great Interior.

"Go to Wang Guoguang's house first..." He looked at Zhang Juzheng silently and said, "Where are you?"

"Although the Ministry of War is not under my jurisdiction, Wang Ruguan is my best friend," Zhang Juzheng said in a deep voice: "Let's go with you."

"Okay." Silently nodded: "Go to Wangbutang's house"

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Wang Guoguang was a wealthy businessman and lived in the big house of Guanmao Hutong in the east of Chengdong. After the attack today, the family was in chaos. The emperor sent an imperial physician to treat him. Li Chunfang came to express condolences on behalf of the cabinet. The ministers of various departments also came to visit him. The Ministry of War came from the two ministers to the officials, all of which came. It was not until dusk that they left and scattered, and only the left minister Wang Chonggu was there. When he heard that the two great scholars were coming together, he quickly welcomed him on behalf of the Wang family.

"How is Ruguan?" Zhang Juzheng asked anxiously.

"I was beaten and fainted," Wang Chonggu looked at the silence and said with a serious look: "But the imperial doctor has already seen it, so it should be nothing serious and will wake up at any time."

"Who is so bold?" Zhang Juzheng asked Wang Chonggu with his eyes wide open, "How dare he attack the Minister of the current dynasty?"

"Don't worry," Chen Si said, "Go in and say slowly, things have happened, what's the use of being anxious?"

The three of them entered the flower hall and sat down. Before Zhang Juzheng asked, Wang Chonggu told the story of what happened today: "After noon today, the master of the Ministry went to inspect the Beijing camp as usual, but was stopped by hundreds of scoundrels and surrounded him, accusing him of questioning him, and criticizing him. The master of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry

Although Wang Chonggu has already made an understatement, Chen Mo and Zhang Juzheng can still feel the thrilling moment when Wang Guoguang was attacked. Zhang Juzheng said with a dark face: "There are a lot of flesh here."

"Now is not the time to go into it." Silence interrupted him lightly and said, "What kind of instructions does Yuan Fu have?"

"Old Ge Li has been here and said that you will talk about everything when you come back." Wang Chonggu whispered.

"Well..." Nodded silently and said, "Let me wait for Brother Ruguan to wake up first."

After all, the Ministry of War was silent and Zhang Juzheng was not good at deviating. So the three of them sat silently in the flower hall, and a mansion came to invite a meal. Although the three of them had not eaten yet, the injured were not awake yet, so how could they eat? So they politely declined and continued to wait. But they would not be hungry. The refreshments presented by wealthy families like the Wang family were richer than those of ordinary people's homes.

It was probably in the middle of Xu, and Wang Guoguang's son came out and said that his father had woken up.

The three of Chen Si walked into the bedroom and saw Wang Guoguang lying on the bed, with thick gauze wrapped around his forehead, and there was no blood on his face with a national character. His face was sallow and sallow. Chen Si couldn't help feeling sad. He leaned towards the bed and held his hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "Brother Ruguan, you have suffered..." Seeing his appearance, Wang Guoguang was also deeply moved and said: "It made the adults worry..."

This action was originally what Zhang Juzheng wanted to do, but he didn't expect that he had been slow to remain silent before. This time he was like a rabbit and was snatched away. He had to stand aside and see them holding hands and looking at each other with tears in his eyes, and thought to himself: "When did these two people become so familiar?"

Wang Guoguang's son brought a stool over, and the three of them sat around the bed. Wang Guoguang wanted someone to help him up, but was pressed silently and said, "Don't move, don't move, just lie down and talk."

"It's so embarrassing..." Wang Guoguang was also afraid that he would have some sequelae after swaying, so he stopped insisting and said in tears: "As the Minister of War, I, the Minister of War, had my sedan chairs and tore my clothes in the barracks by soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, and finally got beaten up and lost consciousness. Why am I still wearing this official suit?"

"Brother Ruguan is a little relieved. This matter is not that simple." In front of the victim, Chen Si had to show his attitude and said, "It's not those soldiers who beat you, but some people want to hit the court in the face and take care of you. I will investigate this matter to the end."

"Oh, forget it..." Wang Guoguang sighed and said, "Actually, I know it," he saw that there were no outsiders in the house, so he said directly: "It was all my letter "Please divide the camps to train the Beijing Army" and if this matter is investigated, there may be a change of Zhang Yi." Zhang Yi was an important official of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Because he advocated Zhang Quan to select the ranks and suppress the military, he was criticized by more than a thousand Yulin Hu Ben, and went to the Shangshu Province to criticize him. He then rushed to his house, dragged under the Yi Hall, and sang and shouted, and burned his house. His family begged the clans to ask for his father's order. Yulin and others beat him up and threw him into fireworks. When they got the corpse, they were no longer able to recognize it. Only the small hairpin in the bun was used as a test. Yi had only spare life and died in pain soon...

Obviously, what happened during the day scared Wang Guoguang's courage and he had the idea of ​​calming down the situation to avoid revenge.

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In fact, Wang Guoguang did not say that, but the three of them knew that the reason for his misfortune was all caused by the memorial... Wang Guoguang was different from the Qingliu ministers in the court who were in corpses. He was a solid official. Since he had been the Minister of War, he wanted to do this job well. After three months of careful observation, he had some understanding of military affairs and saw many disadvantages, especially the imperial guards in the Beijing camp that were close to him, which was known as hundreds of thousands, but they were all weak and mostly famous. Less than half of them could fight, and could not bear the heavy responsibility of guarding the capital.

But the imperial guards in the capital are not all like this. For example, in the Shenji Camp, the atmosphere is completely different, with strict military discipline and high morale. Even the layman, he, could feel his combat power. After inquiring, it turned out that this army was brought out by the famous Qi Jiguang.

While marveling at Qi Jiguang's ability to lead troops, Wang Guoguang also firmly believed that the officers and soldiers in other battalions were not rotten woods that could not be carved. The key was the word "Skill". So after carefully examining the Shenji Camp, he submitted this "Memorial on the Memorial on the Regiment of Military Training" left by Qi Jiguang to the court.

After reading the college student Shen Mo, who was in charge of Rongzheng, said nothing and presented him to the chief assistant.

After reading it, Xu Jieyue felt very excited because since the "Wanquan Right Guard Victory" ended the history of decades of unbeatable against Altan in one fell swoop, the court's emotions changed from one extreme to another... It was originally a conversation with the Mongolians, and he didn't believe that he could win at all; now he kept saying "Fenglang Juxu, take revenge" and completely believed that he could win.

The sentiment of the main war spread in the court, which made Xu Jie very passive. As the proud Prime Minister of the Celestial Dynasty, if conditions permit, he would support the fight against the Tartars, but the conditions did not allow it at all. Not to mention the financial embarrassment, just talking about the decay of the border army of the Ming Dynasty made him unable to give him trust... Although he was not a military man, he also knew that the last victory was the result of the carelessness of the Mongols, who had the intention to make a fool of himself and had no intention, and carefully set up an ambush. This kind of strange strategy could be both, let alone take the initiative to attack and challenge the Mongols.

So Xu Jie didn't agree to the war, but he knew very well that he could not go against the trend, so he instructed all departments and departments to hold meetings to study countermeasures. Then the Grand Secretary in charge of military affairs Shen Mo summarized it. Finally, he submitted a memorial and proposed thirteen countermeasures to the emperor, roughly: "Responsibility for effectiveness, determination of responsibilities, clear war and defense, exercising military orders, value generals, training military and civilians, storing talents, selecting border officials, repairing castles, coordinating militias, serving long-term responsibilities, and accepting recruitment', etc., which were considered the statement of the cabinet.

Although it was just an official article by Ying Jinger, he could not do anything at all. Now Wang Guoguang is invited to train the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp, which can just reflect the attitude of strengthening the army and promoting the military, and it will not cost too much, so Xu Jie was very supportive. But on the ground of caution, he asked the Tongzhengsi to report Wang Guoguang's memorial first, and it would not be too late to issue an edict after obtaining public support.

It was the most enthusiastic period, and civil servants had no intention of discussing military affairs? So there were not many discussions. But this did not mean that there was no objection. The officers and soldiers of the three major battalions were not happy. For nothing else, they just said in Wang Guoguang's memorial - "Reorganize the three major battalions and dismiss the officers and those who did not serve." For ordinary soldiers, they would be better for the soldiers and eat food, and gangsters. Who would want to lose all day long like Shenji Camp? Especially those who are just a messenger, even their jobs will be smashed.

For the officers, it was even more unacceptable, because if he really wanted to do this, the fact that he had false registration lists and empty salary over the years would have to be exposed. Therefore, the first time this memorial was that the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp were in a fierce mood. Now that Wang Guoguang was attacked, it was 80% of the army that wanted to show him good looks.

That's why such a thing happened at the junction of the three major capitals, so they quarreled and scolded for so long, and no officers came out to stop them. So after the incident, all the soldiers who committed the murderer escaped from the barracks

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Although Wang Guoguang was a little discouraged, Shen Mo still promised him that he would investigate it to the end and severely punish him for a fair defense of the dignity that the important officials of the court cannot be violated.

He said this and did it. At the cabinet meeting the next morning, Shen Mo talked about this matter and said indignantly: "Mr. Wang Qingqing Zijin, who has read the books of sages and has been in office for more than 20 years, has been in charge of the court, and is not a righteous person. He was in charge of river workers during the Ministry of Works. He went to the dam to check the danger, fell into the torrent, and almost drowned; he knocked on Yan Shifan, and was almost beaten to death by sticks. In order to correct the chaos and promote righteousness, I asked again.

He came out of the mountain and should have admired all the people. Who knew that he was so dignified now that he was suffering from such a great humiliation. Who could not tolerate it? He became more and more excited as he spoke, and finally he almost roared: "As a fighter, a slut, even a man who was wearing evil spirits should have dignity and should not be offended, let alone us? In the imperial city and in the capital camp, the small servants dared to scold and humiliate the throne of the dynasty. He almost killed him. Youdao is the dignity of the minister and the dignity of the minister. The country will be despised. If this matter is not severely punished, what is the decency of the minister? Where is the dignity of the country?"

Shen Mo's rare anger shocked everyone in the cabinet, so you said and said everything, demanding severe punishment for the murderer to demonstrate the dignity of the minister.

Zhang Juzheng even said angrily: "For the past two hundred years, this has never happened to the Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister is not severely punished, where is the court's direction?"

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng was leading the words to him, Xu Jie felt a little unhappy, so he said, "This kind of thing happened before. In the eighth year of Jiajing, there were also incidents of Beijing soldiers attacking senior officials of the Ministry of War."

"How did it be handled at that time?" everyone asked.

"The big things turn into small things, and the small things turn into small things." Xu Jie sighed lightly, "The Beijing camp is in the capital. If you really go to investigate the envoy behind the scenes, you must be in chaos... No one can bear this responsibility, so in the end, you can only take a few scapegoats and then you can close the case in a hurry."

Although Xu Jie's words are reasonable, the cabinet ministers all feel that it is not a big deal. Why did they pour cold water on the first place before they started investigating the case?

"I said this not to protect the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp." Seeing that everyone's expressions were different, Xu Jie changed his tone and said, "We are all from the scholars and forests, and we are connected to each other's fate. Wang Shangshu was attacked, which means that all our civil servants were embarrassed. If this matter is not strictly handled, what kind of face does I, as the chief minister, have to face the officials in the court?" As he said that, he looked silently and said, "Jiangnan, you are responsible for the affairs of the Ministry of War, and I hope you can grasp this degree well."

"Yes..." I was so angry that I was so angry that I finally got a strong man, but I couldn't cooperate. I just rudely put it out. So I asked, "How should I grasp the matter of training troops in the camp?" Just as Wang Yin's previous plan, in this period of personnel and affairs turbulence, we must strictly distinguish between internal and external matters, and try to interfere as little as possible and not speak; but we must be more active in the matters in our own hands, speak more, and increase our presence.

Xu Jie was led by the first army. After all, he expressed his opinion at the cabinet meeting. He said a little depressedly: "Let's investigate first. If this is really caused by the training of troops in the battalions, then we have to consider whether the Ministry of War has not done a good job..." He paused and said: "Let's talk about training troops after improvement."

"Yes" Chen Si's answer this time was very resounding.

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After the cabinet meeting, the silence, who was fully authorized to deal with the matter, came to the Ministry of War.

In the past three months of being in charge of the Ministry of War, he has not been boycotted by Shanxi Gang as people imagined. On the contrary, he and the Ministry of War were mixed with each other and praised him, and none of them thought he was not good.

First of all, when he was with several officials, he had no airs... This is different from when he was a officials in the Ministry of Rites. At that time, he wanted to maintain majesty towards his subordinates, but now he was only in charge and not directly led the relationship. Therefore, he remained humble and kept a humble attitude. He could listen to their opinions when encountering things, and tried to help them fight for any needs. He never interfered in specific department affairs. Who doesn't like such a manager? So it was not surprising that he could win the favor of the Ministry of War.

However, if you want to establish your authority and rely on the Ministry of War to make some achievements, it is not enough to rely on gentleness alone. You have to establish authority, but establish authority will not make people so comfortable. Therefore, you must seize the opportunity. If the time is not good, you would rather wait in silence. If you can't wait, you will create it yourself...

When he entered the Ministry of War with the company of a burly man, some people realized that Ge Lao Chen was coming to establish his authority this time

In the Ministry of War, because Lord Shangshu was attacked, officials of all sizes were not interested in working. Therefore, it was already the time, and there were still people who gathered together to discuss yesterday's events. They stopped the doorman's notice in silence. After listening to the hall for a moment, they found that most of them were gloating, and many people were watching Wang Guoguang's jokes.

It was not until someone lifted the gauze curtain and was about to pour out the tea roots in the teapot that he found that Mr. Chen was standing there with a frost on his face. He was startled first, and then smiled and said, "Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen..."

He snorted silently, walked straight into the hall, swept the officials with cold eyes, and walked past the hall and came to the signing room of the cabinet in the main courtyard... In order to flatter the boss, each department arranged a good signing room for the cabinet in charge, and the Ministry of War was no exception.

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