Chapter 685 Speculators
After receiving the bulletin, Yang Sichang was completely disappointed and wished he would immediately leave this sad and disappointed place.
However, when Yang Sichang thought of the reason for losing the Holy Lord, he had to give up his resignation and persisted hard.
Li Shaoyi tried hard to persuade Yang Sichang to retreat as an advance, but the remarks were made by Yang Sichang, but instead he defended himself by defending himself.
The ministers of the court had a very keen sense of smell. Seeing that Yang Sichang had lost his holy family, how could he not jump out and step on it? For a moment, the memorial impeachment of Yang Sichang flew to Tongzhengsi like snowflakes.
Almost all the memorials gave Yang Sichang countless charges, such as the invasion of the Tartars, the civil strife of bandits, and Lin Chunhong's disaster, all of which were placed on Yang Sichang's head.
Among so many memorials, only one memorial is the most unconventional, namely Zhou Yanru's song chapter.
In the plot, Zhou Yanru did not scold Yang Sichang blindly, but instead defended Yang Sichang many times, pointing out that the current improvement in the court's finances was the achievement of Yang Sichang under the leadership of His Majesty the Emperor. However, Zhou Yanru pointed out incisively that Yang Sichang's mistake was that he had a lot of tolerance for Lin Chunhong's step-by-step policy and did not take any countermeasures immediately.
When Zhu Youjian saw this memorial, he felt his eyes lit up.
Zhou Yanru has been dormant for more than ten years, reflecting on his experience as the Prime Minister last time, and has made a lot of progress in comprehension of the saint's will. The court has a new look, which is of course the emperor's proud work. How can he deny the reality that the court's situation has improved just because he scolds Yang Sichang?
Moreover, Zhou Yanru vaguely guessed the reason why Yang Sichang fell out of favor: he was unwilling to take ruthless measures against Lin Chunhong!
Since you have figured out the holy intention thoroughly, of course you have to follow the emperor's thoughts. As for the rest, Zhou Yanru didn't care.
It is impossible to keep confidential in the palace. The news that Zhou Yanru was valued by the emperor immediately reached the ears of those who were interested. Even Zhou Yanru received the news and began to fight with Wu Changshi in Jiangnan, Zhang Fu and other groups in a fierce fight.
In addition, Zhou Yanru was also in Jiangnan, and the two Huaihe Rivers moved everywhere, connecting a group of big landlords and merchants who were about to lose or had lost their land to gain connections for themselves.
The court once again fell into turmoil. As for the local official system reform proposed by Yang Yiren,
The dynamics of the court, Lin Chunhong is as insightful as watching the fire.
Lin Chunhong would never want to see Yang Sichang losing his holy relatives. Although Yang Sichang was not a minister to save the times, he had the ability to coordinate the overall situation. With Yang Sichang, the context of the court was obviously much clearer and he would not do the Brownian movement. Although Yang Sichang caused some trouble to Lin Chunhong, compared with the uncertainty of the Brownian movement, Lin Chunhong was more willing to deal with sober people like Yang Sichang, so as not to make trouble and bring immeasurable losses to the Chinese nation and Jingzhou.
Now Zhou Yanru has the highest call for his rise. Lin Chunhong does not know Zhou Yanru, but if Zhou Yanru can really rise to the throne, he will rely on his tolerance to criticize Yang Sichang. What actions would such a person do once he is in a high position? It is conceivable!
According to relevant information from the Military Information Department, Lin Chunhong judged that Yang Sichang was most likely unable to hold his position. As for whether Zhou Yanru can take office at present, it is still between the two.
Lin Chunhong felt that it was necessary to take decisive measures to make Zhu Youjian and the court clear from the quagmire of blind movement.
On the third day of the September 14th year of Chongzhen, Lin Chunhong ordered a military exercise to be held in Ruzhou. The exercise was led by the Xuanwu Army, and the archers of Nanyang, Xiangyang, Yunyang, Ruzhou, Yuzhou and Luoyang were coordinated.
With the order, the soldiers in the southern part of Huguang and western Henan immediately started to move.
In less than ten days, more than 40,000 archers gathered around Ruzhou, organized according to the region, and began collaborative training.
Nearly 20,000 Xuanwu soldiers moved faster. They passed the rail road and gathered from Luoyang and Fangcheng to Ruzhou within almost two days, and were ready for battle.
Ruzhou almost became a large military camp, and more than 60,000 fully armed soldiers were gathered at once. There were soldiers everywhere, and horses were neighing everywhere.
The archers rarely train together, and a series of problems naturally arose during the assembly process. However, Jingzhou actually assembled so many troops at one time in just half a month, frightening Kaifeng Prefecture, Guide Prefecture and other prefectures.
At the same time, Lin Chunhong ordered the Wuwei Army to hold an autumn hunting operation.
Zhang Fengyi immediately ordered the archers of Dongsheng, Lucheng, Hucheng and Sanniangzi City to gather together, and ordered many dependent tribes to lead their troops to cooperate.
Similarly, in less than half a month, Zhang Fengyi led more than 30,000 light cavalry troops with more than 10,000 cavalry as the core, and advanced towards Guyuan.
Guyuan is hunting between Xuanfu and Xilinggrad, and can be seen without asking the purpose.
One south and one north, the emergency military situation flew into the capital like a gust of wind, and arrived at the Ministry of War and Zhu Youjian's case desk.
Until now, Zhu Youxuan realized that the so-called Tiger Roar Legion, Wuwei Legion and more than ten legions were just field corpses, and the bow soldiers were Lin Chunhong's local garrison troops.
According to this calculation, Lin Chunhong's land troops are not only more than 300,000, but more than one million!
Any idea about Lin Chunhong’s Central Plains and the empty forces of the two Huaihe Rivers is extremely wrong.
Zhu Youjian suddenly fell from the extreme of overwhelming confidence, and his mood can be imagined.
Just when he was extremely disappointed, Cao Huachun suddenly made a statement: Why did the emperor just neglect Yang Sichang and Lin Chunhong's reaction was so fierce?
These words wanted to kill Yang Sichang! Cao Huachun always hated Yang Sichang for reaching his hand into the Beijing camp. This time he caught the opportunity, so why didn't he stomp a few times?
There are precedents of the beheading of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, such as Xia Yan and Zhu Youjian of the Jiajing Dynasty, who lost his mind, how would he punish Yang Sichang be punished?
Although Zhu Youjian was annoyed that Yang Sichang had always tolerated Lin Chunhong, when it came to Yang Sichang and Lin Chunhong's secret collusion, Zhu Youjian was still clear-headed and one hundred people didn't believe it.
Although Zhu Youjian didn't believe it, he could not change the situation where Yang Sichang fell and everyone stepped on him.
Gao Qiqian was very familiar with the situation in the palace and felt that if this continued, Yang Sichang would have to repeat Xia Yan's mistakes. He immediately sent someone to secretly inform Yang Sichang, hoping that he would resign immediately.
Yang Sichang hesitated for several days, and finally, under the urge of Li Shaoyi, he asked to resign.
Zhu Youjian did not try to retain Yang Sichang's resignation. In addition, Zhu Youjian ordered Zhou Yanru to go to Beijing for consultation.
The situation is already very obvious. Whether Zhou Yanru can take office depends on whether Zhu Youjian is satisfied with his strategy.
All this was unexpected by Lin Chunhong.
He never expected that although the military exercises in the south and the north successfully suppressed the blind movements of the court, they accelerated the fall of Yang Sichang.
He couldn't help but sigh: "The court is a chaotic system, and no one knows what situation will eventually turn into after adding a little external force!"
However, no matter how the court changes, its impact on Jingzhou is already minimal. Lin Chunhong no longer cares about the actions the court takes and ordered local official reforms to be carried out in a department of Henan and other controlled provinces.
After Zhou Yanru was dismissed from office and returned home, he spent nearly ten years in Yixing. He witnessed Lin Chunhong's own eyes how he made trouble in Jiangnan and gradually won the hearts of scholars in Jiangnan. Finally, he passed an order to make scholars, scholars and Jinshi make up for the vacancies, and finally included most of the scholars in the vacancies.
Zhou Yanru served as the chief minister of the cabinet, and of course he knew the difficulty of being in charge of the entire Ming Empire. Therefore, he was convinced by Lin Chunhong's ability to grasp the overall situation, and even knew Lin Chunhong's strength even better than Qu Shisi.
However, Zhou Yanru was a man who was obsessed with officials and was far more obsessed with official positions than Qian Qianyi and Qu Shisi. He agreed with Yang Sichang's tolerance policy from the bottom of his heart, but in order to get back to power, the tolerance policy suddenly became a victim and became the key point of his fierce attack.
When he received the summoning order from Zhu Youjian, he discussed with Wu Changshi, Dong Tingxian and others and set out to go north.
After Zhou Yanru met Zhu Youjian, he didn't know what he said to Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian's mood improved significantly and immediately appointed Zhou Yanru as the Minister of Personnel, and was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Palace. Then he promoted the cabinet, successfully regaining Zhou Yanru and replacing Yang Sichang as the chief minister of the cabinet.
After Zhou Yanru became the chief minister of the cabinet, he immediately proposed to exempt the arrears of taxes and recalled some censors who were demoted by Yang Sichang. For a time, the court praised the good, and Zhou Yanru's reputation increased greatly.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yanru communicated closely with Zhu Youjian, suggesting that Zhu Youjian inform the world, clearly oppose Lin Chunhong's policy of collecting food into one's officials and gentry, denounced Lin Chunhong's clever plunder and plunder the land of good people, and advised Lin Chunhong to change his course immediately and return to the old path of loyalty to the emperor and loving the people.
Zhu Youjian was a little hesitant.
This move is tantamount to publicly sing an opposite tune with Lin Chunhong. Once Lin Chunhong goes crazy, the court will not be able to bear the consequences.
Zhou Yanru advised: "Lin Chunhong strongly promoted the joint efforts of officials and gentry to pay food together, offend the world, and now he is just enough to tell the world to win the hearts of the people. Lin Chunhong ignored it, it would be fine. Once he tried to make trouble, he would be an enemy of the world. The financial situation of the court improved, and he trained three elite corps, and his strength was different now. In addition, he won the hearts of the people. How dare Lin Chunhong do it without hesitation?"
After hearing this, Zhu Youjian was struggling for a long time. Finally, he thought that Lin Chunhong would press against the court step by step and would sooner or later tie the rope around his neck, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to Zhou Yanru's suggestion.
On the eighth day of November 14th year of Chongzhen, the court announced to the world according to Zhou Yanru's intention.
As soon as this Zhao came out, the world caused a sensation. Major newspapers suddenly lost their voices and didn't know how to deal with it.
A group of conservative officials and gentry ran around and told each other, and some even knelt down north, crying in silence, shouting that God has eyes, and the court has not forgotten them.
Most officials and gentry have found their place within the Jingzhou Group. After hearing the announcement, they are mixed feelings. Most of them have sold their land to Jingzhou or replaced it with workshop industries. However, they are always a little worried and always feel that without land is not a long-term solution. Now the court has clearly announced the world, and they hope that Lin Chunhong can find out with conscience and let them redeem the land again.
As for some upstarts and lower-class people, they were in panic, fearing that they would lose the land they were farming and once again in a situation where they could not eat...
Zhou Yanru's plan was so vicious that it suddenly caused chaos in the people in the controlled area of Jingzhou.
Chapter completed!