GBP Chapter 579 The father-in-law and son-in-law couldn't muster even a shred of conscience.
Chapter 579 The father-in-law and son-in-law couldn't muster even a shred of conscience.
Xu Da's gaze toward Chang Yuchun carried a hint of sympathy from his old comrade.
"Your son-in-law doesn't seem very bright; he probably takes after his father."
That's basically the gist of it.
Although Xu Da didn't utter a single word, Chang Yuchun could glean this information from Xu Da's eyes.
Then, Chang Yuchun's already dark complexion turned even darker.
"What do you suggest we do?"
Chang Yuchun said in a low voice, "The new leader will be returning to the capital soon. We can't leave all these messy and trivial matters to him, can we?"
Xu Da also said in a low voice, "Do whatever you want! Do you think our Grand Commander's Mansion can escape? That kid Li Wenzhong has to spend every year in Beiping!"
Xu Da's words immediately gave Chang Yuchun a headache.
Since the Northern Expedition in the third year of the Hongwu reign, the Yuan dynasty's false emperor Ayushiridara and the Yuan general Kökö Temür were reduced to Karakorum, and the Ming dynasty's borders were somewhat more stable.
However, Ayushiridara was ultimately a descendant of Liu Bilie, and his bloodline was inherently imbued with a roguish spirit.
Ayushiridara did not choose to run away, nor did he choose to settle down in the northern desert. Instead, like his great-great ...
Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty also established the Dengzhou border market, which, with the help of the Koreans, engaged in large-scale cattle and horse trade. Some of the good students taught by certain people kept luring Hu Yuan herders near the border, and they were almost ready to run into the herders' tents and kidnap people.
Ayushiridara felt that if he didn't teach the Ming Dynasty a lesson, they would become increasingly arrogant.
Therefore, after more than a year or nearly two years of recuperation, Ayushiridara, who felt he had fully recovered his strength and was unwilling to remain inactive, began to send troops to harass the border, showing that he could launch a major southward offensive at any time.
Then the problem is coming.
Ayushiridara could march south at any time, and the Ming Dynasty must be prepared to respond.
The Grand General's opinion was that it was best to strike first. The Ming Dynasty should take advantage of the fact that Ayushiridara and Kökö Temür were not yet ready and rush north to deal a blow to the Hu Yuan.
However, the civil official group led by Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, and Hu Weiyong tended to favor a conservative approach.
After all, there were too many messy and chaotic things going on in the imperial court. Whether it was the reform of the imperial court, the transformation of provinces into provincial administration commissions, the restructuring of provincial administration commissions, the rampant road construction in various prefectures and counties, or the progressive tax system, the redistribution of land, the construction of workshops, the establishment of schools, and the revision of the "Great Ming Code," these matters not only involved officials in the imperial court, but also taxes in various places, and might even affect the logistical support of the Grand Military Commission.
Therefore, instead of taking the initiative, it would be better to wait for the enemy to tire themselves out, make good use of the Great Wall to defend the area, slowly bleed the Yuan Dynasty dry, and then launch a large-scale northern expedition when the Ming Dynasty is free to do so.
Next, the two sides started to dislike each other.
The Grand General's Office felt that Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen were too cowardly and conservative, while Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen also thought that the Grand General's Office was too radical.
Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen accused the Grand General's Office of not cherishing military strength and not valuing food, while the Grand General's Office accused Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen of not understanding war and not knowing how miserable the people on the frontier were.
Anyway, the man has his own reasons and the woman has her own reasons.
Of course, whether to go on an expedition or to defend was not up to the Grand General's Office or the Secretariat; in the end, it depended on the decision of Emperor Zhu and the Executive Vice Emperor.
Judging from the fact that Li Wenzhong was sent to Beiping by Emperor Zhu, Emperor Zhu should still be inclined to take the initiative to send troops.
After a long silence, Chang Yuchun spoke again in a low voice: "What do you think about the division of territories?"
Xu Da glanced at Chang Yuchun and snorted coldly, "Use your eyes to see."
Chang Yuchun was slightly taken aback, and Xu Da continued, "Let me teach you a lesson. In the future, if you encounter anything you don't understand, but it's something that benefits the Ming Dynasty from the inside out, it must be something our Prince Consort has been up to."
Chang Yuchun nodded unconsciously.
There is nothing wrong with that.
This is something that seems a bit incomprehensible to some, but it benefits the Ming Dynasty in every way. It involves too many factors and has too many twists and turns.
He didn't have the brains to do that once he was in power.
Just as Chang Yuchun was secretly complaining, Xu Da continued, "However, there are advantages to dividing the area into districts. At the very least, the commanders of these large districts will definitely have to be promoted to the second rank or even the first rank. Even the commanders of the smaller districts will have to be at least the third rank."
"Once the division of the area is completed, dozens of positions for commanders and regional commanders will be vacant."
"Those old brothers who followed us through piles of dead bodies will finally have a place to settle down."
After a slight pause, Xu Da said with a bitter face, "However, I always suspect that this school district zoning is just the beginning, and there may be other underhanded tricks waiting for us later."
Regardless of whether it's Yang the Madman or his father-in-law, neither of them has a conscience.
Could they simply want to benefit their old comrades in the military?
Just as Xu Da was pondering this, Chang Yuchun said with a dark face, "I've guessed some of it."
"Think about it, once the district boundaries are finalized, would people from the Jiangnan area still be able to go to the Yanyun area to fight?"
"When the time comes, the people in the Jiangnan area will be ecstatic to see those bastards from the Yanyun area reaping military merits!"
"Those talent killers in the Jiangnan area have eyes that glow blue, but in the end, aren't we the ones who still have a headache?"
At this point, Chang Yuchun couldn't help but spit out a hateful "Pah!" He wasn't satisfied with just messing with Li Shanchang and the others, so he came all the way to the Grand Commandant's Mansion to give us a hard time!
Just as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were having a headache over a bunch of messy affairs at the Grand General's Office, Emperor Zhu, who was on his way to the capital, was also grumbling and expressing his dissatisfaction.
"I received a good salary, but did not do much work."
"The dogs are all incredibly lazy."
"Even copying the current version won't be good enough."
They were all scholars, and they were all officials.
Our good son-in-law came up with the idea of using gravel and cement to repair the road, while the other county magistrates couldn't.
Okay, we won't blame you for not thinking of these things beforehand.
But our son-in-law has been building roads in Ningyang County for so long, and in Dengzhou Prefecture for so long, why don't you all learn from him?
You all only start building the road after our leader gives the order.
As a result, the road construction was incredibly slow, and our journey back to Beijing was sometimes fast and sometimes slow!
The more Emperor Zhu thought about it, the angrier he became. Suddenly, he glanced at Yang Shaofeng and said, "You're no better than me!"