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Chapter 172: Prestige Strike

Zhu Yicheng is in a good mood, and all the good news in the past two days.

Let’s talk about Yunnan first. Yue Zhongqi’s army had already attacked Yunnan and took a step-by-step offensive, which forced the Qing army to retreat step by step.

It’s not that Yue Zhongqi doesn’t want to quickly solve the Yunnan problem in one go. It’s mainly because Yunnan is as complex as Guizhou. In addition, Yunnan has a serious ethnic problem and the Ming Dynasty’s foundation in Yunnan is weak. In order to ensure that everything is foolproof, Yue Zhongqi then uses a steady and steady tactic.

After all, it is not a problem for the Ming Dynasty to take Yunnan, and there is no need to take risks in this situation. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng had specially explained to Yue Zhongqi before that he would find a way to deal with the place while fighting Yunnan, so as to implement the policy of changing land and returning to the land after the Ming Dynasty took Yunnan. From now on, Yue Zhongqi did a good job.

The news in Yunnan only reassures Zhu Yicheng. What made him most happy was the battlefield in Liaodong. Not long ago, the Ming army officially sent troops to Liaodong, and the main force of the Ming army was arranged to march in two ways. One way was naturally the elite troops led by Dong Dashan of Shanhaiguan, and the other way was the Ming army of North Korea.

Regarding the battle of Liaodong, Dong Dashan, who had not been on the battlefield for a long time, had already been ready to fight. After leaving Shanhaiguan, his troops pushed all the way to Beiping, and recovered Jinzhou and other places in just a few days. After the Ming army of North Korea attacked Jilin, the Qing army of Jilin retreated step by step, and then formed a clamping posture with the Ming army of Shanhaiguan, one left and one right, and pressed towards Shengjing.

Let’s not talk about the Ming army in Shanhaiguan for now, but Zhu Yicheng is very confident about Dong Dashan’s troops. You should know that this army is the main force among the main forces attacking Liaodong, concentrating nearly half of the elite troops of Northern China. In addition, generals like Dong Dashan lead the troops, it is no problem to attack the Qing army in Liaodong.

What made Zhu Yicheng happy was the Ming army of North Korea. After the civil strife in North Korea, although Zhu Yicheng made a series of disposals and adjustments, he was always worried that the Ming army of North Korea would not be able to send troops smoothly. Now, the Ming army of North Korea not only sent troops as planned, but even fought very well. This is not only mentioned that Zhu Jiancai, who had been in North Korea for more than half a month.

Zhu Yicheng asked Zhu Jiancai to go to North Korea this time, but in fact, many people were puzzled by the North Koreans. Some even felt that Zhu Jiancai was useless. Sending him to North Korea was not only useless, but could even cause problems.

There are actually many people who have this idea. After all, Zhu Jiancai's origin is a big problem. As the leader of the rebel army who once occupied the Central Plains, Zhu Jiancai's reputation among the rebel army was not good, and this person was cunning and changeable, which was even more shameful to many people.

When Zhu Yicheng suddenly decided to appoint Zhu Jiancai as the governor of North Korea and granted the power to stabilize North Korea, there were many opponents, but these opposition voices were suppressed by Zhu Yicheng and issued the order at the shortest speed. After receiving the order, Zhu Jiancai did not stop in Beijing and rushed to North Korea directly.

But who would have thought that Zhu Jiancai did have problems after he arrived in North Korea, and it was a big problem. But what stunned everyone was that the problems Zhu Jiancai had caused were a bad thing for North Korea, but a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.

After landing in Nangang, Zhu Jiancai did not go to Seoul at all, but started his actions in Nangang.

Zhu Jiancai, who started his rebellion, was familiar with this. He directly spread rumors in North Korea to provoke confrontation between various classes in North Korea. At the same time, he also told the Korean people in the name of the Ming Dynasty's governor to North Korea that the Ming Dynasty supported the Korean people to fight against local tyrants and divide the land, and directly poured the already extremely fierce class conflict in North Korea, causing a burning fire.

For a long time, North Korea has had serious class confrontation, and the lives of the Korean people are extremely difficult. The entire North Korea is controlled by the Lee Dynasty and its local tribes and gentry, and ordinary people live extremely difficult.

What's more, North Korea was originally a place with many mountains and few plains, with little farming land production. Coupled with the oppression of various classes, people and small and medium-sized landlords who lost land or even went bankrupt. In addition, in recent years, North Korea's political turmoil and people's lives have been hovering on the line of life and death.

Zhu Jiancai's instigation was exactly what ordinary people in North Korea thought. Coupled with the strong dissatisfaction of the small and medium-sized landlords with the big landlords and the clans, the conflict intensified, and instantly caused a chain reaction.

When the fire reached a certain level, quantitative change caused qualitative change. What's more, Zhu Jiancai directly endorsed this behavior in the name of the Governor of North Korea. In addition, the immigration order announced by the Ming Dynasty in North Korea before caused the originally cowardly ordinary people to burst out with great energy, and the fire of prairie fire was ignited.

After that, everything could be said to be natural. In addition to the two capitals of Seoul and Pyongyang, and the other places were in a state of great chaos overnight. This time, the chaos in North Korea was not aimed at the Ming Dynasty, but rather at the power class in North Korea. Although the local forces that had originally rebelled were extremely frightened and intended to suppress these chaos, the fire had already started. How could they be done with their abilities? Moreover, there was a shadow of the Ming Dynasty behind it.

In less than ten days, Zhu Jiancai almost swept North Korea with this fire, not only allowing the Ming Dynasty to gain the support of most ordinary Koreans, but also using this move to almost wipe out the power of the local tribes and gentry in North Korea.

In addition to confiscating the other party's property, apart from directly dividing the land to ordinary people, their wealth and profits are countless.

Now, the fire continues. Judging from Zhu Jiancai’s actions, he will not give up until the North Korean issue is completely solved. This is a good thing for Zhu Yicheng.

When the news reached the Ming Dynasty, everyone was surprised, especially those ministers who strongly opposed Zhu Yicheng sent Zhu Jiancai to North Korea and looked at each other. They couldn't figure out how to do this.

On the contrary, several bigwigs from the Military Affairs Office were unexpectedly calm, not commenting on anything or expressing their opinions on this, as if nothing had happened. But in fact, this incident had a great impact on the Military Affairs Office. Among them, the Chief Military Affairs Minister Shi Yizhi felt a deep sense of frustration in his heart. Coupled with the direct action of the Ming Dynasty to send troops to Liaodong, his previous plan to take down Liaodong without fighting was ruined, which made Shi Yizhi's mentality even more unbalanced.

In the past few days, Shi Yizhi was obviously a little confused in the Military Affairs Office, and even did not comment on the military newspapers sent from the front line. He just took them to everyone and then transferred them to the palace.

Others naturally knew about his abnormality. After all, he was the one who had always suggested negotiating with the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong. But now the emperor directly ordered troops to send troops, which could be said that all his previous plans were failed. Everyone knows what such a move meant.

"It's still the adults' far-sighted vision. Shi Yizhi has always been pretentious, but now he has fallen so much. It seems that it won't take many days to take the military office to be headed by the adults." Jiang Daoli said to Jiang Jin with a smile, with a very happy expression.

"I don't need to say this in the future, it's not good!" Jiang Jin not only wasn't happy, but instead frowned slightly and reminded the other party.

"Yes, yes, what the adults said is very true. I am just happy for you." Jiang Daoli is now the Minister of Railways and is even more of Jiang Jin's confidant. Naturally, he knew that Jiang Jin was worried that these words would be verbal once they were spread, so he immediately said.

"Mr. Shi is still capable and is more valued by the Emperor. Besides, he is the chief military aircraft. The role of the Military Service Department is to be the counselor of the Emperor. Since he is the counselor, it is natural that everyone has different opinions. Moreover, the Emperor did not have any objections to Mr. Shi at the beginning. Whether it was the beginning or now, everything was for my Ming Dynasty."

Jiang Jin's words made Jiang Daoli nodded repeatedly, and at the same time, he secretly admired him. No wonder Jiang Jin was able to occupy such a high position and sit one step away from the chief military aircraft. He considered the problem more than he had foresight and took the overall situation into consideration.

In fact, Jiang Jin was happy to see Shi Yizhi's current situation. Although Zhu Yicheng did not blame anyone, and even reused Shi Yizhi on the surface, just based on the Liaodong incident, Jiang Jin clearly understood that Zhu Yicheng was dissatisfied with Shi Yizhi in his heart.

Otherwise, Zhu Yicheng would not have gone by the military office and issued an order to attack Liaodong directly. The issuance of this order would mean a complete denial of Shi Yizhi's so-called actions of defeating others without fighting. Therefore, Shi Yizhi's expression was dazed and depressed these days.

But no matter what, Shi Yizhi is still sitting in the position of chief military aircraft. Jiang Jin, who knows Zhu Yicheng very well, naturally understands that as long as Zhu Yicheng does not formally issue an order to change the candidate for military aircraft, Shi Yizhi will continue to serve as chief military aircraft minister.

The reason for doing this is naturally for the stability of the government and for the emperor's own face. After all, it was Zhu Yicheng's decision to choose Shi Yizhi as the chief military minister, and now it has only been a few months. Once the replacement of the person at this time is equivalent to admitting that he is inappropriate in employing people, which is a serious blow to the emperor's majesty.

But even so, after experiencing this, Shi Yizhi's prestige in the Military Affairs Office was no longer sure of it, and Jiang Jin could use this to further establish his prestige in the Military Affairs Office. But these things can be done, but they cannot be said. Jiang Jin, who knows Zhu Yicheng's personality, knows very well that he suffered a loss back then, otherwise he would have joined the Military Affairs Office. Now, Jiang Jin has matured a lot after years of training, and has made his own thoughtful thinking about the problem.

In order to avoid people getting a handle and losing a good situation, Jiang Jin specifically instructed Jiang Daoli to tell him that his own group of people must not say anything at this time. As for Shi Yizhi, the same is true before and now, and he must not be lip service to the emperor, so as not to cause dissatisfaction.
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