"It's still about the Brave Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion!"
You Chi didn't know what was going on in the palace, so he was a little angry about it. Was Zhang Jing showing off or demonstrating to his master?
You Chi naturally didn't have a good impression of Zhang Jing.
Zhang Juzheng naturally understood the meaning in You Chi's tone. He reached out his hand and tapped the table lightly. He smiled bitterly and said, "Zhang Jing also had no choice!"
You Qi was taken aback for a moment. Zhang Jing couldn't help it, so where did this come from?
Zhang Juzheng didn't continue talking about this matter. He could roughly understand what was going on. His student wanted to get back the Brave Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion.
Obviously, it took a lot of effort to choose Yu Dayou as the camp commander.
At this moment, Zhang Juzheng also realized that his student had grown up. He wanted to reach out and take back some things.
However, Zhang Juzheng didn't expect his student to be so decisive. He just started to investigate Yu Dayou, and the other side was directly exposed.
Now, the problem was in front of Zhang Juzheng. Should he continue to hold on tightly or let go at the right time? After thinking for a moment, Zhang Juzheng smiled and said to You Chi, "Tell Zhang Jing that I agree."
The Brave Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion were originally the imperial guards of the palace. It was only a word from the emperor to decide who could enter and who could leave.
In this matter, there was no room for negotiation or rebuttal. Zhang Juzheng didn't choose to confront it head-on.
After dinner, Zhang Juzheng stood at the door of the study. He looked tired and a little nervous at the same time.
Zhang Juzheng knew that his path in the future wouldn't be easy. The reform he wanted to do required more power.
If his student really wanted to take back power, could he continue doing these things?
Now, he was the one who approved all the memorials. Would his emperor student want to take this power back?
In the Daming Dynasty, whoever held this power would naturally be able to control the entire court.
This was the case for Wei Zhongxian and the other eunuchs. It was just that the Emperor allowed them to reply on behalf of the Emperor. However, Zhang Juzheng was different.
Zhang Juzheng was the one who got the approval. The Emperor was still young, so this power fell into Zhang Juzheng's hands.
Now that the Emperor had grown up, if he wanted to take back the power to personally reply to memorials, he would have to take it back from Zhang Juzheng.
Once Zhang Juzheng lost the authority to approve on behalf of others, he would naturally lose his current prestige.
One had to know that although there were only four words to reply on behalf of the emperor, it meant that he was acting on behalf of the emperor. After the reply, it was an imperial edict!
No emperor wanted to let someone else act on their behalf, especially when it was forced. If the eunuchs did it, then the emperor would hide behind them. When the emperor wanted to have the final say, then he would have the final say. The eunuchs couldn't do anything.
However, Zhang Juzheng was different. The power to reply on behalf of the emperor was in his hands. He was different from the eunuchs. The eunuchs were the servants of the Emperor. Zhang Juzheng was the head of the civil officials. He was the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
Looking in the direction of the Imperial Palace, Zhang Juzheng wanted to see what his student would do.
Zhu Yijun received the news the next day. Zhang Juzheng agreed. Zhu Yijun didn't have any expression on his face. He just nodded slightly and said to Zhang Jing, "Ask someone to do it!"
Regardless of whether it was a person or a country, he had his core interests, important interests, and ordinary interests.
The Imperial Guards in the Imperial Palace were Zhu Yijun's core interests. It was also a crucial step in his goal of using the Imperial Guards as a springboard to enter the Three Battalions. Therefore, it was an interest that Zhu Yijun had to protect. For this, he didn't hesitate to fall out with Queen Dowager Li, Zhang Juzheng.
In reality, in history, the Wanli Emperor and Zhang Juzheng had never fallen out. Or rather, they couldn't fall out at all. It was unknown which side Queen Dowager Li would take.
However, Zhu Yijun had guessed that when it came to falling out, the possibility of Queen Dowager Li siding with the Wanli Emperor was close to 100%.
This could be seen from her attitude after Zhang Juzheng's death. A son was a son after all.
However, when Zhang Juzheng was alive, Queen Dowager Li treated Zhang Juzheng with the feeling of "giving him a papaya and repaying him with a jade".
After Long Qing's death, Zhang Juzheng stabilized the court situation by educating the Wanli Emperor and sending away Gao Gong. This left a good impression on Queen Dowager Li.
When everything was stabilized, Queen Dowager Li supported Zhang Juzheng.
However, in this life, Feng Bao died early. Without his encouragement, Queen Dowager Li still supported Zhang Juzheng, but she didn't have the same interest in politics as in her previous life.
She ate vegetarian and prayed to Buddha all day long. Occasionally, she would invite people from Wu Qingbo's mansion to enter the palace. Other than being a little lonely, everything else was good.
Zhu Yijun also understood that as long as he didn't send Zhang Juzheng home or kill Zhang Juzheng, Queen Dowager Li wouldn't say anything or do anything.
Obviously, Queen Dowager Li was grateful to Zhang Juzheng, but it was unknown how long this gratitude would last.
Moreover, from another perspective, the reason why Queen Dowager Li supported Zhang Juzheng's reform of the court was to protect her son Wanli's throne and the Zhu family's empire.
Once Wanli secured the throne and the dynasty got through the crisis, she would naturally forget about the fate of the officials who had once served the dynasty.
Moreover, for her, she might only be concerned about the interests of the royal family. There was no gratitude to speak of.
Even now, she was still willing to protect Zhang Juzheng because she felt that she, her son, and Daming still needed Zhang Juzheng. This kind of thing was too common in history.
Whether it was out of gratitude or out of consideration for Daming's empire, Queen Dowager Li would not allow Zhu Yijun to touch Zhang Juzheng now.
In fact, Zhu Yijun didn't want to touch Zhang Juzheng. What he wanted now was to take back the Four Guards Battalion and the Warrior Battalion. At the same time, he wanted to tell Zhang Juzheng that he was an adult, an emperor, and that he shouldn't treat himself like a child.
Since he ascended the throne, the most intense political storm in Wanli's era was coming. He had to decide which side to stand on.
Yu Dayou quietly went to the Imperial Horse Bureau. Although this matter was low-key, many people knew about it. However, it didn't attract much attention from the officials.
After all, compared to Yu Dayou's matter, there was another matter that attracted more attention.
That was about the clearing of accounts and the implementation of the One Whip Law. The Emperor approved the request of the Cabinet's Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng.
Using Fujian as a pilot, the Emperor implemented the clearing of accounts and the One Whip Law in the whole of Fujian.
This matter instantly spread throughout the capital. Public opinion was in an uproar. The fight between Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Jing was no longer on the table.
Everyone knew that once the pilot started, it would be spread throughout the country in one or two years at most.