#232 - Ming 21: Animal House
The History of China
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Yungla Xinjiang - The Last Grand Secretary
There was some rather substantial push back on this order from the imperial bureaucracy, such helphful notes and critiques. It didn't matter. Emperor's mind was made up. And when the grand secretary refused to draft the edict, jungda simply bipassed him,. drafting his own edict and promulgating it. The border troops would dutifully arrive at the capital in february 15 13, and were then put under the dual command of yang bin and the commander of the shwen fu garrison. In short order, jungda began to regard the garrison troops as his own private army.
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