If the boss is a workaholic, this is obviously not a pleasant thing for the company's employees, if the boss is still a workaholic, it will be even worse, unfortunately, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang occupies both, he is a workaholic who picks the door, so the officials of the Hongwu Dynasty are quite hard, not only are they pitiful (barely enough to eat and wear), but also very few holidays.

For example, during the Spring Festival every year, Boss Zhu only has five days off, from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, and the sixth day of the first month, you have to give Lao Tzu back to work, or you will get rid of Lao Tzu.

Fortunately, Zhu Di, the third boss of Daming Company, was quite generous, and with a stroke of his pen in the seventh year of Yongle, on the basis of the five-day holiday of the Spring Festival, he added another ten days of Shangyuan Festival holiday, starting from the 11th day of the first month and until the 20th day of the first month.

After that, the treatment of Ming officials has improved significantly, and there are more and more holidays, and so on to the current Jiajing Dynasty, the Spring Festival holiday and the Shangyuan Festival holiday have been connected, that is, from the beginning of the first month, until the twentieth day of the first month, a full twenty days of long vacation.

It is said that in the Wanli years, five more days of Chinese New Year's Eve holiday were added, starting from the 26th day of the lunar month, and the three festivals of Chinese New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, and Lantern Festival are 25 days of holiday together.

It is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the fifth year of Jiajing, and thousands of lights are lit, the sound of firecrackers, fireworks are shining, the air is filled with the smell of food, and the smell of gunpowder after firecrackers burn.

However, the lights inside the city were bright, but the outside of the city was dark and dreary, and there was no light pollution in ancient times, and the night in the wilderness was so dark that you couldn't really reach out and couldn't see your fingers, and you could only hear the strange cold and bone-eating northwest wind roaring in your ears.

Suddenly, the silence of the night was broken by the sound of a rapid horse's hooves, and there was a beam of fire on the official road from far and near, but when I saw a fast horse galloping, the knight was tightly wrapped, holding a torch in his left hand, a reins in his right hand, and a bamboo tube with a small pennant on his back - eight hundred miles urgent.

The knight rushed to the door of Desheng in one breath before reining in the horse, and the front hooves of the war horse were raised, and there was a mournful roar that broke the west wind, and then the four hooves were soft, and he actually lay down and foamed at the mouth. The knight rolled forward and fell to the ground in embarrassment, almost extinguishing the torch, and he didn't bother to wipe the dust off his body when he got up, and shouted at the city: "Gubeikou 800 miles to rush to the report, quickly open the city gate." ”

The officers and men on duty at the head of the city did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly opened the city gate, and brought a horse to the knight, who did not say a word, turned over and galloped along the street to the place where the army headquarters was.

All officials are now on annual leave, but some key ministries, such as the Cabinet and the Sixth Ministry, are still on duty. At this time, the person on duty in the military department was a foreigner, and this benevolent brother took eight hundred miles to take a quick look, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he immediately ran to find the boss - Wu Wending, the secretary of the military department.

Wu Wending's mansion is in Huanghuafang, but Wu Shangshu is obviously a person with a very regular life and rest time, although tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, he went to bed early after eating the New Year's dinner.

When Wu Wending took over the 800-mile expedited from Gubeikou from the hands of the member Wailang, he suddenly fell asleep, and immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare a carriage, hurried to the cabinet, and reported to the palace together with Liao Ji, the minister on duty.

At this moment, Jiajing was watching the big drama with Empress Dowager Jiang in Cining Palace, and after hearing the report, he couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly left and returned to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts.

At this time, the palace was locked, and the four assistants Liao Ji and Wu Wending naturally couldn't enter the palace, so they just stuffed eight hundred miles into the crack in the door, transferred it to the emperor through the eunuch, and then stood outside the palace gate and waited for the emperor's reply.

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Jiajing finished reading Xie Sangun's eight-hundred-mile expeditious, his face changed, and his mood was both annoyed and a little excited.

I was annoyed that the boy of Da Lai Sun was so useless, and was killed so quickly by Alta, and without the expected defeat of both sides, Alta took over Chahar with little to lose and completely unified the whole of Tartary; And the excitement is that Da Lai Xun's own brother disciple actually fled to Gubeikou, which is simply a New Year's gift, Da Ming can make a big fuss as a disciple, and confidently send troops to fight against me.

Jiajing couldn't bear to send troops to the Northern Expedition for a long time, and he was ashamed before the snow, and the arrival of the disciple just gave him a high-sounding excuse, wonderful!

Jiajing slapped his palm heavily on the imperial case, and said excitedly: "Come on, pass on my order, order the military department to immediately transfer troops to reinforce Gubeikou, beware of Tartar raids and robbing people, and then order the Jinyi guard to send the Mentu sisters and brothers into the capital as soon as possible, there must be no mistake." ”

Jiajing's order was quickly conveyed to Liao Ji and Wu Wending, the four assistants who were waiting outside the palace gate, and the two couldn't help but glance at each other, the former's brows were even more deeply wrinkled, and the idiots could see that the emperor was going to use Mentu's identity to make trouble, and nine times out of ten he wanted to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

However, whether it is Liao Ji or Wu Wending, they are not very advocacious of sending troops to Tatar, because Saiwai is a bitter cold place, even if it is defeated, it is difficult to defend, and the loss is greater than the gain for the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that with the eloquence of Taizu and Taizong, the nomads in the north were not completely wiped out at the beginning, so sending troops to the Northern Expedition was purely a thankless move.

In addition, now the Ming Dynasty has just made a little improvement, reversing the dilemma of the financial deficit, if the Northern Expedition is sent at this time, it may drag the Ming Dynasty into the quagmire of war, so that the current good situation is ruined.

Moreover, Sifu Liao Ji also has a concern, that is, once the Northern Expedition is launched, Xu Jin, the Duke of Yasukuni, will undoubtedly be the first choice to take command, and everyone was worried that Xu Jin's power was too great, so he was pushed to the position of the Duke of the Kingdom at a young age, the purpose is to let him be a rich and noble idler at home, and stop controlling the government.

If Xu Jin is allowed to take command again, then everything he has done in front will be in vain, and Xu Jin does have two brushes in the war, and he has not tasted defeat so far, if the Northern Expedition returns with a great victory, wouldn't the power be even more monstrous, and he really wants to be crowned a king with a different surname?

Therefore, the best thing to do is to settle the matter of Mentu peacefully, so that there is no need to send troops to work the people and lose money, so that the Ming can get a better rest and recuperation, and at the same time prevent Xu Jin from returning to power.

Liao Ji and Wu Wending are both old bureaucrats, and the two reached a basic consensus just by looking at each other, so the latter went to carry out Jiajing's order, while the former rushed to the mansion of Shoufu Jin Xianmin overnight to discuss countermeasures to prevent the emperor from sending troops to the Northern Expedition.

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