Zhu Youzhi has a high opinion of Shen Xi, in this era when everyone is drunk and sober, Shen Xi's control of the current situation is very accurate and in place. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If Shen Xi predicted some situations in the past, he used some inevitable laws of history, but in this Tatar invasion, what he used was his reasonable deduction of the changes in the battle situation, as well as his understanding of the Tatar temperament.

However, good materials are good materials, and Zhu Youzhu was not ready to send soldiers and horses to rescue Shen Xi.

Now the fact that Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu have been lost, and the next important pass that can compete with the Tatars and block the eastward advance of the Tatar soldiers and horses is Juyong Pass, or Bauhinia Pass.

As for the area outside the Inner Great Wall, it can be abandoned for the time being, which is out of grand strategic considerations.

Li Dongyang came out and said: "Your Majesty, Shen Xi, the governor of Yansui, long before the war, predicted the strategy of the Northern Kou's march. ”

However, it is also true that his troops cowered and the front-line battle reports were not sent clearly, so that the imperial court did not know enough about the battle situation. Shen Xi's son still needs to be sharpened before he can sit on the praise of His Majesty's talent as a pillar of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise he will just be a newborn calf who is self-willed and does not obey the orders of the imperial court......"

Hearing this, Xie Qian couldn't help but look at Li Dongyang angrily.

Okay, you Li Lao'er, I used to suspect that Shen Xi made something out of nothing, and I put up with Shen Xi's two sentences, but now it proves that what Shen Xi said is not untargeted, and you still have something derogatory about Shen Xi, then it is not something I can accept!

Xie Qian didn't want to "redress grievances" for Shen Xi, he really felt that Shen Xi could predict the changes in the battle situation one step ahead of others, and accurately send the battle report to the capital one month in advance for the imperial court to take precautions, but the imperial court did not pay enough attention to it, so that Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu were lost one after another, which was purely due to the underestimation of the changes in the war situation by the important ministers of the court.

Shen Xi played in advance, and the court did not accept it, and now the border passes are really besieged and lost as Shen Xi said, who is to blame?

In addition, it is said that the battle report sent by the Shenxi front line is not clear, and it has been ten days since the war report arrived in Beijing, but in these ten days, it was simply detained by the Yamen of Yousi to confirm it, resulting in the cabinet and the emperor not being able to obtain first-hand information, is it also to blame Shen Xi?

Against Li Dongyang's accusations, Xie Qian can't accept it no matter what!

But what Li Dongyang said was approved by other ministers, as if he was deliberately looking for a scapegoat, you said that we don't believe the wolf coming, that's your sin, why didn't you explain to us how many wolves there are and what each wolf looks like? If you say it, maybe we'll believe it!

Of course, if we still don't believe it at the time, you're still to blame!

The right to speak is in our hands, that is, to push you out of the top tank, what can you do with us?

Ma Wensheng is not an unreasonable person, he came out to play: "Your Majesty, the governor of Yansui is now in the civil fort, and he is dealing with the Tatar soldiers and horses, which may become a turning point in the northwest war." ”

"Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass can now rely on nothing more than Datong, Taiyuan and other places of soldiers and horses, if the trilateral soldiers and horses retreat, it may be difficult to make a trip for a while, it is better to use the civil fort as a barrier, and at the same time take into account the defense of Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass, to resist the eastward advance of Tatar soldiers and horses...... Your Majesty, please! ”

Ma Wensheng's words were not recognized by most ministers, mainly because he said that the status of Tumubao was too high.

The ministers of the DPRK and China believed that even if some guards and acropolis could be used as a barrier to the eastward advance of the Tatars, a fortress that had been abandoned for decades should not be taken so seriously.

In the eyes of these ministers, since the Tatars could even attack the fortified Zhangjiakou Fort and Xuanfu, let alone the abandoned Tumu Fort which was almost undefended.

Liu Jian came out and said: "There is nothing wrong with using Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass as a place to guard, but what about Tumu Fort...... Without the danger of mountains and rivers as a basis, it is difficult to bear the heavy responsibility! ”

Liu Jian is cautious, he has a certain understanding of the situation in the northwest, if it weren't for Shen Xi's report that he was stationed in the Tumu Fort, Liu Jian would hardly remember that there was such a place, after all, the Tumu Fort has been abandoned for many years, and Liu Jian, a relatively fair first minister, does not think that the Tumu Fort has the elements to block the advance of the Tatars.

Among the cabinet scholars, Liu Jian, the first assistant, was the first, and among all the ministries, Ma Wensheng, the official secretary and the old minister of the Four Dynasties, was the first.

Now that the two top ministers are in conflict, Ma Wensheng believes that the civil fort should be used as a barrier, while Liu Jian opposes the inclusion of the civil fort in the defense system of the Jingshi.

The courtiers present for a while did not know who to support, but according to the opinion of the vast majority of the ministers of the court, they were more inclined to abandon the civil fort for the time being.

Zhu Youzhu didn't want to make a choice between the two, he was the emperor and had no opinion on many major matters, he used to be sober-minded and had his own judgment, but now he is physically and mentally poor, and he can't judge who is right and who is wrong in this kind of thing.

Zhu Youzhu coughed for a while before asking, "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Youzhu used to discuss things in the court, and this sentence was said the most, and the ministers were also used to being ordered by Zhu Youzhu to stand aside, and when the two sides had different opinions, if anyone adopted an ambiguous position, he was basically asking for trouble for himself.

Zhu Youzhu asked who you support, if you say that neither side supports it, please give the reason, otherwise the emperor will think that you are very useless as a minister, and over time he will remove people.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhu is a competent monarch, he doesn't like his courtiers to be vain with him, even if the ministers themselves are mediocre, they must be assertive, so that the most unstung in the court is Zhu Youzhu himself.

Looking around at his colleagues, Xie Qian sadly found that it was very difficult to get others to support Ma Wensheng's views, although so many people in the DPRK and China were not greedy for life and afraid of death, but from a pragmatic point of view, it was true that Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass should be the focus of defense, and Tumubao should be temporarily abandoned.

Xie Qian was very anxious, if it weren't for Shen Xi trapped in Tumubao, maybe he would have supported Liu Jian's point of view, but now that the situation in Tumubao is critical, if one is not good, the whole army may be wiped out, and he will not give up Shen Xi in public or private.

From a personal point of view, Shen Xi is Xie Qian's grandson-in-law and the successor of his deliberately cultivated career. The Xie family has a close relationship with the Shen family, and Shen Xi has a close relationship with the prince, Shen Xi only needs to be an official step by step, and it is not a problem to enter the cabinet or even serve as the first assistant in the future.

For the sake of the public, Shen Xi predicted the movement of the Tatars in advance, and once thwarted the conspiracy of the Franco-Robot and the Tatars, and also made great contributions to the pacification of bandits in the south. In the current situation that the war situation is already extremely unfavorable, Xie Qian believes that actively cooperating with Shen Xi's strategic deployment may be able to turn the tide.

After doubting Shen Xi's decision-making many times, Xie Qian is now extremely confident that Shen Xi has magical abilities.

Xie Qian very much hoped that he could convince the ministers present, so when no one else spoke, he had to take the initiative to stand up and perform:

"Your Majesty, Weichen thought that although the civil fort was in disrepair for a long time, Shen Xi Xiao'er was able to defeat thousands of soldiers and horses of the Beikou in the civil fort, so that the Beikou had to repeatedly transfer a large army to besiege it, and it could not be attacked for a long time, which is the concrete embodiment of Shen Xi'er's ability. If troops are sent to help, even if there are not many soldiers and horses, they can still make the Beikou be constrained everywhere, and in the future, they may be able to use the Huailaiwei, Longqingzhou and Tumubao lines as the first line of defense against the Beikou, and mobilize troops and horses from the Beijing Division to block the eastward advance of the Beikou in these three places! ”

If you want to state your point of view, you must give reasons, and this is the quality that you must have to be a minister under Zhu Youji, otherwise you will be a mediocre talent.

Xie Qian can speak well on weekdays, and he also knows how to speculate on the emperor's intentions, so he naturally understands what to say to make the emperor adopt his views.

He first explained Shen Xi's ability, didn't you say that the Civil Forts were in disrepair and could not be used as a barrier? Then I will tell you that Shen Xixiao'er relied on the defense of Tumu Fort to annihilate 4,000 Tatar soldiers and horses, even if it was Liu Daxia's great victory in Ningxia Town, the number of Tatar soldiers and horses captured did not reach this number.

Liu Daxia had tens of thousands of elite border troops under his command, while Shen Xi only had a few thousand old and weak soldiers in the Beijing camp.

Didn't you say that the civil fort was not strategic? Then let me tell you, Tumubao has Huailaiwei and Longqingzhou as support points, is the last line of defensive positions west of Juyong Pass, these cities have not been breached, the Tatars do not dare to lightly enter Juyong Pass, because the taboo of marching in this era is to go around the enemy deeply, even if there is a small county town with no more than a few hundred troops behind it, it may form a two-sided attack on the army.

The reason why the Tatars did not worry about the Ming soldiers and horses in the past was because their cavalry was very fast, and they fought raiding wars, not siege battles, carrying very little baggage, and moving quickly.

But this time the Tatars want to attack Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass and Jingshi such a strong city, the Ming army as the defensive side, the Tatars do not attack the city is difficult to get their expected results, so the Tatars must carry a large number of siege equipment and grain and grass baggage, slowly push under the capital.

When the Warat people attacked the capital, they made the mistake of taking care of one and losing the other, so that Juyongguan was not conquered for seven days and seven nights, and after going deep into the land of Beijing, they were attacked by local Ming officials and militias everywhere, coupled with Yu Qian and others leading the troops to defend, the Warat people encountered a wall outside the Beijing division and had to retreat gloomily.

Xie Qian said very bluntly, he did not want to form the last barrier from Tumubao to Huailaiwei and Longqingzhou, but only as a constraint on the Tatars, and proposed that he would not send soldiers and horses to help, but just send some soldiers and horses to strengthen the defense.

The advantage of this is that these fortresses can block the Tatars for a period of time, so that the northwest soldiers and horses have sufficient time to return, and the Beijing division can also transfer troops to the front line of Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass to organize defense.

This point of view can be said to be well-founded, just waiting for the emperor's approval.

But today, Li Dongyang seemed to be on his shoulders with Xie Qian, and he actually took the initiative to stand up and directly oppose Xie Qian's statement: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's impossible!" To the west of Juyong Pass, there is no need to defend, and even strong cities such as Zhangjiakou Fort and Xuanfu have been lost. The defense of the Beijing Division, led by Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass, and the defense of the nine cities first, please give an order to Your Majesty! ”

The three scholars in the cabinet, Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, agreed on the same opinion, while Xie Qian supported Ma Wensheng, and among the rest of the courtiers, even the British Duke Zhang Mao, who knew the soldiers, also sided with Liu Jian.

Although Zhang Mao admired Shen Xi as a young and promising descendant, he knew that it was the subordinate officials of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies who privately withheld Shen Xi's military report, so he knew that he was in trouble, so he simply made a mistake all the way to the end, it was best that Shen Xi died in Tumubao for a hundred years, and when the time came, the blame would be pushed on him, and no one would hold him accountable for the head of the grandfather of the country.

In addition, Zhang Mao did not dare to pin the safety of Daming on a seventeen-year-old boy, and preferred to believe in Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass and Jingshi Defense.