After the matter of martial law in Gyeonggi was roughly determined, there was not much to discuss about the remaining war in the northwest. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The basic consensus is that the battle in the northwest should not be expanded, but should be stopped in moderation, and no one cares about Shen Xi's life or death.

From the emperor down in the capital, including Xie Qian, they all felt that Shen Xi was afraid of the battle in Xuanfu, but they didn't know that what Shen Xi was facing now was the absolute superiority of the Tatars, and if they didn't deal with it properly, they could even cause the Ming Dynasty to collapse.

Li Dongyang wrote a "Several Suggestions on the Use of Troops in the Northwest" in advance, and told Zhu Youzhi in public, which is summarized as follows.

The first is that the soldiers and horses from all walks of life in the northwest cooperate with Liu Daxia to march into Ningxia Town, and order the men and horses of Datong Town, Xuanfu Town, Taiyuan Town and other places to fight together to prepare for the recovery of the Yulin Acropolis and the surrounding fortresses and fortresses of Yansui Town.

The second is to reduce the amount of military salaries in the northwest, and to carry out a series of measures to recuperate and recuperate the people in the nine-border region, and at the same time stipulate that merchants should transport materials to stabilize prices and not profit from them.

The third is to ask for rewards for those who have made meritorious contributions to the use of troops in the northwest, to punish civil servants and military generals who have lost their territory, to punish generals and officials who fail to act or to do not contribute to their work, and to form a complete system of rewards and punishments from exile and dismissal to demotion, warnings, and so on.

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Li Dongyang was far-sighted, and he did not reveal a drop in the formulation of the charter, and he only came up with such a strategy for using troops in the northwest after repeated deliberation at home, and it was difficult for others to find faults.

From the perspective of the real end of the war, Li Dongyang's strategy is right, it is nothing more than seeking stability, so that the imperial court can achieve a smooth transition after the end of the war, resettle the refugees in the northwest as soon as possible, and restore the livelihood of the people in the nine-border region.

It's a pity that Li Dongyang made plans and suggestions only on one-sided news without getting more war reports, ignoring the key point, that is, the war in the northwest has not ended at all, but has entered a critical node, and the key lies in the survival of Xuanfu Town.

Even at present, the Tatars have occupied an absolute advantage, once the Great Wall outside the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town and its own Davids City falls, then the Ming Dynasty Gyeonggi will be mortally threatened, but because the Tatars have a strict blockade of intelligence, the court does not know that Xuanfu Town is facing a life and death crisis.

Li Dongyang has such a sparse report, and there are many items on display, and Xie Qian is extremely unhappy when he hears it.

Because there is a part involving Shen Xi, he believes that the punishment clause proposed by Li Dongyang has the meaning of targeting Shen Xi...... Shen Xi led the troops to fight timidly, and Li Dongyang believed that the deterioration of the war situation in the northwest was related to Shen Xi's ineffective rescue.

After Li Dongyang's Shangshu was read, Zhu Youzhu fell silent, it seemed that the emperor seemed to be thinking, but in fact, Zhu Youzhi was very tired at this time, and he didn't want to express any opinions on this Shangshu.

Xiao Jing, who was standing on the side, was the only one who could face the emperor among the people present, he opened the curtain and stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, Senior Li has already explained, is Your Majesty allowed or not?" ”

Zhu Youzhu barely opened his eyes, waved his hand slightly, and said noncommittally, but Xiao Jing saw that the emperor was very tired at this time, so tired that he didn't have the strength to speak, so he nodded knowingly, walked out of the curtain, and said respectfully:

"Your Majesty has approved Scholar Li's invitation, several, go back and rest first, Your Majesty is not in good health, you don't have to bow and leave, let Your Majesty rest more!"

Li Dongyang originally wanted to say something, but looking at Zhu Youji's physical condition, he bowed knowingly, and followed Xie Qian and the others out of the Qianqing Palace.

Out of the palace gate, Ma Wensheng sighed: "Your Majesty can't afford it now, but he is still working hard for state affairs, we should be more diligent and self-denying!" ”

As soon as he heard the scene, Zhang Mao smiled and responded "yes", Zhang Heling didn't want to be coy in front of Ma Wensheng, and Li Dongyang had no intention of stubble at all.

At this time, the people who should leave the palace are out of the palace, and they want to go back to the yasho, Xie Qian caught up with Li Dongyang in a few steps, and asked: "Scholar Li, you are sincere in wanting to make Shen Xi'er not return to the court, right?" ”

Li Dongyang said before, others didn't understand, but Xie Qian understood it, because Xie Qian felt that Li Dongyang's previous suggestion was aimed at Shen Xi.

Li Dongyang glanced sideways at Xie Qian and asked, "Did Yu Qiao say this?" As a courtier, how can he easily talk about things with outsiders? ”

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian are both cabinet ministers, and their relationship is the best, and it is difficult to see such a thing as a quarrel in the Qianqing Palace, Liu Jian is not there, and the persuasion of others is a little insufficient. Ma Wensheng and Zhang Mao are both wise people who protect themselves, as for Zhang Heling, he is happy to watch jokes, and he will not take the initiative to get involved in this matter.

"Shen Xi did advance slowly after sending troops, but he had gone up to the army before, saying that the defense of Xuanfu Town was the top priority of the defense of the Nine Sides, and he would cooperate to garrison Xuanfu, so how could it be inaction as you said?" Xie Qian said angrily.

Xie Qian angrily told the content of the private letter that Shen Xi wrote to him, and directly pointed out the precautions of Xuanfu Town.

Before Xie Qian proposed it, the whole court and the central government did not face up to this matter, and only Shen Xi wrote a recital, saying that he would ask for the transfer of troops around Gyeonggi to aid Xuanfu.

If Shen Xi is making meritorious contributions on the three sides, coordinating the deployment of soldiers and horses everywhere to kill the wind and water, so that the court will gain face, he wants to ask for reinforcements, and the court will approve the invitation without thinking, but the court feels that Shen Xi is afraid to go west because of cowardice, as for asking for reinforcements, in the eyes of many people, it is just Shen Xi making excuses for his cowardice and incompetence.

Shen Xi's recital was pressed for a day in the General Political Envoy Department, because the emperor was seriously ill and had no intention of reviewing the recital, because Shen Xi's recital could not be presented to the Son of Heaven in accordance with the specifications of the urgent document that night.

On the second day, Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, drafted the ticket and sent it to the celebrant supervisor, but Xiao Jing did not pay attention to this matter, so that the transcript was left behind.

Xie Qian tried a lot of hard work to finally know about this, and tried his best to finally read Shen Xi's recital and understand the reason, but for the sake of stability in the court, he never said this matter.

"Yu Qiao, what did you say...... What is going on with Xuanfu Town's precautions? Li Dongyang didn't say anything, but Ma Wensheng asked.

Xie Qian was alerted to his gaffe, he also felt that Shen Xi was making excuses for himself, so after seeing Shen Xi's transcript and private messages, he thought that Liu Jian's point of view should be adopted, that is, not to make things public, lest Shen Xi be ridiculed, and he would not be able to get over the face of a cabinet scholar.

But now Li Dongyang wants to investigate Shen Xi's big crime of "inaction", and Xie Qian raised this matter in a hurry, mainly to prove that Shen Xi was clearly "doing something" after he got out of the jam.

Although in Xie Qian's own opinion, this defense seems far-fetched.

Xie Qian said: "Shen Xi Xiao'er has played the imperial court before, saying that the Tatars may invade the Xuanfu and threaten the stability of Gyeonggi. Even if his prediction was not accurate, it just shows that the disaster of the border war has not been settled, and it is too early to take Shen Xi'er's charges into account now? ”

Li Dongyang is still silent, but looking at his attitude, it seems that he will not give up.

Ma Wensheng said cautiously: "Speaking of which, it seems that there has been no news from Xuanfu Town for many days, isn't there really an emergency?" ”

Zhang Mao said with a smile: "Ma Shangshu is too worried, if there is a war in the hundreds of miles around Xuanfu, how can there be no war report to the capital?" There is no news, it is just good news, the border pass has been tossed by this, it is better to calm down earlier, don't worry about sending troops to the grassland, otherwise it is the people who suffer! ”

Li Dongyang looked extremely impatient, but Zhang Heling inadvertently said: "If the Xuanfu is in danger, I am afraid that the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi must be under martial law!" ”

Zhang Mao was laughing, his face stiffened instantly when he heard this, Zhang Mao was good-tempered among the ministers, he was a hereditary prince, held the military power for many years, and has always adhered to the principle that each side should not be offended, but he was very unaccustomed to the Zhang brothers, and coordinated the people of the Beijing camp, and actually took advantage of the opportunity to garrison the city gate to release goods into the city without authorization, hoarding Juqi at the same time, but also increasing the instability in the city.

Xie Qian said: "The martial law in Gyeonggi is strict, and it is the people who suffer, and if the border soldiers do not stop for a day, the people will suffer one more day. Shen Xi'er is young and vigorous, quite conceited, if he really thinks that Xuanfu is in trouble, maybe he will garrison troops, Xuanfu is closely related to the safety of Gyeonggi, and it is not a bad thing to garrison Xuanfu. What does Scholar Lee think? ”

Li Dongyang pursed his lips: "If what Yu Qiao said is true, I can understand Shen Xi's hard work to ensure the safety of Gyeonggi." But if Xuanfu did not invade from the Northern Invaders, what would it do? ”

Xie Qian retorted: "There has been no news from the Xuanfu for many days, doesn't it just prove that the soldiers and horses of the Northern Kou have made moves? ”

The two had a faint quarrel, and Ma Wensheng persuaded: "It's too early to talk about it, you might as well wait for a few days, or send a letter to inquire about the movements of Shen Xi's army, and then make a conclusion!" ”

While a few people were talking, they arrived at the gate of Wenyuan Pavilion, originally Ma Wensheng and the others should not have entered, but it was expected that there might be a battle report at the border pass, and they had to go first to check before leaving.

Li Dongyang specially carefully selected the transcripts in front of Ma Wensheng and others, and found out the battle reports sent by Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Taiyuan Town, Datong Town, and other military towns.

Li Dongyang handed the battle report to Xie Qian, the meaning was obvious, this is the battle report about Xuanfu, you can take it and read it yourself.

Xie Qian took the battle report, just glanced at it, and found that this was a report sent from around Xuanfu, although there was no Xuanfu Town itself, but there was no war around, could it be said that only Xuanfu was in trouble? This means that what Shen Xi reported is not true!

"Xuanfu should have no Tatar invasion!"

After reading it, Ma Wensheng said a sentence, which is equivalent to making a verdict.

Xie Qian's face became extremely ugly, originally the Xuanfu was stable, which was a good thing for the imperial court, but there was no war report, which meant that it was difficult for Shen Xi to exonerate himself.

Now Xie Qian is wishing that there is a large number of Tatar cavalry around Xuanfu to invade, so Shen Xi's judgment is accurate, Shen Xi is not only not wrong, but meritorious.

"I don't care about the declaration of meritorious rewards and punishments anymore!"

Xie Qian did what he said, and since what Shen Xi said was not true, he would no longer interfere with Li Dongyang's investigation.

But the investigation is the investigation, Xie Qian at most allowed Shen Xi to be demoted or dismissed, and wanted Shen Xi to be convicted and sent into exile, but he would never allow it. (To be continued.) )