As soon as Emperor Chongzhen came up, he said this, which made everyone who came to participate in the court meeting with great interest unexpected.

And Emperor Chongzhen did this precisely to block the mouths of some people.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, there was silence in the Jianji Palace.

After a while, Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, stepped forward, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, as the first assistant of the cabinet, the ministers are not strict in restraining the ministers, causing some officials to lose their duties, overstepping their authority, indiscriminately commenting, and not being in a proper manner, please Your Majesty to punish the crime of negligence of the ministers!" ”

The six science corridors and the six ministries belong to the same cabinet.

In the past, a person who can become the head of the cabinet must first have the ability to control the speech officials of the Six Science Corridors, or at least control most of them, otherwise, you will not be able to do anything.

But Li Guowei is different.

for he did not go up by court.

Previously, he was a marginal figure in the eunuch cabinet, and belonged to the opposite of the Yan Guan Qing Zang Zang No.

Later, it was entirely because of the deliberate arrangement of the current Emperor Chongzhen that he sat in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.

Although his position is stable now, he has always been embarrassed, and he has been the first assistant for almost two years, but he has not been able to arrange many of his own people to enter the six science corridors that were previously controlled by the Donglin party.

Thanks to the current emperor, who has always been dissatisfied with the officials of the Department and restricted their power in every possible way, he, the head of the cabinet, can be regarded as the one who has done it safely.

However, since such a thing requires the emperor to take action personally, it also shows a problem, that is, for the officials of the Six Science Corridors, Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, does not have the ability to control or influence.

But it doesn't matter, now Emperor Chongzhen has people in his hands who are good at dealing with this kind of thing.

It is said that Li Guoyao, the first assistant of the cabinet, saw that the emperor was furious about the various letters and words that he had received in the past two days, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask for guilt, and Li Biao, the leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, saw this situation, thought about it for a while, and immediately stepped forward to ask for guilt.

Emperor Chongzhen originally used the topic to play this time, and wanted to give those officials who like to engage in some unrealistic empty words to sensationalize the public before the court meeting began, and first plug the mouths of some people, so the plea for the two of them was naturally raised high and gently put down.

As soon as Li Guowei and Li Biao came up, they were given such a moment by the emperor, who had been a little moody and a little unpredictable recently, and they were also unlucky in their hearts, and after they retreated, the Jianji Hall fell silent again.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the quiet high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and continued: "I have ordered the Jinyi Guard to send people to Taiyuan, Datong and Juyongguan, and conveyed several of my edicts. Among them, one is to order Li Banghua, the Minister of Military Aircraft, to move to Yanmen, and the other is to make Juyongguan strictly guarded.

"But these two are emergency measures. Today, the generals and others were summoned to build the Pole Palace, which is to check and fill in the gaps, and agree on a set of more perfect and appropriate response strategies as soon as possible! ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at everyone for a while, and then said: "Jianyu broke through the mouth and entered the mouth, for my Ming Dynasty, it is certainly a crisis. However, a crisis, a crisis, is both a danger and an opportunity!

"If we can inflict heavy damage or even annihilate the army led by the slave chieftains under the Yanmen Pass, or even the Juyong Pass, I may be able to win years, tens, or even decades of peace in one battle outside the Ming Dynasty!"

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, everyone in the Jianji Hall was shocked.

In such a critical situation at this moment, the young emperor in front of him is still thinking about how to turn danger into opportunity, turn bad things into good things, and even think about inflicting heavy losses on the army led by the entire army slave chieftain?!

Is the emperor in front of him ignorant and doesn't know why, or did he have an arrangement early?!

Everyone was in shock, and only one person said: "Your Majesty, the left deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, Jia Jichun, has a performance!" ”

After saying this, Jia Jichun came out of the column to salute, and then said: "The killing of Hu is broken, the life and death of the guards are unknown, and the army of Jianyu has poured in, although it is natural to hold the ministers and town ministers accountable, but it is definitely not the top priority today!"

"The minister heard that this Jianyu was coming, it was the slave chief Huang Taiji who led it, and Jianyu attacked my Ming Dynasty with the power of the country, and my Ming Dynasty naturally wanted to resist it with the power of the country. The minister thought that the top priority of today's court meeting was to quickly determine the leader of the enemy! ”

After Jia Jichun said this, Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, immediately continued: "The minister thinks that Jia Jichun's words are reasonable, and the minister seconded the proposal!" ”

Li Guowei is the leader of the Wenban, and as soon as he finished speaking, the leader of the minister's side, the British Duke Zhang Weixian, also stepped forward, bowed down and said, "The minister seconded the proposal!" ”

After these two people finished speaking, the Jianji Hall was silent again, and they all acquiesced to this.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at everyone, and finally stopped his gaze on Jia Jichun, and said, "Who does Jia Aiqing think can be the leader of the army against the enemy this time?" ”

After Emperor Chongzhen finished saying this, many people in the hall turned their eyes to Jia Jichun.

At this time, I saw that Jia Jichun was not in a hurry to answer the emperor's question, but first tidied up his clothes, and then slowly knelt in the middle of the hall, then kowtowed, and then said:

"Dare to ask Your Majesty to conquer in person! Go to Juyong Pass to defend against the enemy! Minister's news—"

Before Jia Jichun finished speaking, he heard a loud uproar in the Jianji Palace:

"Ridiculous! Jia Jichun, you are ridiculous! ”

"No! Never! ”

"Jia Jichun, you persuade Your Majesty to risk your life, what are your intentions!"

"Your Majesty, don't listen to Jia Jichun, a treacherous villain!"

"Your Majesty, please cure Jia Jichun for the crime of lying in front of the emperor!"

There was chaos in the Jianji Hall all of a sudden, except for the cabinet ministers and officials of various ministries in the front row, a considerable number of officials in the Wenban ranks suddenly fried like cold water falling into hot oil.

Some came out and knelt down to ask the emperor to deal with Jia Jichun, and more people scolded Jia Jichun for being a treacherous villain and talking about chaos in the country, and so on.

Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, looked at the chaos in the hall, his face was gloomy as water, but when he looked at the emperor, he saw that the emperor was indifferent, just looking at everything coldly, he thought about it, and he didn't say anything after all.

And the celebrant Bingbi, the eunuch Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the commanders of Tian Cewei and Yulinwei, Gao Wencai and Li Ruolian, as well as the military attachés of the imperial attendants, saw this scene and looked at the emperor's face one after another.

Whether it was the eunuch Cao Huachun, the so-called internal minister, or Li Guohao, the first assistant of the cabinet, or Li Biao, the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate who was responsible for the words and deeds of the picket officials, they did not stand up to stop the chaos in the palace.

This also clearly shows that they have reservations about the emperor's pro-conquest.

Although at this moment, they all know the emperor's true intentions.

They have reservations, which means that although they are personally and resolutely opposed to Emperor Chongzhen's personal conquest, they will not openly stand up against the emperor.

For them, this is already a big concession.

And for the current Emperor Chongzhen, this is also very good.

Without the participation of cabinet ministers and scholars, it didn't take long for Jia Jichun to stop because of the chaos caused by Jia Jichun's proposal to the emperor to drive the expedition in person.

After all, the people who can come to Jianji Hall to participate in the court meeting at this moment are all people who have been in the middle of the court for many years.

Emperor Chongzhen gave the conditions for candidates to participate in the Great Court Meeting of the Jianji Palace, and blocked a large number of young hairy guys from the outside.

But most of the officials who have been up and down in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years have already experienced the deceit and deceit of the officialdom and the hot and cold state of the world.

As the so-called public gate enters the deep sea, it is a passer-by from then on.

It is easy for such a person to completely ignore his safety and interests for anything, and completely gamble his net worth and life on his career and future.

Moreover, words and deeds, and how to behave in the world, most of them are the result of interest calculations or trade-offs.

Many people were scolding Jia Jichun on the one hand, but in fact, they were still observing the emperor and those who were standing in front of them with their spare eyes on the other side.

When the Jianji Hall was quiet again, a person came out of the crowd, and after saluting, he said: "Liu Hongxun, the right of the Imperial Palace, has a play!" ”

After saying this, Liu Hongxun saw that the emperor just looked at him coldly and didn't speak, so he had to bite the bullet and continue:

"Your Majesty is a young man, wise and thoughtful, since the imperial pole has been forging ahead, revitalizing the decline and falling, in addition to the eunuch party, suppressing the government, suppressing the thieves, leveling the southwest, the Ming Dynasty has a Zhongxing atmosphere! Your Majesty, fortunately! Your Majesty is very lucky!

"However, it is precisely because of this that Your Majesty and your ministers should cherish the hard-won situation in front of them! Your Majesty's steady sitting in Beijing is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's prosperity, and you must not be angry and angry! Don't put yourself in danger!

"As the saying goes, the soldiers are fierce and the battle is dangerous, the victory or defeat is unpredictable, and the tragic lesson of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy in the civil fort, Your Majesty must not worry about it!"

After Liu Hongxun finished speaking, he knelt down in the hall, and behind him, a group of officials soon came out, kneeling down in the hall like him, repeating the same sentence one after another: "I implore Your Majesty to put the temple society first, and don't put yourself in danger!" ”

After these people said this, they all kowtowed to the ground, with a posture that if you don't agree, I won't get up, which made Emperor Chongzhen's heart bored and powerless.

In his mind, the ideal courtier is the kind of courtier who is only responsible for efficient execution.

No matter how bold or inconceivable the idea or proposal is put forward by the emperor, a good courtier should not criticize, deny, or question or obstruct the idea or proposal itself, but should consider how to carry it out perfectly, not only to avoid the risks in it, but also to achieve its best effect and implement it.

It's a pity that such ministers are really rare in the political ecology of the late Ming Dynasty.