The court, which had already become calm because of the emperor's speech, once again set off an uproar, how many soldiers died on the battlefield, and there was never a saying that the monument would be engraved forever.

Those who can forever engrave monuments or leave their names in history are generally generals with outstanding military achievements, who cares about a pawn who is already dead?

Zhang Peng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, stood up for the first time and contradicted Zhang Ru: "Your Majesty, this matter must not be allowed. The Ming border army has killed countless people, since the founding of the country is countless, this victory over the Tatars, it is not the meaning of the imperial court, if it is a monument to stand again, I am afraid that the people will think that His Majesty is reckless! ”

"Zhang Shangshu said this very much, please think twice."

"Your Majesty think twice!"

The opinion was put forward by Zhang Ru, and as a result, the behavior of these ministers made it seem that Emperor Zhu Jianshen wanted to set up a monument to those soldiers who died in battle.

An ordinary person will feel uncomfortable when he is wronged, let alone an emperor!

Zhu Jianshen's face fell: "I have thought about it twice, Zhang Ru's proposal is very good, so many strong men who died for the Ming Dynasty not only did not get the honor they deserved, but they also suffered criticism." No matter what the Lord will be, there is nothing wrong with the soldiers, and it is the proper meaning to erect a monument for them. ”

"Your Majesty, how can that group of military Qiu Ba get such great glory." Someone stood up dissatisfiedly and retorted.

It was the official of the Imperial Historical Observatory who spoke.

The official named Guo Song is very young, and he has always been unknown after entering the Yushitai, but today, he said such things to the emperor in the Jinluan Palace.

This young man, who was finally admitted to the Jinshi from Jiangnan Province, hopes to use his practical actions to tell the world that I am a speech official who is not afraid of death.

Therefore, he didn't care about the murderous eyes of the generals around him, nor the sympathetic eyes of his colleagues, he just looked at Zhu Jianshen on the dragon chair in a daze.

Zhu Jianshen laughed angrily, and was about to speak, but Zhang Ru had already spoken up: "Why? Just because they said that their blood was sprinkled on the frontier of the motherland, because few of them could live to old age and enjoy the joy of family, just because a group of Qiu Ba, who were in their thirties, did not even have a daughter-in-law. ”

"Lord Zhang might as well ask the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who is not racking their brains and working hard for the national economy and people's livelihood, just what you said is not enough. The tree monument is erected, and it must be a saint. A group of Qiu Ba, who don't even understand the principles of the sages, are not worthy of a monument. Guo Song, who had made up his mind to offend Zhang Ru to the end, selectively ignored the anger in Zhang Ru's eyes, and pretended to be calm.

Yushitai Hongxiu couldn't wait to jump out and slap this little cub to death on the spot, even he didn't dare to say such a thing in front of a group of generals, this young man was so ignorant of life and death, it was clear that he was going to kill Yushitai.

But now that Zhang Ru and Guo Song are confronting each other, it is difficult for him to jump out.

If he jumps out at this time, I'm afraid that he will soon become the target of public criticism, just kidding, there is indeed no precedent for a military general beating a civil official in the court of the Ming Dynasty, but before Zhang Ru beat a civil official in front of the civil and military officials and the emperor.

In addition, he had already heard of Zhang Ru's name, so Hong Xiu naturally knew more about Zhang Ru's methods and proportions than Guo Song. was beaten inexplicably, but there was still nowhere to repay, he was not so stupid.

Sure enough, Zhang Ru immediately stepped forward.

However, he didn't do it immediately, but stared at Guo Song with his eyes: "Tu Hu of Yajiao Mountain doesn't say it, when he dies, his eyes can't be closed, his body can't fall, and even Batu Munch's son Batu Bili has to sigh and praise him as a warrior."

None of the three thousand old soldiers died in the face of the Ming direction, and everyone's faces were facing the north.

The youngest of them was no more than seventeen years old, and the oldest was over half a hundred years old, and when they died, there was nothing in their eyes but hatred and murderous intent.

The half of his head, which had died the worst, had thirty-seven arrows stuck in his body, and he still held a spear head in his hand, and all five fingers were broken by the spear head, but he did not let go.

The tiger's mouth garrison Lin Wushu lost an arm, and he dared to lead someone to kill with gauze wrapped in his arm, and he added more than a dozen scars to his body, and one or two of them could kill someone.

Among the tens of thousands of sons who died in battle, some people's children are still in infancy, and some people have just married a wife, but they did not enjoy the joy of being married and having children, and they are desperately fighting for the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention the three thousand Xuanfu veterans who went deep into the desert with Ben, one by one the soldiers of a hundred battles died in the vast grassland, and there was not even a single person to collect the corpses, so they cheapened those eagle vultures in vain.

You say they don't deserve it? ”

Guo Song said unknowingly: "Don't describe the tragic scenes on your battlefield, from ancient times to the present, which war is not dead?" Once it will be successful, ten thousand bones will wither, that is an eternal truth.

General Zhang is very young and maverick, and it is only fitting that the questions that have not been raised by the general soldiers who are more than half a hundred years old should be raised by the general soldiers.

But has Mr. Zhang ever thought that if so many soldiers died on the battlefield and left their names in history, how would you tell thousands of scholars in the world to deal with themselves? ”

Zhang Ru responded: "Yes, you scholars have studied all your life and been an official for a lifetime, and you may not be able to get a famous treatment in history." But don't forget, you're still alive, they're dead. ”

Guo Song said hatefully: "If you die, you will die, what's the big deal, there are tens of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not a big deal to die tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." ”

Zhang Ru said coldly: "The whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, the people of the world are His Majesty's subjects, you say that four tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands are not a big deal?" That's great! Next time, if there are Tatars on the border, how about asking Lord Guo to take the whole family to the border to be one of those tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands? As long as Mr. Guo can do it, Mr. Zhang will fight to the death, and Mr. Guo's whole family will leave a mark on the Danqing scroll. ”

Guo Song's words were forced back, and it was obvious that he was still afraid of death.

There is nothing in this world that is not afraid of death, and the so-called people who are not afraid of death are all people who have not been cared about. Guo Song is obviously not the kind of person who doesn't care, he also has a wife and children, and he can't bear this fancy world.

Don't say that he is generous to death, even if he is allowed to shave his cultivation from now on, he is afraid that he will not be willing.

A confrontation between civil and military, the two protagonists' verbal conflicts, in general, it was Zhang Ru who had the upper hand.

However, the civilian-official clique did not let go, and it was really difficult to let those soldiers who died on the border really build a monument. Even if Emperor Zhu Jianshen wants to exclude public opinion, it is unlikely.

After all, it was the Ming Dynasty that ruled the world together with the Son of Heaven and scholars, and it had not yet arrived in the Qing Dynasty, which strengthened imperial power in later generations.

Guo Song lost the upper hand, and Liu Ji, the initiator of this controversy, naturally wanted to stand up and speak, and he stood up unhurriedly: "Your Majesty can you listen to the old minister." ”

Zhu Jianshen nodded slightly and never opened his mouth.

After Liu Ji received an affirmative reply, he cleared his throat: "What General Zhang said is certainly reasonable, but what Guo Songkou said without choice is not completely unreasonable. The territory of the Ming Dynasty is not only thousands of miles, but the people are hundreds of millions of trillions. There are millions of soldiers on the nine sides, not counting the Weisuo Army and the Beijing Army, and the annual tax will account for eighty percent of the military expenditure alone.

With such a large expense, raising them is to serve the country.

Could it be that when the Tartars are bullied to the end, we still need to wait for the powerless literati to use their hands with brushes to deal with those Tartars who are holding scimitars weighing a few pounds?

Three-year-old children understand the truth, and Lao Chen believes that General Zhang also knows.

However, General Zhang proposed to erect a monument for those dead soldiers, how unfair is this to those nameless warriors who died in battle since the founding of the Ming Dynasty? They died on the battlefield and had nothing, so why could these juniors get the honor that none of their predecessors could get?

If General Zhang's proposal was correct, the old minister thought that Emperor Taizu's wisdom and martial arts would definitely be able to think of this. ”

Lifting out the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, this mountain will be pressed down, and everyone who knows each other will be defeated.

Do you want the other party to say that Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is stupid and incompetent, and he is not as good as the really stupid and incompetent Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen?

If anyone really dares to say such a big rebellion, it is estimated that there is no need for the ministers to criticize and write, and Zhu Jianshen, who is still a little self-aware when he is old, will also pull him out and behead him in anger.

Zhang Ru was an outlier, he avoided the important and said lightly: "Taizu is naturally wise and martial, but when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, so many soldiers who died on the battlefield could not be counted at all, but none of the ministers made suggestions. Emperor Taizu worked hard every day, and naturally it was impossible to do everything, which is what the courtiers should remind.

No one suggested that it was the fault of the courtiers and not the fault of Emperor Taizu.

Now Ming Chengping, although it has experienced some changes, it still retains the national ancestry.

Since we, the courtiers, have thought of this, if we don't bring it up, it will be disloyal to His Majesty today, and disloyal to my Ming Dynasty.

You don't care how you attack Zhang and Zhang in the court on weekdays, but it is absolutely impossible to attack those soldiers who have worked hard for the country.

You are drooling in the court, but they are bleeding blood and sweat on the battlefield, if they are not worthy of the monument, who deserves! ”

Liu Ji paused, and was about to open his mouth to refute, but Zhu Jianshen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, don't quarrel, Wenchen doesn't know about the war, and the military generals don't know about the court, this is not a good thing."

What you say makes sense, and it is necessary to erect a model, but it is unrealistic to erect a monument for everyone. After thinking about it again and again, I decided to set up a stele for the more than 3,000 dead soldiers in Yajiao Mountain, so that all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could see that the people who fought for the Ming Dynasty were qualified to engrave their names on the stele. ”

The final word, no objections, because no one dares to disagree.