Chapter 14: The Power of Public Opinion
Even some non-core Qingliu and speech officials, when they heard the news, couldn't sit still, so they immediately went up to impeach Yang Sichang, saying that Yang Sichang was a traitor and misleading the country, and asked the saint to immediately remove Yang Sichang and behead him for public display.
Yang Sichang couldn't have imagined that this matter discussed in the court could be spread to the people in the blink of an eye, how could these people in the market know the worries of the court?
This kind of thing can't be explained to the people, Yang Sichang can't say publicly, Jiannu is not terrible, what is terrible is Yu Xiaotian, Jiannu has grabbed enough now, let them go and pull them down, and leave the lord An!
The key is that Yu Xiaotian is not a rebel, this is the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty, if you don't fight Jiannu, you have to fight Yu Xiaotian! If this had been said publicly, it is estimated that his house would have been demolished on the spot by the angry people.
What kind of person is Yu Xiaotian, the people don't care, they only know that Yu Xiaotian is the military general of the Ming Dynasty, and now the people hate the most is Jiannu, Jiannu has plundered the customs several times, killed how many Ming people, plundered how many Ming people, how many places have harmed the Ming people, and how much Ming wealth has been robbed.
This is not only the property of ordinary people, but also not only ordinary people, but also the gentry and magnates around Gyeonggi, including Beizhili and many places in Shandong, are all victims, and they have suffered deeply.
These people can't afford to offend the master, their family was broken by Jiannu, the money was robbed by Jiannu, the family was killed by Jiannu, and some women were ruined by Jiannu and robbed.
These people and Jiannu don't share the same hatred, if they heard that Yang Sichang said that they wanted to let Jiannu go, and in turn they wanted to help Jiannu call the Yu family army who came here to fight Jiannu, how could these people let Yang Sichang go?
As soon as the news was revealed, Yang Sichang's reputation was completely stinking to the extreme, and that night, someone threw the dung into the courtyard of Yang Sichang's house, and the gate and the courtyard wall were also covered with stinky dung, which suddenly made Yang Sichang's mansion smelly, and the smell could be spread for ten miles.
Yang Sichang also knew that he had completely stabbed Lou Zi this time, so he hurriedly rushed to the palace in a sedan chair as soon as possible, but as soon as his car came out of the yard, he became a rat crossing the street.
Everywhere along the way, there was a lot of scolding, and the common people hid behind the walls, stood in the streets, climbed to the roofs, and took turnips, clods, stones, and broken shoes.
People can't be angry, once they are angry, the consequences are very strict, Yang Sichang this time is completely angry, just started to protect his own soldiers, and he also drove and intimidated those people who pointed at Yang Sichang's sedan chair and scolded or threw things, shouting and shouting to kill.
But then they also found that things were not good, more and more people joined the ranks of these people, scolding filled people's ears, it can be said that it went straight to the sky, and the mess falling from the sky was even denser like a shower, and even the attendants who followed Yang Sichang's sedan chair were also unlucky, and their faces were full of blood, and they wanted to use force, but the public was angry, if they killed people, then I don't know what chaos would happen next.
This time, they couldn't be arrogant, so they had to hurry up to protect Yang Sichang's sedan chair and rush to the palace.
But Yang Sichang just arrived in the palace, Chongzhen split the face and issued an order, so that he ordered to immediately stop the action of the family army, Chongzhen is the best name, and also cherishes the reputation the most, the first few days there are rumors that he wants to make peace with Jiannu, it has scared him half to death, and now Yang Sichang has a plan, to take advantage of the war between the family army and Jiannu, from the flank and rear, raid the family army, once and for all will Xiaotian This scourge will be solved, originally he still thought this trick was good.
But when the news came to the community, it immediately caused a lot of scolding, and the things in the market quickly passed to Chongzhen's ears through Cao Huachun.
Chongzhen couldn't sit still, and even some people shouted in the street, Daming should die, and finally came out with such a loyal and good general, leading the troops to fight Jiannu, but the court wanted to put him to death, this is not to show that he Chongzhen is a faint king, and it is a faint monarch who has fainted to the extreme.
At this time, Chongzhen couldn't sit still, and scolded in his heart who revealed the news, and in an instant, he completely destroyed the image of Mingjun that he had erected for so many years, and at the same time hated Yang Sichang, and actually gave him such a bad idea.
He doesn't self-examine, the mistakes are all done by the people below, this idea was made by Yang Sichang, then Yang Sichang should come to the top of the cylinder, not to mention that the matter of Lu Xiangsheng in front of him has not yet ended, and he has already found out a lot about the reasons for Lu Xiangsheng's death.
This time, Lu Xiangsheng died in the battle of Julu, and it was indeed Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others who secretly restrained Lu Xiangsheng everywhere, divided Lu Xiangsheng's military power, and took away Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses, so that Lu Xiangsheng finally had only three or four thousand weak brigades left on hand.
In addition, some people said that Yang Sichang specially sent people to instruct the local government to cut off the supply of food and salary to Lu Xiangsheng, whether this matter is true or false, it is really too desperate.
Even if he Chongzhen was jealous of Lu Xiangsheng, he didn't want Lu Xiangsheng to fight to the death with Jiannu, and he didn't think about forcing Lu Xiangsheng to death, and he also knew that Lu Xiangsheng should be a loyal minister, and he was also good at controlling troops, and he could fight and kill, so he was a rare good minister in the world.
Lu Xiangsheng's death is undoubtedly a huge loss for Daming, Lu Xiangsheng can indeed be said to have been killed by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian this time, at least Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian have unshirkable responsibility.
What's even more odious is that Cao Huachun also found out that Gao Qiqian did lead tens of thousands of elite Ming troops at that time, and Chen Bing was less than fifty miles away from Lu Xiangsheng's department, and he was stunned to sit back and watch Lu Xiangsheng's department surrounded by the Jiannu army, but he said that he would not send reinforcements to rescue, and afterwards the Jiannu army immediately turned around and attacked Gao Qiqian's department after destroying Lu Xiangsheng's department. Chaos was everywhere in the southern part of Beizhi.
Gao Qiqian hadn't shown his head at this time, and he didn't know where to hide.
Now that there is such a thing in the market, Yang Sichang has already aroused public anger, and if it goes on like this, the anger of the people will cause chaos at any time, how can Chongzhen not be angry?
And Chongzhen's biggest problem is that he seems to be very responsible on the surface, but in fact, he likes to shirk responsibility in his heart, and now that things have reached such a point, he vented all his anger on Yang Sichang.
Now it is Yang Sichang's idea of jointly building slaves and eliminating Yu Xiaotian, which has aroused the anger of the people all over the world, and this matter can only be undertaken by Yang Sichang.
Now it is obviously not appropriate to continue to mobilize troops and horses to take the opportunity to attack the Yu family's army, otherwise the spitting stars of the people of the world will be enough to drown the imperial court, so Chongzhen hurriedly saw Yang Sichang, and immediately ordered Yang Sichang to stop this operation, and instead ordered Chen Xinjia and the officials and troops from Shanhaiguan to closely monitor the movements of Yu Xiaotian's department.
Yang Sichang listened to Chongzhen's order, knowing that this time the saint had changed his mind, he couldn't help but sigh, this time I am afraid that he will completely miss the opportunity to destroy Yu Xiaotian, and at the same time, he can guess that he is afraid that the position of the first assistant has also been achieved.
What's even more terrifying is that at this time, there is another news in the market, which is even more unfavorable to Yang Sichang, and the matter is that Jinan Mansion was broken by Jiannu.
At the beginning, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, did not concentrate Shandong's heavy troops in the Dezhou area, but left a considerable number of officers and soldiers in Jinan.
However, because Yang Sichang miscalculated the marching route of the Jiannu army and believed that Jiannu would definitely take Dezhou into Shandong to attack and plunder, he directly ordered Yan Jizu to concentrate most of the troops of the Shandong official army and rush to Dezhou to deploy defenses, preparing to prevent the Jiannu army from attacking Shandong in Dezhou.
But I never thought that the Jiannu army would bypass Dezhou, first enter Beizhili, and then attack Shanxi all the way westward, and then suddenly turn back to Beizhili, go to Zhendingfu and go east straight into Shandong, from Linqingzhou directly into Shandong, and drive straight into Jinan Mansion, which is empty.
As a result, Yan Jizu was caught off guard, and he didn't have time to lead the army back to Jinan Mansion, and Jinan Mansion was conquered by the Jiannu army in one day, and Zhu Youshu, the king of De, and Zhu Ensheng, the general of Fengguo, were captured by Jiannu, and were finally killed by Jiannu.
Before this incident, Yang Sichang completely put the responsibility on Yan Jizu's head, saying that Yan Jizu mishandled it, and as a result, Jinan was empty, and finally Jinan Mansion was broken by Jiannu.
Chongzhen was very sad about the fact that Jinan Mansion was broken by Jiannu, not only because King De and other relatives were taken captive by Jiannu, but the key is that Jinan is different from other state capitals and counties, Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, it is an important town of the Ming Dynasty, and it is located in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, but it was broken by Jiannu in one fell swoop, which is really like slapping him a few times in the face of the emperor, which embarrassed him.
At the same time, Jinan Mansion was conquered by Jiannu, which also greatly shook the confidence of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and made Jiannu personally feel the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, which for the Ming Dynasty, the evil consequences caused by Chongzhen can be imagined.
Therefore, although Chongzhen has not issued an order to deal with Yan Jizu now, he has already labeled Yan Jizu, this person should be responsible for this matter, and he will only say this after returning to Jiannu to leave the customs.
But now it is suddenly rumored that although Yan Jizu should be held accountable for this matter, the culprit is Yang Sichang, if it were not for Yang Sichang's insistence on ordering Yan Jizu to transfer troops to Dezhou, then it would not have evacuated the defenders of Jinan, and as a result, Jinan was conquered by Jiannu in one fell swoop.
Chongzhen is even more angry about this matter, this time Jiannu entered the customs, Yang Sichang can be said to have made a stupid move, and did more dirty things than one another, for the sake of the festival between him and Lu Xiangsheng, he actually ignored the Ming Dynasty and did it like this, and afterwards he pretended to be confused, deceived the superiors and subordinates, and deducted the basin on others' heads, shirking his responsibility.
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