This boy and his father-in-law are really the same as each other, they just like to show off their knowledge.
Compared with the excitement of the generals, some civil servants did not agree with it.
Because this "will not accept the order of the foreign king", it has never been a law, and there is actually no law to judge it.
However, what Zhang Fei said was not wrong. The general's adaptability on the battlefield was of course allowed. It was impossible for the enemy to attack at the door. The general should first seek the emperor's consent before deciding whether to counterattack.
This is obviously impossible.
If it is counted from the moment Zhong E sent out troops, it must be disobedience to the edict, but if it is counted from the initial inducement to surrender, this is not necessarily true. Whether Zhong E's previous confession is true or not is very critical.
This was also the reason for the dissatisfaction of those civil servants, who thought that Zhang Fei was trying to excuse his cheating.
At the same time, they also understood why Zheng Xie appeared here.
Zheng Xie also felt that Zhang Fei was a bit biased, but he had to admit that what Zhang Fei said was more reasonable. Logically speaking, this was the same thing. He just teased: "President Zhang, you are the president now, and you are also the president of the court."
Not an ear pen.”
Zhang Fei chuckled and said: "I am not taking sides. Since there are disputes about this matter, these disputes must be heard clearly. Just now, Academician Zheng should have heard it. Vice Minister Zhong kept emphasizing that it was at a critical moment, and things will change later, so
He chose to send troops decisively, so I need to figure this out."
Zheng Xie nodded, "I understand."
Zhang Fei coughed lightly and asked, "In the opinion of Scholar Zheng, what was the imperial court's attitude towards luring the Wei Mingshan brothers to surrender?"
Zheng Xidao: "I don't agree with this."
Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked: "Can Academician Zheng's opinion be regarded as the court's decision?"
"That can't be done."
Zheng Xie quickly explained.
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "I'm asking about the attitude of the imperial court."
Zheng Xie nodded, thought for a moment, and then replied: "The court's initial attitude was just to let Yanzhou give it a try, without any clear objection. However, this matter caused a lot of controversy in the court, and most of the ministers were opposed to it."
This matter."
Zhang Fei nodded helplessly. "I have also heard about this, but the opinions of those ministers are not within the scope of consideration here. As Zheng Xueshi said just now, the imperial court is about laws, not about laws.
politics."
Zheng Xie wondered: "But Mr. Guo also explained his political views just now."
How can this be done without expounding political opinions?
Zhang Fei said: "That is just to understand clearly the ins and outs of the whole matter. As for his political opinions, they will not have any impact on the final judgment."
Guo Kui's face darkened when he heard this, "I've said all my love for you in vain! You stinky boy."
Zhang Fei pondered for a moment and then asked: "So the first time the deputy envoy was lured to surrender to Weiming Yishan, according to the law, did he disobey the imperial edict?"
Zheng Xie thought for a while, then shook his head: "No."
If it was not allowed, Lu Shen would have stopped Zhong E long ago, and there would be no edict later for Lu Shen and Xue Xiang to plan.
Zhang Fei asked: "Why didn't the imperial court reject it from the beginning?"
Zheng Xidao said: "Because the imperial court did not know the specific situation, and in order to prevent the border generals from taking advantage of the situation, they ordered that the prefect Lu and the envoy Xue Zhuan be in charge of the matter."
Having said this, he immediately added: "At this time, the imperial court was still hesitating and had no determination to regain Suizhou. After all, the official family had just ascended the throne at that time and was facing very severe financial difficulties. If this incident broke out,
The war may have destroyed the entire country for hundreds of years, but no one thought that Deputy Ambassador Zhong would send troops without waiting for the imperial edict."
Zhang Fei asked: "Assuming that Deputy Zhong waited for the imperial edict, and that Magistrate Lu and Xue Zhuanshi thought it was okay to continue, does Deputy Zhong's behavior count as disobedience to the imperial edict?"
Zheng Xie asked back: "I wonder if President Zhang asked that?"
Zhang Fei said: "Because I want to be sure whether the imperial court's decision at that time clearly opposed the recovery of Suizhou."
Zheng Xie hesitated for a while and shook his head, "That's not true."
Zhang Fei asked: "Xueshi Zheng must have heard what Xianggong Guo said just now. He believed that the terrain of Suizhou was so critical that Xixia is still entangled in it. Did the imperial court know at the time that no matter what the process was, as long as it was recovered?
Suizhou, Xixia will definitely send troops to seize it?"
Zheng Xie nodded and said, "Of course I know."
Zhang Fei said: "Since we knew that doing so would trigger a war, why didn't the imperial court refuse to surrender from the beginning? Why did we hesitate?"
Zheng Xie struggled for a while and said: "Initially, the officials wanted to regain Suizhou, but many ministers, including me, felt that this would trigger a war with Xixia, and urged the officials to give up recruiting and surrendering.
, so we finally decided to let Lu Shen and Xue Zhuanshi take charge of this matter."
Zhang Fei said: "But your persuasion didn't make the officials completely change their mind?"
Zheng Xie nodded.
Zhang Fei said: "If I say that during this period, Vice Envoy Zhong's behavior of inducing surrender was to use Weiming Yishan to persuade Weimingshan to surrender, this was also allowed by the imperial court."
Zheng Xie nodded and said truthfully: "After successfully enticing the surrender, Deputy Zhong reported it to the court. Although it caused controversy, he was not disobeying the imperial edict at that time."
Zhang Fei said: "So the imperial court believes that Vice Envoy Zhong disobeyed the imperial edict because he sent troops without authorization before waiting for the imperial edict, and because he immediately returned to Qingjian City without orders from Prefect Lu."
Zheng Xie nodded and said, "Yes."
Zhang Fei continued to ask: "Just now, Academician Zheng emphasized repeatedly that this move would cause a military disaster. So in the eyes of the imperial court at that time, what kind of state were our country and Xixia in?"
Zheng Xidao said: "I also agree with what Xianggong Guo just said, it is neither war nor peace. Although there have been repeated conflicts, the two sides still maintain envoy exchanges and end the conflicts with peace talks. In the overall situation, whether it is our country or Xixia
They don’t want a war to break out.”
In fact, this sentence does not explain clearly why no one is willing to break out a war. It is because there is a Liao Kingdom here. Both sides dare not take action easily until they are not sure. Otherwise, both sides will lose.
profit.
However, this cannot be said clearly, but everyone sitting here knows it very well.
Zhang Fei asked again: "Compared with the conflict between our country and Xixia from the Jiayou period to the fourth year of Zhiping, is the recapture of Suizhou any different? In other words, is this move different from any previous conflict?
, are much more serious.”
Zheng Xie couldn't help but frown slightly, shook his head and said, "That's not true."
Li Liangzuo had raised troops to attack several times before. No matter what, it cannot be said that it is very serious if we send troops first, but it is not serious if the opponent sends troops first.
This is not inferiority. When facing Xixia, the ministers of the Song Dynasty still felt that they were superior to others. This is why Li Liangzuo hoped to gain the respect of the Song Dynasty through force. This was also the root cause of the main conflict during the Jiayou period.
Xixia believes that you must treat me and Liao equally.
But in the eyes of the Song Dynasty, your ancestor was an old minister of our dynasty and was a rebel minister, and could only be on the same level as Shi Jingtang.
Zhang Fei asked: "If the president of the court thinks that Vice Envoy Zhong's dispatch of troops to Suizhou is just one of several conflicts between the two countries and there is nothing special about it, does Zheng Xueshi agree?"
"I...I agree."
Although Zheng Xie came prepared, he started to sweat when he was asked. He thought, this is unfair, why are you only allowed to ask me? So he asked: "But I don't understand, what does this have to do with it?"
relation."
Zhang Fei said: "Because I have to decide whether this is a special event or an ordinary event. Assuming that the two countries are relatively peaceful, then the deputy envoy's behavior will definitely directly affect the relationship between the two countries, so his behavior is very likely to
It is greedy for success and reckless advancement, regardless of the overall situation.
But if the two sides are already in the stage of intrigue and attacking each other, then the behavior of such deputy envoys is not necessarily greedy for success. It may be just a response measure or a self-protection measure. Guo Xianggong has just made it clear
, taking Suizhou can make Yanzhou sit back and relax.
And this will also affect my judgment, because if it is a special event, it is similar to the decision of whether to go to war or not. This must not be the decision of the military commander. Regardless of success or failure, it is disobedience to the edict.
However, if it is just an ordinary incident, then the military commander will have part of the decision-making power, and the status of the two countries at that time is also a key factor for me to determine the deputy envoy's motivation for sending troops."
Zheng Xidao said: "Even if this is just a normal incident, even if he sent troops before as a response measure, then Magistrate Lu later ordered him to come back, but he did not implement it. What's the explanation?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Xueshi Zheng, I invited you not to argue with me, nor to teach me how to judge. I just hope that you can provide me with evidence and explain clearly the imperial court's attitude towards the surrender of the Weimingshan brothers at that time."
, and based on your observations, what was the situation between the two countries at that time. You just need to tell me the truth."
Zheng Xie questioned: "But your question is biased."
Zhang Fei immediately asked: "For example."
Zheng Xidao said: "You only choose issues that are beneficial to Vice Envoy Zhong, but you avoid talking about issues that are unfavorable to Deputy Envoy Zhong, such as why Deputy Envoy Zhong did not obey the order and return to Qingjian City."
Zhang Fei immediately asked: "Excuse me, Master Zheng, why Deputy Zhong did not obey the order and return to Qingjian City."
"...?"
Zheng Xie immediately looked stunned.
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Scholar Zheng, actually I don't need to explain everything to you. It's just because you don't know much about the trial in the imperial court, so I explained it.
I invited Scholar Zheng here not to argue with me, nor to ask Scholar Zheng to explain his own opinions, but to provide relevant evidence, that's all.
The reason why Academician Zheng thinks my question is unfair is not actually about me, but because Academician Zheng has already made a decision in his mind and cannot tolerate any doubt. The person who is really biased is not me, but Academician Zheng. Academician Zheng might as well ask himself
, is that so?”
He spoke softly and always had a smile on his face.
Zheng Xie was not as calm as before. His old face turned red. After a while, he cupped his hands and said, "I'm really sorry, Zheng couldn't provide much help to the president."
Zhang Fei said hurriedly: "No, no, no, Master Zheng took the trouble to come here. I am very grateful. In fact, it helped me a lot. Moreover, Master Zheng has his own opinions and ideas. This is very normal. As long as Master Zheng does not
It is okay to commit perjury and in other respects, and there is no need to apologize.
But I have no other questions for the time being, and I would like to ask Bachelor Zheng to go down and rest first."
Zheng Xie sighed and walked down depressedly.
When Lu Shen saw this, he was extremely sad in his heart.
Zhong Ji said excitedly: "This guy really has some tricks up his sleeve."
Zhe Jizu also nodded repeatedly.
The current situation is obviously more favorable to them.
Zhang Fei said loudly: "There is another key witness in this case, which is the current shipping envoy Xue Xiang. The imperial edict issued by the court at that time was jointly presided over by the prefect Lu and Xue Fayun, but because Xue Fayun is currently on the Southeast Sixth Road
He was busy implementing the New Deal and could not take the time to come here to testify, but Ambassador Xue Fayun sent his chief secretary Ding Xiang to come here to testify. I wonder if the procuratorate has any objection to this?"
Many officials frowned.
Su Che stood up and said, "The procuratorate has no objection."
Zhang Fei immediately summoned Ding Xiang to testify in court.
Ding Xiang came to the middle and bowed first before sitting on the chair.
Zhang Fei said: "Ding Xiang, where were you in the fourth year of Zhiping?"
Ding Xiang replied: "I was in Jiezhou at that time, assisting Xue Fayun in handling the salt banknotes."
Zhang Fei said: "What do you usually do when you are around Xue Fayun?"
Ding Xiang said: "I assisted Xue Fayun in drafting documents and made plans for Xue Fayun."
Zhang Fei asked again: "Do you know that at that time, the imperial court issued an edict to ask Xue Fayun and Lu Zhifu to handle the matter of recruiting and surrendering Weimingshan?"
Ding Xiang nodded and said: "I know, I was the one who handed that edict to Ambassador Xue Fayun."
Zhang Fei asked: "Did Vice Envoy Zhong occupy Suizhou at that time?"
Ding Xiang nodded and said: "We have already occupied Suizhou."
Zhang Fei said: "Did Ambassador Xue Fayun instruct Deputy Ambassador Zhong to do this?"
Ding Xiang shook his head and said: "No. Because when we received the edict, Deputy Zhong had already occupied Suizhou."
Zhang Fei said: "When did Xue Fayun know about this?"
Ding Xiang said: "It was before receiving the edict, which should be less than five days apart."
Zhang Fei asked again: "Afterwards, Magistrate Lu ordered Deputy Zhong to return to Qingjian City. Does Xue Fayun know?"
Ding Xiang said: "I only learned about this later, I didn't know it at first."
Zhang Fei asked: "Didn't Prefect Lu discuss this matter with Ambassador Xue Fayun?"
Ding Xiang shook his head and said: "We were not in Yanzhou at that time, so Magistrate Lu did not discuss it with us."
Zhang Fei said: "Then what was Ambassador Xue Fayun's attitude after learning that Deputy Ambassador Zhong had occupied Suizhou?"
Zhang Fei said: "Did Ambassador Xue Fayun inform Deputy Ambassador Zhong of his thoughts?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because Xue Fayun believed that Deputy Zhong was a subordinate of Magistrate Lu and should be led by Magistrate Lu, and Xue Fayun did not expect that Magistrate Lu would ask Deputy Zhong to return to Qingjian City. After that, Xue Fayun
He once argued for the deputy envoy and expressed his willingness to be punished on his behalf."
"The results of it?"
"As a result, he was demoted to Jiangzhou."
"Ha ha....!"
Suddenly I heard someone laughing.
I looked around and saw that Cao Dongdong was really that idiot.
When Cao Dongdong saw everyone looking over, he quickly shut up and lowered his head.
Zhang Fei just shook his head helplessly and continued to ask: "According to the imperial edict, do you think Prefect Lu needs to discuss with Ambassador Xue Fayun?"
Ding Xiang hesitated for a moment and said: "It would be best if we could discuss it with Ambassador Xue Fayun, but there is nothing wrong if we don't discuss it. Ambassador Xue Fayun believes that Deputy Ambassador Zhong made the decision without notifying the prefect Lu.
Troops were sent to occupy Suizhou, and the situation was very urgent at that time. Envoy Xue Fayun did not know the situation at that time. Even without that edict, Prefect Lu still had the right to order Deputy Envoy Zhong to return to Qingjian City."
