Song Tingshan, the Minister of Household Affairs and Song Can’s father, is a thin middle-aged man, five or six years older than Zhu Hang, already over fifty years old, with a yellow face and a slender face. He is wearing a casual robe and sitting in the Wenyu Hall of the front house of the Song family.
While drinking tea, I saw Xu Huai, Zhu Hang, Wang Ju and others walking into the corridor. Then I slowly put down my tea cup, stood up, saluted and asked:
"There are many disasters on the border. There are not many good ministers in the government who can work as hard as you and are not afraid of dangers. Is everything going smoothly on this trip?"
When Zhu Hang came back, other than washing up and putting on a brand-new official uniform, he didn't take a breath or even take a bite of hot rice. At this moment, he didn't have the energy to play push hands with Song Tingshan, so he said directly:
"His Royal Highness King Jing and the Prime Minister have entered the palace again. They will advise the Holy Minister to go out to Huainan and leave the prince to sit in Bianliang to supervise the country..."
How could Zhu Hang still not know what Song Tingshan was thinking at this time? He didn't have the strength to explain to Song Tingshan in detail how dangerous the situation was and give him the conclusion directly.
"Is the situation really so dangerous?" Song Tingshan's hands trembled and he knocked the tea cup to the ground without caring about it, and asked Zhu Hang in a trembling voice.
The protection between men and women in this world was not as tight as that in later generations. The Lord of Ronngle County was used to being arrogant in the house, but at this time he was even more uneasy. He followed Zhu Hang and others to the front house to ask Yutang to see Rong Tingshan, thinking about it.
After understanding some of the situation, she became even more panicked when she saw that Song Tingshan was also in a state of chaos.
Zhu Hang invited Xu Huai, and Wang Ju sat down, introduced Song Tingshan briefly, and said: "When we talked to His Highness King Jing and the Prime Minister about the situation in the North, Song Can was also present. Let Song Can tell you what happened.
What's going on! We rushed back from Fuzhou. We didn't sleep much for three days and three nights. We didn't even take a breath when we returned to Bianliang. We just rushed to the palace to reply to the decree. At this time, we can really fall asleep just sitting down!"
Song Zhen was older than Zhu Zhi, but he was determined to become an official through the imperial examination, which was of higher origin and was more valued in the court. Therefore, he was still studying hard in the government and did not rely on his father's kindness to serve in the court.
Find an official position.
Although Xu Huai had not concealed the secrets from many female relatives and Song Can, Zhu Tong and others since he demonstrated the Chi Hu's riding attire and combat methods, Song Can had not heard anything outside the window before.
, the geographical relationship between Luliang Mountain may not be clear, how can you understand those subtleties at once?
Of course, Zhu Hang was his father-in-law, so he couldn't refuse at this time, so he could only reluctantly repeat everything he could remember to his father Song Tingshan.
Fortunately, Song Tingshan had also expected the bad situation. Song Can's retelling was not very good, but he could still understand it generally. After a while, he pondered and asked Zhu Hang: "Prince Jing and Wang Zhen are husband to each other. Is there any difference?"
Have you thought about sending envoys to negotiate peace with the Red Husbands?"
"Negotiating peace, how could Brother Song think of this?" Zhu Hang was stunned for a moment, and looked at Song Tingshan in surprise, as if he didn't expect these two words to come out of his mouth.
"...the Chihu people lived far away in Mobei, traveling thousands of miles south and north to fight, and all they got was nothing more than money and silk - I heard that the reason why the Chihu people declared war this time was Liu Shizhong, and Cai Yuanyou asked them to borrow troops to attack Datong City.
They had promised the goods in the city and the slaves and maidservants were allowed to be plundered. However, after the Chihu people invaded Datong City, Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou went back on their word, which finally angered the Chihu people. Speaking of the whole thing, we are in the wrong."
Song Tingshan said, "However, the Chihu people have been plundering in the north for more than a month. I believe their anger has subsided and their generals have succeeded in their desires. Next, there should be a longing for home. I think
It’s possible to negotiate peace!”
Zhu Hang's eyes widened and he stared at Song Tingshan in disbelief for a long time. Then he suppressed the evil thoughts in his chest and said in a cold voice: "It's possible, but I don't know.
Who should go to the Chihu people to negotiate peace? I am greedy for life and afraid of death, so I dare not go to the Chihu people..."
"The Red Husbands were able to declare war first and then declare war in Datong, and they had secretly communicated with our court many times before. They were all polite and not as arrogant and unreasonable as we imagined - I think the officials really have to make up their minds.
The envoys have nothing to worry about when negotiating peace." Of course Song Tingshan could also realize that this topic made Zhu Hang unhappy, and did not want to make him too unhappy, so he went back to the topic and said, "Of course, that's all I'll say.
Whether it is war or peace, it is ultimately up to the ministers and the officials to decide. No matter how much we say here, we are just speculating... But I don’t know whether the two military princes think it is possible for our court and Chihu to negotiate peace."
"..." If Song Tingshan hadn't been Zhu Hang's son and daughter, Xu Huai could have sprayed him in the face, but he just rubbed his neck and ignored Song Tingshan.
Wang Ju had a fiery temper when he was young, but after the change of the imperial edict, he was forced to remain anonymous for the sake of the whole clan. His temperament was much more tolerant than before. He just grinned at Song Tingshan and said: "It's war or peace, this kind of military and national plan
, it is decided by officials and ministers together, how can we, as warriors, be qualified to make irresponsible remarks?"
After saying a few words without speculation, Xu Huai sat down coldly.
Zhu Hang and Wang Ju were very blunt if they tried to get along with Song Tingshan. Even if Song Can, the head of Rongle County, tried their best to smooth things over, the atmosphere was extremely awkward.
After a while, Song Tingshan stood up and left with a gloomy face.
Although Song Can is said to be the son-in-law of the Zhu family, he can only go back with Song Tingshan at this moment.
"If you can't say something politely, you will treat others with a cold face, and you would like to drive them away. No wonder your Zhu family's family is becoming more and more desolate,"
The Lord of Rongle County was unhappy again now and said,
"But I think some of Song Tingshan's words are quite reasonable: the imperial court secretly exchanged envoys with the Red Husbands several times, and the people in charge said that the Red Husbands' envoys were quite polite and not like barbarians. If we are really wrong this time, we will cause them harm.
If you are angry, you can only go to war and lose your property. Otherwise, what are they trying to do? People will die in war. What Xu Junhou said just now really frightened me to the point of losing my mind.
I feel that if we can negotiate a peace, even if it means compensating for more property, it will be better than so many people dying."
"What are you talking about? What the hell do you know?"
Zhu Hang slapped the table and roared at the Lord of Rongle County,
"The great country was ruined by people like Song Tingshan, do you know? The king complained bitterly to the Red Husbands that they should not cooperate with them. How many civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty heard this, and they were all greedy and greedy.
Stupid, you think you can plot against Yan Yun, but you don’t want Chi Hu to harbor evil intentions and now lead the wolf into the house? But why can’t these people wake up? Can they really think that the Chi Hu people started the war because Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou failed to rescind the agreement? Negotiate peace.
, negotiate peace, how much property is the imperial court prepared to use to fill the bottomless pit of desires of the Chihu people? What should we use to tell the Chihu people to stop when they are satisfied and accept it as soon as it is good? Is it up to you to reason with the Chihu people? "
"I'll just follow what you guys are talking about. I stay in the house all day long. I say I was born into a wealthy family, but I haven't even been out of Bianliang City since I was a child. Why are you yelling at me, a woman who comes from a womanly family? I
Isn’t that normal if you don’t understand anything?” the Lord of Rongle County shouted with grievance.
"Shut up if you don't understand!"
The sky was about to collapse, and Zhu Hang had no intention of coddling the Lord of Rongle County at this time. He didn't care about looking bad in front of outsiders, so he yelled at the Lord of Rongle County.
The Lord of Rongle County stared at Zhu Hang in disbelief. He did not expect that one day he would be taught such a harsh lesson by him, and he even forgot to fight back.
Zhu Zhi tugged on his sister Zhu Duojin's sleeve and told her to help his mother down quickly. He also took Princess Yingyun to the back house for a while. He didn't know what would happen when King Jing and Wang Zhen entered the palace.
The results of it.
Seeing Zhu Duojin half-supporting and half-dragging Princess Rongle and Princess Yingyun away from Wenyutang, Xu Huaai took a long breath, as if to spit out some of the hatred in his chest, looked at Xu Xin'an, Zhou Jing and the others, and said
:
"I have focused all my deployments on Huaiyuan and Tongbai Mountain. You may have been a little surprised before - I know you have some expectations for the defense of Bianliang. But now, are you more or less surprised?
Can you understand why Bianliang was destined to be unable to be defended in the end?"
Xu Xin'an, Zhou Jing, Zhu Zhi and others were silent.
Xu Huai sighed bitterly:
"The main war factions that were all over the government and the public were completely defeated because of the combined forces to attack Yan, and because Cai Zheng was imprisoned under the imperial edict, they seemed to have disappeared. However, the vast majority of them were still densely populated inside and outside the court - they did not disappear.
They will not admit that the collapse of the coalition forces to attack Yan was due to their own misunderstanding of the situation. They will only shift the responsibility to Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou for being incompetent and regretful. They will also be like Song Tingshan at any time.
, transformed into a peacemaker, or there were quite a number of people in the court who were already thinking of making peace at this time, but they did not dare to show their faces at this time, and only dared to ask Song Tingshan to come here to test the tone. There are too many such people, and
There are too few people who really intend to fight to the death with the Red Huren..."
