Chapter 981: Afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the back
The empress dowager and the young emperor summoned Yuzhu alone in Yangxin Hall.
The entire palace is leaking like a sieve. Lao Wu and Lao Qi's fantasy of blocking the news must be a waste of time for blind men to light up their lamps.
The Mongolian princes had already gone to the secret gate to report to Empress Chui Lian and the young emperor the truth about the rebellion of the Fourteenth Old Man.
To be honest, the Mongols couldn't defeat the Qing Dynasty, and they couldn't afford to offend the Fourteenth. It was necessary to report urgent news to the court.
Who is not afraid of the imperial court settling accounts in the fall?
As a result, Lao Wu and Lao Qi went crazy and actually wanted to block the news.
Therefore, after consulting the young emperor's opinion, the Empress Dowager decisively called Zhang Tingyu in and sent two secret edicts to Yuzhu.
It's just a stone's throw from Dagukou to the capital.
Yuzhu received the secret order in the morning, and in the middle of the night, the new army from the first town entered Beijing.
In the Qing Dynasty, the expenses of raising horses and raising soldiers were very different.
For the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, the horses fed with black beans were unusually fat.
However, the production of black beans is limited, and with 100,000 new troops, it is temporarily impossible to realize the full force of mules and horses.
Because the concentrated feed for one horse, plus snacks such as black beans, is enough to feed at least fifteen soldiers.
No matter which dynasty you are in, raising horses is a huge and heavy financial burden.
However, the First Town, which has long been fully staffed by mules and horses, plays an important role as a rapid reaction force in the new army's combat system.
Emperor Guangwu's Youzhou Assault Cavalry, Cao Ah Man's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Li Lao'er's Xuanjia Army, Genghis Khan's Qixue Army, and Yue Fei's Beiwei Army are all elite rapid strike forces.
After receiving the order, from gathering to setting off to arriving at Andingmen in the capital, the First Town took less than nine hours.
Such a rapid reaction force has indeed achieved it, and it is as fast as the wind!
The army was dispatched. Such big news obviously could not be hidden from anyone.
Without the close cooperation of Wu Sidao and Sun Chengyun, who took advantage of the huge advantage of guarding the city gate and intercepted all the urgent messengers who came back to report, Lao Wu and Lao Qi would not have been kept in the dark.
The importance of information warfare can be seen from this.
"Your Majesty Yuzhu, I respectfully extend my regards to the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty."
"Yili." After the little emperor called out, he shut his mouth tightly.
When Empress Chui Lian asked about politics, "Yi Li" and "Kneeling down" were the only words the young emperor could say.
"Yuzhu, do you know everything?" Empress Dowager Cikang asked Yuzhu.
Yuzhu pretended to be confused and deliberately pretended to be stupid and said: "Returning to the Queen Mother, I only heard that the fourteenth son returned to the capital in accordance with the imperial edict of Emperor Daxing. After all, the fourteenth son was conferred by the emperor Dahang.
General Wang, this matter is serious, and I’m afraid we need to send important ministers to investigate the specific details.”
The new army has not yet been fully trained, and the later the decisive battle is, the more advantageous it will be for Yuzhu.
Regarding this logic, the empress dowager knew it, and the young emperor also knew it very well.
Yuzhu's shoulder slipped and he wanted to slip over to delay the decisive battle. With the shrewdness of the little emperor, how could he not know this?
For the little emperor, these two guys, Lao Shisi and Yu Zhu, are obviously a big disaster.
However, if you really want to compare it, the danger of the fourteenth old man to the young emperor is obviously much greater.
The vassal king raised his troops, and once they entered the capital, everyone else had a chance to survive, but the little emperor himself could only die!
Zhu Di invaded Nanjing, and publicly said that Emperor Jianwen had escaped.
In fact, that is just a statement made by fools.
It is obvious that it was Zhu Di who killed Emperor Jianwen, but he did not want to be accused of regicide, so he deliberately lied and claimed that Emperor Jianwen had escaped.
After all, Jingnan's banner is Qing Jun, not Qing Jun.
The fourteenth man pretended to be a disciple and returned to Beijing under the imperial edict. Well, unless his head was filled with water, who wouldn’t know about his wolfish ambitions?
As for Yuzhu, he lied about returning to his hometown to guard the system, but secretly slipped away to Dagukou, Tianjin to train troops.
In the eyes of the young emperor, it is impossible for the bannermen who hold the most power in the world to support Yuzhu to usurp the throne, but they are very likely to support the ascension of the Fourteenth Old Man to the throne.
After all, the Fourteenth Old Man was also the biological son of Emperor Daxing.
In the Tian family, it is actually quite normal for siblings to fight each other and have internal strife.
Regardless of whether the fourteenth old man usurps the throne and becomes the emperor, or the young emperor continues to sit on the throne, it is conceivable that in the future, the people who hold the most power in the world will always be the princes and nobles of the Eight Banners.
In fact, the current situation is very similar to that after the First Uprising of 1911.
In the view of Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Xiangcheng, who was accused of being Cao Cao, was certainly hateful, but there was considerable room for change.
However, once the southern rebels who shouted the slogan of expelling the Tartars gained power, they would overturn the Qing Dynasty in an instant.
Choose the lesser of two evils.
How can you have your cake and eat it too?
At the beginning, after Changmao was wiped out, military power had actually fallen into the hands of Han officials.
Zeng Guofan controlled the Hunan Army, Zuo Zongtang held the Chu Army in his hand, and Li Hongzhang controlled the Huai Army.
However, the Empress Dowager Cixi took advantage of the deep conflicts between Zeng Zuo and Li, and managed to kill them one after another.
In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, the Huai Army's defeat was definitely not a good thing for China as a whole.
However, for the Aixinjueluo family, it is a huge good thing.
The foreigners only want money, and the Han Dynasty has mastered the military power. If you are not careful, it will be fatal!
Yuzhu went to Tianjin to train troops for the sake of self-protection, which the little emperor could barely understand.
After all, from Dorgon to Obai, everything ended badly!
"Yuzhu, the fourteenth son has rebelled, you should immediately lead the troops to put down the rebellion." Empress Dowager Cikang expressed the little emperor's heart.
However, Yuzhu said: "The Queen Mother has returned to her mother. The new army has not yet been trained, and the number is only 20,000. If she attacks rashly, she may not be able to defeat the elite of the northwest frontier army."
The little emperor was almost furious!
There is a rumor all over the capital that Yuzhu is training 300,000 troops in Tianjin. But Yuzhu now says that there are only 20,000 soldiers.
To be honest, the little emperor only needs to calculate the huge military expenditures to know that the nonsense about training 300,000 troops is not true.
However, Yuzhu said that he had only trained 20,000 soldiers, and the little emperor did not believe him.
However, Yuzhu's expenses for raising soldiers were not allocated by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
To be honest, no one knows how many soldiers Yuzhu has raised in private?
The Queen Mother and the Little Emperor are typical orphans and widowed mothers. Do they know what it means to lead troops to fight?
However, one thing is clear. Yuzhu's excuse was actually an attempt to manipulate the imperial court and seize the opportunity to gain power over the imperial court.
This incident was indeed outrageous. Dorgon almost became the emperor and learned from his mistakes. I still remember it vividly!
If there is a slight mistake in decision-making, the Qing Dynasty will probably not be the Qing Dynasty anymore!
Therefore, the Empress Dowager did not make a promise on the spot, but said calmly: "Kneel down."
After Yuzhu exited, the young emperor couldn't wait to say: "To the Empress Dowager Eni, there are still hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners troops in the capital. They can be gathered together and led by powerful princes to fight against the rebels..."
As he talked, the little emperor himself became discouraged first.
Logically speaking, the little emperor's analysis was not a big mistake. There were indeed hundreds of thousands of bannermen in the capital.
However, excluding the old, young, sick and disabled who cannot go to the battlefield, and women, who account for 40% of the total, there are only one hundred thousand Eight Banners soldiers under the age of fifty who can really stand up.
If there were no jade pillars, the little emperor's statement could barely be established.
However, when the entire Eight Banners of the Beijing camp attacked and defeated Lao Shi4, both sides suffered losses. Didn't they take advantage of the living Cao Cao in Yuzhu?
Under the current situation, it is only right to let Yuzhu lead the new army to fight the old fourteenth and let them fight to the death of both sides.
The matter was indeed serious, and Empress Dowager Cikang did not dare to make the decision without permission, so she ordered people to summon all the princes and ministers from the Political Affairs Department to gather in Yangxin Hall to discuss the matter.
Yuzhu knew clearly that the princes of the Eight Banners had entered the palace one after another, but he just ignored them as if he didn't see them.
After Kang Mazi took charge, his biggest enemies were the Manchu princes in the Political Affairs Office.
Therefore, during his more than fifty years in power, Kang Mazi continued to do one thing as always: weakening the strength of the old Manchu nobles as much as possible.
The Political Affairs Office has long ceased to exist in name only.
When Kang Mazi was still alive, the Political Affairs Office only held a few general meetings every year to decorate its appearance.
All the princes, princes and ministers gathered behind the Yangxin Hall. Oh, it was so lively inside the hall.
In front of Empress Chuishian, Duduo's great-grandson, Prince Dezhao of Xin County, said shamelessly: "I am willing to personally lead the Eight Banners force to exterminate the traitors."
Damn, Dezhao is a famous Ba Ye gang member. He was sent to lead the troops to suppress the rebellion of the Fourteenth Old Man. Alas, it was like asking a ghost to get the prescription!
"My mother, the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, and your servants think that the top priority is to quickly gather the Eight Banners of the Beijing camp and lead them with capable princes to prevent unexpected events." What Prince Heshuoxian Yanhuang said seems to be quite reasonable.
At first, the little emperor thought this proposal was quite appropriate.
However, Yanhuang's sworn enemy, Prince Heshuo Jian, Prince Shenbao, loudly questioned Yanhuang: "We have the jurisdiction of each of the eight banners in the capital, why do we need to send another prince to lead them?"
Hey, God save this voice, it really woke up the dreamer with one word.
The little emperor was immediately reminded that Lao Ba's party members were mainly old Manchu nobles.
If the powerful Eight Banners troops in the Beijing camp are really gathered together, who knows whether they will go to the west to conquer the rebels, or whether they will cooperate with each other inside and outside to clear the emperor's side?
Inside the Yangxin Hall, it was a complete noisy mess.
The little emperor is indeed too young. How can he know how to fight?
However, the quarrels between the Manchu princes made the young emperor see one thing clearly: the princes all wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize military power.
Objectively speaking, Yuzhu's identity is a relative, and he can never be the co-leader of the Manchu banner people.
However, if we are not careful for a moment and let the lurking Ba Ye Party take control of the Eight Banners in Beijing, it will be really fatal!
These four words, inner and outer, have been spinning in the little emperor's mind for a long time.
There is a wolf at the front door, and Fourteenth has already raised an army!
A fierce tiger squats at the back door, and jade pillars raise troops to Dagokou, Tianjin.
Inside the Hanging Flower Gate, there is no rest. Who knows which prince is hiding the Eight Lords Party?
In the Hall of Yangxin, there was a quarrel for two days in a row, but the nobles of the Eight Banners were still unable to reach a final result.
At this time, Yuzhu actually took the New Army First Town and slipped back to Tianjin without saying hello.
At this moment, everyone saw clearly that Yuzhu wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!
The banner of the Fourteenth Old Man was not to Qingjun's side, but to return the class teacher to the capital. On the surface, it seemed that he did have half a penny relationship with Yuzhumu!