Seeing the dissatisfied Chongzhen, Chen Xinjia, who was originally filled with resentment, finally came to his senses and almost punched himself in frustration.
Look at what bad idea you have come up with. Can the Xuanfu soldiers be moved at will? What if the Xuanfu soldiers are transferred away and the Mongols come? The soldiers in Henan and Hebei are in Shaanxi Province, and the governor of the three sides is Hong Chengchou.
Under his leadership, he was encircling and suppressing the bandits. If you transferred his soldiers and horses, what could he do? You are really a pig, you actually came up with such a stinky idea that harms others but does not benefit yourself!
Looking at Chen Xinjia, whose forehead was covered with sweat, Chongzhen's eyes became colder, and he said softly: "Abandon public service for personal reasons, abandon public service for private reasons!"
"boom........"
Even the stupidest person knows what will happen if the emperor sees him as a person who neglects public affairs for personal reasons. Chen Xinjia felt as if a firecracker had exploded in his mind, his brain was completely covered, and he knelt down tremblingly.
He trembled on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
"You don't need to say anything, just get out!" Chongzhen glanced at Chen Xinjia with disgust, waved his sleeves as if to shoo away flies, and stopped looking at him.
At this time, Chen Xinjia was crying with tears and snot. He never thought that his career would be ruined just because of a small negligence. This is really a disaster that comes from the mouth!
Chen Xinjia glanced tremblingly at Emperor Chongzhen who was looking away, as well as the two chief ministers Wen Tiren and his immediate superior Yang Sichang who were looking at each other in a meditative posture. His heart was already cold. He looked at Chongzhen
After kowtowing three times, he stood up unsteadily and walked out shakily. He knew that if nothing unexpected happened, he would have to retire and return to his hometown of Changshou, Sichuan soon.
Yang Sichang glanced at Chen Xinjia, who was walking out, and then turned his gaze back. Although Chen Xinjia was his direct subordinate, he was not his confidant, and he had no need to offend the emperor on this matter.
At this time, Chongzhen's slightly sarcastic voice sounded again, "Two beloved ministers, Chen Shilang has already expressed his opinions. You two should also share your own opinions."
"This..." The two remaining big guys looked at each other, but their eyes only touched slightly before they separated.
"Why... do you want me to take this matter to the court for public discussion?" Chongzhen's voice quickly rose by three points.
Seeing the silence of Yang Sichang and Wen Tiren, Chongzhen felt sad and angry at the same time, "Is this the pillar of my court that I regard as Qiancheng? When things happen, they will blame each other and take credit faster than anyone else. If this matter is dealt with
I don’t know how much noise it will cause if it is brought to the court for public discussion. Those officials who have nothing to do all day long don’t know how much trouble they will cause.”
Just as Chongzhen was becoming more and more sad and angry, Wen Tiren, the chief minister, finally spoke slowly: "Your Majesty, I think what Pang Gang said makes sense."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Chongzhen's eyebrows began to rise slowly.
As if he hadn't heard anything, Wen Tiren said slowly: "Your Majesty, please don't be so angry. Think about it carefully. Isn't what Pang Gang said wrong? I have a huge court with more than tens of thousands of civil and military officials.
But isn't it ridiculous to put a heavy burden on the head of a military commander that the entire imperial court cannot bear?"
"you......."
Hearing this, even the angry Chongzhen felt a little hot on his face. Speaking of which, he did not do it right. He had already given him one million taels of silver last time, but he had given him a million taels of silver.
After all the money was spent, someone else's idea came up again. No matter who was responsible for this matter, he would be angry. Why, the imperial court is run by my family, so everything depends on me.
But there was nothing Chongzhen could do. People said that a poor man has short ambitions and a thin horse has long hair. It would be even more terrible if the emperor became poor. Many major events in the country of Nuo were placed on his head. If a minister is unhappy, he can resign and go home, but
If the emperor is unhappy, can he really leave his ancestors' country and country alone?
"So it's my responsibility to raise funds for Liaodong, right?" Chongzhen asked expressionlessly.
Yang Sichang took a bad look. He knew that if Chongzhen showed such an expression, it would mean that someone was going to be unlucky. In order not to implicate himself, he quickly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I think that although what Mr. Wen said is a bit extreme,
But there is some truth to it.”
"Well!" Chongzhen was not only expressionless this time, but also his face turned a little dark.
Yang Sichang quickly said: "Of course, what Pang Gang did was indeed treason, but Your Majesty, you should also see that the imperial court is really unable to take care of Shandong at this time, so it is inevitable to suffer some grievances."
Having said this, Yang Sichang secretly looked at Chongzhen's face. Seeing that the other party was still expressionless, he then said: "Your Majesty, think about it. Pang Gang just sent one million taels of silver two months ago. It hasn't been more than a few months."
As for Yue, we sent people to ask for it again, let alone Pang Gang, even the Bodhisattva would be angry, isn't this treating people as being taken advantage of?"
"Humph, you are stingy with your clever words!" Hearing Yang Sichang's rare witticism, even the angry Chongzhen's face softened, and then he cursed with a straight face.
"I don't dare, I just told the truth." Yang Sichang smiled slightly and bowed his hands modestly.
After Yang Sichang's interruption, Chongzhen felt a little better and calmer. He sighed and asked, "What should I do according to Yang Aiqing's opinion?"
As soon as Yang Sichang heard that the emperor had resumed his previous title, he knew that Chongzhen had regained his rationality, and then he said slowly: "Your Majesty, listen to what I have to say in detail."
"Speak!" Chongzhen pointed impatiently at the stool beside him and said, "You sit down and talk. I really can't stand the way you talk standing up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yang Sichang slowly sat down and then said: "Your Majesty, I think that if we talk about the biggest enemies of our Ming Dynasty at present, one of them is the rogue bandits, and the second one is the Manchu Qing outside the pass. If the rogue bandits are not eliminated, our Ming Dynasty will not be at peace.
."
As soon as Yang Sichang said this, Wen Tiren on the side shook his head and said: "Yang Shangshu's words are wrong. I think that our greatest enemy of the Ming Dynasty is the Manchu and Qing Tatars outside the pass, and the rogue bandits must be considered second."
"No, no." Yang Sichang shook his head and argued: "The Manchus outside the customs can only be regarded as flesh and blood pain. What they want is nothing more than the wealth and population of our Ming Dynasty, but what those rogues want is the entire country of our Ming Dynasty!"
"Huh. I don't agree with what Yang Shangshu said. The most the rogue bandits can do is wander around the pass. If Ming Dynasty can free up its hands to mobilize Shanhaiguan and Xuanfu elite troops into the Central Plains, the rogue bandits can be put down with a wave of hands. On the contrary, the Manchu Tatars have repeatedly
Those who invade our borders and kidnap our people will surely be Manchus if they are not eliminated!" Wen Tiren argued with Yang Sichang in the palace at the top of his lungs.
"Oh my God. Here we go again." When they saw this scene, Chongzhen and the surrounding eunuchs all made a common move, which was to lower their heads. Judging from their skillful movements, it is estimated that these two people did it a lot on weekdays.
This issue.
But the two sides did not show respect to the emperor, and the voices became louder and louder.
"You are ignorant!"
"You are shameless!"
"You are presumptuous!"
The two people's voices became louder and louder, and they began to argue more and more, and finally the topic escalated to the level of personal attacks.
"That's enough!" Soon a louder voice sounded beside the two of them. "I'm asking you how to deal with Qingzhou, not asking you to discuss the issue of bandits and Tatars!"
Chongzhen stood up and came to the two of them. He glanced at the two of them who were glaring at each other like fighting cocks, sighed, pushed them to their seats, served the food, and said: "Okay, my dear friends.
Stop arguing and don’t forget today’s topic.”
"Yes, I obey the order!" Yang Sichang and Wen Tiren glared at each other angrily and sat back down.
After a quarrel, Yang Sichang spoke much more simply, "Your Majesty, I will speak directly. Although I and Wen Shoufu have differences on the dispute between the Tatars and the bandits, they are limited to the Tartars and the bandits.
He and Wen Shoufu never thought that Pang Gang could be compared with those two. Moreover, judging from past events, all he wanted was to get promoted and make a fortune. I thought that as long as we firmly grasp these two points, it would be easy to deal with it.
Him!"
"You mean to ask me to agree to the traitor's request?" Chongzhen frowned. Now he was very disgusted with General Dingguo who repeatedly dared to threaten him. He repeatedly opposed the imperial court and dared to often confront him.
When he, the emperor, made conditions, this thief clearly did not care about him as the emperor!
Yang Sichang swallowed his saliva and said, "Your Majesty, every million taels of silver is not a small amount. If we can use the false name of governor to get one million taels of silver, why wouldn't we do it?"
"Huh, governor, a false name. Is the governor really just a false name?" Chongzhen slowly looked at Yang Sichang on the other side, the anger on his face clearly revealed.
Wen Tiren seemed to have spent all his energy arguing with Yang Sichang. At this time, Wen Tiren seemed to have no energy. He sighed slowly and nodded: "Your Majesty, if Pang Gang just wants a governor, we might as well give it to him, anyway.
The governor's term is only four years, so we can find a reason to replace his father-in-law during the evaluation after four years. After we calm down the bandit rebellion, won't we be able to deal with a mere governor?"
Wen Tiren's words were full of gloom, which showed that his sense of Pang Gang was not very good either.
"Four years...four years!" Chongzhen raised his head and thought for a moment. He exchanged one term of governor for one million taels of silver. From this, it seems that the court would not suffer a loss. If this is the case,
Agreeing to Pang Gang's request seemed to be too cheap for him.
"Is this kid so cheap?" Chongzhen's tone became more relaxed. Although he was still a little hesitant, he was obviously not as determined as before.
"Your Majesty, as long as you have money, are you still afraid that Pang Gang will fly out of your hands?" At this time, Yang Sichang on the side added fuel to the fire.
"That's all!" Chongzhen sighed secretly in his heart: "When I have my hands free, I will take care of that Pang Gang."
Chongzhen has never been a good person. This can be seen from his attitude towards Yuan Chonghuan. Although Yuan Chonghuan made many mistakes in the past, he still had merit in defending Liao. However, because he was suspected by Chongzhen, he immediately fell.
He ended up being cut into pieces, and even his flesh and blood after death had to be eaten by the people of the capital, which shows his character.
Chongzhen, who had made up his mind, raised his head and said to Yang Sichang and Wen Tiren: ""It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years, so I will agree to it temporarily, and it will not be too late to deal with him in the future!"
"The Emperor's Holy Ming!" Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang congratulated in unison. In this way, the candidate for the governor of Shandong will be decided after tomorrow's spring. But can Chongzhen, Yang Sichang and others' idea of exchanging false titles for money and time really be realized?
Just when Chongzhen decided on the candidate for the governor of Shandong and was urgently sending Eunuch Ma, who had just been frightened to the point of almost incontinence, to go to Shandong again, Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao, who had returned from defeat, also returned to Quanzhou.
In the Zheng family's mansion in Quanzhou, Zheng Zhilong and the generals gathered in the hall. Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao stood in the center with their heads bowed in a formal manner. Like them, the faces of the generals also lost their previous relaxed expressions, and each of them looked...
Extremely gloomy.
"Tell me, what happened with this defeat?" Zheng Zhilong, who was sitting in the first place, spoke first.
Zheng Sen took a step forward and said, "Dad, this is the child's fault. Let the child tell you."
"Brother, as Sen'er's fourth uncle, I should bear the responsibility for the defeat of this battle." Before Zheng Sen could finish speaking, Zheng Zhibao stepped forward and blocked Zheng Sen behind him, wanting to bear the responsibility for the defeat.
Guilt.
"Okay, fourth brother, please don't protect Sen'er. He is the coach in this battle and he should bear the responsibility for the defeat." Zheng Zhilong did not protect his son, but pointed at Zheng Sen and asked: "Sen'er
, you tell me, our Zheng family has clear rewards and punishments, what is your responsibility is yours, don't try to shirk it."
"Yes, Dad!" Zheng Sen stepped forward and told the story of the battle in the past few days, and finally said: "Father, uncles, Sen'er thought that the defeat of Sen'er and his fourth uncle this time was because of
I underestimated the combat power of the Qingzhou Navy and failed to find out their strength in time. I always thought that they only had the ten big fortune ships. It was not until after the war that I realized that they actually had thirty more fast ships and three more war ships.
The ship was caught off guard. Uncles, Sen'er said this not to excuse himself, but to ask you to remember that if you encounter the Qingzhou Navy in the future, remember not to underestimate the enemy. Their combat experience and skills may not be as good as
Us, but they have made up for this with their own firearms, making it difficult for us to use our advantages even though we have more ships than them. The Qingzhou Navy will definitely be a serious problem for our Zheng family in the future, and Sen.
I also believe that after this battle, they have lost their relationship with us and will definitely seek revenge from us in the future!"
Although Zheng Sen's voice was not loud, it made everyone present feel involuntarily. (To be continued)