Chapter 114: Clouds Move

After Zhu Qizhen reviewed the three armies, he returned to the palace.

He was used to the many occasions he had. The people below can't let go.

Meng Ying was talking to Yang Hong at the moment.

Meng Ying was in a small pavilion on the side of the road.

I don't know when this pavilion was built, and it has long been dilapidated.

However, Meng Ying and Yang Hong want to talk here, so naturally someone will clean up this place first and put their own soldiers outside. Meng Ying coughed twice and said, "I'm old." ”

Yang Hong said: "National justice is the time when the old man is in trouble, why bother talking about the old." ”

Meng Ying smiled violently and said, "You, how am I doing?" Don't I know? If you win this big battle, my position will be yours. ”

Yang Hong was taken aback and said, "How dare you go down?" ”

Meng Ying said: "What dare not? I don't want to end up in the end of Cheng Guogong. ”

When it came to the fate of Cheng Guogong, Yang Hong was suddenly taken aback and didn't dare to answer easily. Because of this issue, it is too sensitive.

Without him, Zhu Qizhen set this battle on the national humiliation, and based on this, he determined a line that was incompatible with the tile spur.

You must know that you have also sent envoys to sue for peace again and again recently, what sent protons, called ministers and tribute, and so on. But they were all rejected by Zhu Qizhen with the feud of Maoerzhuang.

Many people are not very satisfied.

In the eyes of many people, Emperor Taizong's Northern Expedition did not completely solve the grassland problem, and even in Emperor Taizong's later years, it may not have the meaning of using the Hanhai Sea as the boundary with the grassland.

It just didn't happen.

Now the actual control area of the imperial court has reached Hanhai.

Almost the entire southern Mongolia of Mo was under the control of the Ming Dynasty, if it was also a vassal first, the two countries were harmonious, and the border of the Ming Dynasty was restored to between Hongxuan.

The peace that lasted for decades is still missed by many civilian officials.

After all, with Chen Xun's ascension, the cabinet seems to have a lot of say in many things, but in fact, it has weakened much compared to the Sanyang era.

I don't know if they are nostalgic for the generally peaceful environment at that time, or if they miss the positive era when the power of the Sanyang Bingzheng civilian clique was expanding.

And the nobles may not be willing to continue fighting.

Without him, this big battle was presided over by the orthodox nobles, and they could only drink some soup and water on their side, such as Liu Pu, who was transferred back from Guangxi and could only go to train recruits.

The imperial court should prepare a batch of recruits in advance, whether it is to garrison troops in Mobei in the future or to fill the vacancy.

Zhu Yi followed Yang Hong on the expedition as the commander of the rear camp. But it is also one of the nobles who can participate in it, and there is also a Sun Bo, who serves as the garrison of Kaiping.

There was nothing left of the rest of the houses

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The worst thing in the battle of Maoerzhuang is them, it stands to reason that they should be compensated by the imperial court, but after Jing Nan Xungui, the situation is even worse, and the worst is the Gu family, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, who has been removed from the Ming Dynasty.

How many meritorious deeds Gu Cheng has established in the southwest, but now he is extinct.

Gu Xingzu deserved to die, but such a ruthless method also made them feel sad that the rabbit died and the fox died.

As a result, many unreliable rumors spread about the battle of Maoerzhuang, such as Zhu Qizhen colluding with Yexian to bury the imperial army.

Yang Hong naturally knew that this was fake.

After all, he is the party. And he also understands His Majesty today, who may be ruthless in his bones, but he will never do anything to break his wings.

Today he is just a ruthless person, not a stupid person.

However, it is very difficult to refute such political rumors, and even the more they are refuted, the more powerful they will become.

Jin Yiwei has already reported these to Zhu Qizhen, and even Dongchang is ready to be disrespectful, or slander the king, and deal with a group of people.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't let it, and he couldn't damage the political environment of the Ming Dynasty because of such a trivial matter.

Since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, although there have been many major cases, but generally speaking, Zhu Qizhen has never taken people's lives outside the law, except when he killed Wang Zhen, he angered Wang Zhen's subordinates, and killed many eunuchs without asking about the charges.

In addition, even if you kill a person, you must go through the Criminal Department, or the Three Law Division, to determine the crime.

Such a relaxed political environment is helpful for many things.

At that time, Zhu Qizhen did not kill people, which did not mean that he did not show tendencies, and several nobles inexplicably went to the south and north of the world to guard the border for the Ming Dynasty.

Although the place under his jurisdiction may only have one guard, or a thousand households.

A cautious person like Yang Hong naturally didn't dare to say a word more about this matter.

Meng Ying likes Yang Hong's caution.

After all, above the imperial court, it is an invisible Colosseum. Although he is considered a Ming Jun today, he is in the cabinet, and he is not being attacked from all directions, and he doesn't know how many eyes are staring at him.

What Meng Ying said was the truth.

Meng Ying is indeed old, and now it has been almost ten years since Zhang Fu went, Meng Ying is only a few years younger than Zhang Fu, and they are all of the same generation. Meng Ying didn't think she could live long.

Now that he has retired, he can still arrange the aftermath, after all, Meng Ying is in the cabinet for a day, he has to avoid suspicion, and it is not good to arrange the children of the Meng family.

But if he retreats. He could even justifiably say this to the emperor.

The so-called sealing of wives and children, this is a political practice, even in modern times, there are many times such a legacy, the so-called arrangement of children's work, the principle is actually the same.

Meng Ying looked at Yang

Hong didn't speak, sighed slightly and said: "We are all ministers, and we are resting with the country, and we know more and more about proportionality in doing things, and knowing how to advance and retreat is the long-term way." In fact, my position was originally qualified by you, Shi Heng, and Cao Yi, but Cao Yi is old, and it is estimated that he will be old in the next two years, and Shi Heng," he shook his head slightly, and said: "Let Shi Heng sit in this position, it will hurt him, Shi Heng had better be a foreign minister for a lifetime, which is the way for monarchs and ministers to start and finish well." So you must be cautious about this Northern Expedition. ”

"Remember one sentence, the army must not be lost."

"As long as the army can come back with all its heads and tails, it will be a great achievement. Remember, you can't win, you can't win. ”

Meng Ying said this to give Yang Hong a reassurance, that is, no matter how you fight, the position in the cabinet is yours. You can't win like Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo.

Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Those who are good at fighting in the past are invincible first, and then they are invincible when the enemy is invincible." You can't win against yourself, but you can win against the enemy. Therefore the good fighter can be invincible, and cannot make the enemy invincible. Therefore, it is said: victory can be known but not done. ”

That is to say, what Meng Ying said is that victory can be waited, but not sought.

Be prepared to catch him when the fighter comes, and when the conditions are not ripe, it may be counterproductive to be bent on winning.

Yang Hong naturally understood and said, "The last general will be taught." ”

When Meng Ying said that he would retire after this battle, another person was also talking about such a thing, this person was not someone else, but Wang Ji.

Speaking of which, in the current court, when Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he was the minister of the important ministers in the court, and there were only Hu Hu and Wang Ji.

And Hu Hu is now the prince's teacher, and he no longer interferes in government affairs. Rather, he taught the prince wholeheartedly.

It's also a good errand.

The reason why Zhu Qizhen is so relieved about Hu Hu is that he also knows Hu Hu's age, Hu Hu is also old, even if he has a good way of maintaining his health, when the prince grows up, Hu Hu will be gone.

Therefore, I don't worry that Hu Hu can affect the prince or anything.

And Wang Ji and Hu Hu are about the same age, but they are better than Hu Hu in terms of fatigue, I don't know how much.

After all, the prince's teacher can't be only Hu Hu, Hu Hu is just a general, and the cabinet is under the supervision of Zhu Qizhen, and almost all the imperial departments are the busiest.

Even if there is a holiday, the cabinet must have someone on duty, and in the event of a major incident, it is natural that the cabinet will be busy all night.

Where can an old minister like Wang Ji withstand such a toss.

Although he has shared a lot of things with others, when everyone in the cabinet is busy with all fours, even every person in the middle school is crawling and crawling, and his feet are not touching the ground, Wang Ji can't bear to do nothing in the cabinet.

In fact, Wang Ji had already had the intention of retreating in his heart, but he was just worried about the Northern Expedition.