"This time I raided Penghu, and Nan Juyi is already the fifth time to go out of the division."

"In and out, I have never played the imperial court beforehand, the Fujian Navy Reserve, and the marching routes of the fleets in various places, I am afraid that I have made the red hair fan feel thoroughly!"

In the hall of the military department, Shangshu Cui Chengxiu was slapping the table and roaring.

"yes, that's too imprudent!" Yan Mingtai, the right attendant of the military department, also said:

"I knew that today, I shouldn't have listened to the ministry, let him go to Fujian to be the governor. In today's situation, the number of Hongmaofan's ships has increased instead of decreasing, and most of the ships have blocked the mouth of Zhangzhou to the sea. ”

"One day of blockade is a great loss for the imperial court."

Yan Mingtai, like Cui Chengxiu, relied on obedience to Wei Zhongxian to take the position, and the two of them now have a group of Wei Party officials in control of the military department.

However, compared with Cui Chengxiu's smooth sailing and direct ascension to the position of the ministry, Yan Mingtai's experience is too tortuous.

Yan Mingtai, a native of Qingyuan (now Qingyuan, Hebei). During the Wanli period, he served as the head of the household department, participated in politics in Liaodong, and was impeached and recalled.

After a long time, they started to make trouble and patrolled the Liaohai Sea.

When Kaiyuan was lost, Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi sent Shenyang to care, and returned with a weeping halfway, and the news was transmitted back to Beijing, and was impeached by the ministers of Donglin.

The new emperor succeeded to the throne, changed the Yuan Tianqi, set up the old officials, set up the capital prison office, and sent the military supervision to Shanhaiguan and Dongjiang Town, regardless of the opposition of the ministers on the issue of Liao affairs, and made bold and arbitrary decisions, and decided to continue to appoint Xiong Tingbi.

Due to Xiong Tingbi's recommendation, Yan Mingtai became a deputy envoy in the first year of the Apocalypse and was stationed in Guangning.

Wang Huazhen made meritorious contributions, discussed the four ways to go out, regardless of the opposition of Cao Wenzhao and others, insisted on starting a war, and was finally defeated by the slave chieftain, lost 170,000 teachers, abandoned the land and entered the customs, and the Beijing division was shaken.

The court council tried and blamed it on the university scholar Ye Xianggao's protégé and the left senator Wang Huazhen, who was taken into Beijing by Ti Qisuo and ambushed.

Emperor Sun Chengzong was ordered by the emperor to go out of the customs, and repeatedly impeached, saying that Yan Mingtai had served in Guangning for several years, but he had no talent and strategy, and the fortifications were flattering, and he was just a false word.

In August of the first year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan, a protégé of Sun Chengzong, was recommended by the court to prepare for Guangning, and also to Fu Ningyuan, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse acquiesced, and Yuan Chonghuan rushed to Ningyuan to take up his post.

As a result, Sun Chengzong was a heavy minister, and Ning Yuan Chonghuan was the only one who looked forward, so that he was in charge of the matter, and repeatedly neglected the discussion of the "Ningjin Defense Line".

Yan Mingtai was repeatedly excluded and impeached by Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan because of his opposition to the establishment of the Ningjin Defense Line.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was imprisoned.

When Yang Lian returned to his hometown, he lectured in Donglin, and the Dongchang Fan Service chased him to his home and killed him with demagogy.

Ye Xianggao was burdened by Donglin, angered the king, and was sentenced to death by the nine clans, for a time, the eunuch party rose, and the Donglin party people all wrote books:

"Eunuchs steal handles, and there is no daylight."

Yan Mingtai stayed at home for several months, heard the rumors, secretly befriended Wei Zhongxian, and then received the recommendation of Zhang Zhi, the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, and was called to be the right attendant of the military department.

Such a tortuous and bumpy experience made Yan Mingtai see clearly the so-called Qinggao of the Donglin Party and the so-called villain of the Eunuch Party.

Like most people's choices, if you are a villain who flatters and eunuchs, you can serve as an official for another term, get resources, and then display your ambitions.

Well, he chose to be this villain!

After returning to Beijing, Yan Mingtai, who put his life on the line, became the proud minions of Cui Chengxiu, a celebrity under Wei Zhongxian, who was willing to drive him, and saddled up before and after.

His skin is so thick that Cui Chengxiu can't reach it.

Forcing Donglin, impeaching Qingliu, and accepting bribes, Yan Mingtai is doing all the acts that those who are arrogant and arrogant.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Yan Mingtai is actually inferior to Gu Bingqian and Cui Chengxiu, and the latter two are not very clean, and they have been criticized countless times in Shilin.

Like Wei Guangwei, he was born in a scholarly family and used to be upright, but now he is willing to be a gelding dog and scold the world.

The issue of today's military department is whether to replace Nan Juyi.

is different from what Donglin thought, the military department controlled by the so-called eunuch party has a more significant role than when Wang Xianggan, a talented scholar in Shilin, was a scholar.

At the very least, they are really figuring out the best solution based on intelligence.

In the past, when Donglin was in charge of the military department, it was often a small meeting every three days and a big discussion on five days, which was complicated and troublesome, and could neither solve the problem nor put forward substantive solutions.

In the end, it is generally delayed until the matter is resolved by itself, or it is too important for the military department to take care of it.

After Yan Mingtai finished speaking, another military officer said:

"After Nan Juyi became the governor, he did something, he detained the representative of the red haired fan, and mobilized the naval and land forces to take the initiative to attack."

"As for inaction, repeated defeats, it should be that the red-haired ships are too sharp..."

Yan Mingtai glanced at it.

"The red-haired ships and firearms are extremely sharp, didn't the Holy Lord already send someone to buy them at the Macau Bugarao Cannon Foundry?"

"It's best, this time to start a war with the red-haired fan, you can capture a few of their ships, and see what kind of firearms their ships use."

"Pull it to Tianjin Shuiying and let the Ordnance Division imitate it!"

What Yan Mingtai said, in fact, is also what many eunuch party officials think, judging from the current situation, although Nan Juyi belongs to the Donglin Party, after becoming the governor of Fujian, he is actually quite good.

If you change someone else, can you have the situation of Nan Juyi confronting Hongmaofan now, it's hard to say, if you change someone, it's better not to change, so how to deal with it?

As he spoke, fine snow drifted from Jingshi.

In the middle of summer, the imperial court mobilized the sailors of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were full of ambition to repel the invasion of Hongmaofan.

At that time, the military department naturally gave full support.

After all, in this book of wars between countries, there are not many red-haired ships, and there are soldiers and horses, and they are adapted to local conditions, so they must take advantage of their unstable foothold to start a war quickly!

However, the midwinter has arrived, and the battle situation in Penghu has not improved, and there have been repeated defeats.

Zhangzhou's mouth to the sea was blocked by Hongmaofan for half a year, and the losses of the imperial court trade and local areas were immeasurable!

Since arriving at the Ministry of War, this matter has almost become the thing that Yan Mingtai is most concerned about, and the so-called eunuch officials of the Ministry of War have also racked their brains.

The grace of the country's nurses is not today, and when will it be reciprocated?

Cui Chengxiu sat in the seat of the ministry and kept sneering:

"As soon as there was some setback, those Donglin parties actually went up one after another, asking Your Majesty to send envoys to negotiate peace with Hongmaofan."

"A bunch of idiots!" Yan Mingtai was annoyed and said:

"The current peace talks, in fact, I have lost, and this move will greatly reduce the morale of the frontier, does Your Majesty want this result?"

"Since we have fought, we must fight to the end!"

"Other people's ships are sharp, and they have all been delivered to the doorstep, can't they still let them withdraw calmly? Even if it's a pile of lives, we have to grab one, we have to build such a ship, even sharper than them! ”

Some people snorted coldly and said with a smile:

"Those sour and rotten Confucians don't know the benefits of fighting, our military department doesn't have to argue with them, the top priority is how to solve the Penghu problem and share the worries of Your Majesty."

Yan Mingtai thought for a while, and suddenly said:

"Didn't Nan Juyi propose to recruit the official position called Zheng Yiguan?"

Cui Chengxiu was a little puzzled and said:

"I said that the imperial court had given the Zheng family the right to trade in the southeast sea before, and they did not contribute to the Penghu matter, this request is too rude, so I will refute it."

"What, what does Ming Tai think?"

Yan Mingtai gritted his teeth and said: "Gao Jian can't talk about it, but the lower officials feel that they can try to give Zheng Yiguan a Zhangzhou garrison official body and see how the Zheng family acts." ”

As soon as this remark came out, some people immediately praised:

"Zhangzhou garrison, a good trick to drive the tiger and devour the wolf!"

"Now that Zhangzhou is trapped by Hongmaofan, the Zheng family wants to fight Zhangzhou whether they want to do business in the imperial court or just for their own interests!"