Chapter 190: Meritorious Crimes
Besides, what kind of place is the capital, this is the center of the entire Dayun Imperial Court, and all the decrees of the whole world must be issued from here, and then they can be transmitted to all places. A few words that come out of here may set off a monstrous wave and shake the whole world outside.
There are millions of people living in the land of Gyeonggi, in addition to ordinary people, there are countless dignitaries and royal relatives in the city, and there are countless people who are attached to their existence, not to mention that there is Zhao Huan in the palace.
How important the status of Jingshi is, this is no better than other places, if you lose it, you will lose it, and you will find an opportunity to recover it in the future.
Even if the imperial court is limited to national strength and military strength, it really can't be recovered, and in the end, it is nothing that those places are really occupied by Manzhen for a long time. The Great Cloud Territory is not just thousands of miles, and it is just a pity that some inconsequential places have been lost, but it will not have too serious consequences, and it is not a bone-wrenching injury.
Moreover, the ministers of the DPRK and China are accustomed to enjoying themselves, and where they go back to care about some of the poor places on the border, perhaps in their opinion, these places do not matter whether they are in the hands of the imperial court or not.
In these poor places, not only could they not pay money and taxes to the imperial court, but in order to defend those places, the imperial court had to spend a lot of money every year to expand its armaments for defense.
If it is lost, maybe it can reduce the burden on the imperial court, who doesn't know that now the household warehouses are so clean that even the rats will starve to death.
As for whether the money saved is from the imperial court or its own. Nonsense, if it were the imperial court, who would bother Baal to do these thankless things, of course, his own.
Do some people really think that this money and food will reach the hands of the front-line soldiers, don't talk about it, the money and food are given to them, what do you eat? Do you drink the northwest wind!
Everyone wants to save money, and they all want to save a little bit is a little bit, but everyone is also trying to share more benefits.
Therefore, those officials in the DPRK and China did not care about the war in the border land and the attack and defense of both sides, of course, on the surface, they still had to make a look of loyalty and patriotism, oath and deduction.
But the Beijing division is different, there is His Majesty today, there are civil and military officials, and there are six departments, Dali Temple, Honglu Temple, and the entire court team is here.
This is the lifeblood of the great cloud, and there is no room for the slightest error.
However, Mr. let the Manzhen army besiege the Jingshi for so long, and he still wanted to rely on the city's defense to consume the strength of the Manzhen army.
This move is too risky, and Mr. should not gamble with the safety of the capital under any circumstances, let alone sit back and watch the people of Gyeonggi be slaughtered by the Manchu army.
Even if Mr. knew that it would be fine, and the Manzhen army would not be able to defeat the capital at all, then he could not do so.
So, what do you make the emperor think? What do the civil and military officials in the court and the people in the city think?
The emperor is the Son of Heaven and the master of the whole world!
But now it is used as a bargaining chip on the table, and it is strange that Zhao Huan is not hairy!
There are also those civil and military ministers in the court, and the siege of Manjin not only threatens their net worth and lives, but most of these dignitaries and nobles have large-scale industries and estates in various parts of Gyeonggi. This time, the Manchu army ravaged Gyeonggi will inevitably cause them to suffer a lot of losses.
If the siege is just a thrill, then these losses are real, these are all white silver, if you say no, it will be gone, who can not feel distressed?
They will definitely put everything on the gentleman's account and think of a way to get out of this breath.
There are also many people in the city, although they themselves escaped because they were in the capital, but the city and outside the city have been adjacent for generations, and intermarriage and in-law relations are no longer few. Over the generations, most of the people in the city have been related to people outside the city, and they have had such and such relationships.
Because of the Liaodong Border Army
Many relatives and friends in the city died in this war, do you think they can not hate Mr.
The surviving people outside the city are even more so, their families who escaped death under the knife are killed, the village is destroyed, and the originally happy family is destroyed in an instant. They are afraid that their hatred for Mr. is no less than that of the Manzhen army!
Another point is that if the defenders in the capital are really vulnerable, or if the city is in chaos and civil strife during the siege of the Manzhen army, it is really possible to cause the fall of the capital division.
This is very unlikely, but as long as it exists, it is possible.
If this incident really happens, the situation will be irreparable, and if you want to regret it at that time, I am afraid it will be too late.
Once the capital is lost, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos immediately, which will shake the foundation of the entire world. It would be too risky for the gentleman to do this!
In fact, after the Manzhen army entered the customs, if Mr. wanted to protect himself, he had to take the initiative to seek fighters to fight a decisive battle with the Manzhen army and block it from Gyeonggi.
After missing this opportunity, it is even more time to take the initiative. All eyes of the world are staring here, even if the entire Liaodong border army is exhausted, the capital cannot be threatened.
Only in this way, even if the battle is still lost in the end, the land of Gyeonggi will still inevitably be plundered.
But as long as I make enough gestures, I can make people understand that I have done my best in this matter, not that I don't stop it, but that the enemy is too strong, and I really can't stop it.
Although it was not done, it could still leave people with the impression that they were more than capable and not enough, so as not to attract resentment like this.
And if he can really win and drive the Manzhen army out of the pass, then Mr. will become a hero who can turn the tide.
Under the great victory, it will inevitably be praised by the government and the opposition. At that time, how many casualties were in this battle, and what should be done next year, will anyone really care?
It's a pity that these gentlemen didn't do it, in the long run, he saved tomorrow for the Liaodong border army, which can't be miscalculated. From the overall situation, he has preserved the most elite army in the world for the imperial court, and he is even more meritorious!
However, who really dares to say that Mr. is meritorious, the tens of thousands of people who died under the Manzhen saber will never agree, and the dignitaries and nobles who have suffered heavy losses will not agree, and Zhao Huan, who is equivalent to being slapped hard, will not agree.
So many innocent and tragic deaths, in the eyes of the people in the capital, Mr.'s sin is only afraid that it is greater than the sky, and not killing is not enough to be the kind of anger of the people.
So Mr. avoided the war and saved the army, but he himself ended up being dismissed and imprisoned!
Now from the emperor to the ministers and the people, everyone has been offended by Mr.
This time Mr. went to prison, I'm afraid that there is not even a person who is willing to say good things for him!
Lin Fan's lips trembled and asked, "What do the people in the court think of this matter right now?" Has Your Majesty ever said what to do with Mr. ”
Lin Ruxian said gloomily: "At the court meeting in the past two days, many officials have written to Your Majesty, saying that Mr. is greedy for life and afraid of death, and fears the enemy like a tiger, causing Manzhen and other Yidi barbarians to cause disaster to Jinggi and endanger Jingshi, and the people of Li have suffered countless deaths and injuries, and they are all asking Your Majesty to punish Mr. severely!" ”
"Not only in the court, but also among the common people, in the past two days, many people have brought filial piety to the Yushitai to complain, asking the government to severely punish such traitors and villains who don't care about the life and death of the people!"
Lin Fan responded: "It's no wonder that those people, relatives and friends were slaughtered by the Manzhen army, and the Liaodong border army, which was the first to arrive in the official army, sat idly by, and no one could bear this kind of thing." Don't say that they just went to the Imperial History Terrace to read the book, it's not surprising that they just did something more radical! ”
Lin Ruxian nodded: "That's true, someone in the city said to Mr. yesterday, he said that he couldn't wait to eat."
His flesh and skin can eliminate the hatred in his heart! ”
Lin Fan had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know whether he should stand on the side of Mr. or those people.
From their respective standpoints, they have done nothing wrong, but the price they have paid is too great for both sides.
For the common people, it goes without saying that tens of thousands of people outside the city died under the butcher's knives of the Manchu army, and many towns and villages that had lived for thousands of years also disappeared.
The people are innocent, but they are killed, and they can only be turned into white bones, and the prosperity of the past has since become a cloud of the past.
As far as Mr. is concerned, although he kept the Liaodong Border Army, he was imprisoned, and the dismissal is still a trivial matter, and now he is only afraid that he will be worried about his life at any time. Even if you are lucky enough not to die, it is still unknown whether you will be able to see the light of day again in your lifetime.
Because of his actions, he indirectly killed so many people, and the reputation that Mr. had accumulated since he was an official was ruined.
He will not only be criticized by the world, but will become infamous. Even in the history books of the future, he will inevitably bear the infamy, be criticized by countless later generations, and teach future generations to take warning.
The people should hate it, and Mr. also did what he thought was right, Lin Fan couldn't judge who was right and who was wrong in this matter. I just don't know if Mr. could have predicted today's situation, whether he would regret his choice that day!
The views of the ministers and the people are naturally important, but Lin Fan also knows that there is only one person in this world who can really decide the life and death of Mr., and that is Zhao Huan, who is today.
"What is Your Majesty's attitude?" Lin Fan asked again.
Lin Ruxian said softly: "Of course Your Majesty is very angry, think about it, Mr. is His Majesty's courtier, but in order to preserve the strength of the Liaodong Border Army, he put His Majesty's safety at risk. Where does this put His Majesty? ”
"You said that you are for the court, but in the eyes of Your Majesty, you call it self-respect. Now that the soldiers and horses in your hands have been preserved, but the other soldiers and horses in the court have been weakened, you can not save the capital now, so when you are full-fledged in the future, should you add a yellow robe and call yourself the king? ”
"The elite soldiers and horses in the world are in your hands, if you really want to rebel, who can stop you?"
"Under such circumstances, how can you let Your Majesty rest assured, and why not be angry? Therefore, according to the news from the palace, when His Majesty was in the harem, he said more than once that he would kill Mr. ”
Seeing that Lin Fan's face was gradually pale, he was obviously frightened by himself. Lin Ruxian said again: "You don't have to worry too much, Your Majesty said this in order to get angry, and His Majesty never said this when discussing politics in foreign courts, so I think things will not come to this point!" ”
This sentence made Lin Fan's expression a little better, but the haze in his eyebrows couldn't linger.
In order to comfort Lin Fan, Lin Ruxian then analyzed: "Now the world is in chaos like this, not to mention the Manzhen army that has repeatedly knocked on the north side, just to say that inside the big clouds, the thieves everywhere are also in turmoil, and the officials and troops in various places have been suppressed for so long, and it is still difficult to completely calm down. ”
He laughed at himself: "Of course, the chaos in the world is not a good thing, but for Mr., the current chaos has become a talisman for him, which is really ridiculous." ”
"If you push forward another ten years, when the world is generally peaceful, with the crime on your husband's body, the result can only be a dead word, and there is no other possibility!"
"But now is an eventful time, and the court is employing people. There are not many people in the DPRK and China who can fight well, and there are even fewer who can compare with your husband. If you really kill your husband, it is tantamount to destroying the Great Wall. ”
"With the wisdom and determination of Your Majesty today, you will not fail to think of this, and Your Majesty will not do this no matter how angry he is, so Mr. 's life should be worry-free!"
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