Kebaba is very strange, weren't these two people still working together just now, talking and laughing, and having a happy scene?

Why did it take a while to make Wei Bao cry?

Zhu Youxiao just watched Wei Bao cry, and only after a stick of incense did he say, "Okay, Wei Aiqing, Wei Aiqing." ”

Wei Bao looked up at the emperor with teary eyes and confusion.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Zhu Youxiao personally handed Wei Bao a cloth towel.

"Wechen obeys." Wei Bao took the scarf and said repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty." ”

"Wei Aiqing, I said, what I believe in the most is you, and I didn't say that I really killed you, I said, you have a small mistake, I won't care, if you have a big mistake, I won't punish you, just kill you. The emperor has always been like this to his favored courtiers

Yes? Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Then Your Majesty still don't favor Weichen, Weichen was frightened when he heard it, and he didn't dare to do anything in the future." Wei Bao hurriedly said.

"You, unless you want to rebel, why am I killing you?" Zhu Youxiao was a little displeased and said, "Will you rebel?" ”

"Wechen in this life, in the next life, in the next life, will never be reversed, Your Majesty is deeply kind to Wechen, and Wechen will never be repaid." Wei Bao's words are chiseled.

"Get up." Zhu Youxiao personally helped Wei Bao up, "Isn't this enough?" Hurry up and work, strive to make the sand table before dark, I want to see the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty from the sand table! ”

Wei Bao nodded, slightly relieved, but more vigilant in his heart.

As the prototype of the sand table came out, Zhu Youxiao's interest became stronger and stronger, and he said to Wei Bao: "Wei Aiqing, tell me about the past of Liaodong, from the time of Li Chengliang, I like to hear you say this, and the emperors will not tell me this." ”

Wei Bao nodded and spoke to the emperor.

In fact, it's not how good Wei Bao's eloquence is, Wei Bao just seeks truth from facts, and says some objective, colloquial knowledge that he has digested once.

And even if Zhu Youxiao can know some of the past history, it is all official of the Ming Dynasty, and it covers up a lot of truth, anyway, the part of the emperor's failure in decision-making must have been covered up.

The problem of the Ming Dynasty is, to put it bluntly, the problem of the emperor, the military incompetence brought about by the civilian presiding, and the countless military expenditures have greatly increased the cost.

Before the Houjin rebellion, Li Chengliang first raised his own respect.

At the beginning of the rebellion, the civilian clique refused to use troops to exterminate or appease the mud, and began to quarrel again, and then it was over.

When the rebellion seriously affected the ecology of Liaodong, Yang Hao knew neither the enemy nor himself, resulting in the annihilation of the elite of the Ming army, and Nurhachi sat down.

Xiong Tingbi, the new civil official, had no soldiers in his hands, and the effect was remarkable.

At this time, Wanli died, the Chu Party lost power, and Xiong Tingbi resigned.

The new civil official, Yuan Yingtai, took office.

The imperial court gave a large number of soldiers to generals this time, and he desperately recruited Yi people to prepare for a counterattack.

When Nurhachi attacked, the troops were weak and the field battle was lost, and the city was closed, in fact, there was only a ditch and no city in Shenyang, and the situation was critical all of a sudden.

Liaodong, which the imperial court had built with all its military and financial resources, completely fell.

The civil official group also panicked at this time, and had to use Xiong Tingbi again, out of the Donglin Party's wariness of the Chu Party, Wang Huazhen was sent to contain it, and the civil and military forces were not in harmony.

Wang Huazhen adhered to the bad habit of being a civil official who was always good and happy and keen on talking about soldiers on paper, and naturally brought another huge amount of money and a large number of troops from the Ming Dynasty, known as 270,000 troops, as well as very elite southern soldiers, and also cooperated with the Mongols to put the Houjin mallet

Kill.

Unexpectedly, Jin took the initiative to send troops to attack Guangning, and Wang Huazhen's number one general rebelled in front of the battle.

Zhu Youxiao heard Wei Bao say this, and interrupted Wei Bao, "In this way, there is something wrong with killing Xiong Tingbi." ”

"Your Majesty, let the past go, it's not interesting to think about it again, it's better to pay attention to it when you make decisions in the future. The main employment does not depend on what people say, but on how people do it. Wei Bao said.

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "That's right, I also found out that many people who have no ability are the way to talk about it, and they are sent to do things, and they are scared to be turtles one by one!" In the imperial court, only you, Wei Aiqing, are willing to do things for me, and you have the ability

I don't know what to do without you. ”

"Your Majesty has won the prize." Wei Bao Road.

"Wei Aiqing, what method did you say Houjin used to make Wang Huazhen's lieutenant surrender. This scum! Zhu Youxiao scolded.

"High-ranking official Houlu, I guess I caught some kind of handle, this handle was sent to the Ming court, and the handle that could make this deputy general die, I was scared, so I surrendered." Wei Bao explained.

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Anti-corruption is equally important to the army!" It's nothing more than embezzlement of military salaries and evidence of being caught. ”

Wei Bao nodded: "Your Majesty is quick-witted, probably so." Otherwise, I can't understand how Houjin did it, what kind of high-ranking official Houlu in Houjin can be so attractive, and the old slave Nurhachi is at most equivalent to a prefect of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Youxiao was happy when he heard this, "Yes, the old slave is equivalent to a prefect of the Ming Dynasty at most!" Wei Aiqing, you go on. ”

Wei Bao went on to say that Quang Ninh collapsed overall.

Xiong Tingbi has always insisted on guarding Shanhaiguan, so this time he simply took a group of people to move all the way back to Shanhaiguan.

The civil official group began to discuss the crime, Xiong Tingbi abandoned Liaoxi and was beheaded, and Wang Huazhen was defeated and detained.

Liaodong is completely gone, and the civil official group has nothing to say.

At this time, Wang Zaijin wanted to build a defense line in Bali according to Shanhaiguan.

However, the emperor Sun Chengzong was not convinced, and he had to rebuild the city in Ningyuan.

As a result, the Ming Dynasty was hemorrhagic again, and the Liaoxi Corridor, which had been built for hundreds of years, had to be rebuilt.

For the sake of the Guanning defense line in the mind of the elders, Sun Chengzong was forced to step down. Gaudí takes office.

If you continue to talk about it, there will be no good words, Wei Bao's words changed, and he didn't talk about Da Ming, but about Da Song.

In fact, compared with Jingkang, you may feel that the Ming Dynasty is not so pitiful, and if you look at the Five Dynasties, you may feel that the Great Song Dynasty is not so pitiful.

It is a well-known fact that Shi Jingjiao has been the emperor for seven years, but the most cowardly thing in the Later Jin Dynasty is obviously far from losing the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

After Shi Jingjiao's death, his nephew Shi Chonggui succeeded to the throne and decided to write to the Khitan to call himself a grandson, no longer a minister, and as a result, "the Khitan Lulong Festival made Zhao Yanshou, originally belonged to the Later Tang Dynasty, and later descended to the Khitan, and wanted to represent the Jin Emperor China

Later, the Khitan came to fight.

In 944 and 945, the Later Jin and the Khitan fought twice, but the Khitan did not succeed.

In 946, the Khitan went south for the third time, and the Later Jin Dynasty ministers Du Chongwei, Li Shouzhen and Zhang Yanze led their troops to surrender to the Khitan, and the Later Jin lost the main force.

In the first month of 947, the Khitan army approached Kaifeng, "hundreds of officials resigned from the north of the city, but Yi Su wore a yarn hat, welcomed the Khitan lord, and asked for guilt on the side of the road."

Shi Chonggui's family was captured to the Khitan, and the Later Jin Dynasty perished.

In other words, at this time, the Khitan had actually defeated Bianliang and the Central Plains, 180 years earlier than the Jingkang Revolution.

When Yelu Deguang entered Kaifeng, he said: "I am also a human being, and you should not be afraid!" It will make you rest in caus. ”

It can be seen that he was already planning to be the lord of the Central Plains.

It's just that the Khitan's own ruling skills are not up to par, and in the Central Plains, "riding out in all directions, in the name of herding horses, plundering repeatedly, called "beating grass valleys", which provoked a large-scale uprising.

Lord Liao said: "I didn't know that it was difficult for Chinese people to make such a system! Only then did it gradually retreat to the north.

Many people say that Zhao Kuangyin, such an eloquent and strategic person, how could he come up with such a bad idea as guarding the inside and the outside, emphasizing literature and ignoring martial arts.

This is not difficult to explain, because since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the situation of feudal towns has threatened not only the imperial power, but the survival of the Central Plains Dynasty itself.

In particular, if we look at the Tang, Five Dynasties, and Song Dynasty as a whole, we can find that the shortcomings of the subsequent dynasties that were criticized were often due to the original intention of absorbing the historical lessons of the previous dynasties.

For example, the Song Dynasty forbidden army pit, everyone knows about this, how can Ming Taizu not know.

The establishment of the guard system was conceived to give people the impression that it was not trying to revive Li Shimin's invincible iron horse.

As a result, I learned that the economic basis to support the military households no longer existed, and the military households fled one after another, and finally had to return to recruitment.

When Shi Chonggui stopped paying tribute to the Khitan, Li Song advised: "What a shame to bend down and think that she is a society!" Your Majesty is like this, he will bow down his armor every day and fight with the Khitan, and it will be useless to regret it at that time. ”

Since this sentence has been on the "Zizhi Tongjian", the Song Lord must have listened to it, and if he can't bear it, he will make a big plan, but the Song Dynasty can endure it enough, and endure Dajin until the Mongols called.

The historical lesson of the Song Dynasty has been said again, it is all the bad things of the surrendering faction, if it were not for the surrender of the knees, the Central Plains would have been restored earlier, and it would be better to put a pig on the throne than the surrendering faction, and it is even more impossible for Mingchen not to know this kind of argument.

So the Ming Dynasty came to fight to the death, and did not pay tribute.

The diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty was too rigid, the hungry people were all over the field and they fought on multiple fronts, and no one dared to bear the infamy and pressure of being a sinner to negotiate peace.

Of course, it is also because the Song Dynasty has gone too far.

In the final analysis, it is a clear talk that misleads the country.

Since then, a characteristic can be found, that is, the Central Plains Dynasty began to be obsessed, constantly overcorrecting the policies of the previous dynasty, and its own ability to correct mistakes seems to have begun to weaken.

However, no matter what kind of new system and policy, it is difficult to achieve a more perfect combination of national unity, political stability, military strength, and technological advancement.

"Wei Aiqing, I feel that it is too difficult to deal with the government, everything has to think about the present, think about the future, and you can't make a mistake, it's too difficult." Zhu Youxiao said to Wei Bao from the bottom of his heart.

Wei Bao smiled: "Your Majesty has done a good job, this is the same as Your Majesty doing craftsman work, first draw the drawings, and pay attention to the exquisite craftsmanship when doing it, and it will be done." ”

"You have to wait to deal with the government, if you can see what it looks like a craftsman every day, it would be good. I made a decision today, and I may not know the result until next year, and the result is not necessarily a good result, and it is too late to change it. ”

Zhu Youxiao said.

"If you have the opportunity to change, Your Majesty has made a decision, the supervision is stricter, and you can know the progress of things in real time, so you can adjust it at any time, which requires you to be well-informed." Wei Bao Road.

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Maybe I'm not smart enough, I'm not diligent enough, I don't like to deal with government politics by nature." ”

Wei Bao didn't say anything, in fact, Wei Bao knew that Zhu Youxiao was very diligent in the first year or two of his ascension to the throne, and he may always fail and have too much frustration, so he gradually lost interest in dealing with government affairs.

When I left the Qianqing Palace, the sand table was almost half completed, and the main cities, mountains and rivers, roads, and passes were all calibrated.

The next step is refinement, greening.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with the sand table, and originally wanted to keep Wei Bao, but unfortunately it was too late, and it would be unruly if it was too late, unless it was a particularly urgent matter, the emperor could not leave the minister in the palace so late.

Zhu Youxiao asked his personal eunuch Li Yuanzhong to send Wei Bao to show his importance to Wei Bao.

Li Yuanzhong was arranged by Lin Wenbiao to enter the palace when Wei Bao was still unsuccessful in Liaoxi, and there was also a eunuch named Bai Yougen who entered the palace together, Bai Yougen's status in the Statistics Bureau is very high, second only to Lin Wenbiao, because he has been in the palace since he was a child, so he voluntarily entered the palace as an internal response, and mixed with Wei Zhongxian as a eunuch.

This series of operations was arranged by buying off a person named Song Sangou, who was working in Fu Yingxing's mansion and had some power.

In the Xinwang Mansion, through Li Chengne, the Statistics Office also arranged a person.

In other words, the Statistics Office arranged people around Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian, and Zhu Youzhen.

Bai Yougen, who was beside Wei Zhongxian, belonged to the periphery, and the other two people who were beside Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youzhen had already entered the inner circle.

Wei Bao and Li Yuanzhong never said anything, and they looked very normal.

Nothing was said, which in itself was an exchange, indicating that there was nothing worth reporting.

In the end, Wei Bao couldn't help but glance at Li Yuanzhong, and the two of them briefly exchanged views for two or three seconds.

Wei Bao was even more convinced that there was nothing wrong, which showed that the emperor, Wei Zhongxian, and Kebaba were not very disgusted with him, and it could even be said that the entire eunuch party had not thought about what to do to him, otherwise Li Yuanzhong would definitely hear the rumors.

"Thank you Father-in-law Li for sending me." Wei Bao Road.

"Yes, it is the honor of the little slave to accompany the lord out of the palace." Li Yuanzhong bowed his head and said.

"Gonggong Li is serious." Wei Bao said and took out a stack of silver tickets, and didn't count them, there were at least two or three thousand taels of silver, enough to buy more than a dozen good mansions in the capital, "Little meaning,"

Li Yuanzhong said politely: "What's so embarrassing? But he immediately accepted it, and the action was very fast, so that the other guards and eunuchs would not have a chance to see how many silver tickets there were.

To develop in the palace, you must engage in interpersonal relationships, and it is indispensable to engage in interpersonal relationships, and generosity is indispensable.

Regardless of Bai Yougen by Wei Zhongxian's side and Li Yuanzhong by Zhu Youxiao's side, they have been in the palace for a long time, it is difficult to contact, and it is not easy to send silver, especially Li Yuanzhong, so Lord Wei will give a little more at a time.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, turned and left.

Wei Bao originally left the palace and planned to go back to the president's mansion directly, but he didn't expect to be stopped by Wei Zhongxian.

"Please go to Sweetwater Alley." Coming to the obscure way.

Sweetwater Hutong is Wei Zhongxian's private residence, Wei Bao knows, calling him over, it must be Wei Zhongxian who has something to talk to him about.

After the agent of the Statistics Bureau told Wei Bao, Wei Bao thought about it quickly and decided to go, if he didn't go, he would not give Wei Zhongxian face, or he would turn his face with Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Bao felt that if he went, it was nothing more than a little bit of danger, this danger was still relatively small, if Wei Zhongxian wanted to do it to himself, he would not usually arrange it in his own home, no matter how he said it, he was also the lord of Daming, and he was not a cat or a dog.

Besides, there is no need for Wei Zhongxian to kill himself, the two sides did not make trouble on that part, and this time it was all Wei Zhongxian's doing.

Wei Bao arrived at Wei Zhongxian's private residence and first exchanged a few words with Fu Yingxing.

Fu Yingxing, who doesn't like to talk much, has nothing to say to others, except to give Wei Bao face.

After greeting Fu Yingxing, Wei Bao entered the backyard.

Wei Zhongxian didn't let Wei Bao wait this time, otherwise every time Wei Bao came, he would have to wait for at least half an hour before Wei Zhongxian would come over, on the one hand, Wei Zhongxian was really busy, and there were a large number of people looking for Wei Zhongxian every day, on the other hand, Wei Zhongxian also liked to take a shelf.

But this time it was Wei Zhongxian waiting for Wei Bao.

"Lord Wei is here, please take a seat." Wei Zhongxian stood up politely.

Wei Bao looked frightened: "Nine thousand years old, you are so polite, it is really a villain, what kind of lord is I, Wei Bao, in front of nine thousand years old?" It's nothing more than a minion. Not 9,000 years old, Wei Bao is still growing wheat in western Liaoning. ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "There is no need to say these words, heroes don't ask where they come from, now you Lord Wei is already a well-known figure in the Ming Dynasty, a model for scholars, and the goal of officials, who can be promoted to the rank of the third rank in less than a year after entering the office, and he has also been knighted, and he is also in charge of a second rank governor yamen alone?" ”

"They are all cultivated at the age of 9,000, and Wei Bao dare not forget them for a moment. One day, the nine-thousand-year-old didn't want Wei Bao to be an official, so Wei Bao didn't want anything. Wei Bao hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

Say don't want it, don't be an official, this in itself is a show of loyalty, even Wei Zhongxian's most trusted cronies, and he can't do Wei Bao so freely.

Wei Zhongxian was still satisfied with Wei Bao's attitude, "Don't talk about this, come and drink tea." ”

Wei Bao was still standing, "Confess to the nine thousand years old, the money has been really tight recently, I came out of the palace just now, and I brought a few hundred taels of silver with me to reward the father-in-law in the palace, and now I really don't have any silver tickets." ”

Wei Bao said as he turned out the lining of his sleeve pocket and showed it to Wei Zhongxian, saying that he really didn't have any silver.

Then Wei Bao hurriedly said: "Coming to see the nine thousand years old empty-handed, it really shouldn't be, and when Wei Chen returns, he will let people try to make up 10,000 taels of silver and send it to the nine thousand years old." ”

"No, no, we know that you haven't made any money recently, just spending money, you must be tight on hand. However, this time, your father-in-law helped you save three million taels of silver. Wei Zhongxian said.

Wei Zhongxian said, staring at Wei Bao's handsome face, wanting to see how Wei Bao's expression changed.