Chapter 45: Begging for Reinforcements
Zhao Ruixue, who had already dried up her tears, was wearing a thin coat and had been kneeling outside the Forbidden City for three days and three nights. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info she didn't know which was a member of the court, she didn't know which official spoke effectively, helpless she cried and kowtowed to everyone in the past, as if she was crazy, she begged them to save her husband, even if it was a eunuch and a palace maid, she kowtowed like garlic. At this time, she only had her husband and the soldiers and civilians of Kulen City waiting for the help of the imperial court to save her life, what could she do other than this, she should have been a weak woman who was protected?
The call for help had already been handed in by the eunuch Wang Chengen, but there was no more news like a mud cow entering the sea, as if this incident had never happened at all.
Although Wang Qia, the secretary of the military department, passed by here every day, he only took a detour, shook his head and sighed, and never mentioned the rescue. It seems that this matter was either left by Chongzhen or vetoed by the cabinet.
These days, if Wang Chengen hadn't seen Xiao Nizi pitiful and asked people to send her some old clothes, water and dry food for the palace maids to spend the winter, I'm afraid she would have died in front of the Forbidden City.
It wasn't until the news of the crisis of the Daning Dusi was known to Qin Xiaoman, who happened to return from the front line in Liaodong, that Qin Liangyu, the aunt who begged to go to Beijing to report on her work, took the opportunity of the debriefing to mention and discuss with Emperor Chongzhen about rescuing the lone army of the Daning Dusi, and the matter took a turn for the better.
Above the Imperial Palace, Qin Liangyu was arguing with the courtiers, explaining the importance of rescuing the lone army in Kulun City.
Shi Fenglai is the best at figuring out people's minds, he knows that although Chongzhen "released" Wei Zhongxian to Duoyanwei, he is still not at ease, wishing that he would die as soon as possible, or he would not adopt their bad ideas. Of course, he felt that the main reason why Emperor Chongzhen did not save him when he saw death was that in addition to preventing changes on the Liaodong front and being busy suppressing the popular uprising, was that he did not take the Daning Dusi to heart, which had long existed in name only.
Today's Long Live Lord quietly moved to the "Nine Thousand Years Old" who dominated the government, first flogged to death and then Ling Chi Ke's family, that method is extremely old and spicy, how can he care about a little-known talent Guan Shanyue. It's the little lady outside the Forbidden City who knelt and died outside, not to mention whether the Long Live Lord can know if it's okay, but if you know it, it is estimated that you will not even frown.
Seeing Emperor Chongzhen being questioned by Qin Liangyu's barrage of words, he sat on the dragon chair speechlessly and relied on your embarrassment.
Shi Fenglai, who had been waiting for the opportunity, cleared his throat, coughed, and stood up with an ivory wat in his official steps to relieve the siege, "Your Majesty, the minister feels that what Qin Shaobao said is inappropriate. To say that Duoyanwei was besieged, after all, it was once my Ming Dynasty's detention guard, and he could still send troops to rescue him. Even if it is any city in the territory of the Daning Dusi, I can find an excuse to send troops to rescue me. But this Kulun City is a city built by Guan Shanyue and Wei Zhongxian without advocacy, and His Majesty has been extremely merciful if he does not hold them accountable for not reporting it, how can there be any reason to send troops to rescue them? After speaking, he glanced at his sworn friend Huang Liji and asked him to come out and put Wei Zhongxian to death.
Huang Liji and Shi Fenglai are the same dog, so they can ignore his thoughts, and immediately echo and say: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Master Shi said is very reasonable. Without the approval of the imperial court, he built the city privately, and did not report to the imperial court after the city was built, and this matter can be attributed to the poor traffic between the Chahar department. To put it mildly, this is not taking the Holy You in your eyes. Qin Taibao, the ancients said, "Soldiers, murder weapons, saints have to use them." "Let's send troops to rescue the lone army in Kulen City, the general division is famous, right? The city of Nakulun has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Mongolia and reached the sphere of influence of Rara, and it has never been the territory of my Ming Dynasty. Our Ming Dynasty rashly sent troops, it is clear that the division is unknown, and if the name is not right, it is not good, and you are clearly trying to trap the saint in injustice. Moreover, once the Ming Dynasty sends troops, it will inevitably cause a strong backlash from the Tatars, the Raka and the Houjin, and when the time comes, several of them will collude to attack our Ming Dynasty and cause the lives to be ruined, who will bear the consequences? ”
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have long known the thoughts of the Long Live Lord, and with the leadership of the cabinet ministers, they are good at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, and they have spoken out one after another, and they have belittled Wei Zhongxian and Guan Shanyue like national sinners.
Qin Liangyu was angry with this group of ministers who only knew about party strife and their minds were full of selfishness all day long, and scolded in his heart: "A group of thieves who misled the country, the money used by the imperial court to raise soldiers has been stripped layer by layer by you group of mercenary people, and the burden of the people has increased, but not much of the money has really been sent to the soldiers." Now the soldiers on the front line are sweating, bleeding and crying, and tomorrow will be destroyed by the hands of this group of moths. But at this time, I must not mention this matter, it is important to save people, I have to try my best to ask for reinforcements, and it is better to fight for reason. "If she hadn't tabooed that this was the court, I'm afraid she would have drawn a knife against each other a long time ago.
She snorted coldly, calmed down her complicated feelings, and refuted righteously: "Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties, there are many lands that were conquered by the ancestors of the Han people with their own blood, and they were not the land of our Han people before. Expanding the territory is the ability of the ancestors, and if you can keep it, it is the ability of future generations. Now that Lord Guan and Gonggong Wei built Kulen City, it is clearly for us to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty, this is what the husband should do, as long as the descendants can keep it, it is the land of our Ming Dynasty. The minister felt that this was not a crisis for my Ming Dynasty, but a God-given opportunity for the Holy Zhongxing Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty, the ministers led the troops by virtue of a kind way, the soldiers were in danger on an expedition, and if the court abandoned them, it hurt the hearts of those loyal ministers and good generals internally, chilled the hearts of people with lofty ideals in the world, and connived at the brutal barbarians externally. Just ask those literati who are looking forward to knowing that my Ming Dynasty abandoned their heroes, who will be willing to serve my Ming Dynasty in the future? Who would dare to work for my Da Ming? ”
Chongzhen, who was extremely ugly, originally blamed Qin Liangyu for being nosy, if it weren't for her credit to Daming, he would have had a seizure if he couldn't get off the stage if he was someone else. But at this time, after listening to Qin Liangyu's words, there was a slight change in his heart, although he never told anyone, what he wanted to do most was Zhongxing Daming. At this time, he sat on the dragon chair and nodded, feeling that what Qin Liangyu said was very reasonable, although he did not say anything, his face had gradually softened.
Qin Liangyu saw that there was a door to this matter, and she was witty and didn't give those courtiers whose faces had changed greatly a chance to interject, "So, we must save our heroes!" ”
At this time, Chongzhen's heart was really moved, and he really wanted to say in front of the ministers that he would send troops to rescue. Although the ministers didn't say anything, he also knew that Daming's current strength was overstretched. The forces of the Nine Sides cannot be moved, and the troops of the Beijing Division cannot be moved, and the troops that can be mobilized have long been requisitioned and transferred to quell the people's rebellion. There are soldiers in the Jiangnan Guard, but they are all rabble who are unbearable to fight, and Huanghuang Daming has no soldiers to adjust in this eventful season, which makes him extremely depressed.
Although Chongzhen, who has not yet sat on the hot dragon chair, does not know that there are a few people in the court who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, he knows that as long as the big tree of the Ming Dynasty falls, this group of benevolent and moral monkeys will change to the owner and become the minister, but he, the emperor, has no way to retreat and will definitely die, so this Daming is still good in Zhongxing.
Although Chongzhen did not receive formal imperial training, he weighed the pros and cons with a lively mind and paid attention to it, he glanced at Qin Liangyu gratefully, and said in a heroic voice: "Qin Shaobao's sentences are deafening, which makes people feel enlightened, and he has to be kind, and he has to be kind, and he has to be kind. As long as I am the people of the Ming Dynasty, even if I go to the ends of the earth, I am also the people of the Ming Dynasty. I think of Chen Tang back then, "Those who offend my big man will be punished even if they are far away!" "What a heroic! After a thousand years, I believe that the blood of the Han people is still there. Therefore, I want to rescue the heroes of my Ming Dynasty. The Loyal Marquis listened to the order......"
The high-spirited Qin Liangyu didn't expect Chongzhen to send troops to her at all, she was still willing to use her white pole soldiers, and after receiving the will, she quickly drove out of the Forbidden City, because she wanted to tell the good news to the waiting Zhao Ruixue as soon as possible.
But when she walked outside the Forbidden City, she looked around blankly, except for the snow, Xiao Nizi, who had been kneeling like a stone man, disappeared.