Chapter 127: Yang Shan's Envoy
Clear-eyed people can see what Qi Qian's status in the emperor's mind is at this time, some people are cold-eyed, some people are secretly jealous, and some people are ignorant, but at this time, they still bow down and say: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”
Although he agreed to send the envoy again, Zhu Qiyu regretted it when he looked back, he always had a thorn in his heart that was difficult to remove, so he thought about the candidate for this envoy, and finally designated Yang Shan, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, as the main envoy, and then indirectly prevented the mission from taking Zhu Qizhen back through various means.
For example, the gifts given to Yexian are pitiful, the travel expenses of the mission are almost none, and there is no mention of the request to bring Zhu Qizhen back on the national letter, and the most important thing is that Yang Shan was 'carefully selected' by Zhu Qiyu.
Yang Shan did not receive Zhu Qiyu's private will, and he was not allowed to take the Emperor Zhu Qizhen back, but in the eyes of other ministers, no matter whether Zhu Qiyu secretly gave Yang Shan any hints, just because Zhu Qiyu designated him as the envoy of the mission, he was no longer optimistic about the results of this mission, just because Yang Shan's resume was really poor.
Yang Shan is over sixty years old this year, not a jinshi, not a lifter, just a showman, he came to Zhu Di to serve as a ceremonial officer during the Battle of Jingjing, because he was only a showman and lacked ability, it took nearly fifty years to survive to the position of the right capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and compared with Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who was also born in the same period, it is really trivial, not worth mentioning.
In the decades of his career in Huan Hai, Yang Shan has gradually become sleek and low-key, and he has secretly developed a clever mouth, which can be called a model for seeing people and talking nonsense, but Zhu Qiyu doesn't know, he just thinks that Yang Shan is unknown and old, and he is selected to be the envoy of Wara, although it does not show the prestige of the Ming Dynasty well, but it will definitely not smoothly bring Zhu Qizhen back from Yexian.
In fact, Yang Shan also accompanied Zhu Qizhen to the north to conquer Wara, and was also 'lucky' to participate in the battle of civil engineering, but I don't know if he was too lucky, or if he was perfect in running for his life, and other young and strong officials did not escape with their lives, only he was a bad old man and a few people who fled back to the capital, and was also promoted to the right capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Yang Shan is a good person, not as stunned as Li Shi, he understands what Zhu Qiyu means, but he also has his own persistence and ideas, mediocre and mediocre all his life, survived Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, the three grandsons, if there is no accident, he will have to return to his hometown after a few more years, and then he will die after a few years of happiness in his hometown, maybe when he dies, the court will give himself a nickname, and then he has figured out a lot of things after living for so many years, and he clearly knows what he wants most.
What Yang Shan wants most is to make a name for himself, he is fed up with the contemptuous eyes of other ministers at him, what's wrong with me being just a showman? I don't steal or rob, so why do you look down on me?
Now that the opportunity has come, Zhu Qiyu thought that he had chosen Yang Shan, but he didn't know that Yang Shan himself had taken a fancy to this opportunity.
Xing'an is the personal eunuch next to Zhu Qiyu, and he is quite upright, but he has a cousin outside the palace, and the relationship between the two is very good, Yang Shan saw this, and gained the trust of Xing'an's cousin through some means, and then took the opportunity to approach Xing'an, and finally found an opportunity to be 'favored' by Zhu Qiyu and became the envoy of the Ming Mission.
Although the food and accommodation along the way were not good, and a penny had to be broken in half to spend, Yang Shan was still very confident to complete the task of this trip, and sometimes he even regretted that he was born in the wrong era, if he could be born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, then what happened to Su Qin and Zhang Yi?
All the way, the Ming mission finally arrived, and Yang Shan also went to see Zhu Qizhen first, and it happened that Zhao Yan was also here.
Zhu Qizhen is actually dead set on whether he can return to the capital, but Zhao Yan will comfort him every time he comes, and every time he swears that he will definitely return to Daming, Zhu Qizhen asked him why he is so confident, Zhao Yan can't say that he knows five hundred years before and five hundred years after five hundred years, so he uses Yu Qian as an excuse.
Zhao Yan said to Zhu Qizhen that although he has not been in the DPRK for a long time, he has watched coldly, although there are many officials in the DPRK and China, but there are very few people who are really capable, Yu Qian is one of them, he not only has the ability to turn the tide of the tide, but also a loyal person......
After talking nonsense, Zhao Yan and Yu Qian blew into the sky, and finally asserted that with Yu Qian, he would definitely not sit back and watch Zhu Qizhen suffer here.
Later, I heard that the defense of the capital was won under the command of Yu Qian, Zhu Qizhen was no longer skeptical about Yu Qian's ability, but there was an incident before he also retreated first, and this matter has always remained in Zhu Qizhen's mind and has not been dispersed, and now he knows that the defense of the capital was won under the command of Yu Qian, Zhu Qizhen's impression of Qian suddenly fell from the sky to the ground.
The night before the retreat, the defenders of the capital had been hit by the body, not only did the strategic intention of capturing the capital not be achieved, but the soldiers under their command also suffered heavy losses, in order to preserve the vitality, they had already decided to withdraw early the next morning, who knew that when they were tossing and turning in the camp at night, because the Ming army had never used it, and the cannon that was ignored suddenly began to sound.
The cannon was available in the Song Dynasty, and then after decades of unremitting development in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, now the range and firepower are already good, but at the beginning because Zhu Qizhen was in the camp of Yexian, so Yu Qian threw a mouse taboo and did not dare to put it into use directly, but he also had obvious retreat under the great injury of the first vitality, and took advantage of his illness to kill him, even if Zhu Qizhen was still detained in the camp of Yexian, Yu Qian couldn't take care of it so much, or that sentence, the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light, not to mention Zhu Qizhen, the emperor who is out of breath.
Jin Wuzu is not perfect, Yu Qian is not perfect, his decision may be a little cold-blooded in the eyes of future generations, but you are also former monarchs and ministers, if you attack Yexian's camp with cannons, are you not afraid of blowing up Zhu Qizhen to death?
Yu Qian is a national hero on the surface, focusing on the national economy and people's livelihood, with a ravine, lofty ambitions, and a rational talent on the whole, but this does not mean that he has no feelings, he must be sympathetic to Zhu Qizhen's situation, but for the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty, it is best to die first, and in order to prevent future troubles, he can only be wronged by the emperor.
It was right not to use the cannon at first, and I was confused at first, and when the cannon began to roar that night, I was completely stunned by the explosion.
With the guns and cannons, the Warat army suffered more than 10,000 casualties overnight, and they left the capital sadly, but Zhu Qizhen also remembered the roar of that night in his heart.
Although Zhu Qizhen is getting closer and closer to Zhao Yan, he will not say anything to him, since he knew that Yu Qian was the 'culprit' who almost injured himself with a cannon that night, even if Zhao Yan mentioned Yu Qian many times later, Zhu Qizhen was just noncommittal, although he was mild-tempered, he was not a good person, and he would hold grudges.
Yang Shan came, and Zhu Qizhen rekindled the flame of hope.
"It's hard to come from afar, it's bitterly cold here, can you bring clothes?"
Yang Shan can't say that your brother doesn't allow me to bring it, so he can only reply: "The minister came in a hurry, and he didn't bring clothes for the emperor." ”
"That'...... The food here is all beef and mutton, did you bring anything to eat? ”
Yang Shanxin said that the travel expenses of the mission were raised by selling his property, and where could he bring you food and clothing, but he couldn't tell the truth, so he had to reply depressedly: "The minister himself carries a few buckets of rice, and the emperor can eat it first." ”
With the variable of Zhao Yan, Zhu Qizhen's living environment in Wara is much better than in history, so the last time Li Shi came, Zhu Qizhen also took into account his identity and did not directly ask about these trivial things about food, clothing, housing and transportation, but seeing that there was little hope of returning to Daming, Zhu Qizhen had to be cheeky to ask Yang Shan about these trivial things for the sake of his future life, and he was also very helpless in his heart, obviously not thinking that Yang Shan could take him back to Daming.
Zhao Yan stood aside and looked at the bad old man in front of him and was very excited, if I remember correctly, it was the bad old man in front of him who used his incorruptible tongue to take Zhu Qizhen back to Daming, and he could finally go home alive!
Seeing that Zhu Qizhen and Yang Shan had been talking nonsense for a long time without nutrition, Zhao Yan was a little anxious, and had to interject and ask, "Why is Yang Gong here?" ”
Yang Shan saw that Zhao Yan was dressed like a Warat person, and he was a little vigilant in his heart, and asked, "Who are you?" ”
"Zhao Yan, the Jishi of the Xiaguan Hanlin Academy, the word Guomei. The emperor hunted in the north, and the lower officials followed him. ”
Yang Shan felt that this name was a little familiar, and after thinking about it, he suddenly realized it, and said kindly: "It turned out to be Zhao Shuchang, who has been admired for a long time." ”
The history books say that Yang Shan is very good at talking, Zhao Yan is considered to have seen at this time, he is a petty official of the Hanlin Academy, his name is unknown, Yang Shan came up and said that he admired for a long time, what about deceiving ghosts?
"Where is it, Yang Gong has gone through four dynasties, and he has made outstanding achievements, and the lower officials have already heard of it, and they have admired it for a long time." Isn't it just a scene, Zhao Yan came as soon as he opened his mouth.
Yang Shan was stunned for a moment, not everyone knew that he had gone through four dynasties, Zhao Yan said it casually, obviously he really knew himself as a person, coupled with Zhao Yan's respectful tone and expression, Yang Shan immediately had a good impression of him.
Yang Shan turned his head to Zhu Qizhen and said: "The minister's envoy this time is to discuss peace with him, and secondly, the court remembers that the Emperor Taishang has been hunting in the north for a long time, and wants to take the Emperor Taishang back." ”
Zhao Rong, the deputy envoy of the embassy on the side, was shocked when he heard this, and there was no mention of the matter of taking the emperor back to Beijing in the national letter.
Yang Shan's words have already been spoken, and Zhao Rong can't debunk them in person, so he can only secretly pray that this Yang Dazui will wake up in time and stop talking nonsense.