Chapter 152: News
Beijing, Master of Ceremonies of the Daming Imperial Palace.
At the end of March in Beijing, the footsteps of spring have quietly approached, but the weather is still a little cold, the eunuch's physique is not as good as normal people, the four corners of the room are placed braziers, and the kang is also hot, so that the eunuchs will feel better.
Cui Wensheng sat cross-legged on the kang, holding the secret report sent by Xu Xianchun, the governor of the Jinyi Guard, in his hand, he couldn't help frowning, and muttered softly: "Ye Xun? Who is this person, and how come the miscellaneous family has never heard of this person? ”
Cui Wensheng was in charge of the celebrant at this time, which is often referred to as the internal minister, but Cui Wensheng did not have much ability, and although the Wanli Emperor trusted the eunuch, he could not talk about connivance, so the celebrant at this moment was still calm, and the relationship with the outer court was relatively harmonious.
The defeat of Salhu has long been reported, but due to Ye Xun's birth, the victorious Nurhachi did not have much joy, let alone the Wanli Emperor, who was the supreme ruler of the Ming Dynasty.
After the news came, the Wanli Emperor closed himself in his study for a whole day, and no one came to ask for persuasion, and then a series of orders were handed down, including sending Xiong Tingbi, capturing Yang Hao, and strengthening the defense of Shenyang.
Xu Xianchun, as the governor of Jinyiwei, although he could send the secret report to the emperor alone, but because the person on the secret report was a eunuch, he kept an eye on it, and sent the secret report to Cui Wensheng first, and Cui Wensheng forwarded it to the emperor.
In the end, the experience of Jinyiwei and the eunuch was similar, they were both the kind of people with their tails between them, but through this incident, Xu Xianchun saw hope, a hope for Jinyiwei to regain its glory.
Cui Wensheng has been in the court for so many years, how can Xu Xianchun's intentions not be seen, and at the same time, as one of the emperor's most trusted people, he knows very well that what the emperor needs most now is a victory, even if this victory is not big, but it is also a victory to regain face.
What makes Cui Wensheng puzzled is Ye Xun, in the past, the eunuchs sent abroad were all in charge of the imperial horse eunuchs, and at this moment Sun Lun, the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse eunuchs, was sitting aside, but according to Sun Lun, the eunuch in Tieling was Liu Yong, and there was a little eunuch next to Liu Yong, but he really couldn't remember what it was called.
Cui Wensheng is almost sixty years old, but his head is running extremely fast, seeing that Sun Lun really can't provide any information about this Ye Xun, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly had an idea in his heart.
With a wave of his hand, he drove out the other eunuchs in the house, and then said to Sun Lun: "From now on, that little monkey cub named Ye Xun is the secret agent that you and I placed next to Liu Yong, and after discovering that Liu Yong escaped from the battle, he immediately took over the military power of Tieling, thus driving the old Tartar slave back to his hometown, do you understand?" ”
The eunuch who can sit as the boss of the Imperial Horse Prison is obviously not an ordinary brain, and he immediately understood Cui Wensheng's intentions.
Nodding and saying: "The miscellaneous family understands, but that Liu Yong"
Hearing Sun Lun mention this person, Cui Wensheng's eyes flashed with a murderous intention, and said: "The miscellaneous family will let Xu Xianchun send someone to do this, Xu Xianchun's love is recorded by our family, in short, this credit must belong to our grandfather, go, let's go to see Your Majesty"
is almost sixty people, and his actions are also very neat, beckoning the little eunuch to wait for him to wear a shoelace and hat, and then rush to the Qianqing Palace with Sun Lun.
Emperor Wanli's recent mood is indeed very bad, so bad that he can't describe it in words, because he never dreamed that the situation in Liaodong would be eroded, and the Tartar named Nurhachi seemed to appear overnight.
Sitting alone in the imperial study, I couldn't help but think of the impeachment of Li Chengliang a few years ago, and now the content of the impeachment has become a reality.
Fortunately, Li Chengliang died early, otherwise with Wanli's current mood, he would definitely have to kill him a few times.
People are like this, when things go wrong, they often don't see their own responsibilities, and all problems are made by others.
Li Rubai escaped, Li Ruzhen did not move, and he didn't know what happened to the Li family?
Yushi is now impeaching them every day, Wanli pretends to be calm, he is actually waiting, waiting for Xiong Tingbi's performance, because these two brothers now have soldiers in their hands, and Liaodong is already like this, if there are two more rebel generals, then the situation may really be out of control.
Calculating the time, Xiong Tingbi should also go to Liaodong, why hasn't he sent it yet?
Wanli, who has always been calm, has been very irritable recently, and has sent several groups of eunuchs to the cabinet to check today.
At this moment, Wanli is looking at Fang Congzhe's recital, Yang Hao was recommended by Fang Congzhe, and now Yang Hao has fought such a big defeat, this Fang Congzhe is still excusing him.
Wanli forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, now is not the time to clean up Fang Congzhe, otherwise there will be no one to work in the cabinet.
Just pondering, footsteps sounded, Wanli looked up, but saw Cui Wensheng and Sun Lun walking in briskly one after the other.
Seeing that the two of them were all happy, Wanli couldn't help but wonder: "Why are you so happy?" But is there news from Liaodong? ”
"Your Majesty saw thousands of miles, and before the old slave said anything, Your Majesty guessed that it was indeed news from Liaodong, and it was great news."
Cui Wensheng said, first took the lead and kowtowed respectfully to Wanli.
"Oh! Where does the joy come from? ”
After all, Wanli is old, and sometimes his thoughts are like ostriches, and when he encounters irreversible setbacks, he would rather hide his head than think about how to face and change.
But as the lord of the empire, there are some things that have to be faced, Liaodong is like that, what good news can there be?
When I think about it, deep down I don't have a desire to hear the good news.
"That's your majesty, Tieling Town guards the eunuch Ye Xun, with thousands of remnants, the Tartar old slave army of tens of thousands of troops under Tieling City, not only that, this Ye Xun also personally killed the first Jurchen warrior Baduli, the Jurchen army that was killed lost their armor, defeated and lost, Your Majesty, God bless Daming!"
Although Cui Wensheng said with emotion, Wanli was a little unconvinced, there was a war report that Li Ruzhen was hiding in Shenyang, that is to say, there are not many soldiers and horses in Tieling, such a small city, there are no soldiers and horses inside, no reinforcements outside, and it can still repel the attack of the Tartar army?
Wanli really hopes for good news, but he is not stupid, this news is a bit too shocking.
Wanli didn't believe it, Cui Wensheng hurriedly said: "This news was just sent to the palace by the Jinyi Wei Xu Dudu, such a big thing, forgive him and dare not lie, besides, if the situation is true, there will be news soon."
Wanli thought about it, such a big thing can't be hidden at all, and taking such a big risk to bully the king is really worth the loss.
Thinking of this, Wanli suddenly became happy and said, "What did you just say that the eunuch of Tieling Town was called?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, it's called Ye Xun, and it's the old slave who was secretly sent to Tieling"
Wanli was stunned for a moment and said, "What is a secret dispatch?" ”
"That's your majesty, when this son was in Beijing, Gonggong Sun recommended him just like the old slave, the old slave after investigation, found that this is indeed a rare talent, in order to train him, the old slave sent him to the forefront of Liaodong, he did not disappoint the old slave, the original town guard eunuch Liu Yonglin escaped from the battle, he led the Tieling army and people to resist the army of the Tartars, relying on His Majesty's Tianwei, really won"
Wanli felt as if he was listening to a story, Cui Wensheng said that when he talked about the highlights, he couldn't help but shoot the case, and said something that no one expected.
"Quickly recruit Ye Xun into Beijing, I want him to play right in person"
"Ahh