Xiao Ruxun didn't know until a long, long time later that Zhu Yijun had been so close to death and failure, these things would not be put into the history books, and it was difficult for outsiders to know, and it was only at that time that he knew that the choice he made was correct. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Song Yingchang and Xiao Ruxun arrived at Tianjin Wei on the first day of the fourth month, and it took a day and a half for the army to go ashore to line up and reorganize, and a day and a half to rest, and three days later on the fourth day of the fourth month of April, the Eastern Expeditionary Army officially began to march towards Beijing.

For this day, the army has experienced dozens of battles, and countless strong enemies bloody battles, after paying a heavy price, 200,000 Japanese invaders were killed on the Korean Peninsula and Japan proper, the Japanese expeditionary force from its chief Toyotomi Hideyoshi and all the generals did not miss the net, and the Ming army not only won an extremely brilliant victory, this is also a battle of honor to stabilize the prestige of the Ming Dynasty overseas and deter the surrounding young people.

Everyone was thinking about what kind of reward they could get along the way, Li Rusong wanted to be knighted, and the rest of the generals also wanted to be knighted, and because the military exploits that everyone got this time were too big, even if it was knighted, it was not an impossible thing, and everyone had low hearts, so everyone kept chatting about how glorious and brilliant they should be after being knighted, how to raise their eyebrows and so on.

But in the eyes of real discerning people, such as Song Yingchang, Xiao Ruxun, and Yuan Huang, what they considered was obviously different from what the meritorious generals considered.

"The old man has ordered someone to send a letter to the capital to start operating, but what the situation is, the old man is not very clear, the old man only knows, this matter is not easy to do, this trick is to retreat into advance and I don't know if it can work, which of those high-ranking officials in the capital is not a good hand in this? Ji Xin, Kunyi, do you think this can be done? ”

Song Yingchang's problem is actually Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang's problem, as the main meritor, the decision-making level of this campaign is obviously the first to bear the brunt, the three of them need to consider their own retreat the most, the previous emperor's three kings and the decree made the originally clear situation become muddy again, so that Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang are a little unable to see, at this moment, their hearts are also uneasy.

"I think, now the focus of the court has shifted from us to the incident of the merger of the three kings, everyone is discussing the matter of the merger of the three kings, and the triumph of the army is in second place, but this is not a good thing, reducing our attention, making it easier for us to fish in troubled waters, and more convenient for us to operate this matter, maybe we can get what we want."

Xiao Ruxun's opinion was agreed by Song Yingchang and Yuan Huang.

Xiao Ruxun guessed half correctly, but did not guess the other half.

The main focus of the court now is indeed the incident of the merger of the three kings, but in fact, the incident of the merger of the three kings has been resolved, because on the day when the army arrived in Tianjinwei, on the first day of the fourth month, Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Wanli, issued an edict to the cabinet, announcing the withdrawal of the summons of the three kings, saying that he had not considered it before and did not take into account the opinions of the ministers, so he withdrew the summons.

While the ministers were satisfied, they also had a little more doubt-this time, the emperor succumbed too quickly, right? Every time before, I had to toss off a few high-ranking officials, and then delay for a period of time to give in, this time, no one fell off the horse, and the emperor gave in, which is not scientific! Has the emperor changed his sex?

None of the ministers knew about the great changes in the court, and none of them knew that there was once a butcher's knife so close to them, but they were unaware of it, they blindly celebrated the victory, and then decided to give the emperor a sweet date - the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Luo Wanhua began to urgently arrange the etiquette of the triumphant return of the army, and the instructions were green all the way, without delay, and the efficiency was terrible.

The Ministry of Rites is indeed busy, but the busiest is actually Dongchang and Jinyiwei, in order to seal the action, Zhang Whale and Luo Shangzhi did not sleep well for three nights in a row, commanding the Fanzi of Dongchang and Jinyiwei's secret agents to arrest and kill people everywhere, secretly destroying corpses, and the palace attendants lost hundreds of people overnight, as if the world had evaporated, but the palace people who were familiar with the rules of the palace coup did not dare to say a word honestly, for fear that if they said one more word, the butcher's knife would fall on their heads and cut off the guy who ate by themselves.

Zhu Yijun's spirit was sluggish, the whole person seemed to have lost all his spirit, he didn't speak, he didn't leave the palace, he didn't go to the concubine, he just ate and slept, he didn't look at all the twists and turns from the cabinet, ignored them, and only called Wang De to put the emperor's seal on his desk.

Empress Dowager Li knew about Zhu Yijun's problem, but she had no way or idea to solve it, she just wanted to help Zhu Yijun take care of state affairs before he recovered.

"Queen Mother, the only problem at the moment is the issue of the reward of the generals of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Your Majesty once said that he would give the generals of the Eastern Expeditionary Army a generous reward, but the specific reward, there is no conclusion, it was robbed of the limelight by the three kings and the seal, and now the big guys are waiting, especially the Ministry of Rites, is waiting to arrange the specifications of the ceremony, whether it is a knight or not, the Queen Mother, you have to get an idea."

Empress Dowager Li looked through the list of meritorious soldiers and focused her attention on the three words Xiao Ruxun.

"This Xiao Ruxun is the first hero of this Eastern Crusade, he is indeed very capable, Wang Qing, how did the emperor plan to reward Xiao Ruxun before?"

Wang Xijue recalled: "Your Majesty plans not to give Xiao Ruxun a marquis, but to give Xiao Ruxun an official, and hand over the entire Beijing camp to Xiao Ruxun to organize and rectify, because Your Majesty knows that Xiao Ruxun is not only good at using soldiers, but also good at training, quite Qi Shaobao's demeanor, and then even if it is a reward for acres of gold and silver treasures." ”

Empress Dowager Li pondered for a while and asked, "The emperor is very important to Xiao Ruxun?" ”

Wang Xijue nodded: "It is rumored that Xiao Ruxun was able to serve as the chief general of the Eastern Expeditionary Army at the age of twenty-three, and also squeezed out Li Rusong, the reason is that Xiao Ruxun was favored by His Majesty, and His Majesty admired Xiao Ruxun, so he personally ordered Xiao Ruxun to be promoted. ”

Empress Dowager Li nodded clearly and said, "In this case, Xiao Ruxun can't stay in Jingshi." ”

Wang Xijue breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Queen Mother Shengming." ”

If Xiao Ruxun stayed in Jingshi, the emperor would definitely have a different mind, Wang Xijue fought with his life to save the crisis, how could he let the crisis appear again?