Chapter 451: What can I do?
On the morning of 15 May, he sent a messenger to send a horse out of the report, and on the night of 20 May, it was sent to the desk of Emperor Chongzhen in the Qianqing Palace by Wu Weiye, a newly promoted member of the Military Aircraft Department. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It stands to reason that he should be happy that the Shanxi thief front has achieved such a victory, but knowing that the process is so difficult, so cruel and bloody, he still can't be happy after all.
If the population who died in the ravine because of the thieves can be used for the reclamation of Ningxia, it can also solve the shortcomings of the insufficient population of the Han people in that area, and if it can be used for the reconstruction, it can also expand the territory of the Han people in the Hetao area, not to mention for immigrating to North Korea or Burma.
But now, whether it is the fire attack on Huangluling that died in Shanxi Town, or the attack and defense of Shimen Pass that died in Li Banghua, it is all internal friction.
But what can be done?
Chongzhen in history also had times when he was soft-hearted, but his woman's kindness was exchanged for appeasement and rebellion again and again.
Is this what the poor must hate?
From the hands of Wu Weiye, the newly promoted scholar of Wuying Palace, after receiving the good news sent by Li Banghua from the Shanxi army, Emperor Chongzhen carefully read it word by word, and then fell into a long silence and contemplation.
Wu Weiye, who was on duty at the military aircraft that night, Wang Chengen, the great eunuch who followed the emperor anytime and anywhere, and Chen Zuoting, who never left the emperor when the emperor was in the outer court, none of the three dared to say a word, because looking at the emperor's expression, I am afraid that the Shanxi front line has suffered another big defeat.
Today's military aircraft department is in a state of being in charge, because none of the three military aircraft ministers are in office.
Li Banghua was on the front line of Shanxi's suppression of thieves, Sun Chengzong led a large group of men and horses to inspect Jizhen and Saibei, and it was very unfortunate that Zhang Weixian, a British public who had always been good at perceiving his intentions, was also sick, bedridden, and unable to see things.
For the current Emperor Chongzhen himself, this situation actually doesn't matter, in the past, they needed to sit in charge, because they were not familiar with the military and political affairs above the Ming Dynasty, and they were too young, their prestige was not established, and they needed someone to help as an adviser, so that they could consult and discuss at any time, but now they are familiar with the government and politics, and they no longer need to ask for their opinions on everything, at most, with the help of their prestige and status between the government and the opposition, to better implement the major policies they decide.
In other words, these important ministers and old ministers who seem to be relied on by the emperor are now more of their own signboards, after all, a nineteen-year-old emperor is not very reliable in the eyes of the government and the opposition.
Since the people's hearts are like this, Emperor Chongzhen, who is indeed young now, does not intend to challenge this.
However, the only Minister of Military Aircraft in Beijing, the British Minister Zhang Weixian, fell ill, so the Military Aircraft Department could only directly present Li Banghua's recital from before the army to the emperor for reading, and they did not have the authority to open and read it first, because this is the authority only the Minister of Military Aircraft has the authority to do it.
In this process, the military aircraft personnel can participate, and therefore, the military aircraft personnel can always know the important military affairs one step ahead of others.
However, at this time, the Minister of Military Aircraft was not in office, and important military affairs were directly submitted to the emperor, and Wu Weiye, an ordinary military aircraft man, naturally had no way of knowing the content of Li Banghua's report.
In the past, the general political envoys and departments that were always leaking wind and whistles have long lost the power to dismantle and read the reports of various localities and even military reports, and their functions are only to submit and upload and distribute them in a classified manner, and the responsibility of transcribing and filing them is to be completed by the cabinet and the military aircraft department on their own.
As for the power that the General Administration Department had in the past to release political and military information to the world on behalf of the imperial court, it had long been withdrawn by the emperor, and now without the emperor's Zhu pen instructions, the General Administration Department will never be allowed to publish courtiers' reports and court resolutions to the outside world without authorization.
Therefore, when the news came out that the report from the front of the Shanxi army was sent to the General Administration Department overnight, and then to the military aircraft office overnight, and even to the Qianqing Palace overnight, many people in the Beijing division who claimed to be well-informed guessed that something big must have happened in front of the Shanxi army, and nine times out of ten they suffered another defeat!
At this time, in the brightly lit imperial study of the Qianqing Palace, Wu Weiye peeked at Emperor Chongzhen's changing expression, and thought like this.
However, what happened next quickly surprised him, and he only heard the emperor say: "If it is bad news, then we will have to trouble the cabinet elders to enter the palace overnight tonight." But since it's a big victory, there's no rush at this time.
"That's it, Wu Weiye, this matter has been reviewed, you take it back and transcribe a few copies, and forward a copy to the cabinet early tomorrow morning, and then the cabinet will summarize it and then send it to the political secretary to the world."
After Emperor Chongzhen said this, he wrote a few words on the military newspaper presented by Li Banghua, and then dried him and motioned for Wu Weiye to take it away.
Wu Weiye hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully took the recital that the emperor had seen, and before he had time to look at it carefully, he left the Qianqing Palace with both hands in his hands.
When I returned to my duty room in the military aircraft department, I opened it and saw that it was really a big victory!
And it's an unprecedented victory!
Since it was a great victory, why did the emperor look depressed?
Wu Weiye, who had just entered the military aircraft department from the Hanlin Academy and took over the position of Li Xin's military machine, instantly felt an inexplicable pressure from the legendary companion like a tiger, and the young emperor he was going to serve in the future was really unfathomable!
In later generations, Wu Weiye Wu Meicun, who was famous for the poem "Crying the three armies are all vegetarian, rushing to the crown and being angry for the red face", is an authentic Wuzhong talent.
However, Wu Meicun, a famous poet in later generations, was only a young jinshi who had just turned 20 years old at this time.
But such a person has his own usefulness for such a person.
Wu Weiye is a native of Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture, a fellow villager with Zhang Pu, and studied with Zhang Pu when he was more than ten years old, and is one of Zhang Pu's registered disciples, so he naturally became the backbone of the Restoration Society in history and the backbone of Donglin.
However, this person is different from Donglin hypocrites like Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingxiao, and Hui Shiyang, he can be regarded as a true gentleman.
After Wu Weiye in history was in the Jinshi, he was always loyal to Emperor Chongzhen, and he was one of the few literati in the Donglin Party who had a kind of "foolish loyalty" to Emperor Chongzhen.
Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, Wu Weiye went to Nanjing to serve, and because of the scholarly spirit, and Ma Shiying and others were not harmonious, and finally retired to the countryside, seclusion, Shunzhi ten years by the Qing court to Beijing to serve, refused to go, the old mother clan to death forced each other, and finally to Beijing to serve, and three years, to the mother's funeral, closed the door, after the death of the monk into the funeral, and the Manchu Qing years as a shame in life.
After all, the Shilin and public opinion at the end of the Ming Dynasty were also extremely important to the emperor, and Wu Weiye was extremely useful in this regard, on the one hand, his loyalty to the monarch was much stronger than that of Qian Qianyi, Zhang Pu, and Gong Dingyu.
On the other hand, although his Confucian attainments are not as powerful as Zhang Pu, but in terms of poetry and songs, he is gifted, famous as a young man, and has a wide influence.