Chapter 561: The Past Is Unbearable
Now that King Ning has rebelled, the world knows that the imperial court should issue an edict to quell the chaos to calm the hearts of the people. So after the court meeting, the two scholars immediately returned to the cabinet and began to draft the edict!
The edict was drafted by the cabinet, finalized by the scholars, and after the emperor approved it, it was written in ink pen and regular script, from right to left, written on large yellow paper, and the "emperor's treasure" seal was written in the middle and at the seams of the paper.
After the completion of the edict, it is called "Zhaohuang", and it is read with extremely solemn and complicated etiquette, symbolizing the proclamation to the world. After the edict is completed, the Ministry of Rites receives the edict, immediately transcribes or engravings and prints multiple copies, and sends them to various places by the post road, and then the local officials receive the edict and announce the edict.
The two scholars were full of wealth, and after careful consideration, they drafted an edict with a pen, and then Li Dongyang immediately submitted the drafted edict to Emperor Zhengde!
When he arrived at the Qianqing Palace, Li Dongyang didn't have anything to worry about, first of all, there was nothing to repeat about this matter! After all, even Zhang Zhijie himself admitted that he had no intention of leading the troops to the battle!
Li Dongyang is also very confident in the edict drafted in his hand, he has been in the cabinet for nearly 20 years! There are countless edicts drafted by him, and there are no mistakes or omissions! So he thought that this submission of the edict was just a formality! After all, the content of the edict has already been negotiated!
When the edict was submitted, Emperor Zhengde hurriedly swept it, and the edict was drafted very well, but it was not in line with his wishes! Because the current Emperor Zhengde is already thinking about the royal conquest!
So after Emperor Zhengde read it, he didn't mean to use the seal at all, but looked at the edict in a daze, and there was no speech!
Li Dongyang looked at the emperor's treasure on the imperial case, but Emperor Zhengde didn't have the slightest intention of using it!
Now Li Dongyang was dumbfounded, could it be that he was not guaranteed to have a good night, and there was a mistake or omission in drafting the edict? Although Li Dongyang is over sixty years old, he still remembers it, and besides, it was the edict he drafted himself!
Seeing that Emperor Zhengde had been staring at the edict and was silent, Li Dongyang immediately silently recited the edict he drafted in his heart and began to reminisce, and after reminiscing, he was sure that there was no problem with the edict!
There is absolutely no problem with the edict! This edict was not only handled by Li Dongyang, but also by Yang Tinghe, so Li Dongyang can be sure that this edict is no problem!
Li Dongyang, who figured it out, sank in his heart, and the thing he didn't want to see finally happened! Li Dongyang said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now that the rebellion has started, the imperial court should make a decision immediately, and it is really not appropriate to delay!" ”
Emperor Zhengde coughed and said, "I often admire Emperor Xuanzong!" ”
Emperor Xuanzong! Although Emperor Xuanzong often played around, Emperor Xuanzong was a rare and promising monarch! Emperor Xuanzong was gifted and handsome, saluted the ministers, was diligent and sympathetic to the people, prudent in employing people, severely punished corrupt officials and corrupt officials, or said that his subordinates were at fault, and secretly investigated them in detail, but in fact they added crimes, and severely punished those who were falsely accused.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the politics were clear, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and created a prosperous generation! Thinking of this, Li Dongyang couldn't help but sigh deeply, compared with Emperor Xuanzong and Emperor Zhengde, this gap is simply not ordinary!
At this time, Emperor Zhengde said the words of Emperor Changmu Xuanzong, how could this not make Li Dongyang stunned! If the emperor really admires Emperor Xuanzong and has the heart to learn from Emperor Xuanzong, then the ministers will be moved to tears!
No, you don't have to learn like Emperor Xuanzong, even if you just learn Emperor Xuanzong's good admonition, Li Dongyang will be moved to tears!
But is it possible? Li Dongyang, who already knew the temperament of Emperor Zhengde, couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how could the emperor suddenly change his sex?
Therefore, Emperor Zhengde must have something to say, Li Dongyang has had his own hills and valleys in his chest for more than ten years, so this is a little thought about it!
It turned out that what the emperor admired was not that Emperor Xuanzong was diligent in political affairs, appointed virtuous ministers, and was good at admonishment, but that Emperor Xuanzong once drove the expedition in person!
It must be like this, the Xuande Dynasty rebelled against the King of Han, and the scholar Yang Rong suggested that Emperor Xuanzong drive the expedition in person, and the army directly surrounded the fiefdom of the King of Han, Le'an, and the King of Han saw that the general trend had gone so he went out of the city and surrendered!
Now it is also the prince who rebelled, and Emperor Zhengde suddenly made such an exclamation, he must be thinking of following the example of Emperor Xuanzong's imperial expedition!
But once Li Dongyang figured it out, he immediately changed color, because when it came to the imperial conquest, the Ming Dynasty had a scar that could not be removed! That's the change of the civil fort!
Emperor Xuanzong's eldest son, Emperor Yingzong, at the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, despite the opposition of his ministers and wanted to follow Emperor Xuanzong's personal conquest, military and political affairs were arbitrarily decided by Wang Zhen, the marching route was repeatedly changed, and the soldiers were exhausted. Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, repeatedly asked to enter the Yongguan Pass to ensure safety, but Wang Zhen did not allow it. When the logistics did not continue to retreat to Tumubao, Wang Zhen ordered the camp to be moved, and the hungry and thirsty sergeants rose up in a hurry, the men and horses were out of order, and the Wara army took the opportunity to attack. The army rushed to the battle, suffering heavy casualties.
This was a major disaster for the Ming Dynasty, when the elite of the Beijing division had fallen to Tumubao, leaving less than 100,000 old and weak soldiers, resulting in the decadence of the imperial army. The change of civil engineering caused Ming Yingzong to be captured by Wara first; More than 50 people, including the old ministers of the Four Dynasties, Zhang Fu, the Horse Jingyuan, the Shangshu Kuang Wei of the Military Department, Wang Zuo, the Shangshu of the Hubu, Ding Ming, Wang Yonghe, and the cabinet members Cao Ding and Zhang Yi, were all killed, and countless civil and military generals were killed in battle; The damage to property is uncountable; The 500,000 troops left behind by Emperor Taizong were all wiped out, and the three most elite battalions were also destroyed.
The past is unbearable, and the lessons of the Tumubao Revolution made the later emperors or ministers never mention any royal expeditions! Because this lesson is so painful!
Therefore, Li Dongyang understood in his heart that he immediately changed color after coming, there must be a traitor to bewitch the emperor! Emperor Yingzong was bewitched by the eunuch king Zhen, and this is the change of Tumubao!
Now there must be such a person around the emperor, he is like Wang Zhen to bewitch the emperor to drive the emperor, but I don't know who this person is?
Could it be that the person who instigated the emperor was Zhang Zhijie? Could this be Zhang Zhijie's counterattack? Zhang Zhijie clearly and frankly admitted that he didn't want to lead the troops to the expedition, but he left a hand here and instigated the emperor to drive the expedition in person, how despicable it was! If it was really Zhang Zhijie who made the ghost, then Zhang Zhijie was really killable!
But now it is not the most important thing to find out who instigated the emperor's personal conquest, the most important thing now is to stop the emperor's absurd idea! In any case, you can't let the emperor drive in person,
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