Chapter 122: An Eventful Season
Yang Su looked at it coldly, and the officials who rushed into the mourning hall and shouted defeat on the front line couldn't help but feel dissatisfied!
In addition to the cabinet ministers, there are also officials who assist the cabinet ministers in their daily work.
The front-line military situation is such a secret matter, this person actually dares to shout it in front of everyone in the mourning hall, it can be seen that they are the same on weekdays! As an important member of the cabinet, he is in a lowly position but does not want to keep it secret, it seems that this cabinet really needs to be rectified!
The official didn't look at it, and still shouted directly: "Hong Chengchou said in the rush that Deng Xi embezzled military salaries and caused his subordinates to rebel and join the thieves. The defenders of Fancheng collapsed without attacking, and the leaders of the Liukou Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Red Lady, Liu Guoneng and other leaders all crossed the Han River and fled out of Shaanxi! ”
"Ahem!" Wen Tiren coughed lightly.
The official finally sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and stood there awkwardly holding the fold at a loss.
"Present Hong Chengchou's recital!" Yang Su said expressionlessly.
Waiting for Cao Huachun to present the recital, Yang Su unhurriedly flipped through the recital, and read it out to the hundred officials, "Deng Xi died due to the rebellion of the generals, resulting in the loss of Fancheng, a group of rogues have now escaped from the Han River from Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou went out of Tongguan to pursue Gao Yingxiang, Qin Liangyu entered Shaanxi from Hanzhong and was encircling and suppressing the rest of the Liukou, Lu Xiangsheng led the army to encircle Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Qiqian has led the forbidden army to the front line, trying to pursue the Red Lady, Liu Guoneng and other rogues. ”
Yang Su paused when he said this, glanced at the hundred officials, and handed the fold to Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun handed it to Wen Tiren and other cabinet ministers and said
"Although the encirclement and suppression of Shaanxi failed, only 200,000 Liukou escaped from Shaanxi, compared to the previous million people, it is already a big injury, although there is a small defeat this time, but it is not hindered in the overall situation, don't worry about it!"
Wen Tiren and other ministers did not object after passing it on.
Seeing that Yang Su was so calm and calm, and the cabinet ministers also recognized what the emperor said, the originally restless heart finally calmed down on the surface.
"Your Majesty, the reason why the Liukou is difficult to exterminate is entirely because the Liukou never fights head-on with our officers and soldiers, but wanders around and our officers and soldiers take care of one or the other, so the Liukou has been repeatedly suppressed, and now the Liukou has seemed to be the general trend has gone, but the minister thinks that it is still not to be underestimated, and the minister implores the emperor to follow Yang Sichang's strategy of forming a network on all sides, and follow the thief's direction, and kill the Liukou to completely exterminate the Liukou!" Wen Tiren suddenly admonished.
As soon as Wen Tiren's voice fell, Qian Shisheng stood up again and said, "The emperor Hong Chengchou is not strict, which led to the failure of Shaanxi's encirclement and suppression, and the two major defeats are all committed by Hong Chengchou alone, and the emperor asks the emperor to put Hong Chengchou in prison for the crime!" ”
Wang Yingxiong also stood up in solidarity, "The emperor recommended Yang Sichang to replace Hong Chengchou as the governor of the three sides, the prime minister of the military affairs of the five provinces, and the policy of four positives and six corners!" ”
"Summoning Yang Sichang to Beijing, I want to listen to his performance before acting! Now there are only 200,000 rogues who have escaped from Shaanxi, and there are 100,000 people in the Fourth Route Army of our official army. As for Hong Chengchou, he has the crime of not being strict with His Majesty, but his merits and demerits are not commended, and the failure of this encirclement and suppression will not be punished, so as to comfort the hearts of the front-line soldiers! Yang Su took a step back and temporarily agreed to meet Yang Sichang.
The cabinet ministers were helpless when they saw this, and now they didn't dare to threaten the emperor with resignation and crying! can only rely on etiquette to bind the emperor!
Yang Su was just about to leave, and there was a cabinet official who sent a rush to play, and the official who sent the fold this time was undoubtedly a little eye-catching, and walked to Cao Huachun's side from the side of the hall and presented the fold directly to Cao Huachun.
But now there are hundreds of people standing inside and outside the palace, and the behavior of this official has long been in the eyes of everyone, and everyone is shocked in their hearts, this must be another big thing, otherwise they would definitely not be in such a hurry to rush to the mourning hall of Concubine Liu to present a recital.
Cao Huachun didn't know what to do for a while.
"There is nothing to say to others, not to mention that all the people here are my ministers, the mainstay of my Ming Dynasty!" Yang Su beckoned Cao Huachun to bring the fold.
"Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan played, half a month ago asked Zheng Zhilong and the Guangdong Navy Division to continue to lead the army to crusade against the only remaining largest group of pirates, Liu Xiang, who colluded with Xiyi, won a complete victory in Humen, but due to the sudden big waves at sea, the thieves failed to do their best, Liu Xiang led the remnants of the army south to Taiwan to completely surrender to Xiyi, the official and military ships were destroyed in the big waves, and no one survived the destruction of the Guangdong Navy Division!" After Yang Su looked at it, he handed it to Cao Huachun according to the rules and asked him to transfer it to the cabinet.
"Xiong Wencan asked for credit for Zheng Zhilong in the compromise, let me commend him, and asked the imperial court to allocate 800,000 silver, intending to rebuild the water division of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, Xiyi Since being defeated by my Ming sailor, I have a thief heart to the Ming Dynasty, and the pirates who invade my Ming Dynasty are all supported by Xiyi behind the scenes, Xiong Wencan wants to train the sailors to completely defeat Xiyi, and pacify the pirates to recover Taiwan, do you have any objections?" Yang Su took advantage of the cabinet ministers to read the recitals and tell the story of Xiong Wencan's writing.
"Emperor Zheng Zhilong is also a pirate, influenced by the emperor's grace to serve my Ming Dynasty, this time should be rewarded to comfort his heart, this great achievement is enough to make maritime peace for ten years, the minister thinks that Zheng Zhilong is promoted from the first product and the five military governors to know the same as good!" Wen Tiren suggested.
"The emperor's affairs are peaceful, and now the imperial court is in trouble with the Liukou and the Jin Dynasty, the high road of Xiyi Mountain is far from being feared, and Taiwan is a barren land like chicken ribs, it is useless to abandon it, but now the primary thing is to exterminate the Liukou, and the minister thinks that the matter of rebuilding the water division can be postponed, and he only needs to reward Zheng Zhilong for relieving his heart immediately!" Qian Shisheng also persuaded like this.
Yang Su was expressionless, neither denied nor agreed, but looked at Xungui present and saw that no one objected, and couldn't help but feel even more disappointed, after the defeat of Tumubao, Xungui was broken his backbone!
The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which originally commanded the army of the world, had long been vacant by the Ministry of War, but in this compromise, Yang Su clearly detected a trace of conspiracy, Zheng Zhilong's losses were not reported, but the entire army of the Guangdong Navy Division was wiped out and there was no survivor, but the ministers only said that Zheng Zhilong's merits were invisible, and he could become the governor of the same place if he killed a pirate, so it is no wonder that the status of the martial artist is low.
Although he was very disappointed with Xungui's reaction, Yang Su already had a plan in his heart, Zheng Zhilong had never been naturalized in the Ming Dynasty, and from the perspective of later generations, this person was just an opportunistic element, and the reward that Wen Tiren and others said to comfort his heart had no effect on Zheng Zhilong.
And Zheng Zhilong's intention to pacify the pirates was not for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty forbade the sea, and the imperial court could not receive a tael of silver from the sea, the pirates were actually the main targets of the maritime merchants in the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River, so some officials constantly suggested that the imperial court set up a naval division to defeat Xiyi and the pirates, and as soon as the pirates retreated from Xiyi, Wen Tiren and others in Taiwan suggested that they no longer form a naval division, but asked him to order a reward for Zheng Zhilong, the biggest pirate, which is not to treat Yang Su as a fool.
Yang Su, the general who used his life on the front line of the internal suppression of the Kou, did not reward him, but instead named a pirate as the governor of the capital, wouldn't that really chill the hearts of the soldiers, not to mention that Yang Su was already vigorously training the forbidden army and revitalizing the armament, the first step was to improve the status of the martial arts, and how could he be canonized as a senior military attache at will!