Xiao Mu and Lin Yi can see Yuan Chonghuan's face more clearly, undoubtedly as they imagined, it is the appearance of a typical positive character in a movie or TV series - in fact, the time and space of the Ming Dynasty still has very strict requirements for the appearance of officials, so not only Yuan Chonghuan, the ministers that Xiao Mu usually comes into contact with, but in terms of appearance, almost every one of them is a positive image of "thick eyebrows and big eyes". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yuan Chonghuan obviously couldn't know that the emperor and queen of the Ming Dynasty were looking at him carefully, as a courtier, at this time, he was kneeling three times and bowing nine times, and it was impossible for him to have the courage and opportunity to raise his head and see the face of the sky.

It may be because the reaction is slow due to the cold that has not healed, or it may be because he is too attentive to look at this famous historical figure, in short, by the time Xiao Mu remembered to avoid Yuan Chonghuan's red tape, he had already finished the three kneeling and nine bowing ceremony. But fortunately, when a normal courtier sees the emperor, it is natural to perform this big gift, so although Xiao Mu may feel that he is a little abnormal in his heart, for other people, there is nothing wrong with the scene.

So Xiao Mu had no choice but to swallow back the "no need to be polite" that he had been accustomed to, and finally said two sentences in a row, "Aiqing is flat", "Come on, give a seat" - giving Yuan Chonghuan a seat to sit on, which can be regarded as compensating for the great gift he just made to himself. Of course, in fact, Xiao Mu originally wanted to prepare a seat for Yuan Chonghuan, and except for Xiao Mu himself, no one would think that Yuan Chonghuan needed to be compensated by the emperor.

Wang Chengen moved a seat for Yuan Chonghuan to sit down, and then the atmosphere was almost brewing, and Xiao Mu felt that he could start talking about business. But before that, he still withdrew the other eunuchs and palace maids and others first, after all, what he wanted to talk about next to Yuan Chonghuan was undoubtedly a military event, and it was obviously not a good thing to be heard by too many people, so there were only Xiao Mu, Lin Yi, Yuan Chonghuan, and finally Wang Chengen in the entire hall - although Lin Yi had always claimed to cultivate her newly obtained personal palace maid Chu'er to be a henchman like Wang Chengen, but after all, the time was still short, So the palace maid Chen Chuan obviously has not the qualifications to stay here to listen to the masters discuss national affairs, in fact, even her master, that is, Lin Yi, is essentially just an observer, if it weren't for the relationship between her and Xiao Mu as companions of the traverser, this kind of conversation between monarchs and ministers would definitely not have the participation of her, a harem figure.

"Aiqing has worked really hard all the way." Xiao Mu first said politely without any nutrition.

Then he changed back to Yuan Chonghuan's righteous answer, "To serve the king, the minister did not dare to speak hard." ”

"Ahem." Xiao Mu was choked by Yuan Chonghuan's answer, after all, he didn't seem to have had a serious conversation with such a serious person since he grew up, so Xiao Mu had to cough twice, and then asked, "My Ming Dynasty is in a critical autumn, especially the Liaodong Emperor Taiji against the imperial court, repeatedly provoked wars, and now he is sending troops to attack the Mongolian Chahar Department, which has the intention of sweeping the grassland, which is really the trouble of my Ming henchmen. ”

"Back to the emperor, Liaodong Jiannu has rebelled year after year since Nurhachi, killing millions of people in my Ming Dynasty, although the ministers are ruined, they will also recover the whole Liao for the emperor." Yuan Chonghuan replied with righteous words, and then, Xiao Mu heard the famous promise in history - "Your Majesty, within five years, the ministers will be able to recover the whole of Liao!" ”

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After about an hour, Yuan Chonghuan finally solemnly bowed to Xiao Mu again, and then left under the leadership of Wang Chengen, this time Xiao Mu still forgot to dispense with his red tape, because although an hour had passed, Xiao Mu still did not fully recover from Yuan Chonghuan's five-year Pingliao shock.

It wasn't until Yuan Chonghuan had been away for a long time that Lin Yi finally broke the peace in the hall, "It turns out that Yuan Chonghuan's 'Five Years of Pingliao' in history is true. ”

"Yes, but only the two of us know that in the end, he was not able to recover Liaodong within five years." Xiao Mu also said with a solemn face.

"Moreover, Yuan Chonghuan was also killed by you, no, it was the original owner of your body who killed him." Lin Yi continued to add.

"I just heard Yuan Chonghuan talk about his Pingliao strategy and opinions, it does sound very reasonable, no matter what, Yuan Chonghuan must still have real talent and real learning." Xiao Mu still said solemnly.

"Yes, uniting Mongolia, reorganizing the army, and fortifying the city with huge cannons are all the right way." Lin Yi took Xiao Mu's words again, "Even if it is you, you know how to maintain fair trade with the Mongols, and these strategies proposed by Yuan Chonghuan are naturally not a problem." ”

"Then why didn't he be able to achieve five years of Pingliao in the end, but was killed by Emperor Chongzhen?" Xiao Mu finally asked the most important question, which he and Lin Yi both wanted to know, but couldn't know - at least judging from today's performance, Xiao Mu couldn't imagine that he would one day kill this minister who was full of righteousness and promised him that he would recover Liaodong, but at the same time, he couldn't imagine that the original historical Emperor Chongzhen was an innocent and unscrupulous monarch, so what happened to evolve into the result of history? Xiao Mu felt a headache.

Xiao Mu's question Lin Ye obviously had no way to give an answer, "Now that we already know that Yuan Chonghuan failed to achieve the goal of five years of Pingliao, have you considered replacing him with someone else?" ”

"Replace Yuan Chonghuan?" Xiao Mu groaned, as if he was asking Lin Yi and himself, "The key problem is that only the two of us know that Yuan Chonghuan did not succeed in the end and was killed, and all the others, including Yuan Chonghuan himself, would definitely not have imagined that there would be such a day, if I replace him, what reason should I use?" I don't want to say that because you're going to fail in the future, I'm going to replace you, right? ”

"If you say so, it will be no different from the Daoless Dusk King, you don't need to wash that, the court will definitely be in chaos again." Lin Yi helped Xiao Mu give the answer.

"And." Xiao Mu continued, "Even if I replace Yuan Chonghuan with someone else, then who can guarantee that this person will definitely be able to do better than Yuan Chonghuan? There's a concept in economics called 'opportunity cost,' and that's exactly what it means. ”