"Pilgrimage? I haven't been to any pilgrimages. I am a commander of the four martial arts battalions, that is, an instructor, what kind of court meeting do I attend? Zhu Youzhen was quite unhappy, he glanced at Zhou Yufeng, and said to her in his heart, I'll clean you up when I come back at night.

Zhou Yufeng is not as gloomy as him: "Your Highness, the court meeting is usually held in the morning, and now that a temporary court meeting is suddenly held in the afternoon, it must be a major event in the court, and His Royal Highness should prepare early." Zhou Yufeng waited for Zhu Youzhen to wash his face, and asked Wang Mujiu to bring some more soldiers of the special combat team. She knew that soldiers were not allowed to enter the palace, but she still didn't feel at ease, even if the soldiers were waiting outside the palace gate.

"Hmm." Zhu Youzhen couldn't think of anything big happening, it seems that there is still a lack of institutions like Jinyiwei around him. At all times, it is important to have first-hand information.

Zhu Youzhen took Wang Mujiu and his entourage, trotted all the way to the imperial city, and stopped in front of the palace gate, where Wang Mujiu and the soldiers were waiting outside the palace gate. Zhu Youzhen walked alone, passed through the noon gate, and then passed through the Taihe Gate and entered the Taiji Hall.

In the Taiji Palace, there were already more than 20 courtiers, because the number was not large, the emperor gave everyone a seat, Zhu Youzhen was the last to arrive, and the little eunuch also brought him a chair, and sat down at the end.

Zhu Youzhen secretly looked at it and found that all the ministers and heads of various ministries were the cabinet auxiliary ministers, and Zhu Youzhen also knew some of them, but most of them had no friendship, and the one who was most familiar with him was Li Chunye of the Ministry of War.

Zhu Youxiao sat on the dragon chair with a serious expression, not knowing if it would affect his personal hobbies. Wei Zhongxian stood behind Zhu Youxiao's side, holding Buddha dust, his eyebrows lowered and his eyes were pleasing to the eyes, looking wise and foolish. Zhu Youxiao first glanced at the ministers with his eyes, and then began to speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, the temporary convening of the court meeting is a major event in the northwest. Cui Aiqing, you will read Cao Aiqing's recital. ”

"Obey." Cui Chengxiu got up from his seat, took the recital handed over by the eunuch, and read it aloud:

"Your Majesty, the minister Cao Erzhen, has been armed many times in recent days, crossing the Yellow River eastward, and harassing the prefecture and county. The ministers investigated, all of them were bandits in Shaanxi, and today they found out:

"In June of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Wang Er, a farmer in Baishui County, Shaanxi, led the local people to kill Zhang Douyao in public and rebelled; In October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Wang Jiayin, Wang Daliang, Gao Yingxiang and Wang Zuogua of Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, led the nearby peasants to rebel. Soldiers from the various guards also responded. At present, there are no less than 200,000 bandit troops in Shaanxi, most of the prefectures and counties in northwest Shaanxi are occupied by bandits, Weinan in the southeast is also occupied by bandits, and Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi, is also under the threat of bandits. ”

"The minister patrols Shanxi, and there is no advantage in patrolling Shaanxi, but the bandits have repeatedly attacked Shanxi Prefecture and County, and it is a great rebellion in the world to rebel. Therefore, the ministers did not dare to conceal it, and begged His Majesty to forgive the crime of overstepping their duties. ”

"Peasant uprising?" Zhu Youzhen was shocked, this is the Ming Dynasty's amulet. He had always had no good feelings about the peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty. The reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, in the final analysis, in addition to the corruption in the late Ming Dynasty, the peasant uprising objectively also consumed the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, making the Ming Dynasty fight on two fronts.

When the city of Beijing was broken, there was still the strongest army guarding the Shanhaiguan, so that Jiannu could not cross the Great Wall one step. When the Ming Dynasty fell, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not enter the customs, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and the real culprit was the peasant rebel army.

"Zhong Aiqing, tell me what you think." Zhu Youxiao's face was expressionless, and his body moved slightly.

"Your Majesty, since the bandits in Shaanxi have reached 200,000, why don't you see the Shaanxi Governor Hu Tingyan's report?" Dong Kecheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, first made his own questions.

"Your Majesty, the officials have not seen a letter from Shaanxi for three months. The minister also felt strange, and someone had already asked Shaanxi to investigate, and there should be a reply in the near future. The words of Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry, made the ministers feel cold in their hearts. The governors of the provinces, whether they have anything to do or not, will play once a month to report peace. Shaanxi did not have a messenger to Beijing in March, and the bandits were afraid that the trouble would not be light. So everyone no longer dwelled on the problem of bandits, but the problem of how to solve them.

"Shaanxi is an important frontier area, and there are Tatars in the north. Once the Shaanxi bandits collude with the Tatars outside the Guan, Shaanxi will be in danger. I ask Your Majesty to quickly send heavy troops to encircle and suppress it. Xue Fengxiang, another Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, is one of the few Donglin Party in the court, and has gradually become the leader of the Donglin Party. If the imperial court sends troops to rescue Shaanxi, it will be a good opportunity for the Donglin Party to seize power.

"Your Majesty, there are many mountains in Shaanxi, and there is the Yellow River to block it, so it is really difficult to mobilize heavy troops." Xu Zhaokui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, immediately objected, since Xue Fengxiang made a move, he had no reason not to accept it.

"Lord Xu, do you want to let the bandits cause trouble in Shaanxi? Do you want Shaanxi? Wang Yongguang, another secretary of the military department, is also a member of the Donglin Party, and he understands what Xue Fengxiang means, and this is indeed an opportunity for the party. If the imperial court sends troops to Shaanxi, it will inevitably use the military generals of the Donglin Party.

"Lord Wang, there are more than 300,000 government soldiers and soldiers in the four towns of Guyuan, Yansui, Ningxia and Gansu in the important border areas of Shaanxi, why don't you transfer the Shaanxi army, but you have to go near and seek far?" Xu Zhaokui is a well-known impatient, he doesn't need support, it seems that he wants to single-handedly challenge the Donglin Party.

"If the 300,000 soldiers in Shaanxi are still there, how can the bandits wantonly raid the entire territory of Shaanxi? Didn't Lord Xu hear the recital of Cao Erzhen, the governor of Shanxi? Soldiers from various guards in Shaanxi responded one after another. "Hubu Shangshu, Donglin Party member Li Qiyuan is not in a hurry, he wants to use wheel warfare to solve the eunuch vanguard Xu Zhaokui first.

Xu Zhaokui is not such an easy person to admit defeat: "Cao Erzhen is far away in Shanxi, and his words cannot be fully believed." Besides, if you want to mobilize heavy troops to Shaanxi, you will inevitably spend a lot of money and food. ”

"Lord Xu, although the household department currently has a small amount of money and food, it is a military salary for Liaodong, and it is impossible to move." Guo Yunhou, another Shangshu in the household department, is also a eunuch, Xu Zhaokui asked for help, of course he couldn't ignore it.

"I wonder if Master Li has a private stockpile?" With Guo Yunhou's help, Xu Zhaokui became even more energetic, he opened his big mouth and laughed at Li Qiyuan proudly, completely forgetting that Shaanxi's military situation was like fire.

"Although the household department only has Liaodong's military salary, there is no war in Liaodong now, and Jiannu has already returned to Shenyang, so it can be temporarily paid to the army that conquered Shaanxi, and it will be replenished after next year's spring harvest." Li Qiyuan is also the secretary of the household department, and he is also very clear about the household department's family background and the operation method of the household department to tear down the east wall and repair the west wall.

"Your Majesty, on the front line of Liaodong, Jiannu is eyeing the tiger, how can it be child's play?" Xu Zhaokui sent rescue troops to the emperor again.

"Lord Xu is in charge of the Criminal Department, and he is not clear about the affairs of the Household Department and the Military Department. Let me ask Lord Xu, the household department is in arrears a lot now, which army is not in arrears, and Liaodong is in arrears? "Li Qiyuan has never taken Xu Zhaokui in his eyes, if he hadn't worshiped Wei Gelding as his father, which would it be his turn to be the secretary of the Criminal Department?

Xu Zhaokui was speechless for a while, his face turned red, but his eyes were extremely wide, as if he could kill Li Qiyuan with his gaze. "Ahem, ahem." Wei Zhongxian wasted no time in coughing, still bowing his eyebrows and looking like a little daughter-in-law.

"Master Li, even if you have money and food, where can you transfer the army? There are more than 200,000 bandits. "Gu Bingqian, the first assistant of the cabinet, has stepped out. Xu Zhaokui was defeated, and Wei Zhongxian was already very dissatisfied. Although he has always been a silent first assistant, but today Xu Zhaokui failed to single out the Donglin Party and did not get help, so he had to reluctantly make it difficult.

"There are more than 300,000 troops in the Beijing Division, and some of the Beijing Division's troops can be transferred as the leader, and the troops from Huguang, Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong can be used as supplements." Wang Yongguang is the secretary of the military department, and he naturally knows the layout of the army well.

Gu Bingqian, the first assistant who usually remained silent, went into battle shirtless, and the other eunuch members naturally did not dare to lag behind, and spoke out one after another in support of Xu Zhaokui, opposed the transfer of troops to Shanxi, and advocated the use of local soldiers to pacify. The Donglin Party is inferior to the eunuch party in terms of numbers, but the Donglin Party holds justice in their hands, serves the country and the people, and says that the heavens and the earth are frightened and the ghosts and gods are crying.

No one can convince anyone, and the argument in the court has entered a white heat, and both sides are about to strip and perform Lost Trace Boxing.

Zhu Youxiao frowned, he was not interested in the argument, nor was he interested in the result. He hoped that someone would go to Shaanxi as soon as possible to solve the peasant rebellion in Shaanxi, so that he could leave the court and return to his own part of the world.

Li Chunye saw that the two sides were entangled endlessly, and they couldn't win or lose at all, but the bandits in Shaanxi didn't wait for anyone. But he is only one of the many Shangshu, and on such an occasion, people are soft-spoken and can't help but be anxious. Just as Zhu Youxiao raised his distracted eyes and saw Li Chunye, Li Chunye had an idea and tilted his head to look at Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youxiao immediately understood that Zhu Youzhen was summoned by his own command, and he still hasn't said a word.

"Zhong Aiqing, I know that you are all worried about me." Zhu Youxiao's voice was low, and all the arguments immediately stopped, as if there was a power outage while watching TV. "But until now, the jury has not yet been determined, and I will listen to the king to tell him what he thinks."

Zhu Youzhen stood up from the back row, he knew that he couldn't dodge. However, after listening to the quarrel between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party until now, he already has a general understanding of the peasant uprising in Shaanxi.

"Brother Binghuang, whether the bandits in Shaanxi are to be coaxed or suppressed, we have to look at the reason first. Why did the peasants of Shaanxi rise up in rebellion at the risk of killing their heads, raiding their homes, and exterminating their clans? "To unify the views of the two parties, we must see more deeply, more thoroughly, and farther than they do. After he threw this question, the audience fell silent.

Just now, the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party were patronizing and quarreling, opposing each other's opinions, and erasing each other's political attempts, and they did not think about it from the perspective of the chaotic people at all. Even Wei Zhongxian, who was listening on the side, only hoped that his people could win this controversy, thus hitting the prestige of the Donglin Party in front of the emperor, as for why the peasants rebelled, it was not something he thought, he was just a eunuch.

"According to my brother's knowledge, the peasants in Shaanxi rebelled because of a major drought in the local area, the farmer did not harvest, and the peasants had no grain and changed their children to eat. If you don't resist, you will definitely die, and if you resist, you can live at least temporarily. Unless the imperial court has a large amount of food for disaster relief, pacification is just an empty word. "It is impossible for the imperial court to have a large amount of grain for disaster relief, and even the military rations are in arrears, which shows that the imperial court is exhausted.

The exhausted imperial court forced officials everywhere to collect heavy taxes. In fact, the fuse # of the Shaanxi peasant uprising was caused by Zhang Douyao, the magistrate of the county, who forcibly levied rent in order to complete the tax tasks issued by the imperial court when the peasants did not even have food rations.

"Moreover, now that most of Shaanxi is occupied by bandits, the bandit army has grown to more than 200,000, and the opportunity to pacify them has been lost, and the method of disaster relief is no longer feasible. Let's ask, who is in charge of Shaanxi now? Who will distribute the food for disaster relief? ”