Emperor Sejong Jiajing Emperor Sejong was a "wise" monarch, when he was sixteen years old, he was just King Xing, Wuzong died, the edict called him the heir, he entered Beijing from the palace of An Luxing Wangfu, and when he arrived outside the city, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu asked the crown prince to enthrone the ceremony, Sejong immediately refused, insisting that the edict was only the heir of the emperor, not the heir of the prince, a sixteen-year-old youth, so resolute, it was indeed a British lord's move. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, at the end of Jiajing's twenty-fifth year, the emperor has begun to enter the twilight of his life, according to the modern people's point of view, he is still in the prime of life, he is only forty-one years old, but the emperor's age, and the average person is different, the lofty position, so that his life has lost the temptation to be motivated, so he began to feel tired, and then from the tiredness to feel tired, from the eighteenth year of Jiajing, the emperor has not looked at the court, twenty years later, he has been in the Xiyuan Wanshou Palace, even the palace does not go, all the government affairs, are in the middle of the follow and decadence.

But the emperor is still the emperor in the end, the emperor with a clear head is even more so, for the whole politics, Emperor Jiajing still holds the highest direction, will not relax at all, he is a tiger and leopard in the cave, when he is angry, he will jump out of the hole, kill some roe cats, deer and rabbits, and when he is tired of fighting, he still goes back to the cave and spends that rich and lazy life, this is a true portrayal of him over the years, and in the years that followed, he killed Xia Yan, killed Zeng Milling, killed Shen Lian, killed Yang Jisheng, killed Yan Shifan, all from this psychology.

But as everyone understands, the emperor is the emperor in the end, the supreme of a country, and he is indeed tired after staying in such a position for a long time, but in the same way, his dignity and his face are also untouchable by others, not to mention Emperor Jiajing, an emperor with an extremely strong personality, does not allow his majesty to be violated, several invasions by the northern Mongols have made him extremely annoyed, and forcing the mutual market to make him angry.

Chinese emperors, except for a few strong personalities, most of them are the same, you can rob his land, kill his people, burn his cities, you can do it, but only one thing, you can't let him lose face, you let him have no face, he will do all his soldiers and horses, and come to crusade against you, especially Emperor Jiajing, an emperor who values face more than anything else, if you let him lose face, he must retaliate.

Limited to strength, limited to military strength, limited to financial resources, Emperor Jiajing was powerless to launch retaliation at the beginning, but this does not mean that his anger has not accumulated, the more powerless, the more the psychology of this strong emperor is a nest of fire, he cultivates and eats fast every day, but he is still an emperor, he is still the human monarch who holds the highest power, he is still a person, many times, his outburst only needs a fuse and a little spark.

Zeng Mo provided the fuse, and Xia Yan lit it, so Emperor Jiajing's anger was detonated, and the Son of Heaven was furious, ambushed millions of corpses, and bled for thousands of miles.

Xia Yan left Xiyuan with extreme excitement and excitement, and Emperor Jiajing's heart was also filled with a sense of pride, he felt that he had come to work this year, and he was about to touch the situation that he was extremely eager for in the past, he refused the Taoist priests' request to let him continue to cultivate, which was incredible in the past, he took off his robe, returned to his house, and asked Huang Jin to go to the treasury to find the information of Taizu's Northern Expedition and Chengzu's Northern Expedition, he wanted to study.

At the same time, the emperor ordered the Ministry of War, submitted Zeng Mill's recital to the Ministry of War, ordered the Ministry of War to study, and then put forward a practical strategy, calculating how much expenditure the court needs, whether it can support such a war, etc., and ordered the Ministry of Households to submit a report on the financial situation of the court in recent years.

From this day on, inside and outside the imperial court, rumors began to circulate that the emperor planned to send troops to fight somewhere, and when there was definite news from the military department, everyone finally knew that the emperor planned to use troops against the Hetao and take the Hetao back! For this reason, tens of thousands of elite soldiers will be dispatched to fight the Mongols!

Zheng Guang has been studying and preparing for exams with Xu Wei at home since that day, without asking about foreign affairs, but I don't know what kind of idea it is, the emperor ordered Huang Jin to send Zheng Guang daily necessities every few days, and at the same time, he will also send the Di Bao issued within the imperial court, that is, the newspaper about the direction of the imperial court's governance, which is equivalent to a condensed version of the People's Daily, which will publish some courtiers' memoranda from time to time, so that everyone can know the latest trends in the imperial court.

With Zheng Guang's identity and status, he was originally not qualified to understand the internal situation of the imperial court, but since the emperor ordered it, Huang Jin also implemented it meticulously, Zheng Guang also smiled, anyway, it was good to learn some of the latest news in the court, Xu Wei was envious and jealous after learning about it, and also asked to watch the Di newspaper together, Zheng Guang naturally agreed, and the two also expressed their opinions on some current political issues from time to time and learned from each other.

This morning, Zheng Guang and Xu Wei practiced boxing together and had breakfast, and after breakfast, Huang Jin sent someone to send something again, speaking of which, the emperor is also very generous, and the number of supplies and money sent to Zheng Guang is very large, even meat and vegetables are sent, Zheng Guang feels a little flattered, but since the emperor sent it, he will accept it, anyway, they probably don't care about this money, thank Huang Jin's cronies and little eunuchs who came to send things, Zheng Guang took the report back to the house and Xu Wei to see it together.

"Well, it seems that it has been quite stable recently, you have stabilized the south, and there is also a governor Zeng in the north, who has stabilized the north, and now there is not much time for the north and south to be stable at the same time, and it is estimated that the emperor can take a good rest recently." Xu Wei looked at a part of the newspaper and said with a smile.

Zheng Guang shook his head and said with a smile: "This is only temporary, whether it is the Mongols or the Japanese Kou, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, a temporary deterrence can only maintain a short period of stability, if you want to be stable for a long time, you must send troops to exterminate it, but we don't have this strength now, we can only wait, but we can't always sit and wait for others to fight us and then fight back, we also have to take the initiative to attack ourselves, and burn the war outside the country, this is the ...... Kindness? ”

Zheng Guang said, but his eyes swept a few words that were worth paying attention to, and he couldn't help but stop, looking at this part of the content intently, Xu Wei saw that Zheng Guang suddenly stopped, so he asked, "What's wrong?" What do you see? ”

Zheng Guang raised his head, stared at Xu Wei, frowned tightly, didn't speak, Xu Wei snatched the newspaper in Zheng Guang's hand, kept glancing, and finally glanced at a place where he also felt a little surprised: "Pingzhi, this is ...... Could you please revert to the river loop? The governor of Shaanxi, Zeng Milling...... Isn't that the governor who won the battle? I heard that he is very powerful, not only is he born as a jinshi, but also has a military strategy and can fight, I really can't imagine that he actually wants to send troops to recover the Hetao?! ”

Zheng Guang's point of concern is completely different from Xu Wei's admiration, he suddenly remembered a very famous unjust case of the Ming Dynasty, because of this unjust case, two courtiers who did their best for the country and the people were unjustly killed, maybe an opportunity to change the history of the Ming Dynasty was missed in vain, and Emperor Jiajing did not admit his mistake in the end, and it was not until the first year of Longqing that Emperor Longqing announced the rehabilitation of those two courtiers......

One is Xia Yan, and the other is Zeng Milling.

Two people that Zheng Guang respected.

Officials in this period, there are not many people who can make Zheng Guang respect, Xia Yan and Zeng Mo are the two leaders in this few, they jointly advocated the containment of Mongolia, and even embarked on the strategy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to fight the Xiongnu, which is a truly effective strategy, the Hetao area was in the hands of the Ming army, which contributed to the Northern Expedition of Taizu and the Northern Expedition of Chengzu, and then the strength of the Ming army gradually weakened, the Hetao was captured, controlled by the Mongols, and used this as a springboard, the Mongols repeatedly attacked, came and went freely, and the Ming army was exhausted and miserable.

There are no people who intend to recover the Hetao in the courtiers of the past dynasties, and some people proposed to restore the Hetao during the Hongzhi period of Emperor Xiaozong, so as to curb Mongolia, and Yang Yiqing also advocated the restoration of the Hetao during the Wuzong period, and used it as a springboard to curb the Mongols and further northern expedition to Mongolia, but they were all shelved for such and such reasons, and in this dynasty, it was brought up again, and was implemented by the famous trilateral governor, and was supported by the first assistant of the dynasty, and the situation was very good.

Yes, it is under such a good situation, but there is a strong murderous intention, Emperor Jiajing was originally in favor of recovering the Hetao, and even vigorously agreed, and even dismissed the three governors who did not support this move, and also allocated a special fund of 200,000 taels of silver to Zeng Milling to use, constantly praising Zeng Milling, which is enough to prove that the emperor was very supportive of this military operation at the beginning, but one day, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the emperor suddenly issued an edict questioning this military action, and directly issued an edict to reprimand Zeng Milling......

The deaths of Xia Yan and Zeng Mo were unjust cases made up by Yan Song, but what Zheng Guang wanted to know more was what was the trigger that prompted Emperor Jiajing to change his original intentions and even began to oppose his original decision.

This is a military operation that he himself strongly supported and prepared for this before!

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