As the saying goes, the boss is very angry, and the consequences are very serious, and all the ministers are now terrified when they see Chongzhen slapping the table, and they all fall to the ground and say in unison: "The ministers deserve death, please punish the emperor!" ”

"Ha deserves death?" Chongzhen sneered: "I don't want you to die 10,000 times, one death is enough, now I ask one last time, which of you is willing to go to North Korea, Pang Gang will bring it back!" ”

There was silence in the Golden Luang Palace.

Seeing that the ministers were silent, Chongzhen's heart slowly became cold, he stepped off the dragon chair, slowly paced in front of Qian Qianyi and whispered: "Qian Aiqing, this recital is yours, how about you go to North Korea to announce the decree for me?" ”

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but tremble all over his body after hearing Chongzhen's words, beads of sweat from his forehead, and he trembled and said, "Your Majesty, your ministers"

"You can't tell, can you? You don't dare because you're afraid of death! Chongzhen said in a gloomy voice: "Wasn't you quite energetic when you impeached Pang Gang just now?" Why don't you make a noise now? ”

Qian Qianyi's face at this time was about to stick to the ground at this time, and he held it for a long time before he said: "The minister is a minister, and it is not something that a minister can do to relieve a military general with a heavy army!" ”

"Okay!" Chongzhen looked up to the sky and laughed: "You are all the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, I can't imagine that no one is willing to go even to announce a will now, my Ming Dynasty is really talented!" ”

Chongzhen's words were full of sarcasm, and the civil and military officials were so ashamed that their faces were flushed, but no one dared to take this errand, and everyone comforted themselves in their hearts: "We are civil officials, and fighting and killing is something that only rude martial artists do." ”

After a long time, Chen Xinjia held back a sentence: "Your Majesty, I think that Pang Gang's family members are all in Qingzhou, so we might as well send someone to bring his family members to live in the capital, and then send someone to North Korea to inform him that he will inevitably return to the capital with his hands tied." ”

Everyone gasped when they heard this, this guy's heart is really poisonous, and he uses other people's families to coerce people back.

"Your Majesty, this matter must not be done!" Yang Sichang shouted and walked out of the column and said loudly: "Your Majesty, this matter must not be allowed, if you send someone to bring Pang Gang's family, not to mention whether you can bring people in Qingzhou, and secondly, even if you can bring people in, I am afraid that bringing people is when Pang Gang rebelled!" ”

"Boom"

Yang Sichang's words were like a thunderbolt that scorched everyone in the hall and poured out a topic that no one was willing to mention before. He revealed such a meaning in and out of his words, if Pang Gang is forced to rebel, which of you can afford this responsibility? Now is not the meeting of Taizu in the early Ming Dynasty, and the emperor's holy decree can make the commander with hundreds of thousands of heavy troops obediently return to Beijing to die. Now it is a popular era when whoever has the big fist has the right to speak, and whoever has more soldiers has a reason.

Yang Sichang continued: "I heard that Pang Gang collected the displaced people in Qingzhou, reclaimed the wasteland, and had nearly 10,000 troops. Now that Shaanxi, Henan, and Sichuan are already in the world of rogues, if Shandong is also in chaos, who of you can clean up this mess? ”

Yang Sichang can be regarded as saving some face for Chen Xinjia. didn't directly reprimand him, but everyone understood the meaning of his words, and this Pang Gang couldn't move.

After Yang Sichang finished speaking, he turned his head to Wen Tiren, "Elder Wen Ge, what do you think?" ”

Wen Tiren was silent for a long time before nodding silently and said: "What Lord Yang said makes sense, it is really not appropriate to anger Pang Gang at this time, otherwise even if the imperial court can arrest him back to the capital, it will inevitably chill the soldiers of the Nine Sides, and the soldiers will be in danger under the detachment of morality!" ”

Chongzhen also fell silent when he saw that Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang, two people who had never dealt with him much, opposed the arrest of Pang Gang at the same time.

"That's it!" Chongzhen shook his head in disappointment and walked back slowly, several little eunuchs hurriedly followed him, and one of them raised his voice and shouted: "Retreat!" ”

The ministers hurriedly lay down again: "The ministers send the emperor!" ”

Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang glanced at each other, and both of them arched their hands without smiling, and then strode out of the hall.

After Chongzhen returned to Kunning Palace, he was still angry, and kept scolding in his mouth: "These wastes who are greedy for life and afraid of death, they can't even do this little thing, what's the use of leaving you!" ”

Empress Zhou, who came in a hurry, saw Chongzhen so angry, and asked in surprise: "Your Majesty, why are you so angry?" ”

"It's not those rebellious ministers and thieves, who are the officials I reward, who hold my hair, but don't do things for me, what's the use of such stupid people?"

It was not easy for Empress Zhou to figure out what was going on from the angry Chongzhen's mouth, and said with a light sigh: "Your Majesty, let's not care whether General Dingyuan is guilty of sending troops to North Korea without permission, let's first say that North Korea is our subject country, they have asked us for help several times over the years, which time have we ignored them, and now General Pang finally went to the aid of North Korea, but why did the ministers of the court shout and kill, is it so evil for us to go to the heavenly kingdom to go to the vassal state of the following Fanbang?" I'm afraid that those people are not all in the public heart, right?

A hint of cyan appeared on Chongzhen's face: "Hmph, Gongxin, I will be thankful that what they have done can have three public hearts, but what makes me unbearable is that they are all out of selfish interests!" ”

Empress Zhou opened her cherry mouth and asked puzzledly, "Then why does the emperor still punish that Pang Gang?" ”

Chongzhen said angrily: "Shouldn't he be blamed for sending troops without going through the military department and me?" If everyone were as lawless as he was, wouldn't the world be in chaos. ”

Empress Zhou asked leisurely: "Can the emperor punish him now?" ”

"This"

Chongzhen, who was hit in the death hole, was speechless like a deflated ball, and Mu Ran sat on the round bench and bowed his head and was silent.

Seeing her husband's decadent appearance, Queen Zhou was also distressed, Lianbu walked to her husband's side gently, and gently stroked her husband's forehead with her jade hand and said softly: "Your Majesty, the ancients said: Governing the country is like cooking a small fresh." You can't worry about everything, Yichen Concubine saw that Pang had just sent troops to North Korea, these years the Tartars have been so arrogant, they regard our Daming as their garden, and they can come and leave as soon as they want. Now it is good for General Pang to teach them a lesson, so that they dare not underestimate me. If you want to do everything........"

Chongzhen, who was originally full of anger, finally felt much better under the comfort of the queen, he grabbed Queen Zhou's little hand and sighed: "Zitong, you will still be relieved, okay, don't talk about it, let's go to dinner, Cijiong and Yu Jiao are probably in a hurry!" ”

Queen Zhou smiled, although he was already the mother of two children, but a charming style of a mature beauty could not be concealed, she took her husband's hand and the two of them walked back

Late at night, in a courtyard in the Lion Hutong in the inner city of Yanjing, there is a room with the lights still on, and Qian Qianyi, who was collectively slapped in the face by Emperor Chongzhen and Wen Tiren and others, is sitting on the Taishi chair with a dark face, and next to him is sitting a young man in white, this man is not a bystander, it is Yan Zheng, the grandson of Yan Benge, the largest salt merchant in Hangzhou City, who came from Zhejiang.

Yan Zheng's white face was also cloudy at the moment, and he said with a calm face: "Lord Qian, can't you really bring down the person surnamed Pang?" ”

Qian Qianyi said impatiently: "How to move?" Now that the surnamed Pang has a heavy army, and the person is far away in North Korea, the ministers of the DPRK and China are afraid of angering this person, if he rebels in anger, who will bear this responsibility? Is it you or me? ”

Yan Zheng said disdainfully: "Rebellion? Does he have the guts? Even if he rebelled, wouldn't it be right for the imperial court to raise a large army to exterminate him! ”

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but roll his eyes, this Yan Gongzi is really a superb, I really don't know how Yan Benge taught him, a belly of scholarly spirit. Not to mention that Pang Gang's soldiers and horses are all elite, even if the thieves and those rogue court have not been wiped out for more than ten years, not to mention that Pang Gang also owns Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou, which really angered him, and people took refuge in Tartar in a fit of anger, so the court was even more passive.

It's useless to talk about these things to this industrious son, and it's better to talk to him about these things than to play the piano to the cow.

However, the connection between the Donglin Party and the rich gentry in Jiangnan is too close, Qian Qianyi thought about it and decided to warn this son, he said with a straight face: "Yan Gongzi, after you go back, you have to tell Ling Zun that Pang Gang has already fledged and has a heavy army, and the court is not easy to move him, so he needs to be slowly figured out." Now the ministers in the court are also very disagreeing, especially Wen Ge Lao, who is quite protective, and this matter is really difficult to handle. ”

Although Yan Zheng is arrogant, he also knows that the affairs of the imperial court are very complicated and difficult to handle, especially when the interests of all parties are involved, it can make people have a headache and want to hit the wall. Therefore, although he was very unwilling, he still nodded, "Okay, but since Wansheng has come to the capital, he can't go back empty-handed, right?" ”

Qian Qianyi thought for a while and said: "Then let's do it, since the illegal salt in Qingzhou is now wantonly encroaching on the market in Jiangnan and Zhejiang, then this official can ask the imperial court to reprimand Pang Gang for such illegal behavior, and let them restrain a little, what do you think?" ”

"That's all there is to it." Although Yan Zheng was unwilling, he also knew that this was already the limit of what Qian Qianyi could do, so he had to nod unwillingly, but he was also ruthless in his heart, and he would definitely make that reckless martial artist look good if he had the opportunity in the future.

(To be continued)