Chapter 243: The Night Banquet (Part I)
The Emperor of the Apocalypse took Zhu Youcheng's hand and came to the Jinluan Palace, and said to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty: "Everyone, since Emperor Shenzongxian, the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu have fought several times, and they will be defeated in each battle. £∝ top novel, God bless the Ming Dynasty, sent a young talent, and actually wiped out 40,000 Jiannu. ”
The hundreds of officials in the audience exchanged heads. The news of the victory of the Ming Dynasty had already reached the capital, and they didn't believe it, but when the carriage carrying the head drove into Beijing, they saw it really true. The soldiers counted outside the city for a day and a night, and counted 29,873 heads, all of them with dark scalps, and they were obviously real slaves. Now the head of Jiannu has been built ten miles outside the capital to form a Jingguan to deter traitors who want to rebel and cause chaos.
Li Chunye, the secretary of the military department, was very clever, took the lead in kneeling, and shouted: "God bless Daming!" ”
Baiguan also knelt down and shouted, "God bless Daming! ”
After everyone shouted, the atmosphere in the court suddenly became lively.
The emperor's feast is a separate meal system - nonsense, who dares to sit on an equal footing with the emperor, if they eat together, then the hundred officials will have to eat on their knees. The chamberlains had already filled the Jinluan Hall with small tables and stools. However, no matter how big the Jinluan Hall is, it can't fit so many chairs, so there are also tables and chairs outside the Golden Palace, which is where officials below the fifth rank sit. To be honest, it was still quite cold in Beijing in early spring, but the officials were still happy to sit outside. This is a feast from the emperor, and it is a major event that can be written into the family tree. No matter how big the official is, he may not be able to eat the emperor's feast, which has to be lucky. The head of the six departments in Nanjing, the local feudal official, is not big? Can you eat the dinner rewarded by the emperor?
Zhu Youcheng's position was arranged next to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, which was originally the position of the first assistant to the cabinet, but the hundred officials did not dare to object. They expected that the emperor would have a sentence to gag them: "Want to sit here?" Yes, you can also go and cut down 40,000 slaves. ”
40,000 Jiannu, not 40,000 pigs, not 40,000 cabbage. Is that something that can be cut casually? Not to mention cutting 40,000 Jiannu, even if you cut 400 or 40 Jiannu, it will cost your own life.
The chamberlains brought dishes to the ministers' small tables one by one. However, although the dishes of the monarchs and ministers are the same, there are actually differences. The dishes of the emperor and Zhu Youcheng are fried in a small pot. The greens were green and green, as if they had just been plucked from the vegetable patch, and the ministers' vegetables were boiled in a cauldron. The leaves are yellow.
Although there are differences in the dishes of Junchen, everyone drinks happily. Jiannu lost 40,000 elite soldiers, which made the ministers feel that the Ming Dynasty was about to rise, and they couldn't help but smile.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Wang Yongguang, the secretary of the military department, raised his glass and stood up, and congratulated the Emperor of the Apocalypse loudly: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty is fortunate to have this battle of Ningyuan Juehua Island." There were two famous generals. ”
The book of the military department? Yes, Wang Yongguang is also the secretary of the Ministry of War. According to the system, there should be only one of the six ministers, Shangshu, but during the Apocalypse, the government was chaotic, and in order to appease the forces of various factions, in addition to the eunuch party who installed Shangshu in the six departments, other parties also installed Shangshu in the six departments. This is what history says, "Shangshu walks all over the ground". However, the responsibility is not all on Wei Zhongxian, but the result of the joint action of all forces. Because the Donglin Party fell ahead of schedule. So the number of Shangshu has decreased a lot.
The Emperor of the Apocalypse was stunned, in this war, the biggest credit was his younger brother Zhu Youcheng, why did he have another famous general?
He couldn't help asking, "Aiqing, which two famous generals are they?" ”
"The first one, of course, is the former Jinyi Wei Xi Zhen Fu Si Zhen Fu Envoy, and now the Jinyi Wei commander Tong Zhi Zhu Youcheng Zhu. He led 5,000 Jinyi guards to defend Juehua Island. It is really admirable to destroy the 50,000-strong army of Jiannu, behead nearly 30,000 people, and kill 40,000 enemy troops. ”
With a "pop", the wine glass in Zhu Youcheng's hand was crushed raw. What does it mean to claim to kill 40,000 enemies, is there no head, is it to brag about yourself? Send you into the field, can you guarantee to get back the heads of every dead man? The Emperor of the Apocalypse was also a little unhappy, 30,000 heads were placed here, and the corpse of Jiannu who had not been cut off must be indispensable, not to mention killing 40,000, even if it was about killing 60,000 Jiannu, everyone would believe it. Zhu Youcheng is a real person, he said that if he killed 40,000, that is 40,000, what else is the claim, you like to brag and lie as much as you do.
Wang Yongguang continued: "Another famous general is Yuan Chonghuan, who sticks to the lonely city. He defended alone, defended, and stubbornly defended Ningyuan City, beat Nuer Haqi to the ground, beheaded 269 levels, and killed more than 10,000 enemy soldiers. Especially in the early morning of January 28, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan ordered Zu Dashou to lead 10,000 soldiers down the city, sneak attack the Jiannu camp located outside Ningyuan City, and annihilate 5,000 Jiannu soldiers. It was precisely because Yuan Chonghuan adhered to Ningyuan and strongly supported the battlefield of Juehua Island that Ning Jue won a great victory. ”
The officials once again exchanged heads, whether it was the eunuch party or other forces, they all admired Yuan Chonghuan so much.
The eunuch party admired Yuan Chonghuan for daring to say anything, but he dared to boast of killing 10,000 enemies even though he only had 269 heads, according to his logic, then Zhu Youcheng could not say that he wiped out the entire Jiannu clan, and Jiannu has become a historical term?
And the other officials nodded in admiration, this is the white jade pillar of the Ming Dynasty, the purple and golden beam of the sea. Although Zhu Youcheng has successfully blended into the civil official system and become a scholar of Longtuge University, his military position is Jinyiwei, which belongs to the emperor's lackeys and is the natural enemy of civil officials. What's even more annoying is that he actually hooked up with the eunuchs, and I heard that he was also related to the eunuch leader - Wei Zhongxian, the dead eunuch, so the civil system did not recognize Zhu Youcheng very much.
Not all civil officials do not support Zhu Youcheng, at least the officials who came out of the Daming School of Administration are all supporters of Zhu Youcheng, but unfortunately those officials have just entered the officialdom, and the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion is too low, and most of them are only qualified to eat outside the palace. Even if he stood up and cheered for Zhu Youcheng, it would not affect the situation in the court.
Wang Yongguang's words finally reminded the Emperor of the Apocalypse of Yuan Chonghuan, who made bold words before the war.
In fact, in history, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was only blinded by Yuan Chonghuan for a while, and then came to his senses. After Ningyuan's victory, Emperor Tianqi only promoted Yuan Chonghuan to the governor of Liaodong, which sounds like a big official, but there are not many places in the whole territory of Liaodong that belong to the Ming Dynasty; And the reward is even more funny, only a mere thirty taels of silver, which does not match his claim to have killed more than 10,000 Jiannu. Of course, this is not the Emperor of the Apocalypse being stingy, the annual salary of three or four million taels has been allocated, do you still care about the small reward? This proves that the Emperor of the Apocalypse knew that Yuan Chonghuan lied about his military exploits, and used the reward to wake up Yuan Chonghuan, so that he could be down-to-earth and ask for merit according to the truth.
And a year later, Ning Jin's victory, after he declared victory, directly sent him home to eat old rice.
Some people think that this is Wei Zhongxian making trouble behind his back, but in fact, it is not like that at all. Wei Zhongxian himself still admires Yuan Chonghuan very much, because in October of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan praised Gonggong Wei, and in April of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he built a shrine for Gonggong Wei. How can such sycophants not be liked? It's just that Lord Yuan's sycophant kung fu is very good, but his fighting skills are commonplace, and he likes to turn defeat into victory, which finally angered the Emperor of the Apocalypse. He used Wei Zhongxian's knife to cut off Yuan Chonghuan's career, and he also had a good reputation. (To be continued......)
ps: (Thank you for stealing the monthly pass of Caida, Qiuni, and Blue Time and Space.) Write hard, ask for subscriptions, recommendations, and monthly passes. The second update arrived, and it seems that the author's state has recovered again. )