Yang Sichang's mention was vetoed by the emperor, Fu Zonglong asked to resign from the Ministry of War, and Zhu Youzhen nodded and agreed, and concurrently served as his post. It can be seen that Yang Sichang's holy family is still there, or it shows that the emperor has the idea of negotiating peace with the Tartars, but because of the raging discussions, he is unable to express his support for it clearly, and this kind of appointment may still be a tactful comfort to Yang Sichang.

There is also a question in Li Xinxin, even if the emperor appreciates him again, there is no need to specially call him to participate in this kind of cabinet minister-level meeting. Therefore, he privately speculated that the emperor must have appointed him another person.

Sure enough, after Zhu Youzhen exhorted Yang Sichang, he set his sights on Li Xin again.

"General Li's heart for war is sincere, and I am very relieved, if the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty have this heart to serve death, why worry about internal troubles, and the Tartars are not appeased? The formation decided to use Fangzhenghua to supervise the army outside the city to be reorganized and go to Shanhaiguan, with General Li as the vanguard to respond to Sun Gelao. ”

Li Xinbai took the order, and said in his heart that there was no way to do it, the task of the Beijing camp was to defend the Beijing Division, and the only thing that could be sent out at the moment was the tens of thousands of temporarily patched together exiles outside the city, although he knew that letting these people go to attack the fortifications was simply to send them to death, but if the mountains and seas of the Ming Dynasty were really as reported by the horses, they were occupied by the Tartars, and they had no way to choose.

This time the court meeting did not dissipate until the sun went down, but before leaving the palace, he learned a surprising news from Gao Keng. It turned out that the emperor actually planned to appoint him as the chief soldier of the three guards of Datong Mansion, when he first heard the name of the three guards, he was still inexplicable, and he had never heard of such a level of general soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, but after Gao Keng's explanation, he understood what the three guards were all about.

The emperor really wasted a lot of effort for him, and to be honest, this appointment greatly exceeded Li Xin's expectations. It's a pity that with the sudden changes in the war, the errand of the three guards is probably going to be ruined.

Li Xin did not have to go back to the residence of Taiji Factory when he left Donghua Gate, but went north along Andingmen Street. The news of Shanhaiguan is currently only spreading in a small area, and the streets and alleys that have been frozen for months have gradually become lively like the beginning of spring.

Li Xin followed Gao Keng straight to the camp outside the city, he specially inquired about the news of Lu Jiu and others, hoping that Lu Jiu could also go north with him, but the news he got was that all the 300 cavalry of Lu Jiu's department had been incorporated into the Beijing camp, and it was impossible to transfer them without the approval of the commander.

Just when Li Xin was thinking about whether to go to Fang Zhenghua for personal favors, several ministers in the cabinet hall of the Forbidden City Concord Gate were having an unprecedented discussion, but the central focus was not Shanhaiguan, but Li Xin.

The people present are basically Yang Sichang's henchmen, and Fu Zonglong's rapid retreat has made Yang Sichang successful.

"This time, there was an unexpected harvest, the horse thief may not be able to go to Datong, and the battle of Shanhaiguan is more than auspicious, this shaft is over."

Liu Juesi was squeezed by Li Xin in the palace, and he was still angry in his heart at the moment, and the emperor was obviously biased regardless of whether he asked. Xue Guoguan on the side shook his head: "Lord Liu's words are wrong, according to Xue's opinion, it is difficult to ensure that things backfire!" ”

Liu Juesi glared at Xue Guoguan fiercely and didn't take a stubble, Yang Sichang didn't have a stubble, he sat on the chair and kept his head silent, he was very dissatisfied with Xue Guoguan's performance in the past two days. When Liu Yuliang was in Beijing, the cabinet deputy assistant Ping Suri was very obedient to him, and now the mountain pressing on his head suddenly became smaller, and he was no longer taken very seriously.

Xue Guoguan only pretended not to see Yang Sichang's dissatisfaction, and continued: "Yang Xiangke has an idea about the three guards proposed by Guoguan? ”

Yang Sichang was still silent, raised his hand and took a sip of the tea bowl on the table.

"I don't know if Yang Xiang found out that the horse thief is a good general, it seems that all the luck is on his side, no one can stop him, and sending him to the more critical and chaotic the place, maybe it will be equivalent to sending credit to him."

This reason suddenly made a snickering burst into the room, and this kind of nonsensical words also came from the mouth of a university scholar? The remaining scholars in the cabinet are basically Yang Sichang's people, how can they listen to Xue Guoguan?

Xue Guo watched everyone disagreed, and continued to explain: "Don't believe it, adults, if you don't believe it, I'll tell you one by one." Xue Guoguan paused, paced from the edge of the lobby to the center, and stood where everyone's eyes met.

"Let's talk about Gaoyang County first, how can a small city of bullets be able to hold down tens of thousands of Tartar troops? Prince Hauge of Su, the eldest son of the slave chieftain, was heavily guarded, why was he captured alive? And Na Yuetuo, who is the commander of the first army, why was he cut off his head? This pile, one by one, is superimposed, I'm afraid it is also unprecedented and unprecedented, right? ”

Xue Guoguan's remarks, everyone tasted it carefully, and it really made some sense, yes, how could he do it? Tartar is not a fool, he planted his head one after another in front of a horse thief, and threw everyone to his grandmother's house. Thinking about the Shanhaiguan again, even if it is a tough attack, the difficulty may not be as big as the previous ones!

"Maybe this kid went to Shanhaiguan and made a fool of himself, maybe he could really turn things around."

It was Liu Shirong, a squire of the military department, who spoke and a die-hard supporter of Yang Sichang. Even he thought it was possible, and everyone nodded their heads.

Xue Guoguan continues to consolidate this narrative.

"So, I said that it may not be a good thing to let Li Xin go to Shanhaiguan."

"Then you can't let him go out of town, right? What kind of three guards general, in my opinion, are about to catch up with the high position of the general soldiers of a town. ”

Xue Guoguan didn't deny it, and smiled.

This is true, but there is no big war in Shanxi, so he was thrown there and spent a few years. Fu Lu luck will not stay in a person for too long, whether there is a pole Tai Lai, there will be a time when the luck is exhausted, once this luck is gone, not to mention the three guards general, that is, most of the governors have to fight a few defeats, at least they will be punished and dismissed, and at worst they will be ......"

Xue Guoguan stretched out his right hand to make a knife shape and gestured horizontally in front of his neck.

The big guy thought deeply about these words, since the early years of Chongzhen to the present, the governors who died in battle or were demoted and beheaded can't be counted with a pair of hands, and there are countless people who have been demoted and dismissed.

Yang Sichang has always scoffed at this set of theories that are strange and mysterious, but today he couldn't help but look sideways when he said it through the mouth of Xue Guoguan, who has always only respected the study of the mind.

Just let him go to Shanhaiguan to be a pioneer, will it really be as Xue Guoguan said, and give him another great credit? He is not a god with three heads and six arms, he is covered in iron and can hit a few nails, what did he take to make meritorious service without soldiers? But after thinking about it again, didn't he also make the previous few credits when he had almost nothing? If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens.

Yang Sichang glanced at Xue Guoguan, and said in his heart, although his idea is crooked, it is not completely unreasonable, it is good to take precautions, if you let the horse thief make new contributions, I am afraid that it will not be difficult to seal the altar and tear the soil, and then I am afraid that Sun Chengzong will not be able to control him.

"Xue Xiang is very right, what kind of errand is appropriate for him?"

Xue Guoguan thought for a while and said, "The striker is not good, I think it is appropriate to supervise the grain." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Xue Xiang's good idea, it is appropriate to let this demon king of the mixed world supervise the grain, there is only one point, he is not secretly swallowing this military ration."

"I heard that this Li Xin was proficient in craftsmanship when he was in Gaoyang, why don't you let him supervise craftsmanship?"

Everyone's eyes lit up again, yes, although the grain supervision is not as good as the meritorious service of the enemy, but the army is victorious, and the credit of the grain supervision is the same. This craftsman is different, it has always been a thankless job, let him go is to be able to build a wooden ox and a horse, who can let him seal the altar and tear the soil, isn't that a joke!

But immediately another person raised his concerns.

"Let Li Xin be the vanguard, that is the emperor's hand-pick, let, we disobey the emperor's will, in case of blame, blame ......"

"The emperor has a lot of opportunities, how can he have so much energy to pay attention to a little horse thief? Besides, doesn't the cabinet have the power to vote? The emperor's dictation, can't we draw up the decree in the end? ”

The ministers are talking a lot, and the focus of the discussion is also the first of the cabinet, in order to restrain a small horse thief, the ministers and scholars who are in charge of the world are also painstaking.

In the end, it was Yang Sichang who made a decision.

"Very good, let Li Xin go and supervise the craftsman! It's ready.,The military department will do its best to send it down! ”

This matter naturally fell on Liu Shirong, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, but who knew that Liu Shirong had another mention.

"Yang Xiang, there is no need to rush this matter, the emperor's will is to let Fang Zhenghua bring the soldiers, Li Xin, since you don't want to be this pioneer, the appointment of the superintendent can be delayed, let him hang first, and when Fang Zhenghua leaves, we will have one less resistance!"

Yang Sichang nodded, Li Xin and Dongchang are very close, if they do anything about Li Xin's appointment, they will definitely be opposed by Dongchang, if Fang Zhenghua leaves, Dongchang will lose a lot of strength, and only Cao Huachun, who may not be still there, will be much easier to deal with.

"Okay, let's hold it down first, but let's see how Cao Huachun can lead the cabinet?"

Soon, all kinds of documents appointing and transferring troops were sent out from the military department one by one, except for Li Xin, there was nothing to do, the army was in a hurry, Fang Zhenghua was about to leave that night, and finally he had no choice but to take Li Xin's hand and tell him that once the order was conveyed, he should catch up immediately, and there should be no further delay.

Li Xin was naturally anxious, and said in his heart, the work efficiency of the Ming Dynasty is so low, or did he go wrong on his own appointment issue?

Just when the army was about to leave, a team of Zhenfu Si Jinyi Wei galloped over, and Li Xinli was suddenly startled.